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Speaker 2: Yeah. So Eric Gray is a guy you know we

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Speaker 2: he did some of Tennessee. Uh, comfortable catching punts in

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Speaker 2: the Senior Bowl, so you know again he'll come in

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Speaker 2: and compete with our group. Trey Hawkins, you know, took

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Speaker 2: him late in the sixth you know from old Dominion corner.

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Speaker 2: You know, high weight, speed prospect that you know has

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Speaker 2: good developmental prospect for Winks defense and you know projects

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Speaker 2: well to special teams due to his physical traits and toughness.

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Speaker 2: H Jordan Riley you know again, big body guy. It's

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Speaker 2: And then uh Geo Uh Javarius Owens another guy we like,

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Speaker 2: So you know, excited with the group of guys we got.

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Speaker 2: You know, all have very good traits, you know, competing

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Speaker 2: And then get the text here soon that the draft's

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Speaker 2: you know, with free agency college for agency, which is

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Speaker 3: A little bit more about the process of he's not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's at Oregon. So like you walk

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Speaker 2: different schemes may not have you know, the production, the tackles,

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about the whole thing all overall?

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Speaker 4: Did you fill all the needs you want or still.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, We're always going to be looking to continue to improve,

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Speaker 2: now is another opportunity to add add players in depth

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Speaker 2: we'll have a rookie mini camp on you know, next weekend,

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Speaker 2: so we'll have some players that we'll be here for that.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, again, did did we you know, ideally you

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Speaker 2: So we'll continue to you know, find out maybe maybe

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Speaker 4: Show you sort of start of the all season talking

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Speaker 5: Do you feel like you have enough depth on the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's something again we can we can continue

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Speaker 2: And you know, again we don't we don't play till

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Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you a little bit about your

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Speaker 4: Are you ever fearful of giving up too much information that.

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Speaker 2: might as well. You know, that's your only chance to

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Speaker 7: Looking back, compared to maybe what you thought coming into

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Speaker 7: you, you know, you're gonna get Bank, Schmidt and Hiatt in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have liked to know how you're gonna

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Speaker 2: once you get into that second round, you really don't.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's everybody sees things differently, and you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, as planned, the group of players you think

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Speaker 2: They're gonna, you know, assimilate into our culture and work

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Speaker 1: This isn't the draft question, but I don't know when

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Speaker 7: So Joe, I actually go to guys maybe even more Bryant.

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Speaker 7: Do you would you like, assuming sick ones and going

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Speaker 7: that sustainable for running back to play eighty plus percent

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Speaker 7: just have part of the reason why you wanted to

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say it's probably a better question during the season.

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Speaker 6: You know, we're in what is it's not April seventeenth, What.

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Speaker 4: Is it April?

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Speaker 6: What twenty ninth? So we'll cross that bridge when we

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Speaker 5: Was it more to you that he did?

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Speaker 7: You drafted your running back and it was a guy

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Speaker 6: No? I mean, look what I tell Joe and and

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Speaker 6: the scouts has find good players people that we can

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Speaker 6: You don't necessarily always agree, whether it's scouts a scout coach,

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Speaker 6: the scout coach to coach, but you you sit down,

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Speaker 6: you talk about these players. I'm excited about all these players.

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Speaker 6: I think there was a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 6: good discussions, and I think you just find good players

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Speaker 6: say this, you know, so I'm done coaching is get

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Speaker 6: good players and find a way to use them. You know.

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Speaker 6: So like necessarily you have a playbook, but our playbook

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Speaker 6: really isn't finished quite yet. You know, we just added

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Speaker 7: It out much does raise skill set and lend itself

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll see. I mean, start looking at them in

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Speaker 2: You're your conversations with Saquon last week, would you characterize

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Speaker 5: Where are you up from the plan on kid Joe?

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Speaker 3: Cause I'm there was the contract that was off originally

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk this coming week now that the draft's over,

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Speaker 1: Where you guys are cap wise, do you need to

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Speaker 2: And so if we need to, we have we have

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we're working through some things over the next

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Speaker 2: Where do you thinks stand with Dexter Lawrence and those negotiations?

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Speaker 2: You know, his representation has a lot of you know,

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Speaker 6: Back up with with everybody. Joe, how uh from your

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Speaker 2: I mean, can you think of any other time that

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Speaker 6: And is does that come with risks?

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Speaker 2: Or well, if you're gonna do it, that's a good

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Speaker 7: Joe, do you feel good about this draft?

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Speaker 6: I do? I do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean it's not just this draft. This

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Speaker 2: They're coming from various spots. You know, some of them

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Speaker 2: to grow in our culture. And but right now, yeah,

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Speaker 5: Much in the you know, so much fools, ratings, you know,

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Speaker 5: every everything, it's so much that how do you feel

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Speaker 2: You know that that lasts about two days now. I

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Speaker 2: You know, I think there's a process. And do I

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Speaker 5: If you're in this a long time, when do you

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Speaker 6: After the draft? Yeah, you're talking about the minute after

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Speaker 5: I mean when would you think you would be able

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Speaker 2: Next three or four you know, I had to get

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Speaker 2: So again, we're we're always looking to get better, regardless

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Speaker 2: always strive and there'll be a standard to you know,

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Speaker 4: Joe, you think back to last year. I remember you

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Speaker 6: Yeah that's just shore. We picked twenty five and not five.

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Speaker 4: Setting it up. You obviously wanted things a certain way.

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Speaker 4: You had ideas last year. Yeah, I'm curious now after

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a really neat feature, and we

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, like they were saying those you know, the Scouts

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Speaker 4: I assume in the next you know, forty eight to

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Speaker 2: And you know, we've got a good group throughout the

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