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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Before we get into football things. This morning took a

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Speaker 2: couple of minutes out of our squad meeting to recognize

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Speaker 2: a couple of people, one being Nancy Meyer, who this

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Speaker 2: is her fiftieth year, her fiftieth year here with the organization,

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Speaker 2: which is definitely impressive. If you do anything for fifty years,

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Speaker 2: it's definitely something to recognize. And you know, she's been

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Speaker 2: fantastic and a lot of love from the players, you know,

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Speaker 2: past players and current players. Everyone that comes in here,

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Speaker 2: you know, they go in there and they signed the

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Speaker 2: contract with Nancy Nancy in there. The second thing is

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Speaker 2: the ed Block Courage Award. Really, it's given to a

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Speaker 2: player on the team all thirty two teams that display

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Speaker 2: courage facing adversity, going through all that stuff and returning

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Speaker 2: to play. And this year it is cold strange he

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Speaker 2: won the Block Courage Award. So that's what we started

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Speaker 2: off with this morning. Getting the football, you know, just

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Speaker 2: excited for another opportunity to get on the field. The

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Speaker 2: guys still dialed in, still ready to go and looking

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Speaker 2: forward to going out there and playing a good football game.

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Speaker 1: Fire away.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any reactions in the comments that driant by.

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Speaker 2: The least I've handled that internally. We had a conversation

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Speaker 2: about it, so I'm going to keep that in the house.

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Speaker 1: After I will say this.

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Speaker 2: Look for the fans, I've said this before. I'm a

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Speaker 2: fan of different things too, like, look, no one's happy,

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Speaker 2: no one's happy with our record, no one's happy where

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Speaker 2: we are right now. And the fans, look, they they

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Speaker 2: pay the bills and they come in here and they

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Speaker 2: demand us, you know, demand us to go out there

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Speaker 2: and perform well, and we haven't done that this year.

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Speaker 1: So look, I understand.

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Speaker 3: After comments that they fight goodshaw you twice earlier in

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Speaker 3: the week.

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Speaker 2: Did you address the players about how they should speak

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Speaker 2: about fans.

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Speaker 1: No, I've talked.

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Speaker 2: I've talked to the guys about how you know, look,

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Speaker 2: they're getting caught up and trying to defend me, and

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Speaker 2: I've told them, look, I appreciate it. But at the

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Speaker 2: same time, the fans are, you know, the most important

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Speaker 2: thing here, and they want to see good football and

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Speaker 2: they want to see wins.

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Speaker 4: From your experience as a player, draw how did you

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Speaker 4: internalize being on the field and putting your your heart

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Speaker 4: out on the field and then dealing with backlash, whether

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Speaker 4: it's from the TV media to speak for media or

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Speaker 4: fans in general.

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Speaker 2: That's part of playing sports. You know, everyone's not going

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Speaker 2: to be a fan of the Patriots. Everyone is not

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Speaker 2: going to be a fan of Jerrameo. And I learned

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Speaker 2: that very early, uh in my competitive career, no matter

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Speaker 2: what sport I have played. And look, you got to

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Speaker 2: just put your head down and keep working to get better.

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Speaker 3: Drink playing on that injury report with the right handle limited,

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Speaker 3: and I'm just curious of what effect you've seen that

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Speaker 3: have on him in practice?

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Speaker 2: No effect son the non scout team reps that Alan

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Speaker 2: and Felton said. So this weekend practice, Yeah he's still

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Speaker 2: he's still he's still doing some of the show team stuff.

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Speaker 1: So the team as well look good. Sorry, yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: looked good.

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Speaker 3: Soil on the games.

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Speaker 1: All three quarterbacks will be at the game.

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Speaker 4: Ben you earlier in the week drud that there have

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Speaker 4: been any conversations between you and ownership about how to

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Speaker 4: handle the roster and how to handle this last game.

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Speaker 3: Have those occurred since we last go too?

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I already answered. It hasn't changed, just

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Speaker 1: on the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: All three being at the game. I mean, Joe has

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Speaker 3: always been at the game right now? That's right? Well,

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Speaker 3: his status is the third be different maybe than what

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Speaker 3: it has been.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how today it goes, and and me it's

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Speaker 2: always a possibility.

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Speaker 5: Do you do you see the long term benefits of

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Speaker 5: maybe handling this game differently than other games?

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Speaker 3: And is it tough for you to decide how to

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Speaker 3: go about it?

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Speaker 2: I answered this the other day. I said, you know,

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Speaker 2: as a player, as a coach, we've always anytime we

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Speaker 2: step on the football field, we expect to go out

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Speaker 2: there and play at a high level and win.

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Speaker 4: We live in twenty fourteen, but Tom Brady played the

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Speaker 4: first half of those final game of the season, didn't

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Speaker 4: been in a second?

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Speaker 3: Is that maybe a three print for what we can

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Speaker 3: see on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I don't look at any of those things really as blueprints.

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Speaker 2: I think every team, every situation is unique, and that's

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Speaker 2: how we're gonna handle it.

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Speaker 4: Do you think it'll be helpful for your evaluations to

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Speaker 4: get a look at Joe Milton in game action?

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Speaker 3: Move forward?

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Speaker 2: It's always helpful to see players who haven't played as

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Speaker 2: much during the season go out there and play in

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Speaker 2: a regular season game.

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Speaker 3: In his case, in particular, he's the only rookie on

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Speaker 5: You know, you talk about developing players this year, who

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Speaker 5: hasn't taken a snap z that factor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we also talk about developing Drake May at the

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Speaker 2: same time, so it's tough.

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Speaker 1: He's been our emergency quarterback. We had a.

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Speaker 3: Talk kiss at schoolers named to Yeah, what are your

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Speaker 3: thoughts on that? And just from a coaching s game,

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Speaker 3: but what do you see from what opposing teams? Do

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Speaker 3: you know that shows maybe that love?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I told the guys, look, Scool is one of

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Speaker 2: those guys that I mean, everything's one hundred miles per hour.

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Speaker 2: Nothing happens on accident. Is one of our hardest workers

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Speaker 2: and at the end of the season, to be named

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Speaker 2: a Pro Pro Bowl player, it's definitely huge, and you know,

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Speaker 2: using that as a model and how he's gone about

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Speaker 2: his business has been great.

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Speaker 3: You thought some Christian Zalez gonna making the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 3: I know Pro Bowls are always matter love during the year.

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Speaker 2: I've said this from the start. I think he's one

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Speaker 2: of the best corners in the league. We'll see what

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Speaker 2: the All Pro vote says.

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Speaker 1: Says.

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Speaker 5: Are there guys who might be in June's category for

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Speaker 5: you who's the other guys.

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Speaker 3: Category going into this game? A note earlyer year and you.

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Speaker 5: Think you wanted to see you know, some guys and

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Speaker 5: how they finished there some of the younger guys.

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Speaker 3: And there's some guys who might mean and he can

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Speaker 3: study who might step into Yannick's roll like.

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Speaker 2: On the edge there, And it's going to be by committee.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be back committee. As far as our

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Speaker 2: third down package is concerned, like anyone like that.

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Speaker 3: We might see the job. I don't pick a job

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Speaker 3: of Truman. I don't know if those guys fit or

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Speaker 3: prats whatever.

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Speaker 2: Truman has an opportunity, he'll have an opportunity to get

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Speaker 2: in the game.

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Speaker 3: Sure, the last two days Gonzalez has in practice with percussion.

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Speaker 3: Is there a possibility that he could clear a protocol

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Speaker 3: by Sunday? Or you expected me not having this time?

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Speaker 2: I mean there is a possibility, but once again, you

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Speaker 2: know the speed of which you get out of the

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Speaker 2: concussion protocol, it changes and I leave it.

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Speaker 1: In their hands.

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Speaker 5: How did you say your cultures is evolved from starting

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Speaker 5: camp to where it is now.

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Speaker 2: Look when you this is the time of the year

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Speaker 2: that everyone you know, including media, myself, the players have

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Speaker 2: to reflect and that's what we got to do.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, in reflecting, how would you see that

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Speaker 5: change is something that you know, I know, coaches talk

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Speaker 5: about culture, something you maintained and reinforced daily.

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Speaker 2: Yeah to me, to me, it's about the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 2: this week. I will say sometimes, and I've always said this,

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Speaker 2: whether you know, sometimes we look at culture as it's

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Speaker 2: almost a retrospective way of validating success or or failure.

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Speaker 2: And in saying that, I mean, let me break it

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Speaker 2: down a little bit. Just because you have a good

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Speaker 2: record doesn't mean you have a good culture. And just

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Speaker 2: because you have a bad record doesn't mean you have

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Speaker 2: a bad culture. And so these things take time.

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Speaker 3: How does the uncertainty surrounding the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: Back to your approach to the same everyone? Everyone?

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Speaker 2: Coaching staff, players are just focused on the bills and

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Speaker 2: ready to go out there.

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Speaker 4: When would you say, Alex Vnhilt has brought on the

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Speaker 4: offensive side of the volunteers leadership this season?

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Speaker 1: Steadiness is a steady guy file right any more? Man?

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Speaker 2: A lot of different things I could say, but he

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Speaker 2: asked me, the most important is steadiness.

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Speaker 3: If there are changes in coaching staff, obviously young. You

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Speaker 3: would that be your sitting on their own or there

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Speaker 3: be any other forces.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the first time I I've gotten to the

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Speaker 2: end of a season. So as I said, I've been

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Speaker 2: in constant communicational ownership and I'm sure those conversations will

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Speaker 2: be at Thank you