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Speaker 1: Welcome into Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Ink here

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Speaker 1: with Garrett Downing and we are thrilled to sit down

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Speaker 1: with kicker Tyler Loop and Ravens kicking coach Randy Brown.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for joining us. We've been looking to

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Speaker 1: have you on for a little while now. Glad to

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Speaker 1: make it happen.

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Speaker 2: And Tyler, I'll start with you.

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Speaker 1: So, as we all know, you know, you're learning a

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Speaker 1: lot during your rookie season, that's kind of part of it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, cold, windy Cleveland great place to learn things.

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Speaker 1: And as we saw, you learned a very important lesson

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Speaker 1: of how to put on a jacket with no sleeves.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, tell us about that.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I I was never fortunate enough in college and we

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Speaker 4: had cold games to get one of those, and I thought,

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Speaker 4: I mean I genuinely I was sitting there like trying

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Speaker 4: to put my arms through and I couldn't find it.

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Speaker 4: And then I saw the pocket and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I'm an idiot.

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Speaker 1: So just yeah, that's what the vets are there for, right,

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Speaker 1: the coach on these kind of things.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, sometimes you just gotta let it happen.

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Speaker 4: You get gold on a camera.

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Speaker 5: So not too many cold games in Arizona, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not not too many, but we had a few.

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Speaker 4: We went and played, like Washington State up and Pullman

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Speaker 4: playing at University Washington, Oregon. Like those games in Utah

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Speaker 4: it's cold as well, but that's pretty nice weather yice.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, in all seriousness, those are those are

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Speaker 1: tough conditions. Sunday in Cleveland, very difficult place to kick.

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Speaker 1: You make all three of your your field goals, both

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Speaker 1: your extra points, just you know, make a clutch forty

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Speaker 1: four yard er late in the fourth quarter to tie

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Speaker 1: the game up. Just how good did it feel to

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Speaker 1: knock down those kicks in that environment?

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Speaker 4: That was good. You know, we talked a lot. I

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Speaker 4: mean from the day I got here, was all about like,

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Speaker 4: you know, the first eight nine weeks this season, like

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Speaker 4: you'll be fine. But the one that we got to

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Speaker 4: prepare for is the back half of the season when

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Speaker 4: you're playing in Cleveland and in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 4: those you know, those places where weather's pretty unpredictable. It's

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Speaker 4: me windy, it's me cold. So you know, we we

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Speaker 4: were working on hitting a ball that survives at weather

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Speaker 4: in April in May when we first got here, so

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Speaker 4: you know, going out and doing it that was fun.

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Speaker 1: Right, So this is almost like this Cleveland game was

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Speaker 1: like the start of the season for you in some

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Speaker 1: ways pretty much.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting.

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Speaker 5: I was watching the two of you guys during warm

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Speaker 5: ups and it was really windy, and warm ups it

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Speaker 5: actually felt like the wind died off a touch as

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Speaker 5: the game went along, maybe, but in warm ups, like

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Speaker 5: it almost looked like you were hitting some like you

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Speaker 5: were playing into the wind at times. I'm just curious

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Speaker 5: how you felt during warm ups and also, Randy, could

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Speaker 5: you walk us through like when it's a really windy

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Speaker 5: you're so regimented about, like what you do during these

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Speaker 5: pregame warmups, what that process is to get used to

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Speaker 5: kicking in that type of environment.

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Speaker 6: First of all, it's an honor to be here on

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Speaker 6: the lounge after eighteen years here at the Ravens have

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Speaker 6: a chance to sit with you two gentlemen on the lamb.

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Speaker 2: Finally begged you, and you finally said.

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Speaker 6: Yeh, finally eighteen years of asking, and I finally relent

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Speaker 6: it and I appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, your door.

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Speaker 6: You guys do a great job and part of our

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Speaker 6: social media team. Everything you guys are outstanding at. So

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Speaker 6: what we do is I've been fortunate enough to you know,

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Speaker 6: have coached probably twenty games in that stadium in Cleveland,

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Speaker 6: twenty some in Pittsburgh and Samon Cincinnati, and all I

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Speaker 6: can do is try to share my knowledge with with

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Speaker 6: the kicker, with Tyler, And what we were doing is

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Speaker 6: what you do is you kick the ball into different

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Speaker 6: areas and quadrants of the uprights to see how the

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Speaker 6: you can see to your point the speed of which

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Speaker 6: depending on what the wind is, because you're right, there

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Speaker 6: was some some some of that wind or in pregame

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Speaker 6: is we never want to give the uprights away, meaning

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Speaker 6: we never want to kick a ball outside the uprights,

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Speaker 6: because if you're in that situation and the wind has died,

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Speaker 6: and as strong as he kicks the ball, that ball

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Speaker 6: to keep everything inside the uprights. So he was experimenting

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Speaker 6: we were experimenting with the lean. We were experimenting with

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Speaker 6: where he's making foot the ball contact and then where

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Speaker 6: the target was. And that's what you were seeing. And

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Speaker 6: you know, it's funny because you see from the outside

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Speaker 6: and some people covering is oh so and so missed

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Speaker 6: this in pregame, or so and so only hit from

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Speaker 5: Do you come out of pregame and look at the

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Speaker 5: Cleveland game, Like do you come out of there feeling like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: out of it feeling like, all right, it's going to

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Speaker 5: be kind of dicey today because this is a windy situation,

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Speaker 5: Like how do you leave pregame feeling about what the

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Speaker 4: Uh? So, Like he said, pregames all about experimenting, but

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Speaker 4: it's also like getting ready. So one thing that Nick

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Speaker 4: using pregame as like just knowing that you're ready. So

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Speaker 4: when I'm out there kicking off the sticks or the

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Speaker 4: we're experimenting, trying to get a feel of the wind,

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Speaker 4: and we'll get a pretty good one of that. But

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Speaker 4: then when I kick with Nick and Jordan, that whole

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Speaker 4: process is just to say like like, hey, I know

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Speaker 4: by the end of pregame, like typically where you know,

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Speaker 4: and so by the end of that we're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I heard your hat blew off or something as you

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I like walked out of the hotel and

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Speaker 4: I was like, dude, thanks so much. I get in

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Speaker 4: the bus and Harv's like, h you saw that.

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Speaker 2: So it's going to be interesting today.

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 6: Well, if you guys remember the last two three weeks

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Speaker 6: we've had here has been so windy, right, and you know,

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Speaker 6: we have the best practice facility in the National Football League.

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Speaker 6: I've said it, but what it does is that gives

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Speaker 6: us real life conditions out back. So I frustrated him

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Speaker 6: a little bit this week and we kicked a lot

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Speaker 6: I think that one day we're out there how to

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Speaker 1: And that's to you know, if the winds are swilling

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, and you know, and there's sometimes you know, we

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Speaker 6: learned a lot. And no matter what you say about

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Speaker 6: where we play in the AFC, North, yes, Pittsburgh, Cleveland

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Speaker 6: and since anator tough places to play in all my years,

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Speaker 6: kicking at the bank is the hardest place in National

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Speaker 2: Kick a for Why is it? So?

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Speaker 6: It's undergone changes obviously esthetically which has been beautiful now,

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Speaker 6: and then with us being so close to the harbor,

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Speaker 6: it's a changeable wind and now it's almost become a

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Speaker 6: swirling type wind. We're honestly, in pregame I kind of

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Speaker 6: of it, before Matt that game he hit like four

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Speaker 6: us four over fifty We had gone almost seven eight

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Speaker 6: years where the opponent did not kick a field goal

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Speaker 6: over fifty yards in our stadium. And yeah, the poems

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Speaker 6: eight eight years were pom. Now lately we have been

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Speaker 6: a couple guys have hit it. Yeah, but it's really hard,

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Speaker 1: Do you love to free the nuggets at the bang

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Speaker 1: ker the field goal? I've got a lot of chicken

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Speaker 6: We just got a lot of them. It's not a

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Speaker 1: I remember, Tyler, you know when when the Ravens first

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Speaker 1: drafted you, there were a lot of pundits out there

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Speaker 1: that talked about, well, he was from Arizona. You know,

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Speaker 1: he kicked in Arizona. How is he going to deal

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Speaker 2: You know, that was like one of the questions.

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Speaker 1: So did this game and the week of practice leading

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Speaker 1: up to it, did it kind of prove something to you,

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Speaker 1: to both of you about like you know what you

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Speaker 1: know and you said you kicked in cold before, but

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Speaker 1: like that, yes, I can handle this being a kicker

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't say it proved anything we didn't already know.

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Speaker 4: I guess that's the same. How did I say you

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Speaker 4: knew like there weren't there weren't doubts of like we

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Speaker 4: for us we knew going into that, like that the ball,

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Speaker 4: the ball that we hit can can hold up in

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Speaker 4: that like you know, Arizona, it's it's warm, and it's

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Speaker 4: beautiful most of the year, but there's there's a season

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Speaker 4: we call it monsoon season, and I mean you'll have

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Speaker 4: days where there's these storms that are call them haboob

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Speaker 4: in that. So that like sets you up for the wind.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, growing up in Texas, like you

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Speaker 4: play playoff football and it's high twenties, low thirties, super

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Speaker 4: windy because Texa has nothing. So there's there's been a

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Speaker 4: lot of times where've kicking that weather. But there's also

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Speaker 4: just a confidence. It's like we use we use this

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Speaker 4: thing called track Man and tracks all. Like the metrics

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Speaker 4: has been an awesome tool for us. But one of

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Speaker 6: And if we piggyback and go back to you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm curious along those lines. So in terms of the

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Speaker 4: It's it's just a lot of refinement. Like we if

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Speaker 4: So we know, like that's my athletically, that's just where

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Speaker 6: We still do. I mean, and for everybody who's watching

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Speaker 6: out who these guys have worked with because there's different coaches,

438
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,680
Speaker 6: there are different guys who teach differently. So we went

439
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,119
Speaker 6: through it and he was just remarkably intelligent on it.

440
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 6: Uh and then kind of moved the table aside a

441
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 6: little bit, and he did. We went through his stroke

442
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,560
Speaker 6: and all and I have the text still and I

443
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 6: text John at the end of that dinner that I

444
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 6: think we found our guy.

445
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:34,879
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

446
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,880
Speaker 5: What was your memory of that whole process and the dinner,

447
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,480
Speaker 5: Like were you feeling did you have the same thoughts

448
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 5: as you were going through that? Like, man I hope

449
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 5: it's the Ravens. I think this could be the fit. Like,

450
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 5: what was your perspective on it?

451
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 4: I was just, you know, I was surprised he asked

452
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 4: for all flats and he ordered his wings.

453
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 6: I love flats.

454
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, for me, I was like,

455
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get home field advantage here. I love the Monica.

456
00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 4: So I got home field vantage are and just be comfortable.

457
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 4: But just sitting down talking like, uh, you know, I

458
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 4: said this in the very first press conference, was I

459
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:20,879
Speaker 4: think something that's like cool and unique is sometimes you

460
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 4: just find like a common thread that you agree on,

461
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 4: and I think it's a good start for a lot

462
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 4: of relationships, especially from coach to player when you're talking

463
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 4: mechanics of kicking and like all those things. Uh, you know,

464
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 4: we had a little bit different language for it, but

465
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,159
Speaker 4: when we sat down actually broke down film, it was

466
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 4: like we're saying the same things that you want to

467
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,320
Speaker 4: see accomplished within a kick. And so after we got

468
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 4: done with that, I was like, I love this because

469
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 4: you know, when I got to college, like I had

470
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 4: three different head coaches, four different special teams coordinators, three

471
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 4: different analysts, Like you have a lot of people that

472
00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 4: are coaching you, and you have to learn to basically

473
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 4: coach yourself. Like if you want to be successful at

474
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,159
Speaker 4: the college level, you have to have the knowledge to

475
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,160
Speaker 4: coach yourself and deal with it because, like he said,

476
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,919
Speaker 4: there's days where you just don't feel good, right, and

477
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 4: especially with college, like you get to midterms weeks or

478
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,159
Speaker 4: finals weeks. Now you're studying for you know, three four exams,

479
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 4: you know, staying up late. Then you got to go

480
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 4: to practice and perform, and now you've got a game.

481
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 4: And so the coach should I grew up working with.

482
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 4: He harped on it, like from the first day I

483
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 4: started working with my sophomore year, He's like, you have

484
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,640
Speaker 4: to know this stuff, like you have to learn how

485
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 4: to kick, you have to learn to coach yourself, and

486
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 4: you have to just fall in love with your mechanics.

487
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 4: And so you know, to do that for four years

488
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 4: and then finally sit down with a coach and just

489
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 4: be like, this is what I do, this is why

490
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 4: I do it, And for that to just click had

491
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 4: me really excited. He's like, Okay, I love this like

492
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 4: I would. I'd love to, you know, spend more time

493
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 4: working on that and playing at the Ravens and spend

494
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 4: just like developing that game. So I left feeling really good.

495
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 4: Like I remember, I text my fiance and someone tweeted

496
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 4: this after I hit like a sixty two yarder in college.

497
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 4: They tweeted, Tyler Loop, you are a Baltimore Raven.

498
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 5: I like that.

499
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 4: I like sent that. I literally screenshot it and I

500
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 4: sent the tweet to my fiance and she's like, what

501
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 4: do you mean. I was like, I think I'm gonna

502
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 4: be a Raven after after they this.

503
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 2: Is before you even miss Randy.

504
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 4: Well, so it was after dinner, okay, yeah, okay, it

505
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 4: was after dinner. Yeah.

506
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 6: And you know the thing was is like all everybody's

507
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 6: reaching out to me. Yeah, okay, Randy always saw this

508
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 6: or we saw this or oh you know, so we

509
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 6: were attached to all these different kickers, which was great

510
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 6: with me because I didn't want anybody knowing I liked

511
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 6: him right all right, So anybody called me on me,

512
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 6: I don't know about him. I don't know. Did you

513
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 6: see that miss a twenty six yard? Miss? I don't know,

514
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 6: but I love so and so I'm not going to

515
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 6: say publicly who I kept saying, I love.

516
00:23:58,960 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 2: Oh you were throwing them off.

517
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 6: Oh solely wait and one of the and there was

518
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 6: one of our local guys. Oh, I heard from a

519
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 6: great source, this is who the one guy. I'm like,

520
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 6: you gotcha? Gotcha? So draft day and I don't know

521
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 6: if you guys are wanting to touch on draft day,

522
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 6: but so the draft name night before the draft comes

523
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 6: and I'm like, ty I just I hope you're there

524
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,120
Speaker 6: because you're my guy, and I really hope we can

525
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 6: we can pick you. And uh, that morning, Eric came

526
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 6: in and said, who was your guy? And I said,

527
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 6: it's Tyler. And and thankfully Steve and John and Eric, uh,

528
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 6: especially Steve was all in for drafting a kicker this

529
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,959
Speaker 6: year and it was a little Harry at the end

530
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 6: of the fifth round beginning of the sixth, to say

531
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 6: the least, the little Harry. And then when New England

532
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 6: came up to pick a kicker, and uh, and they

533
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 6: didn't take Tyler, which was a little surprising because the

534
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 6: special teams coach at New England was Tyler's.

535
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 4: Especial teams coach for recruited me to Arizona.

536
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 6: At Arizona, I thought when New England was going to

537
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 6: pick a kicker, I thought for sure. Oh and now

538
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 6: they have a play.

539
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: You're sweating.

540
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 6: I were sweating. And by the way, they have an

541
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 6: outstanding kicker. Andy's outstanding. He's had a great Star of

542
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 6: the season, great young man, great family. I mean, you know,

543
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 6: it wasn't really you know, dramatically, but you know, I'm

544
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 6: fortunate enough that we got him. And yeah, and it

545
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 6: was as excited as I've been in a long long

546
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 6: time regarding football.

547
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: I looked up the stats to Tyler seventeen to nineteen,

548
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: zero misses from under fifty so far, and he's.

549
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 2: Under fifty five under fifty five, thank you.

550
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: Andy's fifteen to seventeen had two extra point misses also, Rady.

551
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 2: So both good starts. Both good starts for showing you're.

552
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 6: Tough and both you know, both guys. You're playing Baltimore,

553
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 6: New England, yep. And and and for everybody out there,

554
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 6: it's a layup to kick indoors. Okay, like when we

555
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 6: kicked in Dallas against you know, with Brandon Aubrey. You know,

556
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 6: he was going toe to toe in pregame. It was

557
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 6: just fun, it was. But like you can play twelve

558
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 6: or thirteen games, right, maybe fourteen, you know, to play

559
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 6: in Detroit or play in Dallas or play you know. Yeh,

560
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 6: but that's that's a light up. But now we actually

561
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 6: have challenges.

562
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 2: I'm sure.

563
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: Also another thing that you're you're trying to scout is

564
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: the clutch factor. You know, I know that you take

565
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: a scientific look at everything. So do you almost take

566
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: that out of the equation, that that being clutch or

567
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: whatever isn't a real thing or is there something tangible

568
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 1: to that?

569
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 6: David Akers, Matt Stover, Graham Cano, Steve Halshka, Will Lutz,

570
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 6: Cameron Dicker, Justin Tucker, Tyler Loop. These are the kickers

571
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 6: I've surrounded myself within all these years, and I think

572
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 6: all of them have the same trait. And they're all

573
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 6: out standing field goal kickers. They've had great some of

574
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 6: that great career, some are still having really good careers

575
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 6: and they are unfazed. And I think you can really tell,

576
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 6: and especially you guys who you you interact with so

577
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 6: many people, you can tell very shortly after you interact

578
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 6: with somebody, what are they like? Are they kind of cool?

579
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 6: Are they stand offish? Are they arrogant? Are they self centered?

580
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 6: Are they nervous?

581
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: Like?

582
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 6: Can they look at you? Can they really look at you.

583
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 6: And in all the kickers that I've gone through through

584
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 6: the years, and the ones I've really really liked are

585
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 6: the ones that, to me, are confident in what they

586
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 6: do because it's you buy yourself out there and doesn't

587
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 6: matter how good of a teacher I am, doesn't matter

588
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 6: how good of a holder, you have, doesn't matter how

589
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 6: good a long snapper you have, it's you. You have

590
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 6: to be so confident in yourself in that one point

591
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 6: three seconds to not change your mind in that time period.

592
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 6: That's the part where that NFL kickers get deserve more

593
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 6: credit than they got because they're so good now, Like

594
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 6: ninety percent back when I came in this leg was

595
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 6: unheard of twenty seven years ago. It was almost unheard

596
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 6: of fifteen years ago. Now ninety percent is expected. What's

597
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 6: really should be expected is an eighty percent field goal

598
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 6: guy with the distances that were kicking these days. But

599
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 6: you've got to know who your guy is because when

600
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 6: they're back there, it's so easy to have some self

601
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 6: doubt like, oh maybe I shouldn't play inside the right

602
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 6: up right, Oh maybe I should should play a little

603
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 6: bit more middle. And you need that guy, so the

604
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 6: clutch factor is the guy that knows his stroke, that

605
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 6: has done it so many times that game on the line,

606
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 6: He's going to do what his process is. And every

607
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 6: time you hear Tyler talk about process, it's what is

608
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 6: firmly entrenched in his mind. It's process, process, process.

609
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 5: I'm curious, Tyler, I want to go back along the

610
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 5: lines of clutch and wanting to be in that in

611
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 5: that moment. I want to go back to the game

612
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 5: in Cleveland. And obviously the Mark Andrews touchdown run is

613
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 5: like a moment that's it's an iconic Raven's play. But

614
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 5: if it could have gone the other way, where the

615
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 5: Ravens just say, Okay, this is let's let's kick it.

616
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 5: You know, it's a tie game at that point, and

617
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 5: it's a one fourth and one, And I'm curious, like

618
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 5: what your process or you're what you were thinking in

619
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 5: that moment, because that would have been the biggest kick

620
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 5: of your NFL career to date, and you had just

621
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 5: kicked a forty four yard or earlier in the game,

622
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 5: uh to tie, Yeah, to tie the game, and that

623
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 5: was probably your biggest kick to date maybe, and so

624
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 5: that but you know, there's something that goes to an

625
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 5: even another level fifty plus yarder at that point of

626
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 5: the game to take the lead. Was there any part

627
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 5: of you that was saying, like give me the shot,

628
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 5: Like how are you processing and thinking about that moment?

629
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 4: Yeah. So the one thing like I think that's helpful

630
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 4: and to have in like in your head and in

631
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,959
Speaker 4: your mental makeup is like when it comes down to it,

632
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 4: like you want the opportunity to do it. So even

633
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 4: going back to like when I was growing up playing

634
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 4: soccer and playing our sports, like there were a few

635
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 4: times where it's like, okay, we're late in the game,

636
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 4: like we need a goal. I always played center back,

637
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 4: but I knew and like I would go to my coach.

638
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 4: I'd tell him like, please put me it forward, like

639
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 4: you need a goal, put me up, like I will

640
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 4: go score a goal here, and that Like that sort

641
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 4: of mental I don't even know what you'd call it,

642
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 4: almost is something that I think you kind of need

643
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 4: to be successful at this level. So when it came

644
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 4: down like the forty four yarder, I remember I kicked

645
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 4: a ball into the net, and I was like, before

646
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 4: third down even happens, typically I'll hit a ball, I'll

647
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 4: hit a ball two when the drive starts, and then

648
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 4: every time he gets a third down and field goal range,

649
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 4: I'll hit another ball. But instead of hitting a ball,

650
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 4: I like walked over because I was like, I'm gonna

651
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 4: look Randy in the eyes and just let him know,

652
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 4: like this forty four yard is going in. And so

653
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 4: I remember doing that, and then we sat down on

654
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 4: the bench and it was we always send this Jordan Nick,

655
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 4: myself and Randy and we're like, let's hit a game winner.

656
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 4: Like Nick Nick Moore loved the dude. He is golden

657
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 4: to be around, and he's like, let's just do some

658
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 4: epic stuff.

659
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 6: And we want to hit game winners. Now, yeah, hey,

660
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 6: we don't. The play was amazing, right.

661
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. It's like it was one of those

662
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 4: things where we were sitting there it would be sick,

663
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 4: so like into the dog pound, which is like the

664
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 4: conversation we had before Cleveland was like going towards the

665
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 4: dog pound is is the direction that stadium that is

666
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 4: challenging to kick too. And we were sitting on the

667
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 4: bench like it would be sick after hitting a forty

668
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 4: four year at a tie, then the next drive come

669
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 4: out and smashing a game winner. We're like that would

670
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 4: be so fun. And so that was that was kind

671
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 4: of the makeup and like we were ready for it

672
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 4: and they're like, Okay, we're going to go for it.

673
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, great, Like we trust our offense, we

674
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 4: trust our defense.

675
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, but like during the game, you can see in

676
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 6: a player's eyes, right, he makes his forty four, and

677
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 6: he did. He walked past me and we looked at

678
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 6: each other and it was just one of those you

679
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 6: got it.

680
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 5: I know, you gave a little swigger coming off the field,

681
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 5: and it felt like after that one, it just it

682
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 5: just seemed that way.

683
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 6: So we sat down and and I could tell, you

684
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 6: could tell if he wanted to go back out there again.

685
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, on the game.

686
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 6: But you know that fun he's got. He's got plenty

687
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 6: of game winners ahead. And but the thing is the

688
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 6: way that we do it is in all my years

689
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 6: here in the in the eighteen years, I've never once

690
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 6: walked over to Kicker and asked him can you make this?

691
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 6: These guys have trusted in me, and I just decide

692
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,239
Speaker 6: if they're going to kick it or not. I mean,

693
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 6: Coach Charball has the final decision. It's Harves's call. A

694
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 6: lot of times you'll see I'll be near him and

695
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 6: we'll talk about it.

696
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 2: You know, you basically give Harves the thumbs up.

697
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 4: There. That's it.

698
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 6: And I don't never, I've never, in eighteen years, never

699
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 6: walked over to a kicker and say are we good here?

700
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 6: Because they you know, they know I've got their best interest,

701
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 6: but they also know I know their range as good

702
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 6: or better than them because kickers, they're never going to

703
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 6: coach walks.

704
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: Go for it.

705
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 6: I want could you imagine that?

706
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 2: Now? I'm good, you don't want that guy?

707
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 6: I'm good. You're feeling pretty warm right now. I'm gonna

708
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 6: say right here.

709
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: So.

710
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 6: I've taken it off them. Of all the kickers we've

711
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 6: had here, he's taken it off and we've just made

712
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 6: the decision, coach Arball and I've made the decision of

713
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 6: you know, we're going to are not going to kick it.

714
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 6: And it's worked out pretty good through the years, right all.

715
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: Right, Randy, So this is the part where you put

716
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: on the ear muffs. I'm gonna ask Tyler this question.

717
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: What is it like being coached by this guy? You know,

718
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: he's the kicking guru.

719
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 2: Of the NFL.

720
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: What is it like and He's also a plus personality

721
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: within this building. What's it like being coached by Randy?

722
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 2: You can ear muffs at any point.

723
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 4: So the first whiff of Randy's incredible personality that I

724
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 4: got was when he texted me and it was random

725
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 4: number and it said, uh, you know, like it gives

726
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 4: you the name of the contact, like you don't have

727
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 4: the number saved.

728
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 2: It said Mayor Brown?

729
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 6: Who is Mayor Brown?

730
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 4: Because prior to this we talked for maybe two minutes

731
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,479
Speaker 4: of the combine, like during the field goal session. Because

732
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 4: the day before, when we were supposed to have all

733
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 4: the interviews, I got caught up. I don't know how

734
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 4: I got caught up at the hospital for like twelve

735
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 4: hours that day. I was there from nine am to

736
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 4: nine pm, just sitting in a chair waiting for X rays.

737
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 6: He was the only guy who missed our interviews. But

738
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 6: that's okay.

739
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 4: I literally was the only guy in missary. I got

740
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 4: back and I was just like, oh, this is rough, dad,

741
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 4: And thankfully my dad was there because like we weren't

742
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 4: allowed to leave the hotel pas a certain time. I

743
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 4: was like, Dad, I need to bring me food. DoorDash closed.

744
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 4: When I got back to my room and I was like,

745
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 4: oh boy, but anyways, uh it was it was a

746
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 4: fun like first introduction after the combine because I was

747
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 4: sitting down taking off my cleats and changing. He just

748
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 4: comes over and goes and it weighs me over and

749
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 4: we chatted for a minute and then you know, the

750
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 4: first time that we had our workout together at Arizona

751
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 4: and sitting down, I was like, this dude's wired up.

752
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 4: Like this dude is wired up right now, which is

753
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 4: a good thing because it it challenges you. And he's

754
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 4: like the nice thing is I I think it's a

755
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 4: big disservice to players when coaches are dishonest with them.

756
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 4: And one thing like Randy won't be with you during

757
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 4: during practice is dishonest. Like if he sees something he

758
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 4: doesn't like, he's gonna tell you and he's going to

759
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 4: tell you exactly why he thinks that what he sees

760
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 4: and like you you know, he lets you know that.

761
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 4: And then what's great is you can sit down and

762
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 4: look at film because we la there's of football saying

763
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 4: it's like the eye and this guy never lies and

764
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 4: so we get to then sit down and look at

765
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 4: film and really talk about it and it's been a

766
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 4: really cool conversation of like, you know, we talk about

767
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 4: loving the mechanics of kicking, and so it's been it's

768
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 4: been really cool and I've I've really enjoyed my time here,

769
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 4: especially working with him and Nick and Jordan and those guys.

770
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 4: Like it's been, it's been really rewarding.

771
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 5: I'm curious what how you approach training camp because for

772
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 5: all the stuff we just talked about, you were his guy,

773
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 5: uh that you were the guy that the Raves wanted,

774
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 5: like you you got drafted, but you still had to

775
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 5: win the job like it wasn't and there was competition,

776
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 5: and John Hoyland was here at the time and you

777
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 5: had to earn it like and you know, he's a

778
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 5: good kicker who challenged you over the course of the

779
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 5: off season into training camp. But but over the course

780
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 5: of camp, like you, you clearly won the job and

781
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 5: earned earned the spot. How did you approach the everyday

782
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 5: grind of going out there and needing to deliver and

783
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 5: to win that job over the course of the summer.

784
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 4: Yeah? Uh, First off, John Hoyland is an awesome dude.

785
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 4: Like I loved having him around here. He was for

786
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 4: for lack there of a better term. He was like

787
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 4: the perfect pace setting competition for me, because you know,

788
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 4: one thing that I've always felt really confident in myself

789
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 4: about is like I can hit the ball really far,

790
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 4: but what good is hitting the ball for if you

791
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 4: don't know where it's going? Right John Hoyland, that dude

792
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 4: was so processed or like he came in and it

793
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 4: was like if nothing, if hell or high water, John

794
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 4: was going to hit a straight ball. And so for me,

795
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 4: like coming in every day, I knew I was like,

796
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 4: I need to come here and hit a straight ball,

797
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 4: Like I can't get caught up in this whole competition

798
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 4: of just trying to mash the ball and trying to

799
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 4: you know, hit it and prove for all the flash,

800
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 4: oh sixty eight yard seventy yarder. It's like I gotta

801
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 4: make my kicks because like we're going off percentages. And

802
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 4: John Hoylan pushed me a lot in that, and so

803
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,919
Speaker 4: that was that was really helpful for me. But then

804
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 4: the every day part of waking up, like football's performance business.

805
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 4: You know, the day the day you stopped making kicks

806
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 4: is the day that your career is like starting to

807
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 4: getting jeopardy. Like there's a few rules thumbs, like the

808
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 4: day you stop getting better is the day your career

809
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 4: is over. Like you're on the downhill after that. And

810
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 4: so you know that's just my approach. It's like you

811
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 4: have to come and perform. You can't not come in.

812
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 4: You have to be able to rely on all the

813
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 4: work you've put in before and all the things like

814
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 4: you know now to be able to improve and perform.

815
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: So that was.

816
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 4: Something that through training camp was really good for me,

817
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,760
Speaker 4: I think, and something that I really really enjoyed.

818
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 6: And when so the Hoylan thing. So when Eric and

819
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 6: George said you can have another spot for a kicker,

820
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 6: I didn't want to bring another big legged guy. So

821
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 6: we could pretend we can have a home running.

822
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 2: Competition fun for us to watch.

823
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 5: It would be great for you guys to watch drive

824
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 5: competition every day in practice.

825
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 6: So so I selected Hoyl in just because I knew

826
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 6: he hit a straight ball. I know his leg wasn't

827
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 6: as strong as as as Tyler's. So there was a

828
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 6: day John goes because if you guys remember back in

829
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 6: training camp, I was alternating a lot because I like ball.

830
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 6: The football is being kicked on practice. We like field

831
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 6: goal periods. So John went nine for nine. Okay, next

832
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 6: morning he comes in my office like eight oh one am,

833
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 6: I'm up by myself today, right, I said, yeah, yeah, yeah,

834
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 6: I'll Putjohn down down. He says, all right, I need

835
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 6: to go ten for ten today. Swear to God, I

836
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 6: need to go ten for ten. To give me ten,

837
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 6: give me ten.

838
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: Right.

839
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 6: So if you remember that was the day. That was

840
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 6: the day where he was bombing all over the place.

841
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 6: We hit like sixty two, sixty four, sixty eight. He

842
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 6: went ten for ten and it worked out. I was

843
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 6: very fortunate. But John, I think John Howley is probably

844
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 6: end up paying here in the spring leg. So John

845
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 6: probike could play in our league here soon. But it

846
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 6: was a competition and he didn't try to OutKick John.

847
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 6: He just wanted to use him and John. Honestly, I

848
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 6: think he learned a little bit John and John learned

849
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 6: from him.

850
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: With all that said, and you mentioned that you're using

851
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: the TrackMan devices, what was the longest that Tyler hitting

852
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: training camp?

853
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: Because I know there were a lot of uz and oh.

854
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 6: Well, well, the farthest we made in training camp was

855
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 6: sixty eight on a live op on a live op.

856
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 6: Sixty eight on live op but track Man and we

857
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 6: had seventy four, seventy five maybe and then it was

858
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 6: about seven. Yeah, good, it would have been good from.

859
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,439
Speaker 4: So yeah, track Man gives you a good from.

860
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 6: It gives you sorry, track Man gives you where you

861
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 6: made it from, but would have been good from, just

862
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 6: like you see on Sunday Night football, right right, I

863
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 6: believe we're almost seventy five.

864
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 4: It was seventy five on the sixty three yarder. Wow

865
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 4: that we hit with.

866
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 6: That's right, seven sixty three yarder.

867
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 4: The fun the fun thing was like track Man only tracks,

868
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 4: and so you set it up on the forty so

869
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 4: we had a day. We had one day, right, hit

870
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 4: like a seventy five yarder.

871
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 6: But him, I mean, honestly, him and Jordan last week,

872
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 6: just last week, him and Jordan were mashing the ball.

873
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 6: We had the wind at our back a little bit.

874
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 6: Jordan hit from seventy four, Tyler hit from seventy.

875
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 2: But you know Jordan on a field goal attend Yeah, yeah.

876
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely.

877
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 2: Granted he hit into it.

878
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 6: Granted five might go dead left, but one of them

879
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 6: is going to be like wow, I'm all still going.

880
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 6: But you know, remember Jordan was really yeah, came to

881
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 6: our aid last year with the kickoffs, he was outsta

882
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 6: and we're playing the game in Buffalo at the end

883
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 6: of the year where you know, he puts a ball

884
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 6: through the uprights and its zero degrees, right. So, and

885
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 6: Jordan was outstanding as a kicker at Penn State too,

886
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 6: And you know, and that's the one thing that we

887
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 6: talk about process. It goes back to Coach Charbon and

888
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 6: I in Philadelphia when we had David Akers, Koy Detmer

889
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 6: and Mike Bartram and snapping over the ball, twelve o'clock

890
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 6: laces over the spot, twelve o'clock lass. And we've carried

891
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 6: that here of course, with with Sam Morgan and Tuck

892
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 6: and with Jordan and Nick and Tyler have done they've

893
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 6: picked it all up. And the process that we've that

894
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 6: Coach Charbon and I have done for twenty five years,

895
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 6: we're still doing it today.

896
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 4: Right.

897
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: Well, we talk about you know, John Hoyland and the

898
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 1: competition against him, but you know, when you were first drafted,

899
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,479
Speaker 1: Justin Tucker was here the goat of kickers, right, how

900
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: long did it take before that kind of narrative was

901
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: behind you?

902
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: And and it was just okay, I'm done with that and.

903
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: How did you see Tyler handle that? Because that was

904
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: that was the story line when he was first drafted. Right,

905
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 1: that's tough to come into a place where Justin Tucker

906
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: had set such a high bar.

907
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'll be honest, I don't I still don't

908
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 4: think it's gone and I don't know if it ever

909
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 4: will be Justin Tucker Like, if you want just being

910
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 4: completely honest, he's the best kicker to ever play.

911
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 5: M hm.

912
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 4: That is right, facts like he is. He's been so

913
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 4: hyper successful and he hits such a good ball and

914
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 4: he had such a long career because he was just

915
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 4: that good. And you know, the Ravens have had what

916
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 4: five kickers in the in the thirty year history. I

917
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 4: mean it's been it was uh Tuck and myself, right,

918
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 4: So we had five kickers in thirty years. Like there's

919
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 4: just a there's a pageantry here of successful specialists and

920
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 4: so like that's something that's been really cool to be

921
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 4: a part of because personally, I don't feel like I

922
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 4: haven't he claim to that yet. You know, that's something

923
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 4: that you like, that's a brotherhood. You have to earn

924
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 4: your way into same thing with like the ring of honor,

925
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 4: like the all time greats that have played here, Like

926
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 4: that's something you earn, and so to be here, like

927
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 4: I definitely want to honor the pageantry that's been here

928
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 4: and give my all to be successful here, Like that's

929
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 4: that's really important to me, and it's been it's been

930
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 4: something really cool to to be a part of. Like, hey,

931
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 4: like this place has been really successful for kickers, and

932
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 4: like the city, the city of the coaches and the

933
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 4: organization believe in me that way. It's like I want

934
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 4: to honor that and give everything that I have to

935
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 4: not kind of kind of carry the torch.

936
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

937
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 6: My message to him from the beginning is just God,

938
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 6: be the best Tyler Loop, you know, and I talk

939
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 6: a lot, you know, my son Tyler has done and

940
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 6: has done a fabulous job in Philadelphia with the with

941
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 6: Jake Elliott, and prior to Tyler getting there, I think

942
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 6: Jake was coming off a seventy three percent season and

943
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 6: in the last four years, they've done two Super Bowls,

944
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 6: you know, Pro Bowl, and they kick in very similar

945
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 6: conditions and we do. And I think one of the

946
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 6: first things I taught my son was whomever your kicker is,

947
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 6: just making be the best kicker of who he is,

948
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 6: and do we take pieces of other kickers? Do we

949
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 6: like some things? Sure, but Tyler has to be the

950
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 6: best Tyler Loop. Cameron Dicker had to be the best

951
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 6: Cameron Dicker. Will Lutts, who's kicking great, who was a

952
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 6: fifty six percent accuracy guy at Georgia State that we

953
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 6: got to just come here and goof around with is

954
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 6: kicking game winners every week because he's the best Will Lutts.

955
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,959
Speaker 6: He's not a model of Tuck, He's not a model

956
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 6: of anybody else. He's a model. He's the best Will

957
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 6: LUTs And I've continued on that with him of just

958
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 6: go be you, and I mean, yeah, it's it's it's

959
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 6: quite the mantle that he has to try to but

960
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 6: just go be great, Tyler Loop. Just keep making kicks Taler.

961
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 5: Really cool moment in the preseason was the game of Dallas.

962
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 5: You're from you from Texas and your family had the

963
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 5: Loop there it is size and there was like it

964
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 5: seemed like there was fifty.

965
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 4: Loops, thirty people.

966
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 5: I wasn't far off. What was that game like? And

967
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 5: how cool was it for the Loop family to have

968
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 5: that moment in the spotlight?

969
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 4: It was really fun. Oh, man, Like I kicked there

970
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 4: in high school at the playoff game, so it was

971
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 4: it was fun to be back there, and especially like

972
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 4: growing up in Dallas, that was a unique opportunity. It's like, hey,

973
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 4: it's a preseason game. You know, my family's there at

974
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 4: the time. My fiance's sister and her husband were in

975
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 4: the area, so you know, a lot of their family

976
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 4: got to come stay with them and then go to

977
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 4: the game. So it was really fun. It was It

978
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 4: was just really special.

979
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 2: Have they come to any other games?

980
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: Like I want to see it every time that you

981
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: make it feel I want to see the.

982
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 5: Loop, by the way, has kind of caught on.

983
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 2: What's going on?

984
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no, it was crazy in Miami.

985
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 3: Miami was Miami was crazy because it was I heard

986
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 3: louder chants in Miami that I travel, Yes.

987
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 4: So that was really cool. But Dallas was Dallas was

988
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 4: a blast. And like, one thing that you know, I'm

989
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 4: I'm super grateful for is like I've gotten awesome family

990
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 4: and a lot of awesome people around the Like my

991
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 4: my fiance is incredible, love her and and her family

992
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 4: is also awesome, and so you know, one thing that

993
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 4: I'm I'm really grateful for is Uh, They've just been

994
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 4: super supportive and have given me the like freedom and

995
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:48,240
Speaker 4: space to be successful and have always kind of always

996
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 4: been a really safe place for me. My parents came

997
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 4: to I think almost every single one of my college games. Uh,

998
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 4: and so they do. They do come to a lot

999
00:46:58,360 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 4: of the a lot of the NFL games. They don't

1000
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 4: bring a little banners. But yeah, it was just having

1001
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 4: like pretty much every like major friendship and important person

1002
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 4: in my life so far at that game was it

1003
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 4: was cool.

1004
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 6: And you know, when you meet his parents, which is

1005
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 6: crazy but I'm older than his parents, But when you

1006
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 6: meet his parents at ability we had dinner for the

1007
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 6: Dallas game before that, and what a great takeaway you

1008
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 6: have for the stability that he has and support that

1009
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 6: supports system. And it goes back to the whole mental

1010
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 6: toughness and all. And you look at these these athletes

1011
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 6: who have really good, solid support systems, who are kickers,

1012
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 6: and that was a win win for us, It really was.

1013
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 6: And but having a thirty five year old son like

1014
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 6: I have and being older than his than his parents

1015
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 6: kind of like, Okay, how many more years am I

1016
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,760
Speaker 6: really going to do this particular grade?

1017
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 5: Well, you talk about family. I also want to ask

1018
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 5: you about this, Randy, because this is going to be

1019
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 5: a pretty cool moment for you. Your daughter is actually singing

1020
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 5: the national anthem.

1021
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 6: Yes, this will be Ryan's fourth anthem. She's done for us.

1022
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 6: She's done two preseason games and last year she did

1023
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 6: the Eagles game. Uh, she's We've had an incredible summer.

1024
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 6: This past summer we did Fenway for the third time.

1025
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 6: She did Red Sox Dodgers on a Sunday cool. The

1026
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 6: Oriols have been great. She does a couple of Oriols

1027
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 6: games every year. We did Nationals. Actually just got an

1028
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 6: email they want to do Wizards game in a week

1029
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 6: or two. But she's a college girl now, and uh,

1030
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 6: you know it's hard because I could book her all

1031
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 6: the time.

1032
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 2: Are you basically her manager?

1033
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 6: Why not? Basically?

1034
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 2: I am?

1035
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 3: Wait?

1036
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 6: Wait you know me. You's gonna let somebody else be

1037
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 6: my kids manager? You know, and my youngest Jordan mackenzie.

1038
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 6: I have to brag about my youngest. Jordan McKenzie's is

1039
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,760
Speaker 6: one of the most talented actresses you'll ever going to find. Okay,

1040
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 6: she's starring in Little Mermaid as Ariel this year, Wow

1041
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 6: Rule Ers Ago. She was Annie, and uh so now

1042
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 6: we're going through the college prospects of that and auditions

1043
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 6: and for the amount of money it's gonna cost for

1044
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 6: me to send her to school. Uh Steve, Eric John,

1045
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 6: as long as you want me here, just I'm gonna

1046
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 6: need money for at least next five years.

1047
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have to start taking a cut exactly.

1048
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 2: All right.

1049
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: Last question for me, Tyler, is you know you hit

1050
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: the forty four yard or in the wind late fourth

1051
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: quarter to tie the game. Were you more nervous for

1052
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: that or the post game speech in the celbratory locker

1053
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: room when Harbes called.

1054
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 2: You up and said you had to give a speech.

1055
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 4: Oh, postgames speech. I was like, like, I don't know,

1056
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 4: it's yeah.

1057
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 2: Postgame speeches are.

1058
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 4: Interesting, especially coming from a kicker like I. It's such.

1059
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 4: I was talking to Kyle and Rokwan Smith we're having

1060
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 4: lunch the ore today and they were just asked me

1061
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 4: about kicking and cogos. Dude, you have such a different

1062
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 4: football experience than any of us, Like I definitely do,

1063
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 4: because you know, the one thing, like they just expect

1064
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 4: me to do my job and that is it. Like

1065
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 4: we talked about in the special teams meeting today is

1066
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 4: Special teams is the one phase of the game where

1067
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 4: you were expected to bat a thousand, right Like, you

1068
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 4: were just expected to do your job. The only thing

1069
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 4: that ever gets talked about in special teams is either

1070
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 4: game winning field goals or missfield goals right like, or

1071
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 4: you know, a fumble on a kickoff return, Like those

1072
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 4: type of things are yeah, bad things.

1073
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 2: Is the only thing really really great?

1074
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 4: So uh So with that in mind, me mentally, I'm like,

1075
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,959
Speaker 4: I'm here to do my job and do it really

1076
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 4: well and be the best. You know, high five, Hey,

1077
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 4: good job, like like just like fun person to just

1078
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 4: support and be around. But then get in front of

1079
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 4: the team and tell them like how to play football

1080
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 4: or anything. Guys, that's not me. So I was just

1081
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 4: like I got up there. I was like my sales like,

1082
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,919
Speaker 4: it's a sick winning guys, like have.

1083
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: Fun, get it ready for the game winner, get it

1084
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: ready for the game winner.

1085
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 2: It's going to happen. Then that'll be your moment in

1086
00:50:59,239 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 2: the locker.

1087
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 4: Whatever on the bat might say the exact same thing.

1088
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Speaker 2: Awesome, Well, thank you guys so much.

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Speaker 6: This is really for having us.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Thank you Welcome back to the Lounge podcast. We're coming

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Speaker 5: to you from the Sikik studio. We want to mention

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Speaker 5: our partners at Draft Kings Sportsbook. They are an official

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00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 5: sports betting partner of the Baltimore Ravens Draft King Sportsbook.

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00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 5: The Crown is yours, so big. Thank you to Mayor

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Speaker 5: Brown and to Tyler Loop for joining us here today.

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Speaker 5: Enjoy the conversation and tightful stuff from them. And I

1098
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 5: think the Ravens not a good one in Tyler Loop.

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Speaker 5: I think he's going to be kicking here for a

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Speaker 5: long time. And as Randy said, I think he's got

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Speaker 5: a lot of game winners in the future.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean you look at the field goal percentages and

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00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: he's over that ninety percent that Randy talked about. Tyler

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Speaker 1: Loops tied currently for the fifth best field goal percentage

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Speaker 1: in the league. And you know, the Ravens wanted a

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00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: kicker that made it from forty, you know, under fifty

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Speaker 1: basically consistently, He's made all of those attempts under fifty five.

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00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: And so yeah, Tyler Loop's getting the job done. And

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Speaker 1: it's kind of remarkable. As we came in to the season.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest questions about this team

1113
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: was all right, they have a rookie kicker. You know,

1114
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: this is a loaded roster, but they have a rookie kicker,

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00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: and how's he gonna handle it? And Tyler Loop has

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00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: erased all those question marks and doubts and concerns and

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00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: it just feels like, yeah, all right, we know who

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00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: we have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I really liked his answer to when he was talking

1121
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 5: about how he wanted the opportunity.

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00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 2: For a game winner and it's gonna have this.

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Speaker 5: You want, like you want somebody who wants to take

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00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 5: the game winning shot. You want somebody who wants to

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00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 5: ball hit to them in the key moment like that.

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Speaker 5: That's the type of mindset that you desire to have

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00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 5: in any of your players, especially a kicker. And so

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Speaker 5: it's awesome that he has that. And I think he's

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00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 5: been really good so far and I think that's only

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00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 5: going to continue. So we also want to hit some

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00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 5: of the news of the week as Raves get ready

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Speaker 5: to play the New York Jets this Sunday at M ANDT.

1133
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 5: Banks Stadium. Is going to be a great game and

1134
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 5: we're looking forward to that. So injury wise, for the Ravens.

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00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 5: That's one of the news items this week. Marlon Humphrey

1136
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 5: missed the game on Sunday against Cleveland, had that surgery

1137
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 5: on his finger. There's a chance he comes back and

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00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 5: plays in this game.

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00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 2: How Well said, he's optimistic.

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00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: Yes, so he had the cast brace, he had a

1141
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: pin inserted.

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00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 5: Well, but before that he played a game with the

1143
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 5: cast on his hand. And then if he plays this game,

1144
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,399
Speaker 5: he probably would have some sort of protection wrap, cast

1145
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 5: something like that. Okay, he still makes interceptions and he

1146
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 5: still had the interception even with that in Minnesota. So

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00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 5: there's a chance he comes back and plays in this game.

1148
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 5: And obviously his practice status is going to be something

1149
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:34,479
Speaker 5: that we watch over the course of the week.

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00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: You'd obviously love to have Marlon back, I thought. Chidobe

1151
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: Ouzia also played an awesome game in Cleveland. So the

1152
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: Ravens are in good position cornerback wise. They have depth.

1153
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: Now they do have another injury concerned, Keon Martin, the

1154
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,280
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agent who has stepped in and played

1155
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,720
Speaker 1: slot corner kind of Marlin. Snaps were split up between

1156
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: Cheeto taking the outside snaps and then Keon taking the

1157
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: nickel snaps. Uh, key On Martin spent the night in

1158
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 1: the Cleveland hospital after the Ravens victory. He is back

1159
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, traveled back the next day.

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Speaker 5: He was dealing with a chest injury.

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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh said, exactly, So that'll be something to monitor

1162
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Speaker 1: this week if he's okay and ready to get back

1163
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:18,760
Speaker 1: on the field.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And John Harball said it was more precautionary than

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00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 5: anything else, that he stayed in Cleveland just to get

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Speaker 5: some further testing, and the fact that he's back in.

1167
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Speaker 2: Baltimore that the test came out clean.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they came out clean, so that the guin of

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00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 5: the worst concerns there were alleviated, but that his status

1170
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 5: is definitely something that bears watching because, honestly, like that's

1171
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 5: the more interesting one is if if Marlon and key

1172
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 5: On Martin weren't able to play in this game, who

1173
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 5: do the Ravens use as a slot corner.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think Kyle Hailton obviously can play that, but

1175
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: you don't want to also pigeonhole him into any position.

1176
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, I mean, Hamilton's going to be on the field,

1177
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 5: there's no question about that. Nate Wigans and Chidoh Woozie

1178
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 5: are going to be on the field. But who's that

1179
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 5: other additional guy that comes in there in the role

1180
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 5: that key On Martin was playing last game. If if

1181
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 5: key On Martin and Marlin Humphrey can't play, who would

1182
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 5: that be and how Ravens adjust their defense with that?

1183
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime you're playing Nickel, you could use Kyle Hamilton

1184
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: in that role. Right then you have Malachi and Alohi

1185
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: as your other hue safeties. But Kyle Hamilton's played a

1186
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: much more versatile role than that, so you don't like

1187
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: to pin him down anywhere. And and because when Keon's

1188
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: on the field, Kyle Hamilton has also been on the field,

1189
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: so he's somewhere else to be exactly question, he's going

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00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: to be on the field. So I think the Ravens

1191
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: have options. But you obviously want Kean, you obviously want Marlon,

1192
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:44,359
Speaker 1: and then if not Marlin, you want Keon.

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00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 5: Right, So we'll see how those guys progress over the

1194
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 5: course of the week and if they're able to come

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00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,240
Speaker 5: back and play in this game. The other note injury

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Speaker 5: wise for this game on Sunday is a quarterback Tyrod

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Speaker 5: Taylor is going to step in for Justin fields.

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Speaker 1: Well, not injury or Justin Gillings that's roster of late,

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Speaker 1: that's correct. But former Raven Tyrod Taylor, part of the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning team was Joe Flacco's backup.

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00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:08,760
Speaker 2: And credit to Tyrod Taylor.

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00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 1: He's had a long career. Sixth round pick of the

1204
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: Ravens way back.

1205
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 2: When it was twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eleven, yes, and coming out of Virginia Tech. And

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Speaker 1: Tyrod has just hung around this league for a long

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Speaker 1: time and been a high quality backup for quite some time.

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00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: So you know, Justin Field's in that offense, it was struggling,

1210
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: and now Tyrod is a veteran who makes the right decisions,

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00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: can still get out and get you with his legs

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00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: a little.

1213
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 2: Bit, and somebody.

1214
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Speaker 5: The Ravens are gonna have to prepare well for that

1215
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 5: twenty eleven draft class, really really good class for the Ravens.

1216
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 5: Tory Smith, Jimmy Smith.

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00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 2: Tyrod late Parnell part of that.

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00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:50,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was part of that. That class helped

1219
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 5: the Ravens win that second Lobardi Trophy. And Tyrod's still going,

1220
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 5: So Ravens aren't really going to be too interested in

1221
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 5: taking a trip down memory lane when he's on the

1222
00:56:58,680 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 5: other side this week.

1223
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 2: But Reunion Central.

1224
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe Flacco comes back to the bang Tyrod.

1225
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, my Ce Flacco three times this year. He knows

1226
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 5: now it's y Rod. Speaking of the AFC North. Just

1227
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Speaker 5: take a quick look around there. Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh

1228
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 5: is dealing with the fracture and his left wrist is

1229
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 5: non throwing risks right, so uncertain, Mike Tomlins said this

1230
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 5: week it basically they're going to have some measure of

1231
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 5: protection on that risk, and he's going to try to

1232
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 5: go later in the week and if he's able to

1233
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 5: get out there and practice and play, then of course

1234
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 5: he will. But it's very much a question mark for

1235
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 5: them going into this game.

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Speaker 1: So right now they're rolling with Mason Rudolph in the

1237
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: early parts of the week, and Mike Tomlins said, basically,

1238
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: if Aaron Rodgers can get back on the field Friday

1239
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: and feels good about it and feels secure and the

1240
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: coaches feel good about it, then he's not a guy

1241
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: that you need a full week of practice. He's Aaron

1242
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: Rodgers and so then he could potentially play. And that

1243
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is pushing to play for the Ravens. It

1244
00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: feels like unless he were to have some kind of

1245
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: setback and and it gets reinjured or further injured. It

1246
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: seems like Aaron Rodgers will be ready to go against

1247
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: the Ravens, of which they haven't played each other yet,

1248
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 1: and so those big matchups against the Steelers are still looming.

1249
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 5: The other big note is in Cincinnati, Jamar Chase is

1251
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 5: suspended for this upcoming game for spitting on Jalen Ramsey.

1252
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 5: And they're playing. They're playing in the New England Patriots

1253
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 5: this week. They're three and seven right now. Now they're

1254
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 5: without their best player and Jamar Chase, who's going to

1255
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 5: be silent.

1256
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Speaker 1: Well, he is appealing the decision. So we'll see if

1257
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: he serves it for this game. Why doesn't he serve it?

1258
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: You know what, play this game, appeal it, you might

1259
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: win the appeal, might appeal it, might win, even though

1260
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: there's video evidence otherwise, and then maybe serve it then

1261
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: the following week for things.

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00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 5: That's a good thought. That's a good thought. Just to

1263
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 5: suggest who do they play on Thanksgiving?

1264
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1265
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well I don't know, it doesn't matter, but

1266
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 1: I think serving it then is good.

1267
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 5: Yeah. So I mean, in all seriousness, he's currently suspended

1268
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 5: sports are is going to appeal. We'll see where that lands,

1269
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 5: and I certainly we expect that appeal to be completed

1270
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 5: prior to the game against New England this week. But

1271
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 5: but they would be three and eight, and then you

1272
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 5: start to wonder about what the implications are for Joe Burrow,

1273
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 5: who's working his way back, and they've they've said that

1274
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 5: that Joe Burrow is pushing to come back and play,

1275
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 5: and the plan is still for that to happen. But

1276
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 5: does being three and eight. If they were three and eight,

1277
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 5: does that alter the game plan or the approach at all.

1278
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 5: I'm not totally sure, but that's obviously a big storyline

1279
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 5: in Cincinnati this week, and especially with the Ravens facing

1280
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 5: them on Thanksgiving Night. It's all connected.

1281
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 4: Yep.

1282
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that'll be one thing to watch this week. Well,

1283
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 2: thank you for listening.

1284
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Speaker 1: As always, you can reach us at the Lounge at

1285
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,959
Speaker 1: Ravens dot NFL dot net and we will be back

1286
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: with you later this week to talk about more news

1287
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: from the week and preview that big game coming up

1288
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Speaker 1: against the Jets.