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Speaker 1: Are you doing, Damien good? Are you doing good? How

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Speaker 1: much of a confidence builder was last year for you? Um?

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Speaker 1: You know it was a good year here and there. Um,

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Speaker 1: obviously we had our ups and downs. Um, this is

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Speaker 1: a new year. We're facing new challenges. Uh, individually, collectively,

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Speaker 1: as a team, as a unit, as an organization. So

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Speaker 1: um all it's just about improving. Um, we want to

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Speaker 1: get past last year. It's over with, it's done. So

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Speaker 1: what is this team gonna be? You know, what's our

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Speaker 1: identity gonna be? How we're gonna be this year is

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Speaker 1: as a team. That's what we're focused on, just improving

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Speaker 1: and getting better each and each and every single day

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Speaker 1: that we're out here. A year's opportunity here, maybe to

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Speaker 1: be the lead ball care think. I just want to

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Speaker 1: improve every single day i'm out here. Uh. I want

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Speaker 1: to improve, help this team improve, help other guys improve.

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Speaker 1: If I can pick a guy up, um, tee somebody something. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, however I can affect this team. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever I can do out here to make the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots a better football team, That's what I'm here

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Speaker 1: to do. Coach had some nate things to say about

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Speaker 1: you this morning. About making that jump up and that

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Speaker 1: you know you can make that jump to this year

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Speaker 1: as the league guy. Kind of, I know you want

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Speaker 1: to improve, but what's your mindset coming off of last

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Speaker 1: year where you kind of get your feet wet and

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Speaker 1: showed what you had. You know, it's just about improving. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's all. That's that's our main that's my main motto.

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Speaker 1: Each and every day I come out here, I want

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Speaker 1: to improve my game. You know, how can I be better?

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Speaker 1: How can I help this team? What can I do

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Speaker 1: to make this team better? How can I affect my teammates?

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Speaker 1: How can I become a better leader? How can I

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Speaker 1: become a better football player? You know, every facet, every

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Speaker 1: anything that I can do, every second I step on

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Speaker 1: this field, it's just to be better and to help

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Speaker 1: this team be better. How do you feel? I saw

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Speaker 1: you tweaked something at one point with Kyle Vanoy when

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Speaker 1: you ran into each other. Are you okay? Fine? Damien?

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Speaker 1: How much fun is it to run behind this offensive

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Speaker 1: line running back? Man? It's incredible? Um? You know, our

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Speaker 1: offensive line comes out here and they work hard every

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Speaker 1: single day. Um you see him? I mean they're huge,

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Speaker 1: they work hard, they're strong, they you know, they set

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Speaker 1: the tone for our offense. You know, everything starts up front.

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Speaker 1: They always do a good job of establishing a line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage, setting, setting the tone, setting the mentality for

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Speaker 1: our offense is gonna be. Do you feel like, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say a bully mentality there the offensive

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Speaker 1: line has. But they're just pushing guys around right now.

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Speaker 1: That's what's what they can do. You know, they do

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Speaker 1: what they do. You know, those are big guys that

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Speaker 1: are hungry. They work hard. They like to move people

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Speaker 1: out of the way, they like to pass, protect inside out,

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Speaker 1: keep people away from the quarterback. So you know, they

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Speaker 1: come out here every single day just like everybody else,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the desire, the hunger to get better,

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Speaker 1: to set the tone, to establish an identity in this offense,

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Speaker 1: and you know, create a good offensive identity for this

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Speaker 1: for this new season. Did you work for anything in particular,

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Speaker 1: You know, you don't see the whole game, but it

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Speaker 1: was the one thing that you worked under the officiate

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Speaker 1: just like got to get better at this everything every

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Speaker 1: year you got to improve. I mean, no matter whether

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Speaker 1: you're good or something, whether you need to improve. I

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Speaker 1: mean every year, all you want to do is continue

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Speaker 1: to get better everything you do. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: the name of the game. You know, this is a

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Speaker 1: national football league, and you know you're going against the

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Speaker 1: best of the best, and everybody improves every single year

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Speaker 1: on every single team. So you know, if that's not

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Speaker 1: your goal, then you get passed by it. So there's

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Speaker 1: no one thing, uh, no one skill. You know, you

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Speaker 1: got to just improve and continue to involve as a

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Speaker 1: football player every single year in this league because you

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Speaker 1: know it's the best of the best and what's considered

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Speaker 1: a smash mouth offense. I love it. I love it. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys come out here to be physical, like

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Speaker 1: I said, just setting a setting the tone, setting identity

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Speaker 1: we step on the field. We just want to come

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Speaker 1: matter who it is who we play. You know, that's

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Speaker 1: our mentality. We don't want to be the guys that

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Speaker 1: come out play hard, play fast, start fast, and create

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Speaker 1: every time we step on the field, it's not my jobs,

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Speaker 1: off um. You know that identity doesn't come just from

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Speaker 1: So it's not just in pads. I mean, yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: you know, try our best to continue to establish that

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Speaker 1: identity and continue every single day. It seems like the

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Speaker 1: running Mac group obviously one of the strengths of the team.

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Speaker 1: How much is it. How were you guys competing against

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Speaker 1: each other to improve your games? Um? I mean that

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Speaker 1: room is unbelievable. Um. The camaraderie, the brotherhood, Um, just

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Speaker 1: I can't even put it into words how great it

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Speaker 1: is playing alongside those guys. Every single day. We come

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Speaker 1: we compete, we we do everything that we can to

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Speaker 1: make each other better. You know, it's such an unselfish group. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's no there's egos, there's no everybody knows that we're

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Speaker 1: all we're all talented guys and we know that if

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Speaker 1: we all come together, we can be one of the

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Speaker 1: one of the strongest position groups. And help this team

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Speaker 1: be successful on offense. You know, I'm better than pretty

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Speaker 1: much anybody else here. How has he been fitting in

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Speaker 1: so far? That's a good question for Matt. How has

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Speaker 1: it been Has it been exciting for you though, to

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Speaker 1: like team back up with them? I know, you guys

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Speaker 1: all they all year, Um, yeah, I mean it's excited

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Speaker 1: to playing with everybody on this team. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: full of hard workers. Guys just want to come out

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Speaker 1: every single guy comes out here with that mentality, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's fun. It's a it's a joyous game and

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Speaker 1: it's a joy to be around these guys. Continue to

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