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  Speaker 1: Let's go. Okay, you see a little busier day to
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  Speaker 1: day you play.
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  Speaker 2: It's as opposed to kind of waiting through yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll just you able to kind of get
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  Speaker 3: on the clock and actually get a pick it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it was an exciting evening. I know,
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  Speaker 4: as we labeled the guys that we really wanted to
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  Speaker 4: target throughout the course of it, we ended up with
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  Speaker 4: four guys who fit the bill for exactly what we're
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  Speaker 4: hunting up and feel like we were able to level
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  Speaker 4: up in a few different areas that going into two
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  Speaker 4: thousand and six twenty twenty six, we were really excited
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  Speaker 4: about addressing. And you know is the the trends across
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  Speaker 4: the NFL began to show themselves not only over the
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  Speaker 4: last season, but the back half of the season and
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  Speaker 4: what we anticipate being big pieces to the puzzle over.
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  Speaker 1: The course of this next season.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was a real reflection of the decisions
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  Speaker 4: that we made here tonight in the positions employers that
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  Speaker 4: we prioritized.
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  Speaker 3: That tight end there with a fifty six to eight,
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  Speaker 3: can you talk a little bit about your vision is
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  Speaker 3: in here?
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  Speaker 5: Just we've definitely got tougher tonight. The type of player,
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  Speaker 5: type of person that we're trying to hunt up here, attitude, toughness,
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  Speaker 5: you know, mentally and physically tough. I think has a
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  Speaker 5: lot more in his body than was probably displayed throughout
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  Speaker 5: the season when they were throwing the ball a lot
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  Speaker 5: to those wideouts and concepttioning and those guys. When every
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  Speaker 5: opportunity he had throughout the off season process to go
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  Speaker 5: put it on tape that he could and that there
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  Speaker 5: was that in his body and that he did have
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  Speaker 5: those capabilities.
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  Speaker 1: It showed up in a major way. So really sure
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  Speaker 1: got share your dream.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did have a vision, I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 5: at night, So I guess it's a dream, uh that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we were taking them. I don't remember what, you know,
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  Speaker 5: where it was at or what pick or anything. I
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  Speaker 5: just remember that it was somebody that we've had a
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  Speaker 5: lot of like for for a long time. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: then you saw that run of tight ends go and
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  Speaker 5: so I'm kind of glad we did it.
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  Speaker 3: Liam Albert had ten passes deflected, line forty nine tackles.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty active, smart player.
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  Speaker 1: What what was that? I mean, that's what.
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  Speaker 5: We're hunting up d Ham, you know Vegas, Like that's
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  Speaker 5: I'm kidding, that's that's just something that he can do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's tough to the fact that he, like you mentioned though,
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  Speaker 5: the football intelligence, the football IQ, the feel, how to
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  Speaker 5: play single blocks, how to play double teams, how to
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  Speaker 5: how he runs to the football. I mean, this guy
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  Speaker 5: chases things down screens. You know, we talked about heat
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  Speaker 5: for players for US and and the amount of buying
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  Speaker 5: in the building for these players, specifically albert a ton
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  Speaker 5: a ton of buying, and you hit it on the head.
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  Speaker 5: The type of football intelligence i Q matched with somebody
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  Speaker 5: that's going to place tailoff and compete. That's exactly what
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  Speaker 5: we were hunt up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a ton of start to college chacos.
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  Speaker 5: He progresses, Yeah, I mean obviously first team All American
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  Speaker 5: type of player that adds you know, mass inside, right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's something that we've been continuously evaluating, is
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  Speaker 5: getting bigger, faster, stronger, and tougher. And that's something that
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  Speaker 5: he does for us. I'm very good friends with Will Stein,
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  Speaker 5: who was his offensive coordinator. We talked a lot throughout
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  Speaker 5: the last week, very close with Dan Lanning as well,
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  Speaker 5: and so you look at his the physical attributes, the
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  Speaker 5: stuff we can't coach and then a guy that wasn't
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  Speaker 5: a mental error guy, wasn't somebody that couldn't handle all
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  Speaker 5: of what Oregon was able to do in their system
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  Speaker 5: and checking and killing plays, audibles, alerts, all those kind
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  Speaker 5: of things that you're hunting up from a Okay, Kenny,
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  Speaker 5: go and do that at this level.
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  Speaker 1: We believe so.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that you look at in the past
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  Speaker 5: pro and in the run game getting bigger.
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  Speaker 1: I like that, James.
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  Speaker 5: It seems like, you know, across the board, these guys
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  Speaker 5: a lot of starts blog experience.
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  Speaker 1: Just what is that to you, like, as a general manager?
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  Speaker 1: How is that kind of help with the protection? I
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  Speaker 1: think it helps a great deal.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you track back to a lot of
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  Speaker 4: my tenure with Los Angeles, it wasn't all that different
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  Speaker 4: than what you just articulated. And those players tend to
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  Speaker 4: walk in the door and have a different version of
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  Speaker 4: polished than the ones that you may have to you know,
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  Speaker 4: get reps and get that ten thousand hour hour rule
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  Speaker 4: associated to their play, and so I think it certainly allows,
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  Speaker 4: especially when the human beings themselves are the types that
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  Speaker 4: can you know, really pour in and do it in
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  Speaker 4: the right way and have the routine that would cultivate
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  Speaker 4: a faster acclimation. You're gonna be able to see that
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  Speaker 4: turn around rather quickly. And you know, all these guys,
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  Speaker 4: they can have the talent, but the differentiators the mindset,
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  Speaker 4: and that's a lot of what we focused on with
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  Speaker 4: these decisions.
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  Speaker 6: James, did you have to say names rang being in
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  Speaker 6: the second round or was that just kind of the
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  Speaker 6: tight end run was time?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was rooted in our own internal sentiment and
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  Speaker 4: understanding that the trend in the NFL was that heavier
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  Speaker 4: tight end sets where it's gonna be something that got prioritized.
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  Speaker 4: And we felt certainly a heavier tight end run throughout
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  Speaker 4: the course of the back end of the second end
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  Speaker 4: of the third and typically that's a window where the
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  Speaker 4: wide receiver run is really occurring. And so I think
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  Speaker 4: that certainly showed itself. But he was the one we
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  Speaker 4: were hunting up and we weren't going to allow that
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  Speaker 4: to ever be something that we risked.
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  Speaker 6: And how to evaluate James edge defensive tackle run that
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  Speaker 6: occurred in the second round, and how you were set
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  Speaker 6: up to potentially attack in a position further a defensive
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  Speaker 6: tackle and attacked edge day three.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's still plenty of guys that choose from,
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  Speaker 4: and ultimately we went with the guys and the positions
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  Speaker 4: that we really had very.
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  Speaker 1: Clear and vivid visuals for at each of the pickpoints
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  Speaker 1: that we had and know that that only continued to
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  Speaker 1: be the case. This is what the position is.
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  Speaker 2: Need had this clip against trapshuner or blocking.
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  Speaker 1: Heel the dropped off and yeah, did you did you
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  Speaker 1: rout across that thus Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: When he was in did you run across that when
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  Speaker 2: you were Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, last year when you were doing Travis, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Did that stand out that one play?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I can tell you, I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: who it was at the time, Uh that I first
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  Speaker 4: watched it as a part of pouring into this year's
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  Speaker 4: cycle and him in particular.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that did catch my attention.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the way is that kind of a.
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  Speaker 4: That's his demeanor. That is a uh great visual for
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  Speaker 4: how he operates. And I think between him and Albert,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, their post play energy is electric and it
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  Speaker 4: shows up in the same way from snap to whistle.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: So it was certainly something that that caught our attention
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  Speaker 4: and led to why we ended up choosing.
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  Speaker 3: Him on Husky looked like he plays some corner ruin
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  Speaker 3: us from the safety. What do you like about that versus.
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  Speaker 4: We talked a little bit about the bigger personnel groupings
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  Speaker 4: becoming your trend. Well to combat that, you're getting hybrid
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  Speaker 4: safety corners and bigger bodies at the position that can
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  Speaker 4: help match that a little bit more effectively. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: something that we prioritize not only on the defensive back end,
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  Speaker 4: but across the entire rosters versatility, and so he certainly
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  Speaker 4: offers that.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, his play.
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  Speaker 4: Style is one that is extremely aggressive and tough and physical,
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  Speaker 4: and so that.
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  Speaker 1: Really captured our attention in our hearts.
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  Speaker 4: And at the same time he touches the football, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think his Illinois game was one that really stood
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  Speaker 4: out in a hot way, and it was certainly one
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  Speaker 4: that you know, as we were watching highlights come across
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  Speaker 4: the screen post pick, Shod would certainly taking notice of, like, Wow,
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  Speaker 4: there's quite a few highlights.
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  Speaker 1: Showing up against Illinois. That's an interesting deal.
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  Speaker 2: Leo Imaginal, what does that allow you to do?
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  Speaker 5: Possibly with final I mean, the nice thing is we
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  Speaker 5: always said since being in LA in twenty two in
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  Speaker 5: that tough year that we're never going to put ourselves
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  Speaker 5: in a position to not have depth upfront and to
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  Speaker 5: not have great competition depth. You know, for what it
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  Speaker 5: does for Wyatt, I'm not sure I'm gonna why. It's
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  Speaker 5: got a ton of flexibility for him to be able
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  Speaker 5: to go out, kick out at tackle and play on
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  Speaker 5: the inside at guard. So the nice thing is we
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  Speaker 5: got a lot of depth and competition coming up for
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  Speaker 5: Obviously there's been a little bit more of a learning
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  Speaker 5: phase throughout the spring that you're not going to be
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  Speaker 5: able to probably see maybe what why his best traits
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  Speaker 5: are with a helmet on and shorts or the same thing,
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  Speaker 5: maybe with a manual. We have to wait till training
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  Speaker 5: camp to let that stuff play itself out. But you know, shoot,
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  Speaker 5: I know that in the last two years, getting too
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  Speaker 5: interior linemen with a little bit of flex that are
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  Speaker 5: three twenty three fifteen plus that you know have that
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  Speaker 5: acid mask that we're looking for. You know, that's helpful
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  Speaker 5: to the cause.
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  Speaker 4: If you were going to bring up any of our
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  Speaker 4: current oil. He didn't bring up his former teammate in Jonah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they played together, they did.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, what kind of keep the trended Trojans coming into
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  Speaker 4: the building, you know, Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Jane, were you surprised? Were you surprised at all that
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  Speaker 2: Daniel was there as Lacey was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was certainly uh a part of the equation.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't necessarily something that we would have projected in advance.
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  Speaker 3: UH.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly happy to be in a position to select him, UH,
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  Speaker 4: knowing that we were anticipating him going a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Jane, being able to help you special teams and off
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  Speaker 2: the lot, given that versatility.
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  Speaker 1: I would think so, uh.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously, with uh Dewey exiting, UH, the PP role
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  Speaker 4: is UH one that we have to prioritize, and he
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  Speaker 4: certainly is gonna be able to challenge for uh for
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  Speaker 4: that spot, which is an extremely important UH role on
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  Speaker 4: punt and ensures that you know there there doesn't end
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  Speaker 4: up being a.
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  Speaker 1: A critical down or a critical error in a moment
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  Speaker 1: that can flip games.
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  Speaker 4: And so that'll certainly be one that he'll UH have
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  Speaker 4: the luxury of compete for.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a couple more, did you guys try and you
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  Speaker 2: go up today or you're pretty comfortable with where you
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  Speaker 2: were at and you to drop.
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  Speaker 4: We did make a couple calls towards the the early
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  Speaker 4: portion of the night, uh, but nothing that obviously came
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  Speaker 4: to fruition.
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  Speaker 2: Were you surprised when they England went warm?
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  Speaker 1: We have at the the time, No, I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Actually my mind did not go to New England getting
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  Speaker 4: in front of us at fifty five. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: a definitely wasn't something that wore it they.
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  Speaker 5: That took out as oh okay, yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: No, a lot of things tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: How do you spend the time.
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  Speaker 3: Before that you get back on the bar, uh overday?
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  Speaker 3: Do you refresh some of your draft board, look at
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  Speaker 3: guys again, or you just kind of rest of 'em
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  Speaker 3: what you've already done.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a pretty good idea, uh of what we'll
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  Speaker 4: do the rest of the way, in particular here with
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  Speaker 4: one twenty four and then into the fifth and and
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  Speaker 4: sixth round. But uh, I would say there are a
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  Speaker 4: few discussion points still to be had, knowing that we'll
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  Speaker 4: have to be agile as some surprises or uh or
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  Speaker 4: not prises show themselves. And I don't think there's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a ton between now and tomorrow when we kick
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  Speaker 4: things off that will shift. But we'll just engage in
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  Speaker 4: the in the dialogue for sure before we exit this
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  Speaker 4: evening and into the early portionate tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 2: I love that too.
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  Speaker 3: We have spend clear you guys have, you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of wanted to better focus on the running game on.
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  Speaker 2: Offenses years between Nate, Emmanuel, Chris and Frequency.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like you guys have taken a big
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  Speaker 1: step forward that so far we've improved.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I think that we've added players that are
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  Speaker 5: going to help that cause. What that comes to from
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  Speaker 5: a statistic standpoint or what that looks like at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the season is hard for me to tell.
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  Speaker 5: But I think that all three of those guys are
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  Speaker 5: helpful to that cause that bring a certain mindset of mentality, demeanor,
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  Speaker 5: play demeanor, play edge to their game. And I think
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  Speaker 5: all those guys are going to help that cause for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, last one, quarterbacks. You look at this draft
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  Speaker 3: cycling and does it does it? Do you get any
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  Speaker 3: ideas maybe something they would have to name.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterbacks peripherally? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Not many in depth by any means. Probably blanked a
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  Speaker 5: few of those guys and was able to obviously see
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  Speaker 5: them in a in a lot of other films, other
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  Speaker 5: players films, but not necessarily a huge deep dive into
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  Speaker 5: the top picks of this draft. I mean, I've watched Simpson,
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  Speaker 5: I watched a little bit of Mendos that recruited. Mendoz
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  Speaker 5: are coming out when I was at Kentucky and he
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  Speaker 5: was at Cow, so I had some familiarity with him,
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  Speaker 5: you know, liked Simpson. Obviously Carson a little bit as well,
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  Speaker 5: and there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to keep up dating.
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  Speaker 5: So probably not as much as you know. Obviously a
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  Speaker 5: year that we would be looking at taking a quarterback,
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  Speaker 5: but not not as much right now.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you Ancient