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Speaker 1: Hi Elliott, Hello, Hope you've had a exciting night, it

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Speaker 1: seems I was just kind of curious what was your

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Speaker 1: thought process with this last pick of Kaden Wallace, taking

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Speaker 1: him as a primarily right guard, considering that you had

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Speaker 1: Michael Wennu on the roster.

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Speaker 2: Just kind of explain that decision to us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he was a guy that we felt was

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Speaker 3: athletic enough to possibly make the switch over on the

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Speaker 3: left side. Really good pass protector, really took a huge

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Speaker 3: step forward this year as a four year starter. Athletic

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Speaker 3: and ben strong, powerful, tough, could possibly play guard. I

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Speaker 3: think he could be a four position guy, but definitely

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Speaker 3: feel like he can play.

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Speaker 2: On the left side.

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Speaker 4: Next question, Mike RaSE, Sorry about that, just scrolling over, Elliott,

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Speaker 4: Thanks for taking the time.

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Speaker 2: Let's go right to Polk. Give us the rundown on

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Speaker 2: the receiver if you would.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a guy that we had our eye on

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Speaker 3: for a while. Really good fit in our offense. He's

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Speaker 3: really tough, he's strong, he can run all the routes,

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Speaker 3: play inside, outside, He's a good blocker, really competitive both

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Speaker 3: for the ball in the air and as a run

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Speaker 3: after catch player. Really just kind of a versatile do

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Speaker 3: everything type guy who you know, he ran a little

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Speaker 3: bit faster than a lot of people expected, but when

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Speaker 3: you turn the tape on, you see him running by people.

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Speaker 3: So I'm definitely excited to add him to the mix.

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Speaker 2: Question Doug Kaide.

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Speaker 3: Hi Elliott with Jalen Polk, is he a player that

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Speaker 3: you could potentially see playing X receiver in the offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's that's more of a question for coach Mayo and

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Speaker 3: Van Pelt. But you know the system that I come from,

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Speaker 3: we never really talked much about x Z slot. We

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Speaker 3: just really tried to add really good receivers and it

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Speaker 3: would end up working out for us. So we feel

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Speaker 3: like he's a guy that can play all the positions.

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Speaker 5: Question Mike Giotti, can hear you? Mike, We'll come back

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Speaker 5: to you. We'll go next question. Keegan Stave Staple.

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna move back to Polk if we can.

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Speaker 6: I just was wondering how much influenced Tyler Hughes maybe

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Speaker 6: had on the pick.

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Speaker 1: Obviously worked with him last year at Washington.

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Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, definitely didn't hurt. Tyler knew him well all

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Speaker 3: those Washington guys. Was a good a good hire for us.

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Speaker 3: Tyler's wealth of knowledge as a former head coach, and also,

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Speaker 3: you know, being able to provide info on one of

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Speaker 3: the best teams in the country. Last year at the

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Speaker 3: University of Washington, we spent time with Jalen at the

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Speaker 3: at the Senior Bowl at the combine. Didn't bring him

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Speaker 3: in for a visit because there are really no other

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Speaker 3: questions that we had about him. But you know, Tyler

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Speaker 3: was obviously a proponent of all the guys, and and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, it just kind of helps having that familiarity.

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Speaker 2: I jumped back to Mike Giaty partially. We still can't

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Speaker 2: hear you, Mike. We jump ahead to Mark Daniels. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what's going on with Mike. I mean, but

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Speaker 2: on Webbex for a while now.

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Speaker 7: So Elliott, you know you said yesterday when I asked

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Speaker 7: about supporting Drake May you mentioned shoring up the offensive

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Speaker 7: line and adding more offensive weapons. How happy are you,

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Speaker 7: you know, being able to do that here on you know,

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Speaker 7: day two with the draft.

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Speaker 3: It fell really nicely for us. Polk was a guy

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Speaker 3: we had targeted. Whallas was a guy we had targeted.

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Speaker 3: Some exploratory conversations about possibly moving back from sixty eight,

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Speaker 3: and then you know, it was just kind of like, well,

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Speaker 3: why this is the guy that we had wanted all along?

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Speaker 3: So it it Sometimes it doesn't fall for you. It

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Speaker 3: fell pretty nicely for us today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Next question, Mike Greece Elliott, This is like

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Speaker 2: bigger picture on trades.

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Speaker 4: In your experience in draft rooms over the years or

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Speaker 4: even this year, what has been your experience when you're

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Speaker 4: talking with a team that's close to you, you know,

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Speaker 4: maybe in the division or you know, in the conference

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Speaker 4: in terms of can that be an additional challenge if

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Speaker 2: I think it can be at times.

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Speaker 3: It depends on your relationship with the people that you're

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Speaker 3: talking to. And we feel like we have actually really

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Speaker 3: good relationships with all our division teams have a lot

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Speaker 3: of respect for Brandon being Chris Greer and Joe Douglas,

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Speaker 3: so that hasn't been a roadblock for us so far.

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Speaker 4: But maybe, just like competitively, even relationship can be great,

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Speaker 4: But like competitively, do you ever find like you don't

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Speaker 4: want to help them out or maybe they don't want

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Speaker 3: If they have other options. Yeah, I think that's something

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Speaker 3: that can happen again. That hasn't happened yet for us

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Speaker 3: so far, so hopefully that doesn't happen.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrows question Chris Prise, Hey.

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Speaker 8: All, you had two quick questions here. First of all,

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Speaker 8: can you walk us through kind of building up Mike's question,

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Speaker 8: can you walk us through the decision to make the

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Speaker 8: deal with the Chargers. And then secondly, I'm curious if

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Speaker 8: you were surprised at the run of tackles there at

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Speaker 8: the end of the second round.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, we felt like Polk was the player that

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Speaker 3: we were going to pick at thirty four, and we

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Speaker 3: felt based on some of the intel that we had

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Speaker 3: from other teams, that we would be able to trade

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Speaker 3: back a little bit and still get them. So we

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Speaker 3: made that deal and we're able to move up from

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Speaker 3: the fifth to the fourth with the Chargers. And then

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Speaker 3: your point about the run of tackles is a good one.

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Speaker 3: That's part of the reason we decided not to move back.

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Speaker 3: It was just kind of like, well, let's not chance it.

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Speaker 3: This is the player we had it all along anyway,

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Speaker 3: let's just pick him.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, next question and steal.

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Speaker 8: Hey Elliott with your presence here on this zoom call

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Speaker 8: press conference.

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Speaker 9: Does this mean you guys are done for the day

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Speaker 9: or are you still exploring maybe coming back into the.

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Speaker 3: Third We're still going to do some exploration depending on

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Speaker 3: how the board holds up. Obviously not keeping track of

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Speaker 3: that right now, which has me pretty antsy, but we'll.

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Speaker 2: See how it goes. And next question Nico Mali.

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Speaker 9: Hi Elliott with taking Cayden. He's a guy who played

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Speaker 9: his whole college career on the right side, and you

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Speaker 9: also have the big center for Mike on one you

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Speaker 9: that's two guys who have spent a lot of time

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Speaker 9: on the right side. Is the team looking at either

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Speaker 9: one of those guys at flipping over to the left

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Speaker 9: side down the road.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we feel like Caiden has the athleticism to play

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Speaker 3: over on the left side. Really, his teammate Olufashana that

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Speaker 3: the Jets drafted was the reason that he played on

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Speaker 3: the right, so athletically, there's no reason why he couldn't

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Speaker 3: make the switch over there. And he's a really smart,

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Speaker 3: dedicated kid that we feel I can handle that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, And final question here from Taylor Kyles.

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Speaker 6: Hil Will thank you for your time. It seems like

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Speaker 6: what Drake May and Jalen Polk. Really that character stands

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Speaker 6: out a lot in their profiles. What is about Caten

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Speaker 6: Wallace in terms of an intangibles perspective that really stood

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Speaker 6: out for you guys and made him your guy at

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Speaker 6: pick sixty.

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Speaker 3: Eight just from the intangibles. We brought him in for

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Speaker 3: a pre draft visit and he's a really impressive kid.

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Speaker 3: Like he's he comes from a great family brothers. I

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Speaker 3: think one of his brothers is like an oyster scientist

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Speaker 3: or something like that. But he was someone that we

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Speaker 3: just got really comfortable with throughout the process. He's kind

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Speaker 3: of a low key guy, not real high energy until

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Speaker 3: he gets in between those white lines and he goes

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Speaker 3: after people.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you very much. We'll get you back

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Speaker 5: to work now. Thank you for joining.

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Speaker 2: Thank you