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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. You see yourself as a good guy? Do

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Speaker 1: you try to be a good guy. I try to

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Speaker 1: be a good guy, you know, No, no matter what,

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Speaker 1: um you know, win or loss, I try to, you know,

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Speaker 1: be respectful and get the most acer information I can.

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Speaker 1: And you know, that's just the way I was raised.

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Speaker 1: That's the way I am as a player on and

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Speaker 1: off the field. So we can hear the question, raise

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Speaker 1: your hands, okay, stefan Um. You talked about your disappointment

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Speaker 1: with last week and how you guys need to pick

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Speaker 1: it up and how you felt you let your team down.

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Speaker 1: How's that all gonna change Saturday night? You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't think about it, you know. Um it's a new week,

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Speaker 1: you know, And UM, I know the things I have

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Speaker 1: to do and the other for us to win. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I take full responsibility of everything that I do,

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Speaker 1: and I know what I have to do to help

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Speaker 1: help my team. So I'm always hard on myself no

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Speaker 1: matter what good or bad, I put it behind me

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Speaker 1: and get ready for the next play or the next game.

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Speaker 1: Does a team feel like they're underdogs or somehow? You know,

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Speaker 1: no one believes in you guys, and now you're the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and you can pick it up. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: in underdogs. You know, it's the playoffs, so you know

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Speaker 1: you have to prove yourself, you know, on Saturday, no

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Speaker 1: matter what you did in the past, you know it's

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Speaker 1: it's a win or go home. So that's how I

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Speaker 1: look at it. Stefan. As much as you study film,

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Speaker 1: what do you glean that's different when you go against

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Speaker 1: the guy head to head, whether it's in a game

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Speaker 1: like Corey Davis last year or in the joints with

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Speaker 1: a J. Brown? What can you detect? What? What do

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Speaker 1: you recall that you can't see on film when you're

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Speaker 1: studying your guy? You know obviously, yeah, I know we

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Speaker 1: practice against them. You know they're great receivers, they're having

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Speaker 1: a big year and you know Tannehill is having a

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Speaker 1: big year. So um, you know it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a dog fight. Um, prepare as much as we can

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Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to the matchup and giving it

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Speaker 1: all I got from my team. Stefan. When you first

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Speaker 1: came to New England, what was your first reaction in

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Speaker 1: regards to the sort of different or unique media intensity

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Speaker 1: take to get used to just all these people just

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Speaker 1: flying around the locker room. Yeah, it was tough. It

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Speaker 1: was a tough adjustment. Um, just from where I came from,

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Speaker 1: probably it was like five media people in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: maybe seven, and I come here it's like twenty. So

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Speaker 1: it was a big adjustment. But it's good. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's everybody you know, want to know what we're doing

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Speaker 1: and have much respect for our team because of the

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Speaker 1: hard work we put in and each and every year.

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Speaker 1: And so it was a big adjustment, but I think

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Speaker 1: now I'm used to it. So Stevan, one difference is

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Speaker 1: expectations from where you were maybe even in college, coming here,

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Speaker 1: going to the pros. But can you talk about the

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Speaker 1: expectations being a Patriot and how you've embraced it and

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Speaker 1: how it's different than anything you've ever you know, had. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I kind of try to look at the small things,

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Speaker 1: you know, follow the players that's been here. It's a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys that's been here and that's been successful.

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Speaker 1: Falling in with a good coach that pushes you every

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Speaker 1: day no matter what you did in the past, you know,

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Speaker 1: allow you to forget what you did in the past.

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Speaker 1: And be ready for the next game and try to

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Speaker 1: prove yourself each and every week. So I just followed

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Speaker 1: for my teammates, and you know, everything here has earned

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Speaker 1: So that's one thing that I like about here. Um,

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Speaker 1: So I think that's that's the reason why my game

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Speaker 1: it's just a good thing. It's the fun. Is there

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Speaker 1: any difference in preparing for a rookie wide receiver versus

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Speaker 1: a veteran that you might have seen multiple times before? Um? No,

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Speaker 1: I look just look at I don't think of years.

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Speaker 1: I just look at what I see on film and um,

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Speaker 1: because that's the only thing that matters. Um. You know

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Speaker 1: a good year for a reason. It's the fun. What

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Speaker 1: time with a really good quarterback, it's a big challenge.

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Speaker 1: You know, they can do everything. They can run the ball,

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Speaker 1: gonna be a good offense. So um, it's gonna take

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Speaker 1: all eleven guys and trusting each other and playing for

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Speaker 1: each other. Yes, what's the energy like around the team

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Speaker 1: this week? Does it feel any different than previous weeks? Now?

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Speaker 1: Just focus? Um, we always focus, but you know, we

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Speaker 1: know we have to earn earn the right to play

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Speaker 1: next week. So um, that's how we're thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: And just go out and play one play at a time.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be perfect, Just to go out and

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Speaker 1: you know, go one hundred percent for your team. And um,

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Speaker 1: and whoever make the most players, that's who gonna win

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Speaker 1: question Steph. A lot of Patriot fans, media members, talking

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Speaker 1: heads say the Patriots are gonna win because it's January

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Speaker 1: and it's in Foxborough. That's not really good xcess and

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Speaker 1: old reason. But how do you guys block out a

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Speaker 1: situation where you've had so much success here but you

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Speaker 1: still need to win the game on the field. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that matters, you know, home away or

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Speaker 1: play you know, playoff time. You have to go out

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Speaker 1: there and earn it. You know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: situations that don't happened over the previous years, where it

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Speaker 1: don't matter what team is a way at home, whoever

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Speaker 1: plays the best that's going to win. So that's how

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Speaker 1: we look at it. Okay,