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Speaker 1: Welcome the Ravens Press Pass. Today you will hear from

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Speaker 1: head coach John Harball, who is at the league meetings

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Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Arizona. Coach Harball spoke for about thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: and as you might expect, got a lot of questions

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Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. Here's Coach Harball. I haven't seen the tweet.

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Speaker 1: That's a i'mgoing process. Uh, I'm following it very closely,

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Speaker 1: just like everybody else is here, and uh, looking forward

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Speaker 1: to a resolution. I'm excited thinking about Lamar all the time,

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Speaker 1: thinking about him as our quarterback. We're building our offense

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Speaker 1: around that idea, and Uh, I'm just looking forward to

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Speaker 1: getting back to football. I'm confident that's gonna happen. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I do you know, you gotta you gotta plan for

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Speaker 1: all the contingencies for sure, But I'm pretty I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: fired up about Lamar Jackson. I mean, Lamar Jackson is

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Speaker 1: a great player. Lamar came back in great shape last year.

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Speaker 1: He's fired up to play. Uh. That's the Lamar that

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for, looking forward to seeing. Can't wait to

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Speaker 1: get back on the grass and go to work. And

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Speaker 1: I'm confident that's gonna happen, so you're following them on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: And no, I don't live in that world, Jared, you

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Speaker 1: know I'm not. I'm not a real Twitter guy. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen my tweets lately? No, No, that's uh

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Speaker 1: uh you know you see it. I mean obviously that

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Speaker 1: stuff comes through guys. Guys like Jonah share those tweets

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Speaker 1: with me, so we appreciate it. And uh and uh

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Speaker 1: and it's been kind of fun watching some of that

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Speaker 1: stuff too. So Lamar is great on Twitter. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's fun to follow. He does a great job with

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Speaker 1: all that. So, um, some of the stuff you get

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Speaker 1: a good you get, you get enjoyment out of it too.

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Speaker 1: Direct contact. You know, what's unique situation right now? I

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Speaker 1: would say it's different than than most years. That just

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Speaker 1: a contract situation. So that's probably just a little different

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Speaker 1: than other years, not not as much. So Uh, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to getting back, you know, to the to

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Speaker 1: the normal way of doing things. Like Mark, we're kind

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Speaker 1: of well, Albert, you know, that's a great question. I

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Speaker 1: Mean the obvious question is yesterday. You know you want

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Speaker 1: it done already, but uh, but it's just always possible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a real world this is this

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Speaker 1: is big time pro sports at the highest level, and

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Speaker 1: contracts are important and they matter to both sides. The

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Speaker 1: thing that I love about the situation, I believe is

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Speaker 1: that in the end, you got good people, you know,

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Speaker 1: working together. I mean we've been We've been with Lamar,

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Speaker 1: you know, I've been with Lamar as a coach, and

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Speaker 1: players and coaches and and all of us in the

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Speaker 1: organization have been together for what five years now. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've been through some crazy things, some amazing moments, some

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Speaker 1: tough moments, challenges, ups and downs together. You know, we've

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Speaker 1: hugged in the locker room after after wins, We've hugged

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Speaker 1: in the locker room after losses. You know, those are

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Speaker 1: things that last forever. Those relationships never change. So this

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Speaker 1: is part of it, you know, this is it's part

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Speaker 1: of the story that's being written, and everybody's writing the story.

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Speaker 1: But I just appreciate that it's been handled with class.

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Speaker 1: Lamar has handled it with class, and UH and Eric

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Speaker 1: and Steve and Ozzie and all the people involved on

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Speaker 1: that side of handled it with class. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I appreciate about everybody involved. Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely. I

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Speaker 1: don't have a gauge on that. You know, it's been

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Speaker 1: Oh it's been a while. I mean, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's gonna have to be. It's just like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's a unique situation. But when we get back together,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm really hopeful that happens, and that's

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Speaker 1: what I want to see. You know, it's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be good to me. No, it doesn't. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think about that too much, you know, And

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Speaker 1: I had to get all the details of that. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that Erk will do a great job with that,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. I mean, you always, everybody's talking all

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Speaker 1: the time about everything in this league. That's just the

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Speaker 1: way business is done. So I'm sure that business will

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Speaker 1: be done the way it's always done, you know. But

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Speaker 1: for me, my perspective, you know, I'm getting ready for Lamar.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing. In our offense. We've got a

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Speaker 1: and things like that. And that's that's what you focus

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Speaker 1: And I know, and that train is moving, man, that

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Speaker 1: train is moving fast. But here's the thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: when Lamar gets back on board that train, he's fully

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Speaker 1: merges in with us, we're gonna be rolling. That's what

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Speaker 1: as a coach, that's what I'm thinking about. Of course,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know, and I do prepare for all contingencies.

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Speaker 1: But you build, you build a great offense for for

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Speaker 1: for your players, right, I mean, that's what you do.

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Speaker 1: And and Lamar's Lamar's under contract, and that's the guy

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Speaker 1: I'm of course, that's the guy I want to CBR quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's that's my guy. We we we made

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Speaker 1: a decision to go with Lamar Jackson five years ago,

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Speaker 1: right Why because we love him. We love him, We

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Speaker 1: love the way he plays, We love his mindset, his charisma,

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Speaker 1: his style. Uh, either way, he's in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: everything about him we love him. I love him personally.

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Speaker 1: I love being the coach of the team that he's

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Speaker 1: playing quarterback for. So that's what you do, you know,

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Speaker 1: you build a team around your players, and that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to do. You don't see even relating future.

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Speaker 1: That's the point you can, you know, bring him back

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Speaker 1: here and now I don't see that at all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it works, you know, And and however works, Hey, in

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Speaker 1: the end, when it's all said and done, we're all,

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Speaker 1: you know, not around the circle this table right now,

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Speaker 1: we're all see each other. So we're all gonna we're

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Speaker 1: gonna give each other hug and say how you doing,

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Speaker 1: even more so that way with the players and the

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Speaker 1: I don't know what direction it's gonna go. I don't

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Speaker 1: But I know whatever happens, it's gonna be good. It's

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Speaker 1: my hopes, you know, And like I said, I love

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, you were unaware. OK, I'm not getting into

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Speaker 1: all that. That's that's stuff. Those conversations happen. It's it's

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Speaker 1: private getting building content. Well, I mean, you think you

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Speaker 1: always are building contingent contingency plans. It's it's a good question,

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Speaker 1: to build depth in so every position, we're gonna build

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Speaker 1: depth into our team. We're gonna try to be prepared

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Speaker 1: for every possible outcome. This is a unique one. They'll

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Speaker 1: die with Lamar and our quarterback situation, but everybody goes

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Speaker 1: So this is part of it. It's part of the business. Well,

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Speaker 1: you certainly need to know on the day of the

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Speaker 1: gotta put the number of the names in. So that's like,

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Speaker 1: I know, that's kind of a silly answer, but there

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Speaker 1: is no like real hard fast day. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: in our situation, Lamar Lamar is a great player. You know,

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Speaker 1: when he's playing, he's gonna want to play great football.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna want to be out there at his best.

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Speaker 1: One thing I know about Lamar, He's gonna work hard

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Speaker 1: you know, that's what you plan for. We could do

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Speaker 1: coordinator new office to get that. Couldn't say that again.

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Speaker 1: You Yeah, I think it probably does in reality, but

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Speaker 1: you know, there's always urgency as a coach man, you

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Speaker 1: always want your guys there. But the offseasons voluntary. So

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Speaker 1: we'll just see how it plays out with all the guys.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't really go back and

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Speaker 1: You know, and you guys have all written about this stuff.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of little moving parts of this deal

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Speaker 1: and that's what we try to do. An Eric question,

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Speaker 1: consistent whenever the lines conversations. We were talking about our coaching,

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Speaker 1: going forward a little bit, you know, it's it was

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Speaker 1: talking about contract stuff, a John. I know your perspective

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Speaker 1: on this too, kind night. You got to buy um

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Speaker 1: as far as you know, with the trade requested, if

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Speaker 1: they're coming in earlier, whnapp like as far as the

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Speaker 1: context of he can request the trade, but at the

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Speaker 1: wants to dance and even if that happens, you still

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Speaker 1: have to get something commensurate with what you would feel.

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Speaker 1: Wolden makes sense. And if none of those components happen,

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Speaker 1: he can request the trade all he wants, right Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of how it works. It's it's

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Speaker 1: We've got trade conversations with lots of teams about lots

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Speaker 1: very mindset that you're talking about the same mindset that's

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Speaker 1: gotten him to where he's at as a football player.

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Speaker 1: T Martin went down in South Florida. I know his

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Speaker 1: sun's playing baseball down there, But did you get a

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Speaker 1: chance to meet with lam Are talking him at all? Yeah?

425
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Speaker 1: I know they connected in some way. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they got face to face together. He was also

427
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Speaker 1: with Tyler was down there as well, So yeah, T

428
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Speaker 1: get a couple of days off to go down and

429
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Speaker 1: enjoy the sun. You know, I was like, man, I

430
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Speaker 1: felt I felt jealous about that. So I'm not sure

431
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Speaker 1: exactly what the communication was though, I think I think

432
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Speaker 1: they communicated. I know that part of me. I know

433
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Speaker 1: that you said that there's room to get created, but

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Speaker 1: do you think conceptually that it's harder, potentially difficult to

435
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Speaker 1: do that, especially with the news that came out with

436
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Speaker 1: regards to you know, a representative in his room, you know,

437
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Speaker 1: reaching out and things like that, if he doesn't get

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Speaker 1: engaging to facilitate the talk, given the inertia that's kind

439
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Speaker 1: of been here with that happening too far, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it probably just is what it is. You know, We'll

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Speaker 1: just it's the circumstances that that that that exists. So

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Speaker 1: you know, again it comes back to the fact that

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Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about finances, We're talking about numbers,

444
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Speaker 1: and numbers can be figured out everything. I had a

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Speaker 1: great conversation with a Shot about that and about really

446
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Speaker 1: a little bit about that, and a lot about a

447
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Speaker 1: lot of other things. And he's in a great place.

448
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Speaker 1: He's healthy, he's gonna be running in three weeks. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be ready to roll, stronger than ever, healthier than ever.

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Speaker 1: Rashad is gonna have a great season. I'll tell you,

451
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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in Rashad Bateman. He's gonna he's

452
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Speaker 1: gonna come back greater role. What did he say about

453
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Speaker 1: when he asked him about the tweet? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a private kind of conversation. But

455
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Speaker 1: he's he's in a great place with everything, and he

456
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Speaker 1: talked to he talked to Eric also, so it's all good. Said,

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Speaker 1: you've been in the lab with Philith Monk, and Um,

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Speaker 1: how at this stage, how likely is that the Raven

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Speaker 1: his offense would be I don't want to say you different,

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Speaker 1: but a different approachal than you know it, hadds and

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Speaker 1: I gets out tight argument about that. Yeah, I mean,

462
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Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent likely that it'll be different. It's

463
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Speaker 1: always changing, but this will be a bigger change obviously,

464
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Speaker 1: because we've got a new a new offensive coordinator, you know,

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Speaker 1: and we've got new coaches in place. You know. T

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Speaker 1: is the quarterback coach, Willie Taggart, and what a great

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Speaker 1: football coach. Is gonna be our running back coach, Greg

468
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Speaker 1: Lewis is gonna be our wide receiver coach. Keep George Gotsi,

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Speaker 1: who just came for the first time last year, is

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Speaker 1: a tight end coach. Joe Della Sanders is as the

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Speaker 1: offensive line coach, and a lot of great young coaches. So, um,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be different. I think we're gonna be I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna be exciting, be fun. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be We're gonna still run the ball, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna throw the ball. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: up Temple, probably even more than we've been. We've been

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Speaker 1: that at times. Uh maybe a little more no huddle

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Speaker 1: maybe perhaps, but those are all things that uh, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be working in a lot of worlds with our offense.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm looking forward to. John. As far

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Speaker 1: as uh you pack up quarterback tyler Um, is there

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Speaker 1: a school room where you might think about adding even

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Speaker 1: another veteran quarter back up? Yeah? Man, it's like we

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Speaker 1: said before, that's that's a possibility. It's really you try

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Speaker 1: to build your team as deep as you can, and

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Speaker 1: I think that would be something that we'd be, you know,

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Speaker 1: thinking about if the opportunity came around, John, with Josh

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Speaker 1: Oliver moving on you in a three great young Titan,

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Speaker 1: like it's too great, and then Mark, you give a

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Speaker 1: kind of idea who you want is like that inline

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Speaker 1: guy that you have kind of lining up along the line,

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Speaker 1: I'd say it's to be determined. You know you've got

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Speaker 1: those those guys are all good, good inline blockers, but

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Speaker 1: they're not Excuse me, that's not that's not where they

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Speaker 1: they're bread and butter, so to speak. You know. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I think Pat obviously, you know, is a great blocker

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Speaker 1: and uh can move and do some things. So that'll

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Speaker 1: be the task about Todd and the offensive coaches to

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Speaker 1: figure out the best way you use the guys we

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Speaker 1: have and then develop those young guys as inline blockers

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Speaker 1: as well. And you know, it's moving parts. You move

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Speaker 1: guys around, and I played their strengths. John with Lamar,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's teased this this interview that he has

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Speaker 1: with himself kind of coming up on his YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: There's a situation where you guys have like the kind

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Speaker 1: of heads up about what might be coming, so that

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Speaker 1: there isn't this kind of blow back or whatever you

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Speaker 1: wanna call it. Yeah, not that I'm aware of. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. I just see that the

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Speaker 1: the thirty second teas that you call and so, hey,

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Speaker 1: it'll be great, it'll be fun to watch Lamar's Lamar

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Speaker 1: is great fun and uh, it'll be good. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with all that. I

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Speaker 1: don't worry about all that, you know, I just think

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Speaker 1: about the person think about the people involved and looking

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Speaker 1: forward to, like I said, getting back on the grass

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Speaker 1: and going to work on football, telling them about how

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Speaker 1: much and didn't tout we've got a dak down as

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Speaker 1: the hound encouraged argue about what he did after he

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Speaker 1: st where he may be able to get to the

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Speaker 1: next season right well, JK for sure, and also Gus's

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Speaker 1: probably both coming off those knee injuries, Cliff, they're another

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Speaker 1: year removed from major knee injuries, and they both have

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Speaker 1: had had subsequent surgeries too to clean out the cartilage.

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Speaker 1: Even Gus had won to clean out the cartlage after

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Speaker 1: the after the season, and they both told me what

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Speaker 1: a difference that made. So I think those guys are

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Speaker 1: gonna be ready to shock the world. I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna come back play great football when you're offense line.

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Speaker 1: Both both been powers. I think the text that would

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Speaker 1: say it would be maybe the fun runner right now.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. You know, Uh, Pat McCarry is

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Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix for sure. You know Pat

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Speaker 1: Pat Patkins started anytime and anywhere basically, so he's gonna

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Speaker 1: want that to do that. And uh, you know Ben

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Speaker 1: Cleveland obviously is a young guy that we're bringing along. Um,

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Speaker 1: we've we've we've brought some guys in. You know, we

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Speaker 1: got we got a veteran guy at the end of year.

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Speaker 1: We brought it from Oakland and yeah, John Simpson, who,

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Speaker 1: um who I think is gonna surprise some people. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's had a nice offseason so far. Then you know,

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Speaker 1: we can move Daniel Felele in there too and take

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Speaker 1: a look at him. So I think those are all possibilities.

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Speaker 1: And and may the best player who plays the best

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Speaker 1: win the job. You're you know little, I know you

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Speaker 1: hope goes back outside linebacker be two young guys do

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Speaker 1: and oh way, the Hounds important look for them to

548
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Speaker 1: step up kind of this year and he parted than

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Speaker 1: men Flint Right, for those those two young outside backers

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Speaker 1: to step up and be part of the mix is

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Speaker 1: critically important. You know. That's just actually had dinner with

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Speaker 1: those guys a couple of nights ago and we were

553
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Speaker 1: talking about it, and they are excited. Man, they are

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Speaker 1: ready to roll. I believe in those two guys. You're

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Speaker 1: talking about two first round picks, that's what they are.

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Speaker 1: They are two first round picks. And uh, and then

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Speaker 1: they've got you've got tyas Boser, who's a leader. So

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Speaker 1: between those guys right there, I think that's a good

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Speaker 1: a good group of young players that we can build around.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, if a veteran gets added, he

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Speaker 1: gets added, or a guy gets add in the in

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Speaker 1: the draft, that's fine. But um, I believe those three

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna get to the quarterback. You do one

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Speaker 1: more guys you needed when that, um, you've got to

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Speaker 1: fast player. And uh you know, yeah, well, I mean

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Speaker 1: that came out after we had we kind of made

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Speaker 1: our changes, so to speak, and that was something that

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Speaker 1: you know, it was a mutual thing I guess should say.

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I believe I believe in the

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Speaker 1: strength and conditioning program. It's really important us. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's to me, the foundation of your program is your

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Speaker 1: strength and conditioning program. Most guys are in there every day.

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Speaker 1: You've got to you've got to do a great job

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Speaker 1: down there because this is a this is a gladiator

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Speaker 1: type sport. You've got to be strong, you gotta be fast,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be well conditioned, and we try to chase

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Speaker 1: that not just in the offseason, but throughout the course

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Speaker 1: of the whole season. So you know, it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of hard work that goes on down there and by coaches,

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Speaker 1: m players, especially by the players you know, who work

581
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Speaker 1: hard at it and it's important what they think. So

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Speaker 1: with that whole pole, we take it seriously. We try

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Speaker 1: to be as good as we can be at everything.

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Speaker 1: We try to be the best we can be at

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Speaker 1: every aspect of the program, so when things like that

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Speaker 1: come out, but even more, Jeff, when we talk to

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Speaker 1: our players one on one every single day, we ask

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Speaker 1: those kind of questions and try to you know, and

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Speaker 1: we listen to their opinions and sometimes we make changes

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Speaker 1: based on it. Sometimes we say, hey, you know, this

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Speaker 1: is the best we can do, or we have to

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Speaker 1: agree to disagree on this or whatever it might be.

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Speaker 1: But you're always in communication with those guys, So it's

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Speaker 1: really not surprised by any of it. It was actually

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Speaker 1: a pole that was taken a year ago, last March

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Speaker 1: the previous year, after the twenty two season or the

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Speaker 1: twenty one season. So we'd made steps and I think

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about where we're going without all right, Ali, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks that's it for coach Harball. Thank you for listening.

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