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Speaker 1: Good morning, Bill, How are you all right? Good morning?

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Speaker 1: I just I just wanted to kick off the end

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Speaker 1: of this morning with you. Bill. You you seem to

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Speaker 1: really enjoy coaching this team all year long. Obviously the

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Speaker 1: way it ended wasn't how you had hoped. But what

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Speaker 1: made it an enjoyable squad for you to lead? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: This this is a hard working group. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: they put in a lot of time, a lot of effort.

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Speaker 1: UM did a lot of extra things going all the

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Speaker 1: way back to the off season program and spraying training camp. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, come to work every day with a good attitude.

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Speaker 1: You know, wanted to get better. I'm trying to help

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Speaker 1: the team and improvement. And you can't ask for more

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Speaker 1: than that. Really as a coach. That's what that's really

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Speaker 1: get better, and so you know, they did a great

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Speaker 1: job of that all year. Now to say, I just

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Speaker 1: you know, I have a lot of respect for what

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Speaker 1: their involvement in um you know, various uh, you know

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Speaker 1: and impacting some of those areas. I mean, it's a

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a well rounded group really. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: cares a lot about their job, the team and also

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Speaker 1: just you know, generally doing the right thing. Bill, You've

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Speaker 1: been around a lot of football games. You've been around

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Speaker 1: you think that, um in your mind, where some of

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Speaker 1: And on that particular game, we couldn't we just really

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Speaker 1: just really weren't able to defend them well enough. Um,

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Speaker 1: do a better job of getting the team to perform better, obviously,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just collectively, we just didn't came up,

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Speaker 1: you know, came up short. Well, short, Bill, I know

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Speaker 1: you said yesterday that you look forward to working with

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Speaker 1: Mac next year. When you look at his growth from

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Speaker 1: I think it's just really the NFL game, the coverages,

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Speaker 1: hard landing bill. Yesterday, you made it clear that you

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Speaker 1: That's what I continue to do. Bill. When you when

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Speaker 1: all of us here at EI really appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: we all want it to be done. So we're working

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Speaker 1: All right, take care, Bill, all right, all right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is Bill Belichick.