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Speaker 1: Good afternoon everyone. Sure a few of you have questions about, um,

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Speaker 1: it's it's an honor and privilege to be a part

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Speaker 1: But really that's all I have to add on it.

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Speaker 1: You know, my focus today and this week is really

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you know, you guys respect that part

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Speaker 1: to look at the last game and the vikings in

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Speaker 1: You know he did on that one route in particular

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Speaker 1: down the stretch. How do you you don't do your

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Speaker 1: best to not let an all pro like that impact

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Speaker 1: the games. Yeah, he's a talented player. He's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: He's a smart instinctive player, So we just gotta be um,

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Speaker 1: make sure our guys are detailed with, um, you know

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Speaker 1: helps the second time around to see him and them

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Speaker 1: your bases and make sure you have complimentary stuff from

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Speaker 1: stuff that you've done and stuff that you could at

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Speaker 1: my ear receiving Corps has been maligned nationally, not assimilarly

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Speaker 1: around here as much, but just because of you know,

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Speaker 1: the moving parts and stuff like that in the injury situations.

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Speaker 1: the techniques that we stress. Do you do you feel

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Speaker 1: multiple you've seen Minnesota have a rematch against their division opponents.

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