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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'll be happy to answer any questions I can.

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Speaker 1: Hey John, this is Mike Reefs ESPN dot com, and

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Speaker 1: i'd be curious to hear your thoughts on what you've

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Speaker 1: seen from Cam Newton and its integration into the Patriot system. Well,

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Speaker 1: Cam looks like he's the usual Cam. He's a he's

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Speaker 1: a threat to do a lot of different things. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a credit to the Patriots. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: really credit to their coaching staff to be able to

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Speaker 1: change gears that fast that well. And uh, I guess

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Speaker 1: you would expect that from from the Patriot coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: But he's impressive and the way that they've changed gears

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Speaker 1: is very impressive as well. If your talent hid for

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Speaker 1: the Boston Herald here, Um, could you just describe it?

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Speaker 1: I know it hasn't happened very often in the least,

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Speaker 1: UH did two decades here. But the unique challenge of

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Speaker 1: coaching against him, preparing for Bill, I mean, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I say the same thing everybody says. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: he's he's just best coach. You know, he's gonna have

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Speaker 1: a plan for you. What you saw last week is

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Speaker 1: not probably what you're going to see on game day.

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Speaker 1: So you've got to be able to counter that, balance

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Speaker 1: that in your own way. But it's not just him,

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Speaker 1: it's his whole coaching staff. You see a number of

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Speaker 1: guys move on to become head coaches. He's a great

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Speaker 1: coach himself, but he knows how to hire great coaches.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to be a challenger in that says

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Speaker 1: to not seeing something that you call out week, is

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Speaker 1: it reasonable in your mind to expect that the way

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Speaker 1: they moved step On Gilmore around, they could put him

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Speaker 1: on Darren Waller come today. You know, if they can

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Speaker 1: find him, we're gonna move all around too. So it'll

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Speaker 1: be fun, be fun to match up with them. It's

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Speaker 1: always a challenge, and we got a great amount of

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Speaker 1: respect for Stefind Gilmore and Bill Belichick and their staff.

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Speaker 1: John to still Perry from NBT Sports, thanks for doing this.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to just ask you, based on the fact

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Speaker 1: that you only have two regular season games with Cam

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Speaker 1: running this offense, no preseason, what's the best way for

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Speaker 1: you guys to prepare Is it to throw everything into

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Speaker 1: the two games that they have played, to go back

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Speaker 1: to Carolina tape? What is the best way to go

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Speaker 1: about this this week for you guys. Yeah, we went

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Speaker 1: through it week one two we played Carolina and we

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Speaker 1: didn't have any film on them from any year, so

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Speaker 1: we do have a pretty good background of what Cam

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Speaker 1: has been able to do. We also have an expectation

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Speaker 1: of where they're going with certain personnel groupings. But you're right,

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Speaker 1: it's a tough It's a tough operation. It always is

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Speaker 1: when you play against Cam Newton and the New England Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and now that they've joins forces, it's double trouble for

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Speaker 1: every defensive staff and every coach and every team that

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Speaker 1: comes in there. John, just a follow up. I know

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Speaker 1: you spoke to Cam's a long time ago now, but

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Speaker 1: when he was coming into the league for your QB

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Speaker 1: Cam for the FtM, and you spoke to him about

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Speaker 1: availability and being able to just stay healthy and say

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Speaker 1: on the field, given his style of play, how have

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Speaker 1: you seen him try to manage that. He's obviously dealt

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Speaker 1: with injuries in recent seasons here, but are you impressed

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Speaker 1: by the fact that he's lasted the way he has

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Speaker 1: and he still looks the way he does. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's amazing. I honestly, I don't know how he's

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Speaker 1: done it. He's taken a lot of hits in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: like most quarterbacks do, and they were on power plays

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Speaker 1: to his left. He's taking people on with his right shoulder.

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Speaker 1: He gets up and throws a bullet across the field.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he does it, but again, I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen many guys walk through my doors that look

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Speaker 1: like Cam. I call him Slam Slam Newton. That was

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Speaker 1: the nickname I gave him. He is a power forward

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Speaker 1: playing quarterback. He's over he's oversized for the position, but

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Speaker 1: he's gifted so much athletically. It's it's it's incredible what

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Speaker 1: he's accomplishment and accomplished, and his durability is really impressive.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to see him healthy again. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Thank John. Okay, I would just like to say, you know,

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Speaker 1: our heart goes out to coach Belichick having lost his

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Speaker 1: mom and uh James White, they're great running back, the

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Speaker 1: tragedy that he's going through right now, and uh from

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Speaker 1: from Mark coaches staff and our team, we wish, we

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Speaker 1: wish our best for those guys in a in a

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Speaker 1: tough time. Okay, great, Thanks everyone, all right, Thanks John,