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Mike Macdonald: "Guys Are Adamant On Finishing The Right Way" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, everybody hurry up for these guys
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  Speaker 1: get here. Just kidding, how are we doing for the
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  Speaker 1: team this week? Obviously a little bit, Yeah, we we
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  Speaker 1: we We've talked about the circumstances. But our guys have
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  Speaker 1: been great. You know, they're putting in the work just
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  Speaker 1: like we've done, just like we've done every every week.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, our goals have changed, but we've had we've
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  Speaker 1: had great days of practice, great days of prep. So guys,
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  Speaker 1: guys are really really adamant and finishing the right way.
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  Speaker 1: What happened the h he has a like a like
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  Speaker 1: a core injury. Ab just not gonna make it to
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  Speaker 1: the game. Something to be sick lesson there. If it's
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  Speaker 1: Mike Gerrell who gets a chance to start, you part
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  Speaker 1: to see him, But then what would you expect to see? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: him and him and Stone would be the next guys up.
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  Speaker 1: And then just like you said, we expect when guys
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  Speaker 1: come and fill, come play at a high level, come
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  Speaker 1: play winning football for us. And that's why you prepare
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  Speaker 1: every day so when your opportunity comes, you can go
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  Speaker 1: take it the field and help us out on Sunday. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: good opportunity for both those guys. Would you share this
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  Speaker 1: since an obviously coming back down a top hundred situation
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  Speaker 1: back to that, Yeah, I just he's just been incredibly
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  Speaker 1: resilient to come back and push the guy. I know
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't been feeling one hundred percent the whole way,
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  Speaker 1: but to put himself kind of back out there and
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  Speaker 1: take a lead of faith physically after you've been bat
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  Speaker 1: on this thing for a couple of years, to come
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  Speaker 1: out and play productive football for us and really for
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  Speaker 1: him and his careers is as good. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about the off season next week, but right now,
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  Speaker 1: happy that he's healthy and going into the off season
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  Speaker 1: healthy signed bundling to the active roster, but as a
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  Speaker 1: as a receiver play that I guess what what do
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  Speaker 1: you kind of see him as well? Yeah, we're excited
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  Speaker 1: about his future. He's done some good things since he
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  Speaker 1: showed up, so felt like we wanted to keep him around. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: grow up, we're talking to us about he's grown in
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  Speaker 1: the aspect of that guy he said attacking structures and
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  Speaker 1: schemes kind of get people consistently that people you helped
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  Speaker 1: them talk through this season. Have you seen him grow
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  Speaker 1: in the aspect of his guy. Well, yeah, it's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put yourself in his shoes. This is
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  Speaker 1: a guy coming in and trying to learn all the
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  Speaker 1: personnels and like all the coordinators and the systems. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's why we structured our staff the way we did,
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  Speaker 1: and that's part of my responsibility to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: he's confident in understanding what we're trying to attack. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's a team effort. And so he's been great
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  Speaker 1: understanding that, hey, I haven't gone against this kind of
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  Speaker 1: tree or how it's built, and understanding how on how
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  Speaker 1: we want to attack. So yeah, he's grown a lot
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  Speaker 1: on that. I mean, but you have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you come in and you know, it's like when I
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  Speaker 1: went back to Michigan, guys on staff had to help
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  Speaker 1: me out on who we're playing against and kind of
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  Speaker 1: the history behind the schemes and their philosophy, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's you know, it's really important. So do our
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  Speaker 1: best to help them out the case when we look
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  Speaker 1: back to Baltimore, I'd say, to a lesser degree, just
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  Speaker 1: because I had you know, you're just one year away,
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  Speaker 1: one year out, and you know you kind of you
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  Speaker 1: had I had nine. It was eight years eight or
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  Speaker 1: nine years up to that point where I was living.
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  Speaker 1: So what is that that the grand scheme of things
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  Speaker 1: because you're not playing against these ups or five years ago. Right, Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's well, I mean there's path dependence involved, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's families of offense that there's you know that people
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  Speaker 1: share similar characteristics of those guys that people that they've
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  Speaker 1: worked with, and it's all kind of connected. It's funny
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  Speaker 1: you start talking, you know, football lingo, and uh, You're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how do you get that word we'll shoot? That came
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  Speaker 1: from Bill Parcells, you know, twenty five years you know whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all it's it's it's a it's a connected,
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  Speaker 1: connected net of just of philosophies and sharing ideas and people.
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  Speaker 1: People are stealing from people all the time, and but
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  Speaker 1: it's well to kind of track and see where things
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  Speaker 1: came from and who really pioneered certain ideas. So have
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  Speaker 1: you had the new kickoff role was you're kind of
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  Speaker 1: seeing it as long as you have no kind of
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  Speaker 1: the impact that it has had. It's funny, I was talking.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny you asked us talking to Jami about that today.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to do about nothing. To
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  Speaker 1: a certain extent of me is like, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: it was a good football play. The intent of what
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  Speaker 1: we were trying to get done, I felt, to the
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  Speaker 1: large a large part was achieved. You know, so it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool, a lot of a lot of great schemes.
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  Speaker 1: Felt like people didn't experiment much with like the type
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  Speaker 1: of kick as much as I was anticipating kind of
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  Speaker 1: some of those like dirty, low hanging, low hang time
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  Speaker 1: type balls where it might be harder to feel. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen a couple of them, but it just wasn't as
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  Speaker 1: prevalent as we thought. Team's philosophy on whether they want
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  Speaker 1: to kick touchbacks for the most part kind of carried
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  Speaker 1: over even though it started at the thirty. So it'd
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  Speaker 1: be interesting to study to see in offseason impact on
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  Speaker 1: like points and what we thought was expected versus what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And then I think another thing that's an impact is
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  Speaker 1: kind of the the next possession offensively or defensively based
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  Speaker 1: off of how many yards you're can achieve in that drive.
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  Speaker 1: You know that's going to force, you know it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: affect the punt, and it would just be a fun study.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought it was an overall is a great
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  Speaker 1: play talk to you about talking about how well he's played,
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  Speaker 1: even than the numbers of the are good to see
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  Speaker 1: that afterwards other people are recognized, even if you got
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  Speaker 1: to have much of recessions. Yeah, yeah, it's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: Very happy for him that and he deserves it. He
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  Speaker 1: deserves a recognition. I think any of you guys have
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  Speaker 1: followed the team and been with us from since, you know,
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  Speaker 1: since day one, and seen his impact for on our
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  Speaker 1: football team, and you watch every play. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can't help but notice what he does for us on
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  Speaker 1: the team on the field. It's great to see that
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  Speaker 1: other people recognize it as well. The Pro Bowl like
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  Speaker 1: that mechanism is is cool, So guys get that recognition.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, you wish the guys on your team,
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  Speaker 1: you do feel like, deserve that type of reg jump thing.
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams would be great. So hopefully he gets recognized
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  Speaker 1: in the All Pro vote and some of the other
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  Speaker 1: other honors, because he definitely deserves them. Just learn about
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  Speaker 1: you said, you said, still yeah, right tackle, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think funly to be tackler. Yeah, yeah, we were excited
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  Speaker 1: about that and his growth but it'll be he'll be
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  Speaker 1: fun to work with this offseason. Why we're Tyler and
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  Speaker 1: Ernest captain the kid, I think you're looking at a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. I mean, obviously Ernest being his his history
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  Speaker 1: in l A. Lockett just felt like, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: close the season out with the veteran voice of the unit.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler has a great job of does a great job
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  Speaker 1: of kind of putting everything in perspective, having been through
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  Speaker 1: kind of all the things throughout the league and his career.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a guy who always leaning on. Ernest is
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  Speaker 1: the same way. So I mean the former team thing definitely,
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  Speaker 1: you know, plays a part in it, but he's just
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  Speaker 1: a He's just a great force for our football team.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to recognize him in that front. What
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  Speaker 1: have you asked him to do? Mike for the team?
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  Speaker 1: Why what have you asked him? What did you ask up?
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  Speaker 1: What if you needed for anmbers this season? I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary from
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  Speaker 1: any other player. We have Just be you be the
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  Speaker 1: best version of yourself, lead in your own way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's such a unique personality and a unique character
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  Speaker 1: and just go be go be Tyler lockett Man, be
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  Speaker 1: the guy that we love every day. And he's been that.
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  Speaker 1: He's been awesome. Tyler talked yesterday a lot about sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: How important is having that attitude in setting your culture
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  Speaker 1: here a gig one, Yeah, it's I mean it's incredibly important.
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  Speaker 1: And you took a think about Tyler in his career
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  Speaker 1: and the ark of his career and to have that mentality. Man,
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  Speaker 1: just the humility putting the team first. It's just me.
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  Speaker 1: What else can you ask for? And he loves ball.
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  Speaker 1: That comes guy comes out of here. He's been doing
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  Speaker 1: it for such a long time. But the enthusiasm, the attitude,
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  Speaker 1: the productivity. Man, we just can't sit me. The city
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  Speaker 1: knows Tyler shoot better than I do. But coming to
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  Speaker 1: know him this this year has been a been a
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  Speaker 1: blessing for for me personally too. I mean, this guy
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  Speaker 1: he's just uh, he's just one on one just we
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  Speaker 1: we absolutely love him. Here it goes, thank you, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys,