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Speaker 1: Good morning, coach. How are you. I'm doing well, Good

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Speaker 1: morning man. When you're not watching football music wise or

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Speaker 1: holiday spirit wise, is the Christmas music on or not?

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Speaker 1: Um not not here in the office, but yes, definitely

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Speaker 1: very much into music, especially Christmas music this time of here.

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Speaker 1: When did you have the lights up? When do we

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Speaker 1: have the lights up? Yeah? How long ago? If they're

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Speaker 1: a you know, just being you know, being the new

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Speaker 1: I would say, it's been probably you know, just a

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Speaker 1: few days after Thanksgiving week after Thanksgiving. Have you received

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Speaker 1: an hoa complaint against you yet for having them up

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Speaker 1: so late? Anything? You know, h as it could be anything.

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Speaker 1: Oh dude, I'm not sure what I mean. You have

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Speaker 1: to have some complaints to fit in around here. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: you do. You have to have plenty of complaints this one.

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Speaker 1: And if someone was willing to turn them the head

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Speaker 1: coach of the Cowboys for you know, the weeds, the weeds,

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Speaker 1: the weeds of the lawn, yes, the weeds of the flowerbed.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it may be. Yeah, I think we're pretty good there.

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Speaker 1: It's a great neighborhood. But we you know, we're fairly

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Speaker 1: poppy Christmas music or are we kind of on that

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Speaker 1: oh come all ye faithful kind of thing? Traditional? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very eclectic. I'll just leave it. So, So, coach, big

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Speaker 1: story is, uh the NFL changing some of the COVID protocols. Uh,

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Speaker 1: have to conduct business. Well, I mean, you know, the

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Speaker 1: information came down last night, so that's we were here

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Speaker 1: year as a staff just really putting a putting our

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Speaker 1: We had, you know, the stretch here before the Science game,

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Speaker 1: we just got to do all of our meetings virtually

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Speaker 1: this morning, and then the players will come in practice

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Speaker 1: and then we'll do a similar format where you know,

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Speaker 1: depart for New York. Have you guys had any new

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Speaker 1: cases come up that would impact the Giants game Sunday

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Speaker 1: as of yesterday? Know? Um so, But I mean the

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Speaker 1: the amount of testing, telling them, hey, try to keep

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Speaker 1: Zoom meetings? What's kind of been you know, some of

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Speaker 1: the players? For the players, Um, I'll tell you I've

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Speaker 1: you know, I didn't feel that way last year. You know,

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Speaker 1: asking just a general NFL question on how defenses were

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Speaker 1: goes with these division wins. Coach, have a great trip.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time, and we will

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Speaker 1: catch up with you next week. Okay, thank you. Every weekend,

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Speaker 1: there it is, there you go. Thank you, Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: Every Friday, Thank you, coach. Have a go. One