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Speaker 1: Thank you, Amanda, and I hope everyone can hear me

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Speaker 1: so again, I appreciate everyone assembling here on short notice.

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Speaker 1: As you know, this morning we announced my decision to

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Speaker 1: in the best interests of the football team, community and

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Speaker 1: especially our fans. But this decision doesn't erase the fact

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Speaker 1: that Doug did a lot of good things here in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for Doug and we'll

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Speaker 1: always be grateful for his effort. Now we're in a

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Speaker 1: moment of opportunity for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: I am energized by.

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Speaker 1: What is possible with all we have to offer our

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Speaker 3: Thank you, mister. Con're actually going to get started with

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Speaker 3: Gene Frenette of a four to time junion.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Shad and Trent, thank you for making yourself available. Shod.

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Speaker 4: This is certainly nothing personal directed at you or at Trent.

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Speaker 4: But at the heart of the matter, why is it

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Speaker 1: You know, Gene, to use your example, because I don't

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Speaker 2: With the bathwater. Okay.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of things that are working that

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Speaker 1: So in you know, the coaching, that is an area

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Speaker 4: There. Can you say specifically what it was about the

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know, Gene, I mean if we go back,

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Speaker 1: you know, I started really right in Nashville, sat down.

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Speaker 2: With Doug, Okay, what are we going to do?

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Speaker 1: And he identified, you know, on the defensive side, we

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we're going to go to Brent Martineau with

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Speaker 5: HI there shot in Trent, Trent. You know how the

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Speaker 5: league works. You guys obviously were disappointing this season based

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Speaker 6: I don't know if surprised is the right word. You know,

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Speaker 6: The bottom line is we weren't productive on the field.

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Speaker 6: We didn't win enough games, and I don't shy away

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Speaker 5: And Trent, there were rumors last year or reports that

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Speaker 5: Was that true?

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Speaker 5: Is it on the table this year at all? That

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Speaker 6: The only discussion I would have if I was going

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Speaker 6: I think when you're in these jobs, you know there's

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Speaker 5: Shod Do you think this obviously used it up in

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Speaker 5: it looks like you blame Doug and the coaching staff

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Speaker 5: a little bit more for for disappointing. Is that fair

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Speaker 2: Well, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're all in this together, Okay, So that

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Speaker 1: Uh, it's where we need, uh, you know, the most change,

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thanks Brett.

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Speaker 7: Hello, Sean, thank you. Uh did you at any point

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Speaker 7: consider a complete overhaul of the of the program or

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Speaker 4: And if so, why, well, you know.

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Speaker 2: What is a complete overhaul of the franchise? Okay?

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Speaker 1: We have I think if you look at it, health

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Speaker 2: You know, we have.

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Speaker 1: Really changed, improved circling over the last four or five years.

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Speaker 1: So to change all of that is almost like suicidal.

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Speaker 1: That you've got eighty five people working on that side

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Speaker 2: They're going to be better than that.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's that's like shooting yourself on the foot.

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Speaker 7: I believe Trent was twenty five is the last year

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Speaker 7: of Trent's contract? You do you give him an extension

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Speaker 7: because it would seem a little bit lopsided to bring

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that's really you know, relevant.

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Speaker 1: you know, if there are issues that can be addressed openly,

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Speaker 1: you know, honestly, I think you know, you know, Doug

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Speaker 1: So and you know, whoever a new head coach is,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's going to be my job that Similarly,

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Speaker 1: our job is to support the head coach. What Trent

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Speaker 7: And just one more, one more, one more really quick.

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Speaker 7: Is there any consideration of, uh, you know, bringing in

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Speaker 7: an executive vice president the way you had with Tom Coughlin.

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Speaker 1: Well, we can always uh, you know, it's got to

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Speaker 1: And frankly, I mean we need to add some people.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thanks de Rock. We're going to go to

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Speaker 3: Marklong and the Associated Press and then Hey's carlines.

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Speaker 8: I shot, thanks Trent. What I mean, I Trent hit

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Speaker 8: on some picks and then there have been some misses there.

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Speaker 8: This last free agent class was mostly a wash. What

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Speaker 2: Shot.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, Mark, I think if you look at

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Speaker 1: All of that has happened, and you know, we haven't

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a collaborative effort that here, what

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Speaker 8: I got you And for Trent, why do you think

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Speaker 8: it didn't work out? And then what do you what

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Speaker 6: at the roster. Again we do this with every year.

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Speaker 6: Take a hard look at the roster, identify who the

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Speaker 6: best you can with free agentsy and or draft picks.

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Speaker 6: And that's the process. Isn't going to change. We just

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Speaker 9: And then from an alignment standpoint, having a new head

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Speaker 10: Hey sew. The question I had was will the next

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Speaker 10: And one last one for Trent. What makes this time different?

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Speaker 6: The marriage is the right I think Doug and I

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Speaker 6: You go out and you pick the best person you

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Speaker 6: And you know, Doug and I enjoyed some really good

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Speaker 6: And that's not taking anything away from what what Doug

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 11: Set and Trent. Thank you for taking the time to

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Speaker 11: I know that you said you don't believe, you know,

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Speaker 11: Thank you, And then just one question for you for me, Trent,

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Speaker 6: I think Shad mentioned it's going to take as long

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Speaker 1: My response would be how would you improve it? And

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Speaker 12: Table set as you made this decision. I'm just curious

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean this is you know, my decision. Okay,

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Speaker 1: You've got to be you know, you have to be

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Speaker 2: I think every year.

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Speaker 14: And and Trent, when you look at shooting for the

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Speaker 14: playoffs every year, do you feel like this can be

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Speaker 14: on very quickly when it comes to getting back into

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Speaker 14: the playoffs, maybe competing for the AFC South in twenty

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Speaker 14: twenty five, I do.

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Speaker 6: I think when you look at where we were in

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Speaker 6: twenty two leading into the twenty two season and going

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Speaker 6: from where we were in.

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Speaker 2: Twenty one to twenty two.

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Speaker 6: I don't think there's any reason why we can't repeat that,

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Speaker 6: you know. I think there's there's a lot of there's

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Speaker 6: a lot of good young players on this team. There's

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Speaker 6: a lot to look forward to, you know, and and

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Speaker 6: the fan base deserves it. They deserve a winner, and

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Speaker 6: that's what you set out to do every day you

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Speaker 6: wake up, come into the building, and you know, we've

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Speaker 6: got a great group of people in this building that

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Speaker 6: have that mindset, you know. So I do think this

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Speaker 6: thing can be flipped and flipped quick and looking forward

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Speaker 6: to to getting to work on it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thanks Jordan, all right, we've got time for

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Speaker 3: two more. We'll do Zach goodall and then Justin Lewis.

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Speaker 15: Hi, Sean, and Trent. I appreciate you guys' time. How

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Speaker 15: influential I guess this goes to both you. How influential

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Speaker 15: will Trevor be in this process?

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Speaker 2: If at all?

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Speaker 15: Is he someone that maybe you would want to go

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Speaker 15: to to just consult with about potential candidates and get

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Speaker 15: his comfort level or leave him out of it? And

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Speaker 15: the decision to you guys.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean I talked to the players regularly. Okay, so,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to identify Trevor or anyone else

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Speaker 1: by name, but you know, listen to you know what's

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Speaker 1: going to make them successful. But this isn't, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's be clear, a second coming of Aaron Rodgers two

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Speaker 1: point Oh.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So.

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Speaker 1: It's it's I mean, you know, we're going to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing for the team, and obviously our goal

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Speaker 1: is if Trevor doesn't get better, the other players don't

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Speaker 1: get better, we're not going to win. So the coaches

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Speaker 1: coming in know who our foundational players are and they

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Speaker 1: have to be committed to, you know, making them better.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Zach.

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Speaker 3: Right, We're going to finish with Justin Lewis of the

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Speaker 3: four to time Union.

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Speaker 16: Hi, guys, thanks for doing this. I was just gonna ask, Trent,

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Speaker 16: are you concerned at all about the injuries that kind

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Speaker 16: of I know it's obviously going to happen, but you

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Speaker 16: have five offensive starters go down towards the tail end

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Speaker 16: of the season and you know have to be put

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Speaker 16: on ir Is that a concern moving forward?

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Speaker 6: It's always a concern when you have injuries. You know,

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Speaker 6: some of them are unavoidable, and injury in this business

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Speaker 6: is unavoidable, and you've got to be able to overcome those.

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Speaker 6: You know, you look at Detroit, for instance, the number

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Speaker 6: of injuries they've had this year, and they're they're able

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Speaker 6: to overcome them. We aren't to that point. We need

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Speaker 6: to get there, but the players that you know, when

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Speaker 6: Sean mentioned earlier about the health and wellness of the

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Speaker 6: of the players and the group that we have working

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Speaker 6: with the players, it couldn't be any better. We don't

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Speaker 6: have a lot of soft tissue injuries, we don't have

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Speaker 6: a lot of minor things that take place. The injuries

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Speaker 6: we do have are unfortunate, but they're part of the business,

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Speaker 6: and again, you just got to be able to overcome them.

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Speaker 6: So I'm very confident in this group of players, and

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Speaker 6: very confident in the group that's working with these players

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Speaker 6: to keep them healthy and keep them going.

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Speaker 16: And then just one more for me to those guys,

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Speaker 16: Christian and Evan, do you think they'll be back going

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Speaker 16: into this next year?

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Speaker 6: You know, again, we're gonna I met with a lot

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Speaker 6: of these players this morning. A lot of guys stop

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Speaker 6: by after the team meeting and shared some thoughts with

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Speaker 6: them as we move forward, but there's gonna be time

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Speaker 6: to process all all of this stuff. These guys are

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Speaker 6: under contract, they're committed to this organization. We're going to

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Speaker 6: first work on getting a new staff in, your new

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Speaker 6: head coach, new leadership, and then you know, sit down

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Speaker 6: with them and go through the roster, every individual, their

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Speaker 6: specific situation relative to contracts and everything else. There's a

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Speaker 6: lot of things to process over the next couple of

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Speaker 6: months as we move forward, but it'll all be done

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Speaker 6: in due time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, all right, thank you, Thank you Trent, thank

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Speaker 3: you Sean, and thank you to our media for participating today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.