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Speaker 1: my talking about your impressions of how Dak looked in

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Speaker 1: Obviously in the team setting, that was the biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: And I thought you'd look great and we're fired up.

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Speaker 1: Did he have any limitations at all or what's the player? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're just playing ball at this point, so we're not

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you? And how do youse script practices now?

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Speaker 1: but you know, things like this happen. I thought I

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Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't have to do that. He You know,

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Speaker 1: Or do you got to kind of have to ease

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Speaker 1: play ball. What that looks like, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: love where he's at. Obviously, you'd love to have these

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Speaker 1: we're ready to just go play football. I think everyone is.

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Speaker 1: We're excited with where he is. I think he's worked

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna go for it. And uh, well we'll

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Speaker 1: see where we're at. Thanking else, We're going awesome. Thanks guys,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you,