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Speaker 1: It's the most important part of the season. You play

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Speaker 1: you know, find things to improve on and when we

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Speaker 1: find out what we played, you gotta be ready to

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Speaker 1: How do you talk experiences, how do you use it? Fast?

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Speaker 1: Way to use it, to take advantage of it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just you just gotta make the most of it yourself.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, just take care of your bodies, kind

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Speaker 1: of study yourselves, see what you did this season, find

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Speaker 1: things you can work on to get better in this

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Speaker 1: ready to go. Definitely, heal your body up for sure.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of guys that are banged up,

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Speaker 1: and I mean you just gotta take advantage of the

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Speaker 1: Though you just talked about last week that you started

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Speaker 1: coming to the playoff, Mike set last week doesn't help

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Speaker 1: going into this week how you started last week. Yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 1: playing like that last week, I think that'll give us

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Speaker 1: a little bit momentum going to the playoffs. Play that

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Speaker 1: gotta keep that going, keep that same intense. Like I says,

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Speaker 1: do you lose, you go home. So you gotta play

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Speaker 1: your best football. How beneficial is having this schoolball? He said,

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Speaker 1: We'll see how beneficial it is next week, if you know,

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Speaker 1: we go out there and win a football game. So,

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Speaker 1: like I said, it's got to have a capitalize on

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Speaker 1: just come back ready to go. Um, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: gotta play your best football if you want to keep playing,

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Speaker 1: you watch the games during the weekend, or you just

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Speaker 1: take the weekend. You always watch football when it's home.

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Speaker 1: For sure, it's always entertaining. A great, great weekend for football.

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Speaker 1: Get eight games and just tune in, relaxing the family,

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Speaker 1: you know, watch some good games. Coach was complimentary of

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Speaker 1: you today, saying you know how to play football? Where

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Speaker 1: did you learn how to play football? Um? Probably my

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Speaker 1: little league football. A lot of coaches that help me,

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Speaker 1: So I guess it's just not just one thing. It's

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Speaker 1: So and it's constantly working, working by yourself, working with friends,

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Speaker 1: or so more than that or whatever, playing football. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you only get better if you keep practicing on it.

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Speaker 1: Yourself A smart football player, yeah, I consider myself a

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Speaker 1: smart football player. I just try and take all the

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Speaker 1: and just be a disciplined football Player's where I kind

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Speaker 1: of take my approach. You see certain athletes in different

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Speaker 1: what it's gonna come down to. It doesn't matter how

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna take everybody, for sure, said Sony, or

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Speaker 1: anything but the playoffs this time of year. Jason mccordy's

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Speaker 1: has it just been about having more opportunities in our role?

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Speaker 1: Some more opportunities. Some just find a ways to hit

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Speaker 1: a lot. When you have the whole season as a captain,

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Speaker 1: what have you learned about that role over the last

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Speaker 1: sixteen games some tea weeks, I just gotta be a

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Speaker 1: right thing, working hard and meeting rooms on the practice field,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not the most vocal guy, but say things

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