1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: Are you guys doing today? How's it going? Yeah? I 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: was what what was the lesson frict areas on the 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: on the punt return? Should he have a fair caught that? Yeah? 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: Just you know, it's the same thing I told him 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: as the play happened. The one thing about being a 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: punt returner you have to be patient. Uh. You gotta 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: let plays come to you. You can't chase plays as 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: a punt returner. So uh, you know, that's just you know, 9 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: young guy making a mistake, you know, trying to make 10 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: a play in a moment. I want to do well 11 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: forced team, and uh, you know, it's like anything else. 12 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 1: I tell him all the time. Sometimes you win, sometimes 13 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,639 Speaker 1: you learn. You never lose because he wanted that situation, 14 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: because he learned a valuable experience. You know, don't chase place. 15 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: Let him come to you. And hey, Thomas, you guys 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: Barrel Cooper this week. Um, I don't know if he'll 17 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: be up, you know, for you guys on Sunday, but 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: just you know, tell us what you know about him, 19 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: tell us what you think he might You know, Um, 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: Ferrell Cooper, former Pro Bowl returner. It's been around the league, 21 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: veteran guy, dependable, uh, hard working guy from from all 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: reports I've received from other places, he's been uh and 23 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: he's all ball. You know, I can see it from 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: the first day you walked in. So we look forward 25 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: to working with him. Can any time you get a 26 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: chance to work with a guy like that that's you know, 27 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: a professional and all ball all the time, you know, 28 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: you you embrace that up to don't LEVI Hey, Mac, 29 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: the Chiefs had no return yards in that game punt 30 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: or kickoff. Obviously, I'm sure that was part of what 31 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: your plan was. What do you give up to do that? Like, 32 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: do you have to are you kicking the ball shorter 33 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: to make sure that they're not having return yards? Like 34 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: obviously if you could have no return yards every game, 35 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: you would, So I imagine there's something you have to 36 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: trade off there to make sure they don't have anywhere 37 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: turn yards? Right, Um, the trade it off is potentially 38 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: you know, tackling them inside the twenty, you know, on 39 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: a kickoff. But you know you're weighing your options there. 40 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: You know it's one of those deals. Okay, one of 41 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: the perennial top five, if not top return group in 42 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: the league with explosive returners. Are you you know, you 43 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: weigh the chances of then potentially making a game break 44 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: and play as opposed to just taking them completely out 45 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: of it with a guy like Graham, you know, who 46 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: can kick balls out of the back of the end zone. 47 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: You know, so you know, you you weigh your options 48 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: on that. You know, punt wise, obviously you just gotta 49 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: go cover punts. Uh, you know, Riley has to give 50 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: us a good direction. We had to get down there 51 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: and go cover. Got to give us hanging the distance 52 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,839 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, that's just the reality of that's 53 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: how you create that situation where you have zero point 54 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: yards and uh, you know, I was proud of our 55 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: guys for doing that and to be able to execute, 56 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: you know, at that level, forcing the fair catch with 57 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: the gunners and being able to put them in situations 58 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: where they're they're scrambled a little bit trying to find 59 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: another way to make a play in the kicking game. 60 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: But I assume Riley, I assume Riley's last punt at 61 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: the end was not designed to be that short. Like no, no, no, 62 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: He'll tell you, just like everybody else would tell you. Man, 63 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: it just wasn't a good punt by him. But you know, 64 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: it's like anything else. You know, sometimes the ugly stuff 65 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: is good. You know, he couldn't get to it, and 66 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: and you just never know. These guys are explosive there, 67 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: you know, McCall, mccum, McCole, Hardman. You saw what he 68 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: did on offense. I mean, anytime the guy gets his 69 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: handleball in space, they're explosive. You know, they have explosive returners. 70 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: So uh, you know, that's just part of the that's 71 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: a part of football. You know. Swartz, Hey, Thomas, how 72 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: you doing Hey? How you doing good? Good? What is 73 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: the teaching point for Cam Brown? You know you mentioned 74 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: Riley's last kick, which you probably would want it a 75 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: little deeper, and then you don't want to five yard 76 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: penalty to give them five more yards to set up 77 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: for a game when he field goal? Um, what's the 78 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: teaching point on that play? Yuck? You know the ball 79 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: is coming directly back into his field of path. I mean, 80 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: as he's coming back into the field of play. Uh, 81 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: you know, the balls literally coming right at him. I 82 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: think it was just a reaction thing. And then as 83 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: soon as he did, you know, he's screwed up. So uh, 84 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: you know, we talked about this stuff all the time. 85 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: We drill it, we go through it, and it's just, 86 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: you know, stuff happens, you know at times. I mean, 87 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: is not to give a kid an excuse, but that's 88 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: just that's the way football is. Sometimes Sometimes the young 89 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: players are gonna make mistakes and he's still learn he's 90 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: and he's learning and winning in that situation because he 91 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: knows the next time he's in that situation, you can't 92 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: do it. So there's no excuses, you just can't do it. 93 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:58,239 Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, take one more. Cannaby Thomas Um quick question. 94 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: I mean, have you ever had to run of returners 95 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: ending up on you know, hurt so much? Uh Actually, 96 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: my first year here, we went through a few of them. Uh, 97 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: you know, that's football. It happened. Sometimes. You know, you 98 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: get guys that get nix and soft tissues and broken bones. 99 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's football. You know, It's it's unfortunate. 100 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: But we're going through our our run here of guys, 101 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: so we just got to make sure that, you know, 102 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: we can keep them up right. We don't have to 103 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: have any bones broken or soft tissue injuries. It's you know, 104 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: it's just the luck of the draw sometimes, you know, 105 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: this is football. It ain't tennis or golf, you know, 106 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: It's it's a collision sport, you know, and and sometimes 107 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: those collisions are gonna called injury. So try and do 108 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: the best you can what you have and and just 109 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: you know, coach up, guys, protect themselves. But sometimes that 110 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: stuff happens. You're offering, has it pay? I wish? You know, 111 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: my my youngest boy right now is going through uh 112 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: rehab of an injury that he had literally you know, 113 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: trying to put his hand down to brace himself, ah 114 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: on just carrying the football. I mean, that's just you know, 115 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: and and he's been dealing with it for a while. 116 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: It's almost been a whole year now. So it's just 117 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: sometimes you have those injuries and then this game that's 118 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 1: just when you play it, you know, when you walk 119 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: out on that field as a possibility that you know, 120 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: injuries can occur. So you just gotta keep plugging along. 121 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: You're trying to get back healthy and go back at 122 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: it again.