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Speaker 1: it's really out of my control. Um. You know, those

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Speaker 1: to me, came and visit me in the hospital. Forever

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Speaker 1: be lifetime friends, brothers, UM, And I'm wishing him the

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Speaker 1: best thing, Eli the best in their in their careers.

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Speaker 1: But it is a business, so it's tough. And that's

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Speaker 1: the hardest part about this. You know, you get close

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Speaker 1: our of our sport. Is there feeling in this locker

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Speaker 1: room like who's next? I don't know if that's a

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Speaker 1: if that's um one that you should have. As much

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Speaker 1: as worrying about who we played on Sunday. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're promised sixteen games this year, where we have nine

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Speaker 1: more left. I gotta make the most of them. Sending

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Speaker 1: next year already, I don't know what they're Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: But like I said, it's a very hard it's a

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Speaker 1: very hard it's a hard business. So all we can

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Speaker 1: do is focus on who we played this week. Really, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, as as much as you you think about it,

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Speaker 1: like my guy used to be right there. But it's business.

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Speaker 1: So that's all. Like I said, Hotel, when you were rehabbing,

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Speaker 1: I definitely wanted to do better. Um. You know I

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Speaker 1: I've ever worked this offseason, just not only get back,

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Speaker 1: but to come back better than I was. UM. And

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Speaker 1: you know that's obviously not where we want to be.

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Speaker 1: But this is where we're at. UM. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: you've got nine more games to to do something about that.

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Speaker 1: That's that's really all I could say about it. If

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Speaker 1: if these kinds of moves were made, if if you

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Speaker 1: might be made. Would that effect have affected your decision

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Speaker 1: to resign? I don't really know. There's it's not really resigned.

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Speaker 1: I kind of signed something. You know, I could have

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Speaker 1: been here for another three years. UM, So it's hard

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Speaker 1: to think about that now. And it's really irrelevant to

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Speaker 1: So there's no second guess in your mind about what No.

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Speaker 1: Um no, I just wish we had a better record

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Speaker 1: be this season? How do your seals for yourself? Just

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Speaker 1: working on the little things, UM, just just the small details, really, uh,

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Speaker 1: and you just keep going, you keep pushing. UM, just

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Speaker 1: don't quit. I just don't really know how to quit.

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Speaker 1: So as long as I'm here, I'm always gonna care.

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Speaker 1: I'm always gonna play football all the way that I

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Speaker 1: back in love with the process. And yeah, sometimes the

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Speaker 1: I said, we just got an opportunity to come out

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Speaker 1: you never know what happened. Uh, I gotta come out

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Speaker 1: there and just do do our jobs, get get some wins.

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Speaker 1: If you're feeling that money, and that came it came

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Speaker 1: back more in that game than any of the previous games,

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Speaker 1: just in terms of where you had been. Um. There

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Speaker 1: do all that. They kind of, you know, stuck to

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Speaker 1: And there's still plays I look at in the game

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Speaker 1: I wish I could have did this. You know. I

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Speaker 1: the locker room right now? In your opinion, I probably

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Speaker 1: have some music going right now if y'all weren't in here.

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Speaker 1: But it's it doesn't feel dead, you know. It sucks

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Speaker 1: to have this record. Um, what is this another game

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Speaker 1: you lost by three points? Another game where you're close? Um?

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Speaker 1: And I hate I even hate saying that, uh, because

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Speaker 1: thirty points like every game is close. It's just about

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Speaker 1: those little little things that that do matter. Um, it's

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Speaker 1: a game of inches, whatever you wanna call it. Like

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Speaker 1: all that stuff matters, um, and we just haven't done

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Speaker 1: enough to have those things go away. How do you

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Speaker 1: how do you view the state of the team overall?

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Speaker 1: One in the six years record, but and you just

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough, but you know there's other guys

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Speaker 1: go out and do what they love and have an

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Speaker 1: I said earlier, I said, it it's a business. It's hard,

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Speaker 1: it's the business side of all this so all we

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Speaker 1: could do I'm trying to get. Do you see where

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Speaker 1: they're big picture plans? Or is it hard for you

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Speaker 1: to even you know where that tended? At this point,

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I'm down here, they're up there. Um,

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