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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, Good morning, Good more. Um, Bill, have you

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Speaker 1: ever coached in a regular season game that felt like

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Speaker 1: last night? I don't know. Each game has its own

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Speaker 1: unique characteristics, Um Vale did. But you know there's been

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Speaker 1: plenty other ones like that too, Um, going back to

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Speaker 1: NFL Pro football. Um. Take us into your decision when

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Speaker 1: it came to kicking the field goal as opposed to

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Speaker 1: going for it on fourth and three? What what were

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Speaker 1: you thinking there? I think we're gonna make it within

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Speaker 1: a couple of inches. Uh yeah, next makes a really

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Speaker 1: consistent kicker. You know it's been hitting the ball. Well,

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Speaker 1: hit that one, well, just mispi up inches. Bill. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people talking this morning about you and Tom

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Speaker 1: being able to have a conversation in private after the game.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that the media, the fans, everybody else

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Speaker 1: is just blowing this relationship out of proportion. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what everybody else thinks. I know what my relationship

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Speaker 1: is a Tom, and it's been a great one for

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Speaker 1: over twenty years. Well, I know you like to keep

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Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff personal, but you guys had

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Speaker 1: a chance to catch up for twenty minutes or so

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Speaker 1: after that game. Yeah, I'll keep all my conversations with

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Speaker 1: Tom personal look away, isn't it Bill? When you look

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Speaker 1: at what you were able to do defensively, you were

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Speaker 1: red zone. I think you did a really good job of,

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Speaker 1: you know, frustrating Tom. What was some of the things

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Speaker 1: going into this game from a defensive standpoint that you

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Speaker 1: wanted to try to do, especially against an offense like

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Speaker 1: them issues not just in the field but also in

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Speaker 1: the red zone. Uh, well, you know, we tried to

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Speaker 1: the defensive play calling, players played played hard, played well. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, they have a very good, very good offense. Um,

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Speaker 1: and I threw the ball well, it ran it well,

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Speaker 1: little bit better than we were last night. But you know,

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Speaker 1: He's try to get their offense and different looks. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Tom did a good job spreading the ball

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Speaker 1: they help them do some field goals. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we all know it's tough to throw the ball in

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Speaker 1: the right area, just have less space. And um, I

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Speaker 1: thought I guys defended it pretty well. What was the

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he had a chance to look

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Speaker 1: at it again afterwards, but what was it? What was

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Speaker 1: the deal with that Lawrence guy call last night? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have to talk to the officials about those calls. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what any of us think. They're the ones

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Speaker 1: who so and I'm sure there's an opportunity to talk

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Speaker 1: to them after the game about it. Bill, you guys

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Speaker 1: there was some type of confusion with Chase one ofvich

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Speaker 1: What happened there? Oh yeah, we made a mistake there.

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Speaker 1: It ended up not really the n A factor, but

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Speaker 1: it could have been. And we need to do a

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Speaker 1: better job. Bill. When you look at the turnover battle,

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Speaker 1: to win that consistently. You've had some issues here with

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Speaker 1: you know, JJ Taylor had a fumble last night and interception.

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Speaker 1: Talking to the guys after the game, what are some

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Speaker 1: of the things that you're letting these guys know. Hey,

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Speaker 1: to win football games. Yeah. Well, the one one game

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Speaker 1: of ball. After the game, and Tonio Brown said playing

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for him. Bill. When

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Speaker 1: you look at this game, obviously you don't come away

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Speaker 1: moving forward, he even though you've kind of put yourself

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Speaker 1: different direction here. Let me let me ask you about

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Speaker 1: I'd rather respect the job that he does. I don't

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Speaker 1: wiggy No. I was just gonna say, uh, I thought

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Speaker 1: from what you've seen offensively, especially in the pass game. Well,

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Speaker 1: I thought we threw the ball competitive the last night. UM,

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Speaker 1: And our goal is to score touchdowns every time we're

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Speaker 1: work harder to achieve that. Bill Courtney brought up the

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Speaker 1: media maybe having this relationship thing all wrong. Tom said

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Speaker 1: here after retirement. Does that mean that have you offered

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Speaker 1: Is it possible that we'll see him as as a

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Speaker 1: the Texans now. And yeah, you'd have to ask Tom

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Speaker 1: about that, all right, Bill? When you look at taking

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Speaker 1: bounced right up. He seemed to have full control of

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Speaker 1: this offense. Do you have complete confidence in him for

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Speaker 1: all of us do, so, Yeah, confident that he'll do that. Hey, Bill,

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Speaker 1: how how frustrates it? Frustrating is it for you when

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Speaker 1: you see reports like the Wicked Sham report come out

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Speaker 1: and it says that people have issues with you when

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Speaker 1: all your former and current players, myself included, we have

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Speaker 1: nothing but praise on as far as you coaching us,

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Speaker 1: teaching us, making us better players. Randy Moss talked about

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Speaker 1: you glowily had his Hall of Fame speech about how

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Speaker 1: you helped him not just as a coach, but as

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Speaker 1: a friend. Like, how frustrating is it? When these reports

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Speaker 1: come out, and like you said, it's the second, third, fourth,

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Speaker 1: fifth sources. When you're a former players and current players

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of us a surprised by that

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Speaker 1: type of media coverage. Honey. I don't think I've ever

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Speaker 1: have to ask him what is what is great sources are?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure? All right, Bill, Well, onto the Texans.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for joining us this morning. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you again next week. All right, sounds good. I

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Speaker 1: have a good one, all right. Thanks Bell,