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Speaker 1: But I think we used and Coach had a great plan.

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Speaker 1: where we came in and got two really good days

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Speaker 1: evaluating some things that UM, each of our players need

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Speaker 1: to get better at, you know, not just the overall

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Speaker 1: picture of the scheme, but just like identifying specifically things

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Speaker 1: really encouraged coming out of it. Again, I've said this

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Speaker 1: a lot of times about this group. They keep running

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Speaker 1: and that's why it's close because you have some vets

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Speaker 1: just coming each day. Um, they're still building their professional process,

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Speaker 1: but they're working and and they're taking the coaching, and

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Speaker 1: know it's it's the same thing we when you went

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Speaker 1: if if we're gonna make personnel changes and play this

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Speaker 1: as I've said in the past, you know that those

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Speaker 1: that always reveals itself on Sunday. Coach DeAndre Baker number

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Speaker 1: You know he's struggling times and maybe put some things

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Speaker 1: it's way but it's the way he progresses and all that,

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Speaker 1: you know. I I think they're um very similar to

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Speaker 1: I think coach Shermer has made a couple of great

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Speaker 1: points to our team about UM, not about being sick

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