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Speaker 3: we'll just monitor him day by to day, but he's

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Speaker 3: We we just got to see, you know, we we've

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Speaker 1: And just last question for me. You know, obviously during

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, obviously we did some we did some

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Speaker 4: You, Jamal Hey, coach, we haven't talked to eas since

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Speaker 4: you guys made the trade. What'd you know about as

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously you know Ezra, we knew good player.

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Speaker 5: You had mentioned to it earlier about third down efficiency,

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Speaker 3: But but again it's it's us being better on first

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Speaker 3: You know, it's obviously gonna take a take a touchdown

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Speaker 2: Now, thank you, hey, Doug.

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Speaker 3: Now, you know what I avoid that with this football team. Listen,

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Speaker 3: we've got a great football team coming in here on Sunday, and.

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Speaker 2: And and our focus is just on that.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've mentioned to them, Hey, we've got a

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Speaker 3: But but I don't I don't look it down the

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Speaker 2: Or opponents that we have coming up.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a matter of just staying in the moment,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, good bet.

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Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna go ahead with John Shipley and

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Speaker 2: Hey, do I appreciate you doing this?

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Speaker 1: When it comes to Walker, I left guard is that's

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Speaker 2: You just feel like that's the best vibe you can

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Speaker 3: Walker's earned that spot, you know, and and and his

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Speaker 3: He's not getting younger. Tyler Shatley's not getting younger, you know,

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Speaker 3: And you got to have guys that that are that

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Speaker 3: are very capable, that are gonna be on your roster.

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Speaker 3: So you definitely have to look at long term, I

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Speaker 3: think in in situations like this, and and definitely, you know,

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Speaker 3: the player himself, Ezra himself knows he's in a you know,

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Speaker 3: basically a contract year as well, so you know he's

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Speaker 3: willing to uh to come to Jacksonville and and and

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Speaker 3: you know, be a backup for now and and you

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Speaker 3: know understanding that that you know, there are no guarantees

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Speaker 3: right in this business. But I do think that it's

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Speaker 3: a it's definitely a could turn into a long term,

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Speaker 3: you know situation for him where he could he could

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Speaker 3: definitely compete and uh be in a position to help us,

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Speaker 3: you know, moving forward,