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Speaker 1: Hey, Bill, Hey great, how are you doing. I'm doing great.

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Speaker 1: How is a bye week? Oh well, it went by

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly. It's, you know, kind of a short, short

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Speaker 1: couple of days the rest. Speaking of that, I saw

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Speaker 1: I saw a photo of you on Nantucket. You may

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Speaker 1: but that lighthouse in Sancity has a particular meaning to Courtney.

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Speaker 1: That is where she was proposed to Bill. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: how romantic. All right, very romantic. Yeah, one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite spots. Very romantic, very very romantic spot. So, Bill,

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Speaker 1: both you and the Colts coming off by entering Saturday

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Speaker 1: both teams coming off the bye week? Does that negate

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Speaker 1: any kind of advantage that most teams would get over

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Speaker 1: And whatever somebody else does or doesn't do. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't really worry about it. Bill. Is the approach

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Speaker 1: those guys, Hey, get some time off, but when you

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Speaker 1: So that was Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we played Monday night. Um,

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Speaker 1: So it's really you know, there's no and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: don't think it really matters. What I think matters to me, Courtney,

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Speaker 1: Get ship done. Question of the week and Bill, it

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Speaker 1: That was great, and especially watching Navy win. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: a good thing. Bill. When you look at this colts team,

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad that the chemistry is developing. It

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Speaker 1: When you look at your free agents that you this

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Speaker 1: want everybody to, you know, understand that and do their part,

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Speaker 1: Award as the Bill Belichick Award. I know that you're

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Speaker 1: Cliffs done a great job, and I think he's done

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Speaker 1: a great job as bet A Coach of the Year

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Speaker 1: this year. All right, Bill, Well, we'll let you get

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Speaker 1: good one. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right, Bill,

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Speaker 1: thank you. That is Bill Belichick on a Patriots Monday.

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