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Speaker 1: and probably even more importantly than that, it's the next game.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna give you some gap scheme with some pullers. Um,

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Speaker 1: job with that. Then after that the boots, the play passes,

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Speaker 1: they're taking a shot down the field, some movement stuff

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Speaker 1: some one on ones on the perimeter and throw the

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Speaker 1: great challenge, and I think our guys um had really

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Speaker 1: whole season, win lose. Doesn't you know that that doesn't

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Speaker 1: that's not gonna change our preparation. It's it's process, process, process,

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Speaker 1: the field, It really did. I think our guys are

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Speaker 1: building confidence every day. You know, at the end of

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Speaker 1: day going into a matchup again, see very similar running

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