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Speaker 1: Mike good, how are you? Thanks a lot? Slater? Would

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Speaker 1: how would you describe away practice money today? Just take

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Speaker 1: it over? Yeah, I mean I did this two thursdays

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Speaker 1: mean for me, it's fun, you know, to be able

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Speaker 1: training camp, so I enjoy it. Um, you know, go

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Speaker 1: through and prepare to play and you know see how

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Speaker 1: it goes. You've been through this before, which so what's

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Speaker 1: your basic approach to this week in a you know,

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Speaker 1: an unknowing week. Sure, Um, I mean my my approach

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Speaker 1: As we saw, you know on Sunday, you're only one

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Speaker 1: play away. I mean that was the last play of

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Speaker 1: offensive play of the game, so it didn't really come

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Speaker 1: up that day. But you just I mean it's the

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Speaker 1: So I always try to be as prepared as I can,

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Speaker 1: whether I'm taking every repent practice or I'm taking nothing.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, it's just a day by day. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know process and how we're handling it and go

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Speaker 1: from there. It's just in terms of you're in with

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Speaker 1: now you have your opportunity. But I'm sure this part

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Speaker 1: I used it. It feels bad for what happened, of course, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you never want to see anybody get hurt.

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Speaker 1: Um Ever, and we all know, you know max Um

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Speaker 1: to play in the same sense. I mean, that's just

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Speaker 1: the nature of the job. Right. We've seen you training camps,

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Speaker 1: mini camps all the way through. But for a lot

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Speaker 1: that Kansas city. It's worth reminding folks this week that

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Speaker 1: it was a weird week. Sure, Kim was covid. I

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Speaker 1: think you guys played on the friggin Tuesday, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: the plane went out. It wasn't your best no, So

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Speaker 1: in trying to add context to that and see the

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Speaker 1: guy he's still a good player, how would you. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I'd still be here if I wasn't so right,

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Speaker 1: So when you look at this week and you have

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Speaker 1: are you still even a gre age anxious to say

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Speaker 1: I'm going to dispatch that memory from Kansas City? I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: I've had I've played for fourteen years. I have a

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Speaker 1: define me. One, you know, play doesn't define me. I'm

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Speaker 1: excited for any opportunity I get a chance to go play. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I really could care less about that, right. How's it

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Speaker 1: giving it? Though? Is the difference going to a game

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Speaker 1: coming off a week when you've had full practices starter

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Speaker 1: had none. Yeah, I mean, look, it's obviously more beneficial

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Speaker 1: and you have to find out if I'm thinking to myself,

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Speaker 1: I have COVID. I was around him all day yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That was that was a unique year, a unique situation.

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Speaker 1: And you know, so for me, if if I get

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Speaker 1: Belichick always says practice what is it? Um? Um uh

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Speaker 1: yeahtic practice execution becames game day reality. I know Julian

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Speaker 1: that's obviously. Hope it translates to that those lines too

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Speaker 1: in terms of game plan and stuff like that. How

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Speaker 1: really game plan oriented. What what does their defense do?

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Speaker 1: How do we want to attack them? That type of thing, right.

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Speaker 1: We just found out your real fool name was axe

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Speaker 1: So that's all I've ever known. First and second grade,

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Speaker 1: How much confidence do you have in yourself to you know,

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Speaker 1: go out there and execute it? And then also how

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Speaker 1: about six years since you were kind of in a

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Speaker 1: memory right, Yeah, Tom an under bad memory? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I heard today they're like thirteen

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Speaker 1: obvious a hostile environment to go into, but it's always

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Speaker 1: a great opportunity to you know, to see where you're

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Speaker 1: at too, right, where are you at? The final question, guys,

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Speaker 1: what you do obviously, if you love the game, how

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Speaker 1: do you look at it you've been a year to

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Speaker 1: it an opportunity? How exciting is this for you? And

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Speaker 1: a kind of age you going through where you're at

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Speaker 1: your Yeah, I mean at this point, you don't know

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Speaker 1: how many chances like this you get anymore, you know,

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Speaker 1: And so obviously it's a part of the job. You're

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Speaker 1: always ready to play and and so for me, it's

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Speaker 1: an opportunity. Got there and have fun and go out

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Speaker 1: and execute really have fun. I really love you know,

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Speaker 1: my teammates, Um, you know what they do, how hard

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Speaker 1: they work, And so an opportunity, got there and play

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Speaker 1: with those guys. Thanks