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Speaker 1: to you from our homes radio only today and joining

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Speaker 1: us on the line Buffalo's fifth round pick and last

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Speaker 1: weekend's draft fifth round pick from Georgia. A familiar name,

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Speaker 1: maybe an unexpected selection, but he's here now. He's a

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Speaker 1: Hello Jake, John Murphy and Steve Tasker on the line

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Speaker 1: with how are you doing today? Hey? Doing good. Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys for having me, Thanks very much for coming up.

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Speaker 1: We had Brandon Bean on our show two days ago Monday,

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Speaker 1: and when we asked him about you, the first words

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Speaker 1: he described you was he's a winner. He's a winner.

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Speaker 1: That's I can think of a lot worse things for

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Speaker 1: a GM to say about a play priage just drafted.

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Speaker 1: He described you as a winner. That's pretty good, right,

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. There could be a lot worse things.

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Speaker 1: I'll thank it and uh, hopefully I can make it

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Speaker 1: before the draft? Yeah, so we had a really awesome

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Speaker 1: zoom meeting beforehand. Coach Stable, UH, coach Dorsey H and

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Speaker 1: Um and UH cooked him with the combine. UH and man,

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Speaker 1: wait to get up and excited to get going. How

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Speaker 1: much contact have you had with Bill's coaches or teammates

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Speaker 1: since the draft since Saturay? J Uh. Yes, since then,

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Speaker 1: with teammates in the future. Have you had any calls

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Speaker 1: from the veterans on the team. Uh. A couple of

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Speaker 1: them reached out kind of on the on the draft,

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Speaker 1: but UM, nothing over any any playbook or anything football related. UM.

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Speaker 1: Since then. I don't think rules perment that I could

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey, how do you think you'll fit in with

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Speaker 1: Jake from Bill's fifth round gradt pick a quarterback from Georgia. Hey, Jake,

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Speaker 1: I loved your answer about the combine. You you know,

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Speaker 1: those championship games and won all those titles for Georgia. Right,

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