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Speaker 1: Before we get started with uh, you know John's football,

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Speaker 1: you know, our thoughts and prayers go out to him,

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Speaker 1: that being said, we'll go and jump into questions else

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Speaker 1: about Logan. It's all the UH is out today because

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Speaker 1: of COVID Night team. Yeah, so we're still waiting some

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Speaker 1: I are just to go ahead and create the spot

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Speaker 1: for movement wise, I'd say beyond that, uh close contact wise,

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Speaker 1: the illness completely unrelated to COVID, has nothing with COVID,

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Speaker 1: Joe He Davian McKinney is a guy who's in a

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Speaker 1: So out of precaution for all those players that are unvaccinated,

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Speaker 1: So you know, the way we set up the rooms anyway,

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Speaker 1: You got to get back and sink things. Playing next

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Speaker 1: relevant to We're gonna Monday Night,