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Speaker 2: You don't see a lot of whole separation you know,

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Speaker 2: they play really sound all together, and their physical you know,

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Speaker 2: their linebackers fly around and uh, like we've been saying

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Speaker 2: I mean, we have, you know, our plan and stuff,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to be a drastic

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Speaker 1: So preparing for Patrick Queen and more, Kunstant, how much

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Speaker 2: There's some similarities, but you know, we got to just

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Speaker 1: You play playoff games here in the past, so are

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we played some playoff games and stuff last

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