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Speaker 1: Thanks Steve Seazer, Michael, thanks for taking the time today.

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Speaker 1: Just start curious what time did you guys get back

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Speaker 1: and sort of how were you how's the body responding

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got back between twelve thirty and one am.

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Speaker 3: I guess earlier today.

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Speaker 2: Not feeling too bad, you know, a little short, but

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Speaker 2: I mean that comes with you know, playing a game,

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Speaker 4: And Jamichael, could you give us a feel for what the.

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Speaker 1: Biggest takeaway was in the offensive meeting room or the

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Speaker 1: talking about to try to get back on track.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just you know, we kind of brought

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Speaker 2: ourselves as being able to run the ball, so just

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Speaker 2: being able to you know, bounce back and get the

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Speaker 2: run game going, continue to build on the past game

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Speaker 2: and just overall and improve as a whole as the

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Speaker 4: And my last one is what are your impressions of

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Speaker 4: Drake and how he's commanding the huddle?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Drake's been great for us, you know

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Speaker 2: since he stepped in, stepped in the huddle.

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Speaker 3: Like I say, very knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: Smart guy has all the intangibles has been great for us,

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Speaker 2: you know, since he's been in there. So I'm just

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Speaker 2: looking forward to continue to building on you know, the

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Speaker 5: My next question Karen Gregan for like Chris Ryan.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Jamichael, thanks for taking the time with us today.

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Speaker 6: What do you what's the biggest thing in terms of

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Speaker 6: getting the wrong game going again?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you guys started out strong.

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Speaker 6: Early in the year and you know the last few

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Speaker 4: What's going to turn that around?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Just us just working together as an offensive unit, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean. And that's from starting from up front,

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Speaker 2: you know, just getting movements, bags, making the correct reads

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Speaker 2: us for those big plays. So you know, we all

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Speaker 2: work together in the ring game, and it's it's all

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Speaker 2: kind of tied together. You know, none, none of us

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Speaker 3: So h just everybody working together and continue to build.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Chris Ryan, encuraging beiltrees again. If you have a

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Speaker 5: question for Joinko.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Jokel.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for taking some time today and Apoloso and ask

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Speaker 7: this already, but just how would you categorize, you know,

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Speaker 7: the mood of the guys today after you obviously drawd

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Speaker 7: called you out a tough loss.

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Speaker 4: What's how would you how would you.

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Speaker 7: Kind of say that the guys are feeling and what's

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Speaker 2: I mean, just more than anything, we know that we're

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Speaker 2: right now as a team overall collectively, So just guys

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Speaker 2: you know, looking at themselves, seeing what they can improve

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Speaker 2: on the visually they will at the end, you know,

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Speaker 2: help the team just move forward. But older morale is

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Speaker 2: you know, pretty good now. Everybody is still positive. Everybody

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Speaker 7: Obviously, a real positive has been the play of Drake

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Speaker 7: the last couple of weeks. What has he shown you,

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Speaker 2: Right just poise poison a huddle poison, the sideline poise

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Speaker 2: Like we talk about it all the time. He has

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Speaker 7: Just one morning, what do you look for in a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's try to answer your questions as

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Speaker 2: just us just knowing that you know, when he need us,

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Speaker 3: You know, in order to keep the change moving.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, yeah, thank you for Michael killing me Stacey,

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Speaker 1: It's be a long journey back.

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Speaker 3: Christian. How you doing, I'm good. How about you doing well?

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Speaker 4: Play played more than you had on defense last game.

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Speaker 4: Just what was your assessment of how it all went

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, there's a lot of things to

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Speaker 8: I think there's some good things to take away from

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Speaker 8: the game for my performance, but there's always I think

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Speaker 8: I can play Miles better.

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Speaker 3: I can play.

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Speaker 8: More physical in the run game, whether that's reading my

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Speaker 1: And overall, Christian, how would you describe the mood around

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Speaker 1: I guess you guys, did you know, did your normal

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Speaker 8: You know, I would say everybody's a little ticked off.

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Speaker 8: At the moment, everyone, we expect better from ourselves. We

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Speaker 8: know we can play better, and that's the plan going forward.

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Speaker 8: I would just say the mood right now, at least

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Speaker 8: for me, it's ticked off. Yeah, there's more on the table.

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Speaker 8: There's more on the table that we can all. We

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Speaker 5: Mike will probably come back to you, but we'll go

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Speaker 5: to Chris Ryan next. Hey, thanks for doing this.

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Speaker 7: Just how does it hit the group when your girod

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Speaker 7: Is it kind of a recognition of yeah, he's right.

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Speaker 8: You know, I don't think one game defines a team.

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Speaker 8: I think what defines a team is what you do

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Speaker 8: when you're facing adversity. It's the same thing as a man.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's easy to be ra raw happy when

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Speaker 8: my personal life too, you know, being a father, having

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Speaker 8: that's the mentality of the team. You know that one

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Speaker 8: bad game isn't going to define us. We're gonna come

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Speaker 8: hard sell because that's that's what this team is about.

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Speaker 7: Looking at you know, the game, both on film and

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Speaker 7: from your middle linebacker spot, what did you see in

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Speaker 3: What's what's missing there right now in order.

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Speaker 7: To you know, because that's obviously the kind of hallmark

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say on the run portion obviously, one

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Speaker 6: Of the day.

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Speaker 8: I play for God, I play for my family. I

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Speaker 8: your part. The play is going to come to you.

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Speaker 8: You know, everyone's gonna have opportunities to make a play.

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Speaker 8: Just make it when it comes to you. Don't try

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Speaker 8: to force a play, don't try to do someone else's

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Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, Like, I don't see any other hands raised,

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Speaker 5: so we'll come back to you.

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Speaker 4: That's great, Christian. I know you're on Punk Pro and

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Speaker 4: Punk coverage.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the long one yesterday, your sort of

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Speaker 1: when you guys broke it down, would you see there?

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Speaker 4: And to tighten up, you.

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Speaker 8: Know, I'll start with myself first and foremost, I will

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Speaker 8: I expect to make the play every time, you know,

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Speaker 8: with that much space, I started tapering the ball a

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Speaker 8: should have done that hindsight, you know, hindsight twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: I've done that a.

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Speaker 8: Few times this year and it's worked out really well.

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Speaker 8: But I think when there's that much space that open,

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Speaker 8: So that's where I could get better. You know, as

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Speaker 8: a unit, I think we just need to cover our

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Speaker 8: we need to make it. And we can't let be robots.

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Speaker 8: I think that's another big thing. You know, not every

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Speaker 8: play is in the workout exactly how it is on paper.

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Speaker 8: You can't be a robot. You gotta just go make

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Speaker 1: And my last question, Christian, you know, times like this

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Speaker 1: when the team's trying to find itself. Sometimes you can

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Speaker 1: and what you know, maybe if you'd be comfortable sharing

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Speaker 1: the message.

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Speaker 8: I would there's well, there's been a few people that

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Speaker 8: well coaches and players that have their message have had

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Speaker 8: an impact on me. But I would say someone that

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Speaker 8: I think is a leader not only special teams, but

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Speaker 8: just as the entirety of our organization as schooler. You know,

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Speaker 8: I'm not going to go into the details of it,

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Speaker 8: but basically is that's not our identity. That pump play

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Speaker 8: that doesn't happen around here. We need our Special teams

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Speaker 8: has helped to a higher standard. We are trying to

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Speaker 8: aid our defense, aid our offense, put them in better positions.

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Speaker 8: So you know, when we were talking is just that

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Speaker 8: type of mentality as we were talking as the special

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Speaker 8: teams unit.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, thanks for taking the time today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Christian