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Speaker 1: Thank you. Stephanie Yadney. How are you today? What's going on, Mike?

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Speaker 1: I'm all good, all right, Hey, good to see you

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Speaker 1: out there. Thank you. Feels good to be out there,

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Speaker 1: I am. I know we're already into the week of

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Speaker 1: preparing for the Cowboys, but I would be remiss if

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Speaker 1: I didn't start by asking you your first career start

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Speaker 1: last week. How did it feel to get out there

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Speaker 1: and play every snap in a game? It definitely felt

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Speaker 1: good to be out there. It felt great. Actually, just

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Speaker 1: my mind set on everything, just to keep stacking the days,

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Speaker 1: and I got a next play mentality, next day mentality,

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Speaker 1: you know, and just I kind of like put that

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Speaker 1: behind me, you know, I'm onto the next one. And

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Speaker 1: as we look ahead to the next one, what do

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Speaker 1: you see from the Cowboys that challenges you guys? As

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Speaker 1: an offensive line? They definitely have a really good front,

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Speaker 1: really good defense. We just got I stay of course,

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Speaker 1: you know, we got to do our job, do what

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Speaker 1: we've been coached to do, and everything, shall you know,

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Speaker 1: happened smoothly for us. Yeah, I mean we saw you

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Speaker 1: play right tackle. I believe if I have it right

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Speaker 1: in college, you are primarily left. Yeah, how has it

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Speaker 1: worked for you to flip sides. Has that been How

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Speaker 1: challenging has that been? The flip sides and played the

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Speaker 1: other side. I wouldn't say it's been challenging, because you know,

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Speaker 1: we have great coaches here and they've done a good

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Speaker 1: job with you know, making sure guys are flexible. You know,

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Speaker 1: we preach over here. The more he can do. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I've just been trying to pay attention to

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Speaker 1: details and keep working. You know, it's not perfect. I say,

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Speaker 1: got to work and still got to get better on

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Speaker 1: both sides, you know, So I'll just say it like that.

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Speaker 1: And they had one other one, you know, just having

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Speaker 1: followed your career since you got to the Patriots, me

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Speaker 1: following it, you know, two years of hardship with physical injuries,

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Speaker 1: right like. And so we get to camp training camp

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Speaker 1: this year and it looked to me like you started

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Speaker 1: to build this great momentum toward the end of training

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Speaker 1: camp in preseason, and then it looked like there was

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Speaker 1: another physical I think it was the handstring or something

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Speaker 1: that you were on the injury report to start the year.

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Speaker 1: How frustrating was that, given that it looked like you

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Speaker 1: were sort of had built that momentum, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, all the way back and how tough was

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Speaker 1: it to get back from that is what I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to ask, right, It was definitely frustrating, you know, but

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Speaker 1: you know, definitely definitely frustrating. But I mean the way

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Speaker 1: I saw it, the way I look at it is,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was still able to be out there

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Speaker 1: with my teammates, still able to be out there on

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Speaker 1: the field to get better, you know, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day. So I just you know, control what

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Speaker 1: I could control and let it get back right and

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Speaker 1: keep kept getting better each day, you know. So I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm past that now, you know. I'm lessing, thankful to

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Speaker 1: be feeling good and I'm ready to rock now. Next

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Speaker 1: question Allen Siegel please? Oh yeah, any how you're doing.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, Alan? I'm good, I'm doing fine. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: I want to piggyback a little bit of what Mike

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Speaker 1: just talk to you about, and that's the versatility of

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Speaker 1: this offensive line. One of the things that the Patriots

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Speaker 1: have always talked about is the fact that offensive linemen

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Speaker 1: have to play all the positions and know all of

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Speaker 1: the things. Does it hit home with what has gone

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Speaker 1: on with COVID and everything over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Just how important versatility is in the offensive line most definitely.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys gotta stay ready so they won't have

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Speaker 1: to get ready, you know. That's just the mentality you

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Speaker 1: gotta have, you know. And I feel like all of

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Speaker 1: us as one, you know, because being five offensive linement,

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Speaker 1: we play as one. We all gotta have the same mentality.

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Speaker 1: We just gotta stay ready, be ready to step up

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Speaker 1: when your time is called, you know. And that's just

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Speaker 1: an approach we take. And when you learn about the

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Speaker 1: different positions, you know, guard, tackles, center, etc. Does it

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Speaker 1: give you a better understanding of what this offense is

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Speaker 1: all about? Most definitely, because you know what's going on

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Speaker 1: front side and backside, so all around you know where

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Speaker 1: everybody's going, you know, and that makes your block even

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Speaker 1: better or even more important if you know what you

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Speaker 1: know the person besides you is doing or has to do. Great.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Thank you very much, Jany. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us today. Thank you