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Speaker 5: Happy New Year, Happy New Years. I was just curious

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I have I take a lot

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Speaker 6: Happy New Year?

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Speaker 7: Bill.

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Speaker 3: Uh, we were in here. Yeah, we were working. We

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Speaker 3: trying to within those experiences. I've learned one thing, and

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Speaker 3: that's the focus on the task at hand, because once

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Speaker 3: you start thinking about a lot of other things, like

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Speaker 3: you're not going to be really focused and do the

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Speaker 3: best job you can for the players. I'm just being

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Speaker 3: honest with you. So I aspire to do a great

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Speaker 3: job coaching today and really aspire to go out and

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Speaker 3: try to beat the Jets on help the team beat

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Speaker 3: the Jets on Sunday. Thank you, Bill, Thank you