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Speaker 1: Okay, we're recording. We're gonna start with Mark Daniels, followed

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Speaker 1: m well? How are you all right? How would you

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Speaker 1: just assess where the team is that after this first

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Speaker 1: How difficult of a challenge do you think it will

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Speaker 1: And what type of advice do you give to the players,

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Speaker 1: you know, this different type of Sols. Yeah, it's definitely,

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Speaker 1: Mike Giardi Fallow Butch Starns, Matthew, good to see you.

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious. I'm just curious. Do you ever get lonely?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this, sir, absolutely certain. How are you

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Speaker 1: Good to see Sarah. We'll go. I'm sorry I lost

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Speaker 1: Mike Reece and Zach Cox. Go ahead, Mike, Matthew, great

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Speaker 1: you know, the hours that we're in this building, you're

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Speaker 1: you know, we're trying to do that now. I think

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Speaker 1: our focus needs to be on taking things literally, one

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Speaker 1: as is the case with any football team any year.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of change on our team this year,

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Speaker 1: so we're trying to, you know, evolve and find who

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Speaker 1: we're all thankful to be here playing football. With everything

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Speaker 1: gonna see where that gets us as things progress. Matthew,

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