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Speaker 1: Is the head coach of New England Patriots, Bill Belichick,

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Speaker 1: and Morning Bill, how are you great? Great? How's it going?

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Speaker 1: Happy Labor Day you too? You too wanted to get

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on why you're heading down to Miami early here.

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Speaker 1: This is something I don't believe you've done in years past.

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Speaker 1: What are you looking to get accomplished flying down to

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Speaker 1: give us a good chance to focus on I'll get

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Speaker 1: ready for the opening game and get acclimated to the

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Speaker 1: conditions whatever whatever they end up being down there. Bill,

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Speaker 1: We talked to Devin mccordy last week about this, and

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Speaker 1: he said, when you guys went to Vegas, it was

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Speaker 1: so much easier, you know, the second third day being

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Speaker 1: there with the weather and the conditions. Did that play

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Speaker 1: into your decision to go down to Florida at all?

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Speaker 1: I know West Coast versus down south, But did that

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Speaker 1: help with the players and the coaches to make that decision.

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Speaker 1: We made the decision to get on there a long

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Speaker 1: time ago, Bill, wouldn't you There's a lot of travel

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Speaker 1: plans that are involved there, so one of the kind

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Speaker 1: of thing that we do normally you know, like a

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Speaker 1: day or two ahead of time. That's something that we've

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Speaker 1: we've had in place for a while. Bill, You've talked

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Speaker 1: about this in the past before, of trying to finding

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Speaker 1: out the first few weeks of the season the identity

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Speaker 1: of your football team. How is how important is it

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Speaker 1: to make sure that you're finding out your identity but

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Speaker 1: you're still able to stop fast and maybe not dig

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Speaker 1: a good position where you can be winning every single game. Well,

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Speaker 1: that that's definitely what we're trying to do. We're not

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Speaker 1: going out there trying to have a science lab experiment.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to go out there and win games. I

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Speaker 1: think as you play games and compete against other teams

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Speaker 1: in this league, you see where maybe where your strengths

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Speaker 1: are and where teams are trying to attack you, and

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Speaker 1: and how you're holding up in those areas. Just just

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Speaker 1: a lot more information, But all right, there's there's no

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Speaker 1: real balanced there. We're trying to trying to go go

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Speaker 1: out there and be as competitively as we can, but

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Speaker 1: at the same time, well a close book of what's

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Speaker 1: happening and how it's how it's all playing out Bill.

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Speaker 1: Last year, you open against the Dolphins at home, a

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Speaker 1: tough loss, a late fumble that sealed the victory for

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Is that game in any way a part

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Speaker 1: of your communication with the players this week about the

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Speaker 1: importance of holding onto the ball, paying attention to the

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Speaker 1: details because of that loss and what that may have

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Speaker 1: caused your playoffs seating to be last year, Well, there

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Speaker 1: were a number of I think that Miami did better

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Speaker 1: than us in both games, but the second game was

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Speaker 1: there were turnovers in that game too. We give up

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Speaker 1: the pick six at the beginning of the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the game and you know we're down fourteen up and

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Speaker 1: early in the game. So not not the way we

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Speaker 1: want to start. And September game wasn't wasn't a good

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Speaker 1: way to finish when we were down on the or

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Speaker 1: it was the seniard line and I lost the ball.

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Speaker 1: So um, turnovers and involved security are certainly a huge

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Speaker 1: point ins has any time to play the Dolphins, and

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Speaker 1: and evident and in our two games last year, so

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Speaker 1: we've got to do a better job of the ball security.

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Speaker 1: That's why I think I'll be working on expanding off

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Speaker 1: of that. Obviously, Brian Flores made this Dolphins team a

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Speaker 1: hard one to compete against. What did he bring to

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Speaker 1: the team while coaching the Dolphins the last couple of years?

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Speaker 1: And what do you expect out of coach McDaniel now

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Speaker 1: right Well, we're just focused on this year's Dolphins team

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Speaker 1: and wherever they were work in the past. Well, we'll

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Speaker 1: see how all that that plays out or doesn't play out.

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Speaker 1: But you know, coach McDaniel is going to go in

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Speaker 1: there and put his his stamp on the team. I

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Speaker 1: think we've already seen that offensively, and I'm sure they'll

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Speaker 1: with the holdover coaches in those areas um with Josh

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Speaker 1: Boyer and Annie Croftsman. But there may be some changes

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Speaker 1: have to see how that goes. Bill, You suck about

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Speaker 1: every year teams have to come up with new identities.

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Speaker 1: You look at this Miami Dolphins team. One of the

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Speaker 1: Hill is a very explosive player than score many were

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Speaker 1: we'll have to certainly be aware of him. As he said,

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Speaker 1: they have other other good players on that team, and

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Speaker 1: a good receiver is a good quarterback, tight end, and

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Speaker 1: and the biggest is on the running game game with

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Speaker 1: their offensive line. So it's not just one guy to

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Speaker 1: stopple at the be competitive all the way across the board,

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Speaker 1: and you play good team defense. Bill, The difficulties of

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Speaker 1: Patriots teams in Miami are well documented. It seems like

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Speaker 1: we talked about it every year when you guys head

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Speaker 1: the positive side, which isn't exactly my normal thought process.

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Speaker 1: But Week seven, two thousand and three, I know you're

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Speaker 1: regular season when the walkoff touchdown catch eighty plus yards

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on what that game meant and why it

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Speaker 1: was such an out of a character celebration we saw

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Speaker 1: from you following that great overtime comeback when well, that

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Speaker 1: was certainly a great moment. I think everybody's just happy

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Speaker 1: to win, like you usually are an overtime, especially own

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Speaker 1: a play like that, when you're on your own twenty

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Speaker 1: That was very exciting. Bill. It seems like Isaiah Wynn

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Speaker 1: I know everybody's working very hard to be one hundred

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Speaker 1: would just see where they get to bill. One of

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Speaker 1: how see how all that plays out. UM, look forward

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Speaker 1: Any teams you have your eye on No, I didn't

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Speaker 1: for the draft process and go back and watch those games,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't see much of what happened this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Bill last question for me Arizona and Georgia both once.

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Speaker 1: it's all about Miami, all right, Bill, Well, thanks for

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Speaker 1: and good luck on Sunday. All right, great, let's talk

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Speaker 1: to you next week. Thanks,