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Speaker 1: Pats from the Past. Tune in is Matt Smith and

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Speaker 1: Paul Perillo offer in depth interviews with some of the

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Speaker 1: greatest players and coaches in New England Patriots history.

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Speaker 2: Joined by the newitch member of the Patriots Hall Fame

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Speaker 2: Mike Rabol.

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Speaker 1: Find out what led to some of the greatest moments

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Speaker 1: in franchise history and unique behind the scenes insight.

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Speaker 3: And please to be joined by former Patriot quarterback Brian

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Speaker 3: coy Or.

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Speaker 2: Joined by number thirty seven on your scorecard, but number

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Speaker 2: one in our hearts at least Rodney Harrison.

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Speaker 3: Good to be home. Good to see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Search for Pats in the past anywhere you get your podcast.

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Speaker 3: How y'all doing always rolling this here? Good? How y'all

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Speaker 3: doing good? Good? Great?

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Speaker 2: Simple question would be, you know, based on how do

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Speaker 3: And do what you need to do?

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Speaker 4: I would say for us, like, uh, it's it's about

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Speaker 4: going to work every day, like we talked about all right,

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Speaker 4: really going to work, making sure that we attack each day, uh,

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Speaker 4: like we need to with clean execution, make sure we

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Speaker 4: know the game plan, doing our little things. And then

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Speaker 4: for us, it's really about the fundamentals on the football field,

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Speaker 4: all right, defeating blocks, tackling all right, you know, being

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Speaker 3: That's that's for us. That's what really what we're focused on.

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Speaker 3: Last thing for your nine Jack running for fourteenth straight fifteenth, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: So uh, it's really that's what that's the approach when

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Speaker 4: you go on when you're on defense, it's a three

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Speaker 3: That's the mentality we do have. And every time we

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Speaker 4: Field, if you listen to media, say, hey, let's three

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Speaker 4: out of the takeaway. And that's really the mentality that

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Speaker 3: We can watched that game.

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Speaker 2: Back because did you feel like there was anything more

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Speaker 2: Blood Saint Mars's aligning guys at differentquats. You feel like

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Speaker 3: Whatever the most they would do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we we just we need to coach better, play better.

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Speaker 4: We need to do all that things. So whether it's fundamentals, techniques,

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Speaker 4: all those those things be better. So obviously we didn't

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Speaker 2: Marcus, that was the integrations of something to do. I

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Speaker 2: How does that integration go when you've run those new concepts?

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Speaker 4: I mean they're they're good coaches. They do a good

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Speaker 3: Marcus. You guys have played a lot more base defense

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Speaker 2: I think the Jets were the first team to kind

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Speaker 3: Do you expect them to take that same approach on something?

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Speaker 4: Nothing in my life have been easy, nothing. So my

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Speaker 4: So I've always taken the stairs, never had the elevator,

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Speaker 3: For years of about check.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the media out that basic comments the last

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Speaker 1: What's your reaction to to him comment defensive performance.

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Speaker 1: How is that all does not change kind of the

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Speaker 3: Attach Like, guess, he'll be there. He'll be there. That's

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Speaker 3: Let's just get one thing done.

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Speaker 1: Let's get one thing done right, and then we can

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Speaker 1: move along.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of my biggest thing.

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