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Speaker 1: That's that funny, guys, it's the first word that comes special.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of you, special kid, Mathew. That the former

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Speaker 1: Lawrence when you? Oh? Man? I mean he him and

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Speaker 1: his family are just such generous people. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: impact people in a positive way. And that goes from

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Speaker 1: missus guy as well. Um, there's just a tremendous couple

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Speaker 1: and their family does things the right way. And I

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Speaker 1: can't think of a better person just on our team,

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Speaker 1: but in this league to be nominated for that award.

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Speaker 1: So he deserves it, Matthew, as a guy who's been around.

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest takeaway of bye week, especially this late

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Speaker 1: bye week in the history of the NFL? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: get your rest this week. I mean, you know, our

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Speaker 1: you know, this is a good time for our team

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Speaker 1: to try to get healthy A big, get our legs

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Speaker 1: underneath us. But I do I do think that, and

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Speaker 1: Devin mentioned this today to the guys. It's important that

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Speaker 1: we keep in mind what lies ahead. We've worked very

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Speaker 1: So you know, during this week, let's keep that in mind.

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Speaker 1: Let's do some self scout. I think I heard Lawrence

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Speaker 1: when it comes time for us to compete again. Because

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Speaker 1: of the starts and at the time, you are what

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Speaker 1: then you go through the winning streak. Does it posted

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Speaker 1: together because you kind of live through that whole thing. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think adversity, whenever you face it, if you handle

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Speaker 1: bring in closer together. And I think our group is

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Speaker 1: really close this year. We enjoy being around one another.

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Speaker 1: I really am having a lot of fun being a

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Speaker 1: the season started and how we've endured through that? Potentially?

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Speaker 1: Is it a mixture of the personality in the character

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Speaker 1: locker room video. We saw you told the guys they

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Speaker 1: remember that game twenty years and now I'm just wondering,

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Speaker 1: And maybe words the rank so the other yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: mean I've played you know what, two hundred games. There's

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Speaker 1: And I think the guys that played in that game

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Speaker 1: time to come. This man played. Speaking of playing great

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Speaker 1: So that's one of those games that you'll remember, um

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Speaker 1: mean there was no you know, everything. Ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: It was out the window and it was go out

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Speaker 1: there and be a football player, use your experience, use

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Speaker 1: And I can't say enough about how how well those

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Speaker 1: the operation. But yeah, the kicking game was a total wash.

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Speaker 1: I mean that was, you know, kind of survival and

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Speaker 1: And I thought we handled for the most part pretty well.

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Speaker 1: As long as you've been with the Patriots, you've seen

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Speaker 1: Coach make some decisions and situations that somebody see as unconventional,

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Speaker 1: like kicking off before overtime when win the point cost

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Speaker 1: that nature manage a game when they did the other

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Speaker 1: night with the conditions to run as often as the

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Speaker 1: offense did. How important is it that there is a

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Speaker 1: conviction there. I have to get the buy in from

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Speaker 1: players and through your experiences, you know, what have you

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Speaker 1: seen in Coach Bell and Chick and the staff here

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Speaker 1: When it comes to that making a decision. That's a

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Speaker 1: great question, Bob. I think for for us, our belief

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Speaker 1: gonna do whatever it takes to win the football game.

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Speaker 1: However the game declares, whatever the conditions may be, Um,

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Speaker 1: our coaching staff to put us in positions to win,

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Speaker 1: and certainly you hit it on the head. You can't

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Speaker 1: do that without buying from your players. And when our

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Speaker 1: they bought into it and they did what they needed

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Speaker 1: just the nature of this team, this organization. That's how

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