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Speaker 1: So what was your reaction to Davis webnus Sean Payton

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Speaker 1: announced he's gonna be a play caller.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was the number one topic.

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Speaker 3: I think it was one of the biggest stories, honestly

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Speaker 3: of yesterday with so many different head coaches and general

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Speaker 3: managers going and I talked to a number of them,

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Speaker 3: had him on my set, and I had George on

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Speaker 3: my set later, and I think I'll start with that.

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Speaker 3: When George and I were talking about it, I thought

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Speaker 3: he brought up a really interesting point about it, where

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Speaker 3: George Payton goes, what does this tell us? This is

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Speaker 3: one of the best play callers we've seen in recent

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Speaker 3: memory in the NFL, and he's looking to make this

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Speaker 3: move to put a the team first in terms of winning.

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Speaker 3: Where they're at right now with the roster they have

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Speaker 3: a super Bowl caliber team, and b he.

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Speaker 2: Goes shows you what he thinks that the Davis and to.

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Speaker 3: Me that those two are paramount because we know the

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Speaker 3: makeup of Sean right, we know how Sewn is wired.

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Speaker 3: And I think the biggest part of knowing how Sewan

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Speaker 3: is wired is Chase Daniel and I do a show

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Speaker 3: on the athletic Chase was insistent on that show.

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Speaker 2: Yes he was, no way Sean Payton is giving up

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Speaker 2: play calling.

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Speaker 3: This is a guy that has been in the room

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Speaker 3: Sean for years, knows him, maybe as good as any player,

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Speaker 3: and they have an unbelievable relationship. And he just kept

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Speaker 3: saying I can't see him giving up play calling, and

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Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know, man, this guy is special.

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Speaker 3: And then so then the third part I would bring

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Speaker 3: up is this when he called the plays for that

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Speaker 3: I don't know which was it the third preseason, third

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Speaker 3: preseason game.

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Speaker 2: I spent some time with Stidy.

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Speaker 3: At his locker after that game, and Jarrett was just like, dude,

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Speaker 3: he was incredible.

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Speaker 2: I was like, what do you mean.

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Speaker 3: He goes it was like he's been calling games his

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Speaker 3: whole life, and it was like when he started the

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Speaker 3: play call, I was like, that's that's the right play call.

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Speaker 3: Like there was just a flow and a feel and

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Speaker 3: a connectivity to the quarterback that was unbelievable for just

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Speaker 3: one I saw him last night actually and got to

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Speaker 3: chat with him a little bit. He stoked obviously super

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Speaker 3: super super jacked about it. I would say the other

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Speaker 3: part is I'm interested to see what his voice is

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Speaker 3: now doing things like this because he has a larger say, essentially.

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Speaker 3: But the part that was fascinating when I kind of

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Speaker 3: has been massive since he got here. So that I

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Speaker 3: think puts it full circle back to why this happened,

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Speaker 3: because they've been really on.

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Speaker 2: This for three years now and now it's just time.

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Speaker 1: Do you think this is in some kind of response

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Speaker 1: to the interest that Davis has received from around the league.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 3: That's a really good question, because the interest is not

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Speaker 3: to be an offensive court.

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Speaker 2: The interest is to be a head coach, exactly right.

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Speaker 3: And so when I talk to people in Buffalo after

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Speaker 3: they were making their final decision, they were blown away

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Speaker 3: by Davis.

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Speaker 2: They thought he was outstanding.

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Speaker 3: I was told by multiple people that interviewed him that

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Speaker 3: he is ready to be.

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Speaker 2: A head coach right now. But then they also told me, which.

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Speaker 3: Was I thought important, that they believe another year with

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Speaker 3: John Payton is not the worst thing in the world

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Speaker 3: either for his coaching journey, And they mentioned that specifically,

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Speaker 3: like being in Denver for another year is big for

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Speaker 3: his coaching journey, not being an OC because he probably

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Speaker 3: could have gotten that opportunity in some other places. So

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Speaker 3: I do think there's there's a fixture of why he

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Speaker 3: was here and why he wanted to come back. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if they needed to give him play calling,

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Speaker 3: but it almost feels that way in a sense.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: What I'm really looking at is is this going to

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Speaker 3: be a one year thing? Is it go back to

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Speaker 3: Sean after this year? If Davis gets a head coaching job,

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Speaker 3: because everybody's going to say that he's right near the

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Speaker 3: top of this list coming out maybe in next next cycle.

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Speaker 3: I just think we're really going to look at this

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Speaker 3: really hard this entire year.

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Speaker 2: But I think they got their guy. I mean, every

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Speaker 2: interview he had Raiders he crushed.

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Speaker 3: I think if Clinton didn't get the job, I think

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Speaker 3: there's a realistic chance that he could have gotten that

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Speaker 2: And just yeah, it just fit.

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Speaker 3: We all kind of saw it coming in a sense,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know if that was directly the reason.

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Speaker 3: I think Davis also knows how he can grow here,

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Speaker 3: like grow it's specifically in Denver, not just to play

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Speaker 3: caller somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I completely agree. I think another year with bow

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Speaker 1: Nicks the opportunity will bolster his resume. Ultimately we come

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Speaker 1: to this thing, all right, the last one I half

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Speaker 1: for you because I know you're a very busy man.

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Speaker 2: So when you get to like you get.

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Speaker 1: A sense of the Broncos having a lot of success

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Speaker 1: last year, is this something that is built to continue

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Speaker 1: even into this upcoming year?

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Speaker 2: Schedule is gonna be a little tougher.

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Speaker 1: But when you get the sense of talking to people,

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Speaker 1: do they think that the Broncos are doing as legit

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Speaker 1: or is there a sense of like, I got to

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Speaker 1: see it another year.

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Speaker 3: I think there's an odd got to see it another

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Speaker 3: year and no slight to what they did because I

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Speaker 3: think you remember what Sean said on the podium, right,

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Speaker 3: He's like he almost said like it would behoove me

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Speaker 3: not to understand how a lot of these games went.

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Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: He made a point to say that that some of

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Speaker 3: those games could swing back the other way very easily.

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Speaker 3: There are people I've talked to around the league that

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Speaker 3: are picking the Broncos as a team to take a

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Speaker 3: step back. I think they're picking the Patriots as well

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Speaker 3: to be a team to take a step back. The

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Speaker 3: way they both won a lot of games, the way

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Speaker 3: the AFC fell in their favor.

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Speaker 2: Now there's nothing against any of those things. You got

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Speaker 2: to win those games.

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Speaker 3: And I think the Broncos, if bo Nick doesn't get hurt,

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Speaker 3: we're going to be in the super Bowl, and then

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Speaker 3: who knows what happens. But every year is different, every

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Speaker 3: year changes. I do think you have a very forward

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Speaker 3: thinking general manager that prepares.

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Speaker 2: For what's next very very well.

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Speaker 3: You have and this is talking to people all this

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Speaker 3: week as well, like you have unbelievable ed rushers, where

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Speaker 3: like I was talking to a GM from another team

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Speaker 3: who was like, those contracts are awesome team wise, right,

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Speaker 3: like just outstanding team contracts, They're like and the same

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Speaker 3: GM was like, in Patzertan's contract is like reasonable right now, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're gonna have to get Bow a contract.

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Speaker 3: You're probably gonna have to redo a deal with Pat

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Speaker 3: in the near future as well. So those are on

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Speaker 3: the horizon. But you've built it really, really well. And

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Speaker 3: George has this mindset and we we talked about it

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Speaker 3: yesterday of just making sure things are so staggered across

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Speaker 3: the board at positions that he's never dealing with contracts

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Speaker 3: at the same position multiple multiple times. That He's making

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Speaker 3: sure that he reloads, like, don't be surprised if they

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Speaker 3: look O line like.

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Speaker 2: They were healthy.

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Speaker 3: They're getting older, like reload there. He just has a

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Speaker 3: very good feel for filling it out. You still have

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Speaker 3: the quarterback, you still have the coach, and you still

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Speaker 3: have a d defensive coordinator. For some reason, cannot get

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Speaker 3: them to some reason, cannot get a job as a

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Speaker 2: I don't know why. I don't know why, but I.

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Speaker 3: Hate to say this, Like what if Vance Joseph becomes

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Speaker 3: like the Steve Spagnolo hack that Andy Reid has where

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Speaker 3: I'm just not going to worry about one side of

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Speaker 3: the ball.

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Speaker 2: We have a.

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Speaker 3: Head coach, one of the best coaches of football, running one

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Speaker 3: side of our ball, and for some reason can't get

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Speaker 3: a job. It sucks for VJ. And I love VJ.

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Speaker 3: It's great for Broncos countries. I write you almost have

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Speaker 3: to say it that way, just like selfishly, as a

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Speaker 3: fan of the Broncos, you would say, well, this is awesome.

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Speaker 3: You can't get a job. It stinks for him because

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Speaker 3: he deserves another crack. But these things are in place

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Speaker 3: for you know, a continued run of success.

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 3: I just think, you know, having the same things fall

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Speaker 3: that it did this past year might be hard, but

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Speaker 3: who knows. It be year three of Bnicks in the system,

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Speaker 3: so maybe you get even better quarterback play anyways, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean that level, you know, So, I

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Speaker 3: just think it is going to be a team that

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Speaker 3: is in a very competitive AFC where there were some

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Speaker 3: teams that took steps back that usually don't see how

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Speaker 3: do you compete with Cincinnati and Baltimore and Buffalo and

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Speaker 3: you know, Patrick burs we have the Chargers lost both tackles,

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Speaker 3: like you know, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Everything is there got you and I can always catch

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Speaker 1: those breaks, no doubt. Ay Man, you're absolutely killing on

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Speaker 1: the athletic Appreciate it, brother, Appreciate you so much for