1 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: The people in Seattle are going nuts over. Michael Dixon 2 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: is really developing into a weapon. But he is also 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: a trick shot artist. He is a fun guard and watch. 4 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: He decided to bring out the Australian Dion, a drop 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: kick kickoff rookie punter Michael Dixon. Michael Dixon is doing 6 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: things play by play announcers and the rest of us 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,319 Speaker 1: have never seen. You tell me the last time you've 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: ever seen a drop kick kickoff in the NFL. You 9 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: got a pretty good reaction for the twenty two year 10 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: old Seahawks punter. So did this drop kick? I found 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: out that if you hit a drop kick through the 12 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: goalpost that it was three points. The other day at practice, 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: I hit I hit one. I hit a couple from 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: like sixty sixty yard field goals. Yeah, you think we 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: could see that. I don't know. It's it's different in 16 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: the pressure environment, people running out of you. If I 17 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: get the chance to practice, it will with people running 18 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: at me and all that, then maybe one day. Born 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 1: in Sydney, Australia, Dixon has been kicking a ball as 20 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: long as he can remember, first playing soccer, then Australian 21 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: rules football, starting at the age of twelve. We were 22 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: always just uh, just kicking around a bowl really and 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: just loved love sport. Did you ever imagine you'd be 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: playing American football when you were growing up in Australia. 25 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: Not really, but I mean I always had. It was 26 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: always in the back of my mind because I had 27 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: had a bigger kick than everyone else that I played 28 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: football with. Despite that booming kick, Dixon's dreams of going 29 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: pro and Aussie rules football came up short when he 30 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: was not drafted in Australia. Decided to just say, let's 31 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: just say what punning is about. Let's see if if 32 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: there's any program in Australia or if there's a coach here. 33 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: There was a program called Pro Kick Australia designed to 34 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: turn Australian athletes into college and NFL hunters. Pro Kick 35 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: sent this video of Dixon to the University of Texas. 36 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: The Horns were hooked. You had never kicked in American football. 37 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: You started in March, and by September that year you 38 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: were the starting punter for the Texas Longhorns. Yeah. I 39 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: no idea what I was doing. Really, I just kind 40 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: of kind for Dixon winging. It worked. In twenty seventeen, 41 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,239 Speaker 1: he averaged more than forty seven yards per punt, earning 42 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 1: him the Ray Guy Award, given to the country's top 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: punter in college football, becoming a unanimous first team All American. 44 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: In his final game of Texas, Dixon pinned ten of 45 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: his eleven punts inside the fifteen yard line. Named MVP 46 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: of the Texas Bowl, becoming only the second punter ever 47 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: to be named MVP of a bowl game. He skipped 48 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:57,119 Speaker 1: his senior season. Michael Dixon punter Texas, and the Seahawks 49 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: moved up to draft Dixon, grabbing him in the fifth round. 50 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: He brings to us techniques that we haven't seen people 51 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: even try. Are you still learning the game? Are you 52 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: still learning the rules? I'm learning it all the time. 53 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: I'm always asking the long snaffo anyone, what's going on? 54 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: What happened? Why is that? What penalties? That? Never heard 55 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: of that before? And you are an embarrassed ask do 56 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: you think you get a pass because you're Australia. Yeah, 57 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: I definitely get a pass because I'm Australian, But I 58 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: play Madden as well. Does we get set for football 59 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: at Century Link Field here in Seattle? Does that help? Yeah? Definitely. Oh, 60 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: it's not done that. I'm still figuring out rules every day. 61 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: Dixon realizes playing in the NFL brings Heyton pressure to 62 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: perform another spectacular kick from the rookie a weapon. He 63 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: balances those expectations by reflecting on his past, remembering the 64 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: kid who love to kick. Try and act like the 65 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: NFL isn't is pressurized and isn't as crazy and high 66 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: level as it is. I kindly just tell myself that 67 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: it's just like another game. Let's kick it. Good to 68 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: just kick it. Just don't complicate it. You're catching a 69 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: ball and you're kicking it.