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Speaker 1: proud of the way our team competed. UM, we were

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Speaker 1: You know. With the Tennessee offense offense specifically, was there

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Speaker 1: don't know if we took it away altogether, but I

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Speaker 1: the quarterback didn't he got us on a couple of plays. Um,

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Speaker 1: But other than that, we we hadn't under control to

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Speaker 1: you were asked earlier today about your your training camp

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