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Speaker 1: guys have won Super Bowls. They all are definitely worthy

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Speaker 1: Jack nickol Malley first off grad Richard, you mentioned earlier

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Speaker 1: do you think it was. It's hard for a three

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Speaker 1: because you don't have those sort of easily tangible statistical

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Speaker 1: end of the day. As a competitor, UM, the bottom

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you're willing to do. So, Um,

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Speaker 1: I was willing to do that. And at the end

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Speaker 1: saying you know, it wasn't it wasn't about amount of

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Speaker 1: end of the day, we wanted to host the trophy. UM.

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Speaker 1: So I will say this too, like in terms of

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Speaker 1: you know, throughout our contract negotiations, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: So you know, if if all of those things in

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Speaker 1: who can complain? Do our final question, Andy hurt Hey, Richard,

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Speaker 1: like now. Well, Al David said, he traded for me.

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Speaker 1: I said, the minor respect that I had for excuse

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Speaker 1: the minor respect that I have for Coach Belichick and

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Speaker 1: You know, he coached Belichick. You know, he would always

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Speaker 1: little things like that. So you know, in terms of

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Speaker 1: saw that this year, you know, with with all of

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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't have any hard feelings or

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Speaker 1: we see each other. You know, he was shoot me

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Speaker 1: I was with the team. So UM, you know all

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Speaker 1: as well. Richard, thank you very much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks everyone for participating. It was great to see you.

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Speaker 1: And uh and when we figure out when the whole

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Speaker 1: sounds good. Thank you so much,