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Speaker 1: Happy Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Can you players are coming out here, but can you

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Speaker 2: give us an update on Christian guns Hols's status.

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Speaker 1: Might we see him in Minnesota or at all this week?

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Speaker 1: Or you might see him in Minnesota. Polk got hurt.

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Speaker 2: I won't see Jayleen Polk in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: You'll see him in Minnesota. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Now, before you think I'm being funny, You'll probably see

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Speaker 2: Christian in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: You won't see him on the field, probably in a uniform.

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Speaker 1: See how I did that.

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Speaker 2: You'll see him in Minnesota, but he probably won't be

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Speaker 2: practicing this week.

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Speaker 1: Because if I did it, then it would be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: he's yeah. But anyways, I wanted to clarify that cancer. Mike,

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Speaker 1: you get two weeks to cut down town.

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Speaker 2: I'm just curious if you know there are any players

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Speaker 2: that are not going to be on your school, would

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Speaker 2: you have a tendency to cut them early so they

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Speaker 2: could possibly pick up another team.

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Speaker 1: I think we're so far away from that.

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Speaker 2: I me personally, I'm focused on just having another great

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Speaker 2: day and continuing everything that we did on Friday, And

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Speaker 2: as you could see, everybody that you know was healthy

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Speaker 2: played in the game and gave those guys opportunities, and

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Speaker 2: whether it was John Giles or you know, Webby the

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Speaker 2: offensive lineman, some of those guys that we talked about

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Speaker 2: that didn't get to play or practice against Washington really

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Speaker 2: did themselves well when they were given the opportunity. And

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Speaker 2: so I want to continue to reward those players that

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Speaker 2: that treat the team well and treat them the same

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Speaker 2: way they treat the team. So as long as they're

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Speaker 2: here working and getting better, you know, we're we're going

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Speaker 2: to practice.

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Speaker 1: Them or eventually, you know, get them action in the game.

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Speaker 3: After looking at the team, anything specific standouts you from

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Speaker 3: Friday that you didn't see during the game.

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Speaker 2: And I think I thought we played yuh to continue

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Speaker 2: to build the identity of playing with great effort and

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Speaker 2: you know, trying to take care of the guy with

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Speaker 2: the ball. We had to tackle better, you know, and

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Speaker 2: that happened sometimes in the first live action. A lot

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Speaker 2: of good stuff to teach off of their continue to

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Speaker 2: talk about the ball security, whether it came out or not,

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Speaker 2: the opportunities where we feel like the ball is in jeopardy.

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Speaker 2: You know, I thought we ran it well. I thought,

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Speaker 2: you know, we took advantage. I thought we played a

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Speaker 2: clean game. I thought we took advantage of the field position,

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Speaker 2: won that battle. And you know, I saw the kickoff

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Speaker 2: returns or how explosive that play can be, and we're

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Speaker 2: going to have to cover those same kicks this year.

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Speaker 1: So did a lot of those good things.

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Speaker 2: And then we just have to continue to improve the

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Speaker 2: things that we talked about with the mistackles or you know,

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Speaker 2: getting getting into a rhythm with the passing game, and

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of just continue to progress, just coming

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Speaker 2: off the bushes in the and anly joined proctices.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll be in the red zone. You know,

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Speaker 1: we know how critical that is.

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Speaker 2: You know, we were you know, we we didn't get

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Speaker 2: a stop defensively in the red zone. We did, you know,

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Speaker 2: a nice job offensively in the red zone, but defensively

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Speaker 2: it wasn't wasn't very good. So again, we like coming

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Speaker 2: off these days off in the red zone. Shorter space,

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Speaker 2: uh for the players, but it's still a critical area

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Speaker 2: where you need precision and speed.

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Speaker 1: It's just not maybe long speed.

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Speaker 2: So I couldn't hear is one of the players I'm

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Speaker 2: just curious to feels still good about the path that he's.

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Speaker 1: On right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, and anticipate him to practice today and be

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota as well.

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Speaker 3: The kickoff return that Henderson took back ponders in there

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Speaker 3: and looked like he had one of the blocks that helped.

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Speaker 3: I want to ask you about him one, what are

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Speaker 3: you seen from him in camp? And then maybe the

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Speaker 3: block if that stood out to you as a good play.

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Speaker 2: Sure, Uh, yeah, No, Elijah continues to improve, and I

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Speaker 2: think that that the ability to play on special teams

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Speaker 2: as an outside linebacker who probably in college they don't

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Speaker 2: get a whole lot of work at UH is something

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Speaker 2: that that you're always trying to build and develop because

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Speaker 2: it is new for some of these guys. On that

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Speaker 2: particular play, you know, it's it's at the point of

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Speaker 2: attack and it's a big block, and you know there's

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Speaker 2: going to be a lot of these that that are close.

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Speaker 2: And when I say close, I mean close to to

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Speaker 2: a penalty and close to a touchdown, and we have

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Speaker 2: to coach the heck out of it. We have to

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Speaker 2: make great decisions, split second decisions when you're at the

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Speaker 2: point of attack, because when they start to see that,

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Speaker 2: and then you know, we just have to stay square

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Speaker 2: and and the backs have to help us by setting

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Speaker 2: some of these things up, and you know, because the

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Speaker 2: alternative is now you're starting inside the twenty yard line

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Speaker 2: and defeat the whole purpose of taking advantage of the

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Speaker 2: field position.

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Speaker 1: So there was a lot of good blocks there.

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Speaker 2: You know, we'll have to see where the trends start

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Speaker 2: to go on the penalties and the more kickoffs are

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Speaker 2: going to be, the more penalties you would imagine, and

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Speaker 2: just see what the league wants to do there. When

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Speaker 2: you watched the film back when the quarterbacks ran in

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Speaker 2: the game, you think they had chances to throw them,

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Speaker 2: would you rather than take advantage of those opportunities for

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Speaker 2: pricing things in the game than run.

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Speaker 1: I mean, one was from the five, one was from

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Speaker 1: the two.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Josh was doing anything but trying to

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Speaker 2: not get hit and happened to find the end zone.

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Speaker 2: Drake I thought made two good decisions when he went

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Speaker 2: up into the to the B gap, got the first down.

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Speaker 2: Probably could have been a little muddy, I guess if

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Speaker 2: you're nitpicking to Mac collins, but you know, I don't

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Speaker 2: think he was, you know, putting harm's way to where

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Speaker 2: he went. So you know, I saw Mac break and

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Speaker 2: again when you have the football in your hand. We

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Speaker 2: trust you to make great decisions. So, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if there were any other opportunities. You know,

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Speaker 2: we had a couple moved the pocket plays and you know,

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Speaker 2: found Jaheima on one which was a nice catch and run,

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Speaker 2: and then you know, I think found chiz on the

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Speaker 2: other one.

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Speaker 1: Those are ones. I don't know which ones you're specifically

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Speaker 2: I think that the way that he went, I think

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Speaker 2: it would have been hard for him to remain a

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Speaker 2: passer to the left side, just physically. I mean again,

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Speaker 2: we once you start to scramble, and again you'll see

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Speaker 2: some of these scrambled joels hopefully today in the red zone,

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Speaker 2: but we would like him to be able to shut

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Speaker 2: off half the field. You start looking back here, bad

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Speaker 2: things kind of happen. So to me, I think he

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Speaker 2: was going to the right. I think he saw soft coverage,

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Speaker 2: uh and trusted in his ability to be able to

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Speaker 2: go and pick up the first down.

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Speaker 3: Marcus Bryant so far in this camp and just sort

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Speaker 3: of to start there on Friday night what fled to

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Speaker 3: that Musiu?

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Speaker 1: I think he earned it.

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Speaker 2: I think that when they switched over and he had

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Speaker 2: some snaps on the left a lot of the.

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Speaker 1: Beginning of training camp.

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Speaker 2: I think moving him over to the right, I thought

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Speaker 2: he did well, especially in the joint practices, earned that

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Speaker 2: opportunity and continues to improve.

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Speaker 1: We'll have to play both sides for us.

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Speaker 2: And I think he's just a young player that has

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Speaker 2: taken the coaching and was one of the players I

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Speaker 2: remember when we first put pads on, had had a.

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Speaker 1: Really high pad level. Uh.

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Speaker 2: We we talked about it, we coached it, we showed him,

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Speaker 2: and I think that has improved him. And he's six

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Speaker 2: foot six, so first day, I guess we'll cut him

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Speaker 2: some slack and it's improved. And that's all we ask

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Speaker 2: of the players is that each day they they continue

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Speaker 2: to improve and and and focus on improving. So uh,

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Speaker 2: kind of like Marcus and you know it just it's

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Speaker 2: kind of a happy, lucky, go go kid, and I

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Speaker 2: think there's a lot of good football in front of them.

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Speaker 3: The joint practice. Just wanted to get your take on

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Speaker 3: what happened to the scrum there and do you have

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Speaker 3: any fun with the film review with the team.

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Speaker 1: I didn't show the team.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they all looked at it obviously in their

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Speaker 2: meeting rooms because guys were laughing at me, and but

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Speaker 2: I realized that you know, you know, Will and I

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Speaker 2: were thinking the same thing, just trying to you know,

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Speaker 2: get get the second guy off, you know, and Travian

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Speaker 2: and in a restaurant. I just don't want any thing

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Speaker 2: to happen to anybody, you know. I mean, my job

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Speaker 2: is to try to to break those up, and I

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Speaker 2: don't mind doing it. And that's kind of how it went.

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Speaker 1: You have a quarterback like Drink who has a unique

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Speaker 1: ability to extend plays.

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Speaker 2: What's the teaching process and he has this unique ability

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Speaker 2: wanted to play to that versus sometimes knowing when to

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Speaker 2: go down or just look to another day. Yeah, we

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Speaker 2: we have to be able to to protect ourselves as

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Speaker 2: the quarterback of the football team, you know, at the

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Speaker 2: yard markers, at the sideline, near the line to gain,

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Speaker 2: and especially the goal line. And you know, I just

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Speaker 2: think the biggest thing is, you know, just don't assume,

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Speaker 2: try to use the rules to your advantage and being.

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Speaker 1: Able to slide.

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Speaker 2: And you know, whether you go feed first or whether

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Speaker 2: you go head first, you're still protected. And again we

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Speaker 2: want them to be aggressive, but just not reckless and put.

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Speaker 1: The ball or himself in harm's way. Thank you, I

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