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Speaker 1: Thanks Stacy. Hi Cam, how are you doing this morning?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm fine? Thank you. Obviously the

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Speaker 1: block punch is going to be a theme for the conversation,

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Speaker 1: but I'm wondering in the three block punch this year

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Speaker 1: what has happened either breakdown or players and how do

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Speaker 1: you fix them? Yeah? No, I mean in all honest,

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Speaker 1: the island that starts with me and just doing the

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Speaker 1: fundamentals techniques and making sure the guys are you know,

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Speaker 1: understanding what I'm asking for I'm looking for, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I just executing our techniques better. And you know it

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Speaker 1: goes back to me and making sure I'm stressing that

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Speaker 1: and coaching that effectively. And you know, as long as

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Speaker 1: we can start doing that and I'm proving our fundamental techniques,

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Speaker 1: you know we should. We had to handle you know,

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Speaker 1: the pop protections. Thank you, Thanks Alan. Next question Jim McBride,

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Speaker 1: followed by Mike Prease. Hey, Cam, So a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago and Buffalo, the Bills deactivated both their returners

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Speaker 1: for obvious reasons because of the win. I suspect that'll

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Speaker 1: be different this week. What do you see from those

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Speaker 1: guys when when you watch them, yeah, you know, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Stevenson or Mackenzie, you know, both those guys are

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Speaker 1: explosive fast. You know, once they get the ball in

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Speaker 1: their hands, you know they can you know, stretch the field,

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Speaker 1: in the ground and get vertical. That's definitely one thing

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Speaker 1: that shows up. But they get to top speed within

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Speaker 1: guys to gather up. Can't open up seams, you know,

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Speaker 1: and let those guys get started. You know, once those

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Speaker 1: they're really hard to tackle. So you know, they've both

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Speaker 1: had a really good returns. I mean, you can go

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Speaker 1: back to preseason, they've had big returns. So they've both

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Speaker 1: are explosive players. So we've got to do a really

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Speaker 1: good job of conversion on them, holding our leverage, maintaining

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Speaker 1: open up a seam. Thanks Kim, Thanks him. Our next

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Speaker 1: question Mike Greeves Fall by Chris Ryan. He Kim, always

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Speaker 1: good to talk with you. Um. One of the things

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about was when UM, a

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Speaker 1: punt rush team sort of executes a force UM. And

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Speaker 1: it's something I learned this year just from some of

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Speaker 1: the struggles in protection and when when they do that,

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Speaker 1: like how does that put stress on the punt protection unit? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's twofold, you know. First off, obviously, you know you

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Speaker 1: got to emphasize the blocking. You know, those those guys

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Speaker 1: the guys on the outside, you know, the gunners, they're

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Speaker 1: there out there to cover um. You know that, and

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Speaker 1: that's the main priority. You know. Obviously, if you don't

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Speaker 1: get the punt off, then there's no coverage to the punt.

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Speaker 1: So you know, when it comes to like stressing it

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Speaker 1: and us anytime you know you're getting forced and rushing there,

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Speaker 1: you have to stay in and protected just to you know,

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Speaker 1: guy go on or quick setting is the word I use.

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Speaker 1: UM where you're like flashing and going and you're suspect

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Speaker 1: there's a mental clock part of it as well. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna stand back there in block for force

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Speaker 1: And would I be accurate to say what we saw

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Speaker 1: like forcers that sort of something totally separate discussion. That's

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Speaker 1: My next question, Chris Ryan fall By Bob Susan, Hey, Ken,

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Speaker 1: how are you good? Chris? How we're doing good? Um?

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Speaker 1: A lot of times after games like that, we'll hear

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Speaker 1: you when Bill? You know, when Bill says that not

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Speaker 1: So I think it starts by looking yourself in the

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Speaker 1: did I not do that I've normally done throughout this week.

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Speaker 1: If there was a case of that, UM, and just

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Speaker 1: what I'm coaching and understand they can execute it. You know,

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Speaker 1: the plays, and you gotta put them in a position

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Speaker 1: their job. Thanks, that's sure. Next question, Bob, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: camp Bob, appreciate your time today. UM. Question about kickoffs,

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Speaker 1: I think in Jake's first two years, if memory serves,

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Speaker 1: kind of how to show up from the game. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thanks well, And last question of the Evans are Hey camp,

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Speaker 1: thanks for doing this, Oh bro, I wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: So if you ever break down a punt team and protection,

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Speaker 1: So it's not just hey, this every single time. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot more to it, you know, with the communication

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