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Speaker 1: you know, just being a fan last year and enjoying it. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, enjoying every hard day of practice,

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Speaker 1: but Uh, it's it's a great room. Man. We got

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Speaker 1: I mean it helps, um, you know, with with some

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Speaker 1: But you know, he's a smart dude, great football player. Um. Definitely,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited to see you know, Billy, you know,

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Speaker 1: if I think all that stuff and all the those

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Speaker 1: the window. But I mean it's football. You know you

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Speaker 1: kind of realize that when you sign up for it,

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