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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. I hope everyone's holiday season was joyful

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Speaker 1: and that your families are all safe and healthy. I

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Speaker 1: want to take this time to thank all the people

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Speaker 1: people behind the scenes whose tireless efforts boyd, the players, coaches,

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Speaker 1: football ops, folks, enabling us to get to get this done. First,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank ownership for allowing us to do

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Speaker 1: what was financially necessary to allow us to operate as

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Speaker 1: close to the norm as possible. Given a new head

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Speaker 1: So I can't thank ownership enough for that. Specifically in

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Speaker 1: our building, I want to thank Christine, pro Cops, Bill Heller,

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Speaker 1: Justin Warren, Victim McLoughlin, Jerry Mead, Kevin Abrams, and of

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Speaker 1: course Ronnie Bonds. Their efforts enabled our season to happen

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Speaker 1: as close to normal whatever that is now, as possible,

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Speaker 1: and UM we owe them all a dint of gratitude.

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Speaker 1: UM football team made quality strides from from beginning to end.

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Speaker 1: We certainly have areas to improve upon, But Joe and

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Speaker 1: his staff had a productive, very productive year, and now

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Speaker 1: as we enter our roster building season, we have a

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Speaker 1: full realization there is still work to do. We just

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Speaker 1: got off off with John obviously, and he kind of

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Speaker 1: echoed some of your sentiments, but also pointed to two

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Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, which is obviously your first year as general matter,

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Speaker 1: and said, as an organization, you guys have acknowledged some

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Speaker 1: miscalculations that you guys made. Um, have those miscalculations set

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Speaker 1: you up for success now because of what you learned

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Speaker 1: from what you did back then? Uh? And do you

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Speaker 1: years have put you guys in the position to succeed? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'll tell you this. You know we're

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Speaker 1: always learning, Okay, doesn't you know? And so the shot

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Speaker 1: the cliff Notes answer it to your question is yes, okay, Um,

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Speaker 1: you're always gonna You're always gonna learn. I understand. I

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Speaker 1: I go over every every final decision we make. I

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Speaker 1: review it in my head over and over and over again.

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Speaker 1: Good or bad? Oh, by the way, you know, I

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Speaker 1: and you gotta be honest with yourself. You have to

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Speaker 1: debrief and and you've got to be brutally honest with yourself.

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Speaker 1: So you know, as as as I've already you know admitted,

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Speaker 1: you know, eighteen was not a stellar year personnel wise,

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Speaker 1: but we've learned from our mistakes where we have our

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Speaker 1: processes are better and I think, you know, this past

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Speaker 1: continue in that vein Marker, New York, coss Hey, Daves,

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Speaker 1: thanks for doing this. Um, can you be specific about

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Speaker 1: the things that you saw on Joe and Joe Judge

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Speaker 1: this year? And uh and what was your reaction to

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Speaker 1: last night of the year. Well, Mark, how you doing? Kids?

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Speaker 1: The You know, the bottom line is, you know what

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Speaker 1: Joe is, his big picture of you and then the

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Speaker 1: follow up on the attention to detail. That's what's really critical.

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Speaker 1: So he he starts today and gets to z okay. Um,

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Speaker 1: So that that is huge, I mean that is really huge.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he's a very bright guy. And uh,

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Speaker 1: but that's that's what you know is really sticks out

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Speaker 1: So you know, he's he and his staff. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I obviously it's it's it's about playing sixty minutes,

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Speaker 1: about you know, that's how it's how, it's really how

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Speaker 1: you how you live your life. So you know, he

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Speaker 1: said what he said, and you know, trying to move on.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Day, I'm rock newsday. Dave. I'm curious. Uh. You

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Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman, Comma almost seventy How long did? How long

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Speaker 1: do you want to stick around for? Well, you know

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Speaker 1: the things we feel like we need to do. Initially,

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Speaker 1: but again, it's a lot of it's going to be

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Speaker 1: about the Caps, you know what, you know, the drop

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Speaker 1: I think we've you know, first of all, the culture piece.

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Speaker 1: and we've made progress there. The locker room is terrific.

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Speaker 1: Big Blue View, Dave. I was gonna ask you about

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Speaker 1: the playmakers, but you know, you just kind of addressed

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Speaker 1: Daniel Where do you see him? You know, two years

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Speaker 1: He's made of the right stuff mentally and physically. Um, again,

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Speaker 1: that moving forward? Well? You know, you know, listen for everybody,

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Speaker 1: makes everything an event. You have to you have to

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Speaker 1: you know, just everything, absolutely everything. Everything is an event.

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Speaker 1: So it's you know, Patty, you know it takes energy

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Speaker 1: You know there were days you guys are looking at it,

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Speaker 1: looking at your four walls. You know you can't come

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Speaker 1: It puts a mental load on you. But I feel good,

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Speaker 1: I feel strong. I had my twenty four months review

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Speaker 1: with my UH lymphoma doctor and he says, you're healthy

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Speaker 1: as a hoss and let's just keep moving. So I'm

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Speaker 1: ready to rock. Chris Carlin, ye, you have two product

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Speaker 1: question um number one. Thanks for doing this, and I

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Speaker 1: guess when you mentioned it with Daniel a few minutes ago. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the idea of three offensive coordinators in three years and

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Speaker 1: the potential teams asking to talk to Jason that you

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Speaker 1: look back at how the injury was handled, what things

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Speaker 1: have been better served if we had held back another

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. You know, but we felt strong. You know.

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Speaker 1: So I walked down this all to Chris Pettitt and

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Speaker 1: I said, Joe, you're not gonna see your players until August.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's what we have to plan for.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's where you know, Victim McLaughlin and just

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Speaker 1: But no, we didn't scale back any expectations. Last one,

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Speaker 1: last one here, Tom, Hey Dave, how are you doing? Hey? Tom?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Nothing much? You talked about how the salary

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering how creative or you have to be

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Speaker 1: be next year? No, we haven't had we haven't started that. Tom,

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Speaker 1: I haven't had that conversation with Nate. You know, he

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Speaker 1: There's the bottom line is until we know, until we

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Speaker 1: plan as best we can. Obviously we know who our

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