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Speaker 1: Excited and delighted to be joined by Vikings linebacker Eaton

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Speaker 1: Prairie native and former Minnesota Golden golfer Blake Cashman.

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Speaker 2: Blake, thanks for coming by.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Thank you, appreciate you having me well.

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Speaker 1: As I told you the last time we talked, I

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Speaker 1: played the game before both sides of the ball. Fierce

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Speaker 1: out running, sure in.

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Speaker 2: A pass catching head.

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Speaker 1: And so you're not just talking to normal media guy

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Speaker 1: that doesn't understand the game. I kind of get it,

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Speaker 1: sort of not really been kind of a tough season, huh.

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Speaker 1: And then you know on the win loss four and eight,

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Speaker 1: I think five loss in the last six games. But

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Speaker 1: you got to keep moving forward, right, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: like the scheduled moves on.

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Speaker 3: You know, you got to keep playing.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, It's it's a tough spot to be in, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's definitely I think from you know, our team to

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Speaker 4: our fans, the Vikings loyal to be where we're at.

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Speaker 4: No one and saw it coming, no one expected it,

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Speaker 4: but we got five games left and in this business

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Speaker 4: as an ultimate competitor with the guys we have that

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Speaker 3: You know, our focus is on finishing the season strong.

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Speaker 4: We got a home game this upcoming weekend and you

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Speaker 4: know that's something we have to be better as winning

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it too. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: just playing pride right. You don't want to you know,

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Speaker 1: you beats twenty six nothing offenses and scoring. You know,

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Speaker 1: national media on TV, even US local shlubs are what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with the club, And it's like, well, else do

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Speaker 1: just out of sheer pride right to put out a

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 4: And you know I told this to the linebackers and

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Speaker 4: then as well as the defense even before our last game.

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Speaker 4: Like you know, the circumstances situation we're in in our

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Speaker 3: Not what we want. It's not what we were working for.

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Speaker 4: It's not ideal, but uh, you have to play for pride,

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Speaker 4: and you know, play for the men next to you,

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Speaker 4: whole grand scheme of thing is, you know, the amount

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Speaker 4: of opportunity you get to step between the lines to

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Speaker 4: Don't ever take it for granted that you get to,

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Speaker 4: you know, put on that uniform and go put your

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Speaker 3: Every Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Does that message resonate with all guys or some guys

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Speaker 1: And then maybe in between what does everybody pretty much

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Speaker 4: So you know Ko, he talks about it and his

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Speaker 4: frustrating as it is, you know we are still you know,

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Speaker 3: Fans and our family. And you know that was.

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Speaker 4: The message that every person on our sideline against Seattle

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Speaker 4: Play at a high level or put our best foot

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Speaker 1: Here's something I think that every play RECTI deal with

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, guys are beat up. There's nobody that

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Speaker 3: How tough is.

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Speaker 1: It to when the season's not going well, you're four

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're absolutely right. It is no secret.

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Speaker 4: You know, when things are going well and you're winning,

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Speaker 4: obviously everything else is a lot easier.

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Speaker 3: But again, I'll just go back to the word.

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Speaker 4: Finishing like I you know, if you're speaking with I'm

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Speaker 4: speaking with my teammates, I'm speaking with my family, and

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Speaker 4: you know they're saying the same things like, man, you

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Speaker 3: To be exhausted.

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Speaker 4: Your body's beat up, everyone's you know, you know, mentally

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Speaker 4: know that that's a responsibility to our team, the organization,

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Speaker 4: we we we're We've been working hard, We've been playing

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Speaker 4: the ultimate competitor. And it doesn't matter if you're winless

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Speaker 3: You're you're going out.

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Speaker 4: There to to put the best outfit and to win

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Speaker 2: Well this this comes up with Tennebe and I and

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Speaker 1: Oftentimes, I think what some people lose perspective us really

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Speaker 1: like you sit down you enjoy watching football. If you're

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Speaker 3: But you settle down. So you want to at least

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Speaker 1: And so you know, people are spending a lot of

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Speaker 2: So they're investing their time and money in you. And

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Speaker 1: You don't want to just like well, we're just going

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Speaker 1: it's an entertainment Industry's like people that that that that

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Speaker 3: Case may be. Yeah, and you know the.

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Speaker 4: Nature of our business, the NFL, especially when things go bad,

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Speaker 3: No team is the same every year.

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Speaker 4: So uh, you as especially as a as a player

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Speaker 4: and as a coach, you got to continue to be

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Speaker 4: you know, whether I hate to admit, but whether it's

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna try to ask this question the best second.

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Speaker 5: I'm very intrigued by the defensive playbook side of things, right,

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Speaker 5: Like we always hear about offensive playbooks and you see

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Speaker 3: Guys are giving.

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Speaker 5: So like, is there just like hundreds of play calls

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Speaker 3: Like how does that work from a defensive play.

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Speaker 5: Calls, Sam, because it seems like you guys would have

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Speaker 4: Lot to remember. Yeah, you know Flow is mastermind. He's

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Speaker 3: We know that.

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Speaker 4: But how we get aligned all the different looks we

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Speaker 3: How many blitz packages are there.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I mean like you, I mean we put new

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Speaker 4: like we call him hot coverages where you know, we're

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Speaker 4: We're sacrificing you know, individuals and coverage, but it's to

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Speaker 4: You know, have a lot of moving parts. We got

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Speaker 4: all both safeties down, we got linebackers mugging gaps and honestly, that's.

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Speaker 3: Where we're at our best.

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Speaker 4: That's where Brian Floor is at his best because of

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Speaker 4: the stressing chaos it cause team. But you know, we

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Speaker 1: Our guest is Blake Cashman, linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, what quarterbacks name one or

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Speaker 1: two if you if you if you can or offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinators are the toughest to prepare for where you go.

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Speaker 2: Man gotta fit.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of people thought about

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Speaker 1: any think Pat Mahomes, you know, we're or you know,

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Speaker 1: you go, these are the These are the quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the in the offensive coordinators that really they'll they'll, they'll, they'll,

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Speaker 1: they got a bag of tricks like you haven't seen.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: First name that comes mind for an offensive coordinator is

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Speaker 4: Ben Johnson, head coach for the Chicago Bears. Obviously he's

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Speaker 4: very familiar with the Minnesota Vikings, being the OC for

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Speaker 4: he's done a tremendous job, and you know, he has

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Speaker 4: rather than I think a lot of coaches offensive play callers.

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Speaker 4: You know, they get they get hungry, they want to

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Speaker 3: You know your veteran courter. Yeah, I mean, like even.

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Speaker 4: This year, an easy name to throw out would be

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Speaker 3: He's seen it all.

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Speaker 4: He's a very he's a he's a mastermind back there

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Speaker 2: Well, well you get him back to Ben Johnson is

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Speaker 1: He is? He play calling different with the Bears, and

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Speaker 2: They did do bigger splash plays.

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Speaker 1: So is it my personnel and who I'm is that

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Speaker 3: So any good coach, any.

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Speaker 4: Good play caller, has to, you know, do his play calling,

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Speaker 4: build his scheme around the players he has. And Ben

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Speaker 1: Because when when when I would watch, you know, Detroit

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Speaker 1: their offensive line is more beat up. You know, Glasgow retires,

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Speaker 2: Guy in the league that can't throw the ball all

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Speaker 1: You give him time to throw. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: You give them time to throw.

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Speaker 2: They're going to carve up any defense.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know. I think whenever a team loses good coordinators,

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Speaker 4: your football team. I think Detroit, you know, they've had

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Speaker 4: it's gonna stress a football team. You have guys, you know,

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Speaker 4: not the most mobile quarterback, so if teams can get

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Speaker 2: Well, well, you guys know about injuries on the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Darisa hasn't played every game, Your center's been in and out,

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Speaker 1: Jackson hasn't played, O'Neill missed a few games.

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Speaker 2: There are no consistency there.

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Speaker 1: And if you can't give quarterbacks time, I don't care

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Speaker 1: how young or how veteran they are, it's tough when

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Speaker 4: I agree, you know, I think the game of football

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Speaker 4: front on your defensive line, like you're gonna make everybody

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Speaker 4: else better, You're gonna make everyone else's job easier. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Your job easier.

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Speaker 4: But it's it's very hard when you have guys in

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Speaker 3: You guys got Washington this week.

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Speaker 5: this week, How does that? How does that change your

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I it's doesn't make it easier, but you know,

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Speaker 4: we'll we'll look at what the play calling is for

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Speaker 3: For for both.

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Speaker 4: We'll we'll we'll work that throughout the week and then

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Speaker 4: know we've seen as a defense this year, what the

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Speaker 4: play calling has been against us, it doesn't really it

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Speaker 3: We're we're kind of seeing the same thing every week now.

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Speaker 4: I was actually surprised at what Seattle was was doing

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Speaker 4: we're gonna do what what we've been but we've been doing,

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Speaker 4: and we're just it just comes down to execution.

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Speaker 3: From a player's standpoint.

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Speaker 2: We're just the best of luck the rest of the year.

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Speaker 2: I know you you'll play hard, we know all that.

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Speaker 1: Whatever the results are well to see, but tough season

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Speaker 1: so far, but best eluct the rest of Wain.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, we appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Give him our round of applause, would you for Blake Cashman.

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Speaker 3: Thank you,