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Saints Training Camp Day 6: Barion Brown Keeps Rolling, Kendre Miller Injury Update · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 2: had a thing and you have to tell me now
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  Speaker 2: But he had a thing where every now and then
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  Speaker 2: buttered toast, he would say buttered toast and it always
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  Speaker 2: I kind of see myself as kind of a dufist
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  Speaker 2: in a fun way, like a good If.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine, dude, We can do some buttered toast. That's
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Saints at practice on Wednesday after a day off,
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  Speaker 1: what was the big takeaway?
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  Speaker 2: Barry On Brown's stud Dude, Man, he is so fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch and he has kind of eclipsed very quickly
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  Speaker 2: the camp darling guy to just being a player that
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  Speaker 2: now everybody's kind of wondering, like, oh, okay, now, how
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  Speaker 2: do you take advantage of all of this in the
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  Speaker 2: offense going into the regular season. He has been just
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  Speaker 2: an awesome playmaker all the way through, everything from dominating
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  Speaker 2: one on ones to putting together some you know, great catches. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: In team drills the Saint stage sort of a simulated
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  Speaker 2: two minute drill end of half type situation to where
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  Speaker 2: they were. The offense was marching down the field down
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  Speaker 2: three and Spencer Ratler was able to hit Berry on
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  Speaker 2: Brown over on the right sideline. Brown slipped from under
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  Speaker 2: the corner to be able to get the catch and
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  Speaker 2: then picked up thirty six yards just flying down the
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  Speaker 2: right sideline. I mean, this dude just keeps making plays
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  Speaker 2: and he is easily the biggest takeaway from today.
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  Speaker 1: If only he had a quarterback any of his four
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  Speaker 1: years in college to throw it in football. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you thought we're gonna have it that last year with
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  Speaker 1: nuss Meyer us got injured and Brown was still Elishu's
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  Speaker 1: leading receiver. But can you imagine like the what if?
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  Speaker 1: The other big thing I think that it was interesting
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  Speaker 1: today was was Kella Moore talking about the injuries and
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  Speaker 1: oh boy, Kendre Miller, he's got a back. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to overreact, but how can you not considering his history?
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  Speaker 1: What do we know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, the thing that we know is that it's
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  Speaker 2: not considered a major injury. They're kind of to kind
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  Speaker 2: of being described as, you know, tweaking his back, and
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  Speaker 2: so they're just kind of taking it easy with him.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, there's just there's no need to pretend, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, running list of injuries throughout his career, and
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that he needed to really really do,
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  Speaker 2: or one of the things he needed to really really
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  Speaker 2: do going into this year was not miss time due
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  Speaker 2: to injury during training camp, and he did such a
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  Speaker 2: great job over the course of the offseason dedicating himself
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  Speaker 2: to rehabbing. He was at the facility almost every day,
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  Speaker 2: or at least he was every day that he could
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  Speaker 2: be there trying to come back from that ACL injury
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  Speaker 2: that hit Week seven against the Bears, and then now
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  Speaker 2: to get back out on the field, and then there'd
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  Speaker 2: be another new injury. And that's the thing that's been
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  Speaker 2: so interesting around kendreing is, you know, it's been MCL injury.
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  Speaker 2: He had a calf and hamstring stuff, and then he
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  Speaker 2: had the ACL injury, and then now it's a back injury.
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  Speaker 2: It's just kind of all different things every time, and
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  Speaker 2: so look, it might be minor, but it's going to
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  Speaker 2: cast a shadow over what Kendre Miller's trying to do,
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  Speaker 2: which has proved that he can be healthy, proved that
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  Speaker 2: he can stay on the field and then get out
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  Speaker 2: on the field because there's no question about the talent
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  Speaker 2: when he's there. But he needed to answer a health
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  Speaker 2: question this offseason and this isn't a great start.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what about Christian Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Christian Miller dealing with it's a toe injury. Those
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  Speaker 2: are always a little scary, I think, Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: I think as Saints fans hearing toe injury, there's automatically
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  Speaker 2: some trauma associated with that. But it sounds like this
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  Speaker 2: one is maybe a minor thing at Kellen Moore described
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  Speaker 2: it as a little toe situation, which I don't think
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  Speaker 2: meant literally his little toe. I think it's to say
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  Speaker 2: it's a small toe injury. But you know, he also
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  Speaker 2: said he didn't have a lot of information yet, and
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  Speaker 2: so there is a little bit of a we'll see
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  Speaker 2: around it. But we did see him. He was out
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  Speaker 2: on the field, he was there. He just didn't participate
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  Speaker 2: in team drills and things like that. So maybe we'll
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit more clarity on that going into
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow's practice. But you know, certainly not I can take
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  Speaker 2: much more, many more hits that defensive tackle or game.
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  Speaker 1: Saints RUSS. What position battle or battles now almost a
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  Speaker 1: week into camp are maybe starting to materialize?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, the QB two one, it
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  Speaker 2: was an interesting one going in, but it's just been
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  Speaker 2: so clear that Spencer Rattler is the better quarterback on
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  Speaker 2: the football field right now. When it comes to that conversation,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of value to Zach Wilson
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  Speaker 2: and what he can bring from the experience in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL and making your young quarterbacks better and everything that
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  Speaker 2: he's got a clear ability to be able to do
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  Speaker 2: that with his experience and with his knowledge and just
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  Speaker 2: managing expectations things like that. But it's very, very clear
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  Speaker 2: from a field standpoint that Spencer Rattler is the better
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  Speaker 2: situation there when it comes to the performance, and so
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  Speaker 2: I think that that is beginning to crystallize at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if the Saints eventually start getting
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  Speaker 2: some phone calls considering quarterback situations around the NFL. Certainly
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  Speaker 2: they should get those phone calls because, like Spencer Ratler
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  Speaker 2: was like really really strong here throughout the course of camp.
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  Speaker 2: And then I guess the other place that I would
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  Speaker 2: point would be the kicker competition, which continues to kind
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  Speaker 2: of have this back and forth. It still feels like
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Smith is in the lead, but we got to
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  Speaker 2: see a lot more of Tanner Brown over the course
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  Speaker 2: of today. He had three kicks today alone of fifty
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  Speaker 2: plus or ecuse me, two kicks, No, it's right, three
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  Speaker 2: kicks today of fifty plus yards. One from fifty four
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  Speaker 2: or one for fifty two, one for fifty four, one
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  Speaker 2: for fifty six. The one for fifty two was in
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  Speaker 2: that two minute environment that they were working on at
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  Speaker 2: the end of practice to where they had thirty seconds
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  Speaker 2: left on the clock on a running clock and they
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  Speaker 2: had to sprint the field goal unit out, so not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time to fit there, get lined up,
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  Speaker 2: take a breath. All this this stuff really good display
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  Speaker 2: from Tanner Brown to be able to get out there
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  Speaker 2: and and drill that kick. And then linebacker is becoming
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  Speaker 2: a really interesting one too, because we're watching guys like
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah Stalbert and Jackson Sermon, who the same signed this awseason,
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  Speaker 2: rotate a little bit. Now. Chris Rumph was an edge
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  Speaker 2: rusher last year moved over to linebacker. They love what
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  Speaker 2: Chris brought to this team last year from the special
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  Speaker 2: team side of things. So it's going to create an
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  Speaker 2: interesting conversation inside that linebacker room about who's that fourth, fifth,
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  Speaker 2: potentially sixth linebacker. Is that you keep including the practice
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  Speaker 2: squad spot or spots, and so those have been pretty
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  Speaker 2: intriguing thus far.
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  Speaker 1: We always ask about rookies and there's always a UDFA
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  Speaker 1: somewhere along the line. That makes it any rookie draft
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  Speaker 1: pick or UDFA outside of Barryon Brown that that's turning heads.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Bryce Lance. The ball always seems
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  Speaker 2: to find its way to him. It's clear that he's
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  Speaker 2: somebody that these quarterbacks trust, particularly Spencer Rattler, because they
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  Speaker 2: worked so much together in the second team. So he's
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  Speaker 2: been somebody that's really kind of established. I think Lorenzo Styles,
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  Speaker 2: who you know, ran a four two seven forty yard
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  Speaker 2: dash with an injured labor HM at the combine, then
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  Speaker 2: had laboram surgery and now he's already back. He's kind
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  Speaker 2: of been operating as the third star slash slot player,
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  Speaker 2: and when he gets his opportunity and one ones and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, he tends to be very physical, play
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  Speaker 2: for the whistle type, all those other things, always around
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  Speaker 2: the ball, plays pretty well in those situations. Then you
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  Speaker 2: add on top of what he can bring you on
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  Speaker 2: the special team side, I think that he's somebody that
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  Speaker 2: is working to really kind of gain some footing of
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  Speaker 2: the coaching staff. And then from a u DFA perspective,
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  Speaker 2: the numbers aren't gonna work in his favor just because
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  Speaker 2: the Saints have so many edge rushers, but edge rusher
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  Speaker 2: Mike Heldman out of Central Michigan. Yeah, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a chattanoogvideo there, But Central Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know it's something about Chippewa's
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  Speaker 2: got me. But the you know, he's been somebody that
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  Speaker 2: has just consistently shown up and made plays both in
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  Speaker 2: the run game and in the passing game. And so
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  Speaker 2: he's probably the UDFA that's that stood out the most
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  Speaker 2: to me so far.
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