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Speaker 1: The football world has descended upon Phoenix, Arizona side of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six NFL Annual Meeting. We have all

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Speaker 1: the news, all the quotes, and all the analysis from

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Speaker 1: day one. The Vikings interim general manager will join the

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Speaker 1: show and we'll see what rober Zinski has to say

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Speaker 1: about Kyler Murray, JJ McCarthy and what has to be

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Speaker 1: one of the most fascinating quarterback rooms in the entire league. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's here from Rams coach Sean McVay had some interesting

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Speaker 1: comments on Matthew Stafford, Cokinakua and why DeVante Adams.

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Speaker 2: Could have been one and done in La Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Inside with the insiders outside alongside Judy Batista, Mike.

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Speaker 3: Garafolo, and Ian Rappaport.

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Speaker 4: I am Tom Lea Rappaport.

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Speaker 1: Right here, and Leah looks the best of all of us.

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Speaker 1: We've been sweating it out for all of you because

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Speaker 1: we also had a red hot news kicking things off

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Speaker 1: here at the annual medie.

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Speaker 3: Let's start out with Super Bowl news.

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Speaker 2: We are headed back to Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Not just us, but the entire actual game twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 3: And if you've run out of Roman numeral.

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Speaker 1: Knowledge, which I definitely had earlier when I thought that

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Speaker 1: said fifty eight. No Super Bowl is sixty three and

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, six years after an overtime classic, it

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Speaker 1: is headed back to Allegiance Stadium.

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Speaker 2: We also heard from every.

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Speaker 1: Single NFC head coach at the annual what was the

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Speaker 1: breakfast but now is a press session around breakfast?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 3: Actually where you get your eggs and your baking?

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Speaker 2: Judy, what was your primary takeaway?

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Speaker 6: Well, I spent some time around John Harbaugh and can

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Speaker 6: I interest you in an hotel?

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Speaker 7: Beckham Juna return to the New York Giants.

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Speaker 6: I mean maybe he did not slam the door on

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Speaker 6: at John Harbaugh, of course, coached Odell for one season

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Speaker 6: in Baltimore. They have a great relationship. He said, they're

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Speaker 6: still talking, they still text. He said, he's one of

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Speaker 6: my favorite people in the world. He said the Giants

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Speaker 6: will be looking at any available play that could help

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Speaker 6: on the possibility that Odell could someday return to the

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Speaker 6: New York Giants. Chew Bee continued that as something that

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Speaker 6: Giants fans will watch very closely.

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Speaker 8: Speaking of wide receiver drama AJ Brown, why that's not

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Speaker 8: fair to Aj, right, I shouldn't be like he's being

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Speaker 8: the dramatic one or anything like.

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Speaker 4: That, but it's an awkward gas.

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Speaker 8: There's a lot of sides to this story here, and

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Speaker 8: AJ has one of them. Brown remains an Eagle, a

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Speaker 8: Nick Sirianni saying that nothing has changed. Look his comments

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Speaker 8: Howie Roseman's comments to the local media yesterday. Very careful,

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Speaker 8: very calculated, and still some wiggle room for a trade

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Speaker 8: to be done here, because as we said, they made

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Speaker 8: a run at this around the start of the league year,

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Speaker 8: the start of free agency and unable to get a

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Speaker 8: deal consummated, but conversations were had with multiple teams, including

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Speaker 8: that one right there, the Los Angeles Rams. We're now

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Speaker 8: looking at post June first, makes the most sense because

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Speaker 8: that would be the least cap impact on the Eagles

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Speaker 8: this upcoming season. So yeah, nothing's change, but something could

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Speaker 9: There is still the possibility that AJ Brown remains with

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Speaker 9: the Philadelphia Eagles despite some trade talks, which I think

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Speaker 9: is sort of similar to what's happening with the Los

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Speaker 9: Angeles Rams. They were one of the teams, as you

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Speaker 9: mentioned in pretty heavily on the AJ Brown conversations. Ultimately,

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Speaker 9: for a variety of reasons, pulled themselves out.

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Speaker 4: Now not expected to trade for a J.

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Speaker 9: Brown, and that would have ramifications on the roster, including

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Speaker 9: for Devonte Adams. Sean McVay telling reporters say during the

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Speaker 9: breakfast where nobody ate that, yeah, they did have conversations

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Speaker 9: with DeVante Adams about potentially dealing for a J. Brown,

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Speaker 9: which obviously would have led to trade talks surrounding Devonte Adams.

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Speaker 9: Sean McVay, as an open, honest dude, had those talks

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Speaker 9: very transparently with his star receiver because those did not

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Speaker 9: come to fruition. Devonte Adams, who led the NFL in

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Speaker 9: has always been, is expected to remain on what is

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Speaker 9: Rams dooming. Pukinoku adventure lands that big time contract extension.

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Speaker 1: One other wide receiver trade possibility, A guy one like

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Speaker 1: those guys, has not been traded in his career. How

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Speaker 1: about Brandon Ayukho we have not seen on the field

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Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers stripped him of his guarantees. He

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Speaker 1: But Kyle Shanahan saying, we're in no rush to move

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Speaker 2: Here's the issue that the forty.

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Speaker 1: Nine Ers have, among others, in the fact that we

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Speaker 1: predicated upon him restructuring his contract, the forty Nineers eating

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Speaker 1: All iu CA has to do is say I don't

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Speaker 1: want to go there. I'm not signing the paperwork to

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Speaker 1: scuttle any deal. Certainly, we've talked a lot about the

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Speaker 1: thing if v alls here. A trade never impossible, Mike,

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Speaker 1: we see where this stuff happened all the time. But

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Speaker 1: a lot of different girls they'd.

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Speaker 4: Have to clear.

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Speaker 8: Yep, that's a that's a very odd one. We'll keep

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Speaker 8: an eye on that one sad and eventually is resolved.

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Speaker 8: The contract extension itself was odd to a Tongue of

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Speaker 8: Iloa now the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, one of

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Speaker 8: the quarterbacks of Falcons. He's going to have to compete

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Speaker 8: with Michael Pennix at some point when Penix gets healthy again.

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Speaker 8: But yeah, that is a one year, one point three

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Speaker 8: because the Dolphins are picking up the tab on the

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Speaker 8: rest of that fifty four million that Tungue of Iloa

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Speaker 8: was owed this season. I spoke with head coach Kevin

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Speaker 8: Stefanski about the chip that might be on tug of

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Speaker 8: Iiloa's shoulder as well as his own.

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Speaker 10: Well, I think there's something to be said when you're

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Speaker 10: fired like and I can attest to that, you want

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Speaker 10: to prove people wrong.

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Speaker 4: You have a chip on your shoulder.

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Speaker 10: And I think you know where I'm coming into this,

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Speaker 10: where two is coming into this is listen, this is

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Speaker 10: And I think that's what that's what he's made of

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Speaker 10: he is and also because the person he is.

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Speaker 8: Stefanski was He did praise Pennix's approach toward his rehab,

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Speaker 8: says he's coming along in that regard.

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Speaker 4: So they'll see.

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Speaker 8: They'll be health driven at first to see how they

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Speaker 2: And how they approach things.

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Speaker 8: And then we'll see as we get into it, what

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Speaker 8: Penis is able to do when he's cable doing on

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Speaker 2: I did point out both guys.

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Speaker 8: Are left handed, and he said, yeah, yeah, we're aware

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Speaker 8: of that, but it wasn't a driving reason.

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Speaker 11: For what he was. Good of you to point that out.

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Speaker 8: It wasn't a driving reason for the signing, I said,

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Speaker 8: but no, the cherry up.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not why we son.

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Speaker 8: But it's nice to have both of those quartersbacks left

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Speaker 2: For your targets, for your protection, for all that stuff.

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Speaker 8: So, uh yeah, it's gonna be fascinating one to see

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Speaker 8: how it plays out in Atlanta.

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Speaker 6: Gino Smith is not left handed, but he is a

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Speaker 6: Jet once again. Any remember that the Jets made the

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Speaker 6: trade for Geno Smith, acquiring him from the Raiders, the

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Speaker 6: once in future Jets quarterback, of course, returning him to

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Speaker 6: Jets coach Aaron Glenn on Geno.

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Speaker 12: Is a Jet.

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Speaker 7: What does it mean to have Geno back of the building.

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Speaker 13: It means to have a bona fide starter come in

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Speaker 13: and lead this offense to where it needs to go. Listen,

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Speaker 13: he's done it, you know, a couple of years. I

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Speaker 4: I look forward to him getting the building.

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Speaker 13: He's a Jet, you know, through and through, and I'm

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Speaker 13: happy to have him back. And I think that he

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Speaker 12: So just to be clear, Geno Smith is the starting.

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Speaker 4: Quart of doubt about it. He's our guy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, just to be clear, the Jets wanted to make

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Speaker 6: it very clear that Geno Smith is the starting quarterback. Incredibly,

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Speaker 6: there was some question out there about whether Gino Smith

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Speaker 6: clear it is Geno Smith. They are going forward with

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Speaker 6: Gino Smith, and frankly I can say this, I think

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Speaker 6: they learned a lesson last year from dithering on who

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Speaker 6: So Gino Smith, You're starting quarterback for the New York Jets.

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Speaker 9: Once again, still could draft someone, but a great situation

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Speaker 9: considering whoever that is, is going to sit behind a

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Speaker 9: starter who, as we've learned, his name, Gino Smith. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 9: the New England Patriots have no questions just like they

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Speaker 9: jests about who their starter is. Drake may of course

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Speaker 9: the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots, but that

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Speaker 9: was not the time topic du jour for Patriots owner

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Speaker 9: Robert Craft. It is stated the Patriots State of the

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Speaker 9: NFL address with reporters earlier today and talked about as

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Speaker 9: other owners did as well, the potential of an eighteen

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Speaker 9: game season, why he would like it, and what changes.

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Speaker 14: He liked to be made to the schedule.

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Speaker 15: I like a long term for the growth and development

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Speaker 15: of the league, because to keep our league healthy and

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Speaker 15: grow revenue, I think preseason games have not been what

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Speaker 15: it used to be when we own the team, and

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Speaker 15: changing to eighteen games and having that real content and

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Speaker 15: being mindful of player safety, I personally would like to

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Speaker 15: see us have a second by week. But then it

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Speaker 15: would allow us to also grow the game internationally. We

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Speaker 15: have every team in the league who would play a

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, super Bowl right before two weeks.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that is good math right there.

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Speaker 3: Then vacation Day right.

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Speaker 9: After the Super Bowl, which, of course, out of our

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Speaker 8: This year is coming up President.

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Speaker 1: Give him more opportunities, let Miles Garrett flourish, and have

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Speaker 9: Ooh, it is mock draft season for all of us,

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Speaker 9: Anyway, here is our conversation me and my good buddy

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Speaker 2: All right, you can.

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Speaker 16: Coach, you know here at the league meetings once again.

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Speaker 17: He's doing awesome, man, And like just in terms of

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Speaker 2: And so uh, that's a that's big for us.

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Speaker 17: He is an absolute savage of a worker and so

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Speaker 4: Trust me on that.

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Speaker 9: You can have a new offense this year, David buying

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Speaker 9: Where do you see this year as far as expectation wise, right,

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Speaker 17: But there's some things and some lessons in that you

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Speaker 4: To be missed.

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Speaker 16: Seventh overall, pick a lot of different directions you can go.

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Speaker 16: Is that kind of prime spot? Maybe to go running back?

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Speaker 3: But what it could look like, I don't know.

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Speaker 17: Man, It's way different when we were picking second right

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Speaker 9: Where do you view positional value? Like just you know,

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Speaker 17: who guards them?

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Speaker 4: Who defends them?

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Speaker 17: And how could you put a safety down in the

448
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Speaker 17: box where they could guard that person? Or they have

449
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Speaker 17: unique quality as a blizzer due to size and strength

450
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Speaker 17: or running back and so when you think about not

451
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Speaker 17: just the traditional job of right, I'm gonna play behalf

452
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Speaker 17: or wait, the middle of the feet, but what would

453
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Speaker 17: look like a manda man, what would look like in

454
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Speaker 17: blitzing and can they you know, linebacker who's significant blitzing?

455
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Speaker 17: Can they impact the game in that way? And so

456
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Speaker 17: it does expand your vision about what a player can do.

457
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Speaker 17: And it is one of the fun parts of it

458
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Speaker 17: because they may have not done that in college.

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is your position, this wing you do.

460
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Speaker 2: But through the.

461
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Speaker 17: Course of OTAs and training camp you start to experiment

462
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Speaker 17: a little bit and sometimes that's okay, we're not going

463
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Speaker 17: to do that anymore. And then there's other times where

464
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Speaker 17: it's like the AHAs, the clicks that you see that's

465
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Speaker 17: going to.

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Speaker 4: Happen, all right, real good stuff. You appreciate spend some

467
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Speaker 4: time with us. Thank you man.

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Speaker 17: Always been enjoyed being out with you guys.

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Speaker 2: And let's see you soon.

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Speaker 4: All right, take care.

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Speaker 1: The Super Bowl is headed back to Las Vegas six

472
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Speaker 1: years after and overtime classic Elician Stadium gets it again.

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Speaker 1: That is Super Bowl sixty three.

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Speaker 2: I'm told, all.

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Speaker 1: I know is I have LXIII reasons to be excited.

476
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Speaker 1: Clint Kobeak, excited to be the raiders new head coach,

477
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Speaker 1: who was asked by our Judy Batista about his relationship

478
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Speaker 1: with his certain minority owner Tom Brady.

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Speaker 18: It's been really good. It's been fun to you know,

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Speaker 18: text him quite a bit. We talk, you know, maybe

481
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Speaker 18: once a week, but just so supportive and the you know,

482
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Speaker 18: the Raiders are really important to him, and the Raiders

483
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Speaker 18: being great, it's really important to him. And just the

484
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Speaker 18: inside I've gotten from him on his experience in New England,

485
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Speaker 18: what things he liked or didn't like from Tampa, just

486
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Speaker 18: things that are important to him from the head coach.

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Speaker 4: Point of view. You know, Tom's been phenomenal.

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Speaker 12: He has challenged me.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some votes here at the NFL annual meeting

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: One thing they will not go to a vote.

492
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Speaker 1: The Browns, who withdrew their rules change for pols would

493
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Speaker 1: have allowed teams to trade draft picks up to five

494
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Speaker 1: years in advance rather than the current three. It was

495
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Speaker 1: a trial balloon of sorts, didn't have a ton of

496
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Speaker 1: support within the league, and so they will continue within

497
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Speaker 1: the league to only be able to go out into

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Speaker 1: At this point twenty twenty eight, Bill's.

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Speaker 6: Coach Joe Brady, he has been a very popular guy

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Speaker 6: here at these meetings. Lots of people want to talk

501
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Speaker 6: to him because, frankly, there have been quite a few

502
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Speaker 6: changes in addition to the head coaching change in Buffalo

503
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Speaker 6: this offseason.

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Speaker 7: We sat down with Brandon Bean, the.

505
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Speaker 6: General manager, about all of it, about changes, free agency, babies,

506
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Speaker 6: talked about all of it with Brandon Bean, Bill's general manager,

507
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Speaker 6: Brandon Bean.

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Speaker 7: Welcome to the insiders, Brandon, what's going on?

509
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Speaker 4: Yes, it's a.

510
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Speaker 2: Little warmer than Buffalo. So you're soaking up a little

511
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Speaker 2: son out here? Yes, Hey, that's bombing shirts off.

512
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Right, let's give us the latest medical update on Josh.

514
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Speaker 6: The last time we saw him he basically couldn't walk.

515
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Speaker 6: So where is he now in his recovery?

516
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 19: So he's he had it procedure done after the season

518
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Speaker 19: and he's doing well. You know, I don't I wouldn't

519
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Speaker 19: want to say he's one hundred percent today, but he

520
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Speaker 19: should be able to fully participate in our off season program.

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Speaker 19: And it's crazy we're with a new coach. We get

522
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Speaker 19: to start that up next week. So looking forward to

523
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Speaker 19: seeing him and the rest of our guys back in Buffalo.

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Speaker 8: It's beginning to new coach to see him walking around here.

525
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Speaker 8: You know, a popular guy, a well respected guy. Right,

526
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Speaker 8: I'm certainly well respected into your building. How do you

527
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Speaker 8: grade him so far? I know we haven't grained him

528
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Speaker 8: with wins and losses YEF yet, but what's impressed you

529
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Speaker 8: so far?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 19: I mean I think just his his his detail every day.

532
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Speaker 19: And I go back to when this was the first

533
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Speaker 19: time through I've interviewed a lot of people, you know,

534
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Speaker 19: in the positions, but first time going through a head

535
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Speaker 19: coach search, and so one of the things that you're

536
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Speaker 19: kind of looking and you're kind of asking these guys

537
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Speaker 19: in follow ups or.

538
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Speaker 2: Second interviews, is all right, you said you're going to do.

539
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Speaker 19: This, how are you going to pull this off? Said

540
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Speaker 19: you were going to hire this person, what is the

541
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Speaker 19: rest of their staff?

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Speaker 12: And Joe was.

543
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Speaker 2: Very meticulous detailed in that, you know, not in.

544
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Speaker 19: The first but the follow up interview and just really

545
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Speaker 19: the staff that he put together.

546
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Speaker 2: It's been fun to get to know these guys.

547
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Speaker 19: Some of them you know them from a farm, respect him,

548
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Speaker 19: and just the types of obviously you want good smart coaches,

549
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Speaker 19: but the types of people a lot of positive energy.

550
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Speaker 19: So I just I think Joe's really he didn't just

551
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Speaker 19: come in and say all these things that you really

552
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Speaker 19: can't pull off. I've seen him very detailed, kind of

553
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Speaker 19: just lining things up, and I think.

554
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Speaker 2: Our players will see that when they get in the

555
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Speaker 2: Bild next week.

556
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Speaker 6: He was obviously in the building. So how are we

557
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Speaker 6: going to see the fingerprints that he puts on the team.

558
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Speaker 2: What's going to look different? Yeah, I mean, listen, some

559
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Speaker 2: of that will take time.

560
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Speaker 19: But I think Joe is his motto is like, hey,

561
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Speaker 19: look at this as if I'm coming from another team,

562
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Speaker 19: and let's it's not just you know, passing a baton down.

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Speaker 7: Listen.

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Speaker 19: There's things he's learned from Sean Payton, There's things he's

565
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Speaker 19: learned at college at LSU. There's things he learned from

566
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Speaker 19: Sean McDermott, like he's been around winning programs, but we

567
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Speaker 19: all like.

568
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Speaker 2: There's things I learned to you.

569
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Speaker 19: You don't necessarily want to just be You want to

570
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Speaker 19: be your own person and put your own stamp on it.

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Speaker 2: So there'll be a lot of things. Joe's got his

572
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Speaker 2: own mottols, his own kind of saying. Some of them

573
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Speaker 2: he took from offense.

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Speaker 19: Some you know, he kind of held with himself because

575
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Speaker 19: they didn't necessarily fall exactly within, you know, the head

576
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Speaker 19: coach that he was working for before. But I think

577
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Speaker 19: he is coming in. Our players will see that with

578
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Speaker 19: some new signings, just a new feel to our building.

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Speaker 8: I think I heard him at some point say during

580
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Speaker 8: the interview process when he spoke to Josh, Josh short

581
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Speaker 8: of treated it like he didn't even know him, right,

582
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Speaker 8: he interviewed him that way.

583
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Speaker 4: How much did that help?

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Speaker 8: Having Josh take the own process as seriously as he

585
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Speaker 8: did and be involved in that process.

586
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Speaker 2: I think it was great.

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Speaker 19: Just you know, some people, oh, do you why is

588
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Speaker 19: the quarterback involved? You know, Josh has established himself obviously

589
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Speaker 19: as an MVP player, and Josh wanted nothing to do

590
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Speaker 19: with the decision. But at the same time, you want

591
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Speaker 19: to see that when we make a decision, that he

592
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Speaker 19: saw the process we went through and one of the

593
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Speaker 19: things because it wasn't you know, we knew Brian Dabele

594
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Speaker 19: interviewed for this job, We knew some of the other people.

595
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Speaker 2: Lou Anarumo you passed through over the years. You know him,

596
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Speaker 2: but you but you don't know him in this in

597
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Speaker 2: this light.

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Speaker 19: So I think it was cool for Josh to see

599
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Speaker 19: and hear each of their presentations how they saw our

600
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Speaker 19: team from Afar, how they saw what needed to you know,

601
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Speaker 19: needed to get us over the hump, and it very

602
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Speaker 19: you know what people saw. A lot of things were

603
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Speaker 19: the same, but everyone had kind of their own twists.

604
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Speaker 19: But I just think no matter what decision was made,

605
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Speaker 19: it obviously went with Joe, but if it had gone

606
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Speaker 19: with someone else, Josh at least knew the thorough process

607
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Speaker 19: we went and how we were trying to get to

608
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Speaker 19: the answer of.

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Speaker 2: Who the next head coach would be.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously brought in Dj Moore already as part of

611
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Speaker 6: the process. First of all, what do you see in

612
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Speaker 6: him and what do you expect to bring? But does

613
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Speaker 6: that also preclude you from maybe taking a wide receiver

614
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Speaker 6: early in the draft.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, I think DJ is one of those

616
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Speaker 19: guys that he came out in Josh's drafting guy.

617
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Speaker 2: We thought very highly of him and you.

618
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Speaker 19: Know, started his career in Carolina was doing some really

619
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Speaker 19: good things. There is a part of that trade, you

620
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Speaker 19: know that Carolina wanted to get a quarterback, and so

621
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Speaker 19: it goes to Chicago continued that success, and I think

622
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Speaker 19: just the timing of worse Chicago is in their build

623
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Speaker 19: some of the young players they had there, how they

624
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Speaker 19: wanted to work their cap. He became available and we

625
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Speaker 19: just look at him Judy as a guy that adds

626
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Speaker 19: another big play, you know, receiver weapon for Josh and

627
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Speaker 19: Joe and crew, and a very good run after catch player.

628
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Speaker 19: And still think you know, watching the film, his stats

629
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Speaker 19: were down, but if you watch the film, you don't

630
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 19: see a drop off in his player route running or

631
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Speaker 19: his speed. So that'll be exciting. And listen, we're gonna

632
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Speaker 19: take the best player, and if the best player at

633
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Speaker 19: twenty six or ninety one, we don't have a second

634
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Speaker 19: because of that deal. Whoever it is, if it's a

635
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Speaker 19: receiver we think can help them, you know, we wouldn't

636
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Speaker 19: hesitate to turn the card in best player available. According

637
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Speaker 19: to general manager Brandon Bean, I like the approach. Did

638
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Speaker 19: you watch Good Morning Football last week at all?

639
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Speaker 2: I missed it?

640
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Speaker 4: It's okay, all right, It's okay, miss it?

641
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Speaker 8: Catch me update Brandon Cooks was on the show, o

642
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Speaker 8: co It's fantastic.

643
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

644
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Speaker 8: Still doesn't agree with the call on the postseason, by

645
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 8: the way, just to be crystal clear about that one.

646
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Speaker 8: But we need to know, we need the program, the

647
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Speaker 8: show for Good Morning Football for the next suple months.

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Speaker 8: Do you think he might be busy maybe in Buffalo,

649
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Speaker 8: perhaps be Cooks.

650
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Speaker 2: As a stug.

651
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Speaker 19: He was, you know, such a great addition for us.

652
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Speaker 19: We had obviously were looking at the deadline at some

653
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Speaker 19: of the potential options at receiver, and when none of

654
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Speaker 19: those were able to happen, we turned our attention you know,

655
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Speaker 19: to him as as New Orleans was was moving on

656
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Speaker 19: and made some big plays for us. Obviously the catch

657
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Speaker 19: and no catch, you know, we consider it for hours

658
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Speaker 19: and go through that. I'll save that. But have talked

659
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Speaker 19: to beat Cooks you know, once or twice since the

660
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Speaker 19: season Texas and physically talked to him. But he's a

661
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Speaker 19: guy that you know, can still play can still help

662
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Speaker 19: a team. And you know, I think where we left

663
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Speaker 19: things is let's just let's wait things out.

664
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Speaker 2: Get through the draft, and continue conversations. You know, maybe

665
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Speaker 2: later in the spring.

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Speaker 7: All right, the draft is coming up.

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Speaker 6: So when you look at your team and what you've

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Speaker 6: done already in free agency, where where's your mind going

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Speaker 6: and things you need to still address?

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Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, Judy, we there's still positions that we

671
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Speaker 19: could say, Hey, we need a depth start, we need

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Speaker 19: a starter, or we need a depth piece. You know,

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Speaker 19: we've we've probably made more moves or we probably have

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Speaker 19: you know, more sure thing, sure bet answers. At offense,

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Speaker 19: I think defensively, we're switching to a three four gym

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Speaker 19: Leonards come in, so we were tweaking some things there

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Speaker 19: and I think there's probably more opportunities to add there.

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Speaker 19: We obviously have to still follow our board and but

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Speaker 19: at the end of the day, we're going to take

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Speaker 19: the best player. But you know, I wouldn't be.

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Speaker 2: Surprised if we ended up adding more defense.

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Speaker 19: Than offense when it's all said and done, last one

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Speaker 19: for you, at least for me.

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Speaker 8: How many kids you have two you and your wife

685
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Speaker 8: ever take a picture like that?

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Speaker 12: Right there.

687
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Speaker 8: No, no, no, it's a little morning coffee.

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Speaker 4: Hey, to each his own. You gotta be having fun

689
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Speaker 4: with that.

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Speaker 2: He's the best. He's the best. See they look great.

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Speaker 2: They look fully caffeinated. Hey, listen, their celebrities in their

692
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Speaker 2: own world.

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Speaker 6: Whatever they want to do, have it, BRender Bean, whatever

694
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Speaker 6: you want to do, you can do to Thank you

695
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Speaker 6: so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys having a good way to wrap it up.

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Speaker 20: They do look great. And you know who's going to

698
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Speaker 20: look great, Kyler Murray. We are going to talk coming

699
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Speaker 20: up with Rob Razinski. He's going to talk about how

700
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Speaker 20: Kyler Murray is going to look in Vikings Purple. That

701
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Speaker 20: is coming up next on The Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Phoenix, Arizona, site of the NFL Annual Meeting, and his

703
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Speaker 1: hotzin might look in that photo somehow it is hotter here.

704
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Speaker 1: Had plenty of news throughout the day, included a couple

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Speaker 1: of items from Minnesota. Jordan Addison, former first round draft pick,

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Speaker 1: having his fifty year option picked up. According to the

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Speaker 1: team's executive vice president of football Operations, Rob Brazinski, some

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Speaker 1: bumps in the road during Addison's time, but when he

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Speaker 1: has been on the field and healthy. He certainly has

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Speaker 1: been effective. He's going to be catching passes this year,

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Speaker 1: at least in the offseason from that man Kyler Murray,

712
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Speaker 1: who's got a battle ahead with JJ McCarthy for QB one.

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Speaker 2: How will it all play out?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: Brazinski joined us to discuss that and a lot more.

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Speaker 1: Rob over three decades is the man behind the curtain,

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Speaker 1: think like, this is your great unveiling, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: national spotlight.

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Speaker 2: How are we doing over there?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 5: Like I said, you guys are digging real deep to

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Speaker 5: the bottom of the barrel of me on here.

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Speaker 2: But it's an honor. This is a rarity.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there are not a lot of not just you

725
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Speaker 1: being on TV, but there are not a lot of

726
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Speaker 1: examples of somebody running football operations through free agency, through

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Speaker 1: the draft on an intern basis. Take me through what

728
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Speaker 1: the dynamics have been like in the building and the

729
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Speaker 1: types of conversations you're having, whether it's with Ko and Flow,

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Speaker 1: your scouts, to try to guide to the team through

731
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Speaker 1: a really unique off season.

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Speaker 5: It's been amazing, you know, the alignment that we're trying

733
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Speaker 5: to create and we are creating with through the coaching

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Speaker 5: staff and The personnel staff has been amazing so far.

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Speaker 5: We have a very very talented coaching staff. We have

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Speaker 5: an extremely talented evaluation staff, College and pro. We have

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Speaker 5: such a great team of players. Everybody's been stepping up

738
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Speaker 5: working together organically.

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Speaker 11: It's been great so far.

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Speaker 9: So you have now gone through free agency. Obviously the

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Speaker 9: draft is coming up. I'm sure we'll get to that

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Speaker 9: in a second. But based on what you guys have accomplished,

743
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Speaker 9: the players you've kept, where do you think you guys

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Speaker 9: have positioned yourself after free agency leading up to the draft?

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Speaker 2: What do you how do you view.

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Speaker 4: The shape of this roster?

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Speaker 5: I mean, we came in with the plan, you know,

748
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Speaker 5: a vision, you know that we wanted to be an

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Speaker 5: organizational vision as far as how we want to build

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Speaker 5: this thing, you know, moving forward, and we had certain

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Speaker 5: things we are looking to do in free agency, and

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Speaker 5: that included retaining you know, some of the players that

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Speaker 5: we retained that are really important to us, and also

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Speaker 5: trying to work through some of the financial issues we

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Speaker 5: have from the salary cap and into the future. And

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Speaker 5: I think that we've positioned that well, working to put

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Speaker 5: the best team on the field for twenty twenty six

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Speaker 5: but also so we can sustain it into the future.

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Speaker 5: And that's what we're going to look to do is

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Speaker 5: build this, you know, one step at a time, and

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Speaker 5: and you know, so far.

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Speaker 4: So good.

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Speaker 1: Let's say about that quarterback room. Not a lot of

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Speaker 1: times you got three ten picks there, though, I guess

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Speaker 1: you did at the end of the season a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago. With Daniel Jones coming in and joining

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Speaker 1: that group, bringing Kyler on a minimum deal. You have

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy also signed Carson Wentz. I think everybody in

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Speaker 1: the outside looks at everything through the lens level. What

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Speaker 1: does this mean with JJ McCarthy, how do you look

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Speaker 1: at it and the way that you anticipate this competition

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Speaker 1: playing out in that room being structured the focus.

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Speaker 5: We wanted a very very competitive quarterback room. We want

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Speaker 5: the most competitive room in every position group in our building,

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Speaker 5: you know, in the in the quarterback room is arguably

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Speaker 5: the most important. And so we feel really good about

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Speaker 5: where that is. Bringing Carson Wentz back as well, you know,

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Speaker 5: Kyler obviously very very unique talent, and then we still

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Speaker 5: think the world JJ McCarthy and we have Max Brozmer

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Speaker 5: in the building and we just we just love that

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Speaker 5: group right now.

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Speaker 9: So what everyone sort of thinks is that the quarterbacks

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Speaker 9: available would like to come to Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: I believe that also to be true.

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Speaker 9: But I'm wondering from your standboy, you have someone like

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Speaker 9: Kyler now that there's some things to negotiate, not money wise,

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Speaker 9: to negotiate contract wise, was there.

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Speaker 3: One thing that drew him to you guys?

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Speaker 9: I mean, was it a was it a battle or

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Speaker 9: was it really just obvious mutual love and obvious and

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Speaker 9: deal came together quickly.

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Speaker 5: I would say one thing that we want to make

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Speaker 5: sure we never take for granted is that players want

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Speaker 5: to play in Minnesota.

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Speaker 11: And I think it's a tribute.

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Speaker 2: To the Wilfs.

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Speaker 5: It's it's their investment, you know, in football and our

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Speaker 5: stadiums and our facilities. What we're willing to do for

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Speaker 5: our players. And then beyond that, you know, to be

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Speaker 5: able to work with a really, really unique coaching staff

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Speaker 5: with Ko, with Flow, with Matt Daniels and and everybody else.

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Speaker 5: And that's something we've talked about. We don't take that

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Speaker 5: for granted. We want to continue to make sure that

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Speaker 5: Minnesota is a destination where players want to come play.

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Speaker 1: You've talked about the alignment that you are building within

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Speaker 1: the building.

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Speaker 3: This is also a unique setup in terms of I know, you.

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Speaker 1: Want to be collaborative in things like the draft process,

809
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Speaker 1: but somebody's got to put their name on the player

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Speaker 1: going to make the final call?

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Speaker 2: Is that you?

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Speaker 1: And if so, how do you go about when there's

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Speaker 1: conflict in that building making a final decision?

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's kind of cliche, you know that

815
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Speaker 5: for things to be collaborative and work through them together,

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Speaker 5: and like you're hoping that you can have the answers

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Speaker 5: to the test, you know, before you're in the firing line,

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Speaker 5: you know, but there are times, you know, maybe when

819
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Speaker 5: you know issues crop up and you know, the wils

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Speaker 5: have asked me to handle that in the event that

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Speaker 5: we get into a position like that, But like, honestly,

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 11: And this is year thirty four for me. I've been

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Speaker 11: blessed to.

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Speaker 5: Be doing this a long time and I don't ever

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Speaker 5: remember a situation where the last second you're scrambled and

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Speaker 5: the draft or free agency and trying to determine who

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Speaker 5: to pick. It just doesn't happen if you've done the

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Speaker 5: work ahead of.

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Speaker 9: Time, working with someone like Kevin obviously, knows a lot

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Speaker 9: about football, is certainly one of the more accomplished young

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Speaker 9: coaches out there. You have worked with him, you've seen him,

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Speaker 9: You've seen and understood the kind of players that he

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Speaker 9: likes to work with. What's the most important thing when

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Speaker 9: it comes to drafting a player that you know your

836
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Speaker 9: head coach wants to have on his team.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got you know, Kao's got a vision of

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Speaker 5: the type of player he wants and he'll we talk

839
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Speaker 5: a lot about you know, smart, tough, loves football, you know,

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Speaker 5: those kinds of things. But I think what's unique about

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Speaker 5: Ko and our staff is as long as you have

842
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Speaker 5: those core tenants, they're able to take a player's strengths

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Speaker 5: and accentuate them. And I think that's what our guys

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Speaker 5: do best.

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Speaker 1: It's the last thing for you, Rob, We appreciate you

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Speaker 1: coming out here and giving.

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Speaker 2: Us some time.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the rest of your division, obviously

849
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Speaker 1: it goes without saying this is a really tough group.

850
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Speaker 1: Chicago had their breakthrough last year, Green Bay is in

851
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Speaker 1: it every year. Detroit in a down year, was still

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Speaker 1: right there obviously at the end, competing for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Even though you've had to do with the amount of

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Speaker 1: work with the cabin even though you have the quarterback

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Speaker 1: on certainty, how good do you think this team can be?

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Speaker 1: And how good do you anticipate the Wilfs beleeve this

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Speaker 1: team should be in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you can't manufacture what's not there,

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Speaker 5: Like like I wish I had your hair right everyone

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Speaker 5: they don't. So from the standpoint of like how good

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00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 5: our team could be and and you know what else

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Speaker 5: we can do to you know, you know, as far

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Speaker 5: as acquiring players to be elite, you know, I don't

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Speaker 5: know what any of that means. All I know is

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Speaker 5: we're just trying to stab good decisions. We are in

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Speaker 5: a very very competitive division with a lot of really

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Speaker 5: good coaches and players, and our whole, our whole philosophy

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Speaker 5: all off season has been to just stab good decisions,

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Speaker 5: don't try to force anything, and just kind of let

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Speaker 5: it come to us. And if we continue to do

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00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 5: that day after day, I think this will be a

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00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 5: competitive team because I think our coaching staff and our

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00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 5: ownership will set us, will give us an advantage.

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Speaker 2: Say, we shouldn't have kept you out of the spotlight

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Speaker 2: all this time? Yea natural?

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Speaker 11: This was great, Rob Thanks, thanks guys, appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 8: Just a few weeks ago, Matthew Stafford and has for

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Speaker 8: four daughters.

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Speaker 2: Four wow uh.

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Speaker 8: He confirmed on stage at NFL Honors they will return

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Speaker 8: for the twenty twenty sixth season, his eighteenth in the NFL.

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Speaker 8: Sean McVeigh was very happy about that at the time

884
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Speaker 8: he saw his reaction. Along with Kyron Williams, McVeigh sat

885
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Speaker 8: down with our guy, Steve Weis to talk.

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Speaker 2: About a whole lot of things Rams.

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Speaker 16: Rush on first off, to kind of get your off

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Speaker 16: season rollinge. How good was it that Matthew declared so

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Speaker 16: early on that he was coming back, so you guys

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Speaker 16: can kind of set the table knowing.

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Speaker 12: No, it was good. I mean everything starts with that position.

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Speaker 21: And when you've got a guy like him that instills

893
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Speaker 21: belief and everybody around him the way he goes about it,

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Speaker 21: he epitomizes everything we want to be about. And then

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Speaker 21: obviously he's a special player, but you know, even more

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Speaker 21: special person. It meant a lot and we're so connected, Steve,

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Speaker 21: you know, I think there was a good, feel good

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Speaker 21: vibe that that was the direction that you were going in.

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Speaker 21: But you never want to be presumptive and you know,

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Speaker 21: and he's earned the right to be able to do

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Speaker 21: it on his terms. And I think he still loves playing.

902
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Speaker 21: He's obviously playing at an incredible clip.

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Speaker 12: So that was big. It was a big night.

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Speaker 16: You got the MVP right in, Matthew. Well, we hear

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Speaker 16: some wets the dail succession plans. When you've got a

906
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Speaker 16: guy like that who's got that experience in that time,

907
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Speaker 16: do you ever think about a succession plan just knowing

908
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Speaker 16: how good he is and how well he's playing and

909
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Speaker 16: how much he means.

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Speaker 21: Yeah, that's always the great challenge is is you want

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Speaker 21: to make sure that you're maximizing the opportunity you have

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Speaker 21: with him while also not being naive to a I'm

913
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Speaker 21: hopeful to be with the Rams for a long time,

914
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Speaker 21: and you know he's going to be able to play

915
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Speaker 21: as long as he's able to. Whether that's one two more,

916
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Speaker 21: who knows. He might, you know, be one of those

917
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Speaker 21: guys that plays laid into his forties and I wouldn't

918
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Speaker 21: have a problem with that.

919
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Speaker 12: But those are dialogues and discussions.

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Speaker 21: That we have a lot, and it's always figuring out

921
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 21: that balance of you know, continuing to build and take

922
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Speaker 21: advantage of what a unique player you have while also

923
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Speaker 21: not being naive too. Eventually we are not going to

924
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Speaker 21: have the luxury of having him as our guy, and

925
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Speaker 21: that's a super important position.

926
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Speaker 16: We'll talk about Pookinakua, one of the best wide receivers

927
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Speaker 16: in the game. He's up for that contract extension, but

928
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Speaker 16: he has made some news off the field and some headlines.

929
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Speaker 16: What conversations have you had with him saying, look, you've

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Speaker 16: got a great thing in front of you folkcus on that.

931
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Speaker 21: I think it's really just what he said. Here's the

932
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Speaker 21: thing that you do know being around him for three years.

933
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Speaker 21: Love this guy's heart. He's got an authentic, you know,

934
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Speaker 21: just zest for life. He's got just this vibe about

935
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Speaker 21: him that you can't help but love. And he's continuing

936
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Speaker 21: to mature. And as you're becoming this amazing player, that

937
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Speaker 21: comes with responsibilities, especially as you start talking about contracts

938
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Speaker 21: and things like that.

939
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Speaker 12: But we love him, you know, he's one of us.

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Speaker 21: You want to continue to put your arm around him

941
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Speaker 21: and help him continue to grow in all areas of

942
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Speaker 21: his life, not exclusive to football, but just as important.

943
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Speaker 21: You know, I think we want to invest in the

944
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Speaker 21: whole person. That's been something that's been really important about

945
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Speaker 21: our operation. And that's what you do. And you just

946
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Speaker 21: deal with people with clear, open and honest communication, and

947
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Speaker 21: you love them enough to be able to tell him

948
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Speaker 21: the truth and give him some grace, and you try

949
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Speaker 21: to help them navigate, you know, the things that are

950
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Speaker 21: inevitable in life, and I certainly had that when I

951
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Speaker 21: was growing up.

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Speaker 12: And we want to be able to provide that for

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Speaker 12: him as well.

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Speaker 8: now those are your spots every single day, seven pm

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Speaker 1: The final countdown is on to the twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft, and that guy is not going to have

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Speaker 1: to wait long for his moment on stage with the Commissioner.

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Speaker 1: First Fernanda Mendoza Indiana Pro Day live coverage coming up

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Speaker 1: right here on NFL Network Wednesday, starting at one pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern time. That I mentioned, the draft is fast approaching

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Speaker 1: full coverage across all platforms, including on NFL Network. First

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Speaker 1: twenty third.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are at the NFL Annual Meeting. The rules

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Speaker 2: still apply in.

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Speaker 1: Terms of how this show is supposed to run, including

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Speaker 1: Here's e in.

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Speaker 3: About seven minutes after that, not a hair in the world.

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Speaker 1: Look at him coming in. What what exactly would you say?

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Speaker 1: Is going through your head? Ian at that moment.

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Speaker 9: So I gotten the text from our producer, Jeff Collhett,

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Speaker 9: and I was like, I could respond, or I could

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Speaker 9: just show up on set as I'm supposed to do

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Speaker 9: with plenty of time. So I was kind of rolling

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Speaker 9: along thinking about the show, mentally preparing, and I got.

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Speaker 3: To hear the way you were thinking about the show.

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Speaker 6: Did you know where you were going on like this

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Speaker 6: morning when you didn't know where the SUP.

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Speaker 7: I ended up finding it.

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Speaker 1: I'm here now, the same place of the set every

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Speaker 1: time over years, literally the same spot.

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Speaker 3: It's never been anywhere else. Is that I found it.

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Speaker 2: I'm here now.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you, guys, we're done.

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Speaker 1: Too early to show something that everybody.

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