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  Speaker 1: There's always there's always a competition. You know. We have
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  Speaker 1: those guys both out there kicking all the time. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they always compete with each other. It's a good opportunity, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know for James to kick as well. And um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we love Riley. Riley has done a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 1: I love to have those two kicks back. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, you know, as upset as anybody about the
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  Speaker 1: way he played on against Kansas City, but um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we love Riley. I think Riley's doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job. He's done some great kickoffs, he's done great
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  Speaker 1: on field goals. He's done a good job for us.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, the on site kick was fantastic. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's done really really well for us. So uh, as
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  Speaker 1: far as what were staying with Riley, we love him.
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  Speaker 1: Is James been kicking well enough and practice that if
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  Speaker 1: he'd be ready. Yeah, yeah, James done a good job.
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  Speaker 1: He's done a really good job. You know he's he
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  Speaker 1: missed kicks absolutely like every other kicker. But uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: James has done a really good job for us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love him in the room. He's been great, great
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  Speaker 1: addition obviously from the beginning of the season. We were
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to get him. Um, yeah, we love him. We
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  Speaker 1: love him. He's a he's a he's a great young
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  Speaker 1: kicker for sure. When you started we started talking about
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  Speaker 1: that's above my pay grade. On the decision to do
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  Speaker 1: it and when to do it. Um, it's something we
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  Speaker 1: talked about earlier in the week, I said, we as
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  Speaker 1: in Coach Peterson and I, Um, you know, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about this was a possibility. Um, it's a normal thing
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  Speaker 1: that we come up with of is it a fake,
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  Speaker 1: is it an on site kick? Is it some play
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  Speaker 1: that could potentially steal a possession? Um? So I presented
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the week. But you know, you do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those things, and and and it has to
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  Speaker 1: everything has to fit into place. And what I mean
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  Speaker 1: by fit into places, you know, as we get into
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  Speaker 1: I have to present it, well, it's gotta look good,
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  Speaker 1: Coaches gotta like it. Then we have to execute it
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  Speaker 1: in practice. And and that's one thing we did. As
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  Speaker 1: the week went on, it got better and got better
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  Speaker 1: and and and you know, and the thing was was
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  Speaker 1: all the details that thing. You know, it's a to
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  Speaker 1: the average fan, it's just you know, an on site kick.
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  Speaker 1: But there's so much little details. You you have to
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  Speaker 1: have a perfect kick. You gotta have everybody on side.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's a big thing. I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people overlook. So we emphasize that. You know, we emphasized, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be excited, you're gonna if it's called, you
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  Speaker 1: can't jump offsides or it's all for nothing. So again,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much details that go into that lining up correctly.
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  Speaker 1: All those little things that we had, we had worked
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  Speaker 1: through and then every day we did it, it got
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  Speaker 1: more confidence, the players believed it. Coach started going you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think he started really getting uh to liking it. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's until you really felt comfortable. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a it's a big task to to to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to start off a game, uh, you know, to for
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  Speaker 1: coach to call that's pretty good. It shows you the
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  Speaker 1: confidence he has in our guys and trusting our guys
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  Speaker 1: to make that kick, to line up correctly, do all
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  Speaker 1: the details that it needs to execute. Something like that
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  Speaker 1: Star was just scouting the appointed because you're because like
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  Speaker 1: and didn't where did She's are like digging hard. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a little bold. I mean, it's part of
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're playing a really good team. You know
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  Speaker 1: that's a very good team, and uh, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: so you're always you know, you're looking for those possibilities
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  Speaker 1: or can you steal a possession, but you're also looking
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  Speaker 1: you know, scheme wise and and and do we fit
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  Speaker 1: do we have the guys that can make that play? Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's part of it too. So I think it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a it's everything, and we're always looking for those opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, is that a fake punt? Is that
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  Speaker 1: a uh? You know reverse? You know, all those little things,
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  Speaker 1: can we do them? Can we execute them to to
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  Speaker 1: to perfection? Because one little thing is wrong on it?
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  Speaker 1: It's all for nothing, it doesn't you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a mistake. Really, you guys have lost the toss
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  Speaker 1: for you still got to try that the first time
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  Speaker 1: he scored for the beginning and a half. We honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it was one of those things that coach really liked. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we were hoping to start off the game with it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that wou'd be a question for a coach, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest you he he really really liked it. He
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a good opportunity. But we didn't get
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  Speaker 1: into details if we didn't get at the opening toss
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, but it didn't get called after
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  Speaker 1: you won this THSS at that point. Yeah, I knew
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  Speaker 1: about it before the game. I knew about before the game. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I did verify with him before we kicked off. Does
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  Speaker 1: he still want it? Um? And so something we talked
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  Speaker 1: about on the sideline, you know, to verify do you
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  Speaker 1: still want it? Yeah? Absolutely so? UM, Yes, how many
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  Speaker 1: times doesn't need to see something like that work or
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  Speaker 1: practice before he's coming. I mean, i'd like to see
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to think we're a hundred percent and and
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's consistent. But that's something we do. We
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  Speaker 1: do in our walk throughs, we do in our practice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's all the little things we have to do,
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  Speaker 1: and we have to prove it to him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to prove. We have to prove we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be clean because we don't. You know. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: last thing you do is make a mistake on something
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  Speaker 1: like that and you give the ball to that offense
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  Speaker 1: at the fifty uh. You know that's devastating to start
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  Speaker 1: out the game and all of a sudden they go
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  Speaker 1: down and you know, get great fuel position and potentially
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  Speaker 1: score to start the other way and it goes it's counterproductive,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So um, I, like I said, you got
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  Speaker 1: to be consistent as you can, so coach as comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as how many times they need to
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  Speaker 1: see it, that's a that's a question for the head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Probably called like that to start a game, you kind
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  Speaker 1: of just hold your breath. Yeah it was. I was
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  Speaker 1: nerved up a little bit. You know. That's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a cool game way to start a game. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to try again. Trust our guys. You know that we
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  Speaker 1: got such a good group. You know, these guys play
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  Speaker 1: their butts off. They work hard every day. It's such
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  Speaker 1: good players. It's really cool. The built into the culture
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  Speaker 1: of special teams here. Uh you know in the you know,
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  Speaker 1: start in the off season, but going in a training
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  Speaker 1: company to now these guys are these guys are all
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  Speaker 1: in on it. Man. I love our guys and um,
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  Speaker 1: they believe it and they care about it, and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: that shows up on you know for you guys, because
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  Speaker 1: we really we love watching it. You know, they love
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  Speaker 1: playing with each other and they do a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool. To see kick like that or conventional
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  Speaker 1: aloes that kick where everybody knows it's coming. Which one
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  Speaker 1: is more difficult to execute? I mean I would say
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  Speaker 1: probably if they know it's coming, you know, because they
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  Speaker 1: got their his team out there, that's a little bit different. Um,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's it takes a lot to start
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  Speaker 1: out of game. You know, it takes a lot to
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  Speaker 1: start out of a game when nobody's expecting it. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said a second ago, is it has the
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  Speaker 1: potential to go the other way. Um, if you if
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  Speaker 1: you're not clean and you don't execute and all those
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  Speaker 1: things that, Um, you know, that's a big that's a
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  Speaker 1: big play that could go the ops away if you don't,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not clean, getting more time on defense? Is
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  Speaker 1: that impact anything that he does with you which has
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  Speaker 1: been fantastic for us. He's a he's a very very
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  Speaker 1: good football player. Um. You know, as far as him
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  Speaker 1: playing more, I have to see how that plays out.
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  Speaker 1: When that plays out, potentially that could it could affect
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  Speaker 1: his special teams. But right now, he's as good at
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  Speaker 1: players we have, you know, on special teams. He's a
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  Speaker 1: he's a good player. He's got great instincts, good balance,
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  Speaker 1: good speed, just got great hands to get off blocks.
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  Speaker 1: He's a he's a really good player. Um, he's a
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  Speaker 1: great addition obviously through the draft. Um, but he's just
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's one of our better players. And he's
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  Speaker 1: just he's elevated our special team a ton deep practice.
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  Speaker 1: Not not tipping me when you get to call everybody, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: part the office doesn't get up to get over there
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  Speaker 1: because they didn't get everybody was aware of it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we tried to make it look like as
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  Speaker 1: as normals as you could, and if you can, not
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  Speaker 1: only the players on the field, but I try to
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  Speaker 1: stand in the same spot I normally would, and and
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  Speaker 1: you try to make it as you know, as as
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  Speaker 1: normal as a kickoff to start a game as you can.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, obviously a little bit a little more
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  Speaker 1: nerves for me than than a normal kickoff. Probably Cover
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  Speaker 1: che plays as as well as the Animal season less
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  Speaker 1: few games and Sunday especially punt cover is really good
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  Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, I mean starting with the punt, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Logan has done a fantastic job, but our gunners down
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  Speaker 1: the field, Chris Claybrooks has done really well. Daniel Thomas
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  Speaker 1: has been great those guys have started it out and
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  Speaker 1: then the covers down the field has been really good.
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  Speaker 1: It's a uh, like I said, it's a group that's
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  Speaker 1: really it's important to them so that they're they're they're
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  Speaker 1: not only getting off blocks and running it down the field,
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  Speaker 1: staying in their lanes, all those little details. And we
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  Speaker 1: worked so much, but but it shows up on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: so not only in the punt coverage, but on kickoff too.
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  Speaker 1: We've been we've been, we've been, you know, fortunate to
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  Speaker 1: make some really cool plays and and tackles inside the
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  Speaker 1: twenty that have hopefully started you know, started our defense
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  Speaker 1: out in a good position, uh and trying to flip
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  Speaker 1: those fields, you know. And like I said, I think
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  Speaker 1: the guys that just really bought in and really they
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  Speaker 1: just care about it. So it's a it's them playing
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  Speaker 1: really well. It's it's it's nothing that I've done or
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  Speaker 1: you know, my assistants done, Luke Thompson, but these guys
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  Speaker 1: just play their butts off. Because on that one labor,
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  Speaker 1: he thought he had them off fun and Chris barely
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  Speaker 1: touched it, but he's down there making a hustle blade
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep it bound and everything, So it's like
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  Speaker 1: nobody's ball right here. Yeah, And actually it's funny. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL came back out later and said that it should
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  Speaker 1: have been down there inside the inside the five. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things that's unfortunate. Uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: it is. But what can I tell our guys anything different.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep playing hard. Those plays come those, keep playing hard,
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  Speaker 1: and the next time we you know, next time we
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  Speaker 1: down it inside you know, inside the five. Keep playing hard.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. You can't fall to guy when they're playing
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  Speaker 1: their butt off, they're flying down, they're playing hard, and
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  Speaker 1: if the ball doesn't roll our way or it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: quite exactly work out the way we want to, it'll come.
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  Speaker 1: Those those plays are coming and and and it'll work
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  Speaker 1: out good. Appreciate you guys, Thank you