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Speaker 1: was a good team win. Um, as you saw, there

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Speaker 1: good things and UM, you know, I think it feels

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Speaker 1: it feels good for me because these guys have continued

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Speaker 1: out our way. We made made plays, and um, it

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Speaker 1: was good to win. It was good to be able

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Speaker 1: to uh have Eli out there playing with us and

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Speaker 1: help lead us to a victory. He certainly, um done

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Speaker 1: many many good things around here for many many years,

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Speaker 1: and for him to enjoy leading us to a victory, um,

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Speaker 1: it should should feel real special for him because of

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Speaker 1: play at the secondary three of the work. He's out

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Speaker 1: there played a lot of how you thought he competed

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Speaker 1: I thought, I thought defensively, we did a good job.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of stops in critical situations. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they fought throughout. UM made a lot of plays and um,

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Speaker 1: think of the way Eli played, particularly in the second

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Speaker 1: He made a lot of great plays. You know, certainly

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Speaker 1: in my mind and help lead us to victory. That

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Speaker 1: and you know, do I take you Lae out because

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Speaker 1: nice situation obviously to have to think about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's good when you can start thinking about

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Speaker 1: those other things. Of late. We've been in two minutes

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Speaker 1: that was great an indication of that? Was that all

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Speaker 1: chance that Eli keeps playing. But to uh enjoy a

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Speaker 1: Back in your defense, you gave up I want to

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Speaker 1: give up six completions in the second half, any big

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Speaker 1: adjustments and what you see the reason why? No, we

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