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Mac & Bone Show- Dan Morgan · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Danny Claus is coming in here, got bags of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That's got bags of gifts and it's all for him. No,
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  Speaker 1: but there's three bags like it is bot beautiful. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you sir. That is awesome. Wow. See, everybody, the
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  Speaker 1: lesson in life is you whine about stuff enough, people
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  Speaker 1: will give you stuff just to shut you up. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. Dan Morgan putting on the headset
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  Speaker 1: here to hang out with the Mac and Bone show,
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  Speaker 1: a yearly tradition. We love this yearly tradition. We hope
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  Speaker 1: you do, Dan. What's going on? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Not much now? You just getting ready first day of pads.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a good one. That's why we're here.
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  Speaker 1: We show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we guys coming out to practice. Yeah, baby, and
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  Speaker 3: you need us out there. What it's not we'll be around.
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  Speaker 3: What on earth could we do?
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  Speaker 1: Pick up jock straps and later on like what did
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  Speaker 1: he holds? Oh god, what hold some bags? I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel like we could be much help, but
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  Speaker 1: if he wanted to. Could you imagine if we held
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  Speaker 1: a bag and Derek Brown hit the thing, we would
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  Speaker 1: we end up in gastonia slinkshot. Oh man, So we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about this early, I'll ask you right as
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  Speaker 1: a GM of the team, we were kind of riffing
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  Speaker 1: earlier on like who or what do we want to
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  Speaker 1: see because they're in pads. We were out the other day,
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  Speaker 1: but like we get excited like you do and the
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  Speaker 1: guys do about being in pads. What the educated football
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  Speaker 1: eye of you? And this is your team that you're
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  Speaker 1: putting together, Like what are you what do you look
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  Speaker 1: for today in a padded practice?
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  Speaker 4: I think like in the non padded practices, the O line,
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  Speaker 4: D line, like you're always like you don't really get
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  Speaker 4: a good look at that.
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  Speaker 2: So today, like out there in pads.
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  Speaker 4: Usually when you're not in pads, the defense really has
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  Speaker 4: the advantage. There's not a lot you know, to hold
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  Speaker 4: on to the punch. So it's gonna be fun to
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  Speaker 4: see those guys compete today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had one of your your new star acquisitions
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  Speaker 3: Devin Lloyd on oh yeah, last hour too, Like a
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  Speaker 3: great guy. What drew you to him in free agency?
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  Speaker 3: From your linebacker?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think you watched the tape obviously how
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  Speaker 4: big and long he is, and he's fast as hell,
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  Speaker 4: really good range, which is on display every day out there.
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  Speaker 4: He's good in coverage, he can blitz, he can play
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  Speaker 4: the run. Uh and he's a great leader. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's one of the first guys in the building every day,
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  Speaker 4: works his butt off. Is a really good example for
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  Speaker 4: the young linebackers. So we're lucky to have him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel we we had him on. He's all ball,
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  Speaker 1: he is all business, and you can see the leadership
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  Speaker 1: he has, so I'm we're looking forward to that so much.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about unfortunately the defensive line now without Nick Scrton.
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  Speaker 1: I hate this man. He's a dog. You said you
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  Speaker 1: wanted dogs. Yeah, I see why you drafted him. Are
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  Speaker 1: we is this team? Okay? I know you want to
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  Speaker 1: keep an open mind elsewhere. What do you think about
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  Speaker 1: the edge group without him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I feel feel good about it.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, signing Jalen Phillips in the offseason that was huge
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  Speaker 4: for us, A guy that we didn't think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: was going to become available. So I think we were
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  Speaker 4: really lucky to get him. Pat Jones a veteran guy
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  Speaker 4: who plays good football. He got hurt last year. We
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  Speaker 4: missed him when he was out, so getting him back
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  Speaker 4: he looks good. And then young Princely he's looking really
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  Speaker 4: good out there. He's getting better every single day, So
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  Speaker 4: we feel good about him. Hated about Nick. We're obviously
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  Speaker 4: going to really miss him, just like the motor, the
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  Speaker 4: play style, just who he is as a person every
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  Speaker 4: single day out there on the field.
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  Speaker 2: So definitely a big loss.
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  Speaker 3: So injuries always seem unfair, no matter when they happen,
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  Speaker 3: but it always seems like extra unfair Dan when they happened,
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  Speaker 3: like immediately in camp, all the work that goes into it,
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  Speaker 3: from you guys, to the team to the individuals, it
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  Speaker 3: always seems like it's the most unfair because then they
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  Speaker 3: miss out, the player misses out on the whole entire
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  Speaker 3: experience you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are trying to go through.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, you know, I think you can look
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  Speaker 4: at it, you know, a couple of different ways. You know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously you never want him to tear it, but hey,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to be able to get back next year.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be fully healthy by the time the
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  Speaker 4: season starts next year, as opposed to if he did
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  Speaker 4: it late in the season, then we'd miss him for
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  Speaker 4: another year. So you know, there's a silver lining and
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  Speaker 4: everything things happen for a reason. That's my job to
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  Speaker 4: you know, have the roster right to where we have
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  Speaker 4: enough dept to you know, take on those kind of things.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think we do.
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  Speaker 1: I do have a trade suggestion for you though, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: You know we only have so much money. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: is a cap, Bruce, he's got this. Don't worry about it, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: get him in trouble for tampering here. Yeah, you just
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  Speaker 1: can't with this, will you get in trouble? Guy played
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  Speaker 1: at Charlotte, he plays edge. You know where I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just ask the question this way instead of
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  Speaker 1: here's the gear back. Oh yeah, let's just we don't
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  Speaker 1: deserve this. Yeah, instead of being a goofball about all right,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you the question this way. Do you
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  Speaker 1: view because in the past few years, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Scorting goes down. I feel like maybe
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  Speaker 1: you'll add someone in free agency. Yeah, but you'll keep
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  Speaker 1: letting the young guys play and stuff like that. Your
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  Speaker 1: division champs. Now, your owner said at the momentum event,
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  Speaker 1: this is a playoff team. This Yeah I was there,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm sure you're like, okay, it better be.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a little more pressure to maybe get a
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  Speaker 1: little more aggressive to replace Nick or No. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think so, you know, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 4: say that we're gonna sit on our hands and not
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  Speaker 4: look and I talk about things. We're definitely gonna do that.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna be aggressive if we feel like we need
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  Speaker 4: to be aggressive. But for right now we feel good.
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  Speaker 4: Does that mean that we're not gonna do something as
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  Speaker 4: we get towards cut down and in the season. No,
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  Speaker 4: So you know, we're gonna keep an open mind and
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  Speaker 4: we're always gonna try to find ways to make the.
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  Speaker 1: Ross right now. It's about seeing what you have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. Hey, Bruce, we didn't talk about anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to so bad.
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  Speaker 3: If there's a fine you can't pay. Jonathan Brooks were
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  Speaker 3: exciting out there. Just kind of refresh us a little
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  Speaker 3: bit because he has been out for a while. In
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  Speaker 3: your draft evaluations, you trade it up for him. What
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  Speaker 3: drew you to him as a player and how much
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  Speaker 3: does he open up things to this office?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, he's a great running back.
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  Speaker 4: He's got breakaway speed, he's a big playability, catches the
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  Speaker 4: ball really well out of the backfield he can protect.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a he's an awesome back when he's healthy.
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  Speaker 4: He's starting to look like the Jonathan Brooks that we
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  Speaker 4: drafted out there. And I'm myself, coach Canalis, the staff,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's really fired up about him right now. He said
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  Speaker 4: it in a really good direction, and you know, we'll
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  Speaker 4: see where it goes.
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  Speaker 2: So far, so good.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking earlier in the week about guys on
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  Speaker 1: this team that we think people sleep on on the outside, right,
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  Speaker 1: or guys that we really love and maybe on the
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  Speaker 1: outside world they don't really notice how good they are. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is there a guy or two you think of like that? Like, man,
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  Speaker 1: these guys can ball and no one people haven't noticed.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I think people sleep on a
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  Speaker 4: lot of our guys, to be honest with you. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're, if you want to say, a smaller market.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we haven't had a ton of national TV
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  Speaker 4: games and a lot of exposures, so I think that
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  Speaker 4: all plays into it a little bit. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: the obvious one is Derek Brown. It's like to be
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  Speaker 4: where he is on the NFL Top one hundred. Like
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  Speaker 4: as much football as I watched there is not many
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  Speaker 4: better d tackles in the NFL than Derek Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to make the Pro Bowl was absurd.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's I don't know what goes into that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I do, but you know, sometimes it's a
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  Speaker 4: little a little bit more like a popularity contest instead
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  Speaker 4: of like, all right, who's who's really kicking ass on tape?
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  Speaker 2: And Derek Brown does that?
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  Speaker 1: Was he see this year seventy eight?
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  Speaker 2: Go listen? Yeah, in my opinion, there's not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Jack, we we love what he's done here
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  Speaker 3: so far. In his future, is there anything there contract
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  Speaker 3: wise and talks or is that tabled? Where do we
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  Speaker 3: stand right now with Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, we're in a good spot
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  Speaker 4: with Mike Jack. Mike Jack knows where we stand with him.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously we leave all the negotiation stuff, you know in between,
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  Speaker 4: you know, between myself, Brandt and the agent and Mike Jack.
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  Speaker 2: He knows where we're at. We know where we're at.
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  Speaker 2: We're in a good spot.
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  Speaker 4: He's happy, and you know, I think you know at
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  Speaker 4: the right time, if you know, if that right times
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the season or somewhere during the season,
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  Speaker 4: who knows.
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  Speaker 2: But we're definitely going to keep an open mind.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed that we're not in the group and gets
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  Speaker 1: looped in on the negotiation. Yeah, you want to wait
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  Speaker 1: for name?
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  Speaker 2: You want me to put you on the text?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, seems pretty simple to do that. Yeah, kid, listen, dang,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we had access. All right, So while we're
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  Speaker 1: talking contracts, let's talk about Bryce Young and I'll ask
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've asked. I don't know how many times
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  Speaker 1: I've tried to get answers. And you've got a job
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  Speaker 1: to do, right, Yeah, you give the Marty Herni esque answers.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be the best at GM speak ever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but let's let me ask you this way. Like with Bryce,
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  Speaker 1: when we talk about it, it feels like the dilemma is, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: how much is he how much cap money is he worth?
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  Speaker 1: Because you've seen it, and we've seen it with quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: that get paid. Sometimes it's perfect, it works out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you weaken the supporting cast around that quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: it turns out, Man, they weren't work. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: They weren't work?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you is that what you have to
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  Speaker 1: ultimately do with Bryce? Like what percentage of the cap
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  Speaker 1: is he really work? Is that Is that a sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing that you that y'all have been thinking of.
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's there's a lot of you know, talks
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  Speaker 4: and like there's a lot of things that go into
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  Speaker 4: extending a player. And we've had good talks with Bryce
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  Speaker 4: and his representatives and Bryce and again like same thing
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  Speaker 4: with him, Like we communicate with our players. We don't
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  Speaker 4: sit up there and like keep them in the dark
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  Speaker 4: about stuff. So we're in a really good place with Bryce.
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  Speaker 4: He knows where he stands with us, which is in
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  Speaker 4: a good spot. So we'll see where it goes contractually,
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  Speaker 4: but we're in a good spot. We really like where
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  Speaker 4: he's had it. He's looked great out here in camp.
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  Speaker 2: He had a he had a day days he was
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  Speaker 2: he was dealing out there.
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  Speaker 4: So we feel really good about where he's headed and
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  Speaker 4: you know, we'll see where it goes.
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  Speaker 3: He looked like the Alabama guy. He was moving, he
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  Speaker 3: was throwing anticipation that won the that won the t
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  Speaker 3: MAC where they knew exactly where they were supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be for each other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the connections growing. I mean it was good last year, well, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, and I think that was part you know, we started,
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  Speaker 4: like the first five games, we really struggled, you know,
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  Speaker 4: coming out of the gate. But you know, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people, you know, you remember that there wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: lot of continuity out there. You know, Jalen was hurd
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  Speaker 4: t Macs and new wide out Xaviers in his second year,
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  Speaker 4: so there wasn't a lot of continuity out on that field.
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  Speaker 4: So hopefully definitely we can keep guys healthy and you know,
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  Speaker 4: really developed that continuity which we saw a couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we love the Blueprint show. It looks like you're
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  Speaker 3: in your bag, like draft time is like, Yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: looks fun.
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  Speaker 1: It does look fun. Tillis have a special bond we do.
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  Speaker 3: What's it what's it been like to work for him
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  Speaker 3: in his sort of like mad scientists role that he's
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  Speaker 3: got going on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think that's a great thing about
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  Speaker 4: what we have going on that everybody understands their role,
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  Speaker 4: everybody in our front office, everybody in our coaching staff.
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  Speaker 2: We just want to win. We don't care who gets
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  Speaker 2: the credit. We just want to win.
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  Speaker 4: And the ultimate goals to win a championship and bring
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  Speaker 4: it back here to Charlotte. So we're gonna we got
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  Speaker 4: a really good thing going on up there. A lot
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  Speaker 4: of good uh chemistry, a lot of good talks and
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  Speaker 4: communication up there. We're always talking, trying trying to find
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  Speaker 4: ways to make this team better. So uh, I'm excited
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  Speaker 4: about where we're headed and I'm excited about the long
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  Speaker 4: term future.
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  Speaker 1: When he showed up, who was at the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five draft in his Dan Morgan jersey, Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you were you Like, I didn't know. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: know he was going to do that. They kind of
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  Speaker 4: caught me off guard there for a second. It's funny, though,
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  Speaker 4: we should.
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  Speaker 1: Have been in our dance what we should have done.
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  Speaker 1: Ben and our Dan boy last time, our JJ Janssen Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to find him. They sell those, Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: somebody said a listener actually sent three to us last
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  Speaker 1: really yeah again, but he bought him somewhere on the store.
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  Speaker 1: You can do the number in the It's not like specific,
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  Speaker 1: like y'all are like putting JJ's in the store.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, they had players Dan that you no longer have
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  Speaker 3: on the roster in the store.
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  Speaker 1: I forget.
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  Speaker 3: There was some players that I forget. It was like
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  Speaker 3: everybody's available for the most part, but JJ.
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  Speaker 1: Was not disrespect.
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  Speaker 2: We got to change that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do. I feel like he has earned that
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  Speaker 1: in his seventy eight years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my girlfriend wants to know. Can you give her
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: a clear plastic bag they used during the games.
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  Speaker 1: Of the bag for the panther. Oh my god, Now
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  Speaker 1: you're worse thing. You're taking over. He's taking over my job,
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: fanny packs. This is what I deal with, Bruce. You
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  Speaker 1: get specific requests his girlfriend's home, like on the website
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  Speaker 1: right now. Oh my goodness. All right, last question, because
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  Speaker 1: we didn't ask about Monroe Freeling. I love this dude
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  Speaker 1: first of all, like his attitude, like he's a fun kid.
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  Speaker 1: And he also was made I know Jaln Phillips handed
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  Speaker 1: it to him a little bit the other day on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: but like he says, bring it on. This is how
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  Speaker 1: I get better. Is is he ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know can Al's basically said we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make him prove it. But now it's here. How ready
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  Speaker 1: is he technique wise for this? Physically? Like is he
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  Speaker 1: ready for physically? He's definitely ready, you know from a
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  Speaker 1: technique standpoint. You know, that's why we're practicing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Like we still have a while onto all our first game.
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  Speaker 1: So he's gonna get invaluable reps out there on the
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  Speaker 1: field every single day. You see him getting better and
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  Speaker 1: better with this technique and you know, kicking out from
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  Speaker 1: the right side as opposed to the left side, hand placement,
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  Speaker 1: all those little things that you know, they really matter
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So he's still getting used to that. But I have
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  Speaker 2: full full confidence that he's going to be ready. Week one.
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  Speaker 3: You were at the national title game, right Miami, Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: You I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you go to one of the playoff games? I
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  Speaker 1: thought you were on that list Olsen did, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I was up in the draft room. We
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: were locked up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got that question there. That was me. I
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  Speaker 1: thought you were there. I told you were holding Michael
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  Speaker 1: Irvin back. Yeah, I thought you grabbed Michael's spelt.
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  Speaker 2: You know me, I'm not I'm not like that. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not doing exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get a kick out of him though? He
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  Speaker 1: is funny?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, he's Michael Irvin. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of energy, and you know, he brings a lot of
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  Speaker 4: enthusiasm to the sideline. So I think Crystal Ball really
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  Speaker 4: likes him.
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  Speaker 1: He kissed Crystal Ball. Christ Ball did say it media Day, though.
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  Speaker 2: He looked uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: One of his goals is to avoid being kissed by
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  Speaker 1: Michael Irvans this year. That's a good goal, that is,
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  Speaker 1: all right, brother hey Man, thanks so much for hanging
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  Speaker 1: with us. Thanks for the gifts we all got, gifts
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't even need to whine this year, all right,
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  Speaker 1: brother hey best of luck Mann.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.