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Seahawks Draft Day 3 Press Conference: John Schneider & Mike Macdonald Recap The 2026 NFL Draft · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just man, I I just wanna start off saying
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  Speaker 1: I love our team. I mean I love our people,
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  Speaker 1: everybody that that works on this. Like every year, we're
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  Speaker 1: so blessed to be able to do this, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you about the like the coaches, the scouts, medical,
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  Speaker 1: everything that goes into this. And then you know our
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  Speaker 1: guys like working in the phones today and like rookie
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  Speaker 1: free agency and the whole process is just we have
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  Speaker 1: great people and I'm very I'm very personally, very grateful
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  Speaker 1: and I want to say thank you to everybody through
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  Speaker 1: the process. I gave you my phone. Well what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, with that, go ahead, No, it's your time.
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  Speaker 2: Four picks come out of as many players you dead
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  Speaker 2: and the guys you uh just how sor are you
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  Speaker 2: the moves you were able to make?
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  Speaker 1: That to add to the last, Yeah, Unfortunately people don't
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  Speaker 1: wanna trade with us until like the sixth and seventh
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  Speaker 1: round or fifth and sixth round or some stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why that happened like that this year,
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  Speaker 1: but uh uh no, we were I felt like all
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  Speaker 1: the way through we were targeted. We were clear, we
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  Speaker 1: had a we had a plan, and uh, you're always
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some upsets, you know, through throughout the process.
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  Speaker 1: We had a couple of those for sure, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: the coaches were awesome about moving forward after those upsets
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  Speaker 1: and and the scouts and everybody that was working the
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  Speaker 1: phones and what uh the landscape or the board was
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  Speaker 1: looking like, and uh, yeah, it was just end up
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  Speaker 1: just being the great process. We added some We added
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  Speaker 1: some guys that like all all the way through that
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  Speaker 1: were like, okay, cool, like like there's a there's a plan,
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  Speaker 1: there's a vision, there's a like collective feel for moving
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  Speaker 1: forward with these guys and how they're gonna compete with
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  Speaker 1: our with our team. Can you tell us about the
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  Speaker 1: decision to move up? Yeah, it was too big of
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  Speaker 1: a gap and yeh, too much uh too much talent
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  Speaker 1: there and and both came my thirty visit and we
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  Speaker 1: had a you know, we had agree. It's a really
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  Speaker 1: cool thing with the coaches, right like the yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: you're nodding like it's like the yeah, like the color
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  Speaker 1: announcer from Major League right there, takeover. No, I mean ball, No,
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  Speaker 1: it was a cock. No, just the process of coming
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  Speaker 1: in and the coach and yeah, he was still there.
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  Speaker 1: We just, uh yeah, we were pretty surprised. But when
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  Speaker 1: it's the guy lasts that long, you're kind of like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: how do we how do we figure this out? And
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  Speaker 1: you know we did. We did end up we did
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  Speaker 1: have a plan to kind of play the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the you know, uh compensatory game if you will. And
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  Speaker 1: and uh so we're like, alright, we have the twelve
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  Speaker 1: picks next year, what does it look like? So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and our c the coaches just t we did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of buying from the coaches. They were really excited
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  Speaker 1: about 'em. Mike two to agent start talking no, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for asking like a questions.
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  Speaker 2: Great two men.
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  Speaker 3: They all seem like the energetic and self sure and
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  Speaker 3: yet they understood what it's going to take to compete
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  Speaker 3: on the super Bowl winning team.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's like three things that are in there.
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  Speaker 2: You just seemed.
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  Speaker 3: To go through all all new players that you drafted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just again speaks to just like the
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  Speaker 4: al alignment with our with our people and the things
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  Speaker 4: we're looking for. But you don't have to be like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to be to be one of us and
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  Speaker 4: for us wanna y to want hear it. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, so it b it's cool that it's
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  Speaker 4: worked out that way. And uh, and we got great
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  Speaker 4: like I said, I think it was day one, like
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  Speaker 4: we had a great competition in our team, and uh, we
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of depth and be able to add
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  Speaker 4: some extra pieces later in the draft. Is gonna be
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  Speaker 4: uh really fun to sort that out as the process
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  Speaker 4: gonna unfold.
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  Speaker 1: You guys triple up at the quarterback positions today, What
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  Speaker 1: are you.
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  Speaker 2: Excited about those.
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  Speaker 5: Competition?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, there's definitely some special teams value, but like
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  Speaker 4: you know, you can never have too many corners, you know,
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think I've been a part of a
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  Speaker 4: team that has dis many like drafted corners on their
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  Speaker 4: on their team. And so going into camp, which is
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  Speaker 4: really exciting. So it's gonna be a fun competition, man.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's gonna be really cool to see get
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  Speaker 4: these guys in here and get moving and and see
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  Speaker 4: where it goes. So and I know Jay's really excited
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  Speaker 4: to Uh, you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't add an edge in the draft. Crazy some of
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  Speaker 6: the guys who've gotten the roster that maybe you think
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  Speaker 6: can step into that room.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Uh, I mean Jared Ivy is a guy that
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  Speaker 4: that's that had a great, great season last year. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't act as many days as probably wanted. But
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  Speaker 4: Jamie Sheriff's another guy for two years been with us.
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  Speaker 1: Conor O'Toole.
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  Speaker 4: Was up and does a lot of great things. Anybody gains,
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  Speaker 4: we get games and jail and gains is back. So
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we're really excited about those guys. And they
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  Speaker 4: really worked really hard last year and I think all
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  Speaker 4: of them were ready to go if need be to
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  Speaker 4: go play in a game. It just that's the way
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  Speaker 4: the rosters shook out on a week to week basis.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, we're fired up about those guys. And again,
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  Speaker 4: we're so early in our Like the draft kind of
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  Speaker 4: normally hits first week of face twoish, we're kind of
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  Speaker 4: week ahead in terms of the process when the players
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  Speaker 4: get here. So we're early right now relatively speaking, in
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  Speaker 4: our process. So uh, you know, we're off to a
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  Speaker 4: great start. We gotta keep keep nailing these days with
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  Speaker 4: these guys and and see where see where see where
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  Speaker 4: it takes us.
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  Speaker 6: Did you guys after Monday? And you can sign free
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  Speaker 6: agents without it effecting the compic formula Uh, do you
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  Speaker 6: guys just may maybe adding more to the competition at.
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  Speaker 1: At the edge fo Yeah, we may, yup.
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  Speaker 5: John with uh O'Toole on Ivy specifically last year you
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  Speaker 5: had some crunch points thout the year, we had to
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  Speaker 5: put some guys on waivers, like the Anthony and and
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  Speaker 5: Jared to not do that with with Ivy and O'
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  Speaker 5: tools that kind of speak to what you guys thought
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  Speaker 5: about them at the time. Yeah, I expose them potentially.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere absolutely very good preseasons to credit to our uh
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  Speaker 1: our you know, our pro willy and our proper personnel
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  Speaker 1: staff with like identifying like hey, like these are the
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  Speaker 1: players that are these are the teams that are looking
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  Speaker 1: for a specific position and n excuse me, and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was definitely part of the process with Emmanuel Wilson.
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  Speaker 3: What would you like about Tom?
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  Speaker 1: Is there some carry over with like what dereek if
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  Speaker 1: the upmost being in the yes, I mean Jay with
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  Speaker 1: this guy is an outstanding special teams player and uh,
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  Speaker 1: Mike reminded me today he's you know, he's clocked at
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  Speaker 1: like twenty two to four, you know, Miles bar with
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  Speaker 1: football pads on. I'm not sure if you can run
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  Speaker 1: like that, Brady or not. Yeah, it's pretty fast. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but uh no, relations that's awesome, but uh well played.
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  Speaker 1: But uh you know he's I mean, it's just just
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  Speaker 1: a ton of speed. And uh yeah, Jay's we were
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  Speaker 1: really excited to be able to get Jay spent so
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  Speaker 1: much time preparing for the draft, and uh, it was
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  Speaker 1: so great to be able to get it, like like
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  Speaker 1: one of his very top players. He's excited about and fits.
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  Speaker 2: John kind of expanded the amount that you expanding that
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  Speaker 2: people you had the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a I mean, the scout's putt in
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  Speaker 1: st they're they're away from the families so much, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, like Ryan's got two beautiful little kids. He's
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  Speaker 1: gone all the time, and they put in so much time.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's just a cool thing. They build these
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  Speaker 1: relationships with these guys, and it's just great for them
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  Speaker 1: to be able to like finally say hey man, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna select you, and uh, you know, hand the phone
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  Speaker 1: to the head coach and you know, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: feel very grateful that I've been able to do this
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  Speaker 1: for a number of years. And you know, I hope
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  Speaker 1: others in our in our room will be able to
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing, you know, be decision makers, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just fun to let them, let them do that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Bert's it's you know, we're gonna be obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the team's gonna be sold. And so it's Bird's last, last,
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  Speaker 1: last draft with us. And Becca, I mean, she's like,
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  Speaker 1: this girl works her tail off and sorry, young woman
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  Speaker 1: works her tail off, and uh so it's fun for
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  Speaker 1: her be weird joke and she kind of sounded a
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  Speaker 1: little aish, but you know, it's very fun for her
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do that too. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: always backward these people in the background that people don't
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  Speaker 1: you know, I get it. You guys are interviewing you know,
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  Speaker 1: the players and the coaches and every throughout the year,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a lot that goes in. It's behind behind
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  Speaker 1: closed doors.
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  Speaker 6: In particular with a guy that it seems like people
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  Speaker 6: thought might go higher.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but what do you guys like about him? So
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  Speaker 1: he's got about the versatility.
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  Speaker 4: And what he's done that Yeah, yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 4: I think you're just looking at like an overall really
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  Speaker 4: good football player and uh again, going through the process
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  Speaker 4: meeting with our coaches and it's like it's tricky, tricky
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  Speaker 4: with the multiple position thing, but like the ability to
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  Speaker 4: be able to do those things is exciting, really smart.
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  Speaker 4: Just let's go out a great football player. You know
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  Speaker 4: he's playing on teams special teams players. Well, yeah, he
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  Speaker 4: had a great You had a great visit. I mean
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  Speaker 4: I say that some guys don't have great visits.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I feel like I say
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  Speaker 1: that to you guys are like, this guy had a
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  Speaker 1: great visit, and uh, coaches, coaches excited. Yeah, these are
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  Speaker 1: a different area of the board. Him in the sun front. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: him defensive for instance. Yeah, our coaches were were very
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  Speaker 1: excited at a you know, a gap player that can
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  Speaker 1: get up and down lads scrimmage and have some upside
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  Speaker 1: as a pass rusher. And uh, let's see what Patrick
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  Speaker 1: says about him here. You guys will dig this analytics talk. Here.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Here's analytics talk. Uh, young players, solid stat line with
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  Speaker 1: a better than average pass rushing or run game production,
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  Speaker 1: good physical profile. These are the analytic stuff with us
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  Speaker 1: did all the time. So that's kind of Patrick put
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  Speaker 1: us together for us. So I had to get Patrick
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  Speaker 1: a shout out. But no, he's a this is this
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  Speaker 1: guy's a monster. I mean he's huge and like it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a really cool again, came in on third
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  Speaker 1: to visit. Coaches were excited, Scouts are excited. Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Your guys are cool. You get young players who aren't
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  Speaker 5: in AWE super Bow champions.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you think you venture this week?
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  Speaker 1: He went a good job? Yeah, I mean they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been underboard. Really, that's that's a big that's a huge, Like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't gonna be underboard if we felt that way?
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  Speaker 2: How did how about show?
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  Speaker 1: And I say that like the scal like like that
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  Speaker 1: our scouts felt that way?
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  Speaker 5: You know, how did that show up with scouting?
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  Speaker 1: How?
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  Speaker 4: How?
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  Speaker 5: Cause that's how it shouldn't take guess sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I could talk to you about this for hours.
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  Speaker 1: It's correct, Like these guys study these guys forever, so
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  Speaker 1: it's like a you know, like there's like we have
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  Speaker 1: a competitor scale, and like how they fit in a
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  Speaker 1: competitor scale and what's their seff uh c S efficacy
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  Speaker 1: and like how are they gonna handle competition?
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  Speaker 2: John John would.
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  Speaker 5: Would dansby you So didn't didn't have anything at the
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  Speaker 5: Combine Pro Day kind of metric, timing wise and everything.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you kind of learn about from from from a
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  Speaker 5: number of standpoint through your process that you could and
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  Speaker 5: then what can you kind of tusks about him?
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  Speaker 1: Competitive? Quick, sticky, and we felt like, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were missing out. I'm like not taking in dB from
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  Speaker 1: Arizona cause there was like I don't know how many,
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  Speaker 1: there were, like seven of 'em taking thing like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like we had to get in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: We had some fomo there, uh whom. No, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: a very competitive I mean, they a great defensive backfield.
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  Speaker 1: He came from Samusey State, and you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was really excited about him. And it's one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys too. You know, the seventh round, you're getting
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  Speaker 1: closer to free agency and it's like, okay, who are
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  Speaker 1: the guys that are gonna go? Well?
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  Speaker 5: So he he told us that he's run in the
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  Speaker 5: four twos and it's I.
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  Speaker 1: He's a corner wreck. He's gonna tell you that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's swaggy. He's swaggy.
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  Speaker 5: Does that general speed level kind of show up for
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  Speaker 5: you when you when you see him on tape? You
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  Speaker 5: got four twos or whatever, but likes there for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's fast, fast, quick. Yeah like that. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a rough weekend from my.
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  Speaker 2: Non football one for you.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean to have your dad here? Where
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  Speaker 1: is the old man.
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  Speaker 2: Given his journey?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's awesome. This is a shout out. I'll appreciate
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  Speaker 4: John Ford's the way we the way we operate here,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's, uh, it's pretty unique. But yeah, it's been
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  Speaker 4: awesome that mere and uh see him and him and
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  Speaker 4: Bill hanging out and figuring out the draft board and
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  Speaker 4: get the binoculars out and solving the problems, play a
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  Speaker 4: little golf, you know. But yeah, any anytime we get
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  Speaker 4: the chance to spend time together, it's definitely chair. Especially
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  Speaker 4: where we're at on the map.
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  Speaker 1: So that's really cool. You're always someone there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: more uncertainty. It's just the playoffs at.
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  Speaker 2: Of seems like this year.
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  Speaker 1: Seems to be more can't What do you do you
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  Speaker 1: feel that way? Do you do you think like that?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I I liked you mean, like right now, at this time,
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  Speaker 1: after the d after the draft, I felt really good
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  Speaker 1: about our team. Yeah I don't. I mean we're I
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  Speaker 1: feel I feel really good about our team. I just
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  Speaker 1: have a natural anxiety that that drives us to constantly,
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  Speaker 1: constantly be on the lookout for how we can prove
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  Speaker 1: in every aspect of our operation or that's yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: basically like you never ever feel like it's like it's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, we're like you feel good about your team
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  Speaker 1: and you love the guys. But there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: part of our part of our philosophy is like what
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  Speaker 1: are we missing you know, and and like like how
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  Speaker 1: do we get better? I mean, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: how we roll. Oh cool, awesome, the benefit of having.
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  Speaker 6: Guys that you have that much history with and then
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  Speaker 6: how do you incorporate new ways to keep perspectives fresh?
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, new perspectives. Yeah that's great. Yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 1: there's a challenge. So first of all, the cohesion and
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  Speaker 1: being able to be concise with your communication and like
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  Speaker 1: quick easy, non rambling. We don't read reports, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. You can just get at things really quick.
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  Speaker 1: You can solve problems just in a you know, just
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  Speaker 1: in a quick manner, quicker manner. On the flip side,
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  Speaker 1: the point about like what are we missing out on
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  Speaker 1: is like there's always this challenge of like, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know there's a there's a possibility this player could
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  Speaker 1: be this or you know, whether it's character, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, off the field stuff or you know, then
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  Speaker 1: on the field, like the play good and bad. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the good. We we we basically try to
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  Speaker 1: uh accentuate the positives we've seen the player do this.
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  Speaker 1: The easiest thing you can do as an evaluator, say,
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  Speaker 1: and the safest thing you can do for your uh
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  Speaker 1: your job stabilities basically say like guy can't do this,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't do that, and you can't do that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well then we're gonna pick like somebody's gonna play. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just a constant, like you know, just inquisitive challenge,
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  Speaker 1: uh for these guys all the time of like knowing
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day who the player is
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  Speaker 1: as much as they possibly can. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day when we bring him, when we bring
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  Speaker 1: them in the building, they still were still learning them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's guys that have been here three years
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  Speaker 1: that we're still trying to figure out, like not trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out, sorry, trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Help on on Steven, do you see them on the
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  Speaker 2: right side or the left.
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  Speaker 1: Side, or no, either side. Thanks nice We'll figure all
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  Speaker 1: that out later.
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  Speaker 2: John nice Field to have the little Margine trophy in
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  Speaker 2: the room.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was fun. Yeah no, sorry, it's been
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  Speaker 1: a long weekend. I was like Steven's huh sorry oh
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  Speaker 1: bo yeah sorry, yeah that was fun. Yeah it was uh,
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  Speaker 1: I forget whose idea that was this morning. It was
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  Speaker 1: pretty fun. Anything else, thank you? Okay, guys, thanks so