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Speaker 1: course that means it is a Patriots Monday and right

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Speaker 1: now on the hotline as Patriots running back James White. James,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, appreciate the time I keep reading

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Speaker 1: about Damian Harris. James, how does this year's Harris stack

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Speaker 1: differently from him this year? One thing for each players

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Speaker 1: coming into each year, you want to just improve, and

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Speaker 1: that he wanted to come in and attack this training

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Speaker 1: camp from learning the football, kissing the football, to blocking

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Speaker 1: he's willing to help him in any form of question. James,

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Speaker 1: this has obviously been a weird training camp, a different

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Speaker 1: you sort of describe what you've been through as I

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Speaker 1: Oh me, I'm not really sure how to describe it,

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Speaker 1: every practice matter. But I think it matters even even

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Speaker 1: not sure where to go in the building, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: How we practice of then take a little bit for

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Speaker 1: day and we're just trying to build that team chemistry,

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Speaker 1: It's about special teams like can't keep making the same mistakes.

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Speaker 1: e I James off the same kind of question from Andy.

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Speaker 1: How weird is it right now? You're you're two weeks

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Speaker 1: there is no preseason. How whirred has it been from

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Speaker 1: come to game one so you can see how do

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes. None of us you can be playing

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Speaker 1: week ago that there were teams across all sports boycotting.

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Speaker 1: There were NFL teams that were skipping practices or not

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Speaker 1: practicing to make social injustice statements. You guys chose to practice,

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Speaker 1: But I'm wondering what are the ongoing conversations within your

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Speaker 1: heading towards opening day, Jill, we were in discussions trying

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Speaker 1: new book coming out tomorrow on the Patriots dynasty, the

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Speaker 1: on Dale and Keith. The Conversations behind closed Doors, James,

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Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering, do you think the Celtics are

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Speaker 1: Thanks James. So there goes James White, obviously Patriots running

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