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Speaker 1: Hello, Bill, how are you? Hey? Glenn, Kristen Lou how's

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Speaker 1: it gone? What's up? Coach football? Season? Now? We're practicing.

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Speaker 1: We're out there and pad. It's amazing to look at

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Speaker 1: the playing football. Yeah, can look at the calendar August

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Speaker 1: So let me start by asking, you've seen a lot

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Speaker 1: the different protocol Everything seems to be working fine. Is

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Speaker 1: there something that you look at right now that still

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Speaker 1: concerns you because it's so different? Well, I think when

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Speaker 1: you look at the preparation for the season, what we're

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Speaker 1: doing is very similar to what all the colleges do.

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Speaker 1: And when I played in high school and college football,

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Speaker 1: have you know, you're kind of your heaviest workload there

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Speaker 1: then you know, you have another week maybe to you know,

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Speaker 1: that's it's definitely doable. It's just different than it's not

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Speaker 1: calls and you know, walkthroughs and you know different phases.

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Speaker 1: But you go out there today, if your first padded practice,

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Speaker 1: it's August seventeenth, and there's no number twelve out there. Coach,

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Speaker 1: how surreal of a moment was that for you when

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Speaker 1: last twelve days and you know, calls and so forth,

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Speaker 1: you know after that. So you know, look, players changed

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Speaker 1: teams every year. We have new players on our team.

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Speaker 1: We've lost players off our team and we've moved on

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Speaker 1: and you know they'd moved on, We've moved on. So

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Speaker 1: you know that that all happened a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm trying to look ahead and I'm

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Speaker 1: So listen, coach. I know, I know it's about moving

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Speaker 1: You know, when teams have to, you know, reduce twenty

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Speaker 1: decisions based on that. So Bill, the you know, the NHL,

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Speaker 1: up on the Sopranos and I would recommend some movies now,

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Speaker 1: but I know you don't have any time. Don't go.

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Speaker 1: You're completely done with all that. His recommendations are awful, Bill,

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Speaker 1: You don't want anything to do with them. They are terrible.

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Speaker 1: Just stick with breaking bad, you'll be You'll be fun.

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Speaker 1: All Right. We are off and running, Bill. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again next Monday. Have a good week,

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Speaker 1: all right, It sounds good you two fellas. Thank all right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks coach Ald. Okay, you gotta see you later. Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick right here on OM