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Now Brian Hoyer talks about what it was like backing up Tom Brady.

You know, New England, there's 15 personnel groups. So you have to like remember where you, and you change on everything.

And then the formations and then all the

concepts. And so for guys like us undrafted seventh round, like you couldn't afford to fuck up a rep.

That's right. Like, or you thought you were getting cut. And there were so little reps for us

that like you had, it was a Super Bowl anytime you got a rep in practice when

the big dogs were watching. That's right. I remember being in there like late OTAs and all of a

sudden out of nowhere Bill puts me in with the first team offense. Yeah. And I'm like, holy shit,

Moss. Yeah. Ben Watson, Welker. Like all these guys. And I'm like, don't fuck this up.

And I remember we ran like a shake route. And I hit Ben Watson up the seam. And I was like, and I was like, all right. And you almost forget like, you got to go to the next play. But you were like, that was kind of a welcome the NFL moment. Here I am undrafted, working my way up. And out of nowhere wasn't planned. you're in there with the big dogs.

Yeah.

I know.

It's 1,000.

And well, people don't,

people forget. and out of nowhere wasn't planned, you're in there with the big dogs. Yeah. I know.

It's 1,000.

And well, people don't, people forget. You know who the quarterback Hoy beat out to be the backup? Kevin O'Connell. Yeah. Co. Cose. He's doing a tremendous job. How about him? He's done an amazing job. I don't know how much, I mean, clearly with Fox,

you're probably staying up on this,

but just seeing the behind the scenes interaction he has with his team.

Yeah. He's done an amazing job. I don't know how much, I mean, clearly with Fox, you're probably staying up on this,

but just seeing the behind the scenes interaction he has with his team, like that's the type of coach you want to play for. He was always like that. He was always, I remember, because we used to hang out, me, him, Slate, Wendy. You would come in there, but it was still a little weird with the backup. You got, you know what I mean?

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