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Speaker 1: Thank you, Stephanie, Matthew, thank you for your time today.

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Speaker 2: As always.

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Speaker 1: How are you. I'm well, Mike, how are you doing well?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: Obviously not the way you guys wanted it to go yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious if how you would sum up the what

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Speaker 2: you guys, you know, the sum up the environment in

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Speaker 2: there today and what you guys are.

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Speaker 3: Trying to do. Yeah, I mean, obviously mikel goes with

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Speaker 3: out saying everybody to the man is disappointed, and yesterday's

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Speaker 3: outing we didn't do anything well enough to win, and

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Speaker 3: that's obviously frustrating with as hard as we work. So

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Speaker 3: I think now for us it's important to face what

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Speaker 3: happened yesterday, you know, really give the long look at

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Speaker 3: the ways that we all need to improve, consider all

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Speaker 3: the things that we can do better, and then from

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Speaker 3: there it's about the work. I mean, you know, we

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Speaker 3: can spend as much time as we want talking and

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Speaker 3: pontificating as to why this is that and why that

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Speaker 3: is this, But the reality is it's about us doing

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Speaker 3: the work in us finding ways to perform at a

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Speaker 3: higher level than we are right now.

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Speaker 2: And I know how much pride you take in the

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Speaker 2: kicking game being the strength for the team. What did

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Speaker 2: you see on the extra point that turned into the

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Speaker 2: two points?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, we've always been aggressive on those extra points.

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Speaker 3: You know, we play every field goal or pat attempt.

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Speaker 1: Very aggressively in hopes of blocking it.

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Speaker 3: And I think they just did a great job of

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Speaker 3: noticing a tendency and seeing an area where maybe we

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Speaker 3: you know, I tipped my hat to coach Bones. I

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Speaker 3: think he's one of the best fused teams coaches I've

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Speaker 3: seen in my career, and that showed up yesterday, no question.

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Speaker 3: The next question Chris Ryan came out there.

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Speaker 1: Are you well? Chris? How are you good?

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Speaker 4: You've obviously talked a lot in the past about one

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Speaker 4: of the great attributes the Patriots organization being responding to university.

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Speaker 4: What's the key for you guys this week? With not

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Speaker 4: just the result but also the injury issues and got

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Speaker 4: a lot of things compounding. How do you kind of

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Speaker 4: simplify the focus and get this team to playing good

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Speaker 4: football and really obviously challenging circumstances.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question.

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Speaker 3: I think there are a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 3: things you can talk about but I think for me,

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Speaker 3: just controlling the controllables right there. There's a lot of

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Speaker 3: noise surrounding our team. There's a lot of speculations surrounding

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Speaker 3: And I think for us, really we have to understand

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Speaker 3: as players and as an organization, there's only so much

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Speaker 1: Or even if you know, the same would be said

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Speaker 3: So I think for us, to the man, we need

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Speaker 3: just making sure that we're respecting the game and the

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Speaker 1: Man, you know, you hope that leads to the right results.

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Speaker 3: I certainly still have a lot of faith in this

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Speaker 3: team that we can get things turned around, no matter

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Speaker 3: what the circumstances may look like from the outside looking in.

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Speaker 1: So let's control the things that we can control.

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Speaker 3: Let's all do our jobs a little bit better with

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Speaker 3: more discipline, more urgency, and you know, more consistency, and

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Speaker 3: let's see where that gets us.

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Speaker 4: What do you advise players when it comes to kind

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Speaker 4: of the outside noise, Because things have gotten more amplified

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Speaker 4: obviously over the course of your career with more social

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Speaker 4: media usage. Obviously, everybody has opinions about everything. What do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, that's a great question because I

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Speaker 3: think you know that applies beyond the game of football.

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Speaker 3: I think it's so important that we learn to block

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Speaker 3: of cases we'll never meet. We're allowing the opinions of

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Speaker 3: they'll never affect the way we live our day to

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Speaker 5: And if you operate in a way where you're constantly

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Speaker 3: Because no man who has ever walked the face of

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Speaker 3: from whatever view it may be. So we have to

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Speaker 3: very few opinions that actually matter in life when it

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Speaker 3: comes to your life, your profession, your family, and you

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Speaker 3: need to know and understand whose opinions really matter and

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Speaker 3: how to apply.

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Speaker 1: Them, and then everything else is just a background noise.

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Speaker 4: Ranks.

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Speaker 3: Next question, Bob Socie, Thanks Steph.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Matthew, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: How are you I'm doing? Matthew?

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Speaker 6: I wanted to ask you a question in general. You

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Speaker 6: mentioned bones John Fossil as the special teams coordinator for

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Speaker 6: the Cowboys previously with the Rams strong units there. This

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Speaker 6: week you face the Saints with Darren, Rizzy and other

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Speaker 6: How has the innovation and special teams, the coordination of

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Speaker 6: special teams has it evolved in your career? Has it

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Speaker 6: become more complex even if the rules have changed to

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Speaker 6: kind of restrict what you can do in the.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question, Bob. Even though it feels like.

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Speaker 3: The powers that be are doing everything that they can

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Speaker 3: to minimize the impact or the role that the kicking

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Speaker 3: done it through obviously coaching with techniques, or coaching with schematics,

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Speaker 1: But I have a tremendous amount of respect for these.

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Speaker 3: Men, and to see the game change schematically or from

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Speaker 3: think a lot of that credit goes to these coaches. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: for the better, and I hope these guys make special

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Speaker 6: And another one lastly, kind of in a general sense,

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Speaker 6: fake two point try for Dallas. When you get hit

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Speaker 6: on a play like that in special teams, or there's

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's a tough pill to swallow, obviously, you know,

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Speaker 1: It's a tough pill to swallow.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: We we experienced plays like that.

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Speaker 3: We're never excited about them, and it does take a

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Speaker 3: little while to move on for from those plays.

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Speaker 1: But I think for us, really there are a few

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Speaker 3: I think it's an easy fix in that particular situation,

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Speaker 3: and hopefully we can not have an issue like that

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Speaker 3: moving forward.

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Speaker 6: Matthew, thanks a.

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Speaker 4: Lot, no problem, And one last question from Karen Grigian.

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Speaker 1: Hey Matthew, Hey Karen, how are you?

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Speaker 7: I'm okay. I'm just wondering, while you're all disregarding the

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Speaker 7: is it even even with that, is it still hard

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Speaker 1: That's a rare question.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's human nature, Karen. I think

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Speaker 3: anytime that you're hit with adversity, any human being is

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Speaker 3: maintain faith, and hopefully make progress.

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Speaker 1: But I've always said anyone who has faith.

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Speaker 3: Or in my case, I always compare it to my

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Speaker 3: we're going to find out if we have genuine faith

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Speaker 3: in our process by how we move forward, and you

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Speaker 3: know we have plenty of time to see how.

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Speaker 1: That's going to play out.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Matthew, no problem, Thank you very much, Matthew,