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Speaker 1: Tom, Mutt, Jerry and Greg this morning. How are you hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: How are you doing the morning? Big question is how

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Speaker 1: is the FuMB? We had the shot on the sideline

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Speaker 1: of you with the thumb. Tom. How's it feel coming

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Speaker 1: out of the wind yesterday? It's good? Yeah, just nothing,

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Speaker 1: nothing at all. So I'm feeling feeling good, excited, we

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Speaker 1: You got a big one. Speaking of we were talking

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Speaker 1: about your guys. Obviously, Edelman, possible for you do those

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Speaker 1: guys to avoid contact. Do you worry after a game

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Speaker 1: like yesterday or during a game like yesterday that these guys,

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Speaker 1: these guys are so important to you can't hold up.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's I think it's just a nature of playing,

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Speaker 1: and you know they know it, and you know they

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Speaker 1: really deal in the middle part of the field where

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Speaker 1: there's linebackers in safety, then those are the guys that

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Speaker 1: get paid to hitch you. So I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: play on the perimeter of the field, obviously there's less

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Speaker 1: likelihood have you taken those shots, and you're dealing with

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Speaker 1: guys are a little bit smaller um, you know, but

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Speaker 1: anytime you're working in the middle, it's it's kind of

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Speaker 1: your susceptible to you know, you're running fast. The other

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Speaker 1: teams running fast, and they're making big hits. So you know,

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Speaker 1: those guys work hard at saying healthy. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully they can they can keep it up and we

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Speaker 1: obviously it's a big difference when they're in there working

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Speaker 1: together and we got the run game going and um

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Speaker 1: just opens up a lot of things for Chris and

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Speaker 1: Josh and James White. So I mean it's more the

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Speaker 1: way that we wanted to play, less turnovers and a

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Speaker 1: little better on third down. We could have done better

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Speaker 1: in the red area. We scored more points, but just

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Speaker 1: a good win. To go on the road and beat

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Speaker 1: the Jets, and to start behind and come from behind

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Speaker 1: early and you know, play a solid, solid game all

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Speaker 1: the way around. Was great for Are you surprised, obviously

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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle had a huge game. Were surprised that he

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Speaker 1: came back from his injury. I mean he looked bad

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Speaker 1: when he kind of struggle to just get off the

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Speaker 1: was that a surprise? Yeah, it was. It was good

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Speaker 1: because you know when he got tangled up in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of a similar thing where he

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Speaker 1: just got his body contorted funny and and uh, you

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Speaker 1: know we missed him for a while and and then

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Speaker 1: for him to get kind of contorted yesterday and you know,

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Speaker 1: then the you know, if you I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it was a first carry or a few carries, layer

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Speaker 1: breaks off a long one, and it's just it does

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Speaker 1: a lot for us. So I mean the running game

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Speaker 1: and them, you know, respecting what we're doing in the

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Speaker 1: running game, you know, helps play action, helps you know,

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Speaker 1: get matchups and so forth, and it's it's just a

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Speaker 1: great way to control. But the game when you can

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Speaker 1: run it, and we ran it so well yesterdays. Has

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Speaker 1: ever been a time time where this team has needed

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Speaker 1: a running game more? Or is is this no different

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Speaker 1: than in years past? I mean you always need a

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Speaker 1: becomes too difficult because you know, every every week is

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Speaker 1: a different matchup, and you know, it's it'd be like

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Speaker 1: you know, basketball teams that match up well or boxers

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Speaker 1: that matchup well. I mean you're not going to have

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Speaker 1: sixteen great matchup. You know, you're going to always have

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Speaker 1: to figure out different ways to you know, some defenses

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Speaker 1: Some defenses play the past better, some defenses play the

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Speaker 1: run better. You know. Some teams, you know, spend their

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Speaker 1: money on the interior of the field. So over the

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Speaker 1: really what helps from an offensive standpoint is having the

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Speaker 1: just going to keep running it and we'll gain a

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Speaker 1: It seemed like Tom from after the game, a lot

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Speaker 1: Was that something the coaching staff Cha lengs you to

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Speaker 1: first game of the season. You know, we lost a

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Speaker 1: So you know, if you get fifty yards rushing, you know,

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Speaker 1: The James White past interference, which was a lame call,

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Speaker 1: And you know, Gronk just did a great job on

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Speaker 1: And that's third down touchdown. I mean, that's that's just

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Speaker 1: You know, we never talked about it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: There's I mean, that's it's not like we haven't gone

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Speaker 1: for plenty of times on fourth down. How much of

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Speaker 1: a difference do you do you notice in your in

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