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Speaker 1: Good morning, Hi Ernie, Hi Stacey. We have fifty four

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Speaker 1: people on the on the call, each one to get

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Speaker 1: two questions going. I do have a couple of questions

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Speaker 1: here for you. We're to start with Mike Reefs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, Ernie, great to see you. Congratulations, Thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 1: All right, UM, well, why don't we just start with

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Speaker 1: how would you sum up this ride? Uh? I would

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Speaker 1: say it's been incredible. If you told me when we

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls, I'm not sure I would have believed you.

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, we just grind it out one

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Speaker 1: day at a time and that's what it's been. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I tell people I have a really hard life.

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Speaker 1: I live in the place I want to live, and

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Speaker 1: we're we're in a lot of football games. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to beat that. Next question, Ian Steel, Hi Ernie, how

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Speaker 1: are you? Good morning? Congratulations on a great run. Thank you. Um.

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Speaker 1: The question then you've probably heard more times than ever,

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Speaker 1: um and all of New England wants to know what

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Speaker 1: does pink stripes mean? It's the end? You can finally

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Speaker 1: tell us, Well, uh, you know, I go back to

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Speaker 1: my Wall Street days from what we Everything we did,

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Speaker 1: we said was proprietary trading information, so I'll leave it

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Speaker 1: that's strictly an inside joke and proprietary football information always

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Speaker 1: pot always. Next question, Tom current or anyone to ask

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Speaker 1: you about was holdout? Where is he? When's he going

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Speaker 1: to be back? I'm kidding, um hmm. What will you

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Speaker 1: miss the most? Is it the strategy, the camaraderie? What

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Speaker 1: would it be, lady Ah, the all of the above.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's a getting ready for the games. I

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Speaker 1: mean playing the game, you know, being involved in them

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Speaker 1: is great. Uh. And of course the fact that we've

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Speaker 1: and win so many games. I mean that that makes

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Speaker 1: a real difference. For one thing, If you don't win

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Speaker 1: a lot of games, you don't get to stay around.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for everything. We really enjoyed it. In the

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Speaker 1: times we get a chance to talk. Okay, Tom, Next question,

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Speaker 1: Mark Daniels here anything, Thanks for doing this for everyone

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Speaker 1: who wonders. How would you sum up your job with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and just what you've been doing over these years.

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Speaker 1: Basically my job is to figure out as many things

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Speaker 1: as I can to help the New England Patriots win

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Speaker 1: football games. I mean, that's uh in the end, that

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Speaker 1: that's what we're all about here. That's what we do.

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Speaker 1: So whether it's you know, strategy, personnel or anything if

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Speaker 1: and I've the thing that's been great about my job

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Speaker 1: I could go in any area I thought would help us,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully hopefully I've made some you know, some positive contribution.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. There's a couple of final questions. Gonna go

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Speaker 1: Chris Gasper, Great Chris, Ernie, congratulations on a fantastic career.

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Speaker 1: This is obviously well deserved. I just wanted to ask you,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's the famous sort of art model story

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Speaker 1: about you know, I'll give I forget what the amount

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Speaker 1: of money is, but like a thousand dollars to anybody

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Speaker 1: that can tell me what Ernie Adams does. Did you

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Speaker 1: enjoy being a man of mystery during your career and

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Speaker 1: did it help you would all do what you ultimately

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Speaker 1: did to help the Patriots win so many games? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't think I'm a man of

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Speaker 1: a mystery, particularly you know, inside the organization with the

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Speaker 1: the best thing you can have on a football team

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Speaker 1: no because you get multiple voices speaking, they'll be inevitably

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Speaker 1: some inconsistencies developed, and then it'll be well, what he said,

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Speaker 1: what he said. Yeah, we've just tried to eliminate, eliminate that,

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Speaker 1: eliminate all the distractions. Just real quickly. Did you ever

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Speaker 1: you did, and it's sort of being this like Cia

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Speaker 1: level of um, you know, shrouded mystery about exactly who

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Speaker 1: a kick out of it? Well, again, the people I

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Speaker 1: Jordy and Bob soos Ernie. I'm just curious, as we've

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Speaker 1: Bill has all my contact information. Congratulations, on a great career.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. And the last question, Bob, thanks day, thanks

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Speaker 1: or any congratulations As you go into retirement, Nonetheless, your

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Speaker 1: impact and legacy will be carried on by all the

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Speaker 1: an impression on. So many have talked about going to

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Speaker 1: you for rules explanations or you know, raved about your

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Speaker 1: attention in the detail. How meaningful is that? How would

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Speaker 1: you describe the relationships you've had these last twenty years

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Speaker 1: with not only the young players coming in, but these

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Speaker 1: young coaches you've had a chance to watch go up. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've always since you know, I was really forty six

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Speaker 1: years ago. I started within New England Patriots, is the

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Speaker 1: an advanced state of age where I've been around quite

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Speaker 1: a bit. So if there's an opportunity I have to

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Speaker 1: help a young player, help a young coach, I think

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Speaker 1: that's part of my job is to always take it

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, give them, give them some insight.

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Speaker 1: And all I was like, well, you would remember the

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Speaker 1: first time you had interacted with Bill's dad, you had

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Speaker 1: read a scouting book and you knew about Steve village

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Speaker 1: of What was it like the first time you had

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Speaker 1: a chance to visit with Steve. First time with Steve

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Speaker 1: while he uh, you know, Steve was told me some great,

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Speaker 1: great stories about Navy football. Of course he had, ah,

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Speaker 1: you know, such a deep understanding of the game. It

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Speaker 1: was a real privilege to get to get to know him.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you, Thank you, Bernie, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for your time. Thanks for ending it this

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Speaker 1: way and giving us the time to ask you a

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Speaker 1: few questions, so we really appreciate it. My pleasure, Stacy M.