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Speaker 1: How's everybody doing well.

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Speaker 2: Always good to be back in the great state of

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Speaker 2: that twenty three years ago that I drove over here

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Speaker 2: time to be here. You know, as we go on

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Speaker 2: to twenty twenty four, I just I'd be remiss if

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Speaker 2: I didn't think my staff. There's a lot that goes

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Speaker 1: So staff did a fabulous job. And I would also

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Speaker 2: Mention Jeff Foster with nic and the job he does

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Speaker 2: putting this stuff, this event together.

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Speaker 1: He does a phenomenal job.

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Speaker 2: And if you guys understood half of the stuff that

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Speaker 2: he has to go through to get all these players here,

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Speaker 2: the medical the hotels, the flights, they do a phenomenal

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Speaker 3: So as we move into twenty twenty four, you know.

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Speaker 2: It's the first chance to get around a lot of

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Speaker 2: these players that we haven't been around, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: important for us. The you know, the medical at the

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Speaker 2: combine is obviously very important for us getting around the

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Speaker 2: players in terms of interviews, the workouts. It's a great

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Speaker 2: these kids and to develop our plan going into twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four. I know you guys are going to have

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Speaker 2: some questions about you know, upcoming free agents. You know,

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Speaker 2: on our roster we have, you know, Saquon Barkley, which

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk to his representatives this week. There's

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Speaker 2: nothing new on that front, you know, the conversation. The

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Speaker 2: plan all along was to meet here in Indye and

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Speaker 2: have those discussions about.

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Speaker 1: You know, how we're going to move forward with him.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy we'd like to have back.

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Speaker 2: So those conversations will take this week and we'll take

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Speaker 2: place this week and we'll see if we can get

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Speaker 2: something done with him. And then Xavier McKinney the same boat.

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Speaker 2: You know, his agent, David m Ghetto get in here

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Speaker 2: on Friday. We have a meeting planned with him. I've

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Speaker 2: had really good talks with Xavier over the last couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks, but talks have not begun with that. I

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Speaker 2: know there was some something out there that maybe they'd

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Speaker 2: began conversations with a contract extension, but we haven't had

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Speaker 2: any talks other than we're going to get to the combine.

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Speaker 2: You know, think about where you guys see the value

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Speaker 2: we're going to have our comps and then we can

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Speaker 2: start from there. But you know, Xavier is another player

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Speaker 2: that you know we'd like to have back. He's twenty

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Speaker 2: four years old, he was a captain, played one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent of the snaps and you know, we think a

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Speaker 2: the negotiation period here later this week. So with that,

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Speaker 2: I'll opened up to any questions.

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Speaker 1: Feel good, talk to Dan.

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Speaker 4: You talk to Daniel about what your plans might be

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Speaker 2: Loop at all on that. Yeah, Daniel's been in there

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Speaker 2: every day. He's been working hard. We've had good conversations

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Speaker 2: gonna need to add a quarterback. He's coming off an injury.

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Speaker 2: Tommy de Vito's under contract and Daniel, so we'll bring

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Speaker 2: in We'll bring in either a veteran quarterback through free

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Speaker 2: agency and that you know, Tyrod's in the mix there too.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to Tyrod's representatives this week, and Tyrodd's

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Speaker 2: a true pro. He's been really good for not only Daniel,

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Speaker 2: He's a true pro. So we we'll address the position again.

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Speaker 2: It can be through free agency and it doesn't preclude

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Speaker 4: Better indication at this point Daniel, you know with his

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jordan actually started throwing. He's been throwing for about

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Speaker 2: is your faith in Daniel as forget Daniel.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean you know, I mean you signed him.

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Speaker 3: I have faith in Daniels our starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: As far as you know. Is the bar for a

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Speaker 3: Can he get you to a super Bowl and win it?

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Speaker 1: And if that's the bar, is that still the bar

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Speaker 2: Kenny?

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Speaker 1: Get us to a super Bowl?

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Speaker 2: That's the ultimate goal for every day is to win

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Speaker 2: It's not one position. You got to build a good team.

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Speaker 2: You gotta have surrounding parts. There's a lot of good

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Speaker 3: So it's not just the quarterback position. I understand your question,

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Speaker 2: You got to you got to continue to build a

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Speaker 2: but you know, I think you got to build the

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Speaker 5: Jo, there's a lot of talk about whether the Giants

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting because we were actually when when that

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Speaker 1: So again, this is the start. You know, there's a

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Speaker 3: It's the first time we're going to get around them,

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Speaker 2: But you know, free agency will we'll set the table

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Speaker 5: You would make a move like generator speaking, that kind

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Speaker 2: That'd be hard to do until you're on the clock.

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Speaker 2: And again that's that's a different occasion. I know, I

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Speaker 1: You got to be comfortable with who the.

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Speaker 2: Player is, what the setup's going to be for that

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Speaker 6: Of your roster, to give up the assets to a take,

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Speaker 1: Again, the rosters is fluid. Okay, we still have free agency.

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Speaker 2: The roster could look a lot different in three weeks

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Speaker 2: And again, the exposure to the players give them.

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Speaker 3: No, no, you're good.

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Speaker 2: What do I think of the free agent running back market? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: This year or maybe they're not. What their value is.

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Speaker 1: They can negotiate with them.

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Speaker 2: We can negotiate them starting that Monday, so you'll get

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Speaker 2: you'll really get a feel for the market, you know,

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Speaker 2: thirteen days from now when we can start negotiating with agents.

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Speaker 6: Spat with Sake because you went through so many rons

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Speaker 6: guy and being the same spot the next year. How

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Speaker 6: has his value changed in your mind from where you

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Speaker 6: left it last July fifteenth, or whatever that day was.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say his value has changed, especially the organization

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Speaker 2: hard worker. I think the world of Saquon, and I

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Speaker 2: still think he can play. So my value for Saquon

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Speaker 2: really hasn't changed. Unfortunately, throughout the process, starting back in

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Speaker 3: So we'll circle back again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wide receiver. You want me to walk through that,

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Speaker 2: There's there's several things that we look at at each position,

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Speaker 1: At receiver, what was it that clued your eye about him,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because he.

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Speaker 1: So that's not off the table.

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Speaker 3: Talk about faith in Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 2: Does that faith rise to precluding drafting a quarterback in

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Speaker 3: We are at six.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna look at everything.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna look at everything. We're gonna look at all positions.

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Speaker 7: We're back with last year when you're negotiating with one

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Speaker 2: Negotiating with Brandon is is always difficult because I sat

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Speaker 3: But it's good to have allies in this business.

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Speaker 2: And if it makes sense, we were able to get

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Speaker 1: Does that impact, you know, how you go about this.

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Speaker 2: But you know, he's somebody that we, you know, would

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Speaker 4: That's what do you think of the top of this quarterback.

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