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Speaker 1: Tom joins us he does each end every week. Tom,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Congratulations, how you doing. Thanks guys, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good more. I guess we'll start before we get to

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Speaker 1: the game itself, We'll start with the thumb. So we

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Speaker 1: all heard about it, we were talking about it. At

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Speaker 1: what point during the week did you think did you

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Speaker 1: think there was ever a chance Wednesday Thursday that you

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Speaker 1: weren't going to play in this game? Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. I really wasn't. Wednesday it happened, and

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night I would say I definitely wasn't sure. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was just a crazy injury and practice and you know,

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Speaker 1: it didn't look good there for a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: then fortunately, you know, Thursday, I didn't practice, took some

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Speaker 1: time off, Friday did just a little bit, and then

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Speaker 1: everyone's I you know, everyone deals with injuries, so it's

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Speaker 1: just part of the season and part of the year,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just the timing and where exactly it

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Speaker 1: was was probably not the best thing to work for

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, but you know, it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Did it ever get aggravated? You took a shot from

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Speaker 1: Jack at one point, who came in full speed and

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Speaker 1: nailed it. Seems like your your hand was involved in

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Speaker 1: that or did adrenaline get you through? Were you feeling

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Speaker 1: no pain? Um? I think it was. It was. As

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Speaker 1: a game went on, it got better and better and better,

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Speaker 1: so I thought about it less and less, So I

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Speaker 1: was happy about that. Um yeah, it's just it's a again,

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Speaker 1: not a great place for an injury to a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but it is, you know, kind of is what it is,

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Speaker 1: and it won't be a problem in a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: which I'm really happy about. Uh ten stitches is that right?

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Speaker 1: I think it was twelve, But you know it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just a good it was just a really good

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Speaker 1: sounds it sounds sorry. It sounds so flukey though, right.

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Speaker 1: So you're basically handing off to to Birkhead and practice

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Speaker 1: and what the helmet just clides with the thumb. You know,

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Speaker 1: we just ran into each other and my thumb just

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Speaker 1: just you know, kind of got got bent back. That's

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Speaker 1: why I thought it was a lot worse. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the doctors we went and checked it out

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Speaker 1: and we did, you know, the things, just to kind

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Speaker 1: think we're very lucky. You must have been oh no, sorry,

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Speaker 1: but I'm think given that what you you know, how

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Speaker 1: much you prepare like everybody does obviously in your business,

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Speaker 1: but you specifically at that point on the eve of

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Speaker 1: the FC Championship game on Wednesday night, you must be

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Speaker 1: flipping out. No, I mean, what's your mood? How do

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Speaker 1: you handle that? Um? I was pretty you know, it

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Speaker 1: it goes. So, you know, you get them out Wednesday

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Speaker 1: up being a you know, a lot of good luck,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't more serious than it was. You know, Kirk

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Speaker 1: You know, we hung in there, we battled, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I was saying it's too last week, and Jerry disagree.

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Speaker 1: He said, Alement, maybe he's right, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: But do you have an appreciation, Tom for how much

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Speaker 1: the rest of America is just hating this? I mean

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Speaker 1: probably three hundred million Americans who are hating the fact

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Speaker 1: just you'd probably love to see other people in it

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Speaker 1: me that that doesn't matter what they want your for us,

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Speaker 1: You know, I just think about all the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty special. You. I mean, I will ask

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Speaker 1: do you ever step back after the game yesterday and think,

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Speaker 1: I am going to play in my eighth Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: Nobody else has played in seven. You're gonna play in

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Speaker 1: your eighth super Bowl? You in Belichick? You know, no

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Speaker 1: It works, so my family and my parents and sisters,

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Speaker 1: The people in New York, they shouldn't worry about that.

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Speaker 1: it'd be a lot of great support there in Minnesota too.

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Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to talk to Gronk after

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Speaker 1: I always think there's a big week. This first week

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Speaker 1: gets off, All right, Tom, we'll talk to you. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week as you get ready for

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And congratulations again great thanks a black guys.

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Speaker 1: Take care