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Speaker 1: Pats from the Past.

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Speaker 2: Tune in is Matt Smith and Paul Perillo offer in

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Speaker 2: depth interviews with some of the greatest players and coaches

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Speaker 2: in New England Patriots history.

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Speaker 3: Joined by the newest member of the Patriots Hall Fame,

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Speaker 3: Mike Rainbow.

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Speaker 2: Find out what led to some of the greatest moments

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Speaker 2: in franchise history and unique behind the scenes insight.

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Speaker 4: And please to be joined by former Patriot quarterback Brian

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Speaker 3: Joined by number thirty seven on your scorecard, but number

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Speaker 3: one in our hearts at least Rodney Harrison.

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Speaker 5: Good to be home, Good to see you guys.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Happy Friday. We turned the snow machine on

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Speaker 4: to get ready for the game. But be good, we'll

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Speaker 4: the elements. Look, today's a huge red every day and

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Speaker 4: really just wrap up the rest of the week, and

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Speaker 4: we need a good practice today and really go out

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Speaker 4: there and perform the right way fireway. Yeah, per instead

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Speaker 4: of prayer last night, give me a little bit of snow.

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Speaker 4: It's supposed to be cold though, so be good yesterday. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, just I feel for Bar he did everything

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Speaker 4: right and you know, for those things to pop back

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Speaker 4: And again, look, I look at these guys as men

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Speaker 4: first before football players, and uh, there's nothing more important

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Speaker 4: than the health of our individuals play football. We're not

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Speaker 4: having those conversations right now. It's you know again, just

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Speaker 4: about getting them healthy. Now some transactional nature like you

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Speaker 4: have a fifty one players assume kid, and.

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Speaker 5: I'll probably at some point to take one of those.

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Speaker 5: But do you have any thoughts on what that might

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we we have a pretty good idea of you

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Speaker 4: know who we're going to sign in those spots. But

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Speaker 4: like I said, like right now on Friday, it's about

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Speaker 5: With Ellis Erickson, uh was the thought of signing him.

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Speaker 5: It's a depth of plump returner with Marcus currently not

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Speaker 5: privicy right now. Yes, there have been a couple of

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Speaker 5: times this season where You've got to clarify or met.

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Speaker 1: In previous comments.

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Speaker 2: You comfortable with your messaging approach.

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Speaker 5: Are you concerned about with how that.

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Speaker 4: Might come across concerned My man concern is the guys

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Speaker 4: in the locker room on a day after day basis,

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Speaker 4: the people that know me. And you know, again, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's all about this game here.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of it's back for that. Now.

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Speaker 6: How impactful is he on the game and how much

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Speaker 1: For you guys?

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Speaker 6: Can you give any ideal with the piment.

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Speaker 5: Not at this moment. You know, we'll see how you

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Speaker 6: Light dridging the point about the media messaging. We've been

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Speaker 6: Just curious any any kind of lesson the thing you've

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Speaker 4: No, honestly, I haven't really thought about that.

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Speaker 5: Again, you know, I'm here all day.

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Speaker 3: Antonio Gibson seems that he's been a bright spot over

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, there's nothing more important, you know besides

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Speaker 4: But now, you know, we feel good about where we

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Speaker 3: There with getting any closer return single day.

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Speaker 3: Good Brown, Ben Brown, we talked a couple of bad

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was very out of character for

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Speaker 5: Due to injury.

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Speaker 6: But Kate, I mean, do you feel like you have

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Speaker 5: No, we're not.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I have a better sense either spot

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Speaker 4: Like for me, it's just about going out there being

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Speaker 4: he's doing differently for Josh Allen because that's a guy

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Speaker 4: Josh Allen is very dangerous when he's on the sideline,

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Speaker 5: Where he is on the field. So we have to

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Speaker 6: Is he playing as well as any quarterback you've faced,

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Speaker 5: I mean he's up there. He's up there with the

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Speaker 3: I know talking to players that talked about they aren't

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Speaker 2: Then yes on yesterday or Alex was talking about the

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Speaker 5: He basically said, I don't make sure we get him

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Speaker 2: If I don't have to seek, I don't, you know, I.

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Speaker 2: are you good with that?

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Speaker 4: I would say Alex and Drake and myself are always

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