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Speaker 1: Him, Yeah, Garner Gardner was awesome. Obviously we you know,

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Speaker 1: know him pretty well. Really. I mean a good guy

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Speaker 1: learned some things from him for sure, especially being a

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Speaker 1: we were able to capitalize on them. So I think

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Speaker 1: that was what showed up is more of the execution

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Speaker 1: whatever it may be. You know, sometimes the shots don't

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Speaker 1: get more of them off last week, which is obviously

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Speaker 1: good when you can have those explosives, that's what we

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Speaker 5: Starting fast. You've talked about it a lot. First three games,

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Speaker 5: seven points in the first quarter in one to eighteen

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Speaker 5: in both first quarters, so I mean around here, leads

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Speaker 5: have been you know, they haven't happened. What's it like

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Speaker 1: It's a lot better than trying to play from behind

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Speaker 1: all the time. Obviously, it's I mean this league, even

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Speaker 1: if you have a lead, it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: four quarter game. Very rarely do you see games just

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Speaker 1: you know, a team gets blown out. Doesn't happen much

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Speaker 1: I think that takes pressure off of the defense, takes

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Speaker 1: on our terms. So I think that that is obviously

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Speaker 1: a positive. And then you're not finding yourself, you know,

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Speaker 1: to you got to do right to win those games.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, we've had success in the past, but

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Speaker 1: you can't live off that. So definitely, that's how we

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Speaker 6: league forced miss tackles right now. Yeah, it just seems

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Speaker 6: like he's taking a different step because this is as

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Speaker 6: good as you've seen him play football.

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Speaker 1: you're not playing the same you're not playing the same

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Speaker 1: He's playing really smart. He's trusting the guys up front.

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Speaker 1: take some huge steps and it's been impressive to watch.

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Speaker 1: And obviously he's getting more and more involved in the

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