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Speaker 1: Your work week is over.

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Speaker 2: The plant Colton said, if you don't come in tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: don't bother coming in Monday for day weekend.

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Speaker 1: This is the Last Word, the off season home of

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Speaker 1: the Colts with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Last Word, the weekly off season radio

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Speaker 2: show of your Colts, airing every Friday evening A ninety

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Speaker 2: three five and one oh seven five fan were brought

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Speaker 2: moment More. My name's Jeffrey Gorman. I am joined week

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Speaker 2: in and week out by the voice of the Colts,

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. Mayte, how are we?

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Speaker 3: I am doing great. Good to be back with you, sir.

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Lot to talk about. These NFL owner

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Speaker 2: meetings have come and went down in Orlando. Indeed, we're

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Speaker 2: also going to take a look at the upcoming radical

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Speaker 2: changes of the NFL rule book. We'll get to that,

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Speaker 2: but Mayte, here's all we got coming up tonight. It's

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Speaker 2: Friday night. We're gonna open the cooler up and dip

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Speaker 2: into the six pack. Let's take in big storylines herego

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Speaker 2: that the Colts are talking about and Colts fans everywhere

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Speaker 2: are talking about this in the off season. Here's Cole

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Speaker 2: beverage number one, and that's a good sound right Friday,

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Speaker 2: and that means Anthony Richardson first and foremost. Shane Stiken

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Speaker 2: talking about this earlier in the week at the owners meetings,

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Speaker 2: expressing his optimism that the QB Anthony Richardson should be

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Speaker 2: able to rejoin the team at the start of the

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Speaker 2: offseason workout program, which starts May Tay in a few

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Speaker 2: weeks from now. Stiken said, yeah, I think he'll be

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Speaker 2: good to go for spring practice. Obviously, we have to

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Speaker 2: limit it and monitor it and don't go overboard with him,

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Speaker 2: but he's saying, Hey, I cannot be more excited to

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Speaker 2: get him back going again. Mayte. I mean, how important

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Speaker 2: is this that he is physically ready to take on

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Speaker 2: the responsibilities of the starting quarterback position.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's awesome. I think it's really important

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Speaker 4: for the obvious reasons. Right time on task, you know,

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Speaker 4: get in in tune with the playbook again.

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Speaker 3: Jeffrey two.

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Speaker 4: I also think it's symbolic the fact that he's potentially

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Speaker 4: gonna be with the team the earliest he can be

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Speaker 4: with the team is important. Considering what happened last year,

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Speaker 4: I think can send some message to the team that

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Speaker 4: this is our guy, this is our franchise quarterback. It's

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Speaker 4: kind of a visual resetting of things from last year

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Speaker 4: to this year. I think all of that signifies this

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Speaker 4: is the start of something new. And from that standpoint,

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Speaker 4: I think it's really important.

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Speaker 2: Hey, a lot of Colts fans and NFL heads out

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Speaker 2: there are talking about Chris Ballard and what he did

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Speaker 2: this offseason. What he did is resign his own and

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Speaker 2: you're talking about an offense that was led last year

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Speaker 2: predominantly by Gardner Minshew. But he's saying, hey, we get

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Speaker 2: our guy in there a healthy seventeen weeks. Look out,

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Speaker 2: here's Chris Ballard on what the Colts offense can be

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Speaker 2: next year with the trio of Anthony Richardson, Michael Pittman Junior,

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Speaker 5: Oh. I think one getting you know, Anthony, getting him

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Speaker 5: to be fun for everybody to watch. And I think

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Speaker 5: when you look at Pittman another year, year two, really

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Speaker 5: in the new offense, Jonathan Taylor being healthy for an offseason,

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Speaker 5: we forget last offseason, he went through a surgery and rehab,

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Speaker 5: and then we had the contract stuff going on for

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Speaker 5: him to be clear mentally and physically. I think we're

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Speaker 5: about to see a monster year from Jonathan and then

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Speaker 5: getting Anthony back into mix with those guys, you know,

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Speaker 5: makes it exciting going forward, and then you know you

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Speaker 5: don't ever want to forget about you know. We think

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Speaker 3: We like Pierce, We like the totality of our tight.

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Speaker 5: End room, and we think we've got a really good

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Speaker 5: to add, but we got the draft and some more

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Speaker 2: They may say, we know what change Styke can do

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Speaker 2: seventeen weeks knock on wood, Anthony Richardson there as well.

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Speaker 2: How explosive can this Colts offense be next season?

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Speaker 4: It can be very exciting. I mean, in the four

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Speaker 4: and five, the Colts were ninth and explosive runs tenth

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Speaker 4: and explosive passes. So if Pittman comes back and dominates

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Speaker 4: If downs can grow and add more yards after the catch,

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Speaker 4: if Alec Pierce can be more of a factor stretching

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Speaker 4: the Colts in the passing game. If the passing game

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: Defenses at that point are not gonna be able to

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Speaker 4: So lighter boxes mean big things for Richardson and Taylor.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot to like.

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Speaker 4: And like I said, inevitably, there's gonna be I think

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Speaker 4: They're gonna be a big contributing factor to the explosivity

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Speaker 4: if you will of this offense next year, a.

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Speaker 2: Huge year out of Jonathan Taylor. Obviously, a quarterback's best

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Speaker 2: friend is the running game. Matt Taylor right there, shotgun

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Speaker 2: in the first cold beverage of the night. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to cole Beverage number two.

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Speaker 3: Hey, take that phone call to it.

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Speaker 2: No, we'll do it. Not gonna absolutely all right, cole

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Speaker 2: Beverage number two. Who may take real quick, is this

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Speaker 2: rookie season number two for Anthony Richardson or the development

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Speaker 4: Well, I think you're definitely gonna have some speed bumps again,

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Speaker 4: want is for the big plays to outweigh the rookie mistakes,

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Speaker 4: so you need to flush out as much of the

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Speaker 2: May Tay slowed down a little bit. We got a

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Speaker 2: six pack here, and you're just sucking these bruises down right, here. Hey,

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Speaker 2: all right? Resigning their own We talked about that earlier.

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Speaker 2: At this point, the Colts have primarily resigned their own

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Speaker 5: Oh, look, they're all one. They're all been really good

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Speaker 5: other opportunities, and you know, luckily we were able to

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Speaker 5: don't think you can underestimate continuity and being in the

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Speaker 2: What do you make of the approach the Colts primarily

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Speaker 2: sticking to resigning their own players.

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Speaker 4: The players the Colts have re signed are some of

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Speaker 4: the best players at their positions in the NFL, right,

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Speaker 4: So if you don't re sign those guys, you have

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Speaker 4: even more voids you got to fill. So it's really

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Speaker 4: hard to put a team together right when when free

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Speaker 4: agency starts, it's hard to be a GM. You're talking

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Speaker 4: guys that the Colts resigned, as Chris said, had interest

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Speaker 4: in all of this that it takes two to tango

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Speaker 3: Right. It's not as easy as just.

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Speaker 4: literally go wherever they want for.

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Speaker 3: Their own reason.

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Speaker 4: So it was important to lock up key players that

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Speaker 4: have been a part of this core for this team.

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Speaker 4: But you know, free agency is still ongoing. You still

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Speaker 4: have the draft coming up, and I think, again, some

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Speaker 4: we don't know who they are yet.

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Speaker 2: That's Matt Taylor voice to the Colts. I'm Jeffrey Gorman.

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Speaker 2: This is the last word. Mayte open up another cole beverage,

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Speaker 2: but pace yourself. Chris Ballard said earlier this week at

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Speaker 2: those owners meetings there could be opportunities to do more

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Speaker 2: through free agency in the coming weeks. In the secondary,

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Speaker 2: he said, we know we need to add and there's

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Speaker 2: still some bets out there that will definitely they're going

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Speaker 2: to pay attention to, but there's still work to be done. Mate.

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Speaker 2: How important is this defensive backfield for the Colts before

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Speaker 2: the draft to get something done.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's probably the most untested part of the team

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Speaker 4: Brince missed a lot of time with a variety of injuries.

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Speaker 4: You've got Nick Cross and Rodney Thomas still very young

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Speaker 4: players at the safety position. I think the Colts are

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Speaker 4: young players, but you are indeed young. You are very

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Speaker 4: at all for the Colts to continue to look at

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Speaker 4: the at the open market in the secondary before the draft,

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Speaker 4: and specifically at corner, Like we'll talked about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk some safeties there open another one, will you?

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Speaker 2: What about this? The NFL safety free agent market remains

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Speaker 2: pretty stocked. We got four time All Pro Justin Simmons

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Speaker 2: don't know. We're gonna find out. Blackman is the only

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Speaker 2: starter Ballard has not resigned this offseason at this point.

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Speaker 2: Mayte what's the likelihood of Blackman coming back and returning

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good question. I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 4: still on the table, obviously. But the safety market, like

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Speaker 4: you said, it's been flooded with some big names, and

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Speaker 4: come to a determination on what the safety market looks

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Speaker 4: like and what these guys are worth considering the amount

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Speaker 4: talks are still ongoing with Julian Blackman, but he has

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Speaker 4: been in talks with other teams, reportedly coming off his

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Speaker 4: best season but got hurt on Christmas eve again. Kind

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Speaker 4: of a little bit of a challenging profile, two major

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor, WHOA, we have got some changes in the

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Speaker 2: Now, I mean completely different. It starts with the kickoff changes.

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Speaker 4: The fair catch rule did not work. Kickoff returns dropped

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking us through that thing step by step.

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Speaker 2: mate football on Christmas. They've said, two games are here.

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Speaker 4: If we can play games on Wednesday, we can play

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