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Speaker 1: Welcome inside with it The Insiders. Ian Rappleport to my left,

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins agreeing to a deal with the Raiders this morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he could teach him a lot of things like

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a fascinating, complicated deal that ends up earning

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Speaker 6: This is like the annual Sam Darnold Award. I think

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Speaker 7: Let's start Jeffrey with a quarterback who really took a

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Speaker 8: Jeff Alrighty, Judy, Already we're starting with us times in

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Speaker 8: I love the opportunity here for Kyler Murray because one

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Speaker 10: This is the one jeff I was talking about this

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Speaker 6: When we return, we're.

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Speaker 7: Going to talk to Indiana coach National Championship coach Hurt Signetti.

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Speaker 7: To one of his players, Indiana wide receiver Elijah Sarratt.

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Speaker 1: Indiana Pro Day on Wednesday. Yes, a lot of eyes

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Speaker 12: Tell us about Elija, tell us about the process. A

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Speaker 11: So it was a quick turnaround coming from the championship.

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Speaker 1: Sixty five receptions, eight hundred and thirty receiving yards. You

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Speaker 11: Yeah, those humble beginnings is what gets me on here

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Speaker 11: Like for me, I feel like, no matter if the

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go, from what I gather, and

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Speaker 1: these these got to be great if you got them.

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Speaker 1: I hear you have two impressions that you can do

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Speaker 1: extremely well.

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Speaker 2: Kurtzy, get your head coach.

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Speaker 1: And Fernando Mendoza your quarterback, give us one, give us both.

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Speaker 2: Whatever you want to do here. I can't wait to

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Speaker 2: see this.

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Speaker 13: Well. I don't know how great it be. But go

448
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Speaker 13: with my guy, coach Sick. I'm my god, coach sick.

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Speaker 11: But if you're going his office, man, just going, I

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Speaker 11: wish I couldhow you don have to speed kicked up

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Speaker 11: on his desk. Probably have to film up. He has

452
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Speaker 11: to film up every single the time. Anyway, shops track

453
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Speaker 11: ain't down or something. And then and then I say something.

454
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Speaker 11: I say something you look slow to day in practice

455
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Speaker 11: or something man, And it's just funny. He always get

456
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Speaker 11: on you, but you've sent since the loving what he's saying.

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Speaker 11: And then Fernando. We so every on Friday before the

458
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Speaker 11: game we will meet up and as an offense and

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Speaker 11: go over like the plays and stuff, watch some film.

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Speaker 11: And then it was one I forget what week it was,

461
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Speaker 11: but we were getting a lot of the team run

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Speaker 11: a lot of cover zero, so we had checks and

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Speaker 11: then he's just going through it and he's like, all right, guys,

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Speaker 11: when we get this look I'm gonna check it, and

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Speaker 11: I'm gonna tap my temples and I'm gonna say check, check, check,

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Speaker 11: and you should. Just the way he was saying that,

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Speaker 11: me and the receivers were looking at each other busting

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Speaker 11: out laughing, and.

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Speaker 13: It was funny.

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Speaker 11: Man, he's got no Fernando and he's goofy, but he's

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Speaker 11: my guy.

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Speaker 14: Man.

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Speaker 13: I love him a lot.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I think right.

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Speaker 1: They say, how can how can this guy relate to

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Speaker 1: the rest of the locker room?

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Speaker 2: There he's goofy, but he's there guy lace. That's how

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Speaker 2: I That's awesome, Elijah Surratt. We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to many years of you performing well

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Speaker 1: on the field and impersonating your quarterbacks and your head coaches. Man,

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Speaker 1: great on you, Congratulations on all your success, and good

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Speaker 1: luck in this draft.

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Speaker 13: Talking to you all, I have a bill with good luck.

484
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Speaker 5: Officially hung up his spikes.

485
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Speaker 4: Five time Pro bowler, two nineteen events Player of the

486
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Speaker 4: Year Defon Gilmour has announced his retirement. Did not play

487
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Speaker 4: last season, got of sat out hoping for the right deal,

488
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Speaker 4: but I think at the time we knew that was

489
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Speaker 4: probably it. He has officially announced his retirement today. One

490
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Speaker 4: of the best corners of a generation. Kayer Elom is

491
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Speaker 4: still trying to get his footing in the NFL. Former

492
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Speaker 4: Bills first rounder has agreed to terms with the Kansas

493
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Speaker 4: City Chiefs per Me and Mike garriffol As his agent

494
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Speaker 4: John Pursley tells us, he hopes for a fresh start

495
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Speaker 4: and potentially the opportunity to come in as a starting.

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Speaker 5: Corner in KC.

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Speaker 4: The big story today Kirk Cousin lands in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 4: a potential or should it's a likely starting quarterback for

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Speaker 4: Vegas despite the fact that they are almost certainly going

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Speaker 4: to draft for Nanda Mendoza at number one. Plenty there

501
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Speaker 4: to chew on. Brian Baldinger, Mark Ross, get in here.

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Speaker 4: Let's chat about this a little bit. And Baldy, I

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Speaker 4: want to start with you. You have seen Kirk Cousins plenty.

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Speaker 4: You obviously have studied for Dana Mendoza. You know both

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Speaker 4: these guys are Like, what do you make of the

506
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Speaker 4: signing of Kirk Cousins in Las Vegas and the dynamic

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Speaker 4: that is going to face both these guys going forward.

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Speaker 15: I think it's a smart move by the Raiders. They're

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Speaker 15: making a lot of good moves. This is smart move.

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Speaker 15: I mean, Barker's around with the Eagles when they dined

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Speaker 15: Donald McNabb as the.

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Speaker 9: Second pick of the draft.

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Speaker 15: Doug Peterson started the Giants, you know, started Kirk Warner

514
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Speaker 15: before Eli Manning got a chance. John Kittnick kept Carson

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Speaker 15: Former on the bench for an entire year. Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 15: first of all, he won his last four starts last

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Speaker 15: year in Atlanta, finished the season very strong. But he's

518
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Speaker 15: reunited with Klick Kirkubiak, who was his quarterback coach and

519
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Speaker 15: offensive coordinator in Minnesota for three years. In fact, Kurt's

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Speaker 15: the only playoff winlink Kubiak was the quarterback coach in

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Speaker 15: Minnesota in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 9: He can call these plays right now. I think that's

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Speaker 9: a benefit for Fernando Mendoza.

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Speaker 15: Now, look, if Fernando goes out there and just balls

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Speaker 15: out preseason and he fled out, wins the job. He's

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Speaker 15: a starter. But you know, it's a great it's a

527
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Speaker 15: great guy to have in the room, in that quarterback room.

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Speaker 15: With all the experience and knowledge that Kirk has, It's

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Speaker 15: only going to help the development of Fernando Mendoza right now.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Baldi, you mentioned the relationship with with Kobiak and Kurt,

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Speaker 10: and we saw that big trend in the off season

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Speaker 10: of people going and coaches and players matching up with

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Speaker 10: that relationship. So that completely makes sense. And yet this

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Speaker 10: is all about Fernando Mendoz And I like this if

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Speaker 10: Kirk Cousins is going to go in there to be

536
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Speaker 10: a mentor and a teacher and guide him, but not

537
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Speaker 10: as the guy because as we've seen, you know, you

538
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Speaker 10: mentioned some back in the day that was more of

539
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Speaker 10: the the way to go about it, or have the

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Speaker 10: veteran and wait for the rookie to start.

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Speaker 5: But these last few drafts, these last three drafts.

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Speaker 10: Really show you the advantage of what happens if you

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Speaker 10: play these young guys cam Ward last year, Jackson Dark,

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Speaker 10: Tyler Shook. I mean, just look at the experience they

545
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Speaker 10: gained the year before, Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels and

546
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Speaker 10: Drake May and Bo Nicks. Look how much further along

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Speaker 10: those guys were when they played, and even if they

548
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Speaker 10: were in bad situations, and like Drake May, he came

549
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Speaker 10: out of it here too, goes to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 10: So I think for Fernando Mendoza right now, the Raiders

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Speaker 10: have a good infrastructure with the offseason signings. Again, still

552
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Speaker 10: do some more work in the draft so that Fernando Mendoza,

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Speaker 10: who is very mature, who can handle things on the

554
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Speaker 10: field off field, won the national championship. He's in a

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Speaker 10: good situation to go there and play. Just like these

556
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Speaker 10: other guys, work through the hard parts of it gets

557
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Speaker 10: better throughout the season. Maybe he does it this year,

558
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Speaker 10: but then year two he's even set up a lot better,

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Speaker 10: much like all those guys that I just mentioned.

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Speaker 4: Really, what this feels to be, guys, is insurance like

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Speaker 4: to pay twenty kirk Cousins twenty million dollars then seem

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Speaker 4: to me that anyone else was willing to pay kirk

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Speaker 4: Cousins more than the sensual minimum salary that he would

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Speaker 4: have gotten when you consider the Falcons were already paying

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Speaker 4: him ten. But basically what they did was they got

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Speaker 4: themselves the starter, and if they have to start for

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Speaker 4: Nanda Mendoza, that means he's so good that they're happy

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Speaker 4: to waste the money they paid Kirk Cousins because they

569
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Speaker 4: got a franchise quarterback and nothing else matters. If that

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Speaker 4: is the case for Las Vegas Raiders, then life is good.

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Speaker 4: He's going to be their guy for fifteen years, and

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Speaker 4: you don't care about the ten million dollars fully guaranteed

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Speaker 4: roster bonus that's going to Kirk Cousins in March.

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Speaker 5: Guys, great stuff.

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Speaker 9: As always appreciate.

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Speaker 4: You excellent perspective on what is going to be the fascinating,

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Speaker 4: fascinating situation going forward in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 12: Garifolo, take it away.

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Speaker 1: That's me And that is a post from Tony Holzman Escarno.

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Speaker 1: Last night we showed it and I said, NFL researcher'

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Speaker 1: oh wait, wait, whose account is that in the picture?

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Speaker 2: Too small?

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Speaker 1: It's Tony, My bad. I got it right tonight. Here's

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Speaker 1: Mendoza's stats from his pro day. Yes against no defense,

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Speaker 1: but you'd like to see as many completions. You don't

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Speaker 1: want to see the ball hit the ground and only

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Speaker 1: did apparently three times there.

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Speaker 2: So those are the numbers.

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Speaker 1: And here is more analysis via his head coach at Indiana,

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Speaker 1: Kurtz Signetti, with our ret Lewis coach.

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Speaker 16: Unprecedented success in your two year run here so far

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Speaker 16: in Indiana, obviously coming off the national championship, and a

593
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Speaker 16: day like today feels kind of emblematic of that success.

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Speaker 16: You got twenty eight players out here, a chance to

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Speaker 16: set a record program record for the number of players

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Speaker 16: drafted in front of all thirty two teams here today.

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Speaker 16: What does a day like this say about where this

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Speaker 16: program is.

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Speaker 14: Well, everything's an not given and these guys have earned

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Speaker 14: it and to have the NFL network here and this

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Speaker 14: kind of turnout is a result of the commitment that

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Speaker 14: they've made in the success that they've had on football field.

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Speaker 16: So many foundational players right that are kind of making

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Speaker 16: their transition now to the NFL, guys that came with you.

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Speaker 16: When you think back about some of those guys in

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Speaker 16: the mark they left here in helping get this program

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Speaker 16: to the top of college football, how does that strike

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Speaker 16: you on to day like today.

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Speaker 14: Oh, they definitely accelerated the process. They knew the standard,

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Speaker 14: the expectation, how we do things, and then we brought

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Speaker 14: a lot of new faces in that were high character,

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Speaker 14: dependable guys that you know, took it to another level

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Speaker 14: and just a great group of guys.

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Speaker 17: Special, no question.

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Speaker 16: For Nando Mendoza a big part of that, and we'll

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Speaker 16: see him obviously today as well. But coach, you watched

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Speaker 16: a lot of cal tape to evaluate him, to bring

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Speaker 16: him here to Indiana, and now having watched the sixteen

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Speaker 16: game run culminating with the national title, how would you

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Speaker 16: evaluate him right now?

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Speaker 17: It didn't take much cal tape.

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Speaker 14: I mean I saw after three or four plays, the

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Speaker 14: physical attributes and having the young one here and knowing

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Speaker 14: the family and how they were brought up, you know,

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Speaker 14: the competitiveness, intelligence, that kind of thing.

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Speaker 17: Special on tangibles. He came a long way.

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Speaker 14: But I've never been around anybody that has ever prepared

628
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Speaker 14: like he did. He wanted to be a great player.

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Speaker 14: Tom Brady was his idol and did everything within the

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Speaker 14: realm possibility to be the best he can be and

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Speaker 14: won the Heisman, and he played his best at the

632
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Speaker 14: end when the games were tight and went sixteen to zero.

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Speaker 14: Probably be the first guy taken in the draft. The

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Speaker 14: thing I will say.

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Speaker 17: Is, as good as he is, he still will.

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Speaker 14: Improve immensely and barely scratch the surface of his potential,

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Speaker 14: but compete and when the chips are down, plays very

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Speaker 14: very best respect from his teammates because of the type

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Speaker 14: of competitor he is and how he prepares.

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Speaker 16: Special Guy Iowa, Oregon, Penn State Big Ten Championship, National

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Speaker 16: Championship run through the CFP. I mean it, certainly the

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Speaker 16: resume speaks for itself in that regard, Coach, how would

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Speaker 16: you describe maybe his arc of development from the moment

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Speaker 16: he got here to the moment you guys were hoisting

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Speaker 16: the national championship trophy in Miami?

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Speaker 14: Slow development in the spring, like most of the new

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Speaker 14: quarterbacks we've gotten. We've had a lot of one year

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Speaker 14: transfer quarterbacks that are going to be player of the

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Speaker 14: year in the conference. Better in fall camp, built off

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Speaker 14: early season's success. Normally there's a game in the first

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Speaker 14: two or three where they really play well and take off,

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Speaker 14: and the same could be said for him. But the

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Speaker 14: thing about him is what he really put on tape

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Speaker 14: and showed was when you were playing in those big games,

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Speaker 14: when the game was on the line, how he played

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Speaker 14: his very best insure that's a special quality.

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Speaker 9: Now right, wrong or indifferent?

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Speaker 16: There's certainly been some conversation out there about how his

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Speaker 16: performance within the concepts of this offense maybe aren't exactly

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Speaker 16: what he'll see in the NFL.

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Speaker 9: How would you say that his execution of.

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Speaker 16: What you guys asked him to do translates to the NFL.

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Speaker 14: Oh, people got to have something to talk about, right,

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Speaker 14: I Mean, there's a lot of time between the last

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Speaker 14: game of the season in the NFL drafts, so people

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Speaker 14: come up about anything.

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Speaker 9: He's going to go in there.

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Speaker 14: And learn the system, learn the footwork, repetitions and mother learning.

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Speaker 14: You learn the most from the games, and he's gonna

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Speaker 14: be just fine. You know, he's got to have a

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Speaker 14: supporting cast. He's got to have time to throw the ball.

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Speaker 14: Guys that can separate, and it's a process. And but

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Speaker 14: Fernando Mendoza will be a great football player one day

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Speaker 14: in the NFL.

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Speaker 16: Got a bunch of his teammates obviously here he's going

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Speaker 16: to throw to Omar Cooper. Could be the second first

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Speaker 16: round pick here for you this year. Elijah Surratt, we'll

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Speaker 16: hear his name called. I mean, D'Angelo Pon's aiden, Fisher,

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Speaker 16: Pat Coogan, Like the list goes and goes on and on.

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Speaker 16: When you think about the the impact of some of

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Speaker 16: those other guys as a part of this day here today,

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Speaker 16: what stands out to you.

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Speaker 14: I mean just the type of people they were, Yeah,

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Speaker 14: high character, extremely intelligent, great locker room guys, very consistent.

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Speaker 14: Day in day out, game in game out play and

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Speaker 14: play out winners, and guys that love football and love preparing.

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Speaker 14: Guys you could count on, which is important. So there's

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Speaker 14: a lot of them and I'm sure they'll do well today.

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Speaker 16: Got a good group ready to attack another journey here

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Speaker 16: this next year.

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Speaker 17: We'll find out, coach, Thanks very much.

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Speaker 7: Three weeks from tonight, almost to the minute. Actually it's

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Speaker 7: the first round of the NFL Draft. That's April twenty third, live,

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Speaker 7: eight pm Eastern. You can basically see it everywhere you

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Speaker 7: turn ESPN, NFL Network, ABC, NFL plus ESPN Deportees. It's

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Speaker 7: all presented by Verizon. We're going to talk to our

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Speaker 7: Lancer Line and Mark Ross. They're taking us to scouting school,

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Speaker 7: telling us how they evaluate prospects.

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Speaker 12: Thank you, Judy, I'm with my man Mark. He was

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Speaker 12: in the room where it happens, as they said in Hamilton.

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Speaker 12: And let's get right to it. Mark, I want to

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Speaker 12: talk about a couple of positions, running back and safety.

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Speaker 12: We're going to go into the scouting side. We watch

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Speaker 12: hours and hours it takes, but what are we looking for. Well,

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Speaker 12: let's start with running backs. Give me a couple of

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Speaker 12: the traits that you think are the most important traits

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Speaker 12: for running backs. And then maybe one that's a little

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Speaker 12: bit over it.

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Speaker 17: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: Again, as a disclaimer for people out there, there's maybe

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Speaker 10: twenty trades, but we're just trying to break them down

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Speaker 10: a super important ones.

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Speaker 5: First for the running back, his vision and lance.

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Speaker 10: That's the ability to fin a hole, too, to know

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Speaker 10: how to git around your blockers and set those up.

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Speaker 10: And three the anticipation of once you see it, once

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Speaker 10: you set up your block, okay, where am I going?

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Speaker 10: Where the tackler is? And then too, combined with that

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Speaker 10: vision is short area quickness in your movements, and that's

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Speaker 10: just the ability to get from one place to another.

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Speaker 10: You see the whole, I feel the hole, how do

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Speaker 10: I get there? And that's really you could be a

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Speaker 10: big back, a small back, of medium sized back, different sizes,

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Speaker 10: the ability to quickly shift in those tight spaces to get.

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Speaker 5: To that whole.

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Speaker 10: One kind of overrated trait is that big long speed.

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Speaker 10: And as we show on this, the guy who does

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Speaker 10: have this big long speed in Jeremy, I love which

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Speaker 10: separates the good, the very good, the super great, and

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Speaker 10: that's what he's got, that long speed.

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Speaker 5: But you could be a great back and not have

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Speaker 5: that long speed lance.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I love all that.

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Speaker 12: I think visions exceptionally important and the feel for how

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Speaker 12: the run lane is developing. You know, the run lane

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Speaker 12: has a life of its own. You got to feel it.

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Speaker 12: I think something that also plays in there is decisiveness.

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Speaker 12: I want to running back that is decisive. Now we're

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Speaker 12: looking at Generium Price here to me has some of

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Speaker 12: the best feel for run lane development and vision in

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Speaker 12: this draft. I think it's outstanding.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 12: I also love the fact that he is a decisive

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Speaker 12: back and goes where he needs to.

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Speaker 9: I'm with you.

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Speaker 12: Speed completely overrated for a running back. Let's get to safeties. Now,

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Speaker 12: these are the guys on the back end that we

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Speaker 12: need to, you know, the last line of defense. Their playmakers,

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Speaker 12: their run stoppers. There's different types of flavors of safeties.

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Speaker 12: Tell me some important play traits that you look for

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Speaker 12: physical traits in the safety in once again, one more

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Speaker 12: that's a little over eighted.

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Speaker 10: You talking about the different things they do. Number one

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Speaker 10: is the versatility. Hey, I gotta go cover people, I

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Speaker 10: gonna go tackle, i'd of gotta go thump. I gotta

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Speaker 10: get everybody lined up. So that versatility of what safeties

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Speaker 10: do and not just be stuck in one hole one

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Speaker 10: position of Okay, I can only go pull the line

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Speaker 10: of scriminats, I can only play in the box. To

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Speaker 10: be able to be versatile like that guy is Caleb

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Speaker 10: Downs and combined with number two is the instincts, and

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Speaker 10: that guy has outstanding instincts, much like a running back

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Speaker 10: with the vision, the ability to put themselves in situation,

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Speaker 10: anticipate what's going on, anticipate routes, be able to read

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Speaker 10: their defensive lineman, the linebackers up front, flowing where they're

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Speaker 10: going and putting themselves in position to make plays at

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Speaker 10: an overrated one is really part of the physical traits.

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Speaker 10: You'll get to the other one his size, you know.

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Speaker 10: You know, I think Kyle Hamilton has spoiled everybody Nicko

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Speaker 10: Matawari last year of these big old safeties. But you

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Speaker 10: look at most of the great safeties in history, the

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Speaker 10: Ed Reeves and Troy pol models, they weren't monstrous kind

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Speaker 10: of guys. Lance, No, I think you made a great

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Speaker 10: point about the versatility. One of the guys that I

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Speaker 10: think fits at is Emanual McNeil Warren as well out

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Speaker 10: of Toledo.

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Speaker 12: You know, he can play as a down safety. He's

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Speaker 12: a thumper, but he's got some back end stuff to

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Speaker 12: him as well and some ball skills, And I think

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Speaker 12: that gets to the instincts. Dylan Thaneman as well from

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Speaker 12: Oregon Caleb Downs. Those three first round caliber safeties have

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Speaker 12: those instincts that you talked about, and that's one of

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Speaker 12: the reasons. And I'm going to skip to what I

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Speaker 12: think is a little overrated to speed, because when you

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Speaker 12: have great instincts, you can play faster. You recognize where

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Speaker 12: the quarterback's going, you recognize route combinations, and you're able

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Speaker 12: to range faster speeds a little overrated. I do think

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Speaker 12: it's very important to mention tackling Mark because open field tackling,

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Speaker 12: a lot of times you're the last line of defense.

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Speaker 12: You screw that up in a big play is hit

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Speaker 12: that could be the difference in the game. So open

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Speaker 12: field tackling another one, and I think you have to

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Speaker 12: be at least functional and if you're a good tackler,

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Speaker 12: all the better for the safety. That's for Mark in

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Speaker 12: Flance here as our scouts school. We'll do it next

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Speaker 12: week again with some new positions.

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Speaker 1: Four linebackers in DJ's Top fifty, starting with Sunny Styles

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Speaker 1: his third overall prospects j Allen from George, Anthony Hill

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Speaker 1: Junior from Texas Jacob Riguez Texas Tech.

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Speaker 2: If you want to see all fifty.

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Speaker 1: You know where to go nfl dot com slash top

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Speaker 1: fifty for DJ's Top fifty four points. Oh, Baldy, come

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Speaker 1: on in here with me and Judiepatista. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: not a traditional linebacker, but a guy who can play

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Speaker 1: on the edge and get off the ball. R bel

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Speaker 1: Reese number five on DJ's Top fifty.

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Speaker 9: He is pure and he's twitched like, just twitched up.

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Speaker 9: He's a will linebacker.

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Speaker 15: Don't give him the green dot, don't get have him

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Speaker 15: get guys lined up. Let him just go run and

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Speaker 15: hit because he can unlock his hips like nobody else. Now,

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Speaker 15: just let him go find the ball. Let's go chase that.

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Speaker 15: He's gonna get you down. He could come off the edge,

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Speaker 15: he did for Mount Patricia a little bit last year.

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Speaker 15: But he's also a spy. You want to put him

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Speaker 15: on Lamar Jackson on third down or Josh Allen on

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Speaker 15: third down.

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Speaker 9: He can spied a quarterback. He did some of that

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Speaker 9: this year. You can put him on the edge.

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Speaker 15: But I think he's an off the ball inside will

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Speaker 15: linebacker right now, and he is a piece of just

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Speaker 15: excitement waiting to happen when he's out there on the field.

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Speaker 7: Right now, let's talk about the linebackers. The number one

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Speaker 7: linebacker overall, number three player overall sunny styles.

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Speaker 15: He's an amazing individual, honestly, Judy. He came into Ohio

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Speaker 15: stateium was seventeen years old. You know, I ended up

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Speaker 15: playing safety his first two years, and he really evolved,

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Speaker 15: and then he became the starting linebacker in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 15: and you know, had over one hundred tackles on the

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Speaker 15: National championship team. And there's really nothing he can't do.

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Speaker 15: I mean, he's a true mic linebacker. Call the signals,

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Speaker 15: get everybody lined up, make all the audible checks like

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Speaker 15: he can, and then he can play fast on top

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Speaker 15: of it, and so he can thump, he can run,

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Speaker 15: he can cover. You see him dropping into space sometimes

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Speaker 15: you know, in the deep in the deep curl and

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Speaker 15: the deep hook zones, and he can get back the

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Speaker 15: way that guy's got to be able to do to

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Speaker 15: take the pass the game away.

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Speaker 9: So he dj did his homework.

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Speaker 15: When he started him The other guy that I want

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Speaker 15: to bring up here at the linebacker position is a

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Speaker 15: guy that's more known right now maybe for.

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Speaker 9: His mustache, and that's Jacob Rodriguez. The guy is unreal.

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Speaker 9: The guy's got.

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Speaker 15: Thirteen forced fumble since he transferred to Virginia to Texas Tech.

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Speaker 15: He's got a bunch of sacks, he's got six interceptions.

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Speaker 5: I saw him this.

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Speaker 15: Year against BYU and he was the most dominant player

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Speaker 15: on the field that day.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 15: He was a former quarterback in Virginia, a former you know,

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Speaker 15: h back there at Virginia. They transferred and became a

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Speaker 15: linebacker there. And he's got raw, raw, real instinct.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 15: He has perfected the peanut punch. He can knock that

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Speaker 15: ball out. It's a real skill, like there is like

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Speaker 15: he just has that ability.

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Speaker 9: And he had over two hundred and fifty tackles the

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Speaker 9: last two years, so he is Uh, he tested very well.

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Speaker 15: But he's an exciting player just because he's like urgent care.

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Speaker 15: He can just have instant diagnosis of what the hell

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Speaker 15: you're doing on the other.

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Speaker 9: Side of the ball.

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Speaker 7: That was an outstanding Baldies breakdown, Baldi. We need some

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Speaker 7: Baldies breakdown swag like you're wearing right now.

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Speaker 6: Send it to our homes please.

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Speaker 18: If you don't mind it, look if you wear it, yes,

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Speaker 18: just try just try code Insiders.

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Speaker 2: See what that does for you. Judy, Okay, alright, probably not.

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Speaker 9: I'll put the link up tonight.

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Speaker 6: Make thanks, Baldy.

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Speaker 4: If you like the Insiders, and judging by the fact

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Speaker 4: that you're watching right now, you do, this is where

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Speaker 4: through Friday, on NFL Network, NFL Plus YouTube. There's a

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Speaker 4: bunch of social media eclips when I tweet it. There's

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Speaker 4: a lot of places you can get the Insiders. It

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Speaker 4: is scheduled, it is regular, and it is awesome and spectacular.

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Speaker 4: As by the way, are the Atlanta Falcons new uniforms.

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Speaker 4: They are very red, not all of them. The ones

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Speaker 4: that are white are very very white. Anyway, I thought

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Speaker 4: these are cool, fire, as one might say.

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Speaker 5: The Atlanta Falcons got a lot to.

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Speaker 4: Be excited for, and now they have new uniforms to

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Speaker 4: be excited for as well.

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Speaker 7: You know, if who's getting all girl dad, lots of

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Speaker 7: new clothes coming. Josh Allen and Hallie Steinfeld had their

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Speaker 7: first baby and it's a ya. Congratulations to Josh Allen

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Speaker 7: and Haley Steinfeld. Can't wait to see the baby pictures.

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Speaker 1: Guys, first comes love, then comes marriage. So let's go

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Speaker 1: to the nuptials of Alex Ward, Raiders long snapper, and

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Speaker 1: Angela kolakov Ward, former tennis professional tennis player holding there

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Speaker 1: from war. She gave credit to aj Cole, the Raiders punter,

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Speaker 1: for the holding tips.

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Speaker 2: Listen, that is really good, really good to get that

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Speaker 2: ball down like I know, it's really good. Ian.

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Speaker 9: How do I know.

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Speaker 4: Anyone could do that? Any idiot could No, not any idiot.

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Speaker 4: Most idiots could do a hold properly. Not this idiot.

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Speaker 4: That Garfall has no hands. He's got hands like feet. Seriously,

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Speaker 4: I could actually do this with my feet. Mike can't

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Speaker 4: even do with his hands. All I want is, Mike,

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Speaker 4: I don't understand. You used to be an athlete. Didn't

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Speaker 4: you play football and baseball at some point.

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Speaker 5: Back in the day. You can't catch? Why can't you catch.

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Speaker 2: From time to time?

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Speaker 1: I played tennis from time to time, but I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: go up against Angela kolakov Ward and that either. She

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Speaker 1: did a great job, so you can catch it.

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Speaker 12: Mike, You're so bad.

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Speaker 2: He snapped it. Look at that, look at that's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I am all congratulations.

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Speaker 5: Laces out in everything. We should watching it again.

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Speaker 2: Raven's Coach interview with him on Friday. Be with Us