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Speaker 2: We'll talk about the safety. You know, I'm sure, but

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Speaker 2: taking a kicker in the third round, uh.

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Speaker 3: John, as a safety, Uh, I'm it's not easy, but

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Speaker 3: but they're really important and and we've had a very

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Speaker 3: you know, I think you put this much work into

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Speaker 3: kickers matter, and uh, you know, we we knew that

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Speaker 3: we'd be looking this year, and our special teams coaches

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Speaker 3: really got out and about and really studied this thing hard,

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: When we felt like there was one who separated themselves

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Speaker 3: we felt like he was worthy of one, and we're

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Speaker 2: So did you until that somebody else was close to

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Speaker 1: No, no intel there.

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Speaker 3: The intel that we had is that there's a lot

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Speaker 3: And I think you know that there's a couple good

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Speaker 3: We didn't want anyone going to that Vegas pick and

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Speaker 3: Wasn't the applause that we got when we took the

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Speaker 2: Robbie has been someone of a mentor to him, and

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Speaker 1: Did you talk to Rob about him? No, we didn't.

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Speaker 3: We didn't talk to Robbie about him. I know they

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Speaker 3: You know, we really rely on our special teams coaches

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Speaker 4: So I'm very glad that we got them. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: We got one.

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Speaker 4: But you know, when you have one who's been like

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Speaker 3: Other special teams, coaches, coaches who coached me throughout the career.

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Speaker 3: So that's always good that dude, you stole.

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Speaker 1: That guy, or like great, great pick, great spot.

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Speaker 3: Uh, So that that meant something to me because I

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Speaker 1: He's one of the better ones. And uh, those guys

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Speaker 4: Know my friends made fun of me. Most my friends

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Speaker 3: And it was it was pretty intense, and and the

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Speaker 3: you know, Schneide's got to be there.

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Speaker 1: The confidence, you know, the steadiness was all there.

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Speaker 2: The brown pick was that kind of looking ahead a

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Speaker 3: Now you know, I think, you know, we feel pretty

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Speaker 1: They played really well at a really high level.

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Speaker 3: We'll never you know, we're not just you know, giving

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Speaker 2: Moody was the highest draft of kickers since Roberto Olio

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Speaker 1: It's like he's just a cautionary tale of you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you're aware of that history. But I mean

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think you know the things I described.

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Speaker 3: just became very convicted. Yeah, you have to look at

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Speaker 1: I think his mentality.

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Speaker 3: I think he's a versatile player in that he's good

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Speaker 3: When you're watching film with him, you know, he's a

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Speaker 1: You know, got some information.

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Speaker 3: But you know, just we like the skill set and

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Speaker 4: We're trying to get three players who can make our team.

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Speaker 4: We feel we have a pretty good team, but we

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Speaker 4: going to do our best at every pick. We have

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Speaker 4: we have better or to beat out the guys that

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Speaker 4: we have. So we played two safeties. We have packages

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Speaker 4: this year. Huff just got to start last year for

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Speaker 4: a real good player is gonna help our team. And

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Speaker 4: the tight end is the same situation. I think is

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Speaker 4: we can address tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: You said that you.

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Speaker 2: Haven't you hadn't talked yet. A couple of days ago,

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Speaker 2: you hadn't talked yet to Brandon or Javon came out.

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Speaker 2: Whether you talk to those two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, talk to both of them. Brandon, we're going to

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Speaker 3: exercise that fifth year option. We won't with Javon. I

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Speaker 3: talked with Javon. Uh still looking for great things from Javon.

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Speaker 3: Javon's having an outstanding off season. He's in a great place,

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Speaker 3: and you know he's excited about what's to come as

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Speaker 2: That you getting stronger as the as the year went on.

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Speaker 2: It needed you guys, see the same thing that this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's one of the things we liked

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Speaker 4: then you look at his history and knowing he was

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Speaker 4: he came in playing linebacker the first two years I

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Speaker 4: think switched over, so he's late to the position, and

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Speaker 4: as you watch him throughout the year, we think he

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Speaker 4: the past game. And it's hard to say whether he's

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Speaker 4: he could accelerate in both and that's important to us

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Speaker 4: with all our titands.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Thanks guys,