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Speaker 1: Hi, Rex, How are you doing today? Good? Are you

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Speaker 1: very good? First question, UM, is just what has these

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks been like for you guys? As

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Speaker 1: you guys are trying to just kind of roll with

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Speaker 1: the punches and stay ready for when you you guys

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Speaker 1: do have to play. Yeah, I think, like you said,

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Speaker 1: just stay ready. UM you know where that's mentally, physically,

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Speaker 1: just being able to control what we can control. That's

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Speaker 1: all we can do. Um, you know, and follow up

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Speaker 1: protocols to the best of our abilities, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: just trying to make the most of every single day.

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Speaker 1: Um you know where that's in the facility or outside. Um,

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Speaker 1: just do what we can to prepare, prepare for denver

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Speaker 1: um when we play them. It has a quick follow

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Speaker 1: up to that. Just as a family man, somebody with

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Speaker 1: a family at home, how scary has it been knowing

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Speaker 1: um the last couple of weeks, guys are getting it

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Speaker 1: and trying to avoid I know some of the guys

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Speaker 1: are staying at hotels and stuff. Um. What types of

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Speaker 1: risks you know are you guys taking and precautions are

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Speaker 1: you guys taking? Yeah, I mean, of course you're always

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Speaker 1: you know, y'all want to put your family first and

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Speaker 1: make sure you know you have them in the safe um,

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Speaker 1: you know, as possible place and so um, definitely if

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Speaker 1: anything comes up, UM, you want to put them first

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Speaker 1: and make sure they're safe and make sure you're doing

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Speaker 1: what you can to keep that keep that going. And UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think this team understands that. Coach Bill

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Speaker 1: has been great on, you know, making sure we're doing

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Speaker 1: what we can to make sure everyone's safe around us.

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Speaker 1: Next question Dan Roach, followed by Mark Daniels. Good morning, Rex. Uh,

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Speaker 1: just a thought kind of following what Joe was asking

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Speaker 1: along the lines of what Bill has been to you

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Speaker 1: guys during this whole uh, you know, the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: you know he's been adamant of players safety health the

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Speaker 1: first and foremost part of what you guys are doing.

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Speaker 1: How much does that help? And you know he's been

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Speaker 1: saying that it's it's literally hour by hour. What's that

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Speaker 1: been like on your journey as a team where it's

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Speaker 1: literally hour by hour as you guys go about your business. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: he's been great. UM, you know, really just put our safety,

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Speaker 1: our family safety first and he's been in constant communication

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Speaker 1: with us on doing whatever he can or you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever the team can or to put in things in

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Speaker 1: place to keep us safe. And you know that's been

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Speaker 1: great just knowing, Um, he has our back in these situations,

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Speaker 1: in these times, and so UM, really it's just you know,

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Speaker 1: by hour, you know, things changed constantly, and um, you

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Speaker 1: know where that sustained mentally locked in, you know, whether

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Speaker 1: at the stadium, whether that is um, you know understand

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Speaker 1: we have a job still to be done and um,

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Speaker 1: you know we have the Broncos coming up and we

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Speaker 1: gotta be ready and prepared to play them. Next question,

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Speaker 1: Mark Daniels, followed by Mike Grease directs hootball as well.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, I wanted to ask people kind

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Speaker 1: of you guys losing the bye week and obviously technically

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Speaker 1: you had one. You didn't realize you had one until

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Speaker 1: it was over. We all understand why it happened. Just

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Speaker 1: what's it like when you find out that, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's Sunday. We just had our bye week and we

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Speaker 1: didn't really know it. Yeah, I mean I think just

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Speaker 1: I didn't have any I guess, big plans to go

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Speaker 1: anywhere during the bye week, so um, you know my

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Speaker 1: mindset was kind of just uh, stay here, UM, do

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Speaker 1: what I can to you know, prepare myself mentally physically

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Speaker 1: whenever our game was going to be played. Just a

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Speaker 1: to in order to be ready to play on Sunday? Yeah? Absolutely. Um.

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Speaker 1: I know I've said it a few times on here,

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Speaker 1: but just control what we can control, and um, you

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Speaker 1: know the coaches have relaid that every single day every

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Speaker 1: time we've met. Um, just understanding, we gotta be locked in,

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Speaker 1: in the right mindset to play this game. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Next question Mike Greece by Chris Ryan. Hey, Rich, so

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Speaker 1: good to see you as always. I'm just curious if

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Speaker 1: you could give us a feel for what you guys

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Speaker 1: I appreciated, Mike. I don't think I can really just

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Speaker 1: anything there. Next question Chris Ryan, Hey, Rex, I hope

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Speaker 1: ball as well with you. Um. Obviously, there was an

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Speaker 1: and the hope was that that risk could be mitigated

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Speaker 1: by m Patriots and the NFL. I'm curious to now

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Speaker 1: going to take place if there's more circumstances. Yeah, yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: be safer. And it's been you know, every single day.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've been meaning about it. Guys have asked questions,

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Speaker 1: page has definitely been, you know, something we've talked about

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Speaker 1: every single day. As a follow up, Coach Belichick mentioned

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Speaker 1: yesterday at UM there's a lot of individualized meetings taking place,

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Speaker 1: and perhaps more so than in the past, with players

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Speaker 1: focusing on specific aspects of UM of themselves. And for you,

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Speaker 1: gained from this type of experience where there's more of

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Speaker 1: a focus on the individual player. Yeah, just you know,

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Speaker 1: able to go at the stadium, UM, and mentally as well,

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Speaker 1: just making sure we're focused and locked in on our

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Speaker 1: ultimate goal. And we know this season, UM, things can

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Speaker 1: constantly change. But as long as we're on the same

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Speaker 1: goal that we want to attain, UM, then I think

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Speaker 1: that's beneficial and huge for our team. Thanks, right, I said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: thanks everyone, Thanks Rex, all right, thank you