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Speaker 1: Good morning. I can't tell you how exhilarating it is

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Speaker 1: Yet some of you never looked better, Tom and Art

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Speaker 1: I'll take your questions, aren't hey, John, good morning, Good morning. UM.

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Speaker 1: It's curious I remember thinking back to January when you

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Speaker 1: What you've seen over the last three and a half weeks,

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Speaker 1: But you know that this combination of the intensity of

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Speaker 1: But as you pointed out, we haven't played a game yet,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that that's something that that you've brought into

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, though, if your general managers on the same

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Speaker 1: In terms of the social justice initiatives that Roger Goodell

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Speaker 1: To piggyback on Tom's question, Um, obviously, this is an

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Speaker 1: which I think they've done a great job with so far.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, is uh unrelated to that?

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Speaker 1: What's your confidence level? I mean a lot of people

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Speaker 1: look at Daniel Jones and say, hey, the jury is

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Speaker 1: still out, Um, what's your confidence level that this guy

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Speaker 1: you need to see from him? Uh this year? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel good about him right now, the amount of

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see him take the next step uh

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Speaker 1: this year. I'm confident that he will do that. I

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Speaker 1: The thing that is gratifying to me as I know

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Speaker 1: our coaching staff is very high on him right now.

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Speaker 1: You know guys that have been around successful quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the past, UM. And they think that he has what

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Speaker 1: it takes to get us to the next level. UM.

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Speaker 1: And every indication so far is that that he does

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Speaker 1: have what it's takes what it takes, And I feel

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Speaker 1: good about where Daniel is right now. Obviously we want

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Speaker 1: to see him moved to the next level. But I

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Speaker 1: Obviously he had the issue with the turnovers, but he

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Speaker 1: showed a lot of grit and a lot of promise,

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Speaker 1: made a lot of big plays, and I think with

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Speaker 1: the right supporting cast around him, I think the sky

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Speaker 1: is the limit for him. Thanks last I can hear Chris. Hey, John,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Chris? How are you good? John?

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Speaker 1: You always a guy that's very much in touch with

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Speaker 1: the fans, can'd deeply about them. So it's just got

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Speaker 1: to be killing you that there's no fans in the

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Speaker 1: stadium and ship maybe for the whole eight home games.

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Speaker 1: So I'm curious, John, have you been on the phone

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Speaker 1: a little extra with Phil Murphy the government saying Hey,

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Speaker 1: we could do this And I'm told, but we could

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Speaker 1: do this in November? You know, I've had a couple

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Speaker 1: of conversations with the Governor and and we're very supportive

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Speaker 1: of what he's been doing so far. The most important

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Speaker 1: thing is health and safety, you know, of you know,

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Speaker 1: our players and our staff and the fans entering the building.

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Speaker 1: So if we get to a point, you know where

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Speaker 1: where the state believes that we can do this safely, Uh,

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Speaker 1: then we'll consider letting fans in the building. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure that we're at that point right now. So

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Speaker 1: I think we've just got to be supportive of what

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Speaker 1: the governor is trying to do and and that that's

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Speaker 1: what our position is. And John, just to follow up,

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Speaker 1: like you just said, is like your sixty at training

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Speaker 1: camp this off season, as it's been the most difficult

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Speaker 1: as far as you know, the COVID and social arrest is,

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Speaker 1: it's been the most difficult offseason you've seen. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would say so. I would say so. I mean the

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Speaker 1: number of issues that we have. You know, we just

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Speaker 1: got you know, we I spent about over a year

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Speaker 1: in negotiations for a new cb A. We're able to

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Speaker 1: get that done um in March, and then the pandemic

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Speaker 1: hits and then we jump right back into negotiations to

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Speaker 1: try to make sure that we can have a training

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Speaker 1: camp and have a season. We were able to get

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Speaker 1: that done. Then you have a new coaching staff in

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Speaker 1: here and they have no offseason on field work at all.

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Speaker 1: It's all virtual. Uh it was. It was a difficult,

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Speaker 1: difficult off season. But you know, if you if you

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Speaker 1: had told me back then that we'd be where we

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Speaker 1: are right now about to start the season, I would

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Speaker 1: have been very pleased with that. I think we've managed

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Speaker 1: it very well.