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Speaker 2: It was all right.

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Speaker 1: It was a challenging year for you, making this fifty

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Speaker 2: So obviously I was very distraught hearing that i'd be

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Speaker 1: Evan, Chris Ballard in this Colt's front office, saw what

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Speaker 4: Evan out here in the spring, how liberating Is this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean all that was taken away from you

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Speaker 4: How did you you were here every day I saw you.

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Speaker 1: That's Colt running back Evan Hole and you're vuying for

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Speaker 3: You know, people light up when they see JT. You

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Speaker 1: Right if he could. And you showed them that preseason

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Speaker 3: So excited to see what we could do that first

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about you on the field. I wrote this

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Speaker 3: I would say it wasn't my strength before.

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Speaker 2: And so, you know, it was really after my junior season,

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Speaker 3: Let me take this to another level.

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Speaker 2: So I got with you know, offensive coordinator and just

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Speaker 3: And just playing catch really that's really what it was.

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Speaker 4: So have you have you tapped on Shane Stikeen's shoulders,

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Speaker 4: It's probably the right play.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Colt's running back Evan Hall Joines just want to

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Speaker 1: You and your beautiful wife were married last year. The

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I took to Japan. It's a pretty cool story.

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Speaker 3: Go see you. That's cool where you're, where you're from.

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Speaker 3: Make that make that flight. So we decided to go

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Speaker 2: Him on his farm one day, and oh that's that

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Speaker 1: Live excellent, excellent, I'll tell you why. It's young twenties,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, seeing.

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Speaker 1: The other side of the world. Good for you you

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Speaker 1: That's called running back. Evan Hole