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Speaker 1: Does it bother you that some teams do have fans

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Speaker 1: I don't think we need any pats on the back

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Speaker 1: to be motivated go out there. But you know, look,

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Speaker 1: there's obviously rules state by state, and we respect those

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Speaker 1: gonna e brace that. Last question here, Pat Leonard, Yo,

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Speaker 1: you're a team that's been bringing in a lot of

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Speaker 1: you think of the NFL's new regulation on taking six

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Speaker 1: days to bring in a free agent just for a tryout. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: obviously there's reasons putting place for that, Pat, I think

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Speaker 1: we just have to respect that doesn't make things a

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Speaker 1: the front end, Absolutely, but I would say that with

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Speaker 1: gives you a little bit more flexibility and who you

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Speaker 1: of see players on extended basis. You know, in terms

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Speaker 1: of the tryouts, we have to be smart and how

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Speaker 1: we you know, do things with players. Number one, six

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Speaker 1: it's a lot about what you've seen on tape leading

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Speaker 1: looking for specifically when you bring them in for a trial.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you'd just be a generic tryout. Bring

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Speaker 1: because to be honest, you get to be fair at

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Speaker 1: anybody everyone has some rust to knock off. So to me,

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Speaker 1: I think you have to make it as much of

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Speaker 1: and how you approach it. One last thing up, have

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Speaker 1: just think everything is different? Yeah, I would say this

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Speaker 1: just in general, Patty, it's a small leg So I

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Speaker 1: think everybody uses their own resources and kind of their own,

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Speaker 1: anything specifically that's going on right now in the news,

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Speaker 1: I don't have any light to shed on that. But

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Speaker 1: we have talked continuously throughout in terms of different situations

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Speaker 1: from what we're doing as well. But we try to

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Speaker 1: use everybody's experiences to learn from and in a year

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Speaker 1: like this, it's important to make sure you communicate and

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Speaker 1: kind of just find out what's going around the leg

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