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  Speaker 1: He's done a three preseason games. Is not the biggest
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  Speaker 1: body at work, but they have there's a set, there's
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  Speaker 1: a website where you can get special team stats for
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  Speaker 1: the preseason. So you guys, let the NFL and average return,
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  Speaker 1: kickoff return and you're the only team in the top
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  Speaker 1: ten and kickoff return defense and kickoff returns. So does
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  Speaker 1: that tell you that you guys make pretty big progress
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  Speaker 1: on the understanding of this rule.
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  Speaker 2: I hope, I hope that's the case. We worked really
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  Speaker 2: really hard all off season was studying, getting feedback from
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  Speaker 2: players out there on the field, just actually doing trial
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  Speaker 2: and air type stuff, and then obviously getting it into
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  Speaker 2: the preseason and seeing what looks like on a real
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  Speaker 2: game and real live, full speed action. You get more
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  Speaker 2: test out of it and more knowledge to it. So
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  Speaker 2: we I'd say we did a pretty good job, you
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  Speaker 2: know what we could learn from it. But I think
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  Speaker 2: the regular season is going to be completely different. Every
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  Speaker 2: team is going to have a lot of wrinkles that
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  Speaker 2: they've held back as well as US. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a great sign, but it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: any factors necessarily of where we're headed. Uh, come, come
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  Speaker 2: this week, really it generally looked how you thought it
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  Speaker 2: would look you had to kick it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I mean by head, but I mean that
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  Speaker 3: you've been surprised by anything. Or is it looked how
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  Speaker 3: you thought?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it's just it's it was so new
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  Speaker 2: that nothing looks familiar to me.
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  Speaker 3: I guess would be the best way to say it.
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  Speaker 2: I think the schemes are uh, the schemes are different,
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  Speaker 2: some of the concepts are different, but it still goes back.
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  Speaker 2: We're still using the same techniques, uh, that we've always used,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what we believe in as a philosophy on
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  Speaker 2: kick return and kickoff. We're still using those same terms
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  Speaker 2: and technic techniques. So we're still trying to do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the same stuff. Now we have to tweak
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  Speaker 2: some different uh, tweak some different stuff with it.
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  Speaker 3: But for the most part, uh, it's kind of what.
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  Speaker 2: I thought and uh, like I said, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a lot more test coming up in the next uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the next four weeks or so of things
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  Speaker 2: that I think I know, but there's gonna be some
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  Speaker 2: unknowns and how do we handle those things and how
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  Speaker 2: do we adjust to those things? So, because there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of unknowns. You know, I'm looking across the league
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  Speaker 2: at teams kick returns and even kickoff schemes, and there's
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  Speaker 2: things I haven't even shown them. So those are we're
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  Speaker 2: learning as we go across the league, just like everybody
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  Speaker 2: else is doing. Everyone's doing the exact same thing. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna we're gonna learn so much every week.
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  Speaker 4: So he's touching on those unknowns with the fact that
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  Speaker 4: the across the league, the average is around the twenty
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  Speaker 4: eight yard line so far, and that's just what we've seen.
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  Speaker 4: Any thoughts that when the regular season starts they just
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  Speaker 4: want to kick out of the back of the band zone
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  Speaker 4: just give you that SVVR.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's that's a good possibility that happens.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it depends on scheme philosophy as an organization.
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  Speaker 2: It also depends on returners. You know, if I like
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  Speaker 2: our returners, there's a good chance teams would would be
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  Speaker 2: willing to do that. I hope that's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to, you know, to cover some kicks. I'd
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  Speaker 2: love to get the returns going as well. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the exciting part. That's what we want to see that's
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  Speaker 2: what the fans want to see. That's what we want
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  Speaker 2: to coach, that's what we love, that's what we love
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  Speaker 2: to do, that's what we're here.
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  Speaker 3: So we're hoping that's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: But I think because that drive start is you know
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  Speaker 2: out there at the twenty eight yard line, teams potentially
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  Speaker 2: could do that.
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  Speaker 5: You feel good about cam Little's command of the kickoff,
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  Speaker 5: you know, with the new rules of his ability if
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  Speaker 5: you say we want to get this one out of
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  Speaker 5: the end zone or we want to get this one
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  Speaker 5: inside the return area, his command of being able to do.
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  Speaker 2: That great, great command for it. He has great control,
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  Speaker 2: the ability to go directionally in both directions as well
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  Speaker 2: as sprinkling some of these other alternative kicks as well
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  Speaker 2: as bomb him out the back of the end zone
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  Speaker 2: on command pretty well. So talented leg strength, the ability
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  Speaker 2: to do all those different kicks, and very talented kicker
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  Speaker 2: that is a worker that is willing to work at
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  Speaker 2: it and get better every day. And so those are
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  Speaker 2: the things he does all the time. And very confident
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  Speaker 2: where he's at.
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  Speaker 5: And how excited are you for that first field goal
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  Speaker 5: for the rookie.
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  Speaker 3: Very excited.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is to see that first one go
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  Speaker 2: through for him will be a great you know, be
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  Speaker 2: a good feeling for him. But the thing about Cam
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  Speaker 2: nothing waivers. It hasn't since the moment we drafted him.
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  Speaker 3: You know. The funny thing you look back at.
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  Speaker 2: That preseason, the first kick we sent him out there
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  Speaker 2: is a sixty two yarder and we didn't even think
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  Speaker 2: twice about it.
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  Speaker 3: We just said, yeah, go for it. He wanted it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what it looks like. You know.
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  Speaker 2: He unfortunately missed it, but he hadn't waivered since then.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't seen We haven't seen any different from him.
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  Speaker 2: So confidence with him and himself is tremendous, and we
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  Speaker 2: have just as much or more in him. So again, nothing,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm excited to see him. I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 2: him out there.
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  Speaker 1: If you delve into Miami.
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  Speaker 3: This week, yes, I have had They got speed all overs.
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  Speaker 1: That gonna be true of their return game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know exactly they're gonna put back there.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of the unknown of who they're gonna put
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  Speaker 2: back their Week one, but they have so much speed
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  Speaker 2: at all positions. They'll have good returners back there. They
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  Speaker 2: always do and always will. So we could see any
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  Speaker 2: of those guys, to be honest, but they're all good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Brax and Barrios is a on their roster
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  Speaker 2: and he's been a Pro Bowl and All Pro. So
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  Speaker 2: they got him and they got some of those good
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  Speaker 2: receivers as well that potentially could be back there.
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  Speaker 4: Circling back to camp, you attempted the sixty two yard
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  Speaker 4: are in the preseason. What in the regular season, when
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  Speaker 4: the game's alive, where is that range that you think
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  Speaker 4: you maybe will feel comfortable based on what you've seen
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  Speaker 4: in the practice schools with him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he has a great leg strength, so I
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  Speaker 2: mean I think those longer kicks of sixty two sixty
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  Speaker 2: three yards are are possible and and and that's a
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  Speaker 2: credit to him. I think it's also, uh, when you
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  Speaker 2: get down to those right before half situations where it's
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  Speaker 2: essentially a longer kick and you're willing to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You could see some of those longer kicks when it's
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  Speaker 2: a normal first quarter, you know, field goal. You potentially
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  Speaker 2: not going to send him out there for sixty two yarder,
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  Speaker 2: but that's just league wide. Uh, you'd obviously play a
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  Speaker 2: little more conservative and probably pump that or or go
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  Speaker 2: for it on four down.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't have Deuey for a while, and and Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Was is still out. Who's who's going to be in
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  Speaker 1: those spots on coverage and uh right now, yeah punt
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  Speaker 1: and kickoff? How do you feel about.
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  Speaker 3: Where you are?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean losing Dewey Was was tough. We're hoping
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  Speaker 2: to get him back soon. You know, I know he's
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  Speaker 2: out for a bit, but uh, he's in all the
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  Speaker 2: meetings and super helpful as far as you know, leadership
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  Speaker 2: that he's always brought.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Thomas has been out as well. Daniel's a great
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  Speaker 2: player for us. We are hoping he's able to play
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  Speaker 2: this week, you know, and hopefully all of practice starting
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  Speaker 2: on Monday is hopefully the goal. We'll see what that
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  Speaker 2: looks like next week. But filling in, we have a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of good players. Tim Jones has been playing gunner.
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  Speaker 2: Jarion Jones has been really really good. Antonio Johnson is
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  Speaker 2: willing to play special teams, so those guys, uh, as
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  Speaker 2: much as they play on defense. We have a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of guys that are kind of filled in. Uh, even starters,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I got starters wanted to play special teams
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  Speaker 2: for US.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Andre Cisco is filling some of those rules.
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  Speaker 2: So, Uh, there's a bunch of guys that are willing
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  Speaker 2: to help us, and especially those starters.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to make any kind of a case
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  Speaker 1: to keep Tim Jones?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: With a cuts on game.
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  Speaker 2: We love Tim Jones. Tim Jones has been fantastic. He's
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  Speaker 2: a super consistent you know, just is in the right
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  Speaker 2: place at all times.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. He's tough, physical.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, He's a guy that you can match up really
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  Speaker 2: well because he's so versatile. He can play gunner outside,
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  Speaker 2: playing the vice, but also match a linebacker because he's
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifteen pounds on the inside on pump
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  Speaker 2: return and kick return.
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  Speaker 3: So you have the.
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  Speaker 1: Lobby Doug heat Moore. Did Doug make that?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was I think it was an organizational decision.
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  Speaker 2: I think would be the Uh, you know, they like
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  Speaker 2: him on offense. He's done a good job over there
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  Speaker 2: and he's been fantastic for me. So I think when
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  Speaker 2: you're putting the roster together, I think that's some of
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  Speaker 2: the decisions. The special teams is is a part of
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  Speaker 2: it that is a kind of like him a.
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  Speaker 1: Wide receiver, you know, wide receivers wanting to get out
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  Speaker 1: there and catch the ball. Sports of how what's in
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  Speaker 1: his personality enables him to park the ego and do.
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  Speaker 3: What he does for you.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's just that's him. He's a team first guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's willing to block on on offense. He's willing to
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  Speaker 2: catch the ball if they need him too. But he's
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  Speaker 2: probably fine blocking on offense and doing all those those
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  Speaker 2: dirty work stuff for me on special teams. So that's
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  Speaker 2: just the character he is. He's just again lucky to
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  Speaker 2: have him. He's a he's a really good player that
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  Speaker 2: that that's a big part of what we've been doing
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  Speaker 2: in the last three years and he's he's he's a big.
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  Speaker 3: Part of it. As far as a return unit of
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  Speaker 3: pump return unit.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, do you have any I guess clarification, confirmation, clarity
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  Speaker 4: on who's going to be your return between Parker, Washington Duverna,
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  Speaker 4: now anyone else.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Devin duvernas a former All proh Parker has
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  Speaker 2: done a fantastic job for us. But Devin Duverna's you know,
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  Speaker 2: his stud and he's a great returner from you know,
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  Speaker 2: going back to his Baltimore days. And uh, that's who
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  Speaker 2: we'll hope back there. Thanks, thank you guys, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thanks