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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Cowboys Hour. Welcome to Victory Monday

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Speaker 1: because it was a great weekend and the Victory Monday

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Come out of there bye, and we are

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Speaker 1: the best kicker in football, Brandon Aubrey sitting right over here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, no, thank you, thanks for coming out.

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Speaker 1: We want to as always welcome all of you who

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Speaker 1: Dallascowboys dot com. So we'll wave to you. Nice to

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Speaker 1: have you folks with us. So I was when I

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Speaker 1: knew you were going to be coming, Brandon Aubrey. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about what a great time we had with

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Speaker 1: got to thinking about how much your life has changed. Oh,

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Speaker 1: in that period of time, you are a Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: a visit today, ten weeks today, ten weeks today, Colton Aubrey,

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Speaker 1: which is why Brandon's lovely wife, Jen, who was here

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Speaker 1: last year when he came and shared the hour with us,

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Speaker 1: is at home. She's otherwise occupied. So let's start with that.

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Speaker 1: How in ten weeks, I mean, those of us who

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Speaker 1: have been parents for a while can tell you you, oh,

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Speaker 1: you don't even know what's coming, but it but but

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Speaker 1: every day's glorious, right, So, how is your life changed

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot less sleep, I'd say, not a lot

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Speaker 4: less sleep, but jin for Gen in particular, a lot

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Speaker 4: for me, making sure my body's in top shape. But

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Speaker 4: you know, just this week was awesome, the bye week,

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Speaker 4: being able to stay home and just spend some quality

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Speaker 5: Just sit there for hours, just staring at him.

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Speaker 4: He's finally smiling, so he's just sitting there looking at

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Speaker 6: What's the day to day like dad like like life?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, rush home, get theirs as fast as possible from football,

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Speaker 4: But there's not much I can do because you know,

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Speaker 1: Did you do you find yourself coming home and walking

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: So you touched on it, But this is I'm a

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Speaker 1: that he has coming. Are there one or two little

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Speaker 1: things that just in ten weeks that you mentioned smiling

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just control of your arms and legs. He has

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Speaker 1: So when you were here last year, we talked about

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Speaker 1: Everybody didn't get to hear it about your journey, how

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Speaker 1: But really the thrust of the conversation had to be

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Speaker 1: what an unusual thing it was the way you got

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Speaker 1: And so now you have kept it going for almost

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Speaker 4: Absolutely gives me a chance to go home and just

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Speaker 5: Or what I got to do tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Now it kind of time flies by sitting there taking

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Speaker 7: Kind of piggybacking off of that, Dak has always talked

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Speaker 7: and a lot of the players do when they have kids.

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Speaker 6: But for you, what has that dad's strength been, Like.

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Speaker 4: It's been awesome, you know, kind of The next game,

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Speaker 4: not sure if the dad's strength is a real thing,

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Speaker 4: but if it is, I'm definitely benefiting from it.

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Speaker 7: Now, this was this you and the missus long term

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Speaker 1: No, that's a personal question. My goodness.

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Speaker 5: We always wanted kids.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I give Jen a hard time because

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Speaker 4: excuse me, but you now are exactly Yeah, I working

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure we're financially set now where we're good

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't even want to go down that road,

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Speaker 1: but but I do. Just one or two other baby

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Speaker 1: was born like hours after the preseason game in Las Vegas?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? And it was the Raider the Rams game,

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Speaker 1: the Rams game, the first one, Yeah, the first one.

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Speaker 1: So tell the people the story about how you because

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Speaker 1: I just think this is greatness. How how you knew

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Speaker 4: So I ran off the field kind of as I

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Speaker 1: I was actually, did you change out of your uniform?

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Speaker 5: Changed out of it?

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Speaker 4: But I did not shower, which is kind of gross.

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Speaker 4: Which I got on in that car and I was

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Speaker 1: You didn't have it before, No, that is life changing.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh oh you have no idea. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It took me like ten seconds to get through the

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Speaker 4: and hop on the flight, which actually my father in

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Speaker 4: as the captain. So he flies for American Airlines and

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Speaker 4: he made sure that he got that flight, so if

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Speaker 1: So there's a great picture on your I think it's

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Speaker 1: your Instagram of you sitting in the cockpit with your

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Speaker 1: father in law. Yes, And did you stay up there?

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Speaker 1: And he then he literally flew you back. Was it

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Speaker 4: Pe and always full of people? It was a normal,

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Speaker 5: No, that would be very illegal.

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Speaker 4: I sat in the in the back, so I just

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Speaker 6: That's such a flex my father in law. That's that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all right, So much to talk about with

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Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody to the Cowboys Hour, Coming out of

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Speaker 1: Cowboys All Pro kicker Brandon Aubrey. We are here at

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Speaker 1: When we sat down up here, Nicole and I both realized,

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Speaker 1: independently of each other that we uh missed a great

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Speaker 1: opportunity because you've got your shirt? You own one? Oh

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Speaker 1: you don't, well, I missed it.

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Speaker 6: Wait some of the butter well sorry, slow moment there,

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Speaker 6: My bad.

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Speaker 1: I did to pick it up where by getting by

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Speaker 1: getting to this stage in life, I have learned to

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Speaker 1: they came up with this shirt based off the nickname

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Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott gave Brandon last year. Butter, And they've

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Speaker 1: got this phenomenal T shirt with your pictures on it, right,

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Speaker 1: absolute says Butter, and we each have one. Neither of

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Speaker 1: So another time, so, uh, how did you find out

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Speaker 4: I'm just walking off the field after practice one day.

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Speaker 4: The social media team was there with it and kind

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Speaker 1: Me they already had done it. They locked it up

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Speaker 1: and printed it out. Yep.

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Speaker 4: And they asked me to give the shirt a rating.

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Speaker 4: And I looked over and that's really cool. Who did that?

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Speaker 5: But it's awesome.

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Speaker 4: I love that. It's a really really cool shirt and.

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Speaker 5: Glad they printed it for me.

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Speaker 1: How many they give you?

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Speaker 4: I'm working on it. I tried to put in a

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Speaker 4: big order here of like seventy or so. I'm gonna

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Speaker 6: Do you have your friends from back home? Do they

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Speaker 1: Well, this is beg home.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I mean, like high school friends,

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not a lot of time to see friends right now,

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Speaker 4: so I'm not sure. I'm sure a lot of them

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Speaker 1: If not Dallas Cowboys pro shop dot com. That's how

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Speaker 1: I got mine. Just went online and said I must

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Speaker 5: Appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, it's phenomenal. And and you do get

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Speaker 4: There's a small percentage goes to the players, which is

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Speaker 1: So well, that's the best kind of money. Yes, there's

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Speaker 1: the best kind of money. So the the butter. By

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Speaker 1: the way, there's a great It's one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: pictures I've seen all calendar year. On Brandon's it's on

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Speaker 4: She actually added me as a collaborator, so it's on both.

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Speaker 4: That's where the confusion came from.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is young Colton. How old was he that?

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Speaker 4: He was probably like five hours old? Five hours in

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Speaker 1: And he's wearing a onesie that says baby, Butter. Now,

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Speaker 1: if that's not the greatest thing you've ever seen, so

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Speaker 1: let's revisit that. I know we touched on it last year,

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Speaker 1: but you've had some time for it to grow on you.

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Speaker 1: That's a name Dak gave you. Yeah, because you're smooth

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Speaker 1: as butter? Right?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: And what did you think when you heard that?

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Speaker 4: You know, I was just happy that the team was

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Speaker 4: I love it. It's it's a great name. It's a

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Speaker 5: So I'm happy. Let's stick with it now.

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Speaker 6: Butter is a nickname they gave you. But is it?

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Speaker 6: Was there a nickname that you, I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 4: No? No, no, I don't just think about kicking kicking

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Speaker 1: Do many guys call you butter?

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Speaker 1: How long did it take you to start answering to it?

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Speaker 4: Quite a while, you know, Dak, you know, would be

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Speaker 1: That's you. So the success that you had last year.

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Speaker 1: Last year was remarkable, but not a surprise to you.

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Speaker 4: You know, if you would have told me that's the

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Speaker 5: Know, you're going out there and you're you're.

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Speaker 4: Making one kick at a time, and then all of

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Speaker 4: You get to the end of the year, and it's

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Speaker 4: it's not easy to make one kick, but it's something

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in a year and alf you're at ninety

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Speaker 4: I keep that going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Was there a point at all, either last

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Speaker 5: I try not to think like that.

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Speaker 4: as soon as you think you haven't made and you

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Speaker 7: Is there any pressure to have to repeat that type

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Speaker 6: Do you feel it at all?

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Speaker 4: I try not to let myself feel the pressure. And

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Speaker 5: It's just go out there and do the task at hand.

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Speaker 6: What helps you not feel that pressure?

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Speaker 5: I'm not entirely sure.

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Speaker 4: You know. I lock into my task at such a

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Speaker 5: Literally just watching the field goals shrink.

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Speaker 4: Or try grow as I walk out there, and then

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Speaker 1: With my consciously. You talk to yourself about each step consciously.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just so there's no room to think about

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Speaker 6: Have you always been like that, eve like soccer?

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Speaker 4: No, that's something that's very much my process with just football,

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Speaker 4: I just went out and kind of just win wong

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Speaker 1: It could be wong. For the rest of us, it

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Speaker 4: So I went out there and winged it, and you know,

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Speaker 4: And so I spent some time with a bunch of coaches,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, go ahead ahead.

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Speaker 6: How often do you kind of meet with the mental

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Speaker 4: So I don't do it much anymore, but when I'll

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Speaker 1: That first year in the USFL, Was that the last

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Speaker 1: time you missed two kicks in the game or did

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Speaker 1: you even that year?

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Speaker 4: I think week nine of my first season against the breakers,

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Speaker 4: I missed two in that game, an extra point in

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Speaker 4: yard game winning field goal opportunity, and I made it, so,

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Speaker 4: you know, short memory for the team. All right, I'm

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Speaker 1: And how long did it take you to stop whipping

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Speaker 4: And I think going through the process of coming up

443
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Speaker 4: with that mental process for myself was probably because of

444
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Speaker 4: that performance.

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Speaker 1: You won two USFL championships. Yes, did you get rings? Yes?

446
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Speaker 4: I do.

447
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Speaker 5: I have them.

448
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: Do you ever you ever wear them?

449
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 5: No?

450
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: Maybe?

451
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Speaker 4: I wore the first one to the second ones and

452
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 4: wore it to a USFL game, but not just around.

453
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Speaker 4: They're pretty large and obnoxious.

454
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Speaker 1: Oh well, if you ever win a Super Bowl? Here

455
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Speaker 1: what you think? You know? Large?

456
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Speaker 5: Yeah?

457
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,719
Speaker 1: Wait, do you see what that would look like? So

458
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 1: when you you hit the sixty six yarder in pre season,

459
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: which I think by now, it's just most of us

460
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: aren't surprised anymore, like we're stunned when you miss one.

461
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Speaker 1: But I honestly think I think I've said this on

462
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: the air. I'm not sure, but you're going for seventy

463
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: one sometime this year, the circumstance will present itself because

464
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: you've hit it. You've cleaned that much distance sometimes for

465
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: a kick that was less yarded, so you had that

466
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: sixty six yard and then the one that they wiped

467
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Speaker 1: off in Cleveland, and that's a that's a long way

468
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: from missing too. With Birmingham and like talking to yourself

469
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: about how did you how did you get from here

470
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Speaker 1: to there?

471
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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of preparation and practice, kind of reflecting

472
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 4: on mistakes I've made, And I made a lot of

473
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 4: mistakes in training camp in preseason that first year where

474
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 4: we were lucky to have the.

475
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Speaker 1: Same city in Birmingham or Hell and here last year.

476
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a lot of chances to correct those mistakes.

477
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 4: And even Week one, missing that first extra point on

478
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 4: a sudden change, I was lucky to have another sudden

479
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 4: change that game. We actually had two more sudden changes.

480
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Speaker 4: It's just you know, reflecting on mistakes and coming up

481
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 4: with the plan to not make that mistake again has

482
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Speaker 4: been massive for me.

483
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Speaker 7: Brian, you're kicking coaches here? Yes, shout out to Brian.

484
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 7: Can you wave his hand whereas he were sitting with Brian?

485
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Speaker 6: Can you hear us?

486
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Speaker 1: There we go? Nice work, by the way, Brian, Nice work.

487
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 6: How valuable has you know been working with Brian for

488
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 6: since nineteen yeah, twenty nineteen?

489
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 4: Yeah?

490
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Speaker 6: How much has that just been so valuable for your growth?

491
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 5: Yeah?

492
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 4: He kind of showed me what the ropes looked like

493
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 4: for kickers, and what a workout would look like and

494
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 4: the proper form and guided me through finding my steps.

495
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 4: Each kicker kind of has their own steps and their

496
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 4: own process for kickoffs and field goal so he helped

497
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,239
Speaker 4: me kind of map out what that looks like and

498
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 4: then helped me make sure. He gave me drills to

499
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 4: work on my own to kind of figure out how

500
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 4: to get to that same spot every time. It's just

501
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 4: repetitively taking those steps, and then it was a good

502
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 4: signing board for where I stood against other kickers. Kind

503
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 4: of just helped me build myself up and build my confidence.

504
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 4: And then when he had taught me everything he could

505
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 4: teach me. He pushed me out the door, which was

506
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 4: also helpful because you know, you can't just sit around

507
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 4: and kick on a high school field over and over

508
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 4: again and expect a job to come. So I had

509
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 4: to go out there and put myself out in the

510
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 4: environment when I was ready to make a good first impression,

511
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 4: which he helped me. You know, over the course of

512
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 4: two and a half years, developed myself to a point

513
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 4: where I could make a good first impression.

514
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 1: Right before we take our next break, Where do you

515
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: think you stand in the profession right now?

516
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 5: Where do I stand?

517
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: Yeah? In your mind? Yeah, I mean we can look

518
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: at the numbers, but that's not that's just a that's

519
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: a piece something on a piece of paper.

520
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 5: I prefer not to even think about it.

521
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 4: That's just it's so irrelevant for kickers to compare each

522
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 4: other because we're we're never on the field at the

523
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 4: same time.

524
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna go out there and kick the ball.

525
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna try to probe the psyche.

526
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Speaker 1: Brandon Aubrey's our guest on the Cowboys Hour. We're a

527
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: sidecar social in Fresco in the Star District. We'll be

528
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: right back.

529
00:28:43,360 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 8: Cowboys as Don't Cowards.

530
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Speaker 2: To the Miller Lite Cowboys Hour, supported by Albertson and

531
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 2: broadcasting live from Sidecars Social at the Star in Frasco.

532
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: And welcome back Brad Sham and Nicole Hutchinson and our

533
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: special guest, Brandon Aubrey, the best kicker in the NFL.

534
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: Brandon Aubrey. Here there we go back.

535
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 6: Up the.

536
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: So we were talking before we went on the air.

537
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: The Detroit Lyons kicker who they got their guy got hurt.

538
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: They signed it Jake Bates is his name? Is that

539
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: which I didn't realize until getting ready for the game

540
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, that he was also a

541
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: college soccer player, and much as you you thought you

542
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: were going to be a software engineer when you quit

543
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: playing soccer. And if you're if you're not the All

544
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: Pro kicker this year, it will be because his team

545
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: has a better year than your team, and he will

546
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: have had a good year, and that's what people tend

547
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: to look at. He's fun to watch. Uh did you

548
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: get to talk to him?

549
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 4: Yeah? I got to talk to him after the game,

550
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 4: and yeah, he, like you said, he's a he's a

551
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 4: great story he was college soccer walk on and then

552
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 4: I think he walked on to Arkansas as well as

553
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 4: a kickoff specialist. He wanted to get opportunities to kick

554
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 4: field goals but never got it in college. Then went

555
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 4: on to I think he got a couple of looks

556
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 4: in training camp with like the Texans, but didn't get kept.

557
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 4: They have fair Baron as an excellent kicker as well,

558
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 4: so they weren't going to keep him as long as

559
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 4: fair Baron stayed healthy, and he did so. Then he

560
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 4: found a home in Michigan with the Michigan Panthers in

561
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 4: the UFL last season and did an incredible job. He

562
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 4: made three long kicks from sixty plus.

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00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: Did you play them last year?

564
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Speaker 5: I didn't.

565
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Speaker 1: He was this past year. He said they changed the UFL.

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Speaker 4: That's yeah, never mind, So he was a year behind me.

567
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Speaker 1: There draw the question you're on.

568
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 5: But he he played really well earned an opportunity.

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Speaker 4: And you know, the cool story about with him is

570
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 4: he got to stay in the same stadium because the

571
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 4: Panthers played in ford Field and now I'm still at

572
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 4: ford Field, which is really cool.

573
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Speaker 1: And he said he was selling bricks.

574
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know that part of it. But yeah,

575
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 4: that's what he was saying.

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00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said it at a press conference here, maybe

577
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: after the game yesterday, So he's they're having a moment

578
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: like Cowboy fans did with you last year, and continue

579
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Speaker 1: to the process that you described a little bit ago

580
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: about thinking through every step. Still, that surprised me a

581
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: little because we all want to think that by now.

582
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: You just wipe the slate clean and you go out

583
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: and there's the ball. It's always in the right place

584
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: thanks to your snapper and your holder, and you just

585
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: kick it. So now, well, here's what I'm imagining now,

586
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: that you go out there and you find a way

587
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: to block out all the noise and it becomes like

588
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: a cone of silence, and maybe there's some like chariots

589
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 1: of Fire music or something playing in the far a distance,

590
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: and that's all you're aware of, and here as you

591
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: go through the process and hit them. But how am

592
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: I completely wrong? No?

593
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 5: Not not really.

594
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 4: So that's the idea where I wish I could just

595
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 4: tune everything out and not have anything going through my brain,

596
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 4: But that's not realistic to achieve on every kick. So

597
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 4: I got to go out there and kind of crowd

598
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 4: out all the other noise with my own talking. So

599
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 4: that's what I'm doing. I don't necessarily need to hear

600
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 4: all of those things I'm saying to go out and

601
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 4: kick the ball, But I'd rather hear that than if

602
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 4: you don't make this kick, this happens, if that guy

603
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 4: doesn't expect that guy's going to do that, this guy's

604
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 4: gonna do that. So I don't want to be thinking

605
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 4: about the rush. I don't want to be thinking about

606
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 4: the snap or the hold. I just want to be

607
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 4: thinking about what I'm doing. So I'd rather hear myself

608
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 4: talking than you know, any of the fans or the

609
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 4: other team or whatever it could be that pops into

610
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 4: your head when you're, you know, going about your daily job.

611
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 7: Kickers have become much more accurate, and so it's brought

612
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 7: upon like reports of the NFL possibly narrowing the uprights.

613
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 6: What's your thought that.

614
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 4: I think it's kind of silly. I mean, it doesn't

615
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 4: need to change. It would make, you know, our jobs

616
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 4: a lot more difficult if you narrow the uprights, and

617
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 4: guys are better at their job, but I mean, every

618
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 4: position is getting better at their job. You don't need

619
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 4: to change the game for that. And if you're frustrated

620
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 4: with kicking because it's too accurate that you're going to

621
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 4: be more frustrated with it when you can't rely on

622
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: kickers to make inside of forty because I mean, if

623
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 4: you narrow the uprights, it's going to be very, very

624
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 4: difficult to be consistent inside of even forty.

625
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: In the practice field, is there not a goal post?

626
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: Would like the Arena League?

627
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, upright, we do have those.

628
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: And when you kick at those, how do you do?

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Speaker 4: I mean, do you keep track or No? That's just

630
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 4: a visual trick and playing on myself. So when I

631
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 4: go out to the bigger uprights, then you know you

632
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 4: can kind of oh wow, there's a lot of room

633
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 4: to play with there. So no, I when I'm kicking

634
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 4: on those, I'm just for feel. And then you know,

635
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 4: even when it goes wide right by like a foot,

636
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 4: You're like, a that's good. It's good on normal uprights.

637
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 4: So it's more of just a visual trick I'm playing

638
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 4: on myself. I couldn't tell you how many go in

639
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 4: and don't go in when I'm kicking on those. Probably

640
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 4: I'd say they're fifty percent smaller's fifty percent less rooms.

641
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 4: So probably somewhere around twenty five to fifty percent. Let's

642
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 4: go in if I had to guess.

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Speaker 7: What's your regiment outside of the practypical practice you get

644
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 7: at the Star Because you know, you see, of course,

645
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 7: like dv's and wide receivers they go run or whatever,

646
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 7: do routes and things like that. But what's your type

647
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 7: of regiment off of the practice.

648
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 6: Field at the Star.

649
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

650
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 4: So with kicking, it's such a violent motion that you

651
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 4: can't really do it very frequently. So we're only kicking

652
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 4: twice a week in practice and the rest of it

653
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 4: is just recovery. We do our lifts and our runs.

654
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 4: There's not a whole lot of film to watch. We'll

655
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 4: watch each kick back, but in practice we only get

656
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 4: six live ops with the team, so we get six

657
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 4: six reps a week on film to go break down

658
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 4: what you're doing. Other than that, it's just a feel

659
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 4: feedback kind of go out there and I kicked the

660
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 4: ball and if it felt a little bit like this,

661
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 4: maybe Brian has eyes on it and he's like, oh,

662
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 4: that was this that you didn't do normally.

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Speaker 5: So there's not a lot of kicking, and you know,

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 4: I like to be fresh on game days, and I

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Speaker 4: don't kick a lot in warm ups because at that point,

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Speaker 4: if you're struggling, I'd rather be fresh than try and

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Speaker 4: fix it on the field, because you're likely not gonna

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Speaker 4: fix it on the field. If you're you're just at

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Speaker 4: least fresh and struggling. It's better than being sore and

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Speaker 4: tired and struggling.

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Speaker 1: So how has the new kickoff rule impacted your mental

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Speaker 1: process that you used to just you could line up

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Speaker 1: and if they, if bones said get rid of it,

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Speaker 1: just you could just boom it and it's a touch

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Speaker 1: pack yeah the league last year. Yeah, but now you're

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Speaker 1: kind of you're hitting a little chip shot here and

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Speaker 1: a wedge down there, and it's not as easy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's where the soccer takes over. That's kind

680
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Speaker 4: of where the flow comes in. I'm not really thinking

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Speaker 4: about I don't have a strict regiment on that right now.

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Speaker 5: It's just put the ball on the tee.

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Speaker 4: And just kind of pick a spot and kind of

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Speaker 4: in my brain say, I want to hit a driven ball,

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Speaker 4: or I want to hit a little lofted ball or

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Speaker 4: whatever I want to hit, and I go out there

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Speaker 4: and hit the best of my ability. So that is

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Speaker 4: more of the soccer player where I'm not really thinking

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Speaker 4: about anything in particular, just put the ball in that

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Speaker 4: area and then that's that's it.

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Speaker 1: Do you practice that more?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 4: I practiced that quite a bit that Last year. I

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Speaker 4: hit no kickoffs in practice. This year I'm probably hitting

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Speaker 4: like twenty a week, just making sure I can find

696
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Speaker 4: my spot and hit it and make little tweaks here

697
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Speaker 4: and there if I'm not hitting the exact spot.

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Speaker 7: I want what different parts of the foot do you

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Speaker 7: use for the different type of kicks.

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Speaker 6: I'm interested to know that.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: It's like for a wedge. Is there a different way

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Speaker 7: that you kick the ball or no?

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Speaker 6: I don't know if I want to save it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, so that gets me to on sidekicks.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Did you see the game? Yes? I think it was

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Speaker 1: yesterday where the guys like Whift. Yeah, which game was that?

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Speaker 4: That was the forty nine Ers Chiefs. That was the

710
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Speaker 4: It was a punter, it was wish. Now is he

711
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Speaker 4: going to have to do something that's probably not in

712
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Speaker 4: his job description? And you know, didn't have the best

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Speaker 4: the best showing, but I'm sure if he went out

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Speaker 4: and did it again, he'd do.

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Speaker 1: Better, all right, So you have the only successful on

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Speaker 1: sidekick in the league this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, speaks more of the guys on the field with

718
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Speaker 4: me than me, because you know, my job is fairly

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Speaker 4: easy on that one with the way they asked me

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Speaker 4: to hit the ball there, So that's an easy, easy

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Speaker 4: job for me to do. Really hard to go recover that.

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Speaker 4: So the guy, the other ten guys on the field

723
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Speaker 4: did fantastic and you know, crazy stat that's actually CJ's

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Speaker 4: second fumble or not fumble on sticker recovery, which is

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Speaker 4: pretty crazy.

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Speaker 1: In his career.

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Speaker 5: You mean in his career.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the other one, if I'm not mistaken, the other

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Speaker 1: one was against Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, in twenty twenty, same

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Speaker 1: kind of gig. Yeah, So what how many different kinds

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Speaker 1: of onside kicks do you practice?

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Speaker 5: I don't practice on side kick.

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Speaker 1: You don't know.

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Speaker 4: It's such a rare thing to do, and that.

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Speaker 1: You just put the ball down flat and say this, yeah,

736
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Speaker 1: hit it over there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for that one in particular, if bones asked me

738
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Speaker 4: to do something different, we'll go and do something different.

739
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Speaker 4: But it's so infrequent to hit an on side kick

740
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Speaker 4: that it's not something I really practice at least in season,

741
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Speaker 4: I'll go out and mess around with them, maybe once

742
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Speaker 4: a month where I just have an on tie kick

743
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Speaker 4: day and just go have some fun.

744
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Speaker 5: See what I can come up with.

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Speaker 1: Well, I hope I don't have the opportunity to talk

746
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: about it in a game because with the new rules,

747
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: you have to be behind in the fourth quarter to

748
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Speaker 1: onside kick, So hopefully that won't come up. But if

749
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Brad Sham, Nicole Hutchinson, and the All

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Speaker 1: Pro kicker Brandon Aubrey from the Dallas Cowboys. I really

764
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: only just noticed you were wearing your Pro Bowl Games hoodie.

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Speaker 1: How big a bag full of swag did you bring

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Speaker 1: home from?

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Speaker 5: So much stuff? It's uh.

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Speaker 4: I almost couldn't make my flight with that bag because

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00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 4: it's too much, But it was awesome. I was just

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00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 4: grabbing everything I could there. You know, you never know

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Speaker 4: when you're gonna get back, so it's like I gotta

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Speaker 4: grab everything. I grabed like two balls, and grabbed a

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Speaker 4: bunch of towels, grabbed all extra gear I could get

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Speaker 4: my hands on.

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Speaker 6: So that's your favorite part about the pro Bol?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, just I actually had appendicida during the

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00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 4: pro Bol, so I didn't get to enjoy it very

778
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Speaker 4: much because you know, it's just back to the room.

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Speaker 4: I was on antibiotics and I didn't really feel great,

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Speaker 4: so I didn't get to do much.

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Speaker 5: But it was just cool to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: What part of the week did you get to start

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Speaker 1: getting sick. I was actually before, so you were not

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Speaker 1: feeling good going to Orlando, right, Yes, yeh.

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Speaker 4: And it was two days before I got symptoms and

786
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Speaker 4: the doctor wanted to take it out right then and there,

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Speaker 4: but I'm like, I'm going to this thing, They're going

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Speaker 4: to leave it in. So they gave me antibiotics and

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Speaker 4: just monitored, monitored, monitored me pretty and you know, I survived.

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Speaker 1: So I asked that because you know, we know that

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Speaker 1: what was it four years ago? You were a software

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Speaker 1: engineer and as far as you knew, that was what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be, absolutely and now you're in now you're

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl kicker. And I just wondered if you

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Speaker 1: even feeling bad if you walked out on the field,

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Speaker 1: looked in the locker room and you're with all these

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Speaker 1: guys and you thought, what the hell happened here?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely crazy because I watched those guys on TV as

800
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 4: a big fantasy football guy and big sit down and

801
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 4: watch football every day every day it's on. So to

802
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 4: be in that room was pretty incredible and definitely took

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Speaker 4: a lot of time to sit there and just enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, question from the audience, Good evening, Brendan.

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Speaker 4: Hey, my name's Rambo.

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Speaker 5: Rambo, nice to meet you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 9: So since you're an awesome, fabulous kicker. We know that

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Speaker 9: you have a lot of kicking drills. Do you dedicate

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Speaker 9: a lot of time to working on drills tackling your opponents?

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Speaker 5: I do not, and you know my wife would be

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Speaker 5: upset if I did.

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Speaker 4: She tells me every day it's not my job to

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Speaker 4: tackle people. And I've heard that from a few guys

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Speaker 4: after watching the sand Fran kickers go down on the

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Speaker 4: team as well. So no, I don't practice tackling, but

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Speaker 4: you know, I got a big enough frame.

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Speaker 5: I think I could do it if needed.

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Speaker 1: But of course you're covering seems so good that that's never, ever,

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Speaker 1: absolutely never going to be a problem. So I hope

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Speaker 1: I don't make the lovely missus Aubrey angry with me.

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Speaker 1: We're we're just so admire your even keel, good, bad,

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00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: up down. Those are words that seem to exist only

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Speaker 1: in someone else's periphery. For you, right, you've mastered the

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Speaker 1: art of And when Jen was with you last year

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Speaker 1: and while you were signing autographs during a break, I

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Speaker 1: said to her, is he really like always like this?

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Speaker 1: She said, he is, and she said the only time

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Speaker 1: she ever saw you get really excited was the day

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Speaker 1: of the USFL Draft when you realized you were going

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Speaker 1: to at least get a chance to be a pro

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Speaker 1: football player. You remember the occasion.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I'm sitting there working from home and you can put

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Speaker 4: air quotes because the draft's going on. It's an all

836
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Speaker 4: day thing. And the kicker draft round they did by position,

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Speaker 4: so the kicker around was like round forty five.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, well hold on, I thought for

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Speaker 1: a second, because I want to, just for people who

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Speaker 1: don't know you played, saw you were number one pick

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Speaker 1: in soccer and you that didn't pan out the way

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Speaker 1: you wanted it to. So then you were a software

843
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Speaker 1: engineer yep, and you, despite being a competitive athlete, you thought, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's I guess. I just watched football now yep. And

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Speaker 1: she said to you one day, watching the football game,

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Speaker 1: somebody missed a kick, and Jen said, you could do that.

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Speaker 5: She'll have me say that the kicker did missed the kick.

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Speaker 4: I got that wrong before she says the kicker just

849
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Speaker 4: hit an extra point or something, and she's like, you

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Speaker 4: could do that, but yes, that is that is true.

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Speaker 5: And then I spent and that was a spark.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that was a spark. Spent three years training with

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Speaker 4: Brian with Brian Okay, then over with a bunch of combines.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's a kick kicker circuit where there's like

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Speaker 4: three or four major events where scouts come out to

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Speaker 4: and you have all the free agent kickers that think

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Speaker 4: they still have it go out and compete and maybe

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Speaker 4: two or three guys get a workout or whatnot. So

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Speaker 4: i'd go to those for I think I went through

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Speaker 4: a full cycle where I performed really well, but scouts

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Speaker 4: are like, you don't have any experience, you don't have

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Speaker 4: any films, so we can't give you an opportunity. And

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00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 4: that's where the USFL came in. And I knew if

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Speaker 4: that didn't work, if I didn't, you know, make a

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Speaker 4: roster there, then it probably wasn't gonna happen for me.

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Speaker 4: And it just so happened that we'd been sitting there

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Speaker 4: working from home watching that draft for forty five round.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why we didn't just turn it on

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Speaker 4: when the kicker draft was going, or the kicker round

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Speaker 4: was going, but you know you're a fan, yeah football exactly.

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00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 4: So we're sitting there watching and the kicker round comes

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00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 4: up and the Stallions had the last pick, and you know,

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00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 4: watch seven other kickers name get called, and then it

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Speaker 4: comes to the last pick, and.

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Speaker 1: Right, stop, what are you thinking? Right now everybody's name

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Speaker 1: has been called.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know because at the combine where they handed

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Speaker 4: out the contracts the kickers, they handed out probably twenty

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Speaker 4: contracts and had I had the best day at that

880
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Speaker 4: combine in my opinion, So I think I deserved the opportunity.

881
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 4: But it came down to the last pick, and I'm

882
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 4: at that point, well, you know, shoot, it's probably not

883
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 4: going to happen. And I almost like turned it off

884
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,840
Speaker 4: and just walked away and got back to back to

885
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 4: my normal job, and like, okay, that's it. I was

886
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 4: about ready to just close the book and all right,

887
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 4: we gave it our all and it just didn't happen.

888
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 4: But it happens that there was a connection there that

889
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 4: I wasn't aware of. Skip Holtz was the coach of

890
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 4: the team, and he had played at Notre Dame with

891
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:09,800
Speaker 4: one of the combine coaches that puts on. He actually

892
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 4: put on the combine for the USFL that year, which

893
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 4: John Carney. They played at Notre Dame at the same time,

894
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 4: and so John had been working with me quite a

895
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 4: few times at that point, and he knew I had

896
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 4: the ability. Just you never know what the kicker on

897
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 4: game day if they're going to be able to mentally

898
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 4: handle the load. So he told Skip, who at that

899
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:29,800
Speaker 4: time only knew two or three of the kickers on

900
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:33,760
Speaker 4: that list, that somebody had to give me an opportunity

901
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 4: because no one in the NFL was going to. But

902
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 4: I'm as good of the kicker as anyone else out

903
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 4: there if I can just handle the mental aspect of

904
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 4: the game.

905
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 7: With everything you just said that, all I'm hearing is

906
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 7: that this journey was not easy for you, but you've

907
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,720
Speaker 7: had the support from your wife. I watched the feature

908
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 7: that Amazon Prime did on you with Taylor Rooks, and

909
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 7: your dad even said.

910
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 6: Of course, your dad's been there in the support as well.

911
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 6: But your dad had said that when you were growing

912
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 6: up your mom, you and your mom will watch European

913
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 6: soccer together.

914
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're guy, and guys would miss goals or miss kicks,

915
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 7: and she'd looked back.

916
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 4: And say, you could have made that absolutely.

917
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 7: So having that type of support through this entire journey,

918
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 7: how valuable has that been for you?

919
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 8: Yeah?

920
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 4: I know sometimes you sit there on the couch and

921
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 4: you hear that and you're like, mom, you're you're delusional,

922
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 4: like whatever. But just that repetitive messaging it gets into

923
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 4: the back of your head when you go out there

924
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 4: and you're you're attempting that kick and you're like, Okay,

925
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 4: I can't do this, and then so it's it's huge

926
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 4: for me. I've never had an issue with a support system.

927
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 4: I was blessed with great parents, and I very intentionally

928
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 4: picked a good wife, so I have a good support

929
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 4: system and place.

930
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: I got a clue for you, she picked.

931
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're you're right, But just I picked my support

932
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 4: structure pretty intentionally. Got really lucky starting off with good parents.

933
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 4: But from there, you know, people that are are negative

934
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 4: don't last long in my life, so I just kind

935
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 4: of move on. And I'd like to think I have

936
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 4: a good judge of character and I'm only close with

937
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 4: very few people and try and make sure those people

938
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 4: are good influences in my life.

939
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: So do you view that's great? I mean, I just

940
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: I think that's so admirable and it's a great way

941
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: for people to go through life. You're a great example

942
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:27,439
Speaker 1: of how it works. Do you have you changed over

943
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: a year and a half whatever you thought you're ceiling,

944
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: if there was one was for you in the NFL.

945
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: Has your idea of it changed?

946
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 5: Yeah? Absolutely.

947
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 4: Back when I started this process, I just wanted an

948
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 4: opportunity to go out there and kick, and you know,

949
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 4: looking at the minimum salary, I was thinking, well, shoot,

950
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 4: if I can do that for three years, then I

951
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 4: don't have to be a software engineer for seventeen Like

952
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,720
Speaker 4: that's what the calculus was. Maybe I can retire seventeen

953
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,879
Speaker 4: years earlier. So I think I've hit a point where

954
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 4: I'm going to get those three years, and you know,

955
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 4: that's the goal achieved. But obviously now we're looking at

956
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 4: it as a longer, longer term deal than that. So

957
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 4: everything from here is just is gravy for me.

958
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 7: I know you're a person that stays locked in in

959
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 7: the moment, especially when you're on the field, But do

960
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 7: you have any goals this year for yourself?

961
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 4: My goal is always to stay nine on field goals

962
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 4: and that's just about it. That's the only one I'll

963
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 4: set and everything else is out of my control.

964
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 6: Everything will fall into place.

965
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 4: I like that.

966
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: Extra points is not.

967
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 5: Well, but you want to be above that.

968
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, For extra points. Okay, I'm kind of surprised that

969
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: you are give yourself enough grace and not to think

970
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: you should make every kick you want to, But you did.

971
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: You hate you, So you've come to the realization that, Okay,

972
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss one at some.

973
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 5: Point, absolutely, and that helps you from then. You know,

974
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 5: if you set.

975
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,399
Speaker 4: Goals and then you're unable to achieve them, you're gonna

976
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 4: have a moment where that sets in, and that might

977
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 4: drop your mentality a little bit, might start going a

978
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 4: little bit negative there. So I try and build in

979
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 4: a little bit of leeway so that doesn't happen. And

980
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 4: obviously it's already that moment would have already came and

981
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 4: went this.

982
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 1: Year, so the self forgiveness process is pretty easy by

983
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, give this guy a big round of applause.

984
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: This is You're such a delight to talk to and

985
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: you're even more fun to watch.

986
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 5: Thank you, Thanks for having me.

987
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: You bet. Brandon Aubrey the best kicker in the NFL,

988
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: and he's only getting started. Well the long kicks. The

989
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 1: long kicks are a pound of butter and h Nicole

990
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,359
Speaker 1: and I will be back here next Monday night Side

991
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