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Speaker 2: Brads ran under it and he took it all the

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Speaker 2: way back. Welcome to the twenty in the Huddle podcast

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Speaker 2: Here in Orlando, Sunny Florida for the Owner's meetings. The

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Speaker 2: man next to me really needs no introduction. Dan Campbell,

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Speaker 2: head coach, How you doing, Thanks for joining me, taking

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you bet, absolutely, We'll start with this.

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Speaker 2: Congrats on the contract extension and just what's that mean

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Speaker 2: for the continuity of the top end of the leadership

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Speaker 2: getting something like that, don knowing you're gonna be here

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Speaker 2: and Brad's gonna be here and that team is going

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Speaker 2: to be together for you know, the long term future.

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Speaker 3: Now, well, it's look, I'm very appreciative, I know, Brad

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the continuity to know here we go, man,

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Speaker 3: of this, it's it's time to start phase two. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 3: I think phase two now is all about getting to

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Speaker 3: what we all want to get to and let's get

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Speaker 3: how many can you get?

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Speaker 2: One of the names that was among those extensions was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, Chris has been one of those guys that

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Speaker 2: What's the process like for you after a season like

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Speaker 2: that obviously extended two weeks shorter than you probably hope,

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Speaker 2: Kind of what's that that process like when it's all

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Speaker 3: I love what we did last year. We did accomplish

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Speaker 2: I thought it was terrific. But that's what DJ You

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it helps a lot. And and uh,

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Speaker 2: Brad said after the season, he wasn't gonna overlook the

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Speaker 2: Did you see what a Leam had to say about

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Speaker 2: playing against No Kevin It talk about a brick wall.

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Speaker 2: Punch it, he didn't move anywhere and leaving a small guy.

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Speaker 1: Just hit the ground runner, right, That's right.

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Speaker 2: All right, Just a couple more for you here, Dan,

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for taking the time, appreciate you. Have

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Speaker 1: Twenty four sounds good.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Dan.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the time.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it, my pleasure to It's been an interesting off season.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm curious and I asked Dan Campbell this

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Speaker 4: Well, it was really important for both the continuity and

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Speaker 1: Guys might have a few pops beforehand.

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Speaker 4: And waiting for the with the twenty ninth selection, the

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Speaker 4: Lions select, I'm not going to tell you that is,

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Speaker 4: but it's going to be great. It to be a

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Speaker 4: great three day commercial for the city.

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Speaker 1: I had a Dan on earlier.

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Speaker 2: He talked about free agency and just being really set

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Speaker 2: up for the draft in a great spot. You just

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Speaker 2: speak to the job that that Mike Disner has done

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Speaker 2: with a salary cap and allowed you kind of that

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Speaker 2: freedom to to not only get the guys that you

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Speaker 2: wanted in free agency, but set yourself up to where

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Speaker 2: you can just go get best available in the draft.

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Speaker 2: And it really looks like you guys are set up

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Speaker 2: and Mike and his team and how handling that that

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Speaker 2: salary cap has really helped you in that regard.

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Speaker 4: Well, one of one of our long term goals is

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Speaker 4: to always be maintaining flexibility under the salary cap and

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Speaker 4: preparing for the future. And it's really easy to go

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Speaker 4: all in on one year, but then you've got to

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Speaker 4: pay the piper in the future years. So we've been planning,

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Speaker 4: you know, I think very judiciously, you know, for a

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Speaker 4: number of years, not only to prepare us for a

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Speaker 4: free agency, but to prepare us to be able to

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Speaker 4: resign our own guys. And that's that's the next big

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Speaker 4: thing is we've got a number of contracts expiring that

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Speaker 4: we've got to extend and keep the team together. So

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Speaker 4: it's a combination of preparing you for free agency and

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Speaker 4: also keeping your own guys. And we're in a really

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Speaker 4: good shape. We've got flexibility, and you know, the salary

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Speaker 4: craft growth this year was something that was a little unexpected,

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Speaker 4: so that gave us leaving a little more flexibility. But

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Speaker 4: we've got a great team in place with Mike and

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Speaker 4: Brandon Sasna who works for him, and others, and it's

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Speaker 4: a collaborative effort. You know, they're working with me, they're

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Speaker 4: working with Brad, they're working with Dan, and we have

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Speaker 4: a plan that everybody's brought into.

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Speaker 2: The international marketing announcement was Monday, you guys going to

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Speaker 2: enter into Canada, Germany, some of the surrounding areas. They're

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Speaker 2: just what went behind that decision, rod and and why

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Speaker 2: those markets Obviously the closest with Canada makes sense, but

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Speaker 2: Germany more specifically.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, with we wouldn't you know, kind of waiting for

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to do this. Other teams have jumped in

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Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. We wanted to kind of

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Speaker 4: see how it was going to work out. I think

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Speaker 4: with the success of the team, our brand is a

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Speaker 4: little more marketable now than it was a few years ago.

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Speaker 4: Canada obviously right across the river from Detroit. The only

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Speaker 4: hold up in marketing into Canada was if we chose

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Speaker 4: to take the country, we couldn't protect Windsor as a

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Speaker 4: home market. So Windsor now other teams could market in theoretically,

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Speaker 4: but I'll take that a good spot to take my

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Speaker 4: chances that we can win that battle. Germany, it's a

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Speaker 4: it's a big market. We're going to be playing NFL

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Speaker 4: games there. Saint Brown is one of the most popular,

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Speaker 4: if not the most popular, football player in Germany, so

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Speaker 4: doing things together with him seemed like a natural and

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Speaker 4: so we're ready, I think, to take that leap now,

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Speaker 4: and uh, we just got to prove today. So we're

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Speaker 4: looking forward to starting to develop plans to take advantage

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Speaker 4: of it.

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Speaker 1: We are here in Orlando.

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Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you about, you know,

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Speaker 2: some of the business of the league.

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Speaker 1: A few announcements. On Monday.

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Speaker 2: Your proposal for an extra challenge went through, you know,

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Speaker 2: the the hip tackle pivot with hip drop, swivel, hip drop,

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Speaker 2: hip drival.

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Speaker 1: Hip drop.

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Speaker 2: The hip drop has been taken on a league, one

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Speaker 2: of the ones that's kind of close I get a

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Speaker 2: sense from. But I'm curious kind of the the temperature

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Speaker 2: in the room about the new kickoff rules because that

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Speaker 2: is a very different, new kind of thing. I was

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Speaker 2: just curious kind of where the ownership is at with

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Speaker 2: that and how close is that to maybe well.

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Speaker 4: We had a very robust discussion about it this morning.

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Speaker 4: Ownership was their coaching staffs, were their general managers were there.

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Speaker 4: We took a I think quick poll. It didn't get

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Speaker 4: to the number that needed to pass it. We're going

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Speaker 4: to revisit it tomorrow. We're in favor of it. I think,

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Speaker 4: you know, the kickoff is an exciting play. We want

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Speaker 4: to keep it in the game, but you want to

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Speaker 4: keep it safe. Yeah, last year, I think it was

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Speaker 4: only eighteen percent of kicks or returned, so it was

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Speaker 4: almost kind of a waste of you know, effort for

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Speaker 4: people running down the field. So this is an opportunity

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Speaker 4: I think to test it, keep the kickoff in the game,

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Speaker 4: make it safe, and it also I think creates some

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Speaker 4: you know, interesting scheme opportunities for teams to out scheme

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Speaker 4: one another. So with our coaching staff, we we kind

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Speaker 4: of like the opportunity to out sea.

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Speaker 2: We got a pretty good offensive coordinator and a head

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Speaker 2: coach who really values a great special team.

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Speaker 1: Scorreed one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Well, Rod, thank you so much for taking the time.

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Speaker 2: A little bit more business down here, but the draft

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Speaker 2: is coming. It's an exciting time for the franchise and

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Speaker 2: the city. Thanks so much for taking the time for

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Speaker 2: shure pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Tim. Thanks