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Speaker 1: Toronto. It's Dale and Rich. How are you I'm doing

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Speaker 1: going yourself? Good? Great? Thank you? Uh? Is it? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Uh a little anxiousness getting ready for the opener? Or

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Speaker 1: is it let's go let's get this thing going? How

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Speaker 1: do how do you approach this thing? Definitely a little anxious. Um,

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Speaker 1: you're excited. I mean you've been waiting for this day,

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Speaker 1: um since the last game of the last season last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, um, this is the reason why we why

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Speaker 1: we do what we do. Think for days like that

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Speaker 1: on Sunday that you want. We're excited, but you know

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Speaker 1: you got it, just sticky time and then just enjoy

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Speaker 1: the whole process and the stuff. Did you watch the

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Speaker 1: game last night? Are you somebody that is a fan

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Speaker 1: of football as well? When you're not playing, you're watching

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Speaker 1: or do you kind of get away from it? Oh? Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've always been a fan of the football

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Speaker 1: leather game. Um, I watched most of the game last night.

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Speaker 1: But with that, with that late start, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: happened to get up early at and cut it off

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Speaker 1: probably like working before the second quarter. Were you shocked

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Speaker 1: that that Nick Foles was the same Nick Foles that

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Speaker 1: you guys faced in the Super Bowl. He seemed like

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Speaker 1: two different players. Well you know, I mean it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a different team. I mean from last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean I shound Jeffrey wasn't out there. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's obviously been dif't w some injuries this year. UM,

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Speaker 1: probably haven't practiced as much UM as you did last year.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, uh yeah, he's still a good quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I mean he did enough for his team to win.

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Speaker 1: And that's really all that matters when it comes to

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Speaker 1: this league is it's winning. And he did winner, you're

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Speaker 1: a loser. And he's shown away to be victorious UM

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Speaker 1: more time than not when he has been the quarterback

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Speaker 1: for the Eagles. When you're watching a game as a

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Speaker 1: fan as you were last night, do you do you

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Speaker 1: judge the quality of the game like we did. We

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Speaker 1: didn't think it's a very good football game. When you

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Speaker 1: were watching it, what were you thinking? Uh? Well, me

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Speaker 1: personally playing safety, I've ten to watch watch it like

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Speaker 1: I watched them. I watched the receivers, I watched the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I watched the shafety play. I watched UM in all

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Speaker 1: reality to see how I could take something from some

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Speaker 1: of the players or just learned something to be a

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Speaker 1: better football player. And I mean it's the first game

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Speaker 1: of the year. Um, it's always gonna be relatively sloppy

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Speaker 1: from from some standpoint. It's not gonna be perfect. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be like a game UM in a week

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Speaker 1: thirteen from the execution standpoint. So I mean it's the

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Speaker 1: first time that UM, a lot of those players, the

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Speaker 1: majority of those players, I even played the game for

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Speaker 1: you know, sixty minutes. M Nobody in the preseason really

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Speaker 1: plays a sixty minute game. So I mean, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be some mistakes, it's gonna be some sloppiness, but you

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Speaker 1: gotta find a way to win the game. And obviously

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Speaker 1: the Eagles did that last night. I saw this stat

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Speaker 1: earlier this week. The New England Patriots last year played

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Speaker 1: seven defensive backs more than any other team in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You're one of them. Obviously, you know what the situation is.

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Speaker 1: Are you surprised more teams aren't playing the way you

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Speaker 1: guys are In that regard, I would say, um, I'm

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Speaker 1: just happy that we play that way because obviously it

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Speaker 1: just allows me to play more being a very safety.

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Speaker 1: And also, I mean it allows us to be in

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Speaker 1: a good situation, especially with the league being a past

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Speaker 1: happy in league now turn into a lot more passes,

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Speaker 1: getting more receiving tight ends, receiving back. So I think

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Speaker 1: you need to have packages that, UM sort just to

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Speaker 1: get you to match up maybe a little bit better

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Speaker 1: than maybe just being in base and just um regular

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Speaker 1: nickel um. As far as the league, UM, you would

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Speaker 1: think so. But at the end of the day, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can only worry about what we do, and our

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Speaker 1: coaching staff does a great job of making sure we

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Speaker 1: have the best matchups when we go out there, to

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Speaker 1: make sure we have the best chance to win. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a ton of quarters backs that are

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Speaker 1: difficult matchups across the league, but I would have to assume,

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Speaker 1: especially at the safety position, it doesn't get a whole

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Speaker 1: lot more challenging than Deshaun Watson, not at all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this guy is a really good young quarterback. M A

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Speaker 1: guy who you can tell understands his offense, understands the defense, UM,

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Speaker 1: understanding um what he needs to do to be successful

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Speaker 1: and where he needs to put the ball. And then

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Speaker 1: not only is he a smart quarterback, but he's as

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Speaker 1: athletically get there as any quarterback in the league. I

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Speaker 1: mean his arms, strength, his mobility. Uh, it just makes

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Speaker 1: him just a tough match, a match that we're going

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Speaker 1: to have to be ready to deal with sometimes throwing

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Speaker 1: the football, for running the football. And Uh, it's going

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Speaker 1: to need all eleven guys um to do their jobs

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Speaker 1: for us to be able to again containing this guy

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Speaker 1: to run the team. Captains were announced yesterday and there

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Speaker 1: are X captains on the team. You were a captain

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Speaker 1: last year, you're not a captain this year. Is there

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Speaker 1: any disappointment in that? I want to say disappointment, um,

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Speaker 1: because I'm excited for those guys. I mean, those guys

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Speaker 1: are well deserve me um of that role. Um. Whether

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Speaker 1: my all season had something to do with that or not,

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Speaker 1: I mean only I can uh deal with that. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's an opportunity for me to learn and grow. Um.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say disappointed at all, because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited for those guys. Those guys are

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Speaker 1: great leaders. They deserve to be in that spot. And

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Speaker 1: I mean I voted for him, so that's good to know.

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Speaker 1: And so that was my next question. It is it

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Speaker 1: is a player vote, right, it's not a it's not

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Speaker 1: a coach's decision. Yea. And did the players look at

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Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski because another guy who was a captain last

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Speaker 1: year not a captain this year? Was that in part

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Speaker 1: because he was you know, he skipped some of the

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Speaker 1: optional stuff? Or why do you think Ron's not a captain? Well, honestly, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's That's something I can't give your

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Speaker 1: he's been a tremendus leader since I've been here. I'm

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Speaker 1: a tremendus football player. And just because he's not a

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Speaker 1: captain doesn't mean he's not going to leave. People are

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Speaker 1: going to look at him to leave because you know,

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Speaker 1: that's what he has done and that's what he's going

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Speaker 1: to continue to do. Devin mccordy's been a captain. Patrick

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Speaker 1: Chung has never been a captain until this year. You

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Speaker 1: said these are the guys you voted for. What did

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Speaker 1: you see in Patrick that gave you that got him

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Speaker 1: your vote? I mean the year veteran guy, guy who's

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Speaker 1: been around the league at all time, those football always

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Speaker 1: does things the right way, leads by example, and just

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Speaker 1: a tremendous person, a person that you can trust always

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Speaker 1: do the right thing on the field and off the field.

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Speaker 1: Best of luck to you. I know the opener is

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Speaker 1: here on Sunday and we're all kind of anxious to

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Speaker 1: see how it goes. We wish you luck and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you again down the road. Thanks. Thanks, it's

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Speaker 1: Deron Harmon Patriot's Safety joining us