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Speaker 1: It'll just be it'll be discussed, you know, the week

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Speaker 1: And what do you feel this will do for him

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Speaker 1: really he had he might have had seven games eight

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Speaker 1: and this is just an opportunity for him to get

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Speaker 1: a few teams who have older kickers who can't or

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Speaker 1: can do adjustments to make the fake punts this year

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Speaker 1: he did last year. Yeah, make him work really um,

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Speaker 1: But I will say there's there's always something that this

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Speaker 1: positive coming from calling a fake punt. You know, the

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Speaker 1: the more you do it, and so um, we're aware

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Speaker 1: that the intenders are always up when we play. We

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Speaker 1: keep digging and diving harder to find the simple, simple

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Speaker 1: ways to get us first downs. And we do call

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Speaker 1: also put some more questions in the punt return team's mind.

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Speaker 1: And we call it quite a few more than three

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Speaker 1: fakes last year. We just we killed some of them

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Speaker 1: because we didn't get the right look. Talk to Mike beforehand.

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Speaker 1: How does that go on a game daily tea? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, during the week, we talk about it and

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Speaker 1: And so usually between serious you know, based on what

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Speaker 1: it's usually within about five seconds or you know, we

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Speaker 1: talk about it green let by the head coach or

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Speaker 1: read let by the head coach, and then I gotta

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Speaker 1: call it and we run it and live with it. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's some definitely some things that I can do to

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Speaker 1: successfully execute it, or kill it and don't run it

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Speaker 1: even though it's been called. So those mechanisms are in place,

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Speaker 1: and those are things that I can do better to

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Speaker 1: ain't good. Thank you, thank you, Thanks everybody,