1 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: All right, guys, we have Nick Folk here, so we'll 2 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: get started with the first question by Mike Raace. Please 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: all right, thank you Stephanie Chez Nick thirty seventh birthday, 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: and your present is to talk to us. I'm so sorry, 5 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: it's all right, it's all right, all right. Well let's 6 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: start on a light note then. I mean, did the boys, 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: uh and men sing to you today like they have 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: been known to do? Oh yeah, a little bit. We 9 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: got a little bit of that. So it's actually another 10 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: one of our equipment guys as well, so we got 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: him involved, which is good. I'm always good to kind 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: of celebrate everyone, not just the guys on the team, 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: but all those who help out around the building. So 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: do we know who that is? It's Scott Scott Wheedon, 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: so good for him, too, awesome, thirty seven years young. Um, 16 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: So what did I mean a serious note? What is 17 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: a day like today like for you? Obviously it's a 18 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: work day, but do you get a chance to maybe 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: enjoy a little bit personally? I try to keep it 20 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: as kind of routine as possible. My wife and kids 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: are still in or there in Dallas. They came up 22 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: the jet game. A couple weeks ago and they'll come 23 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving and stuff. So um, it's just kind of 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: low key, do what I gotta do to gatna, get 25 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: ready to get everything going for tomorrow, get ready to 26 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: get down to Carolina, and then get a big win 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: this weekend. So um, kind of it's just normal for me. 28 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: I'm not one to kind of celebrate much anyway, so 29 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: I'd rather celebrate other people than myself. So um, I 30 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: just kind of go hang out for a little bit. Nick, 31 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: my last one. I was actually going to ask you this, 32 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: it just happened to be your birthday. I mean, how 33 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: hard is this? You know, you're obviously doing what you 34 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: love professionally make a good wage, right, I mean, you 35 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing it if you didn't love it at 36 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: the same time, I mean, your family's and no another 37 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: time zone away for at whatever. I mean, how challenging 38 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: is that? Not just this year, but I mean did 39 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: the same thing before too, right, Yeah, It's it's always 40 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: tough missing all those guys. Um, But when when I 41 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: call them after a game, even my wife, you know, 42 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: and I get to talk to them, they got the 43 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: biggest smiles because I get to watch the games and 44 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: they have fun doing it. Um, So I I do 45 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: a lot of it is you know, I really I 46 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: love playing football. I enjoy it. Um. But you know, 47 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: seeing the smile that they that I getta they gotta 48 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: watch their dad play, that's always fun. So that puts 49 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: a little bit more into perspective for me. Um. And 50 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: then they they love coming up here. They love on 51 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: their little you know, their little trips and skipping school 52 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So um, they have a really 53 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: good time with it. We've got a pretty good system down. Um. 54 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: It's a it's a blessing to be able to do 55 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: this and hopefully we can keep it rolling. Next question, 56 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: Dan rache An, Happy birthday, Thank you for taking a 57 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: few minutes out. Just a question on you as a kicker. 58 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: You've been doing this for fourteen years now. What is 59 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: your routine like? Has it always been the same? Do 60 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: you ever change it up? Do you ever mix it up? 61 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: But I know a lot of athletes of superstition and 62 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: do the same things. But as far as you're you're 63 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: kicking routine. You know during the week, do you started 64 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: a certain on a certain day with a number of 65 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: reps and everything else, and then all the way through 66 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: pregame and all the way through the game, does any 67 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: any change And when did you first pick up a 68 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: routine that you cut comfortable with and to be carried 69 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: that through. So I think it changes year to year. Um, 70 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: you kind of have to change with your body, change 71 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: as you grow, change with the team so m and 72 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: then change with injuries. You know that could change throughout 73 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: the course of the year or two. You kind of 74 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: have to play that as it kind of comes up. 75 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: And so I have a I would say my routine 76 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,839 Speaker 1: to kind of get loose to kick. I've got that down. 77 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: I've had that down for quite a while. Um. And 78 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: then as far as um, like a pregame, we kind 79 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: of go through the same thing and a lot of 80 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: that is to kind of figure out, especially here in 81 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: New England, figure out the weather, figure out what's going on. 82 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: And then for practice, I mean, we we get enough 83 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: to make sure we're ready and sharp for the game. 84 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: Whatever that is for the week, if we have if 85 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: it's you know, it could be a few, it could 86 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: be a few more, just depends on on the week. Um. 87 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: And then I just I mean, I think a lot 88 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: of it is just comfortability at that point where where 89 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: I know, Okay, I've hit X number of balls, I 90 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: feel comfortable, I feel warm and ready to go um. 91 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: But that changes, I'd venture to say more a year 92 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: to year then anything else. And then you do deal 93 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: with some things in the middle of the year that 94 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: you have to kind of maneuver and figure out. And 95 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: you know, I've got, you know, a good, good group 96 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: here that you know, Jake and Joe they're awesome on 97 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: on trying to you know, for helping me get through 98 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: my routine, get through my things. And then obviously Cam 99 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: and Joe on the special team side, they kind of 100 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: understand it. Joe being an X hicker as well, he 101 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: understands a little bit of it, so able to kind 102 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 1: of bounce ideas off of them on what we should 103 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: we do here, which should how should we kind of 104 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: play this or so it's good to have that kind 105 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: of constant communication within the whole group. And I think 106 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: we're just trying to keep it rolling and get a 107 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: big win. And last, just a thought on the fact 108 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: that is there a certain point when when your offense 109 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: gets to the forty yard line where you get up 110 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: and to start to walk around. That is a change, 111 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: you know, in the two minute drill, two minutes left 112 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: to go and a half or a game and things 113 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: like that. So with a new extra point rule, I've 114 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: kind of done it a little bit earlier. I've gotten 115 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: a few kicks a little early because you never know 116 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: on a long play or a punt return for a touchdown, 117 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: a kick return touchdown, something like that, a pick six, 118 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: you gotta always have to be ready. With the old one, 119 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: you could really go out there and just kind of 120 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: hammer it through and that would be kind of like 121 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: your warm up before you kicked off, if you will. UM. 122 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: With the new one, now, you have to really be 123 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: ready to go. I mean, it's a field goal. It's 124 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: not I mean, they call it extra point, but it's 125 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: a field goal, so you have to I've tried to 126 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: stay a little bit looser at the beginning of drives 127 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: now and kind of taper it kind of being able 128 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: to constantly go through the drive instead of it being 129 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: get to the forty and then we got to go 130 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: because you never know. In those you know, you know, 131 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: Kendrick had the big touchdown, we went for two and 132 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: on that one. Um, you know, we went for two 133 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: on a pick six this year. So we've but we've 134 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: had him last year, pick six punt return for touchdown, 135 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: stuff like that. So um, I've tried to kind of 136 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: stay loose um earlier in the down, earlier in the 137 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: in the series, just because I think it's beneficially for me, 138 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: but for the team, you know that we can go 139 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: out there and feel confident in making that extra point 140 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: because you know every point really counts. So thank you. Yep, 141 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: all right, thank you very much, Nick, and thank you 142 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: everyone for joining us today. Thanks guys, have a good one.