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Speaker 1: only ways that you can survive. It's as a player

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Speaker 1: in this league at the line of scrimmage, the play demeanor,

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Speaker 1: the finish, the effort. I mean, it's the guys on

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Speaker 1: the other side are talented. D I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: that's how it goes. You know. We think we can

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Speaker 1: all see that. And uh so so there's a lot

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Speaker 1: to you know, playing this game other than just you know,

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Speaker 1: we we we value that and we're going to continue

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Speaker 1: to value that. The ability to to finish and and

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Speaker 1: and to grind through when it gets tough is something

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Speaker 1: that we're we're going to be excited about. And uh

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Speaker 1: we're going to give him every opportunity to develop and

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Speaker 1: you know, push, push him as fast as he'll let

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Speaker 1: us go. Thank you, have a good night. Enjoyed the

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Speaker 1: free food we got food for him,