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Speaker 1: I'll say this. He practiced yesterday, Um did well. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously no setbacks. We gotta get through today, obviously, say

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Speaker 1: it's a big day. It's a good you know, Friday's

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Speaker 1: are our review days of the game plan. So we

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Speaker 1: get through today, then you know things things look positive.

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Speaker 1: He said he needed to see Devin sort of go

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Speaker 1: through that Wednesday, Thursday, and I guess today, what did

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Speaker 1: you see from him? And is he ready to take

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Speaker 1: that next step to start potentially sending Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's done everything you know, we've asked him to do

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Speaker 1: and what the trainers have asked him to do, and

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Speaker 1: he's he's healthy, and I think he's back to to devon,

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Speaker 1: you know, and and um you don't. Yeah, I get

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Speaker 1: through today and um tomorrow and but everything everything should

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Speaker 1: be should be okay. What kind of differences make on

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Speaker 1: the field, I mean, just from what you guys have seen,

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Speaker 1: I know it's been limited, but can you already tell

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Speaker 1: that you know he's making an impact? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: you love his athleticism, he love his height. He's long,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it's hard to throw balls over him

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Speaker 1: in practice, and you know he's been able to bat

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Speaker 1: some things down and and and do do some really

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Speaker 1: good things in practice. And you know, he just has

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Speaker 1: to continue to do that within the scheme and just

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Speaker 1: understanding his role and um, but but he's I think

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Speaker 1: he's in a good place mentally, you know, just just

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Speaker 1: watching him out there and and talking to him a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and physically he's he's doing doing good in

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Speaker 1: a good spot. Like him and James Robinson have been

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Speaker 1: limited in much of camp and didn't really get a

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Speaker 1: ton of work. Do you worry about their conditioning level

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Speaker 1: to see how that goes my first quarter. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: kind of worry about that with the you know, the

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Speaker 1: entire team, the fact that they're all playing now for

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Speaker 1: sixty minutes you know, and um, but but I don't

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Speaker 1: really worry too much about their conditioning just because of

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Speaker 1: how much they actually work harder I think when they're

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Speaker 1: And um, but both of them have have seemed to

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Speaker 1: be fine. You know, I haven't seen any um setbacks

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Speaker 1: you know you've got a monitor a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 1: with with guys who have been injured previously, just to

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Speaker 1: make sure that they're still um, you know there are

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Speaker 1: no setbacks like Lloyd specifically, Is there really no substitute

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Speaker 1: for a rookie for reps, game reps, practice reps. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, as many as you can get, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know Shack needs to take reps. And so it's

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Speaker 1: it's just a matter of just finding a balance between

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Speaker 1: come Sunday, you just cut them loose and go play.

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Speaker 1: Darius Williams hasn't really played any games yet. He's been

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Speaker 1: on the practice field the past couple of weeks. What

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Speaker 1: his uh availability on Sunday, do you expect him just play? Um,

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Speaker 1: as far as you know health wise, he's doing really well.

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Speaker 1: You know he was he was cut loose a couple

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Speaker 1: the joint practice there and didn't really need to see

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Speaker 1: just feel comfortable with that. But um, smooth operator, you know,

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Speaker 1: uh smooth dB um does some good things. Smart guy

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Speaker 1: time to go play. Yeah, any pre game ritual when

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Speaker 1: But nothing, I'm trying to think, nothing too crazy or

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Speaker 1: hasn't traveled very well. It's a young team. Any particular

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Speaker 1: they're gonna travel, you know, Um, basically, just keep talking

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Speaker 1: and eliminate distractions around them, especially once we get there.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's there can be some different things pulling

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Speaker 1: whatever it might be. Whatever you can do to try

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Speaker 1: every single week. And um, you know, part of the

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Speaker 1: night as winning winning on the road, you know, and

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Speaker 1: and uh, you gotta you gotta be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: Where are the challenges that come from playing away. I

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Speaker 1: mean that this team hasn't one away I think in

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Speaker 1: the sixteen games. Just how tough is that to go

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Speaker 1: you can. You know, you come away with more wins

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Speaker 1: know it's we're kind of used to it. Appreciate six

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Speaker 1: caps and have have you decided on who you're gonna payes?

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Speaker 1: Who is it Cam Robinson this week? What kind of

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Speaker 1: we went into that decision? Ah, you know, it's he's

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Speaker 1: But he's you know, he's in a good place and

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Speaker 1: uh so good person to kick it off with. Yeah,

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