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Speaker 1: Hi, Matthew, how are you?

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Speaker 2: And will bum how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Matthew. I just want to ask you about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the general state of the team's mindset after

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Every year is a new year,

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Speaker 1: This is a season unto itself, but you guys have

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Speaker 1: been in a rough spot really the last couple of seasons.

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Speaker 1: What gives you confidence? What gives you faith that this

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Speaker 1: year is going to be different? It O and two

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Speaker 1: that you guys have this team has you know the

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Speaker 1: result that it's going to take to bounce back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I BO, I think the people

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Speaker 2: that we have on this team. I think I have

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Speaker 2: a lot of faith in our roster. I have a

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Speaker 2: lot of faith in our coaching staff. I have a

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Speaker 2: lot of faith in our resolve, and I have a

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Speaker 2: lot of faith in our process. So, you know, every

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Speaker 2: year is different, every team's different, the story of every

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Speaker 2: season is different. I think for us right now, we

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Speaker 2: just need to focus on ourselves, look at the ways

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Speaker 2: that we can improve, and look at the ways that

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Speaker 2: we can execute better on the game day, and you know,

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Speaker 2: hopefully that leads to positive results.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about certainly a positive result

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Speaker 1: last night the block field goal attempt in Brendan's play,

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Speaker 1: In particular, he said before he went out on the

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Speaker 1: field that you told him when the play was called

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Speaker 1: that he was going to get a block on that play.

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Speaker 1: Can you describe what the process was like, the installation,

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Speaker 1: the schematics of it, and help how you guys repped

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Speaker 1: it to time it perfectly and execute the way you did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I'll say this, give a lot

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Speaker 2: of credit to Cam and Joe Houston and Joe Judge

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Speaker 2: foreseeing what they believed to be a weakness there that

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Speaker 2: we could take advantage of, and I think a tremendous design,

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Speaker 2: one that we really haven't seen. And then the most

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Speaker 2: important piece of that is you have to have the

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Speaker 2: right guy to execute it, and schools guy who has

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Speaker 2: tremendous lin tremendous speed is to Ben has been phenomenal,

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Speaker 2: and his quickness, I mean, I think he's probably the

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Speaker 2: only guy on the team that could execute that, and

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Speaker 2: so we chose the right guy and I just have

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Speaker 2: so much confidence in him. I know we've only been

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Speaker 2: playing together for a little over a year, but it

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Speaker 2: feels like we've played together for a decade. I mean,

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Speaker 2: his maturity, his desire to compete, so you knew in

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Speaker 2: that moment it wasn't going to be too big for him.

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Speaker 2: I had no doubt in my mind that he was

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Speaker 2: going to block it. And you know, I think that's

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Speaker 2: just one of those things where practice execution became game reality.

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Speaker 2: You obviously give a ton of credit to the coaches

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Speaker 2: for scouting on out, but then you give a ton

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Speaker 2: of credit to forty one for just being forty one.

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Speaker 3: Matthew, thank you, and next question we're going to Mike

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Speaker 3: Race please.

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Speaker 2: And thank you Steph Matthew, thank you for your time today,

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Speaker 2: no problem.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen years in the league. Had you ever seen a

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Speaker 1: play like that before?

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Speaker 2: No, never seen anything like it. I think we had

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Speaker 2: talked about doing that years ago when we were playing

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Speaker 2: the Ravens once and the execution was lousy and the

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Speaker 2: guy running it was me, so it wasn't it wasn't

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Speaker 2: nearly as exciting as that. But I've never seen a

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Speaker 2: play like that executed to perfection. Just you know, phenomenal

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Speaker 2: play for us. And a follow up on that, what

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Speaker 2: would you tell say the impact Joe Judge has had

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Speaker 2: coming back and contributing to what you guys are doing

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Speaker 2: special team slides. Yeah, well, I mean, I look, Joe

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Speaker 2: is as knowledgeable a special teams coach and has experienced

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Speaker 2: a special teams coach as there is in the league.

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Speaker 2: His understanding of the game, his understanding of how to

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Speaker 2: call the game, how to scout an opponent, how to

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Speaker 2: ready his players. Uh, it's next level. And you know,

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Speaker 2: we feel very fortunate to have the three coaches that

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Speaker 2: we have coaching us. I think it gives us a

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Speaker 2: ton of insight, it gives it makes us feel super

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Speaker 2: prepared when we go play a game. And you know,

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Speaker 2: to have Joe back in the fold has been, you know,

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Speaker 2: really special for me at this stage in my career

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Speaker 2: because Joe has really been instrumental in the career that

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Speaker 2: hopefully we can keep it going.

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Speaker 3: And next question, Chris Ryan, Hey, Mattter, the hoopeball is, Uh, well,

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Speaker 3: it seems like postgame the theme wast that you guys

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Speaker 3: have the confidence to make plays.

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Speaker 4: And to obviously be successful, but something's kind of you know,

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Speaker 4: missing in terms of the execution. But what's your sense

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Speaker 4: about what is missing and your confidence in the group

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Speaker 4: to be able to execute down the stretch in meaningful moments.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I just think consistency, Chris is something

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Speaker 2: that we're striving for right now. I mean, you'll see

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Speaker 2: stretches in the game where you know, we really put

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Speaker 2: it together, we play good, complimentary football, we're doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of good things, and then you'll see stretches in

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Speaker 2: the game, and we don't do that, particularly the way

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Speaker 2: we've started the last two contests. So I think for us,

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Speaker 2: we have belief in ourselves and what we're doing because

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Speaker 2: we've seen what it looks like when we do it right.

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Speaker 2: We've worked alongside each other for an entire offseason and

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Speaker 2: training camp, so we have a lot of confidence in

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Speaker 2: one another. So the confidence in each other, confidence in

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Speaker 2: our process is there, and there's no reason for us

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Speaker 2: to lose that confidence now. But I think really what

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Speaker 2: we're looking for is consistency, playing sixty minutes of competitive,

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Speaker 2: complimentary football with consistency, and if we do that, we

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Speaker 2: feel like we'll have some favorable results. So we just

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Speaker 2: got to find a way to do that. And it

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Speaker 2: can't be three weeks from now, can't be a month

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Speaker 2: from now. It's got to be this.

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Speaker 4: Week obvious a new punter, new kicker. What have you

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Speaker 4: noticed from them and how have they added and complimented

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Speaker 4: to what you do as a group in the unit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, coach always says you can't have

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Speaker 2: a good special teams unit if you don't have good specialists,

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Speaker 2: And we have a lot of confidence in these young guys.

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Speaker 2: And I would say the word that comes to mind

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Speaker 2: with both of them is maturity. They're both very mature guys,

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Speaker 2: especially as rookies. I think they're demeanor off the football

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Speaker 2: field impresses me more than anything, just the way they

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Speaker 2: carry themselves, the professionalism that they carry themselves with. I

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Speaker 2: think both of them having a chance to be around

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Speaker 2: Nick Folt was very beneficial because they learned how to

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Speaker 2: be pros. I think Joe Cardona has done a great

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Speaker 2: job of leading them. And really, you know, we have

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Speaker 2: a lot of confidence in those young guys. I'm excited

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Speaker 2: to see where they go from here. It's kind of

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Speaker 2: fun to be at the beginning of it and witness it.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I have a lot of confidence and

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Speaker 2: then we all do, and they're really going to make

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Speaker 2: our group go.

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Speaker 3: Thank you back and next question Bob Sarcy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Matthew, I was going to ask you about Chad

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Speaker 1: in particular in Bryce, but you Cardona and his leaderships.

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Speaker 1: He's the one holdover in that operation, and he's arrived

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Speaker 1: in the professional football as someone who was trained in

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Speaker 1: a laboratory for leadership at the Naval Academy. Uh. You're

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Speaker 1: having watched him developing his role as a leader on

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Speaker 1: describe how much growth he's exhibited and is there anything

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Speaker 1: that you can point out about that particular leadership with

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Speaker 1: those two guys.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll say this, Joe is as natural a

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Speaker 2: leader as we have on this football team, and obviously

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Speaker 2: there's a reason for that. But I think for someone

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Speaker 2: in his position to have the reach that he does

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Speaker 2: and the impact that he does on the entire football

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Speaker 2: team is very, very impressive, and it's well deserved. He's

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Speaker 2: someone that everyone in that locker room trust on and

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Speaker 2: off the field. We value his opinion about all things

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Speaker 2: non football. I think he does so much to serve

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Speaker 2: the guys in this locker room at a very high level,

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Speaker 2: and you know, he does it uniquely, right. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he I think great leaders have the ability to sense

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Speaker 2: the guys around them and give the guys around them

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Speaker 2: exactly what they need. You know, the way him and

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Speaker 2: I interact is obviously gonna be different than the way

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Speaker 2: Chad and Bryce interact with him. But I think he's

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Speaker 2: been really intentional with those guys in terms of being

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Speaker 2: hard on them when he needs to, in terms of

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Speaker 2: loving them up when he needs to, And I really

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Speaker 2: think he's done a phenomenal job and his role in

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Speaker 2: their readiness has been as important as anyone's role in

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Speaker 2: that process. And you know, we need him to continue

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Speaker 2: to be a consistent, steady force. I mean, he's one

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Speaker 2: of our longest tenured players now, so he knows what

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Speaker 2: it looks like, he knows what winning football looks like,

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Speaker 2: he knows what it takes. And I think the relationship

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Speaker 2: that those three guys have has been a good one

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Speaker 2: and it's only going to improve moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again, Matthew, you appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Oh problem