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Speaker 1: How are we and ladies, sorry is fellas, how would

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Speaker 1: you set your cancl for me? Yeah? We're hitting downhill quick,

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Speaker 1: feel good, legs feel good. Uh, definitely trending in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. Happy with how the progression is coming along

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Speaker 1: and timing up. Just having a competition. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, my whole college career,

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Speaker 1: high school career, baseball, soccer, whatever, I've always been a

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Speaker 1: guy that's more compete with myself because I know that's

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Speaker 1: that's how I progress the best and continue to get better,

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Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, that's all I'm

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Speaker 1: really trying to do is continue to make kicks and

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Speaker 1: kick for a long time. Where do you feel your

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Speaker 1: game is different here standing here today after all your

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Speaker 1: off season. Yeah, I think over the last month between

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Speaker 1: OTAs to now, I've grown significantly in terms of what

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Speaker 1: my fundamentals are and my core fundamentals. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna give you guys a dissertation on that, but I

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Speaker 1: know what I do. I know it works, and I

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Speaker 1: know how I want to attack each kick. And then

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Speaker 1: I think just the mental approach of last year to

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Speaker 1: now it certainly hardened me and I feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: in a really good spot both mentally and physically. The

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Speaker 1: new kick return rules, I mean they're changing, they're changing

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Speaker 1: every day. I believe we can't lay the ball flat

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Speaker 1: on the tee anymore. So I think you have to

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Speaker 1: put it in the cup. I don't know. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: give you like a specific date. I just know that

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Speaker 1: that's the that's the new whatever. Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be It'll be fun to see how it develops

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Speaker 1: and how it plays out in preseason and then the

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Speaker 1: regular season too. That's the idea of trying to wrap

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Speaker 1: your head around the idea than last year. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a challenge, but it's fun because it forces

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Speaker 1: guys as kickers to be athletes and really take that

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Speaker 1: ball striking and body control into a factor because we're

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Speaker 1: trying to put the ball between the goal line and

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Speaker 1: the twenty. So it offers a lot more creativity and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting for everyone across the league because

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Speaker 1: there's guys all all teams have quality athletes that can

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Speaker 1: do it. You have, Yeah, you have to put the

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Speaker 1: ball in the tea, Yeah, yep. Learning techniques. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day. It always

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Speaker 1: comes down to foot hitting the ball. But it's the

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Speaker 1: fun part of it. It's like it's you learn something

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Speaker 1: every day, and that's any sport. There's for the next

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Speaker 1: fifty years, there's gonna be new stuff and younger guys

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Speaker 1: and older guys are going to be figuring stuff out

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Speaker 1: that was never before seen. So it's fun. It's cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't really talk to too many other guys about it.

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Speaker 1: I like to keep my stuff in house, kind of

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Speaker 1: kind of like the secret formula, like not ready to

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Speaker 1: put my items on the menu yet until it comes time.

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Speaker 1: But I think once season gets going, you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: similar trends amongst guys. Yeah. I've worked with a couple

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Speaker 1: of coaches. My main coach is a guy named Andrew

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Speaker 1: Gantz in Ohio, trained be in college and has stuck

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Speaker 1: with me, so I a lot to him. The Coles

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Speaker 1: guys with Cole's Kicking, Jamie Cole, Luke Gradkey, and then

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Speaker 1: Nick Novac put on an event out in San Diego

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Speaker 1: for for a bunch of guys to go out and train,

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Speaker 1: which was a really cool, cool experience. Man, he's the

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Speaker 1: best slater is the best I'll stand on that table

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Speaker 1: till like the day I die that Matthew Slater is

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Speaker 1: one of the best humans I've ever ever come across.

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm super fortunate, as is everyone here. Even

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Speaker 1: year I'll certainly treasure forever. I mean, the same way

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Speaker 1: he's done it for the last umpteenth years, Like just

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Speaker 1: being the great dude and role model of work, ethic,

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Speaker 1: how to treat people, character, father, man of God. Everything

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Speaker 1: that Slater stands for and represents is something I aspire

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Speaker 1: to be as I continue to grow. So when you

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Speaker 1: go back to the fundamentals you mentioned since the springs out,

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Speaker 1: how much of that is your your preparation for receiving

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Speaker 1: the kick where you're speaking mechanically in the process. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good question. Good question. No, I

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Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, it's it's understanding

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Speaker 1: out there with an attack each time and knowing that

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Speaker 1: my technique and fundamentals will provide the results I look

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Speaker 1: for with deviation of error being between that margin that

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Speaker 1: still still goes in and just having that trust to

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Speaker 1: myself the fundamentals and the guys around me is what

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Speaker 1: it comes down to. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: You guys love this new kickoff. It's it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a kickoff. The fact that you're kind of still learning

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Speaker 1: what what it's going to be like on day one

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Speaker 1: from the league's perspective, how difficult does that make it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you're getting me to say

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Speaker 1: I think it's fun. It's another fast of the game

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Speaker 1: that everyone has to grow and adapt to. And that's

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Speaker 1: what makes guys in this league elite. Everyone's able to

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Speaker 1: grow adapt and come Week one it's going to be

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Speaker 1: really exciting, and then all the way through to the

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Speaker 1: end of the season and playoff super Bowl could end

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Speaker 1: up being the end of the season, you see something

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Speaker 1: you've never seen before. So that's like the little special

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Speaker 1: magic of it all. Ye who knows your guess is

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Speaker 1: as good. Your guess is as good as mine. We'll

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Speaker 1: see when we get there. You don't want to do.

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Speaker 1: But as far as the changes and techniques, it's a

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Speaker 1: little different. One m pick one probably just my stance.

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Speaker 1: Longer you go, if you watch it, Andrew, You'll be

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Speaker 1: able to see it right away, no TV, TV to hear,

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to see it. I know you watch

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Speaker 1: me pitch in high school. Andrew, you got you got

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Speaker 1: you know me well enough fundamentally body. Yeah see he

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Speaker 1: you're with me, You're with me. I love it. I

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Speaker 1: love it. Yeah cool, good, awesome, Thanks guys, Thank good

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Speaker 1: to see you guys. Always. You gotta love that k