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Speaker 2: How's it going.

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Speaker 1: It's great? How are you doing all right? Uh?

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Speaker 3: One to ask about Taekwon Thornton. He obviously hasn't taken

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Speaker 3: He hasn't produced much since coming back from the injury,

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Speaker 3: despite there being some other changeover at the wide receier position.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just curious what he has to do to

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Speaker 4: He just has to keep working hard, keep getting better,

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Speaker 4: keep practicing well and and showing improvement, you know, and

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Speaker 4: then that's the you know, the easiest way to get

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Speaker 3: And one quick follow up, what have you liked from

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Speaker 3: what you've seen of Jalen Rager? Uh? Since he joined

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Speaker 3: the team, seems like he was able to ascend up

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Speaker 3: the depth chart pretty quickly.

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Speaker 4: Javon has practiced well, you know, and he's uh angered

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Speaker 4: route saying called the ball well and you know, and

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Next question Mike Charity, followed by Chris Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Troy, what's having him?

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Speaker 4: How you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm just curious from a big picture standpoint, Troy,

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Speaker 4: Man, I think the obvious thing is is that you know,

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Speaker 4: nobody wants to be two and seven. You know, I

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Speaker 4: don't think anybody here, coaches, our players want to be

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Speaker 4: in that situation. So it is what it is. I

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Speaker 4: will say, if I'm disappointed, anybody would be myself, you

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Speaker 4: know of uh, you know, not having our guys ready

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Speaker 4: But you know, go out there when we compete, we

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Speaker 4: play hard, and you know, we leave a few plays here,

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Speaker 4: a few plays there. We could just make them. You know,

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Speaker 4: it'd be the difference in the game for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it has. It been frustrating to to not or

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Speaker 1: are you seeing enough improvement during the core of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all the guys they go out there and they

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Speaker 4: try to get the things right. Then we're asking them

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Speaker 4: is a different situation, but it's you know, closest we

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Speaker 4: up short. So that's that's the NFL. You know, we

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Speaker 4: got to you know, make the critical plays when we

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Speaker 4: need to make them. So and uh, and that's the

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Speaker 4: difference in the games. Most of the games that we've

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Speaker 4: had this year so far so come down to one

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Speaker 4: score games the last opportunities and you know, and we've

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Speaker 1: Thanks try yeah, thank.

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Speaker 2: You, Chris Bryan fall back from Bazaar.

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Speaker 1: Hey try hoopeball as well.

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Speaker 5: With you on Tomorrio Douglas as a receiver, what have

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Speaker 5: you liked about what you're seeing from him? What areas

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Speaker 5: do you want to see further growth?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it means it rookie. So he's got a lot

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Speaker 4: this week he's got to figure out, you know, how

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Speaker 4: but uh, he has a good skill set, quick catches

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Speaker 5: And as a punt returner, it seems like, you know,

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Speaker 2: Thank you. It's like the last two questions of the

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Speaker 2: Evan Lazarre and Kyrie Thompson.

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Speaker 1: Coach, how you doing, I'm good yourself? Good that? Thanks h.

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Speaker 6: I think you know one of the hard parts about

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Speaker 6: obviously we don't know the calls, we don't know the

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Speaker 6: You know, just from your perspective, I was wondering, you

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Speaker 6: you feel like that that continues to play some of

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Speaker 4: Just the only thing I asked is to get open

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Speaker 4: and catch the ball. So if they can do that

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Speaker 4: and you can play, so that's you know, that's the

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Speaker 4: main two points of being a wide receiver in any league.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's get open and catch the ball and

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Speaker 4: I don't really have anything else to add to you know,

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Speaker 4: this or that or whatever the remaining of your question

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Speaker 4: that I don't mean to disrespectful anything, but that's that's

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Speaker 4: just how I look at it. You know, guys who

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Speaker 4: practice the best and the guys who you know, and

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Speaker 4: it's bills for a lot of guys who practice the

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Speaker 4: best doing the week of the guys who are gonna play,

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Speaker 4: and you know, he makes the best decisions for the

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Speaker 4: put his team in the best situation and win.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. In final question, Kerry Thompson, Hey Troy, good to see. Uh.

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Speaker 7: Quick question for you, just noticing on some of the

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Speaker 7: interceptions this year, including the one at the end of

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Speaker 7: the game on Sunday, sometimes guys are getting hit right

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Speaker 7: in the hands and it's a bad bounce. I'm just

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Speaker 7: wondering how much of that is coachable and correctable and

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Speaker 7: how much of that is just playing bad.

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Speaker 4: Luck getting open and coach catching the ball. So obviously

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm I'm coaching and receivis you know, so

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Speaker 4: I will take the blame for that, you know, So

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Speaker 4: that's on me. I gotta do a better job of

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Speaker 4: getting prepared and the play situational football.

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Speaker 7: Better appreciate your coach, Yeah,