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Speaker 1: Coach Belichick has joined us. We're gonna start with Tom

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Speaker 1: Kerrn called a Yanni caracas. Go ahead, Tom, Tom, you're muted.

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Speaker 1: There we go, Bill, I mean forgot you, Tom. Sorry

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Speaker 1: man uh sorry, Golu. Just a question about you know,

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Speaker 1: you have such a presence year in, year out for

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Speaker 1: you know, your entire career with fans camp and the

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Speaker 1: element of the interaction that exists different what would be

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Speaker 1: this year to perhaps capture the energy that the fans

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Speaker 1: bring by their presence when they're there, And is there

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Speaker 1: anything that's maybe missing a little bit because of that? Yeah, well, Tom,

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Speaker 1: that's that's all out of our control. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: try to focus on the things that we can't control.

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Speaker 1: And certainly we have a lot of practices throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of the year where there aren't fans there, So

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Speaker 1: I think that's something the team is unaccustomed to, or

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Speaker 1: actually we are accustomed to it. So, um, we'll control

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Speaker 1: the things that we can control and the things we

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Speaker 1: can't control. H We're not gonna worry about. Next question

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Speaker 1: is Johnny croc Is, followed by Zach jars Hey. Bill,

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Speaker 1: without having a benefit of preseason games this year, and

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Speaker 1: how will you change the approach to camp to create

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Speaker 1: situations where maybe you can better figure out a game

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Speaker 1: situation when deciding on it. If a guy is going

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Speaker 1: to make a roster without having a true game situation

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Speaker 1: in preseason games, yeah, well we will have to create

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Speaker 1: those um and so as we get to different points

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Speaker 1: in camp, depending on what we're ready for, what we're

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Speaker 1: ready for, then we'll have to create those situations, practice

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Speaker 1: them against ourselves or practice them against a simulated opponent.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were against ourselves. We do what we do,

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Speaker 1: but that may not be what everybody else does, and

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Speaker 1: so we would have to you know, create that. You know,

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Speaker 1: there are other other ways we can work on those situations,

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Speaker 1: but ultimately we're going to have to go out there

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Speaker 1: and do them against ourselves. So that was one of

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Speaker 1: the advantages of practicing with another team. When we didn't

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Speaker 1: practice with another team, then it was the same situation

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Speaker 1: even though they are preseason games. The fact of the

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Speaker 1: matter way is that you know, with a minute to

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Speaker 1: doing that in the regular season generally weren't on the

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Speaker 1: field anyway. For that situation, So without the joint practices,

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Speaker 1: which again sometimes we've had, sometimes we haven't, but then

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Speaker 1: we'd have to create those situations ourselves and coach them

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Speaker 1: and evaluate them and all things to go with them.

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Speaker 1: So that's where we are this year. Our next question

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Speaker 1: Zack Cox, followed by Ben boln Hey Bill. With practice

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Speaker 1: squads expanding this year and with teams now being able

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Speaker 1: to have players with unlimited levels experience on practice squads,

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious whether that or how that changes the

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Speaker 1: way you evaluate your roster this summer, if at all. Well,

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Speaker 1: certainly something that we're aware of, and um, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's part of the conversation. Um. But again, those

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Speaker 1: those players have to pass through waivers to get to

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Speaker 1: your practice squad, and um, and and they're they're also

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Speaker 1: even if they're not claimed, they still have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: of that's going to depend on not not only who

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Speaker 1: that's you getting a player from another team or another

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Speaker 1: the setups a little bit differently this year. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to see how all that works out. So you you

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Speaker 1: you know, you might lose that player or vice versas.

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Speaker 1: So I think some of that is going to be

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Speaker 1: that depth, but that would vary from team to team.

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Speaker 1: And again, um, you know, I'm sure there'll be players

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Speaker 1: the practice squad. Next US Brand Religion. Good morning, bill Um.

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Speaker 1: You guys are one of just a handful of teams

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Speaker 1: And I'm just curious, is that a testament to how

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Speaker 1: also how seriously they took things before they arrived? And

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Speaker 1: great job of you know, following protocols, and we've also

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Speaker 1: had a lot of great feedback from the players on

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Speaker 1: and we've made quite a few or you know, i'd

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Speaker 1: So I think we're you know, working together, and but

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Speaker 1: you know, we got a long way to go. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see, but it's constantly evolved in and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that we'll you know, have a lot more discussions and

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Speaker 1: going forward, you know, we get into things like traveling

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Speaker 1: you know, we still got we got full plate right now,

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Speaker 1: but eventually we're gonna have to you don't have to

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Speaker 1: deal with other other factors as well. That's question Phil Perry,

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Speaker 1: follow by Dave Brown, Hey Stacy Bill sort of piggy

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Speaker 1: backing off of Ben's question there and mine is equipment related.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much you've even thought about this

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Speaker 1: I know the Oakley face shields or something that can

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Speaker 1: in terms of their effectiveness? Right? Well, we we brought that, uh,

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Speaker 1: quite some time ago. We actually uh we started working

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Speaker 1: So uh, guys have experimented with it, and UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll see what ultimately their decision is. It's an

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Speaker 1: I think we have you know, we have some guys

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Speaker 1: I think the like fogging up and all that as

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Speaker 1: falls pretty much into the same category as the ice shield.

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Speaker 1: It's not quite the same because a little bit lower.

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Speaker 1: But uh, there are some things you can do. UM,

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Speaker 1: there are some products, but even just you know, like

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Speaker 1: I don't know if eliminate it's the right word. But

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Speaker 1: and so we'll see how it goes. But yeah, well

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Speaker 1: I could just really quickly. Sorry, did did you guys

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Speaker 1: it was more of a medical thing as opposed to uh,

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Speaker 1: very much, coach. Great, okay, thanks appreciate it, Stacey