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#UNC linebacker Khmori House press conference
Sep 4, 2025
#UNC linebacker Khmori House press conference
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Um
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I just feel like we we just um got to
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execute execute the job execute the job
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better. Um we just didn't execute the
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way we were supposed to. So we just got
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to um fix it up in the meetings today,
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tomorrow going forward and and focus on
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Charlotte for sure.
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Hey Camori, what's been kind of the
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problem in the locker room after a loss
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like that? That's going to be tough for
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a lot of guys to kind of recover from
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that. What have you guys been doing?
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Man, we just um we just move forward. I
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mean, of course, we don't we don't um
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we're not going to we're not going to
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like just move past it. We obviously got
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to correct things, but we got to move
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forward and we got to um make sure we
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win this week and and and take a foot
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forward.
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For sure.
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Right.
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Uh you and Andrew Simpson left the team
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attack. Obviously not unusual for
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linebackers, but I wonder in the scheme
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is Dline supposed to try to keep guys
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off of you and you guys pick the tackles
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or, you know, could you just have to
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make the tackles because they weren't
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able to get off kind of what they were
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supposed to do?
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Um,
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like I I mean, our scheme is our scheme,
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you know. Everybody has to do their job.
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Play play how they play. And hopefully
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Dline makes some tackles, they make some
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tackles. If we make most of the tackles,
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we make most of the tackles. So, um, we
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just trying to do our job for sure.
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Is the scheme to kind of try to funnel
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funnel those tackles to you guys?
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Um, it's it's for players to make plays.
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It's not it's not for the linebackers,
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not for the D lines. It's for everybody
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to make plays, man. For sure.
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On the left,
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Adam Smith,
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I wanted to ask you about
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the team, the UNCC team that you saw the
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other night against TCU compared to the
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team
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that you might have thought you were
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coming out of camp. Yeah.
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Was there a drastic difference there in
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terms of the way you guys played um as a
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team the other night compared to how you
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thought we would be coming out of camp?
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I think um I I think I think when we
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were when we were doing good, we were
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looking very good and when we when we
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had our lows, we were we were low. So,
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um I feel like if we pick up I mean
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there there's obviously things to work
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on obviously, but if we pick up from the
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good things and correct the things we
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got to work on, we could be a really
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good team. You know what I'm saying? So,
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we're we're just trying to um you know,
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just just stack days. Like I said
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earlier, we got to just keep stacking
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our days. We going to get better for
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sure. That that that's no question. It's
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a no-brainer. We going to get better and
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we we just got to be better for sure.
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Hey, Michael.
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Um the short week from Monday to
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Saturday is a pretty unique challenge in
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college football, but you feel like it's
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a good thing coming off of Monday's game
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where you can get back on the field
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pretty quickly and flush uh what
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happened.
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I feel like it's a great thing. Um we're
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not going to look at it as a negative.
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We're going to look at it as man, we we
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getting back on that field. We getting
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back we get to flush everything out like
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you said and we get to um you know, go
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out there and do what we're supposed to
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do for sure.
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in the back right
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from the RL. Um, now with hindsight, do
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you think that just all the attention
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and hype had maybe a possible negative
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effect on you guys in the first game?
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And how do you think that can be learned
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going forward?
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Nah. Um, I don't think any of that
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really affects most of the guys around.
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Um, we just we just try to um keep keep
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what's in the building in the building.
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um anything else u media and things like
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that. We guys let you guys handle all
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that and we just we just make sure we're
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doing our job and trying to um execute
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for us. You know what I'm saying?
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Uh no West 24/7. You played the most
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snaps out of anyone on defense going
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into a short week. Is that something
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that affects you and how do you have to
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alter your recovery process throughout
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the week?
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Um I'm just making sure I stay on top of
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my body. I got um just get my treatment.
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I'm feeling good. I'm feeling ready to
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go. I'm not I'm not injured. So, I'm I'm
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feeling good. I'm ready to go. Ready to
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play with 76 more for sure.
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Hey, Rob backable observer. What's the
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attitude been around you guys with with
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reviewing film so far? And what were the
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biggest issues you noticed defensively
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coming out on Monday?
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Um I just the attitude around here has
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been just eager to get back on that
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field and correct everything to be
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honest. Um that that's been the the
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attitude and um biggest biggest thing on
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defense is fundamentals. We got to get
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our fundamentals holding in our
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fundamentals and and and do our job. So,
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if we're able to just do your do your
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111th and go out there and execute what
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what what we we're told to execute,
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we'll be we'll be better for sure.
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Front Mario case
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and one of the things M Johnson said
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after the game was that felt like you
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guys didn't really communicate that well
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as a team. Um how do you think what was
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your opinion on that and do you feel
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like there's a way that you guys can go
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about changing that?
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Um, I think communication can always be
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better. Regardless if it was good, it
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can always be better. So, yeah, he's
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right. We We have to um communicate
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better. Um, that that's as a whole.
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Defense for sure. Communicate better.
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Um, yeah. Yeah, I think he was right.
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Middle here.
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So, with the news observer, um, you
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talked about just the fundamentals a
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second ago. We asked coach Bich about
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that as well. He said it's not an issue
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from the middle there. It's just the
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consistency and executing,
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right? Where did you maybe see that on
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Monday? If you could give us an example
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or two of that from a players
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perspective.
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Um I don't have an exact play or thing
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where where fundamentals weren't used.
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I'm just like he said um we started off
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very good as y'all see. We had a um good
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drive opening up. Started off great. 7-0
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went up 7-0. Got a quick stop and then
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once they got uh like I I'll say like a
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penalty. I think it was a PI or
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something like that. Um it kind of like
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shut energy down a little bit. So um
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maybe maybe fundamentals would left
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there but no exact play. But yeah,
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coach told us a few minutes ago that
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often was a lot of guys did their job
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undergoing and that's how things kind of
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bust in place and so forth. Was that
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most of the problem? It was maybe 10
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guys, nine guys did what they were
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supposed to but it was an issue maybe
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one or two. Does that make it an easier
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problem to fix than maybe appears on the
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surface.
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Um, I'm not really counting who who who
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did who who had great fundamentals on
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one play and who didn't on on another
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play. Um, I think I think all around we
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can be better. Um, from the front from
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to the linebackers to the corners to the
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D to the safeties. We all can be better
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and at fundamentals and being more
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consistent for sure. to narrow it down.
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I mean, does it look does it seem to you
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like an easier situation to fix that
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than maybe it appears in the surface
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people who are not in this building?
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Um, it's going to take work for sure,
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but it's not as I mean the scores
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scoreboard was a scoreboard, but it is
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it's going to it's going to get fixed.
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So whether it's easier hard or or it's
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hard, it will get fixed and it will be
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better for sure.
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Yeah.
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Last one. Go ahead. Um just to I guess
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follow up on that. Um I want to ask
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about just like one play that you had
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that's you know a highlight with um
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killed cost and the interception. I know
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that you were kind of involved there.
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Yeah.
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Um could you tell me just about what you
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saw on that play? Maybe that's an
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example of where you know something went
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well for you guys.
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Yeah. Um, so Caleb was supposed to be
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blitzing, gave me the call, I blitzed,
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and then quarterback bubbled it over and
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it was a good interception by Caleb. But
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yeah, great great great play by Caleb
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and and yeah, that's really it for sure.
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Thanks, guys. Yeah.
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So,