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Speaker 1: Obviously it was a you know a different set of circumstances. Um,

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Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, football

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Speaker 1: I think is is really interesting, and you know, from

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Speaker 1: What's your mindset and your approach to knowing that, hey,

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Speaker 1: mean again, I think, um, you know, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: you know, if that if that is the case, I'm

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Speaker 1: you know, anything like that happened. Again, I'm just going

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Speaker 1: And so that's that's what I'm solely focused on. And

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Speaker 1: here on this show about moral victories, and most of

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Speaker 1: you always say that that that that there's no such thing.

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Speaker 1: But do you feel like going out there the situation

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Speaker 1: this week and and and get another win. Jared, what

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Speaker 1: you know, it was just again, I've been controlling what

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Tom Brady earlier. Do you guys communicate? Does

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Speaker 1: you this season? Yeah, we have. We've communicated back and

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Speaker 1: have played for Bill Belichick. What have you kind of

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Speaker 1: Because I always think fans always intrigued to know what

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Speaker 1: it's it really is incredible. Um, you know, obviously I

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Speaker 1: I saw that it was a good good thing, you know.

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Speaker 1: a positive. All right, Well, so you're preparing. I assume

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Speaker 1: That's so that's how I always look at things. Absolutely. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, well you're on to Denver. It's been it's

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Speaker 1: been great having you on this morning, and who knows,

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Speaker 1: All right, awesome, guys. I appreciate you guys having me

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