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Speaker 1: dot com. What's up, guys, Welcome to the Final Drive,

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Speaker 1: presented by Microsoft Surface alongside Haleiowood. I'm Chris Hayry. We

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Speaker 1: have two more final drives of the twenty twenty season.

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Speaker 1: I know we're in twenty twenty one right now, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna recap the season, recap some of Tom Talesco's pressor,

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Speaker 1: and our final episode of the Final Drive will be

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Speaker 1: with Tom Talasco later this week. So Hailey, listen, we

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Speaker 1: did this every Sunday or Monday. It wasn't the results.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody was seeking seven and nine A good

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Speaker 1: And I think that's one thing that is a bright spot,

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Speaker 1: a little spot of optimism. Look, we talk about it

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Speaker 1: And obviously there are changes that are now happening with

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Speaker 1: I know we'll get to. But the fact that they

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Speaker 1: So I think that ultimately, even though as we said,

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Speaker 1: something that this team will take into the offseason a

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Speaker 1: You know that first year to start owing forward to

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Speaker 1: few weeks with in terms of their head coaching search

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Speaker 1: Tom said, from there building the coaching staff and the

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Speaker 1: player evaluations and everything that goes into it, and look,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's draft time, because it flies

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Speaker 1: by It's amazing when you see Herbert in the way

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Speaker 1: you finished the year and some of these guys flying around,

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Speaker 1: you're you want this twenty twenty one season to start

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Speaker 1: as soon as possible. So yeah, there's a lot to

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Speaker 1: look forward to. We appreciate you guys hanging with this

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Speaker 1: all season long after these games. Again, this will be

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Speaker 1: the second to last Final Drive presented by Microsoft Surface.

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Speaker 1: We'll end with our interview with Tom Talasco later this week.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys joining us and we'll see you throughout

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Speaker 1: the off season. We have some fun stuff cooked up