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Speaker 1: How was the how's the week of preparation been before

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Speaker 2: It's been a little bit since we've seen playoff football

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Speaker 1: What are your emotions like heeading into Wildcards?

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Speaker 3: You get excited. It'll be a fun atmosphere, you know.

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Speaker 3: I know that everybody in this locker really really excited,

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Speaker 4: Hunter.

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Speaker 5: How much self scout do you guys do as you

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Speaker 5: get into the playoff weeks compared to earlier on in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta look at everything.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, they have seventeen games of film,

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Speaker 3: so you gotta find little things that you can do.

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Speaker 3: I know they're doing the same thing, and just find

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Speaker 3: little ways you can be better. But at the end

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Speaker 3: of the day, comes down to kind of you know,

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Speaker 3: your fundamentals and the things that you can rely on,

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Speaker 3: you know when it comes to those big games.

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Speaker 1: So what's the balance of leaning into your tendencies and

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Speaker 1: what you guys do well without becoming like predictable like

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Speaker 1: all we've seen this on film a few other times.

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Speaker 3: I think it's you know, you gotta have a wrinkle

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Speaker 3: go out there and execute. That's that's the biggest thing

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs and and big games. You got to

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Speaker 3: go out there and execute at a high level. What

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Speaker 3: sticks out to you about the Chargers defense? I mean

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Speaker 3: they rank top top of the league and every every category. Man,

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Speaker 3: they got players at each level that's you know, played

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Speaker 3: at a high level, that's played in this league a

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Speaker 3: long time and present a lot of challenges. You know,

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Speaker 3: the Edge guys are really really good and we're gonna

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Speaker 3: be a tough out for us. You know, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: be ready to go and master intensity the whole game.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, Derwin's a guy obviously I know well,

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Speaker 3: and you know he'll be ready to go. You know,

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Speaker 3: he has a lot of juice, a lot of energy,

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Speaker 3: plays the game the right way.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: I have a lot of respect for him. He's a

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Speaker 3: great player and we'll have to, you know, be able

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Speaker 6: You've been here for a while now, But what's it

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Speaker 6: like going against your former team in the Charges.

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Speaker 1: In the playoffs?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's cool.

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Speaker 1: A team that brought me into this league, gave me

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's a special time to be over there,

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Speaker 3: but you know, really enjoyed my time over here. I'm

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Speaker 3: excited to play him this weekend and it'll be fun.

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Speaker 2: This will be a first for a lot of players

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Speaker 2: in this locker room, including Break. What have you noticed

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Speaker 2: in his demeanor his week as he gets ready for

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Speaker 4: No different demeanor.

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Speaker 3: I mean at the end of the day, I mean

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Speaker 3: everybody else kind of you know, obviously it's it's do

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Speaker 3: or die and win or go home. It's the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: But then day, once we get out there, we're playing football.

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Speaker 3: We're still playing the same game we've been playing, just.

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Speaker 4: At a higher level.

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Speaker 3: So now we've got to be on our details, be

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Speaker 3: ready to go, and you know, I think everybody is

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Speaker 7: I'm always confident in our guys.

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Speaker 8: I'll put us against anybody.

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Speaker 1: How about the crowd, how much else?

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Speaker 4: Forward to the atmosphere, It's gonna be crazy.

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Speaker 8: I think it would be a legendary vibement. I'm just

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Speaker 8: having that playoff field back in this stadia, and again,

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Speaker 8: I think it's something the fans want. Everybody here wants

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Speaker 3: Have you shared anything about your playoff experiences with guys

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Speaker 3: who haven't played the postseason, Yeah, a little bit.

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Speaker 8: But as I was just telling him, you know, our

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Speaker 4: So we're all locked in.

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Speaker 1: What's your history with Justin Herbert?

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Speaker 8: Think I played them, hion So I played him one

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Speaker 8: Obviously it was I think it's his rookie year. Ever

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Speaker 8: since then, he's obviously got better, but he's, uh, he's

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Speaker 4: Last one for me.

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Speaker 9: You know, everyone looking around here saying what a great

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Speaker 9: granted these opportunities in the postseason being better and you

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Speaker 8: I mean, the regular season doesn't even matter anymore. It's like,

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Speaker 8: right now. So whatever we did was, you know, good,

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Speaker 3: Having us preparation something you guys go focus on every

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Speaker 1: Good sense of how the Chargers want to play you

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Speaker 4: Going to be a feeling out period.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I fel like I feel like I know

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Speaker 9: At the end the day, no one was talking about

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Speaker 7: A lot of people make apologizing do you see it?

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, for sure, the ability to extend plays, uh,

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 8: They have a lot of similarities and they.

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Speaker 1: Should get ready for Sunday.

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Speaker 4: All feel great, man.

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Speaker 10: You know, obviously we got a couple more hours left,

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Speaker 10: you know, a couple more days to get ready, you know,

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Speaker 10: but we got everybody intact that we need to be intact,

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Jared's clear concussion protocol.

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Speaker 1: Psyche guys is an offensive line right where you want

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Speaker 10: Right, No, one hundred percent, man, anytime you get guys,

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Speaker 4: It's always good.

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Speaker 10: And you know, I obviously getting guys healthy and stuff

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Speaker 9: You talked a lot of during the season, training camp

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Speaker 10: Well, don't let them hear this, but they're not rookies anymore.

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Speaker 10: But you know, just to see those guys grow every day,

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Speaker 10: being a you know, twenty one, twenty two year old

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Speaker 4: It's been good.

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Speaker 2: What have you noticed about I guess the vibes in

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like on the outside.

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Speaker 10: There's really been a notice of shift. I mean, we

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Speaker 7: We worked our tails all starting off No Ta's.

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Speaker 4: In April, and that bond and brotherhood.

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Speaker 10: That we built over these these couple of months, and

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Speaker 10: guys like Drake made is walking in all loud and stuff,

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Speaker 10: and you know, Will Campbell. There's a lot of guys

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Speaker 4: On coaching staffs as well.

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Speaker 10: You know coaching Uh, they got big country next.

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Speaker 10: You know, it takes all of us, training staff, you know,

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Speaker 4: And we just didn't get here by ourselves. You know,

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Speaker 10: And when you have that mindset to come in the

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Speaker 10: it's an unbelievable you know, way to go.

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Speaker 1: Just Drake se tight this week.

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Speaker 4: No, not at all, man, you know, not at all.

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Speaker 4: At the end of the day, Man, we play a

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Speaker 10: So anytime you get a chance to step up between

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Speaker 4: As well defensively third death.

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Speaker 10: You know, they have a lot of great players, you

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Speaker 4: He's been doing he's been doing this for a long time.

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Speaker 10: And you know, they have a lot of good guys

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Speaker 4: Know, and then we got there. They're coach well as well.

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Speaker 10: You know, coach Harlball has been there, he's been in

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Speaker 4: You know, I had to.

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Speaker 7: I had the privilege to play for his brother, So.

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Speaker 4: I know what that makeup is about.

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Speaker 10: And you know, obviously we're preparing for preparing for it

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Speaker 2: Is Drake even the type of player that eats anything.

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Speaker 2: He just seems like, you know, it's only a second year,

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Speaker 10: Cool and collective, you know, that's what he is, and

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Speaker 10: that's the mentality that he brings into his locker room.

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Speaker 4: And when you have other guys around him, you.

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Speaker 10: Know, some older guys like Stefan and and and Matt

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Speaker 10: that's what he's done. Man, He's done everything that the

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Speaker 10: coaching staff and the players is actually do. He's grown

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Speaker 10: as a football player day to day from OTAs and

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Speaker 10: building that that that camaraderie in the offense. And here

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Speaker 4: Welcome Jared.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're not in your space, brother, better in fact,

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Speaker 9: But last one for me, when when you're facing a

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Speaker 10: I would like to think they were physical too. You know,

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Speaker 10: that's our identity. We talk about packing our identity on

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Speaker 7: It needs to be played football, and that's what we

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Speaker 10: We got some time to you know, coaches always say,

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Speaker 4: It feels great.

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Speaker 5: I was just saying to somebody else, the camaraderie that

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Speaker 7: I was frustrating at first because you wake up, you feel.

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Speaker 4: That's good.

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Speaker 6: You you completed that game too, So is this something

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to your first playoff game NFL.

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Speaker 5: I'm excited. I'm excited that that Will's back as well,

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Speaker 4: A great time.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be what's it been like?

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Speaker 9: You want a training camp to where you are now

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Speaker 5: I'm like, this crazy to look back on it and

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Speaker 1: And it's just like it seems like forever.

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Speaker 4: You blink.

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Speaker 5: First we get a playoffs. It's just it's crazy. But

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Speaker 6: So far, and then hopefully we can keep going play

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Speaker 6: Morgan was just joking that you anymore?

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Speaker 1: Do you still?

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Speaker 4: Oh, good question. Yeah. They keep us on, they keep us,

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Speaker 9: So Yeah, and what's the journey been like along with Drake?

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Speaker 1: And watch what he's doing, you know, MVP King.

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Speaker 5: It's crazy, but you know you have as a line

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Speaker 7: It's it's just like, damn, that's my quarterback.

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Speaker 4: It's great to see.

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Speaker 5: It's the feeling like going to be for you running

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Speaker 4: Is that something you've thought of?

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Speaker 1: It's just the playoffs. Still gotta go play.

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Speaker 4: Thanks.

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Speaker 7: How excited are you for your first player?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, super excited, super grateful, you know, be

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Speaker 5: Especially the way that your role has maybe grown in

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Speaker 8: What does it, you know, feel like to you that

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I been super special, super grateful for the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: What have the veterans been telling you about how things

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know that.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's just a football game.

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Speaker 6: You know, go out there, be in the moment, take

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Speaker 4: Is what you guys start? Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 6: It definitely helps, you know, when you to get out

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Speaker 6: With the playoffs, you know, how he prepares, I think

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be the same DrAk. I think

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Speaker 6: I'm excited, and you know, we got we got a

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Speaker 8: Last week, Coach Greeble was talking about preparing when it

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Speaker 6: Have you felt like you were in some of that

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Speaker 1: Sure, thanks, thanks you for