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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the team's always the priority. You know.

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Speaker 2: We had obviously the same conversations before the New Orleans

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Speaker 2: you know, that's those are all questions you have to

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Speaker 2: So I'm thankful for that, you know. Just some flexibility,

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Speaker 2: People losing their mind. Yeah want the car?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, we we have a we have an

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Speaker 2: And then once I got in there, I'm like, this

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Speaker 1: What actually happened in the play?

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Speaker 2: so you can't you can't play that game. It's it's football.

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Speaker 2: Stuff happens. But yeah, it was unfortunate, you know, And

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Speaker 2: Did you know and how will that play out this

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Speaker 2: So we'll just go from there.

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Speaker 3: Does this team still need that?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's making the transition from Hunter to the

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Speaker 1: Do you think this team will respond with that sort

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Speaker 2: We can't worry about what's behind us. You know, it

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Speaker 2: same thing goes back to last week. It's you got

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Speaker 2: And the next week we'll come we'll address that and

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Speaker 2: can't worry about Houston or Indie or whoever's behind us.

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Speaker 2: If we take care of business, we're gonna be fine.

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Speaker 2: So it's a little bit of that you have to

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Speaker 2: We're good enough to beat anybody on any day, and

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Speaker 2: we have to do that. And we didn't do that

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Speaker 2: We still control our own destiny, but we can't worry

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Speaker 2: We've already payed Indie twice. We got Tennessee later in

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Speaker 3: Speaking of anxiety, do you walk around worry that you're

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Speaker 3: You don't see crunching, So like, how do you go

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Speaker 2: Just uh, I can't have a good answer for I mean,

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Speaker 2: like that. But it's a great question mark, you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, yeah, we're good, all right,