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Speaker 1: Hey, Bill's Mike Reef. How are you good, Mike? How

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Speaker 1: you doing doing well? How's everything going down there? Good? Yeah, good,

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Speaker 1: everybody's doing okay. Um, just um, I want to start off.

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Speaker 1: I was curious what Keyan Crofton has contributed to you

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Speaker 1: guys after you guys swung the trade with the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: For him, Keian brings a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: energy to the team. He's done a decent job on

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Speaker 1: special teams. He's um competitive guy. It's been a really good,

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Speaker 1: you know, good teammate. And he's a hard working guy.

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Speaker 1: To help her, Jan's gonna say, we'll fight through that

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Speaker 1: crowd noise. Um. Yeah. So you've you've been invested a

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Speaker 1: lot this year in the offensive line. Just looking at

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Speaker 1: the two draft picks and then the trade, hilaramie. And

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Speaker 1: how has that come together from your huge sect? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been it's been good. I mean, you know, we're

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Speaker 1: always searching for, you know, improvement and everything we do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're all we're always trying to get better.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things we can get better at. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like the offensive line as has had

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Speaker 1: a solid year and and there work. They're hard working guys,

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Speaker 1: they play well together, they care about the team. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's been good. And then just one big picture question

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Speaker 1: and then maybe someone else wants to jump in, and

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Speaker 1: I'm curious. It's just how you're managing it, just you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously from you know, with the whole general managers situation,

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Speaker 1: and how does that work for you, Like, how are

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Speaker 1: you managing the balancing of the responsibilities of maybe taken

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe not at all. Yeah, I mean, I just

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Speaker 1: think we have a good team of people here, Mike.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've got a lot of people that are

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Speaker 1: really good scouting department, we've got, you know, are really

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Speaker 1: solid salary cap department. We've got, uh, you know, basically

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Speaker 1: a group of people that try to do the best

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Speaker 1: we can to come to the best decision for the team. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: it's it's that's you know, to me, that's the way

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Speaker 1: lot of communication, a lot of meetings, um, and it's

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Speaker 1: Hey Bill, Hey Bill, it's Mike Mtrallio seeing US media

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Speaker 1: here in Boston. How are you, hey, Mike? Good? Um

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Speaker 1: I asked Josh Mthaniel's about your defense without jadeveon and

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Speaker 1: he said, the one thing that Romeo has always done

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Speaker 1: they don't beat themselves. UM, and they disguise as well

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Speaker 1: as anybody we face. Would you say those are pretty

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Speaker 1: good characteristics of a team that UM has had to

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Speaker 1: go into a bit of a transition with with your defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've we've uh, you know, look, I think always tries

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Speaker 1: to be fundamentally sound. We try to every every week.

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Speaker 1: We uh, we talk a lot about playing good team defense,

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Speaker 1: you know, combination of you know, the secondary worker with

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Speaker 1: And you know, these guys work hard, they work hard,

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Speaker 1: they play hard. UM. We've got a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: they they do what's right for the team. They they

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Speaker 1: you know, they play hard. They're they're competitive. And uh,

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Speaker 1: can every week. And if I could follow up, though,

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Speaker 1: where does that selflessness emanates them? Where? Where? Who instills

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Speaker 1: that is the romeo is you? Is the players themselves.

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Speaker 1: I think anytime you have, you know, a team that

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Speaker 1: always about the players, you know, though, you have a

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Speaker 1: all three phases, that work hard to try to understand

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Speaker 1: the best of their ability. Very thankful, I'll go ahead, Karen, Yeah, thanks. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's Karen Greegian from The Herald. Karen him, I was

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Speaker 1: And uh, offensively they're they're doing a really good job

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Speaker 1: They don't beat themselves and I think they've block three punts. Um,

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Speaker 1: every every year is different. Our teams different, their teams

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