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Speaker 1: Yeah, good. I can't complain productive for sure.

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Speaker 2: It's time that you know, I can iron out all

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Speaker 2: the kinks that I worked on, you know in the

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Speaker 2: offseason while I was training, But just do it while

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Speaker 2: you know it's a live snap and protection, so kind

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Speaker 2: of like in a period with a rush.

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Speaker 1: So it's been really good.

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Speaker 2: Has it been just kind of looking at the new

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Speaker 2: kickoff routes and you dug into that at all? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: We've talked about it here and there with with Jeremy

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Speaker 2: and and Tom.

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Speaker 1: They're definitely unique.

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Speaker 2: It'll make the game I think, more exciting, some some

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Speaker 2: chance for for big momentum swings and in both both

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Speaker 2: sides of the balls favor I think the kickoff team

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Speaker 2: can make plays and so can the kickoff return team.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be cool to see how that shakes out.

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Speaker 1: What's the point of emphasis is the kicker on a

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Speaker 1: play like that? And how has that changed for the

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Speaker 1: traditional kickoff?

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Speaker 2: I think it opens room for like alternative stuff. So

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna give a ton of it

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Speaker 2: away because it's still a huge work in progress, not

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Speaker 2: just for us, but I'm sure for the other thirty

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Speaker 2: one teams. I guess, oh, everything Oh yeah, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're we're you're working on so much different stuff, you know,

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Speaker 2: to try and you know, make the ball do certain

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Speaker 2: things just so it's harder for you know, the returner

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Speaker 2: to try and judge it.

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Speaker 1: So you're practicing just yeah, I'll say, yes, yes, I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm working on them. Yeah, the new setup, you got

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Speaker 1: the ten people in front of you. Yep, you're like

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Speaker 1: the last line of defense as the kicker. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean normally that's that's the way it is.

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Speaker 2: You know, we trust that the other ten dudes to

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Speaker 2: do their job, and we're we have the almost confidence

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Speaker 2: of that and we're just there if we need to

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Speaker 2: make a play. But I wouldn't say it's any different

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Speaker 2: than you know with me in a punt or for

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Speaker 2: that matter, just the old kickoff rules. So you know,

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Speaker 2: our job is to be that line and to try

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Speaker 2: and make a play if we have to. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: what what do you say from Chad Riley his mentality.

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Speaker 1: As a last season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the kid is always been the hardest

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Speaker 2: worker I've probably ever met, you know, whether that's in

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Speaker 2: the weight room or in his craft. He cares so

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Speaker 2: much and you know, I'm not gonna again, last year

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Speaker 2: was last year. You know, it's it's the new year

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Speaker 2: now and we're working on, you know, the goals for

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Speaker 2: this season.

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Speaker 1: Last year was last year.

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Speaker 2: We're kind of putting that that chapter in the back

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Speaker 2: and we have we're always gonna look out the windshield,

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Speaker 2: not the rear view.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of how we're talking about it.

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Speaker 2: How did you training the very I would say a

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Speaker 2: good deal. You know, I took a lot of time

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Speaker 2: to take care of my body just with last year,

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Speaker 2: going from finishing my season, then we're going in to

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Speaker 2: know the Senior.

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Speaker 1: Bowl and then in the Combine and then I'm here.

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Speaker 2: All of last season, I hadn't really had a chance

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Speaker 2: to let my body just relax, so I had I

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Speaker 2: took some time to really take care of my body,

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Speaker 2: and then obviously I ramped it back up pretty quick

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Speaker 2: as Yeah, I mean I was out in San Diego

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Speaker 2: a good deal. That's one of the ideal places to train.

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Speaker 2: I mean you're at sea level, pretty close to it

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Speaker 2: at least, and there's not a lot of bad weather,

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Speaker 2: so that definitely helps. Other than that, I mean, I've

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Speaker 2: I've I've been in around here, you know, on the

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Speaker 2: an off site location, but.

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Speaker 1: It was good. The first off season.

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Speaker 2: I learned a lot about, you know, how what ways

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Speaker 2: have full access like we do in this time and

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Speaker 2: during the season, So it was it was good to

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Speaker 2: have that experience for the first time. What was it

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Speaker 2: worth of the.

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Speaker 1: It's been so good.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just nice to be able, you know,

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Speaker 2: to have a lot of good input. And I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying anything about you know, last year, this year, whatever,

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Speaker 2: but just I can come to him with anything and

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about it, we'll work on it as and

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Speaker 2: there's just it's really, in my opinion, the lines of

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Speaker 2: communication are very open. I know he knows what I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to look for and work on. I know what

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Speaker 2: he wants me to try and work on, because i mean,

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Speaker 2: at this position, people can say it's very monotonous, but

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Speaker 2: there's definitely more than one way to get the results

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Speaker 2: that you want. So that's really what we're trying to

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Speaker 2: strive for you.

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Speaker 1: I've worked on some.

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Speaker 2: You know, That's kind of what I was alluding to

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Speaker 2: with There's there's always more than one way to get

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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to develop those other ways. Yeah, is

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Speaker 1: that something like just is who does a lot of

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Speaker 1: the kickoffs on punts whatever. Experiment in different things to do, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: bounce different ways, flip different ways. Like how much you

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Speaker 1: enjoy that process? What's that?

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Speaker 2: It's it's fun because you I mean, my job in

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Speaker 2: a nutshell is to kick an odd shaped ball, and

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Speaker 2: I have no idea how it's going to react when

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Speaker 2: it hits the ground. I can only control from the

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Speaker 2: time that I catch it and kick it. Obviously, you know,

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Speaker 2: the wind plays a factor, But when it hits the turf,

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Speaker 2: however it lands, it's how it's gonna land.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you if it's gonna bounce back or not.

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Speaker 2: I want it to, so, you know, like it's cool

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Speaker 2: to be able to see, you know, the ball land

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Speaker 2: a certain way and then figure out ways. You know,

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Speaker 2: maybe a slower rotating ball will land softer and check

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Speaker 2: out more than a fast spinning ball.

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Speaker 1: So how can I change what I need to do

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Speaker 1: on my end to.

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Speaker 2: Make it rotate slower, whether that's how I hold it,

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Speaker 2: the angle at which I hold it. You know, my

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Speaker 2: foot angle coming into the ball is it more the

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Speaker 2: meat toe, whatever it is. And I I'll sit for

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Speaker 2: hours and just like I'll hit it. I'll watch the

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Speaker 2: film that I of myself. I'll jot down just little

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Speaker 2: stupid notes like hey, this worked this time, it didn't

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Speaker 2: work this day. It didn't work when it was down wind,

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Speaker 2: it didn't work when it's into the wind.

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Speaker 1: It worked. All that do was different things.

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Speaker 2: So it's been it's been cool to tinker around with it.

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Speaker 1: So all right, thank you guys. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah,