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Speaker 1: but I understand never never, never get easy. No, he's

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Speaker 1: what have you noticed you know just about him that

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Speaker 1: you know, every day with him showing up, you know, Nick,

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Speaker 1: Nick shows up, and it's the consistency um that allows

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Speaker 1: the stabbility, you know, he's always doing the same things.

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Speaker 1: He's coming in with the same approach, which allows him,

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Speaker 1: he's done a great job for us, and he continues

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Speaker 1: that goes at him having a plan and sticking to

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Speaker 1: back to years of experience and knowing, hey, this is

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Speaker 1: top of that routine daily, day in, day out, in

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Speaker 1: time for sure, and he's a guy that definitely does that.

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Speaker 1: Bors It was finding interesting. I feel like there's so

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Speaker 1: like you should be able to find kickers everywhere, but

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Speaker 1: you know, teams are always looking for kickers. In college,

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Speaker 1: nation always looking for kickers. I guess, I mean this

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Speaker 1: is sort of a general question and you can't speak

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Speaker 1: for every kicker. You know, in the nation, what do

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Speaker 1: know these really good kickers who are so good compared

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Speaker 1: or you know how they have to go about it

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Speaker 1: every day. Um, first off, you know it's it's not

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Speaker 1: So you know, when you start looking at guys, it's

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Speaker 1: You know, it's been on a privilege to coach him.

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Speaker 1: As long as he's here, I'd love to coach him obviously,

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Speaker 1: is he gonna show up, Is he's not gonna show up?

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Speaker 1: And it's a it's a great honor anytime you're able

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Speaker 1: to coach good players that are also good people, you know,

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Speaker 1: So that's the biggest thing. And you know, obviously we've

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Speaker 1: he does a great job. Obviously. It speaks for itself,

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Speaker 1: obviously we've been able to coach along the way. Kam,

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Speaker 1: Thanks and happy New Year. Happy you appreciate it. Mark