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Speaker 1: bunch of stud athletes talking sports, right, got rid of

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Speaker 1: trending Shack Mason, is that it's been reported by his agent,

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Speaker 1: Derek Gilmore, that he resigned a five year deal. Can

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Speaker 1: He's done a great job for us and it's been

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Speaker 1: a real um good young player on our offensive line

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Speaker 1: be great. You know what it was? There was a

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Speaker 1: when he first came here from Georgia Tech. There was

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Speaker 1: a stat that I looked up as far as UM

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Speaker 1: obviously Georgia Tech, Paul Johnson. They're just running the ball

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Speaker 1: every every single down, and he had the Patriots had

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Speaker 1: how difficult it is that? And what did you see

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Speaker 1: make you believe that he was capable of doing what

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Speaker 1: to see him back on that field today, Sony Michelle,

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Speaker 1: it's always good to see the players come back, you bet.

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Speaker 1: So I want to go back to Friday night, and

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Speaker 1: We've all seen that before. But Eric had a great career.

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Speaker 1: and they're more than willing to do it. So, um,

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Speaker 1: until we run into something other than that, well we'll

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Speaker 1: go with that, all right, coach. Listen, Oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: this is yeah. I forgot about this one. So you

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Speaker 1: got more. Let you go, all right, So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: wrap things up with our Mercedes Benz drive of the week.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, coach, what would you think was the best

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Speaker 1: drive of the last game against Carolina Panthers. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately the Carolina drive to open the game eighteen plays,

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Speaker 1: but you know we stopped him the help to a

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Speaker 1: field goal. That was a big stop. Um So, uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. We didn't have a lot of great drives.

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Speaker 1: Speaks to it. Okay, that's all this week, we'll get

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Speaker 1: a couple get three last week, right, we'll borrow one

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Speaker 1: from a couple of weeks back this week. Thanks coach,

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Speaker 1: good love this week, and we'll talk to you next week.

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Speaker 1: Get ready for the game one week. Sounds good? All right, thanks,

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Speaker 1: appreciate this question. Appreciate it all right. It's Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: Oh I'm Meth we'll continue right after this