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Speaker 1: Titans Radio, and a man who has just announced that

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Speaker 1: he has entered the transfer portal. It is Rhet Bryan. Wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's news to me. You're going to the Cardinals network.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, Dave pash Hi, Dave. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask you about that though, because signing day has just

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Speaker 1: finished and apparently recruiting never ends now doesn't seem to.

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Speaker 1: Would you be a college coach today? I mean, would

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Speaker 1: you if if you, if you had a choice.

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, the thing about it is when I first started

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Speaker 2: my coaching career. The thing about the allure of the

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Speaker 2: National Football League, of course, clearly is the level of

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Speaker 2: competition as high as you can get. But back in

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Speaker 2: the day, the pay discrepancy between what you were making

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Speaker 2: in the National Football League was pretty great. And the

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Speaker 2: other thing that was really attractive was the National Football

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Speaker 2: League had a blanket retirement package. Everybody was on the

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Speaker 2: same retire and it was outstanding. And so, you know,

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Speaker 2: but you want to you wanted to work at the

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Speaker 2: highest level nowadays, I mean you start looking at salaries now,

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Speaker 2: especially in Power five schools for assistant coaches, it's way

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Speaker 2: National Football League. But the recruiting part of it that

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Speaker 2: you are bringing up, that's brutal. It never stopped, never

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Speaker 2: stops never, It's brutal. And you're having to recruit your

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Speaker 2: you worked at the University of Tennessee for a long time,

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Speaker 2: and you know, recruiting was different. Then you used to

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Speaker 2: sign a national letter and you were done and that

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Speaker 2: or four years or sometimes five years. It has gotten

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Speaker 2: of it, the consistency, I mean, the constancy of that

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Speaker 1: And you were part of it, though when you could

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Speaker 1: sign national letters with different teams in different conferences.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely correct, Absolutely correct.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever have a crazy win like that where

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Speaker 1: a guy had signed two or three national letters and

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Speaker 2: Show up, Mike, I recruited in the Southwest Conference, so

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Speaker 2: you know the answers, yes to that.

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Speaker 1: Well, but you could only sign one per conference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Southwest Conference that it's like the Southeastern Conference.

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Speaker 2: People wanted those players, so you would sign yours to you,

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Speaker 2: But then other schools in the country would You'll be

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Speaker 1: What are you going to do the book? For real?

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Speaker 2: When I'm done with everything? With everything, when I'm better, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, our idea with Titan's Radio is that you're never

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Speaker 2: I would. I would that that, Thank you for that,

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Speaker 2: But I when when I'm when I finally finished, because

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell complete, unabashed truth, unabashed truth, and

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Speaker 1: As they can't say the receipts have been kept.

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Speaker 2: Well you, I've told you guys a lot of the

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean from your time as a Southwest Conference

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Speaker 2: Because as as big a personality as he was, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by Mike Ditka. I am too.

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Speaker 3: So Larry Stone, the godfather of Titans Radio, would sometimes

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Speaker 3: I said, Larry Stone, I'd like you to meet Mike Ditka,

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Speaker 3: and we had him on pregame. I mean, where was

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Speaker 3: But I mean, this happened.

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Speaker 3: To see Larry, I mean, like the color left his face.

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Speaker 3: He was like, oh my, but you're talking about he

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Speaker 1: I was like, my lord.

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Speaker 3: He was a prototypical tight end in the sixties.

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Speaker 1: Well, but he would be a great tight end today

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Speaker 1: coming out of absolutely. I mean what he could do.

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Speaker 1: It's like you talk about Reggie White. Would Reggie White

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some of those guys are, but coach Dicka was

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Speaker 1: What a hardhead he was and what a hardhead Ditka

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Speaker 2: That was it. The Bears had to get back to

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Speaker 1: So when you were with the Bears in the eighties,

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Speaker 2: Well, it was first of all, I think people back

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Speaker 2: It was really heated, but yeah it was.

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Speaker 1: And you know what it was animated, Well it was animal.

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Speaker 1: No, he was eating crab but he's he's having which

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Speaker 3: We have this game where I play.

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Speaker 1: This is devolving.

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Speaker 3: I was with Mac one day and he was picking

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Speaker 3: I wish I had taken it how many because it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a Christmas miracle.

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Speaker 1: We're so now we're going to call everything? Is that

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Speaker 2: Calling Here's one thing, the hand checks in the back court.

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Speaker 2: especially this year. I can't tell you what they're going

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Speaker 2: It is so uneven across the board. But it was

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Speaker 3: But Mac, in all seriousness to follow Mike up, is

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Speaker 3: it gonna be one of those things where it's like

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Speaker 3: the points of emphasis that the officiating crews do in

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Speaker 1: Rare before he answers, if you call it in the preseason, great,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's my point. I mean, so somebody may

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Speaker 1: is I just can't believe that they would get angry

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Speaker 3: You know, I can't believe you wouldn't get angry about

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Speaker 2: But do you think, and again this is for the

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Speaker 1: Do I think there was a directive or do I

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Speaker 2: Have gotten off somebody said something.

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Speaker 2: What did What did I say on the broadcast about

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Speaker 2: and the other official went to him, Yes, he did

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Speaker 2: and appeared to be doing the old are you sure

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Speaker 1: You know, I can't figure out what he saw that.

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Speaker 1: But in that case, I couldn't, even from behind, I

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Speaker 2: Well, you know why you couldn't, because he didn't do

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Speaker 3: How about you rit the second one? I couldn't understand it,

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Speaker 3: by the way, what about you on the Elijah Molden returned,

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Speaker 1: Bye, Felicia. That was I knew, as Susianda, I'm like

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Speaker 1: also great to have game on with Duncan. That's right,

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Speaker 2: You know what I love about the Duncan is when

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Speaker 2: once the season is over with. You've Senior Bowl. You

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Speaker 2: are the best with the Duncan app I've ever seen

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Speaker 2: in my life. Thank you, and we always have you

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Speaker 2: take our orders and then when we get in the car,

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Speaker 1: Well that's the idea is that your stuff is ready.

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Speaker 2: It's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: It's it is wonderful, and you rack up points and

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Speaker 1: you get free beverages. And for free sandwiches. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Well, it's all free. It's all free for me because

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Speaker 2: you buy it. That's fair.

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Speaker 1: It is fair, that's fair. It's totally fair. Injuries have

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a difficult time obviously because for the

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Speaker 1: the playoff race. Yes, with multiple weeks left in the season.

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Speaker 2: your your your profession. You're still playing for your job,

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Speaker 2: either where you are or where you may be. Because

437
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Speaker 2: of the way we just talked through talking about the

438
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Speaker 2: transfer portal and collegiate football, well, the free agency in

439
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 2: the National Football League, I mean, you're you're auditioning for

440
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 2: everybody every snap you ever take in the National Football League,

441
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 2: and so it is, I mean, and you just you hope,

442
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,159
Speaker 2: you hope, not hope, you want your team to have

443
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:47,959
Speaker 2: built enough inside strength that to be able to not

444
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Speaker 2: overcome the disappointment of not having the playoffs out there

445
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 2: as that carrot. You know that you're playing for You're

446
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 2: still playing for your job, and you're you're you're playing

447
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Speaker 2: for the continuation of your career, whether it's where you

448
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 2: are or whether it's it's somewhere else, and the professional

449
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 2: pride of it has to kick in because we all

450
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 2: know it's it's extremely it's it's a for what we

451
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Speaker 2: all do. To be employed in the National Football League

452
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Speaker 2: is really is really not a right of anybody. It's

453
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Speaker 2: a it's a privilege to be able to do this.

454
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Speaker 2: And so when you've got the chance, you've got to

455
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 2: put everything out there, regardless regardless of what the external

456
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 2: rewards all of a sudden look like it. You've got

457
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Speaker 2: to internalize this a lot as a player and even

458
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Speaker 2: as a coach during these times.

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Speaker 1: You're the greatest example of that. Though. Your last game

460
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Speaker 1: as a head coach was a famous win where you

461
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Speaker 1: you came from behind to beat Minnesota, and I mean,

462
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Speaker 1: everybody knows that game very well and remembers that down

463
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Speaker 1: the stretch. Didn't you get invited to Green Bay the

464
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Speaker 1: next week for the playoff game?

465
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Speaker 2: And yeah it was. It was Josh McCown to to

466
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Speaker 2: Nathan Poole in the enza we had no we had

467
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Speaker 2: that the Cardinals. I mean, we were really a beat upo.

468
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Speaker 2: We were down to kind of. But my message during

469
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Speaker 2: the week, I'm glad you brought that was it was

470
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Speaker 2: the same thing. Hey, nobody probably even is looking at

471
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Speaker 2: whether you're going to win this game or not. And

472
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to say nobody cares, because we all

473
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Speaker 2: have people that care about us. But you care, I care,

474
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Speaker 2: we care. So let's just let's go do this just

475
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Speaker 2: like we've always done this. And we had to get

476
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Speaker 2: an on side. Look, we had Nathan Poole from Marshall

477
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Speaker 2: as our receiver. They had Randy Moss. I don't know

478
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Speaker 2: if you know Marshall too. Yeah, there's any kind of

479
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Speaker 2: a difference, but anyway, probably they were they were they

480
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: were a really good football team and we weren't. But

481
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Speaker 2: the way they played in that in that ball game,

482
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I got carried off the field

483
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Speaker 2: by a team that they knew their head coach was

484
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Speaker 2: not going to be there probably and some of them

485
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Speaker 2: probably weren't going.

486
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Speaker 1: To be there.

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Speaker 2: But just that feeling that that that you had come

488
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Speaker 2: together and had worked through all of that. But it

489
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Speaker 2: comes from first of all, you know, being honest with

490
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Speaker 2: yourself and then being able to look at look in

491
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Speaker 2: the eyes of your teammates and your coaches and be

492
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Speaker 2: honest with each other. I'm gonna I'm gonna lay everything

493
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Speaker 2: else that I have out there and then we'll we'll

494
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Speaker 2: take what comes. But uh if if the force out rule,

495
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Speaker 2: the force out rules in effect, and you know it's

496
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Speaker 2: not in effect anymore. But Nathan Poole caught it in

497
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Speaker 2: the corner of the end zone fourth and fourth and

498
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Speaker 2: about seventeen Josh McCown ran around, you know, made about

499
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Speaker 2: six people miss and just flung it up to Nathan

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Speaker 2: Poole and he was forced out. And then they came

501
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Speaker 2: back and there was a force out rule at the time,

502
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Speaker 2: and so they said, you know, touchdown Cardinals. But those guys,

503
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 2: those guys still in my you know, and I am

504
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 2: in touch with are they in touch with me a lot?

505
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Speaker 2: It's still a memory that they all coach Mike, that

506
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Speaker 2: was one of the greatest feelings in the world. And yes,

507
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Speaker 2: I was invited u you know. Mike Sherman was the

508
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: head coach of the Packers. The Packers they had played,

509
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Speaker 2: they played the end of the game because if the

510
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Speaker 2: if Minnesota had beaten US, well, then Minnesota's going to

511
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. The Packers were out. The Packers game finished

512
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Speaker 2: a little before Art. They won their ball game, and

513
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Speaker 2: you know, of course, nobody thought the Cardinals were going

514
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Speaker 2: to be and all of a sudden they put it

515
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Speaker 2: on the all the big boards, and everybody stayed in

516
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Speaker 2: lambeau Field to watch it, to watch the end of it.

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Speaker 2: And when it ended, I mean finally, when I got

518
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Speaker 2: into the after the press conference, got into the coach's

519
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 2: locker room. Mark Hantley was the GM and Mike Sherman

520
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: was the head coach. They were on the phone, Coach,

521
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Speaker 2: make this is the most this is fabulous. The place

522
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 2: went wild. Thank you so much. We want to invite

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Speaker 2: you to the playoff game. And I said, you know what,

524
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Speaker 2: I probably won't be able to come. I said, how

525
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Speaker 2: about bringing Nathan Poole to the And they went, you

526
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Speaker 2: think he had come? I said, call Paul Jensen, who's

527
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Speaker 2: the PR director. Let's make that work. So they brought

528
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Speaker 2: Nathan Poole to the playoff game. He's like the Pope,

529
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Speaker 2: waving everybody out.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome.

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Speaker 2: And I got and I got, I got for for

532
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Speaker 2: months afterwards, cheese baskets, you know, from from the green

533
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Speaker 2: Bay fans, Thank you, coach Max, thank you for the

534
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Speaker 2: playoff game. So I had a lot of cheese baskets

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Speaker 2: I could hand.

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Speaker 1: Down every time we go go back there. He's wildly popped.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I call him the mayor of everywhere, but

538
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 3: it's really true, and Green.

539
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Speaker 2: Bay was the green Bay fans are are legacy fans

540
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Speaker 2: now they know they know ball and so they ain't

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Speaker 2: Coach Max. Great win over the Vikings, I mean, that's

542
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Speaker 2: a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Uh. Will Levis gonna try to play, I

544
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Speaker 1: mean that's I think that tells you all you need

545
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: to know about Will Levis. I don't know if he's

546
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to play or not, but he's trying

547
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Speaker 1: like heck to play.

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Speaker 3: It's clear, if it wasn't before, it's clear. He loves

549
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Speaker 3: to play ball. He loves it.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And it's funny you bring this up because in his

552
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Speaker 3: availability this week, you know, we're outside there at the

553
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Speaker 3: edge of the practice fields and at the podium, and

554
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 3: the entire time he's feeling questions and answering questions, his

555
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 3: eyes are on that practice surface, and you could tell

556
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Speaker 3: he wanted so badly to just leave us right there

557
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 3: and go out and put a helmet on it and

558
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Speaker 3: go practice with his teammates. I could see it in

559
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Speaker 3: his facial expression and his eyes darting back and forth

560
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Speaker 3: as his teammates are coming out of the locker room

561
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Speaker 3: and getting gready to go through stretching an individual because

562
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Speaker 3: nobody would blame anybody if he didn't play.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, absolutely not.

564
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Speaker 1: But he wants to play. And that's that love of

565
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: it is a huge reason why the Titans wanted him.

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Speaker 2: But absolutely And the other thing is you can just

567
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Speaker 2: tell the way he approaches this. He understands what a

568
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 2: great opportunity this is for him. Because let's go back

569
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Speaker 2: to the draft that we all do very deeply, and

570
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Speaker 2: him sitting in that green room throughout the whole first

571
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Speaker 2: round and then everybody you know, you know that wherever

572
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: he went when he got the opportunity, he wasn't gonna

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Speaker 2: let it go. You could you could see it in him.

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Speaker 2: I've seen enough, I've seen enough young players, and you

575
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 2: could just you could see it in him. And so

576
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 2: that that's what we've seen. That's what we've seen now

577
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Speaker 2: so you're one hundred percent he you're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to hold him back to keep him

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Speaker 2: out of any game.

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Speaker 1: How tough is that going to be? For Mike Vrabel

581
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Speaker 1: and Ran Carthon. If they get to Saturday night and

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Speaker 1: he's on the fence, he could probably play What do

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Speaker 1: you do?

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, they're going to do what's in

585
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Speaker 2: his best interest. Sure, physically, that's what they're going to do.

586
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Speaker 2: And so that that overrides everything. And sometimes and sometimes

587
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Speaker 2: I've done it as a coach, I've done it as

588
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Speaker 2: a head coach. Sometimes you have to protect the players

589
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Speaker 2: from themselves because they all want to play.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 2: I had a guy like that that I mean I

592
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: thought was literally going to come across a desk one

593
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Speaker 2: time and strangle me, and I knew he could. Was

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Speaker 2: Kyle Vannenbis. Yeah, when I told him, look, I'm not

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Speaker 2: playing you right now because you're need and he I mean,

596
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Speaker 2: the the death stare that he gave me, and he

597
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 2: liked me a lot. I thought he does because we

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Speaker 2: ask him, Okay, good, I'm glad, I'm glad you quantified that.

599
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Speaker 2: But you know, we'd take it that I'd taken a

600
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: chance and stood on the table for him in the

601
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Speaker 2: draft room, and he knew that and then had worked

602
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Speaker 2: through two ACL surgeries with him and all of that stuff.

603
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Speaker 2: But those kind of guys, it means everything to him

604
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Speaker 2: and not only to themselves. They don't want to let

605
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Speaker 2: their teammates down. They don't want to let their teammates down,

606
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 2: and that that is that's important. I mean Will Levis

607
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Speaker 2: did the same thing at Kentucky when he had when

608
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Speaker 2: he had the toe, and I think they told him

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Speaker 2: don't play. You know you can, but we'd recommends you

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00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 2: you don't, no matter, and he played right. So you're

611
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 2: correct in saying that it's it's going to be. But

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Speaker 2: they will, they will protect him from himself.

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Speaker 1: well done. Red Redd is also our staff meteorologist. Sunday

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Speaker 1: is supposed Christmas Eve is supposed to be lovely at

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Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium. Mike.

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Speaker 3: It is quite the contrast from Christmas Eve versus the Texans.

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Speaker 1: One year ago.

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Speaker 3: We had rolling blackouts. Power Yeah, we started game late.

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Speaker 3: We started one hour late.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And it was it was the coldest recorded game at

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Speaker 3: Nissan Stadium. I think it was twenty two twenty three

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Speaker 3: at kickoff. So the forecast right now says partly cloudy

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Speaker 3: and a high of sixty eight degrees sixty three at kickoff.

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Speaker 1: That's a great way to start Christmas Eve Day, you

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Speaker 1: dog one, right, it is because you go from there,

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Speaker 1: you go to church or have a meal, whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to do, open a gift or too, go to

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Speaker 1: the family celebration, right, put out the cookies and milk.

635
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Speaker 1: Wait for Santa, I mean.

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Speaker 3: Or if you're like me, when you get home from

637
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 3: the game, marinate the steaks and get ready to grill.

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Speaker 3: Is that Christmas Day? I'm gonna Christmas Day?

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Speaker 2: Sure, An, because you got the weather.

640
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Speaker 1: Got the weather.

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Speaker 2: Rat's a grill master anyway, he really is. He is

642
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Speaker 2: a grill master. He has shared some of those things

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Speaker 2: that he has prepared on the grill with us Delicious.

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Speaker 3: It is New York Strip steaks on Christmas Day. I

645
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Speaker 3: think I'm gonna go purchase some kind of seafood, maybe

646
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Speaker 3: do surf and turf.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what else is really is really good

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Speaker 2: that I'm noticing here that's really high is the shoe

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Speaker 2: game of my two partners here. If you look look

651
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Speaker 2: over here at Mike Keith, those are somewhat sweet, all

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Speaker 2: white Nike kicks and then red over here. I mean

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Speaker 2: this is outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Plus statues he does.

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Speaker 2: And then plus he got a little dog on his socks.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm looking at his socks. He's got a

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Speaker 2: little dog on his sock. I'm I'm impressed with my

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Speaker 2: partners here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, coach, You're welcome, my man. It's the holiday season.

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Speaker 2: I'm a former head coach. I noticed details.

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Speaker 1: It's time to go, don't you think whatever you say, sir,

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Speaker 1: I think it's time to go. For for Dave Magettis

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Speaker 1: and RTT Brian I, Mike Keith, thank you for joining

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