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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk with Devin mccordy here on a

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Speaker 1: Thursday with the game coming up on Saturday night. How

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Speaker 1: you doing? I'm doing terrific. I know, if I were

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Speaker 1: to ask you whether there's tension or problems between Belichick, Brady, Guerrero,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, you wouldn't answer the question or you'd find

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Speaker 1: something else to say. So I will ask you this

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Speaker 1: as a veteran, when stuff like this happens outside the building,

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Speaker 1: that does mention people inside the building. How do you

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Speaker 1: guys deal with it? It doesn't seem over the years

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Speaker 1: too have really bothered the play on the field. How

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Speaker 1: have you guys mastered that? How do you do it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean we just don't think about it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know for a lot of us that has I mean,

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Speaker 1: it really has nothing to do with us. So um,

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Speaker 1: you know, you don't waste time, you know, just like

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Speaker 1: if my wife's man at me, the rest of the

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Speaker 1: team doesn't waste their time. You know. I try to

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Speaker 1: get through that, so uh, to me, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, we'll just focus on what

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Speaker 1: bothers us or what we have to worry about as

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Speaker 1: a team, or we'll just stay focus on that, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's all about winning. I think everybody cares

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Speaker 1: about that. The most one thing that will affect you is, uh,

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Speaker 1: Matt Patricia a defensive coordinator who may or may not leave. Um,

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Speaker 1: how has that been with you, just dealing with the

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Speaker 1: with the prospect of losing your defensive coordinator? Uh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we don't think about that. I mean, honestly, that has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with playing in Tennessee Titan. So I

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Speaker 1: think we've just been focused on trying to win this

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Speaker 1: game Saturday night. You know, whatever happens in the future

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Speaker 1: and you know after the season that that's what happens.

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Speaker 1: But I think for right now, we'll focus on playing

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and trying to focus on what we can control

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Speaker 1: and other things that you know, the media or everybody

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Speaker 1: else wants to talk about. Well, does he does he

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Speaker 1: at least it's like the elephant in the room, I mean,

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Speaker 1: at least from worse sitting like, does he does Matt Patrician?

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Speaker 1: Does he? Does he at least address it? Hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: you may hear some stuff about me, but you just

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Speaker 1: know that I'm focused on it. Does he talk about it?

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Speaker 1: Or has he talked about it at all, you know,

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Speaker 1: we I mean, I feel like I'm just repeating myself.

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Speaker 1: We only talked about playing the Tennessee Titans, not about

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Speaker 1: anything else. We don't talk about, you know, how the

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Speaker 1: weather was. We don't talk about what Gronk did last night.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about what I did last night. We talked

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Speaker 1: about the Titans. We talked about Mariota, talk about Henry

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Speaker 1: Delaney Walker, We're going down the whole list. But all

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Speaker 1: that other stuff, we I mean, there's just no point

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Speaker 1: in wasting time off. You know, Devina Calls are very

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Speaker 1: very concerned because we've been talking about this game for

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Speaker 1: a short minute, and they think that we're too cocky,

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Speaker 1: and they forget that we don't play in the game.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just just just make them feel better. Or

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Speaker 1: are you Are you like us? I'm sure right in

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Speaker 1: that Patriot room, you guys are looking past Tennessee and

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Speaker 1: thinking about the AFC title games. That correct. No, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think for us, we're focused on just the things

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Speaker 1: that Tennessee is gonna cause, you know, especially for me

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Speaker 1: from the defensive standpoint, you know, watch the team be

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Speaker 1: down twenty one and three at half time and to

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Speaker 1: stay folks to come back going through their process of

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Speaker 1: you know, just keep fighting. And I think obviously you saw,

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Speaker 1: you know, between Mariota and Hamilery, they made a ton

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Speaker 1: of players in key situation. So I think that's really

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Speaker 1: been our focus all week. You know, we don't don't

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Speaker 1: worry about what happens next week because of the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: there really is no next week, So it's all about

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Speaker 1: earning that right to get the practice next week and

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Speaker 1: play the game. All right, you've seen enough footage here.

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Speaker 1: Give us something that Tennessee does really well. Maybe nobody's

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Speaker 1: talking about. I think the play action passes or something

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Speaker 1: that we've looked at trying to get the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field. Obviously everyone knows, you know, they have good

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Speaker 1: running backs. You know, I know Murray's out, but they've

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Speaker 1: been able to run the ball really affected this year.

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Speaker 1: But you can see, you know, they get the play action,

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Speaker 1: they're able to get down the field, whether it be

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Speaker 1: you know, heym Delaney walker down the middle, whether it's

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Speaker 1: some type of double move or shot down the sideline.

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Speaker 1: They when they've been able to complete those, those have

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Speaker 1: been huge plays for them to get the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field. So that's something we've talked about and trying

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Speaker 1: to take away. You're a guy that makes a lot

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Speaker 1: of tackles during the course of the game. Levan Bell

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Speaker 1: is one of those guys pauses, stops, and then you

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Speaker 1: need to figure out and guess what he's gonna do next.

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Speaker 1: When you're dealing with Derrick Henry, this is a big,

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Speaker 1: bruising guy, very very difficult to bring down. Do you

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Speaker 1: do things differently with him? Are you cognis into the

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Speaker 1: fact that you're gonna make that rap on him and

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Speaker 1: he's still gonna try to get four or five six

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Speaker 1: yards on you. Yeah, I think it's just a focus

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Speaker 1: for the defense to just get him down. I mean

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Speaker 1: even you see in the fourth quarters when he starts

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Speaker 1: to really wear you down, and he's been very effective. So,

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Speaker 1: but the thing with him is he's not just a

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Speaker 1: big guy who's just gonna run straight. He had good vision.

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Speaker 1: You see a lot of times, you know, you clog

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Speaker 1: everything up inside put this funda Gurel is able to

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Speaker 1: run the edge. So it's really all eleven guys at

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Speaker 1: the point of attack, not letting them change direction or

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Speaker 1: end up somewhere else. As all of us getting there

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Speaker 1: and then trying to gang tackle him. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's this article out today about the Patriots defense and

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Speaker 1: just how they struggled with running quarterbacks. I mentioned Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Tyrod Taylor twice, and Alex Smith. And when

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Speaker 1: you guys hear something, when you hear stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: is that something that's been a point of emphasis this week?

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Speaker 1: And have you fixed that problem if there even was one?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, definitely. I mean those quarterbacks, that's the issue

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Speaker 1: they bring. You know, I don't think you watch us

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Speaker 1: and say, yeah, only they struggle. I mean every team

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Speaker 1: they struggle with playing those guys because they're mobile, they

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Speaker 1: can throw the ball. So it's definitely instance on our

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Speaker 1: defense of the issues they bring up getting outside of

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Speaker 1: the pocket, being able to just run or you know,

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Speaker 1: take an extra second to buy time to hit somebody

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Speaker 1: who breaks away from coverage. So you've got to be

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Speaker 1: aware when you play quarterbacks are mobile enough to buy

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Speaker 1: time and make big plays the legs. Now, has there

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Speaker 1: any been any back and forth and he trash talking

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Speaker 1: with Logan Ryan or does he think that that's going

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Speaker 1: to take care of itself on the field. Yeah, Well

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Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit out there in the field.

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Speaker 1: But you know, that's my guy. But it would be fun.

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Speaker 1: I'll go out there and try to send him home

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Speaker 1: a loser, all right, Devin, good luck in the game,

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Speaker 1: all right, all right, man,