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Speaker 1: You know, a lot to take it obviously, a new

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Speaker 2: You know, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Be sixty five years old still loving the game, but

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Speaker 2: And I took some.

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Speaker 2: And uh, you know, that was that was still there.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of it's still funny to me,

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Speaker 1: It's kind of weird, you know. Uh, he's trying.

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Speaker 2: To take my head off and inside run drill freaking

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Speaker 2: my rookie year. So yeah, so I'm very excited.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've really enjoyed getting to work with a

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Speaker 1: To build it slowly and and not get frustrated with

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Speaker 1: Having welcome back beating with fins working quarterback, you can't

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Speaker 1: I have of a lot of gratitude for the veterans

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Speaker 2: So I think that's a cool thing about this league.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's very genuine and uh, I don't

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Speaker 1: start to realize that, okay, well the three hour workout,

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Speaker 1: but how do you do that in a smart way?

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Speaker 1: So that process of that is something I've enjoyed, you know, learning,

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