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Jeff Legwold joins PHD 8-21-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald was brought to you by the International Brotherhood
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  Speaker 1: of Electrical Workers iv W Local sixty eight. Start with
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  Speaker 1: a job and with the career, Jeff Legwald from ESPN. Jeffley,
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  Speaker 1: Why did they Why do you think Sean Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: picked today to make the announcement?
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  Speaker 2: Why he actually did it last week? He just didn't
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  Speaker 2: tell bow Knicks. Uh, you know he bow Knicks got
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  Speaker 2: all the reps with the Starners last week or all,
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  Speaker 2: but like twelve, and you know, he had done this already,
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  Speaker 2: and I think today was just, ah, that's as long
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  Speaker 2: as as you're probably gonna take it as the head coach.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he wanted Knicks to to feel, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the earning part of the equation. And you know, Thursday
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  Speaker 2: and Friday this week, you're kind of just getting ready,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the final preseason game. And now they
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  Speaker 2: can have their personnel meetings and decide going into the
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  Speaker 2: final preseason game and then coming out of that game,
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  Speaker 2: what is the best roster, what is the best offense
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  Speaker 2: around their rookie quarterback? And I think that's why you
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  Speaker 2: do it today. I mean I I think I had
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  Speaker 2: been told it would likely be today and it certainly was,
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  Speaker 2: and he kept it about as low key as you
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  Speaker 2: can keep it. He essentially told Bo Nicks before practice
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  Speaker 2: on the practice field and did not tell the team
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  Speaker 2: and the team meeting or anything. So you know, his
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  Speaker 2: joke was, we didn't have any caking candles.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, that being said, others started. Are there starters and
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  Speaker 3: starting positions that are still open as we're just a
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  Speaker 3: handful of days from the last preseason game, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, Scotty, you know, are they truly open or has
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  Speaker 2: he you know, have they not informed the guy? I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's two different things. You know. I keep seeing
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  Speaker 2: Riley Moss in that corner spot every practice, on the
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  Speaker 2: on the most important snaps. So I gotta believe he's
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  Speaker 2: he's won that job unless something nutty happens. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's safety, you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be you know, PJ. Lock And and Brandon Jones,
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, but I think those I think they're
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  Speaker 2: essentially locked up and they just haven't really uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: made any formality to it as they move forward. I
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  Speaker 2: think the big questions are what we've you you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about with you guys, you know, that's I
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  Speaker 2: think the receiver room's still up for grass in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways, and and running back, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: you know he Sean Payton, you know, whether it was
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  Speaker 2: intentional or not, he had several occasions today when he
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  Speaker 2: simply sounded like they're keeping three quarterback. So that's costing
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  Speaker 2: them a roster spot somewhere else if they do that.
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  Speaker 4: How many how many receivers you think make the team?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Is Tim Patrick in that mix?
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  Speaker 2: I just finished the projection we have to do for
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  Speaker 2: us at ESPN, and I I gave him six and
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  Speaker 2: he was among the six. But that's uh, that's the
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  Speaker 2: one of the toughest cuts of all. And I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just a matter of if you really think they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna risk either one of the rookies and not keep them,
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  Speaker 2: and I just don't think they'll do that.
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  Speaker 4: So you think, byle make are you including ble in
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  Speaker 4: that mix? Is that what you're fring to is the riginal.
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  Speaker 2: And including both rookies, both rookie draft picks and Tim
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  Speaker 2: Patrick in the mix?
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  Speaker 3: So who's the O man out for you?
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  Speaker 2: Well? You know again, I you know, I think receiver
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  Speaker 2: is the one that I think that's gonna be the
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  Speaker 2: hardest one to predict because it's just, you know, dude,
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  Speaker 2: does he keep little Jordan Humphrey, a player he likes
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  Speaker 2: a lot, who's familiar with what they do. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Johnson was second on the team a touchdown catches
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  Speaker 2: last year, and it's hard for me to believe, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they would just let him go. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's I think that I don't think either rookie makes
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  Speaker 2: it through waivers, so that I think that's going to
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  Speaker 2: impact the decision.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see possibly a scenario where a guy is
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  Speaker 1: just bouncing back and forth from the roster practice squad
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  Speaker 1: to the roster And how many good times can you
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  Speaker 1: actually do that during a season?
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  Speaker 2: It's several many, you know, Yeah, I mean, and they've
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  Speaker 2: even changed the rules a little bit, even like there
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  Speaker 2: are some teams I know that may just keep one
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  Speaker 2: quarterback because you can bounce the backup every week if
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  Speaker 2: you want.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, But I think the rub is, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: not a vested veteran, so a rookie draft pick, he's
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  Speaker 2: got to get through waivers that first time. And you
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  Speaker 2: know that's the one where you know, I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I tell people all the time my mistakes every year
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  Speaker 2: is I think because I listened to GMS and they
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  Speaker 2: did sometimes, but I think more guys will get claimed
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  Speaker 2: than actually are. But I've asked around and I think
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  Speaker 2: I think either one of those rookie receivers gets claimed
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  Speaker 2: if the Broncos risk.
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  Speaker 4: It, as Zach Wilson showed enough to get trade value
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  Speaker 4: back in return.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to move on, Yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 2: have to be pretty good value Tyler because they like him,
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  Speaker 2: They really like him. They think there's something there that
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  Speaker 2: they can work with and build on. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: today again he flashes and an arm that can do
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  Speaker 2: things the other two guys can't. And you know, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean he won the job or any of that, but
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  Speaker 2: it just means that there's an awful lot of talent
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  Speaker 2: in that player. And I know Sean Payton really genuinely
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  Speaker 2: likes him as a prospect, so I think they want
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  Speaker 2: to keep him to have him around. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: is the last year of Stidham's deal, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're thinking big picture with Zach Wilson, that
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  Speaker 2: they would have a young quarterback room with with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of talent if they play it right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if they if he's on the roster for
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  Speaker 1: week one, Jeff, he's guaranteed his two point whatever million
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  Speaker 1: dollar money for this year. Correct if he's on the
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  Speaker 1: on the fifty three or a week one, no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah. I think that's only for vested guys. But
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  Speaker 2: he's in this fourth year, so he would be vested. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He had that one throw. He had two throws down
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  Speaker 3: one little skinny post for a touchdown that was phenomenal,
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  Speaker 3: and then that one that was over the corner short
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  Speaker 3: of the safety that was was brilliant. Today, I was
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  Speaker 3: telling you these guys, I was up in the tent
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  Speaker 3: watching the best rows of the day to me, belonged
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  Speaker 3: to bow Nick's had a great little uh uh pass
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  Speaker 3: on the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's a big test. Do they like him enough
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  Speaker 1: to guarantee him that money and then then then he's
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  Speaker 1: on the team unless they really do get value for him.
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  Speaker 1: So so there is a pretty financial and Stidham's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. There's a lot of money that they could
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  Speaker 1: get out of if they just let Goosts in him, right, Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they could save themselves some money if they
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  Speaker 1: want to be cheap yeah, but you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh again, Uh, it's it's I speak to
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  Speaker 2: gms all the time, and they, you know, keep telling
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  Speaker 2: me all the days of keeping three quarterbacks are long gone.
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  Speaker 2: And I listened to Sean Payton today and uh and again,
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  Speaker 2: people in the building have told me he likes all
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  Speaker 2: three of these quarterbacks. He's not just blowing smoke. He's
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  Speaker 2: not just playing along. He really likes these three guys,
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  Speaker 2: and he thinks that he invests in them and they
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  Speaker 2: can somehow make it work that it ultimately helps his
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  Speaker 2: biggest investment, which is Bonix.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, is it? Is it one of the two though
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  Speaker 3: that are back up that would least likely get picked
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  Speaker 3: up on waivers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, instead, it wouldn't go through waivers. He's a he's
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  Speaker 2: a messed veteran, so he would be a free agent immediately.
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  Speaker 2: So conceivably you could try to do the old Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll bring you right back with him, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, if you're a veteran and you're not
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  Speaker 2: on the roster week one, your salary is not guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, a lot of people used to do
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  Speaker 2: one day release on players if they didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: guarantee the salary.
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  Speaker 1: That's Jeff Legwell from a traffic construction zone that we
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  Speaker 1: hear right now. Hopefully everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the heat of it right now, I'm in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of it. I make things happen, that's what
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  Speaker 2: that's all I'm telling You're making things back round.
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  Speaker 3: They've already started the construction on the hill.
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  Speaker 2: They're starting a construction already, Fellas.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, let you, we'll talk to you next.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you.