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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: January eleventh. The Ravens don't have a game this week,

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Speaker 1: as they have the AFC's number one overall seed and

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Speaker 1: a first round by, but they are still putting into work.

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Speaker 1: They're practicing this week, really focusing on themselves, their own

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Speaker 1: skiing and the fundamentals as they get ready to find

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Speaker 1: out their opponent this weekend and the eventual division round

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Speaker 1: game coming up next week. Today, we had a chance

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Speaker 1: to hear from coordinator, so let's kick things off a

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Speaker 1: special teams coordinator, Chris Horton.

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Speaker 2: What a great week for us to just come out

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Speaker 2: here and really just focus on us. That's been the

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Speaker 2: message to our group, man, is just let's figure out

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Speaker 2: the way this week of how we can help ourselves

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Speaker 2: and you know, get better at the things that which

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Speaker 2: we're going to need to do in order to make

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Speaker 2: some plays this postseason. So our guys are out there

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Speaker 2: working all six phases field goal, fild goal, block, pump

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Speaker 2: on return, kickoff, kickoff return. You know, we get this opportunity,

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Speaker 2: you know, and so again our focus is mainly about

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Speaker 2: us right now.

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Speaker 3: Questions for so much do you like.

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Speaker 4: Having Dubernet back on the practice field, and do you

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Speaker 4: feel the way that Thailand.

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Speaker 5: And and Justice have stepped up that you you know,

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Speaker 5: really have some depth there and some good options going

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Speaker 5: into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing to see him back out there. I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you this. I think you guys know how how I

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Speaker 2: feel about him. I know how our team feels about him,

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Speaker 2: and I know how the guys in you know, the

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Speaker 2: And just to have him back out there running, and

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Speaker 2: it just goes to show, you know, to what we do.

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Speaker 2: I think, just fundamentally across the board, with the depth

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Speaker 2: of having Thailand back there, coming out there making that

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Speaker 2: play against the Rams and scoring that touchdown, having Justice

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Speaker 2: out there versus Miami and he popping that big return.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it just goes to show to all eleven

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Speaker 2: guys really of our depth of if you put a

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Speaker 2: guy back there, if we've blocked to play the right way,

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Speaker 2: we can create those big plays. So are we excited

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Speaker 2: to have him back?

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 6: We're the trades Like speed is obvious, but other than that,

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Speaker 6: where the traits that makes a good.

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Speaker 2: I think one speed speed for sure is everything, but

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Speaker 2: you gotta have some vision. You got to be able to,

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Speaker 2: you know, find the whole one is not there. And

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Speaker 2: a guy that can a guy that can break some tackles,

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Speaker 2: a guy that will run through some warm tackles, but

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Speaker 2: but really just a downhill, vertical guy. And it's got

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Speaker 2: to be a guy that's going to make some great

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Speaker 2: decisions holding on to the football. You know, we talk

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Speaker 2: about that a lot. Is very important for any of

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Speaker 2: can protect the ball. So you know, all those good things.

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Speaker 5: Chris, I mean you you McDonald's booth, I mean your

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Speaker 5: coordinator now, and you both started as coaching interns. What

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Speaker 5: do you even remove about kind of those days starting.

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Speaker 5: I mean now that your coordinators, you know, you get,

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Speaker 5: but what was it like at the beginning with you guys.

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Speaker 2: You know, honestly, at the beginning, I think I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: speak for myself here, but you know, we didn't we

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Speaker 2: didn't know. You know, we were just we were just

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Speaker 2: two young guys just trying to figure out our way.

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Speaker 2: And we got the opportunity here when the Ravens was

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Speaker 2: starting that intern program, you know, and Mike and I

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Speaker 2: I was still on defense at the time, so I

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Speaker 2: of got to know each other. We set in that

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Speaker 2: As a young guy, you know, you don't know what's next.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're sitting in the office like, Hey, what's

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Speaker 2: and all those things coming, uh they come into question.

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Speaker 2: But this placement stability, it lets you be yourself. You know,

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Speaker 2: and then here it is ten seasons later and I'm

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Speaker 2: standing up in front of the podium. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: we are now. It's just it's just been an amazing

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Speaker 2: process of you know, just put your head down, go

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Speaker 2: for you. All right, appreciate, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: That was special teams coordinator Chris Horton. We also heard

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Speaker 1: from offensive coordinator Todd Monkey.

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Speaker 5: So when you don't have an opponent for the weekend,

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Speaker 5: how do you structure practice? I mean it's obviously not

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Speaker 5: game planning, but basically, what are you trying to get

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Speaker 5: out of practice for this week?

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Speaker 7: Improve the Ravens offense. That's what you're trying to do.

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Speaker 7: You know, when we had a bye week, the guys

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Speaker 7: you know, self, scout, who we want to be moving forward,

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Speaker 7: utilization of personnel, all those things. But we did the

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Speaker 7: five or six weeks later, you have a chance to

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Speaker 7: kind of work on things that somewhat from a game

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Speaker 7: planning standpoint, but more about us. Because the way we protect,

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Speaker 7: the way we pass set, the way we run routes,

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Speaker 7: how we structure things, how we do it better, that's

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Speaker 7: to me. That's what this whole week's about.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I've been to practices, but what you're seeing in

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Speaker 2: Dobbin Cook.

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Speaker 7: Well, we're excited to add a talented player to our roster,

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Speaker 7: you know, and I agree with what coach said things

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Speaker 7: said yesterday. You know, we look at more as a

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Speaker 7: potential weapon and than just someone that we've added to

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Speaker 7: the roster. So you know, now catching up, catching him

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Speaker 7: up to speed, you know, in terms of terminology and

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Speaker 3: But it's not hard.

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Speaker 7: Just got to you know, continue to wrap him and

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Speaker 7: you know, see where it goes from there.

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Speaker 6: To the story yesterday about how you know, back in

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Speaker 6: the season, texadent call them. You know, I'm going to

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Speaker 6: give you the key to the offense as far as

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Speaker 6: making checks the light, that kind of thing. What are

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Speaker 6: the having working now whole year? What are the traits

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Speaker 6: de Lamore has that has allowed him to thrive succeed

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Speaker 6: in doing that part of the game.

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Speaker 3: You'll change the way.

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Speaker 7: Well, first off, he's highly intelligent, so he understands what

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Speaker 7: And when the situation presents that. That's probably as much

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Speaker 7: every quarterback wants that. Not every quarterback wants that on

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Speaker 7: line of scrimmage or to put themselves out there where. Okay,

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Speaker 7: now they made the decision to change something to the

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Speaker 7: line or protection, but it starts with him. He's diligent,

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Speaker 7: he's intelligent. He's certainly more than capable of, you know,

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Speaker 7: seeing things, what the defense is presenting to him and

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Speaker 2: When you when.

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Speaker 4: You got here, you didn't know John Harbald really really

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Speaker 4: very well. You've certainly worked for a lot of head

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Speaker 4: coaches over the years. Now do you've been with him

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Speaker 4: for almost a year. What do you think are kind

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Speaker 4: of a standout trades.

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Speaker 2: About the.

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Speaker 7: Consistency, I think if you said his day to day approach,

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Speaker 7: his positive energy, his connection with the team. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I've never brought on anybody anybody like that in terms

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Speaker 7: of whether we've won, whether we've lost, in terms of

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Speaker 7: his approach, and I think that that allows you when

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Speaker 8: When you draw interest from other teams for their head

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Speaker 8: coaching vacancies, how do you balance taken you know that

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Speaker 8: that part of you know, the interest that you've been shown,

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Speaker 8: and also you know, planning for your current team.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's not hard because you know, I'll be able

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Speaker 7: to talk about that at a proper time when when

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Speaker 7: we have a chance to do something special here, you know,

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Speaker 7: and our team, our focus is on this week you know,

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Speaker 7: plan and giving us the best chance to be successful

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Speaker 7: next week.

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Speaker 8: I guess you, Mike Anthony, you know other other coaches

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Speaker 8: in this in this organization. What does it say about

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Speaker 8: the assistance.

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Speaker 7: Well, says a lot about the organization, says a lot

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Speaker 7: about our players, says a lot about our coaching staff.

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Speaker 7: You don't do it alone. I mean, you gotta have

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Speaker 7: a great staff, great organization, uh, and a great team

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Speaker 3: Sit out to you about Lamar and this.

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Speaker 7: Leadership this season. You know, Lamar is another one that

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Speaker 7: and what I've seen over the course of the year

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Speaker 7: that does a great job in terms of balancing success

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Speaker 7: and disappointment and coming back to the office, coming back

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Speaker 7: in the building with a great frame of mind. You know,

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Speaker 7: you know, he has a great way of compartmentalizing some frustration, competitiveness, success, disappointment,

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Speaker 7: all the above that comes from playing in the NFL

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Speaker 7: and walk in the building with a smile on his

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Speaker 7: that's a unique trait because it's hard, I mean for

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Speaker 7: what we do in all of us handling success, handling

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Speaker 1: That was offensive coordinator Todd Munkey. And know we also

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Speaker 1: heard from defensive coordinator Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 4: Chris Wharton was talking about kind of what it was

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Speaker 4: like to come up from the intern level and really

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Speaker 4: grow as a coach.

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Speaker 5: In this organization. I mean, when you when you.

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Speaker 4: Reflect on all that time that you've spent here, you know,

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Speaker 4: under serve of a culture that John created. If you

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Speaker 4: do become a head coach one day. What do you

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Speaker 4: think you've taken away from from that to sort of get.

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Speaker 2: You that thing?

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Speaker 3: Man, Uh, there's so much.

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Speaker 9: There's so it's just we're so fortunate and lucky to

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Speaker 9: be around first of all, the organization. But the organizations

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Speaker 9: when you think it's just it's made up of people, right,

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Speaker 9: and the alignment that comes from the top here. You

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Speaker 9: know when I was when I was an intern, Ozzie

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Speaker 9: and then ultimately John and and the person that he

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Speaker 9: is and the leader that he is. You just have

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