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Speaker 1: asking for that. Um trying to handle all my responsibility

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Speaker 1: right now as as a head coach and get this

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Speaker 1: it just seemed like this season, why has it been

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Speaker 1: hard to talk about a team with lack of effort

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Speaker 1: of the game. It that really really they were. They

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Speaker 1: were fighting hard and just you know, truly disappointed. I

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Speaker 1: guess the biggest thing I was disappointed and it was

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Speaker 1: obviously the tackling uh Doug Yeah update on Unwell um

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Speaker 1: in terms of when he might be available activate what

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Speaker 1: today I believe is that how it is or and

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Speaker 1: uh and anything on Safarian Jenkins, Safarian Jenkins is not

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Speaker 1: ready yet UM. And then with Josh Wells, UM, I

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Speaker 1: believe that we will uh do something as you know,

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Speaker 1: UM when that day comes that bring him up to

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Speaker 1: the roster.