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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants.

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Speaker 2: Let's Giants, the Giants Bubble, give me some Job, part

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Speaker 2: of the Giants Podcast Networks Role. Welcome to our Friday

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Speaker 2: edition of The Giants Little Podcast, brought to you by Citizens,

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Speaker 2: the official bank of the New York Giants. I am

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Speaker 2: John Schmelk, A little bit of a different Friday show

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Speaker 2: coming to you today. Rather than doing a beat reporter

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Speaker 2: covering the Eagles, given the fact that they're really not

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Speaker 2: playing any of their starters at least we do not

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Speaker 2: expect them to, I did not think that was a

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Speaker 2: good use of our time. We are gonna have Bob

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Speaker 2: Popo with Brian Dable, and then I decided to take

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Speaker 2: a chance to talk to three different players on the

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Speaker 2: Giants that are on the younger side, and one is

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Speaker 2: an undrafted for agent and Drake Kubas. Two other guys

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Speaker 2: are Elijah Garcia and a Mere Smith Marsett. Garcia on

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Speaker 2: defense and Mere Smith mars set on special teams that

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Speaker 2: have been the league for a bit, but they've really

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Speaker 2: come on and really helped jump start their careers in

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Speaker 2: the last few weeks. Here with the Giants and talk

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Speaker 2: to all three of these young guys about kind of

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Speaker 2: their NFL journey a little bit, uh, how they've managed

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Speaker 2: to step up into a more prominent role here, and

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Speaker 2: really how the season has gone for all three guys.

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Speaker 2: So why don't we lead it off with the Special

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Speaker 2: Teams hero from last week? That is Amir Smith Marsette.

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Speaker 2: We're joined by Amir Smith Marsett. Emir, Before we talk

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Speaker 2: about your year and how everything's kind of gone, I

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Speaker 2: want to go back to the kickoff return last week.

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Speaker 2: How often do you get a kickoff return where you

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Speaker 2: don't have to make a crazy move to like make

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Speaker 2: one guy miss and it's blocked up so well you

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Speaker 2: can kind of linear straight line it and kind of

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Speaker 3: It's not it's not often, but you know, in my case,

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Speaker 3: I got that. That was the case Sunday, And you know,

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Speaker 3: thank you for the all ten guys that went out there,

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Speaker 3: did they job and helped me, you know, get to

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Speaker 3: the end zone.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate them and couldn't do it without them.

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Speaker 1: You put in perspective for a fan, how tough it is? Tough?

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Speaker 2: Is it with all that space for a play like

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Speaker 4: Just go back to the week we prepared for.

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Speaker 3: We knew the looks we was gonna get, and we

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Speaker 3: guys you know, got in front of they guys and

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Speaker 3: you know, into my own case, wiped them out. And

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Speaker 3: you know, I was just able to create a lane

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Speaker 3: big enough for me to just hit it. And all

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Speaker 3: I had to do is, you know, just see it

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Speaker 3: it feels good.

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Speaker 1: You their turn called back earlier in the year.

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Speaker 2: So how sweet was it to kind of get another

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that one's tough. I would have had two

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Speaker 3: on one back. But it feel good to actually get one.

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Speaker 3: We we've been feeling as the whole return unit that

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Speaker 3: week seventeen eighteen, week one, it just feels good to

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Speaker 2: You been around different special teams, coaches in your career.

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Speaker 2: What is it about Michael Gobriel that you think makes

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Speaker 3: He's very detailed and he finds matchups and he's he exploits,

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Speaker 3: you know, matchups. So like if we see something, he's

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Speaker 3: always on top of it. And uh, you know, he's

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Speaker 3: a he's a sharp he's a sharp coach.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: I like being around him because he also you know,

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Speaker 3: He's a what I would call a players coach, So

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Speaker 3: like he takes in the stuff we're telling him and

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Speaker 4: And I appreciate that about him.

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Speaker 1: What makes a good returner for you? Skill set wise?

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Speaker 3: Just being fearless man and then you know, calculated risk,

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Speaker 4: Knowing when to do things.

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Speaker 3: And when not to do things, the momentum swings and

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Speaker 3: So just taking my calculator risk and just trying to

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Speaker 2: How about the art of the kick return versus the

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Speaker 2: art of the punt return?

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Speaker 1: How different is it?

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Speaker 2: I obviously catching it and judging guys getting close to

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Speaker 2: actual physics of the return and finding the space and

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Speaker 2: find the area, how is it different?

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Speaker 1: Kick verse pun especially with.

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Speaker 4: The new roles. Punt is more of like you got

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Speaker 4: the whole field. Kick return is.

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Speaker 3: Kick return is more so like you got your certain

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Speaker 3: your certain points in your alleys that you got that

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Speaker 3: you can hit and it's blocked up different ways.

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Speaker 4: You see.

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Speaker 3: For me, I'm a like on punt return, I'm able

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Speaker 3: it at between these places, and it's just that's that's

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Speaker 3: just the difference in the art of you know, punt

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Speaker 3: much more different because you got the whole field and

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Speaker 4: Compare the kick return.

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Speaker 3: It's like you got to hit this area and you

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Speaker 3: something like that. So it's uh, it's very different, but unique.

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Speaker 1: Is quickness or speed more important to one or the other.

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Speaker 2: I always think of punt return maybe a little bit

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Speaker 2: more quickness, right.

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Speaker 3: Pump return is definitely more quickness because you get those

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Speaker 3: little short, stopping starts compared to kick return, whereas it's

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Speaker 3: about speed and just hitting it. You gotta have long

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Speaker 3: gotta be able to get in and out. It's like

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Speaker 3: twit like the twitchy of people is. I feel like

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Speaker 3: the twitchy people is better because they can stop, start, stop, start,

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Speaker 4: Compared to kick return.

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Speaker 3: It's like you could put you can put somebody who's

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Speaker 3: and just let them go hit it Andy, It'll be

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Speaker 3: more they'll be more successful.

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Speaker 1: Final two questions.

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Speaker 2: When you prep for a game and you're watching tape

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Speaker 2: that you look for you talk about Michael Gobriel listens

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Speaker 2: to you, guys, what are the things that you look

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Speaker 2: for so you can then go to a coach and Tom, Well,

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Speaker 2: I see this on tape as a special teamer.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can't tell you that right now, but

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Speaker 3: just just know I look at the gunners, the kick,

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Speaker 3: the kicker, the punters.

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Speaker 4: I look at the gunners, the punters, and then the pp.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of tell tales and then stuff like that,

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Speaker 3: but for me, it's man, I just watched the gunners mainly,

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Speaker 3: and then the punter. Yeah, I can't tell you all

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Speaker 3: my tricks because then I'll be giving away the sauce.

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Speaker 1: Now that thinks that I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: I just know i'd look at the gunners first.

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Speaker 1: All right, Final question?

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Speaker 2: How awesome has been able to do this in New Jersey,

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Speaker 2: down the road from where you grew up in New York.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing. Man, I'm back home.

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Speaker 3: I'm making plays and solidifying myself in this league. I

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Speaker 3: feel real good right now, and I just want to

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Speaker 2: How come do has your family been to kind of

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Speaker 2: be able to be so close to you and kind

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Speaker 2: of see all do this up close and personal.

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Speaker 4: Super excited, super excited.

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Speaker 3: You know, they try to come to the games, but

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Speaker 3: the weather has been you know, the code and stuff,

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Speaker 3: but it's good. I got my friends, they come to

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Speaker 3: the games and everything like that, so it's been amazing.

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Speaker 3: I'm very appreciative that they took a shot on me here.

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Speaker 2: Have you been anybody years about trying to get a

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Speaker 2: little action on wide receiver?

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Speaker 3: When that opportunity come, it'll come and I'll be able

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Speaker 3: to show the world what's really going on.

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Speaker 1: Happy to hear me. I appreciate the time. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: You're ready for a change. Payday comes early with Citizens,

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Speaker 5: So go to that retreat. Knew you move to the country.

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Speaker 5: Now you're raising goats and launching a lifestyle brand. Are

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Speaker 5: you ready for all that life brings.

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Speaker 6: That?

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Speaker 2: Sam Or Smith Moore set local guy from New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: Excellent interview. Fun to talk to him, a lot of

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Speaker 2: energy and he hopes to be a returner here for

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Speaker 2: let's go to the Giants free agent undrafted offensive linemen

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Speaker 2: out of North Dakota State, Jake Cubas. And now we're

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Speaker 2: joined by a Giants rookie undrafted free agent offensive lineman, Jakubos.

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Speaker 4: Jake.

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Speaker 1: How are you man?

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Speaker 6: Happy New Year, Happy New Year. I'm doing well. How

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Speaker 6: about you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, man.

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Speaker 2: So, as you've kind of looked back now over the

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Speaker 2: last two games, you've got a ton of snaps and started,

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Speaker 2: how do you think things have gone for you?

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Speaker 6: There's been some positives. Definitely still some things to work on,

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Speaker 6: like there always is, even if I played a perfect game,

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna be a guy who's always looking for something

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Speaker 6: to improve on looking back on it and watching the tape. So,

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Speaker 6: like I said, been some positives, but definitely areas improved.

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Speaker 1: Didn't make it tough last week.

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Speaker 2: You had so many different moving pieces on the offen

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Speaker 2: defensive line, right you GVR to move over to center.

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Speaker 2: Stinny was back in there to being not the previous week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just think back to the first couple

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Speaker 2: of run plays where you're pulling and GVR comes a

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Speaker 1: Deep you trip over his foot.

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Speaker 2: Is that when people talk about offensive lineman having to

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Speaker 2: develop chemistry together. Is that kind of what you experienced

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Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks, Is guys are in

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think continuity is a big, a

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Speaker 2: How has the reality of being in the NFL match

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Speaker 6: You know, I was fortunate enough to have a couple

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Speaker 2: You mentioned your college experience at at North Dakota State, right,

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Speaker 1: You guys are an offensive line factory there. Man.

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Speaker 2: You guys are putting guys in the pros all the time.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: Huh South Dakota State.

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Speaker 2: Oh you South Dakota State. Sorry, Rolling d Quota former rival.

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Speaker 2: Let me correct myself, sorry about that, but North Dakota

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Speaker 2: What is about that program that allows you guys to

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Honestly, I'd give credit first to our strength coach

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Speaker 6: And I think that call, especially within our old line

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Speaker 6: I think it's a multitude of factors that play into it,

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Speaker 2: To produce absolutely final question as you embark here on

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's you know, I came from a

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Speaker 1: Jake, best of luck this week. Thanks so much, appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff from Jake Coubos there. Good kid again has

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Speaker 2: showed some good stuff in the run game, but as

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Speaker 2: Elijah Elija.

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Speaker 1: Happy to hear man.

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Speaker 2: All right, So this has been the longest stretch where

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Speaker 2: you've played consecutive games. You've had two starts, your first

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Speaker 7: Man, I think it's gone. Well. You know, I've been

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Speaker 2: You say, do your thing, you kind of like an

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Speaker 1: That doesn't really make it anymore. You kind of like

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Speaker 2: You play like over the offensive, tacky and on the

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Speaker 7: Man, I think it's really awesome because even coming from

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Speaker 7: And it's a very unique position, and you're kind of

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not a glorious position.

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Speaker 2: It's not a sexy position where you know you're on

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Speaker 1: You have to occupy guys.

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Speaker 2: You're playing the run. Why is that something that you

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Speaker 2: And I really think in that position, length is important,

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Speaker 2: but do you think that really is?

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, just because knowing me and knowing

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Speaker 2: Talking to coach Dre, she said, you didn't do this

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Speaker 2: He helped you maybe use what you thought with your

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Speaker 7: Man, He's completely honestly turned my game inside out. You know.

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Speaker 7: When the first day I got here, like he told me,

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Speaker 7: I came out here and I was like you know what,

442
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Speaker 7: I got to start from scratch, you know, and just

443
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Speaker 7: listen to this coach and just be the best team

444
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Speaker 7: player I can be, you know. And and it's been

445
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Speaker 7: working out, man. And like I said, I've been having

446
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Speaker 7: fun going out there and playing because it's been cool

447
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Speaker 7: to practice, but going out there on game days, it's

448
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Speaker 7: a whole different animal, man, And I love it.

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Speaker 2: How hard was it for you to give into that,

450
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Speaker 2: you know, because you play a certain way for your

451
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Speaker 2: whole career. It got you a long way, it got

452
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Speaker 2: you to the National Football League. How tough was it

453
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Speaker 2: to be able to put the ego aside to a

454
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Speaker 2: certain extent and just say, all right, coach, I'm going

455
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Speaker 2: to do whatever you say, even though it's very different

456
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Speaker 2: than whatever I've done before.

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Speaker 7: So it's kind of crazy, I mean because even in

458
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Speaker 7: the league, man, I mean, I'm still learning every single day,

459
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Speaker 7: you know. And one thing that I didn't realize how

460
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Speaker 7: my steps was affecting my power base and how effective

461
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Speaker 7: I was in a run game. So when I got

462
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Speaker 7: your coaches like, we need to work on your steps

463
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Speaker 7: and your footwork so you can get all your power

464
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Speaker 7: underneath yourself. And you know, I've been doing high school,

465
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Speaker 7: college NFL. I've been doing multiple coaches, and no one

466
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Speaker 7: really ever really honed in on that specifically. And you know,

467
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Speaker 7: once you know Dre guy's hands on me and working

468
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Speaker 7: on my technique, He's really been able to really help

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Speaker 7: me out. And I've been I've noticed I've been playing

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Speaker 7: the basketball I ever have been, and it's just getting.

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Speaker 1: Better and better. That's awesome, man.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure you saw a glimpses of it in practice, right,

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Speaker 2: So what was it like actually seeing it work in

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Speaker 2: a game against life opponents? And did it give you

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Speaker 2: even more confidence to just kind of keep going down

476
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Speaker 2: the path than that you've started off.

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Speaker 7: I'll start with this. So obviously it was hard to

478
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Speaker 7: learn at the beginning, and like some of the drills,

479
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Speaker 7: I kept messing up on some of them, and I'd

480
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Speaker 7: watch the tape over it and at night, you know,

481
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Speaker 7: and I'm like, man, I want to get this technique

482
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Speaker 7: down because I don't want to be the odd man out,

483
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Speaker 7: you know, in these drills, like everyone's doing it perfect,

484
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Speaker 7: everyone looks good, like Dre's happy, Like I don't want

485
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Speaker 7: to be the guy that Dre always has to be,

486
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Speaker 7: Like come onie, come on, eg like get it together,

487
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Speaker 7: you know. So I think one day I came out,

488
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Speaker 7: I think it was like week five or weeks because

489
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Speaker 7: I was like, man, I'm going to get some of

490
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Speaker 7: these drills down, go out there, hone them in, stew

491
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Speaker 7: them over and over and over again. And it's been shown. Man,

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Speaker 7: it's been shown on Sundays.

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Speaker 2: No, look, I think it has. And I'm not giving

494
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Speaker 2: an excuse, but I know you don't want any. But

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Speaker 2: it's a little bit different. You showed up on August

496
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Speaker 2: twenty eighth. Those other guys are doing the drills since April,

497
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Speaker 2: so it's a little bit different than you're trying to

498
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Speaker 2: pick things up midst a little bit right.

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And it was way different just

500
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Speaker 7: because I was with in Denver, so I was with

501
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Speaker 7: Jamar Cain and BT Jordan. They were running you know,

502
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Speaker 7: camp out there there. You know nothing, nothing, need to

503
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Speaker 7: discredit them. But it was just a completely different style

504
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Speaker 7: of d line play. And then coming here, I feel

505
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Speaker 7: like here was just a lot more simpler. It was

506
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Speaker 7: like you got long arms, so use him. You know.

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Speaker 7: It's like kind of a no brainer. Like I'm like, well, yeah,

508
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Speaker 7: you're right, yeah, and yeah, No, it's been awesome working

509
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Speaker 7: with dray Man. He's the best in the business, and

510
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Speaker 7: I'm excited for the future. And yeah, I'm just gonna keep.

511
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Speaker 2: Going anything specific that you kind of figured out in

512
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Speaker 2: games that maybe you quite figured out in practice what

513
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Speaker 2: you got with the live bullets flying and you're like, oh,

514
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Speaker 2: now I get what he's saying.

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Speaker 7: I will say this. I think it's just like getting

516
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Speaker 7: that groove of playing and you know, getting more time

517
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Speaker 7: out there, getting more experience able to like calm down

518
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Speaker 7: and like the game not the game flow slow, you know,

519
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Speaker 7: and I'm lessing my head. I'm just out there more

520
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Speaker 7: of like I'm just playing ball, you know. I'm not

521
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Speaker 7: like focus on oh, messing this up, messing that up.

522
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Speaker 7: I'm just like, you know, like I said, because Dre

523
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Speaker 7: trust me. You know, we put in the work all week.

524
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Speaker 7: I know my technique, i know my job, and i

525
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Speaker 7: know my role, and I'm gonna have fun while I'm

526
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Speaker 7: doing it while I'm out there, you know, And yeah,

527
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Speaker 7: and go hard.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, man, that's it.

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Speaker 2: You know, now that you're in year three and you've

530
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Speaker 2: been doing this a while, do you feel like, is

531
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Speaker 2: it odd almost that you needed like this one coach

532
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Speaker 2: to recognize this one thing for you to kind of

533
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Speaker 2: figure it out. It just shows you, just generally speaking,

534
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Speaker 2: how fragile an NFL career can be for the young

535
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Speaker 2: guy if they don't get in the right spot.

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Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, it is. It's tough at times, I

537
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Speaker 7: think in this business. And like I try to tell

538
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Speaker 7: some of the younger guys, so I've been through hardships, adversity,

539
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Speaker 7: you know, been been around, like you just got to

540
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Speaker 7: take it day by day, you know, because honestly and honestly,

541
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Speaker 7: in this game and in life in general, nothing's promised,

542
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Speaker 7: you know, So you've got to live in the moment,

543
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Speaker 7: take advantage of the opportunities that are presented to you,

544
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Speaker 7: and all year, like I said, all your two week

545
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Speaker 7: fourteen of the practice squad. So for me, it was

546
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Speaker 7: just like, man, I just want to put my best

547
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Speaker 7: foot forward and practice, continue to show my value, you know,

548
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Speaker 7: to this team, just coaching staff, and just work hard

549
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Speaker 7: and do the right thing and eventually we'll come out

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Speaker 7: on top.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 7: But it's just like it's just trusting that process. And

553
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Speaker 7: I think that people sometimes forget about that process and

554
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Speaker 7: it's not just about the goal. But it's about the journey.

555
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Speaker 7: And I know it's cliche, but that's what it's truly about,

556
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Speaker 7: you know. And that's something that I've had to try

557
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Speaker 7: to internalize and it's made me a stronger person and

558
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Speaker 7: a better football player.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Final question I asked all the young guys the same thing.

561
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Speaker 2: So you got one regular season game left, then you

562
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Speaker 2: have your off season when you go back into the lab.

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Speaker 2: What are some of the things that you're really still

564
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Speaker 2: trying to hone in on, a focus on to try

565
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Speaker 2: to improve as part of your game.

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Speaker 7: Oh man, just still continue on working my pastors technique,

567
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Speaker 7: being more stout in the run, you know, like it

568
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Speaker 7: can never be too good, you know, you know what

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Speaker 7: I mean. Just always want to keep stack and keep

570
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Speaker 7: learning about the game. For me, just keep continuing to

571
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Speaker 7: learn about just angles, like what often us are trying

572
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Speaker 7: to do, how they're trying to manipulate us, and just

573
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Speaker 7: growing my knowledge in the game. You know. I think

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Speaker 7: just as the years have gone by, that's obviously grown

575
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Speaker 7: more and more. So I'm excited to just Oh, like

576
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Speaker 7: I said, I love this game like it's a chess match.

577
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Speaker 7: You know, it really is just a violent chess match

578
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Speaker 7: and learning about it and just yeah, I'm excited for you.

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Speaker 1: So that's great mate. Congratulations and best luck this week.

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Speaker 7: Thank you sir.

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Speaker 2: the final time this season. The the Voice of the Giants,

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Speaker 2: Bob pop up with the head coach of the Giants,

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Speaker 2: Brian Dable.

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Speaker 8: The Giants wrap up the season against the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 8: as always, were joined by the head coach of the

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Speaker 8: New York Giants, Brian Dable and coach, I won't go

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Speaker 8: back to last week's game and uh, you know, sort

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Speaker 8: of the complete nature that your team played with in

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Speaker 8: the win against the Indianapolis Colts. You know, you got

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Speaker 8: to give Drew Locke a lot of credit, and you

602
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Speaker 8: had mentioned that you wanted some continuity at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 8: You know, it'd been in and out with Tommy being

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Speaker 8: in there and then Drew and then guys getting hurt

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Speaker 8: left and right. It certainly paid dividends because it certainly

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Speaker 8: looked like Drew Locke and even the entire offense just

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Speaker 8: seemed more at ease as far as continuity was concerned.

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Speaker 8: Did you see that jump off the tape as you

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Speaker 8: watched the game.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they executed at a high level. It's

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Speaker 9: you know, Drew has a different cadence than some of

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Speaker 9: the other quarterbacks, and I think that helps throughout the week. So,

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Speaker 9: you know, the pre snap things, the way they called

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Speaker 9: the huddle, the way they op pread at the line

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Speaker 9: of scrimmage, the check with me is all those things

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Speaker 9: play into it. But he, you know, he made good

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Speaker 9: decisions with the football, made good decisions at the line

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Speaker 9: of scrimmage, getting in and out of the the correct plays.

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Speaker 9: When he had two plays in a huddle, and the

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Speaker 9: other guys played well around him. You know, they ran

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Speaker 9: after the catch, they made big plays. You know, anytime

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Speaker 9: you can have explosive plays like that that helps generate

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Speaker 9: points and execute down in the red zone. So again,

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Speaker 9: you know, it's the first game we won where we

625
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Speaker 9: had a positive turnover ratio and that pays huge dividends,

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Speaker 9: you know, in terms of.

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Speaker 6: The outcome of the game.

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Speaker 8: Coach, I know you're all about team, but I'll go

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Speaker 8: individual here in the sense that, for only the third

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Speaker 8: time in the history of the sport there's a combination

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Speaker 8: of a receiver and a running back that are rookies

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Speaker 8: that go over a thousand yards and Molik Neighbors and

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Speaker 8: Tracy did that last weekend. Can you talk about those

634
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Speaker 8: two individuals and the maturation that you've seen this year

635
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Speaker 8: in putting themselves in a pretty exclusive company when you

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Speaker 8: talk about NFL records.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I know, it's hard to come in the league

638
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Speaker 9: as a rookie and be as productive as the two

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Speaker 9: of them have. Again, i'd say our whole draft class

640
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Speaker 9: last year is, you know, has the right type of

641
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Speaker 9: DNA that we look for. Have all been productive in

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Speaker 9: their own right. Those two guys, certainly, you know, being

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Speaker 9: only the third time that that that's happened. Obviously, that's

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Speaker 9: you know, that's impressive with those guys. You know, they've

645
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Speaker 9: continued to improve. They're still gonna you know, work hard

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Speaker 9: in the offseason and do the things they need to

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Speaker 9: do to kindue to get better. There's certainly a lot

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Speaker 9: of things that we can all do to help them.

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Speaker 9: But you know, two good young players that to do

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Speaker 9: things the right way, and good to see the results

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Speaker 9: they've got.

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Speaker 8: Speaking of the rookies, I mean, I think it's kind

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Speaker 8: of symbolic in a way that Drew Phillips gets his

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Speaker 8: first career interception on that same day. You know, there

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Speaker 8: was good pressure from Thibodeau and he got in the

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Speaker 8: face of Flacco and but Phillips was in the right position.

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Speaker 8: So I'm sure you guys are happy to see the

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Speaker 8: rookie at that first career pick.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 9: You know, in the team meeting, I asked, you know,

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Speaker 9: how many interceptions he had in college if anybody knew that,

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Speaker 9: and he didn't have any, So for him to you know,

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Speaker 9: get one here, you know before the season ended, he's been.

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Speaker 6: A productive player for us.

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Speaker 9: Two tough, instinctive, good young player that's you know, has

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Speaker 9: has a lot of room for growth and I'm certainly

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Speaker 9: excited to.

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Speaker 6: Work with them.

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Speaker 8: Let's fast forward to the game today. Obviously Philadelphia is

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Speaker 8: locked into the two seed. They're going to play a

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Speaker 8: home playoff game next week. You know, as of this recording,

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Speaker 8: when they step on the field, we have no idea

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Speaker 8: exactly who they're going to be. But they're professional football

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Speaker 8: players that were Eagles uniforms, and they're well coached, and

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Speaker 8: they they have a really good defensive coordinator. From a

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Speaker 8: defensive standpoint, as you try to attack them offensively, what

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Speaker 8: are some of the things that, no matter who's in uniform,

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Speaker 8: will be constance in a Philadelphia Vic Fangio scheme?

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Speaker 9: Oh, it just really sound. Vick's done it for a

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Speaker 9: long time. He's been successful and everywhere he's been. They

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Speaker 9: have a sound defensive scheme that you know presents certain challenges,

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Speaker 9: but they're more fundamentally sound and you know, i'd say

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Speaker 9: just a variety of fronts and things like that. They

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Speaker 9: do a great job of coverage, of leverage, of angles,

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Speaker 9: of tackling, of pass rushing, of shedding blocks. They're very

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Speaker 9: well coached, fundamental team and you know they're going to be,

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Speaker 9: you know, certainly.

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Speaker 8: A challenge when you go to the other side of

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Speaker 8: the ball. Obviously, we know Saquan's not playing. Jalen Hurds

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Speaker 8: has still been dealing with the concussion and a finger injury,

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Speaker 8: and you know, obviously they're playing next week, so don't

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Speaker 8: expect to see him pick it. Got banged up a

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Speaker 8: little bit. But in a situation like this, do you

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Speaker 8: expect them to kind of keep it relatively vanilla only

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Speaker 8: for their future potential playoff opponents or how do you

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Speaker 8: think they'll try to attack you with their offense?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: I think they you know, they're they're a run first offense.

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Speaker 9: They're utilized the shots down the field and run after

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Speaker 9: catch with the players that they have, so you know,

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Speaker 9: they've been very successful at it this year and expect

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Speaker 9: to see the same.

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Speaker 8: Coach, how important is it to end this season with

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Speaker 8: a win on the road against these guys?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Each week, that's that's what our goal is, to come

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Speaker 9: in to do the things necessary to do to accomplish

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Speaker 9: what we set out to do for, you know, to

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Speaker 9: get a win.

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Speaker 6: So it's important.

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Speaker 9: Everybody's working hard to do that, and you know, we

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Speaker 9: look forward to the opportunity.

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Speaker 8: No, it hasn't been the season that you were obviously

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Speaker 8: looking forward to. But we appreciate sort of the honesty

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Speaker 8: and the positivity each and every you know, each and

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Speaker 8: every week as we sit down and get ready for

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Speaker 8: this and and it certainly feels like there are things

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Speaker 8: that are pointed in the right direction, and we appreciate

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Speaker 8: you taking the time each and every week to share

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Speaker 8: with our audience.

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Speaker 9: Same here, but I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: We think Brian Dable, we think Elijah Garcia, we think

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Speaker 2: Jake Kubas, and we thank Amir Smith Marsett for joining

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