1
00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:02,680
Speaker 1: It feels great. You know, it's my first time to

2
00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,360
Speaker 1: the Northeast. I've been in New York City, but like

3
00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,880
Speaker 1: the true I feel like this is the true Northeast.

4
00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,280
Speaker 1: So being around this cold weather, which I'm not really

5
00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:12,960
Speaker 1: used to being from the South, and it's been it's

6
00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:14,680
Speaker 1: been quite the awakening. I gotta wear a sweater where

7
00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,120
Speaker 1: I go. I feel like I'm using every single ten

8
00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,560
Speaker 1: that I ever had it's gone. So just trying to

9
00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,720
Speaker 1: get used to that right now. Oh, I'm like, I

10
00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,400
Speaker 1: get here and I'm like Jesus, like this really there's cold.

11
00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,480
Speaker 1: I mean it's ice out there. It's crazy. And no,

12
00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,160
Speaker 1: that's why I heard. I heard when it gets to May,

13
00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,000
Speaker 1: I'm good to go. Yeah, I'm good.

14
00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:33,360
Speaker 2: Good approach.

15
00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:34,080
Speaker 3: Job.

16
00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,280
Speaker 1: My approach is to to get back to an elite

17
00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,440
Speaker 1: level that it's been in the past. Uh, you know,

18
00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,600
Speaker 1: like Slater left and those guys in the Super Bowl

19
00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,000
Speaker 1: runs that they had get to a level of hey,

20
00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,600
Speaker 1: being in that top five, being a guy a team

21
00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,880
Speaker 1: where every play we take the field, team's got to

22
00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,640
Speaker 1: prepare for us because we're gonna play at the elite level.

23
00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,440
Speaker 3: Your experience has been in college and you switch over

24
00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,680
Speaker 3: to the NFL. How different is coaching special teams the

25
00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:00,160
Speaker 3: NFL compared to college.

26
00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,040
Speaker 1: I think it's the margin of error. At this level,

27
00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,600
Speaker 1: the margin arre is so tight. You miss a field goal,

28
00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,720
Speaker 1: you give up a bigger return that one player right

29
00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,320
Speaker 1: there can cost you the game. Whereas in college, you

30
00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,160
Speaker 1: know depending on what type of team you're playing, whether

31
00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,000
Speaker 1: it's an SCS type team or team that's not your

32
00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,560
Speaker 1: level of talent, you know that that you can have

33
00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,360
Speaker 1: a significant advantage there. This level, everyone's the same level

34
00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,360
Speaker 1: playing field, everyone's good, So those then margin margins of

35
00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:26,399
Speaker 1: bearrors are crucial.

36
00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:28,800
Speaker 3: Jeremy, I'm curious because you just mentioned it your first

37
00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:30,640
Speaker 3: time in the Northeast, obviously in the kicking game here,

38
00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,240
Speaker 3: whether it could be a big factor. How do you

39
00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,720
Speaker 3: plan to try to learn everything that goes into that

40
00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,679
Speaker 3: so that you're prepared for the regular season.

41
00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,000
Speaker 1: Two ways, we practiced outside all week, so those guys

42
00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,400
Speaker 1: are around it all the time, they're kicking in it.

43
00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna go in the indoor. It's a short indoor.

44
00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna hit the roof, so we're gonna practice in

45
00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,120
Speaker 1: it all the time. And then my assistant Tom Quinn

46
00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,680
Speaker 1: that I have he's does an unbelievable job. He's he

47
00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,320
Speaker 1: was a New York giant, especially his coordinator for a

48
00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,120
Speaker 1: number of years, he's been these environments. He can always

49
00:01:58,120 --> 00:01:59,720
Speaker 1: help with some of the little things, inputs that maybe

50
00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:04,800
Speaker 1: I'm used to right there, Tonquin just through just through

51
00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,320
Speaker 1: the coaching network. Uh, And we've been friends since then,

52
00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:08,919
Speaker 1: and I just always stayed in touch with the guy,

53
00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,120
Speaker 1: and he's been a reference for me guys that have

54
00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,160
Speaker 1: been there, done that. I got a lot of respect

55
00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:14,880
Speaker 1: for those guys, and I got a lot of respect

56
00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,480
Speaker 1: for him. Hi, Tumplin, were you involved in that process

57
00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,160
Speaker 1: of bringing them out? Yes, man, I was, Yeah, definitely was.

58
00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:22,959
Speaker 1: And he's been a guy that for a number of

59
00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,119
Speaker 1: years that if I ever got this opportunity, that he'd

60
00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,280
Speaker 1: be a guy that was on top of my list.

61
00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,839
Speaker 2: For having that more right the day, Sorry God.

62
00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,600
Speaker 1: Who are your mentors in the coaching professional mentors? Mico

63
00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,320
Speaker 1: So the first and foremost Jeff Banks Texas and Texas.

64
00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,280
Speaker 1: He's at Texas and when he hired me, I played

65
00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,880
Speaker 1: from at UTEP. He's at Texas now, especially his coordinator,

66
00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,400
Speaker 1: assistant head coach. But that's my number one guy. Jo

67
00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,880
Speaker 1: d Caamillis is a guy that I worked under has

68
00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,720
Speaker 1: had a lot of influence on me in my career,

69
00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,560
Speaker 1: and a number of other coaches there. But in terms

70
00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,119
Speaker 1: of special teams right there, those guys have been really

71
00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,359
Speaker 1: key in my growth early on my years.

72
00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:57,639
Speaker 2: You coach a lot of young guys last year on

73
00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,880
Speaker 2: special teams. What did that kind of teach you as.

74
00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,480
Speaker 1: A development man? It's all about development and it's all

75
00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,480
Speaker 1: about the process. I mean that team that we had

76
00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,240
Speaker 1: is very young, but sticking to the process, sticking to

77
00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,760
Speaker 1: the development day by day, not trying to get ahead

78
00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,240
Speaker 1: of ourselves. How you take it one day at a time.

79
00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:15,600
Speaker 1: It's all going to click at some point. We just

80
00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:16,639
Speaker 1: got to believe in the process.

81
00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,600
Speaker 3: He arman, You said that you want to get back

82
00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,079
Speaker 3: to a top five special team team.

83
00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,680
Speaker 2: How do you gauge the top five special team teami? Personally?

84
00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,359
Speaker 1: There's a number of ways. I think, you know, how

85
00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,680
Speaker 1: we're recovering, what our net punt looks like, how effishent

86
00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,480
Speaker 1: our specialists are, how good our returners are, and it's

87
00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,360
Speaker 1: just how good we are really the coverage game when

88
00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,080
Speaker 1: we get our returns, how effective we are There just

89
00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,240
Speaker 1: an overall and I think every years different. I think

90
00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,440
Speaker 1: it depends on the team, depending on what you're doing

91
00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,640
Speaker 1: with that team, whether you're a big return team or not,

92
00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,400
Speaker 1: or maybe you don't have a returner so you're not

93
00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,920
Speaker 1: returning the bowl whole lot, but you're a big time

94
00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,520
Speaker 1: coverage team, you're putting the ball quite a bit. It

95
00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,600
Speaker 1: just kind of depends on the flow of that season.

96
00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,839
Speaker 2: He struggled last year as a rookie. Do you see

97
00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,240
Speaker 2: identifiable things he can change perhaps improve his efficiency?

98
00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,480
Speaker 1: Of course, Man, it's really early in the process right now.

99
00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,480
Speaker 1: You know, I'm still getting here, still figuring out getting

100
00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,640
Speaker 1: a firteen of things. But you know, being in the

101
00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,400
Speaker 1: NFL and watching every team's only thirty two of them, right,

102
00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,080
Speaker 1: so like we're watching everybody, so I've seen you know.

103
00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,280
Speaker 1: I also was part of that process when he was

104
00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,680
Speaker 1: getting drafted, of going to work out the kid in person,

105
00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,640
Speaker 1: right so I know of the guy, I know his character,

106
00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,800
Speaker 1: I know what kind of work habits that he has.

107
00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,320
Speaker 1: So it definitely is but early in the process right now,

108
00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:22,919
Speaker 1: and is trying to figure all that out as we

109
00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,760
Speaker 1: plan for when those guys come back.

110
00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,360
Speaker 2: Talked about the history of the Patriots special games before

111
00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,000
Speaker 2: your reference, Matthew Slater, where they've been in past years.

112
00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,080
Speaker 2: I'm just curious if you could expand on that a

113
00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,640
Speaker 2: little bit of your knowledge of what special teams has

114
00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,479
Speaker 2: meant to New England here over the last decade. Plug.

115
00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just being a fan Adventarry in the

116
00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,640
Speaker 1: big time field goals, you know, big time block punts

117
00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,440
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys and early him the early two thousand

118
00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,400
Speaker 1: or late two thousands right there. I just think certain

119
00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,600
Speaker 1: plays were it was a one score game here and

120
00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,039
Speaker 1: a block punt, a one score game field goal, or

121
00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,120
Speaker 1: a big time tackle or a big time ball down

122
00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,560
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. Those type of plays, those

123
00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,440
Speaker 1: one plays, those thin marginal areas I talked about earlier,

124
00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,360
Speaker 1: are crucial and I've seen all those play plays made

125
00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,520
Speaker 1: in this building on that field from being a fan

126
00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:06,440
Speaker 1: in the past.

127
00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,720
Speaker 3: And huge something up what it needs to you to

128
00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,320
Speaker 3: get this job and coming up.

129
00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,240
Speaker 1: NFL session, Huge man, you know again, I talked about

130
00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,599
Speaker 1: the process. I talk about young guys and as a coach,

131
00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, being where I started as a graduate assistant,

132
00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,400
Speaker 1: working my way up, it's an opportunity. At the end

133
00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:22,960
Speaker 1: of the day, it's an opportunity to be one of

134
00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,520
Speaker 1: the thirty two coaches as a coordinator at this level,

135
00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:27,840
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't take that lightly. I'm very

136
00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,520
Speaker 1: humbled and grateful for it. Thankful the coach Mayo gave

137
00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,120
Speaker 1: me the opportunity. I'm gonna do everything I can to

138
00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,719
Speaker 1: keep this job and be effective, successful at it and

139
00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:36,640
Speaker 1: help this team win games.

140
00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,039
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, when vine Terry kicked

141
00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,080
Speaker 2: the field goal in the snow, you were just a kid.

142
00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,560
Speaker 2: Where were you? What were you doing?

143
00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,000
Speaker 1: Was your reaction? Is a pretty question right there? Okay,

144
00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,960
Speaker 1: I gotta really think about that a little. But I

145
00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,400
Speaker 1: was back in Lost Residos, Texas, where I'm from, Okay.

146
00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,760
Speaker 1: I was at the second floor of our two story

147
00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,680
Speaker 1: house right there, town home watching it on TV with

148
00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:57,159
Speaker 1: my brother.

149
00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,479
Speaker 3: He didn't retire earlier because of Brendan's school, being able

150
00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,120
Speaker 3: to be around him. I'm not sure how much you've

151
00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,400
Speaker 3: gotten to watch, But what have you gotten to learn

152
00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:08,320
Speaker 3: about Brendan Frump?

153
00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,240
Speaker 1: You know which I know Brendon's school. I coached his

154
00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,880
Speaker 1: brother at University of Arizona, Okay, and also Brendan School.

155
00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,599
Speaker 1: It was with us for about three months until he

156
00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,880
Speaker 1: transferred to the University of Texas, So I know school

157
00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,479
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, I know what kind of guy he is.

158
00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,080
Speaker 1: I know the kind of character they had, So I think,

159
00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,560
Speaker 1: you know, Slater molding him and what he's done on

160
00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,520
Speaker 1: the field is just going to continue to progress because

161
00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:26,840
Speaker 1: I know what kind of kid he is. I'm excited

162
00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:27,360
Speaker 1: to work with him.

163
00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:27,520
Speaker 3: Man.

164
00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,240
Speaker 1: Like I said, California kid. I know a lot about him,

165
00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,359
Speaker 1: his backstory, and I just can't wait to get to

166
00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:33,719
Speaker 1: work with that guy. Right there.

167
00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,279
Speaker 2: You expand on that answer.

168
00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,240
Speaker 3: Just a Levin Chary field goal, just like you said,

169
00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:39,880
Speaker 3: you just expand on it.

170
00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think I was. I think I might

171
00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:43,720
Speaker 1: have been twelve years old. I know I was in

172
00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,920
Speaker 1: junior high. I know it was in junior high. I

173
00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:47,760
Speaker 1: was in South Texas where I'm from. So it was

174
00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,120
Speaker 1: sunny outside, a beautiful day, and I've never been in

175
00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,159
Speaker 1: snow before. So I watched watching that game, I'll snow like, damn,

176
00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,200
Speaker 1: that's that looks really cold, and I thought it was

177
00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:56,599
Speaker 1: just a big time play and it was. It was

178
00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,919
Speaker 1: fun to watch it as a fan. I don't know,

179
00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,560
Speaker 1: I think watching it though that you'd be here in

180
00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,960
Speaker 1: this position today. I always wanted to be in the NFL,

181
00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,560
Speaker 1: Like whether I was a player or a coach. I

182
00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,440
Speaker 1: knew if I wasn't going to be there as a player,

183
00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,360
Speaker 1: I was going to coach in the NFL at some point.

184
00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,280
Speaker 1: So I knew that at that point that was on

185
00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,440
Speaker 1: my goal sheet. Everything I written down when I was

186
00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,280
Speaker 1: a young kid, I was on there. So thanks for

187
00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:21,640
Speaker 1: asking that question right there.

188
00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,120
Speaker 2: You know what was used to being youngest head coaching

189
00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,440
Speaker 2: league with sean coordinated position? Why why are you ready

190
00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:30,280
Speaker 2: for this to thirty fourth?

191
00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,720
Speaker 1: I care about the people. I think it's all about

192
00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,280
Speaker 1: the people. I love working with people. I want to

193
00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:36,880
Speaker 1: show them that I love them. I think if you

194
00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,000
Speaker 1: show people that you love them and you care about them,

195
00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,760
Speaker 1: and you serve them and you put them first, that

196
00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how old you are. You get that

197
00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,200
Speaker 1: part of it right there. They're gonna play hard for

198
00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,160
Speaker 1: you, You're going to work hard for them, and it all

199
00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,960
Speaker 1: goes in circle right there. Appreciate it, Thanks you guys.

200
00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:52,640
Speaker 1: Appreciate y'all