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Speaker 1: it's huge to come come back this week and start practicing,

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Speaker 1: that to you with your health havings and you know,

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Speaker 1: with that one day at the time, get through feel

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Speaker 1: You want to start building up the practices and just

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Speaker 1: get just get your feet under you. Uh, get all

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Speaker 1: the calls down, Zach exactly to a team so you

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Speaker 1: feel we have been there before, whether it be yourself,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's always good to have everyone out there.

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Speaker 1: I mean we all feed off each other. We all

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Speaker 1: fun out there on Sundays, We've seen a lot of

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Speaker 1: good seeties. You're gonna see Harrison Smith, it's not around

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Speaker 1: just talk about his game away. Yeah, he's a big

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be bringing it. I mean, he's just got

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Speaker 1: last week and good natural ball Adams. It seemed like

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Speaker 1: Tom looked at you over there on a couple of

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Speaker 1: a lot going to win those matchups. I mean that

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Speaker 1: would say similar in ways. I mean, I mean Smith

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we played him before and he always

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Speaker 1: stands up prob. It seems like Tom's pretty careful with

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Speaker 1: his pass catchers. He doesn't want to three guys into

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Speaker 1: And I don't just meeting you because I know you've

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Speaker 1: got they got good safeties, good linebackers, and their d

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Speaker 1: How much do you welcome that challenge? And do you

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's always good when you see coverages like that,

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Speaker 1: it's double single and you got to make place if

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Speaker 1: and one game that you haven't been making in a while,

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Speaker 1: And that's what's all about. You didn't play the game

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Speaker 1: just keep on believing in the process. Different about the

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Speaker 1: personality right then, this patriotsy. I mean every year is different,

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Speaker 1: enjoy each other's company out there and just help each other,

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Speaker 1: help every teammate up. Is there anything different about this?

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Speaker 1: I mean every year is different, but I mean we

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Speaker 1: is different with stuff like that. Yeah, Hikast, thank you,