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Speaker 1: Graduations. We've made it to the end of another work week.

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Speaker 1: I'm well solving the easy years. Good the morning football

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Speaker 1: headlines from NFL Network. Patriots head coach Bill Belichick addressing

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Speaker 1: reporters yesterday and the goal hasn't changed on how Patriots

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Speaker 1: want to build a roster. He also know the different

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Speaker 1: processes his team has taken in scouting players given the

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Speaker 1: nature of the twenty twenty college football season. Currently, the

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Speaker 1: Pats had the fifteenth overall selection. So Bill, what's the

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Speaker 1: strategy for handling the draft later this month? Always looking

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Speaker 1: to do a better job. There were some things that

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Speaker 1: last year that we're unique to the draft process. As

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, some of those are similar this year, some

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Speaker 1: of them are a little bit different. So we, you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly use some of that experience to improve the process

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Speaker 1: a little bit this year. At least we felt we

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Speaker 1: improved it this year, But ultimately we're still going to

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Speaker 1: try to evaluate the play and make the decisions that

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Speaker 1: we feel like we're best for the football team. The

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Speaker 1: Countdown two to Draft continues its history in the making

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Speaker 1: as the feature stars of the NFL take the stage

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Speaker 1: live from Cleveland. The twenty twenty one NFL Draft presented

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Speaker 1: by Verizon starting Thursday, April twenty ninth, and prime time

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Speaker 1: on NFL Network, ABC and ESPN. Aldon Smith has signed

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Speaker 1: a one year deal with the Seahawks. Smith had not

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Speaker 1: placed since twenty fifteen due to opt the field issues

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Speaker 1: for returning to join a Cowboys last season. The former

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Speaker 1: first round pick recording five sacks and fourteen QB hits

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty with Dallas. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, all pro

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Speaker 1: return mancor Dale Patterson to sign a one year, three

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Speaker 1: million dollars contract with the Falcons. Patterson led the league

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Speaker 1: and kick return yards in each of the last two seasons.

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Speaker 1: Four more teams have decided to skip the voluntary portion

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Speaker 1: for this year's offseason workout program. The Browns, Giants, Raiders,

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Speaker 1: and majority of Bears players said they will be participating.

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Speaker 1: The Browns players is showing a statement saying that a

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Speaker 1: virtual offseason like they had last year would be the

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Speaker 1: best decision for everyone in the league. NFLPA president JC

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Speaker 1: Treder was a guest and a Rich Eyes and Show

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Speaker 1: Thursday and was asked about whether players need to go

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Speaker 1: to offseason workouts. My job and our job as a

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Speaker 1: unions to know what our players want, and this is

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Speaker 1: what our players want, And we surveyed our players, and

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of our players think the virtual offseason

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Speaker 1: is the best for this year. And that wasn't just

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Speaker 1: a veteran saying that, Just as many young guys, just

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Speaker 1: as many guys with one year of experience, two years

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Speaker 1: of experience, three years of experience responded saying that they

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Speaker 1: think the virtual offseason is the best thing for them

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Speaker 1: this year, as the older guys did. So that's a

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Speaker 1: narrative that just doesn't have any factor or proof to it.

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Speaker 1: It's just used to try to divide the union. But

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Speaker 1: we know what we want. We pull you as players

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Speaker 1: talk and we as a union are in charge of

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Speaker 1: representing what all players want, and that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, the NFL making a huge announcement regarding sports betting.

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Speaker 1: Caesar's Entertainment, DraftKings, and fan Duel are now the official

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Speaker 1: sports betting partners of the league. All three will have

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Speaker 1: the rights to integrate relevant sports betting contact directly into

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Speaker 1: NFL media properties, including NFL dot Com and the NFL app.

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Speaker 1: Dan Duel will work with the league on pregame integration

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Speaker 1: opportunities on NFL Network for the seven regular season games

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Speaker 1: the network will air in twenty twenty one, and make

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Speaker 1: sure to join NFL legend Michael Robinson and former Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl winning head coach Brian Bill for total access to

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Speaker 1: the Locker Room podcasts. They provide monique stories and in

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Speaker 1: science about the game of football. Download it today. Well,

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Speaker 1: I hope we have a great weekend. We're seeing back

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Speaker 1: here on Monday and will shover and those are you.

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