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Mac & Bone Show- Jalen Coker · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody. Mack and Bone Show Live from Panthers
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  Speaker 1: training camp, getting his twenty twenty six season going, and
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  Speaker 1: a man who maybe I should ask him to take
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  Speaker 1: us out to dinner. Bone to man paid in the
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  Speaker 1: offseason and fans were genuinely excited and happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: He is Jalen Cocher, Congratulations, man. I think everybody in
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  Speaker 1: Panther nation felt like you deserve that.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing I'm doing good. I'm doing good, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's awesome opportunity. So I'm really thankful.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool, man, That is cool. What you really surged
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  Speaker 1: late last year? I mean really and you saw you
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  Speaker 1: did it in your in the first season too late
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  Speaker 1: last year than the playoff game. Do you kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel some per I mean, the team has momentum, but
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  Speaker 1: do you feel some personal momentum kind of coming into
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  Speaker 1: this season, like, Man, I can really I got more
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  Speaker 1: I can do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, of course, I mean especially going into the
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  Speaker 3: third year. You know, kind of you got those two
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  Speaker 3: behind you, kind of learned the ropes a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and now I feel like is the time to kind
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  Speaker 3: of take that next step, you know? So yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think I have a ton to work on, of course,
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  Speaker 3: to elevate my game. But yeah, absolutely use last year
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  Speaker 3: as a springboard for sure.
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  Speaker 2: When you sign the contract not long ago, I stopped
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  Speaker 2: and thought, Man, just not long ago, you're thinking about
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  Speaker 2: what your football future may be. You go undrafted, you
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  Speaker 2: have a great rookie year, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: two years later, you're getting the money and you're a
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  Speaker 2: huge part of this team future. Do you ever stop
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  Speaker 2: and think, Man, that happened so fast, from being undrafted
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  Speaker 2: to now I get the contract. It just feels like
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  Speaker 2: your wife changed so fast in just a couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I agree for sure. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, I feel like when my career is done,
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  Speaker 3: I'll have time to kind of dwell on that and
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  Speaker 3: think about that. I think, right now, we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: build something here, and we're trying to get this job done.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's kind of what I'm focused on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the more and more you dwell on past accomplishments,
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  Speaker 3: you're not gonna be able to see the future. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna continue to grow.
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  Speaker 1: We liked to dwell on our complicention if we had
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  Speaker 1: any Well, all right, Jalen Cocher is with US wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver for your Carolina Panthers. We live from training camp.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things coach has said, you guys
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  Speaker 1: got a new rookie edition in the receiving room and
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  Speaker 1: Chris brasl and man, he is fast and he is tall.
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  Speaker 1: We've already seen it in camp him getting deep. And
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  Speaker 1: coach brought up Tam Mac playing more in the slot
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  Speaker 1: to kind of make room for Brasle outside where he's comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get the feeling and talk with the coaches
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  Speaker 1: because you've had some success in that slot too, Like,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like that affects you or you'll be
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  Speaker 1: more in the slot or not? Not?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: What have those talks been like?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, not at all. I think you know, I
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  Speaker 3: want to be a Swiss Army knife. So wherever i'm
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  Speaker 3: I'm on the field, I want to be able to
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  Speaker 3: win from that position. So you know, if they put
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  Speaker 3: team Mac in the slot, that's fine. I'll go outside.
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  Speaker 3: If he's outside, I'll go inside. It doesn't matter however
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  Speaker 3: it shakes out. I'm good with whatever. I just want
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  Speaker 3: to continue to win games.
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  Speaker 2: What makes your connection with Bryce so special? What is
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  Speaker 2: it about the vibe you guys have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it just kind of stems
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  Speaker 3: from you know, off the field stuff, you know, hanging out, going,
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  Speaker 3: you know, off season hanging out, you know, just and
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  Speaker 3: overall just kind of I feel like, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: catch the ball the times when he throws it to me,
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  Speaker 3: and that's how, you know, you build that connection and
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  Speaker 3: build that relationship, that trust starts to grow. So from
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  Speaker 3: the off the field stuff and on the field, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's just kind of blossomed.
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  Speaker 1: What was that playoff game? Like, you went off in
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  Speaker 1: that playoff game and I thought you had the dang
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  Speaker 1: game winning touchdown from Rice too and then the dang
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  Speaker 1: MVP gets it away and drives them down. But how
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  Speaker 1: did that feel that night? You're a pretty chill dude,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we could tell from talking to you and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Were you amped up that night?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Because the crowd was going berserk after that touchdown? How
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  Speaker 1: did that night feel for you?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, I mean I was absolutely hyped as
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  Speaker 3: incredibly special, you know, my first playoff game ever, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a professional, So definitely something that I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: remember for a long time. But you know, just credit
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  Speaker 3: to the whole team though. It wasn't just me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like on the big on the big dagger to get
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  Speaker 3: me open, Jimmy Horn's running his butt off to peel
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  Speaker 3: open the coverage for me. So I think there's there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot more pieces that go into it. But it
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  Speaker 3: was awesome experience here.
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  Speaker 2: I was reading your high school basketball stats all oh,
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  Speaker 2: he were scouting you were a baller of both most sports, right,
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  Speaker 2: So sixteen the game you went over twenty a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: If you had to pick out two other guys to
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  Speaker 2: play three on three with from the Panthers roster, don't
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  Speaker 2: say j J.
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  Speaker 1: Jansen.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you going with? Of your of your teammates?
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  Speaker 2: Who are the best basketball players on this team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd probably go t mac and and Bryce for
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  Speaker 3: sure as the other two.
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  Speaker 2: Rob won't like this.
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  Speaker 3: I still got to see Robin the court first.
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  Speaker 1: She brags a lot about it, he's talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: No you haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Actually I haven't seen it, but I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: We got y'all got to make that happen. I need
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  Speaker 1: you to report back to us all what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: You take this quarterback out smart move. That is a
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  Speaker 1: smart move, very smart moves Bryce. What's br is Bryce?
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  Speaker 1: Like the point guard that distributes? Is there? Is he
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  Speaker 1: a scoring point? What kind of baller is Bryce?
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  Speaker 3: No? I mean I think he's kind of a jack
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  Speaker 3: of all trades. He can pass it, he can shoot it.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I think he's just all around, all around,
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  Speaker 3: just a great player.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, there we go. What Okay, So this
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  Speaker 1: year we've talked a lot about your situation and you
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  Speaker 1: guys come back as defending champs in the division. What
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  Speaker 1: are your feelings about this season? And let's take a
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  Speaker 1: look at the offense. Brad Zig steps in as a
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  Speaker 1: play caller, got a couple of new guys playing tackle, Like,
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  Speaker 1: is this how how confident you feel there will be
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  Speaker 1: a jump offensively for you guys this year? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I have one hundred percent confidence in our group,
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  Speaker 3: absolutely offensively and defensively. I think we picked up a
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  Speaker 3: lot of pieces in the offseason, got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys in the draft, you know, and the guys that
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  Speaker 3: we already had are gonna just elevate from that added competition.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it'll be an amazing jump for us.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, again, I got us all the time,
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  Speaker 3: So I think we're gonna be great.
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  Speaker 2: How about that? How does Brasel open up things for
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  Speaker 2: you guys as well? It just feels like a high
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  Speaker 2: like guy waiting to have it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I mean big, fast, you know, strong at
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  Speaker 3: the catch point. I think he does a lot of
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  Speaker 3: great things for us. And like you guys said, he
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  Speaker 3: takes a top off. So I think that's just something
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  Speaker 3: that you know will utilize.
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  Speaker 1: You're better deep than people give you credit for. You
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  Speaker 1: want me to keep back quiet, but you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. You may some big dang plays couple go
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  Speaker 1: routes late in the season over to Tod like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got that in your arsenal too.
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  Speaker 3: No, I appreciate it. I appreciate it, Mack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't need the approval of some schmuck on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: I know you didn't need that. We need to say
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  Speaker 1: before we let you go that our man had the
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  Speaker 1: most amazing offseason. Not only did he get the bag
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  Speaker 1: and get paid, he got the girl you're engaged to.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. So now that everybody out there feels
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  Speaker 1: depressed because their summer wasn't that good, congratulations man, and
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  Speaker 1: we hope you take it to another level. Too, even
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  Speaker 1: on the field. Have a great season.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Thank you so much. I appreciate you, appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks you