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Speaker 1: course covers the NFL for Sports Illustrated. Albert, you got

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Speaker 1: Lance medal and pauled a Tino with John Schmilk here

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Speaker 1: in these very odd times. Yeah, he had definitely a

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Speaker 1: we are, Albert, and thanks a lot for the time.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot to get to. But I want

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Speaker 1: to start with the Sky Judge because you did a

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Speaker 1: how the idea kind of got to where it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think you know, the coaches gathered and UM

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Speaker 1: let those guys clear waivers, let they come back and

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Speaker 1: sign them again because they needed to carry another guy

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Speaker 1: through to the fifty three. So they get that guy

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Speaker 1: her turn. And I'm probably you know, people wanting me

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Speaker 1: say that, their eyes are probably placing over But I

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Speaker 1: like it, Like it's just felt like that was that

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Speaker 1: that felt really like clunky and silly to me last

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Speaker 1: year where teams have to having to cut players and

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Speaker 1: exposed players to the market just to get another one through.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's adjusted. It's a matter of when.

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Speaker 1: It's obviously a new thing because one of these unintended

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Speaker 1: consequences of the way the world was written. Um yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it will be interesting to see, if you know,

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Speaker 1: we were here in a few weeks that management council

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Speaker 1: they like it, and maybe it does wind up going

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Speaker 1: through before you get to August. Have our final question,

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Speaker 1: just in terms of the league returning this year, and

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Speaker 1: this is way long in the future. You might not

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Speaker 1: even have a feel for this, but it's a question

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about and I heard I haven't heard

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Speaker 1: many people talk about it. When the league tries to

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Speaker 1: play this year, Let's say, in theory, one team has

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Speaker 1: more than one positive test, multiple positive tests right on

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Speaker 1: a Saturday night before Sunday game. How flexible is the

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Speaker 1: league going to be here? Where if one team maybe

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Speaker 1: can't play one week at the end of the year,

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Speaker 1: if a couple of teams a handful of teams don't

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Speaker 1: get a full six team games in, but the rest

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Speaker 1: of the league does, are they willing to be that

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Speaker 1: flexible in how they handled the season, because as we

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Speaker 1: all know, this is really an unprecedented deal, and I

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Speaker 1: think the more flexibility that wanting to have, the better

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Speaker 1: chance we have of really getting as full of a

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Speaker 1: season as possible. Yeah, and I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 1: know it for daily testing now, And obviously there's the

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Speaker 1: whole issue like who are you taking tests away from

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Speaker 1: all that. So you know, I I that part. I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not positive how that's gonna work, but I think

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Speaker 1: it does sort of highlight why daily testing is important,

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Speaker 1: because Okay, are you going to test it on like

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Speaker 1: it was out in practices for the first thing day

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Speaker 1: before he goes out and practices for the first time

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Speaker 1: that week? Now are you in testing to get on Friday?

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Speaker 1: Of course testing before the game? Right, just all these

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Speaker 1: different checkpoints in an NFL week that you're crossing, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I you know, that's why I like, you know,

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Speaker 1: the concern of course being like if one guy has

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Speaker 1: her kind of spread um, if you're not on top

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Speaker 1: of it, it can spread really quickly, and you know,

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Speaker 1: scenario like you laid out could wind up manifesting. And

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Speaker 1: so that's why they've got to be so you know,

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Speaker 1: they've gotten so vigilant about being on top of this,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I think like even bringing players back

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Speaker 1: in June to work out or whatever, which I know

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Speaker 1: there's some I mean, they've advocated for it. This advocates

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Speaker 1: for the idea that they want to test because from

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Speaker 1: that all players by the end of June. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think It's stuff about that is now you're finding

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Speaker 1: the country and you're bringing them in, and you know,

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Speaker 1: how do you handle that and you're sending it back out?

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Speaker 1: You know, I know there's some people that feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, you just let the players be until training camp,

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Speaker 1: and then when you get training camp, everybody's in a hotel.

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Speaker 1: So there's sort of in a natural fluencine anyway. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: but we really appreciate all the time today awesome stuff.

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Speaker 1: We love you're reporting. Thank you so much for the time.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you continue trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out exactly what's going to happen this year because we're

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Speaker 1: all kind of waiting with bated breath hoping we have

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Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, all right, thanks guys, appreciate you