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Speaker 1: Hey, Brandon, it's it's a good due to see you

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Speaker 1: meet you. Thanks for taking the time here today, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me thus. So I got two quick ones

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Speaker 1: here for you. When you were a member of the Jets,

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Speaker 1: from your the outside perspective, what was your impression of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots defense now you're you're playing a part of

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Speaker 1: I can't even remember that time. Now I'm joking. I

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Speaker 1: think you know. We just I've always looked at the

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Speaker 1: Patriots as a team. Happy to be a part of

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Speaker 1: this organization now, but a very detailed oriented, very focused

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Speaker 1: on um. Everyone doing their job and doing their job

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Speaker 1: at the highest level possible. So you know, that's that's

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Speaker 1: literally what we thought. Obviously, being a player on another team,

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Speaker 1: I was more so studying the um the other side

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Speaker 1: of the ball. But just when you thought about Patriots defender,

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Speaker 1: you just think about guys focused on on the details

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Speaker 1: of their craft and one more um. You know you've

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Speaker 1: been a part of many units and rushers in the past. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: when you are looking at your own group so far,

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Speaker 1: what you've learned in the first few days and full

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Speaker 1: padded practices, how would you describe that the past rush

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Speaker 1: you guys have been able to generate or some of

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Speaker 1: the characteristics of that group so far. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's just a continuity. I think communication has been amazing here,

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Speaker 1: Guys talking to each other, guys working with each other,

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Speaker 1: guys coaching each other up. I think that that's just

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Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. And whenever you have any pass rush group,

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Speaker 1: it starts with communication, guys being on the same page,

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Speaker 1: guys building that trust together. And I think that that's

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Speaker 1: what we've been working on. He's you kind of lose

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Speaker 1: track of the days. I was about to say first

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Speaker 1: few days, but this entire time. So thank you, man,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, no problem. Next we'll go to Doug

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Speaker 1: kid Brandon. I know you said in your introductory pressor

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Speaker 1: here that you know you'd be willing to play all

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Speaker 1: role as possible. Do you have a better sense at

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Speaker 1: this point of what you might be asked to do

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Speaker 1: this season? No, I think, uh, well, I do have

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Speaker 1: a better better sense of that. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: it falls in line of that original answer of just

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Speaker 1: you know, all all roles possible. I think you know,

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Speaker 1: we you know we we we understand that this defense

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Speaker 1: is a very flexible defense. But um, but it's not

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Speaker 1: even just defense as special team just it's water boy,

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Speaker 1: It's it's handing out masks to people and and and

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Speaker 1: hand sanitizers. So you know, whatever coach asked me to do,

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Speaker 1: and I'm more than willing to do it. This was

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Speaker 1: kept me around the league for this long, um, and

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Speaker 1: here it's just you know, I'm fortunate to be around

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Speaker 1: a lot of UH players coaches, UM, who can help

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Speaker 1: me excel in many different ways and positions. Whether it's

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Speaker 1: special teams, whether it's on defense, and again whether it's

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Speaker 1: at in the guy's water. What are some of your

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Speaker 1: initial impressions of not only some of your teammates like

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Speaker 1: Joan Bentley and Devin mcquarie, but also Steve Belichick as

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Speaker 1: one of your position coaches. Yeah, I think, I mean

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Speaker 1: I literally was just thinking about it coming here. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just had an amazing conversation at my

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Speaker 1: locker about UH Christ and religion with with a couple

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Speaker 1: any any anybody that I've come across with, I've been

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Speaker 1: very very enlightened by the the amount of conversation and

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Speaker 1: the high level conversation that we're having. Um, on the field,

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Speaker 1: but also off the field. I think you know, we

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Speaker 1: clearly would. With everything going on, we haven't had a

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Speaker 1: chance to get to know each other um as people,

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Speaker 1: springtime together and all of that stuff. So, um, you

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Speaker 1: know these guys, you know, to directly answer you a question,

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Speaker 1: I've been very surprised, is not the word. I've been

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Speaker 1: very um excited about the amazing conversations that we're having

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Speaker 1: about football. You know, that is helping me grow as

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Speaker 1: a player, helping me see things faster, but then also

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Speaker 1: about the things that we are being able to talk

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Speaker 1: about and strengthen ourselves as human beings off the field

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Speaker 1: as well, and getting to know these guys as as people.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've heard nothing but amazing things, like you

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Speaker 1: said about some of the guys you've mentioned, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: about Coach, about mccordy's, about Bentley, all these guys in

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Speaker 1: this locker room. Heard nothing but amazing things in my time.

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Speaker 1: But now to actually get to know them and get

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Speaker 1: those things, it's been, Uh, it's been an amazing growth

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Speaker 1: opportunity for me. Just one final one from me here,

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Speaker 1: how different is this summer going to feel or how

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Speaker 1: does it already feel playing preseason games, because at this

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Speaker 1: a bit different for you? Yes, um, it is different. Uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe teams based off of those preseason games, but it

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Speaker 1: just makes us drilled down and stay even hyper sensitive

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Speaker 1: and focused on how we practice and how we prepare,

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Speaker 1: and it just makes I mean, practice has always been

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Speaker 1: it's heightened to another level and another extent. Right when

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Speaker 1: you come in in and breaking down on a you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't take that rent for granted because you're not

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Speaker 1: going to get to practice that in a preseason game.

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Speaker 1: So now every rep matters. It always has mattered before,

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Speaker 1: but now we just have to, you know, make sure

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Speaker 1: that we stay on top of each other and push

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Speaker 1: each other because of them missed those game reps. Next,

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Speaker 1: we'll go back to Andrew Callahan and if anybody else

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Speaker 1: has a question, please raise your him go ahead. A

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes ago, you describe the defense is very flexible.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we've long described writing about it as

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Speaker 1: kind of a game playing unit, and obviously you don't

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Speaker 1: have any games so far. But as someone who's in

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Speaker 1: the defense down sees it from the inside with an

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Speaker 1: outside frame of reference playing from a different team, what

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Speaker 1: makes you say that the defense is so flexible even

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Speaker 1: though you're just a couple practices in here. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: just think that guys are flexible, right. I think you

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Speaker 1: guys can um play in different positions. But also just

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's also just an understanding, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: everyone else is doing around you, right, And I can

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Speaker 1: honestly say that that doesn't happen in every defense that

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Speaker 1: So you know, when I talk about flexibility, I just

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Speaker 1: talk about just an understanding, right, Like it's not it's

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Speaker 1: not typical that your nose guard knows what your safety

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Speaker 1: is doing. You want to play right, and it has

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Speaker 1: a full thorough understanding of that. And that's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, So that's kind of what I mean by

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Speaker 1: it so specific to the pastor should I keep asking

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Speaker 1: about it? But I think it's a group where you

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Speaker 1: have so many your bodies are in the front seven

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Speaker 1: and you're one of them. How does that help in

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Speaker 1: your mind, that kind of flexibility, that understanding you we're

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Speaker 1: just talking about. Yeah, you just understand where everyone's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be. I want to play, right, So if you

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Speaker 1: understand where everyone's supposed to be on the play, like

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Speaker 1: if I, let's speak for myself, I understand where everyone's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be on the playe, then I know where

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Speaker 1: I need to fit, but also where I can take chances,

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Speaker 1: where I need to play faster, how I can take

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Speaker 1: going a certain how I can react to what the

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Speaker 1: offense has given me want to play. So you know, yeah, thanks,

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Speaker 1: no problem. You said Brandon that, Um it's you said.

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Speaker 1: It's you haven't really seen much of everything that defense,

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Speaker 1: being aware of everybody else's role as wonder if you

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Speaker 1: could just expand on that a little bit. But I

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Speaker 1: was I guess what I was saying is I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen that in past defenses. I've been in past teams,

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Speaker 1: meant was, and sorry if I didn't say that properly,

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Speaker 1: but it's on other teams I've been in, it's not

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Speaker 1: typical that your nose tackle would have a thorough understanding

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Speaker 1: what your safety was doing on your cornerback and and

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Speaker 1: you know it's um by us doing that and understanding

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Speaker 1: that here. It allows you to play much faster on

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Speaker 1: defense because you just know where everyone is around you,

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Speaker 1: you know where to push, you know the ball to

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Speaker 1: all of that type of stuff. Well, thank you, probably