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Speaker 1: You guys look better.

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Speaker 2: How are you happy Friday?

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Speaker 3: Do you have any updates for us on players availability?

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Speaker 2: I sure do, thanks for asking. Woods will be questionable,

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Speaker 2: Hawkins will be questionable, Landry will be questionable, and Diggs

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Speaker 2: will be questionable. You want to follow that up, Karen,

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't really feel like a fair lead off question.

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Speaker 3: Follow up, Kyle Duggar, UH play a good majority of

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Speaker 3: the game last week, and I was just wondering what

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Speaker 3: you saw from him coming in and having his role.

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Speaker 2: Expanding, ready to go, taking advantage of his opportunity and

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Speaker 2: continue to work hard and uh improve on some things

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Speaker 2: and you know, hopefully we can use his length and

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Speaker 2: he can find a way to tip a paw break

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Speaker 2: it up, and you know, continue to to work and

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Speaker 2: tackle and blitz and all the things that we ask

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Speaker 2: him to do. So he was ready for his opportunity,

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Speaker 2: and I know that all those guys will be ready

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Sunday, you guys will put the side to Thomas.

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Speaker 4: I believe what did you like, Pey?

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously we've we try to, you know, we've there's

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Speaker 2: a small list of the international players that you know

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Speaker 2: you could work with and during the season right to

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Speaker 2: be able to practice and understand and again the development

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Speaker 2: of that and Thomas has been with us when when

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Speaker 2: we were in Tennessee. Uh, he's continued to improve the

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Speaker 2: great teammate and practice is extremely hard.

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Speaker 1: He's improved was a.

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Speaker 2: Very good blocker, but has improved just his overall body

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Speaker 2: control and ability to run routes for for a why

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Speaker 2: tight end. It's not like a you know, some receiving

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Speaker 2: tight end. But you know, he knows what his role is.

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Speaker 2: He contributes on special teams and he's gotten better and

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Speaker 2: you know, we just weren't able to get him before.

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Speaker 2: You know, he would go back there and that was

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Speaker 2: his prerogative.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully he can continue to improve and be a valuable

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Speaker 2: member here with the with the international program and and

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Speaker 2: be ready like everybody else on the on the practice

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Speaker 2: squad to prepare as a starter so.

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Speaker 1: He can be elevated from the international program.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you have to sign him. I think

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Speaker 2: that there are some things that relate to that we

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Speaker 2: would have to manage the roster and you know, sign

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Speaker 2: them and do some different things that he doesn't have

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Speaker 2: the same elevation rules that that the other players have.

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Speaker 2: I think but we would you know, obviously cross that

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Speaker 2: bridge and you know, talk about those things. Mike, I

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Speaker 2: apologize if you've been asked this earlier.

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Speaker 1: In the week.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to apologize the process of preparing for

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Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback like pam Ward. Even though he hasn't

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Speaker 2: shown his potential. We know what he can do from

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Speaker 2: his college days.

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Speaker 4: How do you do it with limited film?

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Speaker 2: Well, he shown his potential. You know, there's like a

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Speaker 2: lot of young players, maybe he's not as consistent or

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Speaker 2: there's been some contested catches that maybe haven't gone their way,

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Speaker 2: but I mean he's he's clearly shown his potential as

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Speaker 2: a arm talent and the ability to avoid and continue

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Speaker 2: to get outside the pocket when he has to. There's

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Speaker 2: there's a fearlessness, you know, and you need that and

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Speaker 2: when you're you know, talking about playing quarterback in this league.

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Speaker 2: So again, I don't think he doesn't look very rattled

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Speaker 2: and uh, but there's plenty of quality throws in there,

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Speaker 2: and uh, whether they were caught or contested or dropped,

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Speaker 2: you know, that's still you could still watch the tape

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Speaker 2: and see that they were you know, throws that were

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Speaker 2: you know, accurate and just didn't end up being being catches.

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Speaker 1: Zach Core mentioned that the defense has done pretty well

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Speaker 1: on third and three, plus he struggled been on first

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Speaker 1: and second down. Curious what you see as the disparity

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Speaker 1: and where off of the defense they've been for our.

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Speaker 2: Defense or Tennessee the Patriots defense, Yes, the Patriots defense,

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Speaker 2: I don't. I think we just have to be able

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think that we can, you know,

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Speaker 2: if we can get them into third and longer yardages.

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Speaker 2: And I think that for a lot of teams those

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Speaker 2: you know, we just have to find ways to continue

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Speaker 2: to affect the quarterback on early downs, mixed coverages, you know.

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Speaker 2: But I but I agree with you, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's not something that we're overlooking. But I think the

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Speaker 2: you know, we know that in this league that you

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Speaker 2: have to be able to affect the quarterback turn the

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Speaker 4: Imagine if step is it ready to go or they

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Speaker 4: still have very high level to the rest.

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Speaker 2: Of the guys never see. Yeah, yeah, I mean again,

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Speaker 2: I think they've all shown that when given opportunities, that

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Speaker 2: mean again, we'll everybody here we have a high level

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Speaker 2: and that room is understanding that the ball is going

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Speaker 2: to go to the person that's open first in the

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Speaker 2: progression and it gets mixed around and the quarterback ultimately

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Speaker 2: has the deciding factor. He's the one that has the football.

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Speaker 2: And but it's good to see that guys are taking

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Speaker 2: advantage of their opportunities when they come, not getting frustrated

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Speaker 2: when it doesn't. It's a long season and I know

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Speaker 2: that the touches and the touchdowns and the explosive plays,

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Speaker 2: I think we'll balance itself.

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Speaker 4: Out in the time. We gotten to know Harold Landry.

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Speaker 4: He comes off, as you know, a very tough guy

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Speaker 4: mentally and physically even within the NFL kind of respectrum.

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Speaker 4: What have you come to appreciate about him in that regard?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I've been with Harold for for a

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Speaker 2: long time. And you know, I've watched him grow, I've

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Speaker 2: watched him get married, I've watched them have kids. I've

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Speaker 2: watched his kids grow up. I've watched them play baseball

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Speaker 2: and then they got football now. And you know, he's

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Speaker 2: got a great family. There's a good balance to what

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Speaker 2: he does, and his family is important to him, which

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Speaker 2: I appreciate. When he's here, he works and he comes

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Speaker 2: in early, and he's diligent and he works and when

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Speaker 2: he goes home, he appreciates his family. He's a professional.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to track him down, if you don't

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Speaker 2: weight room or in treatment. He's versatile. He's done a

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Speaker 3: There's a guy that you coach in Tennessee who's in

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Speaker 3: the sixteenth season and has played I think two hundred

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Speaker 2: You've got a long snapper, a job that's often taken

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Speaker 1: How do you last as long as.

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Speaker 2: You Wining Coxsys have a coach, you snap them straight.

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Speaker 2: That's what you do. You can't you can't miss there,

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Speaker 2: you can't miss the you know, Morgan is just Morgan

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Speaker 2: is a He can relate and he can have a conversation,

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Speaker 2: uh with with everybody on that locker room, or everybody

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Speaker 2: important to Morgan, you know. I mean he makes sure

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Speaker 2: that they're they're recognized and taken care of. And whether

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Speaker 2: you're a d lineman or you're an offensive lineman, a

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Speaker 2: young player, you can you could talk to a guy

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Speaker 2: like Morgan Cox, you know. So again he's done his

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Speaker 2: job really well, very consistent. Another guy that values his

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Speaker 2: and he could be an excellent special teams coach. He's

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Speaker 2: very very knowledgeable on scheme, return scheme, punt rush scheme.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's uh really like another coach. He is

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Speaker 3: He said a couple of times, you really like Hiristan

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Speaker 3: as a person.

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Speaker 1: What specifically do you appreciate about his football journey.

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Speaker 4: Or working with him so far?

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Speaker 2: He shows up, he works, doesn't say a whole lot,

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Speaker 2: plays hard, practices, has improved his technique condition. You know,

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Speaker 2: worked very hard in the offseason. I would say, another

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Speaker 2: one of those really good additions to the football team.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 2: Always got a smile on his face. And you know,

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Speaker 2: it was fun going back and watching his BYU highlight film.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's a little bigger and his hair was

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Speaker 2: laugh good laughs on that last.

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Speaker 1: Week play Jeffers Simmons, how has your experience of how

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Speaker 1: are you helping me to the offensive line kind of

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Speaker 1: prepare for him?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Play style, I mean, Jefferies

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Speaker 2: an excellent player and play great play demeanor, plays physical,

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Speaker 2: has multiple moves and techniques and so you know, I

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Speaker 2: can't do anything physically to recreate what he would do.

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Speaker 2: Try to just show him as much tape and try

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Speaker 2: to explain to him how he's going to play in

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Speaker 2: the style and you know, do everything that we can

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Speaker 2: to to hopefully not allow him to affect the play.

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Speaker 4: Like I don't know if any expectations about this coming

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Speaker 4: into the year, but the camaraderie of this team is

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Speaker 2: Or I don't know, you know what I mean, I can't.

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Speaker 2: I don't have anything to judge it by. I don't.

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Speaker 2: I just know that I want them to enjoy coming

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Speaker 2: to work. I want them to enjoy the where they

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Speaker 2: do it at, who they do it with. We're lucky

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Speaker 2: think there's a fine line between having fun and working

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Speaker 2: have to be able to manage that and make sure

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Speaker 2: that that doesn't cross over. And I hope that they

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Speaker 2: enjoy each other. I mean, we're together a lot, and

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Speaker 2: we're together, they're together a lot. They're the ones that

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Speaker 2: are on the field, that that do it together in

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Speaker 2: a unit. And so you know, again we always say

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Speaker 2: that the closer that you become with somebody, the easier

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Speaker 2: it is for you to hold them accountable.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, I have a good product,