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Speaker 3: What's up, Tod?

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Speaker 4: It's always NFL season, There's no there's no off season.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into those signings coming up in a second.

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Speaker 1: I was just telling Kruge how one of the last

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Speaker 2: When you watch the film, you can see Jalen hurts

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Speaker 3: You gotta have more than what they got, right, Which

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Speaker 4: Oh, Sadik is pretty good? Can we get him? Maybe

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Speaker 1: Todd last one for me, should the forty nine ers

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 4: One hundred percent you have to do that. I think

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Speaker 4: I think you can. I think offensive line has to

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Speaker 3: Here, Todd, one last one for me.

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Speaker 3: You played this position. This is gonna be a big story.

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Speaker 3: It's different worlds than he's been in. What do you

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Speaker 4: And by the way, most college quarterbacks, I think the

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Speaker 4: But if if that's something Kubiak hasn't is important for

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Speaker 4: timing of your footwork and how you hand it off.

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Speaker 4: They like to do a lot of the zone runs

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Speaker 4: and we're ashing genty. That's one of the things he

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Speaker 4: footwork from understd and so working on those things throughout

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Speaker 4: and that so all of those things I think are

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Speaker 4: are it's going to be a fascinating offseason and how

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Speaker 4: that works. But I think it's a good signing at

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Speaker 4: the very least. I mean, boys that can be a

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Speaker 4: fun quarterback room between Mendoz and Cousins. Those are two

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Speaker 4: of the more quirky guys. I think that will be

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Speaker 4: in the NFL working together. But Mendoza is going to

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Speaker 4: long period of time, and I think that'll help his

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Speaker 4: development long term. But it's also interesting that they're going

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Speaker 4: to pay that quarterback that much money and Cousins and

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Speaker 4: still maybe draft the guy number one overall in Mendoza

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Speaker 4: and commit to him being the future of the franchise.

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Speaker 4: So I think it's I think it's beneficial for Mendoza,

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Speaker 4: and we talked about it earlier Larry, where coming into

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, if they do draft Mendoza, he

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Speaker 4: doesn't have to be the guy. He can kind of

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Speaker 4: just be with Kirk Cousins and doesn't have to get

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Speaker 4: the respect of everybody day one, and he can kind

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Speaker 4: of grow into that position versus being the guy right

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Speaker 4: off the bus from the draft. Hey take some time grow,

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Speaker 4: learn the players and figure out how this thing works

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Speaker 4: at the next level. While you have a guy who's

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Speaker 4: been doing it for a very long time in Kirk.

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Speaker 3: Cousins, Tod, you're the best.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you coming by. We'll talk to you plenty

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Speaker 1: as we get ready for the draft and approach it

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Speaker 1: a little bit closer. So good to check in with you.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, it's always football season, right, always.

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Speaker 4: A twelve months a year. I think I said my

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Speaker 4: daughter this was I was driving her to across practice

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Speaker 4: and they we're talking about football, and she was like,

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Speaker 4: I thought football season ended. Sweet, It never ends all

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Speaker 4: the time.

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Speaker 3: It's always there. Love it, Thanks time, love it, thanks

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Speaker 3: thanks time.

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Speaker 4: Our guys