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Speaker 1: No, thanks for coming up to the studio. What do

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Speaker 2: Appreciate man, this is nice. This is a really nice setup.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to be the first one in here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very intimate setting. What has the past week or

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Speaker 1: so been like for you post Giants? The preseason concludes,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a long week, you know for us,

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Speaker 2: if you have an opportunity to add a couple guys

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Speaker 2: So it's a lot of late nights and a lot

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Speaker 1: The roster's never finally set, But do you have a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think it's streamlines like our process a

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Speaker 1: I want to bounce around a little bit, but how

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's a credit to all three of

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Speaker 2: Like I mentioned earlier, those guys fit exactly what we're

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Speaker 1: What were the conversations like with White Cotton prior to

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Speaker 1: Let's flip it to the other side of the line.

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Speaker 1: What are the conversations like with Joe in terms of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of depth yet, Wes. Yeah, interior chest piece.

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Speaker 2: So we're excited about that. In here, you're group of

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Speaker 1: Let's get you out on this one roster construction. You

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Speaker 2: the best Jets team possible. So that's really what guides

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Speaker 2: our decisions, not so much our opponents and how we

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Speaker 2: match up with teams, because you have to be able

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Speaker 2: to win any game that you play. So it's really

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Speaker 2: that we can be and making sure that we're bringing

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Speaker 2: in the players that fit the culture and everything that

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Speaker 2: we want and that we've tried to establish here.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of fitting the culture, it seems like you

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Speaker 1: guys on the personnel side, you got a real tight

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Speaker 1: knick group, And can you speak to that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. I mean, we've had such a great,

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Speaker 2: great group. Joe's leadership is awesome and he's allowed us

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Speaker 2: to all develop and to all be connected with each other,

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Speaker 2: and really between him and coach Sala, the camaraderie we

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Speaker 2: have with the coaching staff is incredible. Our our communication

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Speaker 2: with them is awesome. We talked about it a little

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Speaker 2: bit before, but just having that those open lines of communication,

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Speaker 2: being able to share things and thoughts and ideas with

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Speaker 2: with our coaching staff, to me, it's it's why you

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Speaker 2: have a lot of these success stories that we talked

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Speaker 2: about early on, because it doesn't happen with that level

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Speaker 2: of camaraderie and cohesion, and and you know, it's it's

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Speaker 2: really exciting for me to see that. NUS.

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Speaker 1: You appreciate your time. You came on board here the

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Speaker 1: main voyage inside the studio with the new podcast.

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Speaker 2: Look man, it's nice. Appreciate it man, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks brother,