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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers and the challenge they present. Yeah, definitely

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Speaker 1: So but I've been roll impressed with them on film

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Speaker 1: just just knowing the offense, um, and you know, that

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Speaker 1: tradition of great games. But more importantly, these games always

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Speaker 1: always means something and that's no different this year. So

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Speaker 1: you're always playing for more and I'm just you know,

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Speaker 1: Will McClay, what have you learned about Will and the

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Speaker 1: two years you've been around him that obviously don't want

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Speaker 1: to other teams. Excellent person personnel man in an even

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Speaker 1: can't say enough about him. Um, he's you know, various

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Speaker 1: that I mean, I know as an organization we would

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Speaker 1: Will does a tremendous job Mike. Um, a lot of

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Speaker 1: your players obviously COVID the numbers are rising. Do you

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Speaker 1: and the facility not that you're in the tournament? Yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's um, you know it's it's it's an option.

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Speaker 1: so you know, obviously the commitment that we have to

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Speaker 1: basketball games, all those things. So we we hit that

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Speaker 1: this group is a group of of excellent work ethic

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Speaker 1: in detail. I mean it's you know, I get to

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Speaker 1: you know, we have the family and friends program too.

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Speaker 1: doing the right things. Randy Gregory didn't seem physically right

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Speaker 1: the playoffs? Oh, Randy's a good shake. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, him and the law you know, played about

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Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I think Randy comes, they will be

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Speaker 1: ready to go. So I have no, you know, have

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Speaker 1: of went on a lot of these playoff journeys with

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Speaker 1: Aaron Mike. How much are you looking forward to the

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Speaker 1: first one with Dad? Oh, definitely, I'm looking forward to him.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm happy for our whole football team, but

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for Dak. I mean, this is, um, you

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Speaker 1: can't deny what you know, where he was, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you know he's a true leader of our of

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Speaker 1: our football team, and um, but you know, the same breath,

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Speaker 1: know he will compete and have fun and you know

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Speaker 1: and um, you know everything will be attainable. We just

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Speaker 1: we just got to, you know, stay played our strengths

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Speaker 1: and stay true to that, and he's obviously a huge

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Speaker 1: part of it. Thank you, guys, Okay, is that it?

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Speaker 1: Thank you