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Speaker 1: Good morning Bill, Josh McDaniels yesterday, Good morning Josh McDaniels

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Speaker 1: yesterday was talking about how he's familiar with the two

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Speaker 1: receiver new receivers in Darboux and Hanson, but deferred to you.

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Speaker 1: So I'll give you the floor here to explain what

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Speaker 1: you saw in those two receivers and what really prompted

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Speaker 1: you to claim them off weavers when we look at

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Speaker 1: both players last year as part of the draft process. Also,

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Speaker 1: UM saw him in preseason this year. Well, Hanson in

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Speaker 1: preseason this year, and they're available, and so we'll take

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Speaker 1: a look at him. See it goes. And if I

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Speaker 1: could follow up the size of Darbou, um good speed?

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Speaker 1: Is that something that particularly appeals to you? UM? Sure? Sure?

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Speaker 1: And what is the challenge of getting two new receivers

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Speaker 1: like that, um up to speed? Not in the preseason

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Speaker 1: but heading into regular season one where you know things

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Speaker 1: are obviously going full steam ahead. All right, Well, well

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Speaker 1: we have a little bit extra time this week, UM,

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Speaker 1: not a whole lot, um, And so we'll just see

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Speaker 1: how quickly um that can or can't happen. I'm not

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Speaker 1: really sure, UM, So we don't We don't have any

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Speaker 1: background with these players than from college, which we're a

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Speaker 1: long way away from that. And um, so we'll just

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Speaker 1: take a daylight day, go through the process and we

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Speaker 1: see how it comes along. Um. You our expectations are

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Speaker 1: just again a short term. We'll I'm trying to I'm

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Speaker 1: playing out anything other than where we are today, where

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Speaker 1: just see how all that comes together. Thanks, Bill, You're

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Speaker 1: welcome next Christian rich Gurgan full backfield period. Bill. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: obviously making cuts is never easy, but um, you know

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Speaker 1: this year, I think this that five players then you

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Speaker 1: released area you get picked up by other teams, and

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Speaker 1: you know, usually that number league wise is in the

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Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five range, and last year I think

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Speaker 1: it was four players initially got picked up. And if

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Speaker 1: you could just speak to the depth of the roster

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Speaker 1: this year and now, there were some good players. They've

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Speaker 1: probably made it difficult to get cut because at the

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Speaker 1: competition level there, it was a competitive team. We had

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Speaker 1: a competitive campum, and I'm not surprised that we have

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Speaker 1: able to give them the the opportunity. I'm glad that they

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Speaker 1: were able to get it somewhere else. My next question

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Speaker 1: so carry followed by Mike Key or hey built, UM,

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Speaker 1: I know there's there's obviously a level of uncertainty when

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Speaker 1: it comes to UH waivers and claiming players on waivers.

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Speaker 1: When you end up with two at the same position,

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Speaker 1: is that a surprise at all to you or is

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Speaker 1: it a pleasant surprise? You know if you put the

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Speaker 1: claim and you have to be prepared to UM have

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Speaker 1: whoever you put a claim in on your team. But

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Speaker 1: UM just wanted to to get a sense for you know,

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Speaker 1: the likelihood of you land in a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: at the same spot. Well, I mean the UM fill

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Speaker 1: the system is what it is. It's it's set up

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Speaker 1: to claim one, you only have to claim one. If

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Speaker 1: more than one if you can get them. So the

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Speaker 1: players that we claimed, we there was a reason for

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Speaker 1: UM there with all the circumstances around them, whatever they are,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that we weren't interested in the player.

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Speaker 1: It's just for whatever reason, we didn't have been put

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Speaker 1: it's not my system, it's not your system. It's it's

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Speaker 1: just what we work under. So we look at what

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Speaker 1: the options and understand the rules and the processes and

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Speaker 1: try to use whatever we can to make our team

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Speaker 1: as competitive. We said we can make it this year,

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Speaker 1: and so this is one tool that is available to us.

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Speaker 1: We've had plenty of cuts where we haven't alaim players,

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Speaker 1: and yesterday was one where we did. So I'll just

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Speaker 1: just try to do what we feels best for our team. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Next question Mike perty the Morning Bill. Jakie Watson. We

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Speaker 1: played eight games in the last two years and only

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Speaker 1: eight snaps in pre season. How do you gauge what

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Speaker 1: he is now versus what he was considering that's a

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Speaker 1: JJ is a great player. He's very talented. He's got

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Speaker 1: So we'll always expect the best and prepare for it.

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Speaker 1: Just as a quick follow Dante scarnet gear when we're

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Speaker 1: just curious if you share the same opinion of what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see on Sunday. Yeah. Absolutely, they have UM.

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Speaker 1: They have a group of outstanding players, I mean that

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Speaker 1: challenging UM and they have good depth, so they rotate

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Speaker 1: because some of those players are a little bit interchangeable.

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Speaker 1: but depending on what you have called and where he's located,

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Speaker 1: then that might change the way the might change what

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Speaker 1: you're anticipated matchup on the play is, and then what

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Speaker 1: it really is could be two different things and that,

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Speaker 1: and they do a good job of creating problems on that.

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Speaker 1: So they're Romeo's an outstanding coach and one of the

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Speaker 1: top top coaches in the game, has been for a

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Speaker 1: long time. Nobody's better than than Romeo in running a

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Speaker 1: So it's just a very challenging situation for us any

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Speaker 1: traditionally line up, but when he creates schemes that moves

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Speaker 1: that makes it even a little bit more challenging. Thanks Bill,

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Speaker 1: They're welcome, Freshmans. Go back to Mike Contractive followed by

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Speaker 1: rich Gard Bill. I know you've teams deal with roster

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Speaker 1: building rules, like you've said, but a couple of changes

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Speaker 1: around the league. When you're building the roster, what are

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Speaker 1: considering players like Braxton Berrios and Ryan and so and others. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a great question, UM, and it's you just have

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Speaker 1: a possibility that over the next few weeks that a

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Speaker 1: some level of UM could be relevant to this conversation

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Speaker 1: UM have the DFR player active before you could move

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Speaker 1: keep as depth. I mean, again, you couldn't get them

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Speaker 1: get back the one that you needed or wanted. But

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Speaker 1: that also affects it. So there's no no straight answer here.

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Speaker 1: Am I trying to be evasive? It's just it would

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Speaker 1: And there are many options, and so we talk about

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Speaker 1: what we think it's best. But it's certainly one of

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Speaker 1: these situations that you could look back on in four

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Speaker 1: it's challenging, Yeah, no doubt. For a final question, Rich Gurgan,

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Hill this summer. Jeremy's had a good, good spring

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Speaker 1: and a good summer again. A new system, UM different,

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Speaker 1: he certainly adapted UM quickly and was able to pick

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Speaker 1: things that come with it pretty quickly. He's a smart guy, UM,

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Speaker 1: and he has experience in this league and so to

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Speaker 1: So UM. But he's done a good job in in

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Speaker 1: all the areas we've asked him to work in running

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Speaker 1: the ball, passing games, special teams UM. So I think

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Speaker 1: But he's done a lot of good things at this point. Kerry, thanks,

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Speaker 1: you're welcome, Thank you coach. Thanks everyone,