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Speaker 1: in terms of your focus, what you is there, whether

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Speaker 1: gotta imagine I'm moving into this year you have a

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Speaker 1: certain plan that you want to get ready. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to have the fans back. I think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun. Um. I mean, I was just thankful

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Speaker 1: to be playing again, you know. Uh, I was just

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Speaker 1: thankful for the opportunity last year, you know, after the

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Speaker 1: knee surgery, and I felt confident in uh, in my abilities.

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Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing is I was just

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Speaker 1: thankful to play the game again. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: how I feel. I think I'm just gonna feel like

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Speaker 1: that from here on out. You know, I'm just having

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Speaker 1: fun playing the game. I feel blessed to have the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And this is such an amazing organization, you know, being

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Speaker 1: up here in New York, New Jersey and and being

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Speaker 1: with all these guys, It's been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: There's an offseason knowing you coming back here and you

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Speaker 1: know it's posted last year. Yeah, yeah, I think it was.

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Speaker 1: It was just like a week ago. It was like

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Speaker 1: anniversary of me being released from the Panthers. Um, what's that? No? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought about sending them one, you know, a little

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Speaker 1: anniversary card, a little thank you, but but yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I was thankful for my time there. You know.

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Speaker 1: I just love playing this game and and anytime, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a blessing. So um, yeah, this this off season,

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Speaker 1: it was nice knowing you know, where I was gonna

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Speaker 1: be for sure. How do you how do you improve

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Speaker 1: have the same year? Um? You know, I just take

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Speaker 1: it kicked by kick. Honestly, I try not to put

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Speaker 1: any pressure on myself. Just come out every day trying

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Speaker 1: to get better. Um. I think that's the goal for

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Speaker 1: all of us. You know, we just want to get

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Speaker 1: better every single day. So that's been my my focus.

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Speaker 1: It's just coming out here and end up putting my

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Speaker 1: best foot forward daily and just trying to get, you know,

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Speaker 1: better every single day. Does Judge do Judge and the

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Speaker 1: Gay He kind of leave you alone because they know

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Speaker 1: you're a veteran, you know what you're doing. Where do

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Speaker 1: they coach you up? Yeah? I think they you know

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Speaker 1: when it's needed. Definitely, you know they say something. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm in communication with them every day. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes into special teams in general,

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Speaker 1: so I'm in there in all the meetings and and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure you've seen coach can kick as well,

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Speaker 1: so he's yeah, he knows what he's talking about. He uh,

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Speaker 1: he can hit an onside kick with the best of him. So, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's great. You know, we've got a lot of experience

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Speaker 1: So that's that was definitely intriguing for me signing here

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Speaker 1: last year, was seeing that and uh, seeing the importance

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Speaker 1: they're definitely a big help for me going there. On

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Speaker 1: the kick. Oh, he's got all kinds of on side kicks.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'd have to see it. He uh,

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Speaker 1: he'll tell you too. He's he's pretty good at it.

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Speaker 1: When you're kicking off and you see a guy like

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Speaker 1: John Ross with his speed back there, what what goes

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Speaker 1: through your mind? I just don't want to feel bad

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Speaker 1: and you make him feel bad when I catch him.

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Speaker 1: You know, but no, I'm glad he's on my team. Um,

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Speaker 1: I had some speedback in the day, but uh, ideally

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't wouldn't want to kick or have to tackle

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Speaker 1: any of those guys. But um, yeah, you know, when

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Speaker 1: we've been working on tackling drills, I've been in there

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Speaker 1: as well. Graham. One of the things it's different this

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Speaker 1: year is there you guys are scheduled the scrimmage against

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Speaker 1: both the Browns and the Patriots for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that something because there's fewer preseason games

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Speaker 1: or what's the value one? I honestly, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: You'd have to ask coach about that, but um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed it. I've done it quite a few

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Speaker 1: times in my career, just being able to I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know the old saying iron tractions iron and Um,

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Speaker 1: makes everybody better. Competition always makes everyone better. So you

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Speaker 1: find yourself when you're in those situations, just spending time

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Speaker 1: with the other Kickers and going over it's, uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a lot like a fraternity. Um, I wasn't in one

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Speaker 1: a kicker fraternity. So everybody knows each other and I'm

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Speaker 1: definitely looking forward to seeing those guys both in New

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Speaker 1: you just pick each other's brains and uh, you know,

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