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Speaker 2: It's great to be here, uh, twenty twenty three draft, Uh,

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Speaker 2: I am. You know, it feels a little bit like

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Speaker 2: this summer, you know, when when Andrew retired and and

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Speaker 1: And so it's just kind of a special day on

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Speaker 2: That day finally come and and uh, you know, to

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Speaker 2: be honest with you, early on, I think the three

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Speaker 2: all you know, kind of developed our own thoughts through

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Speaker 1: But I always kind of felt Richardson was.

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Speaker 2: Going to be the guy we that we went with

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Speaker 2: early on, I mean early in the process, going back

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Speaker 1: And as I learned more and more and.

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Speaker 2: More as we went up towards the draft, and it

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Speaker 2: and trying to dissect the differences. And you know, like

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Speaker 2: and certainly you know, Shane had to be you know,

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Speaker 2: I think really if we had you know, the you know,

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Speaker 2: How much we liked him. And uh so we were

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Speaker 2: and then there we were so so we were very elated.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think our goal going into Thursday, on

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Speaker 2: and and that was a dream goal and we were able.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, I can, you know, talk more about

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Speaker 2: But I, you know, I just think the world of

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Speaker 1: I said, do they call today? He said no.

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Speaker 2: So so he was excited, but I said, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: We'll have to see what happens, you know. So it was,

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Speaker 2: you know, again through face to face conversations where I

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Speaker 1: And and I know he wants to be great, So.

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Speaker 2: You know, I I'll kind of let you guys, you know,

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Speaker 3: You mentioned that there was those moments, for example, what

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Speaker 1: But but certainly it's you know, it can be.

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Speaker 2: You know it's Drake. Oh you want to Michelle, you

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Speaker 2: Business, But uh, I I had a feeling. Of course,

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Speaker 2: the same guy, probably.

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Speaker 1: That guy gone boy.

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Speaker 2: You know that that that's that's always a tough hypothetical

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Speaker 2: You're gonna you know, we were going to take Levis

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Speaker 1: We liked him, we did. Yeah, I'm sorry. No, you've

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, obviously, the only time I felt like,

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Speaker 1: Still you know, he was pretty sure the arm strength was.

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Speaker 2: Will win a lot of games, but I think it

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Speaker 1: So everyone can see it.

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Speaker 2: Talk about what does it take to develop a pure

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Speaker 2: pastor and why do you think, you know, this guy

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Speaker 2: But and you know, Shane, you know, was convinced that

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Speaker 2: Proud against Georgia Wood that he can you know, do

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Speaker 2: Him and I, you know, Anthony I have talked a

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Speaker 2: this league because we're not drafting Olympic athletes, we're drafting

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Speaker 2: you know, the whole package came together. Plus I think

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Speaker 1: And and he's built like a tight end.

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