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Speaker 1: Hey, Matthew, are you I'm well, Chris, how are you good? Um?

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about kind of the growth

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Speaker 1: season where it feels like things have begotten progressively better. Um.

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Speaker 1: What has been your your take on that and where

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Speaker 1: is this team in regard to where it needs to

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Speaker 1: be at the end of the season. Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: great question. UM. I think for us, this season has

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Speaker 1: been about learning from adversity. I think early on in

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Speaker 1: we had to learn how to win, and I think

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Speaker 1: we're still learning how to do that. But I think

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Speaker 1: those times of challenge and adversity have taught us some

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Speaker 1: great lessons. It's definitely helped us develop mental toughness. It's

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Speaker 1: definitely been a great reminder for us as far as

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Speaker 1: understanding how the day to day process needs to look.

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Speaker 1: And when you think this is okay, maybe it wasn't

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Speaker 1: my best in practice, you realize that all that matters.

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Speaker 1: And I think for our team, we needed that so

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Speaker 1: that we could go back to our foundation, which has

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Speaker 1: always been about our process. You know, there are no

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Speaker 1: results without process. So I think we've learned all those

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Speaker 1: show up in the win column. But I think that's

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Speaker 1: a product of us being showed to our process throughout

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Speaker 1: the week. Are we where we need to be? No,

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Speaker 1: not at all. You know, five wins in this league's

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Speaker 1: not going to get you anything, and I think there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of things that we can do better.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to take the mindset of, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's continue to improve moving forward. Let's continue to apply

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Speaker 1: us as we continue to go out on a game name.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that stood out is you're the

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Speaker 1: balance right with the defense winning games, the offense is

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Speaker 1: doing its part. Special teams has come along, and that's

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Speaker 1: obviously something Bill has talked about a lot. Do you

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Speaker 1: have to have that balance in order for a team,

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Speaker 1: in your view, too go to where you want to be,

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Speaker 1: to each group hal to have some significant contribution. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right on there. Yes, I think so.

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Speaker 1: The staple of this organization has always been playing complimentary football.

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Speaker 1: We feel like when we compliment each other and go out,

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Speaker 1: Hey have a great kickoff coverage, set the defense up

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Speaker 1: That Complimentary football has been something that we've excelled at

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Speaker 1: We're the type of football team that we need everybody

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Speaker 1: to do their part to carry their fair share of

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Speaker 1: the burden, fair share of the load for us to

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Speaker 1: be at our best. So we understand that Coach has

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Speaker 1: preached that all year long, and I think that started

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Speaker 1: have to be more consistent with it as the year progresses. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: no problem, Next question Andrew Tallahan and Matthew First of all,

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Speaker 1: thanks for jumping in here last second. I know this

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Speaker 1: your times. No problem, um separate from the team now,

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Speaker 1: But I'm kind of curious that someone who's been around

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Speaker 1: either in the media or fans just about the game.

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Speaker 1: You think, man, that's close, but that's not right, either

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Speaker 1: how it's played or something that's involved that you here

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Speaker 1: Any any misconception we have. Oh man, there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of those out there. Uh. You know, I had

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Speaker 1: But I think, you know, there a lot of times

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Speaker 1: they look at the product on Sunday and they just think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Talking to a special team's guide too. You've got a

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Speaker 1: I'm well, Mike, how are you? Excellent? Thank you a

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Speaker 1: two partner when it comes to winds. Where did this

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Speaker 1: it's great for our specialists, in our quarterbacks, our skill

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Speaker 1: So that was a great day of work for them.

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Speaker 1: grinning from year to year, so he enjoyed that. But

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Speaker 1: Um Cody uh man I Mike. I can't say enough

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Speaker 1: good things about Cody. First of all, just he's one

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Speaker 1: great ones from Larry Zoe to Nate Evner. I think Cody's,

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Speaker 1: A lot of the communication that we have out there

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Speaker 1: So we're fortunate to have him. You know, not every

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Speaker 1: doing a great job for us. All right, Matthew, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for joining us today, and thank you

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Speaker 1: to everyone for jumping on the coal. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,