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Patriots Have a Number One WR With A.J. Brown, Jonquel Jones’ Historic All-Star Weekend, and Daniel Jones Cleared for Camp · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Somethings did Daily Played with Joy Taylor. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining me. Make sure he hit his strive and
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  Speaker 2: The Daily Played Joy Taylor. The Patriots almost won the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl last season. They made it all the way
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  Speaker 2: to the Bay Area for the NFL's biggest game and
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  Speaker 2: lost to the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: But it was an early high mark for a team that.
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  Speaker 2: Was still trying to find an identity after Tom Brady
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  Speaker 2: and Bill Belichick, and it was just the first year
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  Speaker 2: together for head coach Mike Rabel and second year quarterback
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  Speaker 2: Drake May great start obviously, then a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: an interesting off season off the field, but on the field,
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots really lacked a trewe number one wide receiver.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big conversation throughout the beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: off season, and they ended up trading for a J. Brown,
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  Speaker 2: which was out there in the ether for some time. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: hej and the Eagles had had a lot of controversy,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conversations about whether he was going to
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  Speaker 2: be traded, whether he wanted to be there, if he
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  Speaker 2: got along with everyone, and you know, it ended up
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  Speaker 2: happening that he made it back to his first head
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  Speaker 2: coach in Mike Rable. They were together in the Titans
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  Speaker 2: for the first three years of AJ's career and have
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  Speaker 2: an established relationship, and Rabel is using it already as
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  Speaker 2: a foundation to talk to AJ in ways that it
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  Speaker 2: seems that the Eagles coaches and players couldn't a He
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  Speaker 2: said first team meeting, he ripped me for not bringing
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  Speaker 2: in a catch early on as a rookie. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: really like that too much. Now I know it comes
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  Speaker 2: from a great place. He expects me to make that play,
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  Speaker 2: and so do I.
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  Speaker 1: He said.
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  Speaker 2: He viewed it as Rabel coming from a genuine place.
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  Speaker 2: Brave doesn't care about style points and I don't either,
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  Speaker 2: So maybe he thought I was trying to get the
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  Speaker 2: crowd going. I think it's going to go either way.
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  Speaker 2: They clearly trust each other, They know each other. AJ
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  Speaker 2: is in a new place. There are big expectations of them.
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  Speaker 2: They set the bar high. He has this relationship. As
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  Speaker 2: long as things go smoothly at the start of the season,
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  Speaker 2: I think this works.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of attention on the Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be a lot of attention on this
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  Speaker 2: particular move and how it benefits Drake May and how
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  Speaker 2: it benefits AJ Brown and how it benefits the Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be a storyline that we pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to throughout the season. And Aj said he's liked
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  Speaker 2: it so far. He said, I come to work each
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  Speaker 2: day with a smile on my face. I'm around great guys,
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  Speaker 2: great energy. We're pushing each other to be great and
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  Speaker 2: holding each other accountable.
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  Speaker 1: They do have a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Options on the offensive side of the ball, and he
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  Speaker 2: is going to be alongside Romeo Dobbs, Mac Collins, Kayshawn, Booty,
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Henry, so they do have some options. Obviously, they
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  Speaker 2: already have the standard of getting to the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: last year, so there are big expectations for them in
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  Speaker 2: the division and in the conference. But I really want
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  Speaker 2: to see how this works because this was something that
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots needed and this was a conversation that we
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  Speaker 2: had abound AJ Brown for quite some time. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see if this is a true fit. So it's one
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  Speaker 2: more football story I.
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  Speaker 1: Want to get to.
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  Speaker 2: But and do you want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more about the wnba Il Star. Before the second half
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  Speaker 2: of the season tips off tonight, John Qwell Jones made
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  Speaker 2: history on Saturday Nights. Became the first player in league
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  Speaker 2: history to be All Star MVP, Regular Season MVP, Finals MVP,
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  Speaker 2: and Commissioner's Cup MVP, but she was dealing with a
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  Speaker 2: death in the family. Her aunt passed away recently and
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  Speaker 2: the service was Friday. Her family encouraged her to play
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  Speaker 2: in the game anyway. She also teared up postgame when
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  Speaker 2: talking about the reaction to something that she had said
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  Speaker 2: on the Sudbuds stream during Ulser weekend. She was heard
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  Speaker 2: telling fellow All Star Courtney Williams that she believed the
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota leagues deserve to win the WMAA championship over the
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  Speaker 2: Liberty in twenty twenty four. So there was obviously some
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  Speaker 2: fan reaction to that since she is now in New York,
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  Speaker 2: and she said that she let her guard down a
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  Speaker 2: little bit when talking to Williams, who's a close friends,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, sometimes having a great team on paper
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  Speaker 2: and a great season doesn't mean a championship. And she
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  Speaker 2: compared it to her time with the Connecticut's Son in
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, who lost to the Washington Mystics in the finals,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, I feel like what I said was
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  Speaker 2: taken the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take accountabil ability for that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Was definitely a gut punch for me. Couldn't really enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. I'm getting emotional. I don't want people to
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  Speaker 2: ever feel like I was doing anything other than trying
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  Speaker 2: to put my best.
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  Speaker 1: Forward for our team. So I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: Really bothers me that she wasn't able to enjoy such
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  Speaker 2: a big moment at All Star weekend because of this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously fans are going to react how they react,
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  Speaker 2: but she's dealing with a lot a death in the family,
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  Speaker 2: making WNBA history, and now saying something has.
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  Speaker 1: Taken a little out of context and blown.
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  Speaker 2: Up as hate is really taking away from her moment,
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  Speaker 2: which really sucks. Like she's a great player. She became
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  Speaker 2: the first Liberty player, first international player to be named. Also,
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  Speaker 2: our MVP had an amazing game, should have had an
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  Speaker 2: amazing weekend. Was there while missing obviously a funeral for
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  Speaker 2: a family member, and that's already weighing on you emotionally.
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  Speaker 1: So I think fans just need to.
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  Speaker 2: Have a better perspective on these things, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: these streams are obviously live. People say things get taken
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  Speaker 2: out of context, and it's also it doesn't matter like happened,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what it is. And you can feel that
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  Speaker 2: another team was better than another team, one team was
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  Speaker 2: better than another team and still lost the championship. That
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  Speaker 2: happens all the time. That doesn't mean that you doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean anything more than that. So I think it's getting
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  Speaker 2: taken really out of context and really overblown, and it
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  Speaker 2: sucks that it's taken away from her her moment and finally,
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  Speaker 2: the football that was promised. Daniel Jones showed a lot
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  Speaker 2: of promise. He really really surprised me. Thirteen starts for
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  Speaker 2: the Colts last season in d was eight and four
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  Speaker 2: when he popped his achilles in week fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: He did show the.
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  Speaker 2: Cult enough that he got the franchise tag this offseason
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  Speaker 2: and resigned on a two year, eighty eight million dollar
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  Speaker 2: contract that can be worth up to one hundred million.
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  Speaker 1: Congrats him. Definitely did not think that he had that
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  Speaker 1: in him, but that is.
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  Speaker 2: What he earned and good news for the franchise. Jones
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  Speaker 2: says he is fully clear to participate in training camp.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I'm feeling good. Plan is to be eleven
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  Speaker 2: on eleven full team drills Wednesday when we start up
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  Speaker 2: in practice I'm in a really good spot.
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  Speaker 1: I can do everything. There's something I can't do. There's
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  Speaker 1: still that lasts little bit you're working to get back.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel good in the next month or so
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  Speaker 2: that I can get in team drills eleven and eleven,
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  Speaker 2: doing everything and coming back feeling one hundred percent. So
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  Speaker 2: the Colts are fully committed to DJ for this season.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson, They're twenty twenty three first round pick is
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  Speaker 2: still on the roster, but he's asked for a trade,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure the Colts would love to oblige if
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  Speaker 2: they can find any takers. I think they will because,
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  Speaker 2: as we know, there's always an injury early in the
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  Speaker 2: season that completely derails someone's whole year. And you know, quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: even if they are quarterbacks that have struggled or quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: that are raw, they will find themselves a job. So
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  Speaker 2: he will end up getting traded eventually, likely early in
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  Speaker 2: the season. And I liked what I saw from DJ
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  Speaker 2: last season. I want to see what he looks like athletically,
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  Speaker 2: because that's a big part of his game, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: coming up with this injury could be something.
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  Speaker 1: That affects that.
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  Speaker 2: But he he did really step up last season, and
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  Speaker 2: it can take a little bit of time to get
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  Speaker 2: back from in an injury. Obviously, an Achilles' injury is
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  Speaker 2: something that is really hard to come back from and
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  Speaker 2: really hard to get your explosion back from.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully he is back one percent.
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  Speaker 2: He established career highs in passing yards per tempt completion
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  Speaker 2: rate last year before he got injured. It was really
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  Speaker 2: it was really kind of sad to see like a
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  Speaker 2: guy that had a lot of questions about him definitely
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  Speaker 2: did not think that he had this in him and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people didn't and they were on a
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  Speaker 2: roll and it completely derailed their season. So I want
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  Speaker 2: to see him come back. I really enjoyed them as
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  Speaker 2: a team when they were competitive with him, But.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to see what he looks like athletically
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  Speaker 1: when he is fully one hundred percent back at camp.
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