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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 Raybold.

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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 joined by number thirty seven on your scorecard,

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Speaker 3: but number one in our hearts at least Rodney Harrison.

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Speaker 4: Good to be home. Good to see you guys.

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Speaker 4: Wow, good evening. You know just what I told the players,

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Speaker 4: and they're just proud of the way that they came

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Speaker 4: out and competed today. Obviously there were some guys that

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Speaker 4: hadn't played as much football, you know, the rest of

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Speaker 4: the season that really showed up today, you know, just

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Speaker 4: there in the locker room, pretty you know, pretty emotional.

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, these guys have been turning

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Speaker 4: the page, ignoring the noise and just coming to work

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Speaker 4: every day. And I'm very appreciative of that. Told them

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Speaker 4: after the first win of the season. You know, coaches

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Speaker 4: are nothing without the players, and I just told them

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Speaker 4: that again. I just appreciate all of the effort. Also

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Speaker 4: told them, look, today is all about the game. We'll

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Speaker 4: have enough time here tomorrow the next couple of days

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Speaker 4: to address all the other things. You know, at some

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Speaker 4: point in time here, you know, I have my normal

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Speaker 4: from there. Open it up, Grod.

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Speaker 3: But with that said, you get the wind. How strange

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Speaker 3: was this week for you? For your team? You had

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Speaker 3: a couple issues with players and the fans and things

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Speaker 3: like that, and also from booing today as you guys scored,

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Speaker 3: what was today? What was this week?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 3: What was the did they like for you guys and

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Speaker 4: For me, like the day was it was fine, you know,

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Speaker 4: like I felt like the players were locked in all week,

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Speaker 4: even amongst all that noise. So appreciate them for that. Droud.

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Speaker 5: What would you say to fans that are upset that

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Speaker 5: Today's when prevented you guys from getting the number one overall?

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Speaker 4: Peck, Look, anytime we stepped foot, And I've said this

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Speaker 4: over the past couple of weeks as a player. As

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Speaker 4: a coach, we always want to go out there and win.

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Speaker 4: Oh we didn't see July and Deva played the first quarter?

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Speaker 4: Was that disciplinary for his comments? We went to the

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Speaker 4: game with the plan and we're out there and executed.

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Speaker 5: So over here we went into the decision to Citric

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Speaker 5: May after the first series.

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Speaker 4: It was my decision, coach's decision.

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Speaker 3: What were some of the factors for Jilani's case and

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Speaker 3: Drake's that led you to those decisions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all those things are internal, and I'd rather keep

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Speaker 4: it that way.

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Speaker 6: Gerrod, what did you see from Joe today? It seemed

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Speaker 6: like he kind of provided a spark the minute he

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Speaker 6: develop all season to kind of culminate to this moment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's done a tremendous job in practice,

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Speaker 4: you know, as a show team quarterback, I've done a

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Speaker 4: tremendous job of doing that and I'm glad to see,

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Speaker 4: you know, the way he came out today, he did

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Speaker 4: a good job operating the huddle. You know, obviously started

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Speaker 4: You mentioned a couple of times this year that you

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Speaker 4: You knew this was a multi year process. Do you

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Speaker 4: expect to be back next year? Do you feel like

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Speaker 4: you deserve to be back next year? For me, it's

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Speaker 4: all about just this game. You know, to go back

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Speaker 4: to the start. It's all about this game, and we'll

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Speaker 2: I think some people speculate, based on how you guys

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Speaker 2: was some conversation had with the ownership prior to the game.

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Speaker 2: Did they at any point this week tell you how

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Speaker 4: Not at all. It just goes back to look, anytime

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Speaker 4: we stepped foot on the field, we want to win.

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Speaker 5: Going off of going off of Phil's question, did you

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Speaker 4: No, I'm the head coach of the football team, and

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Speaker 6: Gerro down down here in the front, is there any

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Speaker 4: We've seen you with the pin for most of the season. Oh, no,

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Speaker 4: significance at all. Had a big coat on. It was

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Speaker 4: kind of like the same thing last week or in Buffalo.

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Speaker 4: It's nothing about that. I apologize for not having it visible,

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Speaker 4: but that's you can make a story about it if

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Speaker 5: Girodd, how do you reconcile?

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Speaker 4: Right in the middle? Sorry, how do you? How do you.

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Speaker 3: Reconcile if you're going to go in the game to

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Speaker 3: play the game to win, not playing your number one

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Speaker 4: I think I have said all year we need to see,

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Speaker 4: And it was good to get Joe out there. Isn't

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Speaker 4: Though we won the game and Joe is our quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Course, how proud are you of your coaching staff, of

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Speaker 3: your players and everybody in this organization for just going

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Speaker 3: through the year. And what was like? I think AVP

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Speaker 3: been through as a group.

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Speaker 4: It was great to see that handshake in a real game.

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Speaker 4: You know, we're seeing it a lot in practice and

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Speaker 4: it all came came together today, So it was great

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Speaker 4: to see. I would say, as far as the staff

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Speaker 4: and be consistent, it's all you can really ask. Girod.

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Speaker 6: I was curious we saw Austin Hooper a lot more

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Speaker 6: to catch that resulted in an extra incentive bonus. Was

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Speaker 6: you wanted to get him that a bonus in this

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to get into that. You know, when

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Speaker 4: you when you don't have Hunter, who's had a great year,

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Speaker 4: number one, you know, I should say three quarters of

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Speaker 4: the team. So very good player and happy for him. Gerond,

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Speaker 4: how would you best summarize this year? And did you

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Speaker 4: learn maybe that the team is a little bit further

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Speaker 4: away than you were anticipating. I'm not going to get

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Speaker 4: into that, you know, like I said, tomorrow we'll have

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Speaker 4: a lot of time to talk about those things. But

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Speaker 4: tonight it's all about these guys. Going out there winning

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Speaker 4: a football game.

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