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Here's why.
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This intrigue does we look back in the history of the NFL.
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We could not remember a time where you had this starter reliever situation on a football team, not to mention a playoff football team.
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Not to mention a team where you're saying this is our future quarterback here and we're gonna take him out when he should be.
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When maybe he should be learning in the game.
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And we're gonna put in this other guy who is so selfless and sort of winning these games for them.
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I just want to ask you and I'll start with you.
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Jeff, can this two quarterback system keep working?
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Despite the fact that we haven't seen something like this in the past?
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Absolutely.
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It can keep working.
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Look, I mean, you know, I hear the term reliever.
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I'm gonna go a step further.
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Fitzpatrick is the closer.
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You remember the movie Major league Charlie Sheen playing Rick Vaughn right here, like wild thing.
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You would come out to the music and hairs off, you know, coming back.
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He's got the glasses with the skull and crossbones right there.
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You know what I mean?
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And he's coming in giving the gas baby like that's It's magic, right?
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The problem is, it could be fits tragic as well, so you don't know what you get.
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It is true wild thing, but but I love it.
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Listen, I think you know, from the team's perspective, they drafted to a for certain role.
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He is their starter.
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He is their guy.
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But if it waivers, you know Floor isn't afraid to bring in Fitzpatrick to help win games that speaks to the locker room.
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Hey, man, it's not just about developing players.
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It's about winning football games.
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I love the mentality.
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I think it's.
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I think it's appreciated by by other players for what the way to handles it, because he's strong with it.
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But I love what they're doing and you talk about how to handle that.
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Donna, I think about the idea of remember in baseball when Tampa Bay started going with the opener and everybody started copying them.
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Is there something about this situation that makes it work or is there something to say?
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Hey, this could work elsewhere.
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There's something about these two guys that make this work, Yeah, three guys because you add Flores on the two guys that are the quarterbacks?
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Yes.
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Unique individuals that are equipped, obviously.
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You know, psychologically.
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Emotionally.
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Toe.
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Handle it.
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Look to it.
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You're our guy.
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We drafted you, Number five.
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You're gonna be the starter here.
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But you're a rookie.
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They have growing pains.
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Sometimes we may need to get you out of a situation that isn't great for you.
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It takes guts.
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And, uh, and and good coaching as we talked about by Flores to do it.
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And it takes two guys who have the mentality that Ryan Fitzpatrick and to a have to pull this off, it wouldn't work if you had.
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I don't know.
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Aaron Rodgers and Dwayne Haskins.
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I don't know.
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Just to pick a couple of names that are in the news.
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Okay.
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So, Marcus, how long does it work?
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How long do you think they can keep this going?
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Not long.
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I mean it.
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It works for this year, but the context is important, right?
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Like we're in 2020.
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Damn, it ain't nothing conventional.
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Ain't nothing going the way it's supposed to go.
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I don't like the fact that I can't congregate with more than 20 people without wearing a damn mask.
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I don't like it, but I'm gonna wear the mask.
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That's just like Bryan Flores.
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I'm sure he don't like playing two and Fitzpatrick, but he's going to play them because that's what you have to do in 2020.
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Look, we also got to remember, Ah, shorten offseason, a rookie quarterback in situations that may not be conducive to him having success.
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And Flores is pushing the right buttons.
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They winning, and that is all that matters in this league.
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Now we'll deal with all of the stuff going forward later, but for right now is working, and I legit little Bryan Flores for being able to do it is 2020.
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Don't tell me a damn thing about being conventional, and I have to imagine it's buying points with the team, both in terms of Fitzpatrick and to, uh, because they're going along with this in the midst of a playoff race.
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And guys, they're saying we want to make the playoffs.
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Thes guys getting along could be better for our chemistry in the locker room.
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