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Mike Macdonald & John Schneider On Day 1 Of The NFL Draft, What Makes Jadarian Price Special · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We I assume you probably got some some policy to
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  Speaker 1: try to trade down there, and you obviously was a
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  Speaker 1: sence are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great player, great person.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we thought we had some opportunities for a minute,
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  Speaker 1: they fell apart. There's a lot of like there's not
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  Speaker 1: trading going on there right and like right ahead of us.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I mean he was he kind of stood alone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, great player, the person's outstanding, the competitor, he's
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  Speaker 1: just I mean, he's a seahawk. It's it's it's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And then we were kind of actually concerned that people
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  Speaker 1: were gonna go ahead of us because it was it
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was just so out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of like mock drafts and what have you.
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  Speaker 1: You thought somebody was gonna jump ahead of.
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  Speaker 2: What about the person? How can you? How are you
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  Speaker 2: protecting well? I think it's a testament to our process
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  Speaker 2: and like the the alignment we have from personal folks
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  Speaker 2: all the way to like Thomas Hammock the process. On
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  Speaker 2: the coaching side, I think the great thing that we've
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  Speaker 2: done in the three years that we've worked together is like,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the first round, the guys that we've brought
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  Speaker 2: onto our team or we're really confident about like the
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  Speaker 2: type of people they are in the type of seat,
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  Speaker 2: like the Seahawks uh way of doing business around here.
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  Speaker 2: So that in addition to being a great player, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, being dynamic and our vision form and
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  Speaker 2: our offense. I mean, I just can't help but be
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  Speaker 2: really excited about it. So I think it's a great fit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it just comes in different like forms, right,
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  Speaker 2: But you just you learn about the person, about the leadership,
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  Speaker 2: the resiliency, the the humility, I mean, just the commitment
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  Speaker 2: to notre dame, you know by standing there. Yeah, loyalty, loyalty.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like family story, all those things. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's a great, cool story, something that you
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  Speaker 2: get excited about, you love, love talking to and you
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  Speaker 2: can envision him, you know, just sticking out here, like
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  Speaker 2: you can feel him in the building and feel like
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  Speaker 2: he's he's one of us.
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  Speaker 1: So he gets fighting for air time.
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  Speaker 2: Do you foresee his skills set? Well, we're gonna run
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  Speaker 2: wide zone, and he's gonna run wide zone, and then
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna run some some gap scheme. He's gonna run
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  Speaker 2: some of that too. And then in the past game
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  Speaker 2: can come alive too. You know, I think that's part
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  Speaker 2: of our offense in general that we can take another
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  Speaker 2: step in is including our our halfbacks in the in
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  Speaker 2: the past game. So and then he's a great special
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  Speaker 2: team player as well in the kick return stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how it shakes out in other phases, but
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna come in compete, compete with the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the guys, and let's let's go rock and roll. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what's the challenge of trying to project some of that
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  Speaker 2: both on the workload front and the receiving.
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  Speaker 1: From when you're trying to figure out what he can
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  Speaker 1: be as a full package for when necessarily have Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: great question, But believe it or not, it really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that hard because he could you know, his pro d
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  Speaker 1: was outstanding. You could see the way. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: really I'm very good friends with his agent. You know,
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  Speaker 1: his agent went to him, you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I was like, yeah, you need to you know,
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  Speaker 1: like improve in the passing game or whatever. And so
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  Speaker 1: he would on his own listen to him a you know,
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  Speaker 1: went and got with his receiver the receivers group, and
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  Speaker 1: work with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Receiver coach too.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh yeah, I mean, you know, the the
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's I think it's a pretty cool
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  Speaker 1: story that there's two.
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  Speaker 2: Guys get drafted in the first round too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from the same school.
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  Speaker 1: And and it was really a story he watched like
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  Speaker 1: the whole all fall. I mean, these guys were dynamic
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  Speaker 1: to these guys different runners.
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  Speaker 2: But but but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I feel like, you know, it's actually kind
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  Speaker 1: of like talking to you guys about JS and just
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  Speaker 1: like with his high school career in Texas, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like five thousand yards and fifty five fifty five touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, could you both at.
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  Speaker 2: Cause you both talk about loyalty over the past Over
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  Speaker 2: the past few years, you've been rewarding players that stay
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  Speaker 2: at their schools. Why is loyalty such an important part?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we've like explicitly talked about it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's I think it. I think it's just
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  Speaker 2: part of the overall like picture of the person that
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  Speaker 2: we evaluate. And it probably isn't a coincidence that it
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  Speaker 2: keeps coming up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so, but I don't know, Johnny, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think that stuff just benefests itself in our competitor scale too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a level of there's certain you know,
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  Speaker 1: character aspects that you have to conduct yourself in a
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  Speaker 1: certain manner to be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to compete at that level too.
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  Speaker 1: So uh yeah, it's really just.
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  Speaker 2: Part of our whole character score that that's a better
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  Speaker 2: answer you mentioned. Were you surprised by how many trades
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  Speaker 2: were happening over and over?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was weird. I thought we were going back
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  Speaker 1: for sure, and then things just went like no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. So I think everybody was must have been
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  Speaker 1: hyper focused there with like Rutledge, Chris Johnson, Folk, I
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  Speaker 1: forget who else written there.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, it just happened. Can you guys talk about and
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  Speaker 2: making this choice? Yeah, I mean, I mean we're all
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  Speaker 2: part of it. Yeah. He did have great Zoom interviews though,
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  Speaker 2: Like he had a great Zoom interview with Yeah, Tom mean,
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  Speaker 2: Thomas's a study, He's a beast. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: he's like he's just kind of dove in head first
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  Speaker 2: with how we operate here, and he's he's someone that
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  Speaker 2: I've leaned on since since he's got here in terms
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  Speaker 2: of some of like the big picture head coaching stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you trust his opinion on I mean,
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  Speaker 2: been coaching high level running backs for a really long
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  Speaker 2: time in addition to being a really successful head coach.
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  Speaker 2: So but I don't. I think it's about part of
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  Speaker 2: the course on like on position coach involvement in terms
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  Speaker 2: of our process. What are some of the skills as runner.
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  Speaker 1: Man accelerat instant acceleration, vision like cut back ability, but
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  Speaker 1: his ability to work it back like not just completely
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  Speaker 1: balancing it all the time, he just kind of like
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  Speaker 1: work it back inside.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 1: Probably his his contact balance.
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  Speaker 2: How much how much?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I can't answer that quarterback you anticipated with well, you know, we.
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  Speaker 1: You try to project these things out, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we identified a couple of teams that it might happen with,
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  Speaker 1: But that was it was a little just a little I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know who was trying to trade for him or not.
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  Speaker 2: I can't answer that.
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  Speaker 1: You measured two or three at the combine? How does
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  Speaker 1: that factor.
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  Speaker 2: In the email?
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  Speaker 1: And and what would be the idea of way he wanted.
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  Speaker 3: To play it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a little light. I think that it
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  Speaker 2: was a few pounds lighter than he then he said
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  Speaker 2: he played at I think it's one of those things
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  Speaker 2: where once we get in our program and figure out
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  Speaker 2: what the best what what the best like body comp
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  Speaker 2: is for him. I mean, I don't know if there's
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  Speaker 2: a bounce of faut on him, but we'll look at
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  Speaker 2: it and see what's best for us and best for
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  Speaker 2: him and kind of go from there, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, I mean his his his uh,
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  Speaker 1: one of his super talents is basically just his ability
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  Speaker 1: to cut back and then kind of like increase it.
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  Speaker 1: And he's just he's just got that. Like I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he has home run speed, he has like he has
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  Speaker 1: exploded a lot of explosive runs and he's excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: he's returned three kickoffs for touchdowns in his career to
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  Speaker 1: this year. You know, that's such a unique feel. The
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  Speaker 1: USC game was ridiculous. Yeah, just like that that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he that's like the instant acceleration.
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  Speaker 2: Talked about how you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys got your team and reports for your team, but
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out where the.
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  Speaker 2: People are gonna pick this a harder year to kind
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  Speaker 2: of scout where where people were.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm sorry that was a big gap. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to think of it, but I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: give away. Yeah, we'll talk about it later, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was, it was a little more. It's been a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. It's it's it's unique. It was a neat
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  Speaker 1: it's been a unique first round.
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  Speaker 2: Like obviously you guys went really fast. It was three hours. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you ever set, but do you anticipate, Uh, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: train him and we'll just take it from there. So
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  Speaker 2: it's probably all I well I know right now and
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  Speaker 2: John can answer it too. To me, it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of just the culminational process. You. I think it
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  Speaker 2: happens at different times. I think probably the common denominator
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  Speaker 2: is like the shared excitement from everyone that's had like,
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  Speaker 2: h like encounter with these people. And that's what gets
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  Speaker 2: you fired up. Is a lot of people that you
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  Speaker 2: respect and they they know that they know him very
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  Speaker 2: way better than I do. And and then uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's what gets you fired up about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's concerned, No, absolutely not. Yeah, yeah I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did honestly think we were gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: move there for a minute and uh still maybe still
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  Speaker 1: maybe have a shot at him, but uh, sometimes these
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  Speaker 1: things they just don't work out. We talked about it
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  Speaker 1: on the radio show today. I mean twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: I believe we needed three picks and we really want
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  Speaker 1: a D and so we picked him and then the
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  Speaker 1: next pick was like we couldn't really move and then
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  Speaker 1: same things. Just at some point you have to make
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  Speaker 1: a decision.
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  Speaker 2: As you guys studied, was there a play that really JD? Cool?
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  Speaker 2: Kids going, yeah, is there a play that that really
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  Speaker 2: you guys like washed over? Stood out?
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  Speaker 1: It's a good questions sweet pass he gets Pitt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was cool, the Arkansas swing path swing pass and.
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  Speaker 2: You get that.
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  Speaker 1: No philosophically, are you are you like, hey, he's a
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  Speaker 1: first round he's a first round guy with Zach Hurt
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  Speaker 1: right now, he's he's already one from the first snap.
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  Speaker 2: Or do you kind of put him in the back
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  Speaker 2: of the line and he's.
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  Speaker 1: Got to earn his way up, Like where are you where?
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  Speaker 1: How do you stand on that type?
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it was just I don't have
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  Speaker 2: a standing philosophy. Honestly, Just come in, coach him up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'll get reps with with all the groups
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  Speaker 2: probably at some point, and and we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're not just gonna stick him right, there
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  Speaker 2: are the ones he's gonna but I mean he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna have evample opportunity to earn earn a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of carries and a bunch of a bunch of touches.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see how that made him? What kind of
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  Speaker 2: impact that spoke about? Well, look, I'm just I'm hearing
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  Speaker 2: the story from from the people that are involved in
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  Speaker 2: the process, and you know, it's it's it's interesting exercise
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  Speaker 2: to put yourself in their shoes from when that happened
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  Speaker 2: in their lives and in it like that that that
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  Speaker 2: really grounds you pretty quickly, you know. And so I
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  Speaker 2: mean a lot of a lot of these guys throughout
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  Speaker 2: the whole process, here's like holy smokes man, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: for them to be able to put themselves in this
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  Speaker 2: situation their lives, given a lot of things that had
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  Speaker 2: to go through is just really really impressive. So you
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  Speaker 2: can't help but respect a lot of these guys security.
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  Speaker 2: What what are you kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of Yeah, I think it's I think it's three times
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  Speaker 1: in the last two seasons, and uh, it's something that
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, Thallas Amock's awesome and he was
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  Speaker 1: already talking to him about some things on these zoom calls,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: So uh yeah, I'm surely improved. Like as your evaluating
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  Speaker 2: wherever he is. What is that timeline by the way, rough,
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  Speaker 2: I can't I can't give you a am I right now,
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  Speaker 2: but I can tell you he's killing it like he's
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  Speaker 2: just as as we knew he would, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've said it the whole. If you're in
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  Speaker 2: about on anybody, it's Zach charmony. But I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's in great spirits, Like you know, the guys downstairs
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  Speaker 2: are doing a great job with them, and it's I
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  Speaker 2: think he's with these long term injuries just gotta like you,
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  Speaker 2: I say it all the time, you just gotta like
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  Speaker 2: stack these these things. You gotta be able to get
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  Speaker 2: to the next thing and then go rip it. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what he's doing. So I'm excited for Zach. What
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  Speaker 2: whel how big was coming.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the guys? Uh yeah, I mean it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was important, wasn't. I I'm we' going to like completely.
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  Speaker 2: Force it, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was important. There's still some darn good running backs left, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely you know, if you said hey, your needs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was definitely one of our and we just
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  Speaker 3: lost a really good, really good runner and Ken Walker,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else Brian brought us, So that's a yes, Dave,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah so yeah, uh well I just played
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  Speaker 1: the position growing up and okay, Brian, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I started, it was like like the position I
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  Speaker 1: was best to evaluating, and so like I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: know how to evaluate safeties that's very well, or quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So I was kind of like, well, this running back
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  Speaker 1: is pretty good, and that running back is pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: and that guy is good at this and that you know,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah he's not He's not wrong on that note.
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  Speaker 2: Have a good evening, yeah,