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Speaker 1: it for you again? I know that you spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of time with thee Yeah. Um, it was probably

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Speaker 1: you know, I spent a lot of time in different rooms,

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Speaker 1: but down to just kind of have that year as

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Speaker 1: at now. It's been a lot of fun, and I

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Speaker 1: knew a lot of those guys are ready, you know,

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Speaker 1: that familiarity help in your evaluation process when you guys

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Speaker 1: the players. I always try to say that let let

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Speaker 1: your evaluation and be told every day. And I think

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Speaker 1: one of Coach Belichick's big themes about you know, about

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Speaker 1: care of today. What you do today affects tomorrow. The

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Speaker 1: same approach takes when we're evaluating guys. Let them come

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Speaker 1: in and set a standard. I watched them, you know,

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Speaker 1: take friends Mike Vanelle. I watched you know, the film

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Speaker 1: here and knowing that the guys that have been here,

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Speaker 1: the guys that are coming in now understand that. So

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Speaker 1: it's kind of easy to let them know where we

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Speaker 1: Day football in twenty four hours. It is. It is.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. There's definitely things that I love about it,

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Speaker 1: but there's things that I miss about college football. But

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Speaker 1: the aspect of there's not many there's not much carry

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Speaker 1: over from recruiting and all that stuff. It's more about

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Speaker 1: just you know, dealing with the president. And that's a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. Because you said during OTAs you would

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Speaker 1: go around to different different NFL teams and spend some

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Speaker 1: time with them. When players come into New England, they

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Speaker 1: you notice those differences when you were going to OTAs

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Speaker 1: very very quickly? Are those different plays? It's more about

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Speaker 1: from a coaching perspective, you know, the efficiency with what

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Speaker 1: they practice, um, the emphasis on fundamentals. So there is

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Speaker 1: there's definitely an atmosphere of uh. Just from the moment

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Speaker 1: And it's not really just one thing. It's a way,

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Speaker 1: it's a mode of operation and an an expected level

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