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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to a better team now at
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Speaker 1: the end of the season and walk.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you would hope, so right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously we haven't played a game yet, so
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Speaker 3: we don't really know. But I feel like we've added
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Speaker 3: some pieces through free agency that are gonna help us.
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Speaker 3: They give us depth. You know, we got some experienced
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Speaker 3: guys and like Eric Armstead, Mitch Morse who can really
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Speaker 3: add some one the competition you're looking for. But two,
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Speaker 3: I think of veteran presence at those positions, you know,
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Speaker 3: a guy like Mac Jones to come in and solidify
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Speaker 3: and really give us three quarterbacks that that you're gonna need,
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Speaker 3: you know, as as we've seen, as history would say.
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Speaker 3: You know, our number one thing though, is to keep
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Speaker 3: Trevor healthy. Our best chance of winning games is keeping
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Speaker 3: Trevor healthy, you know. So I feel like we've and
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Speaker 3: then re signing guys you know, like the the the Dts, right,
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Speaker 3: Daniel Thomas and and Caleb Johnson, and restructuring Brandon and
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Speaker 3: you know, getting Ezra Cleveland back and just being able
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Speaker 3: to kind of work through your roster that way, and
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Speaker 3: and you know, getting the guys that that are gonna
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Speaker 3: help us win football games moving forward, It's not.
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Speaker 2: What does that do?
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Speaker 3: Well? Did you guys know I you know, I was
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Speaker 3: in Kansas City when we drafted him, so obviously liked him.
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Speaker 3: And and now that he became available, you know, and
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Speaker 3: Luke's listen, this is not a It's not a knock
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Speaker 3: on Luke at all. It's just a matter of getting
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Speaker 3: better at at a position, getting better as a group.
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Speaker 2: And I think Mitch brings a veteran presence.
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Speaker 3: He's done it for several years now, and it's really
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Speaker 3: somebody that Luke can invest some time learning from, right.
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Speaker 2: And and understanding.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think I think Mitch's strengths can be
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Speaker 3: Luke's weaknesses and vice versa.
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Speaker 2: Right luke strengths and Mitch's weaknesses.
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Speaker 3: And they can really work together and and uh have
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Speaker 3: have what I would, you know, that competition that you want.
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Speaker 3: And and so having a guy like Mitch, a veteran
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Speaker 3: backup come in, much.
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Speaker 2: Like when we signed Brandon a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 2: just just helps him better. As an offensive.
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Speaker 3: Line is Dave Davids spitting the one pointing offense and
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Speaker 3: Gabe is that to me, he's like a Swiss army knife.
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Speaker 2: You know he can, he can he obviously he can
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Speaker 2: run routes.
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Speaker 3: He I mean, the guy's right around eighty one eighty
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Speaker 3: two targets a year for the last four years, you
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Speaker 3: know if you average him.
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Speaker 2: Out, So he's a he's a He's a big part
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Speaker 2: of the offense, you know, in Buffalo, and I.
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Speaker 3: Think he's gonna be another key piece to to what
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Speaker 3: we're doing. And and you know, we can put him
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Speaker 3: in positions to block, we can put him in positions
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Speaker 3: to run. He's a good route runner, he's strong, he's big,
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Speaker 3: he's local, you know, I mean, all things are positive
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Speaker 3: with Gabe and and really looking forward to getting him
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Speaker 3: in there and seeing how he does fit with with
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Speaker 3: with Christian and Zay and you know he and Devin
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Speaker 3: Duverney now getting him in that mix, and and obviously
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Speaker 3: Parker Washington, Elijah Cook, some of the young guys we have. Uh,
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Speaker 3: it should be a really good, exciting offseason to see
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Speaker 3: just how we can make all these pieces work.
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Speaker 4: How we've talked about making more plays out here, and
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Speaker 4: that's what he wants to make his next s down
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Speaker 4: Evan Ingram again, So is that the next profession for
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Speaker 4: him to be more of a downfield guy, and that
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Speaker 4: a lot of that depends on how.
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Speaker 2: You want to use him. Yeah, it depends on how
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Speaker 2: you want to use him. But he's definitely.
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Speaker 3: Capable of doing that. He's shown that we've got as
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Speaker 3: a staff. We've got to put him in positions to
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Speaker 3: do that.
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Speaker 2: Number one.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean that, you know, for a guy
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Speaker 3: like Evan, I think that's you know, with his skill set,
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Speaker 3: I think it's uh, it would only help us right
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Speaker 3: with his his ability to get down the field, his speed,
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Speaker 3: you know, strong to the catch point, all that.
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Speaker 2: Kind of stuff, you know. And and again I put
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Speaker 2: it more back on us as as as you know,
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Speaker 2: play callers.
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Speaker 3: Decision makers to to make sure that where we are,
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Speaker 3: you know, putting him in that that position for Brenton screens.
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Speaker 2: Editions supposed to kind of help end work. Yeah, you
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Speaker 2: know it is and it will, you know.
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Speaker 3: And and you know, Brenton's another young tight end that
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Speaker 3: we got to find ways to get on the field
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Speaker 3: and and create create some matchups. We like what he
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Speaker 3: did last year for us, and we can now we
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Speaker 3: can build upon that. And and uh, I think that
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Speaker 3: tight end room is a.
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Speaker 2: Strong room, even with Luke, you know, with Luke in there.
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Speaker 3: And it just again there's there's depth, and there's there's stability, which, uh,
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Speaker 3: which you gotta have.
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Speaker 2: Essay, you brought in with Darnell Savias. What would you
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Speaker 2: like about having three? You know, he's a.
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Speaker 3: His nickel, his nickel coverage ability inside, uh, his his
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Speaker 3: ability to blitz.
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Speaker 2: He's he's a he's.
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Speaker 3: A good tackler, he's a willing tackler. He's he's a
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Speaker 3: he's a pretty good cover guy, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 3: just all things that that we were looking.
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Speaker 2: For at that position.
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Speaker 3: And he's got the versatility to play multiple spots too
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Speaker 3: on defense. So he does give you that that safety
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Speaker 3: flex if you want to do it. You can play
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Speaker 3: that nickel spot if if you want to move him
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Speaker 3: in there. We have a young kid, Antonio Johnson. It's
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be a nice little you know, work in
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Speaker 3: progress there with with these two guys. And and just
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Speaker 3: excited again to get him in and get him get
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Speaker 3: him working.
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Speaker 2: When he when he can't.
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Speaker 1: The safety market big kind of the value the pay what's.
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Speaker 3: The impact value of having a conversas like Darnell like
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Speaker 3: like a safe.
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Speaker 2: They do a lot of things and I think anymore.
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Speaker 3: You're starting to see more guys with position flexibility, you know,
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Speaker 3: just like you would offensive lineman, right. You know, guards
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Speaker 3: that can play center, tackles, can play both sides. You know, receivers,
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Speaker 3: you can move receivers around. I just think it's a
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Speaker 3: It just helps your overall overall team. And and and
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Speaker 3: if you do have an injury at us at a position,
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Speaker 3: you can plug and play a guy. And and so
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Speaker 3: having a guy like Darnell who has that that ability
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Speaker 3: to play some safety, even even Antonio who we afted
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Speaker 3: Antonio can play safety, you can play nickel. So you know,
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Speaker 3: you got you got the best of both worlds out
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Speaker 3: of those two guys.
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Speaker 1: How much do you good? Is that important in the
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Speaker 1: new defensive scheme you guys be able to do that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is? It is.
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Speaker 3: You know Ryan's scheme is is a little more four
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Speaker 3: down you know. And look, you're playing seventy five plus
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Speaker 3: percent anyway in nickel defense, right, so you're always gonna
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Speaker 3: be in four down fronts.
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Speaker 2: And and and you can.
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Speaker 3: Always gonna play with a nickel, whether it's a normal
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Speaker 3: nickel body or a big nickel as a third safety.
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Speaker 3: You know, teams want to call it sometimes, but yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's all part of what Ryan wants to do and
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Speaker 3: what he wants to get accomplished. How much do you
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Speaker 3: think not many of his division, especially frankly losing the
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Speaker 3: way to you think will serve us feel for the
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Speaker 3: guys that are coming back. Yeah, you're you know, obviously
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Speaker 3: he's a coacher hopeful that that's the that's the motivation, right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the way we finished the last month and
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Speaker 3: a half, it's not our standard and it's not what
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Speaker 3: we talk about. It's it's it goes against everything we
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Speaker 3: talk about really, you know, and we still had opportunities
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Speaker 3: all the way to the you know, the eighteenth week
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Speaker 3: of the regular season, so you know, we're there at
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Speaker 3: the end. Uh, we just got to figure out a
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Speaker 3: way to kind of push through that envelope and and
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Speaker 3: and be there. And in credit Houston, I mean they
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Speaker 3: battled their tails off all year. They were much like
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Speaker 3: us a year ago in twenty two. We had to
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Speaker 3: battle our tails off to get where we got to. So, uh,
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Speaker 3: credit to Damiko and his staff and those players in Houston,
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Speaker 3: you know for winning the division the way they did.
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Speaker 4: Slipped back from that what you mentioned you were a
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Speaker 4: hunter of twenty twenty two, last year, the year the hunting?
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Speaker 2: Are you in some ways?
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Speaker 1: I mean you you had to get to Philly, your
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Speaker 1: team's killing the same way, started out as.
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Speaker 2: Hunters and then became done here. How do you know
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Speaker 2: or do you kind of kind of balance that.
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like teams do better as the hunter.
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Speaker 2: Or I guess?
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know now we're we're going back to
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Speaker 3: the hunter again, right, I mean, but you know, this
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Speaker 3: is the culture that I want to establish in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 3: And this is the reason why you go get guys
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Speaker 3: like Mitch Morse and Eric Armstead's and the Darnell Savages
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Speaker 3: and guys that have been to the postseason.
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Speaker 2: These guys have been captains on their.
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Speaker 3: Teams, and you know, they've been to Super Bowls, They've
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Speaker 3: they've been to AFC Championship games.
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Speaker 2: You know, so these guys know how to win.
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Speaker 3: And that's that's kind of the influx of talent that
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Speaker 3: we want to bring on to this our young roster
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Speaker 3: guys that have been there, done that, and and you know,
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Speaker 3: again it's just I've got to continue to message the
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Speaker 3: team in the right way and and you know, there's
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Speaker 3: got to be a sort of a confidence about you
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Speaker 3: that you know when you when you take the field
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Speaker 3: on game day that hey, you know, yeah.
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Speaker 2: There's gonna be game, you're gonna get beat. I understand that.
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Speaker 3: But you've got to have that confidence, in that swagger,
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Speaker 3: that that you know you're gonna get the job done,
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Speaker 3: you know, on game day. And and I think bringing
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Speaker 3: in some of these free agents we did this this
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Speaker 3: spring are gonna.
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Speaker 4: Help that Titan.
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Speaker 3: Way after Well, for me, it's it's not so much
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Speaker 3: that loss as much as his the last you know,
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Speaker 3: six games, when we were sitting there at eight and
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Speaker 3: three and we had everything going for us and right
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Speaker 3: in front of us.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll ever get over it.
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Speaker 3: I think for me, it's gonna be my motivation, my fuel,
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Speaker 3: you know, moving forward, you know, And and I'm not
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Speaker 3: gonna let it cloud the vision. But at the same time,
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Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be it's gonna be close in my
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Speaker 3: mind as as I as I move forward with the
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Speaker 3: team this spring.
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Speaker 1: Treating those Tobody ever understanding my train.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know this guy, first of all, he's played
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Speaker 3: a ton of football. You know, Trent has familiarity with him,
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Speaker 3: drafted him in San Francisco. He's been an outstanding player
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Speaker 3: for them obviously. And and somebody a player that you know,
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Speaker 3: we got Josh Allen, who's you know, a fifth year guy.
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Speaker 3: Trayvon is a young second year guy or going into
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Speaker 3: his third. This is somebody that can come in and
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Speaker 3: and I think can really number one, help help Treybon,
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Speaker 3: you know, continue to grow. But at the same time
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Speaker 3: give us what we need with the scheme that that Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Nielson wants to wants to employ.
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Speaker 3: Bye by having the pieces there, he can play defensive end,
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Speaker 3: he can he can move inside on third down, he
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Speaker 3: can you know, same with Treyvon, he can play in,
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Speaker 3: he can move inside.
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Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of different things.
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Speaker 3: And then you add Roy Robertson, you add Devon, you
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Speaker 3: you know, Josh in there.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's a there's a.
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Speaker 3: The making of a potentially good defensive line by adding
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Speaker 3: a guy like like Eric and his his credibility, his
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Speaker 3: work ethic and just the amount of football and where
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Speaker 3: he's you know, where he's played.
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Speaker 1: Jive skills MultiMate a year. How much does that play
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Speaker 1: until it's huge?
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Speaker 3: You know those And again that's the reason why you
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Speaker 3: go get guys like that that have that have kind
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Speaker 3: of been there and done it. They're they're they're, you know,
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Speaker 3: the the pinnacle of our sport. And and you know,
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Speaker 3: I need guys on our team that have had accolades
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Speaker 3: and awards like that that, uh, our guys can see
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Speaker 3: exactly what that looks like, right, And and that's kind
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Speaker 3: of the next step or the next phase for us
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Speaker 3: as a team moving forward.
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Speaker 1: You think you guys got comfortable and eating great or
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Speaker 1: maybe even going.
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Speaker 3: Into I believe, I believe so I believe you can
11:31
Speaker 3: can definitely get get comfortable. You can kind of believe
11:35
Speaker 3: and and and read into the hype that's surrounding your
11:38
Speaker 3: football team.
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Speaker 2: And you know, that's.
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Speaker 3: The one thing that you can't happen, right, You've got
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Speaker 3: to guard against that obviously. And and you know something
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Speaker 3: that I think our team is going to realize, you know,
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Speaker 3: move forward.
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Speaker 1: How do you personally over that?
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Speaker 2: Where good with messaging on that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's just it's just a matter of
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Speaker 5: staying positive.
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Speaker 3: I think it's just staying forward, focus, forward thinking, and
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Speaker 3: and you know, you hate to live in the past,
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Speaker 3: but I think you can remember the past, you know,
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Speaker 3: And I think it's I think it's fuel moving forward.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of our motivation as we as we go.
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Speaker 3: How do you feel a bunch of quarterback room.
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Speaker 2: Right now in your whole corner? I feel good, you know,
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Speaker 2: I do feel good.
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Speaker 3: You know, uh, Ronald Darby who we had in Philly
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Speaker 3: and and added that piece obviously, and and.
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Speaker 2: With Tyson back there, and.
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Speaker 3: And you know now with Darnell adding that mix, we
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Speaker 3: got as we mentioned Antonio and you know, we so
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Speaker 3: we got some young players that have played and and
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Speaker 3: you know, mon Teric and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's obviously a position that that that.
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Speaker 3: We're always gonna you know, it's a passing league, right,
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Speaker 3: so you got to have defenders.
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Speaker 2: And you gotta have guys that can that can cover
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Speaker 2: the past. But you also have guys too.
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Speaker 3: I mean, in our division, you're gonna you know, there's
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Speaker 3: no shortage of running backs, so they're gonna have to
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Speaker 3: be fit.
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Speaker 2: Isn't going to tackle as well. And so.
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Speaker 3: But I feel like we we we've improved, and and
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Speaker 3: you know, we still have the draft ahead of us
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Speaker 3: and and and all of that, so we know we'll
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Speaker 3: see where.
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Speaker 2: This thing shakes out.
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Speaker 4: Do you think it's a little bit of an arms
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Speaker 4: race right now at the wide receiver position in the
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Speaker 4: league and especially in AFC and maybe even in the
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Speaker 4: Nancy South. Looks like Houston was even trying to load
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Speaker 4: up on Keenan Allen.
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Speaker 1: Can you do not have enough of them?
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean they you know, you can never have
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Speaker 3: enough of any position. You gotta have you gotta have bodies,
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Speaker 3: you gotta have, you know, and you gotta have the
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Speaker 3: right guys. I think, the right guys that come in
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Speaker 3: and add to your culture. But when you think about
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Speaker 3: some of the young quarterbacks and teams are playing in
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Speaker 3: more eleven personnel you know nowadays and having three guys.
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Speaker 2: And it's important that you have those guys.
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Speaker 3: And uh, you know, we we our division, you know,
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Speaker 3: the ANFC South got better in hurry, just at the
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Speaker 3: quarterback position, you know. And and and you're looking at
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Speaker 3: some of the teams that we have to face, you know,
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Speaker 3: in in Tennessee and India, and you know, they all
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Speaker 3: have a pretty good receiver rooms, you know, So.
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Speaker 2: You can never have enough.
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Speaker 4: This class, the draft class as it looks it it's
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Speaker 4: it's it's good.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the top of the draft
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Speaker 3: obviously it's really good. And there's always some guys you
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Speaker 3: can find, you know, in the middle part of the
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Speaker 3: draft too that they can come in and help you
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Speaker 3: and probably.
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Speaker 2: Aid more on special teams a little bit. You know.
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Speaker 3: Of course, we'll see how the new kickoff hybrid kickoff
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Speaker 3: rule goes, you know, later today. But you know it,
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Speaker 3: it's a good it's a good receiver class this year.
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Speaker 1: Was there a window that you thought you were gonna
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Speaker 1: get really bad?
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Speaker 3: And Dave Davis, there was there was you know, that
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Speaker 3: was never out of the question, you know, to do that.
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Speaker 5: So you know, you always you always have, you know,
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Speaker 5: think of.
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Speaker 3: Every possibility in every scenario and and try to be
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Speaker 3: the best team that you can moving.
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Speaker 6: On from Darius Ray Sean and and and fully if
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Speaker 6: you know what what sort of went on with that
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Speaker 6: decision and were they just not fits on the defense
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Speaker 6: or why why aren't they back?
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Speaker 2: You know, it's it.
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Speaker 3: It it's part of free agency sometimes, you know, it's
15:21
Speaker 3: part of you know, your roster construction.
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Speaker 2: There's there's tough decisions that have to be made and
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Speaker 2: and all three of those guys are very valuable to us.
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Speaker 3: You know, they helped us win a championship in twenty
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Speaker 3: two and and uh with the AFC South, and and
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Speaker 3: you'll get to the postseason and all that, and and
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Speaker 3: you know they've they've battled through some injuries themselves. You know,
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Speaker 3: you think about fully and what he's battled through, and
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Speaker 3: and ray Sean was a staple back there in the
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Speaker 3: secondary and and all of that. So you know, it's
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Speaker 3: tough decisions, you know, but it's it's part of our
15:55
Speaker 3: part of our business, part of our league, and and
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Speaker 3: you know you have to move on and and and
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Speaker 3: and try to you know, try to replace him if
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Speaker 3: you can.
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Speaker 2: This generations brown the peak. Why are they so productive?
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Speaker 2: And why are they so in offenses? Now?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think you're you're, of course you're you're not
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Speaker 3: seeing the big tight end anymore, right, You're not seeing
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Speaker 3: that inline guy.
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Speaker 2: And if he is, he's two hundred.
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Speaker 3: And fifty pounds, he's not two hundred and ninety pounds
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Speaker 3: like back in the day, you know. And so they're
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Speaker 3: they're they're athletic guys, they're you know, they're they're probably.
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Speaker 2: Multiple sport athletes growing up. It's just.
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Speaker 3: They're they're bigger receivers, you know, quite honestly, and that's
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Speaker 3: what you're seeing coming out of college with some of
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Speaker 3: these guys, and and uh, you know, now getting to
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Speaker 3: our level, Yeah, you're gonna ask him to block, You're
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Speaker 3: gonna ask him to do more things, and and uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, and they're and they and they can do it,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 2: But but I just think that they're.
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Speaker 3: How they've been brought up, you know, the college program
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Speaker 3: that they came.
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Speaker 2: From, a little bit.
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Speaker 3: But again, I just think they're they're the bigger receiver
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Speaker 3: type guys, and we're going to play in tight.
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Speaker 1: End Easier to find those guys than be.
17:15
Speaker 3: I think it depends on what you're looking for and
17:19
Speaker 3: the type of tight end you want, you know, I mean,
17:21
Speaker 3: you got tight end Why's you got tight end F's
17:23
Speaker 3: right in our system, So the tight end why is
17:26
Speaker 3: more of your primary inline blocker.
17:27
Speaker 2: Tight End F is more of your your having right
17:29
Speaker 2: he is. He's a guy you can put in space,
17:31
Speaker 2: he can he can.
17:32
Speaker 5: Run routes, he can catch, and you can also block.
17:34
Speaker 3: So it just depends on what you're looking for. And
17:39
Speaker 3: and you know, I think a year ago was a pretty.
17:42
Speaker 2: Good tight end class.
17:43
Speaker 3: You know. Uh, it's something that we're diving into this year.
17:46
Speaker 3: Looking looking there, we're just we're thankful that we got
17:48
Speaker 3: three guys, you know that, uh.
17:51
Speaker 2: We were able to get Briton last year. To add
17:53
Speaker 2: add to that room was.
17:55
Speaker 4: A psychology for Mac and coming in here. How challenging
17:58
Speaker 4: is that the first round, big starting quarterback take a backseat,
18:04
Speaker 4: Like what's what's the guy?
18:06
Speaker 3: You know that's Those are conversations we'll have and I
18:08
Speaker 3: want to have with him just just coming in. I
18:10
Speaker 3: don't want him to feel like there's any pressure on
18:13
Speaker 3: him to perform.
18:15
Speaker 2: He knows the expectation coming in and what we're as
18:19
Speaker 2: a staff, what we're what we're looking for.
18:21
Speaker 3: But yeah, you're right, I you know, I'm not in
18:24
Speaker 3: the mind of Mac Jones, but you know, yeah, you're
18:26
Speaker 3: a first round pick.
18:27
Speaker 1: You had an.
18:28
Speaker 3: Excellent rookie season and then things kind of didn't go
18:31
Speaker 3: the way you wanted to, and then then you get
18:34
Speaker 3: sidelined a little bit, you know, in there, and everything
18:37
Speaker 3: kind of feels like it may have gotten derailed and
18:41
Speaker 3: that's not that's not who he is obviously, and and
18:45
Speaker 3: so part of it too, is just building that confidence back,
18:49
Speaker 3: you know, and and letting him go out there and
18:51
Speaker 3: compete where he doesn't have to be the guy, right
18:54
Speaker 3: and just go out there and show us what you're
18:56
Speaker 3: you're capable of doing and and uh and that's that's
19:00
Speaker 3: the expectation.
19:01
Speaker 1: Do you like the kickoff opposed change?
19:05
Speaker 5: I know something's probably gonna happen, you know.
19:10
Speaker 3: I think there was around twenty percent of the kickoffs,
19:13
Speaker 3: twenty one percent of the kickoffs last year. We're returned right,
19:18
Speaker 3: zero out of thirteen kickoffs in the Super Bowl. I
19:20
Speaker 3: think we're obviously not returned, you know, they were all touchbacks.
19:24
Speaker 3: I just think it's a it's a play that has
19:27
Speaker 3: gone away in football. But we also got to remember,
19:31
Speaker 3: you know, it can also be a high injury rate play,
19:36
Speaker 3: you know, and so we got to think about player
19:39
Speaker 3: health and safety and keeping our guys healthy.
19:42
Speaker 2: So, you know, it's a unique proposal.
19:45
Speaker 3: Obviously, I think there's more questions that have to be asked,
19:49
Speaker 3: and you.
19:50
Speaker 2: Know, we'll see where it goes. You say south.
19:55
Speaker 6: When you get C. J.
19:56
Speaker 2: Scritt, how fast he did not surprised at all.
20:02
Speaker 5: I mean, the guy was talented coming out of Ohio State.
20:06
Speaker 5: I think everybody saw that. You know, obviously well coached,
20:11
Speaker 5: you know, that's part of it.
20:12
Speaker 3: The scheme very very user friendly for him, you know,
20:16
Speaker 3: put him in position to the their run game was successful,
20:20
Speaker 3: then the play action passed athletic enough to move, you know,
20:24
Speaker 3: So all those pieces kind of fell into place for him.
20:26
Speaker 3: And and but it wasn't a surprise, you know, this
20:29
Speaker 3: guy just knowing who he is and and uh, his makeup,
20:34
Speaker 3: the way he works, not a surprise.
20:39
Speaker 2: After the way last year and then the injuries and disappointments.
20:43
Speaker 3: He's disappointed. He's frustrated, you know, like like we are.
20:48
Speaker 3: He knows, he knows that, you know, he has to
20:52
Speaker 3: play better. He knows that we help him as a staff,
20:55
Speaker 3: we help him play better, you know. And and then
20:59
Speaker 3: but his his availability, right his his health to the team,
21:03
Speaker 3: you know, that's the that's the most important thing.
21:05
Speaker 2: And and it just at the quarterback position.
21:09
Speaker 3: When you miss a Wednesday practice at Thursday practice and
21:13
Speaker 3: maybe kind of go through some individual work early and
21:15
Speaker 3: then you don't take many team.
21:16
Speaker 2: Right, that's gonna affect you on a game though. It
21:18
Speaker 2: just it does, you know.
21:20
Speaker 3: And and so we got to make sure that that
21:23
Speaker 3: you know, he's taking every snap every day, you know,
21:26
Speaker 3: out there practice. And if he does that, then then
21:30
Speaker 3: more more, good things.
21:31
Speaker 2: Are gonna happens. I'm kind where he is, where he
21:34
Speaker 2: was mentally when he first got him more after university. No, no, no,
21:39
Speaker 2: he's he's light years passed there. Yeah, light years pass there.
21:43
Speaker 2: Dave us a good for us, a freegency, you know,
21:47
Speaker 2: just his style of play. Now, this is the guy
21:48
Speaker 2: that he's big.
21:50
Speaker 3: He uh he uh, he runs extremely well, he's physical
21:56
Speaker 3: as far as you know blocking, you know, it's uh,
22:00
Speaker 3: I mean the guy there's a reason why he had
22:04
Speaker 3: average about eighty eighty plus targets a year, you know.
22:07
Speaker 3: And and he's a down the field guy, so you know,
22:12
Speaker 3: much like Marvin Jones our first year, much like you
22:15
Speaker 3: know Calvin. Not the same speed guy as Calvin, but
22:17
Speaker 3: but can can affect the defense down the field. It's
22:21
Speaker 3: something that that we look for, you know, opposite of
22:24
Speaker 3: of say Jones, right and and and and really mixing
22:27
Speaker 3: in with with Christian and I'm just excited to have.
22:30
Speaker 2: Him and get to work with him said years and
22:34
Speaker 2: had before.
22:35
Speaker 3: Now just where he is mentally, you know, just the
22:38
Speaker 3: mental part. I mean, we got to get better as
22:40
Speaker 3: a football player, but mentally, you know, he's he's in
22:43
Speaker 3: a good place and Again, I wasn't here in twenty one,
22:48
Speaker 3: so I don't I don't know, but I can only
22:50
Speaker 3: speculate and say that he couldn't have been in a
22:53
Speaker 3: very good mental headspace coming out of that year. But
22:58
Speaker 3: now now he's playing meaningful games, he's playing, he's he's
23:03
Speaker 3: taken the last two years our team to the right there,
23:07
Speaker 3: and now we've got to push through that and and
23:09
Speaker 3: sow it. And now it bothers him, that part bothers him, right,
23:14
Speaker 3: football bothers him and and that's a good thing. And
23:18
Speaker 3: and so that's where we got to get him, you know,
23:22
Speaker 3: pushing us through that that envelope, that wall. And you
23:26
Speaker 3: know that's I think the way, you know, going back
23:31
Speaker 3: to your point, I mean the way we ended our season.
23:33
Speaker 3: I think that's that's his motivation too, you know.
23:37
Speaker 2: Are you guys?
23:39
Speaker 1: You mentioned minch, But overall the line, how do you
23:43
Speaker 1: feel like?
23:44
Speaker 2: I feel good? I do feel good.
23:46
Speaker 3: The biggest thing for us is, you know, we gotta
23:49
Speaker 3: get we do have to get better in the run game.
23:50
Speaker 3: That that's that's a given. We were We weren't even
23:54
Speaker 3: even as well.
23:55
Speaker 5: As TJ, you know, a thousand yard rusher last year.
23:58
Speaker 2: We still have to get better.
23:59
Speaker 3: There's more on the table that helps your quarterback. And
24:04
Speaker 3: you know, you got to be able to run the
24:05
Speaker 3: ball in this league as well. It sets up a
24:07
Speaker 3: lot of different things for you. So that's something we
24:10
Speaker 3: as a staff have been focused on this offseason.
24:12
Speaker 2: You know, we feel like.
24:14
Speaker 3: We're a pretty good passing team. You know, overall, I
24:17
Speaker 3: think we're right around a top ten you know, passing offense,
24:20
Speaker 3: and we can improve there. The injuries affected us late
24:24
Speaker 3: in the season. We Christian missed his five games, zaydn't
24:27
Speaker 3: wasn't healthy every week. You know, you had Calvin and
24:30
Speaker 3: Evan really you know, out there playing, so we can
24:33
Speaker 3: definitely take take better strides there. But but the offensive line,
24:39
Speaker 3: you know, Cam missed eight games, right, you know, our
24:45
Speaker 3: left guard was a revolving door, you know, early in
24:48
Speaker 3: the season. And if you look at it week eighteen,
24:53
Speaker 3: what's kind of the snapshot of the offensive line what
24:55
Speaker 3: it was supposed to look like with Cam, Ezra, lud
24:59
Speaker 3: Brandon and Anti. That was supposed to be the original
25:02
Speaker 3: you know, not the original five to start the season.
25:04
Speaker 3: But when we got Ezra, that was supposed to.
25:08
Speaker 2: Be what it looked like. So they only played one
25:09
Speaker 2: game together.
25:10
Speaker 3: So we're excited for this this upcoming offseason to get
25:14
Speaker 3: those guys working together.
25:15
Speaker 4: How much responsibility, oh God, asks the compound about playing
25:18
Speaker 4: all over a few weeks only I know, but have
25:21
Speaker 4: you given that more thought?
25:23
Speaker 2: A little bit? And it's been two weeks so I
25:28
Speaker 2: thought about it a little bit more.
25:31
Speaker 7: Not yet, Well, how much responsibility does Trevor need to
25:34
Speaker 7: take for the injuries? Like I know, there's a lot
25:37
Speaker 7: to go into those, but like you could probably make
25:39
Speaker 7: the case that three of them were he could have avoided.
25:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I mean, obviously nobody wants to
25:47
Speaker 3: get hurt and and everybody's trying to make plays on
25:51
Speaker 3: the field. We just have to make sure that he's
25:55
Speaker 3: either throwing the ball away or protecting himself whatever.
25:58
Speaker 2: He can do some of it, you know, if you.
26:02
Speaker 3: You know the indie one he was he was rolling
26:05
Speaker 3: out on a on a play that he got tackled
26:07
Speaker 3: from behind and and and hurt himself there, you know,
26:10
Speaker 3: but you know, the the head stuff, I mean, we
26:14
Speaker 3: can we can help him with that, and you know,
26:17
Speaker 3: just throwing the ball away and it's different things, so
26:20
Speaker 3: you know, he can he can do it himself.
26:23
Speaker 2: Obviously, But but at the same time, we need as
26:27
Speaker 2: a staff make sure that we're helping him do that.
26:29
Speaker 1: Got about five minutes, coach, what is Detroit getting in
26:32
Speaker 1: If coach tuns hard dud, you know.
26:35
Speaker 3: What they're gonna get somebody that's that's got a high
26:37
Speaker 3: passion for the game. He played the he played the
26:40
Speaker 3: position obviously, so he's got experience there. He's a he's
26:44
Speaker 3: a he's a good leader, you know, on the field,
26:48
Speaker 3: he did a nice job of getting those guys ready
26:50
Speaker 3: to be ready to play each week.
26:52
Speaker 2: And and he's gonna bring a lot of energy. And
26:54
Speaker 2: that's that's what you like about the contract stuff. You know,
26:59
Speaker 2: you don't know yourself as much with.
27:01
Speaker 4: But does that whether it's Josh or tever, does that
27:05
Speaker 4: impact how their business kind of gets done? Your football team,
27:09
Speaker 4: your locker room, any of that stuff.
27:15
Speaker 3: I mean, you hope it doesn't, you know, affect them,
27:18
Speaker 3: you know, moving forward, whatever whatever happen, you know, however
27:22
Speaker 3: it plays out, you know, obviously you try to get
27:24
Speaker 3: something done, you know, sooner than later.
27:28
Speaker 2: Right But.
27:30
Speaker 3: Listen, they're they're they're both great players, they're both Jaguars.
27:34
Speaker 3: They're they're starters, they're they're the leaders of our team.
27:39
Speaker 2: That part's not gonna change.
27:41
Speaker 3: They're they're athletes, their competitors, and and when they step
27:44
Speaker 3: out on that field, that's.
27:46
Speaker 2: What takes over, right, is that that competition and all
27:49
Speaker 2: of that.
27:49
Speaker 3: So you know, I know they let their agents handle
27:54
Speaker 3: all the all the dirty work and the heavy lifting, and.
27:56
Speaker 2: They just they just have to go play. Do you
27:58
Speaker 2: really know them right now?
27:59
Speaker 1: Is there's something anything else you'd like to add to
28:01
Speaker 1: that movie?
28:02
Speaker 3: I mean, we're gonna consider and look and and and
28:05
Speaker 3: see if we can continue to add, you know, I mean, yeah,
28:07
Speaker 3: we're gonna add receivers.
28:09
Speaker 2: And we're not you know, we need fifteen or sixteen
28:11
Speaker 2: guys going into training camps.
28:12
Speaker 3: We're gonna add guys. Right, We're not where we need
28:14
Speaker 3: to be. It's not the final product. But look, if
28:18
Speaker 3: there's somebody sitting there that that makes you better, you know,
28:21
Speaker 3: you can do everything you can to try to try
28:23
Speaker 3: to do that. So, uh, that's it's it's you know,
28:26
Speaker 3: we talked about it.
28:27
Speaker 2: It's a good receiver group this year.
28:30
Speaker 3: And if you can always add at talent, at talent
28:32
Speaker 3: wherever you can you mention.
28:34
Speaker 2: Young what's the best thing you can get it is
28:38
Speaker 2: art and development early and have that early success.
28:41
Speaker 3: I think one of the biggest things you can do
28:43
Speaker 3: is help them with the run game future run game going,
28:46
Speaker 3: and that's gonna open up some things in the past
28:48
Speaker 3: game play actually pass or movement game, all of that,
28:52
Speaker 3: and then just having having the right pieces around and
28:55
Speaker 3: having guys that he's comfortable throwing the ball to, you know,
28:58
Speaker 3: for the guys that he's kind of knows, Like for me,
29:01
Speaker 3: it was Zach.
29:03
Speaker 2: Erge De Carson wentz right when he was at rookie
29:05
Speaker 2: quarterback and.
29:06
Speaker 3: Then there was confidence there and and understanding that. And
29:09
Speaker 3: you know, I think with Trevor two years ago is
29:12
Speaker 3: you know, Marvin Jones was the guy he had the
29:14
Speaker 3: most confidence, and then he got better with Zay and
29:18
Speaker 3: with Calvin and Evin and guys like that.
29:19
Speaker 2: So but I do believe it starts with the RINGGA.
29:22
Speaker 4: You mentioned artist, And how important is that Devon Hamilton
29:26
Speaker 4: getting back to being Levon To me.
29:28
Speaker 2: I think that's the key, right.
29:29
Speaker 3: I think that's you know, for devonn and and and
29:32
Speaker 3: all indications right this offseason that he's he's trending in
29:35
Speaker 3: the right direction, he's getting back and and I'm excited
29:37
Speaker 3: for that, you know, and I know he is too,
29:39
Speaker 3: and and that was a big we missed that piece
29:41
Speaker 3: last year and even though he played late, he just
29:44
Speaker 3: wasn't the same, you know.
29:47
Speaker 2: And so getting him.
29:48
Speaker 3: Back to full to full strength with guys like Eric
29:52
Speaker 3: and Roy, uh, this is gonna be great for Roy too,
29:54
Speaker 3: you know, having a guy like Eric in there, uh
29:57
Speaker 3: to to really again just a a veteran guy, you know,
30:01
Speaker 3: to help those guys.
30:02
Speaker 2: So, but yeah, Devon is a big piece. If you
30:04
Speaker 2: look at Trevers thrown over, it seems like it would
30:06
Speaker 2: scare a lot of people, organizations.
30:09
Speaker 4: You've got to see my waiver though, that he's the
30:14
Speaker 4: guy you want.
30:15
Speaker 2: To put the outside the inside.
30:21
Speaker 3: Yeah you can, you can, you can fix it and
30:24
Speaker 3: you know obviously, yeah, interceptions are gonna happen. But it's
30:28
Speaker 3: the pocket stuff, right, It's the fumbling in the pocket,
30:31
Speaker 3: out of the pocket, that's the that's the part that
30:33
Speaker 3: we can help him with.
30:34
Speaker 2: And the ball security stuff and and.
30:38
Speaker 3: You just gotta get it's it's hard for young players
30:40
Speaker 3: because they feel like they can make every play.
30:44
Speaker 2: And and it's okay to throw the ball away. We
30:46
Speaker 2: just got to keep educating him, you know, and in
30:49
Speaker 2: these situations.
30:50
Speaker 3: And but yeah, you can, you can coach it, you know,
30:55
Speaker 3: but you are the guy that's touching the ball every snap.
30:58
Speaker 3: So you know, we gotta make we gotta make smart
31:01
Speaker 3: decisions too.
31:03
Speaker 1: When he does this quarterbacks league in that part of it,
31:06
Speaker 1: tell everybody else that he's.
31:07
Speaker 2: Going to do the quarterbacks. See, that would be part
31:09
Speaker 2: of it.
31:10
Speaker 6: From the run game with Travis. But how much how
31:13
Speaker 6: important is it to get Tanked going this year?
31:15
Speaker 2: See my last year he was kind of on and off.
31:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta get Tank on. I mean, bottom line,
31:20
Speaker 3: he's too good. That's why we drafted him, you know.
31:24
Speaker 3: And and you know, I think early he had some
31:28
Speaker 3: bad set. He was just those like whoa what what
31:31
Speaker 3: does that type play? You know, and and for whatever reason,
31:36
Speaker 3: right or wrong, you know it. Then again it was
31:39
Speaker 3: just in and out of the out of the line up.
31:41
Speaker 3: But he is a young player that we're excited about. Definitely,
31:45
Speaker 3: as we talked about last year, we could take take
31:48
Speaker 3: some burden off of E t N a little bit,
31:50
Speaker 3: you know, keep him healthy for the remainder of the season.
31:54
Speaker 2: And his seventh or nickel and compete at that spot.
31:57
Speaker 2: He'll compete at that spot, you know, but he goes
31:59
Speaker 2: he goes in right now, you know.
32:02
Speaker 3: As the as the one you know right there, and
32:06
Speaker 3: and then and then you know he had Antonio in
32:09
Speaker 3: the back end, you know, with Cisco back there.
32:13
Speaker 2: So he is it's a good, good little mix of guys.
32:15
Speaker 1: You see Antonio as the replacement Ray.
32:17
Speaker 3: Sean, I think so moving forward, moving forward, I think
32:20
Speaker 3: I think that's the thing. But he can also compete,
32:22
Speaker 3: you know, a nickel as well, exactly exactly.
32:29
Speaker 6: He's a return specials.
32:30
Speaker 2: Obviously we we know what he can do there. But
32:32
Speaker 2: how do you guys view him as a receiver? Good?
32:36
Speaker 3: You know, much like Jamal you know in that in
32:40
Speaker 3: that regard, you know, Baltimore used him that way a
32:42
Speaker 3: little bit, you know, as a receiver and and you
32:45
Speaker 3: know again excited to get him into our system and
32:48
Speaker 3: see what he can do there and uh and go
32:51
Speaker 3: from there.