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Speaker 3: We we had some strong conversations throughout the year kind

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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, So I gotta ask you this. By the

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Speaker 2: stating unequivocally that that was Doug's hire and not you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I've answered that. Gee. I think Coach

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Speaker 2: Any regrets at all about essentially bringing back the ban

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Speaker 5: three years, maybe even four if I give you twenty twenty,

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Speaker 5: have you drafted enough blue guys, blue chip guys?

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Speaker 8: Right, there was a couple of weeks that you may retire.

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Speaker 8: Did you contemplate that at all?

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Speaker 7: There's another report I think from Albert three or that

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Speaker 3: Again, coach and I and ownership. You know, we we

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Speaker 3: Well, when you can't run the football and later in

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Speaker 3: I think we've got some good pieces in there. We've

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Speaker 8: To that degree, the defensive interior, in lineback. The investment

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Speaker 3: Well, I think you got to look at it. You know,

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Speaker 5: Well, Josh Allen here one way or another.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Josh will be a Jaguar.

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Speaker 4: Okay, how close are you getting a deal done with him?

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Speaker 3: Very far? Haven't started. Haven't started those negotiations, will start those.

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Speaker 6: You're not like you got out.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, just you're not ruling out doing an extension

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Speaker 1: You've mentioned two things in this press conference. You over

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Speaker 2: You talked about how you didn't the team did not

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Speaker 8: To the negotiation table with Trevor, even though a lot

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Speaker 8: of quarterbacks get paid at this point franchise wide.

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Speaker 1: How do you view what he did this year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Trevor had, you know, another learning year,

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Speaker 3: right like we all do when we're a third year

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Speaker 3: guy in this in this league. I think he did

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Speaker 3: see there's some areas he made great strides in. You know,

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Speaker 3: you look at it, you look at this season. One

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Speaker 3: thing we got to do is we got to two

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Speaker 3: things and it works both ways. We got to do

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Speaker 3: a better job of keeping him safe and protected, and

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Speaker 3: he's got to do a better job of protecting himself.

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Speaker 3: You know. Unfortunately, he had four key injuries this year.

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Speaker 3: You know, when your quarterback has a throwing shoulder injury,

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Speaker 3: and knee injury, and ankle injury and a concussion all

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Speaker 3: in one year, that's alarming. So you know, we got

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Speaker 3: to work to improve that, and that's not one factor.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that contribute to that. But

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Speaker 3: we we do have to do a better job there.

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Speaker 3: But as far as Trevor and his long term relationship

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Speaker 3: with this team, there's no doubt in that we're going

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Speaker 3: to get something done at the appropriate time.

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Speaker 1: As an organization. Is there some scouting process different after

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Speaker 1: a year like this year compared to the year before.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the same. You know, you try to

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Speaker 3: be as critical as you can be when you're looking

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Speaker 3: at film trying to identify exactly what you have what

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Speaker 3: went wrong. Sometimes it's not just player related, and I'm

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Speaker 3: not saying it's coach related. Sometimes there's things going on

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Speaker 3: outside the building that we don't that nobody is aware

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Speaker 3: of that factors into a player's performance. There's so many

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Speaker 3: things that go into success and failure. It's hard to

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Speaker 3: sit up here and just point the one thing.

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Speaker 8: You guys have a good pulse for why things maybe

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Speaker 8: went wrong down the stretch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we have a real good pulse. We've

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Speaker 3: had some real good discussions of going back to Jean's

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Speaker 3: first question on the collaboration and the unity we have

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Speaker 3: in this building, you know. And I can't speak for

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Speaker 3: Doug and but I'm sure he'll speak when when he

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Speaker 3: has a chance to speak. The collaboration, the unity that

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Speaker 3: we have together, the respect we have for one another,

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Speaker 3: has never been better. So again I go back to

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Speaker 3: that narrative that Gene mentioned, that's a false narrative, nothing

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Speaker 3: to it.

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Speaker 1: And what made him you know, what have you learned

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Speaker 1: about man? What made him the best cover of the job.

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Speaker 6: And how much does it change what you look for

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Speaker 6: in players when you have such a scheme change of defense.

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Speaker 3: Well, a couple of questions in there. I don't schematically

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Speaker 3: there's going to be a change. It's not going to

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Speaker 3: necessarily affect the type of personnel we look for. The

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Speaker 3: thing that's need is the preparation that Ryan had put

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Speaker 3: into getting ready for the interview and knowing our roster

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Speaker 3: the way he did, and talking through how he sees

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Speaker 3: those pieces being utilized in his offer or his defense.

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Speaker 3: That was impressive, you know, especially for a guy that was,

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Speaker 3: you know, on a vacation down to Disneyland with his

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Speaker 3: family and we yanked him up here from there. So

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Speaker 3: just his presence, his command within the room, the synergy

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Speaker 3: he had with group that was in there, his attention

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Speaker 3: to detail, the relationship building, the two way relationships that

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Speaker 3: he's been able to establish, and really the fact that

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Speaker 3: no matter who you talk to, they had nothing but

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Speaker 3: positive things to say about them, and then you bring

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Speaker 3: them in and everything that you heard comes to life.

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Speaker 3: So really excited about the hire and looking forward to

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Speaker 3: working with him.

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Speaker 5: Schematically, you're talking about man versus zone. You're talking about

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Speaker 5: four to three verses three four.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't read all the stuff, but this idea

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Speaker 3: that he's a full man coverage guy is fully blown

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Speaker 3: out of proportion. I think I'll let him speak on scheme.

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Speaker 3: It's really a zone based system, right, not a man

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Speaker 3: based system. But sometimes a lot of times when you

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Speaker 3: play zone and you play it well, it turns into

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Speaker 3: man with the match concepts and everything else. But that's

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Speaker 3: as scheme related as I'm going to get. But he is,

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Speaker 3: you know, the four man surface that we talk about,

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Speaker 3: four man versus a thirty. Look, really, in today's game,

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Speaker 3: you're in Nickel, what seventy five even sometimes eighty percent

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Speaker 3: of the time you live in Nickel, So everyone's playing

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Speaker 3: a lot of the same stuff, right, There's not thirty

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Speaker 3: two different offenses and thirty two different You just you

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Speaker 3: have to take the pieces you have, and just like

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Speaker 3: in any chess game, you got to be able to

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Speaker 3: manipulate them the way you want and take advantage of

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Speaker 3: your strengths and hide your weaknesses. And I think he's

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Speaker 3: shown the ability to do that. You know, we played

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Speaker 3: him this year. I think we scored thirteen points offensively

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Speaker 3: against him, and then we scored I think ten of

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Speaker 3: those points game on turnovers, right, a short field goal,

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Speaker 3: short field field goal, and a pick six. You talk

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Speaker 3: to Trevor, you talk to the guys that played against

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Speaker 3: them this year. You know, he's hard to prepare for

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Speaker 3: because everything looks the same with the snap, and then

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Speaker 3: everything starts to move once the once the ball snap.

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Speaker 3: So there's a there's a lot of things. And I'll

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Speaker 3: let you know again, I'm not a scheme guy. I'm

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Speaker 3: a I'm a Jimmy and Joe guy, So I'll stick

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Speaker 3: to my Jimmy and Joe's.

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Speaker 1: How much do Houston's emergence with CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud and the Texans having a bunch of cop space,

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Speaker 4: does that factor in it all into how you attack

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Speaker 4: an offseason?

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Speaker 3: Well, hey, hats off. First of all, you want to

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Speaker 3: be against the best. You want to compete in the

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Speaker 3: best division. Because if you're in the best division and

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Speaker 3: you can win that division, you got a great chance

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Speaker 3: to go into the next round of the playoffs and

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Speaker 3: win a lot of football games and be the last

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Speaker 3: one standing. And that's the goal. So you can't ever

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Speaker 3: shy away from uh, you know, competition. Uh, they've done

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Speaker 3: an excellent job there. Indy has done an excellent job.

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Speaker 3: You know, Tennessee is going to be fine. You know,

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Speaker 3: this division is better than people gave it credit for being.

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Speaker 3: And I think you can sense how quickly it turned.

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Speaker 3: A year ago we were in the same position Houston

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Speaker 3: was in this year, right, almost storybook endings for both

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Speaker 3: both organizations. Right, both of them won the last game,

556
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Speaker 3: you know, back to back years to go not put

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Speaker 3: themselves in the AFC play or in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 3: win the division. So I like the fact that this

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Speaker 3: this division is competitive, right. You don't want it any

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Speaker 3: other way. That's why you're in this business. So let's

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Speaker 3: roll out the ball, let's let's go to work, and

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Speaker 3: let's see where we're at at the end of the

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Speaker 3: end of this next year.

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Speaker 8: The last one physicality today to anticipate some kind of

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Speaker 8: change in the Springking conditioning program here.

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Speaker 3: No, I think we do a good job. I think

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Speaker 3: I think we do an excellent job in the training staff,

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Speaker 3: the Human Performance department as a whole. I think we

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Speaker 3: just we've got to do some things a little bit differently, right,

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Speaker 3: We got we gotta push some narratives a little stronger.

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Speaker 3: We gotta make it. Uh. You know, it's tough to

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Speaker 3: get these guys competing against each other in that weight room.

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Speaker 3: That isn't always but that's where we're going. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's got to be a year long competition. It's got

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Speaker 3: to be a focus of ours to get stronger, to

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Speaker 3: get more physical, Uh, to play the game at the

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Speaker 3: level that you need to play it to win. In

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Speaker 3: January and February.

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Speaker 1: Good Thanks charging