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Speaker 1: Bryce, Congratulations, How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Hey? How you doing? I'm doing great? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But Brace, tell me about your reaction to when

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Speaker 1: when you get to call about being drafted by the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Is it what was your reaction?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm very grateful, very thankful for for mister Craft

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Speaker 2: and uh and Coach Belichick bringing me in little uh,

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Speaker 2: definitely a lifelong memory for sure.

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Speaker 1: And and was it was it slightly and surprising to you, Brace,

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Speaker 1: just that it was a sixth round? Like or is it?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: What was your reaction to to the placement of it? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Like, like I said, I was just very thankful for

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Speaker 2: just just an opportunity to play. You know, it's been

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Speaker 2: a lifelong dream to be able to play in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And and I'm just thankful that, uh, that this organization

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Speaker 2: and Patriots were able to u just to select me.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just so grateful and very excited.

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Speaker 1: And Brace, how much which contact did you have with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots leading into the draft?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I had some kind of just the normal just

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Speaker 2: kind of from uh, just the senior ball and then

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Speaker 2: throughout the combine and then into uh, the post combine

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Speaker 2: time frame. But you know, no more than some of

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Speaker 2: the other clubs.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha all right? Thanks, thanks a lot of congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Next question, Nick Rally, and I'm

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Speaker 2: encouraging able to raise your hand if you have a

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Speaker 2: question for brace Heid Brice.

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Speaker 3: Uh we hid Brice. We were just talking to Chad Ryland,

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Speaker 3: another fellow rookie coming into New England in this draft.

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Speaker 3: How does it feel to that sort of have a

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Speaker 3: running mate at a kicker coming in at the same

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Speaker 3: time as you.

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Speaker 2: It feels awesome. You know, Chad and I have known

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Speaker 2: each other for a long time, back from his day

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Speaker 2: to Eastern Michigan, then into the Big Ten with him

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Speaker 2: at Maryland this year, and then some familiarity we were

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Speaker 2: teammates at the Senior Bowl, so that was really awesome

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Speaker 2: just to kind of see him go and then and

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Speaker 2: then be able to get the call. It'll be fun

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Speaker 2: to be able to get with him. You guys.

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Speaker 3: Argue back and forth about who has the stronger leg.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's a good question. I'll well, I guess

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Speaker 2: we'll just have to see. He's one hell of talented guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's in the position years for for a

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Speaker 2: definite reason. He's put so much hard work and dedication

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Speaker 2: into this, and uh, I guess I'm just so excited

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Speaker 2: for him and then just have the chance to be

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Speaker 2: out there with him.

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Speaker 3: And New England has a long history of cold weather games,

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Speaker 3: windy games, snow games. How do you feel about kicking

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Speaker 3: in the whole winter conditions coming from recent lansing, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I feel good, you know, thankfully, just being from the

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Speaker 2: Midwest and from Michigan, I've been able to have the

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Speaker 2: chance to play in some some snow games, as we

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Speaker 2: did last year or two years ago, excuse me against

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Speaker 2: Penn State. It's a really windy games. So hopefully I'll

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Speaker 2: be able to bring that knowledge out to Foxborough. Great,

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Speaker 2: thank you, congratulations, thank you so much. Looks like the

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Speaker 2: last question with me, Chris Flauri. Great, Chris Eye, Bryce, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering for you, Uh, thinking back over the last

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Speaker 2: five six years on your journey, what was the most

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Speaker 2: special part of the process and today and hearing your name, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, thankfully. I mean, you know, Chris, kind of

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Speaker 2: the whole journey. Obviously you've been you've been kind of

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Speaker 2: with me and seeing it throughout the whole time, but

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Speaker 2: just seeing everything come to fruition all the hard work,

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Speaker 2: a lot of dedication, a lot of early mornings, you know,

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Speaker 2: kind of the stereotypical stuff. But just just to be

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Speaker 2: able to get that call was with such an incredible

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Speaker 2: feeling and something I'll I'll remember for the rest of

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Speaker 2: my for sure.

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Speaker 3: That's the luck.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Thanks everyone,