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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: Everybody's LeVar Arrington here with another exciting edition of Quite

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Speaker 2: Franklin with coach James Franklin and myself, LeVar Arrington. That's right,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna talk Ohio State. We're gonna touch on what

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Speaker 2: took place with Wisconsin just super quick because it's a

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Speaker 2: one and oh season. Congratulations on the win. But it's

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Speaker 2: a big week. It's Ohio State week. How does the

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks look? What's Drew Ayler feeling like right now with

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Speaker 2: his health? Is he going to play? Coach's first thought

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Speaker 2: when asked about the Ohio State week? We all know

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Speaker 2: that this is a big game and a big week,

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Speaker 2: so we'll talk to him about that. We'll hear about

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Speaker 2: the matchups and a little bit of detail what his

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Speaker 2: coordinators are doing so well for this team this year,

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Speaker 2: and coach kydle Nikki and coach Allen. We're gonna get

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Speaker 2: to all that and more right now here we go.

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Speaker 2: Let's get going Quite Franklin. This week needs no introduction.

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Speaker 2: I mean it is what it is. My burning first

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Speaker 2: question to you is what is the first thought that

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Speaker 2: comes to you when Coach Franklin hears ps U versus

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Speaker 2: os U at home.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say something I probably shouldn't say, But the

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Speaker 3: first thing I think of is white out, just because

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Speaker 3: that's what it typically has been, which is probably what

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Speaker 3: I shouldn't say right now, because people.

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Speaker 1: Are already white out energy. You know what, white white

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Speaker 1: out energy? You know what I mean, Let's get it

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Speaker 1: going well.

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Speaker 4: So, just because we've had so many, you know, of

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Speaker 4: those games with them.

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Speaker 3: We've had a win, we've had losses by one point,

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Speaker 3: and we've had contracy virtual games.

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Speaker 4: We just we've had battles, just just tremendous battles.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I got a ton of respect, which

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Speaker 3: I think you do as well, for the university and

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Speaker 3: the program. They've been doing it for a long time

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Speaker 3: under a number of different people in leadership positions.

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Speaker 4: So got a lot of respect for him.

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Speaker 3: And I also know a big part of my job,

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Speaker 3: my position is judged based on this game.

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Speaker 2: Being in a situation where you know that that's kind

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Speaker 2: of you have. You have supporters every coach does. They

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Speaker 2: have their supporters, They have their detractors. The detractors are

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Speaker 2: always waiting for that one game where they can pounce

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Speaker 2: and say I told you so. The whole entire time

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Speaker 2: going into a game of this magnitude, how much how

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Speaker 2: much do you look at what you guys and I

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Speaker 2: ask you this kind of every week, how much do

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Speaker 2: you look at what you guys have been able to accomplish?

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Speaker 2: Maybe people don't understand the magnitude of what it is.

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Speaker 2: You come to the West Coast and you handle something

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Speaker 2: that most teams haven't been able to do, which is

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Speaker 2: handled coming to the West Coast playing and winning. You

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Speaker 2: go into a hostile environment and can't randall and you're

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Speaker 2: playing against a team that was going in the right direction,

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Speaker 2: and in fact so much so they were in the

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Speaker 2: league at halftime, they were playing a really good game

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Speaker 2: against our team. You guys have shown a resiliency all

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Speaker 2: year long, a almost like a very very veteran type

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Speaker 1: Does that play a part.

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Speaker 2: In going into this game or is it just a

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Speaker 2: it was. But we're approaching this game from the standpoint

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Speaker 2: a balance?

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Speaker 1: Is there a balance of it? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I would say our approach is the same, right you

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Speaker 3: and be like, hey, this is a big one. Like

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Speaker 3: they know it's a big one. I don't got to

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Speaker 3: tell them. Everybody's telling them it's a big game. People

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Speaker 3: in their community, when they go home, everybody wants to

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Speaker 3: talk about this game. When they walk around campus, everybody wants.

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Speaker 4: To talk about this game.

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Speaker 3: So we don't need to talk about that. We just

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Speaker 3: Then what we're living and what we're doing isn't real.

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Speaker 4: But I think to your.

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Speaker 3: Point, what we've done this year and how we've done it,

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Speaker 3: It's all of those things. But this is an important

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Speaker 3: playoff is a little bit more like the NFL, not

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Speaker 3: us but other teams, you're gonna be able to have

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Speaker 3: I think I read somewhere somebody said the level of

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Speaker 3: interest across a large number of teams has never been

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Speaker 3: at this point of this So for a lot of

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Speaker 3: different reasons, you know, we understand what this is all about.

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Speaker 1: Codal Nikki, did I get it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Killed it. He's a beast.

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Speaker 2: He's kind of like he's kind of he's kind of

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Speaker 2: like a beast man. Like I've been I've been watching

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Speaker 2: how you guys, and look, take no credit away from

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Speaker 1: I know your involvement.

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Speaker 2: I know you don't need to take the credit for anything,

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Speaker 2: because you will take all the.

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Speaker 1: Credit if they if they come up short.

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Speaker 2: But the amazingness of how you guys are stressing out defenses.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm watching how you guys move around and how

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Speaker 2: you shift and the different sets that you guys are

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Speaker 2: in and I'm also and I'm gonna double down on this.

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Speaker 2: You said get over a hurdle these fronts that you have.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a run through the hurdle. I don't

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Speaker 2: think you guys have to try to clear it. I

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Speaker 2: think it's more of a This is the mentality if

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, what is the identity of this year's because

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Speaker 2: we always had this ever since we've been doing this show,

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Speaker 2: we always have the conversation of what is the identity

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Speaker 2: applies to the offense, what is the identity y'all? It's

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Speaker 2: too chippers Like I feel like you guys are physical.

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Speaker 2: You stress defenses out by where you guys are aligning.

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Speaker 2: There's a creativity in how you guys are using your personnel,

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Speaker 2: and I think that it's a tremendous difference the fact

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Speaker 2: more probably as physical as I've seen out of an

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Speaker 2: I think this is one of those types of teams where,

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Speaker 2: for once, I think our offensive front has the advantage

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Speaker 3: So, first of all, Andy is doing a great job.

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's any doubt about that. I also

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Speaker 3: think the staff is doing a great job. I also

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Speaker 3: think having two really good running backs, having a deep

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Speaker 3: physical and a special player like Venga in terms from

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Speaker 3: a physicality standpoint, a veteran quarterback in year two, and

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Speaker 3: a receiver room that is on the rise and has

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Speaker 3: shown flashes of true potential.

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Speaker 4: But I think the big thing, and you know this.

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Speaker 3: Because you played with some of these guys like Tyler Warren.

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Speaker 3: Talented, but Tyler Warren is football smart and he also

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Speaker 3: can't process, and it's like a wide receiver who's your

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Speaker 3: and play as fast. So now that defense knows, yeah

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Speaker 3: they got a they got a difference maker, but we

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Speaker 3: always know where he's gonna line up. You can take

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Speaker 3: line up at number three, play quarterback, play running back, motion, shift,

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Speaker 4: Play center.

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Speaker 3: Now it's hard to stop that guy because the defense

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Speaker 3: can't put him into a category. That that's you know,

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Speaker 3: I mean, all these years game plan it and for us,

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Speaker 3: ton of different things from a formation standpoint, We're doing

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Speaker 4: That's a lot to work on in one week.

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Speaker 3: So the combination of all those things, as you know,

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Speaker 3: I look at it a little bit like when Joe

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Speaker 4: a little bit like that with Andy. That doesn't take

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Speaker 3: Doesn't take anything away from Joe Moorehead, but you better

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Speaker 2: That's that's so let me ask you this, do you

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Speaker 2: power action dives with a sweet jet sweep motion, and

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Speaker 2: we're running the jet sweeps and we're running the motions,

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Speaker 1: Jet sweet motions, but we never ran a jet sweep.

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Speaker 2: You get the week four, it's like, Okay, we're seeing

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Speaker 2: we're running the same play. There's a build out variation,

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Speaker 2: but is the defense playing it now we're incorporating the

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Speaker 2: really like a systematic approach to how you guys are

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Speaker 2: this magnitude of a game, but the fact that, let's

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Speaker 2: be clear and honest, you're undefeated again, by the way,

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Speaker 2: You're undefeated again at this late juncture in the season.

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Speaker 2: So now it's just really there's only a few more

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Speaker 2: games left for you guys to get to that next

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Speaker 2: level of is it a Big ten championship?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it almost a Big ten championship? But go to

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Speaker 2: the playoffs? How well do you do in the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: How much do you save if you're going to the

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Speaker 2: championship versus the playoffs? You got a lot of things

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Speaker 2: and realize that you guys have to manage. But in

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Speaker 2: of your opponents, this is this is like there's a lot.

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Speaker 1: To balance there.

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Speaker 2: Do you do you feel as though, do you keep

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Speaker 2: it simple and just run what you run, like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: You got to do it two times this year. Yes,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're getting better every single week. I

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Speaker 1: So how State's going to try to run. They're going

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Speaker 2: What are your hopes going into this game? Because somebody's

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Speaker 2: What what's your main thing this week, coach?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just try to keep it as simple as

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Speaker 4: So that was my emphasis with the team on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great environment, the place is gonna

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Speaker 3: But for me, I just want us to be prepared.

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Speaker 1: We're calling for another white out energy, white out energy,

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Speaker 2: We're calling for a white out energy. Bring the white

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