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Speaker 1: First stop happen to year, happen your year almost second.

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Speaker 2: Outside of winning on Sunday for you personally, what.

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Speaker 1: Are you hoping to get out of this final game

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a great time to.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you're working practice and working the game on catching

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Speaker 3: You're coming into the playoffs. It's like we're playing our

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Speaker 3: best football. So that's it. That's one of the best

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Speaker 1: Of practice, get another game, you know, action of you'll

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Speaker 2: I know, I know.

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Speaker 3: You will are close off the field twelve.

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Speaker 2: What's it like to see him.

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Speaker 3: Back at practice out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome to be a willy back out there.

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Speaker 3: You know, Uh, you're glad.

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Speaker 1: And you kind of you get into a rhythm and

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Speaker 3: The message you've shared with your teammates since this stuff

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