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Speaker 1: Hey, coach, how are you doing good? How you doing? Coach?

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Speaker 1: Peppers named special team captain? Um, I guess you're looking

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Speaker 1: at him. Is he gonna be involved with the Plumbtury

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Speaker 1: game a lot? You know, Pep being named especially Tames

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Speaker 1: captains is an all encompassent thing. Um, He's He's involved

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Speaker 1: in all phases of special teams, whether it be primary backup.

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Speaker 1: So the reason why he was named captain's cousin's leadership

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Speaker 1: ability and how he works every day and who he

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Speaker 1: is as a person. So yes, he is going to

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Speaker 1: be involved heavily this year. Thanks Tom Rob. I think

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Speaker 1: we asked you a little bit about this last week

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Speaker 1: Team Mac or two weeks ago when we spoke to

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Speaker 1: you about you know, using starters in those roles and

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Speaker 1: how it seems like, um, this coaching staff isn't going

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Speaker 1: to shy away from that and putting putting guys who

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Speaker 1: are on the field for normal you know, one to

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Speaker 1: three downs on on there for fourth sounds. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's what it is. I mean when you look

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Speaker 1: at the history, uh just this organization and then where

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Speaker 1: Joe was raised. I mean Bill Belichick coach special teams

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Speaker 1: here and on the punt team. Here was a guy

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Speaker 1: named Lawrence Taylor. You know, so if a guy named

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Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor, who's arguably the greatest football player of all time, uh,

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Speaker 1: at least some defensive side can play on special teams.

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Speaker 1: I don't see it being it's it's a part of

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Speaker 1: playing the game. I mean that's it's part of winning.

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Speaker 1: Like you want to put your best foot forward in

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Speaker 1: every phase. You just don't want to spend all of

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Speaker 1: your time on one phase or the other, because that's

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Speaker 1: not how this game is played. It's it's a complementary game.

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Speaker 1: You have to play complimentary football and underway, the only

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Speaker 1: way you're gonna do that is that you have to

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Speaker 1: play all three phases and play your best players on

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Speaker 1: those phases. Thank you, m Patty. Hey, Hey, how you

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Speaker 1: doing bad? I'm doing well. I'm just wondering, is there

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Speaker 1: an advantage to maybe rotating or changing up your return

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Speaker 1: ers or punt return, kickoff return, or in an ideal world,

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Speaker 1: would you rather have the same guy doing that consistently?

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Speaker 1: I think consistent consistency is key in anything. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously you would like to have a guy performing at

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Speaker 1: a high level and doing it all the time. But

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Speaker 1: you know, again, like I talked to you guys before,

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Speaker 1: my job is to adjust. So whoever is back there,

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Speaker 1: whoever is the guy that's best for that week, that's

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Speaker 1: the guy that we go with. Thanks Coach Douggie, he's up.

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Speaker 1: Mac Hey, there you go. Good. Uh. We haven't really

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Speaker 1: talked to a lot about Graham and there was no

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Speaker 1: preseason games. I'm curious, you know what your soften in camp?

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Speaker 1: And he looked like kind of back to pre injury

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Speaker 1: for him. Looks exactly that way. I remember when we

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Speaker 1: went you know, Uh, he had a great year you

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Speaker 1: know last time I was with him. So, uh, nothing's

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Speaker 1: changed with him. He's he's getting back into his groove. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's enjoying himself. He's just kind of acclimating himselves to

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Speaker 1: the building and how we operate here and look for

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Speaker 1: great things from And I have a bigger picture question

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Speaker 1: which I should have asked you before you're in game week,

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Speaker 1: but you know, better late than never. Uh. You seeing

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Speaker 1: Joe a special teams coordinator get a head coaching job,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you have aspirations down the road. I mean,

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Speaker 1: does that does that inspiration to you're anything? Is that

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Speaker 1: what's that mean to you? To see a special teams

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Speaker 1: coordinator to get this job. It's awesome. Many time you

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Speaker 1: can see one of one of our colleagues as far

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Speaker 1: as being special Tams coordinates get a job, it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's been such a great experience for me.

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Speaker 1: I've learned more football in the last six months. Probably

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Speaker 1: I learned learned in the last ten years. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this guy has been outstanding. Uh and I just I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see him grow as a coach. You know,

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Speaker 1: I said, no, I said that before, but he's he's

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Speaker 1: I can't reiterate it enough. He's just been awesome. Why

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Speaker 1: do you think more special teams cornators don't get tabbed

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Speaker 1: for the head job. I think it's just a stigma

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Speaker 1: what we do. People just think we kept we coach

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Speaker 1: kickers and punters, and you know, they don't understand that

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Speaker 1: we coach all fifty three actually now it's sixty nine, right.

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Speaker 1: We coach all positions in all players, and there's no

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Speaker 1: And the stream coaches because we're with the guys every day,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, but it is, it's it's a business,

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Speaker 1: you know. We we just got to make sure when

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Speaker 1: to be in that position? You know, that's that's part

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Speaker 1: won't You won't know until you get out there and

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Speaker 1: see it done lot. And that's that's the hard part

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Speaker 1: We've got some good candidates and we just gotta see

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Speaker 1: who's gonna make plays. That's it, I guess. The other

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Speaker 1: keeping the guys on the practice squad? Uh? Fresh, ready

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Speaker 1: It's they're like, they're no different than the guys that

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Speaker 1: and we rotate the guys through and guys are getting work,

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Speaker 1: So it's just that's part of the process. That's that's

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Speaker 1: make play for us. When you talk scout team reps,

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Speaker 1: those reps go to Casey. So does that take away

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Speaker 1: on practic squab it for as long snappers. So they

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Speaker 1: they take you know, our own individual reps table there

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Speaker 1: it's it's not a it's not an issue. We just

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