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Speaker 1: I get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth podcast. The Stubby Up. Addition, as we

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Speaker 1: take a look at the first several days of training

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Speaker 1: camp coming up, I'll talk to my broadcast partner Dave

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Speaker 1: new head code Zach Taylor. We'll discuss AJ Green's injury

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Speaker 1: and what it means to the Bengals offense, take a

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Speaker 1: look at a few players who have stood out in

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Speaker 1: the early going, and discuss coach Taylor's approach to trying

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Speaker 1: to keep the team as fresh and as healthy as

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Speaker 1: And in this week's fun Facts conversation, you'll get to

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Speaker 1: know one of the best special teams coaches in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: Darren Simmons. We'll discuss a wide variety of topics, including

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Speaker 1: his playing career as a college quarterback and punter, his

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Speaker 1: favorite special teams play in sixteen years as a Bengals coach,

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Speaker 1: and his ultimate goal of becoming a head coach. Those

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Speaker 1: conversations are straight ahead, but first here's a quick reminder

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Speaker 1: the greatest invention since YouTube how to videos. I am

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Speaker 1: can find on YouTube. For example, this week, I replaced

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Speaker 1: a borderline miracle. Now time for football is I bring

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Speaker 1: in my broadcast partner, Dave lappam Lapp. Quite a first

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Speaker 1: week for new head coach Zach Taylor and his first

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Speaker 1: practice as the Bengals head coach. A. J. Green goes

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Speaker 1: down about forty five minutes into practice, the first day

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Speaker 1: it gets canceled due to lightning. He has quote unquote

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Speaker 1: think you're absolutely right. I mean, it's one thing about

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Speaker 1: Dan if instead of eleven personnel, one running back, one

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Speaker 1: this additional time at camp will be good for them. Agreed.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Julio Jones is saying he's not going to

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Speaker 1: not going to play much in the preseason. All these

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Speaker 1: Zach's believing it obviously, and and I think I think

427
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Speaker 1: it'll pay dividends. I mean, gone or the days where

428
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Speaker 1: you know, you get your head smashed in for nine

429
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Speaker 1: weeks and you couldn't drink water and you know you

430
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Speaker 1: just got beaten to death. Those days are long gone.

431
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Speaker 1: And I lived through some of those and they weren't

432
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Speaker 1: fun at all. You know, you wonder is there something

433
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Speaker 1: else I can do and make a living. I know

434
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Speaker 1: there is maybe I don't know how long I'm going

435
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Speaker 1: to do this, but I like what they're doing. And

436
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Speaker 1: when they go, I think the players appreciate that he's

437
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 1: trying to take care of them that way, and when

438
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Speaker 1: they go, they're they're doing. Like we talked about the temple,

439
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 1: the best way for football conditioning is that because normally

440
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Speaker 1: you get a bigger break than that. I mean, you know,

441
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 1: you'll you'll go hard and then you'll, you know, depending

442
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: on how up temple your offense is, there's lulls and breaks.

443
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Speaker 1: He has got them at a very high clip, very

444
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 1: high rate between every snap. That's the best way to

445
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: get your cardio done in football is doing football football.

446
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 1: You have to perform football acts, football functions in very

447
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 1: short recovery periods, and that's the best way to get

448
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Speaker 1: conditioned for football. And he's conditioning big time for football.

449
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 1: You can go and run. You're a distance guy, you know,

450
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Speaker 1: go out and run. That's you know, that's one way

451
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Speaker 1: to condition. But then you have to get in football

452
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: condition where you're you're pushing and pulling and you're you know,

453
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Speaker 1: you're working all the attachments and ligaments and tenants and

454
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: all your joints and everything, and then you've got to

455
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Speaker 1: do it again, you know, in a very short time frame.

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00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: So it's a different conditioning for your body and for

457
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Speaker 1: your cardio vascular And I think I think that they've

458
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Speaker 1: got a pretty good idea with how they're doing it

459
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Speaker 1: with this work hard in two days recover, work real hard,

460
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Speaker 1: two days recover. I like that pattern. The Rams are

461
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Speaker 1: number four in the NFL last year in fewest starts

462
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Speaker 1: missed and number one in the NFL two years ago

463
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Speaker 1: in fewest starts missed by their key players. If Zach

464
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: Taylor brings anything from Sean McVeigh and the Rams, let's

465
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Speaker 1: hope it's a system for keeping guys healthy. Yeah, and

466
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Speaker 1: look at to the veteran offensive lineman Sullivan and Whitworth

467
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: well into their thirties, and you know they didn't miss

468
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 1: they didn't miss games. So you know, you can play

469
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Speaker 1: a longer period of time at a higher level by

470
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Speaker 1: not you know, getting it taken out of you during

471
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Speaker 1: the offseason and during training camp. As long as you

472
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Speaker 1: keep yourself in a good semblance of shape. I mean,

473
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Speaker 1: if you let yourself get sloppy, you know, in yo Yo,

474
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,120
Speaker 1: that that's gonna that's a horse of a different color.

475
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: That's a different story. But if the players understand what

476
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Speaker 1: the coach is trying to do, and the players, you know,

477
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Speaker 1: be professionals and take care of their bodies, and they

478
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Speaker 1: can play a longer time at a higher level. And

479
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: that's what that's what the whole concept is. Plus making

480
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Speaker 1: so much money, it's it's good for the ownership to

481
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: check their investment and good for the players to do

482
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: it as long as they can. I mean, both all

483
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Speaker 1: parties benefit. It makes too much sense. That's why beating

484
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: the hell out everywhere. Of course, nobody was making that

485
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: kind of money back in those days. But you know

486
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: that's why, you know, making less than thirty thousand dollars

487
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Speaker 1: a year, saying it's worth all this. Yeah, I always

488
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: wanted to do it my whole life, But man, how

489
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Speaker 1: many years can I do this? Guys? Don't have to

490
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: think like that anymore. You got twelve. I got twelve

491
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Speaker 1: all together. Yeah, I was lucky. Knocked on the wood.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals next practice is Friday afternoon from three to

493
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Speaker 1: five at the practice fields adjacent to Paul Brown Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Then on Saturday it's the annual Family Day event at

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Speaker 1: the stadium. The gates open it two and practice begins

496
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Speaker 1: at three. There will be kid friendly activities throughout the stadium,

497
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Speaker 1: prize giveaways, autographs from everybody on the roster. After practice,

498
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: and then once the players clear the field, you will

499
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: be allowed onto the playing surface. Everything is free, including

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Speaker 1: parking at the lots next to the stadium. So again,

501
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Speaker 1: check it out Family Day Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Now time for this week's fun Facts segment as we

503
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Speaker 1: get to know the longest tenured coach on the current

504
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Speaker 1: staff as he enters his seventeenth year with the Bengals.

505
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Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts at Bengal Special Teams coordinator

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Speaker 1: Darren Simmons, a native of Elkhart, Kansas, down in the

507
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Speaker 1: southwest corner of the state near Oklahoma and Colorado. Describe

508
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: your hometown, very small, farming community, twenty one hundred people

509
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Speaker 1: that kind of fluctuates. Twenty one twenty two one hundred people,

510
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Speaker 1: right in the very southwest corner. I mean, you can't

511
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Speaker 1: be any further southwest. The city limits to my hometown

512
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Speaker 1: is Oklahoma state line. Colorado is about five miles west

513
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Speaker 1: of us. We're a two A school UM in the

514
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Speaker 1: state of Kansas. Kansas has one through six A or

515
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Speaker 1: two A schools. We're on the smaller half, UM, but

516
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: very very much a farming community in uh An Oil

517
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: and gas uh you know, crude oil and natural gas

518
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Speaker 1: productions big down there too. We're doing fine facts with

519
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Speaker 1: Darren Simmons. Let's talk about your athletic career. You started

520
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: out at Dodge City Community College in Kansas, and in

521
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Speaker 1: addition to punting, you played quarterback. Give me a scouting

522
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Speaker 1: report on Darren Simmons the quarterback. Well, I went to

523
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Speaker 1: I went to University Kansas as a punter. So now

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Speaker 1: that it gives you some of my uh background as

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. Now, I mean I I started a couple

526
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Speaker 1: of years UM at Dodge City as both a quarterback

527
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Speaker 1: and a punter. Kind of patterned myself after Danny White,

528
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: you know with the Cowboys, UM, who did both. UM,

529
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Speaker 1: So it was kind of a dual threat on fourth

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Speaker 1: down where I dropped back to pond, Well, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: fake it? Are we gonna go for it? Mean? What

532
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: are we gonna We're gonna punt it? What were're gonna do? Um?

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Speaker 1: But obviously my Mike quarterback days were limited there because

534
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: I went on as a punter. Soul. That gives you

535
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Speaker 1: a little scouting report, all right, And as you mentioned,

536
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: it was on to Kansas to play for the Jayhawks

537
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: for your final couple of college seasons. What was it

538
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: like for a kid from small town Kansas to play

539
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: for the university up Well, it was actually really weird

540
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: because really everybody west of Kansas State goes to Ka State,

541
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: and everybody east of Kansas State or Manhattan goes to KU.

542
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: And I kind of did the flop and went right

543
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 1: over the top of Kansas State and went to Kansas.

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Speaker 1: And I don't regret that decision one bit. The majority

545
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: of my graduating class actually went to Kansas State, so

546
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: it'ld have been a natural thing, but you know, I

547
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: kind of straight away from the herd went to Kansas.

548
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: Kansas was just coming off a Lohall Bowl win over BYU,

549
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: and they were both obviously poor programs had been historically,

550
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: but they were both on their way up. And I

551
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: thought Kansas was a little ahead of where Kansas State

552
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: was time, and so I chose to go there. And

553
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Speaker 1: you know, I still go back there and visit a

554
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: lot it's on our way home down I seventy when

555
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: we could drive back to Kansas in the summertime. So,

556
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: you know, Lawrence is a cool town. I could see

557
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: living there. It's a really cool small town, which it

558
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: is close enough to Kansas City where you get still

559
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: the big city things that come with that. So really

560
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: really enjoyed my time at Kansas and that's where ultimately

561
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: met my wife. We're visiting with Special Teams coordinator Darren Simmons.

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Speaker 1: You chose wisely. Kansas was terrific while you were there

563
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Speaker 1: your senior year. They finished in the top ten in

564
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: the country and in a big win over Oklahoma, you

565
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: had a forty five yard run on a fake punt.

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Speaker 1: I have seen the footage on YouTube. What do you

567
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: remember about the play? Well, I member, we'd practiced that

568
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: play for a long time, and you know, being a punter,

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Speaker 1: the you know, if you're going to punt the ball,

570
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: the one thing that you want to do is when

571
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Speaker 1: you receive the snap, you want to want to focus

572
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: on punting it. I remember our head coach at the time,

573
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: Glenn Mason, said, for the specific play, catch it, then

574
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: look up to see if they're rushing, if they're rushing,

575
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: then punt it. If they're not rushing, then take off

576
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,239
Speaker 1: and run, and which is there's a that's a lot

577
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: to do in a short amount of time. But anyway,

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00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: obviously being from Kent where I'm from, in Kansas at

579
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: Oklahoma game is a huge game because I actually probably

580
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: grew up as a as a Sooner fan, and I

581
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: had a bunch of family at that game. And h

582
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: it was we were down pretty big throughout that game.

583
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: There's a couple of plays in that game that kind

584
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: of helped propel us pass them, and uh, that was

585
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: one of them. So, uh, you know, that was obviously

586
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: a very fun time for them. While you were at Kansas.

587
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: Roy Williams was the basketball coach Kansas basketball at the

588
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: time was terrific, as it still is obviously to this day.

589
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: Did you get to know Roy at all or any

590
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: of the great basketball players that were there at the time.

591
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: We did. You know, the football team and the basketball

592
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: team were actually pretty close at the time, and and uh,

593
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Speaker 1: you know, I have nothing but great things, great fond

594
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: memories of Coach Williams in his time there. He was

595
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: very very supportive of our program, our football program. You know,

596
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: we were on the way up at the time, and

597
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: I think in fact my senior year, we were the

598
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Speaker 1: one of the few teams in history at the time

599
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: to have a football team playing a bowl game and

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Speaker 1: finishing the top ten. The basketball team makes the Final four,

601
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Speaker 1: and in the baseball team goes to the College World Series,

602
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: which I think at the time is only like eight teams.

603
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: So it was a very successful year that year. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, Coach Williams is a heck of a coach.

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Speaker 1: I think he still has, uh, you know, a lot

606
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: of ties still still back to Kansas, and Ike has

607
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: fond memories back of the people and everything that went

608
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: into that school. So he was very supportive of us.

609
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Speaker 1: And good good man. We'll do a few more fun

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Speaker 1: facts with Darren Simmons. Let's move on to your coaching career.

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Speaker 1: You had an uncle with NFL ties, correct, Yeah, I did.

612
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: Um My dad's brother, Jerry Simmons, was a strength coach,

613
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, and he came from the same small hometown

614
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: of bell Cart that I did. He went to Fort

615
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: Hay State, which is a Division two school out in Kansas,

616
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: and then he get his start. His first full time

617
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: strength coaching job was at Rice I think he was

618
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: a graduate assistant at Clemson and then his first full

619
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Speaker 1: time job was at Rice. He went from Rice to

620
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Speaker 1: Southern cal named from Southern cal to the New England Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and I think Raymond Barry was the head coach then,

622
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Speaker 1: and uh maybe Don mcpherston for a little bit. And

623
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Speaker 1: then he went from New England to the Cleveland Browns

624
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: and he went to Cleveland with Bill Belichick when when

625
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: he first got there, then he kind of survived that

626
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: whole move from Cleveland to Baltimore and was there in

627
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: Baltimore under Ted Marcher Brodo and that's when I got

628
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: hired there. But I was fortunate throughout my high school

629
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Speaker 1: days even my college days, I would always go help

630
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: me and my younger brother would go help him during

631
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: two days or in training camp, whether it be out

632
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: of Southern cal or at New England and at Cleveland. Well,

633
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: at Cleveland I got to know the special teams coach

634
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: there very well. My uncle pushed it. I was letting

635
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: know that I was a putner, and I got to

636
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: work with him a lot, the special teams coach by

637
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: name Mascott O'Brien, and we developed a relationship and and

638
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: you know it still sticks to this day. What were

639
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: your initial responsibilities on an NFL staff. Well, I was

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Speaker 1: the assistant special teams coach and assistant strength and conditioning coach,

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Speaker 1: you know, assistant special teams coaches at the time. There

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Speaker 1: was only probably three or four of us in the

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Speaker 1: league at the time. Now every team has one, virtually,

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Speaker 1: I think me with exception one or two full time

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Speaker 1: assistant special teams coaches. But as a way for me

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Speaker 1: to kind of get in the door, it was a

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Speaker 1: dual role thing where I think it allowed me to

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Speaker 1: help my uncle in the weight room and be his

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Speaker 1: assistant and there and then also be split my time

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Speaker 1: with special teams too. So it was a good way

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Speaker 1: if it was a good opportunity for me to get

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Speaker 1: my foot in the door as a young guy, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm very appreciate of that opportunity. Do you

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Speaker 1: have a favorite moment, favorite game, favorite special teams play,

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Speaker 1: anything in particular that stands out? One specific play I

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Speaker 1: guess that comes to mine was my first year here

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and three and we're playing Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: In Kansas City, I believe was undefeated at the time

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Speaker 1: and maybe like nine and Ozo and Dante Hall, who

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Speaker 1: was their returner that has had an unbelievable season. I

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Speaker 1: think he'd scored four times, maybe five, and he was

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Speaker 1: trying to break the NFL record, and we almost gave

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Speaker 1: it to him in the first half, but we kind

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Speaker 1: of flipped it. We kind of flipped it on him,

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Speaker 1: and in the second half we played lights out on

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Speaker 1: special teams, stopped him and really took him out of

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Speaker 1: the game, and then Peter Wart scored on a punt

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Speaker 1: return which kind of blew the game open for us

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Speaker 1: and to win. So that was obviously a very very

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Speaker 1: proud from me. He's a young coach and maybe in

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Speaker 1: my first year as the full time guy, that was

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Speaker 1: a pretty big moment for me. Final question for Darren Simmons.

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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh went from NFL special teams coach to Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl winning NFL head coach. Is head coach which you

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Speaker 1: ultimately aspire to do? I think that's a good question,

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Speaker 1: and it is something that I aspire to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think is the evolution of the way that special

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Speaker 1: teams coaches are looked at has obviously changed, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's I think Frank Gains was one of the first

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Speaker 1: guys that went from being a special teams coach to

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Speaker 1: a head coach and didn't work out for him. In

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, things did not go well. And but now

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Speaker 1: that John got his opportunity and has done with it

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Speaker 1: what he has, I think certainly over the past several years,

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Speaker 1: you're seeing more and more special teams coaches getting opportunities

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Speaker 1: for interviews, which is a big thing. I like to

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Speaker 1: get rat race too and get my hand in there.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think special teams coaches have a little

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Speaker 1: bit of advange because I get the opportunity to work

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Speaker 1: with the entire team, and I think that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit what a head coach does. He gets you have

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Speaker 1: to understand the personalities in what makes each player tick.

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Speaker 1: And I think that a special team's coach is the

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Speaker 1: closest thing to what a hit coach does do then,

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Speaker 1: So you know that that is certainly something that I

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Speaker 1: would look forward to someday. This has been fun. You're

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Speaker 1: off the hot seat. Thanks for the time, great, Thank

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Speaker 1: you do And that's going to do it for this

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