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BONUS EPISODE - Executive Vice President of Football Operations TONY BOSELLI · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a very special episode of Till Talk, the
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  Speaker 1: official Jackson Vidjangers podcast here in the UK and Island.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jay Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: No relation, he's not here because I'm on radio row
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  Speaker 1: at Super Bowl fifty nine in New Orleans. So many
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  Speaker 1: people the NFL great, the NFL good around here, and
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  Speaker 1: that includes somebody who deserves a big congratulations, Tony Boselli
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  Speaker 1: for getting a brand new job with the Jags, the
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  Speaker 1: executive vice president of football Operations. So I sat down
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  Speaker 1: with him wisdom, congratulations and spoke about the new head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Liam Cohen, the GM search, and.
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  Speaker 3: So much more.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Biselli, Welcome to Till Talk back on the Jags pod.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And the first thing I've got to say is
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  Speaker 2: our congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. And it's great. It's a huge honor.
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  Speaker 3: I mean just I love the organization and I've had
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of different roles in it, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of funded about Liam Cohen and we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get it kicking off the GM search here. And
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  Speaker 3: the fact that Sead trusted me and gave me this opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: I just can't thank him enough. And I'm excited. We've
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  Speaker 3: already got to work and Uh, I'm ready to go
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  Speaker 3: approve to him that it was he made the right choice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, tell us a little bit about your role and
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to be overseeing within the organization.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the way were acept organization is head coach.
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  Speaker 3: We've got Liam, he's in report to Shot, all report
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  Speaker 3: to Shot, and our GM report to Sean. Our GM
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  Speaker 3: will be overall the draft, all player procurement and you know,
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  Speaker 3: so draft free agency, you know, and then trades and
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  Speaker 3: then UH and player disposable you know, how we trade,
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  Speaker 3: how we trade a player if we have to cut
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  Speaker 3: a player. Liam, I think that's pretty easy. He's the
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  Speaker 3: head coach, he's the ball coach. And then all the
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  Speaker 3: operations and supporting UH departments that are supporting the head coach,
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  Speaker 3: the equipment, medical, video, all the analytics. All that is
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  Speaker 3: gonna report up to me. But really our job is
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  Speaker 3: to support the head coach and the GM to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that they can do their jobs, because what's most
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  Speaker 3: important is what happens on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want to get into the GM star. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to get into obviously Liam Cohen being the
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  Speaker 1: new head coach of the Jacks. But you know, very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know how like you feel because within
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  Speaker 1: the Jacks organization, within you know, your career with the
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  Speaker 1: jack Us, it is fair to say you've done quite
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: This is a new role for you. Have you been
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  Speaker 2: itching to get there?
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  Speaker 3: I think I don't know if I've been itching to
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  Speaker 3: get to this role specifically, I've been itching to be
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  Speaker 3: as involved as I can. I love the play so
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  Speaker 3: like I played. Listen, I've I've been a player and
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  Speaker 3: I've been I've done stuff on the business side with
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  Speaker 3: Mark Lamping, our president. Him and his team has been awesome.
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  Speaker 3: They're awesome to work with, probably the best in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL if you look at it. I've done the radio,
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  Speaker 3: done stuff with you guys, and uh, all of it's
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  Speaker 3: been great. And uh, but I wanted to I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to always try to do more. And really my heart
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  Speaker 3: is to do whatever I can to help this organization
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  Speaker 3: of six and so when Sean gave me this opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yes, I want to do it, and
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  Speaker 3: so I'm super excited and it's been great. It's only
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  Speaker 3: been you know, this is first week that officially, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we worked all ever since we've hired Liam and the
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  Speaker 3: press conference been working with him and his team as
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  Speaker 3: we try to help him build the staff. And I
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  Speaker 3: think when we announced the staff, I think people are
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  Speaker 3: gonna be really, really excited. I mean, it's a a
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  Speaker 3: plus staff that Liam's done, which is hard to do
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  Speaker 3: because you sometimes you can't get everyone you want because
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  Speaker 3: of contracts and everything else. And I've been super impressed
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  Speaker 3: with Liam and his dedication is work ethic and what
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  Speaker 3: He's just hit the ground running, did not you know,
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  Speaker 3: there was no celebration, you know, let's go celebrate, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting the big contract and getting the head job. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: moment he got hired, he went to work and we've
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  Speaker 3: been working together and so I'm it's it's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk about Liam Cohen then obviously the new
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  Speaker 1: coach the Jacksonville Jaguars. What do you think is the
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  Speaker 1: most exciting thing about on new head coach for jackson fans?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you're gonna you're gonna love his offense.
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  Speaker 2: You're to love the bus one of the most exciting
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  Speaker 2: in the league.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna love his offense. And I mean they were
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  Speaker 3: top five in both running pass and he did that
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  Speaker 3: with his two best receivers, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin
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  Speaker 3: being out for a better part of the year. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's impressive, and he knows how to coach. He can
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  Speaker 3: coach ball. And I think what you're gonna be even
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  Speaker 3: more excited about once you get to know him and
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  Speaker 3: you see him operate. He's a he's a leader, and
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, he's a great ball coach. But he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: lead that staff, he's gonna lead our building, he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: set the culture. He has a very clear and concise
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  Speaker 3: vision for what he wants it to look like. And
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  Speaker 3: he's been around great organizations, great head coaches, so he's
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  Speaker 3: been influenced by all of them, and he's gonna bring
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  Speaker 3: all that to jackson And I think, listen, Ultimately, what
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  Speaker 3: I want to make sure happens is that we're excited
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  Speaker 3: this time next year because we gotta win ball games.
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  Speaker 3: We need to win our division, we need to get
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, we need to win playoff games. And ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: what we need to do is bring a Littlebardi Trophy
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  Speaker 3: back to Jacksonville. And I think, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 3: a process and we gotta it's step by step and
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  Speaker 3: you gotta get the process right. You gotta focus on
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  Speaker 3: the process and not so much the outcome right away.
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  Speaker 3: But that's what we're gonna that's what our fans want,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we'll be judged by and evaluated by it
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  Speaker 3: from Shot and our fans and everybody else. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's I want to It's exciting right now. It's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a great offseason. Our fans are gonna love it.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta go through free agency and get that right.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta get the draft right, we gotta get OTA's
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  Speaker 3: and all those steps right so that when we kick
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  Speaker 3: it off in September this year, you know, we go
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  Speaker 3: win a bunch of ball games and in December of
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, we're fighting to win the division and for
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  Speaker 3: a playoff position and seating, and we go get in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs and we make some noise there. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's what I'm what I want to do, is sitting
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  Speaker 3: here next year, we're all looking at each other's like, Wow,
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  Speaker 3: look at the turnaround, Look at that group, Look what
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  Speaker 3: look what Liam and his team did. Look at that
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  Speaker 3: GM and the draft and the free agency that they
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  Speaker 3: had I mean all those things. That's what in my
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  Speaker 3: role is just to support and make and help help
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  Speaker 3: them do that and make sure we're communicating and we're
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  Speaker 3: aligned and working with Shad. Shad will be involved. It's
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  Speaker 3: you know, in all big decisions. He always is. He'll
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  Speaker 3: be and hopefully he's even going to be in the
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  Speaker 3: build even more if his schedule allows it. He's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty busy guy. So I'm looking forward to working together
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  Speaker 3: as a team. We're gonna be one team and we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get this thing going.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people will know Liam Cohen's offense from
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  Speaker 1: last year, but relatively speaking, he hasn't been in the
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  Speaker 1: league for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, what do you think that people should.
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  Speaker 1: Know about him as a man, as a leader, as
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  Speaker 1: somebody that's coming in the organization that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room and you know, might might want
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  Speaker 1: to you know, or might need to get his presence known.
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  Speaker 3: Get ready to work, Get ready to go, guys, all
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  Speaker 3: gas like, here we go, We're going to work and
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  Speaker 3: uh And he believes And he was raised his dad
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  Speaker 3: was a coach and his dad influenced and I got
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  Speaker 3: to meet his dad. What a great guy. He is
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  Speaker 3: and uh, he believes in the fundamentals. Football is one
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  Speaker 3: on the line of scrimmage. And so we got to
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  Speaker 3: get the offense and defensive lines right. We got to
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  Speaker 3: control the line scrimtge. We have to be the most
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  Speaker 3: physical team. We got to be the toughest team. And
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  Speaker 3: so you're gonna see a guy that yeah, offensive offensive,
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  Speaker 3: big mind, mastermind, whatever you want, gur or whatever. That's proven.
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  Speaker 3: We know we can do that. But I think what
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  Speaker 3: people get to know about him is this guy is
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  Speaker 3: a high energy let's go, let's work, and he believes
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  Speaker 3: in toughness and physical and win the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: And and that's why we're gonna have success. You gotta
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  Speaker 3: you gotta win the line of scrimmage to win in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL. Look at the two teams in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphi Eagles have great offense and defensive lines. They're physical,
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  Speaker 3: they're tough. You look at everyone talks about Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 3: and yes, he's the best quarterback, and Andy Reid is
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  Speaker 3: the best coach, there's no doubt about just look at
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  Speaker 3: their resumes. But the Chiefs win the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: We look at Chris Jones in that defensive line. You
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  Speaker 3: look at the interior of that Chief's offensive line, they
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  Speaker 3: know that you got to win there before you can
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  Speaker 3: do anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, results on the field matter, that's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you're in this position.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the results comes Trevor Lawrence, and I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: that Liam Cohen coming in. You know, job number one
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  Speaker 1: is to get the most boast out of the franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: It's all of our Like listen, we've invested a lot
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  Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence, and the reason we invested them is because
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  Speaker 3: we believe in them, and we still believe in them.
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  Speaker 3: Last year was tough injuries, what the production, but from
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  Speaker 3: the whole offense, that's just not on Trevor Lawrence, and
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  Speaker 3: that's unfair to put it on them. Liam believes Trevor
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  Speaker 3: Lawrence is the guy franchise quarterback that he's gonna lead us.
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  Speaker 3: I have strong convictions. I've said it on every show
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  Speaker 3: we've ever had, and Trevor believes that. And so we
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  Speaker 3: now need to help Trevor continue to improve and and
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  Speaker 3: and become who we all know he is and who
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  Speaker 3: he believes he is. But then we got to surround
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  Speaker 3: him like it's just it's not just about him. It's
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  Speaker 3: amazing how much better you are as a quarterback when
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  Speaker 3: you can run the ball, when you have a run
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  Speaker 3: game and everything else opens up. It's amazing how much
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  Speaker 3: of a better quarterback you can be when your defense
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  Speaker 3: is getting the opposing offense off the field, giving you
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  Speaker 3: more opportunities. Those are things we didn't do, and so
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  Speaker 3: everyone you know, and that's the nature of the position
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  Speaker 3: you put. Everyone you know gives the quarterback all the
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  Speaker 3: credit and he doesn't deserve all the credit, and they
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  Speaker 3: give him all the blame when he doesn't deserve all
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  Speaker 3: the blame. So yes, it's this is a league where
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  Speaker 3: you have the quarterback has to operate at a high level.
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  Speaker 3: But however, you got to surround him. You gotta go
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  Speaker 3: back to the line of screen, but you got to
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  Speaker 3: run the ball. That makes everyone's jobs job on offense
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  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's a bit like you know, Saquon Barkley obviously
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  Speaker 1: had an amazing season. With Saquon Barkley, it's it's everything
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  Speaker 1: that surrounds him as well that's made him so good.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's uh, I mean you to.
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  Speaker 3: Go turn on the tape and watch like Coon Barkley.
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  Speaker 3: He's an amazing back, amazing back, but did he all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden become a two thousand yard rusher just
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  Speaker 3: like because he changed jerseys? Come on, no, go look
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  Speaker 3: at that offensive line. Go look at their production. Look
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  Speaker 3: at the guys they've invested to and developed and how
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  Speaker 3: they coach it up. That helps Sakuon, That helps Jalen.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it helps everybody. And so sometimes we forget
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  Speaker 3: the foundation of the game of football at its core.
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  Speaker 2: Team game is.
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  Speaker 3: A team game. But it starts with those big guys
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  Speaker 3: being physical and tough and in taking care of their
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  Speaker 3: business and everything else will fall into place.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's go into the GM search. Now where are
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  Speaker 2: we at? Uh, you know, what can we expect them?
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking for?
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  Speaker 1: And what's you know, Chikanda and Ford a GM.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we're looking for Number one. We
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  Speaker 3: want to understand the individual, the person high character, high integrity,
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  Speaker 3: good communicator, who's the who is that? Who's who's he?
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  Speaker 3: Who is he as an individual? At its core? And
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  Speaker 3: then we want to understand what's the vision, what's the
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  Speaker 3: philosophy of for building a team? You know? And then
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  Speaker 3: then the next step is okay, how do you see
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  Speaker 3: where we are right now? And what would your plan be?
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  Speaker 3: And so we want to gather all this information. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you want to get a good person, you want a
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  Speaker 3: good talent evaluator, and then you want to understand kind
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  Speaker 3: of how they see it, and we want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure it's aligned with how Seod sees it first and foremost,
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  Speaker 3: how Liam sees it. I'll be a part of the process,
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  Speaker 3: listening and giving input and then we'll all come together
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  Speaker 3: and we'll make the right decision for who the GM
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  Speaker 3: is shot. Will make the final decision with input from everybody,
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  Speaker 3: everybody involved, and I believe we'll get it right. I
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  Speaker 3: think we'll get it right, just like we got the
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  Speaker 3: Liam Cone High right.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll be you know, being missing me not mentioned
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  Speaker 2: of course.
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  Speaker 1: JAG's back in London, of course, as always at Wembley Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: It's a part of the calendar now, something I imagine
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  Speaker 1: that you're looking.
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  Speaker 2: Forward to, because you know you look forward to every
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  Speaker 2: single year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like, I love coming to London and looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to hopefully coming like I do every summer, coming
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  Speaker 3: out this summer and doing our tour and seeing our
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  Speaker 3: fans and and uh talking to them. And then I'll
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  Speaker 3: be out there this year in a little bit different role.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah different.
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  Speaker 3: I won't be on the radio, but uh, i'll be
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  Speaker 3: looking just like I was on the radio. Different perspective,
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  Speaker 3: different vantage point, but looking for a win.
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  Speaker 2: Just just just a different people.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be giving you different. Yeah, but we're excited. It's
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  Speaker 3: a it's it's it's good. It's good right now, and
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  Speaker 3: that it should be and everyone should be excited. But
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  Speaker 3: now we have work to do. It's about the process.
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  Speaker 3: It's about getting the work. We have some big moments
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  Speaker 3: coming up with Free Agency, a lot of work to
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  Speaker 3: do there. Our interim gm uh Ethan Wall is doing
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  Speaker 3: a heck of a job. I mean, leading that building
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  Speaker 3: he's doing I can't say enough about Ethan and his
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  Speaker 3: leadership and his integrity and how he's going through the process.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be one of the finalists for the GYM. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're we're gonna give him a real shot at this
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  Speaker 3: because I know this working there, you know, I always
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  Speaker 3: saw from Afar, so you don't really know. But being
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  Speaker 3: in the building the last you know, seven to ten
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  Speaker 3: days and working with Ethan, he's a first class and
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  Speaker 3: he's doing a great job. So it's business as usual
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  Speaker 3: right now to want our fans or anyone to think
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  Speaker 3: like we're behind or you know, we're missing out on anything.
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  Speaker 3: We're preparing for free agency, we're preparing for the draft.
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  Speaker 3: Just got to do. You got to do more than
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  Speaker 3: one thing at a time, and that's what we're doing
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  Speaker 3: right now. And we're gonna get it done. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: get it right. But these are big moments coming up
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  Speaker 3: for our franchise and for our fans.
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  Speaker 1: Just lastly, then, Tony, do you have a message for
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  Speaker 1: the fans in the UK, the fans in Ireland right now?
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  Speaker 1: Why specifically why they should be excited this offseason going
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  Speaker 1: into the next season.
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  Speaker 2: For the Jacksonville Jaggers.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and not just because you're in Yeah, I'm the
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  Speaker 3: most exactly because of who we hired as head coach
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  Speaker 3: and what he's able to put on the field and
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  Speaker 3: what we're gonna look like as an offense. Now, it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna take time. It's a lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 3: And so I like that camp Campinelli are defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: Wait do you see this guy and get a load
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  Speaker 3: of him? Wow?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what impress about him?
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  Speaker 3: He's tough, yeah, and he plays tough football, and he
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  Speaker 3: coaches and a lot of juice, a lot of juice
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  Speaker 3: with camp and uh, I'm excited to get for him,
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  Speaker 3: to get our defense and the staff he's putting together
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  Speaker 3: that'll be announced here soon, really good coaches. So it's
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  Speaker 3: not just Liam, it's Campanelly. We're keeping Heath Farwell, who
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  Speaker 3: best bet one of the best best teams units in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL this year. So I'm excited about the staff
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  Speaker 3: and I'm excited about our you know, our core players
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  Speaker 3: and the guys we have a key position. So now
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  Speaker 3: we've got to fill out the rest and I think
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  Speaker 3: all our fans in the UK will be really excited
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  Speaker 3: coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Totney, thank you so much for joining to talk as
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  Speaker 1: a ways.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations again, thanks, I appreciate it.