Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Thursday,
Speaker 1: August fifteenth. The Ravens officially wrapped up the training camp
Speaker 1: portion of the summer today. Camp broke after Thursday's practice,
Speaker 1: and now they shift ahead to the preseason game coming
Speaker 1: up on Saturday against the Atlanta Falcons twelve pm at
Speaker 1: M and T Bank Stadium for our Kids game, and
Speaker 1: then next up as the Green Bay Packers before the
Speaker 1: regular season opener coming up against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: After practice today, we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: the specialists. So let's kick things off with the goat kicker,
Speaker 1: Justin Tucker.
Speaker 2: What's up y'all? How y'all doing well? All right, let's
Speaker 2: get it going.
Speaker 3: Justin, can you give us your review of yourself in
Speaker 3: that first game with the kickoffs?
Speaker 2: How did you feel they went?
Speaker 3: Were you trying things out more?
Speaker 4: Were they more things that we're going to see in
Speaker 4: the season yet?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we only got a couple of reps.
Speaker 5: What does a good start, you know, kind of get
Speaker 5: the feel for just the aesthetic of the play. It
Speaker 5: looks kind of funky at first, you know, we're so
Speaker 5: accustomed to the kickoff team all being at the thirty
Speaker 5: five yard line, the return team all being lined up,
Speaker 5: you know, on the other side of the field. So
Speaker 5: for me to just be out there on the thirty
Speaker 5: five yard line, you know, all the kickers being on
Speaker 5: the thirty five yard line by yourself, it's definitely kind
Speaker 5: of like an awkward feeling at first, Like I totally
Speaker 5: feel just isolated because I am, But that's just that's
Speaker 5: just you know, one of the small adjustments that we're making,
Speaker 5: you know, just getting out there and putting the ball
Speaker 5: in play and seeing across the league and and in
Speaker 5: our own game how the play is going to develop.
Speaker 5: Getting an idea for that last weekend I was definitely
Speaker 5: a good start. So we're excited to you know, excited
Speaker 5: to see what we can do with more opportunities in
Speaker 5: the future.
Speaker 6: Just do you feel challenged in a way to try
Speaker 6: to come up with different ways to kind of land
Speaker 6: in that landing someone?
Speaker 7: Does it all feel new to you after all these years?
Speaker 2: You know, it does.
Speaker 5: There's definitely a there's definitely some new kicks that we're developing.
Speaker 5: I think when it's all said and done, going into
Speaker 5: the season, we'll probably have somewhere between eight and nine
Speaker 5: kind of kinds of kicks that we will carry with
Speaker 5: us and we're going to continue to develop, you know that,
Speaker 5: and then anything else that we can where we can
Speaker 5: feel like we can create an advantage for our team.
Speaker 5: So the landing zone is, you know, it seems like
Speaker 5: a pretty large area. You know, that twenty yard by
Speaker 5: you know, fifty three and a third whatever that exact
Speaker 5: number is. You know, it seems like a pretty large area.
Speaker 5: But just based on where you land the ball, you know,
Speaker 5: you could have one that skips right or left and
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden it's out of bounds and
Speaker 5: then the ball's being spotted at the forty. If you
Speaker 5: land the ball at the twenty one as opposed to
Speaker 5: the nineteen, you could be looking at the starting field
Speaker 5: position for your opponent being either the forty or you know,
Speaker 5: maybe the twelve yard line depending on what the returners
Speaker 5: do with it. So, you know, for for it being
Speaker 5: a large area to land the ball in, you still
Speaker 5: have to be pretty you know, pretty articulate, pretty detailed
Speaker 5: with where you're where you're placing the ball. So that's
Speaker 5: something that we're working on right now. Someone's been working
Speaker 5: on since the rule went into effect. You know, something
Speaker 5: we're gonna continue working on. And I feel like when
Speaker 5: we come into the regular season, I feel like right
Speaker 5: now we're ready to go. But when, especially when we
Speaker 5: come into the regular season, we're gonna have, just like
Speaker 5: you know, I said before, a pitcher that develops this stuff,
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a lot of stuff ready to go.
Speaker 8: As far as your personal responsibilities going to kickoff, mirroring
Speaker 8: the return mme or whatever it is to do.
Speaker 4: Honestly, how they change with the new yarntry.
Speaker 5: I think what we're going to see is the kicker
Speaker 5: is going to be involved as much as he wants
Speaker 5: to be involved, you know, and for for me and
Speaker 5: for us like we we want to dominate on special teams.
Speaker 5: We want to put our defense in the best position
Speaker 5: to succeed. We want the offense. Uh, we want the
Speaker 5: opposing offense to have as long a way to go
Speaker 5: as possible. Uh, you know, and a part of that
Speaker 5: might mean the kicker getting involved from time to time.
Speaker 5: You know. I think there's, uh, there's definitely opportunities across
Speaker 5: the board to make plays on special teams. As a kicker,
Speaker 5: my responsibility is still pretty much the same as it
Speaker 5: has been prior to the rule change where I mirror that,
Speaker 5: like you said, I will mirror the returner, but you
Speaker 5: never know, like I might make one or two tackles
Speaker 5: and then I'm gonna have to, like, you know, be
Speaker 5: two gaping dudes and you know, running through blocks and
Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff. So I'm ready to go.
Speaker 5: My diet's the exact same. I thank you, guys. Uh,
Speaker 5: I couldn't have been less serious when I said in
Speaker 5: I think it was May or June that I had
Speaker 5: put on exactly three point eight pounds. And I don't
Speaker 5: I don't I think Scott Elliott and the guys in
Speaker 5: the guys and girls in the weight room would. I
Speaker 5: would probably corroborate that I have not been in there
Speaker 5: anymore or any less been consistent.
Speaker 2: But I feel good.
Speaker 5: I feel I feel good and prepared and ready to
Speaker 5: uh step the contact when necessary every sin. I think
Speaker 5: as soon as any player in any sport starts thinking
Speaker 5: that they're really sweet, that you know, as the as
Speaker 5: the old adage goes, pride comes before the fall. I
Speaker 5: think what we do on a day to day basis
Speaker 5: is we come out here and we try to make
Speaker 5: one kick at a time. We try to do our
Speaker 5: best with each rep that we get on field, three
Speaker 5: by ourselves or in team in team periods. It's just
Speaker 5: about making the next kick and continuing to just be
Speaker 5: consistent more than anything, I think, And you know, I
Speaker 5: go back to you know what you said just just
Speaker 5: a minute ago. You know, when when somebody is considered
Speaker 5: at the top or at the pinnacle of their craft,
Speaker 5: the ones that are able to sustain that level of
Speaker 5: heightened success never talk about themselves, you know, Like I
Speaker 5: really try to make it a point, like I might
Speaker 5: joke about it with my teammates sometimes, but I really
Speaker 5: do believe fully that I haven't done any of this,
Speaker 5: you know, in the last twelve years by myself. I've
Speaker 5: had excellent teammates. I've had excellent coaching. You know. As
Speaker 5: much as Randy and I joke that we might not
Speaker 5: like each other all the time, I love I love
Speaker 5: Randy dearly, and he's he Jerry Rosberg, Chris Horton, TJ. Weiest,
Speaker 5: you know, like any any harves any and all the
Speaker 5: coaches that I've been I've been blessed to be around
Speaker 5: have helped me and my teammates become the best football
Speaker 5: players that we can be. Sam Cook, Morgan Cox, Nick Moore,
Speaker 5: Jordan Stout, Tylerrott last year, all of those guys have
Speaker 5: helped me become the best football player that I can be.
Speaker 5: I think, if you, if you ask, I think I've
Speaker 5: seen Tom Brady, you know, to talk about the undisputed
Speaker 5: goat of our game.
Speaker 2: He's he's been at.
Speaker 5: I remember seeing him ask about, like, you know, what
Speaker 5: is it like to be the goat? What's it like
Speaker 5: to be the best ever? And it struck me that
Speaker 5: the first thing that he pointed to was everybody else
Speaker 5: around him. He he talked about how he played with championship defenses,
Speaker 5: he played with championship pass catchers, championship caliber lineman, keeping
Speaker 5: him healthy and keeping him safe so he could deliver
Speaker 5: the ball, championship coaching staff, developing himself and the players
Speaker 5: around him. So that's a very long way of saying that, uh,
Speaker 5: any level of success that I have, uh.
Speaker 2: You know I have experienced. It's sure.
Speaker 5: I do take pride and putting in, putting in the
Speaker 5: work every single day, but I'm around excellent people all
Speaker 5: the time day.
Speaker 2: So he called off, I just plan.
Speaker 5: On being ready to go and ready to put the
Speaker 5: ball through the uprights any place, anytime, whenever Harb sends
Speaker 5: me out there, it's for a reason.
Speaker 2: It's come back with three points. I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Go back to the kickoff, not to hit the ball
Speaker 5: as hard as possible and then actually takes something off
Speaker 5: the kick is there's no other time in your.
Speaker 2: Career that hit the ball less hard. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: Uh, that's a really good that's a really good question,
Speaker 5: a really good point. It's definitely, it's definitely been an
Speaker 5: adjustment I've I've kind of always said that as a kicker.
Speaker 5: You know a lot of times people compare kicking a
Speaker 5: football to a golf swing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: And the one caveat I would I would add is
Speaker 5: that I only use one club. I only use driver.
Speaker 5: A golfer's got to have, you know, he's got to
Speaker 5: have a drive. He's got to have an approach shot,
Speaker 5: he's got to have like his bunker shots. He's got
Speaker 5: to be able to putt. You know, he's got to
Speaker 5: have the ability to do all of those things. And
Speaker 5: for the most part, you know, occasionally you have a
Speaker 5: special specialty kick like a squib kick or an on
Speaker 5: side kick, but for the most part, it's one club.
Speaker 9: It's a driver.
Speaker 2: So now.
Speaker 5: I am opening up the bag and we've got a
Speaker 5: lot more clubs. We have to have a lot more
Speaker 5: clubs to pick from. So it's not necessarily about taking
Speaker 5: anything off of the ball. It's about being deliberate with
Speaker 5: where I play the ball. So instead of smashing every
Speaker 5: single ball like as hard as I can, I just
Speaker 5: have to mentally lock in to the same degree, but
Speaker 5: place the ball with just that much more intention.
Speaker 1: We also heard from punter Jordan Stout we've seen in
Speaker 1: the last few days from play in the game.
Speaker 4: And I guess he's great practice. Different about you know,
Speaker 4: just spending more time this offseason.
Speaker 8: Actually, you know, I'm in the process of experimenting with
Speaker 8: how to become the best punter I can. And this
Speaker 8: offseason I went and I did speed training for two
Speaker 8: and a half months. Just I want to be able
Speaker 8: to hit those really high punts but not have to
Speaker 8: try hard, you know, And that sounds a little arrogant
Speaker 8: or whatever, but like, I'm just trying to be the
Speaker 8: best I can each day.
Speaker 7: Brandy call can be best further in the NFL, right can?
Speaker 2: What does that feel?
Speaker 4: That way?
Speaker 8: You know, it means a lot because like that, that's
Speaker 8: high praise coming from from Randy. And you know, I
Speaker 8: couldn't do it without Justin. I couldn't do without Randy,
Speaker 8: could have done it without Sam Cook. Can't do it
Speaker 8: without Nick. It's like without those guys, it's not possible.
Speaker 8: Justin holding me to a high standard. Nick snapping the
Speaker 8: ball twelve o'clock laces over the spot so I can
Speaker 8: put it down fast. You know, it's something that we
Speaker 8: take great pride in and and Sam Cook is the
Speaker 8: best holder of all time and learning from him has
Speaker 8: been great.
Speaker 4: And what resulted in.
Speaker 8: It, like, oh god, I could talk about it all day.
Speaker 8: You know, it looks like I'm just putting the ball down,
Speaker 8: but you know so essentially Justin wants the ball to
Speaker 8: be put down essentially on like the size of a
Speaker 8: piece of rice. It needs to be perfect every time.
Speaker 8: And you know that's why he's great. He's a he's
Speaker 8: a system guy.
Speaker 4: There's that. You know.
Speaker 8: He likes the ball to be down really fast. So
Speaker 8: starting my rookie year, they've been telling me, and they
Speaker 8: still tell me, get the ball down faster, get the
Speaker 8: ball down faster. Sam sometimes says, hey man, good job
Speaker 8: taking your time on that one, so so we have
Speaker 8: some fun with it, but it's just like it really
Speaker 8: is an everyday thing. It's it's it's it's never good
Speaker 8: enough and it never will be good enough. And I
Speaker 8: think that's why we're so great at it.
Speaker 6: Yesterday saying the conversation.
Speaker 10: And what do you try to learn from challenge?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we we talked a lot about our routine and
Speaker 8: and how we went about our days. I was really
Speaker 8: shocked to hear that on on a game day for them,
Speaker 8: that they have.
Speaker 4: Almost every day.
Speaker 8: It's it's very routine that he he goes and he
Speaker 8: hits in the cage for an hour and then he
Speaker 8: stretches for an hour. I'm just making that up, but
Speaker 8: he every second of the day. He's doing something on
Speaker 8: game days and I just like, how's that mentally on you?
Speaker 8: He's like, you know, it's tough, but like that's what
Speaker 8: it takes. And I think that's why he's so great. Jordan,
Speaker 8: do you feel like you've been more consistent out here
Speaker 8: of practice in year three? You know, gaining consistencies the
Speaker 8: name of the game for fun, right, you feel like
Speaker 8: you've been more consistent and what's.
Speaker 4: Leading to that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I feel like this is the most consistent I've
Speaker 8: ever been. You know, this is my job, and I
Speaker 8: treat it like that. You know, I go to bed
Speaker 8: at night and I'm thinking about punning. I wake up
Speaker 8: in the morning and I'm thinking about punning. Like Harp
Speaker 8: says it all the time. It's like, if you're not
Speaker 8: thinking about football, what are you thinking about? So like
Speaker 8: all day every day, I'm thinking of how I can
Speaker 8: get better, and I think that that's the result and
Speaker 8: why I'm doing so much better.
Speaker 9: You do think so Justine.
Speaker 10: Thinks you better with it than.
Speaker 6: Like having the operation doesn't work with how job right now?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 8: And how has Yeah, you know he's He's the grace
Speaker 8: of all time.
Speaker 4: And just just watching him each and every day.
Speaker 8: How how talking about like Gunnar about talking about how
Speaker 8: Justin has his routine and how he follows the same
Speaker 8: thing every single day to a tee, never straying away
Speaker 8: from from what makes him great. I'd say that it's
Speaker 8: great just learning from him every day and he's the best.
Speaker 3: Jordan you got drafted to replace Sam Cook, longtime team punter,
Speaker 3: kind of a team legend, and then he ends up
Speaker 3: being your coach as well. Can you talk to us
Speaker 3: about your relationship with him and kind of what he's
Speaker 3: brought to your game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I really do look at Sam like
Speaker 8: a big brother. Anytime I'm struggling or having a good day,
Speaker 8: having an okay day, he has advice to give me.
Speaker 8: You know, I go back and watch his tape and
Speaker 8: just just somewhat try to replicate what he does in
Speaker 8: terms of consistency and ball placement.
Speaker 4: He really is, He's he was one of the best,
Speaker 4: and learning from him every day is great.
Speaker 3: Is there anything specific in your punting that like he.
Speaker 4: And he have really worked on. Yeah, a still ball.
Speaker 4: You know, once I dropped the ball.
Speaker 8: In years past, my ball had a tendency of moving
Speaker 8: in the air, and you know, sometimes that's inevitable. It's
Speaker 8: gonna be when it's gonna be rainy, things are gonna happen.
Speaker 8: But just trying to just reduce all variables, like I
Speaker 8: want it to be as easy as possible. Three things
Speaker 8: that I do is I try to walk when I punt,
Speaker 8: because I walk all day every day. I try to
Speaker 8: hold the ball like I'm shaking a hand because I
Speaker 8: shake hands all day.
Speaker 4: And then just.
Speaker 8: Trying to like have a have a controlled tempo and
Speaker 8: just keeping that the same every time. And those are
Speaker 8: all things Sam taught me. Just having all three of
Speaker 8: those things the same every time lead to success for sure.
Speaker 11: He was saying that it's a conversation when said a
Speaker 11: kicking into your rubber tourist. Since you get a college
Speaker 11: you sassinate, think about is that all your success only
Speaker 11: you're just waking about They give me the way on.
Speaker 4: You know, I've come to terms with it.
Speaker 8: I'm not a field goal kicker anymore and I'm gonna
Speaker 8: let Justin handle it. Ah, but you know, my job
Speaker 8: is to be ready if something happens God forbid. But
Speaker 8: you know I'll be ready if something happens to Justin.
Speaker 8: And then that's when you all do see me like
Speaker 8: once or twice a year out there kicking field goals
Speaker 8: or kickoffs.
Speaker 4: That that's what it's for.
Speaker 2: Jordan I said, he's had two and a half months
Speaker 2: speed training. Just what does that kind of look like.
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna get too technical with it, but essentially it's, uh,
Speaker 8: four days a week, I'll wake up in the morning.
Speaker 8: So I did it in Fort Lotteral actually, which is
Speaker 8: great because it usually took up like three hours of
Speaker 8: my day and then me and my fiance could just
Speaker 8: lay at the beach.
Speaker 4: Its is amazing, but uh yeah, wake up, we'd go in.
Speaker 4: We do like a short lift.
Speaker 8: It's all from like a speed position, which is like
Speaker 8: where your your glute is activated and you could like
Speaker 8: explode out of the position in any moment, like whether
Speaker 8: we're doing shoulders chest like, everything was in that position.
Speaker 8: And then after that we go to the field and
Speaker 8: you know, I was there with Miles boykind H tray swilling,
Speaker 8: one of the tight ends for uh Tennessee, and you know,
Speaker 8: just just compete with those guys the whole time, just
Speaker 8: trying to be faster than them. And I think that
Speaker 8: pushed me because I think speed translates really well to
Speaker 8: like leg speed and punting.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, that's what it looked like. Real Claiman's education.
Speaker 4: You could give us some money. Angle that a holds
Speaker 4: just us very simple.
Speaker 8: You put the ball down directly, straight up and down,
Speaker 8: and then you tilt it very slightly towards you.
Speaker 4: And that's how Justin likes it.
Speaker 8: He's very easy in that aspect, and I got you
Speaker 8: gotta love that.
Speaker 1: The next up, we heard from long snapper Nick Moore,
Speaker 1: the deal.
Speaker 12: To be held, the field, working with everything that it
Speaker 12: feels really good.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very excited to be back out here.
Speaker 10: I know last year was a was a tough year
Speaker 10: for me on the sideline, so uh, I feel really good,
Speaker 10: really strong, really confidence.
Speaker 2: So I'm just I'm just glad to be back out there.
Speaker 5: That was your experience n Broadcasting Camp, and I guess.
Speaker 10: I had a great experience out there. I learned a
Speaker 10: lot about myself. I figured, uh, broadcasting is way harder
Speaker 10: than it looks on TV. I had a lot of
Speaker 10: respect for those guys now, but you know, just last season,
Speaker 10: I wasn't playing and I was kind of figuring out,
Speaker 10: what are some things I'm interested in, trying to set
Speaker 10: myself up for post football and actually chat and Tom
Speaker 10: when kind of the guys that kind of recommended I
Speaker 10: do that and applied for the boot camp, and really
Speaker 10: glad I went. Learned a lot and met a lot
Speaker 10: of cool guys and very influential people in the media
Speaker 10: of the space. So I was very useful and very
Speaker 10: glad I was able to get out there.
Speaker 12: You started to feel like you're selling.
Speaker 10: And I was feeling pretty good during ot as you
Speaker 10: know it's ohtas Is, uh is a different time of year.
Speaker 10: So I would say like coming back out for training camp,
Speaker 10: that was kind of like I made it back because
Speaker 10: that was kind of the hurdle I didn't.
Speaker 2: Get to last year. I didn't didn't make it to
Speaker 2: training camp.
Speaker 10: So once I got back here, I was really exciting,
Speaker 10: kind of relieved a little bit, and uh started feeling
Speaker 10: normal again. So I was glad to be back into
Speaker 10: a routine.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 12: Route in private, I know, yeah, they went, yeah, the
Speaker 12: film did support that one of the referees wasn't paying
Speaker 12: into and I guess, but uh.
Speaker 2: But no, we do.
Speaker 10: Those are those who are extremely difficult kicks to make.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 10: You know, you're out in front of the you got
Speaker 10: fan out here, you got your teammates, you got harp
Speaker 10: standing right there behind Tuck. I could see him right
Speaker 10: through my legs. So it's definitely a very scary kick.
Speaker 10: And it's really good for us to get that experience
Speaker 10: because we do attempt those kicks in the game.
Speaker 2: I mean, last two years I played, we attempted.
Speaker 10: Sixty six and sixty seven, so we're we're looking for
Speaker 10: sixty eighth this year.
Speaker 3: I guess, Nick, how have you with Jordan Stout fine
Speaker 3: tune the snap to hold operations? Do you guys go
Speaker 3: studied Phil and the right special drills that you guys do.
Speaker 2: We watch a lot of tape.
Speaker 10: We've we've worked together for a while on last year
Speaker 10: he was with Tyler and we were still able to
Speaker 10: get some work in throughout the season, and then we
Speaker 10: started working I guess in February, right when the season
Speaker 10: was over together trying to get our chemistry back. But
Speaker 10: we watched a pretty good bit of tape and we're
Speaker 10: hyper critical of our day to day out on the field,
Speaker 10: so we're you know, I feel like we picked right
Speaker 10: up where we left off in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 8: Involved in you involved me a trick along snapping that
Speaker 8: we hear about some of the long staffers in the league.
Speaker 2: Where I have never participated in that.
Speaker 7: So thank you.
Speaker 10: Signed a deal while overcoming from any injury and I
Speaker 10: could pick the Ravens.
Speaker 7: What did that meal to just have the trust you
Speaker 7: to al?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know it.
Speaker 2: Eric was very generous. He didn't they didn't owe me anything.
Speaker 10: I signed a deal in March and unfortunately in July
Speaker 10: tore my achilles and you know, for them to come
Speaker 10: in September right when the season started and and want
Speaker 10: to resign, you resigning for an additional year really spoke
Speaker 10: to the confidence that they have in me. Put a
Speaker 10: lot of faith in me, and it kind of gave me.
Speaker 10: You know, at that time, I was pretty down. Just
Speaker 10: had surgery at the beginning of August. So I was
Speaker 10: in a pretty difficult spot and wasn't playing and wasn't
Speaker 10: out here with the guys, and I was kind of
Speaker 10: figuring out, it's my first time being hurt.
Speaker 2: So for Eric and John and mister.
Speaker 10: Mashati to put that faith in me, you know, really
Speaker 10: really headed home for me.
Speaker 2: And I was very appreciative of that.
Speaker 10: And I think I showed in my work ethic throughout
Speaker 10: the last twelve months to get back here.
Speaker 1: You don't mind living.
Speaker 4: It wasn't play or that markets at that play fellow.
Speaker 10: So I was running the conditioning test four days before
Speaker 10: training camps started last year. I was over at McDaniel College, Uh,
Speaker 10: just trying to get a practice in. I was gonna
Speaker 10: have to run and when I showed up to camp,
Speaker 10: so I wanted to make sure I could do it.
Speaker 10: And then I was planning to change the direction, and
Speaker 10: when my right foot hit the ground, it.
Speaker 2: Just kind of popped a little bit, and I.
Speaker 10: Heard it and I thought that my cleat had kind
Speaker 10: of maybe separated a little bit. But unfortunately it was
Speaker 10: not the cleat and uh, my achilles tour. So it
Speaker 10: wasn't a fun experience.
Speaker 1: And lastly, today we heard from Senior Special Teams coach
Speaker 1: Randy Brown.
Speaker 9: Everyone.
Speaker 6: Uh, first off, I wanted to send out my best wishes.
Speaker 9: To Joe da. Uh. I've been around here a long time.
Speaker 6: I've seen a lot of assistant coaches come come through
Speaker 6: these doors, and uh, there's great love for Joe d
Speaker 6: here in the building. I missed my meals with him,
Speaker 6: so now I'm stuck eating with like hort and Harves
Speaker 6: and Sam. So but best wishes Jody. I know he's
Speaker 6: gonna fight through this, gonna make it there. So secondly,
Speaker 6: it's my wife Tricia's birthday today, So happy birthday Tricia.
Speaker 9: Yet tomorrow, oh Samorrow? Hey, Hey, I was right, I
Speaker 9: was close.
Speaker 6: And so my my my daughter McKenzie is starring in
Speaker 6: Mean Girls as Regina. So any of you guys from
Speaker 6: South Jersey watching this, you want to go to the
Speaker 6: Ritz theater over the weekend, let's go see McKenzie and
Speaker 6: mean Girls.
Speaker 9: But uh, but all right, questions with Justin?
Speaker 2: Is there something pret in this camp that.
Speaker 11: Anything?
Speaker 6: So the thing with Justin is he constantly wants to
Speaker 6: get better. So I've been around him long enough that
Speaker 6: we plan out not just the week, but the day,
Speaker 6: and then we'll go ahead of saying, Okay, hey, we're
Speaker 6: gonna kick X number of balls today, we're gonna work
Speaker 6: on these particular kicks today, especially now with the new kickoff,
Speaker 6: we've got to incorporate some of that in. And what's
Speaker 6: great is he's so open minded too. Hey let me
Speaker 6: try this. See what you think. And and whether it's
Speaker 6: me or Sam or Whart or whomever, but you know,
Speaker 6: here's a guy that the other day hit a sixty
Speaker 6: eight yarder and oh, by the way.
Speaker 9: We've seen the film it was good.
Speaker 6: Don't quite know what the officials were looking at, but
Speaker 6: I think somebody said, maybe not, but sixty eight yard
Speaker 6: are good and hit the ball really well.
Speaker 9: So what do I look for in Justin when he
Speaker 9: comes out.
Speaker 6: Is foot the ball, foot the ball, foot the ball,
Speaker 6: That ball sounds good coming off his foot. Then then
Speaker 6: I know he's where he's at, and he is. He's
Speaker 6: striking the ball as well as he ever has.
Speaker 7: Says the rules impacted what you can vote your time
Speaker 7: to like that, how much time you spend the normal
Speaker 7: stuff compared to how much time you up to a
Speaker 7: lot to what's a new thing for a lot of time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a really good question, Jeff. So because the
Speaker 6: intensity of the kickoff. Prior I would try to limit
Speaker 6: justin to maybe only kicking off once a week because
Speaker 6: it's an intense kick, right, But.
Speaker 9: Now with this kick, he can do it a little shorter.
Speaker 6: Right, doesn't have to take the full seven eight.
Speaker 9: Yard run up. So we've devoted some time to it.
Speaker 6: But he's such a technician and he's a perfectionist, which
Speaker 6: helps me being able to say, Okay, hey we're gonna
Speaker 6: do twenty kicks today.
Speaker 9: But when we're only talking a two.
Speaker 6: Step or three step, it takes a little bit of
Speaker 6: wear and tear off the body.
Speaker 9: So we've practiced it.
Speaker 6: A little bit more in this camp, and in past
Speaker 6: preseasons I haven't been very excited for him to kick
Speaker 6: in it. But this year, you know, you saw a
Speaker 6: last game he had kick some so he's got a
Speaker 6: kind of get a feel of it too.
Speaker 4: It's just.
Speaker 9: For new kicks to his no doubt, no.
Speaker 6: No, just because it's a different ball now, right, So
Speaker 6: when you when you used to hit a ball, you've
Speaker 6: seen this week, right, I think there was four kickoffs
Speaker 6: that didn't reach the landing zone.
Speaker 9: Guys were trying their different kick. You know, back on.
Speaker 6: The old kickoff, that ball might actually not be a
Speaker 6: bad ball because you know the guys are running down field.
Speaker 6: But now he's got to be able to have multiple
Speaker 6: kicks now, all right, and now we're only talking it's
Speaker 6: eighty and Sonny now today, well what do we do
Speaker 6: when it's thirty and we've been at the bank when
Speaker 6: it's thirty and the thirty mile prior winds coming out
Speaker 6: of that far corner.
Speaker 9: How are we going to kick off?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 6: So he's creating some scenarios where that that's what he's
Speaker 6: practicing now. And I think that's the one thing that
Speaker 6: we don't know what's going to happen with this play.
Speaker 6: Is it's nice that it's eighty ninety or you're indoors,
Speaker 6: but what are we gonna do?
Speaker 9: We are they gonna do? In Buffalo in December and January.
Speaker 11: If you think if it's a take a discussionists in
Speaker 11: having there, they're only going.
Speaker 2: To play as it was, but.
Speaker 6: A weere they're in, so the line of fire and
Speaker 6: how to make the time, you know, I think it's
Speaker 6: going to be the same amount as it's been in
Speaker 6: the years past. That seemed to be a narrative early,
Speaker 6: but I don't think so when you really look through
Speaker 6: the years of kickoffs. I mean, we remember we used
Speaker 6: to kick off from the thirty yard line, So I
Speaker 6: think specialists will be just as involved as they were before,
Speaker 6: you know, and nothing.
Speaker 9: I don't see anything additional to it. I really don't.
Speaker 7: Dan Stout he's holding in particular the last couple of years,
Speaker 7: but Justin is off a tick.
Speaker 4: Relativity to the rest of the league. How would you
Speaker 4: break Jordan's.
Speaker 6: D So you're Jordan's Stout and you're following Sam Cook,
Speaker 6: who's arguably the greatest holder it's ever played the game.
Speaker 6: So Jordan has now had a chance to learn from
Speaker 6: Sam and learn from Justin. So I would say today
Speaker 6: Jordan's the best holder in the National Football League. And
Speaker 6: why do I say that is because we've got a
Speaker 6: kicker who demands that the ball be at that spot
Speaker 6: that he needs it every single time. And Jordan's taken
Speaker 6: it as a challenge. And you know when when I
Speaker 6: first met Jordan a few years ago and I had
Speaker 6: breakfast with him, you could talk to him right then
Speaker 6: and there. I mean, he was a competitive soccer player,
Speaker 6: like a high level soccer player, and you could see
Speaker 6: where his detail orient orient it is and you see
Speaker 6: it with his punning. But right now where he's gone
Speaker 6: with his holding, I'd pick him over any other the
Speaker 6: thirty two holders in National FOOTBA League where he's gotten
Speaker 6: and Justin demands it too, as we.
Speaker 5: Know what effectually time a lot, pick all stuff, seams
Speaker 5: consider and like that, take it out of the back,
Speaker 5: take give the offense.
Speaker 3: And start at the thirty get saved practice time.
Speaker 10: As well as why would that be in an advantage
Speaker 10: or where.
Speaker 2: Is that a disadvantage for those teams that did send
Speaker 2: any news.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know about other teams, but I know
Speaker 6: John Harball is the head coach of this team, and
Speaker 6: him and I've been together for nineteen seasons and special
Speaker 6: teams is very important to him and it's very important
Speaker 6: to me, and I love covering kicks I love returning kicks.
Speaker 6: I love the idea of putting the ball in play
Speaker 6: and playing football so and I know Chris Wharton does,
Speaker 6: and I know the head coach does, and I love it.
Speaker 6: What other teams are going to do or think, I
Speaker 6: don't know, but I know what we do. We love
Speaker 6: returning kicks and covering kicks.
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