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Speaker 1: Obviously, Valentine beal Banker. I've played a lot all season.

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Speaker 1: But but when jack Rabbit leaves, did that raise their urgency?

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Speaker 1: Did that take away a security? Blank? I mean they

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Speaker 1: played their best game collectively last week. Is that coincidence?

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Speaker 1: Or is that jack Rabbits not here to rely on anymore?

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Speaker 1: Let's kick it into gear? Well. Uh, you know, you

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Speaker 1: can look at a bunch of different ways. I tend

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Speaker 1: to look at it as guys just getting better each

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Speaker 1: week and uh collectively, Uh, we had maybe a one

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Speaker 1: of our better weeks of practice this overall. Uh, proud

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Speaker 1: of guys not letting destructions uh be a you know,

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Speaker 1: be a deterrent for not playing well. So uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: my head's off to those guys for for staying focus

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Speaker 1: and getting ready. How much from week one to now?

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Speaker 1: How much better has Banker gotten? And in what ways? Um,

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Speaker 1: every way you can imagine, um, preparation wise, maturity wise,

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Speaker 1: I think, just understanding how to be a pro um.

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Speaker 1: You know, all the things you learned as a as

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Speaker 1: a young guy that that get this punches you in

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Speaker 1: the face early. Um, he's starting to understand. Uh He's

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Speaker 1: not there yet, not close, Um, but he has gotten better,

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Speaker 1: you know, as far as tension to detail and fundamentals

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Speaker 1: and those things. It's kind of where you guys were

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Speaker 1: hoping to see when you went up and got him

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Speaker 1: in the first round and kind of when you saw

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Speaker 1: the amatory. Um, yeah, we thought this was a part

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Speaker 1: of it. I'm not sure, you know, you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: you want you know a guy, he's tackling better, he's

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Speaker 1: closer to the balls that are thrown at him, targets better.

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Speaker 1: Uh now let's take the next step and finish some

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Speaker 1: place and um have some more production on the ball.

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Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. But if we call it what

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Speaker 1: it is, it could have went the other way for him, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like you, midway through the season, he was

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Speaker 1: struggling really bad. He could have taken a turn for

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Speaker 1: the worst where he just kind of tuned every out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: hits off to him, and hits off to him for

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Speaker 1: for you know, running to it and not running away

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Speaker 1: from it. Have a sambl I mean, the guy who

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Speaker 1: missed the first twenties seven games of his career bently

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Speaker 1: and goes out there and it seems like he's kind

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Speaker 1: of hit the ground running. Yeah again, Uh, not there yet,

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Speaker 1: But Uh, you know, I always call it just an

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Speaker 1: eager guy who wants to absorb everything you can give

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Speaker 1: to him, UM, and wants to wants to be you know, good,

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Speaker 1: and he wants to work at it, and UM, to me,

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Speaker 1: that's what you need. And hopefully he continues that. I'm

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Speaker 1: banking on him and we'll continue that way. Julian is

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Speaker 1: playing down the stretch here. If he finishes playing at

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Speaker 1: the high level he's played the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: what does that kind of set him up for going

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Speaker 1: to the next year. Well, I mean, let's let's let's

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Speaker 1: take this one saying, you know, I try not to

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Speaker 1: get a hit to too much else. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's played consistent. You know, he played good last week.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think he played great, but he played you know,

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Speaker 1: okay good. Um. You know, there's some things he's got

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Speaker 1: to continue to get better at. But he has a

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Speaker 1: good football I Q, good football knowledge and worked hard

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Speaker 1: at it. I don't know if we talked to you

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Speaker 1: since Japprelle got shut down, what did you think of

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Speaker 1: his season? I thought he was improving, uh, week by

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Speaker 1: week on the things that you know, I discipline and

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Speaker 1: some things they're h always a fast, physical player, but

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Speaker 1: just I discipline and those type of things and leverage

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Speaker 1: and he uh, I think he was getting better at that.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm shamed that he got got nicked and

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Speaker 1: had to be shut down.