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Speaker 1: you came to the Patriots, did you envision this is

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Speaker 1: just a short time. To be honest, no, I mean

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Speaker 1: my goal was to finish that year and then kind

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Speaker 1: when I was with the Bucks, it was a kind

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Speaker 1: their career. Just kind of chow and for him. So

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Speaker 1: I was still just working hard trying to get back

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Speaker 1: of it when I could. And then even that year,

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Speaker 1: I had to hic up with the appendeck to me

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So this kind of things thrunch

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep going one day at a time right now,

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Speaker 1: one kick at a time, just trying to get better

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Speaker 1: every day and try to continue to help this team

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Speaker 1: win as many games as we can. They can appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yep, anytime, Thank you, And next question,

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Speaker 1: Jim McBride, Nick, congratulations on the deal. Thank you, Thank you. So.

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Speaker 1: In one of our chats with Bill last year, he

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Speaker 1: talked about the conversations that you too had during practice

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Speaker 1: and he mentioned how much he's learned from you, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering from your perspective what those conversations were

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Speaker 1: like and maybe some of the things that you learned

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Speaker 1: from him, you know, it just kind of they just

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Speaker 1: kind of morphed um. Well, we'll talk during a punt period,

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Speaker 1: start talking or field conditions, the turf. I know, Um,

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Speaker 1: guys will wear different cleats based off the turf. And

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Speaker 1: then last year, I think we played one grass game

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Speaker 1: season in Miami. Um, so well we'll have conversations about that,

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Speaker 1: about the weather, um, just kicking in general, UM, all

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Speaker 1: kinds of kicking stuff. UM. And then I've asked him

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Speaker 1: and um, so it's always a fun time to kind

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Speaker 1: I've learned a ton in my you know, short time

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Speaker 1: always fun to just sit down and talk. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: you always pick something up and hopefully you know, we

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Speaker 1: Thanks Nick. Yeah, and we'll very final question from Chris

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Speaker 1: thank you. Um So, when you got here back in nineteen,

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Speaker 1: as needed. When we had to have those conversations, but

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Speaker 1: he was in all the specially these meetings. UM. And

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Speaker 1: then when we would do our specialists breakdown with Jake

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Speaker 1: So it's been a lot of juggling. But I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: do you like kicking in bad weather? Yeah? I guess

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Speaker 1: I think at times I don't. I wouldn't say I've

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Speaker 1: I was young, so um, but I think at times

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Speaker 1: weird way. Awesome. Thanks Nick, welcome back. Yeah,