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Speaker 1: and their play other than the two minute drive at

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Speaker 1: the end of the half? I thought they played well. Um.

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Speaker 1: I don't have the staff book in front of me,

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Speaker 1: but I think someone told me it was maybe one

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I really felt like they got

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Speaker 1: after them. Um, you know early and often. UM. Two

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Speaker 1: minute drive though, is something that, uh, you know, we

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Speaker 1: gotta get better at. You guys had a lot of

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Speaker 1: really good looks on third down. Offensively, Trevor missed a

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Speaker 1: couple throws early on, but you still were like, think

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Speaker 1: four of your first six. How did you feel like

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Speaker 1: it went for you on third down? Yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: something we talked about this week and wanted to do

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Speaker 1: better in as the third down scenarios. And I felt

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Speaker 1: like the first unit was able to do that tonight. Um,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we still missed, you know, we still

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Speaker 1: missed some opportunities, which again we got a little time

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Speaker 1: here to learn from and correct and and uh as

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Speaker 1: we as we finish up camp here in a week

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Speaker 1: or so. Those are obviously long kicks. But how do

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Speaker 1: you evaluate santos So tonight. Yeah, I mean, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously not good enough. You know, we had

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Speaker 1: a chance to to win the game, had a chance

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Speaker 1: he'll battle back this week and and try to correct it.

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Speaker 1: Is everything alright with Shaq Griffin? Yeah, he had just

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Speaker 1: had a little, uh I think some back tightness this

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Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, push guys like that and

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Speaker 1: risk further injury. Doug. For a second consecutive week, your

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Speaker 1: starters come out with a lead. How hard is it

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Speaker 1: to separate that from you know, the reserves and a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys who aren't going to make the team,

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Speaker 1: But you end up losing. Considering where this club was

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Speaker 1: a year ago, you talked so much about healing, I

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Speaker 1: imagine winning a game would have met something, even though

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Speaker 1: it was the preseason. Yeah, you know, and that's that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a fine line obviously, you know, And and

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Speaker 1: there's still a lot of I think there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of good positive takeaways from tonight, you know, with the

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Speaker 1: some good things that they did. Um, but you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously the sort of the obvious things right or are

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Speaker 1: red zone? We got we got points there again potentially

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Speaker 1: and you know, um, you know, we gotta tackle better

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Speaker 1: we're right on track to where we where we need

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Speaker 1: gives us a lot of, um, a lot of hope

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Speaker 1: Certainly you need to look at the film, but could

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Speaker 1: you get an idea of Ben Barts tonight at left

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Speaker 1: a better um, you know, determination on that. Doug. You

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Speaker 1: So we'll have a better answer for you either tomorrow

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Speaker 1: the next day. All right. Thanks,