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Speaker 1: Dennis Hicky, Chris Rosetti and his staff Ryan Cowden did

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Speaker 1: league and you know we we ended up claiming UH

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Speaker 1: it also sets the table for us moving forward. Practice

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Speaker 2: Go through this evening.

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Speaker 1: So I just I thought it would be important to

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Speaker 3: There are guys you claimed who you didn't get because

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Speaker 3: there were teams highed.

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Speaker 2: We put in one claim.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So how do you feel with your cornerback to

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Speaker 3: position right now, because that's a position people thought you

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Speaker 4: If you've gone enough to address that position this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean draft and Drew Phillips was a We're

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Speaker 1: a position. We'll continue to look at it as we

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Speaker 1: upgrade there, we will. I think there was again eleven

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Speaker 1: We just talked about the twenty six players I believe

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Speaker 1: that's an important position when we're making these trade calls

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Speaker 1: or depth call, you know, depth calls with other organizations.

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Speaker 1: But you're going to go if you called every team,

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Speaker 5: Look through it.

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Speaker 1: So again, like I said, every every position, well, we'll

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Speaker 6: You were having h Nick McLeod get the first pack there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to compete it out, you know, flats

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Speaker 3: How do you see cornerback two? Do you see it

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a good feel for it.

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Speaker 7: I'm not going to share it with you right now,

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Speaker 7: but I have a good idea of the direction that's going.

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Speaker 8: Joe.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we've improved in several areas. But again,

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Speaker 10: Obviously want to improve every year, right, I mean, do

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Speaker 2: The three again? Same thing, like we talk about it

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Speaker 1: You're one or two injuries away from you know, again,

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Speaker 1: again I'm confident in our staff. I'm confident the players

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Speaker 4: Joe, what to you would make a successful season this year?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, again, I'm not going to get into what's successful,

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Speaker 3: Were you surprised by any of your players that cleared

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Speaker 2: Here was that it said, again, were you.

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Speaker 9: Surprised by any of the players that you guys had

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Speaker 10: So how hard is it to really improve a team

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Speaker 1: I think probably the biggest area where you can do

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 1: To gather the best practice squad that we can where again,

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Speaker 1: But to me, that's you know, that's your depth throughout

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Speaker 2: There's not a lot.

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Speaker 1: So to me, the emphasis right now we'll be making

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think most rosters are set.

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Speaker 10: And why why were you so judicious with just the

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Speaker 1: history says you can find some good, good football players

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Speaker 2: And you know again that's you know the way it fell.

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Speaker 1: There was there was one claim and also when you

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Speaker 1: that that affects that position room too, So you got

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Speaker 9: You see what.

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Speaker 6: Brian Burns or one guy make it to the defense.

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Speaker 6: I mean you're starting primarily mostly guys either a few

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Speaker 5: But again it's it's team football.

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Speaker 11: Way, what's the challenge you get over ten days? Still

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Speaker 5: On Yeah, we've had two good We've had two good days.

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Speaker 5: The coaches are you know our beginning.

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Speaker 7: We've we worked hard in the offseason and I would

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Speaker 5: It's now the pieces.

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Speaker 7: So now once these teams have their fifty three and

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Speaker 5: You know, you're doing.

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Speaker 7: A lot of work right now as a coaching staff.

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Speaker 5: So we're focusing on us. The players will.

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Speaker 7: Have three days off here after tomorrow, if you're mandatory,

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Speaker 11: If you guys, you said you went pretty hard today.

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Speaker 7: With the five guys we have, knowing they've only practiced

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Speaker 7: They've played a lot of football. They understand what it takes.

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Speaker 7: That's why we put GVR at center, just to give

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Speaker 3: You've said you've gone back a couple of times and

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Speaker 3: Are you convinced that he could be a swing for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll work that probably next week.

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Speaker 1: Like they'd say, we're still we're still doing you know,

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Speaker 6: I have you guys contemplated that at this point, No.

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Speaker 3: Would you like a Brian would you like a swing

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Speaker 7: So again, I think there's some flexibility with the depth

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Speaker 9: Joe, what do you how do you feel about Daniel

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Speaker 1: How do I feel? I feel good about it. The

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Speaker 10: Expect to keep three quarterbacks on the fifty three all

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Speaker 2: We just think it's probably the best thing to do

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Speaker 10: If that rule hadn't if that rule hadn't changed in

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Speaker 1: Uh, they continue to progress get better again, Drew, Drew

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Speaker 1: You know from what you guys have seen Daniel early

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Speaker 1: You know, I understand there's maybe a throw you know,

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Speaker 4: You look this more, Joe, after the joint practices, the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got to go out and execute, you know,

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Speaker 2: They got to go out and make plays.

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Speaker 1: The team is the team right now, and we've got

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Speaker 2: There's only seventeen of them, so they're they're all important.

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Speaker 1: And I'll just say, in my twenty four years in

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Speaker 3: you know wh John Marra talked to us in camp.

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Speaker 2: You said you want see significant improvement. So what how

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Speaker 2: do you measure that? What does that look like to

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Speaker 2: you this season?

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Speaker 1: You guys, you guys asked him. You guys had a

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Speaker 1: chance to talk to him. That's that's he said, significant improvement.

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Speaker 1: So you guys talked to the the most important.

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Speaker 2: Person to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, again, we don't Dave's and I don't approach this

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Speaker 1: job without not saying we want to go out and win.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's what we're here for.

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Speaker 1: That's why we work our tails off, that's why we're

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Speaker 1: here all night last night doing the waiver cut down.

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Speaker 2: That's why we're out all spring on pro days. That's

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Speaker 2: why we do all the work not to come up

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Speaker 2: here and not win games. So that's that's always going

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Speaker 2: to be the goal. I mean, I don't understand, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, I get the question, but the goals to

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Speaker 2: win games always