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Speaker 1: Well, we're right on the bright well return uh, good blocks,

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Speaker 1: had some good blocks at the point of attack. Gary

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Speaker 1: did a good job of just you know, hitting it

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Speaker 1: getting vertical, and it's just something we've been working on.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of starting to move forward. So we just

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Speaker 1: gotta make sure we just keep working the fundamentals and

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Speaker 1: the techniques. You know, talk to talk to the guys

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Speaker 1: all the time when you execute fundamentals and the techniques.

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Speaker 1: The big plays were calmed, so we just gotta make

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Speaker 1: sure we keep it execute. Leng is not usually in

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Speaker 1: that spot there and himself a spot there after having

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Speaker 1: that block in there. Well, I mean it's you know,

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Speaker 1: those guys are always rolling back there. It's this situational um.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously he stepped in when when Tanner you know,

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Speaker 1: got got hurt so or what was out so but

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Speaker 1: now he did a good job. You know, Belly's doing

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Speaker 1: a good job. He's working hard. You know, it's showing

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Speaker 1: up in all faces of his game. Where did this

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Speaker 1: hero with such a high percentage of touchbacks for players,

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Speaker 1: do you have to remind players to stay mentally into

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Speaker 1: it In that game, You've got five touchbacks of forty

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Speaker 1: seven yard returned. Yeah, I mean that's that's just part

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Speaker 1: of the game. Now, that's that's what it is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate, but it is what it is. You know,

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Speaker 1: the the game is the game, and the guys have

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Speaker 1: to stay locked in because you just never know when

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Speaker 1: somebody might kick it short. You know, they kind of

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Speaker 1: at the fifteen yard line. So you always got to

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Speaker 1: be locked in and ready talking about I think it

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Speaker 1: was shing about one of the things on the checklist

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Speaker 1: every week. It's winning special teams. How many weeks do

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Speaker 1: you feel like you've won them? These first dax um.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's kind of been you know, fifty

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Speaker 1: fifty maybe uh if if not in a lower percentage,

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Speaker 1: we haven't played great in my opinion. Uh, but the

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Speaker 1: guys are getting better. And that's that's our whole lunch

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Speaker 1: in our room. It's you know that we're causing is

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Speaker 1: something that we live by in our room, and it's

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Speaker 1: the act of continuous improvement. And it's not you know,

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Speaker 1: getting too high, it's not getting too low. It's figuring

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Speaker 1: out what you need to do that day to get better.

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Speaker 1: And Uh, individually they have to get better and as

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Speaker 1: a group, we have to get better. So once we

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Speaker 1: we're going in the right direction. So it's you know,

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Speaker 1: to answer your question, I feel like we're going in

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Speaker 1: the right direction. Uh, yeah, yeah, I think I am. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we do have a standard here. We've played

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Speaker 1: pretty well and special teams the last four or five

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Speaker 1: years here. So I think the players understand the standard.

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Speaker 1: They know what it is, and we know that we

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Speaker 1: weren't playing up to the standard and we just gotta

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Speaker 1: keep it in better. Richard, check the gunner and think

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Speaker 1: let that ball on the answer. That's something to him, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we we coach it. Uh, it's it's situational.

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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be smart. Every week week we

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Speaker 1: go through a reel of uh situations that happened throughout

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Speaker 1: the league. And we always talked to our guys about

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Speaker 1: borrowing knowledge and buying knowledge. You know, those are two

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Speaker 1: types of knowledge that you buy, borrow and buy in

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Speaker 1: this game. So we watch those clips and sometimes we

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Speaker 1: borrow from other people and then sometimes we buy. You know, so,

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Speaker 1: but no, Richie, Richie does a really good job. He

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Speaker 1: understands that that job and what it entails. You just

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Speaker 1: gotta be smart and how you go about it, because

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Speaker 1: you know if he you know, you leave with a

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Speaker 1: form or you hit a guy in the head, it

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Speaker 1: could be and you know, unncessary roughness piloty. So you

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Speaker 1: just gotta be smart. Now you what do you think?

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Speaker 1: You name the cloud and so's like he's really making

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Speaker 1: any impact when he's in there. You know, Nick's done

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Speaker 1: a great job. He's been a really uh pleasant surprise.

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Speaker 1: You know, he he's stepped right in. And this kid

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Speaker 1: is all business all the time, like he is. He's

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Speaker 1: always locked in, he's always focused and uh he's a

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Speaker 1: young pro. You know, he's a young pros pro. Uh

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Speaker 1: and it's it's I can't wait to see him just

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Speaker 1: you know, keep going and growing as a player. Up

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Speaker 1: in your head. Uh, they've had three fair catches in

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Speaker 1: the form points that the goal of every point. Just

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Speaker 1: have a fair catcher there any times you actually want

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Speaker 1: them to return situationally it sometimes you might want him

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Speaker 1: to return if you got you know, trying to take

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Speaker 1: some time off the clock late in the game or

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Speaker 1: something like that. But yeah, the plan is not to

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Speaker 1: give up any return yards. And we all know Devin

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Speaker 1: Newton is I mean, he is. He's outstanding, you know.

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Speaker 1: So the goal was to make sure that he did

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Speaker 1: not return the ball, you know. And I think he

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Speaker 1: had like twelve yards or whatever the whole day, but

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Speaker 1: that that was the goal, you know, to not have

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Speaker 1: him returned the ball,