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Speaker 1: a good plan as always, just to you know, go

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Speaker 1: like I always say, I just try to control what

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Speaker 1: oh Hey, sorry, no, Grace. How deflating was it to

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Speaker 1: hear the zappy chance almost after every series or every

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, I definitely wanted to play better,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I just got to do better at

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Speaker 1: my job and that's all it comes down to. And um,

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Speaker 1: that's all I can control. And honestly, you know, we

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of what I'm already focused on. So,

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Speaker 1: it one hundred percent. He Mac over here. Do you

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Speaker 1: want to become a better player and prepare like I

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Speaker 1: the third series was going to be your last one?

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I think you know, Coach Belichick, you know,

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Speaker 1: had a really good plan for us, and obviously that's

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Speaker 1: you know, practice and get back into my routine. Something

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Speaker 1: into my routine. I'm a very routine person and I'm

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Speaker 1: excited for this week. And um that's all you can do, right.

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Speaker 1: You can't really look back in the past. And obviously

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Speaker 1: the game you know, wasn't good by any of us,

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Speaker 1: and starts with me. Mac actors app through the touchdown pass,

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Speaker 1: you showed a lot of class and being the first

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Speaker 1: captain of this football team, how do you bring this

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Speaker 1: team back? Yeah, I think, Um, I'm always going to

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Speaker 1: great coaches. There's no excuses. So I'll play better and

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Speaker 1: and what am I doing? You know? Okay, so I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do that again here Mac. What was communicated

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, just part of the plan. I

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Speaker 1: and you know, the timings, the timing, but we were

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Speaker 1: on the same page and there's no hard feelings or anything.

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Speaker 1: I wish I played better while I was in there,

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Speaker 1: but I'll hopefully have a chance to do that in

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Speaker 1: practice and kind of earn that back and then you know,

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Speaker 1: applied in the game. But we definitely want to play

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Speaker 1: like you could drop back in and go, Um, it was,

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Speaker 1: it was fun. I think. You know, just you can't

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Speaker 1: just you don't really think about anything. You're just out

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Speaker 1: on your instincts and go out there and read and react. Cool. Thanks,