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Speaker 1: Good morning, Bill. Dolphins week coming up. They got a

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Speaker 1: you know again a pretty uh, pretty experienced quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the defense. Um, but you know sees it, sees what

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Speaker 1: has enough quickness in the pocket to make it difficult

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Speaker 1: That's uh elusive and it really wants to throw more

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Speaker 1: and he wants to run again. He can run, but

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Speaker 1: up quickly. Into the passing game, he does a pretty

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Speaker 1: good job of that. Uh. And I remember a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, Um, I asked you about Herbert and

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Speaker 1: a couple other people asked you about justin Herbert, you

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Speaker 1: said where he was drafted was a different stratosphere from

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Speaker 1: So it was your thought to check him out medically

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Speaker 1: Well again, with a person like that, a player like that,

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Speaker 1: you never you know, you never really know what you know,

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Speaker 1: what's what you're gonna get until you you know, you

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Speaker 1: go into it's you know different. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: When facing a left handed quarterback, how important, if at all,

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Speaker 1: And that's a problem too, So they do a good

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