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Speaker 2: and need to get back on track this week for sure.

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Speaker 1: Another game. That does a villain ever get old playing

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Speaker 2: the Monday night game, we end up losing the game

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Speaker 2: and not much to show if we're playing on a

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Speaker 2: primetime game and you lose, So you know that that's

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Speaker 2: something where we just got to focus on our job

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Speaker 2: and take care of business no matter what, what time

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Speaker 2: or what day, the game's on. Thank you all,