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Speaker 1: for personal reasons. Yeah, just happened with Wesley and Day.

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Speaker 1: What happened with him ankle? His ankle has been a

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Speaker 1: little sore, but checking it out. How wide open is

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Speaker 1: and Chat's lad and in to Day and their games

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Speaker 1: has going in and out. Now we're gonna play this

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Speaker 1: game out and we're gonna make a decision on who

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Speaker 1: the backups are. So it's that wide open. I want

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Speaker 1: to be seen in Perkins this summer. Uh a lot

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Speaker 1: of good things. You know. I don't know him as

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Speaker 1: well as it's some um, but he's he's he's steadily improved,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's say it's fair to say that he

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Speaker 1: was probably a little rusty when he first got back

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Speaker 1: at it, but I think he's been made steady improvement

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Speaker 1: throughout the Obviously, like Corey Valentine, a lot did draft.

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Speaker 1: The guy had a division to school. But because of

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Speaker 1: that background, you know, and what you've seen of him

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Speaker 1: so far this summer, is he a little bit more advanced?

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Speaker 1: Maybe he thought he was or I don't know that,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's there's certain positions where you know you

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Speaker 1: can bring in a guy that from a small school.

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Speaker 1: You know they've been able to you know, they have

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Speaker 1: the traits that you're looking for. And you know, he's

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Speaker 1: a he's a very mature young man, very smart, he

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Speaker 1: gets it. Um, he understands the game, and he works

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Speaker 1: very hard and so um, you know, I think you

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Speaker 1: draft the players with the idea that they're all going

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Speaker 1: to be successful and be successful quickly, understanding it's going

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Speaker 1: to take all of them a little bit of time.

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Speaker 1: So um, but we're pleased with the progress he's making

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Speaker 1: for sure. Teach you something about him looking back now, well,

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Speaker 1: I think anytime we have adversity in our life, it

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Speaker 1: know you you hate to see somebody go through that.

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Speaker 1: But the way he's handled it, um emotionally, mentally, his

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Speaker 1: conversations behind the building, you know, asking for people to

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Speaker 1: help him, and he's he displayed to us that he's

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Speaker 1: a very smart, very mature young man, and he's got

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Speaker 1: a great really a high degree of toughness to him.

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Speaker 1: What is your comfort level? But obviously golden then be

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Speaker 1: able to first four with with guys like Latimer and

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Speaker 1: Fouler and at what what you've seen from them? And

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Speaker 1: how important is Thursday night? Maybe that one more. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable with the guys that we have, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna put the roster together and get

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Speaker 1: then obviously we're gonna be able to see some things

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Speaker 1: in this game from some you know, from the players

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Speaker 1: that are playing that will help us, you know, determine

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Speaker 1: who's on the fifty three. What specifically do you like

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Speaker 1: him at Benny and Uh, there's a veteran presence there. Um,

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Speaker 1: they know how to play the game. You know, they played,

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Speaker 1: they played a lot of football, and there's a there's

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Speaker 1: a confidence that they know what to do and that, um,

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Speaker 1: they'll compete and make place I had on a personal level.

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Speaker 1: I mean, as a coach, you have to make decisions.

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Speaker 1: But is it tough to sit down and look at

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Speaker 1: the kids and say you dreams over for now or whatever? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I don't usually say it that way. Um. I think

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Speaker 1: I think we're all sort of real about what's going

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Speaker 1: each one of those conversations is as different as the

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Speaker 1: player that you're talking to, because they're all at different

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Speaker 1: stages of their career. You know, some of them are

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Speaker 1: older players, some of them are younger players. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: these players are going to get an opportunity, hopefully someplace

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Speaker 1: the season goes on. So, uh, we just open and

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Speaker 1: honest about everything. And you know, we all go into

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Speaker 1: knowing that, um, we're gonna have to have some of

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Speaker 1: those conversations. What's your depression? C d A Conradman and

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Speaker 1: how much do you appreciate kind of word he's had

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Speaker 1: it come from your draft period. He's done a good

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Speaker 1: job again, another guy that's he's gotten steadily better, and

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Speaker 1: makes it or not. Not. A year ago, Kay Davis

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Speaker 1: mean he's gotten better, he's improved. You know, I think

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Speaker 1: we've got a lot of young players that you know,

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Speaker 1: made a lot of improvements because they were getting way

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Speaker 1: more reps a year ago than they would normally get

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Speaker 1: And I think it's helped him in this camp for sure,

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Speaker 1: when you're watching the tape ready for these preseason games

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Speaker 1: you'd be un available, like the Baker pair to just

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Speaker 1: did that all the personal time. No, I'm always looking

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Speaker 1: a good fit for us. And you know, we know

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Speaker 1: a lot of these players because we've evaluated all of

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Speaker 1: years playing against them. So um, pretty pretty substantial Scott

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Speaker 1: reports on most of the guys that are in the league.

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Speaker 1: So we certainly as coaches have an opinion that Rod

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Speaker 1: preseason with you guys both on offense and special toils. Well,

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Speaker 1: think he's done some good things. I think up until

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Speaker 1: when he got hurt last week, he made good improvement,

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Speaker 1: steady progress, and UM, if he's a member of our

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Speaker 1: initial fifty three, you know we'll certainly have a role

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Speaker 1: for Himadam, sorry if this is a receipt, but as

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Speaker 1: the training camp portion of this, I guess wraps up.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a message or do you have a

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Speaker 1: message to your team? No? Not not not specific. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know I I do that as we go along. Um, today,

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Speaker 1: I'm more focused on the issues of the day as

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Speaker 1: we get ready to play the Patriots.