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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'd like to begin by thanking our director

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Speaker 1: mock CON's Pat Sherman, and the coaches for all their

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Speaker 1: college draft a week away, we're coming to the second

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Speaker 1: part of what I call the roster building season. Football

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Speaker 1: is the ultimate team game, and while it may be

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Speaker 1: difficult for some to understand, building a roster is not

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Speaker 1: does he fit athletically, intellectually, and culturally what you're trying

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Speaker 1: to accomplish, which is to win a Super Bowl. Recently,

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Speaker 1: there was an article in USA Today written by Dan

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Speaker 1: what he did was he was discussing two of the

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Speaker 1: college college's premier men's basketball programs excuse me, Duke in Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: and the article was written after they had been eliminated

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Speaker 1: from this year's NC Double Double a tournament, and really

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Speaker 1: and truly the final paragraph really put what I believe

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Speaker 1: into a nutshell, and I quote, as long as Shashevsky

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Speaker 1: and Caliparia coaching, they're going to get their best their

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Speaker 1: share of the best recruits every single year because of

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Speaker 1: the pathway they've established to the NBA. But both programs

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Speaker 1: have now just have to not now have discovered it

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Speaker 1: in the tournament that elite recruiting and good roster roster

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Speaker 1: construction don't mean the same thing. As Lou Lamorello most

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Speaker 1: the only major transaction I haven't talked to you guys

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Speaker 1: And finally, guys, is the folks I shouldn't say, guys,

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Speaker 1: said this is a really strong draft. What is it

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Speaker 1: pretty much set the board. Jordan's you know, we're tweaking

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Speaker 1: scouts went home. I sent him home for the holiday,

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Speaker 1: and uh, it gives me a chance to, you know,

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Speaker 1: So the board is really basically set, and I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at a board and we have more players rated

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Speaker 1: and fourth round values than that I've had in any

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Speaker 1: So in terms of the volume of players on the board,

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Speaker 1: this is the thickest. Is selecting a quarterback a priority

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Speaker 1: for for you during this draft? I think that the

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Speaker 1: and I know that sounds silly, but you know last year,

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Speaker 1: last year, again, we couldn't pass up one. He was

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Speaker 1: the best player in the draft. You can't do that

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Speaker 1: you listen. You know we've had we've had this conversation before.

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Speaker 1: You know, Eli is closer to Foty than he is.

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Speaker 1: Anybody at number two had to pass that gold jacket

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Speaker 1: so that stuff happens. But you know, it's it's still

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Speaker 1: You guys, have you got twelve picks? So you look

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Speaker 1: flexibility if you want to move around the draft board. Absolutely, Patty, Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: eighty five mock drafts, and you know you've got guys.

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Speaker 1: You know this, this this probably twenty twenty guys that

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Speaker 1: in their mental toughness, vetting their backgrounds. Is it valuable

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Speaker 1: it's it's part of the evaluation. You need a defensive

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Speaker 1: gotta keep adding to that mix. You know, the young kid,

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Speaker 1: You did have a quarterback that you read it. If

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make a different one position it comes from

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Speaker 1: you have a pick in every round, but it's thirty

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Speaker 1: sometimes no, it's that the little special category this draft.

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Speaker 1: there's a drop off? Is it? No? You know, you know, Jordan,

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Speaker 1: get a good, really good player. You know it's not

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna panic and oh god, you know it's

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Speaker 1: to sound arrogant. You have said last year that hindsight

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Speaker 1: sure did I sure did Any gold jacket guys in

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Speaker 1: this draft? Oh yeah, there's a couple. There's a couple. Man.

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Speaker 1: Course always says you draft quarterbacks to win super bowls?

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Speaker 1: Any quarterbacks in this class who you think are super

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Speaker 1: to land a franchise quarterback? Now, Steve, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. If you if if you

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Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on it, you're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a mistake. So if you're asking me how urgent do

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Speaker 1: I feel that we need to do this, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to put a level on that, Steve, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen. You know, doing this you let the

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Speaker 1: draft come to you, and that's that's what you do,

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Speaker 1: you know, And and and I feel I'm so you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel, um, I'm the word I'm looking for. You know,

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Speaker 1: we went into last season believing that he liked still

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Speaker 1: had plenty left and he proved he dead. So you know,

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Speaker 1: just see how it goes. See how the draft? How

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Speaker 1: the draft? About the Kansas City model? What's that? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you know I I said the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City model. People have been doing it for years. It's

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Speaker 1: just the most recent one. How about the Green Bay model?

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Speaker 1: You know Aaron Rodgers fallen to him all I had

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Speaker 1: Brett five, you know that. You know he sat for

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Speaker 1: two and a half years. I think of three years.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's that's what you'd like to do. Listen,

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Speaker 1: Eli is a prose pro and you guys know that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he is a prose pro. And to get a quarter

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Speaker 1: back in here and to allow him to learn behind

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Speaker 1: learned at the feet, it would be it would be

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Speaker 1: a sweet deal. Kyle's working on that right now. And

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Speaker 1: don't forget about Kyle now. He's working on that right now.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, yes, yes, you'd you'd like

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Speaker 1: you you'd prefer to that to be the situation. You'd

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Speaker 1: hate to throw a guy in, take a young kid

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Speaker 1: and just throw him and throw him and it's not easy.

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Speaker 1: You continue to construct this team. Do you feel that

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Speaker 1: you can win now and still win in the future.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel your you have the ability this year

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Speaker 1: to to start them? You know again, I just you know,

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Speaker 1: we won two more games, and we did than the

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Speaker 1: team did the year before, and you had all those

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Speaker 1: games with you know that we lost by a point

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Speaker 1: two points. I mean, you know, we lost eight games

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Speaker 1: by a touchdown a less. You know, so the NFL

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Speaker 1: is tight, tight, tight, and a few more players get

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Speaker 1: you over the top, and now you're winning more more games, right,

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Speaker 1: So yes, you know, on a lot of the small

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Speaker 1: college guys, what do you have to see on film

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Speaker 1: that kind of stands out to you? Because that's probably

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Speaker 1: the tougher thing to do is bind that guy and

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Speaker 1: judge whether or not he can play up to this level. Well,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing you have to do is, you know,

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Speaker 1: so a million years ago, I'm scouting and I'm at

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Speaker 1: Cutstown State and I'm looking at John Mobley and you

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Speaker 1: know word, you know the this is like in October.

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Speaker 1: I finally get there and all the scouts there, Hey

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Speaker 1: have you been to cuts down of human? It cuts

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Speaker 1: down and started in August, and I finally said, this

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Speaker 1: guy's superman. You know what do we got here? So

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Speaker 1: I went to you know, I went and I watched

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Speaker 1: John play and the bottom line is, so I'm in Cutstown,

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Speaker 1: so that the closest Division one school was ben State.

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Speaker 1: So you have to ask yourself the question. I said,

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Speaker 1: tell the scouts this all the time. Remind them if

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Speaker 1: I'm watching John Mobili, can I picture him starting at

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Speaker 1: Penn State? That that's the litmus test. And you know,

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Speaker 1: so when I when scouts talk about, you know, a

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Speaker 1: Division to one, double, A two, three, that's that's the

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Speaker 1: litmus test. Well, he stopped at you know, the close

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Speaker 1: a big Division one program, and they all go to

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Speaker 1: Division one program, so they should be able to answer

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Speaker 1: that question. When you said earlier about part of it,

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Speaker 1: you can let the draft come to you. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine that means not necessarily not be aggressive when you

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Speaker 1: need to be aggressive and draft right. It's not like

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna sit in a spot because you don't

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Speaker 1: feel urgency. But if you see something, you know, look

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Speaker 1: at my history. I've traded up a number of times

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Speaker 1: down to Carolina. You know, last year we just you know,

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Speaker 1: I kind of had to sit. We only had only

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Speaker 1: had the five picks and I and I was not

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Speaker 1: going to trade I was not going to take picks

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Speaker 1: from this year's draft to move up in last year's draft.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm gonna We're gonna do what we

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Speaker 1: need to, you know. So so are you asking me,

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Speaker 1: am I gonna move around the bullet It's very possible.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of the answer to the urgency, you said,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna let things come to come to us. I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to get clarification the idea that you weren't

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Speaker 1: saying you were just gonna sit there with all your

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Speaker 1: picks and wait for guys to fall if the situation

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Speaker 1: or if the situation calls for it. There's a guy

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Speaker 1: there that you know, we we feel can really help us,

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Speaker 1: and it's a few picks in front, and we're not coming.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've we're not comfortable with the teams in

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Speaker 1: front that he'll follow us if we feel if we have,

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Speaker 1: you know, if we feel the need, will make the move.

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to do that because remember we got twelve.

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Speaker 1: This is crazy, though, and you said the first four

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Speaker 1: round are kind of loaded, right, more than you've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: So would you would your preference be to move some

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Speaker 1: of those because you have a lot of picks at

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Speaker 1: the back, move some of those and get more picks

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Speaker 1: in those first four. You may Jordan's it's possible. Anything

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Speaker 1: is possible from next year's draft, this year, it last

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Speaker 1: year to this year? Will you do it this year

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Speaker 1: to next year? Maybe? Da you mentioned whines before, did

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Speaker 1: you mean wide receiver? As far as I'm yeah, when

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Speaker 1: I say what wides? Right, if you just say what more?

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Speaker 1: How does the dynamic change when you have to first

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Speaker 1: round pick? I don't even know if it's fun. I'm

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Speaker 1: excited about it. No, it's really weird, um, because it

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Speaker 1: means that after you take that first picky, you can't

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Speaker 1: get dinner. Ah, No, it's it's it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's I'm excited about it, you know because honestly, now

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Speaker 1: you know, you turn around and that means you've got

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Speaker 1: to guys. You're gonna draft two guys that you'll have

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Speaker 1: for five years, which is really you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: really big help in this day and age with the camp.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm excited about it. And you know,

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Speaker 1: there's so many possibilities that it gives you so many

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Speaker 1: options that you know, I'm looking forward to Thursday, a

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Speaker 1: week from today,