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Speaker 1: the scene looks like for a pretty damn big football

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Speaker 1: game Week nine, no doubt about it. In the a

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Speaker 1: It's taken some time. I guess. The last trick to

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Speaker 1: the only thing left, right. I just don't know, to

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Speaker 1: it would be to have a team over there. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining when I say this at all. But

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Speaker 1: the biggest game of the weekend, um, I would proper

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Speaker 1: you have, if you'd imagined a week two of the season,

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Speaker 1: Who would have thought that week too? You know, I

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Speaker 1: which we're we're assuming that the quarterback that you wanted

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Speaker 1: I go to Folds. I mean, I mean you you

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Speaker 1: He is. He is the guy who who has been

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Speaker 1: there and done that, and that's what you really need

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Speaker 1: a high class problem it is to have um? And

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Speaker 1: you hired Folds for this, and Minshew is clearly a

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Speaker 1: Let's see what Folds can do, and let's not forget

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Speaker 1: you know, when he hurt himself. It's it was one

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Speaker 1: Um that Folds followed through, followed through on. So I

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Speaker 1: already realized that when Folds might run his course in Jacksonville,

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