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Speaker 2: I hope, I hope that's the case. We worked really

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Speaker 2: we I'd say we did a pretty good job, you

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Speaker 2: know what we could learn from it. But I think

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Speaker 2: the regular season is going to be completely different. Every

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Speaker 2: they've held back as well as US. So I think

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Speaker 2: this week, really it generally looked how you thought it

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Speaker 3: I'm sure I mean by head, but I mean that

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's just it's it was so new

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Speaker 2: I think the schemes are uh, the schemes are different,

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Speaker 2: We're still using the same techniques, uh, that we've always used,

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Speaker 3: But for the most part, uh, it's kind of what.

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Speaker 4: So he's touching on those unknowns with the fact that

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Speaker 4: the across the league, the average is around the twenty

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Speaker 4: Any thoughts that when the regular season starts they just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's that's a good possibility that happens.

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Speaker 2: That preseason, the first kick we sent him out there

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Speaker 1: If you delve into Miami.

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Speaker 2: You know, Brax and Barrios is a on their roster

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Speaker 4: Circling back to camp, you attempted the sixty two yard

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Speaker 2: but that's just league wide. Uh, you'd obviously play a

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Speaker 3: You know, Andre Cisco is filling some of those rules.

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Speaker 2: So, Uh, there's a bunch of guys that are willing

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Speaker 2: Uh, He's a guy that you can match up really

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Speaker 3: What he does for you.

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Speaker 2: I think that's just that's him. He's a team first guy.

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Speaker 2: He's willing to block on on offense. He's willing to

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Speaker 2: I mean Devin duvernas a former All proh Parker has

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