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Speaker 1: Tony Pollard's one hundred yard return, just how it set up,

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Speaker 1: what you saw there, how it was executed. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: execution and the way Tony ran, the track of kind

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Speaker 1: of how we drew it up was outstanding. Mouik Turner

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Speaker 1: because of a couple of things happening. Made a really

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Speaker 1: And I was really proud of it because we were

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Speaker 1: really hard on kickoff return to to get to the

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Speaker 1: got past the fifty, but we talked about how can

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Speaker 1: we finish it, and um, it was really cool to

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Speaker 1: of straining and Tony getting free was Um, it was

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Speaker 1: worth a lot of work. I went happened on the

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Speaker 1: And then on the fifty nine yard or it was

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Speaker 1: one of his best hits, he said of his career

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Speaker 1: as far as like contact, snapping holder perfect. He said,

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Speaker 1: unfortunate because I mean he had that thing dialed in

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Speaker 1: do you what do you make that? Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that anytime a kicker misses it right. I think they're

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Speaker 1: So when Greg miss is left, to me, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to miss but it's a good sign

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Speaker 1: because he's not he's not kind of swinging at it shyly.

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Speaker 1: You know, he takes a rip at it, and that's

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Speaker 1: when he's at his best, is when he swings at it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm more concerned about a miss right, which tells

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Speaker 1: He was kind of baby in it. But when he

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Speaker 1: misses left, you know that happens, and you know, at

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Speaker 1: least he's swinging at it. And the PT he just

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Speaker 1: But you don't want any missus, but you know, just

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Speaker 1: more question on the kickoff return now you mentioned is

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Speaker 1: Is that what he's supposed to do is he's supposed

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Speaker 1: that just him the staying active and finding work. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You know, some things we talk about, UM trying to

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Speaker 1: So I'm really proud of him for that because it

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Speaker 1: with the gentleman who asked about the altercation on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: From my perspective, you know, um Kelvin Joseph was blocking

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Speaker 1: sometimes boys will be boys, and they were just rough housing.

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Speaker 1: I never got information to me why there wasn't injection.

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Speaker 1: It didn't sound like either got through a punch. There

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that earlier. But with Tony Pollard is

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Speaker 1: involved in the run game. Um it was zeke knees

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Speaker 1: I think it does have a little bit of an impact.

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Speaker 1: Tony's really smart. You know, when he has a offensive

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Speaker 1: really believe Tony loves returning kickoffs. Were sure love having

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Speaker 1: whenever he wants it. But I think he's really cognizant

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Speaker 1: He just really heads He locked in guy all the time.

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Speaker 1: So when I was looking at him, his value was

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Speaker 1: him last night to keep going. A long way to go,

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Speaker 1: That's pretty pretty unreal. What did you make of first

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Speaker 1: Brian was the one who just brought up a couple

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