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Speaker 1: good yeah. With Cliff, do you have obviously at the

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Speaker 1: you describe his coaching style from aggressive? Yah? Yeah, see

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Speaker 1: it again to the quarterback sis seemed much of much

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Speaker 1: when he is here. Um. I mean they're look that

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Speaker 1: he has a good offensive program system. Saw that in college.

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Speaker 1: You know, I had a lot of not explosive plays

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Speaker 1: at Arizon and have been since he's been there. Aggressive

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Speaker 1: I mean, their whole style is pretty aggressive. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: offensively they do they run it, throw, get the ball outside,

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Speaker 1: h No, no take for time right now, all right,

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Speaker 1: with coaching. Yeah, coach has He's a great, good friend.

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Speaker 1: with him obviously the Amanda there, you know they're um,

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Speaker 1: they play tomorrow. Yeah yeah, okay, so um yeah, so

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Speaker 1: pulling for the Crusaders. Yeah, big, big opportunity to big

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Speaker 1: game for him. You know, coach has done a great job.

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Speaker 1: There a lot of good teams that it's apt four

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Speaker 1: So yeah, great job. Well, when he's been here, he

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Speaker 1: Any thoughts about the other game too, Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: Andy Lee's been a league I think longer than any

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