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Speaker 1: How you doing good? How was Uh was practice? It's good?

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Speaker 1: Good first day? Yeah, yeah, it was the off season good.

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Speaker 1: A lot of work, a lot of work. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: how was the preparation bit so far? Kind of coming

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Speaker 1: into Ota, so just getting ready for me again. Uh,

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Speaker 1: just trying to take things one d at a time, even

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Speaker 1: in the off season, you know, making sure tightening up

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Speaker 1: the fundamentals, you know, staying in the playbook, things like that,

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Speaker 1: kind of focusing on the little things that you may

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Speaker 1: make it make it overlook. Going into the off season,

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Speaker 1: We're really trying to emphasize those things, playbook fundamentals, just

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Speaker 1: keep tying them together.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, who was the off season like for your from

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Speaker 2: business standing and you know you kind of went through

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Speaker 2: a few different stages.

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Speaker 1: Are you happy to where you at now?

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Speaker 2: And who's your experience? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to play football again.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Definitely on the business, you know, I kind of let

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Speaker 1: my team, financial team and agents and all the handle

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Speaker 1: that so I could you know, focus on the main

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Speaker 1: thing and and I feel like they did a good job,

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Speaker 1: you know, allow me to focus on that.

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Speaker 2: Oh are you are you happy that that the contract did.

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Speaker 3: Get for sure?

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Speaker 1: For sure? And it quite a lot. Yeah, I definitely

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Speaker 1: am definitely am happy about that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Wait, you with a bunch of other guys got resigned.

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Speaker 2: How import is it to walking roup to to know

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Speaker 2: that if you put.

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Speaker 1: The hard brow kid, it'll it'll come back and and

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Speaker 1: kind of show itself. It just kind of goes into

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Speaker 1: just the team, you know, relying on it all the

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Speaker 1: little things, and we talk about, you know, making sure

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Speaker 1: you're focused on the day to day and and it

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Speaker 1: kind of loves makes that easier to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what you feel like to.

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Speaker 1: It's been great, you know again focusing on the day

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Speaker 1: to day. It's the first day, but uh, it's been great,

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Speaker 1: no complaints.

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Speaker 3: How much if any do you see the.

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Speaker 1: Defense you collectively? Uh, it's a tremendously uh honest, if

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Speaker 1: I'm being honest, I don't really see a ceiling for

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Speaker 1: the group as individuals. I think everybody definitely has rumor grow.

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Speaker 1: I know myself, I have a lot of room to grow.

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Speaker 1: So I think we can have a tremendous, tremendous leap.

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 3: You got.

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Speaker 1: Tremendous leap. Yeah, yeah, Uh what are your initial observations.

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Speaker 3: About drink day?

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Speaker 1: So I it's it's very early. I haven't I haven't

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Speaker 1: watched the practice now, so I really can't say at

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Speaker 1: least any reaction to the two rookies and the arm

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Speaker 1: tag that they have. It just seems like, again, it's

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Speaker 1: the same, it's kind of the same thing. I do

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Speaker 1: know they they come in, they excited to work. I

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Speaker 1: have been in the locker room with them at least, uh,

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Speaker 1: But as far as just outfield, I really haven't been

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Speaker 1: there ever. See see much.

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Speaker 2: Want to talk to a handful of guys who returned

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Speaker 2: after last season, and they all talked about wanting to

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Speaker 2: be a part of a process to kind of get

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Speaker 2: things back on track. From your perspective, can you share

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Speaker 2: any of that? I mean, did you share that you

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Speaker 2: kind of wanted to drum?

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Speaker 1: For sure? For sure? The feel is mutual. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we're anybody's happy with you know,

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Speaker 1: the product were put out last year. We know we're

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Speaker 1: better than that. So yeah, I'm excited as well, just

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Speaker 1: like you know those guys are jumping in late here.

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Speaker 3: But can you just take it through the last day

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Speaker 3: or two before you heard okay, you had an agreement

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Speaker 3: with the team, and he calls in lets. You know,

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Speaker 3: what was that? Like, what was the lead up to

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Speaker 3: what happened?

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Speaker 1: Oh? I was actually on the treadmill, so I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was just working out, like what like,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of like what do you want? You know,

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Speaker 1: a little agitated, But once once the news was told

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Speaker 1: to me, I was, you know, I was excited. Went

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Speaker 1: ran right back to work, you know, but I was

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Speaker 1: very excited about it. Talk to them, didn't really get

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Speaker 1: too much into the details, but I was just happy

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Speaker 1: about it. You know.

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Speaker 3: So you hang up with with dandy assum.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and then what are you back in the Yeah. Yah,

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Speaker 1: I was in the middle of a workout, so you know,

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Speaker 1: that's the main thing at that time. I had to

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Speaker 1: finish that. Obviously, after I got off after trad mill,

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Speaker 1: I've done my workout, you know, and you know, I

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Speaker 1: talked talk amongst them, get more details and you know,

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Speaker 1: get fittering and everything else, and you know, just happy

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Speaker 1: to happy to hear what.

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Speaker 3: Was kind of just going through your head. I mean

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Speaker 3: obviously that's like changing money. It's the long term it

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Speaker 3: took to get there.

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Speaker 1: Uh, just a relief, honestly, it's it's it's nothing you

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Speaker 1: can completely ignore as much as you try to. From

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Speaker 1: being honest, that's that's always kind of sitting there as

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Speaker 1: much as you try to focus on, you know, the

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Speaker 1: field and things like that. But you know, once it's

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Speaker 1: done with you come to an agreement, it just kind

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Speaker 1: of allows you to get back focus, put all your

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Speaker 1: focus on the field, the work, you know, everything going

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Speaker 1: on that's gonna help you play better come into the

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Speaker 1: coming season.

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Speaker 2: So what doesn't help?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is what it is.

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Speaker 3: You know, what do you want to do now though

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Speaker 3: like you're locked in long term contract. You're a leader

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Speaker 3: on the sceenior better under the defense.

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Speaker 1: Your goals are what as an individual, just be consistent,

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Speaker 1: lead by example, you know, put my foot forward and

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Speaker 1: and and help anywhere I see possible, not you know,

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Speaker 1: not trying to do everything, but do everything that's needed

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Speaker 1: of me. You know, help the younger guys come along,

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Speaker 1: things like that, and and just be consistent, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. So, yeah, that's biggest thing. Yeah, sure,

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