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Speaker 1: and kind of start building our team for this year.

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Speaker 1: Do you view this, Brian, as an opportunity if you

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Speaker 1: get to get to know the new guys too. How

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Speaker 1: unique is the situation for you, Brian, because even in

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Speaker 1: That's not unique at all because I think I've been

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Speaker 1: type of things. So for me, I come out every

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Speaker 1: But it comes, Yeah, I think the biggest goal, at

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Speaker 1: least for me personally, is just you know, trying to

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, it was great to get

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Speaker 1: so you got to kind of get back into it,

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Speaker 1: And I think, um, you know, we got thirteen opportunities

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Speaker 1: sacking them on top of one and one another, you know,

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Speaker 1: really kind of builds up into training camp. How beneficial

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Speaker 1: have you found OTA is to be over the course

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Speaker 1: of your career for what you do wants it really matters. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome. I think, especially for quarterbacks, there's nothing like

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Speaker 1: defense like ours, who's gonna you know, make you think

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Speaker 1: opportunity to go out and continue to learn even ten

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Speaker 1: I always enjoy it. It's it's the time of year

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And if there's something new you want

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Speaker 1: do it. At this point, is there's still some engagement

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Speaker 1: between you and Thomps He still we're always out basic. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're great friends. I mean we talk all the time.

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Speaker 1: You don't know. It's an ota, but if you remember

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Speaker 1: the play, I'd love to ask you about it, because

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Speaker 1: I passed the James Wade in the back rate fifty

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Speaker 1: take me back through it. Yeah, you know, obviously trying

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Speaker 1: made a good play. Thomas mentioned wanting to spend more

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Speaker 1: time with his family. How do you do it your

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Speaker 1: your father, yourself, how do you balance football with with

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Speaker 1: your family. Yeah, I mean I think everybody's you know, individual, Um,

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Speaker 1: So it's tough. I mean, I think everybody sees obviously,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. It was nice. You got to you got

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Speaker 1: the DVD players in the back. Yeah, we do. You

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get a massage, You're gonna get some treatment,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna watch some film on your own. I think

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Speaker 1: it can vary from day to day, Brian, just a

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Speaker 1: distraction the times out here? Anything, No, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: know my teammates, you know, we're all focused on getting

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a destruction any anyway at all.

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Speaker 1: It's strange at all throwing to guys with numbers in

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Speaker 1: the fifties. That's he asked me. They're a fifteen nine

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Speaker 1: a defense. I'm like, I'm look, I'm thinking that supposed

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Speaker 1: readjust your mind to be like I can throw to

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Speaker 1: guys in the fifties and the sixties out here. Um,

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Speaker 1: So it's more the defensive rookies when they're wearing fifty nine,

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Speaker 1: you just got to take them one day at a time.

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Speaker 1: So I think Danny's doing a good job.