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Speaker 1: I'm been very impressed with Dan arm talent, uh, intelligence,

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Speaker 2: Got a lot of personality that you really uh get

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Speaker 1: So, Uh, it's been fun then getting extra throwing sessions

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Speaker 1: Are you tell guys that are really close around here?

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Speaker 1: And he kind of leads that energy. Darry, what are

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Speaker 2: I love the most about it is a challenge.

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Speaker 1: Uh requires you to know everything that's going on in

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Speaker 2: Uh, I love challenges. So that's why feel like I

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Speaker 2: love the most about him. And you look at yourself

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Speaker 1: Like past, I would just say it's a football player,

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Speaker 2: I don't try to put myself in the box anyway.

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Speaker 1: As you wanted you issue, Yeah, I mean I've used

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Speaker 2: So uh, I'm excited about that challenge. It better before

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Speaker 1: I'm my third now, so there's uh, there's different cultures

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Speaker 1: And uh that's what I love about being here. It's

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Speaker 2: Piece of ownership if you will, and you in your system,

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Speaker 1: Priorities for me is just putting time in uh learning

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's I learned he's a smart guy. He's uh,

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Speaker 2: That's why. That's why I learned about him. Its funny,

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Speaker 2: How how was you funny? Uh? You usually got jokes man.

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Speaker 2: A really cool opportunity. So I view it as a

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Speaker 2: But uh, it's cool man. It's it's cool to have

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Speaker 1: And just to be able to be out here and

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Speaker 2: For Daniels, Yalls, could you give me an example of

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Speaker 2: Uh with it be massages. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The first time I met him, we were in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: When Daniel watch one, when Daniel was talking about you,

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Speaker 1: I don't pigeon myse hold myself to just football, but

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Speaker 2: So that's why I try to make sure I'm on

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