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Speaker 1: D Williams on kickoff return made that change last week,

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Speaker 2: And what you make that move? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: No, we just want to give a younger player in

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Speaker 3: this league who's shown a skill set to do it

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Speaker 3: an opportunity. He definitely has the right skill set to

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Speaker 3: do it. He has a lot of juice, speed, a looseness,

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Speaker 3: and he's done a nice job in the brief time

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Speaker 3: try and give him some opportunities to be able to

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Speaker 2: What happened on the two big returns allowed the kick

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Speaker 2: one kickoff one punt I think, yeah, yeah, so let's

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Speaker 2: start with the punt number one.

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Speaker 3: Mis hit on the punt, we still got to be

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Speaker 3: able to cover that and retrace, and it just came

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Speaker 3: down to a ton of miss tackles. We had five

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Speaker 3: missed tackles on that. So we got to do a

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Speaker 3: better job as a group. I gotta do a better

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Speaker 3: job as a coach in terms of tackling fundamentals, which

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Speaker 3: is going to be a huge point of emphasis this week.

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Speaker 3: But ultimately, wherever the ball goes, we got to have

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Speaker 3: her the right spacing distribution and be able to bring.

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Speaker 2: That guy down on the kickoff.

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Speaker 3: You know, one thing that we got to do a

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Speaker 3: better job of is seeing the ball being caught, not

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Speaker 3: only for the get off portion of it with the

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Speaker 3: new rule, but also seeing where the ball is getting kicked.

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Speaker 3: You know that effects where you're trying to track the

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Speaker 3: ball and everything. But ultimately, when it comes down to

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Speaker 3: this new kickoff rule, we got to be able to

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Speaker 3: get off blocks that strike, disengage work on edges, user handwork,

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Speaker 3: and then ultimately you want population around the ball.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna do a better job of that this

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Speaker 2: week in.

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Speaker 3: Terms of emphasizing the tools it takes to get off blocks.

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Speaker 2: And talking about this new rule and didn't know what

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Speaker 2: it hapened our fourteen weeks and what are the biggest

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Speaker 2: changes of differences you've recognized from it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think one of them. There's always

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Speaker 3: been a thought of how much of the old return

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Speaker 2: And I think that's across the league.

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Speaker 3: I think everybody started somewhat vanilla in terms of what

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Speaker 3: teams were asking their returners to do and group to

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Speaker 3: come back, and you know, understanding that the flavor of

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Speaker 3: you're starting to see the return game evolve a little

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Speaker 2: How much you've seen more returns? Like you it's always

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Speaker 2: the thing the weather and the late in the season.

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Speaker 2: Are you seeing more returns?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it certainly feels like there's more returns,

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Speaker 3: you know, because we obviously, you know, watch our stuff

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Speaker 3: league and it feels like there's more returns weekly, and

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Speaker 3: there's more variety, and you're starting to see certain situations

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Speaker 3: in which, you know, you're starting to see teams cover

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Speaker 3: more kicks obviously because of the weather, but just more

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Speaker 3: teams that hadn't been covering kicks cover kicks in general.

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Speaker 1: Is there a surprise element to that too? You mentioned

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Speaker 1: the weather obviously, but just the idea of when you've

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Speaker 1: shown for fourteen weeks that trend of what you you know,

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Speaker 2: That.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, from our perspective, we've always you know, whether you

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Speaker 3: you're returning it or not, because if that ball looks

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Speaker 3: You're like, okay, it's going to be in play, be

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Speaker 3: ready to return it. I don't think anybody ever really

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Speaker 3: goes out there saying this ball is out the back

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Speaker 3: there's just no way to guarantee that.

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Speaker 2: You point, it a.

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Speaker 1: Little funny that this lay in the season.

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Speaker 3: When the ball does land in the landing zone and

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Speaker 3: it's not returned, offenses are walking on the field saying,

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Speaker 3: why are we starting on the twenty? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: Or why is it placed on the forty? You know,

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Speaker 3: So I think there is a little bit of shock.

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Speaker 3: Why is that my drive drive start average on this return?

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Speaker 3: So there there is an element of surprise.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 3: I think that happened a little bit earlier in the

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Speaker 3: itself with what the you know, what the rules are

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Speaker 3: in terms of that, Well.

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Speaker 1: Graham did, that's that's something, right, So what's the what's

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Speaker 1: the risk there of because you're really close to the sideline?

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Speaker 3: The forty, Yeah, they're they're certainly risk with it, and

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Speaker 3: it depends how aggressive you want to get with those liners.

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Speaker 3: It's something we certainly work on a ton and you

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Speaker 3: know a returner still has to be able to track

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Speaker 3: in the field that the returner definitely has the ability

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Speaker 3: still to field those those become a little bit harder

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Speaker 3: just because the time to get under the ball.

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Speaker 2: Is a little bit more narrow.

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Speaker 3: So it's certainly something you know you want to try

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Speaker 3: of being able to hit that ball isn't as high

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Speaker 3: a true miss hit that ends up going ob So

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Speaker 3: there's a fine line. But if you can sneak ten

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Speaker 3: yards on one of those kicks, I think it's a

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Speaker 3: huge advantage. With the lie of having the indoor stadium,

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Speaker 3: is it is booming through.

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Speaker 2: The end zone.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean they've had the ability to return kicks

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Speaker 3: and cover kicks, and you know, obviously being indoors, the

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Speaker 3: weather's not a factor. So I don't think we can

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Speaker 3: go into this game thinking that we could do either

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Speaker 3: have to be ready to return kicks and Case is

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Speaker 3: going to have those guys do the same.

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Speaker 1: Thing obviously with the returner. I mean throughout the off

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Speaker 1: and then Emir comes in early in the year. What

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Speaker 1: does he brought to that position for you guys? I

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Speaker 1: it seems like he you know, brings a little flair,

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Speaker 1: but just in.

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Speaker 2: Terms of you know, do you feel like.

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Speaker 1: You found something here with a returner that's been able

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Speaker 1: to be there for.

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Speaker 3: You this year? Yeah, I think Kamir has done one

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Speaker 3: heck of a job. The time he set foot in

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Speaker 3: this building. You know, he's truly treated it like this

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Speaker 3: is everything to him. He does have good energy, so

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Speaker 3: it does elevate everybody around him. He's one of those

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Speaker 3: energy givers that when you're around him, you hear him talk,

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Speaker 3: you see the juice of practice. He has that type

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Speaker 3: of impact on his teammates, and I know his teammates

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Speaker 3: want to block for him knowing that he has the

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Speaker 3: ability to spring one whether it be on punt return

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Speaker 3: or kickoff return. So I mean he's definitely done a

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Speaker 3: nice job for us, and he's a guy that's proven

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Speaker 3: that he could do this in this league at a

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Speaker 3: high level for a long time, so I expect him

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Speaker 3: here to have a good, long career