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Speaker 1: All right, thanks stc.

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Speaker 1: How you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Hey Mike, I'm doing all right.

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Speaker 3: How you doing good? Like the tough sat bringing it

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Speaker 3: back for a second week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my hat, this is my this is

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Speaker 1: Go for it.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's just start with I think we're most are

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Speaker 3: curious about any insight you can share them. Where we

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Speaker 3: stand quarterback wise in terms of who might be starting

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Speaker 4: I think it'll be the same as uh, last week

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Speaker 4: do a good job this week of you know, installing

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Speaker 4: then the players going out there and executing it on

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Speaker 2: That's you know, really really what it comes down to.

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Speaker 4: And then performing on game day and as an offense,

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Speaker 4: you know, coaching and playing wise. You know, we just

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Speaker 4: haven't done that and haven't been consistent enough, and so

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Speaker 4: we're going to continue to work hard on the practice

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Speaker 3: Quick follow up just after the bye week and Mac

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Speaker 3: coming back and having a couple of interceptions and you know,

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Speaker 1: What what can.

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Speaker 3: You put your finger on as to why he sort

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I don't want to get into all

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Speaker 4: He's got to make a better decision there to throw

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Speaker 2: I'm just being real with you.

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Speaker 4: Then the next interception, you know, we were again we

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Speaker 4: in both those situations, he would probably be the first

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Speaker 4: But we also, all of us have to do a

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Speaker 4: better job, you know, when it's like this, Mike. You know, again,

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Speaker 4: like I told you guys every week, been doing this

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Speaker 4: But there's a lot of football left and so we

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Speaker 4: have to continue to try to coach better and play

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Speaker 4: better and execute better, because that's really what it comes

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Speaker 5: Hey Bill Football as well with you, just, how would

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Speaker 2: Blame me. I'm the one that that designs it. And

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Speaker 4: So you know, look, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, yep, Tom, Current fall by caring Hey, Bill,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your candor. It's very helpful.

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Speaker 6: You know, it helps to eliminate all the questions that

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Speaker 1: It's got to be hard.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you didn't expect this. You come in and

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Speaker 6: it's gone in a way that you certainly would not

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Speaker 4: I'm confident, Tom. I think that, like you know, there's

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Speaker 4: And the teams that we've played have made less mistakes

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Speaker 4: we've had two blowouts, I get it, But I'm talking

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Speaker 4: It's an eight to nine to nine to eight league.

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Speaker 4: That's the way it's set up. It's set up to

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Speaker 4: And right now we're on the lower half because we're

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Speaker 4: not doing the things, the little things necessary to win.

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Speaker 7: You've been around the league. Just a quick follow thank you,

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Speaker 7: say Stacey. You've been around the league and coaching long

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Speaker 7: enough to know that one a team's record is this,

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Speaker 6: Understood the reputation that he has it is possibly the

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I would say that I don't because you're so immersed

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Speaker 2: You really don't you really don't see all of that. Now.

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Speaker 4: Look, you know, I'm not going to sit here and

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Speaker 4: game of football, the New England Patriots organization. It's football.

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Speaker 4: We've lost some tight games. You know, to think about

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Speaker 2: We we I don't make those calls.

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Speaker 4: how to improve. And that's what we're trying to do.

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Speaker 9: If I could just quickly follow, if you could you

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Speaker 9: make that recommendation to coach Belichick or Robert Kraft if

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Speaker 4: if I have an educated, you know, thought out thing

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Speaker 4: that's what we do as coaches. We we as assistant coaches.

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Speaker 4: We make recommendations. I said it before head coaches, owners

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Speaker 9: Have you made that recommendation.

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Speaker 4: Again, Karen, Like I would say, you know, I've made

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Speaker 4: a lot of recommendations over the years as an assistant coach,

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Speaker 4: have a strong belief in how private those discussions are.

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Speaker 1: Great. Thank you, Bill, We're running a little behind here.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take two final questions Kyrie Thompson and

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Speaker 10: as you've been coaching for a long time. I'm just

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh, that's a good question. Look, I think he

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Speaker 4: went to Louisville and spent a lot of time with them,

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Speaker 4: So he he did a lot of different things in

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Speaker 4: the workout that we had with him, including throwing the ball.

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Speaker 2: Played a lot of quarterback in the workout and did

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Speaker 4: So those are the things that you know, led us

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Speaker 10: Just as a quick follow up, just what's it like

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's I think it's hard. I think

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Speaker 4: he's played mostly receiver. I think he said that maybe

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Speaker 4: and he's definitely improved that receiver. He gets, you know,

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Speaker 4: but he's played mostly every receiver and he's got a

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Speaker 4: lot better as a receiver. I do think it's hard,

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Speaker 4: you know, to learn both those positions, especially if it's

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Speaker 4: you know, it's not like learning right tackle and left guard.

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Speaker 4: You know, when you're learning quarterback and wide receiver, it's difficult.

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Speaker 4: But I think he's done a really admirable job and

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 11: Yep, last question too, coach, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 11: your time. I had two quick questions about the offense. Obviously,

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Speaker 11: the run game really feels like it's been getting going

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Speaker 11: lot of success thrown at the receivers out there, but

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Speaker 11: he also had to play where there was also intercepted,

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Speaker 11: So I was wondering, how do you walk the line

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Speaker 11: where guys are jumping it you might just get an

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Speaker 11: a simpler play.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the run game has gotten better because we've run

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Speaker 4: the ball more. You know, we ran the ball thirty

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Speaker 4: a bit against the Colts, just because of repetition. You know,

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Speaker 4: I do think that the run game has gotten better

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Speaker 4: and the line the tight ends, and then obviously Remondra

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Speaker 4: and Zeke have done a really good job. The screen

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Speaker 4: sometimes you can go to the well once too often

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Speaker 4: on the screens, and you know, these are really good

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Speaker 4: So we've got to do a good job of making

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Speaker 4: sure that we you know, mix those things up.

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Speaker 2: But I do think there's been improvement in both areas.

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Speaker 4: And you know, that can help our offense if we

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Speaker 4: continue to improve in both those both those areas.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Yeah,