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Speaker 1: there's no region for him. What do you want to

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Speaker 1: been as close with him as you were? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: I have a tremendous amount of respect for Thomas, obviously,

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Speaker 1: having played with him for twelve years. I think I

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Speaker 1: couldn't think any higher of a player than I think

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Speaker 1: that's ever played the game than I think of Tom

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Speaker 1: as a player. As a friend, He's been nothing but

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Speaker 1: that relationship. But I think this week the New England

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Speaker 1: the things that we need to do to start playing

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Speaker 1: better football, consistent football, competitive football. And it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: you know, who we were playing this week, that would

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna encourage the guys to ignore the noise, which

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Speaker 1: to have to do that collectively, and you know, we

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Speaker 1: ready to fight our tails off for sixty minutes. Next

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Speaker 1: question Dakota nas All by Mark Daniels. Yeah, Matt, as

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Speaker 1: Mike was saying, special teams that have not been as

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Speaker 1: good as we're used to seeing for the Patriots, is

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Speaker 1: this the toughest start you've seen the unit get off

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Speaker 1: to you know that you can remember, and in your opinion,

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Speaker 1: we haven't played the way that we would like this year,

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Speaker 1: and I think there have been a number of reasons

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Speaker 1: But you know what, we can't rely on that, We

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Speaker 1: can't fall back on all. We've got games to play.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have more opportunities. The urgency needs to pick up,

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Speaker 1: The execution in practice needs to pick up. Everything matters, right,

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Speaker 1: everything matters, especially when you talk about the kicking game.

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Speaker 1: The opportunities are are fewer than they are offensively and defensively,

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Speaker 1: but the importance of those plays is very, very high.

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Speaker 1: we need better execution, we need better attention to detail,

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Speaker 1: have you seen some of that on special teams as well? Well?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think we've been fortunate enough we have

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Speaker 1: That's that's not an excuse that we can fall back on,

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Speaker 1: start playing better football. Thank you. Next question Mark Canons

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Speaker 1: for why and Siegel and Matthew Ball as well. Matt

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Speaker 1: So that's where our focus needs to be, not all

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Speaker 1: You said something a little bit earlier a few minutes

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Speaker 1: So I think for us it's really gonna have to

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Speaker 1: We got to focus on what the task at hand

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Speaker 1: just about talking about it. Thanks Matthew. I had announced

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Speaker 1: to go back to Tom. I'm sure you're surprised, but

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Speaker 1: it's an opportunity for us too. That's a good question.

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Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for us to learn and exercise how

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Speaker 1: to control the things that we control, to ignore the noise,

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Speaker 1: to do our jobs, to prepare, to work hard and

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Speaker 1: go out and compete. I think and I understand why

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Speaker 1: be about Thomas's return, and to an extent it should

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Speaker 1: be he should be celebrated. But for us who are

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Speaker 1: started the season one and two, so you know, being

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Speaker 1: then obviously taking care of what we need to on

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see how we respond. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for your time. Thanks guys,