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Click the play button below to hear Shalise Manza Young's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: Andre Tippett's role in the organization and his enshrinement over the weekend; which current Patriots are Canton-bound; and the state of the offensive line, which has a lot of banged-up guys.

Here's what Shalise had to say about the offensive line:

"The offensive line that we've seen in training camp isn't at all the offensive line that we saw in the Super Bowl. Logan Mankins and Dan Koppen have been out for every practice, but Nick Kaczur started on PUP, Ryan O'Callaghan now has missed a couple practices, Matt Light has been missing since last weekend, now we're up to eight or nine days that he hasn't been on the field. Bill Belichick was asked about this the other day; in a way it's good that they are getting to see guys at different positions. Wesley Britt's lining up at right tackle and left tackle, [Nick] Kaczur even has gotten some work at left tackle, so in a way it's good for evaluation purposes, but they really would prefer to have the five, six, seven or eight guys that they know are going to get the majority of reps at those positions once the season starts out there on the field, and that's not really happening yet. And that may not really bode that well; the biggest thing with the offensive ine is continuity and familiarity and knowing how all the guys are going to be moving and responding in kind to that. So I think at this point just getting all the guys healthy and all the guys on the field will be a big deal for them."

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