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Speaker 1: Thanks Stacey. Jeremy, how you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Do good with yourself?

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Speaker 1: Brother, I'm doing well. You lose O'Shane Zemanis who is

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Speaker 1: a core guy for you? Can you give me a

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Speaker 1: feel for one what that loss does you know how

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Speaker 1: it affects you into how you try to fill it

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Speaker 1: when you're got a core for a guy there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, anytime you lose a core guy on

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Speaker 2: special teams is always tough, especially a guy like os

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Speaker 2: who first of all did a phenomenal job through ots

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Speaker 2: and I hope he gets a speedy recovery. But what

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Speaker 2: you try to do is you try to elevate guys

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Speaker 2: from the practice squad or guys that you feel like

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Speaker 2: should be elevated. A guy like Jiles Harris is the

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Speaker 2: guy we elevated and he kind of stepped into that

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Speaker 2: four core role four offs right there, and you try

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Speaker 2: to find the guys and that's why you just you

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Speaker 2: continue to develop right throughout the season through the practice

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Speaker 2: squad and find guys that when guys goes down, who's

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Speaker 2: the next guy in? And that's kind of the mentality

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Speaker 2: you have to have, especially on a forty eight men roster.

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Speaker 2: It's it's quick when guy gets injured, you gotta find

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Speaker 2: ways to get it going, because that's just the way

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Speaker 2: it goes.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like it's sort of a question I

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Speaker 1: ask every time we have the chance to talk with you,

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Speaker 1: the kickoff return rule being new, what are you seeing

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Speaker 1: around the league and with your own team in terms

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Speaker 1: of how that's been going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of different stuff in a way, but

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Speaker 2: then a lot of the same stuff in a way.

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Speaker 2: And it's really just kind of figuring out as we

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Speaker 2: progress and like what are kickers doing? What can we

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Speaker 2: do to be better on from a kickoff standpoint, but

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Speaker 2: also careful return. It's just still early in the season

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Speaker 2: to where you don't have a lot of film on

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Speaker 2: like what you're really gonna see sometimes, so it is

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Speaker 2: kind of hard at times to kind of develop a

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Speaker 2: game plan because of that, and so you're trying to

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Speaker 2: make it simple, but you also want to be dynamic

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Speaker 2: in a way where you can get a big return,

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Speaker 2: But you gotta be smart too. You don't want to

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Speaker 2: do something where it's gonna get you stuff inside the

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Speaker 2: twenty yard line, where you know a touchback's gonna get

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Speaker 2: you to the thirty. So it's all about I think

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Speaker 2: as we continue to progress, and you know, the later

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Speaker 2: weeks of the season, I think it will start to

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Speaker 2: make more sense. I still think at time because although

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Speaker 2: it's been three games, there's been a lot of more

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Speaker 2: touchbacks some people thought there would be. So you still

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Speaker 2: don't have a whole lot of film to build off that.

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Speaker 2: But I'm encouraged to continue to just can be watching it.

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Speaker 2: You know, we didn't get to watch the film from

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Speaker 2: last week around the league because of the short week.

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Speaker 2: But as I continue to watch around the league, as

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Speaker 2: it will give me more ideas, and I'm encouraged by

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Speaker 2: it all the times, and I want to continue to

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Speaker 2: think what we can do better at and how can

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Speaker 2: we get better to help our team out offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 1: Our next question to put a randall, And I ask

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Speaker 1: anybody else to raise a hand if you have questions.

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Speaker 2: Jeremy, sorry I had phone issues at the start. Good

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Speaker 2: just just wondering, you know what you've seen from Bryce

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Speaker 2: Berenger so far, because it seems like it's off to

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Speaker 2: a really good start. Yeah. I mean I just got

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Speaker 2: done meeting with Bryce a little while ago, and I

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Speaker 2: told him straight up, I mean he was un Daled

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Speaker 2: like last night was our best coverage player because of

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Speaker 2: how well he putted the ball. And I think he

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Speaker 2: continues to progress and be confident himself. We can take

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Speaker 2: care of him through the week and how we manage

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Speaker 2: his kicking. He's been a weapon for us. He's been

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Speaker 2: Undaled a great weapon for us. I'm encouraged by what

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Speaker 2: I've seen the last three weeks. I want to continue

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Speaker 2: to encourage him to continue to progress and help this

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Speaker 2: team out because he is going to help our defense

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Speaker 2: out setting a good field position. He's going to help

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Speaker 2: out if our offense struggles on a three and out,

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Speaker 2: then we can get the ball flipped the field. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. And that's the kind of weapon he could

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Speaker 2: be for us. And very encouraged, really really really pleased

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Speaker 2: with how he punted last night for us and how

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Speaker 2: he helped our coverage out in that sense. And you

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Speaker 2: kind of touched on it with the touchbacks on the kickoffs.

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Speaker 2: Are you surprised that there's been so many touchbacks or

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Speaker 2: was that kind of the expectation maybe around the league?

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Speaker 2: Agin If I would have gone through Otase, I would

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Speaker 2: have said there wouldn't been a lot of touchbacks, But

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Speaker 2: with the world changes that it made throughout training camp.

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Speaker 2: It's really it's encouraged to be more touched back because

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Speaker 2: there's only so much you can do with the football

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Speaker 2: on the tee and with the go ball going to

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Speaker 2: the thirty, you're like, all right, I rather take it

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Speaker 2: at the thirty than the averag drive start in a

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Speaker 2: thirty five yard line or thirty four. And so that's

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Speaker 2: why you probably see more touchbacks just because of where

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Speaker 2: you can what you cannot do with that ball on

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Speaker 2: the tee. And still you just don't know what teams

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Speaker 2: are gonna run, right, So it's just like there's not

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Speaker 2: enough film to go back and I'm like, let me

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Speaker 2: see what this coach did five years ago. Over the

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Speaker 2: last five years, you just don't have that amount of

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Speaker 2: work to be put on film. And because that, you

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Speaker 2: have to be kind of careful times. And you also

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Speaker 2: got to look at the momentum in the game and

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Speaker 2: do we have the momentum, do we want to lose

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Speaker 2: momentum to get a big return or do we want

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Speaker 2: to create momentum if we're struggling or something like that.

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Speaker 2: So those are the things you got to look at it.

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Speaker 2: If you don't really have a strong point of what

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Speaker 2: they're gonna do. You got to be careful sometimes, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's a smart thing as a coach, especially coach,

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Speaker 2: sometimes you gotta take the ego out. I want to

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Speaker 2: cover every kick because I'm a specially coach and I

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Speaker 2: want our guys to get I want Schooler to have

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Speaker 2: fifteen tackles. I want Quanta at fifteen tackles. But at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, like, let's be smart as

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Speaker 2: we continue to grasp around the league of what people

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Speaker 2: are doing, so now I can coach it better so

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Speaker 2: that we're not getting a big return out of and

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Speaker 2: then putting our defense out of disadvantage. So you gotta

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Speaker 2: have to look at it that way. Thank you, all right?

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Speaker 2: Mean Steel, Hey Jeremy, how are you doing yourself? Good? Good?

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Speaker 2: You mentioned you know, guys racking up the tackle numbers. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Joe Cardona seems to be getting a little bit more

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Speaker 2: aggressive with it. I don't know if that's something you've

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Speaker 2: schemed obviously the fumble earlier in the year. Just what

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Speaker 2: have you seen from him? And are you scheming up

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Speaker 2: this snapper to kind of get downfield and get his

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Speaker 2: nose in there a little bit more now. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: just think what we do in coverage has helped him

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Speaker 2: a little bit, you know, be a little more free

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Speaker 2: from a cover standpoint. And you know, jose Ah good athlete,

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Speaker 2: and Joseh a veteran too as well, so he understands

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Speaker 2: when he's running down the field, leverage points where the

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Speaker 2: balls be putting where he needs to be. And it's

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Speaker 2: no surprise. I mean, the guy's been playing for a

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Speaker 2: double digits. He's got you know, ten times more Smiths

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Speaker 2: than I even doing the NFL. He's a smart guy,

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Speaker 2: he's got he's got a lot of answers in a

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Speaker 2: good way, in a positive way, and I want him

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Speaker 2: to get down there and be in the picture. And

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Speaker 2: I think he's done that and he's gonna continue to

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Speaker 2: do that for us, and I'm very encouraged by him

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Speaker 2: as well. And as long as long snapping too, I

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Speaker 2: mean to go off of how Bryce put on last night,

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Speaker 2: I thought Joe Cardoney did a phenomenal job for us

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Speaker 2: in protection and in snapping the ball. And to have

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Speaker 2: those two guys with us right now are is definitely

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Speaker 2: helping our Quonteae