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Speaker 1: We'll start with Jimmy Bry followed by Mike Jerry By Jim,

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Speaker 1: I have a morning, coach, Hi, Jim, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask you about your your recollections of Jack Eastervigan, this

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Speaker 1: time with your organization. Yeah. Jack was h You know,

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Speaker 1: Jack was here for six years. Um. You know, he

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Speaker 1: was really good for good for our football team, for

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Speaker 1: the organization. He did everything I asked him to do. UM.

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Speaker 1: And he had a good, uh good interaction relationship with

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Speaker 1: everybody in our building, from the support people to the players,

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Speaker 1: of the coaching staff and and so forth. You know,

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Speaker 1: I learned a lot from Jack. I think we learned

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Speaker 1: a lot from each other, and we went through a

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Speaker 1: lot together. Um. So he you know, he had a

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Speaker 1: good positive impact on our football team and on an organization.

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Speaker 1: Thank you sure. Next question Mike Cherry follow by map Toorum.

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Speaker 1: Post game Sunday, you talked about practice. Obviously played off

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Speaker 1: the ball. He said he hadn't really done that through

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Speaker 1: high school. So I'm curious to take up the doings

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Speaker 1: about how he's played that day. And also one sort

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Speaker 1: of led you to I haven't played off the ball

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Speaker 1: when he said he had hadn't done it very much,

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Speaker 1: all right. Well, um, just the the defense that we

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Speaker 1: had in that particular some of those plays that were

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Speaker 1: wasn't something that he's done a lot of and he

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Speaker 1: didn't do a lot of it for us, um, but

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Speaker 1: you know, in those particular situations, it was that's kind

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Speaker 1: of what was called for. And one thing about Chase,

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Speaker 1: he's always willing to and ray to do whatever you

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Speaker 1: ask him to do. So, um, you know, he learned

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Speaker 1: the assignments on that and what to do, and I

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Speaker 1: thought I did a good job of it. M next question,

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Speaker 1: Matt the tour follway. Matt dol hell. I was wondering if,

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Speaker 1: um you expected to Sony Michelle to be healthy enough

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Speaker 1: to activate this week. Uh. Yeah, we'll see. Sonny's been

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Speaker 1: working hard, he's practiced the last two weeks. Um, So

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Speaker 1: we'll see how things go this week. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be will be a challenge to figure out

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Speaker 1: how to how to best utilize all of those running

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Speaker 1: backs that all contribute for you. Yeah, well, we'll go

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Speaker 1: through our process like we always do, and you know,

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Speaker 1: try to put together what we feel like could be

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Speaker 1: the best game plan and best way to um attack

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Speaker 1: attack the Texans. Um. You know they're they're a very

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Speaker 1: good defensive team. They're very well coached, and so we'll

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Speaker 1: need need everybody we can get, you know, to help

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Speaker 1: deal with those guys. It's good football team, it's good defense.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Welcome the next question. Matt golf all by

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Speaker 1: Max sc One and built so um against the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I noticed in twenty one personnelit you tended to mix

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Speaker 1: he was with Tamir a right. That was sort of

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Speaker 1: matchup based or was it more about maybe managing the

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Speaker 1: workload of the receivers. Is that the game went on? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think all the above. Um. Again, we have a

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Speaker 1: So I thought Josh and the offensive staff did a

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Speaker 1: put them in positions where they can be productive. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: you're welcome. Next question, Max Ruler, followed by Chris Brown Poinnville. UM, So,

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Speaker 1: just wanting to ask about what the offensive line. You

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Speaker 1: those lines, as you've been in the league, support staff

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