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And he has a story on a notebook from the scouting combine. As you

can see, he's there. I'm back in beautiful Barryville, Virginia. Anyways, one little reminder

for you, Goal members doing the private Zoom Thursday night, 730 Eastern Time with the voice of the

commanders, Bram Weinstein. Join us there. Sam, first of all, thanks for joining me from beautiful

Indianapolis. But I do want to talk, go over like what, you know, obviously I'm watching these

press conference and all that. You're there with it. What has been a big takeaway for you so

far? The fact that the commanders officials, they say very little. They always reveal very little.

They speak in general terms. Like when you ask Dan Quinn, you know, what's a commander? They

always talk about what commanders are. And he talks about enthusiasm and competitiveness.

You know, those are, I think, are things that any football coach would say about any football player.

But they have been much more specific, specifically about what they want from past rushers,

what their visions are for past rushers.

And Adam Peters, you know, he was like, ideally they'd be 6-5 with 36-inch arms and they'd, you know, run 1.3 seconds in the 10-yard split of the 40-yard dash, which is kind of simulating their get-off.

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