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Speaker 1: Who, how's it going? Coach? Good? What you guys? Good?

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Speaker 1: How are you treating this game this week as a

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Speaker 1: big game or just as another in a sixteen week season?

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Speaker 1: You know they're all big games, and we're treating it

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Speaker 1: as such. But uh, you know you mentioned it there.

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Speaker 1: When it's a sixteen week season, you only get so

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Speaker 1: many opportunities to state the case for yourself, so they're

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Speaker 1: all significant. I knew the last year maybe you've thought

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Speaker 1: of it a little differently. I don't want to, I'll

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Speaker 1: let you kind of speak to that, but it felt

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Speaker 1: like maybe you built up the stakes of this matchup

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Speaker 1: a little bit more last year. Also, just I mean,

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Speaker 1: I could maybe pull up the quote I can't remember

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Speaker 1: by you. You guys just sort of seem to state

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Speaker 1: the enormity of the game the matchup last year. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was just acknowledging the outside perspective of it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that our perspective changes. It was in response

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Speaker 1: to a question regarding the hype around the game. If

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Speaker 1: I think if you're if that's what you're referring to.

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Speaker 1: I was acknowledging the outside perceptions of it, not necessarily

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Speaker 1: our approach or or mentality regards. Got it, thanks, coach.

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Speaker 1: We've seen Ben makes some uncharacteristic mistakes this year. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's leading the league and rents own interceptions. There's there's

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Speaker 1: something you can point to for that. Or is he

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Speaker 1: kind of forcing the ball this year? You know, we

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Speaker 1: you know obviously been as a quarterback and there's certain

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Speaker 1: responsibilities that come with the position. But protection of the

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Speaker 1: ball is an eleven man job and we as a unit, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, striving to do better in those areas, and

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Speaker 1: I acknowledge that we need to. What have you seen

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Speaker 1: on film from Tom Brady this year? His numbers are

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Speaker 1: a little bit down compared to years past. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's Tom Brady man. He's capable of controlling and dominating

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Speaker 1: the game, obviously, and you know he needs no endorsement

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Speaker 1: for me. The minutia of specifically what's on tape is

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Speaker 1: you know, probably less significant than his capabilities and impact

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Speaker 1: on play. Rob Gronkowski has been able to be pretty

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Speaker 1: successful against you guys throughout his career, but looking at

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Speaker 1: his games this season, maybe he's his performance has been

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Speaker 1: a little bit more uneven than it has been in

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Speaker 1: years past. What have you seen from from grock this season.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a dangerous man. He's grounk, he's a

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Speaker 1: vertical matchup. He's a big time playmaker. He's good with

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Speaker 1: the ball in his hands after the catch. He's a big,

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Speaker 1: big time competitor. Um. It is a serious job to

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Speaker 1: work to minimize his impact on the game. Coach, Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you guys had the Levion Bell situation this year. One

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Speaker 1: week you had your quarterback going on the radio and

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Speaker 1: criticizing a teammate, and then there was the rib an

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Speaker 1: X ray thing the other day and the kicker slipping

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Speaker 1: on the field. Does it seemed like there's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of drama with your team this year? No, not

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Speaker 1: from my perspective, have you guys, it doesn't seem like

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Speaker 1: the dramas maybe been more for you guys this year

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Speaker 1: than in years past. I don't have that perception. No.

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Speaker 1: Is that just normal for football team to be dealing

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Speaker 1: with some of these things? It is in our marketing

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Speaker 1: for us. Yes, And coach going back to to Gronkowski

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Speaker 1: for a minute, is thinking back to that the drive

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Speaker 1: last year in that game. Is that something you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to specifically point to your team and say you know,

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Speaker 1: we can't let this guy take over the game the

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Speaker 1: way he did last year. Yeah, I think that goes

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Speaker 1: without saying obviously, and um, those that were a part

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Speaker 1: of us understand that those that weren't, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: care less. We better be concerned about, you know, preparing

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Speaker 1: ourselves to minimize his impact and do what it is

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Speaker 1: that we need to do be successful this time around.

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Speaker 1: In terms of developing receivers, when you look at the paths,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe they've they've had more success with veterans

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Speaker 1: than they have with younger guys versus you guys seem

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Speaker 1: to do you're like a wide receiver factory or bringing

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Speaker 1: guys out of the college and doing a good job

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Speaker 1: of implementing them into your system. How are you doing that?

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Speaker 1: We're not doing anything special, man. We identified traits and

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Speaker 1: talents that we like in all our positions, and you know,

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Speaker 1: try to get good people who happen to be good players,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, falster growth and development in them.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend like we're any different than

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Speaker 1: any other organization from that perspective. Speaking of wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: it seems like Juju Smith Schuster has taken a pretty

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Speaker 1: big leap forward this season. What's allowed him to be

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Speaker 1: to be so successful this season. You know, he's able

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Speaker 1: to work in practice every day. He's taking advantage of

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Speaker 1: those opportunities. He played a lot last year, and I

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Speaker 1: think just that experience of that lap around the track

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Speaker 1: getting exposure that that plan provides you there's a springboard

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Speaker 1: for improvement in year two. I think it's reasonable to

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Speaker 1: expect those guys to grow and grow in big way

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Speaker 1: in year or two after having the type of experience

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Speaker 1: Jude you had in year one. And you know, um

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Speaker 1: and so I you know, not that I'm surprised by it,

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Speaker 1: but you know it's somewhat expected. Coach. Do you have

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Speaker 1: any update on James Connor and whether you might be

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Speaker 1: able to have them available to you Sunday? I don't.

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Speaker 1: We haven't done any sysical work yet today. So that

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Speaker 1: remains to be seeing what today looks like. How anxious

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Speaker 1: are you guys to finally end this three game losing

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Speaker 1: stream and get back on the positive side. You know,

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Speaker 1: we don't even approach it in that perspective. All the

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Speaker 1: games that would have been played or in the books,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing that we could do about it. It's nothing

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Speaker 1: that we can do about the three that we lost.

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Speaker 1: It's nothing we can do about it. Whatever the five

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Speaker 1: or six before that that we won. We are what

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Speaker 1: we are and we have an opportunity this week and

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Speaker 1: that's our mentality and focus. Like do you miss maybe

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Speaker 1: on Bill this year? No? How did you not let

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Speaker 1: that situation kind of derail the season? Or terror locker

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Speaker 1: room apart? You know, he's from OTA one, he wasn't

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Speaker 1: a part of us, so it's not something that this

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Speaker 1: group of men have missed. Um, it's a part of business.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately at this level. We all know and understand it.

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Speaker 1: And you know we've been focused on the people that

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Speaker 1: have been here and working speaking on that all. Have

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Speaker 1: you seen Jaylen Samuel was developed this year. It's been

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Speaker 1: a steady improvement and I think his play of late

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Speaker 1: particularly reflects that his strengths that you see that that

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Speaker 1: that he brings to your club. You know, he's just

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Speaker 1: working in all areas to be the type of player

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Speaker 1: that we need him to be obviously, which is a

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Speaker 1: complete one. Um. You know, he's he's got that type

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Speaker 1: of focus and he's a sharp young man, so it's

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Speaker 1: not unreasonable to expect improvement in all areas. What have

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Speaker 1: you seen as the Patriots run defensive late? It's been struggling.

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Speaker 1: You know, I wouldn't describe it that way. Man. They

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Speaker 1: you know, they do what it is they need to do. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can't stop all things all the time.

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Speaker 1: Or they're formidable bunch. They got veteran players, they got

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Speaker 1: really good schematics. Uh, They're a tough nut to crack,

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Speaker 1: are you Guys? You feel like if your backs against

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Speaker 1: the wall a little bit this week given the playoff

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Speaker 1: situation and everything, you know, I just think that's perception

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Speaker 1: base man. Hopefully everybody has that mentality every week. All good,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks