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Speaker 1: We appreciate you joining us. We just talked to your teammate,

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Speaker 2: Problem.

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Speaker 1: Uh, the results obviously, and I was listening to you

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Speaker 1: or expected this year. You did say yesterday, you know

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Speaker 1: have no regrets about you know, some of the way

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Speaker 1: that you've approached this season personally, How is it? How

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Speaker 1: has it gone for you this year?

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Speaker 2: Is is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it wearing on you? Meaning the losses and and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just a learning experience for everybody,

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, you got to realize that

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Speaker 3: just all about us coming together, working hard and figuring

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Speaker 3: You got to focus on the days, and once you

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Speaker 4: what do you think you've learned about yourself as a

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Speaker 3: it's easy, right when you're winning and everything's great and

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Speaker 5: Make You've talked a lot after these games about, you know,

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Speaker 5: making better throws, things like that. Do you feel like

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Speaker 3: I mean, the record wouldn't say so, but that's that's

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Speaker 1: You were asked yesterday after the game about throwing in

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Speaker 2: I know, this isn't a decision that you get to make.

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Speaker 1: Talking to Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, he joins us every

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Speaker 1: with Arkan on W E E. I we talked to

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Speaker 1: Why do you view him as a good resource?

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Speaker 3: Like I talked about, I mean, there's there's people that

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Speaker 2: Not really.

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Speaker 4: When there are other programs with so many players in

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Speaker 2: Have you?

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Speaker 1: Have you been to Europe before?

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Speaker 2: You have been? Where Where have you? Where have you

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Speaker 3: I've been to like Italy and France and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Nice?

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Speaker 5: We were trying to think of a tourist attraction in Germany.

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Speaker 5: We couldn't think of one. Can you think of one?

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Speaker 5: Is there like a place castles?

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Speaker 2: bit of a size queen.

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Speaker 1: Where where's your uh, where's your favorite place to visit?

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Speaker 1: Like when you get when you get downtime, off season

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Speaker 1: or whatever, where's your favorite place to visit vacation?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't really go anywhere. So back home Jacksonville,

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville is the nicest time of year. We are, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the in the summer. Is that the kind is

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Speaker 1: that the kind of time we want to be there?

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Speaker 1: If we're if we're playing on the jacksonvill Nice.

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Speaker 2: A show, a show road trip down to Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you're like, don't well, Mac Jones.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for best of luck on the trip to Germany

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Speaker 1: this week, Best of luck this weekend.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next month, all right, all right,