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Speaker 1: was good to get our offense against a really good defense,

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Speaker 1: it was it was a good week. You plan on

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Speaker 1: the fights affecting productivity during practice? Yeah, I think, Um,

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Speaker 1: everyone's competitive, and sometimes that's how it gets sorry, Um,

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Speaker 1: sometimes that's how it gets out here. And the big

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Speaker 1: thing is it's football and we're here to practice and

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Speaker 1: try and have a good day. And the coaches handled

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Speaker 1: it properly, just calling up the teams and Coach Belichick obviously,

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Speaker 1: um gave us good advice about just playing the next

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Speaker 1: look I've always gotten it. I always will master whatever

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Speaker 1: And that's all you can ask for is just you know,

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I think we have guys that can

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Speaker 1: they've been open a lot and those fifty fifty balls

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Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that. Um good. I think I'm

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Speaker 1: progress just in terms of communication team one, Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: And we've all done that together as a group. So

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Speaker 1: he's definitely done a good job, and we just got

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Speaker 1: to keep consistency up with all those guys, and like

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Speaker 1: I said, they all bring a different trait to the table. Cool.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys,