It's been the last time we have Coach on for this season. Dan, we've appreciated having

you on all year, unfortunately, last time. But good morning.

Good morning.

When you talked about that NFC title game and some of your comments about just how hard it is,

were you talking about kind of the way this season's gone, just how difficult it is to get

back to that point?

Well, yeah, I mean, it's a dose of reality.

It's a tough league, man.

It's hard to win, and you've got to do a lot, a lot of things right.

And you've got to do it right on every level, every level in the organization, on the team, coaches, players, all of it.

And you get a little bit off and you get out of line and it becomes very hard.

I know you still have one game left on Sunday, but as Jim says, this last time,

you'll be on with us.

And I know you can't give specific names, but you guys taught,

you even mentioned that we have to fall,

we have to stop or don't,

I should say,

fall in love with our own guys.

In hindsight,

do you think with,

you know,

player acquisition,

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