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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody. How are you doing, y'all good? Don't

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Speaker 1: sound like it, I hope, So how are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Fantastic Another opportunity to come out here and do what

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Speaker 1: I love. UM, great teammates, great coach, is a great organization.

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Speaker 1: So it's Friday, UM, getting ready for a big weekend.

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Speaker 1: So I'm great. I'm excited home. UM, Yeah, you could

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Speaker 1: definitely say that. UM. It feels like we've been on

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Speaker 1: the road for a long time now through um, you know,

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Speaker 1: the preseason and the first couple of weeks. So I'm

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Speaker 1: definitely excited to play our first home game, UM for

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Speaker 1: the best fans of the National Football League. UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's really exciting for us and we're all looking forward

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Speaker 1: to us. Any chance you got that opportunity to meetings.

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Speaker 1: So I saw him out of practice today. I didn't

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Speaker 1: get a chance to speak to him. You know, we

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Speaker 1: were in the middle of some drills and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But UM, you know, definitely want to have that opportunity

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Speaker 1: to meet him and you know, just be in the

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Speaker 1: presence of greatness. You know, a Patriot grade, UM, an

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Speaker 1: all time great. UM. You know what he did for

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Speaker 1: this team, for this organization. Um is unmatched and unparalleled.

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Speaker 1: So UM, you know, obviously a very special person is

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Speaker 1: organization and UM, you know what an honor um to

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Speaker 1: follow follow up from guys like that, you know, guys

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Speaker 1: who leave that kind of legacy, UM and kind of

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Speaker 1: show you what it's like to be a true patriot.

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Speaker 1: I mean outside of all the accolades and you know,

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Speaker 1: things like that, but just what it means to be

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Speaker 1: a true a true patriot. UM. You know, Vince is

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Speaker 1: a guy that we can all look to and be like,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the standard, that's the that's the Patriot way. Damien.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about not running behind a

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Speaker 1: fullback like your whole career James and you cross over

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Speaker 1: a little bit maybe, but muld have been like to

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Speaker 1: travel at bit of a change there without the fullback

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Speaker 1: to the backfield. UM, I would say the biggest changes

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Speaker 1: he's just not there in front of me. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a different scheme, a different

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Speaker 1: approach that we're taking this year, but you know we're

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Speaker 1: making it go and whatever plays they call, um, whatever

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Speaker 1: schemes they call, it's our job to go out as

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Speaker 1: players and run the plays and run them at a

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Speaker 1: high level. So that's what we continue to do. UM.

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Speaker 1: Whatever the scheme is, whatever the play call is, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're going to keep doing our best as players to

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Speaker 1: go out there and execute. The coaches are doing their

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Speaker 1: best to you know, design game plans and concepts and schemes. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know that fit our personnel the best, and that

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Speaker 1: allow us as players to go out and play fast

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Speaker 1: and you know, do what God bless us to do.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's a collective effort, um, coaches and players,

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Speaker 1: and we're all in this thing together, and you know

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Speaker 1: we're all we're doing whatever we can to make this

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Speaker 1: thing work. I mean yes, and though I mean yes,

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Speaker 1: and though damon, I know you guys do your best

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Speaker 1: not to get too high or too low. But being

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Speaker 1: able to run the ball the way you guys did,

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Speaker 1: especially in the pret the situation like last week, and

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Speaker 1: to be able to basically just keep the ball away

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Speaker 1: from pits, what can that do heading into this week

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Speaker 1: in terms of just the run game. Just that confidence? UM,

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Speaker 1: I think closing out of game that way definitely builds confidence.

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Speaker 1: And our offense, our backs are a line. You know,

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Speaker 1: Matt getting Matt getting us in the right plays, the

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Speaker 1: receivers blocking on the perimeter, tight ends, blocking on the edge,

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Speaker 1: you know, and the coaches having the knowing that, you know,

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Speaker 1: a situation like that, we can have the confidence to

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Speaker 1: late in the game, you know, early in the game,

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Speaker 1: really whenever it is. Um, you know we have the

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Speaker 1: ability to do that. But again, it's more so just

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Speaker 1: about having confidence to execute whatever's called. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: coaches can call whatever they want, run pass, play, action, this, play,

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Speaker 1: players and executed. So yeah, it was good to run

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Speaker 1: aggressive from obviously sometimes I could lead to you bells.

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Speaker 1: But for you as an offense, how does that how

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Speaker 1: might that create opportunities for you on Sunday? Um, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a great defense, UM, great front, Their coach

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Speaker 1: really well and they do a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: So it's for us, it's not really about them. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's just about us and our execution. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, it's a great team. So they're gonna

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Speaker 1: And again, they got a great scheme and great players.

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Speaker 1: So it's just up to us to go out execute. Again,

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Speaker 1: whatever's called run pass doesn't matter. We just have to

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Speaker 1: go out execute, um. And you know, we feel like

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Speaker 1: if we do that, we'll give ourselves a good chance

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Speaker 1: to be successful on Sunday. Going back to your time

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Speaker 1: at Alabama though, just being able to run the football,

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Speaker 1: I mean, how much can that just open up the

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Speaker 1: rest of the playbook for the offense. But I could

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Speaker 1: go just going back to what we're talking about last

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Speaker 1: week at the end of the game. Yeah, no, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's what tough teams do. Um. Tough football

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Speaker 1: teams run the ball, and um, you know that's what

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Speaker 1: we brought ourselves on, being a tough football team. So

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Speaker 1: having the ability to run the ball, m you know,

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Speaker 1: at a high level, Well, that's something we take a

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Speaker 1: lot of pride in. O line does a great job.

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Speaker 1: They set the table every play they get on the down.

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Speaker 1: Guys who work up to the linebackers. They really make

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Speaker 1: our jobs a lot easier. I know it looks like

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Speaker 1: we do a lot because we're the ones with the ball,

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Speaker 1: but you know, for the most part, they do all

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Speaker 1: the dirty work and they create the holes, and you know,

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Speaker 1: as backs, they make our lives a lot easier. So

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Speaker 1: you know, we just all have to be on the

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Speaker 1: same page. Um. You know, starts with setting the table.

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Speaker 1: Mac always does a great job of getting us in

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Speaker 1: the right play call um, and then it's just about

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Speaker 1: eleven guys executing. Whether it's a run play pass play,

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Speaker 1: doesn't really matter, thank