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Speaker 1: rather trade him and get something for him than release

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Speaker 1: was a little more defined. Now, maybe that'll change in

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Speaker 1: the next you know, twenty four hours. It might, but

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Speaker 1: let's say that's where we are for now. So I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: So the follow up up, well, try to make this

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Speaker 1: one was quicker. To make this one quicker? Elliott Wolf

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Speaker 1: has been with two other organizations. He's evaluated player personnel

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Speaker 1: for the Packers, for the Browns doesn't help toward what

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Speaker 1: you just talked about. To have somebody now on your

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Speaker 1: staff that can bring that perspective and knowledge of the

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Speaker 1: veteran players around the league to add to what you

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Speaker 1: already have in the house. Um, sure. I think it's

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Speaker 1: always it's always good to have a different perspective on that. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, the you know, people that have been here

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Speaker 1: for you know, extended period of time, which some of

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Speaker 1: them are no longer here this year, many of them

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Speaker 1: still are. But you know, guys that have been here

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Speaker 1: for a long time have a very good understanding of,

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Speaker 1: you know, what we're looking for, how we do certain things,

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Speaker 1: what the process is. And uh, you know, maybe players

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Speaker 1: like this we've already talked about before and have either

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Speaker 1: liked or disliked for similar reasons. You know, you don't

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Speaker 1: have that history with people that are new to the organization.

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Speaker 1: It takes a little time to build that up. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's sort of the time that we're working through.

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Speaker 1: But as you identified, the plus side of it is,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you come from a different organization, especially

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Speaker 1: you know, UM or two organizations in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years, I have a you know, fairly recent background

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Speaker 1: of other philosophies, other ways of doing things. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly he's been able to help me in terms of

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Speaker 1: you know, take a look at this, here's the way

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Speaker 1: we did this. H you know, it might be something

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Speaker 1: that we've tried and we don't want to do it

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Speaker 1: I hadn't really looked at it that way. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good idea. So you know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: good to generate new ideas like that. I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know Jetfish has done that. Uh you know, similar

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Speaker 1: thing on offense is, you know, brought in some new

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Speaker 1: ideas and things that we weren't familiar with at the

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Speaker 1: same time dedicating the majority of their time to understanding

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Speaker 1: learning what we do do so that you know, they

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Speaker 1: know how those those type of things apply. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, some of the other new people in the organization,

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Speaker 1: whether it be you know, uh, you know, Vinny or

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Speaker 1: Joe or you know, other people like that, guys like that.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's there's some of that from everybody too,

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Speaker 1: but um, you know, it's good to have uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: a new perspective. It's also obviously very good to work

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Speaker 1: with people who have been here for a sustained period

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Speaker 1: of time that have a lot of experience in our organization,

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Speaker 1: in our system that haven't you know, intimate knowledge of

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Speaker 1: you know, how all the inner workings are. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good and to have. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: both ways, well, thanks so much, appreciate it. Yeah, welcome.

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Speaker 1: You very much for taking the extra time. We all

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Um. That was that was very nice bonus there.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Okay, yep, we're welcome. Thanks,