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Speaker 2: Say, man, you got a joint uh noe?
Speaker 3: Not on me, Man, It'd be a lot cooler if
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Speaker 3: to the coaches, Phil Steele's gonna join us coming up
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Speaker 3: five and one oh seven five f on the Andy
Speaker 3: Moore Automotive Group Potline joining us now in a kicking
Speaker 3: battle with Spincter Sraider and he was fantastic at the
Speaker 3: end of last season for sure. Blake Groupie joins us
Speaker 3: now again. On the Andy Moore Automotive Group potline. Hey, Blake,
Speaker 3: thank you for the time. How are you can't complain?
Speaker 2: We're fresh out to practice fields out here. I think
Speaker 2: we're on day six. I think, so everything's going well
Speaker 2: and join the energy and I'm ready to keep building.
Speaker 1: All right, knock on some wood here? Are you still perfect?
Speaker 2: I believe so?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, hopefully this conversation doesn't ruin that for you.
Speaker 3: But because I don't know if I'm the luckiest dude
Speaker 3: around anyway, Hey, I want to talk about your situation.
Speaker 1: It is rather interesting.
Speaker 3: You came in late last season and just absolutely caught
Speaker 3: fire a franchise record sixty yarder that could have been
Speaker 3: good even further. I think in Seattle, if you go
Speaker 3: back and watch the tape on that. What's your feeling
Speaker 3: right now going into a competition, Blake, and especially a
Speaker 3: competition with somebody you know so well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, you know, I feel like my mindset
Speaker 2: is uh, I feel like I have a good mindset,
Speaker 2: like my you know, I'm in a good spot here.
Speaker 2: I Uh, I really enjoyed, you know, building with these
Speaker 2: guys and with Luke and Rigo and the whole rest
Speaker 2: of the team. I mean, that's what it's all about
Speaker 2: here at training camp, you know, but I would say
Speaker 2: that you know, just you know, going into the competition, it's,
Speaker 2: you know, we know the nature of it. I guess
Speaker 2: as a as a kicker, and and uh, how slim
Speaker 2: the margins are. So it's you know, you got to
Speaker 2: go out and put your best foot forward every day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you got five weeks of camp and only a handful
Speaker 2: of practices and preseason games to make your mark. So
Speaker 2: you uh feel like I go out there and show
Speaker 2: you can.
Speaker 1: Do That's just Blake groupy with us.
Speaker 3: There are not a lot of career circumstances in which
Speaker 3: you feel you have to be perfect. This is certainly
Speaker 3: your career choice is one of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. It's a uh you know, we all
Speaker 2: know what we're signing up for when it when it
Speaker 2: comes to the kicking in the National Football League. So
Speaker 2: it's you know, that's the standards, the standard, and guys
Speaker 2: are only getting better around here. So we're gonna you know,
Speaker 2: keep putting them through the uprights and and you know,
Speaker 2: keep preparing for the season.
Speaker 3: I got to ask you this, in your opinion, is
Speaker 3: there any run nor reason to why you can be
Speaker 3: perfect as of right now, how you can look so
Speaker 3: good at the end of last year but also go
Speaker 3: into with your final season in New Orleans a funk.
Speaker 3: Because here's what I'm considering, and you can correct me
Speaker 3: if I'm wrong. You're getting used to operationally speaking your
Speaker 3: guys and being out there, but you were thrust into
Speaker 3: it late in the season to where you were getting
Speaker 3: used to things on the fly. And I'm assuming you
Speaker 3: were also used to the folks around you late in.
Speaker 1: Your stance in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: So is there any run nor reason as to why
Speaker 3: you can get into and then out of a funk
Speaker 3: or be nearly perfect, if not perfect, so easily in
Speaker 3: the game of place kicking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, here's a lot that goes into it,
Speaker 2: you know, being being with a you know, a better
Speaker 2: operation here with Luke and Rego and and guys that
Speaker 2: I really, you know, truly worked well together and and
Speaker 2: you know are going to make it for as easy
Speaker 2: as me, as as easy on me as possible. You know,
Speaker 2: I've always felt that, you know, I go out of
Speaker 2: here and do my thing, and when I can, you know,
Speaker 2: I can control and I can do what I can do.
Speaker 2: Control what I can control and and the rest will
Speaker 2: you know, take care of itself. So you know, I've
Speaker 2: been in a good little groove, you know, when I
Speaker 2: was in the kod groove and in training camp last
Speaker 2: year as well, And there's just there's so much that
Speaker 2: goes into it at our position, and so you know,
Speaker 2: I really you know, stuck to my stuck to my
Speaker 2: guns and trusted myself and my routine and and uh,
Speaker 2: you know it paid off last year. But every years
Speaker 2: of New Year, you got to go out and put
Speaker 2: the work in and and you know, earn it every
Speaker 2: single year.
Speaker 3: How's your relationship with Spencer? Given the fact you guys
Speaker 3: know one another so well, yet you're competing for the
Speaker 3: same professional gig here, it's been it's been.
Speaker 2: Doing good that you can't can't ask for anything, you know,
Speaker 2: I better got to go against you got to. You
Speaker 2: got a guy that I've known for you know, two
Speaker 2: or three years now. Unfortunately you know we're little Irish
Speaker 2: on Irish action out here in Indianapolis here, but uh yeah,
Speaker 2: you know State, he's a great guy. I couldn't ask
Speaker 2: for anybody better do against. And and I know it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a high level competition and I don't have
Speaker 2: to bring my best every single day.
Speaker 1: That is Blake Groopy with us.
Speaker 3: He joins us via the Andy More Automative Group hotline
Speaker 3: perfect so far in camp and Westfield?
Speaker 1: What's your operation? Like? What are the dues and the
Speaker 1: don'ts for you? Pre kick, pre snap?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know you don't really worry about the don'ts. You
Speaker 2: just worry about the dudes. I think that's the first one.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, I have a routine, whether you know,
Speaker 2: all the way from whether it's you know, in a
Speaker 2: practice setting my warm up and then working yourself into
Speaker 2: the getting ready for practice, or whether it's coming from
Speaker 2: the sideline on a game. You know, it's all it's
Speaker 2: all different. Everybody has a set of routines that kind
Speaker 2: of works for them. So I just kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: go one, check the boxes off, work through my routine,
Speaker 2: and and I know when I'm coomfortable and I've worked
Speaker 2: through that routine that you know, usually good things happen.
Speaker 3: Not a lot of five seven one fifty six dudes
Speaker 3: of the NFL roaming around, are there?
Speaker 2: No, there's not too many. But I'll hold it down
Speaker 2: for the rest of them.
Speaker 3: I'm going to I have nicknamed you the Ponykeg because
Speaker 3: I kind of, yeah, well, I know it's weird, but
Speaker 3: uh so, powder Keg is what you are as a
Speaker 3: kicker because I don't know where you find it, brother,
Speaker 3: but you find it, you find the power. So that's
Speaker 3: part of the powder Keg and the culture of the
Speaker 3: pony part of it too. I would guess this. You
Speaker 3: come from a not so huge community in Missouri. To me,
Speaker 3: you've probably been proving it to everybody either that questions,
Speaker 3: your stature, your abilities are all the way around your
Speaker 3: entire life, and this is probably just right another step
Speaker 3: in that process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I I honestly agree. I you know, nothing
Speaker 2: about the position I'm in is new to me. You know,
Speaker 2: I've just kind of the way I've I've found my
Speaker 2: way throughout the years is kind of working through it
Speaker 2: and and find my way.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: That's just I guess kind of tied it into what
Speaker 2: what Carly's messages this year is everything's about finding way.
Speaker 2: So you know, going from a walk on and to
Speaker 2: Arkansas State to you know, playing starting there for four
Speaker 2: years and transfer another dame, going undrafted. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just kind of part of my story is is kind
Speaker 2: of going against the odds. And so that's just kind
Speaker 2: of the position I found myself in. And and if
Speaker 2: you want to have some success, you don't really you
Speaker 2: don't really have a choice. So it's part of it.
Speaker 2: You're out here, you know, trying to make it happen
Speaker 2: and trying to help the team.
Speaker 3: I would I would guess that this is just how
Speaker 3: your bill once you found when did you find out
Speaker 3: at what point of what age that you were built
Speaker 3: to prove people wrong like this? When did you discover that?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I mean, I would say twenty twenty nineteen in college
Speaker 2: is kind of my first year of having some success
Speaker 2: and seeing it kind of payoff. But I mean, I've
Speaker 2: along the way, I've I've messed it up just as
Speaker 2: many times as I've done right. And and that's part
Speaker 2: of the learning process. So as long as you're you know,
Speaker 2: continuing to uh to you know, add your add your
Speaker 2: repertoire and continue to get better and work through those
Speaker 2: situations you know, just still make the same mistake twice
Speaker 2: and and uh you know, continue to build, continue to
Speaker 2: better yourself and and try to set yourself up for
Speaker 2: it to uh, you know, have success.
Speaker 3: Blake Groupie joins us. He's on the Andy Morro Auto
Speaker 3: Motive Group hotline. So when you joined the team last year,
Speaker 3: and especially when you found that success, I became I
Speaker 3: don't know, this can't be original.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a groupie groupie. Have you had those before? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard it.
Speaker 2: I've heard that a couple of times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, groupie groupie. That is me and a lot of
Speaker 3: the listeners right here, because you look at the effect
Speaker 3: you had on this team that was searching late in
Speaker 3: the season. Situationally speaking, it was it was profound and
Speaker 3: as you mentioned, you were just kind of thrust right
Speaker 3: into it, but got the job done and got the
Speaker 3: job done right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it was Uh, you know, I was excited,
Speaker 2: uh coming up here and coming to a team that
Speaker 2: you know, we were well we were building to or
Speaker 2: trying to make the playoffs, trying to trying to get
Speaker 2: it rolling. So I was just trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: do my part and uh and at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, just set up the team for success. You know,
Speaker 2: we we have a big role, but you know it's
Speaker 2: also a small one at the same time. So anything
Speaker 2: that I can do to help anybody else, regardless if
Speaker 2: it's on the field off the field, you just try
Speaker 2: to come in and and uh, you know, do your
Speaker 2: thing and and uh be there for the team.
Speaker 3: Does the game slow down for you when you go
Speaker 3: out there and kick? Does it do do you try
Speaker 3: to slow it down yourself? At least your mindset your
Speaker 3: frame of mind to slow it down, to make sure
Speaker 3: you're as comfortable as possible during that process.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you can. There's there's things you can
Speaker 2: do to prepare it. So it's all in preparation. So
Speaker 2: you know, you just go into it. You you you know,
Speaker 2: work throughout the week and and familiarize yourself with everything
Speaker 2: and the conditions and the stadium. There's everything. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of little stuff that goes into kicking and so
Speaker 2: but that's our job to take you know, take uh
Speaker 2: you know, advantage of opportunities and and uh you know,
Speaker 2: account for all that stuff. So it's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just in the job description. You come up and
Speaker 2: get comfortable in the in situations where nobody else is
Speaker 2: so part of it.
Speaker 3: Is there any place where you would rather not kick,
Speaker 3: just the place you don't like or have never liked.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's definitely a few out there that are
Speaker 2: more difficult than others. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you only got a choice, so you should to go
Speaker 2: out there and uh and and make it happen.
Speaker 3: When you were in high school, were you better football,
Speaker 3: baseball or soccer?
Speaker 2: Uh? Definitely not baseball.
Speaker 1: Uh Uh what positions? What positions?
Speaker 2: Second baseman?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, okay, we were.
Speaker 2: We were a role player there, but uh, soccer soccer wise,
Speaker 2: in Missouri, soccer football balls both in the fall. So
Speaker 2: I would go to soccer practice and play throughout the
Speaker 2: week and they'll kick a couple of balls on Thursday
Speaker 2: afternoon and play on Fridays. So it Uh we made
Speaker 2: all state and balls, so it's hard to pick it too.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, we decided to go to football route,
Speaker 2: and I'd say it's paid off.
Speaker 1: What choices did you have collegiately and soccer, Blake.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, it was mostly a bunch of you know,
Speaker 2: smaller schools, you know, some P two s and some
Speaker 2: you know, not not big schools. Definitely not Division one
Speaker 2: for soccer. But I took that one Division on one, Uh,
Speaker 2: walk on offer and and uh ran with it.
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the World Cup? I did?
Speaker 2: It was it was fun, you know, connecting with you know,
Speaker 2: watching your friends and your family that are I guess
Speaker 2: not as a fan, more friends but that you know
Speaker 2: aren't aren't digging to soccer, watching them kind of get
Speaker 2: around on it and uh and and really starts to
Speaker 2: pay attention. That's always fun.
Speaker 1: This is yeah, this is I was good to watch.
Speaker 1: This is Blake griffing with us.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm gonna let you run here in a second,
Speaker 3: but I want to ask you about Sedalia, Missouri.
Speaker 1: That is your hometown, correct? Yes?
Speaker 3: The ragtime music? Is that what it's most noted for?
Speaker 3: Did I looked that up accurately?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some Yeah, I remember learning about that. You know,
Speaker 2: rag Time it started Scott jopp One all that and
Speaker 2: so yeah, that's that's one of the that's one of
Speaker 2: the prizes to.
Speaker 1: So did you grow up a Missouri fan?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, my.
Speaker 2: Home sounds about an hour from Columbia, So I grew
Speaker 2: up from the Zoo fan and and uh cheering on
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. So but those days are over?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well let me yeah, no, well yeah, big time over.
Speaker 3: Let me say this though, I believe I saw this
Speaker 3: that there is a former wrestler that I absolutely loved
Speaker 3: back in the day that is from your hometown. His
Speaker 3: name is Ox Baker. You ever hear that name from
Speaker 3: your hometown? The wrestling Ox that was. And let me
Speaker 3: tell you this, Blake Mabe, you're much younger than I am,
Speaker 3: but he was a big deal around here in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: He was a big deal wrestling wise, back when, back
Speaker 3: when I was growing up. But no, that's that's cool
Speaker 3: as hell to see that. Hey, congratulations. Now, I don't
Speaker 3: want to mention, but I also had Matt gay On
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, uh, during training camp. So
Speaker 3: that's why I want you to knock on wood when
Speaker 3: you're done with this conversation.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I don't mean that you're superstitious. Maybe you are, maybe
Speaker 3: you aren't, but make sure you cover We want to
Speaker 3: cover our asses here, Okay, So knock on some wood
Speaker 3: when you're done with this.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll be just I'll be just good.
Speaker 2: Fine, I'll control it.
Speaker 1: I can, so I'll be all right.
Speaker 2: Had a guy.
Speaker 3: Hey, we appreciate you, We really like watching you your
Speaker 3: fun and certainly congratulations on what you've accomplished so far
Speaker 3: and keep on keeping.
Speaker 2: On brother, Yes, sir, we'll be really craciure to happening.
Speaker 3: You got it's play groupie right there, the Anymore Automotive
Speaker 3: group hootline five six five seven one fifty six.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's something that we had talked about.
Speaker 3: And obviously the groupie groupie and the nickname stuff is
Speaker 3: is all kind of silliness by me. But you could
Speaker 3: tell one thing and one thing about that. Actually two
Speaker 3: things you can tell you guys are ready. You could
Speaker 3: tell that there haven't been a lot of in depth
Speaker 3: conversations about him in his life, which is fine, but
Speaker 3: you can also tell with that that's all business. And
Speaker 3: that's how it has to be in a competition. In
Speaker 3: a situation like that, it has to be all business.
Speaker 3: You're not even a member of the team. This is
Speaker 3: not even competition against the opposition as it was at
Speaker 3: the end of last year. This is competition against the
Speaker 3: guy that you've known and kicking for a special teams
Speaker 3: coach and Brian Mason that you know.
Speaker 1: So that is all business and that's.
Speaker 3: The approach, honestly, that is the approach that is necessary
Speaker 3: across the board for the colts that are trying to
Speaker 3: accomplish some things that simply put, they have not accomplished.
Speaker 1: The results have not been there. That's the TAC to
Speaker 1: take