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Speaker 1: New England Patriots running back James White joins us. Right now, James,

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Speaker 1: you weren't a bit frustrated yesterday, right? Oh, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: definitely frustrating. Obviously we haven't been playing that great on

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Speaker 1: the road this year, meaning for whatever reason it is.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, we have two games left in this season.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta find a way to get better and you know,

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Speaker 1: finish the season a strong. I asked Trey this question.

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Speaker 1: I'll repeat it to you from the offensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. Because of the three and five record on

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Speaker 1: the road, does that indicate in any aspect to you

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Speaker 1: that your team's not mentally tough enough. No, they has

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Speaker 1: anything to do with that. Things just not executing for

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Speaker 1: four quarters, going phases of playing well and then golf

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Speaker 1: phase of not playing well. And when you're playing good

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Speaker 1: teams on the road, it's not gonna work. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: use their crowd and they're gonna play with high energy

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be tough. I know it might not

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Speaker 1: make you feel better, but every time the offense struggles,

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Speaker 1: the thing we hear the most is more James White,

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Speaker 1: do you ever feel on the side of do you

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Speaker 1: ever get frustrated. Do you ever allow yourself. I know

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Speaker 1: you're used to a stable of facts, even going back

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Speaker 1: to high school, you're used to kind of splitting carry.

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Speaker 1: But what, especially when the offense isn't going like it

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Speaker 1: like it normally does do you get frustrated when all right,

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Speaker 1: the series isn't my series, or you know, just the

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Speaker 1: number of snaps that you're getting. I mean, everybody wants

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Speaker 1: to be out there as much as possible, and with

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Speaker 1: our offense is a game playing offense, so I may

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Speaker 1: we know you're not going to be out there every play,

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Speaker 1: each and every week, So I mean everybody has to

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Speaker 1: accept their role, and when you're out there, you just

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Speaker 1: gotta made the most of your opportunities. It's almost That's

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Speaker 1: all I can really say about that. Next to last

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Speaker 1: play offensive play of the game, you kind of leak

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Speaker 1: out into the flat on the left side there open.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Tom tried to go to the end zone with it,

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Speaker 1: and what's unsuccessful? As you're out there, are you thinking

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Speaker 1: in your head if he throws it to me, I

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Speaker 1: gotta make sure I get out of bounds even more

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Speaker 1: than you're thinking about the possibility of scoring from there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if he wasn't done the ball down to me in

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Speaker 1: that situation. Just get as many hours as possible to

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Speaker 1: get out of bounds and make it a fourth and short,

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Speaker 1: or you know, just get close to the end zone

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Speaker 1: and give us a better opportunity. Do you say anything,

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Speaker 1: do you yell, do you wave? Do you do anything

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Speaker 1: at all? No? I mean I just kind of get

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Speaker 1: to my spot. If he looks my way, just I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm there for him. Obviously you're trying to get a

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Speaker 1: shot the end zone, and I mean that's probably what

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Speaker 1: we should have done at that point though. Now you

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Speaker 1: were the very last play of the game. You were

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Speaker 1: in there as well, and just from watching it on TV,

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Speaker 1: it looked like basically four verticals and then you were

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Speaker 1: sort of a late leak out. Now, Tom Brady was

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Speaker 1: on with our morning show, and just to clarify, he

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Speaker 1: basically said he told the guys to try to get open,

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Speaker 1: like is that the play there or is there something? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just find a spot. Trying to box a

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Speaker 1: defensive guy out, just give him the best shot to

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Speaker 1: get the football to you. It's gonna be tough. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: gonna be standing at the end zone or in the end,

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Speaker 1: so it makes a tough play and I mean it's hard. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's coming out of the last second. Rob Ninkovic,

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Speaker 1: you actually said here a few minutes ago that really

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Speaker 1: there is on that big card with all those plays

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Speaker 1: on it, there really isn't a call for fourth and

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Speaker 1: goal from the fifteen. No, there isn't, um I said,

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Speaker 1: just kind of gotta get him good body position. Tom's

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Speaker 1: gonna put it up there and just try and give

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Speaker 1: you the best opportunity to go up and try and

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Speaker 1: make a tough catch. And Josh Gordon was not in

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Speaker 1: on the last play. What was he tired? Right? Do

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Speaker 1: you know what happened there? No? Like I said, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's all about who coached me. Dance wants out in

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Speaker 1: the field that time and made It's what it is.

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Speaker 1: I know that every game is a is a team effort, offense, defense,

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Speaker 1: special teams. I understand that Julian Edelman said after the

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Speaker 1: game he feels that the offense let the defense down.

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Speaker 1: They went to Pittsburgh, held that team to two touchdowns

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Speaker 1: seventeen points. Do you agree with him? Definitely? We gotta

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Speaker 1: be better as an offense, Gotta score We're in the

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Speaker 1: red zone and just gotta you know, help our defense

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Speaker 1: out more by scoring touchdowns as many times as we

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Speaker 1: can't when we touched the football. Obviously, I think I

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Speaker 1: agree with the one that we let him down and

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Speaker 1: we didn't play that well yesterday. Now, when Trey was

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Speaker 1: in one of us, he said that the their offense

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Speaker 1: did a few things differently than they had seen before,

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Speaker 1: Like some of the carriers that Samuel's had was different

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Speaker 1: than they had seen before. Was the defense throwing you

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Speaker 1: any different looks than you were prepared for? I mean

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Speaker 1: that's just the type of defense they are. They kind

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Speaker 1: of spend the dial, they're going to switch up the

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Speaker 1: calls and everything. So I mean just kind of go

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Speaker 1: out there and set the line up in and adjust

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Speaker 1: after the snapman and they make it tough on you.

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Speaker 1: They're a good defense. Uh. Obviously we still didn't play

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Speaker 1: that great as all the penalties fourteen of them, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them on the offensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: false starts, uh, you know, illegal formations, things like that.

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Speaker 1: Those seem to be mental penalties to me more than

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Speaker 1: physical mistakes. Yeah, you just gotta cut those out. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, you're playing tough teams on the road and

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Speaker 1: being at first and twenty and second and twenty, it's

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Speaker 1: it's not easy to make play calls for that and

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Speaker 1: it's not easy to convert in those situations. So I

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Speaker 1: think penalties are just definitely got to cut those out.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna hurt you. And then now you guys lost

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Speaker 1: back to back games earlier in the season, but normally

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Speaker 1: you guys are playing your best. You know, in the

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Speaker 1: month of December something you've really you've been able to

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Speaker 1: hang your hat on back to back losses in December.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the first time for you, right since

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Speaker 1: since you've been here. What is that feeling like? Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely not a good feeling. Um, you just gotta

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Speaker 1: find a way to win. Um, no matter what it is,

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Speaker 1: whether it's pretty or whether it's ugly, you just gotta

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Speaker 1: find a way to get wins. Um, You just gotta

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Speaker 1: And she's last two weeks out strong division opponents are

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Speaker 1: still not gonna be easy. No matter what those two

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Speaker 1: teams records are, They're gonna come in ready to play.

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Speaker 1: So I just gotta find a way they improve. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: with two games left, we still don't know what the

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Speaker 1: situation is going to be from a playoff perspective, But

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Speaker 1: if you do have to go on the road for

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Speaker 1: a playoff game, why would you feel confident you could

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Speaker 1: win there? I mean, we have everything we need in

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Speaker 1: this locker room, competitive guys, tough guys. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: we just gotta find a way to get better. Whether

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Speaker 1: it's home or away. It's gotta play tough, physical, be smart,

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Speaker 1: be dependable for four quarters, whether it's here in Foxboro

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Speaker 1: wherever we play. And so Bills, you guys have already

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Speaker 1: faced them once this year. Again, they're probably gonna they

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Speaker 1: have a different quarterback this time. But as far as

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Speaker 1: you guys are concerned, can you go back to that

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Speaker 1: game and look at a lot of things that you're

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Speaker 1: able to do there and hopefully do the same. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we're struggling in the regional when we played

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Speaker 1: them there Monday night, So I mean it's definitely something

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Speaker 1: you need to improve on. Just work on it, everybody

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Speaker 1: just locking in, panting to the details, and just just

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Speaker 1: trying to play our best football, which we haven't done

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Speaker 1: at all all this season with wins or losses. So

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Speaker 1: there's just so much room for improvement. Does that give

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Speaker 1: you some positive feeling and that you know, you've got

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Speaker 1: better football to be played if you if you can

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Speaker 1: find that, you guys will be a tougher team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it gives you some some positive things, but I mean

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Speaker 1: there's not much time, just to all the time in

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Speaker 1: the world to figure that out. So it got to

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Speaker 1: have a sense of urgency and just gotta get together,

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Speaker 1: gotta do it, appreciate the time. It's always if I

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Speaker 1: don't see you next week, Mary, Christmas to James White

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