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Speaker 1: Good afternoon to Maori. How are you. I'm good. How

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Speaker 1: to work today? Uh? Drove g Wagon today? Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's acceptable. Twenty four snaps against the Saints coming off

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Speaker 1: of COVID. Can you just take us through just sort

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Speaker 1: But I didn't. I think I I went home that day,

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Speaker 1: So I think they thought that they were worried about

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Speaker 1: They didn't want me to come out there and just

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Speaker 1: after being out for so long because they were unsure

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Speaker 1: and which ones are the most annoying. Does the amount

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Speaker 1: And we're starting to hear about, you know, Jerry Jones

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Speaker 1: Like it's some positives that come out of winning these

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Speaker 1: It's easy. That's one of the best questions I've asked.

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Speaker 1: I said, that's a great question. Thank you, so Amari.

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Speaker 1: Speaking to that confidence, obviously, you guys went through a

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Speaker 1: What was the message in the locker room between you

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