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Saints Work Out Chase Claypool & Josh Reynolds After Jordyn Tyson Injury · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: looking potentially to add players at receiver after Jordan Tyson's
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  Speaker 1: injury and news broke. The Saints worked out two players
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  Speaker 1: after Jordan Tyson's injury. Chase Claypool and Josh Reynolds both
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  Speaker 1: worked out for the New Orleans Saints. And first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I do not think the Saints working out Claypool and
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  Speaker 1: Reynolds is a commentary on the rookies so as to say,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Saints look at it and go, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're this deep into camp and we had an injury,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not sold that our rookies are ready, so
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go work out some veterans. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: understanding you are always working to improve your roster. The
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  Speaker 1: old adages you're either getting better or you're getting worse.
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  Speaker 1: You're never staying the same in the NFL. So if
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  Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to get an updated scouting report
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  Speaker 1: on a guy or potentially bringing a guy who's better
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  Speaker 1: than someone you have, you do it and worst case
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  Speaker 1: you have an updated scouting report. Or maybe you're just
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  Speaker 1: looking to replace a body because with Jordan Tyson out,
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  Speaker 1: you're down a receiver, so maybe you want to bring
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  Speaker 1: in someone you're out of your numbers for a camp body.
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  Speaker 1: Claypool and Reynolds are interesting. Chase Claypool's twenty eight years old.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds is thirty one. Reynolds, you might remember, was
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  Speaker 1: six' three receiver Former TEXAS a and M. Aggie it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a weird end to his, career
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  Speaker 1: which we'll talk about in just a. Smidge But Chase
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  Speaker 1: claypool is the one that just has this bizarre fun from.
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  Speaker 1: Grace he went To Notre dame and he was a
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  Speaker 1: second round pick of The steelers and his career started off.
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  Speaker 1: AWESOME i, mean he had nearly one thousand receiving yards
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  Speaker 1: as a rookie back in THE covid year nine, touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: a year later eight hundred and sixty, yards a couple
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  Speaker 1: of more, scores so eleven receiving touchdowns in his first
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  Speaker 1: two years in the, league and then in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: two it just kind of started falling apart for. Him
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  Speaker 1: he ends up getting traded to The bears for a
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  Speaker 1: second round, pick and The bears stunk and he criticized
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  Speaker 1: the team and they ended up leaving him at home
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  Speaker 1: for A thursday night football, game and then they ended
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  Speaker 1: up trading him To. Miami so he goes To miami
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  Speaker 1: and does bupkus in that. Season they released him at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the. Year then he goes into twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four signs a one year deal with The. Bills
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  Speaker 1: so this was again so like really good start to
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  Speaker 1: his career In. Pittsburgh pittsburgh trades him To. Chicago chicago's,
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  Speaker 1: stinks he's a bad egg in the locker. Room chicago
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  Speaker 1: trades him To. Miami he doesn't ever break through Against
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  Speaker 1: miami or For, miami and so then they cut. Him
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  Speaker 1: he's a free. Agent he signs With. Buffalo this Was
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  Speaker 1: Chase claypool about not meeting his personal expectations during training
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  Speaker 1: camp before that twenty twenty four season With.
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  Speaker 2: BUFFALO i know there's times where it can be frustrated
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  Speaker 2: If i'm not living up to my, potential but if
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  Speaker 2: it's fresh in the outside, world it's even more frustrating for.
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  Speaker 2: ME i understand WHERE i should be AND i understand
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  Speaker 2: THAT i haven't met those. Expectations but there's changes that
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  Speaker 2: happened through organizations and through my. Journey you, know things have,
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  Speaker 2: changed and sometimes things work well for you and sometimes they.
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  Speaker 2: DON'T i went from being a starter playing every play
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  Speaker 2: to going To miami and really not playing at. All
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  Speaker 2: SO i almost, reignited not, reignited but like made me
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  Speaker 2: realize my love for the game because even THOUGH i
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  Speaker 2: was doing nothing THAT i wanted to, do you, know
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  Speaker 2: or expect to do special team and stuff like, that
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  Speaker 2: at the, TIME i realized how MUCH i love football
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  Speaker 2: because WHEN i did get the opportunity to be out.
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  Speaker 1: There so that was the guy who felt really motivated
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  Speaker 1: going into that twenty twenty four season With. Buffalo sean,
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  Speaker 1: McDermott the coach at the, time had this to say
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  Speaker 1: About Chase claypool going into twenty twenty four you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't find that a lot around THE nfl where a
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  Speaker 3: player has been at a certain level and then is
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  Speaker 3: on a mission right now to reclaim what he once
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  Speaker 3: was in that regarding those are my, words maybe not
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  Speaker 3: fair To chase, respectfully BUT i would just, say, like
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  Speaker 3: very impressed with his day to day.
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  Speaker 1: Approached so it seemed really exciting going into twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Four and then you got a. Toe yeah it's tore
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  Speaker 1: a ligament and attended in a second toe In august
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  Speaker 1: during training, camp just shortly after McDermott made those comments
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  Speaker 1: and he missed the entire. Season was really he's on
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  Speaker 1: an injury. Settlement twenty twenty, five he tried out for The,
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  Speaker 1: packers didn't make. It now he's trying out for The.
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  Speaker 1: Saints so it's, bizarre, man because he had a really
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  Speaker 1: good first two years in twenty and twenty. One but
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  Speaker 1: now you're talking about five years later and the dude
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  Speaker 1: who's bounced around From pittsburgh To chicago To miami To
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  Speaker 1: buffalo to out of the league can't get a roster.
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  Speaker 1: Spot he's twenty eight years. Old, like is there anything
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  Speaker 1: left in? THERE i don't, Know but is an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to go work out for a roster. Spot and then
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  Speaker 1: the other is Is Josh, reynolds who another guy that
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  Speaker 1: has sort of an interesting career, arc because this was
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  Speaker 1: a guy that was you, know he came out Of
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  Speaker 1: TEXAS a and m was a fourth round pick of
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  Speaker 1: the of The rams and ended up having some productivity
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  Speaker 1: and some productive seasons early in his career and plays
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  Speaker 1: played in one hundred and twenty one. Games but the
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  Speaker 1: two things that have sort of derailed him are injuries and.
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  Speaker 1: Age like in twenty twenty three he played in all
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  Speaker 1: seventeen games For, detroit but then in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: he kind of had a similar. Arc is what happened To.
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  Speaker 1: Claypool so he goes To denver in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: on a two year deal and then has a hand
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  Speaker 1: injury and goes to ir and then was injured in
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  Speaker 1: a shooting and then he gets. Waved so Then jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: picks him up in twenty twenty four and just as
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  Speaker 1: a really limited impact in twenty four he ended up
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  Speaker 1: playing five games For denver and then four games For,
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  Speaker 1: jacksonville and then last year he played with The jets
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  Speaker 1: played in just five games of three. Starts and had eleven,
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  Speaker 1: catches so at least he's been in the, league Which
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  Speaker 1: claypool has not been the last two. Years but you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a thirty one year old In Josh, reynolds
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  Speaker 1: who is certainly on the back end of his, career
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  Speaker 1: and you wonder just how much does he have left
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  Speaker 1: in the? Tank and so would you rather a guy
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  Speaker 1: who's an aging veteran who wasn't one point productive but
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been in a couple of, years or would you
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  Speaker 1: rather air on the side of some of your young
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  Speaker 1: players giving them that. Opportunity that's why you go and
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  Speaker 1: you compete for. It BUT i look at the receiver
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  Speaker 1: position for The saints AND i see you Got Chris,
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  Speaker 1: olave who you just paid a boatload of money to
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  Speaker 1: and you paid him like a top ten receiver in THE,
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  Speaker 1: nfl and you're expecting him to go play like, it
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  Speaker 1: and you're really excited About Jordan tyson opposite. Him but
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's not going to happen for a couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: Now so what's. Left you've got the Von, veley who
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  Speaker 1: again had one game last year where he was really.
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  Speaker 1: Good he had eight catches Against. Miami but the first
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  Speaker 1: nine games he played with The, saints he had six
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  Speaker 1: catches in nine. Games like we were lampooning To Von
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  Speaker 1: velay in that trade up until that. Point so are
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  Speaker 1: you really convinced that that's a guy over seventeen games
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  Speaker 1: it's going to give you fifty, catches sixty, catches whatever
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  Speaker 1: it may. Be it's hard to project. That you can
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  Speaker 1: hope for. It it's hard to project. That and you
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  Speaker 1: Got Bryce lance And barry And brown who are, rookies
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  Speaker 1: and you Have Bob means who spent his entire rookie year.
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  Speaker 1: Injured SO i think there's a lot of, potential there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ability. There you, know have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of skins on the. Wall so this is the tradiction
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  Speaker 1: you have between the two guys you're working out and
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  Speaker 1: the guys that are. There. Now you also Have Kevin
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  Speaker 1: austin And Ronnie bell And Jalen Marino cropper And Trey
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  Speaker 1: palmer And brock Reck steiner who's going to be suspended
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  Speaker 1: for six, games And Mason tipton still hanging around all
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  Speaker 1: though HeSE. Injured so you have bodies, There but can
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  Speaker 1: you upgrade with one of those veterans if The saints
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  Speaker 1: due decided to make a move and sign Either claypool Or,
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  Speaker 1: reynolds will certainly let you know and talk about. It
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  Speaker 1: but a best case scenario would be if you're a
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  Speaker 1: young talent that you've invested draft picks, in and you
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  Speaker 1: would Throw vley in the mix there as well because
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  Speaker 1: you did trade For, velay you traded a draft pick For.
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  Speaker 1: Velay you hope those guys can start to step up
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  Speaker 1: and make good on the investment that you, made the
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  Speaker 1: draft capital investment you've made in those. Guys