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Speaker 1: at the other day that that's going about to day?

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Speaker 1: You got to change your plans and we'll be there. Drew.

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Speaker 1: This is Mike Grief at ESDN dot com. And you

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Speaker 1: mentioned Robert Kraft and and you know you were here

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Speaker 1: Sunday is going to be the twenty fourth anniversary of

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Speaker 1: him purchasing the team. What have you noticed from him

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Speaker 1: is today. Well, you know, when when you look at

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Speaker 1: what Robert Craft is done with that organization, there's there's better.

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Speaker 1: There's not one single thing you can point to do

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Speaker 1: every single thing that thank you from a player personels

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Speaker 1: to diet to uh, you know, training players, being financially

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Speaker 1: you know, said of a part as an owner. It

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Speaker 1: really in all the professional works. And what have you

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Speaker 1: noticed from him in terms of how he, you know,

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Speaker 1: keep people together. Sometimes people look at it and say,

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Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes keeping a harmonious situation can be

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Speaker 1: of meet their goal. But you know, a boat ball out. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Patriots have been able to for a

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Speaker 1: and that's winning the Uh. There's their distractions that come

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Speaker 1: up because of their single minded focus on uh simply uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, winning football games without worrying about anything else. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They've they've been able to continue a run of success

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Speaker 1: in spite of injuries and started in spite of players

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Speaker 1: coming and going, and in spite of potential distractions and

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Speaker 1: all of those things, they've been able to just transcend

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Speaker 1: Kim mc bright the Globe, the fun guys. I was,

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately don't have enough snowing right otherwise to do. That

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Speaker 1: was the end for the hairlift again. Right, there's your question, Jim,

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Speaker 1: I drew that, Kim mcbrid Uh, just what the antigambi

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Speaker 1: Kim game now you did in a way, I'm just

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Speaker 1: wondering what your recollections of when you played against the

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Speaker 1: you're talking about the twos out the one game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: intended to be there forever to get hurt and watching

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Speaker 1: in that game in two thousand and one UH and

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Speaker 1: was pretty cool, Brad, Is it okay? Okay? True? Tom

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Speaker 1: is it all surprising to you that that he only

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Speaker 1: This is at WBC Radio. UM, just curious, how's your

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Speaker 1: I you know, I'm getting kind of old. That injury

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Speaker 1: now and then I'll I'll go play the scout team

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Speaker 1: and nine. Yeah, you know, if they need me, I'll

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Speaker 1: be ready. You know. Barrow Julian Edelman's number of eleven

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Speaker 1: biggest challenge when you have a hand injury is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it taking snaps from center or just throwing the ball? Well,

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Speaker 1: the last. The last memory I'll hitry. I was just

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Speaker 1: know it, I don't know twenty one twenty two years

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Speaker 1: Jacks and the the AFC Championship game at the old stadium. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, first of all, it was an unbelievable scene.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like third quarter or something like that. We're

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Speaker 1: playing at the old stadium again, the AFC Championship Game,

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Speaker 1: heavy indication that it was time for a new stadium,

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Speaker 1: of time to knock down Neil. But