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Rashid Shaheed: "We Grew A Lot Over The Last Week" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's the process like getting ready for a season when
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of you guys aren't playing in the preseason games?
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  Speaker 2: How does that change what you need to get out
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  Speaker 2: of practice? Yeah, just like you said, practice needs to
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  Speaker 2: be kind of the focal point. Each and every rep,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to try to make it into a game
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  Speaker 2: rep mentally. Yeah, just coming out and competing, and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like our coaches do a good job of setting
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  Speaker 2: up practice so you know, we get that working.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like?
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  Speaker 2: It just knocked the wind out of me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: those situations, they come, you know, it's football. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's happened in the joint practice, and I was able
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  Speaker 2: to shake it off and, you know, kind of just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just move on to the next play.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, it definitely didn't feel good. Were you surprised
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  Speaker 3: he hit you? Was that outside the bounds of what
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  Speaker 3: you thought was crucial? Yeah, a little bit. Wasn't really
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  Speaker 3: expecting it.
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  Speaker 2: That was also my former teammate, so I definitely wasn't
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  Speaker 2: expecting it from him. But it's all good. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about it afterwards, and, you know, it's all love. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's part of the game.
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  Speaker 3: You had a catch in a few plays later. That one,
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  Speaker 3: did you feel good? Yeah, definitely. Just letting a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of steam out, you know. That's all it was.
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  Speaker 3: Did the joint practice allow you guys to be on
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  Speaker 3: Flory's offense?
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  Speaker 2: Because he talked about.
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  Speaker 1: When you see the same defense every day, in some
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  Speaker 1: ways you get limited to what you can work on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we like the way that we kind of control
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  Speaker 2: the offense. We kind of went out with the mindset
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  Speaker 2: of just competing, and I feel like he kind of
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  Speaker 2: let us go out there and just play our game.
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  Speaker 2: We got a feel of his play calling on team drives,
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  Speaker 2: long drives, and two-minute. Yeah, we feel like we got
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  Speaker 2: a good feel of how He likes to call games
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  Speaker 2: and gets a feel for how the offense is flowing.
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  Speaker 3: What did you notice about that field? What did you
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  Speaker 3: notice about the field at this play call?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we liked his aggressiveness. We feel like we were
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  Speaker 2: taking a lot of shots downfield. You know, his play
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  Speaker 2: calls were, you know, on time and on target, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they were all, you know, executed in
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  Speaker 2: the right way, and we just got to continue to
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  Speaker 2: do that for the next couple weeks leading up to
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  Speaker 2: game one.
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  Speaker 1: How similar does it feel from last year, and what's
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  Speaker 1: different about it?
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  Speaker 3: Like around this time? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The offense, I feel like we have a good idea
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  Speaker 2: of how we want to operate, and so does Fleury,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like he kind of came in and
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  Speaker 2: we've been able to kind of just feed off that,
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  Speaker 2: our energy from last year. The offense is pretty similar.
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  Speaker 2: There's some nuances, but I feel like we just came
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  Speaker 2: in and had the right mindset and continue to grow
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  Speaker 2: with all of us together within the offense.
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  Speaker 3: And, yeah, it's been good so far.
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  Speaker 1: And what are you learning about either as a coach.
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  Speaker 3: Or a person? Yeah, like I just said, he wants
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  Speaker 3: to move the ball down the field. He's aggressive. He
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  Speaker 3: wants to run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: He wants us to be physical in all aspects of
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  Speaker 2: the game. And with that mentality, you know, we just
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  Speaker 2: have to go out there and do it. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we've done that up to this point. And we
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  Speaker 2: just got to continue to grow along with him.
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  Speaker 1: I know you didn't play on Sunday, but one of
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  Speaker 1: the things Mike McDonald wanted the team to work on
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  Speaker 1: was mechanics and in and out of the huddle and
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  Speaker 1: just some of those things. What did you see in
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  Speaker 1: terms of improvements there or where there's still room for improvement?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, always room for improvement, but I feel like we
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  Speaker 2: grew a lot over the last week from the first
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  Speaker 2: preseason game to the second. I feel like we honed
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  Speaker 2: in on those details throughout the week and we were
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  Speaker 2: able to go out there and execute them. The young guys,
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  Speaker 2: they did a great job. They just put a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good on film. out there and yeah, I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to the third game. What does this.
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  Speaker 3: Team lose without Jake? I mean, fans will look and
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  Speaker 3: see two catches last year. Obviously the NFC championship game was.
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  Speaker 2: A big one, but like his impact seems to go
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit beyond that.
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  Speaker 3: Like what's his loss going to be like for you
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  Speaker 3: guys in that room? Yeah, no, it's a huge loss. He's,
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  Speaker 3: he's a heartbeat of the offense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we look to him for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: big plays and you know, he's been that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: since he's been a part of this organization and losing him,
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  Speaker 2: it definitely hurts. At this point, we're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep his head high. It's a tough situation, but we
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  Speaker 2: know he's going to bounce back from it. As a
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver room, how do you guys feel about your depth?
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  Speaker 3: Because obviously you, Jax, Cooper, you guys are pretty established
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  Speaker 3: in the league. How do you feel about the depth
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  Speaker 3: beyond the three of you guys, especially with Jake going
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  Speaker 3: down with injury?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately with Jake going out, it definitely puts a
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  Speaker 2: little dent in it, but we have guys that are
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  Speaker 2: going to step up.
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  Speaker 3: I love our depth.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of guys that can make a
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  Speaker 2: lot of plays, tons of talent, and we're all looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to all the opportunities we're going to get throughout
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  Speaker 2: the season. And, yeah, we're a locked-in group, and we
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  Speaker 2: kind of feed, the offense kind of feeds off of
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  Speaker 2: our energy, and, you know, that's exactly how we want it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you put in?
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  Speaker 2: Everything, his mindset, how he attacks every day. He works super,
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  Speaker 2: super hard, and I'm just glad that it's finally coming
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  Speaker 2: out and for everybody to see. But, yeah, no, I
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  Speaker 2: try to stay in his ear, try to keep him
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  Speaker 2: locked in. You know, he understands what it takes, and
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  Speaker 2: I just got to continue to remind him that, he's
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  Speaker 2: here and he has the opportunity to do something special.
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  Speaker 2: What impression did you get from him last year when
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  Speaker 2: he comes in and joins you guys in December on
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  Speaker 2: the practice squad and kind of runs out the string
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  Speaker 2: with you?
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  Speaker 3: What did you kind of get.
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  Speaker 2: A sense from him then and seeing how he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of taking advantage of.
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  Speaker 3: The opportunity now? Yeah, he came in with the same mindset.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it was later on in the season, but you
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  Speaker 2: saw him make those type of plays at practices. You
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  Speaker 2: saw his potential and now he had a long offseason
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  Speaker 2: with us and he was able to you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, just keep his head down and work.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, the work is showing and he
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  Speaker 2: just has to continue to make plays.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he's going to continue to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Rashid, when you were in New Orleans, you had Alvin
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  Speaker 1: in the backfield, one of the top pass catching backs
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  Speaker 1: in the league. How does having a running back room
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  Speaker 1: that's heavily involved in the passing game open things up
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  Speaker 1: for you guys on the outside. Seems like that's been
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  Speaker 1: an emphasis.
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  Speaker 3: With Brian Fleury this offense. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: It opens up everything. You always have something else to
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  Speaker 2: key on. With us going vertical, you have a running
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  Speaker 2: back that you could dink and dunk to down the field.
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  Speaker 2: And as long as the coverage is back, he can
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  Speaker 2: kind of work. you know, just kind of do that
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  Speaker 2: for the offense. And I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a big part of, you know, what he wants to
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  Speaker 2: do and how we're going to move the ball down
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 1: You had the long catch from Sam in the championship game,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a few other deep ones that you guys
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  Speaker 1: were like a hair off.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: That gets easier for you to have.
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  Speaker 3: More time with your quarterback? Yeah, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've worked on it a ton throughout
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  Speaker 2: this offseason, OTAs, and now through camp. And we're starting
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  Speaker 2: to hit on them more. I'm starting to practice them
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  Speaker 2: a lot more. And things like that just take time.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, those little.
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  Speaker 2: Game of inches, like we always hear, and now we're
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  Speaker 2: starting to kind of click, and it's been good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.