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Speaker 1: it going? Coach? Christians get some issues, but that's a

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that stood out, and

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Speaker 1: Certainly you guys are because it's your livelihood. But they're

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Speaker 1: the downside of that, like you said, as you don't

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Speaker 1: see different combinations so far. So we just try to

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Speaker 1: try to do the best we can. All of them

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Speaker 1: are important. We try to take all of them into consideration,

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Speaker 1: and I would say the ones we don't get in

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Speaker 1: we try to balance that off in practice. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, I don't think we need eight preseason games,

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Speaker 1: but thank you for bringing that up. Well, when I

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Speaker 1: came in the league, we had six. Would you rather

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Speaker 1: see two and add two regular season games? Well, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's good for the development of young players.

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Speaker 1: So it's just a question of what your priorities are

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Speaker 1: and can you get can you get the team or

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Speaker 1: a player ready in two preseason games. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the injury rate would be on that.

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Speaker 1: I know the injury rate it started regular seasons high,

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Speaker 1: it always is, and that's a big jump from preseason

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Speaker 1: of the regular season. I think if you cut that

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Speaker 1: in half, you know you'd be looking at a bigger jump. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So if this was opening a week this week, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I think it would be

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Speaker 1: it would present some other challenges, but look that's not

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Speaker 1: really my it's not my call. It didn't really make

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Speaker 1: any difference what I think. Somebody else will make that decision.

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Speaker 1: That's that's fine. As you've learned, the NFL always makes

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Speaker 1: their decisions. We'll catch you next week. All right, sounds good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you right here on OMF