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Speaker 1: You've been a prob with multiple times, your first time

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Speaker 1: getting Special Teams Player of the Week. Just your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on you've been doing it for so long and everybody

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Speaker 1: says you've been doing great and everybody team appreciates you.

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Speaker 1: What was it like to get to the the award? Very humbled? Um,

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Speaker 1: You know I say it all the time. I feel

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Speaker 1: so blessed. Um. I feel like the Good Lord has

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Speaker 1: shown me a lot of favor and giving me the

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Speaker 1: experience of the lifetime to be here and play alongside

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Speaker 1: some great men. And certainly I think, you know, us

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Speaker 1: receiving that recognition, it should be team recognition. You know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't block that pump by myself. Certainly I can

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Speaker 1: point out each and every guy on that play doing

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Speaker 1: his job and it was great team execution. So it's

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Speaker 1: very humbling. But you know, I'm just so thankful the

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Speaker 1: Lord still allowing an old man like me to to

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Speaker 1: play this game. And you know I'm still having followed

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Speaker 1: my teammates real quick. Just a Thanksgiving question, Pecan pie,

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Speaker 1: apple pie or sweeper tato pipe? Put him in in order?

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Speaker 1: Sweeper table pie one A, but con pie one B,

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Speaker 1: Pumpkin pie A distant unfortunately, I guess on the fields

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Speaker 1: and then off the field. Well, on the field, Um,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I'm thankful to just be playing the

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Speaker 1: game of football, and to be playing the game of

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Speaker 1: football with some great men. Um, you know, I'm thankful

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Speaker 1: for the relationships that I have with my teammates. For

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Speaker 1: me at this stage of my career, you know, that

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Speaker 1: means more than anything. To work alongside people you truly

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Speaker 1: care about and you love. Um, that means a lot.

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Speaker 1: I mean off the field, there's a lot to be

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Speaker 1: thank before. But you know, every day I wake up, Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a gift from God. Life is a gift, and

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Speaker 1: you know every day that He gives me. I hope

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Speaker 1: to be a good steward of it. Thankful for Jesus

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Speaker 1: and everything He's done in my life. I'm thankful for

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Speaker 1: my family and their health, my kids, my wife Phil.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot to be thank before. Off the field,

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Speaker 1: we're thankful for Steve Burton. Yeah, I'm thankful for Steve

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Speaker 1: Burton too. No doubt that we were all surprised that

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Speaker 1: the first time he'd ever won that award. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess a blind squirrel can find it. Not every

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Speaker 1: now and then, so um, you know, twelve years in,

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Speaker 1: But like I said, I really think it's team recognition. Um.

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Speaker 1: Our guys have been doing a great job all year,

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Speaker 1: and for me, it's a lot of fun to be

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Speaker 1: a part of such a you know, close knit um

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Speaker 1: group of guys that really cares about one another. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, they all deserve the credit. Matthew.

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Speaker 1: The list of semifinalists from Hall of Fame just came

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Speaker 1: out and Steve Taskers on every year and recent years

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Speaker 1: there's been in some conversation about whether something like that

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Speaker 1: deserves the plays punchers have gone. When you look at

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Speaker 1: a guy like Steve Tasker, the career he had and

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Speaker 1: if he were to make them the finalist list and

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Speaker 1: eventually Canada for the group of people who do with you, well,

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Speaker 1: certainly I'm biased when you ask me that question, but uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I look at a guy like mister Tasker

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Speaker 1: and he really paved the way for a lot of

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Speaker 1: players like myself, And I think he changed the kicking

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Speaker 1: game certainly with the way that he played it and

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Speaker 1: how he was able to separate himself from his peers.

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Speaker 1: And I think he had a tremendous career and he,

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Speaker 1: you know, did a lot for our game. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I said back in the spring, it'd be hard to

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Speaker 1: tell the story of the hundred year history of the

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Speaker 1: NFL without mentioning the name Steve Tasker. And certainly as

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Speaker 1: a fan of the game and as a special teams player,

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Speaker 1: obviously i'd be excited to see him get a chance

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Speaker 1: to being shrine. And Canon, you're just this deep end

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Speaker 1: of the season. How important that had those days off,

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Speaker 1: that victory Monday, things like that, And how's the body's

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Speaker 1: feeling at this point in time, especially for you. Yeah, Look,

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Speaker 1: you know we're all feeling something at this point. We

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Speaker 1: played a lot of football. Um, and I think you

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Speaker 1: got to take advantage of every day that you can

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Speaker 1: to get rest, to get treatment, to recover, to get

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Speaker 1: ahead on film. Um, those are important. Um. So if

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Speaker 1: coach she's fit for us to have those days, hopefully

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Speaker 1: we can maximize it. But you know, everybody's hurting this

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Speaker 1: time of the year, whether it's us or anybody else

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Speaker 1: in this league, and you just got to find a

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Speaker 1: way to be mentally tough and physically get through it.

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Speaker 1: We were taking counter practice today and it seemed like

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys weren't out there. Is it? Maybe

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Speaker 1: the flu bug going around? Is some guys under the weather?

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Speaker 1: You think, yeah, it is that season. So um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I know some guys have been hit by that. So

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Speaker 1: we got to try to as coach, will stay we

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Speaker 1: gotta we gotta try to stay germ free and sanitizer

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Speaker 1: in the lockers. Everybody wash your hands, definitely washing hands.

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Speaker 1: Spend time with my family. Um, my in laws are here,

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Speaker 1: so I look forward to them spending time with us

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Speaker 1: and uh them helping out with the kids. I know

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Speaker 1: my wife's excited about that. So just spend time with

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Speaker 1: the family. Obviously we'll be working here tomorrow and looking

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Speaker 1: forward to a good afternoon. Um. Yeah, I'll try to

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Speaker 1: watch a little bit of football. It's always fun to

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Speaker 1: watch those Thanksgiving games. I know my family enjoys it. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, my family on both sides huge football fans.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be watching the football. One of the

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Speaker 1: best special team JUS league. I mean, these guys are

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Speaker 1: these guys are elite. Um, and certainly Brad is a

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Speaker 1: great coach. He's been doing it for a long time

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Speaker 1: and I was fortunate enough to learn under Brad. My

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Speaker 1: rookie year. But um, you know, I think it starts

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Speaker 1: with him obviously, but if you look at their makeup

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Speaker 1: Key on the list goes on. Um, they're very, very,

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Speaker 1: very talented, and there really is no weakness, whether it's

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Speaker 1: at the specialist position or their coverage players, there's no weakness.

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Speaker 1: They're fast, they play aggressive, and they just make it

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Speaker 1: hard on you every snap. So, I mean, this will

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Speaker 1: be the best unit we've seen all season. I really

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Speaker 1: think it's the strength of their football team. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see how we measure up