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Speaker 1: Backdam question, you're muted? Yeah, sorry, sorry, I'm late in here.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think this was starting up for excuse me

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Speaker 1: another couple of minutes. Has has anybody asked a question? Yep?

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Speaker 1: Or Am I the first one in here? Oh? All right?

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Speaker 1: Well Cody, Yeah, welcome to New England. I know you've

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Speaker 1: been here for a couple months now, but this is

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Speaker 1: our first chance getting to talk to you. Just what

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Speaker 1: went into your decision to sign here and what is

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Speaker 1: your been what has been your kind of impression so far? Exactly?

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Speaker 1: Excigned to be here, Um, you know, I was excited

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Speaker 1: about free agency and really just looked at my offerers

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Speaker 1: and try to find the best fit for me. You know,

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Speaker 1: here is a winning tradition and takes pride in defense

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Speaker 1: and special teams and glad to be here and put

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Speaker 1: in the work and try and earn a spot. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned special teams. I know that's been a big part

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Speaker 1: of your kind of skill set over the course of

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Speaker 1: your career. Did the Patriots I guess you just mentioned that,

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Speaker 1: But did the Patriots emphasis on special teams? How much

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Speaker 1: kind of importance Bill Belichick puts on that area of

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Speaker 1: the game. Was that a factor in your decision to

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Speaker 1: come here. For sure, whenever you spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: time on special teams, you're always scouting other teams. So

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Speaker 1: I knew the Patriots had put an emphasis on special

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Speaker 1: teams for a long time and always been a great,

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Speaker 1: you know, asset for them. So whenever the opportunity arose

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Speaker 1: to come here and compete and try and earn a

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Speaker 1: spot on special teams, I jumped on it. For people

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Speaker 1: who haven't watched you all that much over the course

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Speaker 1: of your career, how would you describe yourself as a player,

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Speaker 1: I think the number one thing that probably jumps out

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Speaker 1: of speed. So I'm gonna try and be the fastest

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Speaker 1: one on the field, first one down on kickoff effort

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Speaker 1: and blank. You just trying to, um, be the one

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Speaker 1: who's making the calls, making the checks and putting our

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Speaker 1: team in the position to uh to win. Great, Aaron.

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Speaker 1: I can let anybody else jump in here, um if

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Speaker 1: they want to. You, I muted, Zach, do you have

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Speaker 1: any more questions? We don't have any more. Hands are raised. Uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess I'll just finish it off with um. You've

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Speaker 1: got a pretty interesting makeup in in that safety group

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Speaker 1: with with some some veterans like Devin who have been

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Speaker 1: around for a long time, and then someone like Kyle

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Speaker 1: who's just coming into the league. What is uh, what

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Speaker 1: has been your impressions of that group so far? And

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Speaker 1: it's what it's What has it been like working with

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Speaker 1: all those guys in these last couple of weeks once

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Speaker 1: you finally got it, got to get into the building,

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Speaker 1: It's been great. I mean, I don't think there's any egos.

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Speaker 1: You just come to work every day trying to learn

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Speaker 1: really from anybody, especially Devin who's been here a long time,

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Speaker 1: trying to pick his brain, see how they run the defense,

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Speaker 1: and you know, take as much as you can and

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Speaker 1: um put it to work. And I know you didn't

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Speaker 1: hadn't gotten a chance to be around Patrick Chung all

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Speaker 1: that much. But what was your reaction when when he

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Speaker 1: opted out of the season. You know, with all of

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Speaker 1: the opt outs, all of us players respect every decision

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Speaker 1: UM and so much goes into it UM. So for

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Speaker 1: each player, we just gotta look at our personal situations

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Speaker 1: and make that decision for ourselves. So whenever I saw that,

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Speaker 1: respect to the decision, and UM, we wish him the

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Speaker 1: best of luck. Awesome, Uh, Yeah, that's that's all I've

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Speaker 1: got here. Thanks a lot, Cody for taking the time.

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Speaker 1: Good to finally meet you, sir. I appreciate it. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you, Cody, Thank you.