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Micah Parsons Can t Believe the Panthers Drafted Tet McMillan Before Dallas _ 2025 NFL Draft · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: And we saw Bryce Young show some glimmers at the
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  Speaker 1: end of last season slay. That game that he had
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  Speaker 1: against y'all had me terrified.
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  Speaker 2: Man, heah me, look, look, I don't know what's want
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  Speaker 2: with him that day because he tried me like eight
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  Speaker 2: times on that last final drive.
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  Speaker 3: I was probably the most tiredest UDE ever.
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  Speaker 2: Been in my life. And like I said, man, I
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  Speaker 2: might need to get in better shape this week, because
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  Speaker 2: that was a long game. You know, even though I
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  Speaker 2: had save it for the game winner, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: saved the game, but I almost lost the game to
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  Speaker 2: play with him.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers had a run last year. They lost a
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  Speaker 1: close game of the Chiefs, they lost the Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: in overtime, and.
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  Speaker 3: That game in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you guys pulled that out, but
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  Speaker 1: they competed against the best in the league. And with
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  Speaker 1: the eighth pick, the Carolina Panthers and GM Dan Morgan
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  Speaker 1: are selecting.
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  Speaker 3: I am shocked. Tenor Roa McMillan, the wife, What did
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  Speaker 3: you think it was gonna bet it was gonna be
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  Speaker 3: Jayleen Walker. No, that was supposed to be our pick.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they wanted. How you feeling right?
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  Speaker 2: Now, well, you give me a right, give me al right.
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  Speaker 3: He was supposed to be opposite a cd J.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you gotta find some Monday, alright, sir brother, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta find some money.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's break this down that we can get
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  Speaker 3: more into that.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers are selecting the wide receiver out of Arizona Tetoroa. McMillan.
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  Speaker 1: A first team All American. He had over thirty four
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  Speaker 1: hundred career receiving yards. Over the last two years. He
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  Speaker 1: led college football in combined receiving yards, first downs, catches
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  Speaker 1: of twenty or more. He forced twenty eight missed tackles,
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  Speaker 1: best for third in the country at wide receiver, and
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  Speaker 1: his personal motto is naylo negative attitudes, lose opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: This guy started off as a top five dude.
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  Speaker 1: Then you started seeing mox where he was going in
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  Speaker 1: the twenties. For him to go at eight to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the new weapons for Bryce Young, what do
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  Speaker 1: we think.
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  Speaker 3: Of the value? I love this pick.
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  Speaker 4: I have Panthers fans, I've trashed your wide receiver picks
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  Speaker 4: the last two years. When they drafted John Domingo, when
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  Speaker 4: they drafted a be like it, I hated it. I
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  Speaker 4: absolutely love this one. I didn't think they do it.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they were gonna go gee on Walker, but
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  Speaker 4: they still needed the wide receiver help. When the guys
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  Speaker 4: don't work out, you can't just keep throwing them out
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  Speaker 4: there and hoping they succeed. This guy is going to
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  Speaker 4: succeed the highest floor wide receiver in this class after
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  Speaker 4: Travis Hunter. Big body, lean, though he's got a big
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  Speaker 4: catch radius, his ability to make plays outside his frame,
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  Speaker 4: and he's just so fluid, I mean his ability to stop,
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  Speaker 4: start to run after catch. It looks like an off
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  Speaker 4: guard and bask he was only six to one. I
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  Speaker 4: think those numbers are wrong, man, I think those numbers
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  Speaker 4: are wrong. But that's the type of guy you're getting.
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  Speaker 4: Someone who can go up and get it in the
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  Speaker 4: red zone, but also someone who can get off the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage consistently. His ability to release at that
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  Speaker 4: size is unique. You don't see it from a lot
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  Speaker 4: of big guys. It's easy to get their hands on them,
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  Speaker 4: but his body control is special. I think this is
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  Speaker 4: a surefire thousand yards in after season. Bryce Young's guy
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  Speaker 4: for you know, a good portion of his career here,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm giving it, giving it a bus if and
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  Speaker 4: you get a guy at number eight that I had
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  Speaker 4: six on my board, I love that value, all right.
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  Speaker 3: So your reaction clearly you like the guy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I try to keep him away. I'm trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Say him one time and all of the meetings Thereason,
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  Speaker 1: you got some things you just can't Jean, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: My fingers just crawling. I I was hoping that was
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  Speaker 3: your real crush.
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  Speaker 5: That was my one.
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  Speaker 3: That was my one.
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  Speaker 5: I was I've been watching him the whole time, twelve after.
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  Speaker 1: Dark, watching Arizona at like one in the morning, and
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  Speaker 1: he just lighting people up.
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  Speaker 3: Was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yo.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I'm watching this dude, and I'm thinking, Yo, we
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  Speaker 5: need someone to help create space get away from CD Lamb.
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  Speaker 5: This is the guy uh CD plays outside inside, But
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  Speaker 5: this is a guy who's a matchup nightmare. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we were trying to do go balls with Brandon Cooks,
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  Speaker 5: but you got a sixth tall rangy receiver like him
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  Speaker 5: to do go balls with and opposite the CD, knowing
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna get a one on one.
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  Speaker 3: With no safety help.
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  Speaker 5: This is the guy that we we wanted in Dallas.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is a great pick. Also, they needed
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  Speaker 5: this help. They needed it a more reliable go get
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  Speaker 5: a receiver and their offense, especially with a young Bryce Young,
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  Speaker 5: you gotta help your quarterback. I don't think offensive line
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  Speaker 5: help was a huge issue for the Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: No, they were pretty good in their own line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is what they need to invest in.
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  Speaker 5: Theham was the older Lagette had a lot of drops
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  Speaker 5: this year. This is where and Chubb approved himselves last year.
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  Speaker 5: They gave him a deal. This was the pick that
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  Speaker 5: I thought made the most sense for them.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's defense was last against the run, last and scoring
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  Speaker 1: third to last in sacks, So I think that's why
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  Speaker 1: everyone thought they were gonna go there. But if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see what Bryce Young has, you gotta give him
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  Speaker 1: some weapons.
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  Speaker 3: Slay. What do you think about facing this guy?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's gonna be a great, great guy man.
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  Speaker 2: Me going against a guy that sits for he made
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  Speaker 2: me a lot like Drake London, you know, as coming
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  Speaker 2: to body, his body, framed, tall guy, great ball skills
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  Speaker 2: that you see get tack the ball at the hot point.
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  Speaker 2: I just think he just needed a little better on
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  Speaker 2: his route running. But that's that's just come from great coaching.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I see he's don't really run routes to separate from routes.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, man, he's got everything he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to receive, the body control, the verticals, the everything you need,
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  Speaker 2: the finishing. I don't know he's blocking scene, but he
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  Speaker 2: got everything you want and the receiver. So I just
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  Speaker 2: see him as he's getting better as a route runner.
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  Speaker 2: He'd be a dominated.
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  Speaker 3: Through a bunch of wide receiver footage. Where did he
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  Speaker 3: rank in the wide receivers in this traft? Oh, he
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  Speaker 3: is my favorite one.
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  Speaker 2: He's my favorite one just because I could see that
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  Speaker 2: like the game he has. Man, he got a good
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  Speaker 2: relationship with the quarterbacks. I saw him on scrammel drills.
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  Speaker 2: He never giving up on plays, so he got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of a lot of love for me.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I like guys that work hard like that in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the play. He never takes a playoff. So
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  Speaker 2: a guy that never takes a playoff is always hard
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  Speaker 2: for a dB.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Joe Burrow fit. This is with Joe
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  Speaker 5: Burrow the ten of the Bengals enabled forget defense might
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  Speaker 5: be bad. No matter what, we need a fat We
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  Speaker 5: need to put guys in our brace joke.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be mad at them.
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  Speaker 1: Jay Blazer had a tweet Renner a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: about how, for the first time ever, he's hearing one
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  Speaker 1: reason coaches don't want to draft certain players is they
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  Speaker 1: don't love the game enough. One of the big knocks
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  Speaker 1: on Tetoroh was, oh, I don't know how.
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  Speaker 3: Much he loves football. I don't know if he's a gamer.
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  Speaker 1: Then there was some footage that someone took him in
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  Speaker 1: a fast food restaurant that he said, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: watch football. The conversation was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a concern at all in your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Not a concern at all?
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  Speaker 5: Okay for me.
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  Speaker 4: I mean a lot of guys around the NFL don't
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  Speaker 4: love watching like the NFL like they didn't grow up
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  Speaker 4: doing that.
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  Speaker 3: You watch his film, though not a lot of players
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  Speaker 3: do watch NFL games. I don't see Listen, this is
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  Speaker 3: the division I'm going again? Right? Yeah? I know, but
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  Speaker 3: you you have the utmost confidence.
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  Speaker 4: I just I watch him on a football field and
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  Speaker 4: it's like, if he hasn't if his tape hasn't been
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  Speaker 4: like locked in and trying to get better, imagine what
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna look when he does you know gonna look
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  Speaker 4: like Because as a guy, he is very driven. He
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  Speaker 4: wants to be the best. It's not for lack of
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  Speaker 4: wanting them. So I'm laughing because I was at my
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  Speaker 4: buddy Eric Eagers and their new VP of Analytics. I
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  Speaker 4: used to work with him at PFF, and I was
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  Speaker 4: textingim yesterday. I said, I hope you fired your wide
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  Speaker 4: receiver scouts because of the last two years. Well the
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  Speaker 4: white receiver scouts working
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  Speaker 3: Better this year, all right, Bryce locked in, very very cool,