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Speaker 1: What you know as you embark on this new journey

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Speaker 1: Are you excited by this like some of your special

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Speaker 1: and summer having to introduce this to your new players

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Speaker 1: and do they have any idea what's coming with this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's a great question.

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Speaker 3: You know that this game is ever evolving, and as

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Speaker 2: And this obviously is going to be.

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Speaker 3: Some foreign territory, but for everybody across the league, and

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Speaker 3: I think the NFL has done a hell of a

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Speaker 3: job in terms of taking out the speed and space

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Speaker 3: of this play, in terms of kickoff to keep guys healthier,

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Speaker 3: which is a big deal, but ultimately bringing a play

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Speaker 3: that was almost dissolving with all the touchbacks and the

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Speaker 3: to see, Uh, it's exciting a game plan, it's exciting

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Speaker 3: to h kind of find the little nuances when it

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Speaker 2: But when when it comes down to.

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Speaker 3: It, I've always felt that every special team's player requires

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Speaker 3: the foundational pieces of that rule change. Rule change, and

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Speaker 3: then obviously figuring out what, uh, you know, what is

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Speaker 3: we'll do that this spring.

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Speaker 1: I know it's only the first day. Have you has

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Speaker 1: any player come up to you and asked you and say,

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Speaker 1: can you explain this to me? Because I don't really

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it's uh, it's like I said, it's foreign

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of questions, and you know, the it's

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Speaker 3: just it's it's it's exciting when it comes down to

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Speaker 3: it because it's so new, right, and there are your

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Speaker 3: so many questions about it, right, and how you how

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Speaker 3: to think of like, okay, could this be the advantage?

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Speaker 3: Could this be the advantage? Everybody has great ideas on it,

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Speaker 3: so you know, it's exciting. But players have come up

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Speaker 3: to the best of my knowledge, I'm gonna give them

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Speaker 2: Ye arn't Sableton.

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Speaker 4: And Michael welcome at Welcome and congrats.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Along those same lines talking to a lot of people

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Speaker 4: when the rule was first approved, everybody made that jump

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Speaker 4: to you know, roster construction, and we all know special teams.

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Speaker 4: You guys are always you know, at the mercy of

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Speaker 4: what's going on elsewhere on the roster. But for you,

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Speaker 4: how much do you envision maybe personnel preferences changing because

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Speaker 4: much research have you done and will continue to do

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Speaker 4: to be able to construct the proper, you know, roster

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Speaker 3: No, that's a great question, and I think when you

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Speaker 3: So when you look at that specifically, you're trying to think, Okay,

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Speaker 3: And it's not necessarily hey we're looking for more size players.

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Speaker 3: then when we do that, we could obviously piece together

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Speaker 3: It's just gonna be ever evolving. So you know, until

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Speaker 5: Yes, Dan Zugin, Hey, Michael, I guess this rule change

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Speaker 5: made it easy for us to give us a theme

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Speaker 2: First yeah pressor.

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Speaker 5: I'm just sure if does it change the type of

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Speaker 2: Now, no, another great question.

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Speaker 3: These These honestly are all things that come up as

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Speaker 3: So there's a skill set that could be very productive

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Speaker 3: I think that's how you evolve your scheme. It's got

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Speaker 5: And you're talking about how it was new for players,

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Speaker 5: but obviously you've never coached this. I mean, did you

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Speaker 5: how did you get up to speed to be able

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Speaker 5: to teach it to the players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no question.

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Speaker 3: You know, the rules are very similar to the old

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Speaker 2: There was a huge emphasis in terms of studying that.

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Speaker 3: You know, ultimately, when you start to look at something

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 6: Kim Jones him Michael, I'm Kim.

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Speaker 7: It's nice to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Kim.

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Speaker 7: I'm just wondering if you've ever thought of being a teacher,

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Speaker 7: because it sounds like that there's going to be a

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Speaker 7: heavy emphasis on that part of this that if it

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Speaker 7: were status quo, everyone knows the deal. Now you're the

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Speaker 3: Of course, that's so funny. Uh So, my dad was

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Speaker 3: an administration And I've always felt that coaching is synonymous

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Speaker 2: Progression for them.

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Speaker 3: So there are you know, people in my family that

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Speaker 3: trying to figure out what is the best way you

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Speaker 3: a variety of different learners. Is trying to learn your learners,

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Speaker 7: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, rides On Labell, thanks for doing this. Congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I appreciate it. Thank you.

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Speaker 8: Two questions for you. One you mentioned you evaluated the roster,

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to work with both of them. You know,

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Speaker 3: you have two veteran guys, Graham who's played fifteen plus

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Speaker 8: And then your process on joining this job, I mean,

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Speaker 8: obviously there's only thirty two special teams coordinators, so I'm

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Speaker 8: sure you wanted any of them. But having been in

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Speaker 2: Was that something you welcomed. Was that something that gave

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Speaker 8: How did you feel through the interview process about joining

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Speaker 3: You know, honestly, you know, I was a coordinator in

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Speaker 3: always going to be very exciting to me, especially at

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Speaker 3: So there wasn't necessarily any knowledge of anything outside or building,

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Speaker 3: It's been so cool getting to know him and the staff,

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Speaker 3: and it's been a lot of fun just in terms of,

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Speaker 3: you know, acclimating to those processes here and it'll be

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Speaker 3: it'll be fun to work with these guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: Peter's Splendorio.

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Speaker 2: Are there, great to meet you.

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Speaker 9: I'm Michael Peters Splendoria with the Daily News. To kind

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Speaker 9: of go build off the evaluation piece, just what were

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Speaker 9: sort of your impressions overall of these units coming in

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Speaker 9: and what do you think is the ceiling of this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no. I.

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Speaker 3: So some of the things that I look for, you know,

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Speaker 3: when I look at a special teams players are instincts, toughness,

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Speaker 3: and and football IQ. Those are three things that you know,

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Speaker 3: you kind of evaluate, whether it's different schemes or anything

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Speaker 3: I kind of look at, and you start to categorize

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Speaker 3: your gunners your speed guys. So when I evaluate this roster,

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Speaker 3: it was kind of like deciphering where guys fit in

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Speaker 2: How do we improve that?

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Speaker 3: And then also figure out what were the technique differences

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Speaker 3: to where we can get guys acclimated to a new scheme,

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Speaker 3: play at a high level.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, yep.

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Speaker 10: I'll take two more.

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Speaker 6: Patty Trina him Michael, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good, How are you right?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Nice to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Great to meet you.

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Speaker 6: Michael. You've been around in the college ranks. You spend

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Speaker 6: next level.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, it's so cool to be in this position. I'm

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Speaker 3: truly grateful for the opportunity, but I understand and opportunity

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Speaker 3: So that's always been the forefront of you know, kind

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Speaker 3: this is New York Football Giants, and it's pretty cool. Uh,

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Speaker 3: it's exciting, Like there's you learn different ways to do things,

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Speaker 3: really a culmination of all those places that I've spent

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Speaker 3: I've encountered and uh, they're definitely part of this journey

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 10: Last one at Valentine, Michael, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you good?

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Speaker 10: You're obviously not on the field at this point. You're

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Speaker 1: Them at this point?

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Speaker 6: You know, as you as.

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Speaker 10: You try to figure out who your guys, your guys

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's a great question.

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Speaker 3: This part of the the year, you do have meetings,

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Speaker 3: so you get the opportunity to teach your new schemes,

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Speaker 3: Before that, I want to know exactly what they're seeing.

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a lot of me learning how

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