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Speaker 1: Well, it is, number one, it is. They usually pride

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Speaker 1: Believe, Yeah, no, Yeah, And I know Mike pretty well,

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Speaker 1: of Tyson, Uh, he'll be he'll be in practice today

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Speaker 1: And we just have to understand that defenses are gonna

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Speaker 3: We're in the nee Birds.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, might be a question you ask him.

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Speaker 2: The offense is the senate.

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Speaker 1: I'm not wearing this.

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Speaker 2: H with all the offense of the second half quite

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Speaker 4: So second half against the Poles.

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Speaker 2: How much did you do you contribute that to just

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Speaker 2: a matter of you're not getting.

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Speaker 1: The possessions defenses on the field for a long time

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Speaker 2: Duh, No, this is a.

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Speaker 3: But Bob Sudden, I know you've known him for a while,

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Speaker 1: You know to the defense and there I guess you

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Speaker 3: Some of the game plan on Sunday was to kind

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna obviously be aware of that every week,

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Speaker 3: He's at at all times.

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