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Speaker 1: What's your familiarity like with Beta, did you coming across

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Speaker 1: paths and that you were on the college circuit? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we were together at the University of North Carolina. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we were were together there for two years. UM, and

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Speaker 1: the state of contact over you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of time. When he went to Arizona and

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Speaker 1: I think I was at Ohio State, we stayed in

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Speaker 1: contact and and uh, you know, we've been friends for

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Speaker 1: a long time. Scheme sort of unique where he uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's you know, everybody has a

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Speaker 1: little uh uh I guess staples to whatever they do. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's necessarily just unique. I think

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Speaker 1: the matchups, you know, uh are good. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a fun defensive playing. It's a fun defensive coach.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to be a part of it. What

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Speaker 1: you guys want to do? Yeah, you know, really talented

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Speaker 1: guy played a lot on the outside and you turn

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Speaker 1: on his tape. His tape shows a competitive guy with

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Speaker 1: a lot of competitive spirits. So to have another guy oppous,

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Speaker 1: sort of of jack rabbit over there competing for that job,

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Speaker 1: we you know, you know, Generic's is gonna get you know,

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Speaker 1: probably less throws. You know, that guy's gotta be good.

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Speaker 1: He's talented enough to go over there and be a

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Speaker 1: factor over there that corner opposite jack rabbit, so can run,

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Speaker 1: can cover ball, skills, all those things that you want

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Speaker 1: to cover corner just as small uh small setting. Over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, when I talked to Baker, it seems like

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Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that you know, he exudes confidence,

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Speaker 1: but he doesn't really talk about it that he's one

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Speaker 1: of those Is that fair or I think so? Uh?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think he I think what he has

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Speaker 1: is a is a tremendous competitive spirit and uh and

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Speaker 1: he loves being on this and on the grass, and

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Speaker 1: it shows up when he's on this and on the grass,

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Speaker 1: and that's what he does. He you know, time he's

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Speaker 1: on the field, he's competing in fight. He said, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's been playing against talented people for you know a

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Speaker 1: number of years in the SEC and what he's done

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Speaker 1: is uh coming here and and you know, I started

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Speaker 1: to learn the process of being an NFL player. Um,

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Speaker 1: but you won't hear him talk about it. I don't

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Speaker 1: think a lot. I think you'll see him just go

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Speaker 1: out and compete and be competitive every day. A couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks you've seen him sam Bill is more than

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Speaker 1: we've seen because he got hurt you know, day one

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Speaker 1: last year. So when what can you tell him? Where

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Speaker 1: does he where is he fit into this defense? I

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Speaker 1: think I got is eager to learn, uh, to continue

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Speaker 1: to grow. They wanted to get healthy, probably more than

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Speaker 1: anything else. And you know he's been out there in

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Speaker 1: Phase two with us and he's done a really good job.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him once we started getting into

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Speaker 1: O T A S and man camp, see him work

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Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully he's grown some since the injury

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Speaker 1: of last year. But we're excited to have him competing,

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Speaker 1: uh for corner play and for and for special teams play.

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Speaker 1: Is he primarily an outside guy? I think he could

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Speaker 1: be inside, but right now that's what we're working on

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Speaker 1: the outside part of field. Corey Ballentine two questions like

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Speaker 1: how did you I guess what did you think of

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Speaker 1: him coming out of the Division two school, which is

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Speaker 1: obviously harder to evaluate? And then what is your contacting

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Speaker 1: within you know obviously since ends of that, Well, first

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Speaker 1: of all, uh, you know, what what happened to Corey

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Speaker 1: and his best friend is a is a tragedy. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And for something like that to happen to a young

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Speaker 1: man and one of the most exciting days of his

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Speaker 1: life and to have his best friend killed, that's that's

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Speaker 1: gotta be a lot. And you know, the the organization

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Speaker 1: has done a really good job and of uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: helping him through the process. It's it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a process for him. Um. But we're excited about you know,

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Speaker 1: getting him. When you watch him on tape, you don't

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Speaker 1: see Division two player. You see a talented football player

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Speaker 1: that could run, jump, cover, do a lot of different things.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you do when you look at the

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Speaker 1: tape is you look at the guys athleticism and then uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've had a bunch of conversations and and

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Speaker 1: uh since we drafted him, and even before we've had

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Speaker 1: two or three uh and I really I mean again,

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Speaker 1: another guy that fits what we're doing as far as character.

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Speaker 1: Also a guy that's you know, he has a lot

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Speaker 1: of energy about it, you know, and you when you

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Speaker 1: talk to him on the phone, he kind of comes

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Speaker 1: through the phone and uh, we're excited to get him

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Speaker 1: here and get him going um, you know we hopefully

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Speaker 1: get him, get him here by Monday, uh and get

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Speaker 1: him b acklamen and get him part of the Giant's family.