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Speaker 1: Thank Coach Bill Chip joins us. So we're going to

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Speaker 1: start with questions. We'll go to Mike Greece, called by

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Speaker 1: Chris Ryan. Thanks Stacy, Good morning, Bill. How are you good, Mike?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? Doing great? Thinking m September eleven,

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Speaker 1: pif one o'clock, not much more important than that, as you,

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Speaker 1: guys transition and you obviously can't predict the forecast, but

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Speaker 1: to be like at that time of year in that

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Speaker 1: you assess the condition of your team as you sort

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Speaker 1: of transition to the regular season? Opener? Uh, Well, we've

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Speaker 1: we've certainly had a good opportunity to be in some

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Speaker 1: one of those things you don't really know until you

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Speaker 1: you get in and play in it. It's different to

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Speaker 1: Part of that is dependent upon the health of the team,

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Speaker 1: the depth of the team, and so we'll see how

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Speaker 1: all that plays out. I think the players have worked hard.

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Speaker 1: I think that they're generally in good condition. But game

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Speaker 1: Good Chris, how are you doing good? Um? Following that

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Speaker 1: So that's and that's again true with every team new players.

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Speaker 1: The actual process us is very difficult for all of us,

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Speaker 1: But thanks days morning Bill above. Following up by Jim's

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Speaker 1: that included block puns and uncharacteristic you know, plays in

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Speaker 1: every phase of the game, offense, defense, Special teams, of

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Speaker 1: course a big part of special teams. As a specialist, UM,

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Speaker 1: Whatever did or didn't have happened last year is we

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Speaker 1: how to how to do that on game day every week,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Bill, Okay, yep, you're welcome and sorry and you're

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Speaker 1: killing in questioning Bill Andrew. Looking at practice tomorrow with Thursday,

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Speaker 1: be a combination of both. We'll discuss that today, just

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Speaker 1: that we haven't started to look at Miami and talk

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Speaker 1: to situational football, we haven't dealt with any of those

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Speaker 1: dealt with them in practice. We have practiced them against

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Speaker 1: Carolina and Vegas to a degree, but there's certainly an

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Speaker 1: as part of our situation preparation as well as general

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's good to run some plays just to get

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Speaker 1: when we're already into a game plan, get a look

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Speaker 1: at some of those things on Wednesday and Thursday this week,

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Speaker 1: So we're not just talking about diagrams on a piece

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Speaker 1: whatever it happens to be. So combination of all three,

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Speaker 1: you're welcome. Thank you, all right, thank you,