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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. The date is Friday,

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Speaker 1: November seventh, and today, after practice ahead of the Week

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Speaker 1: ten matchup in Minnesota, we heard from head coach John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 2: All Right, good to see everybody. Appreciate you guys being here.

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Speaker 2: Good practice, great day, excited challenge, big challenge. Vikings are

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Speaker 2: playing really good football and very talented team, very well coached.

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Speaker 2: So we're looking forward to the opportunity. What question do

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Speaker 2: you have.

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Speaker 3: Only one person not out there? We didn't see Ronnie Stanley?

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Speaker 4: Was that an excused or yeah?

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Speaker 2: And we call it n ir rest day, rest day

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Speaker 2: from Ronnie. He won't have an injuryed designation because we

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Speaker 2: want to make sure we get those right, make sure

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Speaker 2: we get those right.

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Speaker 4: Did I say that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? But how does it feel though that I mean?

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Speaker 3: Or does it make it difficult when you do inactives

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Speaker 3: when you have so many healthy players?

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it's uh, it's a good I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm just excited about the game. You know, we got

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Speaker 2: guys ready to play. It's it's a it's a it's

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Speaker 2: a big game for us.

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Speaker 4: They all are.

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's a big challenge and uh, I feel like

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Speaker 2: we're prepared and we're ready to go much.

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Speaker 5: Obviously it helps having a healthy roster, but but does

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Speaker 5: it change anything? Do you do you feel like more

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Speaker 5: emboldened or more aggressive when you've got all the guys

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Speaker 2: Probably don't think of it like that so much. I mean,

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Speaker 2: try to be bold, you know.

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Speaker 4: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: I think we're just going to try to go out

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Speaker 2: there and execute. You know, it's the biggest challenge for us,

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Speaker 2: the think is probably on our mind more than anything,

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Speaker 2: is uh. The the the environment that they create with

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Speaker 2: their with their schemes, both sides of the ball, all

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Speaker 2: three phases, their physicality, and then the environment that you

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Speaker 2: have to deal with with the out and the noise

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Speaker 2: and all that. So those are things that we just

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Speaker 2: have to be ready for and execute within.

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Speaker 5: Did you get a chance to meet with Nieland at

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Speaker 5: all during the prejeft process via?

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Speaker 4: We did? We did.

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Speaker 2: We We had him for an interview at the Combine

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Speaker 2: Scouts that spend a lot of time with him. He

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Speaker 2: was a guy we really really liked a lot, we

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Speaker 4: I will say.

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Speaker 2: Thank you condolences to Uh, to the Kneeland family, to

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Speaker 2: his girlfriend, to everybody involved. Just tragic, tragic circumstance and

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Speaker 2: really just for every for people, you know, we talk

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Speaker 2: to our guys about it, you know, just in the

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Speaker 2: in the world. It's just a lot of challenges that

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Speaker 2: people face, you know, and and we encourage our guys

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Speaker 2: yesterday just to keep an eye on one another, you know,

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Speaker 2: look out for one another, ask questions, you know, see

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Speaker 2: how people are doing, take care of yourself, try to

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Speaker 2: be connected. All all the craziness with social media. It's

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Speaker 2: really it's not social media. It's on social media, you know,

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Speaker 2: more than anything, because it becomes something that as opposed

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Speaker 2: maybe people are more lonely than ever you know as

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Speaker 2: a result. Unfortunately, if we could try to, you know,

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Speaker 2: do the best we can to to connect with people,

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Speaker 2: say hello, you know, just try to just try to

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Speaker 2: make sure everybody's doing okay.

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Speaker 4: That's what we encourage our team to do. Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Is that something you guys have you know, obviously horrible news,

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Speaker 5: but it's something you guys have worked on with guys

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Speaker 5: you know, periodically, just over over time and years to

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Speaker 5: to kind of talk about those.

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Speaker 2: We try to be open about that stuff and try

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Speaker 2: to encourage everybody to to stay connected and also to

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Speaker 2: to to reach out, you know, because everybody everybody's feeling

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Speaker 2: the same way you're feeling in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 2: you know, And obviously there's there's deeper things with mental

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Speaker 4: But I got to give Steve a lot of credit.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's had, he said, a full time psychologist

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Speaker 2: mean for years and years and years that's been important

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Speaker 2: here and and it's just you know, just as a

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Speaker 2: everybody players, coaches, people in the building, anybody that works

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Speaker 4: And it's it's a it's a good thing.

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Speaker 3: Mark Andrews is I think eighteen yards away from being

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Speaker 3: the old time. Do you remember back in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 3: the third round tight end coming in here? Do you

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Speaker 3: remember your kind of initial impressions of Mark back then?

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Speaker 4: Well, I remember he was my number one, number one

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Speaker 4: rated tight end. I remember Mark was my number one.

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Speaker 3: Rated tight end.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Eric well, Eric well, and Eric will and he'll

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Speaker 2: also he'll also corroborate that. I'll remind him of that

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Speaker 2: whenever I'm right, you know, which is most of the time. Actually,

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Speaker 2: Hayden was my like he's two or three.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, here's two or three. And I loved Hayden. I

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Speaker 4: loved Hayton too.

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Speaker 2: But Mark is my number one guy because the guy

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Speaker 2: caught the ball. I mean he got open and caught

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Speaker 4: He'd say, whoa, it's the offense. He's always wide open.

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Speaker 4: It's just easy for him. It's like he's wide open

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just it's not just y know, they're

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Speaker 2: not just leaving him open. You know, he's getting open.

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Speaker 2: So you know what, it proved to be.

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Speaker 3: Right, he's number one probably in the Franchist history. And

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Speaker 3: now on receiving, let's.

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Speaker 2: Ring, let's get it done this, We'll get it done

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Speaker 2: this game, among other things. I did have a question

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Speaker 2: about it, because you guys spend pump noise about how

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Speaker 2: do you figure that Minnesota is getting louder than what

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Speaker 2: you played in Kansas City and Buffalo is because it's.

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Speaker 4: A dumb that's a good question.

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Speaker 2: And uh and not surprisingly at all, Jerry, that's a

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Speaker 2: really good question.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If Kansas City's pretty loud, you know, and uh uh

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Speaker 4: Seeattle haven't been there, We're not that much. Buffalo is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Pittsburgh's really loud, you know when the Ravens are there.

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Speaker 2: So but I think I think the indoor places do

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Speaker 2: have probably an advantage. You know, the noise isn't going anywhere,

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Speaker 4: And they got the big horn.

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Speaker 2: Our guys are about horned out right now, so that's

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Speaker 4: It's part of the strategy.

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Speaker 2: John, you feel like Draymond Jones is getting up to

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Speaker 3: You thought you would and ready where you want to

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think Draymont's ready to go, no problem at

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Speaker 2: Obviously in great football shape. He's ready to go. I'd

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Speaker 2: say Carl Austin's ready to go too. You know, he's

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Speaker 2: up to speed on it. It was a different defense.

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Speaker 4: But Carl's ready to go as well.

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Speaker 5: What good problems does the Van Gig clippers in it?

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Speaker 2: As a player, you know, he's one of those guys

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Speaker 2: that just makes everybody around him better. And you hear

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Speaker 2: what they what they say about him. He's always been

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Speaker 2: one of those guys that plays good football and makes

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I kind of like Kyle van Noy, you know, Uh,

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Speaker 2: Kyle makes a lot of flashy plays too, But these

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Speaker 2: and the guys around them play better when they're out there.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of a mark of a special player.

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Speaker 3: Obviously everyone's trying to to stop him, put their attention

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Speaker 2: I mean, just super talented, super talented guy, you know,

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Speaker 2: You can tell he's a great route runner. He's just

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Speaker 2: got all the all the skills. But what I think

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Speaker 2: is really unique about them is it's once you start

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Speaker 2: adjusting the coverage his way too much. They got other guys,

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Speaker 2: so you can't overdo that. I think he's got to

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Speaker 2: trust your defense to play the play that you know,

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Speaker 5: It's a while, like a different game leak three different

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Speaker 5: probably some what can.

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Speaker 4: You do to kind of combat that would you guys.

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Speaker 4: Well, we probably expect it, you know.

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Speaker 2: I think with Lamar it's something that you definitely expect

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Speaker 2: and you can you can do it with four man

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Speaker 2: We've seen it, seen it both ways. I expect to

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Speaker 2: probably get it both ways in this game. One thing

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Speaker 2: you can do is you can you can protect, and

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Speaker 2: you can get the ball out on time, and you

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Speaker 2: can win by throwing. You know, that's probably where Lamar

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Speaker 2: take care of it that way and then from there,

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Speaker 2: but the play unfold, the extended part of the play

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Speaker 2: if that goes that way, and Lamar's got a way

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Speaker 2: of making things happen that way. And that's one less

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Speaker 4: They played on a second level.

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Speaker 2: So there are some advantages to it, you know, and

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Speaker 2: it takes away from the rush, maybe it takes away

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Speaker 2: from the coverage maybe, and hopefully you can take advantage

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Speaker 4: Okay, great, Okay. Thanks.

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