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Speaker 1: your responses to all of that. UM. Obviously, Tik's a legend.

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Speaker 1: UM do a lot of great things for for this franchise. UM,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not gonna look at this disrespect.

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Speaker 1: same thing with him, UM like everyone else, but they

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Speaker 1: don't care abou outside opinions. UM. Really only focus about

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Speaker 1: the opinions in his in his building. UM, and try

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Speaker 1: to come work over seeing a day and get better. Hey, UM,

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Speaker 1: are there areas of your game pass protection and those

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Speaker 1: sort of things that maybe have become points of emphasis

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Speaker 1: and anything that you're doing in practice to get better

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Speaker 1: in that area? Uh? No, I mean I couldn't work

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Speaker 1: every single day with the same asset try to improve

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Speaker 1: it everything, UM, focus on the little things. Whoever the

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Speaker 1: I understand um that you know, I probably made some

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Speaker 1: You know, I know it's gonna keep coming. People gonna

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Speaker 1: keep challenging me. It's a good way to keep me

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Speaker 1: have have Jason or Joe brought any of turns? Do

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Speaker 1: you like take your voice or are not? Really? Uh No,

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Speaker 1: The only concern was that we lost as a team. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, in the running back room, my running back coach,

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Speaker 1: When I'm curious. We know you study other backs. We

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Speaker 1: of what you have to do? Um? You know, there's

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Speaker 1: You've obviously had a lot of success, got a lot

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Speaker 1: wasn't a good game for you. How motivating is that

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