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Speaker 1: It's Patriots Monday. Here on Weei. It's Jones and mego

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Speaker 1: for the first time all year at Gillette Stadium, and

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Speaker 1: for the first time we are joined by Mac Jones. Mac,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, man. We appreciate you taking the time, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Take two is stronger for me. Yeah. By

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Speaker 1: the way, So look, my initial intro didn't go as promised,

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Speaker 1: and Saturday night didn't go the way I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people wanted it to the way that it finished.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned your personal relationship with Isaiah Bolden. I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of Patriots players were obviously concerned. A lot

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Speaker 1: of Patriots players were worried. I'm curious out the last

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Speaker 1: forty eight hours have gone, and I'm curious if you've

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Speaker 1: talked to him at all personally. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think definitely a scary situation. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: I have known him for a long time, and definitely

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Speaker 2: he's doing better, which I know for a fact. And

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Speaker 2: I did see him and he did give me a smile,

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Speaker 2: so that was really good. And you never want to

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Speaker 2: see anybody go down like that on the football field

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Speaker 2: or really any field.

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Speaker 3: Right, It's tough.

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Speaker 2: So I just felt like we made the right move,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just trying to pray for him and I'm

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Speaker 2: just glad that he's doing better.

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Speaker 4: I know directly after the game that Kendrick had talked

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Speaker 4: about one of the first places his mind went was

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Speaker 4: the Damar Hamlin situation that happened last year. Is that

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Speaker 4: something that I guess do you feel like there's a

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Speaker 4: change in how locker rooms and how coaches are now

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Speaker 4: handling situations with very serious injury like that in the

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Speaker 4: time that you've been even from college to the pros.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the most important thing is to understand

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Speaker 2: that as a player, we pretty much have the best

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Speaker 2: staff in the world for that situation, regardless of what

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Speaker 2: it is. You know, whether it's something as bad as

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Speaker 2: Damar Hamlin or something else, you just know that you

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Speaker 2: have pretty much an emergency room on the field, which

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Speaker 2: is crazy, right. You got every doctor plus you know ten.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's like they got everything you need. So

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Speaker 2: as a player, that's kind of what you have to

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Speaker 2: just focus on and not worry about, you know, getting

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Speaker 2: hurt or not. But it's hard, right, It's part of

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Speaker 2: the game. But there's some things that you know you

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Speaker 2: can't control, and there's big hits out there and it's

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Speaker 2: definitely scary, but just knowing that we're in a really

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Speaker 2: good plays on the field.

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Speaker 1: Where uh where were you for tomorrow? Hamlin? Last week?

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Speaker 1: Were you guys watching, Like what was your experience watching

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Speaker 1: that and how did that compare and go through your

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Speaker 1: thought process when everything was happening on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, like I said, it's just tough. You

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Speaker 2: never want to see anybody down on the field, and

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Speaker 2: you know, when they're down for a long time, it's.

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Speaker 3: Always hard to see that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, something happier. Let's talk about toa Mario Douglas because

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Speaker 4: you go back with him, are you surprised by how

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Speaker 4: much he's been showing through training camp the preseason?

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Speaker 2: I mean surprise is an interesting way to put it, right,

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Speaker 2: because I've kind of known him for a long time

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Speaker 2: he's not the biggest framed guy, not the you know,

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Speaker 2: most like impressive when you see him, But when you

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Speaker 2: see him out there on the field, you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: this kid can play football. And that's what I love

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Speaker 2: about him. He just has a big heart once to

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Speaker 2: to do that. I know that he's he's built from

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Speaker 2: He's really funny and brings a lot of juice to

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Speaker 2: now and just got to keep pushing along and making

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Speaker 1: Is it odd at all to be in your third

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Speaker 1: Mario and even even it's different circumstance, but even Isaiah,

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Speaker 1: it's like, oh yeah, I knew him from seven on

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Speaker 2: I think it's great. I think just to see the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thinking because you mentioned how he's coming along

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Speaker 4: now where when you're looking back on twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I always talk about just every year

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Speaker 2: you just try to grow from each experience. And I've

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Speaker 2: kind of what I've always done. And definitely, you know,

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Speaker 2: you have to take time to look back and see

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Speaker 2: what you can improve on, but also things that you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe things that were were good and on all that too,

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Speaker 2: So you can't just look at the bad stuff, you know,

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Speaker 2: you got to look at everything else too.

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Speaker 1: Joint practice is canceled. How does that impact your prep

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really do enjoy the joint practices and I

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Speaker 2: feel like they provide a lot for the team. And

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, we just have to

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Speaker 2: control we can control and go out there and compete.

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Speaker 1: When you say control what you can control, how do

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Speaker 1: you how do you control it differently? What do you

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Speaker 1: work on in these against your teammates versus going out

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Speaker 1: there against a different opponent in a different environment. Last week,

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Speaker 1: you were in Green Bay, you were supposed to be

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Speaker 3: Nothing?

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Speaker 2: Really, we just practice against each other instead of another team.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the big difference.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of differences, how different does it feel in terms

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Speaker 4: at this point in preseason compared to last season? For

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Speaker 4: you individually, do you feel like you're I know you

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Speaker 4: guys have talked about how far along the offense has come,

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Speaker 4: but for you personally as a player, yeah, I try.

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Speaker 2: To just focus on getting better and staying on my

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Speaker 2: but you have to still focus on what's ahead but

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Speaker 2: how long you want to go. It's just if you

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Speaker 2: play well and keep winning, then you keep going.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday, and this is you know, my expert. I

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Speaker 1: it looked like you had more freedom at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage, you know, opportunities to kill plays, opportunities to

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Speaker 1: make adjustments. Is that would you say that it's an

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think. I mean, I'm not sure. Have you

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Speaker 3: like played football?

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Speaker 1: No? Trust me? Trust me no? So I'm going off

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good like analysis of it, because.

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Speaker 1: I sound like a quarterback, is what you're saying. Yes, yea, yeah, but.

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Speaker 2: Like you do, like you can see that right when

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Speaker 2: you're up there. That's something that's cool about the system

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Speaker 2: it's also all about everybody else because everyone has to

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Speaker 2: be on the same page. It takes eleven guys and

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Speaker 2: we're trying to grow that part of it and kind

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Speaker 2: of get back to, you know, what we can do

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Speaker 2: And we'll just continue to expand on that so that

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Speaker 3: For that play.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned that it's a system that has been here

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Speaker 4: all the same coordinator, and you've been through three different

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Speaker 4: do you find him referencing his former time here as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's super it's a great point. It's

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Speaker 3: Not to bring up the past too much, like he's.

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Speaker 4: Seen we love bringing up the pastor like.

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Speaker 2: He's he's seen what I the system I ran to Alabama.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about it, and then obviously what he did

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Speaker 2: we tried this versus this team, and then he'll pull

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Speaker 2: up the film of it, or you know, we really

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Speaker 2: like this play versus that look. So I think that's

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Speaker 2: a good point that the whole team really respects it.

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Speaker 2: Because he has a lot of experience not only at

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Speaker 4: Would you say that just because he has so much

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Speaker 4: this is something that we did there that might work

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say, like he's really good about, you know,

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Speaker 2: pulling up all the old film and making sure that

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Speaker 2: everything sound And that's another great point. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the.

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Speaker 2: Day, I know he's the he's the coach and he's

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Speaker 3: But it's definitely a partnership.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, you want to be able to work together,

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Speaker 2: regardless of who your coaches, every time you go out there,

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Speaker 3: The right thing. So still building that.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of stuff we got to work through,

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Speaker 1: they were short, you know, not long winded questions whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just continuing to work hard and be

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Speaker 2: we have great playmakers here, and I feel like I

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Speaker 2: that's what it all comes down to. It's pretty simple.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: That's what it's all about for me, is everybody coming

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Speaker 1: It seemed like from reading it, and you tell me

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Speaker 4: How does it feel having Zeke on the team now?

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Speaker 2: He just seems like a great leader. He's already bringing

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Speaker 1: How uh, how was dinner with Zeke? Good? Good? How

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Speaker 1: how does that come about? Because we were all fascinated

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Speaker 4: Were creepy pictures, creepy pictures.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just trying to enjoy some grub.

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Speaker 1: That's on your end? You just kind of say, hey,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just trying to uh, you know, get to know

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Speaker 1: Is that is that something you I don't know, like

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's important.

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, as a player, you want to

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Speaker 4: The energy around this team, I know that's kind of

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point.

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Speaker 2: I think it all comes together, you know, at those

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Speaker 2: And I feel like the defense, you know, they always

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Speaker 4: When you guys are in elevens at practice against each other,

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Speaker 4: When they win, You're just like, oh, we had to

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Speaker 2: Everyone always talks about Pep, but I don't ever get

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Speaker 3: He's a good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It was reported last week that Bill got a

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Speaker 1: You're like, this is just what he sounds like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Dad just getting get this, getting his

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's good.

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Speaker 2: I think it's more about just getting the message and

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Speaker 1: Uh. Speaking of his interview today, were you were you

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Speaker 1: you aware that that he's I'm a Taylor Swift guy.

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Speaker 1: Mego Taylor Swift girl. I'm all right with That's alright,

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Speaker 4: You can butt out of the conversation some of it stuff.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that Bill? Did you know that Bill

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Speaker 4: He quoted the song he was quoting You need to

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Speaker 1: Yes, nice, he likes her newer stuff. He's a he's

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Speaker 4: He likes all the ones where she's like in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you have a Do you have an album

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Speaker 1: you like? Lover? I like Lover? Yeah, I mean nineteen

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Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard not to like nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty nine is a good album.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Reputation, Oh see, reputation. See not everybody loves reputation.

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Speaker 1: Good album. I'm with you. We do. We do end

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Speaker 1: there you go. He likes the segment. Anything else, mego.

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Speaker 1: I did have one more thing for him.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of quarterbacks, a lot of your peers

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Speaker 1: Number one, have you have you watched the show? Have

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Speaker 2: I don't really watch TV that much, honestly, so just

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Speaker 2: trying to you know. I guess I could watch it

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Speaker 4: Okay, makes sense, So wait, no, hard knocks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no hard knocks either.

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Speaker 4: Watching it all growing up.

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was little, right because I had more time.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, now it's kind of hard. But I do

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Speaker 1: Just to be clear, you're not you will not be

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Speaker 3: Probably not.

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Speaker 1: I'll pass probably not. Okay, that's a that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a door, that's that's potentially open. Have they reached out

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Speaker 1: to you, they asked, Okay, interesting. I feel like you'd

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Speaker 1: be a good fit. I feel like the Patriots would

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Speaker 1: be a great fit for that show in all honesty,

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Speaker 1: and you wouldn't have to watch it because you lived it.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't even have to watch it, so there wouldn't

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Speaker 1: even be any reason to go back and check it out. Well,

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones, we're gonna be watching all year. Pay Striots

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Speaker 1: fans are gonna be watching all year. We appreciate you

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Speaker 1: doing this for the first time here on a Patriots Monday.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. Cool.

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Speaker 3: Thanks