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Speaker 1: to what's it been like these last two weeks to

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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's just continuing to you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, we've scored a you know I've scored or

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Speaker 1: we you know as a group, we scored a little

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Speaker 1: bit in just past few weeks, but UM, as a team,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get better at it. How important is to

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Speaker 1: just start fast? You know, so you're not facing the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys offense, but they score a ton of points. So

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Speaker 1: clearly you guys want to get ahead and maybe that's

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Speaker 1: good to have those guys back and have the you

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Speaker 1: a lot of the tight ends. But you know, safeties

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Speaker 1: we will be a kind of chip Michael Parsons, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: he'll be fired up to come up here and you know,

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Speaker 1: fly around and make them play. So um, we'll have

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Speaker 1: neutralize them in a way. Four o'clock game, How do

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Speaker 1: day before you get in here. I like to get

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Speaker 1: up and go, so I ain't a lot, but I'll

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Speaker 1: be ready to go at four o'clock. So, um, but

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Speaker 1: I do. There's something about a nice one o'clock game,

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Speaker 1: just getting up and getting after. But um, it'll be

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