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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: August twenty ninth. The Ravens had to trim the roster

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Speaker 1: to fifty three players today and before that point we

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Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh,

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Speaker 1: left guard John Simpson, and cornerback Ronald Darby. Let's kick

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Speaker 1: things off with coach Hardball.

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Speaker 2: All right, good to see everybody. I appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 2: Very good practice. I'll put the pads on. Guys were

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Speaker 2: very much into it, very happy with what we did today.

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Speaker 2: What questions you have, John with the roster cutting?

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Speaker 3: Is there a difference at practice for some guys? Do

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Speaker 3: you feel or is do you think it's a businesses.

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Speaker 2: Or I think it's business as usual. Guys did a

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Speaker 2: nice job. They always do. I thought of everybody's business, like,

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Speaker 2: everybody understands what we need to get done as a

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Speaker 2: team today, and they did a good job of it.

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Speaker 3: Talking about the list, how different was Jes, You're working

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Speaker 3: on a new offense.

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Speaker 4: It different making the list now?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's always subtleties, but in the big picture,

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Speaker 2: I'd say, no, you know the big picture of the process,

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Speaker 2: the way you handle it it's still you try to

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Speaker 2: do it's in the best interest to your team, and

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Speaker 2: and you really try to, you know, allow decisions to

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Speaker 2: make themselves based on the way guys play and practice

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Speaker 2: and perform.

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Speaker 5: John, I know a kind of a soft timeline when

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Speaker 5: when Marlin had to put surgery. But are you still

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Speaker 5: feeling comfortable that he'll be able to make it back

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Speaker 5: in the first unseason.

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Speaker 2: I am, yeah, he's okay. There's different guys have different things,

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Speaker 2: so there's nothing, h nothing to report.

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Speaker 6: The most improved player in training.

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Speaker 2: Camp a most improved player? Oh man, Well, you know,

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Speaker 2: you say somebody, then you leave some people out. I

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Speaker 2: tell you, I just really really, I mean ever, everybody's

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Speaker 2: improved too different degrees. Just as a team. I think

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Speaker 2: we've come a long way, you know, And that's what

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Speaker 2: I'm pleased with. The coaches or please with the players

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Speaker 2: are pleased with it because they feel it in terms

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Speaker 2: of execution. Now it's time to go see where you're

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Speaker 2: in a game now. You don't know until you play

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Speaker 2: a game, and then then you start over again. You

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Speaker 2: know where are we now? Once you play a game?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, John Simpson, I guess the other night

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Speaker 4: he talked about how he maybe lost some of those

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Speaker 4: confidence the last year and how he's built it. I mean,

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Speaker 4: did you did you see that with the way he

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Speaker 4: attacked the opportunity this the summer every how would you

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Speaker 4: say he kind of sees that job.

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Speaker 2: Well, he definitely sees the job. And I read the

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Speaker 2: same thing and I was really it was intriguing to

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Speaker 2: read it. You know, he never u He's always showed himself,

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Speaker 2: you know, his confident guy and stuff. But I was

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Speaker 2: just proud of him, and I thought he just just

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Speaker 2: came to work every day, kept it simple. H made

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Speaker 2: it about being the best player he could be day

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Speaker 2: in and day out. I think he took coaching really

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Speaker 2: well and and obviously he's a very talented player. So

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Speaker 2: if he's playing with confidence, now, I'm all for it.

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Speaker 2: You know, I feel really good about hearing that is

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Speaker 2: a good thing.

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Speaker 6: I just a fellow on two offensive line considerations you

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Speaker 6: mentioned earlier in can't it's solid just full time and

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Speaker 6: you think interior guy and pole. I know you talked

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Speaker 6: about maybe or putting inside of guard, but you see

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sala will be focusing interior at guard and Flele

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Speaker 2: will be focusing outside of tackle, but we'll also I'm

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Speaker 2: sure work those guys from time to time, you know,

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Speaker 6: But then he looked like he handled his own his

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Speaker 6: job pretty well on the side there.

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Speaker 7: I agree.

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Speaker 2: I agree, he didn't get tons of reps there, but

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Speaker 2: he did fine when he was in there. Right.

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Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. Now after the game

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Speaker 1: on Saturday in Tampa Bay, he announced that John Simpson

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Speaker 1: is going to be the team's starting left guard going

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Speaker 1: into this season, and Simpson talked with reporters today about

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Speaker 1: what that means to him.

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Speaker 7: Just what did it.

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Speaker 6: Mean to you when you hear the news that that.

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Speaker 8: You were going to be the start?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 9: Ad meant a lot to me. Uh they you know,

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Speaker 9: for them to trust me in that position, and you know,

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Speaker 9: just getting that news, it just it it meant a

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Speaker 8: What did you find out?

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Speaker 6: Did you take it through?

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Speaker 1: Help?

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Speaker 7: Went?

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Speaker 9: It was after practice one day, Uh, Coach Jod came

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Speaker 9: to me and said, yeah, if we play, uh like tomorrow,

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Speaker 9: you'd be the starter. But it wasn't. It was like

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Speaker 9: learned that I learned like a few days before everyone else.

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Speaker 1: But what did your focus drinking? What what did you

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Speaker 1: kind of set out to prove, you know, to the

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Speaker 9: I wasn't really trying to prove, Like I'm not gonna

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Speaker 9: say I wasn't trying to prove anything, but like I

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Speaker 9: just wanted to come in with my best foot forward

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Speaker 9: and you know, just put my head down and go

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Speaker 9: it arrogant or you know, cocky and think that I

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Speaker 9: I didn't do it right, I try to do it

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Speaker 9: right the next time. And uh, you know that's pretty

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Speaker 9: much how I went. I s I just you know,

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Speaker 9: try to get better every day. Like I said before,

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Speaker 9: I just want to get better one step at a

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Speaker 9: time every day and just look at it like that,

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Speaker 9: you know, every every day's opportunity to get better.

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Speaker 7: So that's how I look at it.

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Speaker 3: John, you said on Saturday, and you talked about how

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Speaker 3: the confidence was lacking after leaving Las Vegas thing, But

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Speaker 3: where do you think you've improved the most since you arrived,

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Speaker 3: that you're at this place now where you're starting, and

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Speaker 3: clearly more confident than you.

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Speaker 9: Had the Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's it's

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Speaker 9: I said, I was, I liked confidence, and I just

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Speaker 9: just like getting better one day at a time just

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Speaker 9: kind of like changed my mindset and my confidence a

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Speaker 9: little bit. It's just like mistakes are gonna happen, I

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Speaker 9: I got guys like Tyler. Sam must have heard he

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Speaker 9: Morgan Moses, all those guys has just been there for me.

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Speaker 9: Whenever I would make a mistake or something like that,

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Speaker 9: they just be there and let me know that I'm

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Speaker 9: capable of, you know, doing the right thing. So working

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Speaker 9: with coach Joe, coach Jod, he's a he's a great coach.

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Speaker 9: He you know, he's been around the game for a

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Speaker 9: can't ask for nothing better than that an O line coach.

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Speaker 9: He also gives me like great confidence. You know, he'll

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Speaker 9: he'll get on me when I make a mistake and

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Speaker 7: So around that they needed to change the scene.

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Speaker 8: Nothing against the operations Vegas.

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Speaker 3: But you feel like it kind of you were re

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Speaker 3: energized getting here. You said, a coaches around a new teammates.

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Speaker 8: They kind of served as a fresh stuard for you.

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Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, I mean that that definitely played a part

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Speaker 9: I think, you know, just getting here, uh and and

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Speaker 9: realizing like it's still just football. I think that helped

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Speaker 9: they're it's a great organization and everything like that, but uh,

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Speaker 9: change the scenery did I think helped me out a

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Speaker 4: Your mindset that's purved meization feel when you put in

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Speaker 4: then fighting for job is getting a job? How to

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Speaker 3: How did that your mindset many change.

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Speaker 8: Or for yours?

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Speaker 9: Well, I mean I don't really, I don't think it

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Speaker 9: changed a whole lot besides from like when I first

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Speaker 9: I think, like I said earlier, is just you know,

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Speaker 9: that's kind of how I. How I went about training

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Speaker 9: camp is just like and and coach says it all

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Speaker 4: Did you did you like did you like being part

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Speaker 4: of what turned out to be pretty direct competition? I

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Speaker 4: mean we knew Left Guard was kind of up for

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Speaker 4: I mean, is that is that energizing in a sense?

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I mean for sure. I mean any any competition,

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Speaker 9: Like I'm a competitor, like anybody as a competitor wants

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Speaker 9: to compete. And uh, I think, Uh, that kind of

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Speaker 9: It gave me a little juice and uh and it

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Speaker 9: I feel like it kind of helped me throughout camp

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Speaker 9: and it gave me something to look forward to every day.

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Speaker 9: And not saying that I won't have that same mindset,

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Speaker 9: but it definitely did play a part in how I

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Speaker 9: competed in camp.

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Speaker 1: What would you have said, you know, like back in

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Speaker 1: the center was applying to practice right here in the

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Speaker 4: Going through the season.

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Speaker 9: Uh, shoot, I don't know, I really, I don't. I

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Speaker 9: have no idea, honestly, I just I don't know. That's

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Speaker 9: a good question. I gotta think about that.

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Speaker 6: It's been like being in direct competition with Sla but

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Speaker 6: also working with him in your experiences with.

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Speaker 9: That, it's I mean, it's been fun. The training camp

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Speaker 9: has been fun. I you know, go like competing against

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Speaker 9: a guy like Salah. He's young. He just came in

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