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Speaker 1: What do you do with Golden Kating now? Does he

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Speaker 1: then we'll just keep moving forward. So what's your reaction

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Speaker 1: It is, it is what it is. This isn't the

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Speaker 1: wait for him to get back week five. He signed

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Speaker 1: another player. Just pretty simplistit that there's not guys with

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Speaker 1: It's just that simple. It's it's unfortunate. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: You know, I think the players are somewhat interchangeable. You know,

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Speaker 1: Does this bother you that you go into the season

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