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Speaker 1: he didn't practice yesterday. Um, he may move around a

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Speaker 1: little bit today. Um. But the reality is he's a

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Speaker 1: good returner, a great returner. I don't need to see anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just get him ready. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: we gotta protect him from himself probably, Um, but we're gonna,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna. If he's healthy, he's going to be out there.

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Speaker 1: We're hoping to be We're hoping he'll be out there

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Speaker 1: catching a few he has done in the past, and

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Speaker 1: then he catches him in practice. But we have other

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Speaker 1: guys that can do it as well. Chris Claybrooks can

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Speaker 1: do it as well. So, um, we have guys that

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Speaker 1: I trust that will be back there. Um, we have

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Speaker 1: not made that decision. Uh, we're still holding out hope

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Speaker 1: that acts is playing. Anybody knocking on your door. I

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Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys. Oh, I got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys. I gotta not even Turner type guys. I

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Speaker 1: got d Lineman. Tell me they can do it. I

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Speaker 1: got a million guys. I got it Josh does all

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Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, they all do. Oh yeah, they all

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Speaker 1: think they're returning. They had returned at some point Pop

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Speaker 1: Warner or something, and they think they still can do

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Speaker 1: it at this level. So I get it all the time. Yes,

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Speaker 1: when when you guys are scouting, I guess Christian kurd

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Speaker 1: to to bring him in here was his punker turn

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Speaker 1: skills something you guys took a look at, you know,

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Speaker 1: just an additional thing that you could bring. I mean

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Speaker 1: I did. I don't know if they took my opinion

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Speaker 1: on it. Um. Yeah, he's talented, He's he's a very

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Speaker 1: talented player. Obviously a great receiver. U'm lucky to have him.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that any bearing on assigning him, but

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Speaker 1: I definitely I was excited to get him here. For sure.

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Speaker 1: You can't have enough for turners in the building. What

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Speaker 1: have you seen from from Chris play Brooks in terms

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Speaker 1: of how he's gotten better at a position? In part term?

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Speaker 1: Maybe he works on every day. That's the cool thing

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Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. You know, it's I enjoy showing those

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Speaker 1: guys kind of clips of you know, their buddies, how

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Speaker 1: And and literally two weeks ago, I was showing some

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Speaker 1: so I feel very comfortable with him being back there.

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Speaker 1: How much does the blocking of Simmons or or blocking

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Speaker 1: responsibilities change with different returners because every returner kind of

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Speaker 1: same guy as Jamal agg Knew or Christian Kirk. How

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Speaker 1: much does that change it. It's not necessarily blocking styles,

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Speaker 1: it's it's scheme. Probably would change the tad. You may

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Speaker 1: have different returns uh planned um, But overall, we gotta

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Speaker 1: all those techniques we work all the time. We do

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Speaker 1: a ton of drill work, fundamental type stuff. Those are

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Speaker 1: all still the same. If you read launch snapper not

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Speaker 1: some teams actually account for him and actually block him

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Speaker 1: like he's a he's a cover guy, like he's a

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Speaker 1: So it's a cool, um, you know thing that he

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Speaker 1: you know obviously you know, making good plays, making tackles.

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Speaker 1: He's always a factor down there. Cut over and design ross.

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Speaker 1: I'd ask more about that, he said, because every they

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Speaker 1: he's gonna cover, he's gonna get down the field because

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Speaker 1: attracted him to this team at the further place? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for us because it is you've got to get him

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Speaker 1: we call it bully, but bully him into the returner

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Speaker 1: that and you go, is there something we could do different?

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Speaker 1: And there's not. I think you just get more guys

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Speaker 1: down the field, and the very next time we do that,

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Speaker 1: all those details and and and and we'll make those

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Speaker 1: I feel very confident we'll get those those come. Sorry

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Speaker 1: it's something with with Aggs. You trust them making great decisions.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're fortunate with those other two guys they

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Speaker 1: also make really good decisions. So, um, that's sometimes we

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Speaker 1: get into the game, you know, further down the line

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Speaker 1: of how we're liking our matchup, how we've practiced, all

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Speaker 1: those things will get into more down the road, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming Friday, will kind of make those decisions. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I trust those guys back there to make those good decisions.

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Speaker 1: So it could be very similar. Didn't that rule go

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Speaker 1: guy into him at the referee in the booth said well,

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Speaker 1: that's not fair catching your parents because if you're own guy,

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Speaker 1: so you can block a guy into That's what we're

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Speaker 1: That's what Chris was trying to do and that's what

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Speaker 1: he did. Was I call it a bully technique, but

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Speaker 1: you run their guy into the returner. Um. So, anytime

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Speaker 1: that's on you, you kind of lock on and drive

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Speaker 1: him into the returner and just hope that's a good opportunity,

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Speaker 1: whether it goes off the corner or messes with the

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Speaker 1: that's a technique that across the league. Every team is

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Speaker 1: doing it, um you know. And that's the it's the

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Speaker 1: awareness of the returner to help his corner out who

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Speaker 1: doesn't know where the ball is at. And then also

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Speaker 1: the awareness of the corner slash safety or whoever's bailing

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Speaker 1: as a close and that's the communication we teach all

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Speaker 1: the time. And because it is, those are game changing plays.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, we give the ball to to

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Speaker 1: the opponent, you know, the opponent. Uh, those are those

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