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Speaker 1: Okay, we're recording. We're gonna start with Mike Reas fall

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Speaker 1: by love and read. Go ahead, Mike Stefan, how you doing?

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Speaker 1: Let me just turn you up here? Can everyone here?

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Speaker 1: I might have you might say, let me fix that on? Gotcha? Hello,

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Speaker 1: I got your step There we go. How you doing Stefan? Good?

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Speaker 1: How you doing doing well? Good to see you, welcome back. UM.

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Speaker 1: Coach had had mentioned UM that there was excused absence,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just checking in with you to see is

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Speaker 1: everything okay? How how are you doing? Everything's good? Um,

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Speaker 1: you know hands something come up there? You know it's

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Speaker 1: a personal reasons, so UM coaches to coach about it,

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Speaker 1: and UM, I'm gonna leave it at that sounds and

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Speaker 1: just to follow up with you, not necessarily to ask

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Speaker 1: you why, but is it fair to rule out anything contractual?

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Speaker 1: I think that was one of the things that people

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Speaker 1: were asking. It wasn't. It wasn't because of that. UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I had something come up and UM, you

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Speaker 1: know I had to deal with it, so UM, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't for that reason. So it wasn't for that reason.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Stephan, you come back. It looks like you

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Speaker 1: you didn't miss a beat. The last two days. What

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Speaker 1: do you see from this defense the way it has

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Speaker 1: playing the last couple of days since you've been back.

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Speaker 1: I think it's good. You know, we're stacking days on.

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Speaker 1: Everybody getting better and you know a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: stepping up, young guys, older guys playing well. So you

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Speaker 1: got to keep playing, keep being consistent. That's one thing

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Speaker 1: I think we got to work on, is being consistent

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Speaker 1: day in and day out. So that's one thing we're

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Speaker 1: working on. Next question, Levin Reid, followed by Evan Lazar. Hey, Steph,

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Speaker 1: how much did it ease your mind just to be

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Speaker 1: able to go away, take care of your personal business

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Speaker 1: and then come back and say, okay, I can get

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Speaker 1: back into the flow of just being what I want

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Speaker 1: to be a football player and helping out this team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it helped out a lot. You know, everybody

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Speaker 1: go through things in life, and you know, and it's

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Speaker 1: something serious. You know, you don't want it on your mind.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta handle things. So I was able to

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Speaker 1: do that and I'm back. I'm back. I'm happy, you know,

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Speaker 1: ready to take on each and every day and get better.

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Speaker 1: And just a real quick follow up when you get

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Speaker 1: a chance to go against some of the younger receivers.

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Speaker 1: I see you go up against Gunna Rochefski a little

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Speaker 1: bit bit more here and there. How much better has

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Speaker 1: he become from first year the second year? He definitely

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Speaker 1: gotten better And I think he's gotten stronger. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's quicker, you know, y'all another offense better. So

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Speaker 1: I think he definitely have took a step from last year.

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Speaker 1: You know, competing against him, you know he's gonna go

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Speaker 1: hard every snap. You know, that's one thing about him.

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Speaker 1: He's very fearless. You don't care, and that's the way

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Speaker 1: you have to be to be a good receiver in

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Speaker 1: this league. Our next question is Evan Lazarre fault by

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Speaker 1: Nigan O'Brien stuff. And last year you told us that

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Speaker 1: maybe you should play some offense. We saw you joke

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Speaker 1: out Terns Brooks a couple of times today in practice.

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Speaker 1: How did that feel? It felt? It felt good. We

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Speaker 1: always go and I always go at the guys and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, tell him I can play offense, and you know,

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Speaker 1: try to give him moves and you know and know

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Speaker 1: when I step up to the line that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give him something. So It's always fun when I go

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Speaker 1: against him, and I'm more serious now. I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask you about how the communication is been in

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Speaker 1: the back end. You know, no Pat, no Dan, Now,

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Speaker 1: just how is that going with you guys being able

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Speaker 1: to stay on the same page back there? I think

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Speaker 1: it's good. You know, guys stepping up. You know that's

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Speaker 1: one thing about the league. You know, something happens to

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Speaker 1: a certain guy, a lot of guys got to step

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Speaker 1: up and take over that void. So you know it's

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Speaker 1: not perfect. Well, you know, that's why we're practicing. That's

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Speaker 1: why we're meeting, and I think as a whole we could.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to communicate better each and every day. Thanks stuff.

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Speaker 1: It looks like the last question will be Meghan O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Megan, I Steph. I know you talked about

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Speaker 1: the top missing some practices last week. Sometimes in training

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Speaker 1: camp when you miss a practice, um, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of catching up. But it seems like you haven't missed

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Speaker 1: a beat. What did you have to do to make

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Speaker 1: sure you came back ready to play after missing some

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Speaker 1: of those installation periods? And I still watch feeling of

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Speaker 1: the practices Kep I head in it. I just have

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Speaker 1: to handle something that was that was serious and you

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Speaker 1: know it's and I didn't. I think I missed three practices.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of practices. But I make sure you know,

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Speaker 1: I had to take care of my business and so

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Speaker 1: my mind can be on football when I get back

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Speaker 1: and just to follow up. Now that meetings and whatnot

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Speaker 1: have been done virtually in the past, did that allow

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Speaker 1: you to still take part in some of those things

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Speaker 1: while you couldn't be out on the field at practice.

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Speaker 1: We have an iPad, the update the iPad each and

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Speaker 1: every day, so I was able to look at the

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Speaker 1: iPad and study that way, and um the thing for technology,

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Speaker 1: I was able to stay in tunes to everything as

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Speaker 1: I show no other questions. UM, I'll just say thanks Stefan,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, appreciate it. Thank you,