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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Hey, Tom, how are you good morning? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? You had quite a it's been a while

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Speaker 1: since we've talked. You had quite a crazy off season.

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Speaker 1: We were just going through the list, man, did you

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Speaker 1: make the round? You went to Qatar, you went to Monaco,

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Speaker 1: you sat down with Oprah, which must have been pretty

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Speaker 1: pretty wild. Um, what was the highlight of your off season? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's true, there was quite a few things, um, and

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Speaker 1: you know, having the opportunity to do those different things

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Speaker 1: that I haven't had a chance to do, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, be with my family. My kids are getting older,

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Speaker 1: and um, got a lot of time my parents, my

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Speaker 1: they're back to school in two weeks. So it's an

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Speaker 1: exciting time. And I'm you know, kind of here we

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Speaker 1: a lot to accomplish, so it's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun, a lot. There's a big deal has been

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Speaker 1: made about your workload this offseason, I mean this preseason.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you didn't play in the first game. You've told

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Speaker 1: us for years that if we're up to you, you'd

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Speaker 1: play every snap of every game and every practice. So

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Speaker 1: obviously you know it's not your call, But do you

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Speaker 1: understand do you see it the same way that you

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Speaker 1: maybe at this point in your life, the point in

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Speaker 1: At this point of the year, well, I you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's obviously a very long season, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you're always trying to refine things and make

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Speaker 1: you know, not just in the short term, but over

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Speaker 1: a long term as well. And I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: just trying to be smart and recognized areas where you

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Speaker 1: there's no opportunity to you know, because it's going every week,

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Speaker 1: And you know, but I'm excited to be out there.

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Speaker 1: And I know we're you know, rampant things up as

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Speaker 1: time of year for improvement for everybody. And when you

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Speaker 1: have a preseason game, you kind of see where you're

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Speaker 1: at in relation to other teams. And I think we're

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Speaker 1: trying to make the you know, the little tweaks and

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. How how was your back.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing really I'm doing well. I'm doing really well.

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Speaker 1: It's um, you know, you just always have little things

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Speaker 1: was a report yesterday Tom at practice just that you

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Speaker 1: the stands. There what causes Tom Brady to punt a

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Speaker 1: a good punt. It was actually a pretty good punt

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