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Speaker 1: We welcome in and it's great to see this young

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Speaker 2: Rigobertel Sanchez.

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Speaker 1: A lot to talk about today, off season rule changes included,

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Speaker 1: but more importantly your health. You're back here after the

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Speaker 1: achilles tear, How are you feeling? How was practice been

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Speaker 1: for you? And I heard something interesting Matt about this.

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Speaker 1: You were favorable that it was your kicking leg that

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Speaker 3: First of all, thank you for having me, and everything

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Speaker 3: been working every single day mentally and physically, and everybody

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Speaker 3: But yeah, but definitely, I think it's a good thing

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Speaker 3: so it's all perspective and I think it was just

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Speaker 1: Hey, when are you back to one? Hundred percent. Are

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Speaker 1: you there all right where you're saying my full force,

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Speaker 1: But what have you gotten there already or is that

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Speaker 3: I mean right now, we don't have like a timeline,

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Speaker 3: but you know, we're we're starting to feel like ourselves,

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Speaker 3: like rego, which is great, and I'm just thankful for.

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Speaker 5: That rego psychologically. How how good does it feel to

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Speaker 4: Man, It's it's it's been great.

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Speaker 3: Different perspective, you know, being on that side of the

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Speaker 3: a different level of grateful, you know, just for everything,

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Speaker 3: I'm just happy. I'm in a really good spot mentally

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you said earlier that you've never been

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Speaker 2: Take if you can't.

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Speaker 5: I know you don't want to think about this, but

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Speaker 5: if we can go back to that day August twenty third,

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Speaker 5: I'll pick Graham Park running those sprints and being the

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Speaker 5: drill at the end of practice, what did you feel?

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Speaker 2: I mean, did you know something pretty severe happened?

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Speaker 3: I obviously knew something was wrong. But it's crazy to

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Speaker 1: We're not going to keep continuing about this this injury,

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Speaker 4: Up with a new rule.

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Speaker 1: You can fair catch these kickoffs. Obviously, it's if the

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Speaker 1: strategically speaking, what does that do for you as a

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Speaker 1: Like now, it's a completely different game for you guys.

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Speaker 1: So one thing I haven't could you see in this

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Jeffrey mentioned that you are a kickoff artist, a specialist,

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Speaker 5: and you do. I mean, it's fascinating to me that

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Speaker 3: Man, I like how you guys said art. I think

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Speaker 3: it's an art for sure. Indeed, especially everything has its art.

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Speaker 4: Kicking game just in general.

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Speaker 3: But it's just it's just one of those things where

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Speaker 5: Speaking of the kicking game. By the way, Ricaberto Sanchez

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Speaker 5: you have a new special teams coordinator and Brian Mason.

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Speaker 5: He's never been a special teams coordinator in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: We'll talk about that, but first of all, first impressions

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Speaker 4: If you want, Yeah, Brian, Brian is great.

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Speaker 3: He's obviously new, but I think we've already, you know,

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Speaker 3: He's more quiet than the one we had before, but

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Speaker 5: You certainly wouldn't tell him how to do his job.

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Speaker 5: That's not what I'm getting at. But you're going into

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think Luke and I have talked about

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Speaker 3: You know, something's gonna happen. So it's just situations that

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Speaker 1: One of the prized off season free agencys in the

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Speaker 3: He's got a pop, he's got that pop, that special

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Speaker 1: And yeah, going back to last year, I know you

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Speaker 3: I think we're all excited, you know, having coach, new

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Speaker 5: It's rica Berto Sanchez with us, and I know you

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Speaker 5: talked about the last nine ten months being incredibly difficult

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Speaker 2: And you're very close with your wife.

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Speaker 5: She's at every practice at Graham Park. She supports you

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Speaker 1: We got a healthy Rigaberto Sanchez coming back. He's one

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Speaker 1: I've been waiting five years to ask him on this.

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just so grateful for everybody in that

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Speaker 4: Let's go back. Let's go every year.

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Speaker 2: So what are you waiting now? Come on? Now?

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Speaker 3: Man? I seriously can't believe it. The time goes fast.

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Speaker 4: I look back.

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Speaker 4: Vinnie Man.

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Speaker 3: I picked that guy's brand like every single day. Clearly

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Speaker 3: But he's so wise, Like what was his way of

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Speaker 3: And I feel like if you just continue to do that,

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Speaker 1: my last one for you, Shane Stikeen, our first year,

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Speaker 3: You know, Shane's I like so many things about Shane.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like he brings that energy that, you know,

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Speaker 3: So I really liked Shane. You know, he's really good.

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Speaker 3: He's been really good, and I'm excited for the season

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Speaker 1: Can't wait till they make a movie about you and

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Speaker 3: Thanks for your time, Thank you so much for having

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