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Speaker 1: Hey, Bill, Okay, are you doing doing well? How are

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Speaker 1: you good? Good? We're rolling along here, yeah, rolling along. Um.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with team being four and oh

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Speaker 1: on the road. Anything that you can point to this

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Speaker 1: particular season that's led to the success on the road. Uh, yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: just the player's mental toughness and you know, resiliency to

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Speaker 1: and be ready to go out there and play and

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Speaker 1: and play competitively and you know, play well for sixty minutes.

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Speaker 1: So that was guy has done a good job of

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Speaker 1: that all year, started in preseason. Bill. Everybody in New

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Speaker 1: England very excited about that win, but in Carolina a

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Speaker 1: lot of people a lot of headlines about Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter, what they're calling a dirty play

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Speaker 1: with Brian Burns. I was just wondering if you saw

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Speaker 1: that and what you thought of it. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: he thought Burns had the ball, but you didn't see

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Speaker 1: any twisting or anything like that. I think he thought

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Speaker 1: he had the ball. Morning, Bill, Andrew Raycroft here. I'd

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Speaker 1: love to break down the Bruins with you, but I

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Speaker 1: recognize why I am here this morning, and I'm curious

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Speaker 1: what you think coming off of three big wins for

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Speaker 1: your team? What the ceiling is for this team? Do

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Speaker 1: you think you have a lot more that you've left

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Speaker 1: on the table and can you get? How much better

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Speaker 1: can you get? Yeah? I don't know, Andrew. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: a week a week here, so we'll see what happens

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Speaker 1: this week. Week. You know, and played well enough to

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Speaker 1: win the last three weeks, but I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that really means anything. I thought. I don't think it

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Speaker 1: means anything this week. So you know, we'll just have

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Speaker 1: to load up the tank and be ready to go

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Speaker 1: against Cleveland. You know, a good football team had a

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Speaker 1: big win yesterday, and you know what the put last

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Speaker 1: week's game and some of the other games from earlier

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Speaker 1: or yesterday's game and some of the earlier games from

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Speaker 1: the year, and the rear view mirror and move on,

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Speaker 1: folks on Cleveland. Still no no moves at the trade deadline,

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Speaker 1: but obviously waiver wire open for business. Um, are you

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Speaker 1: Are you thinking about doing anything there? Yeah, we just

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Speaker 1: got finished with you know, Carolina. You know put a

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Speaker 1: about it. Um. I don't know when you think about

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Speaker 1: somebody that you, you know, you wonder how they would

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Speaker 1: fit into this locker room? Is that Is that a

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Speaker 1: consideration for you when you're looking at adding to this team?

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like this is a locker room that

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Speaker 1: any player can come come into and the Patriot way,

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Speaker 1: the uh, the leadership from coaching, the leadership from veteran

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Speaker 1: players is enough to uh to have that player be

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Speaker 1: a fit. Oh yeah, I don't know. Let's every situation

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Speaker 1: is different. Uh worry it worried too much about what

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Speaker 1: everybody else is doing. How to evaluate whoever the players

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Speaker 1: are and go from there. Hunter Henry another touchdown yesterday.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen out of him? It seems like

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Speaker 1: he's been He's been great for you guys. Yeah, Ter

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Speaker 1: Hunters good player, you know, thigh, big care down conversion

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Speaker 1: run a game. Um, And it obviously helps us in

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Speaker 1: it's a good feel for things, a little smart player,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad we haven't. I mean, he's done a

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Speaker 1: good job for us all year. Phil. When the schedule

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Speaker 1: comes out and you see that your bye week is

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Speaker 1: in the middle of December, does that change how you prepare,

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Speaker 1: especially this time of year when we saw three a

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Speaker 1: few more injuries this week and throughout the NFL when

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Speaker 1: to manage players a little bit different this time of year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think when you go through the season each week, um,

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Speaker 1: end of it, UM, just try to make decisions that

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Speaker 1: to practice, we need to prepare, we need to um,

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Speaker 1: their conditioner or situation is. So we always try to

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Speaker 1: really week week decisions. Doesn't really have any to do

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's best to prepare the team for

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Speaker 1: the game. Bill, did you get to speak with Stefane

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Speaker 1: gilmer Be either before or after that game yesterday? No?

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Speaker 1: I didn't, did you? Um? What do you What did

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Speaker 1: he mean when he was saying this mentioning last week

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Speaker 1: he was not be with the way the organization handled

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Speaker 1: his injury. Any any insight into that? No, not really

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Speaker 1: surprised here and say that, because we had several meetings

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Speaker 1: and laid out a plan on how he would rehab

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Speaker 1: he wasn't here all spring, so we really didn't have

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Speaker 1: an idea where he was. But when he came back,

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Speaker 1: we had several meetings and talk about that. So he'd

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Speaker 1: have to ask him. Bill, as you guys get ready

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Speaker 1: to take on the Browns obviously releasing Odell Beckham Junior,

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Speaker 1: He's spoken so highly of you. I know he has

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Speaker 1: a lot of respect for you. What would you say

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Speaker 1: a team would get if they were to pick him

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Speaker 1: up moving forward. As a player, what would I get?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, depend on the team and what their

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Speaker 1: situation was. Yeah, I don't really know. But as a player,

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Speaker 1: Recently maybe not so much. But as a coach, what

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Speaker 1: kind of player is he? Yeah, he's a very talented player.

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Speaker 1: Never had any you know, now I was. I never

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Speaker 1: coached them, so I don't have any firsthand experience with that, Bill,

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Speaker 1: I know you don't like to compare teams, but watching

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Speaker 1: the team this year, there are several I think very

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Speaker 1: close similarities to the two thousand and one team in

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Speaker 1: terms of coming together, winning games in all three phases.

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Speaker 1: Your kickers amazing. Do you in both of those years

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Speaker 1: big moral victories over the Rams and the Bucks. Do

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Speaker 1: you see any similarities between your team right now in

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Speaker 1: the two thousand and one team you coach, I mean

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Speaker 1: that it was it was a lot different than you know,

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Speaker 1: mean it was it was a much different, much different

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Speaker 1: style of games. So therefore the makeup of the team

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Speaker 1: is is different. Um, some rules have changed and some

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Speaker 1: talking about Richard and you know other um again other

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Speaker 1: look at those it's some of the techniques are the same.

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Speaker 1: But then what we're looking at as a is all

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Speaker 1: the different picture offensively and defensively. So UM, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't us. That's a long time ago. Bill. When you

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Speaker 1: do look at those tapes, do you see how much

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Speaker 1: of a different coach are you from now compared to

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one when you watch those tapes,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Try to try to learn every day,

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Speaker 1: try to improve every day. Um. Hopefully I've learned a

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Speaker 1: lot and improved in those that period of time. But

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Speaker 1: let just keep trying to do my best. And that's

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Speaker 1: what I did then. That's what I always try to do.

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Speaker 1: Try to help the team however I can, all right, Bill, Well, Uh,

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Speaker 1: congrats on the win. And sometimes I feel you get

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Speaker 1: most excited when I say these words. We will talk

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Speaker 1: to you next week. Always good to be on. Give

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Speaker 1: we Gi my best. Sorry I miss him and us.

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Speaker 1: He's he's on a he's on a recruiting recruiting trip

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Speaker 1: with his son Arizona. Oh, there you go, there you go. Well,

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Speaker 1: that that's worthwhile. It's always always fun to, you know,

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Speaker 1: their life and their career and so forth. So that's great. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: hopefully will be back next week. All right, Bill, Thanks,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again on Monday. All right, all right, thanks,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. All right, there he is