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Speaker 1: I just want to pay my respects to his family.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the Franco was a great guy and the

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Speaker 1: I said, sad sad news and just wanna get my

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Speaker 1: respects to his family. Can you imagine making that play?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's such an instinctive thing. Uh so actually

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Speaker 1: that was kind of the example, uh that our our

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Speaker 1: coach and coach Huff will use to get us to

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Speaker 1: chase the ball practice. I mean, obviously the thought process

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, when you chase the ball, good

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Speaker 1: like that's kind of like the background, um of where

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Speaker 1: that mentality came from. Did you feel better last week?

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Speaker 1: I mean the numbers seemingly indicated that. Um. I mean

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Speaker 1: I felt like I felt the week before. Uh I

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Speaker 1: Oline gave me opportunities, especially at the end, and um

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Speaker 1: playing amazing um all year and finish the job for us.

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Speaker 1: Lets you feel that the sort of the adrenaline of

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Speaker 1: I mean you could see it There's it didn't look

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Speaker 1: like you know, that's not just like normal drive any

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Speaker 1: letting yourself feel the emotional maybe getting a playoff spot. Hey,

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Speaker 1: the only way we get that we control we can control, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's a that's the focus. Keep the main thing,

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Speaker 1: the main thing. UM going gets a great team, UM Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: UM was a great defense of every veteran defense and UM,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be a great match with What do

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Speaker 1: you think of the idea that it can't happen this week?

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Speaker 1: I mean there are scenarios where you do mention a playoffer. UM,

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Speaker 1: I want update me on scenarios. You guys win. And

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Speaker 1: then to those other three teams Washington, Seattle or Allis well,

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Speaker 1: that today. But right now, But like I said, the

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Speaker 1: concerned what happened outside of that. We put ourselves to

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Speaker 1: that's the beat of it, and then we gotta capitalize

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Speaker 1: say that in advanced UM. I mean you your offense

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Speaker 1: Even after a great win like last week, coming in UM,

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Speaker 1: you've had obviously monster runs and monster games here. But

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't mean nothing, because you know that's part of

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