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Speaker 1: What are we doing? Great? Happy New Year?

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank fells in on who's out there? The

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Speaker 2: Land will be out, Land, who will be out, Tongo

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Speaker 2: will be out, Wilson will be out.

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Speaker 1: Westover re questionable?

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Speaker 2: Is there a plan to activate even Milton Well will

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Speaker 2: to the game on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how they respond from today's work. Try

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Speaker 2: to get them a full week of working. But I

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Speaker 2: think it looks good both of them were able to,

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Speaker 2: you know, work the whole week and we'll see where

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Speaker 2: we're at tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 3: And Robert just even getting out of the practice, I

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Speaker 3: know he's not going to play in this.

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Speaker 2: Game out of what is your reaction to the work

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Speaker 2: he's put in and then just having his presence.

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 2: You know, again, when you go through an injury and

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Speaker 2: you're away from the team, you know, guys that care

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Speaker 2: a lot about the team want to be out there.

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Speaker 2: So just trying to get the return to play. And

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Speaker 2: it felt good enough to get out there and a

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Speaker 2: little bit of work in a limited fashion. So I

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Speaker 2: think that was positive and excited that he uh feeling better.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Obviously there are some specific ways you encourage strength made

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Speaker 1: to be.

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Speaker 2: Uh just everybody in their own way, especially quarterbacks and

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Speaker 2: head coaches have to find a way to reach the

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Speaker 2: team or represent the organization. And yeah, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of different ways that Drake.

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Speaker 1: Can do it.

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Speaker 2: And we focused on, you know, making connections and getting

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Speaker 2: no people and obviously, you know, you have to say

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Speaker 2: things that get people's attention, get players attention where they're

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a different version in your office or

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Speaker 2: locker room and the meeting rooms or on the field. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's just about getting a feel for each person that

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Speaker 2: you're trying to to get a message across too, or

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Speaker 2: you know, try to be able to connect with to

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Speaker 2: help them do their job better.

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Speaker 5: Like yesterday during the immediate portion, we noticed you with

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Speaker 5: some one on one time with Christian. We notice step

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Speaker 5: On sort of leading the huddle one two three break.

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Speaker 5: How would you summarize, givin some of the background stuff

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Speaker 5: that's going on outside of the walls here, How would

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Speaker 5: you summarize how they're doing, you know, in terms of

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Speaker 5: being on the team and going through this.

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Speaker 2: Well, you have an opportunity to talk with them here

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Speaker 2: in the locker room and let them speak for themselves

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Speaker 2: on how they're doing and continue to coach every player

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Speaker 2: for the best of my ability, and the ones that

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Speaker 2: come in each and every day and that are willing

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Speaker 2: to be coached and they are just like everybody else,

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Speaker 2: and that's where you know, that's what I do each

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Speaker 2: and every day.

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Speaker 1: Coach, what are you doing specifically to keep people dialed in?

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Speaker 1: It's been a wild week with you clinched the East

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Speaker 1: and then you.

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Speaker 2: Had the just getting to trouble off the field, and

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Speaker 2: then now this weekend coming up.

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Speaker 1: How do you keep people valing? That's part of my

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Speaker 1: job is to have a message and.

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Speaker 2: To clearly define what the objective is for the day.

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Speaker 2: Today obviously we had some red zone move the field

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Speaker 2: our normal Friday and show them the clips.

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Speaker 1: And teach them. Try to stay as consistent as possible.

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Speaker 2: Michael, what's your message for the team going into this

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Speaker 2: Finnel regular season?

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Speaker 1: As you know, playoffs do start next week.

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Speaker 3: Because there a specific message to the team like this one,

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Speaker 3: this final regular seas the game.

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Speaker 2: I think it would be the same one I told

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Speaker 2: you it was on Wednesday. We're going to practice to

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Speaker 2: improve and we're gonna try to finish what we started.

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Speaker 2: So if I didn't change from Wednesday, to Friday.

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Speaker 1: You talked to Zach it looked like yesterday about quin yours.

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Speaker 1: What stands up for you?

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Speaker 2: I saw an energy at that Tampa Bay game. I

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Speaker 2: saw a youthful energy. Oh guy, that's.

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Speaker 1: To take advantage of his opportunity.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes when you put younger players in there, especially quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: You see him getting up and celebrating. And he had

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Speaker 2: a big scramble at the end of the game and

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Speaker 2: in five minutes it was the first down. Its big

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Speaker 2: play for him. You know, a lot of energy. You know,

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Speaker 2: seems to have a good command of the operation. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of moving parts with that with that offense,

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Speaker 2: the the shifts, the motions, the jet motions, the ball handling.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not just standard. He's under center, he's

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Speaker 2: And then being able to execute the play action and

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Speaker 2: to a good start.

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Speaker 5: What are the considerations you have to make as a

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Speaker 2: Well, it's based on coverage and based on location of

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Speaker 2: players and where they get to and you know, I

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Speaker 2: think it's just a lot of that depends on the

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Speaker 2: coverage that you're in and you know, you start with

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Speaker 2: man the adjustments that you want to make, and then

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Speaker 2: it's split safety and it's post safety zone and how

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Speaker 2: you're gonna bump things or you know, run the nickel

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Speaker 2: and you know, so a lot of teams, you know,

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Speaker 2: i'd say sometimes it's the same each week, and sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's a different you know, whether they keep the nickel

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Speaker 2: some teams travel them into the nickel or into the boundary.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's kind of what you work through in

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Speaker 2: the off season, and then based on game plan, you

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Speaker 2: may make some modifications, like one of those lines, what are.

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Speaker 6: Some of the other challenges associated with the old strategy.

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Speaker 6: We're going to keep our number one corner and have

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Speaker 6: to travel, you know with the number one receiver. Seems

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Speaker 6: like that happens less.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just hard. You know, It's just offenses have

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Speaker 2: I just don't stand out there and put them over

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Speaker 2: there into the boundary, uh and let you you know,

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Speaker 2: cover them. It's sometimes that happens, and sometimes it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: I would say more times than not, it doesn't. They

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Speaker 2: will move players around, move them off the ball motion,

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Speaker 2: you know, and and teams and offensives have gotten really

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Speaker 2: good of the motion where the snap point is the

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Speaker 1: Side stacked or all the way out.

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Speaker 2: So those are all different things that you go through,

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Speaker 2: you know, pretty much to Taylor's question about the motion

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Speaker 2: and adjustin. But then you know the matchup and when

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Speaker 2: you can you obviously I would like to, and then

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Speaker 2: other times where you can't.

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Speaker 3: Right with all the eleven rookies from this draft class,

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Speaker 3: that being active on the fifty to three miles roster.

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Speaker 3: From your perspective, like, how important is to build the

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Speaker 3: team reshaping the team through the draft versus signing free

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Speaker 3: agent and how those two method of companiment each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we all understand how important the draft

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Speaker 2: is to be able to at every level at add

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Speaker 2: to the roster right starters, role players, depth, special teams players,

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Speaker 2: developmental players at some capacity, but then just to try

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Speaker 2: to improve them and develop them and you know, and

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Speaker 2: then there's answers in free agency too. I think there's

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Speaker 2: a fine line. But we obviously, you know, want to

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Speaker 2: be able to continue to build through the draft and

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Speaker 2: make smart decisions and bring the right people in and

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Speaker 2: draft the right people at the right time and have

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Speaker 2: a vision for him and be able to help them

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Speaker 2: reach their full potential.

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Speaker 1: Like how has.

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Speaker 4: Alex Austen looked throughout practice this weekend? Is are there

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Speaker 4: any plans to activate him again? We'll see how he

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Speaker 4: feels tomorrow. I think that it was good to see him,

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Speaker 4: gave a week of work and.

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Speaker 2: You know, I would say it's probably you know, in

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Speaker 2: his role where he was coming from his back up corner,

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Speaker 2: but then the special teams just trying to valuate that

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Speaker 2: and where that may be with his return to play.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes again, we can't have pads at this point in

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Speaker 2: time in the year, so you have to try to,

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Speaker 2: you know, just work on you know, it's a gunner

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Speaker 2: and he's damning a guy that doesn't have pads on,

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Speaker 2: and you know, so we just try to, you know,

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Speaker 2: get creative with that and some of the stuff that

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Speaker 2: we're I want to see and we'll see how he

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Speaker 2: feels tomorrow and then go from there.

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Speaker 1: But it was good to have him back.

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Speaker 6: Mike, who's on the staff departments that are working on

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Speaker 6: you know, kind of looking ahead, get you a head

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Speaker 6: start next week, regardless of who the opponents, what are

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Speaker 6: they doing this week?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I was, you know, we don't have

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Speaker 2: any idea. I mean, you have a you can look

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Speaker 2: at percentages, you know. I think I'm confident that we'll

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Speaker 2: be ready for whoever we play, and we'll have all

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Speaker 2: the games and the breakdown and but yeah, don't want

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Speaker 2: to start guessing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, plans on playing Foxborough High School to open next season.

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Speaker 1: That's for the topic of conversation this week as well.

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Speaker 1: On a lighter.

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Speaker 2: Note, that's been around since I played here. So anything

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Speaker 2: that we can do to support Foxborough High School football

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Speaker 2: team I am willing to do. And so maybe next

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Speaker 2: year we can we can tie in a scrimmage before

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Speaker 2: our stadium scrimmage, or we'll come up with something creative.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. Give me a stretch a year and we'll

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Speaker 1: come up with something. New Year's resolution, just win as

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Speaker 1: many games as we possibly can. Thanks guys,