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Speaker 1: All right, let's let's talk to New England Patriots offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman Marcus Cannon. Good morning, Marcus. How are you good? Warren?

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Speaker 1: Doing good? Doing good? Always good to be three and

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Speaker 1: all right, Oh it is. It's a great feeling. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the offensive line for a minute. You guys

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Speaker 1: have had some some turmoil, not internally, but just guys

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Speaker 1: done for the year. You've missed a game. How hard

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Speaker 1: has it been to get any sort of cohesion within

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Speaker 1: the offensive line with all the changes you've had to have.

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Speaker 1: You know, the guys has done a great job of

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Speaker 1: you know, just coming to work and you know, filling

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Speaker 1: in where they could fill in. Uh. You know, we've

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Speaker 1: got a great group of group of guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody comes out there every day and works hard, and

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Speaker 1: you know that's that's that's what you want. You know,

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Speaker 1: all we do. We just come out and try to

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Speaker 1: work hard as best as we can. You know, we

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen. We don't never know

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Speaker 1: anybody's can go down. But you know the best thing

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Speaker 1: we can do is be ready to go in and um,

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Speaker 1: you know that's how it is. How tough is that

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Speaker 1: for guys who weren't in camp with you? You know,

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Speaker 1: so many of them right at the right where the

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Speaker 1: season starts, get thrown in there. They have to learn

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Speaker 1: the playbook, how you guys play together and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: How big of a challenge is that? Um, well, I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure it's pretty big for them. But you know,

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Speaker 1: they all the guys that have come in have you know,

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Speaker 1: they've you know, put their head down and work as

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Speaker 1: hard as they can. You know, they get on the

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Speaker 1: same page and you know to you know, help help

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Speaker 1: the team. You talk about Dante Scotniki, a guy who's

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Speaker 1: been around forever, and when you talk about bringing in

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Speaker 1: new players and it's always about coaches getting you prepared

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Speaker 1: to play the game. Talk about the job that Dante does,

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Speaker 1: not just with guys who have been around hire forever,

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Speaker 1: but you know, trying to bring guys up to speed

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Speaker 1: and making sure guys are prepared for every single game. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, Coach Garniki, you know scars, he's great. You

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Speaker 1: know we uh we know if we listen to him,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be fine. And you know that's that's how

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Speaker 1: you know, that's how everybody takes when they come in.

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Speaker 1: You know, they listen to everything they say, take heat

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Speaker 1: off everything he says. And you know, he's a great coach,

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Speaker 1: and you know we all love him, and you know

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Speaker 1: we all will follow him in the battle any day.

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Speaker 1: I've talked to a lot of former offensive lineman here

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Speaker 1: and they all say the same thing about Dante. And

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Speaker 1: I've known him for a long time. He's not that

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Speaker 1: big and imposing, but he's in that room with all

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Speaker 1: you guys who are all a lot bigger than him,

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Speaker 1: and he's an intimidating guy. Yeah, you're correct, Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: he likes he likes a job done a certain way,

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Speaker 1: and if it's not done done that way, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: know it. And but uh, you know, he's a great coach.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the greatest coaches I've ever had, and

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Speaker 1: you know we all know that, we all know he

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Speaker 1: wants in a certain way, and you know, guys just

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Speaker 1: keep coming every day and trying to get it as

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Speaker 1: perfect and try to get it as best as we

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Speaker 1: can to his standard. And he played at TCU with

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Speaker 1: Marshall Newhouse. So what was that like when when you

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Speaker 1: found out he was coming over here. Oh it was exciting.

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Speaker 1: I remember seeing him when he came in for his

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Speaker 1: I've seen him walk in and I thought I was

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Speaker 1: seeing you know, I thought I was seeing seeing things.

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it was awesome. You know, I

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Speaker 1: played four years with Marshall, and you know, we came

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Speaker 1: all came in at TCU and met each other and

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Speaker 1: you know, of course I read shirted, he didn't, and

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Speaker 1: you know, he's got a year ahead of me. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's great. It's great, you know, because it's

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Speaker 1: it's always great when you know you have a guy

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Speaker 1: back and you know, it's just been it's just been amazing.

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Speaker 1: And you just talked about what Dante means and the

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Speaker 1: pressure of doing it his way. Talk about a little

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Speaker 1: bit of like you have that pressure from Scotnekia, right,

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Speaker 1: and then you also have the pressure of pass blocking

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Speaker 1: for the greatest quarterback to ever play the game. Talk

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Speaker 1: about how much pressure it is, not just from the

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Speaker 1: coaching standpoint, but to know that the guy behind you

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Speaker 1: is valuably the greatest quarterback to ever play the game,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, man, we want to make sure we

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Speaker 1: kind of keep him as upright as possible every single game,

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Speaker 1: every single week. I feel like that's just extra thing

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Speaker 1: that helps, you know, make us want to be the

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Speaker 1: Tom back there, but you know everybody knows how that is,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you just want to do better. You

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Speaker 1: want to do better to make sure that you know,

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Speaker 1: he's happy. You want to make sure he's clean. You

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Speaker 1: want to make sure he's not getting his jersey dirty,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we take pride and trying to make

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Speaker 1: sure that no one touches him, and you know that

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Speaker 1: everybody's always trying to get him, so it makes it

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Speaker 1: a harder each week, but you know that just what

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Speaker 1: makes you keep trying and working harder to make sure

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Speaker 1: you're perfecting your technique and getting everything right. Have you

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Speaker 1: guys been a little disappointed with how you've run the

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Speaker 1: football so far this year? There's always room for improvement,

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Speaker 1: and you know we just have to, you know, watch

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Speaker 1: the film and see what it looks like and then

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Speaker 1: you know, come out to practice and you know, swing

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Speaker 1: harder than we were swinging before, and you know, work

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Speaker 1: on everything and you know, try to get better every day.

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Speaker 1: He was only here eleven days. But what kind of

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Speaker 1: teammate was Antonio Brown? All my teammates are great, you know,

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Speaker 1: I like everybody in the locker room. You know, anybody

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Speaker 1: you know, we try to make them feel at home.

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Speaker 1: And you know, whether it's Marshal or anybody else or

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Speaker 1: all just try to be a great teammates. Now, you

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Speaker 1: of or is this something that you want to continue

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Speaker 1: and you know, we gotta you know, practice execution. You know,

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Speaker 1: and better in practice, you know, keep trying to lift

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Speaker 1: And you know, I said, we just got to keep

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Speaker 1: practicing and working hard. And you know, O come appreciate

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Speaker 1: you subbing for your teammate James White, who had a

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Speaker 1: bigger day yesterday than a football game. Yes, congrats to James,

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Speaker 1: you know, congratulations to them. It's great to have you

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Speaker 1: join us today. Thank you very much. Thank you Marcus

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Speaker 1: Cannon joining us here on sports Radio Wei