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Speaker 1: Hey, Mac, come over to you, right. Um, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask you how you felt. You obviously took

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Speaker 1: a lot of hits today, how you're feeling, But I

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Speaker 1: was just curious what prompted taking the knee brace off,

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Speaker 1: if you could just share any of that or why

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Speaker 1: you did it. Yeah, my body feels good. Obviously we

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Speaker 1: didn't play. It wasn't our day. We didn't play as

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Speaker 1: well as we wanted to. On the knee brace, I

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Speaker 1: just slid and it kind of came loose, and so

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Speaker 1: I just took it off. Love and read on your left.

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Speaker 1: I know you always want to score, but on these

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Speaker 1: long drives that you have, how hard is it to

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Speaker 1: just take three when seven is right there? I think

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Speaker 1: it just goes back to execution. And I can do

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Speaker 1: a better job just sticking to my reads and being

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Speaker 1: patient and letting things develop. And I didn't do a

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Speaker 1: good job of that today, And we'll get better. And

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Speaker 1: we've made it a point of emphasis, and today it

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Speaker 1: didn't show. But we're gonna just flip the page and

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Speaker 1: continue to work and try and find ways to whether

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Speaker 1: it's creativity or whatever, it's really not my job to,

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Speaker 1: you know, call the plays and Josh is going to

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Speaker 1: do a great job coming up with ways to improve that,

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Speaker 1: and I know he will because he's a competitor just

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Speaker 1: like all of us, and we're all wanting to score points.

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Speaker 1: It's not like we're all happy, we're just kicking. We

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Speaker 1: want to score as much as we can. Mac, Obviously

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Speaker 1: it was a tough day, But to have company awards

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Speaker 1: from your teammates maybe coming up to you after interceptions,

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Speaker 1: how much is that really maybe soothe out that you

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Speaker 1: have their support even if it's a bad play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think interceptions are part of the game, and you

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Speaker 1: obviously don't want to throw them, and sometimes they're bang

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Speaker 1: bang plays and sometimes there are things you can control.

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Speaker 1: And I just had to learn from those errors, and

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Speaker 1: everyone did have my back. It seemed they were very supportive.

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Speaker 1: And for me, I've worked a lot on just playing

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Speaker 1: the next play, and I felt like I wasn't lingering

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Speaker 1: or thinking about the last play at all, and neither

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Speaker 1: was any of our team. But yeah, we can definitely

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Speaker 1: get better there, and I appreciate everyone just supporting me,

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Speaker 1: and I gotta get better, so I will Nick Romalley

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Speaker 1: in the middle and Mac, can you speak to the

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Speaker 1: role that James White has head in helping you get

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Speaker 1: accustomed to this offense. And what impact did his departure

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Speaker 1: from the game have on the game itself and as

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Speaker 1: the team if you're gotta be without him for any

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Speaker 1: long period of time. Yeah, I think James obviously is

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Speaker 1: a great, great player, but he's also a really good

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Speaker 1: person and he does everything right all the time. It

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Speaker 1: seems like he just goes about his business and he

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Speaker 1: comes into work every day. It's not like he's cutting

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Speaker 1: any corner shore because he's an older player and knows

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Speaker 1: it all. He continues to work and that definitely sucked

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Speaker 1: to see him go down. And we're all behind him

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. And he's a team leader, and he's

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Speaker 1: a great team leader, and he's a great patriot, So

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Speaker 1: we all want to be if you can like James,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's a big role model for me, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I hope he's okay, And thoughts and prayers

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Speaker 1: to him and his family. Mac on the third and

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Speaker 1: one handoff to Brandon before the half, and a couple

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Speaker 1: of the other red zone runs just were those called

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Speaker 1: runs in the huddle or those plays that you are

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Speaker 1: option there. Yeah, in the red zone, I think just

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Speaker 1: improving growing the ball. I need to just improve that.

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Speaker 1: When I have a chance too, I need to take

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Speaker 1: what they give me, but also take some chances and

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Speaker 1: a lot of the plays, you know, I could have

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Speaker 1: stuck with them instead of changing them or whatever, and

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Speaker 1: I'll get better at that. But yeah, we'll improve the

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Speaker 1: red zone. We have to improve. We got to put

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Speaker 1: points on the board. We can't just continue to not

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Speaker 1: do that. But you know, we just got to flip

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Speaker 1: the page on today and learn from it, watch it

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Speaker 1: and just identify the problem because you just have to

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Speaker 1: that better. Couple final questions, Micrease on the left, Mac

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Speaker 1: taking the queue on flipping the page, and this happens fast.

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Speaker 1: You'll make the corrections and then turn the page along

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Speaker 1: those lines. I mean, have you ever had any contact

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers coming to town as you as you flip that page. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we're just gonna focus on learning from the tape.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the most important. It definitely stinks to lose,

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Speaker 1: but you can learn from it. And it definitely eats

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Speaker 1: away at you when you lose, but you got to

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Speaker 1: learn and move on. And that's what a lot of

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Speaker 1: the older guys were telling me, is just keep my

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Speaker 1: head up. And obviously no one likes to lose here

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Speaker 1: and the Patriots have done nothing but when for a

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Speaker 1: long time, and we got to get back to that.

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Speaker 1: And it just happens through every day. Grind every day

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Speaker 1: work and not focus on the results, and play each play,

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Speaker 1: play each day, you know, one day at a time.

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Speaker 1: And if we can do that, then I think we'll

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Speaker 1: see progress and we'll just go from there. Mac. Was

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Speaker 1: there anything that the Saints did that forced you to

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Speaker 1: hold on to the ball a little bit longer than

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Speaker 1: you would have wanted? And was there anything you could

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Speaker 1: have done differently on that first interception? No? I think

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously they have a great defense, the Saints too,

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Speaker 1: and they did what they did. But it's more about

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Speaker 1: us and me just executing our plays. I can do

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Speaker 1: a better job of that. And I don't like to

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Speaker 1: assume anything. I just like to watch the tape and

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Speaker 1: look at it from a bird's eye view and don't

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Speaker 1: be emotional about it. Just look at it and learn

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Speaker 1: from it and then flip the page. But I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's plays that left on the field. I know there are,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that the offense as a whole, we

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Speaker 1: can all play better together and we will. Last question

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Speaker 1: trade here and Matt disappointing day to day for John H. Smith.

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Speaker 1: What maybe is missing with the connection of the timing there? No,

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Speaker 1: I think John Hu has done everything right. He's just

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Speaker 1: he's out there running, he's out there blocking, doing what

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Speaker 1: he's supposed to do. And you know, me and him,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to always have pervery days and nobody is.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's more about just giving that connection

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Speaker 1: and practice in the timing, and that comes with reps.

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Speaker 1: We've kind of been together for a few weeks now

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Speaker 1: and we just got to keep growing and turn the

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Speaker 1: page on some of the bad things we did, but

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Speaker 1: also learn from them. And there's always good conversations that

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Speaker 1: come out of bad plays or bad days or bad games,

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Speaker 1: and you just have to talk through it and look

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Speaker 1: at it through a positive lens, and that applies with

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Speaker 1: everybody on the team. So I think that's what we'll do. Awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks