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Speaker 1: Look at this right off the field. James White joining

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Speaker 1: us here at our studios. How are you doing great?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing great? Thanks. We talked to Trey

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Speaker 1: an hour or so ago and we were just talking

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Speaker 1: about this. All across football, We're seeing all these fights.

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Speaker 1: They start to make it clear here that stuff isn't

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Speaker 1: gonna happen, right, Yeah, be out of practice. If you fight,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just keep your temper down. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be some physical days. People are gonna be angry,

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Speaker 1: but he's gotta be out to control yourself. Now, you're

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Speaker 1: still a young guy, you know, human years, but football years.

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Speaker 1: You've been at it now for a little bit. Is

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Speaker 1: what is that like? Having a you know, new waves

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Speaker 1: of young guys and them kind of looking up to

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Speaker 1: you as to you know, what do we do around here? Oh? Well,

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Speaker 1: for me, I just want to be sharp mentally and physically.

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Speaker 1: Just show those young guys how to work. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be tough. Show

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Speaker 1: them how to work out there, to practice hard. So

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Speaker 1: they have any questions, I'm there to answer for it.

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Speaker 1: And if they need help in the film room or

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Speaker 1: just about the NFL life in general. I'll just be

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Speaker 1: there to help those guys. People talk about getting the

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Speaker 1: confidence of Tom Brady. If you're a receiver running back

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Speaker 1: in your case, how did you go How did you

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Speaker 1: set about doing that when you came into this organization?

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Speaker 1: How did you set about showing Brady you were somebody

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Speaker 1: he could rely on. I mean, just trying to learn

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Speaker 1: the offense as fast as possible, just trying not to

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Speaker 1: make the same mistakes, and then when you get those reps,

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Speaker 1: just show everybody that you can do those things and

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Speaker 1: do it at a high level each and every time,

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Speaker 1: and just consistency, just keep doing the right thing over

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Speaker 1: and over and over again. I think that's what it's

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Speaker 1: all about. Now. Dion Lewis has gone, a couple of

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Speaker 1: wide receivers are gone, left tackle is gone. How do

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Speaker 1: you feel the offense is doing right now? Having to

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Speaker 1: replace a bunch of guys. I mean, we still got

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Speaker 1: a ways to go. We're still trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: who we are as a team. But that's what training

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Speaker 1: camps for, and just trying to get on the same

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Speaker 1: page as the offense, taking it day by day, just

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Speaker 1: working together, learn from the days where things don't go

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Speaker 1: so well, and don't get too high the days they

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Speaker 1: do go well, So just trying to learn each other

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Speaker 1: and make each other better and just have fun out there.

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Speaker 1: My understanding is this is one of those days where

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Speaker 1: things didn't go so well for the passing game today.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, we'll get after it in the film

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Speaker 1: room and you know, take it with a grain of

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Speaker 1: salt and just go out there tomorrow and just have

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Speaker 1: better day. But things aren't going to go well every day,

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Speaker 1: so and just learn from it. That fun and I

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Speaker 1: mean that's football. Now. In this offseason, were you paying

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Speaker 1: attention at all where Josh McDaniels looks like he's leaving,

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Speaker 1: he's on his way to the Colts, and you're probably thinking,

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Speaker 1: all right, you know, next year I have a new

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Then a couple of days later, you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: he's back, like we were you paying attention and all that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's an NFL football. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: can't really control what happens in that aspect. Just focus

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Speaker 1: on doing my job. But it's also great to have

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Speaker 1: him back here. Do you consider yourself an all around

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Speaker 1: Consider myself a running back. I just I mean, I

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Speaker 1: do whatever the coaches need me to do. I mean

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Speaker 1: I mean, you never really know how the game's gonna go.

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Speaker 1: So may I just accept my role whatever it is

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Speaker 1: that week? And I said, just go out and execute

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Speaker 1: to the best of my ability. So when my numbers called,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go whatever they ask me to do.

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Speaker 1: One of the things Bill Belichick has said about young

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Speaker 1: running backs coming I think he was talking about Sony

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Speaker 1: first thing you want to see a young running back due,

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Speaker 1: and he said, pick up blitzes. Yeah, definitely. Uh that's

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Speaker 1: something that's always stressed, even even when you're in college.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's pick up is stress. At least for me,

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Speaker 1: it Wisconsin, you guys pretty much did run the ball

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Speaker 1: when Sony Michelle was drafted, is that something that motivates

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Speaker 1: and you're you know, Dion Lewis's conser is gonna be

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Speaker 1: What were your first thoughts? He a good football player.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's from the same area where I'm from

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Speaker 1: and for a lot of Florida's I've seen him play

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Speaker 1: ever since Houston in high school and whatnot. But we

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Speaker 1: always have great competition in our backfield. No matter where

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Speaker 1: free agency, that's always gonna be competition. So maybe just

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Speaker 1: compete with one another. Control which you can control, and

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Speaker 1: I say, the coaches will fine rules for everybody and

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Speaker 1: whatnot whatever it happens to be. So it's half one

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Speaker 1: any other team around the league. It's a group of

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Speaker 1: might be games where you're getting of the snaps. There

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Speaker 1: might be games where it's far less than that, and

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Speaker 1: you have a bunch of different guys that can do things.

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Speaker 1: That's sort of what even going back to college for you, right,

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Speaker 1: and even high school wasn't that sort of the case

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Speaker 1: I've always, yeah, been in the backfield with other good

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Speaker 1: splitting it up and it keeps a defense off balance,

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's a new rule, but you want to play

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Speaker 1: do need to address this new rule. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: you don't spend too much time on He just learned

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Speaker 1: It doesn't look like he's dropped off much, does he.

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Speaker 1: you're working on that at all? I haven't yet, but

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Speaker 1: think you would need to really be ready. I feel

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Speaker 1: it's not to be it's still coaches discretion, but at

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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a human being larger than Crent Brown?

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Speaker 1: This is tough. He's a big. He's a big guy.

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Speaker 1: It's a good blocker, pass game, and run game, and

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a physical player. So it's good to

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Speaker 1: have on our team. How much do you pay attention

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Speaker 1: I got a running back factory. Are you just? Is

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Speaker 1: there like a network of running backs from Wisconsin? You

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Speaker 1: guys all get together parties or no. I mean we're

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Speaker 1: pretty tight knit group even when you're not there on

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they have a couple other guys in there

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Speaker 1: I mean, they do a great job of coaching above

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Speaker 1: over there. It's great to meet you. We're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to talking with you all season long. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for coming in today. Thank you appreciate it. James

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