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Speaker 1: Exton, Where were you when you got the call today

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Speaker 1: from New England? I was in a house we rented

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Speaker 1: out with a bunch of my family and friends, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sitting there and playing on the call.

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Speaker 1: Over the course of your college career, for a bunch

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Speaker 1: of reasons, a lot of people had you pegged as

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Speaker 1: a guy who might ultimately appeal to the Patriots. What

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Speaker 1: did you think of that? Were you aware of that?

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Speaker 1: And maybe does that make you any less surprised by

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Speaker 1: what happened today? No, not at all. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I know the Jeff is crazy and you can go

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Speaker 1: to you know, any one of the thirty two teams

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Speaker 1: and I stay out of the meebe and what people think.

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Speaker 1: And this is that really? Um? You know, during the

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Speaker 1: season and even in the hall season, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: how to focus home football and what I can do

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Speaker 1: the health of team. So you know, I wasn't obviously

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Speaker 1: paying attention to that, and yeah I was. I was surprised,

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Speaker 1: to say the league, you know, I'm not responsible for

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Speaker 1: what everybody felt, thanks or so, And I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: a football players. They have a tradition of guys, you know,

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Speaker 1: who have maybe your kind of similar skill set. When

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Speaker 1: you talk about Welker and Edelman and you know, Danny,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about that? And what do you

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Speaker 1: think about what those guys have been able to put

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Speaker 1: out over yours. They've done an incredible job and finding

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Speaker 1: you know, getting handed their role and working it to

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Speaker 1: a master level. You know, Uh, you know obviously I've

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Speaker 1: seen on my watch them, you know, I study them

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Speaker 1: and along with a lot of other guys in the league,

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Speaker 1: and they've done an incredible job. And I'm really excited

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Speaker 1: to learn some things. Preston, where was that house? Were

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Speaker 1: you in Raleigh or were you down in South floor?

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Speaker 1: Was in Miami? I'm sorry, Yeah, I was down in

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Speaker 1: the South both. When you mentioned you study them, did

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Speaker 1: you study them as more than receivers as punt returners

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Speaker 1: as well, and in that particular role and how you

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Speaker 1: flourished and how much do you embrace it? Which role exactly?

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Speaker 1: In part returning? Oh? I absolutely love it. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think there's something about it that uh, it's it's

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Speaker 1: kind of an adrenaline ruche that I get nowhere else. Um,

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Speaker 1: I truly do, like, Uh, I love I love return

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Speaker 1: and I studied them as as as players and you know,

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Speaker 1: really their whole overall game, you know, as receivers, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, things they do without the ball, and obviously

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Speaker 1: uh get palm returning as well. Braxon, I believe I

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Speaker 1: saw that you met met with the Patriots during the

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Speaker 1: pre draft process for a visit. How did that visit

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Speaker 1: go and and what do you learn from it? It went? Well?

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Speaker 1: You know I didn't I didn't go up there, but um,

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Speaker 1: you know they came down and it was Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: went you know. Obviously we we talked a lot, we

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Speaker 1: talked a lot of football. Um, we watched film and

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Speaker 1: it Uh. I really walked there with with the great

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Speaker 1: feeling about it. What coaches did you meet with? For

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Speaker 1: the coach sat O Shay Rexton, you were the valedictorian,

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Speaker 1: is that right, um of the business school down there? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How much how much pride do you take in balancing

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Speaker 1: your football with that? You know? It wasn't balancing my

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Speaker 1: football that Um. You know, anything I try to do,

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Speaker 1: you know, anything I write my name on, I try

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Speaker 1: to do it to the best of my ability. And

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Speaker 1: that's really all that was. You know, It wasn't that

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Speaker 1: I was so smart or you know, I not even

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Speaker 1: that I you know, value academics, you know, over or

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Speaker 1: even the teamless football, you know, and I think a

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Speaker 1: key part of life. You know, they can take away

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Speaker 1: football and a lot of things, and they can't take

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Speaker 1: away you know, your mind and the brain and the

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Speaker 1: knowledge you have. But it's just a culminational work and

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Speaker 1: just trying to do everything that was put in front

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Speaker 1: of me to the best of my ability. And you know, um,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the Patriots and now your favorite team growing up,

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Speaker 1: was it sort of a hard team to to embrace

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Speaker 1: just because their success. Oh no, No, I appreciate greatness

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Speaker 1: and I always have, um, you know, you have you

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Speaker 1: I appreciate greatness and I, um mind families from South Florida,

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Speaker 1: so you know originally, um, you know, I had those

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Speaker 1: the way they do it in the right way, and

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Speaker 1: um it is They're an example for for organizations around

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Speaker 1: the world. Breton, how much do the coaching change at

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Speaker 1: Miami helped prepare you for this opportunity? And from what

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Speaker 1: I understand as well. You moved from outside primarily inside there. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've played both, um, you know, and I've still played both.

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Speaker 1: I've had I've had you know, two different head coaches

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Speaker 1: Miami and you know, I was looking enough to where,

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Speaker 1: you know, each of those coaches, whether it'd be my

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Speaker 1: learn things from. Um and uh, you know obviously have

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Speaker 1: a great relationship with all of them. You know, all

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Speaker 1: of all of them have sences either called me a

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Speaker 1: text to me, you know, everything since they heard the news.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it was really cool to getting that

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Speaker 1: to that and being able to pick you know, three

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Speaker 1: or five different brains instead of you know, a few bracton.

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Speaker 1: You are elected a captain, right, yes, what the Patriots

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Speaker 1: seemed to have years passed as well as this year

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Speaker 1: going after guys who who show leadership in that capacity. Um,

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Speaker 1: what is being a captain maybe mean to you in

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Speaker 1: terms of what you bring to the locker room? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, you know, that's the greatest achievement I

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Speaker 1: think you know, and personally you can achieve in football

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Speaker 1: between the teams, is you know, guys looking up to

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Speaker 1: you and you know, electing themselves electing you a leader

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Speaker 1: of the team. Um, you know, first, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a matter of handling your business in the

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Speaker 1: right way. You know, I've always said, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm I leave by example first, because you know, if

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Speaker 1: if you try to tell people what to do without

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Speaker 1: showing them that you're willing to do that yourself, then

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Speaker 1: really does mean the world. Do you know Philip door

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Speaker 1: Set well, I mean have you had I do? I do? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I got to know him. And obviously you know, I

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Speaker 1: know you got traded over from Indy to the Patriots

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Speaker 1: a little while ago. Um, so yeah, I do. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to working with them again. I see, I

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Speaker 1: see you have some tackles on your statue. Is that

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Speaker 1: proud of those why is that place? I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: nice to you know, just be well rounded and end

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Speaker 1: looking forward to being able to maybe learn under a

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Speaker 1: guy like Julian Needelman who does play a similar role

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Speaker 1: to you, Well, there's there's no doubt that I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to go in there and the first thing and learn.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm from from everybody, you know, from everybody

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Speaker 1: from you know, the Adelman said, I meant everybody else.

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Speaker 1: That's that's That's the main thing that I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: focused on coming down and just you know, learning, trying

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Speaker 1: trying to soak up everything I can, and I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited to get work