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Speaker 1: We think of this, Uh, Cowboys special teams unit. Bill

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Speaker 1: had some nice things to say about the coaching staff there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they do a really good job. I think Coach Bones

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Speaker 1: has had a lot of success in this league for

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Speaker 1: a long time, and he's obviously left his mark on

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Speaker 1: their unit. The way they play, they're very aggressive. Um,

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Speaker 1: they've got good specialists and they've got some good core

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Speaker 1: players and good returners. So I think for us, this

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Speaker 1: game is going to be really about playing alert. I

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Speaker 1: think anytime you play a unit that Coach Bones coaches,

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Speaker 1: you got to be on your p's and ques just

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Speaker 1: playing the game alert, not playing the game on your heels,

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Speaker 1: trying to be aggressive and go out and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: initiate things instead of being reactive. So it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: up to us to really do a good job of

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Speaker 1: that this week, do a good job of communication with

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Speaker 1: our checks um, and just be ready situationally as the

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Speaker 1: game plays itself out A team is that well. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Coach Owns has probably run more fakes than any other

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Speaker 1: special teams coordinator in this league over the course of

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Speaker 1: his coaching career. They haven't run any this year, but

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Speaker 1: last year they had three that they ran, so um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's just gonna depend on how

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Speaker 1: the game is going, how it declares itself, what the

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Speaker 1: situation is, where the ball is. But I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you look at coach bones is past, he's got some

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Speaker 1: of the most creative fakes I've seen since I've been

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Speaker 1: playing football, and he's executed a lot of them, so

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Speaker 1: we know he's got a history of that. Obviously, Cody

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Speaker 1: played for him for a while, so he's got some

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Speaker 1: familiarity with them. So again, like I said, it's just

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Speaker 1: about us playing aware. Good chance to talk to Gunner

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Speaker 1: earlier this week, and he said that when he knows

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Speaker 1: been kicked and he turns his brain off and it

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Speaker 1: just gets after it, what is he like to one

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Speaker 1: defend for or to just to know where he's going? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Gunner has a great deal of confidence,

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Speaker 1: as he should. I think anyone who's gonna succeed in

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Speaker 1: this league as a returner has to be confident in

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, the confident what their abilities are, know

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Speaker 1: who they are as a returner, and play to that.

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Speaker 1: And I think he does that as well as anyone.

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Speaker 1: He understands who he is, He understands what we want

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Speaker 1: to do schematically, and he's got a great feel for

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Speaker 1: how to set up his blocks, and he hit the

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Speaker 1: ball north and south. He doesn't waste time, you know,

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Speaker 1: running around just beating up grass. He gets downhill and

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Speaker 1: he knows, you know, what we're trying to do, and

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Speaker 1: he does it well. So I think he when you're

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Speaker 1: playing against a guy like that, it's dangerous, right because

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have any fear. He's gonna take chances, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be aggressive, and he puts pressure on the coverage team.

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Speaker 1: So for us blocking for him, it's just important that

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Speaker 1: we give him a chance, give him a chance to

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Speaker 1: get the thing started. He's gonna make some guys missed

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Speaker 1: with his talent, his shorter area quickness, and hopefully, you know,

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Speaker 1: you keep it's kind of hammer and hammer and hammering,

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Speaker 1: and eventually one of these hopefully breaks. So we just

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Speaker 1: got to keep doing a good job of keeping them

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Speaker 1: clean back there, letting him get started, letting him use

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Speaker 1: his natural gifts, his quickness, his aggression, his desire to

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Speaker 1: make a play, and we'll see where it gets us.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Gunner also talked to us about how you guys

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Speaker 1: are not prepared for the specific fake that Houston tried

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Speaker 1: to run him last week. But obviously you made the

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Speaker 1: check Justine's were done. Is the fact that you're coming

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Speaker 1: off an experience like that, you know, just service all

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Speaker 1: the evidence you need that. Hey, we need to be

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Speaker 1: prepared Sunday, and we can't leave no question. I think, Look,

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Speaker 1: we have basic rules that are in play for fakes.

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Speaker 1: It's up to us to get everybody lined up. Cody

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Speaker 1: and I have to communicate everything that's going on, and

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Speaker 1: we have to do it quickly, and then from there

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Speaker 1: it's just about playing our rules. And I think you know,

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Speaker 1: Sunday was a prime example of that. Not that Frank

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Speaker 1: had really shown much the gimmick stuff, but he decided

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Speaker 1: to run something like that against us on Sunday. I

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Speaker 1: thought our guys did a good job of getting lined

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Speaker 1: just a little stuff like that, it's going to be important,

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Speaker 1: and when teams see that on tape, hopefully they see

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Speaker 1: just about us executing. So it starts with communication, which

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Speaker 1: I think we do a good job of and then

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Speaker 1: our preparation cam has a good plan for us when

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Speaker 1: we when we see teams that run fakes. And then

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Speaker 1: from there it's about execution, and I think we did

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Speaker 1: a good job of Sunday executing. There's obviously been some

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Speaker 1: like this team sort of continues to respond just you know,

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Speaker 1: throw up? This first is five weeks there. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I think the guys have done a good

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Speaker 1: job of responding. Obviously, we've had some adversity early on

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Speaker 1: this year. We've lost a couple of close games that

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Speaker 1: you know, we wish had gone our way. But you

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Speaker 1: know the thing in this league, you just can't feel

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Speaker 1: sorry for yourself. The good teams keep on coming every week.

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Speaker 1: Teams are good every week, teams are competitive, and if

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Speaker 1: you feel sorry for yourself, it's be a very long year.

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Speaker 1: And I think our guys have stayed positive, They've stayed

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Speaker 1: and that that energy needs to it needs to stay up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a marathon that we're running. There's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot that happens good and bad over

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Speaker 1: we've got a pretty mature group. Even our young players

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Speaker 1: this early adversity. It's got to keep our heads down

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Speaker 1: and stay positive and stick to our formula. League league

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Speaker 1: wide feel gould are being made. Why do you think

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Speaker 1: there are so many point point afters being missed? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's tough to say. Um, that's tough to say.

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Speaker 1: I think this is what the league wanted though when

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Speaker 1: they moved it back right, They didn't just wanted to

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Speaker 1: be a gimme. Um, they're not gimmes anymore, not that

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Speaker 1: they ever were. But it's tough to say. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: have to ask one of our our experts, Nick or somebody.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. How important is it for the team

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Speaker 1: to re establish itself at home and get a win

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Speaker 1: that's a great question. I think that's very very important.

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Speaker 1: I think any team in this league, when you get

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Speaker 1: a chance to play at home and you have home

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Speaker 1: fill advantage with the crowd that we have here, you

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Speaker 1: have to make a count. You only get so many

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Speaker 1: played well here at home this year. It's no mystery

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Speaker 1: out with a lot of energy, to feed off the

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Speaker 1: have been, execute better early on, and try to play

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Speaker 1: going our way. I think for a long time here

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Speaker 1: that's been an advantage for us. It hasn't been this season,

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Speaker 1: but I'm off of that we can kind of get

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Speaker 1: again that's up to us as players. We've got to

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Speaker 1: execute better, i'd say, early on in the games, to

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Speaker 1: the crowd in it, keep the energy on our side,

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Speaker 1: and then try to take advantage of you know, being

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Speaker 1: here in Foxboro. Now, you guys obviously have a great

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Speaker 1: special teams, you know, And I'm just wondering, is there

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Speaker 1: do you want to force the envelope with block punt's,

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Speaker 1: big return stuff like that, or do you kind of

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Speaker 1: feel like those things have to come to you and

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Speaker 1: just let them come naturally. You know, that's a good question.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a thin line between pressing to try

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Speaker 1: from what you want to do schematically and then just

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Speaker 1: you know, going out there and playing aggressively. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to press, but we do. We do

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Speaker 1: feel like it's up to our group to make a

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Speaker 1: game changing play every week, whether it's a big kick,

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Speaker 1: a block, punt, a return. We want to see that

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Speaker 1: every week. And I think for us it's just about

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Speaker 1: executing the right way with good technique, good fundamentals, and

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Speaker 1: then staying aggressive. If we do that, we know plays

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Speaker 1: run across three lanes to make a tackle on kick

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Speaker 1: off or you know, jumping out of the gap to

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Speaker 1: do this or that, that's when you get beat and

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Speaker 1: you get hurt and you give up plays. So it's

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Speaker 1: a thin line there between you know, playing with your

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Speaker 1: hair on fire and then tipping toeing down the field.

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Speaker 1: I think for us, if we do what we've been doing,

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Speaker 1: kind of like last week's staying aggressive, staying to our principles,

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Speaker 1: those plays will come. Thanks guys,