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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now is New England

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Speaker 1: Patriots defensive back Jason mccordy. Hey, Jason, how are you today?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. How about yourself? We're doing great? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Third preseason game in the books. Again, a very strong

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Speaker 1: performance for the defensive side of the football. Are you

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Speaker 1: starting to get the feeling there could be something special

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Speaker 1: building on that side of the ball here? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: think for us, we're just kind of worried about just

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Speaker 1: trying to get better each time we take the too,

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Speaker 1: whether that's practiced or like last night for a preseason game.

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Speaker 1: There's always new guys year in the year else trying

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Speaker 1: to continue to jail and come together, and last night

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Speaker 1: was our first chance at some real game action a

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Speaker 1: lot of the starters and older guys, so just trying

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Speaker 1: to go out there, compete and make place. How many

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Speaker 1: preseason games do you think you would need to really

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Speaker 1: prepare for the season to get the roster down to

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Speaker 1: where it needs to be and to be ready for

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Speaker 1: week one? Could could you do it with two? Could

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Speaker 1: you do it with even less than that? Or do

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Speaker 1: you do you like having four? No? I'm okay with

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Speaker 1: the four, and my reason for that is now being

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Speaker 1: in my eleventh year, Like you can look at and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: give me one one preseason game, maybe two, and I'm fine.

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Speaker 1: But I flashed back to my rookie year, drafted at

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Speaker 1: the end of the sixth round. It was those the

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Speaker 1: fourth preseason game, the end of the third preseason game.

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Speaker 1: Those are kind of my opportunity to really be able

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Speaker 1: to do something to show the team and what I

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Speaker 1: can do on special teams, on decense my development. So

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Speaker 1: I kind of appreciate the preseason games. I'm being on

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Speaker 1: both ends of the spectrum of that late round draft

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Speaker 1: pick of having to maximize as opportunities early on in

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Speaker 1: my career. You've got some new play calling going on

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. You had Gerade Mayo. It looked like

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Speaker 1: Steve Belichick was also calling defenses at different times in

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Speaker 1: the game. How's the communication aspect then for you guys

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Speaker 1: so far, Oh, it's one smoothly. And I think for

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Speaker 1: especially me at the corner, I'm not the one calling

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Speaker 1: to play, so I I don't know who's calling, and

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Speaker 1: I just know when High Tower makes the call, we

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Speaker 1: go out there and we try to executed. So I

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Speaker 1: think for us is about just being on the same

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Speaker 1: page a matter what to call it, Like you just said,

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Speaker 1: as long as the communication has gone well and everybody's

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Speaker 1: on the same page, it's up to us as the players,

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Speaker 1: once they're out there on the field, to go out, down, execute,

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is the decense as being called bows

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Speaker 1: your reaction to the news about Patrick Chung yesterday, just

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Speaker 1: waiting to see what happens with it. I think the

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Speaker 1: statement that the team issued, it's kind of where we're

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Speaker 1: all at with it, and um, we we love PC

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Speaker 1: and supporting and just waiting to see how it all

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Speaker 1: shakes out. Was that a surprise to you and the

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Speaker 1: guys on the team yesterday or is that something that

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Speaker 1: you knew was coming down? Just kind of waiting to see,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think the statement at building a team

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Speaker 1: issue is kind of kind of where we're all at

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Speaker 1: with it right now. One more preseason game yet to

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Speaker 1: go next Thursday against the New York Giants. This is

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Speaker 1: the one that outsiders generally think none of the starters

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Speaker 1: play in this thing. Is that how you kind of

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Speaker 1: feel this is going to go as well? You know

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Speaker 1: what for us is kind of always we don't really know.

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Speaker 1: We go in at this point each day and you're preparing,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of told well to the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: So all there's been appoints in my career where I

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Speaker 1: appoints of my career where as a starker I have.

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Speaker 1: So I think Russ is just about preparing as if

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Speaker 1: you're going to play, because that's what you're paid to doing. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I'll be out to Coach Belichick and the rest of

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Speaker 1: the staff to decide how the playing time is vivied

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Speaker 1: up in this final preseason game. One of your coaches

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Speaker 1: last year, Brian Flores, now the head coach down in Miami,

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Speaker 1: and he just recently made news the other day at

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Speaker 1: practice playing eight consecutive jay Z songs to start practice

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Speaker 1: in response to what Kenny Stills had said about jay Z.

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Speaker 1: What was your reaction when you heard that. I'm a

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Speaker 1: tracks of playing jay Z soum. As far as I

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Speaker 1: all meant, I have no idea, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: it's more about the guys that are in that building

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Speaker 1: have enjoyed listening to some of the tracks. Did Floras

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Speaker 1: push your buttons? If he if he thought he could

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think UM with certain guys, probably

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Speaker 1: He's been here for a long time and you find ways.

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Speaker 1: I think that's just coaches in general. You find ways

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Speaker 1: guys has maybe taking reps away from I think as

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Speaker 1: a coach of any sport, on any level, part of

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Speaker 1: what makes you a good coaches finding ways to motivate

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Speaker 1: your guys and getting them to play at the highest

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Speaker 1: level they possibly can. Josh Gordon has been conditionally reinstated

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Speaker 1: by the National Football League, is back with your football team.

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Speaker 1: What would he mean to your to your overall team

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Speaker 1: if he's able to play once again for you, it

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Speaker 1: means a lot. You know, he's a guy that was

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Speaker 1: here last year with us, a guy that we got

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Speaker 1: So um, just to have him back his presence, it's

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Speaker 1: just a it's awesome for us as teammates. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, a day by day thing, just

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Speaker 1: kind of seeing where it all leads to. It's just

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Speaker 1: been cool for us as teammates that have them back

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Speaker 1: in the locker room, having back around in the building.

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Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that there's more concern about

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Speaker 1: Josh Gordon the person than for Josh Gordon the football player? UM,

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Speaker 1: I guess. I guess some people can say that. I

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Speaker 1: think for us, we don't really think along in those

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Speaker 1: You know, all of us as players are people, and

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, we don't

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Speaker 1: look at each other. I don't look at Kyle van

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Speaker 1: change in that department. You're always worried about the well

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Speaker 1: being of every teammate. You haven't trying to make sure

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Speaker 1: your impression of Jewan Williams so far here throughout camp

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Speaker 1: in the preseason. It's been fun to watch him progress.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously at his side, he's able to do

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Speaker 1: just to see as he continues to pick up the

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Speaker 1: defense morning's becoming more comfortable has been fun to watch,

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Speaker 1: especially lastly going down for me going back to Nashville

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Speaker 1: and they hadn't been from that area of just seeing

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Speaker 1: his steady improvement practice after practice, he's getting better, he's

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Speaker 1: paying attention, and he's picking up everything. So as an

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Speaker 1: older guy, it's always fun to watch as a younger

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Speaker 1: guys continuing to improve with as their comfort level girls

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Speaker 1: in the defense, and just as the chemistry girls with

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Speaker 1: the guys around them. Final question for me, Doron Harmon

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Speaker 1: told us a week or so ago that during training

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Speaker 1: camp he's been working out at both free safety and

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Speaker 1: strong safety. As people who haven't played the game, and

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Speaker 1: especially at that level, we're not sure what the differences are.

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Speaker 1: How difficult is it to play both of those positions?

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Speaker 1: I think on our defense to play two positions, just

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Speaker 1: in general, it's difficult. You have to always know where

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Speaker 1: both where both sides are doing. And then sometimes it

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Speaker 1: just it uses different abilities and different strengths that you

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Speaker 1: have precafety, maybe deep departed fields, so I'll say you

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Speaker 1: may be closer to the line of SKIRMA show just

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Speaker 1: forces you to use different skill sets. But I think

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Speaker 1: that's part of it's just a part of our defense.

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Speaker 1: The more you can do and that goes for Du

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Speaker 1: Dev Chung all of those guys that have saved the

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Speaker 1: position and spread throughout our defense, the more that you

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Speaker 1: more diverse our defenses can be, and just the better

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Speaker 1: you'll be as a player. Jason, we appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: As always. We'll talk to you again soon. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for having appreciate it. Take care. That is New England

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Speaker 1: Patriots defensive back Jason mccordy