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Speaker 1: seeing you too, Andrew. Um, so I gotta ask you

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Speaker 1: early to tell. Evan, that's a great question. It's fair question.

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Speaker 1: That's too early to tell. And again till we get

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Speaker 1: your years of experience. You know, we ask our guys

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Speaker 1: to do a lot um. Like I said, you're you're

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Speaker 1: not just involved in run blocking, You're involved in past protection,

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Speaker 1: you're involved in route running. You're these guys are involved

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Speaker 1: in special teams. So you know, we'll see um, you know,

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Speaker 1: have a better idea of that. Thanks see yep, thank you,