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Speaker 1: Nine games left in the season, A bunch of them

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Speaker 1: For this huge I mean especially we talk about the

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Speaker 3: Numbers are pretty solid during the five game winning streak.

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Speaker 1: So you know every week you kind of sorry yelling

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Speaker 1: You know, we've we've been I think we've been a

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Speaker 1: hoping every week is that week, and we're emphasizing it.

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Speaker 2: And having a clean game.

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Speaker 1: And that's the idea, is having a game where you

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Speaker 4: A full year and a half now, plus two training

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Speaker 5: What stands out to you about him?

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things. I mean, really hard worker.

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Speaker 1: just really smart. You know, going against him in practice

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Speaker 1: just really smart. You know, he knows splits, he knows concepts,

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Speaker 1: He can there's plays where we might have a double

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Speaker 1: know what he saw. And he just has really good,

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Speaker 1: feel good instincts. He's really good at keeping everything in

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Speaker 1: he plays he plays a lot bigger than he is honestly,

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Speaker 1: he's physical, does a great job tackling too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's just he can do a lot for us, and

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Speaker 1: guy that you're gonna get gimme's on. He's not gonna

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Speaker 7: the Saints he gets beat him, a play he somehow

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Speaker 7: is able to recover, leap up and deflect that ball.

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Speaker 1: I think it just it goes back to I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's great instincts, and that's just a lot of that's

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Speaker 1: natural ability. But I think too it's he's he knows

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Speaker 1: where his issues are. If maybe he takes a chance

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Speaker 1: I don't even know the play necessarily your time. I

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Speaker 1: think I remember him tipping it, but I don't know

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Speaker 1: what he did. But if he took the underneath route,

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Speaker 1: he understands if he holds onto it and tries to

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Speaker 1: throw it over top, there's an issue. So he knows

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Speaker 1: to get back. And I think all that kind of

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Speaker 1: plays together, and I'm sure he can give you a

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Speaker 1: better answer than me. But you know, I just think

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Speaker 1: his instincts are are great, and he's a really smart player.