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Seahawks Draft Press Conference: "We Got Some Really Good Players To Join The Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So wow, Where to start, just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: big thanks to everybody that the personnel staff, the cafeteria staff,
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  Speaker 1: all the coaches, support from Jody and Burt and Chuck
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just the whole weekend honestly just taking
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  Speaker 1: it in like right now ended, we're you know, the
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  Speaker 1: freeency stuff's still going on right now, but the guys
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  Speaker 1: are in there just kicking butt. And yeah, it is
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  Speaker 1: very very grateful, very like just I don't know, probably yeah, probably,
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  Speaker 1: he's very proud of everybody and Halbard work together and
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  Speaker 1: you know, completing our our our sixteenth draft, it's a
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  Speaker 1: really cool. It's a it's a blessing, and we're like
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  Speaker 1: very excited about what we've added, what we've added to
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  Speaker 1: this team and the depth and the toughness and the yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the UH competitors and the reliability and yeah, just excited
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  Speaker 1: for this growth minded staff to get their hands on
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  Speaker 1: these guys and get ripping.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't tell John's gonna do this, but just I
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  Speaker 3: think it's appropriate from my perspective to as coaches and
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  Speaker 3: what we're coming into to share our appreciation for John
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  Speaker 3: and UH our team on on like the personnel side
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  Speaker 3: of the ball. I'll tell you what, Like, I wish
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  Speaker 3: you guys could be in that room. And how we
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  Speaker 3: operate it is it's different than it's unique to the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the league.
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  Speaker 2: In my opinion, I think we do it better than.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody else and it's our style. So it's how we
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  Speaker 4: want to operate. Everybody is included.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a.
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  Speaker 3: Special operation, man, and and uh, it's just really cool
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  Speaker 3: to work alongside John and see him do his thing
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  Speaker 3: with the rest of the crew.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: But these guys, they they're they're really good at what
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  Speaker 4: they do.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it was a lot of fun this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: So just uh, can't wait to practice next week rookie camp,
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  Speaker 3: see these guys in here and get to work up.
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  Speaker 3: The call from Bray to me and how that went
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  Speaker 3: down and we decided that was gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike found out that usually don't fly first round
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  Speaker 1: draft picks in, I guess, And so you know that
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  Speaker 1: was like Saturday, No, today's Saturday, sorry, Friday morning, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's like yeah, so we flew him in and he
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  Speaker 1: came with his folks and so we Mike brought him
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  Speaker 1: in and introduced him to everybody, and well.
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  Speaker 5: I met him.
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  Speaker 1: I was like we were talking and said hot to him,
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  Speaker 1: we're you know, wapped it up or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, we're picking.
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  Speaker 1: Him like two minutes like okay, so uh, I'm exaggera.
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  Speaker 1: He was like ten fifteen minutes, but he he basically
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  Speaker 1: was there. And I was like, well, it'd be kind
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  Speaker 1: of cool if he just the rams did it last
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  Speaker 1: share with Jared Verse And I was like, yeah, somebody was.
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  Speaker 5: Like, hey, he should announce it, like Trent. Like Trent
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  Speaker 5: was like he should announce it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, oh he did. That's funny. That's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, no any showed.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, you know, if he's ever playing center,
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  Speaker 1: he can do it.
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  Speaker 5: It was a nice job.
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  Speaker 6: You're pretty enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I historic was a little aggressive last night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, slowdown, Sheriff. But no, I just I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's just this really cool like these guys
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  Speaker 1: in the like the back that worked that everybody did
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  Speaker 1: and uh the sorry sorry Dave, the.
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  Speaker 5: The uh.
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  Speaker 1: Just I don't know, like to it's just like a
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  Speaker 1: was a cohesive like process like we just you know,
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  Speaker 1: we worked our tails off and and it may have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to do with you know, second year
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  Speaker 1: with you know, with a new you know, with our
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  Speaker 1: like the defensive staff, Mike his group and then you
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  Speaker 1: know an offensive staff that has been through different, uh
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  Speaker 1: draft processes, whether it be Denver, Minnesota or New Orleans.
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  Speaker 6: Mike is a defensive guy. Did you feel about with
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  Speaker 6: only two guys on.
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  Speaker 3: I think, honestly, I realized that at the end, well,
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  Speaker 3: we're going through the you know, free agency process and
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  Speaker 3: you know, gave the defensive guys some grief, but now
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  Speaker 3: they're really excited excited about our you know, beaudfa class
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  Speaker 3: as well. I know, the offensive guys were rocking and
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  Speaker 3: rolling the day and as they should be.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we uh we got some really good players
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  Speaker 4: to know join the team.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, all positive, man was great.
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  Speaker 7: Easis it happened to.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was just the way it happened. We had
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  Speaker 1: some defensive guys that you know, we we talk about, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the like the upsets, and you know, things started happening.
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  Speaker 5: So it was like, okay, we're going here, We're going here,
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  Speaker 5: We're going here, and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just they they the offensive guys ended up standing out
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  Speaker 1: on our board tackle.
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  Speaker 8: What did you see from them, what film the pre
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  Speaker 8: draft process to draft them as guys that you can
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  Speaker 8: slide inside.
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  Speaker 2: Where do they fit in the competition?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bryce's you know, he's like like thirty thirty thirty guy,
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  Speaker 1: really athletic, Uh, chip on his shoulder, very smart, projected
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  Speaker 1: to play inside. Uh. And then Richmond is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll started a tackle. The coaches like, like the buy
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  Speaker 1: in there was awesome, like they were. They were so
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  Speaker 1: excited when and believe it or not, in the seventh round,
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  Speaker 1: it does get hair like that, you know. So they
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  Speaker 1: were they were so stoked to be able to get him.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, so JB was. JB was pretty fired up.
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  Speaker 7: You're a a a class that seemed so excited, yet
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  Speaker 7: they were humble and ready to go. And I would
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  Speaker 7: also use the word vive cause it seems like give
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  Speaker 7: me one of 'em kind of had as a vibe about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, humility and also played for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 5: I don't uh.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's the the it's a credit to the
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  Speaker 9: the players and the competitors that and then the credit
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  Speaker 9: to the scouts and the coaches working together to figure
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  Speaker 9: out like what what our guys are and what what
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  Speaker 9: does the Seahawk look like as we move forward here,
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  Speaker 9: and uh, yeah, I think I.
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  Speaker 5: Think it's gonna be a like I I can see
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  Speaker 5: this group. If you look at the group or gu you.
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  Speaker 1: Could see him like interacting, hanging out.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, is pretty tight across the league.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the way team goal or chorl today. Yeah sure, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just you know, Matt's a really awesome, awesome guy, and.
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  Speaker 5: I I, you know, I feel awful. I feel awful
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  Speaker 5: for him.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah I don't. I couldn't imagine what he's going through.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, when you spend that much time away
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  Speaker 1: from your family, you end up like having dinners and
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  Speaker 1: coffees and beers and all that with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys in different teams and you become very close.
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  Speaker 5: And uh, we love Matt, and I thought it was
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  Speaker 5: pretty cool we did that that. I think I think Ed.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it was Ed's idea, Ed Dodds, which, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of a hard ass, so it kind of surprised me.
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  Speaker 7: But uh, your time, your largest free or your largest
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  Speaker 7: draft class love of players, and then you also uh
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  Speaker 7: dropped the six offensive lineman uh the last two years
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  Speaker 7: the most in the NFL Talk about the invest that you.
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  Speaker 5: Guys are making of that bus. The position gree uh
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  Speaker 5: Gray was standalone. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Bryce was this guy that Trent and and
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  Speaker 1: Kirk like loved, had a lot of you know, like
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  Speaker 1: very much under the radar kind of dude. And and
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  Speaker 1: then we had buy in with you know, with with Mason,
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  Speaker 1: with you know, the coaches and the guys who went
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  Speaker 1: to the school on the intelligence and the the competitor.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that the toughness too.
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  Speaker 1: That the he he started uh or he played last
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  Speaker 1: uh two thousand twenty three, played though, like I think
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  Speaker 1: it was almost the whole season.
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  Speaker 5: On a he had a hairline fracture and it was like.
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  Speaker 1: And they he probably should he wanted to help them,
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  Speaker 1: and he played through it and which is pretty rare
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  Speaker 1: these days, used to happen all the time.
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  Speaker 5: But uh yeah, he played through it.
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  Speaker 1: So I I it's it's it's an area of needed
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  Speaker 1: but it always is, you know I I I can't
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  Speaker 1: emphasize that enough. I Mean every team in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League is looking to help their offensive line, and.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's it's just an.
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  Speaker 1: Ongoing issue and we'll have these guys in competing and
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  Speaker 1: you know, We'll see where it goes with this, with
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  Speaker 1: this new group, with these three guys coming in and
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  Speaker 1: the you know, uh free agents that we signed, and
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  Speaker 1: so I'll see what it looks like.
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  Speaker 6: The uh how kind of trade and being able to
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  Speaker 6: pull that off.
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  Speaker 1: Uh started at the owners meeting with you know, talking
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  Speaker 1: with Kevin and and Rob and and rober Zinski and
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  Speaker 1: in quessy just about the situation and what it looked like.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we had met with Drew down there and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, there's a possibility to sign Drew back. And
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  Speaker 1: then we liked the quarterbacks and the draft and we
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  Speaker 1: thought there was an opportunity there. We thought there was
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  Speaker 1: a chance that might happen. So there's there were several
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  Speaker 1: teams that were interested, and uh, Minnesota was a team
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  Speaker 1: that ended up pulling a trigger.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned what a sea looks like, and I was wondering,
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  Speaker 6: when you look at this class as a.
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  Speaker 8: Whole, is there kind of a shared identity or what
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  Speaker 8: are the kind of the common opponents that you see
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  Speaker 8: across a bunch of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Smart, tough, reliable, swaggy, athletic speed.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the the GPS, you know that like the.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we added a two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy five pound fullback that runs nineteen miles an hour.
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  Speaker 5: That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of what does Pat say,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of uh momentum heading downhill or Pat Ward
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  Speaker 1: shout out, Pat.
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  Speaker 6: Like talk a lot about the style of football you
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  Speaker 6: want to play.
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  Speaker 9: The bad of a full back and then it rose running.
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really excited to see him out there.
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  Speaker 2: Do their thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm really excited to see run game
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  Speaker 4: come to life.
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  Speaker 2: These guys fit. We're trying to do how we want
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  Speaker 2: to do it.
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  Speaker 3: You got to move people, man, and you gotta get
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  Speaker 3: downhill and play north and south.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what they're gonna help us do. And so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: just I don't know, Just I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait for a bid to get here and
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  Speaker 3: just teach them all the stuff and you know, let's
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  Speaker 3: get rocking and rolling.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, they're.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna be, Uh, they're gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: A big part of what we're doing and competing with
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the guys we've got around roster right now.
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  Speaker 2: That we're really excited about.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, it's gonna be an awesome competition.
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  Speaker 7: Player and some estimates. This is a good drafts that right?
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  Speaker 7: I just follow you guys, or you.
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  Speaker 4: Have other plans that yeah, I think kind of both
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  Speaker 4: are fair.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if there was a there was an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for us, I think we probably would have gone for it.
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  Speaker 2: Not to speak for John, but uh.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, like we still got a long time before
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  Speaker 3: we play, you know, so there's gonna be hopefully some
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  Speaker 3: more opportunities as we unfold here.
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  Speaker 6: How do you see Riley the d and where do
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  Speaker 6: you see his best fit? And how's he coming back
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  Speaker 6: from jury?
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  Speaker 5: Excited?
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  Speaker 1: He's doing great, you know.
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  Speaker 5: We uh, we flew him in.
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  Speaker 1: He was able to spend time with with doctor Ed
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  Speaker 1: and uh, he was pleased with where he's going with
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  Speaker 1: with his post combine.
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  Speaker 5: I think we were his only thirty is it right?
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and uh, yeah, he's able to Ed was
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  Speaker 1: able to you know, have another exam, felt good about it,
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  Speaker 1: and he's he's doing great with his rehab.
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  Speaker 5: We're and we're hope, we're hopeful that you know, like
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  Speaker 5: mid to l late.
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  Speaker 1: Later season, he's he's gonna be a viable candidate to
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  Speaker 1: add to the to to our group.
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  Speaker 5: And he's a he's a he's a he's.
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  Speaker 2: He's a really good player.
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  Speaker 1: And if we wouldn't have drafted him, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if Ad would have showed up, uh for work on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, yeah, he's got position flexibility for some bass.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he can play at least two spots.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know when we're in four down or
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  Speaker 3: our sub stuff, you know, playing inside, we also have
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  Speaker 3: like a we'll see how he plays like the big
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  Speaker 3: end sometimes like a six technique, so like the multiple
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  Speaker 3: gaps thing on early downs and then you know, going
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  Speaker 3: through it and meet him and talking football with him
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  Speaker 3: and seeing how he approaches the game with his like
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  Speaker 3: approach with the rush and how they orchestrate their you know,
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  Speaker 3: past rush games.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, he's truly impressive.
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  Speaker 3: It's sounds like a five six year you know, vet
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  Speaker 3: of how it's designed and like the intent of ten
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  Speaker 3: of the movements and all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we'll compete for pass rush snaps too.
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  Speaker 7: What did you guys think of the two receivers work today?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Robert Turbine texting me so he was all fired up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, covering those guys. Uh, he loves them both,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, no, uh, it's pretty cool though. He he
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  Speaker 1: loves those guys and and uh it's just fun getting
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  Speaker 1: those from you know, guys that you've drafted in the past,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he's a huge part of our family.
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  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, toy is you know, Tory is an
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  Speaker 1: underrated guy and and you know, in our opinion, he uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he can turn punts. He's you know the
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  Speaker 1: catch radius. He's like this long, like competitive, like very
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  Speaker 1: fast receiver.
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  Speaker 5: Uh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know Ricky like the special teams part.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Jaye and Fits are really excited about.
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  Speaker 1: Him, and and you know the guys that you know,
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  Speaker 1: Josh and like all those guys. I mean, he's like
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  Speaker 1: he's blocked four punts. I mean he's he personally, he
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  Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of Donald Driver, who we drafted.
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  Speaker 5: Well, actually I shouldn't say that. I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: I came after that draft, but they had drafted him
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  Speaker 1: in the sixth round and he was one of the
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  Speaker 1: better special teams players in the in the league before
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  Speaker 1: he you know, just completely established himself as a like
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  Speaker 1: there are our number one receiver. So uh, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of who he reminded me of. Just this tough
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  Speaker 1: like and he's a he's kind of got that gang
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  Speaker 1: we feel to him too. Both guys are kind of
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  Speaker 1: we call we call hard and t bone. I guess,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, if you guys are interviewing him, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: excited about both those guys and a uh gloud to
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  Speaker 1: add of the group A quarterback?
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  Speaker 6: Was that another?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Who you war just.
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  Speaker 6: Did all right? Quarterback?
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  Speaker 5: Fair? Yes, it didn't it didn't fall that way yet.
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  Speaker 6: What do you feel like you're staying there?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 6: Is there still work to be done with?
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  Speaker 5: That's one?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, the uh that series of what pigs or the trades.
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  Speaker 7: Once you're trading back, you're trading you're trading Sam and
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  Speaker 7: you're trading away again.
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  Speaker 2: What's that whole process like when.
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  Speaker 6: You got so many things.
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  Speaker 5: I just think our guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know with Nolan and Tryant and Matt
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  Speaker 1: and Willie and Aaron, those guys around the phone, I
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  Speaker 1: mean they're communicating not necessarily on the phone anymore. We
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  Speaker 1: always used to be on the phone. Now like it
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  Speaker 1: was just it's way more quiet. It was just like
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  Speaker 1: Texan and then get on the phone at the very
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  Speaker 1: end of things, get yeah, turned up, but uh uh
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  Speaker 1: that was that did move pretty quick though, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no one had stuff going on with other teams too,
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  Speaker 1: so and then Trent and yeah, so it got a
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  Speaker 1: little funky there for a minute, but.
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  Speaker 5: It was great.
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  Speaker 1: It was very smooth and nobody panicked. Every kind of
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  Speaker 1: just you know, kept it all together and we just
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  Speaker 1: moved through it. Did you No, No, we were planning
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  Speaker 1: that before, like for you who's newer.
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  Speaker 7: To this or was it like just work in that
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  Speaker 7: situation where all those guys are happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's impressive. I mean, like the the
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  Speaker 3: alignment what we're trying to achieve.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, someone that doesn't really.
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  Speaker 3: Know what's going on, you could be confused for some
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  Speaker 3: organized chaos, but it's uh, just just sanct and bang
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  Speaker 3: bang boom, and we know what we were trying to
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  Speaker 3: get to and so as the offers come in, like
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  Speaker 3: you know, we keep track of him and felt like
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  Speaker 3: we ended up and we kind of we definitely achieved
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  Speaker 3: like the spirit what we were trying to get. It
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  Speaker 3: felt like and that's what gets you excited.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's way more it's it's it's way less chaos
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  Speaker 1: than what we just went through his rookie free agency.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Love.
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  Speaker 5: So much about this is his instincts and his feel
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: for the game.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we've we've we met with him at
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: the combine and we had him here and just again,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: when you when you talk football, this guy and he
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: kind of two people that have a lot of passionate
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: about D line play kind of get together and you
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: can see where it goes. Justin Hines a big part
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: of that process too, sorry, and.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Just see like the.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Spirit of how of how he approaches the game and
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: his energy, enthusiasm, uh, toughness, competitiveness. But like when when
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: you're able to like when you again when you turn
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: the tape on and then the guy just like lights
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: up and he like he's got all the reasons and
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: this is what we're thinking and this is what I
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: was thinking here and then you know you're kind of
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: throwing ideas back and forth like that's you know, that's
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: like the that's the spirit or everything.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: You know, that's how it's made right there, that's big
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: time stuff.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And those are the pip Those are the people we
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: want in our building that love that type of thing.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: And when you sharpen each other like that, you get
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: no choice but to get better, and so he's part
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: of that. You're asking about Riley, right, okay, rob okay,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: you're asking about Robie.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, rob okay.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I was like, I just totally didn't answer that, right.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it can it came kind of quick.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Ye okay, I'm talking Robbie. Yeah, he's gonna compete with Brady.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: And you know, like you don't have to live in
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: twenty one, you can be in twelve. I mean, there's
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: options to be a different personnel group. So all those
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: guys are kind of competing for those roles of how
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: we wanted to come to life. So we've got a
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: lot of great players that kind of fit that tight
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: end full back mold and special team is gonna be a.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Big part of it too.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: And I know this, like to bet against Brady Russell
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: as a would be a gigantic mistake. So he's it's
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: gonna be uh, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you you've seen how how it's been,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: you know, deployed in the past. But yeah, you're gonna
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: see a guy you're gonna see.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Two backs back. There A good bit like.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: You're now two full drafts and now as head coach
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: here picture. How far do you think that you are
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: now in this team in what you would vision in
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: terms of the vision that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: You have for this roster.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I I respect the question.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: It's not this is not just me saying like this
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: is this is us getting together carving this thing out
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: m one move at a time, one decision at a time,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: one practice. It's just of how we want to become.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: And I feel like we're making a lot. I mean
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: we're on our way, like we're growing. It's our job
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: to expedite that process. So we're competing for championships this year.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I mean that's what we want to do. And I'm
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: really confident that we're gonna have that opportunity. You know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: that's that's the expectation for us. And I can tell
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: you like the last week of just the guys being
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: in the building and the spirit and the conversations we're having,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: the guys like I just it's so much fun to
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: come to work every day man and coach these guys
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Like I can't wait for money to come back and
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: get to the second week of phase phase one.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: You know, that's the way it should be.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: That's the environment we're trying to create that these guys
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: are excited to come to work every day and you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: keep keep connecting, keep getting tougher, keep kind of just
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: ringing out every day and then let the results kind
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: of speak for themselves.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: How Integrating Sam Darnold into.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: All that obviously kind of.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean Sam's kicking butt.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I mean he look, I'm here in the offensive plays
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm trying to envision in my head,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: and it's a lot and this guy's I mean.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: He's on it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Like he's really sharp, and I think just like the
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: respect that he has for his teammates that he can
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: command like.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: By doing it. His style is really cool.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: And yeah, we want to empower him, you know, like
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: something as simple as routes on air to you know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: run on the offense and some sort of no huddle
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: tempt I mean, all those things we want to we
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: want to gass him up and and we want Sam
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: to play the best football his career.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Trying to keep information, did you have to have a
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: conversation with Sam about Hey, you know this could become
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: sad like a quarterback.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's became clear, we're gonna we're gonna pick
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Jalen like game McCall and just let him know what
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: was going on.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: And he was great. He's awesome.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know me, I'm pretty for both guys.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: So I had a hard time getting to the point.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: How long was it, like like thirteen and a half
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: seconds a minute?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: One of the conversation with Shorter.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting conversation. That's quite an interesting question. How
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: long was the conversation?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Check my phone?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: How about we interview you?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: What movie is that? Step brother Step Brothers go on.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: We gotta get down Step Brothers John.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: A year long process players down to a lot of
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: the effects.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: You guys, three days, you.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: All like go out and celebrate at the end of
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: this or you just go home and each other.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Oh look, we're not We're one of the few draft
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: rooms that aren't locked. So let me be clear on
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: that one.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, our door's open. Yes we will.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Sorry, this was interesting because like I think, I think
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: you gotta let it happen about what he's going to do, well,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: I think a safe bed is going to be at
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: the second level initially, like at Nickel some dime reps,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: you know, but he's going to train to be a
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: safety too and give us the flexibility there. And I
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: think it's I think it's kind of like offensive line
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: where you kind of start a guy with an idea
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: and then see how those three guys gel and who
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: does what well, and then the competition at linebacker.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Two.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: What's funny is this, The competition isn't just it's kind
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: of like with like tight ends, fullbacks, receivers, Like you're
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: not just competing against your personel, you know your position group.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: You're competing against you know, kind of your.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Productivity and how well you know the unit operates when
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: you're out there. So that's kind of where we're gonna
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: let it start and then we'st see how it evolves
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: as as it goes. But he's going to train at
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: safety and then kind of the same he started safety
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: kind of go down and kind.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Of all the same same jobs.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Combat. Why was Nick like not a difficult e though?
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: I guess.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: I think what I meant there was it when I started?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, when I started scouting like that, that was
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: my hardest position to evaluate in college because everybody's just
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: like they're never around the ball and you have to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: they didn't have the cut ups that we had. You know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: it's just like like the cut ups we have now
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: is like, you know, show me you can just go
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: through stuff is instead of just like literally like zipping
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: through a game like trying to figure out it. Just yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it's it's much easier now. So that what I meant
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: by that was like when I started.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: So, but what it's like about.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Him, I mean, besides all the testing, it was like,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: he's really tough, he's a good tackler.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, Uh, we had coverage skills too.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: For your camp and then how how that's changed off.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: From your your first one last year?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: What's a plan for rookie minicamp?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Well, we have more we have more guys kind of
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: signed up at this point, you know, the we're so
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be really exciting.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: But we we loved how last year went.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I think kind of a byproduct the whole thing is
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: the guys understanding like how we're going to practice here,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: how to do it safe, do it the right way, compete,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: take care of your teammates, but also get great work
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: in at the same time. So I think that's really valuable.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: But just to see him out there moving around and
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: not like it's not like some comprehensive like i Q
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: football tests, like we want him to go play ball
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: and and you know, get a good feel for him
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: initially understand how we're going to operate here. So when
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: they come back week from then, you know they're kind
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: of off the ground. Hit, hit the ground, run and
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: sort of speak.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: That Charles Cross And whether you're going to do that
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: by the end of the week is that.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I think we'll have to the second right, Today's twenty sixth,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the exciting day.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: When the way it was, what was your plan for
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: the drafts and offensive line?
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we talked about it last night a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: l a little bit, or maybe the night before, but
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the group of offensive linemen, like once we got past
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, through the combine, you know, speaking with
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: everybody we need to speak with at the combine, there
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: was a couple of guys that we were very interested in,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: but you know, we knew that we could kind of
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: lean back a little bit just based on you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: picking eighteen where these guys gonna go. And then so yeah,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I would say right there that was probably the going
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: in the plan. You mean th that was Yeah, I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: mean we knew we were gonna we knew we were
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: gonna address this, yeah.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: With multiples, not just one.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Uh, I would say one high Yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah is the process uh moment for a scout someone
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: standing up calling out for a player, that's that stands
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: out to you about a player?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I would s I would have to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: say probably Josh's called it to uh Tory Harton and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: then we we had a hard time getting a hold
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of him, and he was and then once he got
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a hold of him, it sounded like, you know, he
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: was like you like we were little kids and you're
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: going to your buddy's house to or call in your
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: buddy's house to see if like the mom and like
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: it was Torri there, can you come out and play?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Can Tory sleep over tonight? It was kind of fun.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: That was the funniest one.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: We've been through all that stuff that you're talking about though,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: like you mean, like pounding a table sort of stuff.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we were very very clear of.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You of like a understanding of who likes you and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and then it's balancing all that and like but it's
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: all about like where you acquire the player and making
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: people feel like I like we're all in this. We're
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: all in this thing together, and we're like rolling. It's
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: not like, here's this player, go coach 'em, you know
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: what I mean. And so Mike, I think Mike was
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: an awesome st a job with his staff, as does Clinton,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: ad and and uh and harps put like all of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: us working together.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: It's pretty cool.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: It's fun to back on the Howl trade. I think
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: it's the first time you guys have delt somebody or
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: had brought somebody in as a roster player, getting the
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: drafts and wendale your first year here. How how different
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: is it working with a roster player as part of
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: a trade during the draft weekend when it's going on.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: How how different a process does that for you as.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: To kind of figure out what you wanna do.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: And to manage the circus.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: It is different.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: It's a good question because you have there's like a contingency.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: There has to be some sort of contingency a little
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: bit there too, so if if the player, you know, fails.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: A physical So, I mean that was that was that
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: was definitely part of the discussion. Good question. Yeah, Mike,
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: how does.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: The day Yeah, I think, I mean, I think you
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: know that by the question, like.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Uh, I think you just sh you respect that about him.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: You know about guys you gon run the ball physically downhill.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I've had a lot of great guys to come through
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: this building that have rand it like that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: So not to those people, but.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Just again, really excited about the guys we have on
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: a roster and come in and come kick butt with
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: the rest of 'em, and it's gonna be a great competition,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: But uh, we're really excited about him. You guys listed, Yeah, yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: uh both Yeah.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: John people fancy Allen in the room.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's awesome, she loves it. You know, what does
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: what does she ask?
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna get a specifics, but I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: mean she's she's very interested, she's you know, she's she's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: got a great sense of humor, she's ask great questions,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: she's she's tough, you know.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: So yeah, anything else.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I actually just gonna ask that question.
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: What does happen if the player fail?
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: In that case? Where is it?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It's they revert actually, so if that happens, that the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the player reverts back to this, uh the previous team,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and then there and then you have to decide whether
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you're gonna you know, the draft picks. Yeah, there's something
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: like you have to figure out.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Like, okay, is there a player, like what's gonna happen?
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And that's part of the negotiations, not I I'd love
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to be able to share it with you.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: I can't.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but what happens if the player goes back and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: then but if that were to happen, which it won't,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: say I'm s very healthy young man, but you have
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to figure out like what, okay, what's the compensation look
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: like if he, you know, for the next year, if
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: if uh, the player were to fail.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Alright, thank you, Okay, have it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Thanks, I have a great night, you guys,