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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 newest member of the Patriots Hall Fame,

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Speaker 2: Mike Rainbow.

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

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

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Speaker 4: Joined by number thirty seven on your scorecard, but number

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Speaker 5: Good to be home, Good to see you guys.

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Speaker 3: Joe, just take us through your day. What was it

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Speaker 3: like for your first NFL start? What was it like

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Speaker 3: your touchdown passed, you get your ear worked on what

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Speaker 3: don't know if we call it handshake with AVP and

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Speaker 5: Just he had a smile on your face. So what

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Speaker 6: Yeah, today was you know, what's a regular day for me?

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Speaker 6: I woke up around atis, went back home from the

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Speaker 5: So I don't eat on mornings like this.

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Speaker 6: It's pretty hard for me to eat, so I didn't

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Speaker 6: You know, felt felt calm, felt cool. Everybody had my

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Speaker 6: not know what happened. It was kind of shocking to me.

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Speaker 6: When everybody said I was bleeding. I was like, you know, bleeding,

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Speaker 6: and then it was like, it's your ear rings and

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Speaker 5: Given the magnitude of this game, Joe, what would you

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Speaker 6: I mean, we gotta handle how we handle our program

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Speaker 6: you know. So we just been exactly where our feet

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Speaker 6: So you know, thinking about a pick right now is

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Speaker 4: Joe seemed to be so exuberant during the course of

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Speaker 5: Who do I contribute that to? I would just say everyone,

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Speaker 5: everyone in the building. Know, everyone have a choice.

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Speaker 5: So I contribute that to everyone.

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Speaker 6: And Joe, at what point did you find out that

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Speaker 1: And what did you What do you think you proved today?

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Speaker 5: And what's your last question? What do you think you proved?

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Speaker 6: I don't think I proved anything to nobody. I think

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Speaker 5: Real quick?

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Speaker 9: What kind of dogs you gotta waiting for you to

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Speaker 9: And you mentioned that you're still grapping with this. It

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Speaker 5: Man, I've been waiting to hit the bath flip in

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Speaker 6: For at least I want to say whenever USC the

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Speaker 5: Seeing it got open like I did, and trusting them.

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Speaker 6: I feel like that actually showed up because you know

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Speaker 5: So just seeing it come to reality it was very fun.

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Speaker 7: Sure, back to the backflip.

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Speaker 5: Had you done a backflip before you said you had?

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Speaker 7: Had you done them with a helmet, pads, spikes, the

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Speaker 5: I had a hunk, So so Joe.

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Speaker 7: After this performance and then coupled with what Drake has

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Speaker 6: Well, Drake, my god, man, I don't know if there's

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Speaker 5: You know, he's cool.

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Speaker 6: He don't really you don't see Drake get like. You

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Speaker 5: You don't want to be the smartest person in the room.

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Speaker 6: And I feel like that's something that I took advantage of,

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Speaker 6: you know, just not being the smartest person in the room,

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