I think the great part about playing for him is, as a player the expectations that he has for me are very similar to what he has for everybody on this team. He doesn’t treat me any differently than he treats the other guys, which actually is great for me because I can be one of the guys. And I can get yelled at just like the other guys get yelled at. He usually has a lowlights clip either from practice or a game with all the plays that we could have done better, and usually I’m the one that leads it off. So he sets the tone for the whole meeting with me throwing a hitch into the dirt and him screaming at me saying, ‘Foxborough High School could complete this pass.’ And some days I want to look at him and say, ‘God, don’t you know how many games we’ve won or how many Super Bowls we’ve won?’ And then the other part of me says, ‘You know what? That’s what you need.’ Because he has to be able to tell me, ‘You’ve got to be able to complete this. We can’t take this penalty.’ Because that is what he expects for the entire team. So when we’re in the off-season and stuff, maybe we have some more candid conversations about the team and what he thinks or what I may think about where our team is at. But for the most part, he is the coach and this is a dictatorship here. There are not a lot of people that get to make decisions here other than him.

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