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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Most of were saying he hadn't played in a meaningless games.

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Speaker 2: They're not high stakes here like ever, and it's like,

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Speaker 2: I was just wondering, when's the last time you at

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe college like towards the end when like out

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Speaker 1: of Big twelve contention. But outside of that, I've never

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Speaker 1: played in a game where I've never tried or like

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Speaker 1: for myself, man, I love the game of football and

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Speaker 1: then to go out and compete at any chance I

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Speaker 1: can get, Like since I was a kid, it's always

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Speaker 1: know if I've ever played in a game that's ever

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Speaker 1: I know, yeah, yeah, but obviously my first two years,

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Speaker 1: I mean we haven't uh, we've always been in contention

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Speaker 3: So yeah, there with these last three games, is there

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Speaker 3: anything in particular that you really kind of focused in

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Speaker 1: I think just offensively, man, just you know, trying to

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Speaker 1: play a complete game, for each other. You know, obviously,

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Speaker 1: teams is playing their best ball. So for us, it's

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Speaker 1: like offense, let's get this thing going and and look

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Speaker 1: like the Niners that we all know.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the complete game that you want. Why has

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just think it comes down to, you know,

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't be in this situation, and and for all

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Speaker 1: game of football. And so I think for all of

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Speaker 1: even if we are in this situation, like, we got

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Speaker 1: even if we do have some mishaps and stuff that

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Speaker 4: Time to dig into it when the season's over, But

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Speaker 4: how would you assess just how you've played this year

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, there's some plays out there

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Speaker 1: you know, I could have been better for my team

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Speaker 1: And so you know, that's sort of just been the

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Speaker 1: There's been some speculation where you've been at one hundred

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Speaker 2: I mean, how have you felt since its coming back?

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Speaker 1: Since I've been back playing, it feels good and there's

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Speaker 4: So the NFL doesn't give you a lot of time

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Speaker 1: So you know, for me, man, there's a lot for

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Speaker 2: You see, Uh, you gotta see Marino in the FaceTime.

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Speaker 2: I think last season, right, have you met him in person?

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Speaker 1: I haven't met him in person.

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Speaker 2: He's supposed to be there. Is that something?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe if that, If that happens, I'll be sweet.

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Speaker 2: You ask a stupid question. He was funny. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure any quarterback loves the rain. In fact, there's the

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Speaker 2: But you know it's been brought up like no brock

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Speaker 2: You know he's going to struggle. Do you feel like

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Speaker 2: there are like any serious issues with precipitation or anything

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Speaker 1: you know, games that I've played in in this in

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