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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to the Minnesota Bikings Podcast. Day three of

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Speaker 2: the draft is just wrapping up. Janelson here from Bikings

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Speaker 2: Entertainment Network. We've also got Tatum Everett and we're going

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Speaker 2: to wrap up the show with Quaisia Delpa Mensa's press

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Speaker 2: around enjoy the show. Hey fans, this is Janelson from

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Speaker 2: the Vikings Entertainment Network here along with Tatum Everett, and

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Speaker 2: we wanted to do a quick synopsis here for you

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Speaker 2: guys since it is the wrap up of the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four NFL Draft. The Vikings were very busy here

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Speaker 2: So let's bring in Tatum Everett here from Vikings Entertainment Network,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, and how did things go for

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Speaker 4: Yeah, things were going great. It was a very very

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Speaker 4: was really fun. Yeah, yeah, it was great. Got a

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Speaker 4: awesome guys. They were just super down to earth, kind

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Speaker 4: see why they would be targets for this staff as

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Speaker 4: interviewed koc Wes Phillips and Brian flores Is are all

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Speaker 4: on bikings dot com or the Vikings app and that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so we had a really really busy Friday. However, you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the fourth round for the Vikings at least kicked

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Speaker 2: off at pick one oh eight with Kyrie Jackson. He's

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Speaker 2: One thing that was really interesting with his discussion with

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Speaker 4: And he actually stayed an extra year at Alabama unfortunately

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Speaker 7: jump from twenty two to twenty three and his pass

439
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 7: protection ability. We think this guy is the limit for

440
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,680
Speaker 7: him potential wise to play right tackle, potentially kick inside

441
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 7: and be just a versatal piece for us. Uh, you

442
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,239
Speaker 7: got Will Rekerd You know, somebody we identified and you're

443
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 7: always nervous there's a kicker run that's gonna happen, and

444
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,880
Speaker 7: it doesn't. It depends if it's the fifth round, sixth round,

445
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 7: or seventh round. And we were lucky enough to start

446
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 7: at this time. Somebody with a great mentality, really accurate

447
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,239
Speaker 7: kicker at the collegiate level, obviously played in a lot

448
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 7: of big games at one of the best schools doing it,

449
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 7: and so really excited to add him. Michael Jergens again,

450
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 7: somebody you know that we had it again from Wake

451
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 7: Forest All Conference player at guard but also was a

452
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,159
Speaker 7: you know, played set of the year before.

453
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 8: You know, funny sort about him.

454
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,199
Speaker 7: You know, when he was first delivered to me, I

455
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 7: was told he was a center, but this year he

456
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 7: played guard, and I didn't I hadn't really gone back

457
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 7: to watch, and I love them at guard, and you know,

458
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 7: obviously you're projecting from guard to center. And then the

459
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 7: person who recommended me didn't know he had actually moved

460
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 7: to guard this year, and so two people who watch

461
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,879
Speaker 7: him in two different positions, you know, you know, just

462
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 7: really love the guy. You talk about a combination of

463
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 7: process and different things like that. Incredibly smart analytical face

464
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 7: of the program type guy. We're really excited to add

465
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 7: him to that room. Then finally leave a dreg Drake Rodriguez.

466
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 7: Somebody brought him in the top thirty, immediately caught fire in

467
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,239
Speaker 7: this building. Just a positive force of energy, Just a

468
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 7: really growth mindset oriented person. He's showing me, you know

469
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 7: what he does on a daily basis to get better

470
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 7: and improve. A really accomplished pass rusher for that age.

471
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 7: He was a former baseball player and then just you know,

472
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 7: transferred a level ve to play football and really took

473
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 7: a just.

474
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 8: A love for a pass rush.

475
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 7: He is an exceptionally gifted pass rusher, has added weight

476
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,159
Speaker 7: since his college season. We think we'll improve in the

477
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 7: run game as well, and we're excited to what he

478
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 7: can potentially bring to this team. But generally, you know,

479
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 7: obviously we always say we like to add players with

480
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 7: talent ability to improve, develop and get and you know,

481
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,360
Speaker 7: be the best version of themselves in our culture.

482
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 8: We think we did that with that. I will welcome any.

483
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 6: Questions crazy it can be hard to evaluate college kickers

484
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 6: to the NFL. Did you feel like Will's sample size,

485
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:13,719
Speaker 6: the fact that he stayed the extra year, Like how

486
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,919
Speaker 6: much does that help in terms of the projection from

487
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 6: him to the next level.

488
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, our special team's coaches have done

489
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 7: some studies.

490
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 8: You know.

491
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 7: Actually, so we have two concurrent processes, right. We have

492
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 7: our special teams coaches who do their process, and then

493
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 7: we have our football quantitative methods I effectually known called

494
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 7: them athletes here and they do their own process and

495
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 7: the you know, both of them came with the list

496
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 7: of a couple guys that are pretty good, and he

497
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,640
Speaker 7: was one of them. Obviously identified him. And to your point,

498
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 7: the sample size does help, right, You're just getting a bigger,

499
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 7: bigger sample to obviously observe what you're trying to observe.

500
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 7: The key thing is to really adjust for context, distant situation,

501
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 7: you know, different different elements and just kind of see

502
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 7: where guys end up and how does that relate to

503
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 7: the NFL. That's one of those great positions where whether

504
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 7: it's college or different leagues, as you've seen in the NFL,

505
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 7: it's kind of a clean transition. They're kicking a ball

506
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,479
Speaker 7: through and upright, and you want to you know, kind

507
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 7: of learn different things from that.

508
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 5: Well, you see, it seems like by the time you

509
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 5: guys are also none with it. The roster is going

510
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 5: to have quite a different look than it's had, and

511
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 5: it seems like a lot of competition in a lot

512
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 5: of spots where just positions aren't settled and starting jobs

513
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,199
Speaker 5: aren't necessarily wired to one person. Is that just a

514
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 5: function of two years and roster turnover or is kind

515
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 5: of the point of this whole thing to just give

516
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 5: yourself a lot of options at a lot of places.

517
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're It's both. It's is you know,

518
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 7: it's giving yourselves options, flexibility, but it's also competition. Is

519
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 7: while we're here every year trying to get better the people,

520
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 7: you know, I'll never forget those the championship people I've

521
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 7: been around. You know, we'd get a good player and

522
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 7: they'd always be like, well, yeah, he's just a I

523
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 7: want better And you know, it's always just that non satisfaction.

524
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 7: And that's not just from a player basis, that's from

525
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 7: a process basis. That's what I ask of myself, That's

526
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 7: what Kevin asked of himself. So that's really the mindset

527
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 7: we have, and we're excited about it. We're excited to

528
00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 7: get these guys out in the grass and see the

529
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 7: competition that you you talked about.

530
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 9: Way see, Grigson kind of talked about like the process

531
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 9: of Blaine bringing Lev kind of to like, can you

532
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 9: just walk us through how that even happened.

533
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know that's that. That's scouting at its purest form.

534
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 7: It's my one of my favorite things. We have a

535
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 7: lot of nicknames for it. But like day three, these

536
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 7: types of thing that's like the for the music lovers

537
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 7: is like the B side of the tape, you know,

538
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 7: the the you know, it's the it's not the it's

539
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 7: not the headline single. It's to me, it's Bicycle Queen,

540
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,199
Speaker 7: my favorite song. It's Bicycle It's not the song but

541
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 7: you might think other people would like, and it's it's

542
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,239
Speaker 7: really it's watching that player. You know, these guys are

543
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 7: driving six hours, you know, haven't seen their family, and

544
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 7: then they drive to this school and they see something

545
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 7: that looks different and then they get excited and then

546
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 7: they call their their college director, and the college director

547
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 7: tells Grigson, Grigson is probably the most excitable person I've

548
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 7: ever met in my entire life when it comes to

549
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 7: football players. Then he is now in my office in

550
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 7: my front door, asking me to stop whatever I'm doing

551
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 7: to watch this player. So that's kind of how that

552
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 7: chain goes up the building and it's a really fun

553
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 7: thing to watch. And then we have these meetings where

554
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 7: we have our scouts present their players, like who's the

555
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 7: guy you know we really want to get and he

556
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 7: was one of the players presented, and so you know,

557
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 7: going there late, we had a chance to maybe trade

558
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 7: up and lose a pick, and we were thinking, well,

559
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 7: we want to get both of our targets, which we

560
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 7: ended up getting both of them. And the person was like, well,

561
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 7: we can't lose out on Levi Drake because of all that,

562
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 7: you know, all that's come to it. It's not saying

563
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 7: you do things for morale or culture or things like that,

564
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 7: but you want to reward the hard work that all

565
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,439
Speaker 7: people put into it. And we think he's a talented player,

566
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 7: growth mindset player, like I can't wait to get him

567
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 7: in this building.

568
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 10: See at the beginning of the I'm sorry, Alec, you

569
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 10: go ahead, no, you.

570
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 8: Talked, I mean you mentioned math pleats.

571
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,199
Speaker 9: I just wonder, like, holistically, how much from what you

572
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 9: guys are doing analytically is similar or different from in

573
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 9: this process from what you started when you first got.

574
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 7: To the Minnesota Yeah, I would say, not completely, just gross.

575
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,120
Speaker 7: Every year you kind of look at it, you tear

576
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 7: it down, you build it back up, you get add

577
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 7: new inputs. You know, now we've got three years of

578
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 7: time together, so all the scouting system, the data that

579
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 7: we started collecting when I first got here. Now you

580
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 7: have a couple of years of data to sample size

581
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 7: Colle's point, it's not ten years, but it's two, and

582
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 7: you start to get some initial you know, initial things

583
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 7: like you know, initial readings and signals potentially, so you know, yeah,

584
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 7: we have a lot of different things we do now. Really,

585
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 7: to me, it's just the mindset though. It's it's you know,

586
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 7: people so easily tear players now right, every player had

587
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 7: there is no perfect player. It's really trying to get

588
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 7: people to understand just because the players not perfect doesn't

589
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 7: mean he can't be good or average. And you know

590
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 7: that's how you win in the league. Obviously you need

591
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 7: your great players, but you need those your you know,

592
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 7: adequate players, your your numbers thirty through forty five to

593
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 7: be just marginally better than everybody else's. And that comes

594
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 7: from mindset, that comes from the story you just told

595
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 7: about Levi Drake that that that comes from a lot

596
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 7: of different things. So really it's just breeding that mindset

597
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 7: in the in the organization and they've had it before,

598
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 7: but it's doing it in the way that you know

599
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 7: we do it now.

600
00:27:58,840 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 8: It's just really been taken.

601
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 10: Yeah, in January. In January, you said that you knew

602
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 10: this was a big off season for you and for

603
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 10: the organization. And I realize it's not over yet, but

604
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 10: free agency we've had for the most part in the

605
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 10: draft now and I'm just curious if you feel like

606
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 10: you guys have met that moment.

607
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 7: I know we worked to that moment everything my mom

608
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 7: ever told me. It was about put everything you can

609
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 7: into it and the process will take care of itself.

610
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 8: And I know we did that.

611
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 7: We left everything on the field, We scratched, looked under

612
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 7: every rock. I mean, I'm not sure I've ever been

613
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 7: more tired, maybe outside the birth my child. But I

614
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 7: think I'm so proud of the group and what we

615
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 7: put into it. The smiles on their faces, the names

616
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 7: on these sheets, the things that get to go up

617
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 7: on the depth chart right now or or the results

618
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 7: of the hard work, and everybody in this organization should

619
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 7: be proud of what they did. I can tell you

620
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 7: that I believe we met the moment. From a process standpoint,

621
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 7: results are what they are, and we will be judged

622
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 7: by them. But from an effort, from a planning, from

623
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 7: an executing a vision standpoint, I do believe we did way.

624
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 5: Whether it's Kyrie kind of almost quitting football and coming

625
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 5: back to it, or some of the stories you hear

626
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 5: about lead by Drake Dude, those things when you guys

627
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 5: are going through the pre draft process. I know that

628
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 5: doesn't dictate whether you're going to draft somebody, but how

629
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 5: do you factor all of that in just what makes

630
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 5: a guy tick? In terms of you know, how much

631
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 5: you gravitate to that player and how much you might

632
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 5: be interested in them, even if the football side of

633
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 5: it is one piece of it, and I guess how

634
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 5: much of the person and how much it makes them tick?

635
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 8: No, completely those end of these evaluations. I think it's

636
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 8: a lot of it.

637
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 7: You know, we paint broad brushes here, right, So you

638
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 7: start with a just a general Hey, how does it

639
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 7: look on field? What do your scouts say, what do

640
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 7: your coaches say? That kind of gets people in this

641
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 7: your major groups? Right, let's call it different parts of

642
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 7: the board. But then within those parts of the board,

643
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 7: you're trying to figure out who, who is standing really

644
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 7: close to each other in line is going to cut

645
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 7: the other person right. And a lot of that just

646
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 7: is going to the person you read about what they've

647
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 7: done through adversity. You know, who do they admire, what

648
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 7: types of things that they believe a culture should have,

649
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 7: just different things that feedback things you get from the

650
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,479
Speaker 7: coaches they have had. And ultimately there is a lot

651
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 7: of a decision in this right I'm not going to

652
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 7: sit here and tell you that I can tell you

653
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 7: for certain because somebody did something three years ago that

654
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 7: it's going to mean that they're going to make it

655
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 7: in the NFL. But if you do it on the margins,

656
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 7: just ever so slightly, bet on people who fit a

657
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 7: certain profile, who maybe were loyal to their school or

658
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 7: different things like that, or or chose to go to

659
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 7: different school for a bigger challenge, different little things like that,

660
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 7: different stories. You know, if you do that one hundred times,

661
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 7: you hope that you come out you know, two or

662
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 7: three players better than everybody else.

663
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 11: We just kind of as you sit here today, you

664
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 11: reflect on day one, you get JJ in Dallas and

665
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 11: Day two where you kind of have to wait, and

666
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 11: Day three like, how do you just reflect on the

667
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 11: on the draft class as a whole, and how you

668
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 11: think this group of players can help kind of push

669
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 11: the franchise forward.

670
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 8: Absolutely.

671
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 7: You know, it's funny you we go through some we

672
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 7: do simulations exercise, right, so we kind of go through

673
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 7: these and I always, you know, it's I won't call

674
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 7: it manipulation, but there's certain things I'm trying to prepare

675
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 7: everybody for and even to myself emotionally to go through.

676
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 7: And so I prepared everybody for a trade up and

677
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 7: what s that's like and when you have maybe less

678
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 7: picks or further back picks, and what's that feel like.

679
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 7: And you know, as scouts, as a scouting organization, you

680
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 7: always want more picks, right, We're always so excited to add,

681
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 7: you know, players and different things like that. But we

682
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 7: continue to grow as you do the things you learn

683
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 7: and you see things. We ended up with a lot

684
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 7: of the same players we were going to get, you know,

685
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 7: with the picks that you know we might have, we

686
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 7: might have lost in some of the trade ups early

687
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 7: and you ended up with two of your main targets early.

688
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 7: So you know, we grade every scenario that we practice

689
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 7: based on how happy you were, and this is one

690
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 7: of our better scenarios that we graded. So you know,

691
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 7: by that metric, i'd say I feel really great about it.

692
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 7: We've added players across different position groups, just experience levels upside.

693
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 7: I mean, we're pretty excited about this group. But all

694
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 7: that is is just, you know, a name on a chalkboard.

695
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 7: Right now, we got to go out there and put

696
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 7: the work in.

697
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 9: Wait, Sude, why do you think you're so willing to

698
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 9: admit that that it is an uncertain process?

699
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 7: You know that's kind of my background, But also you know,

700
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 7: I don't. I think the best people that I've ever

701
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 7: I admire or look up to are kind of humble

702
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 7: and hold themselves accountable. And when you hold yourselves accountable

703
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 7: to results, you can get better if you treat it

704
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 7: like this thing that you know not. Let me be

705
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 7: clear when I say uncertainly, I don't think it's it's

706
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 7: completely out of our control, because then you shouldn't work

707
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 7: hard to do it. You should just coin flip. I

708
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 7: do believe there is some way of being sixty forty,

709
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 7: but I do think that's the best way to look

710
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 7: at it. And if you treat, if you study your losses,

711
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 7: if you're okay with the fact that you can't control everything,

712
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 7: it allows you to just kind of think big picture

713
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 7: and understand and just that you're going to make bets

714
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 7: and some are going to go okay, and it doesn't

715
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 7: mean that anything's wrong with you.

716
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 11: You know.

717
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 7: One of the hardest things about trading from my old

718
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 7: life is when you when you're wrong, people assign your

719
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 7: self worth, you know, to like that come or that day.

720
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 7: And that's the best thing about that job of teacher

721
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 7: is that's not true. And so you know, uncertainly can happen.

722
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 7: You can strike out one time, you can miss a trade,

723
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 7: you can miss on a player. It means you get

724
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 7: up the next day and you work in your process

725
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 7: and you're doing a hundred times and hopefully you stand

726
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 7: taller than everybody else sixty five percent times sixty percent

727
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 7: of time. What it is, that's just kind of how

728
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't know the day that that

729
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 7: clicked in my mind, but that's just kind of how

730
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 7: I am.

731
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 8: Wait.

732
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 10: See, I think since since you got here, of the

733
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 10: quarterback position has been something you've been asked externally about

734
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 10: I know, I'm sure you guys have talked about it

735
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 10: more than as much as anything inside, And I'm just curious, like,

736
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,959
Speaker 10: is there any significance in your mind that you know,

737
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 10: whether it's it's not a moot discussion anymore, but that

738
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 10: there's been a significant addressing of that question after this

739
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 10: much time.

740
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I can't. I can't.

741
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 7: I would tell you that I am, But I'm also

742
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 7: would tell you that it's both both what we did

743
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 7: this offseason. You know, I think JJ obviously through the

744
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 7: moon about not just as a player, but somebody to

745
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 7: come into the building and you know, have ownership over

746
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 7: the of this building. Like you know, Kevin, I always

747
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 7: talk about a championship mindset, being people to carry the

748
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 7: torch for the culture. I think he's going to be

749
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 7: a cultured torch bearer as well. And then what we

750
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 7: were able to do with Sam this off He's an

751
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 7: incredibly talented player in his own right. We're excited for

752
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 7: him the opportunity he's going to have. But to your point,

753
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 7: it is something that we've been planning a long time.

754
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 7: We put in a lot of work and the result

755
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 7: of it is here. But now all those plans that

756
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 7: we've talked about since I first interviewed Kevin and all

757
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 7: our two year conversations, now how you raise a quarterback

758
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 7: and all those things. Now we shift to that part

759
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 7: of the plan and I can't wait for that. We'll

760
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 7: have discussions, they'll be ups and downs. But you know,

761
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 7: I know that we always talk about buying being the

762
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 7: biggest thing. You know, we got to be locked arm

763
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 7: in arm. So when he throws that pick in OTAs that,

764
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 7: we're just laughing at each other. Ah, you know, it's

765
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 7: it's just kind of that's what this this what it

766
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 7: takes that me and him are okay with it.

767
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 8: There's no finger pointing.

768
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 7: This is just how we're gonna go and and we're

769
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 7: gonna we're gonna support this person and get the best

770
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 7: version of him and see where that takes us.

771
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 8: Is it kind of tangentially related?

772
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 9: But like from a cap and just draft capital, I mean,

773
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 9: does it feel like there's been a pretty good transition

774
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 9: just in some ways like an overhaul, just given where

775
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 9: you guys stand right now.

776
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 7: Overhaul it's a better term than I use when I

777
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 7: first got here. Maybe that's what I should have The

778
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 7: term I should have used No. I think again, it's

779
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 7: we did have a plan to kind of how we

780
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 7: want to shape the roster and see what it looks like.

781
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 7: And I think if you look big picture at it,

782
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 7: you'll see what we were trying to intend. And do

783
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 7: you know, we're happy we've accomplished it. You know, it's

784
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 7: funny when you make plans, everybody always wants specifics and

785
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 7: you can't really give them. It's there's just you know,

786
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 7: the future is going to have options and opportunities and

787
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 7: you got to strike on them when you can't. And look,

788
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 7: you need a little luck, you need a trade partner

789
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 7: at certain things. You need to get to the pick

790
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 7: twenty three, You need different different things like that, and

791
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 7: so but you know, we look looking back on it,

792
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 7: we're really we're really excited with what we were able

793
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 7: to do and that that job ever stopped.

794
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 8: Though. Now that now the.

795
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 7: Next part of the two, your vision starts and you

796
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 7: keep going there and you hunt like you did the

797
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 7: two years before.

798
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 11: It crazy going back to the quarterback and like you said,

799
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 11: so much time and after it went into this process

800
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 11: and getting JJ. Are you able to enjoy this moment

801
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 11: considering everything that went into it because you also said

802
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 11: in that same you know, conversation, now the next step starts,

803
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 11: and now you got to keep you know, building on

804
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 11: on what you have.

805
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I'm gonna try. I think we have

806
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 7: a little I don't know if it's karaoke, a post

807
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 7: draft party coming up here soon, and I'm gonna get

808
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 7: to see my wife for the first time, I feel

809
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 7: like in a couple of weeks. So I will take

810
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 7: a moment to sit back and enjoy all the stuff

811
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 7: that we've been able to do. But I promise you

812
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 7: tomorrow morning, I'll probably have my Excel sheet open, thinking

813
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 7: about things and looking at it and going from that

814
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 7: standpoint again, not to keep bringing it back. But you know,

815
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 7: Kevin's won a championship, and I know he's wired that way.

816
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 7: After after he wins, he's in this office in the

817
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 7: morning looking at the three play calls he would have

818
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 7: back and he sees me after a free agency period

819
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 7: and I'm in there trying to get better.

820
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 8: That's just kind of how we're wired.

821
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 7: It's you know, it's a it's a different way, you know,

822
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 7: but that there's kind of a joy in that the

823
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 7: journey of trying to consistently get better and just at

824
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 7: the end of the day when you get to that

825
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 7: final goal.

826
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 8: It's funny.

827
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 7: When I was talking with JJ about his championship run

828
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 7: at Michigan, he said this, the hardest part was when

829
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 7: it was over, because it was so much about the

830
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 7: journey and all they went through, the ups and downs,

831
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 7: and it was almost not I don't he didn't want

832
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 7: to say sad, but like it just you know, it

833
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 7: was the finality of it, even though it ended in

834
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 7: the in the championship, because he was so appreciative of

835
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 7: the journey. I think that's kind of how we look

836
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 7: at things. You can you can appreciate the journey and

837
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 7: then but you're excited for the next one. And that's

838
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 7: kind of how we'll look at that next two year period.

839
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 7: And yeah, and just you know, won't take too long.

840
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 8: Though.

841
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 7: Again, our goal is to win at the highest level.

842
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 7: We got a competitive league. Our division is very good.

843
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 7: This league is very good, and we know that, and

844
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 7: so we got to be on our best and we're

845
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 7: going to give the lead our best.

846
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 10: I feel like I need to ask what your karaoke

847
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 10: go to is.

848
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 8: You know, oh man, this is embarrassing. I don't know

849
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 8: that I can actually say that.

850
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 10: I used to have There's no wrong answer.

851
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 8: There's no wrong I used to have an own What

852
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 8: song was that?

853
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 7: It was an otown song I used to sing with

854
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 7: a buddy of mine when I was in Stanford grad school.

855
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 7: I don't really do it very much anymore. But I

856
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 7: don't know if the GM is supposed to be up

857
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 7: there very much. We've got a couple of great singers

858
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 7: here though.

859
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 8: I'll let them. I'll let them hold the mic.

860
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 5: So that anybody knew, which was just like, didn have

861
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 5: more than one song than anybody they did.

862
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 8: What was it? Was it all or not? Or nothing?

863
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 3: Yeah?

864
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 8: All or nothing? I think that was what it was. Google.

865
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 10: Google are always comes through in a in a serious question.

866
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 10: We almost made it through the entire draft weekend without

867
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 10: asking you about justin Jefferson, and I'm just curious. Word

868
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 10: things stand there and you you know you've talked, you know,

869
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 10: periodically about in the off season. Is there any uh,

870
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 10: you know, significant update that that there that's going with that.

871
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, we continue have great dialog with their representatives and

872
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 7: you know the process is ongoing. We we did say, hey,

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Speaker 7: the drafts coming. Obviously they have players that they represent.

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Speaker 7: We have our process, and either way, whenever we signed him,

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Speaker 7: we want Justin to have his whole week. You know

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Speaker 7: that friend that has a birthday that takes the month.

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Speaker 7: I think Justin would deserve his whole month if we

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Speaker 7: signed a contract to celebrate it. So you know, we're

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Speaker 7: excited to work towards it. We're gonna keep going. And

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Speaker 7: So we're going to keep working towards that end goal.

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Speaker 5: Have you guys been able to touch base with him

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I believe they talked, and obviously Kevin and him

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Speaker 7: have talked. I've been preoccupied, so I haven't had a

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Speaker 7: they have this. They share the same representation, so I'm

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