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Speaker 1: It's it's the NFL. They've got good players, So you

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Speaker 1: gotta go out there and play and execute and take

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Speaker 1: care of the football and do things you gotta do

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Speaker 1: to win a game. Do you think it adds pressure

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Speaker 1: this week? Though? Um, I don't think so. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like I said, everybody's got good players,

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Speaker 1: so it's no different than than it would have been

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Speaker 1: last week, you know, playing the Vikings who are whatever,

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Speaker 1: they are two seed in our uh in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think it's it's any different. You know,

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Speaker 1: all of these all of these teams have good players.

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Speaker 1: All these games are games you gotta win in theory.

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Speaker 1: If you think about it, even if we were whatever,

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Speaker 1: twelve and whatever, we would probably be trying to get

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Speaker 1: the one seed like the Eagles are doing. So every

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Speaker 1: game is important. You know that no game is just

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Speaker 1: all We can just go out here and slack off

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Speaker 1: and let this one go