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Speaker 1: the Wingham Patriots as he's here every single Monday, Bill Belichick. Uh, Bill,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. How are you doing today? A great? How

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Speaker 1: are you doing, Steve coach? How are you tough day yesterday?

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Speaker 1: What was the uh? What was the feeling in the

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Speaker 1: that's probably fair to get adjectis Yeah, but we've moved on.

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Speaker 1: So as as a coach and you've been in any

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably everybody handles a little bit differently,

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Speaker 1: ready for Tennessee. That's what it's about now. So that's

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. You emphasize to us last week

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Speaker 1: guys were treating that as a play off game. Was

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Speaker 1: a playoff game. If you won, you advanced around in

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Speaker 1: the postseason. After you lose that game, lose the bye.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything you need to say or do to

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Speaker 1: to do that. Sure when you look at Tennessee, you

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Speaker 1: watch film, you saw them, played them last year. What

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Speaker 1: sticks out to you? Oh, it's a well balanced team. Um,

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Speaker 1: certainly played well in the last Um, I don't. I'll

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Speaker 1: they can move the ball. Number one team in the

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Speaker 1: would expect with DMPs Mike rabele Um, there's some disruptive

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Speaker 1: They do everything well. They play hard, their physical, they're tough,

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Speaker 1: They work hard. You know, nobody feels good about yesterday.

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Speaker 1: But what the things out to you is, uh, Mike

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Speaker 1: special team, situational football, um, kind of what Mike. Some

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Speaker 1: him and executed him. Well, did you see him as

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Speaker 1: and very versatile player. Played offensive defense, special teams, loved

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Speaker 1: to our offensive. You know, we're on different fields, but

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Speaker 1: kind of a nuts and bolts question. There's been multiple

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Speaker 1: reports that teams have requested to interview Josh for their

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Speaker 1: for the next week without the bye? Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know right now, Andy, just trying to concentrate on getting

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Speaker 1: But that sment the majority of the day here, trying

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Speaker 1: it's not a while since you've had to play in

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Speaker 1: go right from well, playoff football's playoff football. So we're

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Speaker 1: You know, we'll face those challenges this week like every

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Speaker 1: have we'll be pretty close to full strength. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're We're not not bad. Steve and I got into

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Speaker 1: the limp leg there and broke tackle. Do you often

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Speaker 1: you see that happening quite a bit. You taught me

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Speaker 1: you're gonna argue with somebody, argue to win the argument.

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Speaker 1: A right, good point. That's a good point. You might

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Speaker 1: have been right. You want to you want to do?

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Speaker 1: I got my Christian for you impersonation coming the Bill

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Speaker 1: Drive of the week. Yeah, whichever one you want, Andy,

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Speaker 1: I kind of thought that was the answer I was

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Speaker 1: gonna get. They land on touchdown. That's fine, Okay, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you knew the answer. You knew the answer. You ask

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Speaker 1: the question, well, because somebody told me that I had

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Speaker 1: to I do? Is I do my job? Bill? Your

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Speaker 1: Very well? We ask him? No, please do not ask

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Speaker 1: him coach. Thanks much, thank you, great, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you. Have a great new year. Good

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