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Joe Fleco had a long answer when asked about mentoring Shadour and Dylan Gabriel.

It's a good question to

bait somebody into answering, and no matter how they answer it, it kind of looks like the guys

answering it looked bad. If I say, I don't want to be a mentor, I look bad. If I say I don't want to,

if I say I do want to mentor, then I look like an idiot that doesn't care about being good at playing

football.

So one of those questions that no matter what I say, you guys can write what you want to

write about it, and there's a lot of questions like that.

That's why I end up having to try to avoid them.

I tend to try to, like, be honest, and I've said, I'm not a mentor.

I play football.

I have a lot of experience that I can talk on things and hopefully they listen.

But it's not necessarily my job to make sure they listen to me.

Hopefully you have a really good relationship with the guys that they're in the room

and you naturally want to do that.

Oh, Joe?

What do you make of what Joe Blacko is saying?

And that man is not going to be no goddamn mentor, man.

These dudes behind me trying to take food off my plate.

They're trying to take money out my pocket.

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