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Speaker 1: Mac. How we doing this week? Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: calling in.

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Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?

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Speaker 3: We're doing well. We've talked about this a lot as

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Speaker 3: a show. I think a lot of fans discussed this

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Speaker 3: as well. Your Pro Bowl alternate your rookie year now

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Speaker 3: on Sunday, your bench for the third time this year.

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Speaker 3: It was a self proclaimed terrible throw, was your final

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Speaker 3: throw against Indianapolis, and a lot of us, myself included,

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Speaker 3: want to know what happened to that guy from your

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Speaker 3: rookie season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, everyone's frustrated, and you know,

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Speaker 2: obviously I am too, And there's a lot of things

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Speaker 2: that you know, I wish I could do better, and

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Speaker 2: I've kind of identified those things and that's where it

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Speaker 2: all starts, and I know I'm going to put the

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Speaker 2: work in to do it and get the momentum moving

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Speaker 2: in the right direction. So obviously that's a big picture

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Speaker 2: kind of what you put laid out there, But at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, I have to focus on

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Speaker 2: the small picture and figure out what I can do better.

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Speaker 3: So again, if we're trying to figure out what the

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Speaker 3: changes are, is it a lack of confidence? Because from

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Speaker 3: the outside looking in, that's how it feels. I know

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Speaker 3: a lot of athletes don't want to say that. A

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Speaker 3: lot of us in our our professional lives don't want

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Speaker 3: to say that or admit that, but that is what

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Speaker 3: it looks like.

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Speaker 1: Is confidence an issue for you?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think my confidence comes from my discipline and

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Speaker 2: all the things I've done throughout the years just to

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Speaker 2: you know, gain that, and of course at times as

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Speaker 2: an athlete, that's going to be challenged. But at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, I need to have confidence in myself.

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Speaker 2: That's like the root of the word, right, it's confidence.

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Speaker 2: It's belief in yourself and others. So that's kind of

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Speaker 2: what I what I know about confidence, and that comes

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Speaker 2: from putting the work in and being prepared. So I

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Speaker 2: do both of those things and I need to continue

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Speaker 2: to be confident.

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Speaker 4: Mac that final play of the first half, it looked

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Speaker 4: like it was going to be a Hail Mary opportunity

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Speaker 4: for you, and after the game, when asked about it,

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Speaker 4: you said something along the lines of you have no

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Speaker 4: clue why it wasn't called that way? Did you get

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Speaker 4: any explanation since then about why there wasn't a hail

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Speaker 4: mayor play called there? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think I was just explaining like the situation and

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Speaker 2: that wasn't necessarily computed about the call. It's just it's like,

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Speaker 2: what do you want to run? There? There's a couple options,

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Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, we had to

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Speaker 2: get sixty yards in two seconds, so it's kind of hard.

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Speaker 2: You know, any play that you call, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be hard to get that. So definitely, you know, we

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Speaker 2: talked about the different situations that we could do and

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Speaker 2: you just learn from it and move on.

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Speaker 4: Would you would you have liked the opportunity to air

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Speaker 4: it out there and take a chance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean sure.

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Speaker 5: Mac. After the game, did you go to get an

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Speaker 5: X ray? I did, and can you tell us what

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Speaker 5: it's said?

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Speaker 2: Nothing?

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Speaker 5: Nothing, So you're not going to be rehabbing an injury

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Speaker 5: or anything like that on this by week. No, okay, Uh,

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Speaker 5: you said after the game that you were dealing with something.

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Speaker 5: Was it some physical.

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think you know, in a game there's things that

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Speaker 2: pop up, But like I said, there's nothing, nothing serious

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Speaker 2: that caused any issues.

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Speaker 3: Patriots quarterback Mac Jones joining us here on w E

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Speaker 3: E I as he does each and every week. Have

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Speaker 3: you been told you're the starting quarterback? Of the New

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Speaker 3: England Patriots for the next game, Week twelve against the Giants.

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Speaker 2: No, we haven't talked about that really. Just today we

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Speaker 2: watched the game film and kind of talked about the

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Speaker 2: planes for the bye week. So we have practice tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: so just to see how it goes there, and you know,

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Speaker 2: the bye week's a great time to work on things

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Speaker 2: that you can do better. So that's what I'm going

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: When would you expect to get that answer?

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Speaker 2: I really am not focusing on that, and really just

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Speaker 2: focusing on, you know, things I can control and focus

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Speaker 2: on that. I've always done that and I really need

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Speaker 2: to improve obviously, and that's what I'm going to focus on.

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Speaker 5: Mac.

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Speaker 4: The camera's cut a moment on the sidelines where it

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Speaker 4: looked like you were having or you were just getting

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Speaker 4: some heated words from Bill O'Brien. How has your relationship

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Speaker 4: with him as your offensive coordinator changed over this year.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's good. Like I always have had coaches who

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Speaker 2: expect a lot of their players, and I love that.

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Speaker 2: So there's a good relationship there and I have no

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Speaker 5: Have you ever been taken out of a game in

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Speaker 5: that situation before where it was still sort of close

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Speaker 5: like that. I mean, we obviously saw the other games

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Speaker 5: where it was the game had gotten away. Had that

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Speaker 5: ever happened before? You ever seen that before?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm curious because the camera's caught you.

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Speaker 3: Mac kind of given like a fist bump or wapping

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Speaker 3: up Bailey Zappy going into the game.

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Speaker 1: What was the message that you gave to him, if anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I talked to all the guys and look, I've

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Speaker 2: been on a different teams and I've been in different roles,

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Speaker 2: and I know one thing, I want to win. So

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Speaker 2: I know that those guys wanted to win. And you know,

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Speaker 2: as a leader of the team, my job is to

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Speaker 2: encourage everybody and let them know that, you know, we

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Speaker 2: can win this game still. And we've been in a

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Speaker 2: lot of games this year that are one one score

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Speaker 2: less games and that's important, right to know that we

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Speaker 2: can still go out there and win regardless of all

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Speaker 2: the stuff that's happened. And I talked about momentum. I

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Speaker 2: think momentium can be great in those types of situations.

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Speaker 2: So obviously it didn't happen, but at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, I was going to give the support to

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Speaker 2: my teammates.

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Speaker 4: Mag We saw a report today just on Twitter that

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Speaker 4: Robert Kraft was spotted in the locker room. What kind

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Speaker 4: of support are you feeling from ownership these days?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I have a great relationship with mister Craft, and

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Speaker 2: I have a lot of respect for him and his

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Speaker 2: family and what they've built here at the Patriots, and

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Speaker 2: I want nothing more than to try and get this

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Speaker 2: thing back on the right track for them and for

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Speaker 2: the Patriots and the fans and everybody. So I have

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Speaker 2: a lot of respect for them what they've built, and

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Speaker 2: I need to do a better job of being the

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Speaker 5: Matt I asked Matthew Slater something similar. But we know

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Speaker 5: the game didn't go the way you wanted it to.

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Speaker 5: How was the trip for your team? Is it something

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Speaker 5: that sort of brought you guys together? Did you feel

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Speaker 5: like maybe you needed to be brought together a little bit?

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Speaker 1: How was how was all that.

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Speaker 2: That was good? I enjoyed Germany. I thought, you know,

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Speaker 2: the fans that were great, and obviously football is an

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Speaker 2: international game now, so it was great to be out

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Speaker 2: there with my teammates and the coaches and everybody. So

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Speaker 2: obviously we want to win. I'm going to come home

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Speaker 2: with the win, which we didn't, and that was the

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Speaker 2: most frustrating part. But I did enjoy making some of

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Speaker 2: the memories with my teammates and coaches and my family

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Speaker 2: and everybody, so it was cool.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback Question of the Week.

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Speaker 3: You were asked in Germany MAC about working with a

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Speaker 3: mental coach and you confirmed that you've had a few

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Speaker 3: different people that you've worked with since you were young.

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Speaker 3: Is that is that a sports psychologist? Is it something

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Speaker 3: less formal than that, and how did that come about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think the biggest thing is is everyone that

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Speaker 2: plays sports, you know, has someone in their life that

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Speaker 2: can impact that, and I'm definitely been fortunate to have

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Speaker 2: people that have helped me.

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Speaker 3: Is that part of your routine like a like a

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Speaker 3: weekly thing or is that as needed?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a good routine, so I definitely keep

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Speaker 2: that weekly and make sure I stay on top of

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Speaker 2: it and a lot stuff.

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Speaker 4: Matt, going into this bye week, you're third now as

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Speaker 4: a pro. Do you have any different approach to this

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Speaker 4: particular bye week than ones in the past.

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Speaker 2: I don't know yet. I think, like I said, I'm

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Speaker 2: still focused on having a good day tomorrow and having

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Speaker 2: a good practice, and I'm trying to iron out some

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Speaker 2: of the things that I can do better. So I

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Speaker 2: haven't put a lot of thought into it, but my

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Speaker 2: mind's always on football and that will never change, all right.

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Speaker 1: He's Patriots quarterback Mac Jones.

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Speaker 3: He joins us every week here on Jones and mego

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Speaker 3: with urkan on wee I, Mac, we appreciate the time,

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Speaker 3: enjoy the bye week, and we'll talk to you soon,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to