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Speaker 1: You guys have been through a lot in the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks. That has to be a frustrating way to lose.

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Speaker 1: What message do you do you want your team to

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Speaker 1: You're gonna face adversity. Here. So many people talk about adversity,

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Speaker 1: a bit of. And I do think that adversity can

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Speaker 1: Can make you better. It's just about how we're responding

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Speaker 1: at this point. I mean, there's there's not much else

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Speaker 1: for ourselves. Do the leaders on this team that yourself included,

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Speaker 1: need to influence what that response to that adversity is? Yeah, certainly,

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, we're gonna have to be

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Speaker 1: be Coach Belichick. So certainly, you know we have a

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Speaker 1: tall task out of us. Next question, Mike, you already

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Speaker 1: followed by Eric Krube A bigger picture question, But did

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Speaker 1: up And you've always had a great finger on the

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Speaker 1: having a hard time sort of wrapping their heads around that,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that it's easy when you're you're faced

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Speaker 1: That's what we chose to do. And it's not easy.

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Speaker 1: We have to be responsible. We have to be selfless

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Speaker 1: because look, you know, nobody can get this year back.

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Speaker 1: to you after that. He said, A Matthew, it was

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Speaker 1: again for taking time today. Um, you know, and you

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Speaker 1: You know. Unfortunately we didn't get on the practice field.

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Speaker 1: That's tough. But when we get on the practice field,

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Speaker 1: you know, And just you know, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: to maximize each day. I'll give it one more moment here.

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Speaker 1: I don't see any additional hands raised, but if there

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Speaker 1: are further questions, you can un meet yourself and ask, oh, good,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Matthew, Thanks everyone,