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Speaker 1: also played with the Lions and the Cleveland Browns. He

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Speaker 1: Now and Analystsmen's Fox Sports remember the college Football Hall

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Speaker 1: on the line. Hello, Chris, John Murphy and your former

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Speaker 1: you doing today? Good afternoon, man, how are you guys?

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Speaker 1: We're good. We're hanging in and you and your family

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Speaker 1: is doing well. I hope we're in Columbus right, Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everything's good, you know, just making the most of the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I think in life, you know, great challenges bring great opportunities,

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Speaker 1: and so and a lot of us are defined. At

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Speaker 1: least I'm trying to tell my kids whenever there's difficulties

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Speaker 1: or challenges, it's how you respond. What are you going

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Speaker 1: you going to control it? So we're doing our best

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Speaker 1: to try to control it by controlling the situation that

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Speaker 1: we're in. I know, Chris, you've been one of those

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Speaker 1: players that were so thoughtful and so well studied. When

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Speaker 1: And one of the things you're doing these days, you're

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Speaker 1: putting technique films and videos on your Twitter side. You're

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Speaker 1: think some of them are pretty funny. Some people might

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Speaker 1: it's been I think overall we've probably had if you

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Speaker 1: you know they're they're my scout team. Unfortunately though, everything's

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Speaker 1: the negotiation in life, so some of them are are

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Speaker 1: being locked in the house. And that's just what we

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Speaker 1: chose choose to do. We're not going to let this

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