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Speaker 1: The head coach of the New England Patriot's Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: joins US coach, congratulations, thanks, Jill, appreciate it. Michael rich

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Speaker 1: how you doing good, doing great? Doing great? Thanks? Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I saying to these guys, I've been to a lot

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Speaker 1: of games here over the last number of years. That

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Speaker 1: was as loud as I can remember this place maybe ever.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of energy, a lot of energy in

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Speaker 1: the stadium. It could really feel in pre game. It

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Speaker 1: was great. It was really good. And does that sort

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Speaker 1: of thing give your team something to feed off of

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Speaker 1: in that second half when you're trying to come from behind. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess I wish you could have gotten them into

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Speaker 1: the game in the first half. They were ready to go,

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Speaker 1: and we didn't give it really much to much, it's

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Speaker 1: sure about so they hung in there. It was it

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Speaker 1: was an awesome crowd though. I thought it was, like

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Speaker 1: I said, really a lot of energy, a lot of

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Speaker 1: excitement in the air. You could feel it in pre

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Speaker 1: game and certainly in the fourth quarter once things got going.

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Speaker 1: I think after Slater's tackle on the kickoff, and it

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Speaker 1: seemed like the old stadium just erupted. I mean like

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Speaker 1: they usually do. On touchdowns. But you know in plays

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Speaker 1: like that or Amn Doola's pun return, those plays are

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Speaker 1: just you know, sacks, Gilmore's knocked down. I mean it

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Speaker 1: was there was some explosive reactions, which it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: I know you don't watch this stuff because you've got

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Speaker 1: a few other things going on. But the tackle, the

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Speaker 1: Slater tackle came moments after living on a prayer and

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Speaker 1: they showed John bon Jovi leading the singing along with

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Speaker 1: the and this place was jumping when they showed him

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Speaker 1: up there. It was I told him after the game,

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Speaker 1: I said, John, you've got the You've got this place

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Speaker 1: going like I don't think I've ever seen it going

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Speaker 1: before in a football game. And then you're right, then

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Speaker 1: that play followed that up. That's exactly right. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did notice. I didn't notice John doing a little

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Speaker 1: wave in there while we were getting ready for the kickoff.

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Speaker 1: There's so many plays to talk about it, as you

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Speaker 1: just alluded to one of them, third and eighteen. And

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Speaker 1: I've heard you say many times when you get into situations,

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Speaker 1: it's not like you look at your call sheet and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: here's here's our third and eighteen play. Just what were

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Speaker 1: you thinking before that sequence and were you in two

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Speaker 1: down territory at any point if you don't pick up

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Speaker 1: that third and eighteen or it's just like okay, we

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Speaker 1: don't pick it up, we're gonna have to punt this thing. Um. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, um, Jacksonville is the best team in

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Speaker 1: the league on third and ten plus, So we went

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Speaker 1: into the game kind of saying we need to stay

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Speaker 1: out of this range. They're pretty good. They have a

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Speaker 1: good pass rush, they get good depth on their drops

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Speaker 1: and so forth. On that play, as always, you're at

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Speaker 1: the mercy of the coverage. They played a split safety coverage,

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Speaker 1: a quarters coverage, and so Danny got behind the linebackers

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly and the safeties are wide and um he

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Speaker 1: got into that into that space there between the between

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Speaker 1: the two safeties and Tom saw it and it just

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Speaker 1: opened up for just an instant and Tom made a

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Speaker 1: great throw. Danny got that got to that space. It

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Speaker 1: was a low throw, which it kind of needed to

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Speaker 1: be because the um they were closing on him, Church

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Speaker 1: was closing on him. But he went down and got it,

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Speaker 1: and I was just I was a huge play for us. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what would happen on fourth down depend

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Speaker 1: on maybe on how far it was and so forth.

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Speaker 1: But when it's third and eighteen, you're not really thinking

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Speaker 1: about fourth and inches. You're probably looking at fourth in

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Speaker 1: eighteen or fourth and ten, or if you get lucky

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Speaker 1: at first down. That that's the way it turned out.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks had a had a great game, and something

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Speaker 1: he's been doing all year long is drawing pass interference penalties.

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Speaker 1: Is that his speed that puts him in that position?

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Speaker 1: Is it route running? Is it something else? Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: got a lot of speed. He can he's quick too,

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Speaker 1: and he's very quick to get by those corners at

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Speaker 1: the intermediate level and that in that twelve to fourteen

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Speaker 1: like that. So they sometimes they have it. And he

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Speaker 1: Tom did a good job of having the complimentary route

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Speaker 1: and you're right, he's that's come up a couple times

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Speaker 1: this year. A bit of a dramatic week here in

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Speaker 1: At what point during the week were you confident Tom

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Speaker 1: was going to be able to do what he needed

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Speaker 1: to do to play for you? Well, I think this

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Speaker 1: is a lot more of a media circus than it

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Speaker 1: was a football crisis. I never really saw it that way.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody did. So was what it was.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes things happened during the week and then they

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Speaker 1: usually if they happened early enough and they're not too serious,

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Speaker 1: they have a chance to resolve. And that's basically what happened.

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Speaker 1: How do you think he threw the ball yesterday? Good?

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Speaker 1: But like the same note note throws that he couldn't

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Speaker 1: make or I didn't think so. I thought he made

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Speaker 1: up in the pocket. There was certainly some disruptive rushes

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Speaker 1: thought he did a nice job of stepping up in

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Speaker 1: So there there wasn't a point this week where you thought,

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Speaker 1: or last week that you thought he wasn't gonna go

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Um, well, I didn't really look at it

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Speaker 1: that way, m Rich. I just again, sometimes guys get

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Speaker 1: banged up in practice. Um, you wait and see how

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Speaker 1: it resolves, and then you figure it out. And after

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Speaker 1: a period of time, once things got a chance to

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Speaker 1: how it all worked out. That was it was okay.

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Speaker 1: Sabermatricians in baseball claim there's no such thing as clutch,

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Speaker 1: to which Red Sox fans respond, David Ortiz, do you

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Speaker 1: believe in football there's such a thing as clutch, and

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Speaker 1: as Danny Amandola clutch, Well, I certainly think there's something

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Speaker 1: to performing well under pressure, and I would say Danny

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Speaker 1: I would say had those characteristics. So thank you. Let's

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Speaker 1: We've seen it from from guys in the past, and

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Speaker 1: I would definitely put Danny in that category. It's an

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Speaker 1: interesting point. I wonder when do you when do you

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Speaker 1: see it? Can you see it? And like those guys

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Speaker 1: Amndola has been in the league. Can you see it

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Speaker 1: in college? Well, colleges college. I think we certainly saw

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Speaker 1: it in the in the opener in Buffalo. Was it

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Speaker 1: four years ago maybe where he made play after play

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Speaker 1: so that was we saw that pretty early. He made

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Speaker 1: he's yeah, he's done a good job of that. I

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Speaker 1: thought the punt return play was as big as any

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Speaker 1: of looked like he was waving it off, kind of

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Speaker 1: that return. Um. We had great, great punt rush force

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Speaker 1: on that play from Grisson, Bolden and Brandon King where

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Speaker 1: of coverage. Bohannon got out, but Jordan Richards eventually got

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Speaker 1: and Danny was able to hit it and like I said,

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Speaker 1: basically gained two first downs on that return. So that

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Speaker 1: was a huge play for us. A bunch of guys

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Speaker 1: do you think about over the years who have made

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Speaker 1: Brown was one of them, and Mike Graybell gets the

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Speaker 1: head coaching job today, he's another one. Edelman, Uh, you

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Speaker 1: know Dante high Tower. I mean, is it you couldn't.

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Speaker 1: But do you know that these guys when you when

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Speaker 1: Do you know that or do you just have to

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Speaker 1: it happens. You know, Devin mccordy, Patch Chung Duran making adjustments,

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Speaker 1: making calls, recognizing things again in the most critical situations

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Speaker 1: in the game, making those right decisions. Tackle Devon May.

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Speaker 1: They're on third and seven for about six. It was

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Speaker 1: a strong tackle, just knowing how much you can give

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Speaker 1: and that's the yard later and that's a first down.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it turns out differently. So those are the kind

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Speaker 1: times those guys continue to do that. Bruskie was another guy.

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Speaker 1: playoff game two years later, So things like that. It's

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Speaker 1: them After a while, you kind of I have a

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Speaker 1: lot of respect for him, do that. What did you

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Speaker 1: think of the hit on Gronk that knocked him out

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Speaker 1: of the game. We mean, what I think of it

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Speaker 1: was that one of those kind of just football plays.

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Speaker 1: Was it just two guys moving really fast? Do you

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Speaker 1: think it was dirty? It was a head to head

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Speaker 1: hit somewhere in between two officials through flights. I think

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Speaker 1: it was a penalty. Yeah, you think there was there

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Speaker 1: was an intent to go to go. Can't judge intent.

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Speaker 1: a penalty. There's no question. We've talked a number of

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Speaker 1: times over the years about the job that Dante Scarnekia does.

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Speaker 1: ball because of what happened earlier when Jack stripped him. Then, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, showed great ball security awareness in that situation,

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Speaker 1: which which you know was the right play and a

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Speaker 1: smart play at that point in time. So it was

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Speaker 1: a huge play in the game. It really took him

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Speaker 1: out of that last drive that we didn't have to defend.

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Speaker 1: And um, we'll take it. Congratulations on the win, Good

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Speaker 1: luck in Minneapolis. We'll talk one more time and uh

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Speaker 1: and look forward to it. All right, sounds good, Thanks Michael,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Patriots head coach Bill Belichick here on sports

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Speaker 1: radio w EI