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Speaker 1: This is the Colts Free Agent Tracker, a look at

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Speaker 1: some key in house free agents this offseason. Hey, this

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Speaker 1: is the final Free Agent Tracker podcast before we start

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Speaker 1: the new league year in the NFL coming up on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. It's good to be with you. Joined

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Speaker 1: today in studio by Bill Brooks and JJ Stangovitz, and

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Speaker 1: we saved the most interesting for last on our Free

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Speaker 1: Agent Tracker podcast series because today we're looking at the

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Speaker 1: free agent stock of wide receiver t Y Hilton as

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Speaker 1: we tape this on Monday, the first day of the

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Speaker 1: legal tampering period. And Bill, when was the last time

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Speaker 1: you were tampered with? That's what I want oxy moron

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Speaker 1: to say, legal tampering. I know it isn't oxymoor warm,

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Speaker 1: but I was never good enough to be tampered with.

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Speaker 1: Let's go no, no, jj, I imagine the last time

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Speaker 1: you were tampered with was this morning? Just like me

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Speaker 1: with a two year old. Yeah, right, threw a tantrum

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Speaker 1: on the way to work, tampering and evolving the color

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Speaker 1: of milk cup my twins got. That was Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was a fight. Tampering and tantrum. They're in the same name,

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Speaker 1: you know it. Yeah, I remember those days. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to wish those days away, but but sometimes it

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Speaker 1: would be easier if you know, my two year old

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Speaker 1: But we got a lot to talk about this week, JJ,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be nuts. You were just talking before we

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Speaker 1: hit the record button here that this week is. It's

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Speaker 1: got the potential to be uh, some pretty late nights

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Speaker 1: around that keyboard of yours. It's funny. It's funny, Matt.

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Speaker 1: You know whenever someone asks me, who doesn't you know,

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Speaker 1: totally know what my job is? Like? Oh, so this

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Speaker 1: must be kind of a you know, a downtime for you.

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Speaker 1: There's probably not much for you to do, like no,

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Speaker 1: like Bill. Bill made a good point where you're not

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Speaker 1: painting the house this week? No right, No. Bill made

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Speaker 1: the point that this is almost more stressful than the

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Speaker 1: regular season because the regular season you have a routine.

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Speaker 1: You know, Matte, you you know what shows you're doing.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know what I'm writing, and this week

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Speaker 1: I don't know who the cults are going to sign.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do, and that unknown

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Speaker 1: it's exciting. I love this time but it is a constant.

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Speaker 1: You gotta have your phone on you at all times.

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Speaker 1: You gotta see what's going on. You gotta be available.

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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's a fun week, but it is a

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Speaker 1: stressful week and it can happen in like one in

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Speaker 1: the morning too. I remember when I covered the Bears

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Speaker 1: they signed Alan Robinson at about three o'clock in the morning,

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Speaker 1: were they just stayed at Hollis Hall to get that

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Speaker 1: deal done. And Matt Naggie just slept under his desk

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Speaker 1: that night in his office because he was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: to three am tweet from Adam Schefter, So that was

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Speaker 1: that was fun. Yeah, we've all been there, certainly well.

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Speaker 1: Free agency and the new league year that starts legally

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and as always, if the Cults make moves,

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Speaker 1: Com and all the podcast channels, and of course JJ

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Speaker 1: That was higher than he had in nineteen or twenty twenty, nineteen,

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Speaker 1: especially on third down with some of those routes Bill

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Speaker 1: that you mentioned there. But beyond that, t Y Hilton's

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