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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us per usual,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Which car are we in? Wagon? Man? Okay? Good?

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Speaker 1: Is this is this? I know it's not winter time

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Speaker 1: out there, Amari, but is the g wagon kind of

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Speaker 1: your wintertime car? I mean, I know it's it's nice

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Speaker 1: and beautiful out there, but do you kind of drive

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Speaker 1: your cars? Is the how the seasons go? Nah? A

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Speaker 1: G Wagon is my everyday car? Oh got you? Got you?

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Speaker 1: That makes sense? Mind's a CRV very similar? Yeah. Now,

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Speaker 1: you guys are on a nice little winning streak. But

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Speaker 1: we are looking at yesterday the amount of targets for

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Speaker 1: Amari Cooper the last handful of games, and they're not

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Speaker 1: big numbers. What all is going into that? And does it?

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Speaker 1: Does it bother you at all? When you guys are

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Speaker 1: winning but the offense isn't being explosive or you're not

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Speaker 1: getting the ball, does that bother you at all? I

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Speaker 1: got to be honest, it actually does, because, yeah, we're winning,

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Speaker 1: but the defense is playing a huge part in that. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're not really as explosive as we should be.

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Speaker 1: We're not converting um, A lot of their turnovers to touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: a lot of them are field goals, and I feel

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Speaker 1: like I could be a huge part of that, you know,

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Speaker 1: So that's what frustrates me. Um, And yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's what it is. I think, you know, I can

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Speaker 1: do more in the red zone if I get the targets.

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Speaker 1: I think I could do more on third downs if

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Speaker 1: I get the targets, so that to help the offense

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Speaker 1: be where we need to be. I definitely think I

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Speaker 1: can help change that for sure. Ohmar, you're such a

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Speaker 1: pro though. Is that a conversation that you just kind

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Speaker 1: of walk up and practice and kind of talk to

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Speaker 1: Kelvin Moore a little bit and you say, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: or you just see the game planning, you know, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this week I got a shot because two weeks ago

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Speaker 1: we played these guys. I know who's going to cover

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Speaker 1: me this week again? Is it something you say to

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Speaker 1: the the OC or is it just something you kind

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Speaker 1: of say, Hey, I'm just gonna just go out here

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Speaker 1: and practice and do what I'm supposed to do. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean we communicate with each other, you know, me

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Speaker 1: killing Dak. You know, we talk about what we like

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Speaker 1: and what we don't like. It's just a matter of

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Speaker 1: it being put into the actual game plan or being

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Speaker 1: caught in the actual game typically, Well, we never run

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Speaker 1: any play in the game that we don't practice that week,

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Speaker 1: so you would know throughout the course of the week

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Speaker 1: how much you're gonna get targeted for real. But I

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Speaker 1: mean it's all a part of the game plan. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know, off of the coordinator, he sees a bigger

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Speaker 1: picture than you as just a receiver because you're only

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Speaker 1: looking at it from that perspective as a receiver as

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Speaker 1: opposed to looking at the whole offense and the whole

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Speaker 1: strategy like that. So, I mean, it's it's not so

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Speaker 1: black and white, but you know, I would, I would.

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Speaker 1: I do think that, Um, in those situations, those important situations,

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Speaker 1: like I said before, a third down, red zone, I

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Speaker 1: do think I could play a huge part in that

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Speaker 1: and and making us more explosive. Well you mentioned the defense, uh,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the turnovers are causing how well

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Speaker 1: they're playing. Who should be the defensive player of the year.

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Speaker 1: M I don't know, man. We got you know, we

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Speaker 1: got Trade he got ten picks. That hasn't happened in

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Speaker 1: a long time. We got Michael. We got Michael who's

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Speaker 1: having a phenomenal season as a rookie. Um, and really

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Speaker 1: we have those are two candidates obviously, but um we

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Speaker 1: got some other guys on the defense. Had they not

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Speaker 1: you know, been hurt and stuff like that, I think

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Speaker 1: and they would have been candidates too, like Randy for sure,

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Speaker 1: without a doubt. So they're doing their jobs, for sure,

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Speaker 1: They're they're making plays all over the field. I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to be a part of it. So was that a

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Speaker 1: vote for Trey von or Micah? I can't pick between them. Mauri.

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Speaker 1: Let me you mentioned that about and you seem like

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Speaker 1: to me that you're like you're saying, hey man, the

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Speaker 1: defense is carrying us right now, and you want to

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Speaker 1: with the offensive side of the ball. Is that something

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Speaker 1: that again, I know so much pride that you have

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Speaker 1: little bit about though, like, hey man, our defense is

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Speaker 1: doing a great job. We got to go out there

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Speaker 1: and hold up our end. Now. Is it something that

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Speaker 1: you among offensive players you you kind of talk about

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Speaker 1: that how how well they're playing. Yeah, of course, I

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Speaker 1: mean it was without saying really, but you know that's why.

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Speaker 1: That's part of reason that made that bet with d Law.

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Speaker 1: You know about how many turnover they get versus how

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Speaker 1: many touchdowns we get, just because we understand how don

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Speaker 1: that they've been and we want to we want to

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Speaker 1: match that energy because we both we both come out

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Speaker 1: and play like that. We're gonna be unstoppable, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. And that's the only that's that's my

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Speaker 1: lead to. Um, And that's why it does frustrate me

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Speaker 1: a little bit um that, yeah, we are winning, but

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Speaker 1: we aren't planning top We haven't been planning to our

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Speaker 1: potential lately as an offense, and that's yeah, that's very frustrating.

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Speaker 1: How close or far away do you feel like that is? Like,

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Speaker 1: do you guys feel like you're making progress week to

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Speaker 1: week and it felt like you guys ran the ball

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Speaker 1: better last week? But do you feel like you are

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Speaker 1: that it is still kind of elusive? Yeah? No, I

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Speaker 1: mean we're we're a great offense, Like, without a doubt,

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Speaker 1: we understand that and our goals are very high. Um,

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Speaker 1: even even when we don't have a good day offensively,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're we're we're all the games that I've

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Speaker 1: been a part of, we're moving the ball. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: just three against great teams. It's not a guaranteed victory.

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Speaker 1: You know, you get three eight versus a great team,

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Speaker 1: they go down to score, and you get the ball

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Speaker 1: and score again. That's fourteen to six, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Like that, that ain't gonna necessarily cut it.

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Speaker 1: So and that's what that's what we're looking at, and

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Speaker 1: so that's why important Amori. Do you feel like it's

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Speaker 1: a is it a simple fix or is it just

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Speaker 1: like is it more explosive plays or is You've mentioned

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Speaker 1: the red zone a bunch and that seems to be

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Speaker 1: Is it Is it more just about that or is

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Speaker 1: it more about just you know, driving the football and

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Speaker 1: finishing off these drives the way you need to do them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said last week in another interview,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's one of two things we have to do.

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Speaker 1: We have to execute better and when we're actually in

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Speaker 1: as harder to move the ball down there. In general.

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Speaker 1: That's why I say we've been moving the ball well,

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Speaker 1: but when we get down there, harder for any offense

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Speaker 1: we can punch it in well, we have to have

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Speaker 1: more explosive plays outside of the red area so that

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Speaker 1: we don't even have to worry about red area offense

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Speaker 1: because we'll be we'll be scoring on dirty, plush yard

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Speaker 1: or the two, Maury, Okay, really appreciate that. Let me

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Speaker 1: ask you this, I mean, because we're all talking about

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Speaker 1: teams playing that shell or that covered two against you.

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Speaker 1: Are there cover two beaters that you guys have. Is

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Speaker 1: it something you talk about or is it or am

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Speaker 1: I just totally off base about how much cover two

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Speaker 1: you guys have seen? Is it? Is it something completely different?

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Speaker 1: Or am I going down the right path with those

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Speaker 1: the cover two issues? Yeah? Yeah, So when you see

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Speaker 1: have one last guy in the box. And that's what

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that's what we've been doing. But

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Speaker 1: you're gonna always run the ball and get a sixty

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Speaker 1: the ball, move the ball by running it. And then

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Speaker 1: when we get in the red area, which will inevitable

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Speaker 1: inevitably get in if we're just running the ball and

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Speaker 1: not having you know, forty yard runs for touchdowns, will

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Speaker 1: inevitably get in the red zone. And then it's like,

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Speaker 1: to score down there. That's that's what I mean. So

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Speaker 1: either and there's a lot of explosive pass plays you

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Speaker 1: can have with two hot safeties, you know, with devil

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Speaker 1: moves off to the safety and stuff, but we haven't

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Speaker 1: been running them. Oh that theory on why not? Just

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Speaker 1: because we've like I said, we've been moving the ball

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Speaker 1: well against all the two hot teams that we've been

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Speaker 1: playing running the ball. So it's like, um, that that's

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Speaker 1: that's efficiency right there. So you don't really change something

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Speaker 1: that's that's not broke. So yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, So

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Speaker 1: you're saying it's it's part of the game plan. But

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Speaker 1: but something else is having success, so you're you're Kellen

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Speaker 1: doesn't get to it, honest, play sheet? Is that Is

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Speaker 1: that the right way of thinking about it? Uh? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying we've been running the ball. Well, uh it's

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Speaker 1: just when we get to the rent area. Okay, running

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Speaker 1: the ball or passing the ball, it's harder. That's what

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Speaker 1: with us as he is every week, Amary. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time. We hope you enjoy the rest of the day.

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Speaker 1: We'll be pulling for you this weekend, all right. Hey,