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Speaker 1: Okay, how are you, Karen Fantastic? On Monday you talked

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering if we're close.

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Speaker 1: To making what did I say on Monday? Because I

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Speaker 2: Going to do your due diligence.

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Speaker 1: So I'm wondering were you close to making any deals?

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Speaker 2: And as to your ending measure of disappointment.

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Speaker 1: Well, first, I would say that deals are like being pregnant.

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Speaker 1: You either are or you aren't. There's no like. It's

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Speaker 1: either a deal or it's not. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: that we investigated and looked in and made phone calls,

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Speaker 1: and they what personnel departments do, and in the end,

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Speaker 1: you know, we decided that this was what we were

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Speaker 1: Tampa excellent football team coming off of bye, a lot

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Speaker 1: of really good veterans that have played at a high

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Speaker 2: So you know, that's where our focus is.

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Speaker 1: I know that there's a lot of action and a

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Speaker 1: difficult at all for the organization to sort of adhere

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Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive to try to capitalize on what's

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Speaker 1: happening now. I never really looked at it that way.

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Speaker 1: I think we're trying to build a program, the same

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Speaker 1: think that's part of building a program is finding ways

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Speaker 2: And we didn't do anything.

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Speaker 3: That a situation where you'd just like to slot in

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Speaker 1: I think that if you know anything about the group,

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Speaker 1: so I give those guys a lot of credit. And

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Speaker 1: You know that group, they'll all play, they'll all contribute.

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Speaker 1: We'll see where Caysehin is at the end of the week.

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Speaker 1: But he won't be out there today, and Ellis won't

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Speaker 3: He's good stuff on dude, how much as he helped

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate everything he does. I appreciate his leadership,

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Speaker 1: You know, nothing's forced, nothing's you know, he just it's

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Speaker 2: It's been in here a lot, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean again, forty one guys lifted yesterday on a

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Speaker 2: And well, you know, we talked to him about the

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Speaker 1: In of course is sign Well, you know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: The've got veteran players that play.

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Speaker 1: And you've seen them force a lot of turnovers, especially

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Speaker 3: Similar about your you know, the long term vision for

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Speaker 2: In fact, it w It is the most important thing.

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Speaker 2: Don't put words in my mouth.

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Speaker 1: Winning is the most important things.

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Speaker 3: Keep going.

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Speaker 2: But you guys are discussing how to handle the trade

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Speaker 1: Maybe for us to sit here and think that anything

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Speaker 1: And that's what those conversations are about.

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Speaker 2: Beginnings now like getting some more. Just what do you

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Speaker 1: The way he has same positive attitude every day, same

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Speaker 1: So I'm just wondering, why is this so important for

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Speaker 2: How much is this?

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Speaker 3: So managing, as you've mentioned a couple of times, veteran

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Speaker 3: training camp show a week next week, is this more

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Speaker 2: When these guys need.

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Speaker 1: We've had extensive talks about where we think each guy

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Speaker 2: So we'll try to do that. But that's you know,

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Speaker 2: fairly accurate. Chris joying with us. What the appeal to

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Speaker 1: Good size, you know, good size, I think he's got,

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Speaker 1: that that was something that's important at this time of

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Mike,