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Speaker 1: All right, it is the g Bag Nation here on

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Speaker 1: one oh five three of the Fan and Stephen Jones

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Speaker 1: is set to join us right now here. We'll be

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Speaker 1: talking to him about their big plans here on a

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Speaker 1: Thank you sir. How you doing in a good afternoon?

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon to you guys. So what's the plan or

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Speaker 1: I mean usually we like to pretty much have everything

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Speaker 1: get started, and we'll go in that draft room like

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Speaker 1: we always do, and well, uh, you know, work through

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Speaker 1: it and you know, you never know what's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: but you know, more than likely it'll probably be a

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Speaker 1: day where we don't make a pack. But during a

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Speaker 1: first round, how often would you say, does that phone

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Speaker 1: How many those kind of calls do you think you'll

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Speaker 1: take tonight. You know, we're so far back and the

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Speaker 1: and so you know, I don't know that they'll be necessarily,

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Speaker 1: So how many phone calls do you get leading up

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Speaker 1: your roster right now about teams that are interested in

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Speaker 1: perhaps players where you have a lot of depth and

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Speaker 1: offer you draft picks. No, not really a lot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: But I think in general, you know, I don't think

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily say, you know, uh, you know, our

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Speaker 1: looking at players on our team, I think they know

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Speaker 1: with what we have. And you know, we hadn't really

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Speaker 1: we'd be willing to train, me that they were happy

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Speaker 1: with our roster, and short of something showing up, you

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Speaker 1: never say never, but sing to something showing up that's

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Speaker 1: really interesting that we think makes us better than I

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Speaker 1: don't really see, you know, a situation evolving over the

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Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. So there aren't any current conversations

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Speaker 1: your players. No, Okay, how confident are you, Stephen that

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tougher to know than ever with fifty

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Speaker 1: But what are the odds you think that it'll be

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Speaker 1: that could happen. Stephen, You've talked to all your current players.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's retiring on us tonight or tomorrow morning. I don't

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Speaker 1: Usually if you know there's a couple of points different

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Speaker 1: you go to work. You're the man, Steven. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: all your time. Man, thanks for jumping on with us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys. There he goes, Steven Jones with us here

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