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  Speaker 1: Lead up this season dead for you with the new
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  Speaker 1: kickoff rules or anything like that, and you just talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about how much more intensive it might be.
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  Speaker 1: It's way different. It's been a different offseason obviously going
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  Speaker 1: on the road and and working out kickers and and
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  Speaker 1: doing that stuff, and obviously doing all the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the backgrounds on those, and then of course the draft,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course we get the kickoff, new rules
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  Speaker 1: changes my whole off season. But it's been a great challenge.
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  Speaker 1: It's been really fun. You know, so many of the
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  Speaker 1: specialty teams coaches or former players and and made a
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  Speaker 1: good living like myself on special teams and covering those kicks.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that we can bring the play back,
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  Speaker 1: we're super excited. It's gonna be a lot of fun
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  Speaker 1: to kind of see how it fits and how how
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  Speaker 1: it works. I'm learning every day though, that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: And so there is a huge offseason, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: has been you know, set aside just for that those
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  Speaker 1: two phases. It's way different. But we're still using the
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  Speaker 1: same techniques. And that's what I'm telling our players is
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  Speaker 1: we're still using the same techniques. However, you still have
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  Speaker 1: a complete different blocking schemes. There's way different angles and
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  Speaker 1: different situations of how do you get to these blocks
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  Speaker 1: when they're only five yards away from each other. And
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  Speaker 1: so I'm learning every day. You know, we do a
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  Speaker 1: kickoff or kickoff return period. The very next day, I have, Okay, guys,
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  Speaker 1: here's some new stuff we gotta do. Here's a coaching
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  Speaker 1: point I got for you. This is what I've learned.
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  Speaker 1: And I have players coming to you. I have great
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  Speaker 1: players that have great information. They say, Coach, it's a
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  Speaker 1: little tougher to get to what do you think about this?
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  Speaker 1: Great love it, but we're exploring everything. My assistant Luke
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  Speaker 1: Thompson and I have really looked into it a ton
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  Speaker 1: and even you know, a couple of weeks ago, we
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  Speaker 1: had a former Jaguars special teams coach, Jody Camillis, who
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  Speaker 1: is a mentor of mine and a brilliant guy. I
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  Speaker 1: had him come down here and vet it and kind
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  Speaker 1: of look at it, and you know, he liked a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it, but also gave us some good ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Try this and what do you think about this? And
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  Speaker 1: so while I'm trying eating I can to give these
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  Speaker 1: guys as much information, learn as much as I can
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  Speaker 1: so come training camp or ready to go toy with
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  Speaker 1: the idea of using a non kicker. I have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys that have already nominated themselves, starting with
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  Speaker 1: Andre Cisco. He's already campaigning, stretching his leg out. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And so yes, I've thought about it. We will explore it.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I've been so focused on learning the scheme,
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  Speaker 1: learning the details of it. Obviously with the kicker competition,
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  Speaker 1: I've been solely working on that. We will look into it,
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  Speaker 1: but right now we have not put any buddy in
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  Speaker 1: there but a kicker. How many those games that you
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  Speaker 1: watched before this became like the thought process and probably
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  Speaker 1: like everybody else, I've turned it on, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I was home, you know, in the past years and
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  Speaker 1: watched it briefly. But obviously this is more detailed. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Obviously most of us Special Hugs, all of
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  Speaker 1: us Special teams coaches watched every clip of the XFLUH
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  Speaker 1: and try to learn from it. And you can learn
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  Speaker 1: some stuff. Some is different though, and our rule is
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  Speaker 1: is quite different in some aspects. So I've learned a ton,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a lot more to learn with it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like that Uh, it was different. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing you have to embrace. It's different, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I covered these kicks and my traditional
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  Speaker 1: what I think a look a kickoff looks like like
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  Speaker 1: normal fans probably would. Uh. You have to put that
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  Speaker 1: aside because the reality is this play is gonna go
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  Speaker 1: away and guys like myself wouldn't have made wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: played as long as I did if I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: those those two phases that are so valuable and so
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  Speaker 1: important to the game. So we're embracing it. It's different,
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  Speaker 1: but let's embrace the you know, the difference about it,
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  Speaker 1: and let's let's get more opportunity. This is a cool
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  Speaker 1: play that again, once we learn it, our guys are
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  Speaker 1: loving I really I have you know, we do. We
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  Speaker 1: so excited about this new kickoff role just because he
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  Speaker 1: understands there's gonna be that more opportunities to make tackles
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  Speaker 1: that what you guys do and how you're approaching and
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  Speaker 1: change as the season goes as you guys got them
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  Speaker 1: more info. Absolutely, I mean, I think we're gonna learn.
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  Speaker 1: We've learned a lot this spring. We'll learn more in
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  Speaker 1: training camp, maybe some in preseason depend on how much
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  Speaker 1: people show. But week one, everybody's gonna show their cards
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  Speaker 1: and and and it's a copycat league. We're all gonna
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  Speaker 1: look at each other like we do every other phase.
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  Speaker 1: This is nothing new. We're gonna look at everybody else's
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  Speaker 1: stuff and say, I like that, I don't like that,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe this is just add this to ours. We
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  Speaker 1: like ours, but this is a little wrinkle I like. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna watch each other's like we do every week.
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  Speaker 1: It's no different. But uh yeah, because of the unknown, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna learn a ton from week one week two
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  Speaker 1: of the season are a little bit of a fraternity.
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  Speaker 1: Is that you're seeing more of that less of that now?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, are you guys sharing ideas with this
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  Speaker 1: or are you be secret? Uh? It's it's a small fraternity,
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  Speaker 1: and we all have our own friends and in our
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  Speaker 1: own groups. And I think there's definitely little pockets here
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  Speaker 1: of what have you seen, what have you learned? You know,
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  Speaker 1: in any information we could share. Yes, there's definitely that
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  Speaker 1: going on. Yes, we all we are all trying to
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  Speaker 1: help each other. Uh, because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: we want a good product. We want this play to
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  Speaker 1: be successful. Uh, and we want to. We want it
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  Speaker 1: to be fun. We wanted to be a play that
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  Speaker 1: the fans, the you know, the people that are watching
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  Speaker 1: it's a cool play. So how can we get to
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  Speaker 1: make it as clean as we can?
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  Speaker 2: As you mentioned off the top that it's been a
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  Speaker 2: different off season because of obviously the new kickoff rule,
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  Speaker 2: but also because of traveling around the country to identify
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  Speaker 2: the kicker. I know Doug has empowered you and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you having other off seasons to go out and
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  Speaker 2: find a kicker, but why was this one different?
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  Speaker 1: Was it very much?
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  Speaker 2: Ay, we're going to be drafting a kicker, and please
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  Speaker 2: find this this next.
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  Speaker 1: Young up and comer. Uh. Every off season I typically
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  Speaker 1: go out on the road for a handful of of
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  Speaker 1: schools and kind of take a look at a position.
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  Speaker 1: You know, something is a returner, sometimes it's a kicker.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked last season as well and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of pin how it fits. Uh. Do we see that
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  Speaker 1: guy that we really target, we really like not only
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  Speaker 1: on the field his talent, but what is it like?
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you meet with him, you take them
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  Speaker 1: to dinner, you get a good feel for their personality.
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  Speaker 1: Does he mesh with you? And it fit right? You know,
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  Speaker 1: we love Cam. I think Cam when I worked him out,
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  Speaker 1: we loved them. The dinner I had with him was fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: and I just sensed that he was very competitive. I
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  Speaker 1: really liked what he was doing, and so I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was a really cool guy to bring in here.
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  Speaker 1: We like the value in the sixth round. Uh, and
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  Speaker 1: it worked out. You know, it's a great opportunity. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Riley's made some big kicks for us, so we have
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  Speaker 1: a great competition with two really good kickers. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's a It's normal, you know, as as any position
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  Speaker 1: or any coordinator goes on the road takes a look
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  Speaker 1: at a position and there's there's a bunch of years
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  Speaker 1: I've done that and didn't draft them. So it's very normal.
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  Speaker 1: But we really like Cam and we thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a good opportunity to add to the program, add to
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  Speaker 1: the competitive position of kicker, and let's see what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like come you know, preseason games and training camp.
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  Speaker 1: What's the Kel Robinson process? Kailan Robinson was the guy
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  Speaker 1: that he was my number one, uh running back that
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  Speaker 1: I watched. I loved him right away. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you saw what he did as a returner, but I
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  Speaker 1: saw him playing other phases. So he has the ability,
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  Speaker 1: uh to to to play multiple phases for us, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a gunner, whether it's a corner on punt return,
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  Speaker 1: which he did some in college. Uh, but he's a
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  Speaker 1: he's an elite returner, uh, kick returner, and he's actually
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  Speaker 1: been out there doing punt returns as well. So he's
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  Speaker 1: a talented player with it with very good speed, tough physical,
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  Speaker 1: He does all the things we liked and uh and
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  Speaker 1: then of course I think he does a good job
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  Speaker 1: on offense that the offensive guys were on board. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They liked him as well, catching the ball in the backfield,
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  Speaker 1: doing some of the stuff he does. Love dun Dubernet
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  Speaker 1: is really good. Obviously we didn't we didn't bring back Aggs,
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  Speaker 1: which was you know, Aggs was an elite player for us.
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  Speaker 1: Love Ags. He was really good. He is different than Duvernah.
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  Speaker 1: Both are all pros, really good players. Uh. Duberne is
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  Speaker 1: he elite speed, That's what one of they. I would say,
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  Speaker 1: it shows up. You know that one of the first
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  Speaker 1: weeks he was here, he was running twenty three miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour, so elite speed that it's it really shows up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, So we're excited to have him. He's a
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  Speaker 1: talented player, obviously from the Ravens, and I watched him
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  Speaker 1: for years and of course he's he's always been good.
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  Speaker 1: So to be able to add him, uh, and then
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  Speaker 1: with the two returners back there on kick return, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna need some other guys. So that's really good. Tank's
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  Speaker 1: done a really good job as well. So we have
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  Speaker 1: a good group, uh, a nucleus of good returners we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna need this year. He's all of a sudden done
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  Speaker 1: that rules. If somebody's got a kicker who just blow
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  Speaker 1: it out of the end zone every time, do you
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  Speaker 1: just do that? It's a possibility. And I think there's
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  Speaker 1: there's so much unknown. Are you gonna get bombed out
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  Speaker 1: the back of the end zone? Are you gonna get
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  Speaker 1: the normal hang kicks to the goal line and force
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  Speaker 1: your return? Are you gonna get some of the knuckleball
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  Speaker 1: missile kicks to put the ball on the ground so
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  Speaker 1: the so the kickoff team can cover. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: where we're gonna get And so we've practiced all these
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  Speaker 1: we've we've looked at them ourselves on our kickoff group.
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  Speaker 1: Can we do these? Are these effective? What's the most
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  Speaker 1: you know, what's gonna work? What are we gonna see?
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  Speaker 1: We don't know, we'll see. Preparation for the new rules
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  Speaker 1: takes any time away from other aspects of the special
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  Speaker 1: teams now in the drain camp, I mean, it definitely
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  Speaker 1: takes a big portion of it. We have a good
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  Speaker 1: nucleus of core guys, let's say, on our punt team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Dewey's there. We have a really good group.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Johnson, Uh, you know as well as you know,
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  Speaker 1: Goss has played wing for us for years. So I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a good group. Yes, it takes away
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  Speaker 1: from some of the other aspects of the game, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's gonna be super important to to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we know exactly what we're doing going to
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  Speaker 1: this so we don't get surprised come week one on
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  Speaker 1: kickoff and kickoff returns. Everybody's got the same thing. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: got to devote the text number of times to this
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  Speaker 1: new situation, right. Yeah, I mean I think normally you
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  Speaker 1: traditionally have the majority of your time going to punt
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  Speaker 1: and just because you're worried about a block punt, and
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  Speaker 1: that's so important to it to a special teams group.
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  Speaker 1: And we still are doing that. I would say pun
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  Speaker 1: is definitely just as emphasize as those other those other two. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously something has to to you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: to pull back on something and and you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the nature of how I allocate our time,
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  Speaker 1: and not only in meetings but practice time.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of coverage, I know you were pretty high
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  Speaker 2: on some of the young dvs that were brought in
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  Speaker 2: last year, from Antonio to Christian. What have you seen
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  Speaker 2: from that group of second year guys as well as
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  Speaker 2: this next group with Trey and Jarry and the guys
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  Speaker 2: who could contribute.
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  Speaker 1: Antonio is a fantastic player. We we loved him when
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  Speaker 1: we got him here. Uh. He was a really good
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  Speaker 1: gunner and four phase guys for us last year. If
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  Speaker 1: he's not playing defense, we'll see how that plays out. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be a four phase guy. I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: have him play for US. I think he's probably too
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  Speaker 1: good a player. I'm I'm concerned I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: see him much this year because I know how good
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  Speaker 1: he is. Uh, So we'll see how that plays out.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Browsel has had a really good spring. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we didn't see a ton of because of the injuries
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  Speaker 1: last year. But I thought he's had one of the
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  Speaker 1: more impressive uh, you know, off seasons. Uh. And so
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  Speaker 1: I really like what he's doing. I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: see what it looks like come training camp, you know,
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  Speaker 1: real life reps, full speed reps, full contact. Uh. But again,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's done fantastic. And then some of the young guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jerry and Jones has been really good. That's
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  Speaker 1: been a great addition. He was a guy that we targeted, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously not only on defense, but for us.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was a really good gunner and he's
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  Speaker 1: been really really good. So that's those guys have been.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I like where our group's at with
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  Speaker 1: those young dbs, especially with the gunner position.
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  Speaker 2: Why was it so important to bring DT back?
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  Speaker 1: He loved dt dt. Uh. He not only is a
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  Speaker 1: great player, makes really good plays for us. His energy
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  Speaker 1: in the room, he's a team guy. The guys love him.
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  Speaker 1: It's infectious. You need that, you need those glue guys
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  Speaker 1: of just every single day he brings a smile to
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  Speaker 1: the room, to the meetings, to the field. He encourages guys.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a leader in his own way. So to
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  Speaker 1: bring DT back, it's, you know, he's a He's a
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  Speaker 1: great player, but even a better guy. So I love
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  Speaker 1: having him around