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Speaker 1: Now working through a few things here today. UM uh

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Speaker 1: we'll just work our way through them. Um. Obviously looking

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Speaker 1: forward to the UM kickoff the dinner tonight. It's always

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Speaker 1: a great event UM on our UM recognize you know,

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Speaker 1: the things that the team has done in terms of

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Speaker 1: So I think that's always a great day for our

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Speaker 1: but continue to see what you know, what we do

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Speaker 1: it's just just a um you know, Haiti trip and

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, a big thing today and

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Speaker 1: honestly through the week, I'm sure it'll be a lot

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Speaker 1: all that plays out. Which is this about the busiest

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Speaker 1: And and but these they'll big things all through the week.

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Speaker 1: releasing guys after they played that final preseason Billy know,

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Speaker 1: you tiped around the draft about just a coordinated, um

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Speaker 1: combined effort between you know, Dave's eagle and elliottol Matt

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Speaker 1: how would you describe just the collaboration, who's leading, how

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Speaker 1: let's say more similar free agency, just because it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's more it's more like free agency with some of

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Speaker 1: But yeah, certainly, Elliott, Dave, Matt, you know play a

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Speaker 1: key rolling up bill. Prior to Nikkil Harry getting injured,

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Speaker 1: I think Nikil had a good you know, had a

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Speaker 1: Young players have been great about you know, asking questions

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Speaker 1: I think we have a good player coach relationship. We've talked.

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Speaker 1: So whatever somebody else said or did or whatever, I mean,

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Speaker 1: up to you about J. J. Taylor. This summer. The

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Speaker 1: JJ has continued to work hard and improve. He's, um,

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Speaker 1: difficult for some defenders to tackle. He's made some yards

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Speaker 1: think there's still still some you know, areas in front

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Speaker 1: of him that he can get better. In the final question,

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Speaker 1: how would you characterize the preseason in training camp that

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton has that again, last year it was, you know,

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Speaker 1: totally different. So I feel like everybody's way ahead of

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Speaker 1: definitely moving in the right direction. Okay, thanks a lot,

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