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Speaker 1: doing good? Thanks? I wanted to ask you about Yako

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Speaker 1: to get your take on him in his development. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yak's U. Yak's a great teammate, and he's been super unselfish.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, by nature of playing that position kind

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Speaker 1: don't know anybody that works harder than he does. He's

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Speaker 1: for us in our offseason training program, does a great

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Speaker 1: and I would say for Yak, probably more than anybody

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Speaker 1: know the contact is close. Yak's always five six, seven,

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Speaker 1: that's what the fullback position is. But um, he certainly

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Speaker 1: just in terms of understanding how to navigate our game

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Speaker 1: and the things that we need the fullback to do,

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Speaker 1: and he's a great example for others, and we're fortunate

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Speaker 1: to have him on our team. And Nick Kelly referred

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Speaker 1: to him as the German tank. Yeah, on board with

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Speaker 1: I know he's Pridor where he's from. And the guys

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Speaker 1: really enjoy having him as a teammate. Thanks, Josh, you

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Speaker 1: got Mike Greese fall by Bob Soci Josh, how you

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Speaker 1: Can we go one back and one forward? And just

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Speaker 1: so that'd be like my second one. But to go

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Speaker 1: And we had already been down there once and run

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Speaker 1: Yak made a great block. We had some other things

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Speaker 1: Bob's related to the Phil Snow's scheme. A lot of

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