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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to an off season special

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Speaker 1: edition of the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast recorded right here

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Speaker 1: in the Ticketmaster podcast studios. I'm Scott Behar, that's Tory mclaney,

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Speaker 1: and what we're hoping to get done over the next

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes is to kind of go over do a

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Speaker 1: little vibe check with the Falcons. We've seen lots of

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Speaker 1: OTAs and mini camps to this point as we head

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Speaker 1: into a darker period where everyone's going to go find

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Speaker 1: a mountain peak or a white sand beach.

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Speaker 2: Amanda Are, one of our social media managers, told me

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Speaker 2: that a lot of guys are going to Jamaica this year.

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, and you just went last year.

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 1: They give them some recommendation.

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Speaker 2: So I went to Tuloom first, and then Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 2: went to Tuloom on vacation. So honestly, I think they're

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Speaker 2: all just following my lead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and thanks guys. That's probably a smart thing to do.

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Speaker 1: But so what we're gonna do right now is talk

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Speaker 1: about what we learned about this Falcons offense. This is

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Speaker 1: an offensive podcast. What we learned about the Falcons offense

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Speaker 1: during the off season program and what questions we still

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Speaker 1: have and we still need answers from during training camp.

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Speaker 1: And what better time to do that than right smack

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the off season program and training camp.

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Speaker 1: So Tory, let's just get right into it here and

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Speaker 1: start with things that we learned about this offense. And

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Speaker 1: as we were writing this list down, you had this

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Speaker 1: one ready to go in like half a second. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I kind of love it, So I'll just let you

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Speaker 1: intro it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, I was just saying before we started recording, I

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Speaker 2: was just like, this offense I just think is going

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Speaker 2: to be so fun to watch. And I say fun,

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Speaker 2: And I know that's probably not a great adjective because

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Speaker 2: a lot of things can fall under that, but I

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Speaker 2: think that in terms of just like the creativity of

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Speaker 2: being able to put it to me, like, who's quote

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Speaker 2: unquote starting. I was having this conversation on the radio

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Speaker 2: the other day, like, to me, it does. Starters don't

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Speaker 2: matter outside of like the offensive line and Desmond Ritter

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Speaker 2: at the quarterback. Everything else can be so fluid in

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Speaker 2: terms of who you're putting where, how you're moving guys,

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Speaker 2: who's in motion, who's not in motion? Like you know,

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Speaker 2: there are so many different avenues of Okay, you can

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Speaker 2: put Bajon here, you can put Tyler Aljeer here, you

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Speaker 1: Like, there are so.

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Speaker 2: Many different things that you can do with these guys.

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Speaker 2: And I think it just goes along the lines of

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Speaker 2: what Terry and Arthur I think have been trying to

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Speaker 2: build from the get go. I mean, they go out

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Speaker 2: because he's such an offensive weapon. That's the first person

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Speaker 2: that they drafted in Atlanta in this new regime at

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Speaker 2: number four overall, highest tight end ever taken in the draft.

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Speaker 2: Then you go the next year you get a guy

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Speaker 2: using the moniker of an offensive weapon similarly to how

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Speaker 2: they used Corderio Patterson in twenty twenty one. You know,

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Speaker 2: the way that they were talking about him being a

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Speaker 1: So to me, when you're.

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Speaker 2: Talking about all these different pieces that you have accumulated

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Speaker 2: over the last few years, It just excites me about

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Speaker 2: what Arthur Smith can do with this group.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned some of the marquee guys, but

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Speaker 1: after watching Mac Hollins play in the off season program,

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Speaker 1: the dude's got it a little bit. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: He's a big physical thing. Yes, you got Johnny Smith.

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Speaker 1: Scottie Miller is a speed demon.

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Speaker 2: And I'll say this, I think John Who is going

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Speaker 2: Arthur Smith is. Every time I feel like we talked

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Speaker 2: And I think it's because he's really excited to work

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Speaker 2: We've talked to him on the podcast. I think Arthur

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Speaker 1: So when you look at just the depth at skill

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Speaker 1: to our The second thing that we learned is that

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith has mentioned positionless football before in years past,

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Speaker 1: but I think, and to your point earlier, we're finally

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Speaker 1: there's an RB next to Cordero Patterson's name and Robinson's name,

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Speaker 1: there's a WR next to Drake London. But we're gonna

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Speaker 1: see these guys move across the formation. Was talking to

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Speaker 1: I kind of wonder, like there have to be like

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be fascinating to see what they

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Speaker 2: And to that point, I know I wrote something, you know,

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Speaker 2: the term positionless football.

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Speaker 1: Which doesn't happen hasn't happened.

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Speaker 2: Before, right, but Arthur Smith has been saying it for

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Speaker 2: and you're talking about this idea of positionless football, and

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Speaker 2: Arthur Smith always talks about like, you know, there aren't

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Speaker 2: You know, everybody has their strengths and their weaknesses and

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Speaker 2: on the field when they're asked to get here or

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Speaker 2: Arthur Smith has been dreaming up since he got here,

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Speaker 2: maybe even well before that. You know, let's go back

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Speaker 2: to when he was a coordinator, let's go back even

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Speaker 2: farther when he was a position coach. I mean, this

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Speaker 2: you look at the team right now, You look at

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Speaker 1: Right, And I think that the only way that these

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Speaker 1: three on our list of things that we learned during

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Speaker 1: the offseason program, and that's that the offensive line, the continuity,

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Speaker 1: the talent that the offensive line production, which was high

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Speaker 1: last year. I have every confidence even without them having

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Speaker 1: in that vein. Nobody stays at the practice field longer.

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Speaker 1: They have their own shirts about speed, right. Dwayne Ledford

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Speaker 1: So when you go into and they talked about it,

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Speaker 1: they've invested accordingly. You've got three eight figure per year

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Speaker 1: Matt Bergeron, could be Matt Hennessy. But nonetheless they've invested

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Speaker 1: And I think that that can't be forgotten.

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Speaker 2: Right, No, You're exactly right. And something that I'll add

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Speaker 2: to that, you're talking about that continuity and something that

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Speaker 2: I've talked to Dwayne Leadford about. I feel like at

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Speaker 2: nauseum when I have conversations with him, is he's talking about,

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Speaker 2: you know, he's been coaching this position for a long

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Speaker 2: time and something that he always falls back on, and

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Speaker 2: he's like, the longer you can keep a group together,

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Speaker 2: If some if a safety moves here, if a linebacker

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Speaker 2: you don't have the reps that they have together. So

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Speaker 2: the longer you keep a solid core five together, I

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Speaker 2: I think the fact that they you talk about investing heavily.

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Speaker 2: one day, and you kind of think about some guys

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Speaker 2: maybe falling off of rosters because of cappits or whatever.

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Speaker 2: And I really do think that for me, And this

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Speaker 2: is not a slight at mccollins. It's not a slight

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Speaker 2: at Scottie Miller. But to me, I don't know one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't either.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I can sit here right now and

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Speaker 2: we're in the middle of the summer and be able

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Speaker 1: I know who WR two is.

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Speaker 2: You know, Drake Lennon's number one. And I know that

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Speaker 2: you can say, like, oh, well, Kyle Pitts because of

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Speaker 2: plays that. Okay, there are variations and that you don't

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Speaker 2: I've been thinking for this entire offseason that they're gonna

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Speaker 2: I'm still waiting for that, and I think it's something

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Speaker 2: that training camp could really shed some more light on,

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Speaker 2: especially when they put the pads on and we do

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Speaker 2: get into joint practices. That type of stuff, I think

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Speaker 2: is when you see the hierarchy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this offense, going back to the very first

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Speaker 1: thing that you and I talked about both before and

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Speaker 1: after we hit the record button, is this offense is

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fascinating to watch because there's so many

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Speaker 1: things that they can do. There are some question marks

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Speaker 1: how it unveils itself. Because Arthur Smith, as we saw

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Speaker 1: last year, he's gonna show you a bunch of unscouted

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Speaker 1: stuff the first couple of weeks, and then he's gonna

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Speaker 1: use that tape against you down the road. So it's

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Speaker 1: always going to be an evolving thing. And with all

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Speaker 1: these skill players, with this offensive line as its foundation,

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be really interesting to see how it

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Speaker 1: all plays out and as we start to learn about

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Speaker 1: these things over the course of July and August and

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Speaker 1: throughout the fall. So that's going to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: wrap it for the Offensive Review and Preview edition of

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Speaker 1: the Falcons Final Whistle podcast. And hey, if you guys

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Speaker 1: have other questions, leave them in the YouTube comments. Right,

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Speaker 1: Let's try to generate a dialogue when we're bored and

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Speaker 1: there's no football for another two months and we need

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Speaker 1: something to talk about, like what did you learn during

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Speaker 1: the off season program? What do you still need to know?

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Speaker 1: Drop them in there. Maybe I'll even go in there

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Speaker 1: and answer a couple of them. What the heck? But anyway,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys so much. Please rate review, subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons podcast network. I maybe got that right?

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Speaker 1: Who does got it? Yes, miracle, and we will talk

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Speaker 1: to you again next time when Tory and I break

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Speaker 1: down the defense, see it,