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Speaker 1: All right, so you've got the injuries right, so try

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Speaker 1: to answer your questions. How did he look for good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, he's been making improvements. He got better

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Speaker 1: much more today, So he looked fine. Are you moving

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Speaker 1: forward with the idea that he's gonna start on something, Well,

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Speaker 1: we don't know yet. We just gotta see how his

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Speaker 1: and then we'll just take it from there. Um in

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Speaker 1: the event he can't start, certainly we have a very

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Speaker 1: first team reps though this week with him being back

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Speaker 1: as a pool But he'll take as many as he

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Speaker 1: can take, and he took most of them today. So

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Speaker 1: the other day, you know, I think it was dope dope,

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Speaker 1: not meet too much into it, but just you know,

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Speaker 1: don't don't think too much. You're thinking too much about

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Who's gonna start that kind of thing?

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Speaker 1: Overthink it? You mean, yeah, I think that's what that

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Speaker 1: would have been. Something would say, that's me. That was

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Speaker 1: response to your question, right, I mean, are we overthinking

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Speaker 1: you're going to make that isn't based on health, or

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Speaker 1: is this decision is strictly on days strictly based on health.

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Speaker 1: I think that was the kid. That's been the case

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Speaker 1: all along. You know, when we committed to Daniel to

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Speaker 1: Let's not overthink it. Obviously, the team winning last week

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Speaker 1: was important for everybody. How important you think it is

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Speaker 1: for Daniel moving forward? Um, you know he's been riding

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Speaker 1: for everybody to win every game they play. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you only play one game a week, and you know

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Speaker 1: we play the Redskins Sunday, so we gotta do everything

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Speaker 1: in our power to win a game. For quarterback, for everybody,

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Speaker 1: for everyone, specifically for rookie quarterback going into an off season.

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Speaker 1: Everybody that plays needs to commit to doing what it

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Speaker 1: he went on, I R. Yeah, originally it was two

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Speaker 1: to four Heat said it was two to four weeks.

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Speaker 1: What happened that it ended up being something like eight weeks.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure we said that. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Again, every you know, players have different impressions

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Speaker 1: come back from. UM we felt like it was best

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Speaker 1: will need to be done to his ankle to move forward,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure when that information is uh, when we

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Speaker 1: Smith in the absence of balance in an ingram, I

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Speaker 1: Slayton progressed and um, is he's doing things that you

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Speaker 1: a credit to him. He's made really good improvements and

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Speaker 1: he's had a real positive impact on their offense. They've

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Speaker 1: got three young receivers that he's you know, dealing the

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Speaker 1: you're evaluating Dan and Daniel over of the draft and

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Speaker 1: they're making those twins how difficult difficult reasons both outstanding

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Speaker 1: do you mean how difficult? I mean? And they were

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Speaker 1: you know, because it's will be the popularity no Pro bowlers?

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