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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are

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Speaker 1: preparing for their game Thursday night against the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and today we had a chance to hear from head

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Speaker 1: coach John Harball.

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Speaker 2: Good to see everybody, appreciate you being here. We're looking

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Speaker 2: forward to the game, uh and the preparations essentially finished

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Speaker 2: as far as the main on the field work, but

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Speaker 2: we'll be working right up until game time to be

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Speaker 2: ready to try to put our best foot forward. What

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Speaker 2: questions do you have?

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Speaker 3: Too many battles against Derek ken Ras.

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Speaker 4: What's up with this work code that's got hits?

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Speaker 1: What do you do?

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Speaker 4: You have TV?

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Speaker 2: Jamison has TV. It's an opportunity to prove all the

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Speaker 2: all the pundit's wrong, people who say you have you're

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Speaker 2: a radio guy. You know you have a face for TV.

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Speaker 2: You're a good looking guy. Got a new haircut too looking,

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Speaker 2: charp nice and you clean up well?

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Speaker 3: Thank you. He's got too many battles against the years.

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Speaker 3: How's it gonna feel though to have him kind of

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Speaker 2: It's gonna feel great to have Derek Henry Henry on

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Speaker 2: our side. It's gonna be a wonderful thing looking forward

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Speaker 2: to it.

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Speaker 3: Coach, how do you account for his improvisational skills and

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Speaker 3: making plays on the run, flicking the ball.

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Speaker 2: And stuff he does, Well, you really do have to

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Speaker 2: account for it, Todd. I mean, nobody does it like

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes does it in terms of I'm not talking

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Speaker 2: about the level of I'm talking about the style of it.

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Speaker 2: He is his own guy in terms of the way

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Speaker 2: ones down to get it outs and uh, and how

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Speaker 2: long he'll take as long as necessary to try to

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Speaker 2: find a completion nor scramble run on the ones that

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Speaker 2: are now fast. So that's his skill he's great at it.

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Speaker 2: I think their offensive line, they're passing him, everything is

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Speaker 2: built around his skill set that way. They've done a

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Speaker 5: What was it important in that ies O the decals

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Speaker 5: for their Joe d and Jacoby Just why was that important?

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Speaker 6: So?

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Speaker 7: I know you said with a season you're dedicating to them,

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Speaker 7: but to have that decal and the helmet this season.

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Speaker 2: Very well, it's a great question. Why is it important

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Speaker 2: to honor and remember Jacoby and Joe d with the

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Speaker 2: helmet decal, And really it comes back to what's the

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Speaker 2: most important thing. And we do have a lot of

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Speaker 2: great conversations here about games and expectations and what went

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Speaker 2: defend this player or that player and all that stuff

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Speaker 2: is what we do, but it's it's not who we

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Speaker 2: do it with, really, And the reason is is because

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Speaker 2: the who we do it with, whether it's in our

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Speaker 2: job or our family life, our friends, just our walk

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Speaker 2: through life, who we do it with is really the thing.

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Speaker 2: And then what we do about the people for the

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Speaker 2: so what an opportunity to remember, honor love two people

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Speaker 2: that we were with, you know, all those years. And

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Speaker 2: then I think the biggest reminder of that to me

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Speaker 2: to remember the people that you're doing it with now,

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Speaker 2: you know, your family, your friends, your co workers, even

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Speaker 2: the most of these moments because our time on this

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Speaker 2: earth is short, man, it's short lived. Life is short,

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Speaker 2: you know, run to the ball, it's a it's a

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Speaker 5: John, especially with Joe d It's it's still so fresh

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Speaker 5: for for all you guys. How have you how have

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Speaker 5: you seen guys kind of work through what you guys

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's the it's this, it's it's things

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I always talk to the guys about going to the

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Speaker 2: But that's that's kind of a time analogy that those

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Speaker 2: waves just keep coming, man, So you just got to

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Speaker 2: at it. So I think that's what our guys have done.

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Speaker 2: They've they acknowledged, you know, the people that they loved,

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Speaker 3: John, Any folks you know, all off seats in the

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Speaker 3: trading camp about you know, the AFC Championship game now

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Speaker 3: two days away from the season opener. I mean, is

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Speaker 3: there any carryover do you feel from that game going

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Speaker 2: Oh, there's always carry over, absolutely. I mean there's carryover

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Speaker 2: for both teams, there's carryover strets, strategically, there's carryover for

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Speaker 2: the individual battles that guys are going to have they

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, one thing always leads to the next. You know,

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Speaker 2: So that's the that's an interesting thing. It's a storyline,

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Speaker 8: What are your kind of emotions or anxiety? Obviously, you

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Speaker 8: know Week one every year. I'm sure you're anxious to

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Speaker 8: get going when it's Is it different when it's against

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Speaker 8: a Kansas City first game, prime time, all of that?

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Speaker 4: Does it like?

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Speaker 8: What is that day leading up to the all of that?

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Speaker 2: Like for you, it's it's it's like it's it's uh.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna try to under downplay it, but I

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Speaker 2: don't want you to think it's different either. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's always. It's always. There's always. It's not anxiety. The

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Speaker 2: word we use is tension. There's always tension because you

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Speaker 2: It's like a bridge, you know, like a like a bridge,

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Speaker 2: There's tension when you're lifting weights. There's tension in your

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be focused. You feel that way, and it's

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Speaker 2: the first game, So it adds to that. But beyond that,

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Speaker 2: there's there's not anxiety, there's not there's no fear at all.

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Speaker 2: There's excitement to go play the game.

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Speaker 9: John, what do you notice from some of these rookie

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Speaker 9: real game, even Trenton sevsonho was about to get a

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Speaker 9: start for the first time in this level. For the

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Speaker 9: remainder of the season, you felt like you had to

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Speaker 2: They're ready to go. I think we say something to

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Speaker 2: and and they'll stand on that going into this game,

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Speaker 2: just like all the guys will. And they'll just trust

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Speaker 2: trust the fact that they've been working their whole life.

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Speaker 2: The thing we want to do is you make a

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Speaker 2: You make a decision about how you're going to do it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: So if I'm rushing the passer and the ball gets

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Speaker 2: You already make that decision. So that's how our guys

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Speaker 1: In the locker room. We also heard from wide receiver

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Speaker 10: I feel like I said a good point right now.

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Speaker 10: We put it in a lot of work. You know,

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Speaker 10: I was able to do training camp, so we're looking

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Speaker 1: So how did you describe the excitement going into this game?

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Speaker 1: This opponent at the stage all that I.

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Speaker 10: Never played out heard it's crazy, So you know, definitely

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Speaker 1: This year's second year of the offense under Todd Mounket.

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Speaker 1: How how much better I guess prepared?

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Speaker 2: Ready?

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Speaker 1: You know, well, you think the offense this is a

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Speaker 4: Definite a little bit more comfortable.

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Speaker 10: I feel like, uh, you know, switching offenses could be

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Speaker 10: kind of know what to expect now.

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Speaker 4: Uh, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 10: Working with Lamar, working with UH coach Monkin, I feel

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Speaker 10: like we're all on the same page. So just been

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Speaker 4: It's been important cause.

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Speaker 5: It's obviously gonna be an emotional line for those guys

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Speaker 5: celebrating their Super.

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Speaker 4: Bowl win, is it? And you're when you kind of

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Speaker 4: see what the Chiefs have done. Is it good to

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Speaker 5: Somebody and sort of the bull's eyes, so to speak,

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Speaker 10: Be got to broke through against I We're not aiming

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Speaker 10: aiming for us. I mean, they beat us far and

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Speaker 10: Squire last year. And you know, I feel like we

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Speaker 10: just gonna play football again Thursday night.

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Speaker 9: I shall and hearing uh, John Harball here and Lamar

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Speaker 9: really talk you up a lot this off season, and

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Speaker 9: you had a really good camp.

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Speaker 4: What what does that do for your confidence? Now going

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Speaker 10: Doesn't really do anything for my confidence. It just shows

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Speaker 10: me that this teammate, this organization you know, believes in me.

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Speaker 10: I've always had the confidence in myself to go out

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Speaker 10: extension here, it it shows that you know, the Costel Pashadi,

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Speaker 10: So for me, I just wanna go out and you know,

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Speaker 11: Far it's a different season now, so I ain't really

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Speaker 4: We just gotta go win this game.

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Speaker 5: So you said at the end of the last season

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Speaker 4: How do you think that motivation that's transitd in the

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Speaker 11: I'm just I just want to have a better season.

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Speaker 11: new season. I think about that. I'm messing myself up

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Speaker 1: So where do you feel like, uh, the chemistry is

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Speaker 4: We working tay.

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Speaker 12: Given how ye season and say that the Chiefs are

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Speaker 7: Play are going through your mind year to get the

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Speaker 4: You feel going into it?

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Speaker 6: Uh huh Nah.

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Speaker 4: I'm prepared the same way.

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Speaker 4: What I do and get ready for the game.

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Speaker 11: I got my team Bahamas, so we all good tip

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Speaker 11: to that end. To that point, Yet you know, if

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Speaker 11: he put camped up, I mean there's something about a

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Speaker 4: The entire league, I mean, how much more special is that?

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Speaker 4: What do you expect you in Thurston lay?

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Speaker 12: Uh?

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Speaker 11: I mean we put we had a hard training camp,

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Speaker 4: We gonna be ready to go. We gonna be ready

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Speaker 11: Our coach I think put together a great game plan

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Speaker 6: They say you think Bateman's about ready to exploit this season.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, he gonna have a go in this year.

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Speaker 11: Cause the work he put in, the work he put

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Speaker 7: How do you think having Derick Henry could change the

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Speaker 4: Trying to cover?

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Speaker 11: You guess you gotta tackle him first. That's why, like,

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Speaker 11: put it like this way. You gotta tackle Lamar and

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Speaker 11: worry about all the receivers, Mark lightly me bait, and

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Speaker 6: He's, hey, I think Week won last season. Your first

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Speaker 6: you had a big first game. Yeah, how are you

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Speaker 11: I say, the game of the speed, like the speed

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Speaker 4: I was really more just playing football.

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Speaker 8: Is there anything different about playing in prime time?

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Speaker 4: One of the lights for you? Nah, I cheat all

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Speaker 11: I go out and play hard every game, and I

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Speaker 1: How would you sum up the the atmosphere of the

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Speaker 11: You know, we all decided especially what like like you said,

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Speaker 4: So we gonna go out there and play our game.

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Speaker 4: They you seem unveils Luatacas for Joke Games Robe today.

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Speaker 4: Jakobe was here during during summer. Did you get a

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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah he I think I end up at Lamar.

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Speaker 11: I think threw me a ball and it was like

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Speaker 11: He was like, hey, don blood, you better than that.

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Speaker 6: If you were to pick one breakout kind of that

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Speaker 11: All the receivers, including the tight ends.

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Speaker 4: Everybody gonna have a good year.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, today we had a chance to hear from

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Speaker 12: I feel like all off season been training or practicing

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Speaker 4: For sure? What are you most excited out you want

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Speaker 12: Man? Just the versatility to all the pains we have,

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Speaker 4: I'm excited. Yeah, for for you as.

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Speaker 7: When you're when you're going against you know, this Chiefs

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Speaker 4: Try to throw you off. Just what'slist the key?

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Speaker 1: And how prepared do you feel for this season given

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Speaker 12: Man, I feel like I'm very prepared, being tr started

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Speaker 12: I'm ready for this game.

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Speaker 1: Uh. I know you felt like playing those preseason stats

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Speaker 1: How would you describe I guess for you the emotions

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Speaker 12: Man, I'm blessed and all I can do is thank God.

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Speaker 12: But me, I feel like I put the work in. Man,

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Speaker 12: I'm just excited to see my work payoff. I feel

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Speaker 7: You're close with me date just kind of have you

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Speaker 12: for one, just just be yourself. Have fun.

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Speaker 1: back with you with more pressers and interviews after that game.