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Speaker 2: It's time for x'es and o's with Minnesota Vikings head

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Speaker 2: coach Kevin o'connole. Welcome Minnesota Vikings Radio Network now from

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Speaker 2: the TCO studios at egots. Here is the voice of

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Speaker 2: the Vikings, Paul Allen.

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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to x's and o's on the KFA and

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings Radio Network and Vikings dot Com. It's Paul

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Speaker 3: Allen indeed with Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connor, who,

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Speaker 3: by the way, Tomorrow Thursday at one o'clock as a

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Speaker 3: press conference and he'll be sharing much more on the

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Speaker 3: quarterback for the Sunday night football game against the Green

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Speaker 3: Bay Packers, and the head coach joins us now where

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Speaker 3: you know, I absolutely understand injuries are part of the game, man,

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Speaker 3: and I mean, you've seen so many this year, but

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Speaker 3: I just feel awful for DJ Wantam And it's not

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Speaker 3: because I like him and I you know, since he

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Speaker 3: got here. You know, he's this quiet guy who's kind

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Speaker 3: of personality has come out a little bit over the years,

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Speaker 3: best season of his career, but he's.

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Speaker 4: Sitting on his second deal. You know, it's just so

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Speaker 4: unfortunately on so many levels for DJ.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I don't know whether it's the former player in me

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Speaker 6: or what it is, but I just you know, when

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Speaker 6: a player is in a contract year like that and

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Speaker 6: you've seen them handle it the right way, do everything

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Speaker 6: the right way, be the best possible teammate, work, do

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Speaker 6: all the little things behind the scenes that nobody ever sees.

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Speaker 6: But clearly Vikings, fans and everyone in a US Bank stadium,

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Speaker 6: including our team, coaching staff, you upstairs with with the

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Speaker 6: rest of the crew, are feeling that emotion in the

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Speaker 6: moment because it's not always just you know, about stats,

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Speaker 6: it's not always about the things in this day and

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Speaker 6: age when statistics and fantasy football drive so much of

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Speaker 6: the dialogue, those are the players that, in my opinion,

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Speaker 6: you know, make the make organizations go. They're the fabric

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Speaker 6: of what makes it special to be in Minnesota Viking.

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Speaker 6: Our guys like DJ want them. DJ knows how I

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Speaker 6: feel about him. I just think he's had a tremendous year.

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Speaker 6: He's played his role in this new defense and really

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Speaker 6: allowed us to be what we became defensively throughout the year.

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Speaker 6: And and I just you know, I'm hoping for a quick,

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Speaker 6: speedy recovery. Knowing he's going to attack it every single day.

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Speaker 6: I think he'll be back better than ever when the

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Speaker 3: And emphasis on this new defense. And I mean this

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Speaker 3: is with you know, no disrespect to TJ Hawkinson, who's

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Speaker 3: been dynamite, you know, the year and change he's been here.

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Speaker 7: TJ's the tight end.

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Speaker 4: Offensive changes. I get I get it.

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe there's more blocking or you know, more

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Speaker 3: nuance to what he does. But I mean DJ went

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I don't know how you graded it last year.

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Speaker 3: But it didn't stick out the way it did this year,

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Speaker 3: just to watch them continue to grow through massive change. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, those are just things that you know, outside

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think it's a huge part of what

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Speaker 6: makes our league so special is these players are really

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Speaker 6: in control of their path. Regardless of x's and o's

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Speaker 6: and all those things. Sometimes it's still a matter of

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Speaker 6: third down, you're dropping into coverage. I can think back,

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Speaker 6: whether it's the Carolina you know, touchdown return, whether it's

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Speaker 6: they don't jump out as automatic yes is as a

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Speaker 3: All said, now, the Green Bay Packers, they got a

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Speaker 6: I think, like anything, this has become such a week

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Speaker 5: And I think it's week to week. I think we

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Speaker 6: You know, they have a good feel for, you know,

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Speaker 6: And ultimately then it's just about those chess piece moves

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Speaker 6: And they can do the same thing on defense, and

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Speaker 5: Look, what are our rules? What have we coached up

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Speaker 6: That allows us to execute in those moments and that's

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Speaker 5: And we have grown a lot with that, PA.

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Speaker 3: And for them with Jordan wob you know, compared to

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Speaker 6: I think he's just continuing with every rep to see

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Speaker 6: doing things that I'm sure if you study those sixteen

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Speaker 6: it's screens, it's you know, unique ways that Matt and

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Speaker 6: I think he's had a, you know, a really impactful

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Speaker 6: one for one for a twelve yard game, but did

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Speaker 6: he flip the ball, did he throw a screen, did

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Speaker 6: whatever it is. They're finding those breather plays and that's

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Speaker 6: be aware of maybe where those easy plays might come,

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Speaker 6: how they like to get to him. Can we rally

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Speaker 6: and tackle to me tackling in this game when our

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Speaker 5: Yeah, scheme, all that thing is.

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Speaker 6: All those things are great, But can we make that

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Speaker 6: that'll be critical for defending not only Jordan Love but

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what an awesome way to analyze it specifically. And

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Speaker 4: So the quock would go with no timeouts. Three is

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's you.

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Speaker 3: Know, stats is for losers or for losers might be

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Speaker 3: a little strong, but that absolutely plays into that.

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Speaker 4: And speaking of stats, so.

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Speaker 3: Nick Mallins goes for seven hundred and change the last

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Speaker 3: how do you balance all of that given he started

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think first and foremost, we have to look

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Speaker 5: The emphasis on ball security.

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Speaker 6: It's been a theme for our team throughout the season,

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Speaker 6: trying to make sure we can not lose games before

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Speaker 6: we ever give ourselves a chance.

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Speaker 5: To even win.

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Speaker 4: Really since you got here, and really.

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Speaker 6: It's just been something that Nick, you know, throughout his career,

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Speaker 6: I've talked to Nick about, and really all of our

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Speaker 6: the read, the progression, what are we doing with the

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Speaker 6: then ultimately the value as we had to learn the

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Speaker 6: hard lesson. We won a football game scoring three points.

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Speaker 5: But what didn't we do that day? We didn't turn

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Speaker 6: And I think it's just a lesson in conjunction with

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Speaker 6: the other sixteen wins we've had when we're even or

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Speaker 5: We've got to take those lessons.

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Speaker 6: And apply them to how we play, how we coach,

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Speaker 6: how I call plays. And I think there's many, many times,

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Speaker 6: How do we morph ourselves to win football games? The

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Speaker 7: Okay, end quote.

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Speaker 3: And here's what I don't understand is I don't understand

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Speaker 4: You understand what I'm saying. You understand it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know. I think there's core philosophies, there's beliefs.

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Speaker 5: In that game, these explosives.

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Speaker 5: That could have been a game. We were in the

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Speaker 6: You know, we've played a lot of close games and

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Speaker 5: But it is the nature of the NFL.

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Speaker 6: But you're not going to go You're not going to

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Speaker 7: The final home game this Sunday, good luck, Thank you, Pa.

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Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, and I'm

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Speaker 9: Well, I think we have to have success defensively on

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Speaker 9: Jordan Love has played extremely well for them in the

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 9: We're definitely gonna have to affect him. I mean both

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Speaker 3: The Miami Dolphins are proving to be one of the

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Speaker 9: You know, Tuesdays is really the day where the where

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Speaker 7: Important in the Lions game.

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Speaker 3: Good having Jordan Hicks back, what's key to the defense

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Speaker 3: with his position and the way he plays it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was nice getting Jordan back.

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Speaker 9: I mean, his veteran presence, you know, has a calming

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Speaker 9: effect on the unit, and he's such a versatile player.

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Speaker 9: You can play both inside linebacker spots as well as

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Speaker 9: function on the edge of the defense. You know, we've

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Speaker 9: really moved him around a lot. A lot of our

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Speaker 9: has a great understanding of what we're trying to get

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Speaker 9: done and does a really good job quarterbacking the defensive front.

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Speaker 7: But of course too, we missed his play, we missed

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Speaker 9: I mean he's averaging I think just under nine tackles

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Speaker 9: you know, it's great to have him back, and you know,

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Speaker 9: hopefully he's you know, he's full go the rest.

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Speaker 5: Of the way.

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Speaker 3: When wheelean through backup quarterbacks, how much can coaches give

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Speaker 3: them right out of the gate? I mean, you have

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Speaker 3: this voluminous playbook, you've worked on it all off season,

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Speaker 3: realistically can be given to them initially, Well, I think that.

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Speaker 9: Certainly falls into the case by case category. You got

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Speaker 9: played over you know, twenty five games in his career.

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Speaker 9: Dobbs is unique with his intelligence that he was able to, uh,

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Speaker 9: So you compare those two to a Jaron Hall, who's

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Speaker 9: done a nice job learning it, but he's still a rookie.

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Speaker 9: He's relatively new to running an NFL offense. So I

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Speaker 9: think it's important that that any backup that's pressed in

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Speaker 9: the service is is very comfortable with the plan.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 9: And I know, I know Ko and the offensive staff

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Speaker 9: always make sure that you build that plan kind of

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Speaker 9: centered around that quarterback's favorite place because those players are

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Speaker 9: usually the ones that that match his skill set. Uh.

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Speaker 7: And that certainly leads to to their level of comfort.

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Speaker 3: And that is the assistant head coach Mike Patton and

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