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Speaker 1: So um takes everybody we work on all those things,

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Speaker 1: and really proud of the guys for all the effort today, Mac,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about the third downthrow to

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Speaker 1: and we found a way to do it. So that's

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Speaker 1: what the NFL is all about, Mack. It takes a

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Speaker 1: Taekwon weren't obviously a rookie. What have you seen from

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Speaker 1: And we have a lot of guys like that on

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a young player. I'm a young player,

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Speaker 1: He is very comfortable about telling me, hey, put it here,

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