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Speaker 1: Time for us to talk football right now with the coach.

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Speaker 1: We do it every Monday. Bill Belichick joins us life.

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Speaker 1: Hey Bill, Hey, Glenn's Christian. How are you doing? Hey Bill?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing good? Doing well? When you everything

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Speaker 1: going great? You've had some padded practices this past week.

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Speaker 1: How much progress off those padded practice would would you

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Speaker 1: say you've made towards what is your goal to get

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Speaker 1: ready for the first game? Well, we just needed to

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Speaker 1: keep trying to improve every day and you know we're

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Speaker 1: making progress. We have a long way to go, so

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Speaker 1: you know, just keep grinding it out. But um, the

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Speaker 1: players are working hard and then you know, I'd say

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Speaker 1: generally they're, um, you know, in decent condition, but we

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Speaker 1: got to get them in football condition and that's you know,

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Speaker 1: that's always a little bit of a challenge. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's getting used to you know, having bodies on bodies

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Speaker 1: and playing with your pads and you know all those

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Speaker 1: things that it's hard to train for until you actually

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Speaker 1: get out there and do it. So, um, yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: getting there, but I still got a lot of work

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Speaker 1: to do. So coach, have you guys had a live

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Speaker 1: scrimmage yet where it's um, take to the ground, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, no holds barred, no tapping off

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. Have you guys had that yet.

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Speaker 1: We've done a little bit of that. Um, not a lot,

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Speaker 1: but we've done a little bit of it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think maybe it was I think I heard something about

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Speaker 1: maybe goal line. Do you plan on having, you know,

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Speaker 1: a close to game live scrimmage as you can to

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Speaker 1: somehow replicate like a preseason game, because I guess, how

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Speaker 1: do you know if this team is going to be

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Speaker 1: a good tackling team unless you actually tackle and there's

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Speaker 1: like repercussions and consequences for missing those tackles. Well, we've

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Speaker 1: had tackling driels on tackling driels are we have had

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Speaker 1: live tackling drills. So that's a little bit different than um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: as you put a scrimmage in. So but you know,

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Speaker 1: some of the drills we do are are live and

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Speaker 1: some of them aren't. So I guess going with eleven

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Speaker 1: people live versus doing you know, two on twos, one

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Speaker 1: on one, three on threes live, that's you know, different

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Speaker 1: than doing a full team, but it does get you

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Speaker 1: some um, you know, i'd say readiness for a full

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Speaker 1: full contact work. So you know, we'll we'll look at

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Speaker 1: it and again try to try to do what thinks

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Speaker 1: best here. Like a guy like Kyle Dugger who went

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Speaker 1: to a smaller school and you know, obviously the speed

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Speaker 1: is so different, you know from where he went. Has

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Speaker 1: he like adjusted well in those type of drills as

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Speaker 1: far as a capable tackler. Yeah, I think Kyle's um. Again,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's all young players are learning. They learned

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Speaker 1: something every day and you know, regardless of what school

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Speaker 1: they went to, this is different than than where they were. Um.

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Speaker 1: But again, we're you know, we're we're getting there. I

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Speaker 1: think all the players are improving and they're you know,

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Speaker 1: they're working hard. We just gotta you know, continue to

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Speaker 1: grind it out and you know, we'll see, let's take

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Speaker 1: a day by day and to what we need to

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Speaker 1: you know, what we need to keep improving on. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, we all we're only a little over

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Speaker 1: a week in the practice, in the training camp practices,

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Speaker 1: so we obviously have a lot of work to do

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Speaker 1: do it. So we'll have to try to figure out

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Speaker 1: how we get the most out of it. Last week

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Speaker 1: We talked quite a bit about the challenges the differences,

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Speaker 1: saying it is what it is. Everybody's doing the same thing,

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Speaker 1: so everybody's got to deal with it. So we're not

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Speaker 1: at a disadvantage with any of this. But we've now

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Speaker 1: seen false positive COVID test and you had them with

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Speaker 1: your team as well, apparently from a laboratory down in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. What does that do now? Bill? When there

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Speaker 1: are days when you go out there and you're told

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Speaker 1: by the trainer that there are some guys that can't

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Speaker 1: go out there on the field, Well, we control, we

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of things you can plan for,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that I could. Certainly it's possibility.

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Speaker 1: You know, those aren't my decisions, but so I think

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Speaker 1: have changes during the course of the year, and you know,

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Speaker 1: while everybody's trying to do what's best. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: it comes. So you had a lot of praise for

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Speaker 1: Gonna Oshowsky, and I'm curious to know what your um,

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Speaker 1: what have been your impressions so far of nikkil Harry

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Speaker 1: and this year I know he's missed some time, but

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Speaker 1: what what have what have been your impressions of Nikil Harry?

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Speaker 1: Um this being his second year. Well, I think all

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Speaker 1: where they were um last year. UM. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's a common theme from the whole group. They know

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Speaker 1: they're they're working hard at that and they're getting better,

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Speaker 1: but you know they're not there yet, but it's better

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Speaker 1: always last year. That's yeah. You know I was asking

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Speaker 1: It's been reported that as a personal issue, do you

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Speaker 1: expect him back soon tomorrow, next day? Well, we have

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Speaker 1: would think, as you'd have to work on silent account

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Speaker 1: with the same desk level would get with the real crowd.

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Speaker 1: But how do you work on all of these different things.

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Speaker 1: So it all kind of you know, it gets addressed

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you soon. You got see you later,

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