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Speaker 1: How's it going. Are good? Chris good? It was good?

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Speaker 1: How about Chers good? How do you look at another opportunity?

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Speaker 1: has great players on offense, defense, special teams, great coaching,

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Speaker 1: definitely starts with us and just cleaning up things at

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Speaker 1: to and you just gotta play your heart out and

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Speaker 1: play for each other and um go against a really

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Speaker 1: Christmas Adults team knowing it might have implications for season.

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Speaker 1: M I kind of just enjoyed my Christmas. Um obviously

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Speaker 1: it was a really good football game from from top

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Speaker 1: to bottom back. I asked that's later yesterday. UM, so

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Speaker 1: I think obviously that's a big part of it is

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Speaker 1: everybody you know has an opinion, and the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: so obviously have respect for everybody around the league. And

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Speaker 1: it takes a lot to get to this league, UM,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I know there's really good players out

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Speaker 1: so UM, at the end of the day, you have

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Speaker 1: you want to have fun and enjoy it and compete

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Speaker 1: against each other and That's something that I've always done

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Speaker 1: excited for the opportunity this week. Think, obviously a great

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Speaker 1: don't know how many more you're gonna get with this

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Speaker 1: the players in our locker room and on our team.

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Speaker 1: So excited. Great day of practice today, and obviously need

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Speaker 1: to build on it and stack up these days a fine. Um,

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Speaker 1: really just focused on this week and let everybody else

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Speaker 1: this week and doing my job. That's the important part

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Speaker 1: is every week, you know, you look at the game

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Speaker 1: So just having that mindset of hey, let's go out

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Speaker 1: really about focusing on the process. And I'm doing everything

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Speaker 1: For you, do you feel like you have the freedom

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Speaker 1: it's all part of the game. As a quarterback, you

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Speaker 1: need to manage the game and also run the plays

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Speaker 1: two kickers. We've lost the past to make and build

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Speaker 1: play the wind. It's been more very ancient issue like

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Speaker 1: last year work before the start the project. Um, not really.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, cool, thanks, thanks, Yeah,