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Speaker 1: Much have you ever units improved as the season's going on,

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Speaker 1: incrementally we got a little better. Uh, you know that,

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing that we strive on. Our Our

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Speaker 1: motto is kaison, which is an active, continuous improvement. And

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Speaker 1: that's something that the guys see every day and that's

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Speaker 1: what we trying to do. Just go out there every

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Speaker 1: day and get better at something. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've been pretty pleased now these guys have played and

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Speaker 1: how they've kind of grown as a unit, you know,

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Speaker 1: during the season. So I just gotta keep pushing, you know,

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Speaker 1: keep trying to get better. We still got a long

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Speaker 1: way to go. We got some things that we got

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Speaker 1: to clean up on the return game, but we just gotta,

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Speaker 1: you know, keep home, push, keep playing hard. It's allowed

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Speaker 1: I'll drink to be so consistent this year. It kind

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Speaker 1: of bounds back here. I think it's it's a mindset,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think you know, he used to kind

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Speaker 1: of shared with you guys how you approaches every kick,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it's just good or bad. It's about

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Speaker 1: the next kick. And uh, he just focused on you know,

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Speaker 1: where the ball is, put the ball down, let me

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Speaker 1: kick it and lock into that moment, stay in the moment,

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Speaker 1: and uh, once that one's gone, it's gone, and on

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Speaker 1: to the next one. You know. So I think he's

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Speaker 1: had some success with that. I think moving forward, you know,

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Speaker 1: it'll be a formula he'll stick with and uh look

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Speaker 1: forward to really good things from him. How much of

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Speaker 1: the things changing that one? You know, the weather turns

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Speaker 1: here and I'm playing these elements Welcome to the Northeast, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. I think these guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, Aldre being here last year and just getting

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Speaker 1: a nice fall and good season underneath his belt. Uh,

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Speaker 1: knowing that it's the weather's gonna turn and we get

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Speaker 1: out in it. We'll go out in today and you know,

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Speaker 1: hit a little couple of balls outside we went out

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Speaker 1: into yesterday. So here's what it is. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: just you know, life and good on New Jersey. You know.

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Speaker 1: So what do you say to you Will? I mean,

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Speaker 1: how did you look at his game this last week?

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Speaker 1: And when do you due to trying and improve maybe

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Speaker 1: something things you're looking at. He's on the right path,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean you look at what this kid

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Speaker 1: has done. I mean it's incredible this kid had and

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Speaker 1: he's never returned punts before. I mean, it's just for

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Speaker 1: him to do what he's doing is Uh, he's doing

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Speaker 1: a tremendous job. I'm extremely proud of him, and he's

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Speaker 1: just you know, every experience is and every snap is

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Speaker 1: to go out there and and just keep doing what

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Speaker 1: he's doing. Catch the ball. You know, when you catch

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Speaker 1: the ball, get positive yards and he's he's done a

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Speaker 1: good job. Do you want to catch the one and

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Speaker 1: I know he left one or to drop maybe do

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Speaker 1: you want him to go get those? I know he

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Speaker 1: has to probably go a good distance, But how do

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Speaker 1: you sort of well this big that decision there for him.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's each punter is different, and trust Wade.

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Speaker 1: First of all, he's a lefty and uh he can

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Speaker 1: hit a different style of ball that's other than the

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Speaker 1: traditional ball he'll kick. He'll get that again this week. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of times some of those balls

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Speaker 1: you can't get to and uh, you know, the one

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Speaker 1: thing about punt return is you're getting the ball back.

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Speaker 1: So you would rather get the ball back as opposed

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Speaker 1: to ball bouncing off your head and they're getting the

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Speaker 1: ball back you know what I'm saying. So that that's

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Speaker 1: that's the most important thing we tell them is obviously

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Speaker 1: we want to field all the punch, but if we don't,

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Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world. Absolutely, you said

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Speaker 1: you have them kicked outside, do they go into the

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Speaker 1: stadium and hung? Yep. We always, uh try and use

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Speaker 1: the home field advantage to our advantage, you know. And

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Speaker 1: uh that's something we've done around here ever since I've

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Speaker 1: been here. The first time, you know, me and Jeff

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Speaker 1: and that regard the elements. Oh, it's definitely it's definitely different.

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Speaker 1: we're closest being in his volatos are old one week

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Speaker 1: Antonio Hamilton's You've talked about how good of an athlete

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Speaker 1: he is, but it seems like every week he's making

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Speaker 1: a couple of big plays on special teams. Why is

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Speaker 1: he so consistently effective? He plays hard, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that's Antonio's that's his biggest attributes that he plays

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Speaker 1: He's he's a hungry kid. He's passionate about football. He

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Speaker 1: loves ball, and I think it shows up on a

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Speaker 1: game day. We only get a long snapper question if

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Speaker 1: there was a mistake, But it seems like Zach never

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Speaker 1: I talked about him as a long snapper knuckle head? No?

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Speaker 1: I love Zack, Zack me and Zack. Uh, we go

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Speaker 1: way back. Um, you know, I had him as a

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Speaker 1: He's he's really grown into that, into that that role.

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Speaker 1: And you know, when when you do a good job

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Speaker 1: you you sustained that longevity of a career. And and

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Speaker 1: he's done a good job. Zactly a good man and

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Speaker 1: he's really good for a room. Did you know back

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Speaker 1: this whatever it is, ten eleven years later. Heck no, now,

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Speaker 1: Zak is Uh. You know when we when he came

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Speaker 1: Keel who's our long snapper, and Ryan tores Achilles during

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