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Speaker 1: Morning, Tom said last night with in an interview with

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Speaker 1: following Sunday's game, Like, curious, from your perspective, how much

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Speaker 1: planning for the opponent or is it the same as always? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very much the same as always. The movie. We

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Speaker 1: that there's something that's different that's a game plan type

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Speaker 1: I guess if I could follow that up, Bill, how

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Speaker 1: much time are you spending more or less making corrections

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Speaker 1: planning for the opponent. In this case, the build there's

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Speaker 1: there's an element of that every single week. So sometimes

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Speaker 1: it would depend on I guess how closely you think

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Speaker 1: much of how many how much of practice sign you

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Speaker 1: Kind of Kip, Bill, you're welcome. Next question Evan Lazzar,

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Speaker 1: followed by Mike fiery Hey. Bill just wondering why over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, whether it's practice or in

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Speaker 1: games that you guys have seen from Kasey Jackson that

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Speaker 1: I gave you guys the confidence to put him on

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Speaker 1: Juju on Sunday. Yeah, Well, Jasey's been playing against good

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Speaker 1: players every week. So, um, that's what the National Football

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Speaker 1: what we have to cover. Yeah, I just what has

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Speaker 1: where have you seen the biggest improvement from him for

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Speaker 1: I think he's just played a little better. Um, each

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Speaker 1: You know, last week was a week where we anticipated

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Speaker 1: more than that. Thanks much, welcome. Next question Mike Gierty,

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Speaker 1: on the third down play at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: And in Tom's judgment, which I would not certainly not

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Speaker 1: that's a split second decision that he's got to make.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody will make it better than him.

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Speaker 1: You can second guess it all you want, but that's

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Speaker 1: that's what the person we have doing that, and we

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Speaker 1: And you have to balance the fundamentals which are important

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Speaker 1: Every week. You have to make your practice planning the

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Speaker 1: So I want to win every week. If you don't win,

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Speaker 1: there are things you need to improve it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Not good enough. Hopefully we could do things better as

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Speaker 1: a different results, but I think we're definitely getting better

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