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Speaker 1: you good Saturday as the Hall of Fame announcements. I

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Speaker 1: I'm just interested if you can describe what Tie brought

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Speaker 1: you There's a sense of pride you have that that

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Speaker 1: And then the follow up to that would be I

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Speaker 1: And certainly Jared, you know, played played another great game

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Speaker 1: as he has all year. By Tom Susie, how you

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to believe that, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: you know it starts with those guys up front. Hey, Tom, Janni, Crocus,

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Speaker 1: you doing one game season? You only have so many

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Speaker 1: altering that plan once the game begins? Yeah, you always

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Speaker 1: put together the plan and you try to you know,

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Speaker 1: rarely does that, but you have, you know, you try

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Speaker 1: put together a plan that we feel can be effective. Again,

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Speaker 1: that's where you always want to be. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: just gotta call the best players you think are going

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Speaker 1: execute them. Tom Shane McGinnis from three AW Radio in Melbourne, Australia,

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Speaker 1: congratulations being here you again. Obviously you're older than you

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Speaker 1: self reflect a bit in talking about how you in

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's really about playing at a championship level.

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Speaker 1: know there's no duovers. This isn't any retakes in Hollywood

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