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Speaker 1: Hey, Brian, how are you okay? How are you exactly?

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Speaker 1: How's it going. I'm doing well.

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Speaker 2: It's been quite a while since we last spoke with you.

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Speaker 2: Just curious how you're feeling and what these last couple

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Speaker 2: of months have been like for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, unfortunately, has sustained a pretty serious knee injury, like

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Speaker 3: at the beginning of the summer, so I had three

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Speaker 3: surgeries and long recovery to get back to being functional.

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Speaker 3: So I've always been you know, a part of the

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Speaker 3: team and the meetings and kept up with things. Obviously

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Speaker 3: that's fortunately been made easier nowadays with the accessibility to

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Speaker 3: assume and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: And then towards.

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Speaker 3: The start of the regular season, end of preseason, I

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Speaker 3: was you know, more functional to move around, more mobile, and.

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Speaker 4: Could come back into the building and be with the

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Speaker 4: guys again.

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Speaker 3: So that's that was obviously a huge boost for me,

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Speaker 3: you know, mentally after a long summer. But I've been

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Speaker 3: you know, really fortunate and lucky two work with you

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Speaker 3: know a lot of great doctors that work with the team,

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Speaker 3: a lot of great physical therapy people work with the team,

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Speaker 3: and that's you know, been a great, great blessing to

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Speaker 3: be in this situation.

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Speaker 4: Have those resources to help me.

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Speaker 3: So I'm happy, you know, happy to be more normal

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Speaker 3: and just trying to win games with the team.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's great to hear.

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Speaker 2: Have you been able to have your do your normal

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Speaker 2: kind of game day duties because you're typically up in

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Speaker 2: up in the booth.

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Speaker 1: Correct? Yeah, I'm usually up in the booth.

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Speaker 3: I have been my whole coaching career, so so really

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Speaker 3: that hasn't hasn't changed much because I'm still still I

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Speaker 3: would do that. So game day is really no different

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Speaker 3: than it was.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha?

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Speaker 2: And is there any prognosis on when you'll be kind

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Speaker 2: of back to full go so to speak, golf crutches

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Speaker 2: and everything like that.

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Speaker 3: Not really, it's kind of like, you know, you know,

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Speaker 3: just a it's a you know, day by day just

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Speaker 3: try to see where it takes me and you know,

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Speaker 3: on the road to recovery.

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Speaker 1: But thankfully I am pretty functional.

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Speaker 4: With everything in the in the building now, So that's good.

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Speaker 1: That's great.

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Speaker 2: And I've seen Nick waiting here, So I'll just get

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Speaker 2: one more just from a football perspective, what's it been

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Speaker 2: like to work with a position group that no longer

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Speaker 2: has a different mccordy in it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's been.

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Speaker 3: It's been, you know, obviously a huge change. You know,

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Speaker 3: was a great player and presence in the room. But

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Speaker 3: it's been a great opportunity for those guys and and

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Speaker 3: for me coaching wise too, you know, have those guys

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Speaker 3: build up their communication and leadership on the field and

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Speaker 3: in the meeting room. And I think they've really stepped

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Speaker 3: up and done that. And I think we've you know,

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Speaker 3: communicated well, operated well on the field, and it's really

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Speaker 3: been great to see those guys grow into you know,

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Speaker 3: better players who take more control of the defense and

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Speaker 3: have more leadership and communication.

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Speaker 1: And it's been, you know, it's been awesome.

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Speaker 2: Great, Thanks Brian, and glad you're on the road to

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Speaker 2: recovery there.

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Speaker 1: Thanks. S all right, Nick, go ahead with your question.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Brian, I want to ask about how things have

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Speaker 5: gone with you know, the mobility issues coming back from

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Speaker 5: the injury and how has do you think.

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Speaker 1: Mean for me?

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Speaker 5: Right? Yes, do you think the sort of logistics of

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Speaker 5: like the the twenty twenty the big COVID season was

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Speaker 5: able to help you guys out with with having an

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Speaker 5: injury like that, like being able to like you guys

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Speaker 5: have more reps of doing stuff remote and being able

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Speaker 5: to you don't have to physically be there.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, I think that's spot on.

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Speaker 3: Where if we didn't go through the COVID situation and

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Speaker 3: the experiences with zoom and or WebEx or you know

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Speaker 3: meetings virtual meetings, then would have been a huge, a

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Speaker 3: pretty jarring change. But it made it more seamless, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was you know, it did it did help. It's

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Speaker 3: always you know, obviously it was still tough. And I've

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Speaker 3: been back in the building with everyone in person for

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Speaker 3: let's see what these want to say about maybe a

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Speaker 3: month or so, so it's been a while since I

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Speaker 3: was doing that. But we're virtual and it was like

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Speaker 3: this in COVID too. It is hard, you know, not

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Speaker 3: to be with with the players, not to be with

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Speaker 3: the other the guys and you know, look at them

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Speaker 3: that connection. So there's still is a difference, but it

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Speaker 3: was going through the COVID experience did make it a

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Speaker 3: little more seamless to get it set up and you know,

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Speaker 3: operate more functionally normally.

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Speaker 5: Did you have to lean on anyone or did anyone

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Speaker 5: step up sort of in person while you were sort

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Speaker 5: of stuck in virtual mode.

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Speaker 3: Well, the person who definitely stepped up for me the

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Speaker 3: most is my wife Cali. That is, you know, my everything,

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Speaker 3: because it was hard for me to take care of myself,

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Speaker 3: you know, in between surgeries and stuff.

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Speaker 4: So that was you know, enormous and so so thankful

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Speaker 4: for her.

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Speaker 3: And the people in the building were great too, reaching

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Speaker 3: out and you know, trying to do whatever they could

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Speaker 3: to help and you know, bring equipment to the house

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Speaker 3: to try to help or to uh catch me up

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Speaker 3: on something that might have happened that wasn't said in

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Speaker 3: the meeting, stuff like that. So it was a team effort.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, no one more important than my wife at home.

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Speaker 3: She was and still is, you know, great supporting me

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Speaker 3: through this. Really thankful, great, thank you, Brian, Thank you.

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Speaker 6: As I don't see any other questions, please raise your

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Speaker 6: question if you have, you have one for Brian going

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Speaker 6: once wwice A got one more from Zach Cox. This

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Speaker 6: will be our last one. Go ahead, Zach.

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Speaker 1: One bottle one Brian.

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Speaker 2: On an unrelated note with uh with you guys seeing

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Speaker 2: Stepan Gilmore this weekend, I'm curious what you were able

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Speaker 2: to learn from him during his time here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Steph, Steph really talking lot while he was here.

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Speaker 3: He's a great player. You know, it's rare to see

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Speaker 3: a guy who can play the position move like he

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Speaker 3: can at his size, and he had great technique and

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Speaker 3: how he played and cuts off angles from the receiver.

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Speaker 1: Really just a guy who put.

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Speaker 3: In the work, you know, studying the receivers week to week,

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Speaker 3: whether it's one guy or multiple guys depending on the

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Speaker 3: game plan or whatever. And was extremely effective against all

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Speaker 3: types of receivers, which is really hard to find in

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Speaker 3: a player. Someone who's that versatility go against you know,

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Speaker 3: different sizes, quickness, speed, whatever, and still be able to

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Speaker 3: be so so effective as he as he was here

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Speaker 3: and still is out there obviously, so great player and

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Speaker 3: really good, good person and really enjoyed you know, time

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Speaker 3: with him here.

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Speaker 1: Great, thank you. Thanks,