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Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm good, you're doing well. Good good,

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Speaker 1: Matthew on a short week like this as a veteran

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Speaker 1: guy's been around well, But what's your message to the

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Speaker 1: guys about preparation, both physically and mentally in a week

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Speaker 1: like Yeah, you know, I just think we have to

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Speaker 1: have a great deal of urgency in terms of trying

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Speaker 1: get as much film study in as we can, and

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Speaker 1: then obviously doing what we need to do to get

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Speaker 1: our bodies back, which is always challenging, especially with the

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Speaker 1: travel that we're gonna have to have. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be here fast. Today's already like a Thursday

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Speaker 1: for so it's it's gonna happen fast. We can't take

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Speaker 1: anything for granted, especially with where we are in the season,

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Speaker 1: and we need to do everything in our power to

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Speaker 1: get ourselves ready to go. And Matthew, did you ever

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Speaker 1: think you'd playing a game where Kevin O'Connell would be

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Speaker 1: the best coach on the other side? So I know

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Speaker 1: I'm old now planning against uh my old draft mate.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, if you'd ask me who I

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Speaker 1: thought would be a head coach out of our class

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Speaker 1: would have been him and Gerard, and I think those

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Speaker 1: two guys are obviously one's doing it, the other ones

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Speaker 1: on track to do it. Super proud of Kevin Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I stood in his wedding. He's one of

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Speaker 1: my best friends. So I love the guy. I love

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Speaker 1: I love his wife Leah. You know, they got four

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Speaker 1: beautiful kids. He's been a tremendous friend and support for

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Speaker 1: me over the course of my career. He's been there

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Speaker 1: for a lot of big moments in my life personally,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I just can't tell you how

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Speaker 1: proud I am of him to see him grow and

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Speaker 1: to see him accomplish so much as a young coach

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Speaker 1: in this league. Obviously he's having a fantastic year. He

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Speaker 1: got his team playing some really good football. So but

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Speaker 1: it does make me feel old when when guys at

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Speaker 1: you you know, I used to room with him where

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Speaker 1: rookies at the hotel, and and now he's the head

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Speaker 1: coach and I'm still playing. So I guess we've both

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Speaker 1: been very blessed. What was the genesis of the BONDI there?

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Speaker 1: Did you guys know each other before you got after?

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Speaker 1: How did you guys like no, we uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we never we never met before the draft, and then, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we came here standing at that residence in

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Speaker 1: in Foxborough and they had us room together, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we really clicked obviously, both growing up in southern California,

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Speaker 1: having our roots there. I think we had a lot

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Speaker 1: And then during the lockout, Um, you know, I used

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Speaker 1: to go down to Carl's Bad and essentially lived with

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Speaker 1: him and his wife. I mean I was working out

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Speaker 1: down there with him every day. It was driving back

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Speaker 1: and forth from Orange County to Carl's Bad. You know,

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Speaker 1: he was really good to me, took care of me,

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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with me. You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what I would have done during the lockout.

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Speaker 1: I mean he had me over to San Diego State

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Speaker 1: working out. So we spent a lot of time together

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Speaker 1: in those early years, just a couple of kids trying

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Speaker 1: to find our way, and uh, I guess we did

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Speaker 1: all right for ourselves. So pretty cool. It's a short

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Speaker 1: top room of the roster, But what made you would

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Speaker 1: you see in that short period of time together. He

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Speaker 1: actually has teammates the region think this guy could Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I think the intangibles. I think his character is uh,

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Speaker 1: second to none. I mean, he's just a tremendous person,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I think that matters a lot when

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Speaker 1: you talk about leadership and leading man and getting in

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Speaker 1: believing in. So he's got a great deal of character.

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Speaker 1: And then I think the way he sees the game.

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Speaker 1: Obviously as a quarterback, I've always felt like the guys

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Speaker 1: I've been around here have seen the game a little

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Speaker 1: bit differently than most. Um, he's got a very high

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Speaker 1: football IQ. And then you know, speaking with him over

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Speaker 1: the years, he's been able to learn from a great

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Speaker 1: to McVeigh. I mean, he's been around some great offensive minds,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I think you take his natural gifts

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Speaker 1: up with a pretty good football coach. Last time I

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Speaker 1: actually had a true conversation with him. Guys, come season times. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: probably this offseason. I mean our wives talk. Um, I

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Speaker 1: of times afterwards. Obviously now he's you know, we're both

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Speaker 1: that first FaceTime call that we had when I found

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Speaker 1: out he got the job, just kind of sitting there laughing,

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Speaker 1: you know, like who would have thought that? Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we'd be both being the positions that we're in at

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Speaker 1: always love catching up with him. I don't think we'll

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Speaker 1: be too friendly this week, but uh, you know every

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Speaker 1: other week I'm and for him. What you see their record,

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Speaker 1: but more than that, the way they have won games.

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Speaker 1: They have started fast, they scored almost every game on

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Speaker 1: games that come down to the wire. What do you

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Speaker 1: see how to manifested than that? You know from his personality,

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Speaker 1: the guy that you know, Yeah, well I think you

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Speaker 1: know there's I think back to Kevin and the way

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Speaker 1: he was raised and knowing his parents, you know, that

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Speaker 1: that kind of never say dia mentality. Regardless of what

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Speaker 1: keep our head down and you know, respect the process

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Speaker 1: and the outcome is what it's going to be. And

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Speaker 1: I think you know, when you get in those situations,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to win those one score games like that

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Speaker 1: So it's been impressive that they've been able to do

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Speaker 1: I do think that they reflect him in a lot

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Speaker 1: Buffalo game. I'm sure him I thought that game was over,

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Speaker 1: and they just found ways to keep competing, scrapping, clawing,

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Speaker 1: you know, believing in one another and going out there

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Speaker 1: playing for each other. And I mean, that's who Kevin is.

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Speaker 1: He's a very selfless guy. He's a very competitive guy,

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Speaker 1: and he'll do everything he can for the man next

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Speaker 1: Goldstairs they night. I'm the short turnaround. Marcus Jones was

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Speaker 1: talking last night about a very brief celebration before the

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Speaker 1: work begins again. Is that's just something these guys learn

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Speaker 1: when they walk into this building. Is that something that

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Speaker 1: you as a as a player who works with them

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Speaker 1: kind of explained, like have a good time, but just

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Speaker 1: for a short amount. Yeah. Well, I think coach does

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Speaker 1: a great job of setting that tone here. You know

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Speaker 1: this league. Things in this league are so fluid. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's you're trying to get too high when things are

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Speaker 1: aren't going well. Obviously, you know, after the game, as

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Speaker 1: coaches addressing the team, he's telling us, hey, this is

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Speaker 1: like Wednesday night. So you know, any normal week Wednesday night,

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Speaker 1: you're not thinking about what happened in the game the

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Speaker 1: week prior. You're worried about the opponent that you have

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Speaker 1: for the coming weekend. So you know, we have to

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Speaker 1: shift that mindset quickly. I think our leadership did a

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Speaker 1: good job of preaching preaching that message. Obviously coached at

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Speaker 1: the tone, and you know, I think we turned the

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Speaker 1: page to day and you know, all our focuses on Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,