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Speaker 1: So very good football team. They do everything well good

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Speaker 1: So it's you know, they give you a number of

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Speaker 1: different problems as they do in all three phases of

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Speaker 1: the game. They're a hard team to prepare for on offense,

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Speaker 1: on defense, and they kicking game. So it you know,

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Speaker 1: it takes a lot of energy, work, effort, preparation to

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Speaker 1: you know, be able to play sixty minute game against them.

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Speaker 1: They stretch you at every you know, in every era.

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Speaker 1: So let's they have good players, they well coached, and

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Speaker 1: they they kind of do everything pretty well. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's why it's tough. Okay, all right, yeah, thank you,