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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge. We promised the guest. We gotta

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Speaker 1: guess we when we promised, we deliver. Well, no, that's

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Speaker 1: In Tempests and the email is Hey, guys, I just

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Speaker 1: Whoa to watch the biggest rivalry in sports. Ravens were

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Speaker 1: to strip on the Bobby that. Don't do the strip

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Speaker 1: up there with the ball. But Tucker, I mean, other

425
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,159
Speaker 1: than on his kickoffs, you don't usually don't have a

426
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: ball that comes off Tucker's foot like that. And so

427
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 1: that's where it's, like I say, an anomaly. You just

428
00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 1: you just have to chalk it up to an anomaly

429
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 1: because it's one of those things that I've never really

430
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: seen a ball come off his foot and move that hard.

431
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: So whether it be the wind or maybe put a

432
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: little bit more into it, we don't, I don't know.

433
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: And yeah, can I give you my theory on it?

434
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: You should see I wish can I played soccer? But

435
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: the bench on now, oy, this is it? All right?

436
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: My theory, My theory is that the wind was a

437
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: problem down to that end all game long, and everybody

438
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: knew it kickers on both sides. Everybody know it, right.

439
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: Tucker knew that as well obviously, So I think that

440
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: he got to a place where he's like, this is

441
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: an extra point and if I just freaking ripped this

442
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: ball right now, it will cut through the wind and

443
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: I won't have a problem like I can just I

444
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: can just hit this ball as if I hit it

445
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 1: as hard as I can, it will not what the

446
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: wind is doing. And I think that maybe he put

447
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: a little bit more into it than he would normally

448
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: on an extra point and that created the slice that

449
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: he didn't hit it like he normally would. Yeah, that's

450
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: my theory. I mean, I guess that's a good hypothesis.

451
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as I don't know looking at it,

452
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: looking at his form, it didn't it would seem like

453
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: a really good swing. Um. And yeah, I just like

454
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: if we go out of practice and you know, we've

455
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: been here seven years now together and like I said,

456
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: you just you don't have balls that do that. So

457
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: it's a weird one. It is. So as he told

458
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: his first joke, since is he like back to the

459
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: same Tucker. That's the great thing about Tucker you know,

460
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: and I wish I had some of his personality in

461
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: that sense. Um, but you know, I think it was

462
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,439
Speaker 1: just right after the game he understood that It's one

463
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,679
Speaker 1: of those things. He was mad about it, but we've

464
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 1: got to move on and Tucker is a himself and

465
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: it never changes. Well, that's that's kind of like what

466
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 1: I'm curious about is I feel like, more than any

467
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: other position, people look at a kicker, and if kicker

468
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: has a miss, the question is like, how does he

469
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: mentally handle it? More so than like like a couple

470
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: of weeks ago in Crabtree had the drops, people weren't

471
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: necessarily thinking like can he mentally overcome that? But with

472
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: a Kicker, that's like the first topic of conversation, like

473
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: mentally can you withstand that? Why do you think that is?

474
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: And why do you think that that? What makes Tucker

475
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: different that he that's not an issue for him? Well,

476
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 1: I think his personality and the way he approaches it

477
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: is definitely not not going to be an issue. I mean,

478
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: he's had a couple of misses in the past and

479
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: he's always rebounded from him. Um, he's got a good

480
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: core where we know as collectively that we have his

481
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: back and he's going to go out there and do

482
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: what he does every Sunday. Um. But yeah, you're right,

483
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: I think. Um. As far as the mental aspect, I

484
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: think the other thing is when it comes to kickers,

485
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: and you've seen kickers and punters and snappers struggle in

486
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: that sense, is that you may only have four opportunities

487
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: in a game, and whereas maybe a receiver, granted they

488
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: get catches, but they might have a lot more throne

489
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: throne to you know, and have a lot more opportunity targets. Yeah,

490
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: and they're running a ton of routes, dozens of routes

491
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: correct and um, so you're sitting there and especially on

492
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 1: a field goal, maybe you don't even have your first

493
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,959
Speaker 1: one until the second half. You know, you just never know.

494
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,479
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things just letting it go,

495
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: focusing on the fundamentals that you have practiced year and

496
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: year out and go out there and execute the way

497
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: you know how to every every game. I think it's

498
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: interesting too about you is like you've seen it. I mean,

499
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: you were on the field for the championship with Billy's miss,

500
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: and I mean I would argue that that affected Billy

501
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: even the following off season. Now, he still had a

502
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 1: good training camp. Tucker just beat him out. But like

503
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 1: I kind of think the way that like Billy handled

504
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: that and handled that competition was affected by that, you

505
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like it changed who he was

506
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 1: as a kicker. I think, Uh, do you think that

507
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: was the case with him or I mean I guess

508
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to dive too much into Billy, but

509
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: like you do you do agree that like kicks can

510
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: change people. Yeah, Tucker's kick isn't like the championship all right,

511
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: that one was was unique? Yeah, yeah, I mean they

512
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: all have their unique perspectives as far as each kick. Um.

513
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: I know when the next offseason, when Tucker first came

514
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: in and Billy came in, I mean that was a great,

515
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: uh training camp for both kickers. Yeah, the competition and

516
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: you know, you had a guy like Tucker that was

517
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: just he was unproven at that point other than what

518
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: he had done in Texas, and he was able to

519
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: hang with Billy and did a phenomenal job. And at

520
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I think, you know, that's

521
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 1: kind of what really wanted him. The job was just

522
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: as a ability to go out there and make kicks

523
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: after kick during practice. Um, but yeah, I would I

524
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: would agree as far as it probably had some effect

525
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: on him. I mean, it was our opportunity to go

526
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl that year, and you know, things happen,

527
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: you know, and things were meant to be, and that's

528
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: why we went the next year, you know. So I

529
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: just it's over with. I'm a big advocate that passes

530
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: in the past and just kind of move on and

531
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: move on to the next You have to ring the

532
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: next year. So so so I'm curious, like you, the

533
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: three of you got, are you, Morgan and Tucker the

534
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: longest tenured group in the league? I believe we are

535
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: second actually you know what that we might be because

536
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: it's rare that really to have any position group stick

537
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: together as long as you guys have. I mean, that

538
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often. And I think that that probably

539
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: is a big part of this the continuity. Do you

540
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,479
Speaker 1: buy into the notion that the continuity that's what I

541
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,719
Speaker 1: think as far as like hunters and kickers and snappers, like,

542
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,479
Speaker 1: if you don't give a guy a time to just

543
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: get connected with the group and kind of get comfortable

544
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: with you know what, where it starts from with Morgan

545
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: snaps and where he snaps it to my holds to

546
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: the kicker feeling confident. You know, it's kind of tough

547
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: when you bring in new holders and new snappers and

548
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: everything changes and timing changes. It's got to be difficult

549
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: for kickers to be able to adjust to that. Do

550
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: you think that your guys, basically the familiarity with each

551
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: other has allowed some of these other guys that come

552
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: in here have success and then go elsewhere, like will

553
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: What's or like Vedvic looked like he was going to

554
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: be somebody that would probably get picked up before what

555
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,239
Speaker 1: happened to him. And I feel like part of it

556
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: probably is the fact that, like all of you guys

557
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: are securing your positions and you feel good about that,

558
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: and so you're kind of willing to take somebody on

559
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: and show them the ropes. Well, I think it's one

560
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: of those things that whether or not, you know, it's

561
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: ultimate discretion of the team, whether or not you have

562
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: a job. You know, you go out there and you

563
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: perform each and every week and you hope that that

564
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: shows him. But as far as when it comes to

565
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: new guys coming in, I take pride in the fact

566
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: that I don't want to treat him like an asshole,

567
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: you know, if we can say that on here. I

568
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: don't want to be that guy that just treats him

569
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: like crap, you know. I want to treat him like

570
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: if he was my son and I was out there

571
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: teaching him, and I want to show him how to

572
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: do that. You know, granted would have you know, is

573
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: there a possibility I could teach myself out of a job?

574
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: I guess there's that case, and that in that case,

575
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: then I did a pretty darn jomp. You know. The

576
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: other thing is you have Jerry out there that works

577
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: with these you know, they bring him in for a

578
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: reason because they don't want him to be just any

579
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: person off the street. They want to find somebody that

580
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: has the potential to come in here and be a

581
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: punter or be a kicker or long snapper. And when

582
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: they come in here, we take pride in the fact

583
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: that we go out there and and show them the

584
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: stuff that we do to allow us to be consistent

585
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: day in, day out, and whether or not they end

586
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: up here or whether they end up somewhere else, we

587
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: take pride in seeing them out there and and keep

588
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: on coaching them throughout their career. It's cool give us

589
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: the status update on the wolf pack, because I feel

590
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: like we don't hear the wolf pack, like the term

591
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: thrown around much anymore, because I feel like the nature

592
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: of the wolf pack has changed with the arrival of children.

593
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: For Tucker and Morian, we've had kids. You know, the

594
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: kids are grown up, they are so I mean, how

595
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: much is the wolf fact change, I guess is a

596
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: question with the arrival of children. Other than saying, I

597
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: mean you've got a lot of wolf packs, or you've

598
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: got a lot of cubs, or what ye tuck a

599
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: little wolf pack at home? I don't It's an interesting question,

600
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, describe all right, we'll leave well id

601
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: with this. Give us a synopsis of the differing person

602
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: analities within the wolf pack, each of you. That means

603
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: you have to give one on yourself, you know, the

604
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: personality of the wolf Pack of each member to give

605
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: people in needsight, we'll considering we know where this question goes. Yeah,

606
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: it has to you know what, Well, you know Tucker's personality.

607
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: He's the one that kind of he he provides a

608
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: comedic relief. He has his his antics, um hand hint,

609
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: you know which yesterday. That's the whole point of the

610
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: hind him. But aside from that, now, Um, the reason

611
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: we love Tucker is because you know, with Morgan being

612
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: he's considered the old man of the group. But you're

613
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: older than Morgan. Morgan is the old man. So he's

614
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: been called the old man since he was in in Tennessee,

615
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: I think, so he's always been referred to as that.

616
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: He is like the grandpa the group always keeps us

617
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: in check, um. Tucker the comedic relief and you know,

618
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: everything that we need in order for us to go

619
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: out there to be ourselves. He keeps us that day

620
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: there and then I am more of the I'm like

621
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: that strict dad. I try to keep us, make sure

622
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: we're all staying accountable. We're focusing on what we need

623
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: to do, um, but at the end of the day,

624
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: allow us to have some fun, you know. So that's

625
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: what I would say. You're the dad and Morgans the grandpas.

626
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: The grandpa. I can't wait to tell Morgan he's well aware. Cool. Well,

627
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: thank you, Sam, really appreciate it. Thanks for your patients

628
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: in uh, you know, getting to the Tucker questions. You're welcome.

629
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: Thanks alright, really good stuff from Sam. He's a really

630
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: interesting guy him. I like saying a lot. Yeah, he's

631
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: a funny dude. Um, And like we said at the

632
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: start of this podcast, we both think that Justin Tucker

633
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: is going to be just fine. Do you think I

634
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: do you think by saying his reaction that I nailed

635
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: my hypothesis on the miss I think that is pretty

636
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: good hypothesis. Yeah, I think it's pretty good. He seemed

637
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: he I mean he said it was a good hypothesis. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think he just blasted the heck out of that ball.

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Speaker 1: Just blast. It's the end of the game. You say,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave it, gonna leave no doubt here, just

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Speaker 1: bang it through that. It's just like he's like, there's

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Speaker 1: a window. Yeah, I'm just gonna go out there and

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Speaker 1: just crush it to the next point. As long as

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Speaker 1: I crush it and hit it straight, it's gonna go through.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, over kicked it. I mean, same kind offers

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Speaker 1: that he's like maybe it was a little yeah, and

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Speaker 1: there's probably some wind in there too, but all that

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Speaker 1: probably combined. So yeah, anyway, we'll move on too, and

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Speaker 1: moving on and if if there is a situation at

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Speaker 1: the end of Sunday's game because the Carolina Panthers and

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00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: it's a one score game and it's a fifty yard

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Speaker 1: field goal. Oh, that's gonna happen. I have no concerns

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Speaker 1: about sending Justin Tucker out there for that kick, and

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Speaker 1: I and I would bet that he comes through in

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Speaker 1: a big way. Maybe I hope that he gets that

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Speaker 1: redemption chance as soon as this Sunday. Maybe this is

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Speaker 1: just the journalist in me and I like the story

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Speaker 1: for stories. Yeah, but I think that Justin Tucker wins

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Speaker 1: this game. I'm not saying that it's like with five

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Speaker 1: seconds left or whatever, but I think that a late

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Speaker 1: Justin Tucker field goal is the difference. Nice. I like that.

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Speaker 1: In fact, part of the also thinks we all even

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Speaker 1: blow them out. Oh I kind of. I kind of

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Speaker 1: think this might be it. Uh, just just go out

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Speaker 1: there way by two touchdowns, three touchdowns? Do interesting to do?

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Speaker 1: Actually hear me one of the other or or can

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Speaker 1: be lost coast lost. This is a win. This is

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Speaker 1: a oh no, wait, somebody emailed and said I'm not

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Speaker 1: allowed to do that, or they hit me up on

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Speaker 1: Twitter and said I'm not allowed to do the big

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Speaker 1: win okay, all right, so I'm bad. I'm off. This

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Speaker 1: is a big, big winn against Carolina Panthers on Sue,

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Speaker 1: so creepy big. Thanks for listening. To talk to you

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Speaker 1: guys next week. M