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Speaker 1: he is healthy, he will ever have a game again

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Speaker 1: here where he has no touches? Uh? Do I expect it?

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Speaker 1: say that something would happen that wouldn't happen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the circumstances come up, but we don't

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Speaker 1: you name where we say like, okay, this guy doesn't

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Speaker 1: That our offense took a step in the right direction

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Speaker 1: direction the offense is moving right now. Um so look,

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Speaker 1: sometimes some guys get more targets than others, but there's

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Speaker 1: nothing by design to exclude anybody. What does he need

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Speaker 1: to do to play a bigger role? Now? Keep being himself,

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Speaker 1: learning the league, and when the ball comes away, Nicklah,

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Speaker 1: But as a receiver, a tight end, whoever is in

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Speaker 1: surgery is that's something where he needs a Ron wing.

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Speaker 1: to be honestly, I don't want to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna do it to mckinnisan organization helping

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Speaker 1: it through it. I know he's not he's still in

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