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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens opened

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Speaker 1: the season with a twenty five to nine victory over

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. It's good to start the year in

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Speaker 1: the win column. Now, the flip side of that great

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Speaker 1: win is that they did suffer some significant injuries in

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Speaker 1: this one. They lost JK. Dobbins for the season with

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Speaker 1: the torn achilles and also dealt with a handful of

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Speaker 1: other injuries. On Monday afternoon, head coach John Harbaugh met

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Speaker 1: with the media for his standard Monday afternoon press conference,

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Speaker 1: and he updated the media about the status of those

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Speaker 1: players who dealt with the injuries on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, I just want to make mention

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Speaker 2: of nine to eleven being today being nine to eleven.

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Speaker 2: Most of us our age, we're a lot younger. Even

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Speaker 2: remember where we were on that Tuesday morning. I was

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Speaker 2: in Philly game planning for a game. Good sir, I

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Speaker 2: beg it's the Giants. I'm not sure, but and just

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Speaker 2: happened to see the second one go in and something

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Speaker 2: you never forget. Been to the Memorial now a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago, would highly recommend it to anybody and

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Speaker 2: everybody go spend as much time there as you can.

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Speaker 2: The stories are amazing and compelling. So for you know,

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Speaker 2: for our country one important day that is as far

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Speaker 2: as the game, just really happy and please with the win.

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Speaker 2: And I'd say the number one thing pleased with is

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Speaker 2: the effort. The effort that our guys played with was

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Speaker 2: about as good as it gets. It was standard setting effort,

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Speaker 2: you know, in all three phases, and that was something

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Speaker 2: that you can hang your hat on and you can

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Speaker 2: win with. And the physicality was there along with that.

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Speaker 2: So just really happy with that. Also the idea that

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Speaker 2: we we made plays that we had to make in

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Speaker 2: critical situations to win the game. I thought guys came

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Speaker 2: up with plays, stops, conversions, touchdowns, getting the ball and

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Speaker 2: field goal range, making kicks, all the things, even punts.

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Speaker 2: You know, you look at the Jordan's punt early on

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Speaker 2: plus yard punt, fifty plus yard net, flipping field position

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Speaker 2: from your own ten yard line. That's pretty pretty great

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Speaker 2: play that you know, sometimes doesn't get noticed. So those

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Speaker 2: kind of players were made during the game. So really

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Speaker 2: happy with that. The things that we you know, is

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Speaker 2: obviously it's always this way after your first game, and

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Speaker 2: really it's this way after every game. But there's so

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Speaker 2: many things we have to work on, so many things

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Speaker 2: from an operation standpoint, both sides of the ball, and

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Speaker 2: special teams, execution standpoint, both sides of the ball and

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Speaker 2: special teams. Penalties, just way, way too many penalties. Too

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Speaker 2: many times we took chips and we put them back

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Speaker 2: in front of our opponent. You know, we don't want

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Speaker 2: to do that. We want to keep the chips, to

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Speaker 2: hoard the chips. You win with more chips, and we

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Speaker 2: don't need to be giving them things that are that

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Speaker 2: are you know, caused by us not doing the things

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Speaker 2: be looking at that real hard this week and looking

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Speaker 2: hard to improve in those areas. That's, you know, what

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Speaker 2: we refer to as winning football. So we'll be talking

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Speaker 2: about that. But individual efforts, uh, focus, playing hard. Want

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Speaker 2: to really proud of the guys and really proud of

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Speaker 2: the win against a good Houston team. I've said this

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Speaker 2: you mark it down, you'll you'll see that's a good

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Speaker 3: So what questions you have.

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Speaker 4: John, as far as injuries, Do you have any updates

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Speaker 4: one Marcus Marcus Williams running stally in Toyland.

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Speaker 3: I do, I do again.

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Speaker 2: I just confirmed JK he's going to have this the uh,

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Speaker 2: the Achilles surgery to repair that. And he texted me

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Speaker 2: than before. So here his spirits will be good. Marcus

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Speaker 2: doctors right now. He'll be out for a while. Uh

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Speaker 2: may not be a season ender though. Uh there's different

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Speaker 2: And then it's soon because he'll have to make a

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Speaker 3: Tyler has a has.

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Speaker 2: An ankle sprain, so i'd say week to week right now. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Ronnie has a knee brain Uh, so again that'd be

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Speaker 3: We're at it.

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Speaker 2: Marlon has a shot. Yeah, thanks Jeff, He's got a shot.

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Speaker 2: But depends, you know, it's uh, it's it's pretty early

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Speaker 3: So we'll see same thing. Mark looks good, you know,

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Speaker 2: I would prefer those to the practice, actually to the

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Speaker 5: Was there any kind of stuff that Mark Price kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just you'd never know. I don't. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It's just somes. We hoped he'd make it, couldn't make

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Speaker 3: it to the game. We were trying. He was trying,

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Speaker 3: just didn't didn't get there. John.

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Speaker 6: Was there a point where Marcus Boyles tried to play through.

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Speaker 7: His injury during the game.

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Speaker 2: There was, it happened. It happened. Uh, didn't really, he

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Speaker 2: I mean, Marcus played greats. It's a tough one for us,

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Speaker 2: There's no doubt, you know, and I'm disappointed that, you know,

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Speaker 2: Marcus Uh. All three of those guys are are great players.

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Speaker 2: You know, those are guys that were hoping to get

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Speaker 3: But uh he.

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Speaker 2: Did, he played, he played some more plays, played well

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Speaker 3: He had checked out and that's what they found in

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Speaker 4: But you still played and filled in for Marcus pretty

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Speaker 4: extensively last year when he's on the list.

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Speaker 3: That helped you a little bit in terms of knowing what.

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Speaker 5: He takes back.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, were still gonna play great defense.

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Speaker 2: I mean I feel really still really good about our defense,

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Speaker 2: you know, because Gino is going to be Gino. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's not going to try to be Marcus. He's going

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Speaker 2: can play very well back there.

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Speaker 3: So got all the conference in the world.

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Speaker 2: And Gino and Darryl Worley and anybody else we might

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Speaker 2: those guys, especially Gino who's done it before, Yes, one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent, all the conference in the world, Geno, I know.

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Speaker 4: Patrick McCard went in and tackle once Ronie went.

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Speaker 7: Now, is that kind of the player that stayed with him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Patrick's our backup tackle both sides, and uh, you

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Speaker 2: know Patrick's played a lot of football, so you know

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Speaker 3: He'll play well.

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Speaker 4: And Tyler, I mean, is it is it you can

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Speaker 4: look back and say, well, I'm really glad to really

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Speaker 4: get Musterer on the press.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely right, and Sam did a good job as your father.

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Speaker 4: Melan Gordon will be well up from the practice fund when.

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Speaker 2: He's outside of the organization for running back happened before.

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Speaker 3: Now, I think that we're good. I like the guys

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Speaker 2: Melvin is gonna you know, he's here for a reason

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Speaker 2: and uh certainly didn't expect it to be this quick,

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Speaker 2: but uh, that's why he's here, and that's why he

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Speaker 2: and he likes the the the environment. And uh, he's

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Speaker 2: a heck of a talented guy. He saw him in

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Speaker 2: the preseason. He's he's a proven back. So I'm very

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Speaker 2: very glad that he's here.

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Speaker 4: So I'm sorry John that was when you say you're good,

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Speaker 4: you don't foresee looking outside the organization?

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, you know, no, I don't. That's not

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Speaker 2: But you know, if you want to ask Eric what

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Speaker 4: John Wan with JK Domans, I think everyone kind of

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Speaker 7: JK was gonna be the lead back going into the season.

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Speaker 7: Now that he is, he's done for the year, how

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Speaker 7: do you foresee it? Do you feel it will be

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Speaker 7: a kind of committee between those three eyes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just I wouldn't even I wouldn't have put

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Speaker 2: answer the question in those terms after? You know, we've

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Speaker 2: that's pretty clear. You know, and your ole guys, you

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Speaker 2: play personnel groups. There's a lot of strategy to it,

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Speaker 2: and all every single guy in your roster's got to

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Speaker 2: be able to win for you as a starter, you know,

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Speaker 2: And so I pretty much can see you consider all

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Speaker 2: and they all have to be able to play that well.

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Speaker 3: They're on the team for a reason.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's because they're good enough to do it,

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Speaker 2: and so and all those backs are going to play

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Speaker 2: quite a bit.

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Speaker 6: Coach about JK, A lot of the players seem visibly

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Speaker 6: affected by the news of his injury. What is your

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Speaker 6: general message to the team when an injury impassed?

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Speaker 2: The players like that really don't have a general message.

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Speaker 2: You know, the message is understood. The guys understand it.

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Speaker 2: I think you know you you You were also probably

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Speaker 2: hearing the question the way they answered the quesquestions, and

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Speaker 2: then they answered it in that sense, they understand what

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Speaker 2: it means and kind of goes back to the last

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Speaker 2: conversation in terms of all everybody's a starter, and now

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Speaker 2: now certain guys get opportunities to step up and show

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Speaker 2: what they can do, and we'll be counting on those

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Speaker 2: guys to do a great job. And I know they

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Speaker 2: will so disappointed when injuries happened, Excited for the guys

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Speaker 2: who get an opportunity, and you move forward because the

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Speaker 2: games keep coming.

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Speaker 8: Jo Staying with the running backs, Justice Hill. You talked

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Speaker 8: about him a little bit as a guy who's you know,

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Speaker 8: he's viene or one and always done well on special teams,

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Speaker 8: but seems like whatever he's asked to do something that's

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Speaker 2: Back, right, Matt Cliff, you know, obviously is the way

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Speaker 2: he's played speaks for itself, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you guys have seen him play.

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Speaker 2: The fans have all seen him play now through the years,

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Speaker 2: but also in the preseason and yesterday, So I don't

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Speaker 2: Lot of moving parts, you know, and we've got to

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Speaker 3: Our guys are the guys. That's what the tone in

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Speaker 3: Know, yeah he did.

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Speaker 3: I think he was just kind of excited to be

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Speaker 3: I think there was only one.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean that is, but there was more

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Speaker 3: And uh, he's gonna have to be.

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Speaker 2: He's someone that that is an element of his game

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Speaker 3: We saw Bill get quite a lot of them. Snaps yesterday.

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Speaker 2: But he's a starting wide receiver, so he played like

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Speaker 7: There's a ton of injuries league wide yesterday. And you

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Speaker 3: There always has to be a reason for them.

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Speaker 2: collision sport.

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Speaker 3: And the more games you play the more the more

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Speaker 3: of those.

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Speaker 2: Injuries are gonna happen, and so you know that happens

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Speaker 2: in the preseason and the regular season. So I believe

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Speaker 2: I believe the NFL and the and the Players Association

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Speaker 2: are of the right mind, you know, and they want

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Speaker 2: to do what they can do, and they're just they'll

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Speaker 2: get together and they'll come up with a good solution

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Speaker 2: and we'll see some major changes in the way the

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Speaker 2: preseasons are are built in the future with.

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Speaker 7: The long ramp up, are you seeing be the startup

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Speaker 7: treating camp earlier?

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to I mean that's pretty obvious. Yeah, what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: So there's way, there's ways to do that and figure

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Speaker 2: it out and with the whole big picture of mind.

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Speaker 2: You know, from February till till September.

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