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Speaker 1: good learning night for us here. Um, I saw a

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Speaker 1: us see on both sides, you know, and kind of

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Speaker 1: like last week just kept off a real good week

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Speaker 1: that course that time really you know, see see everybody,

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Speaker 1: good competition against another good football team. And um, so

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Speaker 1: in the regular season opener. Yeah. No, we still have

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Speaker 1: We'll do it. Seems like Devin has had a productive

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Speaker 1: and in the second half that was you know, good

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Speaker 1: offensive output, running and passing. Coach, with your impressions of

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Speaker 1: Chase winningage been since he's gotten back out there and

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Speaker 1: give their opinions and so forth. But as a coach

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