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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean they're they're a great organization,

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Speaker 2: great team. I got really good players, and so it's

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Speaker 2: I think we've had some success going against them, but

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Speaker 2: know that we feel like that's the case with you know,

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Speaker 2: there's never a moment where we walk into this game

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, you're four.

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Speaker 4: And oh this year, when you don't fumble the ball

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Speaker 4: that you've been here in those situations when you hear

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Speaker 2: I mean, it makes sense. You know, if you win

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Speaker 3: So that's the goal. Every week a.

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Speaker 7: Change your wow.

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Speaker 4: You know, just the wisdom he's been able to partant

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Speaker 6: Back at practice now for a second week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he goes hard, you know, every rep,

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Speaker 4: When you and your wives and George went on a

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Speaker 3: We golfed together one day. But outside of that, we were.

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Speaker 1: Last week because he obviously hasn't practiced much in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd we'd ran it last week at practice, but

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Speaker 8: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: same way when you look at his story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's talked about it to me, and I totally

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Speaker 2: agree with him, man, And obviously I'm a believer in God,

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Speaker 2: and and uh, you know, to see him go through

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Speaker 2: that and then to get back and just the story

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Speaker 2: that he has, like I'm not like, there's no way

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Speaker 2: that's just a coincidence. Like that's just my firm belief.

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Speaker 2: And I know he's told me that, and he told

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Speaker 2: all the guys that, and to see him back playing

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Speaker 2: and in his story, man, it's it's something bigger than football.

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Speaker 2: It's bigger than you know, what we're doing here right now.

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Speaker 2: It's it's way bigger than that. We're still sort of

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Speaker 2: trying to figure it out and we'll see what happens

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Speaker 2: with it all. But uh, yeah, if you ask us

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Speaker 2: if it was God, so thank God