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Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss Exit Regret, Aaron Donald Return Rumors are Getting Louder, and Caleb Williams Gets Disrespected in Another List · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: So this story took over the college football world.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a college football fan, you're very well aware
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  Speaker 2: of the Lane Kiffen LSU Ole Miss situation and he
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  Speaker 2: is now the new head coach at LSU and his
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  Speaker 2: exit from SEC rival Ole Miss was.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest stories during last year's playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin accepted the job in Baton Rouge, and he said
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  Speaker 2: that he wished you would have gone in and met
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  Speaker 2: with Keith, the athletic director at ole Miss, and said,
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  Speaker 2: I've made the decision to go. I wish I would
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  Speaker 2: have just said hey, I'd like to coach a team,
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  Speaker 2: and he'd say no, and I'd say, hey, okay, I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it and moved on and never discussed it again.
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  Speaker 1: He said.
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  Speaker 2: He later spoke with motivational speaker Calvin Elko, who told
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  Speaker 2: Giffen he was trying to do something impossible. He said,
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  Speaker 2: it's like you're in a marriage and you're leaving them.
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  Speaker 2: Mar that she thought was great and it was great
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  Speaker 2: for six years and you're leaving it in order to
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  Speaker 2: go to another woman.
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  Speaker 1: Who she despises.
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  Speaker 2: But let me stay in the house for a couple
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  Speaker 2: more weeks with the kids and I might bring some
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  Speaker 2: of the kids with me. You're okay with it, right,
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  Speaker 2: and then gonna leave. And that's what it's gonna be like.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just gonna be like I understand, And there
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  Speaker 2: was no way to do what I was trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: I think that is an incredible, incredible comp for what
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  Speaker 2: lang Kiffen was trying to do. It was very silly,
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  Speaker 2: the idea that he was just going to leave Ole
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  Speaker 2: Miss and everything was going to be copesthetic.
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  Speaker 1: There was not gonna be any issues, There was not
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  Speaker 1: going to be any bad blood.
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  Speaker 2: No one was going to push back, no one was
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  Speaker 2: going to have an opinion about it.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, you make a.
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  Speaker 2: Decision like that to leave all Miss and go to LSU,
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  Speaker 2: you have to stand on it. And if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to take coaches with you, if you're going to disrupt
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  Speaker 2: their playoff situation, you've got to stand on it. And
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  Speaker 2: I like lang Kiffin. I think he's gonna do well
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  Speaker 2: at LSU, And I like LSU. My nephew Mason Taylor
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  Speaker 2: star there in football. I think it's an incredible school
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  Speaker 2: and it's an incredible football program, and I really think
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  Speaker 2: Lane is a great candidate to have great success there.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, ole Miss is always going to hate you, Lane,
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  Speaker 2: And it's okay, I think that comp was perfect. Why
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  Speaker 2: did you think that this was going to be smooth.
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  Speaker 2: There was always going to be pushback. There was always
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  Speaker 2: going to be drama, and if you're taking anyone with you,
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  Speaker 2: that's how it's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he's going to have a success at LSU.
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  Speaker 2: I think ole Miss is going to be fine. It's
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  Speaker 2: all going to end up working out in the end.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, he's always going to be a villain there
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  Speaker 2: no matter what kind of success. Are good things he
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  Speaker 2: did there, the exit does matter, and when you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about college football will rivalries run extremely deep and emotions
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  Speaker 2: are high. And the exit was not smooth. It just wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: So I get it. I've always understood why ole Miss
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  Speaker 2: was upset. I think they're completely within their right to
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  Speaker 2: be up set. And I also think that Lane isn't
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  Speaker 2: right to do what he thinks is best and to
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  Speaker 2: go when he hasn't a bigger opportunity. Almost may not
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  Speaker 2: think elis he has a bigger opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously Lane did, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's all Lyris to it all. It will all work
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  Speaker 1: out in the end.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, this was never going to be a clean exit,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that is a perfect example of how things.
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  Speaker 1: Were going to work out there.
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  Speaker 2: So it's safe to say after winning superl MVP that
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  Speaker 2: Sam Donald is not seeing ghosts anymore. However, he may
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  Speaker 2: be seeing the monster that is Aaron Donald, because apparently
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  Speaker 2: he is seriously considering a return, which I thought was
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  Speaker 2: an impossibility, But the three time Defensive Player of the
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  Speaker 2: Year was seen at the Rams facility recently and Sean
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  Speaker 2: McVay confirmed that he is maybe coming back. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I've cross passed with Aaron Donald, but specialists, we have
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  Speaker 2: a really special relationship. It's way bigger than football. I've
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  Speaker 2: heard him say it before and it means the world
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  Speaker 2: to me and I feel the same. It's famming with us.
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  Speaker 2: He's done so much for me, the man, he is
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  Speaker 2: the husband, the father of the son. He represents a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the things that are right and what he's
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  Speaker 2: going to do is he's thinking about this, He's going
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  Speaker 2: to go through his process, and the one thing about
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald's.
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  Speaker 1: Is what he does, he does at full speed ahead.
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  Speaker 2: So McVay said a lot of nice things, which obviously
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald deserves, and he gets without asking or paying
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  Speaker 2: for any extra walk. The Rams report both rookies and
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  Speaker 2: veterans on Saturday, so this is a story for all
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  Speaker 2: NFL fans to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that he is going to do camp
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  Speaker 2: because he doesn't need to, and.
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  Speaker 1: He really shouldn't have to.
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  Speaker 2: He does need to get in football shape because he's
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  Speaker 2: been two seasons out of football, ten time Pro bowler,
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  Speaker 2: but he obviously needs to be able to He can
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  Speaker 2: be in shape to play at a certain level before
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  Speaker 2: committing to return, and no matter how much you train
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  Speaker 2: in a facility, that's not the same as football shape.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a very very interesting story to
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  Speaker 2: follow because obviously the Rams are an incredibly run organization.
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  Speaker 2: They should already be favored to get to the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl in the NFC with Miles Garrett and with just
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  Speaker 2: the roster that they have. But if you bring back
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  Speaker 2: one of the greatest who ever do it in Aaron Donald,
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  Speaker 2: a first round Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 1: Even two years out of football. I think this puts
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  Speaker 1: them on a whole other level.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone keeps asking about this. It's definitely a real story.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was an absolute no go like retiring,
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  Speaker 2: especially as a defensive player, a physical player, even if
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  Speaker 2: he still was in great shape.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like, okay, like he's ready to walk away.
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  Speaker 2: But this story has a lot of meat to it
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  Speaker 2: and it keeps coming up, so I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: real possibility.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely something to watch. Finally, Kayla Williams and the.
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  Speaker 2: Bears took a lot of strides last year in his
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  Speaker 2: second season and head coach Ben Johnson's first in Chicago. However,
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  Speaker 2: he's still getting a lot of hates and Bears won
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  Speaker 2: a playoff game and are very interesting in large part
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  Speaker 2: because of his running ability and he's rowing the ball
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  Speaker 2: over the field and he has taken huge steps as
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback. Despite all that, CBS Sports just gave the
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  Speaker 2: third year quarterbacks some Poulton board material. In an article
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  Speaker 2: ranking all one hundred and ninety one first round draft
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  Speaker 2: picks since twenty twenty, Mike Renner put Caleb in the
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  Speaker 2: bottom third of draft picks referred to as quote the
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  Speaker 2: most disappointing first round decisions, ranking him one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty seventh best first round pick since the pandemic. Other
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks that fell to the bottom third include Kenny Pickett,
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Young, Justin Fields, Michael Pennock, Junior, JJ McCarthy, Anthony Richardson,
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  Speaker 2: Sack Wilson, and Trey Lance.
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  Speaker 1: So this is insane, Like you cannot.
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  Speaker 2: Win a playoff game with an organization like the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 2: Who have no disrespect to the Chicago Bears. I think
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  Speaker 2: that they are a cornerstone franchise in the NFL, but
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to how they run their offense and
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the NFL, it has been a
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  Speaker 2: very long time since they have been relevant, winning a
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  Speaker 2: playoff game, competing in the second round at a very
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  Speaker 2: high level, showing significant growth as a player as a
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  Speaker 2: franchise quarterback, someone who has fully embraced the responsibility of
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  Speaker 2: being a franchise quarterback in Chicago, of taking that organization
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  Speaker 2: from I mean, I don't want to say obscurity, but
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  Speaker 2: from not being a real competitive organization, particularly within that division,
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  Speaker 2: to really being a contender.
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  Speaker 1: This is blasphemy and I know this is.
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  Speaker 2: This season, and there's always going to be some sort
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  Speaker 2: of something going on. But this is silly. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to be critical of Caleb, let the season go on.
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  Speaker 1: Before you do that.
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  Speaker 2: Like, he came off a great year, a huge step forward.
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  Speaker 2: He is not in the likes of what of Kenny
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  Speaker 2: Pickett and Justin Fields and Anthony Richardson and Zack Wilson
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  Speaker 2: and Trey Lance, Like, be for real that that's just
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  Speaker 2: not true. And if you have to do that because
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  Speaker 2: you're you're concluding everyone, like it just it's very silly.
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  Speaker 2: He plays the most important position, the most highly touted position,
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  Speaker 2: the hardest position, the most the position that gets the
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  Speaker 2: most attention. Like it's just a very silly thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the season and this is how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: But put it on your bulletin board, Caleb, because I
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  Speaker 2: believe you're being disrespected. Caleb has done an amazing job
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago. He is have real work put around him
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  Speaker 2: from the beginning, and I think he has overcome expectations
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  Speaker 2: and criticism and taken an organization that was stuck in
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  Speaker 2: the running game and defensive hell hole to the modern
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  Speaker 2: offensive NFL. And I think Ben Johnson has played a
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  Speaker 2: role in that, but Caleb is the one who.
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  Speaker 1: Had to execute it.
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  Speaker 2: So we are in a list disrespect season and it
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  Speaker 2: is it has kicked into full gear, so we will
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  Speaker 2: see this plays out during the season.
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