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Speaker 1: Well, it is, number one, it is. They usually pride

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Speaker 1: They've They've had different, you know, different guys in there

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Speaker 1: it's something that you you gotta continue to work. I mean,

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Speaker 1: when it hits, it's it hits, and it hits, it

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Speaker 1: and and do a good job just you know, like

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Speaker 4: Do you anticipate getting Jay Jones, uh Walker l maybe

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Speaker 1: I anticipate them doing something today in practice and we'll

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Speaker 3: They doing in terms of their rehab and all that

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Speaker 4: Great, awesome, But how how well do you know Mike

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Speaker 1: Believe, Yeah, no, Yeah, And I know Mike pretty well,

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Speaker 1: he's he's definitely carried that carried that on in his

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Speaker 1: of Tyson, Uh, he'll be he'll be in practice today

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Speaker 3: The last few weeks had kind of been rapid fire.

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Speaker 3: Game game game, game game.

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Speaker 4: You got got a little bit of an extra break there, Sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit, and we'll choked up with that

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Speaker 1: Do you worry about guys maybe taking their foot off

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Speaker 1: And that was the message this morning, you know, And

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Speaker 1: they they've beat some really good foot all teams this

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Speaker 1: So well, I think it just adds to his confidence,

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Speaker 5: Message to the team every week or off season or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and we haven't. But pleased with where we are right now.

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Speaker 3: We're in the nee Birds.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, might be a question you ask him.

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Speaker 3: The offense is the senate.

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Speaker 1: I'm not wearing this.

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Speaker 3: H with all the offense of the second half quite

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Speaker 5: How much did you do you contribute that to just

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Speaker 5: a matter of you're not getting.

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Speaker 1: The possessions defenses on the field for a long time

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Speaker 3: Duh, No, this is a little off topic.

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Speaker 2: But Bob Sudden, I know you've known him for a while,

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Speaker 2: what what does he really bring, you know, as a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Bob's been a decordinator. He and I

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Speaker 3: As a player, when you.

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Speaker 2: Have somebody like that, it's kind of like a wealth

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Speaker 1: As a player. I think it's it means a lot,

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Speaker 4: Some of the game plan on Sunday was to kind

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Speaker 4: Any worries about that enjoyment this next week or is

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Speaker 3: Back the normal.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna obviously be aware of that every week,

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Speaker 2: To last question, is Mika's bits Patrick the type of

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Speaker 3: He's at at all times.

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