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Speaker 1: Kyle Heightower. Good morning, Devin. I hope you are well.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing well. Good, good good. I'm curious. You know,

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Speaker 1: Bill was talking about how you guys aren't in pads

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Speaker 1: previous years. Wait, who's not in pat We're not wearing pads.

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Speaker 1: I think Bill said something like, you're not in pads

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Speaker 1: are about a week? Did you negotiate that for us? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm here for you. I do what I

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Speaker 1: can for you, Devin. That's always been the Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate that. I mean, I think I kind of

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Speaker 1: waiting and having that acclimation period was no preseason games.

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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of those guys are dealing

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Speaker 1: a player, mentality wise, training camp is kind of like,

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Speaker 1: mean I remember my rookie training camp practice, like we

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Speaker 1: So I know Bill will figure all of that out.

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Speaker 1: I think for us as playing, he's gotten ready to go. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: My next question called high Tower Fall about Andrew Killion,

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Speaker 1: And this year, um, obviously have a full year under

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Speaker 1: So for me, that's not in question, and you know,

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