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Heath Farwell on squib kick, LB rotation moving forward · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I'm not because I see him do it every day. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's super talented, works at it every day. Um. You
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  Speaker 1: know some of those those punch you just don't see,
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  Speaker 1: especially seeing three of them. You know, you'll see a
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  Speaker 1: seventy yr punt once in a while, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: spectacular that alone have three of them. Uh, it's pretty special.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know it's a it's a it's something
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  Speaker 1: he works at all the time. And then to have
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  Speaker 1: DT go down there and down that one at the
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  Speaker 1: two was, uh, you know, just made it even better.
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  Speaker 1: So those are you know, we're what we're able to
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  Speaker 1: watch a very very talented punter and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl talent and uh, you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you know, hopefully this is his year. If it's not, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he deserves it. You know, he's a he's a special player.
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  Speaker 1: We're lucky to have. I was, Um, I'm fortunate to
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  Speaker 1: have him here. You've got you know, the Jacksonville Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: draft him and I just walk into a spectacular player.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to ask you about gun coverage and
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  Speaker 1: Daniels almas as a pretty good job, but it just
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  Speaker 1: seems to me that Caleb Johnson always seems to be
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  Speaker 1: around the return or always around the ball when you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to down on the punt every thinking that, so
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  Speaker 1: you speak a little bit about the job Caleb Johnson's
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  Speaker 1: done this year. Yeah, you know, he came available from Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: He was a guy that we targeted, said we'd love
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  Speaker 1: to have this guy, let's pick him up and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and he succeeded expectations. We knew he was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a good player, but he's been even better. Um. He's
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  Speaker 1: got good hand, you know, great hands, good physicality. UM,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a good instinct and good feel to get
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  Speaker 1: to the ball. Um, you know, and um you know
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  Speaker 1: his ability to get off blocks. He has good length
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  Speaker 1: uh to get off him and UM, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: just always around the football. He's been a key to um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, our our coverage units and as well as
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  Speaker 1: uh as our return game. You know, he's a spectacular blocker.
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  Speaker 1: Uh in the kick returning and punt return game. Chat
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  Speaker 1: pit is the least number of special teams snaps and
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  Speaker 1: Devin I think quite his most. How did that change?
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  Speaker 1: How did that change sort of impact the cover units?
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  Speaker 1: He didn't, you know, And that's the thing about it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Chat has still played a couple of phases
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  Speaker 1: and I think that'll be a week to week basis,
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  Speaker 1: depending on what they're doing defensively. Um. And and we
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  Speaker 1: love having Chad. I spoke about him last week, how
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  Speaker 1: great he is. And and uh, you know, Devin sits
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  Speaker 1: in all the meetings. It's he's been preparing, um and waiting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for that opportunity to help us out anyway
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  Speaker 1: he can. And he's all in. You know, he'll play
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  Speaker 1: as much as he can, as much as you know
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  Speaker 1: we have room for him. So um, he did a
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  Speaker 1: great job as well. You know, there wasn't a ton
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  Speaker 1: of opportunities, uh, you know, with only one punt return
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of touchbacks. But he's in the right positions,
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  Speaker 1: he cares, he wants to learn them. He's coming along
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  Speaker 1: nicely where I'm happy where Devon's at as well. Getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for an indoor game, do you have Riley change
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  Speaker 1: where he kicks? Does he kick in the indoor more
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  Speaker 1: this week? Since you're going up to play inside in Detroit?
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  Speaker 1: Does that matter now? Now? And honestly, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: classic special teams. You know we'll kick inside for outside
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  Speaker 1: for practice, but we've got to find space where we can,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll go inside anyway like we always would do
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  Speaker 1: um and do some extra kicks. So it doesn't change
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  Speaker 1: us a ton as far as what we're doing and
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  Speaker 1: what our our plan is. Um. You know, obviously for
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  Speaker 1: specialists it's a bit you know, it's an advantage and
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  Speaker 1: I have to deal with any wind and it's just
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  Speaker 1: more of a natural, you know ball, So um, that
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  Speaker 1: part's better. That's kind of exciting, but so much as
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can't overlook that, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: some sometimes guys get in there, they get so excited
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  Speaker 1: to kind of have to have that great you know,
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  Speaker 1: no elements, and then all of a sudden you don't
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  Speaker 1: put your your best kicks out there. So, uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: something we just gotta kind of focus in on. Just hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's a clean ball, still gotta strike it the same way,
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  Speaker 1: all the same things stuff we work on all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And here he knows that place pretty well, so I
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  Speaker 1: mean he shouldn't have to worry about the elements. Are
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  Speaker 1: getting used to it. Yeah, it's it's always unique, probably
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  Speaker 1: going back to your to your former team, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's probably gonna be exciting for him to see
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  Speaker 1: if some of those old coaches and old players that
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  Speaker 1: he's got to know, he's has a good relationship with
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  Speaker 1: several of them, so I think that's it's always cool
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  Speaker 1: to go back and see some of those guys, so
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  Speaker 1: he'll feel very comfortable. Sorry, a little bit deeper the
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  Speaker 1: other day. Yeah, and we didn't do it quite exactly
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  Speaker 1: what we were looking for, um, but that's part of
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  Speaker 1: the you know, it's something we work on all the
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  Speaker 1: time and will continue to work it. And uh love
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  Speaker 1: to love to get him down, you know a little sooner.
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  Speaker 1: That guy did a really good job return at him. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he returned it pretty far. And it's it's
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  Speaker 1: more than we were hoping for, um, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's ball. We just gotta find a way to get
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  Speaker 1: him down sooner. Um, we were able to win, and
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  Speaker 1: that's all that matters, you know. I thought we did
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  Speaker 1: a good job in coverage overall, and we did a
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  Speaker 1: good job on special teams versus a very good unit
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, one of the better groups over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought our guys played really really well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not mattering, but what went into the decision to squip
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  Speaker 1: it rather than just not getting the back of the enzone. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: There's always several ways to go about that. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's you're dealing with a great returner. That's a very
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  Speaker 1: very good returner. You're also dealing with a very good kicker.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that that group is very very good, and it's
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  Speaker 1: such an emphasis there. Um. Those are the uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those are the things we talked about all week, each week,
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  Speaker 1: even throughout the game. What is our you know, what
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  Speaker 1: is our thought process? And so uh, you know, Coach
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  Speaker 1: Peterson and I talked about that throughout the game, and
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  Speaker 1: we did on that play of what's the best opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and we we can do it different ways, um, but
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  Speaker 1: on that instant, we thought, hey, we can waste five seconds,
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  Speaker 1: you know, roughly five seconds and and take a play
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  Speaker 1: away from their offense. Um. So that's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: way it out. You kick them and kick it out
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  Speaker 1: and you take no time off, or you're able to
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  Speaker 1: take off those extra couple of seconds, uh and take
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  Speaker 1: a play away from him. Cool. I appreciate it.