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Speaker 1: James. Welcome again to the Patriots Monday lineup. Good to

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Speaker 1: talk to you again, Good to see you. Uh, it

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Speaker 1: was the first day of padded practice. What was it

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Speaker 1: like for you guys out there today? Oh? Good to

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Speaker 1: get out there play, you know. Coach check says, it

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Speaker 1: is real football. Get a little hit and then you

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Speaker 1: get the contact in. Just try and get back in

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Speaker 1: the groove and just try and build that team chemistry.

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Speaker 1: How different is everything leading up to and then after

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Speaker 1: practice with all the different protocols and everything, and have

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Speaker 1: you have you gotten used to it yet? Oh? You're

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Speaker 1: used to it. I mean it's it's the same at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day. May have different meeting rooms

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Speaker 1: and whatnot, but it's the same process. Just get warm,

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Speaker 1: does you're ready to go out there to practice? Come

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Speaker 1: back in and just definitely too different after the first

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Speaker 1: day you get used to do. How are you guys

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Speaker 1: feeling physically? Because we've talked about this, even Coach Belichick

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Speaker 1: is sort of referenced that you've basically squished an entire

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Speaker 1: offseason program into the last couple of weeks of ramp

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Speaker 1: up to now padded practices, and sometimes when you try

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Speaker 1: to expedite that process you lead to a little soft

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Speaker 1: tissue injuries. So what's that been like. I'll just make

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Speaker 1: sure everybody's listening, way, stretching, getting the treatment, massages, doing

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Speaker 1: everything you can to make sure you're available out there.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's been trying to do as best as

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Speaker 1: they can to do those things to make sure they

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Speaker 1: don't have those minor injuries, to try and plent them

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Speaker 1: as much fun. For the longest time here, there wasn't

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Speaker 1: exactly a competition for who was going to be the

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback. There is this year. Do you find it

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Speaker 1: different with the three different quarterbacks in the huddle with you? No?

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Speaker 1: No necessarist No, We've always practiced with every single quarterback

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Speaker 1: with everybody. Throw it, everybody takes your hand off from everybody,

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Speaker 1: so it's not too much different. You always go to

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Speaker 1: the teaching of a quarterback, do yea. So we have

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Speaker 1: two talented guys and it's gonna be fun to see

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Speaker 1: everybody compete out there. What's spend your impressions of Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton so far? I mean, he's a very energetic guys,

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of talent. Obviously, it's had

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Speaker 1: a lot of said in this league and I think

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Speaker 1: it brings a lot of energy as well, so it's great.

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Speaker 1: And I think he said three talented quarterbacks, a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys they get the job to be great, to

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Speaker 1: even compete. You can surprise us if you want to.

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Speaker 1: But I'm guessing you're not going to tell us what

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Speaker 1: the Patriots offense is gonna look like this year. You might,

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Speaker 1: but you don't laugh yet, James, So don't laugh yet. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of us from afar A speculating

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Speaker 1: maybe it'll look a little different because it's had Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady under center for twenty years and now you have

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton who has a history of running. Jared Stidham's

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Speaker 1: pretty athletic. Should we prepare ourselves for maybe a little

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Speaker 1: different look or maybe some wrinkles? You got a way

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Speaker 1: to see, Yes, you got a way to see. Uh

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Speaker 1: I see. We have plenty of capable bays at quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: though or whatever coach of dais was a dial up

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Speaker 1: we're just goad to execute. There was one analyst who

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Speaker 1: said that the Patriots running back room might be the

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Speaker 1: best room position grouping room in the NFL. And you

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Speaker 1: added to it a week or so ago. How do

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Speaker 1: you assess the Patriots running back position. I think we

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Speaker 1: have a group of versatile guys as running backs here.

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Speaker 1: We want to be able to run the ball, block, catch,

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Speaker 1: do whatever coaches need us to do, and like coach

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Speaker 1: to be able to call any play with anybody in there.

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Speaker 1: I think we have a lot of talented guys. You

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Speaker 1: have to continue to get better the chemistry with the quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: off as the line of receivers, everybody, and you said,

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Speaker 1: just make sure where how they're doing our part their practices.

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Speaker 1: And then during the game. As a guy who played

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Speaker 1: in front of over one hundred thousand people in a

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Speaker 1: bunch of your college games, I'm sure you had huge

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Speaker 1: crowds in you're in high school too, Like, what have

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Speaker 1: you even thought about what it's going to be like

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Speaker 1: of the season. We haven't really thought about it too much.

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Speaker 1: Of me maybe a little bit different. But after you're

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Speaker 1: out there, you realized there's nobody there just play foot.

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Speaker 1: Some of your teammates obviously opted out of this season.

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Speaker 1: Other a lot of teammates obviously opted in, even guys

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Speaker 1: with families. I'm just wondering in the NFL, you guys

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Speaker 1: are not in a bubble. Had you had to commit

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Speaker 1: to a bubble and being away from your family for months,

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Speaker 1: would that have changed your decision on this season. I'm honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not really sure. I mean, obviously I'm

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Speaker 1: sure I would have play the fact that, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if that would have changed my mind or not.

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Speaker 1: But I said, it just comes down to everybody just

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Speaker 1: trying to be as responsible as they can when we

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Speaker 1: need the facility to protect each and every one of us,

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Speaker 1: to coaches and our families. I think that's what it

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Speaker 1: just comes down to at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: Did you give consideration to opting out? Oh, you think

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Speaker 1: about it for sure when you have you know, little

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Speaker 1: kids at home and my wife's pregnant, so you think

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Speaker 1: about it for sures. You've definitely not an easy decision.

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Speaker 1: So man has tried to make the best decision, and

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Speaker 1: they said, just do whatever I can to try and

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Speaker 1: keep them safe. When I'm come in front of the facility,

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Speaker 1: just take a close off, switch clothes, dude, do whatever

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Speaker 1: I can, shower, just do as much as fun anything anything.

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Speaker 1: Were you were you surprised that it ended up being

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Speaker 1: eight players? And your team topped out. I mean, nobody

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Speaker 1: know what was going to be. But I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: a lot of respect little guys, and I respect he's

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Speaker 1: and every one of their decisions, but everybody has their

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Speaker 1: own unique situations and they had to do as best

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Speaker 1: for them. One of the things coach Beltech was talking

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Speaker 1: about this morning was the Oakley face masks, and he

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Speaker 1: was saying, how they have him in the equipment room,

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Speaker 1: players are experimenting with them. Have you considered the full

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Speaker 1: face shield from Oakley? Is that something you've tried? Will

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Speaker 1: you be wearing it? I have nine know some guys

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Speaker 1: and they said, has him be too bad wearing it?

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Speaker 1: Um says, there's another way to try and prevent things. Um,

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Speaker 1: I said, just completely get to the person if they

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Speaker 1: want to wear that. James, it's good to talk to

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Speaker 1: you again. We'll we'll look forward to talking to y'all

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Speaker 1: season logging. Best of luck, Thank you, appreciate good talk

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Speaker 1: to you guys. Yeah, James White Pots funny like joining

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Speaker 1: us