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Speaker 1: Selected vets don't include the quarterbacks. Maybe maybe fully haven't

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Speaker 1: decided that yet, but it's gonna be one day shorter

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Speaker 1: with the rookies than it was last year, but we'll

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Speaker 1: still bring that mining early