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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, as you said, every every quarterback, every
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Speaker 1: NFL quarterback, head coach is going to go through um
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Speaker 1: adversity scrutiny. Everything's under a microscope, um, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and it's just it's just a matter of um, you know,
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Speaker 1: if you wanted to go away, you start, you start
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Speaker 1: working on it, and you work, you work on it
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Speaker 1: to go away. And you know that's something that I
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Speaker 1: can help him with, I know the staff can help
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Speaker 1: him with and and try to put put most of this,
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Speaker 1: most of this behind him. And you know that's one
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Speaker 1: thing and I've said this before with with Trevor too,
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Speaker 1: is he does a nice job of sort of compartmentalizing
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Speaker 1: things and kind of keeping things on the back burner
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Speaker 1: and just focusing on you know, his job and and
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Speaker 1: uh improving, improving just this week and getting better. So uh,
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Speaker 1: that's that's what we expect. That's what I expect. And
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Speaker 1: and uh, I know, I know he'll do that thing
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Speaker 1: to somebody ever wrote he said about you when you
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Speaker 1: were playing is still stature. I mean there's a couple
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Speaker 1: of things. Um, you know, I'll probably do it off
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Speaker 1: the record with you, um, but uh um, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: dealing with Carson in Philadelphia. Then when you took a
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Speaker 1: year off, he came back. In terms of dealing with
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Speaker 1: the young quarterback, the good top the bad cop, how
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Speaker 1: do you approach managing that quarterback? What did you learn
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Speaker 1: from your experience with Carson that you are now applying
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Speaker 1: to dealing with You know, I think I think number one,
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Speaker 1: you gotta be honest, you know, with the player, um,
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Speaker 1: and and that's good and bad, right, and you just
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Speaker 1: you'r up front with them, and you gotta have constructive dialogue,
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Speaker 1: you know, with with him and with really with all
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Speaker 1: your players and your team. And and uh, I never
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Speaker 1: want to be someone that wants to kind of sugarcoat anything.
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Speaker 1: I think we have to be honest that way, even
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Speaker 1: even in my performance um as well. And you know,
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Speaker 1: in taking that, I think from what I learned in
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Speaker 1: Philly during that time, it's just just doing that, being
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Speaker 1: being open and honest and really sometimes you gotta have
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Speaker 1: tough different, you know, tough conversations with with players and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's a quarterback or not, and you
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Speaker 1: know it's it's we're going to work through everything together.
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Speaker 1: And and that's what we do. And uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: we we dig ourselves out of whatever we're in and
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Speaker 1: and you know, continue to improve the tough love from
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Speaker 1: one entity or that's for coaching staff or teammates and
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Speaker 1: then aby a little bit of software approach from another
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Speaker 1: or is it just organically whatever it is, I think
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Speaker 1: it's organic um things too. You know what you're dealing
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Speaker 1: with your quarterback, and you want to be as positive
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Speaker 1: as you can't do, and you want to make sure
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Speaker 1: that he's in the right frame of mind, you know,
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Speaker 1: as he has he attacks each week and and you
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Speaker 1: never want to put too much on him. But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, we also understand that you know, we
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Speaker 1: we you know, we're in a business this performance based too, um,
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Speaker 1: and then that goes for me and you know, we
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Speaker 1: got to make sure that we're all um, you know,
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Speaker 1: doing doing what's best each week to to try to
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Speaker 1: win a game. If any did you have with Trent
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Speaker 1: prior to pulling the trigger on the Calvin Ridley trade
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Speaker 1: in what are your thoughts about it? I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: trying I talk a lot about a lot of different
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Speaker 1: situations and and we obviously talked about this one and
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Speaker 1: and you know, um listen, it's you guys have heard
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Speaker 1: us talk about this before. We're gonna always look to
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Speaker 1: add talent to this roster, you know, any any way possible,
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Speaker 1: any shape, form, and and and I feel like we've
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Speaker 1: done that. Now. Obviously, we won't know what we have
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Speaker 1: until you know, the league clears him and and all
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Speaker 1: of that. And we understand that. But you know, at
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Speaker 1: the same time, we feel like we're getting a really
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Speaker 1: good football player to to already adding to a good
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Speaker 1: a good room, and and great leaders in that room
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Speaker 1: that will that will embrace him when he when he
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Speaker 1: finally gets here. Do you feel do you feel that
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Speaker 1: the risk what was was was reasonable. Yes, talked to um,
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Speaker 1: I can't you know, we can't right now. Um, I
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Speaker 1: just gotta gotta be off limits right now until until
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Speaker 1: he gets reinstated by the league. In recent history of
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Speaker 1: seeing some teams to make that trade for a young
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Speaker 1: wide receiver, Josh Allen got Stefon Diggs too, have got
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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill recently. Do you think Calvin Ridley can be
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Speaker 1: that kind of receiver that helps Trevor Lawrence take that
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Speaker 1: big jump. I think he adds to the guys we have.
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Speaker 1: I mean, um, I think it's I think we just
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Speaker 1: made that room stronger, quite honestly, and um, we we
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Speaker 1: just it's it's you know, we're speculating obviously, uh a
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Speaker 1: year from now or whatever. But you know, we're excited
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Speaker 1: to to have the player when we do get him
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Speaker 1: and welcome him, you know in here, when we get
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Speaker 1: a chance to to do that this year. No, I
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Speaker 1: mean we look, we look at that, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's something that that Trent and I we take a
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Speaker 1: look at and and we're constantly, um, you know, you
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Speaker 1: see it now with some of the some of the
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Speaker 1: moves we've made just with either a practice squad guy
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Speaker 1: or adding guys to the fifty three, whatever it might be.
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Speaker 1: But um, you're always gonna look, you know, and and
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Speaker 1: I think, uh, entertain every phone call that that comes
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Speaker 1: your way. But you know, we're very pleased and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, happy with where we are and who we
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Speaker 1: have and the guys we have now, and we just
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Speaker 1: got to continue to to build upon that and keep
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Speaker 1: working and you know, get it turned night. Well yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's pretty easy because we've got nine
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Speaker 1: games left and we're still you know, we're still focused
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Speaker 1: on on you know, this week and getting prepared for
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Speaker 1: this week and obviously we'll cross that bridge when when
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Speaker 1: the time comes. How daunting is it to play? But
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Speaker 1: how the team hasn't scored previous week, you worry about that,
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Speaker 1: firing them up and being you know, need a motivation,
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Speaker 1: motivating factor. I love the second time I was. I
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Speaker 1: mean that just that's proves the point. I mean, you know, um,
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Speaker 1: we had a game just like that this season where
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Speaker 1: where we held a held a team to zero and
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Speaker 1: then you know, next thing, you know, they're over thirty
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Speaker 1: points the next next time we play them. So each
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Speaker 1: week is different, and each game plan is different, and
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Speaker 1: the set of circumstances are different, and you you put
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Speaker 1: the past in the past and you focus focus on
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Speaker 1: the current. So, um, I would expect a different you know,
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Speaker 1: Raider team this weekend. You've done that when you stay
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Speaker 1: out last. I think before they're staying out East. Is
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Speaker 1: Kennedy taxing on a team or Kennedy refreshing cann't do
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Speaker 1: do a little bit bold? I mean maybe both. I
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Speaker 1: think it's more the bond. I think it's more of
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Speaker 1: the coming together, the closeness of the team being around
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Speaker 1: each other. You know, Um, I've done that, Gone gone West,
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Speaker 1: and stayed and stayed on the West Coast. And it's
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Speaker 1: it's helped teams. It's helped the teams I've I've been
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Speaker 1: a part of do that. And you know, again, I
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Speaker 1: think it's uh, um, you know, obviously it's the team
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Speaker 1: or the coach's discretion on what they do. But UM,
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Speaker 1: I think it can be a little both. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: need any more, you know, I think you know, Josh
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Speaker 1: is a really good player, Josh is a good leader,
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Speaker 1: Josh is valuable to this football team. And and you know, um,
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Speaker 1: he knows that there's times where he needs to play better,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and that could be the case for
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Speaker 1: for a few guys, you know, and um, but that's
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Speaker 1: all part of the you know, the longevity of a season,
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Speaker 1: and you know, it's the grind of the season and
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Speaker 1: being at your peak every single Sunday, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and coaches and players, you just can't take plays off,
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Speaker 1: you can't take days off. You can't you can't rest.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you just gotta keep pushing. And and he
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Speaker 1: knows that he understands that, and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: expect you know, expect great things from him. Shot out
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Speaker 1: is Tyson trailing at number one wide receiver for the opposition.
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Speaker 1: He did a little bit, you know Sunday. Um, that's
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Speaker 1: something that will continue to explore as we go. And um,
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Speaker 1: obviously the Raiders have a pretty good receiver over there.
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Speaker 1: And and um, you know, without giving away game plans
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Speaker 1: and stuff, but um, we'll see how the week goes.
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Speaker 1: With speaking, apparently he was hit with this illness that
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Speaker 1: they have like running through their organization. You know, Josh
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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniel said, there's like only like five or six
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Speaker 1: days that haven't founden whatever this bug is. As a coach,
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Speaker 1: like how do you manage that? You know, you just
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Speaker 1: you you pump them full of meds and you get
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Speaker 1: them as far away from the team as you can.
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Speaker 1: And I hope they get better, you know, in the
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Speaker 1: next couple of days. And you know, that's just part
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Speaker 1: of it's part of lot. You know, guys are gonna
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Speaker 1: get sick and ill or coaches are gonna come down
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Speaker 1: ill and you know, and and um, you know, they've
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Speaker 1: got to make sure they stay hydrated to get their
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Speaker 1: rest and and get the meds they need to you know,
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Speaker 1: be back either the next day or the next next day.
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Speaker 1: After that, when you watched the team when they're lost
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Speaker 1: last week. Did it look like Devonte make a couple
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Speaker 1: of other guys it looked like they were lethargic, or
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Speaker 1: did it look like the Saints just out of sound
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Speaker 1: game land? I mean the Saints played well. Don't don't
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Speaker 1: take anything away from them. They played well. Um. I
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Speaker 1: know the Raiders have to be frustrated obviously, um, you know. Um,
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Speaker 1: and and they probably feel a lot like we do,
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Speaker 1: you know, quite frankly, And and you know it's we're
9:40
Speaker 1: trying to get better. They're trying to get better. Um,
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Speaker 1: we're trying to improve. You know. Both teams are trying
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Speaker 1: to win a game, and it's hard to do in
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Speaker 1: this league, as we know. And um, you know, I
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Speaker 1: just know that it's gonna be. It's gonna be a better,
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Speaker 1: better team that we see, you know, this Sunday seeing
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Speaker 1: Kylvi gonna lock in the NFC, knowing about a pre
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Speaker 1: drafted that to help with the evaluation. Know, and he
10:01
Speaker 1: hasn't played in two years, yeah a little bit. I
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Speaker 1: mean he's very talented, you know, and and um, great
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Speaker 1: route runner, good speed, um, a good kid. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: just all the things I can remember watching you know,
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Speaker 1: even back then and now and um again, it's just
10:20
Speaker 1: you know, adding adding a really good talented player to
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Speaker 1: an already talented room is like balancing kind of you know,
10:27
Speaker 1: working with Trent and trying to find those players are
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Speaker 1: now in the future. And also you know, you're in
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Speaker 1: the middle food season, you're in the game plan and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. I mean, it's you know, obviously you'd
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Speaker 1: love to have a player you know now sometimes you
10:39
Speaker 1: know that that, but that's not where we are, you know,
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Speaker 1: and we're always looking to to improve and and uh
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Speaker 1: add that talent you know where we can. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: in this situation, you can't control this, you know, you
10:51
Speaker 1: can't control the situation right, the circumstances around the players.
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Speaker 1: So we're just excited to have him and and I
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Speaker 1: can't wait to get him here. How much do you tweet? Practiced?
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Speaker 1: Trying to cover a little bit from the trave a
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Speaker 1: little bit so they'll be different. Um, you know, we'll
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Speaker 1: slow some things down, do more walk through today, extended
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Speaker 1: walk through this morning, um, you know, and still try
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Speaker 1: to get the players the mental reps they need today.
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Speaker 1: I still want them to move around though it's a
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Speaker 1: big day, you know, you're a couple of days removed
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Speaker 1: from the game and to travel and want them to
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Speaker 1: you know, move around a little bit and and uh
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Speaker 1: still continue to flush the travel and the physicality from
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Speaker 1: from their system. Quick look back again. But we're an
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Speaker 1: end the travel issues he had, the coach and the players,
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Speaker 1: were those troubles for you now, Now it wasn't. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we as an organization, as you know leaders here, we
11:48
Speaker 1: were all on the same page. We were we had
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Speaker 1: a plan for it, you know. So, Um, there were
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Speaker 1: no issues that way a year and a half a
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Speaker 1: year or lass where they are looting. Yes, Um, I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's a concern. I mean for the player.
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Speaker 1: I think you know, you look at it as a
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Speaker 1: possible fresh start, um, kind of rejuvenated, much like myself. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, energy level be high, a new team, you know,
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Speaker 1: coming back to Florida, all those all those things for
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Speaker 1: the players are all positives you know, um from playing.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's just a matter of once he is
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Speaker 1: cleared by the league, um, getting in, getting him in
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Speaker 1: here when we can, and and getting him caught up.
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Speaker 1: I gotta take people's word. I mean, you trust some
12:47
Speaker 1: folks every now and then you don't have any concerns
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Speaker 1: though it regards to the league clearing him or not
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Speaker 1: at the sign I mean, obviously I hope not, you know,
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Speaker 1: I hope that the I hope the league you know,
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Speaker 1: clears him in and due time and obviously after the season,
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Speaker 1: but you know, we'll wait till that time. There's also
13:04
Speaker 1: been in some reports of kind of falling out of
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Speaker 1: love with football, something that's all struggles over the course
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Speaker 1: of the last two years or so. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if that came up at all during your research before
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Speaker 1: the trade. You know, we're aware of all the circumstances
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Speaker 1: surrounding uh, you know, Calvin, and obviously very sensitive to
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Speaker 1: you know, the mental health of all the players and
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Speaker 1: making sure that everybody's really really you know, taking taken
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Speaker 1: well care of. And that's something that that will continue
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Speaker 1: to do with with our current roster obviously and and
13:35
Speaker 1: obviously when he gets in here. So um, we got
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Speaker 1: a great team of people in place. They're they're ready
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Speaker 1: to embrace that. Like betting guys crazy, you can't talk
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Speaker 1: to them, you know what I mean, but you can
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Speaker 1: talk to people around it very similar, very similar, you know,
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Speaker 1: you just you try to get as much information, you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: from from folks maybe and around his camp and obviously
14:00
Speaker 1: dealings and Trent can can probably allude to it later.
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Speaker 1: But you know, talking to the Falcons and some of
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Speaker 1: the coaches that worked with them and things like that.
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Speaker 1: You know, he first brought to your agi potential. Oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, um months ago, a week ago. I mean,
14:18
Speaker 1: you know these are conversations too. I think that uh uh,
14:25
Speaker 1: you know, you look at free agency back even in
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Speaker 1: the spring when free agency hits, you know, you're looking
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Speaker 1: at everything, right, i mean, all the at that at
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Speaker 1: that position. You know, obviously his name was in the
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Speaker 1: the hat in the bucket, you know, um, back back
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Speaker 1: in the spring when we looked at free agency again,
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Speaker 1: can you talk about the thought process of train for
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Speaker 1: him now as opposed to when he is reinstated next year?
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Speaker 1: Do we play the Raiders this week? I'm just wondering.
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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering. I mean, we got a game up Sunday.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about a player that won't be here for
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Speaker 1: hopefully for months, you know, but because of how everything
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Speaker 1: can surrounding it, I'm sorry, ask again the process of
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Speaker 1: training from now as opposed to when he is pin
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Speaker 1: next year, the thought process, training for him, trading for him. Now, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you're, Um, you're you're you're betting
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Speaker 1: on the future, right You're you're putting resources out there
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Speaker 1: to get a to get a top receiver caliber type
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Speaker 1: player in this league. And you know, obviously again it
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Speaker 1: goes back to whenever he's reinstated, the second we can
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Speaker 1: get him in here, it will be no different than
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Speaker 1: when we got you know, z and Christian and all
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Speaker 1: those guys this year. You know, just just getting him
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Speaker 1: the playbook, getting him caught up. When when the off
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Speaker 1: season program starts and um go from there. How much
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Speaker 1: playing the Raiders in the whole Fame Game? How much
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Speaker 1: do you actually look back on it? Came back with,
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Speaker 1: thank you. How much did um playing that in the
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Speaker 1: Whole Fame Game? Like, do you even look back at that? Take?
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Speaker 1: Not much? Not much, because both teams are different. Um,
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Speaker 1: we didn't play a lot of guys. They didn't play
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Speaker 1: a ton of guys, you know, UM, and so you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's different. So you don't really go back
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Speaker 1: that much. You may a little bit maybe look at
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Speaker 1: the first quarter, you know, but but other than that,
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Speaker 1: I don't really pay attention to that. They're running backs
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Speaker 1: didn't have success in that game, and they found it
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Speaker 1: up and down over the last few weeks. I think
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Speaker 1: Josh Jacob, you said, just not at all of the ballpark.
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Speaker 1: How do you look at that room and not even
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Speaker 1: fair for them. Yeah, I mean it's uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: that was one thing from that that Hall of Fame game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they would had the ability to run the ball,
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Speaker 1: you know, against us, and I think they got some
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Speaker 1: really good running backs Josh Jacobs, who knows a powerful
16:50
Speaker 1: guy can run, And you know that's the key is obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, slowing the run down, you know, and you know,
16:57
Speaker 1: again it just comes back to discipline upfront for us
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Speaker 1: being in the right gaps and um, you know, tackling
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Speaker 1: these guys when when we can for the first year time,
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Speaker 1: I think it's possible. Um obviously you can't speak for that,
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Speaker 1: but I think it's it can. There's surprisedly some similarities,
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Speaker 1: you know, with with what both organizations and teams are
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Speaker 1: going through right now with some of that and and
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Speaker 1: just kind of just kind of working working through it all. Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,