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Speaker 1: All right, Gunna, we gotta address the elephant in the room.

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Speaker 1: It's been a rough go for this Patriots team, but

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Speaker 1: there were some promising takeaways from the Bills game. What's

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Speaker 1: the mood on the team right now? The mood, I

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Speaker 1: think is, you know, we're taking it one day at

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Speaker 1: a time. You know, we can't go back and change nothing.

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Speaker 1: All we can do is think about what we're going

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Speaker 1: to do this week and you hit it on ahead.

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Speaker 1: There was some promising things that we did in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: but it just want enough. So you know, the theme

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Speaker 1: is get better, which we're doing, but we just need

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Speaker 1: to do it faster, I think is the overall theme.

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Speaker 1: We're in a hurry to get to get better. There's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of challenges this season dealing with COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen and then for you, you started the year on

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Speaker 1: I R and came off IR. What has this whole

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Speaker 1: process been like for you, dealing with the COVID issues,

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Speaker 1: getting yourself healthy and getting back on the field. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, the COVID issues, it's something that I don't

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Speaker 1: even I don't worry about. I don't think about words

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Speaker 1: about because you know it's going on around everywhere on

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Speaker 1: the league, everybody's dealing with this, so it's it's a

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Speaker 1: fair game. It's not like we have to do things

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Speaker 1: differently than other teams. It's it's even across the board.

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Speaker 1: But then when it comes to injuries, injuries, that's always tough.

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Speaker 1: You know, worth hard in the offseason and stuff so

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Speaker 1: you don't get injured, and then when it hasn't beginning season,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just keeping your head up and knowing

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna get a chance to come back, which

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Speaker 1: is different, you know. And I got put on IR

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Speaker 1: last year, I knew my season was over, which was

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Speaker 1: really tough. But so this year when I was on

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Speaker 1: IUR for those first three weeks, it was really easy

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Speaker 1: to you know, lock in because I knew I was

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Speaker 1: going to have a chance to come back and help

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Speaker 1: the team in any way I can. Your position group

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Speaker 1: has been hit hard with a couple of injuries in

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks, one to Julian Edelman and then

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Speaker 1: to Nikhil Harry. What type of opportunity does that provide

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Speaker 1: for you? Well, for us younger guys, you know, we're

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Speaker 1: always talking about being ready when our numbers called, and

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Speaker 1: I think the best example I can think of is

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Speaker 1: Jakobe Myers. You know, he's that dude. Every day in

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Speaker 1: practice this he's making plays, you know, and then so

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Speaker 1: to y'all and the fans. Maybe it was surprising how

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Speaker 1: well Jacoby's played the last two weeks, but I can

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Speaker 1: tell you right now, everybody in that locker room, nobody

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Speaker 1: was shocked by what he's done on Sundays, because, like

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Speaker 1: I said, we see it every day. And that's somebody

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Speaker 1: that I even though we were the same age and

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Speaker 1: we came in together, that's somebody that I look up

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Speaker 1: to and I'm like, I want to be ready like

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Speaker 1: he's ready, and I want to do things he's doing. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, opportunity for a young guys, we love it,

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Speaker 1: you know. And Jewels and the kiel Or obviously got

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Speaker 1: our backs and told us, you know, out there and

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Speaker 1: step up for the position. Group. Making the most of

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Speaker 1: your opportunities has sort of epitomized your NFL career, being undrafted,

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Speaker 1: coming from division to Beimenji State as a cornerback, finding

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Speaker 1: a way on this Patriots roster. What drives you to

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Speaker 1: keep making the most of each opportunity? You know, it's simple.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just I love football. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: nothing else in the world I'd rather be doing. It's

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Speaker 1: the best job I can imagine. So you know, it's easy,

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Speaker 1: you know, waking up every day and it's not something

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Speaker 1: I have to do. Something I get to do every day,

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Speaker 1: and I remind myself of that on a daily basis,

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Speaker 1: and that's pretty much my job. I love the game.

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Speaker 1: I love playing football. Coming from the Minji State Division

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Speaker 1: two as a cornerback, do you sort of pinch yourself

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Speaker 1: every day that you're in an NFL locker room on

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Speaker 1: an NFL team, Nah, not so much, no more, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I've proven to myself and I think I've proven

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Speaker 1: to everybody that I belong here. It's not a fluke

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Speaker 1: thing that I'm here, you know, I tell myself, I'm

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Speaker 1: no different name playing a locker room. Whether it's nikkil

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Speaker 1: be in a first round pick and or anybody else.

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Speaker 1: You know, whether undrafted, drafted, lay, drafted early, it don't matter.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're all in there. We get the same opportunities,

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Speaker 1: we play the same game. You know, we someone us

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Speaker 1: get paid a little differently, but that ain't no thing

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Speaker 1: for me. I don't care about that. So now I

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Speaker 1: don't really pinch myself, and I've really, i think, adapted

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Speaker 1: to being an NFL football player of found a routine,

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Speaker 1: and I see myself as a professional, you know, just

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Speaker 1: like everybody else in that locker room. All right, Gunner,

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Speaker 1: one more. When I saw you log into Zoom, I

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Speaker 1: noticed your name on Zoom was a gun Show. Is

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Speaker 1: that your name? Yeah? Yeah, I don't remember when I

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Speaker 1: did that, because some of the guys around the locker

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Speaker 1: room been calling me that now and I think it's

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Speaker 1: a pretty sweet name. Might get a tattooed on me

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Speaker 1: somewhere probably some day, but we'll have to keep both posted.

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Speaker 1: With that, best of luck to you, Gunner on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time. Thanks Megan,