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Speaker 1: Getting to him in the backfield is Darryl Taylor, presented

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Speaker 1: by Delte, the official airline of the Seahawks. Now here's

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Speaker 1: your host, Jen Mueller.

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Speaker 2: Well, the fancy intro lied to you. Jen Mueller is

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Speaker 2: not your host today, she was not able to join us. However,

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Speaker 2: we do have a wonderful guest. We have NFL draft

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Speaker 2: analysts for Fox Sports, among many other things. Rob rang

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Speaker 2: as good as it gets in this business. So Rob

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Speaker 2: and I are gonna break down the Seahawks draft that

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Speaker 2: just concluded and get some of his thoughts on one

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Speaker 1: Welcome Rob, Oh, thanks so much for having me. John

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Speaker 1: as always, Yeah, you know, just big picture. We'll kind

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Speaker 2: When you look at this draft class, what are you

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Speaker 2: kind of your takeaways from it well.

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Speaker 3: I think it's appropriate that when John Scheiter and Mike

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Speaker 3: McDonald came out today, they were wearing, as John put it,

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Speaker 3: the kind of the gas station uniform things. This is,

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Speaker 3: and I thought that there was one that, frankly, the

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Speaker 3: Seahawks needed. They need to get bigger, physical, more physical

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Speaker 3: and along the line of scrimmage. That I thought was

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Speaker 3: a perfect way to start the draft and then to

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Speaker 3: the draft that are multi year starters and characterize themselves

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Speaker 3: choking a lot of ways?

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Speaker 1: M M yeah, And I think multiple people may not this.

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Speaker 2: They use it their first two picks and four of

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Speaker 2: the way we've heard Mike McDonald talk about what he

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Speaker 1: How big is that? To just get bigger and better

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Speaker 3: I think that was basically goal number one. And I

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Speaker 3: think that they not only checked that box, I mean

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Speaker 3: said that that Byron Murphy was the very top defensive

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Speaker 3: defensive player who was selected ahead of them. We ought

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Speaker 3: to lot to one pick ahead, and that edge rusher

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Speaker 3: not in comparison to a defensive tackle. And so to

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Speaker 3: be able to check that box again and then come

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Speaker 3: back with an offensive lineman that I think is as

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Speaker 3: good as there was in this draft class and be

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Speaker 3: able to kid Christian Hanes at number eighty one. Overall,

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Speaker 3: not only are you filling an area of concern, you're

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to Thursday.

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Speaker 2: We all knew it was going to be an offense

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Speaker 2: it was? You know, fourteen straight picks on offense. Where

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Speaker 3: I was surprised that went that far. I only had

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Speaker 2: Exactly with Byron Murphy. Just what do you like about

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Speaker 2: How do you see him kind of fitting in with

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 3: I think that allows the Seahawks to be so much

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Speaker 2: Then we move on to Friday, and as John Schneider described, it,

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Speaker 2: a very long wait for them without that second round

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Speaker 3: That might just be my favorite pick of this entire

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Speaker 3: I think that really, you know, made a lot of

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Speaker 3: And what does it say about the competitiveness of Christian

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Speaker 3: And of course you know he was coached out at

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Speaker 3: and so you know that Seawle is going to have

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Speaker 2: And Jim Mora is As John Shire said, Jim Moora

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Speaker 2: called him classy and nasty, which is not not two

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Speaker 1: But I kind of like it.

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Speaker 2: You know, It's like, all right, we're getting We're getting

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Speaker 3: I one hundred percent agree with you. It sounds like

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to the Seahawks putting together their own

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Speaker 2: As our usual host Jen Mueller said, that would be

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Speaker 2: Put him in the pro shop maybe so. Uh. Day three,

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Speaker 1: And indeed they made a trade early.

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Speaker 2: They make six total picks, started off with Tyrus Knight,

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Speaker 3: Again explosive this. You know, that's one of the things

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Speaker 3: You know? He actually kind of reminds me of a

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Speaker 3: And it's interesting because there is a fan favorite element

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Speaker 2: I did actually run in Jay Harbaugh in the hall

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Speaker 2: And yeah, he said, he smiled and definitely excited about that.

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Speaker 1: But what do you see in him?

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Speaker 3: You know, I see a long, lanky corner kind of

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Speaker 3: this franchise has had some success in the fifth round.

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Speaker 3: Hashtag sarcasm there. I appreciate that little note.

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Speaker 1: Now Rob is calling him the next Richard Sherman. We're

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Speaker 3: Well, But He's a four year starter at Auburn, so

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Speaker 3: again I think he is also going to be somebody

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Speaker 2: And then we go back to the offensive line. Lomeya

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Speaker 2: you hear that a lot, but he was a guy that, truly,

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Speaker 3: Again, he is one of my favorite players in this class.

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Speaker 2: Now that's back to another Auburn quarter. I began to

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Speaker 3: Him again very similar to Pritchard, and that he is

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Speaker 3: I believe he had thirty two passes broken up over

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Speaker 3: his career, as well as five interceptions, and again, is

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Speaker 3: a more physical player than a relatively slight frame might suggest.

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Speaker 3: He's a guy that also excelled on special teams. And

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Speaker 3: I think that he just has a kind of a

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Speaker 3: He's got kind of a rat terrier kind of tenacity

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Speaker 3: something that the Seahawks have always prioritized throughout the Johns

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Speaker 3: to be something that Seatle is going to, like Cdall

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, the cornerback room for the Seahawks is

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Speaker 3: now arguably the strongest positional group. I was surprised to

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Speaker 3: see them go with two corners, obviously two corners of

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Speaker 3: the same program, but I also think that it makes

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Speaker 3: than today's NFL, you have to have quality defensive play

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, we were talking about that earliers, like I don't

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Speaker 2: it's going to be fascinating group to watch that play out.

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Speaker 2: Last pick for the Seahawks another six rounder Michael durrell I.

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Speaker 2: For one, I'm gonna admit I did not know a

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Speaker 2: darn thing about him or Findlay Universe or University of

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Speaker 2: Findlay at all. But you know everything about the draft,

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Speaker 2: so I'm gonna expect you to give a good Sky

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's funny because I didn't know a

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Speaker 3: And I see a guy that has very light feet

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Speaker 3: who's just under six foot five, he's three hundred and

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Speaker 3: And there were a lot of very talented players that

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the light feet.

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Speaker 2: I got to imagine when you're talking offensive tackles, you

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Speaker 3: I do, especially at tackles. You know, sometimes the interior

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Speaker 3: That is above and beyond what you were expecting of

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Speaker 3: and then you often see that with former basketball players.

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Speaker 3: You don't see the strength, and so that is to

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Speaker 3: it kind of reminds me a little bit of current

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Speaker 2: I also really like hearing him talk about he had

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Speaker 2: So I thought that was a cool trait for him

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Speaker 3: No, I one hundred percent agree with you. I mean

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Speaker 3: those are the young people that I believe wind up

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Speaker 3: And I think the Seahawks got a good one here, yeaes.

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Speaker 2: To be clear, I don't begrudge anybody who's going to

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Speaker 3: Well, I certainly expect the top two selections to be

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Speaker 3: you Basically, you walked into this draft knowing you needed

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Speaker 3: to get some depth at linebacker, it's at that corner back,

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Speaker 3: at tight end, and then if you had any concerns

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Speaker 3: fact that they did not, I think it was just

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Speaker 3: the idea that they had the proof on their own

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Speaker 3: field and their own evaluation that Sam Howe does have

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Speaker 3: the ability not only to be a quality backup to

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Speaker 3: Gino Smith, now maybe he is the plan for the

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Speaker 3: future moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is kind of a cool aspect of it,

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Speaker 2: is they with offseason workouts starting when they did, they

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Speaker 2: got kind of a three week had start on evaluating

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Speaker 2: Sam Howell. I mean, obviously, you know, you need to

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Speaker 2: see him playing your offense for real to make a

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Speaker 2: good assessment, but it does give you that much more

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Speaker 2: information going to the draft, like, hey, you know, we

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Speaker 2: really like this guy in this point we made a

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Speaker 2: ton but he's young. I mean he's younger than a

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Speaker 2: lot of these quarterbacks we saw drafted this week. So

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Speaker 2: it did set the Seahawks up to as you said,

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Speaker 2: they could have drafted quarterback had it fallen right, but

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Speaker 2: they didn't go into the drafting like, oh shoot, we

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Speaker 2: got to get one because we only have one quarterback

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Speaker 2: on the roster. So it was a nice move to

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Speaker 2: give themselves a situation to have the draft kind of

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Speaker 2: come to them exactly.

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Speaker 3: And that's the thing is that, you know, there were

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Speaker 3: a lot of clubs that made moves here leading up

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Speaker 3: to the draft at the quarterback position and then yet

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Speaker 3: still drafted a quarterback in some cases in the first round.

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Speaker 3: And the fact that the Seattle did not, I think

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Speaker 3: just again, they saw all the evidence that they needed

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Speaker 3: to see that Sam How was going to be a

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Speaker 3: quality quarterback for them, you know, and so therefore they

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Speaker 3: could allow the draft to come to them rather than

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Speaker 3: reach for a quarterback or try to trade, say a

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five pick to move up so aggressively and

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Speaker 3: just kind of loose sight of the fact or lose

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Speaker 3: sight of the idea that they needed to address other

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Speaker 3: concerns first and foremost.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it, good stuff for up. Appreciate your

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Speaker 2: time as always. Well, let you go here. It's been

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Speaker 2: a very long weekend for everyone involved, so enjoy what's

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Speaker 2: left of it.

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Speaker 3: I will thank you