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And welcome on to the show for the first time.

Our new weekly Tuesday guest at 5 p.m. every week is going to be Bill.

Jacori Kroski Merritt is with us right now on Grant and Danny.

The masses are going crazy.

The people are fired up.

They love it.

Jacori, thank you, man.

Welcome to the show. How are you? What's going on? I'm doing good. How are you doing? We're doing very good. We're excited to have you on the program. This is going to be awesome. when, unfortunately, so Austin did this with us last year and was going to do it this year,

when he suffered the injury and decided it's rehab time and he's got to do other things, you were the first guy we thought of and were fired up that you're going to be part of the program all year long, man. It's going to be fun. No, I definitely appreciate that. Have you felt the embrace of the fans to this point? like, you know, Jane Daniels, obviously, Rocket Chip superstar. Everybody knows the most popular dude in town.

You were fifth.

I, the embrace of the fans to this point? Like, you know, Jaden Daniels, obviously, Rocket Chip, superstar, everybody knows the most popular dude in town. You were fifth after four Jaden Daniels jerseys in terms of local jerseys sold. Have you felt that kind of love affair with the fans already? I definitely have, and like, I appreciate them so much. Like the fan base is crazy.

It's great.

I love them.

It just made me want to just like, just make them happy.

Just make them exciting when they're out there just watching this place. So I definitely appreciate them.

When was the first time you realized, like for a seventh round running back, that they loved you more than is generally the case? There was a lot of reasons maybe for it. Obviously, you know, you had a really strong final game in college. There was kind of a quirky story where you weren't eligible, not your own fault. And so people liked you from that and we're pulling for you.

But also, there's been a long time since we had explosiveness at running back.

So everyone kind of got behind you right away at training camp.

But when did you start to notice, like, wow, these people really, really like me?

I always say I felt a lot of love, Jeff D.

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