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Speaker 1: Everybody. Hey, I think you start by talking about the

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Speaker 1: blocking the punt and get what an unusual situation that

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Speaker 1: what your kind of kindling that rules are there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all from Molik to get through

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Speaker 1: it's harder block punts even when you get when you

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Speaker 1: get there, and so he did the best job that

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Speaker 1: he could and he got it um for Nashan. You know,

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Speaker 1: we popped him out of there, and the ball got

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Speaker 1: blocked right to him, so you know, of course he's

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Speaker 1: trying to handle it. And I said, a million out

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Speaker 1: of a million times ball got blocked right to me.

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Speaker 1: I would too, because you really lose a sense of

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Speaker 1: exactly where the line of scrimmage was. So he's trying

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Speaker 1: to catch it. It came back to and and make

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Speaker 1: a play. And when he hit the ground, it was

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Speaker 1: he's got great ball skills and he just you know,

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Speaker 1: he just booted it. And everybody knows across the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage turns into muff status, which means it's a

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Speaker 1: live ball and just crazy play in the game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I talked to coach this morning and I got about

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Speaker 1: two hundred punk blocks on tape over the last ten years,

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Speaker 1: and this is only the third time I've seen it.

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Speaker 1: So very rare play. Um, you know, a great job buyer, guys,

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately we just couldn't handle the deflection and they

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Speaker 1: got it back crazy, which is too bad because it

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Speaker 1: was a huge play in the game which I really

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Speaker 1: thought would have put us back in momentum, you know,

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Speaker 1: down two scores into the twenty yard line and instead

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Speaker 1: of flipped it around and kind of with a ball

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Speaker 1: bounced yesterday. But the player on the rule they understood

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Speaker 1: the role. It was the past you know situation. Yeah yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they knew it, you know. But but for nahan Hus

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Speaker 1: and they knew it um trying to make a play,

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Speaker 1: scrimmage was the seventeen and National touched it right on

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Speaker 1: the eighteen. So so you know, it's a good rule.

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Speaker 1: It's been in the rule book forever as far as

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Speaker 1: I know. And it's a good rule, and I just

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Speaker 1: case it came round from him, but he's that difficult

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Speaker 1: So I've never been in that position as a player,

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Speaker 1: but I would imagine, you know, if I'm a player

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Speaker 1: But for ball got blocked right to me, I would

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Speaker 1: go score with it. You know, whether he could have

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Speaker 1: you know, ball got blocked right to him. And that's

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Speaker 1: what he said. He said, it came right to me

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Speaker 1: You know, but damn he said. It was just the

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Speaker 1: that happens a lot. So I can't remember when we

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Speaker 1: attack the football and try to handle it, get as

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Speaker 1: many yard as you can, and then just don't lose

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Speaker 1: possession if you if you cover it. I'd imagine that's

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Speaker 1: that's what we told our guys. Less about what you

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Speaker 1: were telling the two hundred, that's two hundred successfully. It's

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Speaker 1: the last two years, that's yeah. I mean we have

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Speaker 1: a tape of all the block punts last ten years

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Speaker 1: and it's around two hundred. Yeah. Um, so looking at

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Speaker 1: all those, most of them get blocked and get scooped

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Speaker 1: or um. Yeah, it's just it's a rarity. Thanks guys,

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Speaker 1: all right, Thanks you guys,