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Speaker 1: All right, we have ros s Douglast here and then

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Speaker 1: we'll get started with the first question from Mike Greece.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Stephanie Ross. How are you doing today? Mike, my man,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? I'm doing okay. I came to

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Speaker 1: first of all to check on you. I appreciate that

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Speaker 1: I saw. I'm guessing that the takeoff it's hard, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I just sort of literally, I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: check in with you to just stee if you make

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Speaker 1: sure you're okay. You know, It's funny because my senior

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Speaker 1: at Rutgers, we actually one of our boosters paid for

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Speaker 1: a private concert for the Migos. So we went to

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Speaker 1: his house. It was like forty minutes away from campus,

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Speaker 1: and the Megos came in. They put on like an

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Speaker 1: hour private concert for us, and so we got a

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Speaker 1: chance to meet take Off, Quabo and Offset, and I

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Speaker 1: mean those guys, you could just tell how tight they were.

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Speaker 1: They or a family. They want to see each other win.

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Speaker 1: So to see that nose is more. And I mean

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Speaker 1: I grew up watching listening to the Megos and watching

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Speaker 1: them grow throughout their career, so it hit a little different.

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Speaker 1: And this one saying condolences out to take Off and

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Speaker 1: everyone who was affected by this. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in the hip hop community and the music

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Speaker 1: community are deeply affected by this. So condolences to the

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Speaker 1: Megos and everybody was involved. Man, Girard was when we

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Speaker 1: were talking to Girard Mayo, he mentioned something too, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you sometimes you just step back, you know, and

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Speaker 1: realize it's you know, we're grinding a way right, and

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Speaker 1: it's life right. Life hits a sority, so no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And then also big Shot then were self with a

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Speaker 1: big loss in the NFL community as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: know the Zimmer family. I mean that that was tragic

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Speaker 1: to hear about that as well. So just condolences that

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Speaker 1: adding Zimmer and Mike Zimmer and the whole Zimmer family,

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals for the tragedy. I mean, that's never

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Speaker 1: easy to deal with, especially one who's a coach in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League and was just getting really his

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Speaker 1: career startered. So this is to the Zimmer family, the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, and everyone else who's close to the Zimmer family.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough day. Ross. So I guess with that,

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Speaker 1: how do you come apart I mean, I don't want

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Speaker 1: how do you do it? You know, how do you

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Speaker 1: move forward? Start doing what you're doing. It's definitely like

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Speaker 1: you said, we get so immersed in the grind and

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Speaker 1: so tunnel vision on what we gotta do, Like we

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Speaker 1: got a good opponent in Indianapolis Coast coming this week.

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Speaker 1: But you take a step back and like, dang, like

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Speaker 1: there's tragedy in the NFL community, is tragedy in the

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Speaker 1: hip hop community, Like you really step back and think, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm just like dang takeoffs twenty eight years old, Like

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Speaker 1: I'm about to be twenty eight in a month, and

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Speaker 1: it's just like she's like at the same age as me.

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Speaker 1: And to see certain things like that happen really just

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Speaker 1: makes you appreciate those who around you, especially your loved ones.

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Speaker 1: And he just really got to hold closer to them

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Speaker 1: tight because you never never know when that day might

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Speaker 1: be come and they might get called home to be

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Speaker 1: with the Lord. So we just gotta embrace what we

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Speaker 1: have and make every day that we live on this counts.

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Speaker 1: So that's what it kind of makes me feel about.

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Speaker 1: I get one last one and then I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hog your time with other people coming in. But

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Speaker 1: what are you seeing from Jacoby in terms of just

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Speaker 1: um hiss continued progressions as an all around receiver. My manager,

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Speaker 1: Kobe Jacoby is the truth for a professional in every

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Speaker 1: sense of the word professional. So I mean he's gotten

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Speaker 1: So he's getting a lot better with everything getting off

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Speaker 1: the ball. His route stems is top of the routability.

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Speaker 1: He's creating separation. But now he's it's hard pressed to

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Speaker 1: find another receiver in the National Football League that createses

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Speaker 1: my separation as this guy. So he's truly getting better.

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Speaker 1: He's a leader on the Team's dependable, he's reliable. You

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Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get out of him every single day.

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Speaker 1: It's really just great to be a part of that

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Speaker 1: process with him. But he's really take the onus on

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Speaker 1: himself and he's really trying to rub that off on

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Speaker 1: his teammates too. So he's just a young player who's

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Speaker 1: continued to a sandy. He's going to continue to get

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Speaker 1: to make sure that continue to get better and better.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the chat, Ross, No, thank you make appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Next question Karen Greegian hei Ross, how are you, hey?

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Speaker 1: Ms garn how are you doing doing fine? I'm just

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Speaker 1: curious about the red zone. I was looking up the

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Speaker 1: statistics aren't that great for you guys. You're kind of

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Speaker 1: down toward the bottom of the league. I'm just wondering

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Speaker 1: you know, field goals here. That's a great question. You know,

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Speaker 1: we talked about the red zone. That's where the most

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Speaker 1: points are exchanged in the NFL, whether you're talking about

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Speaker 1: touchdowns or field goals or anything like that. When you

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Speaker 1: look at us just red zone offensively, a lot of

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Speaker 1: our problems I've come just from hurting ourselves, whether it's

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Speaker 1: being negative plays or penalties. So if we start there,

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Speaker 1: we'll definitely improve what our red zone chances could be like.

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Speaker 1: And we've done a better job here it's Cleveland against

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Speaker 1: last week when we're down there, a couple of times

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Speaker 1: But that's something we just got to continue to emphasize

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Speaker 1: because that's where the most points are exchanged in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We've got to continue and just practice hard and really

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Speaker 1: continue to try our best to punch the ball in Zoll. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess it's good having a guy like Nick Folk

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Speaker 1: when when that doesn't happen. Um, just getting back to know,

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Speaker 1: I know you talked about the losses in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just wondering, like in terms of the day

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Speaker 1: on some players, kind of wondering if they're still going

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Speaker 1: to be here or not here. Doesn't impact you as

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Speaker 1: coaches as well, kind of trying to you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: But these are guys who you build relationship with your

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Speaker 1: So it's now as transactional. There's a lot of emotion

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Speaker 1: that's behind it, because when a player gets traded or

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Speaker 1: a player gets released, I mean that affects their family.

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Speaker 1: That affects a lot of different people. So as a coach,

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Speaker 1: you're just sensitive to the fact that it could be

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Speaker 1: life changing for a lot of different people. And whatever

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Speaker 1: There's still human beings that we're talking about. We're not

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Speaker 1: He's gonna get traded here. If these are human beings

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Speaker 1: to that fact. Then definitely, as a coach, that's emotional

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Speaker 1: be hard. Thank you, Ross, No, thank you, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, Trust and thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: By you