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Speaker 1: Happy holidays, David, please, Mike, no Merry Christmas. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did start with before we get the COVID update,

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Speaker 1: were you watching the game last night when you clinched

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Speaker 1: And I know you're pointing towards more than just clinching,

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Speaker 1: but I just talked about catching that boxed off before

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Speaker 1: the regular season, I definitely had had the game on.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Frankly, I think you know what's you

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Speaker 1: know way this lines up for us playing Sunday night

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Speaker 1: football against you know, division rival in Washington and playing

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Speaker 1: for the division title. That's really where our focus is. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we had had confidence that this would you

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Speaker 1: know this, we would check this box. But this is

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Speaker 1: about winning the division outright and you know and staying

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Speaker 1: in a hunt for for a higher seed. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's where our focus is. And as far as COVID,

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Speaker 1: I have nothing to update today and the players actually

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Speaker 1: don't get here though it'll be it'll be arriving between

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Speaker 1: eleven eleven thirty because our mock games starts at noon today. Mike.

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Speaker 1: Is the fact if you clinch her and going forward,

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Speaker 1: how would that impact your um? What you do with

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Speaker 1: you and your guy. How much you might play them

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of games, well need to impact

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Speaker 1: at all. I don't think it's going to impact anything, Frankly,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I anticipate. But I've done it

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Speaker 1: both ways and neither one of them worked out. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've been fifteen and one and rested people and you

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Speaker 1: know then you know, lost lost the playoff game after that,

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Speaker 1: and I've I've also played him last week and against

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Speaker 1: the same opponent in two thousand and nine and we lost.

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Speaker 1: We lost the playoff game there too, So um, I've

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Speaker 1: done it both ways. I think, like anything, you rely

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Speaker 1: on your own experiences. But you know it's every years different.

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Speaker 1: You know, the landscape of each team you coach is different.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we'll answer those questions a week to

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Speaker 1: week or most importantly when we get there. So Tristan

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Speaker 1: Hill is not back. Tristan Hill is not back today.

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Speaker 1: Correct where you are with the seeding two, don't you

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Speaker 1: just assume these the next two weeks you're going to

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Speaker 1: have pretty significant feeding implications and you really don't look

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Speaker 1: at at a rest scenario until that final game. Well

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Speaker 1: said David, Let's go with that you said it better

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Speaker 1: than I did. Excellent. Yeah, absolutely, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, you said Tyren Smith mud do a little

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Speaker 1: looking back, I can't really give an update. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, the players, Uh, I have not seen

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Speaker 1: as the players come in between eleven and eleven thirty

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Speaker 1: we'll get that in formation. Rich want to give an

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Speaker 1: update later or something Richel giving update. Amara was talking

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Speaker 1: yesterday about being frustrated with frontive opportunities, your lack, your

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Speaker 1: jass of things. You'd rather have that than guys who

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Speaker 1: aren't hunt You get the Bob. What's the key to

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Speaker 1: keeping everyone happy on this happens, especially when they're last production? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think, like anything, I mean, every everybody's committed to

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's always you know, the fun part of

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Speaker 1: so I just think it's all part of it. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think the big, big picture focus, you know, complimenting

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Speaker 1: football is the goal, and we all understand it takes

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Speaker 1: no issue with guys wanting to do more. I think

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Speaker 1: I think that's just part of you know, handling success

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Speaker 1: So you know, we'll just continue to continue to get

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. Mike boy, I'm sorry at the market, Lawrences?

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Speaker 1: happy holidays, take care, thank you, thank you, Michaelidad, thank you. Wait,

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Speaker 1: where's Clarence? Was here today? Yeah,