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Speaker 1: Love them. Are you guys doing he wants to start today,

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Speaker 1: what's the what's the key to? There's a particular pass

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Speaker 1: got some real good scheme stuff. So it's you know,

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Speaker 1: you got to prepare for both. You know, sometimes they

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Speaker 1: got to deal with They're really good players up front. UM,

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Speaker 1: sometimes they do come and they got to deal with

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Speaker 1: their linebackers or safeties. So it's challenging. Defense. They've been

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Speaker 1: really good for a long time since coach Jimmers, really

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Speaker 1: since he's been in the league, and uh, it's a

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Speaker 1: big challenge. So good in the red area, good on

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Speaker 1: So we got our hands full to talking to Jimer

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Speaker 1: earlier over the week about some of the things that

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Speaker 1: you're dealing with physically and how you know, for everybody

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Speaker 1: across the league physically, the some things do you feel

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Speaker 1: like you're limited in any way, shape or form. Here's

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Speaker 1: you get ready for the Vikings Now, I feel like

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Speaker 1: I'm I feel like I'm ready to go, excited for

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Speaker 1: the game and it's a big game for us, a

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Speaker 1: big game for them. But I feel good. I think

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Speaker 1: everyone's dealing with different things, but I'm maybe'll go out

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Speaker 1: there and play and hopefully play well. You've been able

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Speaker 1: to manage those sorts of vics and things and bruises

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Speaker 1: better here in the second half of your career than

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Speaker 1: movie win. First, I haven't missed many games by injury

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Speaker 1: over the course of my career, so I think early

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Speaker 1: on it was probably being pretty naive, you know. I

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Speaker 1: a little smarter. So those two things have worked well

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Speaker 1: at different times. Yeah. Absolutely, I certainly had the age

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Speaker 1: part and the wisdom I'm working on, But yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: just dealing with different things, and everyone's dealing with something

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Speaker 1: that's been a long season. Tom. We saw you post

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Speaker 1: on Instagram about a guy who lost everything in the

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Speaker 1: California Buyers but he saved your jersey when he saw that.

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Speaker 1: What did that mean to you? Yeah? That was pretty cool,

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Speaker 1: pretty touching, and think, um, you know, you think about

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Speaker 1: the effect that you can have on certain people, not

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Speaker 1: And I know we got a hold of them and

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Speaker 1: going to send him something. But it is tough situation.

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Speaker 1: I think everyone out in California was dealing with you know,

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Speaker 1: those those fires were crazy and you know they certainly

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Speaker 1: I think it was just you know, you just feel

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Speaker 1: the pain, but also you know that they could grab something.

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Speaker 1: And but I mean, I can't imagine losing my house

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Speaker 1: and everything I own. That would be very difficult. But

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Speaker 1: last year, which were really tough. I mean, these natural

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Speaker 1: you know, real life. I think it puts a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff in perspective in your life. You know, we

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Speaker 1: feel like lose a game and you feel like, man,

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Speaker 1: the whole world's caving in. But it's really you know,

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Speaker 1: keeping things in perspective. You realize, you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: I think for us as athletes is pretty cool and important,

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Speaker 1: you know, in what we do to them. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: send the ball and I think, Yeah, so that's pretty nice. Tom.

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Speaker 1: You also told Jim Gray that you're hoping to continue

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Speaker 1: wearing your old helmet into next season. What is it

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Speaker 1: about the helmet that works for you so much better

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Speaker 1: you continue wearing it? I don't know, Standoff, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. Um you record in December, it's

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Speaker 1: And I don't think we ever take the the you know,

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Speaker 1: well in December. This is when you know, all these

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Speaker 1: a good matchup. Patterson in his first year round to

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Speaker 1: he riving against. He's been great. It's just been great attitude,

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Speaker 1: has a lot of fun and you know, loves playing football.

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Speaker 1: That's what I call him. I call him the experiment

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Speaker 1: just love what he does. Bill said earlier today that

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Speaker 1: Is it he's been valuable to you to have your

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Speaker 1: have Coach Belichick really teach me how to redfenses, how

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Speaker 1: So I'm very very grateful. And you know, I've learned

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Speaker 1: you're learned every year, every day, every walk through, every meeting,

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