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Speaker 1: Just a quick update.

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Speaker 2: Travis Hunter was injured during practice on Thursday. He will

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Speaker 2: be placed on I R here shortly. We'll miss at

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Speaker 2: least four games. We're currently assessing the injury just to

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Speaker 2: determine the best course of action moving forward for Travis

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Speaker 2: and and for the team.

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Speaker 3: How I mean, obviously huge blow, But I mean, what's

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Speaker 3: your initial thoughts?

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Speaker 2: You know, feel phil bad for the guy, you know,

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Speaker 2: for the kid, for our team, for the for everything.

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Speaker 1: But you know he's in.

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Speaker 2: Good spirits right now and minor setback for a major comeback.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's just the way it's got to be.

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Speaker 3: He's got to step up the receiver.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, but you know, necessarily specific, right,

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Speaker 2: it's the whole crew go out and and let's go perform.

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Speaker 2: Right We've we've you know, go back to training camp

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Speaker 2: days that Travis was on defense is you know, Diami

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Speaker 2: VT and Parker rolling at the receiver.

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Speaker 1: Positions and did some really good things.

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Speaker 2: So I have a lot of confidence in these guys

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Speaker 2: that it's a great opportunity for all of us to

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Speaker 2: work through a little adversity and the guys to go

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Speaker 2: out and perform at a high level.

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Speaker 1: Person right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely not ideal timing, not that any injuries

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Speaker 2: ever ideal timing. But got to believe his his mental

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Speaker 2: the makeup, his general attitude towards life and how things,

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Speaker 2: how he handles dealing with specific situations. I have a

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Speaker 2: lot of belief in Travis as a person, as a

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Speaker 2: competitor to come back better than ever like him.

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Speaker 1: Who's I mean managed you positions? How much does that

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Speaker 1: shake up against your roster?

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Speaker 3: You're not talking about just the guy something that receiver now,

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Speaker 3: you look at.

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Speaker 2: That corner heavy at corner in terms of how many

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Speaker 2: we carried during the game. So really it's not going

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Speaker 2: to affect that much in terms of a number standpoint

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Speaker 2: at corner. You know, we're good there in terms of

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Speaker 2: the numbers. Now, receiver position, you know, will elevate a

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Speaker 2: couple guys this week in terms of getting back ready

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Speaker 2: to play, have a backup f and be able to

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Speaker 2: supplement you know some of those guys.

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Speaker 3: You guys could certainly be playing well into January. Do

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Speaker 3: you feel like there's a chance that eventually Travis will

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Speaker 3: be back or is.

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Speaker 2: It still that I don't know, you know, we're just

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Speaker 2: we're still assessing we haven't gotten all of other information.

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Speaker 2: This all kind of got going last night, you know,

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Speaker 2: when we got some information. So we're still waiting on

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Speaker 2: further information to be able to determine how long it

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Speaker 2: could be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, kind switching gears a little bit. But Greg new

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Speaker 3: some has he earned a bigger role now that he's

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Speaker 3: been here for a few weeks.

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Speaker 2: So you had talked with Greg yesterday actually pre practice,

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Speaker 2: and man, he just feels so much more comfortable with

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Speaker 2: the calls, the communication in the back end with those guys,

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Speaker 2: the comfort level of playing in the system a little

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Speaker 2: bit longer. Man, He's he definitely has a lot of

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Speaker 2: confidence right now. And I was like, man, just hey,

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Speaker 2: now that you feel that way, I mean, everybody knows

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Speaker 2: it's hard to just step in and play at any position,

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Speaker 2: but especially back there where it's got to be you know,

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Speaker 2: the goldfish mentality of the next play and keep rolling.

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Speaker 2: Got a lot of confidence in Greg right now. I

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Speaker 2: think he's going to continue to ascend along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was still waiting to see on that right now.

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Speaker 2: We'll have a better feel today on the grass and

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Speaker 2: see where we're at.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, probably not.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Yeah, Man, Antoni know has I thought he

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Speaker 2: had a really good week of practice. Guy obviously made

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Speaker 2: a huge play for us at Houston. Has been a

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Speaker 2: big part of our dime packages throughout the year, being

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Speaker 2: able to move him around in different positions in terms

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Speaker 2: of playing that linebacker the safety. A lot of talent

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Speaker 2: and he knows, hey, man I got I got a

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Speaker 2: great opportunity here and have a lot of confidence in him,

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Speaker 2: great athlete, long rangey and the more he gets comfortable

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Speaker 2: with the communication back there and playing with Dewey and

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Speaker 2: those guys in the back end, I think you look

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Speaker 2: for Antonio to have a good week and step up

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Speaker 3: The depth beyond Antonio, how would you evaluate the rest

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Speaker 3: of the safety position, especially if Eric.

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Speaker 2: Can't go on So, yeah, we'll see, you know, if

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Speaker 2: Eric's able to go or not.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're still kind of working through it.

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Speaker 2: But you know, Khalif and Rayon Lane are back there

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Speaker 2: being able to run. Had a great week of practice

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Speaker 2: as well. Khalif still been getting onboarded within the systems,

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Speaker 2: done a great job staying here late, working through the details,

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Speaker 2: working with Perk a ton so got got confidence in

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Speaker 2: those guys and they know what's at stake as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there were some tweaks that had to be made,

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Speaker 1: for sure.

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Speaker 2: But I really do It's not like anything like this

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Speaker 2: is ever seamless, right, But we have dealt with in

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Speaker 2: training camp all the way through all spring of days

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Speaker 2: that he was on defense, the offense didn't have him

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Speaker 2: and vice versa, and so we've operated. Now I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying it's, uh, it's ever easy, but I do believe

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Speaker 2: and have a lot of confidence that we man go out, guys,

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Speaker 2: let's go, let it rip, play, have fun, cut it loose,

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Speaker 2: and it's on us obviously to put them in a

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Speaker 1: And you know, the plan has to do with that.

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Speaker 2: So there was a little tweaking that that had to

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Speaker 2: be done, but honestly, the guys all handled the great

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Speaker 2: I mean has missed kick in three weeks, you know.

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Speaker 2: So he hit the ball better than I mean, not better.

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Speaker 2: He's been hitting the ball really well in practice.

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Speaker 1: He has.

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Speaker 2: He's you definitely felt, I mean, he's he never is

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Speaker 2: I mean really he's he's got confidence and and everybody

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Speaker 2: mean that's just the reality. I mean, he was kicking

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Speaker 3: An opportunity is this for Brian Thomas Junior. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he hasn't had to start he probably wanted, but now

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Speaker 3: with not having Travis, this is a huge chance for

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Speaker 3: him to sort of say he let me, let me

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Speaker 3: help carry you guys a little bit here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I really think watching this week's practice, feeling BT out

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Speaker 2: there specifically Wednesday or Wednesday Thursday, you know, not as

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Speaker 2: much to count of the bonus day, he practiced the

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Speaker 2: truly believe that told him that, and uh really expect him.

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Speaker 1: To show up and make some huge plays for us

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Speaker 2: And look, it's not to have to go and be

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Speaker 2: anybody but the best version of BETJ and that's gonna

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Speaker 2: be damn good enough.

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Speaker 3: Strict time to force you got to be a little

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Speaker 1: Than you know.

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Speaker 2: I think we'll we'll we'll look at assess you know,

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Speaker 2: some of those situations. But again, I got confidence in

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Speaker 2: the guys that we have and you know, getting them

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Speaker 2: these opportunities, and sometimes it's like, man, guys, it's just

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Speaker 1: Right, Let's just go execute what we know how to

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Speaker 1: go execute at a high level.

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Speaker 2: Have a lot of faith in these guys to be

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Speaker 2: able to step up and regardless of the situation, it's

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Speaker 2: never fun dealing with it.

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Speaker 1: And I know those guys feel for trap.

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Speaker 2: But they know what's at what's at stake in terms

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're all going to go looking out

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Speaker 3: That you've kind of been through something like this four back,

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Speaker 3: you know the rams a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked, you know, we definitely, James and I

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Speaker 2: and Tony talked about that a little bit, especially last

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Speaker 2: year in Tampa losing Mike and Chris, and it is

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Speaker 2: truly a next man up mentality. You feel terrible, right,

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Speaker 2: you feel pretty crappy about how it goes down, but

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Speaker 2: ultimately it's next man up opportunity and we've got a

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Speaker 2: put our best product on the field. Because at the

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Speaker 3: You talked about before getting back to the run game.

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Speaker 1: Just when you lose a pass schedule like that, how

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Speaker 1: how much does that emphasize it sort of if at all?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that was we want to

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Speaker 2: a part of our thought process regardless of what this

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: So you know, you lose a guy that's been able

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Speaker 2: his hands, which is you know, always a challenge. But look,

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Speaker 2: you know from us as as coaches and players, that's

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Speaker 2: the time where you really got to make sure you're

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Speaker 2: putting them in a great position to be successful. And look, man,

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Speaker 2: we got to go make some plays that when we're

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Speaker 2: out there and our numbers called. But you know, we

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Speaker 2: want to be able to get back to that balance.

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Speaker 2: Regardless of the Travis thing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe when you start rethinking personel groupings moving forward because

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Speaker 1: of injuries like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's only so many ones you can use, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you get eleven, twelve, twenty one, you know,

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Speaker 2: so we're obviously at the two tight ends still, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, at the moment in terms of looking at

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Speaker 2: working through some of that. But now I don't think

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Speaker 2: it'll alter too much, right, Like, you're ultimately gonna live

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Speaker 2: in those personnel groupings until otherwise, and it won't affect

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Speaker 1: I don't think.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much on