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Speaker 1: you know, I'm good to be back. You guys got

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Speaker 1: the boom box crew together. What's that crew like? Ugle

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Speaker 1: Moses said Brandon. It's a tight group. Man definitely missed

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Speaker 1: him last year. Let this locker open. He came back

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Speaker 1: back like he's never left. Pretty much, James. Last year

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Speaker 1: people were getting catching seven in the yards, seven two hunds,

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Speaker 1: the best receiving numbers running back ever year. Your your

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Speaker 1: best stumbers are your crew. How do you how do

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Speaker 1: you build upon man? How do you how do you

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Speaker 1: improve when you set career highs like that? Well, even

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Speaker 1: though you have some success, there's still plenty of mistakes

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Speaker 1: that you make out there. So there's always room for improvement,

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Speaker 1: always ways to get better, always more yards to get

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Speaker 1: So getting with the coaches, see what you can improve

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Speaker 1: and find ways to get better, whether there's running better routes,

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Speaker 1: having no drops, or making better run reads. There's always

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Speaker 1: little bit of things that you can improve on or

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Speaker 1: your goals heading into these offices and following the Super Bowl, well,

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Speaker 1: for me, it's always improving. All everything is improving on

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Speaker 1: the things that you're good at improving on your weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: So it's always catching, always routes, blocking, learning the offense

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Speaker 1: as a whole. I said, I try and learn as

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Speaker 1: much as offense as Tom though, so when he's making

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Speaker 1: a check or something that I understand what we're trying

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Speaker 1: to get done. When Brandon was here last week speaking

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Speaker 1: with us, he mentioned that it was like going away

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Speaker 1: been like since he's been back with your running back

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Speaker 1: group and working out with you guys. It's been good, um,

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Speaker 1: I said. He's a guy who's been here the longest

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Speaker 1: and he's kind of a guy who showed me the

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Speaker 1: guy for another guy, for someone to lean on with

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Speaker 1: myself and Rex, and we have a good group of guys.

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Speaker 1: We compete, have fun, and we have a special group.

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Speaker 1: Have you met her talked to Jimmy Harris? Not yet, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I've I've seen him play. He's a good football player.

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Speaker 1: You know, Alabama is a great program, and they pumped

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Speaker 1: those guys out of there each and every year, so

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Speaker 1: it'd be good to get him in here and bro

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Speaker 1: set to get those guys help them learn as much

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Speaker 1: You guys always kind of welcome the edition of young

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Speaker 1: blood in the running back thing. Always, Um, you never

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Speaker 1: know who you're gonna need. Unfortunately, injuries happened. Things happen,

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Speaker 1: I gotta prepare them. What would be your advice to

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Speaker 1: those guys the first time they do something that not

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Speaker 1: up to Coach Fiers's expectations, Just take the coaching, learn

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Speaker 1: from it. Maybe we've all been rookies before. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get yelled at more than everybody else. She gotta take

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Speaker 1: the coaching, have fun. Most of all rookie years a

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Speaker 1: long year, but it's built for learning. I learned a

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Speaker 1: I have plenty stories from seem like I've been here

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Speaker 1: it feels like I just stepped in here like last year.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just enjoying the process. Like I said, continue

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Speaker 1: to learn and just continue to become a better teammate,

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Speaker 1: better football player. James you obviously knew Brandon him coming back,

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Speaker 1: if you got to know any of the other new

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Speaker 1: and finally becoming a teammates, you get to chop it up,

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Speaker 1: kind of see what they're experiences like other places, kind

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Speaker 1: of help them learn what it's like here, learn what

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Speaker 1: it's like to be a Patriot, and what it's like

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Speaker 1: to work here. And like I said, we always trying

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Speaker 1: to bring everybody together. You never know who you're gonna need.

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Speaker 1: And Mike Penel's obviously a pick dude, But were you

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Speaker 1: surprised by any of them or just him to his

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Speaker 1: I mean I said, everybody's it has their own select talents,

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Speaker 1: You know, like what what stands out to you this

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Speaker 1: get new and sort of invigorates you. Guys. I'm more running,

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Speaker 1: about for you personally this offseason, any notable changes for

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Speaker 1: you that have all taken out of Oh not necessarily

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Speaker 1: contreat Most offseason the same. Just take a little bit

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Speaker 1: same process from me each and every year. Get that

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Speaker 1: big Fantasy football you know, seems to have exploded over

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Speaker 1: the with your with your message to the owners out

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Speaker 1: there that might be considering drafting James White, pick me.

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Speaker 1: You can't go wrong, right, It's more success. Have you

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Speaker 1: noticed people talking about you more in the fantasy perspective

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Speaker 1: for anything? With that? You definitely see, especially with you know,

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Speaker 1: social media. I mean that's most of your interactions. You're

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Speaker 1: mean it's cool. They'll get the fans involved, and I

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Speaker 1: mean they're passionate about it, and I mean it gets

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Speaker 1: more views for the NFL. I guess so, oh no,

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Speaker 1: I've never played, but my wife played in college. I

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Speaker 1: my credit there. When you first got here, there were

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Speaker 1: you got this young group coming in. Are there things

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Speaker 1: I still talk to all those guys, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Kimmy glad to have told door set always, I said.

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Speaker 1: Phillips a very hard worker. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: guts to see him on Instagram working out running fast

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Speaker 1: every single day, but he works hard and it shows

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Speaker 1: he's just trying to be a better football player each

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