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Speaker 1: one Saturday? Thanks. I know it's another year. It's a

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Speaker 1: good time of year if he's a football season's getting close.

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Speaker 1: So pretty excited. Well, you don't. This is gonna be

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Speaker 1: your twentieth training camp. When you were a rookie starting

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Speaker 1: up twenty years ago. Yeah, backup quarterback. Could you ever

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Speaker 1: think you'd be standing here in this spot twenty years later?

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Speaker 1: I you know, I didn't. I was trying to make

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Speaker 1: twenty years later is pretty unreal to me. Um, but

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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it. You know, every year has its different

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Speaker 1: challenges and um, you know it's like a day like this,

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Speaker 1: So it's hot. You know, we've been at it for

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Speaker 1: a week or two, and um, we got a find

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Speaker 1: ways to make improvements. So that's what this this time

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Speaker 1: of years all about. There's still a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Tough time, You're still having fun when you get out

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Speaker 1: we I have a great time on me and football

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Speaker 1: is I love the sport. Um, you know, I love

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Speaker 1: playing it since I was a kid. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: I for me to imagine doing any hails in life. Um,

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Speaker 1: Have them now, turn me up? What do you here?

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Speaker 1: An initial let's go on this offense and new guys

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Speaker 1: uh with Julian out here, what do you Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, there's a lot of turnover, you know,

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Speaker 1: help them get there. So between the coaches, the veteran players,

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Speaker 1: get the women. Yeah, I think this is part of

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Speaker 1: whether it's like this in late July August or whether

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Speaker 1: And the elements are a factor. I mean it's not

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Speaker 1: you know, we're not basketball players, We're not hockey players.

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Speaker 1: You know, we deal with the elements. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: about What was it that led you to choose that?

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I focused on a lot of things,

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Speaker 1: what my focus last I'm just getting harder every year

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Speaker 1: to kind of leave your family to make this big

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Speaker 1: commitment again. Every year, I think gets harder every year.

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Speaker 1: and I think everyone in our families prepared for that

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Speaker 1: Certainly abolishing your level of performance every year starting from

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Speaker 1: it feel this year to do Yeah, it's I mean

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Speaker 1: we're what our expectations are, the level of competition on

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Speaker 1: a daily basis. We got a very good defense this year.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're those guys are challenging us on every day.

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Speaker 1: past about you know, I don't want to talk about

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Speaker 1: extension or not swirling around you. Yeah, I've had, you know,

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Speaker 1: Josh and I have a great working relationship. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I mean none of us are really promised anything. So

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Speaker 1: themselves out. Do you feel like you're earned an extension time?

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Speaker 1: I've learned it. I don't know. You guys sets up

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Speaker 1: to us to Kraft come on now, we, like I said,

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Speaker 1: we got a great relationship. So do you think that

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Speaker 1: you're Do you think that your practice snaps are going

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Speaker 1: to be managed more? Now? I know you love to

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Speaker 1: practice all the time, but yeah, you missed the second

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Speaker 1: be something that we might see going forward? Um? I

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Speaker 1: haven't you know, there hasn't been much talk, you know

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Speaker 1: I have. There's no schedule or anything like that. So

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Speaker 1: All right. That's all guys, Thank thank you,