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Speaker 1: was a good first day. You know, obviously having a

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Speaker 1: mini cams. But at the same time you're for the draft. Here,

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Speaker 1: two things going at once. Can you talk about some

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Speaker 1: of the perhaps the advantages of having this week and

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Speaker 1: also the disadvantages with the timing of this including the draft. Well,

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Speaker 1: with regard to you're right, I mean, we have two

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Speaker 1: the field in in an extra mini camp, we're still

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Speaker 1: working with the players in preparation for the draft. There's

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Speaker 1: the scenes. I mentioned it yesterday. You know, we're we

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Speaker 1: had some some final meetings today and we'll have some

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Speaker 1: and then we'll get ready to go. Actually, the preparation

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Speaker 1: for the draft continue is all the way up till

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Speaker 1: you make the pick, and so that's that's always the same.

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Speaker 1: The advantage to having this extra mini camp, especially for me,

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Speaker 1: is I get an opportunity as a new coach to

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Speaker 1: but you really don't start to get to really know

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Speaker 1: few times about you know, you're a guy who owns

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Speaker 1: it on quarterbacks of um that that you need to

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Speaker 1: you're watching your two quarterbacks, is there anything that you

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Speaker 1: You know, these quarterbacks now come in all shapes and sizes.

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Speaker 1: You've got to here a big yeah, I mean is

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Speaker 1: You know, you can see, you know, so some of

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Speaker 1: you're trying to find sight lines, you know. So it's

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Speaker 1: Is it personal. Just we've we've spoken. Do you expect

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Speaker 1: you know, quarterbacks and you've been doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: And that's the way I look at this. You know,

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Speaker 1: I saw shot. There is there any advantage? You know,

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Speaker 1: our career coaches that we've hired, very outstanding teachers. Um,

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Speaker 1: that we're in Minnesota. Then we've added things. There's a

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Speaker 1: and learning seeing mistakes and watch your video for yourself.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I try to relearn everything

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Speaker 1: I think it's important for me to keep you know,

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Speaker 1: piste off. Now is that's your defense? So you're sort

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Speaker 1: if they're not here, there's you know how much you

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