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Speaker 1: Tom, It's Mutt, Jerry and Greg this morning. How are

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Speaker 1: you hi, guys, Good morning morning. I did the math.

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Speaker 1: That's three hundred and eight games you've played in the league. Tom.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen you look as happy

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Speaker 1: as you did after this one. Why why are you

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Speaker 1: so giddy? That was? That was an emotional game, as

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Speaker 1: you know, I think I had been through, you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly in a long time. I mean, you're never having

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Speaker 1: so many comparisons between these, but it was I mean,

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Speaker 1: what a great win from our team. You know, we've

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Speaker 1: fought through a lot of diversity all year and you know,

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Speaker 1: played the Chargers, you know last week they were you

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Speaker 1: know whatever, they were eight no on the road, and

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Speaker 1: it was a you know, we played some good football

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Speaker 1: and got a chance to to playing an AFC championship

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Speaker 1: on the road and going against a great football team,

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Speaker 1: and I mean all the things that kind of transpired

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Speaker 1: to pull it off just a great feeling. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's it's really when you play sports for a lot

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Speaker 1: of reasons, but you know, something like that happened last

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Speaker 1: night was a game that will all remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: for the rest of our lives. So it was just

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Speaker 1: it was, you know, I don't know, emotions just take

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Speaker 1: just feeling and uh, you know, it's just so happy

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Speaker 1: for our teammates and coaches and our whole organization, um Co, Instacraft,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan and just everyone who's put so much into our

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Speaker 1: team and our families, everyone that supports us. It was

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Speaker 1: just our fans everyone. It was just really a great,

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Speaker 1: great win against you know, beating a great football team

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Speaker 1: on the road in January is a pretty uh you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just an incredible feeling. You mentioned people rooting against you.

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Speaker 1: They've been rooting against you for a long time, but

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Speaker 1: you know, it was the first time in a while

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Speaker 1: you were under dogs, and you seem to really get

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Speaker 1: off on that relish that role of being underdogs. Did

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Speaker 1: you feel like more than ever that everyone was kind

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Speaker 1: of counting you out? You know, it's it's just that's

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's just the way it's been a

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously being underdogs yesterday for good reason, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're playing against the number one seed on the road,

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Speaker 1: you know you're definitely an underdog. I mean there's any

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Speaker 1: team that comes to Gillette is usually the underdog, and

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Speaker 1: it's tough to beat us at Gillette, and anytime you

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Speaker 1: go to Arrowhead, it's tough to win there. So we

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Speaker 1: knew were going to be tough. You know, they scored

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Speaker 1: there with whatever two minutes left, and I said, all right,

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Speaker 1: you know, we got a shot, went down the field

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Speaker 1: and kicked the field goal, and then I'm glad we

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Speaker 1: won the coin toss and overtime and I had a

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Speaker 1: get some huge third downs. Everyone is really involved and

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Speaker 1: you look at everyone who was involved, you know, you

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Speaker 1: just on offense, you know, all the receivers, all the backs,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we just it was a total team effort.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you you know, you have that

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Speaker 1: the history of our franchise. Uh, It's tough to pick

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Speaker 1: out one play, but you mentioned the overtime Tom you

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Speaker 1: hit three separate third and tens. The one that stood

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Speaker 1: out was the one for fifteen yards to to Gronk,

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Speaker 1: And it sounds like after the game, some of your

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Speaker 1: I know you talked to Peter King after the game.

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Speaker 1: Whatever on you know, Friday morning, after you install your

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Speaker 1: it was very uh just a great, great win. We're

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Speaker 1: get reset his phone, Chris, his phone is you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Josh, it's such a great job called, such

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