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Speaker 2: Ian.

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

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Speaker 2: How are you? Was there something you wanted to discuss?

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Speaker 4: Is?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Nothing. That's the thing about the NFL.

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Speaker 5: Nothing ever happens right after the Super Bowl ins until

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Speaker 5: the first three season game. Damn, I wish that would change.

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Speaker 4: No. I just to give you an idea of what's

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Speaker 4: going on here. So we've been on air for you know,

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Speaker 4: we've been starting at eight in the morning, finishing at

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Speaker 4: eight at night for the last several days. And I

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Speaker 4: finished last night. We'll finished the Insiders at eight. It's

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Speaker 4: eight oh two and I see my phone buzz and

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Speaker 4: it says that the Raiders say the Ravens have called

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Speaker 4: off the Max Crosby Trade and it was full on pandemonium.

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Speaker 5: I'll bet I bet we into the show here at

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Speaker 5: six o'clock. By the time I got car, it was like,

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Speaker 5: what what is actually going on? So as best you know,

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Speaker 5: I mean, you're you're obviously locked in on everything NFL.

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Speaker 5: Is this just as simple in your mind as the

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Speaker 5: Ravens doctors failed Max Crosby on a physical.

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Speaker 2: So I don't.

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Speaker 4: Believe that the term failed on a physical is an

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Speaker 4: accurate one. It's really not. It's not you, it's everybody

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Speaker 4: says this. It's not really what happened. Failing a physical

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Speaker 4: is like the player is not able to play. This

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Speaker 4: is the Ravens traded two first rounders and Crossey is

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Speaker 4: making thirty plus million dollars a year. It was based

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Speaker 4: on what they found in the knee.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's had a full.

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Speaker 4: Uniscus repair, which I reported during the CHERBOULI knew that,

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Speaker 4: but two months out, Uh, they what they found in

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Speaker 4: the knee they did not think was worth the two.

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Speaker 2: First round picks.

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Speaker 4: There's really a risk judgment and a value judgment. And

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Speaker 4: they tried to go back to the rate to renegotiate

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Speaker 4: the deal. Thing that they did not feel comfortable based

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Speaker 4: on what they found him in me that doing the

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Speaker 4: trade for that price, and the raider said that's the

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Speaker 4: price and the trade is off. And so you know

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Speaker 4: that's my understanding, Like, is he going to play this

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Speaker 4: year like they believe he is, should be good, but

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Speaker 4: it's really just you know, questions about the long term

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Speaker 4: sort of longevity of Max Crosby's knee moving forward.

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Speaker 6: Well, Ian, shouldn't they have figured all of this out before,

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Speaker 6: I guess it was announced on Friday instead of having

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Speaker 6: this chaos that's taken place.

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Speaker 4: Now you're not allowed to you're not allowed You can

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Speaker 4: get scans, but you can't give a player of physical

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Speaker 4: and you know basically the way it works. And look,

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Speaker 4: you know again, like I reported during the Super Bowl

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Speaker 4: that it was a miniscus repair, not a miniscous trimp.

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Speaker 4: So everyone knew there was an issue. But you know,

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Speaker 4: it was two teams competing. It was the Cowboys and

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Speaker 4: the Ravens competing in the match Crosby. And I think

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Speaker 4: it's pretty clear, you know, I think it's it's pretty

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Speaker 4: clear that the Ravens were like, you know what, we're

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Speaker 4: just gonna take a risk and do the trade and

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Speaker 4: figure it out later because we don't want to miss

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Speaker 4: you know, we don't want to miss out on getting

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Speaker 4: match Crosby. And so they took the risk and in

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Speaker 4: the end it did not pay off, and the trade

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Speaker 4: ended up being scuttled.

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Speaker 3: So what's going to be the lesson for this whole thing?

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Speaker 1: Are team's going to be a little more reticent to

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Speaker 4: Nah, I don't think that's reality. I mean, And also

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Speaker 4: I would also say, like, I don't know what I

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Speaker 4: don't know what the Ravens did wrong. Like, first of all,

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Speaker 4: Eric Tacosta has the responsibility to his organization to do

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Speaker 4: what's right for them, So like, yes, it is an

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Speaker 4: unpopular decision, but his job is to do its best

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Speaker 4: for the Ravens. I would question why he went after

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't question him doing right, you know, for his organization,

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Speaker 4: because that is that is his job. We were talking,

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Speaker 4: you know, I would say this, like you talk about like,

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Speaker 4: you know, agents not wanting to do business with them,

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Speaker 4: like they literally signed one of the biggest free agents

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Speaker 4: don't think that's reality.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: It's like when an agent says like I'm never sending

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Speaker 4: and we're back, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, yeah, So what what I've got two questions?

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Speaker 5: What what purpose would it serve Eric Dacostah to say

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Speaker 5: that he was trying to sign both and he was

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Speaker 5: from a number standpoint, I just don't understand. Why would

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Speaker 5: he say that because he wanted Trade to feel like,

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Speaker 5: you're not playing second fiddle here.

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Speaker 3: We were going after you no matter what.

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Speaker 2: No, I think he's saying it because it's true, Like

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Speaker 2: Trey's from what I am told, Hendrickson learned early in

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Speaker 2: the process that they were going after him and Max.

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Speaker 4: Now today, obviously Hendrickson knew that it wasn't going to

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Speaker 4: be him, and they, you know, were able to raise

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Speaker 4: their offer because they didn't have Crosby's thirty million on

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Speaker 4: the books. But Trey Hendrickson was told that they were

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Speaker 4: trying to sign both early on, which I think would

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Speaker 4: be like Monday probably is when she learned this. Just

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Speaker 4: you know, his market took a little time to develop,

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Speaker 4: and I think once the Ravens lost Crosby, they obviously

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Speaker 4: turned it into into Hendrickson. But they were trying to

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Speaker 3: We were talking before you came on the air.

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Speaker 4: About we're talking with alb we you know, it's hard.

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Speaker 3: To believe, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: I know, And we've we've got to feel the airwaves,

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Speaker 5: I mean before you get on, a little bit after

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Speaker 5: you get on. But if you, if you, if you

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Speaker 5: talk about when when the Saints made the deal. When

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Speaker 5: Drew was a free agent, he first went to Miami,

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Speaker 5: Miami failed him on a physical.

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Speaker 3: He then went to the Saints.

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Speaker 5: The Saints looked at the very same shoulder, did not

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Speaker 5: fail him on a physical, and we know how that

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Speaker 5: worked out. Do you do you think this is similar

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Speaker 5: in terms of how the teams actually may have differing

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Speaker 4: Okay, see that that is a very very good example, right,

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Speaker 4: because the Dolphins were very comfortable in what they believed.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think at that point Drew couldn't really

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Speaker 4: I was always blamed the Dolphins medical staff, YEP for this,

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Speaker 4: but you know this is their job to take the

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Speaker 4: you know, off of the best opinion. It's called a

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Speaker 4: medical opinion, off of the best opinion. Saints took a

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Speaker 4: the Dolphins didn't, and they were left with Doun a

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Speaker 4: culpepper and it's been a challenge, you know, ever since.

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Speaker 5: So do you think a team jumps in and makes

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Speaker 5: an offer now for Max Crosby before the year starts?

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Speaker 4: So I know teams were calling the Raiders when this

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Speaker 4: broke down last night. The problem is everybody wants a discount,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's like all right, like cool, so you're

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Speaker 4: not doing this pick, You're not doing two picks, you know,

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Speaker 4: let's just let's just about how about one first rounder?

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Speaker 4: And it's like that. I don't think that really works

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Speaker 3: Sticking to that.

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Speaker 4: And to me, it feels like Crosby is now back

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Speaker 4: to the Raiders. That is what it feels like to me,

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Speaker 4: Like he was back in the building this morning. He

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Speaker 4: of and I think that's okay, I really do.

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Speaker 6: Well, Yeah, we know that the collective Bargain Agreement will

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Speaker 6: be negotiated by twenty thirty. Do you think this particular

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Speaker 6: situation will somehow come up and be presented by the

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Speaker 6: nfl PA as far as getting these types of X

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Speaker 6: rays done so you can avoid this type of chaos.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't know that you need to wait

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Speaker 4: until the CBA. You could make a change next year,

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Speaker 4: like and you know you can do it right, you

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Speaker 4: can see. I mean the first of all, there's not

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Speaker 4: a lot of players who have traded while having medical concerns.

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Speaker 4: But theoretically, you know, if two teams are competing for

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Speaker 4: negotiations are going quickly and say like all right, like

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Speaker 4: places to do a physical Like I mean, I wonder

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Speaker 4: somebody would allow it. I just don't know how feasible

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Speaker 4: it is when everything moves.

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Speaker 1: So fast in this world, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: totally the last one I have for you. Just want

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Speaker 1: to ask you about the Broncos, who have ultimately signed

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Speaker 1: for John Franklin, Meers and PJ. Locke, everybody else's is

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Speaker 1: back with the team. Are a little surprised by that?

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Speaker 1: What was your reaction to seeing so far?

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Speaker 4: No, this is kind of to me, this is kind

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Speaker 4: of where they should be. You know, like, look, I

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Speaker 4: you know, chig a Conquo was was someone they might sign.

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Speaker 4: I mean there was, you know, I sort of thought

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Speaker 4: they might be in it a little more. But like,

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Speaker 4: this is where you want to get to as a team,

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Speaker 4: where you're like, we have some good, highly valued players.

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Speaker 4: They're going to leave, We're going to get the compix

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Speaker 4: Like they'll probably get like a set or something COMPIIC

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Speaker 4: for John Franklin Myers, and you resigned your own guys.

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Speaker 4: I mean the Broncos basically had their free agency in

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Speaker 4: like December. When what when did they sign all those

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Speaker 4: all their own guys?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So, uh yeah, I mean that sort of to me

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Speaker 4: was was was their free agency?

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Speaker 1: You got You're getting a little bit of info there,

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Speaker 1: Ian You got to U break something.

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Speaker 4: It's nothing that, it's nothing that important.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that pause there for a moment.

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Speaker 1: It's like, all right, well, hey we got you, gotcha

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Speaker 1: on the phone right now.

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Speaker 4: All right, yeah, yeah, no, that's I mean, that's that's.

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Speaker 3: What we get those two. Honey, pick up the milk.

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Speaker 3: We get them. We can get them all the time.

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Speaker 3: I picked up the kids from school. Yeah, don't forget

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Speaker 3: that one. That's a good one. That's a good one.

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Speaker 3: All right, Ian Uh, you're the best. We appreciate. We'll

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Speaker 3: check in with you next week. Man.

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Speaker 4: Okay, thanks very all right, take care