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Speaker 1: The coach has gone good. Um, going against the Patriots

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Speaker 1: this week. Obviously you guys faced them earlier, but uh,

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Speaker 1: their defense obviously is playing at such a high caliber

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Speaker 1: level right now. Do you feel like this is a

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Speaker 1: good litmus test for your offense or are they playing

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Speaker 1: so well that you almost have to temper your expectations

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Speaker 1: a little bit? You know, that's that's a tough question.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, getting stand back having you know,

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Speaker 1: one game together. Really we're such a work in progress

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Speaker 1: right now, you know, I think we're focusing more on

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Speaker 1: just trying to XQ playing and play out. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a tough challenge. I know that they're they're

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Speaker 1: playing about as well as I can remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: and all my times playing these guys. It's just, you know,

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Speaker 1: we just have to do a good job of just

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Speaker 1: focusing on what we need to do. What do you

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Speaker 1: what do you think about the tight end situation there?

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Speaker 1: They've had some transactions in the last week, but what

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Speaker 1: do you see from that position in their offense right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I always look at it like this, with

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Speaker 1: just just working for Josh and and kind of playing

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Speaker 1: these guys. It's they're going to use who's available to

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Speaker 1: them that they don't. They do such a good job

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Speaker 1: of finding roles for guys, even if they bring them

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Speaker 1: in for a week. You know, if if they don't

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Speaker 1: feel good about one position, they'll they'll use another position

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Speaker 1: to kind of you know, take over for you know,

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Speaker 1: if they if they don't feel like they're good at

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Speaker 1: tight end, they'll use more running backs, you know, or

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Speaker 1: more wide receivers. They always find a way to maximize

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Speaker 1: whatever whatever players they have active coach how much this

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Speaker 1: last week's victory helped the morale in your locker room

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Speaker 1: this week? Yeah, I don't think we've really ever had

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Speaker 1: a dip, you know, and kind of with our start,

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Speaker 1: I think guys have done a good job of focusing

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Speaker 1: on just getting better each day coming to work, you know,

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Speaker 1: trying to learn what we're doing, you know, trying to

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Speaker 1: master what we're doing. I mean, that's that's the hardest

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Speaker 1: part of being in a first year program is you know,

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Speaker 1: you got two phases that are completely new. You know,

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Speaker 1: the guys are trying to learn the details of everything,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't happen as fast as everybody wants.

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Speaker 1: How does having Donald back change what you guys are

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Speaker 1: able to do on offense. Well, I mean, he's one

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Speaker 1: of those type of players where you know, when something

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Speaker 1: something happens within a play where we don't execute quite

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Speaker 1: as quite as well, he can help, you know, really

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Speaker 1: change the result of the play. He kind of has

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Speaker 1: a racer mentality of you make a mistake and he

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Speaker 1: can make a playoff of it, you know, And he

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Speaker 1: did that. He did that a little bit of last game.

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Speaker 1: And I think his release and his ability to get

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Speaker 1: the ball out quick really really helps us. Is that

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Speaker 1: is that adapting something that he's made considerable growth in

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Speaker 1: during his time over the past two years, And obviously

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Speaker 1: weren't there last year, but from from what you've seen

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Speaker 1: both as an opponents and now has his coach, have

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Speaker 1: you seen that kind of progress? Yeah, I think I've

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Speaker 1: seen a guy that you know, really if you look

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Speaker 1: at it, he hasn't played a ton of games over

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Speaker 1: his career. So I think every every time he practices,

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Speaker 1: every time he plays in a game, you know, he

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Speaker 1: learned something new, he figures something out, he's he's he's

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Speaker 1: a student of the game, so he's constantly in that

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Speaker 1: learning growth mindset mode. So I think every time that

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Speaker 1: He figures it out. You know, if he makes a mistake,

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Speaker 1: he comes back, doesn't make the same mistake twice, Adam.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Julian Edelman missing the second half of your game

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Speaker 1: of week three, he was a big factor. But what

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Speaker 1: led to your defensive success there, you know, only allowing

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Speaker 1: ten points after the first half they had, Yeah, they had,

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Speaker 1: they had, They had a tough challenge. You know, offensively,

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Speaker 1: we didn't help model a whole bunch, you know in

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Speaker 1: the monde of three and ounce we had. They were

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Speaker 1: on the field way too long. I thought the guys

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Speaker 1: trying to trying to create pressure. It's not always easy

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Speaker 1: him Speaking of Julian Edelman, what makes him a tough

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Speaker 1: cover and who would be a player that you've maybe

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Speaker 1: of his routes, the way he plays every play, He

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Speaker 1: plays extremely hard. He makes things look the same. You know,

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Speaker 1: he does a great job of after he catches the

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Speaker 1: ball of getting vertical. The run after catches is really,

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Speaker 1: you know, been something that he's He's created a lot

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Speaker 1: of yards. You know, he's one of those guys so

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Speaker 1: much he can do inside outside you know number three

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Speaker 1: he's a tough guy to game plan for. You just

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Speaker 1: lot more questions guys when you think about just the

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Speaker 1: elite receivers. That's sort of a topic we've had up

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Speaker 1: here because Brady was on the radio and he said

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Speaker 1: something along the lines of like this is a guy

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Speaker 1: that could be even in like Hall of Fame consideration.

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Speaker 1: I mean, not to get into a Hall of Fame debate,

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Speaker 1: but Edelman like among the elite receivers. I mean, is

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Speaker 1: that something that doesn't seem that far off to you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean to me, I guess I've seen him play

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Speaker 1: so much, and he's he's worked over some of the

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Speaker 1: teams that I've been on before, so he was He's

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Speaker 1: always a guy that we've had a game plan for.

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Speaker 1: He's always a guy that we've had to try to contain.

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Speaker 1: It's it's one of I don't know if I've ever

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Speaker 1: because that's just not going to happen. I think he

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Speaker 1: he does exactly what those guys need him to do

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Speaker 1: as far as what they want to do schematically, and

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Speaker 1: I think when you have a guy that is trusted

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Speaker 1: by a Hall of Fame quarterback that like his impact

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Speaker 1: in games is going to always be critical. Final question,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, you mentioned the Patriots defense is playing

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Speaker 1: as well as you've ever seen it, and obviously statistically

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Speaker 1: the numbers speak for themselves, but I'm curious, you know,

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Speaker 1: them doing anything specifically different this year, either schematically or

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Speaker 1: just a big difference in the personnel or anything along

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Speaker 1: on those lines. I think, really and I can't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got in the league in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 1: but I wasn't really kind of involved as far as

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Speaker 1: four and things like that, when those guys were really dominant.

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Speaker 1: For me, when I look at these guys right now,

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Speaker 1: it looks like a group that they've played together. They

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Speaker 1: know exact actually what they're doing going into the game,

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Speaker 1: they know what they're looking to stop, they know exactly

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Speaker 1: how to play off of each other. I think they

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Speaker 1: have some really good chemistry going on to where that

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Speaker 1: some of that might be just those guys playing together

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Speaker 1: for a few years now, and it's just when you

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Speaker 1: when you got guys that aren't thinking and they're communicating

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Speaker 1: and they're able to play fast, it makes it really

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Speaker 1: hard on on the offensive side. Thank you, coach Case