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Speaker 1: James Robinson, of course, the offensive rookie of the month

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Speaker 1: I'm a little older than him, and I've already told

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Speaker 1: him I'm gonna slapping one day' gonna lap the hell

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Speaker 1: out of him. Really, because we're sitting in the room,

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Speaker 1: and I have a tendency the extra question, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I might ask it like sideways to put a

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Speaker 1: guy in a position like why did you do that?

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Speaker 1: That's that's dumb. I can't believe it. Even though I

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Speaker 1: know he did the right thing. I want him to

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Speaker 1: explain to me why he did that, you know. And

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Speaker 1: the minute I said that, you know, the no oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: cause you're wrong. You're wrong, You're wrong. I know I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: Shut up and be quiet, you know. So we got

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Speaker 1: a little bit of that going on. But he's been

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Speaker 1: good and we're enjoying it. We're having a good time

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Speaker 1: with him in the wrong