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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm Matthew.

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Speaker 2: Just the first question is how much do you feel

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Speaker 2: about for Kendrick Bourne, who you know suffered the knee

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Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate the question.

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Speaker 3: Dan. Heartbroken for Kendrick, honestly, you know, you never want

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Speaker 3: but especially him.

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Speaker 1: I think he's.

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Speaker 3: Been through so much the last couple of years and

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Speaker 3: But I think more than anyone in our entire building,

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Speaker 3: Kendrick brings authenticity. He is true to himself. He's the

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Speaker 3: His positivity is unmatched, and we'll certainly miss that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't know that I've ever played with someone who's

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Speaker 1: That Kendrick has.

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Speaker 3: So your heart's broken for him, you know, you hate

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Speaker 3: that that's a part of the game and certainly be

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Speaker 3: praying for speedy and full recovery.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That.

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Speaker 5: Next question, Mike Race and building off that, Matthew, I

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Speaker 5: know it's not necessarily your side of the ball per se,

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Speaker 5: but offensively from your view, what how much harder does

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, certainly he's been one of our

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Speaker 3: So I think it opens the door for an opportunity

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Speaker 1: We need a lot of guys to step up.

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Speaker 3: The way the season has gone, unfortunately, there have been

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Speaker 1: That's part of being a professional.

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Speaker 3: I think we have a lot of good depth on

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Speaker 3: But you know, now is an opportunity that.

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Speaker 1: A lot of guys were hoping for and looking for,

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Speaker 3: Have it, so hopefully they can take advantage.

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Speaker 1: Next question, Bob Sassie.

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Speaker 6: Thanks step Hi, Matthew, thanks for your time today, No problem, Bob.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I wanted to ask you in following up Dan's

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Speaker 4: it's part of the game. We all know that, you

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Speaker 1: Do you are you to ever.

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Speaker 6: Really reconcile that reality, particularly with young players that may

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Speaker 6: you know, may be headed toward more security financially, bigger contract.

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Speaker 6: This is, after all job, it's a profession, and it's

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Speaker 1: And then I think when you think about.

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Speaker 3: Football in general terms, I've always looked at it as

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Speaker 3: the best temporary job any of us will ever have.

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Speaker 1: Right if you're if you're fortunate you play to your.

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Speaker 3: Forty five like Tom Brady, and you know you're you're

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Speaker 3: So, you know, I think when you take all those

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Speaker 1: To reconcile that. I think it's hard to really grasp all.

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Speaker 3: Right, Hey, this is something I love, but it can

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Speaker 3: But you know, that's that's the nature of being in

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Speaker 1: Sorry for us. That's not what I'm saying at all.

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Speaker 3: It's just a unique situation that we're in and unique

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Speaker 6: Seven weeks, we're down to eighteen percent from about thirty

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Speaker 3: Have I noticed We've covered We've covered seven kickoffs in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not much more to say about that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, when you're a return you can't always you can't

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Speaker 1: Whether you've always got to be ready and tigle. Absolutely, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And look, we take a lot of pride in it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Matthew, appreciate it, Thank you very much. I'm

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Speaker 7: How important was his positivity over the last a couple

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's been huge.

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Speaker 3: It's been extremely important for our football team to have

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Speaker 1: It's so rare, so unique because it's authentic.

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Speaker 3: It's not you know, and and football there they're oftentimes

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Speaker 3: The guy's been looking at me like, what's this guy

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Speaker 1: You just got to be you you. And final question Mike.

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Speaker 1: When you lose one of.

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Speaker 3: But I believe there's purpose behind everything, and I think

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Speaker 3: and trials, you never know.

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Speaker 1: How long they're going to last. There's no hey, this

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Speaker 1: is going to end here and right now. For us,

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Speaker 1: we don't know how long these struggles and trials may last.

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Speaker 1: We hope that that was the end of it yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but we just don't know.

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Speaker 3: So we just have to keep fighting a good fight,

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Speaker 3: you know, keep running the race, and most of all,

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Speaker 3: keep our faith.

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Speaker 1: So I hope we can do that.

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Speaker 3: And you know, we'll just take you one day at

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Speaker 3: a time and see how it goes.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Matthew.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,