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Mac & Bone Show - Jake Delhomme Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Let's talk to Jake DeLome, Panthers legend, Panther Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: The QB is playing damn good, and I would love
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  Speaker 1: to hear Jake's thoughts on it. And Jake is with
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  Speaker 1: us here on the Mac and Bone Show. Jake, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, man? How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, man. I think I'm like everyone else.
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  Speaker 2: Still living the high from Sunday night and knowing that
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  Speaker 2: we have a bye, even though it's early, that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: But kind of like what we've seen, especially from our quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: my buddy. Definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Jake, how great is it, though, when you have the
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  Speaker 3: player perspective and you have the broadcasting perspective now, but
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  Speaker 3: to go into the bye on a high, that's.
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  Speaker 1: A huge deal, right?
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  Speaker 2: It always is. It's just that, I don't know, it's
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  Speaker 2: just that sense of you never want to go on
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  Speaker 2: that bad taste because you have to wait so long
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  Speaker 2: to be able to play again. But going in and
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  Speaker 2: how the atmosphere was Sunday night, the environment, down two
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  Speaker 2: starting corners, we're missing the starting offensive lineman. We got
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  Speaker 2: some guys kind of nicked during the game. And the
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  Speaker 2: way we did it, I thought, was fantastic. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: The crowd affected Detroit's offense, I thought. I thought T-Mac
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  Speaker 2: showed exactly what he is. I think Bryce is continuing
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  Speaker 2: to show how he's playing. And just defensively, the Devin
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  Speaker 2: Lloyd addition, it's been remarkable, to be very honest. And
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  Speaker 2: Derrick Brown, you can look at the stat sheet all
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  Speaker 2: you want, but I think he affects the game so
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  Speaker 2: much more than the stat sheet. But it's just good
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  Speaker 2: to go off of a win like that, try to
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  Speaker 2: get some guys back. We'll see how that plays out.
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  Speaker 2: And then hopefully Philadelphia can kind of keep that the turmoil,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could say that always seems to surround them.
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  Speaker 2: And then they're playing in London against a very good
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars team. So, you know, keep that momentum going and
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  Speaker 2: see what we can do after.
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  Speaker 1: I know, man, I know I'm ready, but this bye
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  Speaker 1: week did come at a good time. All right. So Jake,
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting there, you're, you're commentating on these games and
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  Speaker 1: you're watching Bryce young play at such an amazing level
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  Speaker 1: and doing it while being the most pressured quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the league, which is amazing to me. What are you
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  Speaker 1: noticing from Bryce, uh, that maybe he's improved at, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're seeing things that are different than the past years?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just ownership of the offense. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing. I just... there's complete ownership and it's,
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  Speaker 2: he's never too high. He's never too low. And you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big believer in watching the quarterback's eyes. And
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  Speaker 2: it's never like this panic, this frightened look in his eyes.
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  Speaker 2: And we have all these field mics and we can
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  Speaker 2: hear the, the checks that he makes with the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage. There's never, it's never frantic. It's never rushed.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, no, no, no, we're good. We're good. We're good. No,
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  Speaker 2: go here, go here. It's, it's constantly constant communication. There's
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  Speaker 2: never panic. It's never frantic. And he's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: just in total control. And yes, he's getting pressured a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but he's just dealing the football. I think the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing to me that I'm so impressed with, he's so compact.
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  Speaker 2: And what I mean by that, when he catches the snap,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, he catches it. He's compact and the ball's
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  Speaker 2: out immediately. And some of those RPO games are, I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know if it was RPO. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was PRO. It might've been fast read options first, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he would take it and T Mac. It just, he
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  Speaker 2: would just settle right away. He just knew, okay, let
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  Speaker 2: me just peek and look and boom, the ball's on him.
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  Speaker 2: But even like over the middle, some of the, the,
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  Speaker 2: the crossing routes, we had a big third down on
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  Speaker 2: the game and Anish had said, okay, what are we
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  Speaker 2: thinking here? I said, well, we're thinking two people, number
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  Speaker 2: four and number 88. And he hit Waller coming across
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  Speaker 2: the middle, but it's just the accuracy of the passes.
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  Speaker 2: He threw one to Tremaine coming left to right. Tremaine
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  Speaker 2: split out on the left and coming in on the
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  Speaker 2: in route and he layered the throw and he stuck
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  Speaker 2: it on him. And that's the biggest thing. You want
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  Speaker 2: to be a passer, not a thrower of the football.
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  Speaker 2: A thrower is someone who just kind of throws it
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  Speaker 2: and hope they catch it. A passer, he kind of
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  Speaker 2: talks to the player with the football, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he's doing that. But it's just ownership. That's what I
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  Speaker 2: just go back to. The receivers are kind of getting
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  Speaker 2: on his level, and what I mean by that, we
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  Speaker 2: got rid of his security blanket. I always say it.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Thielen, after the 24th season, it was during the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl in New Orleans. We were there, when I
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  Speaker 2: say we, the Panthers or Jonathan Stewart and I, we
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  Speaker 2: did shows weekly. We were hoping both Steve and Luke
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  Speaker 2: would maybe get in the Hall of Fame, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so we did a ton of interviews. Well, Bryce
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  Speaker 2: came to sit down with us one day. And I
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  Speaker 2: just noticed a different person. There was a confidence because
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  Speaker 2: he finished 24 playing pretty well. And I just kind
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  Speaker 2: of asked him off air about, hey, with feeling like,
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  Speaker 2: were you just going to throw to him? Like, what
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  Speaker 2: was the deal? He goes, man, he goes, I just
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  Speaker 2: had that trust with him. And I just knew. And
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  Speaker 2: that just kind of tells me it takes time for
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback to trust some receivers. Right. And so you
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  Speaker 2: saw the coker situation. play out before our eyes last year.
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  Speaker 2: There's a trust factor there. And TMAC was making really
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  Speaker 2: good plays, but I think TMAC even knew I can
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  Speaker 2: make so many more because you saw it last year,
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  Speaker 2: physically guys would really try to get in his chest
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. When he said so much of
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  Speaker 2: a bigger player this year, thickness wise and strength wise,
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  Speaker 2: and the game's slowing down to me and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to continue to slow down. But those two are starting
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  Speaker 2: to kind of get on a page and it takes time, man.
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  Speaker 2: It just, I keep saying that to people. I think
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  Speaker 2: we grew together because we were both my first year
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  Speaker 2: in Carolina was year three for him. But initially, in essence,
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  Speaker 2: his first year starting as a receiver, but we, we
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  Speaker 2: grew together. We just like, for whatever reason we clicked,
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  Speaker 2: we just, we learned each other's body language and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. And then the next year, Steve gets hers.
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  Speaker 2: We've won. And so, yeah, certainly Moose was good, but
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  Speaker 2: you start to develop a different rapport with Moose, knowing exactly, okay, hey, Jake,
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  Speaker 2: I really like this. Hey, if I have this, make
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  Speaker 2: sure you throw it here. I just think that takes time.
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  Speaker 2: And you're starting to see Bryce kind of get that
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  Speaker 2: development with his young receivers.
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  Speaker 3: Jake, we had a quarterback question from a texter early
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  Speaker 3: in the show, Panther Cliff, and we said we'd ask
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  Speaker 3: you about it because it's more about something that we
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  Speaker 3: couldn't answer about padding.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give Jake the advantage on quarterback now. Slight advantage.
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  Speaker 3: He noticed or asked, is he padding the ball less,
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  Speaker 3: and how much does that make a difference when Bryce
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  Speaker 3: has the ball before he throws?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The padding of the ball thing. I think certain
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks have certain ticks that they do. Joe Montana padded
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  Speaker 2: it every time he threw.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys kind of do that. I think Bryce is
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job and I'll go back to the
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta game. He maneuvered the defense with his shoulders. And
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  Speaker 2: what I mean by that, we'd have some play action faking.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember the Atlanta game. We
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  Speaker 2: hit some deep corner outs, like wide open. And the
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  Speaker 2: corner would kind of– he'd come up and there was
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  Speaker 2: this huge void. Well, Bryce was manipulating the defense with
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  Speaker 2: his shoulders. He'd fake, he'd get his head around, and
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  Speaker 2: he'd kind of like give that shoulder kind of turn, thinking–
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  Speaker 2: and the DB's reading that. They're going off first movement.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to drive that he's– okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to the flat with the football. And Bryce would just
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  Speaker 2: kind of maneuver that way. And that's just starting to
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  Speaker 2: get that quarterback play where you can kind of control–
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  Speaker 2: or somewhat control what the defense is doing. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: happen every week, obviously, but you just, I just think
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  Speaker 2: it's a rhythm, but he does such a great job,
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  Speaker 2: even when he's stepping up in the pocket about the
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  Speaker 2: two hands on the ball and he hasn't run a
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  Speaker 2: ton this year. As we've seen before, he's such a
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  Speaker 2: really good runner and he doesn't take these massive hits.
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  Speaker 2: Certain people know how to just not get hit and
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  Speaker 2: he knows how to kind of just slide off and
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  Speaker 2: When he steps up in the pocket, the eyes are downfield.
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  Speaker 2: They're not, okay, it's running. Let me just see what
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  Speaker 2: I can get. The eyes are downfield, and the ball
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  Speaker 2: comes out immediately most of the time. So, listen, just
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  Speaker 2: love the overall play, but how old is Bryce? I
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  Speaker 2: should have known this. 25. Okay, so he just turned 25.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's still, like someone I heard this week, the narrative about, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's like his arm's gotten stronger. It's supposed to get stronger.
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  Speaker 2: He's 25. It wasn't like he's this big, mature kid.
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  Speaker 2: I told someone the other day, I weighed 195 pounds
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  Speaker 2: as a senior in college. Within two years, I was
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  Speaker 2: up to 228 pounds. It wasn't due to the lifting
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. It was, I shaved more than
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  Speaker 2: once every two weeks. I started to grow up. Like
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  Speaker 2: you just, you grow up. And I think he's, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what his weight is. Certainly he's never
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  Speaker 2: going to be a big person, but he's getting stronger.
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  Speaker 2: Your body's getting stronger. That throw he made the TMAC
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  Speaker 2: on the sideline with about three minutes left or two
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  Speaker 2: and a half. That's just different. I mean, that's just,
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  Speaker 2: to step up in the pocket, like he did really
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  Speaker 2: outside the pocket and to throw it in that location
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  Speaker 2: and that catch. But I just think that's time. It
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  Speaker 2: comes with time. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. No doubt. And then we all want to
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  Speaker 1: rush these guys, especially when they're number one, overall picks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. I understand it, but like, don't you
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  Speaker 2: think what the Raiders are doing this year? I like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen with Mendoza down
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  Speaker 2: the line, but is that not the perfect situation? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just think of John Kitten in Cincinnati, Carson Palmer, who was,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to draw up what a quarterback should
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  Speaker 2: look like, it's Carson Palmer. Well, he sat the whole year.
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  Speaker 2: You think of Patrick Mahomes and Patrick would say the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. I would made me great was watching Alex Smith.
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  Speaker 2: I learned how to prepare. So when it was my time,
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  Speaker 2: I took over. And I understand I heard Peyton say
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  Speaker 2: it many times. Peyton was like, no, I needed to play.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe so. But I just think given some guys' time,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it takes a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. Jake DeLome hanging out with us.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking obviously a lot about Bryce because this is
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  Speaker 1: Jake's area of expertise. I want to ask you about
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  Speaker 1: Brad Idzik because I certainly see that Bryce is getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball downfield more. I mean, number one in deep completions. Um, his,
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  Speaker 1: his intermediate passing. I mean, he's hitting, he's doubling more
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  Speaker 1: than doubling Jake, the amount of completions per game from
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  Speaker 1: 10 yards on. Um, do you think that's Brett is Brad?
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  Speaker 1: It's expressing that. Is that something that it's a canalis
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  Speaker 1: and bevel got together on during the, like, is this
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  Speaker 1: intentional or is that just the growth of Bryce? He's
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable letting it rip downfield.
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think it all, it all factors in.
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  Speaker 2: I think Dave, well, he has talked about that last year,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll go back to this. I think it's smart
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  Speaker 2: enough that Dave knew that He talks about it. Brad
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  Speaker 2: and Coach Goodwin and Dave, they developed this offense, right?
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  Speaker 2: So they were at the beginning when they were constructing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they were getting the foundation of this offense
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  Speaker 2: that they run. Well, it got to a point where,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, Brad needs to take over. I got
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  Speaker 2: to be more of the head coach. And just think
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  Speaker 2: about it. If you're the head coach and you're constantly
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  Speaker 2: trying to think and call, and then the trainer comes
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  Speaker 2: tap you on the shoulder. Hey, so-and-so's down. Hey, so-and-so's questionable. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: what are you thinking here? You know, special teams coach Dave,
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  Speaker 2: what you want to do here? What yard line you
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  Speaker 2: want to kick? Like, can you totally concentrate? And I
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  Speaker 2: understand a lot of guys can do it, but for
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  Speaker 2: me personally, how smart of it he would like, let, let,
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  Speaker 2: let Brad call it. He's with Bryce all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in there a lot, but then I have to
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  Speaker 2: go do injury meetings and I have to go do
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  Speaker 2: a personnel meeting and I have a coach's show. And
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  Speaker 2: I have like, I'm telling you guys, that's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And just, I just think the comfort level that Bryce has, um,
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  Speaker 2: With Izzik, you're seeing it, right? I think you saw
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  Speaker 2: it in the preseason. Everything built off everything else in
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  Speaker 2: the preseason. We ran a good play, like a stretch
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  Speaker 2: to the right, a nice run. We came with the
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  Speaker 2: boot back the other way. Things like that. It was
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  Speaker 2: just kind of we tried to build off of it
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  Speaker 2: each and every play. That's a credit to Canales for
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  Speaker 2: seeing it, but a credit to the players for performing
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  Speaker 2: those plays, but Izzik for also calling it.
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  Speaker 3: Jake, we were going down memory lane the other day
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  Speaker 3: because TMAC was nine yards shy of tying Smitty for
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  Speaker 3: the single game Panther receiving record the other day. Smitty
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  Speaker 3: had 209 in the Fred Smoot rowboat game.
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  Speaker 2: Speaker 4 0 5 0. I couldn't remember what game
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  Speaker 2: they talked about it the other night. And I meant
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  Speaker 2: to go back and I couldn't, I couldn't remember what
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  Speaker 2: he had in the playoff game against Chicago. I knew
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  Speaker 2: it was a good amount, but yes, I figured it
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  Speaker 2: was the, the, both the row, both.
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  Speaker 3: The bears was the post-season record, but single season was
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  Speaker 3: all right. Regular season was 201. Jake, do you have
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  Speaker 3: either a favorite Smitty celebration that he did, or do
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  Speaker 3: you have a favorite memory of what he just got
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  Speaker 3: in some guy's head that he completely wrecked that guy's day? Like,
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  Speaker 3: either one of those.
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  Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 2: It was just... That team just... They just melted. And Smitty...
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  Speaker 2: And that celebration to me was just one that only Smitty,
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  Speaker 2: only Smitty.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, one of one, dude. I
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  Speaker 1: don't need to tell you. I mean, damn.
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  Speaker 3: You gave up 201 and got rowboated.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's crazy. That's beautiful. Jake, before we let
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  Speaker 1: you go, I want you to know that you are
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  Speaker 1: having influence over me. I'm starting to think like you.
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  Speaker 1: After the TMAC– He doesn't want to hear that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: becoming a Jake disciple, baby. After the TMAC– two-catch game
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  Speaker 1: where he ran into Denzel Ward a lot, and I
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  Speaker 1: kind of thought, man, they should have moved him into
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  Speaker 1: Slotmore to get him away from Ward and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But I conjured up your Dan Henning theory on Smitty.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: feed the stud right and and i and i said
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  Speaker 1: last week i have a feeling it'll be a feed
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  Speaker 1: the stud game with t-mac i didn't realize it'd be
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  Speaker 1: 14 for 192 but so.
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  Speaker 2: So we do like keys to the game before we
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  Speaker 2: do the radio right and um i always either do
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  Speaker 2: offense and luke will do the defense well luke wasn't
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  Speaker 2: calling this game so i had a couple of them
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  Speaker 2: well my number one was like get team back involved early.
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  Speaker 2: That was always our game plan. Get submitted the ball
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  Speaker 2: in the first drop, hopefully the first play it just
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  Speaker 2: cause it made our team better. But I just finished
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  Speaker 2: watching CD lamb catch 17 passes. And the more you
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: think about it and I have this in gray, it just,
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  Speaker 2: it's engraved in my brain from Mike McCarthy when he
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: was the quarterback coach for the Kansas city chiefs, when
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  Speaker 2: Joe Montana was there, They asked Joe, Joe, what do
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  Speaker 2: you want to call here? It was in a red
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  Speaker 2: zone and a crucial time playoff game. And Joe was like,
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  Speaker 2: you call it. I'll do it. But just don't forget, play.
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  Speaker 2: We got to feature the players. Don't worry about the play.
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  Speaker 2: It's the players. And that's what you give your players
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  Speaker 2: a chance. I mean, that's. I don't know. That's why
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  Speaker 2: some of these guys are just better than others. You
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  Speaker 2: just give them a chance to make a play, and
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  Speaker 2: usually they do.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. Jake, always fun catching
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  Speaker 1: up with you, man. Be good. Keep enjoying this season,
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  Speaker 1: and thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime, guys. Have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You too. There you go. That is Jake DeLome.