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Speaker 1: Good morning, Stephen, and congrats on the victory. Good morning guys.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a big, big win. And tell you what, at

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Speaker 1: just following up kind of on that you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: like you guys have done a really good job of

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Speaker 1: a tremendous football team with a lot of great stars.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they're they're just getting going out there again,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully that will pay off for us. I've been

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Speaker 1: So what do you think about the decision to run

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Speaker 1: the call of genius. Well, obviously, you know, you just

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Speaker 1: and those things worked great when they don't work, as

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Speaker 1: I said, and you get the criticism, and anyone deserves

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Speaker 1: any certainly a hat off to him at Scott, he's

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Speaker 1: been grinding on here and and then again. For Dak

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Speaker 1: to execute the play, I thought it was a great

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Speaker 1: it turns out, was really sealed the deal for us,

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Speaker 1: play for us. If you don't have a quarterback like

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Speaker 1: Uh to make that first down was just was huge Stephen.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, Russell Wilson can be also a

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Speaker 1: that somebody else to stop Russell Wilson from running the ball.

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Speaker 1: what did it take to be a great fourth quarter team?

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Speaker 1: And how sustainable do you feel like this this run

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Speaker 1: it's it's frustrating for the other team and then when

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Speaker 1: they finally do get it, I have to go up

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Speaker 1: against the quality defense makes it difficult. So uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a I think it's a huge plus for us

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Speaker 1: and the type of football team that we have. All right,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it as always. Good luck in La on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Of course we'll be pulling for you. Thanks you alike, guys,

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Speaker 1: great being us