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Speaker 1: for a great football game on Sunday. But I don't

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Speaker 1: normal work. Yeah, that's it's I think I think we

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Speaker 1: looked really good. Um, I'm excited to watch him play.

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Speaker 1: Killers tendons injury used tony career enders usually, but modern medicine, technology, rehab,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things now at these players disposal.

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Speaker 1: They get him back on the field a lot sooner

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Speaker 1: He you know, he runs a little bit lower behind

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Speaker 1: really playing, who you're going to eat? I think in

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Speaker 1: what you hope it is. You know what you think

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Speaker 1: You know. It's it's it's a fun part of now.

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Speaker 1: It's a fun part of it. He just panics, by

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Speaker 1: the way, when you called Travis t J, He's like,

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Speaker 1: mentioned yeah, fun, having fun, enjoying. This is no fun.

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Speaker 1: This is a this is a short lived business for

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