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Speaker 1: Good morning, James, Good morning. Are you doing great things?

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Speaker 1: I always like to give you a stat about yourself

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Speaker 1: to you. So, so here's here's this week's. You're the

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Speaker 1: sixteenth running back in NFL history to have twenty receiving

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in his career, but you're also only the third

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Speaker 1: set when he goes to the next pot? Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Interesting back. Yeah, now the touchdown cash that you had,

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Speaker 1: it was on a screenplay and they talked about it

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Speaker 1: You guys were at the five yard line or so,

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Speaker 1: is there what's different about running the screen there compared

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Speaker 1: the right time. They blitzed it. You could have got

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Speaker 1: the screenplay, because this is something that I always wanted

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Speaker 1: thing I noticed about you is that you're patient on

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Speaker 1: the screens. There are some guys that get the ball

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Speaker 1: And the one thing you're extremely patient, you let those

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Speaker 1: where does that come from? Is that something that you know,

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Speaker 1: routes whatever they need to do, offensive line faking like

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Speaker 1: they're past blocking, you know, Tom looking the defenders off,

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Speaker 1: and me being patient. It takes the whole team for

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Speaker 1: the first place to work. And I mean I've always

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Speaker 1: the offensive sets and you're in the backfield with Brady,

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Speaker 1: sorry for defensive core Na. I mean, we have a

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it just comes down to our execution.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we have a lot of quote unquote names on

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Speaker 1: but you got to still go out there and play football.

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Speaker 1: We were asking Lawrence Guy who was just in here

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Speaker 1: you know, right when he signed. Certainly, I'm sure it

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Speaker 1: Talk about and I think maybe a lot of people

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Speaker 1: you guys said scoring in the red zone was an

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Speaker 1: Back in twenty and ten, now the coach, one of

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Speaker 1: at the time, Gerard Mayo started an event called the

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Speaker 1: Mayo Bowl. You kind of took things over. You and

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Speaker 1: of years ago after you co hosted with Gerard So

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Speaker 1: sweet Feet for Strikes takes place tonight. It does, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of your teammates seem to be involved. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a great event, raising money for the BMC and

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Speaker 1: their pediatric initiatives, and a lot of my teammates come out.

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Speaker 1: There's fans out there, raise a lot of money. Can

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Speaker 1: get you a Tom Brad signed, Tom Brady Jersey signed,

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Speaker 1: have a good time, enjoy some bowling, and then it's

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Speaker 1: a great event. Who's the best bowler on the team? Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I'm up there, But I

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Speaker 1: mean I heard, I heard Steve, Steve Gotstovski. He's really good.

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Speaker 1: I've never bowled against him, but I'm not sure by

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Speaker 1: against Mookie? I have not. I will not do that.

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Speaker 1: He's out of my league. He's competed, Yeah, he's competed

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Speaker 1: the event is tonight. Where is it is that King's

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Speaker 1: a great turnout. They always host a great event and

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Speaker 1: the BMC. You guys raised two hundred and sixty eight

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Speaker 1: thousand last year. In the nine years since Gerard started

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Speaker 1: this thing, over two and a half million has been raised.

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Speaker 1: We wish you the best of luck with it. Thank

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Speaker 1: you seeing it. Thanks