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Speaker 1: All right, Steve Belichick joins us. Now ask anybody with

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Speaker 1: questions for Steve, please raise your hand or I'll call

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Speaker 1: on you. Let's start with Doug Kid, Steve, there was

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Speaker 1: a report out there that Brendan Copeland could be out

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Speaker 1: for the season. He kind of seemed to confirm that

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Speaker 1: in a tweet yesterday. What would you guys lose who

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Speaker 1: if Brandon Copeland was lost for the season? And and

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Speaker 1: how happy are you with the with the depth behind

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Speaker 1: him in general? Uh, yeah, I'm not I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: the full details of that. Um. Just waiting to hear

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Speaker 1: the final stuff on that. UM. Coaps being been a

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Speaker 1: great addition for us, brings a lot of veteran leadership

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Speaker 1: into a linebacker room. Um. If anything were to happen,

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Speaker 1: he'd be extremely extremely missed. Uh. Defensively, has a lot

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Speaker 1: of versatility, a lot of value to our defense. Really

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Speaker 1: smart guy, UM and uh yeah, next guy up. Definitely

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Speaker 1: feel confident with with whoever we decided to put into

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Speaker 1: those roles. You guys do seem like you've been a

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Speaker 1: little bit lighter at the inside linebacker position than than

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Speaker 1: in general. Is that just the fact that josh uj

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Speaker 1: has been kind of up and down, and Um, would

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Speaker 1: you sort of agree that you guys are carrying fewer

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Speaker 1: inside type linebackers this season? Yeah, I mean the rosters. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's different every season. Obviously, Josh was on IR

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. We're excited to to get

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Speaker 1: him back whenever that may happen. But yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: different every season. Obviously, No, no rosters the same. We

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Speaker 1: just keep the best football players on the team. There's

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Speaker 1: an element of, you know, staying balance and having enough

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Speaker 1: guys at east position, but we're just in the business

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Speaker 1: of having as many good football players as we can

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Speaker 1: on the roster. One final one for me. I know

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Speaker 1: that you know these decisions are mostly bills. But Chase

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Speaker 1: Winovic has played fewer snaps over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Has it been a little bit more tied to the

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Speaker 1: teams that you're playing rather than his individual performance? Uh? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Every game plans different, Um, every opponent's different. Um. We

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Speaker 1: just try and do the best we can, putting guys

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Speaker 1: and roles to succeed. So um, yeah, you never know

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Speaker 1: how the week's gonna play out. Next to Mark Daniels

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Speaker 1: and Eric rub Hey, Steve hopeball as well. I asked, um,

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Speaker 1: Brian about this the other week, and I was hoping

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Speaker 1: to ask you a similar question. Um, I was. I

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Speaker 1: was wondering how much it helped for you guys just

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Speaker 1: to have Amanda sort of lead the way and just

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Speaker 1: get into coaching and just you know, seeing her be

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Speaker 1: able to do it. What what did that do for you? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, she's my she's my big sister. I look

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Speaker 1: up to her in a in a lot of different ways. UM.

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Speaker 1: It's unique that that all three of us, uh have

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Speaker 1: been coaches. UM, definitely kind of um you know, started

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Speaker 1: with my grandpa and then my dad and now now

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Speaker 1: the three of us. But definitely somebody to lean on. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, schematically, there's not a lot of carryover between

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Speaker 1: women's lacrosse and football, but there is a big carryover

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Speaker 1: between team building and um, you know, bringing guys together

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Speaker 1: and um or girls in her case. UM. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely a lot of a lot of ideas to

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Speaker 1: to bounce around within the family. Awesome, thank you, and

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Speaker 1: next we'll go to Eric Rubin. I don't see another

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Speaker 1: hands raised after that. Go ahead, Eric, Steve the do

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Speaker 1: the bills presents a better matchup for you guys maybe

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Speaker 1: than San Francisco did. Um, I'm not sure. I mean

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Speaker 1: we uh, we try and build a roster to match

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Speaker 1: up against any opponent at any time, at any day. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we just uh we got our guys on

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Speaker 1: our roster and uh we do the best we can

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Speaker 1: to match up whoever the opponent is. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: if it's better or worse. Um, that's kind of irrelevant.

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Speaker 1: We just gotta go out there and play good football.

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Speaker 1: And haven't watched the film? Now, did you see the

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Speaker 1: things that went wrong against San Francisco? And those are

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Speaker 1: the things you guys kind of anticipated you were going

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Speaker 1: to have problems with. No, we don't anticipate we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have problems. Next question of Robert so Seaton and don't

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Speaker 1: care I think so, miked morning Steve. Hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. Thank you. How are you? I'm good? Good.

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Speaker 1: M Bill just talked about the importance of team to

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Speaker 1: defense and the consistency needed across the board in playing

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Speaker 1: team defense. And this is kind of the most basic

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Speaker 1: of basic questions. How do you define team defense? If

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Speaker 1: you're going to a clinic setting, you're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about team defense. What stands out to you what defines

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Speaker 1: definitely starts. Obviously fundamentals and execution are extremely important, but

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Speaker 1: in order to play fast and and know your role,

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Speaker 1: it all starts with communication and getting all eleven guys

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Speaker 1: happens on the field is important, but really, if you

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Speaker 1: don't know, if you don't know your job, it's hard,

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Speaker 1: too hard to do it. So to me, it all starts, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the huddle, getting the play call from

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Speaker 1: a signal caller, knowing, knowing the personnel, knowing who's in

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Speaker 1: the game offensively. You know, all players are different, Every

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Speaker 1: player has a unique skill set. No two players are

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Speaker 1: the same. So you know, there may be maybe three receivers,

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Speaker 1: the tight end and the back, but no tight ends

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Speaker 1: So you just you know the awareness of who you're

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Speaker 1: you know the post huddle communication and the adjustments to

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Speaker 1: to what we're dealing based on the formation, on the alignments, um,

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Speaker 1: down in distance, situation in the game. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff plays a role. And then and then

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Speaker 1: obviously it comes down to good fundamentals and execution, um,

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Speaker 1: and the look we're presented with when you look over

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Speaker 1: the last last couple of weeks, in particular this past Sunday, Uh,

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Speaker 1: is it is it a matter of you know, one

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Speaker 1: uh link in the chain the breaks or you know,

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Speaker 1: one player here or there, one one position not on

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Speaker 1: the same page. And that's what the whole team defends,

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Speaker 1: the whole unit. Um, looks like it's offense. There's a

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Speaker 1: matter of minor corrections when you look at things over

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Speaker 1: the course of the last couple of weeks, but especially

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Speaker 1: everybody's got to take Accountability starts with the coaches putting

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Speaker 1: the players in a position to to play fast and

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Speaker 1: play aggressive. So um, it starts with us as a

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Speaker 1: coaching staff and uh, you know, getting getting those guys

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Speaker 1: in the right situation. And then um, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's everybody. You know, it's it's not just one

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Speaker 1: guy out there. We all we all got to do

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Speaker 1: our job in order to be successful. Stuff to play

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Speaker 1: doing the doing the wrong thing. So UM, it's up

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Speaker 1: to everybody to to do their job. Thanks Steve, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Next question of Doug cod and Eric Rude on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: we saw Jason mccordy going over UM, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it was some adjustments or just what they had

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Speaker 1: seen on the on the iPad on the sideline. How

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Speaker 1: nice is it to have veteran players who can who

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Speaker 1: can do that type of role with with the defensive

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Speaker 1: back coaches up in the booth. Yeah, it's huge. Um,

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Speaker 1: all those guys, Jason and specifically he kind of he

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Speaker 1: You know. We we spent a lot of time talking about, um,

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Speaker 1: potential things we'll see in the game, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not always what they've shown. There's there's a ton

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Speaker 1: of new plays and new schemes that that we have

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Speaker 1: all those guys, they do a great job going over

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Speaker 1: that stuff and making sure we're all on the same

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Speaker 1: page so that we can try and get it right

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Speaker 1: the next time we see it. Exact frontal question, Eric Rube, Steve,

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Speaker 1: with the familiarity of Buffalo over the years, you guys

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Speaker 1: playing them so often, it's how how difficult does that

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Speaker 1: make it to kind of show him something that they

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Speaker 1: haven't seen before, or sneak something in that that they

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Speaker 1: there's a familiarity playing against them, you know, playing them

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Speaker 1: twice a year for however many years it's been. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know, no, no two team teams are the same.

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Speaker 1: We're not the same as we were last year. They're

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Speaker 1: not the same as they were last year. So there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of new things that both teams are doing,

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, we'll try and come up with something

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Speaker 1: to to keep them off balance. And I'm sure they're

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Speaker 1: doing the same thing over there. Thank you, Thanks, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Steve. Thanks guys,