1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: How much of a challenge has been you know, have 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: injuries to you know, both your specialists. 3 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 2: Now, yeah, it's tough to deal with any injury, but 4 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 2: that's the fact of the matter is in this league, 5 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: that happens, and we just got to be prepared for 6 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 2: whoever's out there to perform at their best. It's our 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: job to get the guys enough reps in practice to 8 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 2: give him enough confidence to go out and execute in 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: the game. 10 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 3: Is there anything that could have been done to prevent 11 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 3: Jamie's injury? No, I mean he just got hurt in practice. 12 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 2: Have you ever had to deal with anything like this 13 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 2: where you're trying to bring in guys to work out 14 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 2: and like constant kind of turnover and like days before 15 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: the game. You know, I think people would look at 16 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 2: it like it's it's happened a good amount this this season. 17 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 2: But yeah, the fact of the matter is every NFL 18 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 2: season I've been part of those those workouts that those 19 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 2: injuries happen, that we have to stay connected to, you know, 20 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: getting guys ready at multiple positions. 21 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 3: What do you Is there anything you could pinpoint with 22 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 3: Greg missing the field goals and his struggles really in 23 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 3: that game. Yeah, he he just uh. 24 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,639 Speaker 2: The first one hit a good ball, but his target 25 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: line was a little off, and then the second one 26 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 2: he just pulled it the next. 27 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: Night, Greg Greig, starline you've worked with had so much troubles. 28 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: Is that just a welcome to the Meadowlands type of 29 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: thing or is it a technique? 30 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: I mean, any outdoor stadium, there's always wind that you 31 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: have to pay attention to, especially as you get into 32 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: these months. 33 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 3: So you know, we're not going to make excuses due 34 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 3: to the weather. 35 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 2: Our our objective as always to go and go out 36 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 2: there and make kicks, and that's that's what we need 37 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 2: to do. 38 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter whether it's a snowy game or anything. 39 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: You know, when we send out our field goal unit, 40 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 2: we got to come out with points. 41 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: Is the operation part of that? 42 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: I mean not only having a pretty new kicker, but 43 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: you also have a new holder and what was that process? 44 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 3: That's a fair question. 45 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 2: But Matt, you know, has held in this league, he's 46 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 2: playted in this league, and he's held you know, a 47 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 2: lot of football, So you know, nothing nothing with the operation. 48 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 3: We're not going to make excuses again. We got to 49 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 3: go out and make the kicks. 50 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 4: How do you think he did too news Giant stput 51 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 4: was a. 52 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: Punter for showing up later in the week. I thought 53 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: he did a solid job. 54 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: I know he wants to have a couple of punts back, 55 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 2: but I thought he ended up, you know, averaging a 56 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: good ball and then he had a really good ball 57 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: that he needs to bottle that up and and keep 58 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: producing that one, the one outside the numbers with high 59 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 2: hang and good distance. I know that's his objective every time, 60 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 2: and that's a standard that hold himself to. 61 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 3: And the same here is that is that? I mean, 62 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 3: he's a punter. 63 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 4: He's punted in the league. 64 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 3: You know, he has a good address of he's a punter. 65 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 4: So when you get him in, you know, is it 66 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 4: is it a philosophy thing? Is it just kick it 67 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 4: the way you can? Is that we like to do 68 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 4: it this way here? So you know, you know what 69 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 4: I'm saying. Is it just it was his job. It's 70 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 4: just a punter, just you know, kick it high and. 71 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 3: Kick it far. Yeah. 72 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: So obviously, as as a coach, you want to make 73 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: the transition into a new system as seamless as possible. 74 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 2: It helps when a veteran guy comes in because he's 75 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 2: been in those situations, And I've coached against him before, 76 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 2: so kind of had an idea of, you know, what 77 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: type of punts he'd hit, and you know, when he 78 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 2: got in here, we just talked about you know what 79 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: did you call this? 80 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: And this is the same as this. 81 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: So the communication element, you're you're basically expediting that from 82 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 2: my standpoint of just making it simpler for him. And 83 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: then just obviously, like I said, the experience of knowing 84 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: what type of punts he hits allowed me and him 85 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 2: to have good communication on the sideline and. 86 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 4: Does he have to then you know, spend extra time 87 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 4: with the coverage guys and everything, and it kind of 88 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: you know, be in unison on what you know, this 89 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 4: is what I like to do, you know, you know 90 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 4: what I mean, because it's once he kicks it, he's 91 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 4: not going to tackle somebody else. 92 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, not as much as you'd think. 93 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: I think the singular focus for him is hitting a 94 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 2: good ball with hang time matching the distance. So it 95 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: doesn't matter what punter it is. We always, you know, 96 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: challenge our punters to hit a hang time that matches 97 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: the distance. So for example, if we want to hit 98 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 2: a forty five yard punt, we would want more of 99 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 2: a four point five second hangtime or above. If we 100 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 2: hit a fifty ard punt, we'd want a five point 101 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: zero second hangtime or above. 102 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 3: And that's really what he's focusing on. 103 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 2: Whether he's putting in the middle, left, right, any territory 104 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 2: that is that is singular objective. And then you know, 105 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 2: our coverage is tied into I mean, they got to 106 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: cover the ball wherever it's at, you know, so we 107 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: just got to have good fundamentals in terms of that. 108 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: Did you know did you did you know Matt before 109 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: lunch on Saturday? 110 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 3: I guess it was. 111 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: I you know, I spoke to him pre game a 112 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 2: couple of times, but not enough to say that, you know, 113 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 2: we were buddies or anything, but you know from my 114 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: brief time with him. Again, you bring in a guy 115 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: like that, he's a true pro, understands the the way 116 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: this league operates, and everything that we've asked of him. 117 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 2: He's came in and tried to do it to the 118 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 2: best of his ability. 119 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: And just to get back to Gregor's second, you know 120 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: he's struggled a little bit with those kicks. Does that 121 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: give you pause at all when you send them out 122 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: here or when you're a situation and Dave says, you know, 123 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: what do you think should. 124 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 3: We kicking a kick from here? Yeah? 125 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 2: I mean, but before that point, obviously, Greg had a 126 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 2: little bit of success, and he's had success in his career. 127 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: He holds himself to a high standard, and I hold 128 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 2: him to that standard as well. He knows he wanted 129 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: to make those kicks, and the true pro and him 130 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: because he's such an awesome pro, he will evaluate the 131 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 2: film and then he'll be very intentional and deliberate with 132 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 2: his practice habits of Megan cern that doesn't happen again. 133 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 2: You know his objective and I'm telling you just because 134 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: he is a true pro, he's had good percentage across 135 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 2: the league. He wants to consistently make kicks, regardless of 136 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 2: where it's I don't know, feel it could be a 137 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 2: chip shot, it could be a sixty yarder. He knows 138 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 2: when he's out there, his singular focus is to make 139 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 2: that kick. 140 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 5: So You've had some interesting injury situations with your specialists 141 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,679 Speaker 5: this year, but I'm not sure anyone could truly prepare, 142 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 5: although you probably will for what happened with Chicago with 143 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 5: their long snapper. Just curious from afar. When you see 144 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 5: something like that, do you come into this week and say, 145 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 5: you know what, if we had this amount of time 146 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 5: getting an extra long snappers, ready, we're gonna go that 147 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 5: much further knowing that they were essentially down to their 148 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 5: third long snapper in that game. 149 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we every week, we we do practice that, 150 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 2: we practice all the flex positions and we make certain 151 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 2: that we have a couple options there. 152 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 3: Uh. 153 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 2: This is not necessarily a reminder to do it because 154 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 2: we do it every week, but you know, a good 155 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 2: a good opportunity to show the guys is this is 156 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 2: why we do it. This is why we practice every 157 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 2: week because there's opportunities that you know, Chicago was in 158 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 2: that that guy had to go in and execute and 159 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 2: you know obviously did a nice job. 160 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 3: So more so a good remind. 161 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 2: For the players, like, yeah, this is why I have 162 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: to stay connected to it. 163 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: What happened with Uh you have to call the time 164 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: out on the punt coverage? There twelve men on the 165 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: field there. 166 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, so there there was a confusion of what personnel 167 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: was out there. 168 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 3: That's on me. 169 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: I got to make sure the right personnel is out 170 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: there to where we're always having eleven on the field, 171 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 2: it starts with me