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Speaker 1: Hey, Matthew, I'm just wondering what it was like for you.

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Speaker 1: What was it like for you with no fans? Was

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Speaker 1: it what you expected? Was it a little weirder? Was

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Speaker 1: it not as weird? I mean it was. It was strange,

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. There were times throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of the game, or I think you know, as players,

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Speaker 1: you take cues from the crowd, a big play happens

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Speaker 1: or something of that nature, and the crowd kind of

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Speaker 1: cused you as to you know, hey, that was a

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Speaker 1: good player. Hey we didn't like that play. So it

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Speaker 1: was weird not having that. Certainly, it was a lot

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Speaker 1: easier to hear communication pre snap post snap, which was strange,

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it was football,

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Speaker 1: and I think guys were thankful to be out there

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Speaker 1: in a competitive situation, and once the game started, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't too hard to focus on what was going on.

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Speaker 1: When you say you could hear communication better, do you

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Speaker 1: mean your own team's communication or the potent's communication. And

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Speaker 1: did you guys maybe have to switch to more of

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Speaker 1: a hand signal kind of thing knowing that they could

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Speaker 1: hear you pretty well. I would say a little bit

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Speaker 1: of both. We could hear them very very clearly, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that they could hear us as well. And

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Speaker 1: obviously we could hear one another much better, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the kicking game, especially the way it played out

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Speaker 1: yesterday where there wasn't a ton of action for us.

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Speaker 1: It's too soon to say whether or not we'll need

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Speaker 1: to go to hand signals or not. We'll kind of

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Speaker 1: see how that develops as the year goes on, and

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Speaker 1: offensively and defensively, I'm not sure what the plan is

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Speaker 1: going to be there. We'll see, you know, how how

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Speaker 1: we adjust. They're going to be some places that have

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Speaker 1: fans at some point, Lord will and we have fans

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Speaker 1: at some point as well, So we'll kind of just

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Speaker 1: take it a week a week. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: important for us to focus on the things that we

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Speaker 1: can control and continue to go and try to execute

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Speaker 1: at a high level. Our next question my queas, and

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Speaker 1: I'll ask anybody else to raise their hand if they

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Speaker 1: want to ask me on through a question, right, Matthew,

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Speaker 1: I had two, if that's okay. Um. The first, where

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Speaker 1: do you feel like to break down the locker room

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Speaker 1: after everything that has been We've been through this all season, Uh, Mike,

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Speaker 1: that's a great question. Um, I think it was special

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Speaker 1: for us all. You know. I think there there have

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Speaker 1: been points over the course of the last six months

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Speaker 1: where you're not sure if football is going to be

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Speaker 1: in the cards for this season. Many of us have

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Speaker 1: been through a lot personally and our personal lives, and

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Speaker 1: I just think for a lot of reasons, it was

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Speaker 1: a time for us to be grateful as a team,

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Speaker 1: expressed that gratitude, hopefully expressed an appreciation for one another

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Speaker 1: and our opportunity to play a game that we love

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Speaker 1: so much. And um, you I definitely felt like I

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Speaker 1: was experiencing God's grace yesterday just being on that football

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Speaker 1: field with my brothers doing what we love and it's

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Speaker 1: something I'll certainly never take for grant. So it was great.

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Speaker 1: And Matthew to spin it forward, we have a game

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Speaker 1: in Seattle coming up, or you have a game in

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Speaker 1: Seattle coming up against the Seahawks, So I think naturally

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Speaker 1: that's going to lead to a lot of people to

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Speaker 1: go back to the Super Bowl between you guys and

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Speaker 1: just sort of what that game represents about when these

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Speaker 1: two teams get together, because there's been another one since

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Speaker 1: that point, so I guess two part question would be

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Speaker 1: what do you remember about that moment when you got

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Speaker 1: the first Super Bowl? And then what does that say

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Speaker 1: about what happens when these two teams get to Well, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate that question, and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: be disrespectful and how I answer it, but I will

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Speaker 1: say that I don't think that this week is a

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Speaker 1: time for myself or anyone else who participated in that

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Speaker 1: game to look back and become nostalgic. I think it's

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Speaker 1: it's time to focus on what's going to happen this week.

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Speaker 1: The teams are very different, Um, the players are different,

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Speaker 1: and the situation is very different. But I do know

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Speaker 1: that you have two organizations that have provided a lot

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Speaker 1: with their with their teams. They're built a certain way

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Speaker 1: that they play their strength. They remain true to their

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Speaker 1: that always makes for a great matchup world coach teams

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Speaker 1: with disciplined players who love to play ball. UM. Two

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Speaker 1: organizations that have had a lot of success, so it'll

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Speaker 1: be a highly competitive matchup. Um, you know, thankfully for

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Speaker 1: us we won't have to deal with the twelfth Man,

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Speaker 1: because that's usually a problem, having to deal with the

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Speaker 1: be a problem enough, so we need to just focus

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Speaker 1: on preparing for them. They're a great team. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have our hands more than full, and then let's just

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Speaker 1: focus on twenty twenty. My next question Steve Sanchez, and

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Speaker 1: a question for manthem. Thanks Stacy. Hey Matthew, could you

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Speaker 1: describe the unity that you and your teammates displayed for

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Speaker 1: the national anthem standing mad together? You know, I think

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Speaker 1: it was important for us whatever we decided to do,

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Speaker 1: to do it together. I think the one thing that

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Speaker 1: we're we feel as though we're missing out on right

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Speaker 1: now as a country is a sense of oneness. And

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Speaker 1: you know, for many people, they have different opinions on

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Speaker 1: where to start when it comes to oneness and creating that.

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Speaker 1: But for us, we felt it important that as a

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Speaker 1: group of men that we acted as one. And I'm

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Speaker 1: proud of the conversations that we had that led up

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Speaker 1: taking moving forward. We feel as though it's important for

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Speaker 1: us to take action now. Um. You know, action is

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Speaker 1: the only thing that's going to help these situations. UM,

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Speaker 1: and that's direct action. So that's no disrespect to anyone

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Speaker 1: else and decisions that they made, but UM, we thought

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Speaker 1: it was the right thing to do the way that

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Speaker 1: we proceeded yesterday. And as always as we as many

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Speaker 1: of us have been for the for the last several years,

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Speaker 1: will continue to be active and involved and trying to

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Speaker 1: meet the needs of the communities that are around us,

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Speaker 1: trying to connect with the people that are around us,

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Speaker 1: moving and acting and you know, with love, with wisdom

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Speaker 1: and prudence, and you know see where that gets us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, no problem. It looks like the final question

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Speaker 1: he Matthew. Obviously, you guys as a team have done

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Speaker 1: a really good job of containing COVID so far, but

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Speaker 1: now you're going to go on the road. So I

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Speaker 1: was just curious if you guys as captains, you know,

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Speaker 1: how that's going to work out. We have been very

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Speaker 1: intentional about meeting US leadership counsel with coach to cover

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Speaker 1: all things covid M. Travel has been I think priority

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Speaker 1: number one on the hit list where we've tried to

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Speaker 1: play out as many scenarios as possible, ask as many

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Speaker 1: questions as possible. But we're gonna have to be extra cautious.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to be smart with what we choose

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Speaker 1: hopefully everyone makes good decisions and we pray for protection

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Speaker 1: and things will go well. So we'll continue those discussions

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Speaker 1: leading up until the day we travel, and then from there,

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Speaker 1: I think again it's gonna be about decision making, trying

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Speaker 1: to do the right things. And you know, I should

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Speaker 1: definitely shout out our support staff. They've been great and

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Speaker 1: adapting here, whether it's our chefs or the people serving

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Speaker 1: us food, the people testing us and our testing trailer

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Speaker 1: every day, people have been really really helpful in seeing

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Speaker 1: us to this point. And we're going to continue to

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Speaker 1: lead on them moving forward. Thanks Matthew, no problem, Thank

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Speaker 1: you Matthew, Thanks thanks everyone, Thanks guys,