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Speaker 1: Bring on our NFL network insider Ian Rappaport and uh

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Speaker 2: Ian.

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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, sir. How are you? What's going on here?

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Speaker 2: You guys doing great to talk with Ian.

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Speaker 4: I want to start with with Jalen Hurts. Stories continue

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Speaker 4: to kind of surface from Philadelphia, and I'm not I'm

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Speaker 4: not usually the NFL. There's always reasons as to why stories,

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Speaker 4: you know, like this pop up at a certain time.

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Speaker 4: But but what's your take on the on the Hurts

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Speaker 4: situation with the Eagles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean to me, this is the reason it

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Speaker 3: popped up was because I think it's pretty real. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's a real issue. I'm not, you know, saying that

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent of what was written in the article

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Speaker 3: was one hundred percent accurate, because I can't confirm all

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Speaker 3: of those different things. But to me, in an a

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Speaker 3: general sense is that the Eagles face you know, across

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Speaker 3: roads when it comes to jail and Hurts and you know,

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Speaker 3: he's he's had a guaranteed money after this year, it's

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Speaker 3: been a couple.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's been a tough season.

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Speaker 3: Last year obviously, you know, win the Super Bowl, which is.

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Speaker 2: Great, But you know, I think it's fair to say

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Speaker 2: the A. J.

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Speaker 3: Brown situation, firing an offensive coordinator, it just it wasn't great.

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Speaker 3: And for most franchise quarterbacks, this is not kind of

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Speaker 3: where they are.

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Speaker 2: You're not like as an organization saying.

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Speaker 3: Like is this definitely definitely our guy. So at least

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Speaker 3: the situation is real. How they're going to handle it,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, because a lot of it is determined

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Speaker 3: by you know, they have Seaun mannin as new offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 3: Does Jalen Hurts go out and have a great season.

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Speaker 3: If he does, then he's the quarterback till the end

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Speaker 3: of time, and that's that. If it's to struggle again,

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Speaker 3: then I think it's fair to say the Eagles will

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Speaker 3: have some you know, hard decisions to make. And as

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Speaker 3: far as why now, you know, I would say sometimes

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Speaker 3: reporting takes shape the way it takes shape, Like probably

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Speaker 3: with my guess would be now because this is how

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Speaker 3: long it took the reporter to compile the facts of

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Speaker 3: the article.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 4: Ian Dexter Lawrence requesting a trade from the New York Giants.

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Speaker 4: What's going on there with this?

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Speaker 3: Why is this happening now?

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Speaker 2: So Dexter Lawrence, you know, has two years left on

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Speaker 2: his deal.

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Speaker 3: Is I believe it's twenty nine and the twenty nine

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Speaker 3: or thirty, you know, I was looking for that next

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Speaker 3: big contract.

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Speaker 2: And did have a great year, which you know, if

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Speaker 2: he goes out and has a you know, killer year,

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Speaker 2: then it's sort.

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Speaker 3: Of like all right, like easy decision about whether to

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Speaker 3: extend him. Wasn't a great year. I think the whole

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Speaker 3: team was generally bad.

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Speaker 2: But when he's on the field, he's really good.

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Speaker 3: He takes up double teams. He's an excellent, excellent player,

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Speaker 3: and he wants more money and.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you know, the way to get more money is

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Speaker 2: to request a trade. And you know, I else, and

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a couple of things. This does.

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Speaker 3: I think the Giants, you know, he's due twenty million dollars,

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Speaker 3: maybe they.

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Speaker 2: Do find a team interested in taking.

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Speaker 3: On the salary at extending him. The other part of

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Speaker 3: it is maybe they go out and see his value

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Speaker 3: and maybe someone or several someone's across the league says,

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Speaker 3: I want to trade for him and pay him thirty

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Speaker 3: million dollars a year, like, okay, well that's his value.

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Speaker 3: The other part of it is maybe somebody doesn't. So

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a bad thing. I think it's

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Speaker 3: sort of part of the.

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Speaker 2: Process and we'll see where it lands.

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Speaker 1: Ian rappab were joining us. I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: about Kirk Cousins going to the Raiders. Is this a garant?

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Speaker 1: Is he going to be the starter week one, regardless

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Speaker 1: of what happens with Fernando Mendoza, or in your opinion,

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Speaker 1: is this a bit of a competition and fluid situation.

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Speaker 3: I would say more likely than not, Kirk Cousins is

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Speaker 3: going to be the starter now, you know, good Mendoza

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Speaker 3: come in and light it up and they.

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Speaker 2: Say, are we have to start this guy?

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Speaker 4: For sure?

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Speaker 2: They could. I mean that's happened before. I remember when

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Speaker 2: a different you know.

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Speaker 3: Third round, overs first rounder, but you know rookie Russell

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Speaker 3: Wilson was the starter right off the bat, and then

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Speaker 3: everyone knew it.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh wow, okay, like this has to happen.

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Speaker 3: If Fernando Mendos is the obvious starter and he's clearly

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Speaker 3: the best by far, then it's like you got to

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Speaker 3: start him. Like deal with the paying Kirk cousin twenty

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Speaker 3: million dollars, No big deal. If it's a question, you

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Speaker 3: probably start cousins. And I think, you know, Klint Kobiak

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Speaker 3: has been on record saying he would prefer that his

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Speaker 3: starting quarterback. Wait, I think you know, as a league,

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Speaker 3: if you can wait, generally that's better. Now his cousin's

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Speaker 3: going to start the whole season, We'll see. I mean,

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Speaker 3: if they're you know, eight and three, then probably, If

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Speaker 3: they're three and eight, probably not, you know, I just

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Speaker 3: it's a he's basically a bridge starter now and his

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Speaker 3: aide that's that's what he is. I thought it was

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Speaker 3: a pretty safe, smart signing for a team that does

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Speaker 3: have some extra cash as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. My last question in bouncer back to Philadelphia,

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Speaker 4: the Aj Brown thing is is, at least from a

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Speaker 4: national perspective, maybe quite down a little bit. Are the

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Speaker 4: chances better now that AJ stays in Philadelphia? You think

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Speaker 4: we're waiting until the draft, maybe just see if something

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Speaker 4: else happens.

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Speaker 2: I think we're waiting. I mean, I wouldn't characterize it

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Speaker 2: as saying it's more likely AJ's in Philadelphia. I think

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Speaker 2: it's more of an open question. I think the Patriots

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Speaker 2: are still interested. I think it makes sense for everyone

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Speaker 2: to wait until June because you get through that sort.

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Speaker 3: Of second year and you say, like, all right, like

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Speaker 3: you know, he's less of a tap hit for the Eagles.

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Speaker 3: I believe it's half. It's forty versus twenty, So I think.

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Speaker 2: Waiting until June, you know, probably makes some sense.

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Speaker 4: Ian. Are we absolutely sure that Fernando Mendos is going

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Speaker 4: number one overall to the Raiders?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can never be sure in this world,

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Speaker 3: but like I would feel pretty.

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Speaker 2: Good about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's he's taking one visit, it's this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I would say there's a pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Chance of that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, pretty good about that. All right, Last one for me,

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Speaker 1: what did you do? What did you make of Troy

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Speaker 1: Aikman telling Clarence Hill that the Dolphins had hired him

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Speaker 1: to quote that he had known or have information and

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Speaker 1: that he could maybe help with some of those relationships

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Speaker 1: and information to the Miami Dolphins. What'd you take away

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Speaker 3: I mean I assume that, right, like you hire him

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Speaker 3: for everything, so it's sort of like you hire him

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Speaker 3: for the relationships. You hire him for the knowledge, for

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Speaker 3: team building, for what he's learned in those production meetings.

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Speaker 3: I mean, when you hire someone, you get it all.

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Speaker 3: So like I saw, there was sort of some controversy,

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Speaker 3: but like, unless I'm missing the comments, like what was

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Speaker 3: the controversy? Well, I think some of.

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Speaker 1: It maybe is the people that aren't really happy that

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady as a broadcaster, has the access that he

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Speaker 1: does and he's part owner. I don't think it's the

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Speaker 1: same situation because again Troy Aikman's not part owner. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's sort of wondering if this is a new

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Speaker 1: trend that we're out to see with these guys that

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Speaker 1: are prominent broadcasters in the NFL community now kind of

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Speaker 1: being hired on to give get more information because these

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Speaker 1: guys are in these meetings, as you pointed out, with

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Speaker 1: other teams. So I don't know, maybe that's a.

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Speaker 2: Little bit of it. I just don't know.

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Speaker 3: I would say. What I would say is I don't

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Speaker 3: know that it's unfair, Like I don't know that Troy

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Speaker 3: a I mean.

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Speaker 2: For being honest, like Doppin's hired exactly.

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Speaker 3: Who everybody thought they would hire, you know, I mean

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Speaker 3: they hired the best GM candidate and Jenner R.

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Speaker 2: Salvan he hired.

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Speaker 3: Sony knows extremely well as a great relationship with as

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Speaker 3: one of the top head coaching candidates.

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Speaker 2: So like, I don't know what.

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Speaker 3: Troy Egman would have done. That was sort of like unfair,

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Speaker 3: but as.

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Speaker 2: Long as it's allowed, I'm okay with it, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Brady has some advantages as a owner slash broadcaster.

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Speaker 3: I mean then the Raiders record hasn't reflected it, so

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Speaker 3: it's like, whatever, you know, all.

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Speaker 1: For points, Ian, We really appreciate you man.

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Speaker 3: We'll check me the next week, okay, thanks as look

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Speaker 3: forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: Thanks you Ian,