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Press Pass | Heath Farwell: "Nothing but trust in our operation." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, that's it's one of those unfortunate plays.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talked so much about communication, and anytime
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  Speaker 1: those balls are on the ground, we're always you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to communicate, Uh, you know, communicate to our other
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  Speaker 1: guys across the field to kind of get off the
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  Speaker 1: field because you hate to have those turnovers to put
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  Speaker 1: our defense in a tough position. But in that circumstance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I sit there on the sidelines trying to think,
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  Speaker 1: how could I coach it different? How could I what
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  Speaker 1: could I tell him? The punt was so short. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing I can tell him. You know, he's doing
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  Speaker 1: his job. He's doing a good job, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: a good job block in his his gunner, And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's one of those unique circumstances where it
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  Speaker 1: was such a short punt. Uh. You know, Jamal was
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  Speaker 1: running up there trying to communicate, but he's thirty yards away. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's tough to communicate that. And I think it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those unfortunate deals. I don't think there's much I
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  Speaker 1: can he can do different, or I can do different
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  Speaker 1: with that. When you look at the next point that
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  Speaker 1: Tom picked up to the cross midfield didn't. Did you
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  Speaker 1: think that that touched Chris at all? Well? I was
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  Speaker 1: too close for comfort and on the field I was
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  Speaker 1: not sure either, um. And one of the first thing
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  Speaker 1: I asked t C was, Uh, what did you think?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I didn't know, and I thought the best
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  Speaker 1: move was to to to pick it up and run.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't blame him for that as well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that's kind of such a unique play. I
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  Speaker 1: think because you don't see these punters are so good,
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  Speaker 1: you rarely see punts that short that are this concerning. UM.
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  Speaker 1: But it definitely as that game progressed, Um, I had
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  Speaker 1: to really think how did I want to play it?
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  Speaker 1: And was there You know, it kind of takes away
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  Speaker 1: potentially bailers and some of those other things that have
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  Speaker 1: more guys down the field. It prevents you from having
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  Speaker 1: because you're you're concerned. It is a concern because those
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  Speaker 1: are game changing plays that could they could be a
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  Speaker 1: big impact on the the second one hit Chris at all,
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  Speaker 1: It didn't It didn't hit him, but that was a concern.
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  Speaker 1: There a word or word for field like when that Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of universals Peter, and that's what everybody uses Peter,
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  Speaker 1: Peter Peter, all right, yeah, you don't change that from No.
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  Speaker 1: I think it goes back a million years ago. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's what it was called when I was playing, and
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  Speaker 1: it's still called pretty much universal across the league. More.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, upbeat, where were you when Riley was kicking?
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  Speaker 1: And what were your emotions when you saw it go through?
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  Speaker 1: I was, well, first off my position. You know, some
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  Speaker 1: of the coaches you know, were so confident they started
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  Speaker 1: taking off headsets and and all that stuff, where I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not moving a bit. I didn't move from my spot,
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  Speaker 1: from my stance. Um. I did not talk to him
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  Speaker 1: like I wouldn't on any other kick. Wanted to treat
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  Speaker 1: it just like any you know, every other kick he's
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  Speaker 1: had in uh, you know, in the first first game
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  Speaker 1: of the regular season. Um, and that's exactly what he did. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was you know, it was out there.
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  Speaker 1: I was nervous, of course, but nothing but trust in
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  Speaker 1: our operation from you know, from Ross to Logan with
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  Speaker 1: the hold and then the kick. He's just been so
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  Speaker 1: consistent this season. Uh, you know that we just trust
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  Speaker 1: him in those x and those situations, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: even when they iced them. It was you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was almost laughable to me. Um, you know, as far
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  Speaker 1: as that's part of the process, the other team is
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  Speaker 1: gonna do that and then just get back to what
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  Speaker 1: we do. Let's just get back to to to the
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  Speaker 1: normal kick, the normal everything do it. It It played exactly
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  Speaker 1: like you do every other kick, and it's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he did. And uh to see it go through. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously any game winners are huge, Uh that alone in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. So just the game on the line. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's a big deal for the team,
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  Speaker 1: big big deal for the organization where we're headed. It
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  Speaker 1: was another give us another opportunity this week to be
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  Speaker 1: out here, you know, practicing with each other, playing this week.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's a cool deal for the team. The
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  Speaker 1: only time of Robbins must two in one games last
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  Speaker 1: Gangas City game. Since then, stray game didn't pointing, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: how he's bad. I think he just got back to
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  Speaker 1: what he does. You know, he's been a consistent kicker,
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  Speaker 1: you know over his short career. Uh, and just getting
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  Speaker 1: back to he you know what he does and it's
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  Speaker 1: just his just all his fundamentals, all his footwork, all
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  Speaker 1: his technique and just getting back to the details of
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  Speaker 1: it um and he's just been great for us. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's not very many kickers across the league of
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  Speaker 1: hit you know, a percentage like that to end this
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  Speaker 1: season and then clutch kicks in the playoffs is is
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  Speaker 1: big and just builds his confidence and and the team's
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  Speaker 1: confidence in him. You know, as it turns out that
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  Speaker 1: he gets the Titans the GQ goals in the second
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  Speaker 1: half of you won by four, even with it, he
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  Speaker 1: has to play that you need those six points as
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  Speaker 1: much as you needed Johnson six isn't Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: those are big. I mean special teams was a big
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  Speaker 1: impact on that game. We had some good returns by Jamal,
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  Speaker 1: great job by those guys, but those those field goals
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  Speaker 1: were big in that game. And uh, you know, coming
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  Speaker 1: down in the playoffs or or a game like that
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  Speaker 1: where the divisions on the line, special teams has a
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  Speaker 1: big impact because they're they're all within three or seven
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  Speaker 1: one score games and you know they're all those points
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  Speaker 1: are so big and so it'll be in big impact
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  Speaker 1: on this game as well. We gotta make all our kicks,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta cover the field, we gotta do all those
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  Speaker 1: things because special teams is is gonna be a huge
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  Speaker 1: portion in this game. Is there something about the temperatures
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night that the ball didn't seem to be carrying
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  Speaker 1: as focused? Even Logan didn't have that usual you know,
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  Speaker 1: juice on on his plants either. I'm just wondering to
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  Speaker 1: get the cold temperatures. Yeah, anytime, anytime there's colder temperatures,
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  Speaker 1: the ball is not gonna fly as well. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't flying as well for those guys as you know,
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  Speaker 1: for their team as well. So I think that's part
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  Speaker 1: of it. I mean, as the as the temperatures get colder,
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  Speaker 1: even more wind all the weather as a factor. But
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  Speaker 1: the reality is, uh, both teams have to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna have some potential weather this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: They have to kick and punt it just like we do.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I always look at uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: our goals each week is to beat the other, you know,
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  Speaker 1: beat the opponent in their net versus our net and
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  Speaker 1: our coverage versus there's because it's each week is different.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if it's a eighty degree day and Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: is way different than a forty degree day with a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of breeze or wind. You know, your nets
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be different, the coverage gonna be different, everything
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be completely different. Or would you have been
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  Speaker 1: comfortable Riley kicking a field goal in anything but a
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  Speaker 1: game ending situation? That those are you know, uh, schematical
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we talked about obviously, and it changes within
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  Speaker 1: the game and depending on the weather, depending on the
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  Speaker 1: direction we were going. Uh, the wind was blow in
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  Speaker 1: that direction, and so we felt comfortable he had some
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  Speaker 1: more range. The good part about it was we had
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  Speaker 1: that big, that big, long twenty five yard run that
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  Speaker 1: really helped us out a ton. Uh, he had some
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  Speaker 1: more legs. We could have gone, you know. Uh, we
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  Speaker 1: felt comfortable a little further out. But the beauty of it,
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  Speaker 1: the offense did fantastic put us in that great position
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  Speaker 1: to get there.