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Speaker 1: a good day off. We'll just see from Daniel last

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Speaker 1: think he benefited really um from our offensive line, uh

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Speaker 1: He had time to step up and did. His timing

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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. They've got a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: that we just got to kind of grind it out on. UM,

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Speaker 1: and then that helps with more carries and and hopefully, UM,

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Speaker 1: so I'm just curious what you think about um Daniel's

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