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Speaker 1: Mac Jones. How are you doing today? Man, I'm doing good.

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Speaker 1: That's a good day. How are you guys do that

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Speaker 1: We're doing good too. Thank you. Just watching you to

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Speaker 1: this point, you look very poised. You look like you belong.

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Speaker 1: It's been a strong approach to this point. So I'll ask, kid,

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Speaker 1: is there anything you look at and making the transition

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Speaker 1: from college to the NFL that you're sitting there going

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Speaker 1: to yourself, Oh bleep, this is a lot more difficult

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Speaker 1: than I thought. I think just you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: try not to look back in the past, but you know,

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Speaker 1: being here, but the Patriots has been awesome. Just really

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Speaker 1: learning from from other people is the best way to

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Speaker 1: do it, and then you kind of watch people do

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Speaker 1: it on film and then you kind of get in

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Speaker 1: there and get a chance to do it. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: I have more opportunities to do that. And then, um,

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Speaker 1: as you go along, you have things that you're probably

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Speaker 1: good at and things that you're not good at, and

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Speaker 1: you just have to figure out what you need to

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Speaker 1: work on. So new things pop up every day, and

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Speaker 1: it's more about just you know, playing football, because it's

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Speaker 1: still football at the end of the day, you know,

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Speaker 1: we uh you know, other guys from the SEC, like

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Speaker 1: Leonard Fernette, even Justin Fields. I was not an SEC guy,

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Speaker 1: but we're talking about how they thought it was gonna

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Speaker 1: be faster, they thought it was going to be a

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Speaker 1: little bit more quicker. Like, did you feel that the

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Speaker 1: adjustment was pretty much exactly? Was it anywhere, you know,

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Speaker 1: relatable to what you dealt with in college? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: mean there's good players in the NFL, obviously, really good players.

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Speaker 1: So everyone's gonna be fast and strong and really smart.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of guys have played for a long time,

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Speaker 1: so you know, just with the new atmosphere that we're in,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be. It's perfect you can be, especially at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. So the game's speed is definitely. It's

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Speaker 1: the NFL, so it's the highest level you're gonna good

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Speaker 1: and the transition has been good so far. So back,

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Speaker 1: I've heard I don't know three or four your new

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Speaker 1: teammates say one of the things that impressed with you

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Speaker 1: a lot is your swag. So I gotta ask you, like,

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Speaker 1: what how would you describe your swag? Um? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's just who I am. I'm super competitive

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Speaker 1: and that's pretty much all I can say about that.

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Speaker 1: I just really like to win, and the people that

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Speaker 1: are around with me like to win too, So I've

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Speaker 1: always tried to surround myself with good people, and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of good people here that are really competitive.

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Speaker 1: So I'm an all gets back to this winning. So

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Speaker 1: that's kind of where all this flag comes from. We're

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Speaker 1: talking to Mac Jones from the New England Patriots. You

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Speaker 1: were coached by Nick Saban. You are now coached by

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, two sneaky, funny guys. Is it a similar

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Speaker 1: style and did you get any tips at all from

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Speaker 1: Saban on how to deal with Bill Belichick? Yeah, obviously

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Speaker 1: they're very close and very similar coaching personalities and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, and you know, I'm not here to draw comparisons,

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Speaker 1: but they do have some similarities and they expect perfect

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Speaker 1: on every play, which is how you win. So you

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Speaker 1: eliminate free snap errors and post slap errors and just

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Speaker 1: try and stop him losing before you can win, so

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Speaker 1: to make sure you do that, And you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: they're their own coaches and um, you know, they coach

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Speaker 1: at different levels and I've just been really blessed to

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Speaker 1: have good coaches my whole football career and now it's

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Speaker 1: Goods Belichick, so hopefully it'll be really good in the

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Speaker 1: years to come. You know, we had your old quarterback trainer,

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Speaker 1: Denny Thompson on our show before the draft, before the

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Speaker 1: Patriots selected you, and he said you were unathletic. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is again, but here's the one. He said,

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Speaker 1: you're an athletic, okay, And he also said he draw

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Speaker 1: a lot of drew a lot of comparisons between you

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Speaker 1: and Mac Jones as far as intangibles. So one, how

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Speaker 1: do you feel about the fact that your trainer is

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Speaker 1: calling you athletic? And do you like the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's also comparing you to Tom Brady. Um, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess I'm trying to be more athletic, but that's

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Speaker 1: really not My job. Gets them all to the right guys.

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Speaker 1: They'll make it happen, and I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: work to do there, so um. And then comparison wise,

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Speaker 1: there's no need to make any comparisons. Everyone's their own player.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you're a quarterback that likes to run,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of what you do. If you're a

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Speaker 1: quarterback that wants to throw and hit the ball to

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Speaker 1: the guys in space, and that's what you do. So

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Speaker 1: you kind of just figure that out from Pomp Warrior

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Speaker 1: all the way through. As long as you play, you

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Speaker 1: figure out what type of quarterback you are. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: I would say if when anyone does try to like

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Speaker 1: I would just walk away from the interview right then

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Speaker 1: and there, right, I mean, because really there is no comparison, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, for being honest, Yeah, I mean, like I said,

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Speaker 1: everyone's their own player. And um, you know when you

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Speaker 1: when you grow up, you watch really good quarterbacks and

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Speaker 1: you hope that one day you'll get a chance to

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Speaker 1: play in the NFL. And that's pretty much all you can,

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Speaker 1: you know, hope for so everything else takes care of himself.

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Speaker 1: And um, yeah, it's been fun so far. So no

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Speaker 1: compared so Mac. You're playing with Gout and Cam Newton. Guys,

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Speaker 1: there are different styles, right Cam with his running game

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Speaker 1: the way he goes about it. But I'm just curious

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Speaker 1: that relationship. How's that thing worked out? And one are

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Speaker 1: some of the things that maybe you've learned from working

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Speaker 1: with him. It's been obviously Cam has been in the

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Speaker 1: NFL for a long time, and he's done a great

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Speaker 1: job help mentoring me and helping me and just providing

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Speaker 1: that leadership aspect, you know, in meetings or even in

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Speaker 1: personal time just talking through stuff. And he's been awesome

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Speaker 1: and a great mentor. And Brian Hoyer has obviously done

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Speaker 1: a good job as well, just helping me out. He's

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Speaker 1: been in the system for a while, and with Jared

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Speaker 1: as well. Just all those guys anything I can learn

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Speaker 1: so I can just learn from them and take it

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Speaker 1: and try and use my skill and add it to

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Speaker 1: the experience of what they know. So Bart Scott and

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Speaker 1: ESPN said that Cam was trying to body shame you

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Speaker 1: with that nickname Mac and Cheese. Will you offended by

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Speaker 1: that nickname? I get both, Like he called me by

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Speaker 1: my middle name sometimes, so he makes a joke out

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Speaker 1: of it. But I got both Mac and Cheese and

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Speaker 1: any other nickname, So it's all good. All nicknames are

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Speaker 1: funny games. It's no big deal. So if you could

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Speaker 1: you know our rookie is allowed to give the veterans nicknames.

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Speaker 1: I mean, could you give Cam Newton a nicknames. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's not really I just call them Cam, I mean

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Speaker 1: impersonate Cam Newton, right, we got rave reviews about that.

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Speaker 1: Was that more of a visual thing or was there

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Speaker 1: more of the way you carried yourself? Um? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that was just all funny games. We're kind of

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Speaker 1: in the squad meeting and that's what stay in there.

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Speaker 1: So I mean it was fun at all points. Rookies

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Speaker 1: just have fun with it. But that's pretty much it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everyone just kind of played their role and

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Speaker 1: it was it was fun and we got some good loss.

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Speaker 1: That's that's all there is to it, all. Right, Mac,

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Speaker 1: we have the quarterback question of the week. I started

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Speaker 1: the interview by talking about how poised you seem to

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Speaker 1: be out there. Obviously you don't make the decision, but

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, do you feel you're ready to be a

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback in the National Football League. I think that's

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Speaker 1: more of an excusive thing. Just today, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: just learn the plays that I messed up. I'm at practice,

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Speaker 1: so that's really my focus. Fix those and then move

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Speaker 1: on to the next day. But I think you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to get a good grasp of it. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just here to be a good teammate and help

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Speaker 1: help the quarterback room. And when I'm in there, I

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Speaker 1: need to execute the plays and I can continue to

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Speaker 1: get better at that so and I will. It's just

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Speaker 1: a learning experience and I'm ready to play any role

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Speaker 1: that i need to play. All right, Mac, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: New England. We look forward to watching you. Thanks, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Awesome. Thanks y