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Speaker 1: Still with a Christmas tomorrow. How does a holiday affect

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Speaker 1: how you guys are mapping out this week? Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: we bumped things up a little bit today to um,

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and then um, you know we'll be all tomorrow

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Speaker 1: kind of kind of swapped off Tuesday and Wednesday. So

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Speaker 1: this game this week and usually on Wednesday when you

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Speaker 1: come in you give a rundown of you know, the

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Speaker 1: opponents of some of your thoughts. So as you look

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Speaker 1: at Miami, what are some of the things that stand

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Speaker 1: out to you as you've caught up with them? Um,

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Speaker 1: preparing for this game? Uh, you know, improved tremendously. Um.

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Speaker 1: What's the team that got out score by I don't know,

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Speaker 1: about one hundred points in the first three games or

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Speaker 1: something like that. Um, four and four in the last

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Speaker 1: Washington by a point? Been a lot of competitive games.

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Speaker 1: They're UM, a very explosive offensive team with you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly a quarterbacks that Patrick is you know, brings a

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Speaker 1: lot of energy and toughness and competitiveness to the to

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Speaker 1: the field, UM and and makes plays. Um. Parker's having

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Speaker 1: a great year, Jesseki, you know, it's really stepped up

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Speaker 1: and and become a productive player. UM. Wilson's a very

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Speaker 1: talented and explosive guy. You know, they've brought guys kind

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Speaker 1: they've been pretty pretty healthy on the offensive line, gotten

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Speaker 1: they're they're very solid and explosive round five hundred yards

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Speaker 1: against Cincinnati. UM. You know, defensively, it's a you know, big, big,

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Speaker 1: strong group upfront. Um starts with you know, really I

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Speaker 1: would say Wilkins, Um. You know he's a major problem.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Gotchawk, Um, you know Harris. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're that's a very good, good and active group there. UM.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta you gotta block them, you gotta handle

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Speaker 1: their their size. Silers played well for him as well.

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Speaker 1: UM and you know, they've they've moved some guys around

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Speaker 1: first of all, linebacker of Bakers had another career year.

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Speaker 1: He's been been really productive. But um, you know they've

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Speaker 1: obviously Lucent Howard, you know it was you know, one

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Speaker 1: that they've had some young guys that have continued to

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Speaker 1: Guys like that. They've all played very competitively and um,

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Speaker 1: happy all of this YouTube. That's question Nicko Raalley falled

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Speaker 1: by North FANCIAI hi, Bill, and I mentioned Christian Wilkins

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins this season. Well, have you seen from him

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Speaker 1: Played on offense last week. Uh right, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins program. Thanks, yeah, you're welcome. Next question, Nora

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Speaker 1: Princeoti and I would ask if anybody else wants a question,

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Speaker 1: merry Christmas Eve, Um, thank you. Last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: I've just heard a few different players talking about Stefan

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Speaker 1: you merry Christmas? Bill. Oh thanks Karen, Thanks, you appreciate it. Um.

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, UM, how important a couple of players,

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Speaker 1: they're both very positive, UM team first oriented. UM will

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Speaker 1: they do it on a daily basis. UM. They're they're

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Speaker 1: they're not just kind of hanging around and sitting back

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Speaker 1: And they're you know, in in a good positive way.

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Speaker 1: good about that. UM. You know, David's and the captain's

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Speaker 1: But you know, David's very much a part of that.

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