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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think you know, I've on their part.

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Speaker 2: You know, those guys will be ready, you know, just

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Speaker 2: Christian are going and stuff, you know, great for us,

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Speaker 2: roll for whatever comes in week three.

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Speaker 1: With the Giants, you saw plenty of ports from that

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Speaker 3: Even more so, what what's your kind of impressions of.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some of the stuff that they run and the

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Speaker 3: Can challenge you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, obviously they love to you know, bring

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Speaker 3: So they do a really good job with it.

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Speaker 3: So they're really well coached. They do it well.

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Speaker 2: And then I think all the players are really smart

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Speaker 3: I gotta be smart with the ball.

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Speaker 2: You know. That's what they're trying to do is pressure

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Speaker 3: So it's a good challenge for Miami. You talk from

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Speaker 3: So that's where we're at. We're trying to win.

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Speaker 2: But like I said before, this team's on a on

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Speaker 2: happy when Deba is a great game. Deeba's such a

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Speaker 2: with George and all the other guys and Christians. So like, man,

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Speaker 2: it's a special group. Obviously we're trying to do the

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Speaker 2: whole thing and you know, not just try to you know,

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Speaker 2: rack up fantasy points anything like that. Like guys are

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Speaker 2: wanting the best for other guys and win, So that's

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Speaker 2: what all we care about. So they