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Speaker 1: Dron harmon joining us on a Patriots Monday. How are

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Speaker 1: you I'm doing? Get yourself Sam? Good? Thanks, nice to

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Speaker 1: see you again. Good to see you. Short turnaround, got

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Speaker 1: to play Thursday. How many days does it take for

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Speaker 1: a body, generally speaking, to be ready to play in

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Speaker 1: another game. Uh, it usually takes the full week, to

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Speaker 1: be honest. Um, you're out there, you're you're you're still

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Speaker 1: practicing due the week, you're getting your massages, you're in

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Speaker 1: the training room. Um, you're doing a lot to get

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Speaker 1: your body to feel as good as you wanted to

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Speaker 1: feel for the next game. It's a process, and obviously

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Speaker 1: we have different you know, tactics for if it's a

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Speaker 1: shorter week. Um, Coach Belichick, he knows, Um, it can't

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Speaker 1: be the same if you know you're going from Sunday

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Speaker 1: to Thursday as it is from Sunday to Sunday. So

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Speaker 1: he knows that. He does a good job of always

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Speaker 1: trying to get us prepared and mentally, physically and emotionally. So, um,

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Speaker 1: we'll be our. It need to be a good test

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Speaker 1: for us for a quick turnaround. We were just talking

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Speaker 1: to James White about this, but what was your reaction

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Speaker 1: in response? To the return of Josh Gordon. Excited, I

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Speaker 1: mean excited for him because obviously he loves the game.

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Speaker 1: We're always pulling from him, hoping the best for him,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna be there to support him. So I'm

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Speaker 1: just happy that he's around, allowed to be around the

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Speaker 1: guys again, and we're able to, you know, just show

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Speaker 1: the support and the love for him that. Um, obviously

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Speaker 1: he needs him, we all need it. What does he

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Speaker 1: bring on the field, because we were actually just sort

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Speaker 1: of debating this because everybody has this viewpoint or mental

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Speaker 1: like there was a time when he had fourteen games

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Speaker 1: and sixteen hundred yards, But you practiced against him last year,

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Speaker 1: you saw him in game. What is Josh Gordon bring

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Speaker 1: to this team now? I mean he's just he's a

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Speaker 1: different specimen of athlete. I mean he's fast, he's big,

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Speaker 1: he's strong, and he has great hands. He can go

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Speaker 1: up get the ball. He can make the tough catches

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Speaker 1: over the middle, um on you know critical downs, you know,

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Speaker 1: third and four. I mean, not too many guys can

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Speaker 1: cover him on a slant you know, slant comeback fade like. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's just I mean he's different. I mean he's a

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Speaker 1: bigger receiver who's fast and has great hands, And I'm

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Speaker 1: really excited that you know he's on our team. If

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Speaker 1: you had a chance to say hi to him yet,

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Speaker 1: Oh for sure, I've seen him, seen him yesterday and today,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, obviously we're excited to have him back,

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Speaker 1: and you can tell he's excited to be back as

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Speaker 1: one of the veteran guys, one of the leaders on

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Speaker 1: the team. Is there a little bit more focused for

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Speaker 1: you guys to try to connect with them in some way?

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Speaker 1: Is it? Or is that just sort of an unspoken

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Speaker 1: thing that you guys. Well, I would say the main

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Speaker 1: thing is just not trying to I would say, like

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Speaker 1: crowd him right and be like, oh, Josh, you gotta

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Speaker 1: do this, Josh, you gotta do that. Like our job

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Speaker 1: is to be there for him at times when he

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Speaker 1: needs to talk, if he's ever going through anything, or

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Speaker 1: you know, just being that good teammate that everybody is

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Speaker 1: to everybody on his team. We talk about it all

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Speaker 1: the time. We create a family atmosphere here, brotherhood where

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Speaker 1: guys can lean on each other outside of football. The

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Speaker 1: brotherhood we build here is bigger than football. I've created

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Speaker 1: lifelong friends with this game and on this team, and

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Speaker 1: nothing's changed for Josh as well. We'll be there for

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Speaker 1: him and he knows that as well. When a player

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Speaker 1: comes in here we talk about sometimes like oh, I

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Speaker 1: bet you they have a meeting and tell him what

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Speaker 1: he can't say. He can't say every word, this word

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Speaker 1: is not okay that, But how much of when a

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Speaker 1: guy arrives is just sort of falling in line and

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Speaker 1: seeing what goes on around you and seeing how Durn

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Speaker 1: handles it and seeing how Tom and how much of

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Speaker 1: it just sort of takes care of itself by the environment.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the big thing right there. I think,

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Speaker 1: just me personally, when I got here, guys, my biggest

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Speaker 1: thing was watching the veteran guys, watching Tom Brady events

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Speaker 1: Dev Mayo and seeing how in Slater as well, just

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Speaker 1: watching those guys and seeing how they, you know, move

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Speaker 1: throughout the day as a professional, how they carried themselves

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Speaker 1: on the field, off the field, and when you have

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Speaker 1: just great leaders like that, and you see not only

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Speaker 1: the amount of work that they put in, but how

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Speaker 1: they talk to the media, how they treat the media.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's easy to fall in line, like you said,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's easy because you don't want

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Speaker 1: to be that one guy who's doing everything wrong. So

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Speaker 1: the best thing to do is listen to what the

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Speaker 1: coaches tell you to do, watch how the leaders do it,

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Speaker 1: and fall in line and create that that that simple

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Speaker 1: pathway of just doing it over and over again the

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Speaker 1: right way. I don't know how much you knew of

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Speaker 1: or spoke to Ben Watson before he arrived as as

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Speaker 1: a new teammate. Those of us who are around here

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Speaker 1: when he was here the first time know what kind

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Speaker 1: of leader he is. It's been reported that Josh's locker

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Speaker 1: is right next to Ben. You couldn't have a better

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Speaker 1: sounding board than to be able to talk to that

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Speaker 1: guy if you need to. Oh for sure. I mean

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Speaker 1: just not only him as a football player, but just

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Speaker 1: him as a man, how he carries himself, A faith

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Speaker 1: base man, a man who's obviously played this game a

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Speaker 1: long time the right way. I didn't personally know Ben

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Speaker 1: before he got here, but I heard nothing but great

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Speaker 1: things about him he was doing in the community. Um,

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Speaker 1: all the teams heard the stories from Slate. It's it's

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Speaker 1: crazy because I heard Ben Claude Slate young man, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just like Wow, you are really old, you know

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Speaker 1: slater young man. Uh you know I told her I

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Speaker 1: was I've never heard that before. So Um, but it

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Speaker 1: just shows um the type of person he need is

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Speaker 1: to be able to obviously play the limb that he's played. Um,

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Speaker 1: what he has been able to accomplish. Um couldn't be

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Speaker 1: a better guy, that obviously is um lockerroomates with Josh.

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Speaker 1: Now you mentioned, you know, playing with Mayo and now

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Speaker 1: he's on the coaching staff. Is that sort of a

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Speaker 1: weird dynamic or former teammate is now you know one

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Speaker 1: of your coaches? Well, I would say the craziest thing

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Speaker 1: is Mayo is still the same. He's the loudest guy now,

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Speaker 1: but he's the lotest guy in the in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: when we go out outside for practice, he's still the

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Speaker 1: loudest guy. He's bringing the energy each and every day.

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Speaker 1: I think the only thing that's just different now he

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Speaker 1: just doesn't have the pads on, but he brings so

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Speaker 1: much leadership, so much football knowledge, and a lot of guys,

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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's just gravitating towards him because I mean

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Speaker 1: he's just that special of a person. Similar question, you

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Speaker 1: obviously had a previous relationship with Steve Belichick from Rutgers

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Speaker 1: and now he's the longest tenure defensive coach on his staff.

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Speaker 1: Is that a little weird? Well, the thing is, we know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, turnover happens from each team, and we deal

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Speaker 1: with each and every year. I would say it's I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a little it's a little different because

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Speaker 1: I'm so used to have, you know, older coaches in there.

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Speaker 1: But I think the great thing about having Steve he

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Speaker 1: understands he can relate a lot to us because you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a younger coach. He tries to always ask for

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Speaker 1: our input. He does a great job of just giving

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Speaker 1: the information that we can use and you know, try

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Speaker 1: to cycle through it and see what we do need

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Speaker 1: and maybe what we don't need as much. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's been a great coach to us, and that's the

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Speaker 1: reason why I believe we played good football. We're going

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Speaker 1: to try to keep it going that way. Good to

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Speaker 1: see you again this week, Best of luck on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon. All right, talk to

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Speaker 1: you guys. Does Logan get credit for that interception? By

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Speaker 1: the way, I know you guys keep track of it.

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Speaker 1: Does he get credit for that county that the county

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Speaker 1: tell them get that in the regular season. Dron Harmon

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