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Speaker 1: All right, everyone, thanks for joining us. We have Brandon

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Speaker 1: Copeland here, um, and we're gonna open it up. We're

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Speaker 1: just gonna start with questions and first one you will

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Speaker 1: be Alan Siegel. Brandon, welcome to New England. Thank you. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: What what was your opinion playing with the teams played

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Speaker 1: with the few teams watching the Patriots and what sort

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Speaker 1: of um you connect and want to connect with this team?

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Speaker 1: So I say it chopped up a little bit. What

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Speaker 1: is what was my opinion planning with former team of Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What was your opinion of play watching from afar from

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Speaker 1: other teams against the Patriots and when it became a

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Speaker 1: free agent and stuff? What what brought you to England? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think the opinion when you watch, when you know

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Speaker 1: obviously going against the Patriots is they're a team that

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Speaker 1: does not make a lot of mistakes. Um, And you

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Speaker 1: have to you know, as coaches, every single week you

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Speaker 1: try to go into providual areas and really, you know,

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Speaker 1: every week when you're going against quote unquote a dynasty, right,

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Speaker 1: not even a quote unquote a dynasty like the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: You know, you coaches try to sell you and tell you,

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Speaker 1: you know, we don't have to play super human. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to do all X, Y and Z, Right,

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Speaker 1: we just got to play our game and I'll play them,

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Speaker 1: you know. But ultimately coaches telling you that they understand

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Speaker 1: that you actually have to play uh pretty damn well

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Speaker 1: to to compete and keep up with these guys because

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Speaker 1: as a unit they move and and and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm proud to say we move um as a unit collectively.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you just when you look at them

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Speaker 1: on looking at them in the past, the film, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the right position the right time. Uh. Not too

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Speaker 1: many guys trying to uh do multiple jobs in this

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Speaker 1: you know, they they vibe really well as a team

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Speaker 1: in the years that I've looked at him and gone

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Speaker 1: against them, and as a free agent, you know, coming

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Speaker 1: having an opportunity to be a part of this organization. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just the orgization. I think some people

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Speaker 1: it's a way to put it is. There are certain

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Speaker 1: things that you do in life where you say, where

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Speaker 1: you have that tagline, so to speak, and you don't

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Speaker 1: have to explain anything else after that, right, And this

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Speaker 1: is going in my fifth team, my eighth season in

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Speaker 1: of my buddies, you know, or some random person you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm playing with the Patriots. Now I don't period, right,

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Speaker 1: and I know this might come out. I hope this

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Speaker 1: doesn't come off as arrogant or anything like that. But

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Speaker 1: it's like, at that point in time, whoever I'm talking

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Speaker 1: understands that I'm a legit player, right, just because you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't even make it into this organization unless you were.

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Speaker 1: And it reminds me of my rookie year. For example,

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Speaker 1: I played with the Baltimore Ravens, another you know, another

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Speaker 1: I remember my rookie year. One of our first our

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Speaker 1: DMPs comes in and he says, listen, you don't even

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Speaker 1: unless you're just a legit athlete defensive player savage like

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Speaker 1: So let's let's take that out. The equation now would

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Speaker 1: keep you in this room is your attention to detail,

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's eight years later being an

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Speaker 1: Now eight years later to come and step into another organization,

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Speaker 1: that's that's like that. I'm extremely excited. Next question will

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Speaker 1: be Uh, Michael Travion falled by Mike Greece. Thanks, Stacy Brandon,

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Speaker 1: can you hear me? Yes, sir, you have a unique background,

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Speaker 1: graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in a degree. I

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Speaker 1: believe that match is your head coach, Uh, Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to talk with him? And

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Speaker 1: is he one that you both have the economics degree

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Speaker 1: how do you think your um experience at the University

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Speaker 1: let's backtracked, so undrafted free agent from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: I've played defensive line my entire life. My grandfather played

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Speaker 1: And I get there and I'm a middle linebacker. Right.

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Speaker 1: So from the jump, you know, you go from going

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Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, I remember thinking about It's

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Speaker 1: funny thinking about it now, but I remember trying to

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Speaker 1: learn coverages and I'm relating, you know, the certain drops

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Speaker 1: Right for me, I think that the University of Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: If that makes sense, right? Would it also happened that

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Next question Mike Reeves, followed by Doug kin Brandon.

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Speaker 1: Nice to meet your face to face. How you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well, how are you? Everything's going great? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: M I was looking back through some pictures of your

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Speaker 1: career and I remember seeing you in forty eight, fifty one,

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Speaker 1: I was most curious about Brannan was you're entering a

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Speaker 1: thank you, Um, so yeah, I think for me, obviously,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. It was very helpful and we

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