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Speaker 1: very well. On the outside, it looked like quite the

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Speaker 1: What kind of roller coaster was yesterday for you and

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Speaker 1: to do. If I could ask you about Jared Stidham

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Speaker 1: And how hard was the decision to let Brian Hoyer

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Speaker 1: the best of the team, but um, you know it's

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Speaker 1: still I think Brian's a good player and it's a

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Speaker 1: long season, so we'll see what happens. Thank you, okay,

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Speaker 1: scouting report, you know when he was coming out for

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Speaker 1: and then please remember to hit five. Start asking questions.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Phil, Thank Aaron still wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: done that. He's been here four years and I've played

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Speaker 1: do what and all that, but we've always used training

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