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Speaker 1: So white South? Good are you?

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Speaker 2: How would you describe what it's been like coming to

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Speaker 2: the Patriots. I would say it's something new for me

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Speaker 2: starting to like it around here. What was it about

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Speaker 2: And as a preach, I'm just a good opportunity for me.

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Speaker 2: Uh talking on my age and my family. Uh, we

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Speaker 2: just felt like it was like the right move for us.

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Speaker 2: And I mean when I got here talking to uh

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Speaker 2: Bill O'Brien and running back coach, it just seemed like

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Speaker 2: a good fit for me.

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Speaker 1: What well, what makes youre?

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Speaker 3: Just? You? Lad?

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Speaker 2: What you just? I mean just playing against them when

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Speaker 2: the WA when I was with the Jets playing against them,

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Speaker 2: just see like they like to run the ball. I

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Speaker 2: mean they got great backs from Andre and those other guys.

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Speaker 2: I just like the way they do things around here.

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Speaker 1: How do you see your skill set fitting in with

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Speaker 2: Or I mean right now, I'm just tryna really just

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Speaker 2: keep working and getting better right now, I mean going

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Speaker 2: through the offense and all that right now, But really

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Speaker 2: it's just working and getting stronger.

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Speaker 1: So spend your impression of playing for Phil and Ryan

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Speaker 2: Uh, well, I mean I haven't really played for him

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Speaker 1: Jud what was last season like for you?

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Speaker 3: Kind of bouncing around to a couple of teams and

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a not ideal. I mean it was.

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Speaker 2: I don't really like moving around like that, but it's

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Speaker 2: kind of hard just kind of buying my role really

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Speaker 2: and just do what I can for the team that

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Speaker 2: I was on. So how much are you looking forward

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Speaker 2: to the opportunity, uh to play with Patriots after last season?

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Speaker 1: Uh, I'm I'm really looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to get started and can't wait for

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Speaker 2: training camp to start and just try to help the

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Speaker 3: Ki James, you were great coming into League A when

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Speaker 3: drafting free agent, obviously really productive for the first two years.

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Speaker 3: I'll know, how are you doing after the setback with

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Speaker 3: the chills and too, so how much you're looking forward

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Speaker 3: so you don't show me everyone that's you.

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Speaker 1: Know, that's who you are from. I'm really looking forward

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Speaker 2: I mean, coming off the Achilles was I it was

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Speaker 2: a lot of talk of oh, he's not gonna be this,

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna be that. But I feel like start

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Speaker 2: of that year when I came back, I was doing

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Speaker 2: pretty fine and haven't had problems with it since.

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Speaker 1: So what are your questions up? Back down? So far?

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Speaker 2: Great guy, hard worker, for sure, man can run for

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Speaker 3: Say that James being from Rockford, Uh a lot of

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Speaker 3: have that impact on the community like that in Illinois, Uh,

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Speaker 3: for you to bring a team uh and some more

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Speaker 3: fans to the team from Rockford.

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Speaker 2: Except yeah, I mean, uh yeah, Rockford. I mean everyone's

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Speaker 2: going to support whoever from Rockford. You're gonna get that support.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's not I mean, I wouldn't say.

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Speaker 2: It's a small town, but but it's I mean, you

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady's gonna be honored at the home opener.

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Speaker 3: I know you didn't play with him, but did you

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Speaker 3: watch him growing up?

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Speaker 1: And do you have any favorite memories of ha' I

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Speaker 1: did watch 'em for sure. I I mean I love

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Speaker 2: Play a lot of good comebacks to all all that

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Speaker 2: see him being honored.

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Speaker 1: Really, So do you feel like you're playing at your best?

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Speaker 1: So what do you what do you would you say

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Speaker 2: I mean that's all it is, really, And I don't

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Speaker 3: I just but you tinking you're back to this time

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Speaker 3: what do you call about that experience walking by park

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Speaker 3: For the young guys who walking into the building today,

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Speaker 2: Drafting, I I see, I think mine was a little

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Speaker 2: mean it was just really just know your stuff coming

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Speaker 3: So oh no, it's cause I know you got forty

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Speaker 1: Just how important is that part of the game to

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Speaker 2: I mean when I get the opportunities for that, I

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Speaker 1: And I mean it's about it above.

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Speaker 2: Remindrat great guy, great guy. Yeah, been working out with

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Speaker 2: I mean being up close and actually see him instead

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Speaker 2: Pretty well, you got too for to that smooth right, like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: You have experience interacting with guys here in the past and.

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Speaker 3: Interacted experience or you study those guys at all the

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what was the free agency process.

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Speaker 2: Like for you?

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Speaker 1: And you know, how did you kind of get into

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Speaker 2: I think it was pretty fun for me, I would say,

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Speaker 1: I j I've just really explained to this.

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Speaker 2: here was just like I said before, just I think

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Speaker 1: Daniel qualite defense line or that's a way of you

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Speaker 1: said he came from drags, you would he been with

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Speaker 3: You you last year he talked about you, Uh what

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Speaker 2: Was some struggle.

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Speaker 1: A running back that you what was your game after

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Speaker 1: or looked up to you growing up?

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Speaker 2: I watched uh a lot of Marshawn Lynch when I

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Speaker 1: Okay, like you like New Zealand, have you gotten out?

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Speaker 1: I was tired to see like some of the areas around,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I thought that thing's pretty cool. Yeah, thanks

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