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Speaker 1: captains are not selected by the coaches, but selected by

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was a captain seven out of

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Speaker 2: Jacobe not being voted at captain do you think that?

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Speaker 1: my opening statement.

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Speaker 2: You guys, fire Away, opening up the season. How excited

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited once again, you know, every day is

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Speaker 3: Just rewinding until last Thursday to showed us the courtesy

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Speaker 1: For you to feel like it's time to play, you know,

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Speaker 3: The Drake like Scout show team taking some team reps

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Speaker 1: On making sure he does what There's definitely a combination.

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Speaker 1: So I do think those reps are important. In saying

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything that you just stated in no way, in

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Speaker 1: Javon needs to go out there and represent himself. We've

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Speaker 6: Talk about Henley internally, just clarified, is that has that resulted.

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Speaker 2: Any you know, missing a practice game, any any count

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Speaker 1: So there is a penalty, but not to the level

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Speaker 4: So you have put together your roster, including your practice squad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah for me, any rookie quarterback or rookie in general,

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Speaker 2: This is how I want to play. What can you

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Speaker 5: Just you know, with this coaching staff on the oppe

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