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Speaker 1: How was this I guess this campaign for you, Chris.

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Speaker 1: You're obviously you've done a lot on special teams and

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Speaker 1: at split ends.

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Speaker 2: So how have you approached it? I mean we approach

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Speaker 2: uh really every day the same, you know, attacking it

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Speaker 2: and uh being available and and doing whatever is asked.

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Speaker 2: You know, the last couple of years of my career

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Speaker 2: have been a lot of things. You know, played a

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Speaker 2: lot of roles, and uh, I've prided myself and being

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Speaker 2: able to play each of those roles well. And uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, I've been asked to do some of those

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Speaker 2: things here, whether it's on teams and and on offense

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Speaker 2: and uh having that trust uh from coaches and your teammates. Uh,

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Speaker 2: it's a good thing. And so we're attacking it the

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Speaker 2: same way and trying to be dependable.

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Speaker 3: If you're sometimes I asked to do roles that much

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Speaker 3: younger players are asked to do special teams, goals and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that. How how do you feel about, you know,

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Speaker 3: being asked to be a gunner or or who other

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Speaker 3: things like that, you know throughout the season.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you know, I actually take pride in it now.

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Speaker 2: I think that you know, there's a misconception that certain

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Speaker 2: things on the football field are more valuable than others.

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Speaker 2: And I think that with time and experience, you realize

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Speaker 2: that each of those roles are equally important and they

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Speaker 2: contribute to your success on Sunday or Monday or Thursday,

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Speaker 2: and you know, ultimately getting where your team wants to go.

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Speaker 2: And so if I can be one of those roles

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Speaker 2: that helps the team, you know, secure a victory, I'm

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Speaker 2: content being that I'd rather be in one of those

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Speaker 2: spots helping the team win than being helpless on the

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Speaker 2: sideliner at home and just watching.

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Speaker 1: So you came out of Georgia with all the measurables,

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Speaker 1: try forty six inch vert and four to three speed.

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Speaker 1: How are you a better player though today than you

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Speaker 1: were when you came.

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Speaker 4: Into the league.

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Speaker 2: I think multiple things. You know, there are so many

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Speaker 2: instances in my career where things went incredibly well and

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Speaker 2: times where things went incredibly wrong, and so many lessons

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Speaker 2: that were learned along the way on good teams, on

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Speaker 2: terrible teams, and locker rooms where guys were locked in

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Speaker 2: and they wanted to see everyone succeed, in locker rooms

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Speaker 2: where people could care less. So I think that that

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Speaker 2: wealth of knowledge has made me a better teammate. I

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Speaker 2: think that those experiences on the field have made me

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Speaker 2: a better player. They made me more decisive. I play

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Speaker 2: a lot faster now than when I did when I

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Speaker 2: was younger. You know, the body is obviously aged, but

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Speaker 2: the mind is much sharper.

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Speaker 4: You've seen George Odom's step up in CAPA guy's kind

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Speaker 4: of a core special team throughout his career and get

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Speaker 4: a shot at strong safety or at safety and with

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Speaker 4: the ones and really whole eposite of the bargain it says,

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Speaker 4: and you're willing to do whatever it takes, but it's

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Speaker 4: still a part of you that says, you put me

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Speaker 4: on a wide receiver for X amount of snacks a game,

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Speaker 4: you're going to get production from me.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I think that any any opportunity that you

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Speaker 2: step into, you want to go out there and you

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Speaker 2: want to take and you know you make no there's

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Speaker 2: no mistake about what the offense is capable of here

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Speaker 2: and being a part of that, being asked to be

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Speaker 2: a part of that is an honor and it is

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Speaker 2: something that you don't take lightly. At least I don't,

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Speaker 2: you know, knowing how short and how hard to come by.

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Speaker 2: Opportunity is in this league. But yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I have all the confidence in the world that whatever

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Speaker 2: it is that you asked me to do out there,

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Speaker 2: that we can get it done. And then also just

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Speaker 2: part of the DNA of what it is being a

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Speaker 2: forty nine er, you know, a lot of that has

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Speaker 2: resonated with the way that I've approached the game my

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Speaker 2: whole career.

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Speaker 3: You're one of three or four receivers on this team

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Speaker 3: who haven't been injured this summer, a lot of pan

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Speaker 3: string strains things like that. Does that surprise you? Is

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Speaker 3: that Do you think that that's a result of just

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Speaker 3: how hard you guys or how fast you guys go

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Speaker 3: in these practices.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that there's a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: learning curve for getting your body in the place that

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Speaker 2: it can approach practice with the same intensity every single day.

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Speaker 2: And that's part of, you know, learning how to be

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Speaker 2: a pro as a rookie. There's just a different tempo,

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Speaker 2: there's a different speed, the volume is different, the intensity

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Speaker 2: is different. So even if you were to pull back

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Speaker 2: the reps, you're still going to be getting more here

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Speaker 2: than any practice you've ever had in your life. Because

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Speaker 2: the competition is just better. It's more intense, there's more

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Speaker 2: at stake, there's more eyes, and so all of that

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Speaker 2: stress is cumulative on the body. And so some of

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Speaker 2: those guys have to learn that what that means and

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Speaker 2: learn how to get warm and stay loose and be ready.

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Speaker 2: But obviously, you know, you see some of the veteran

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Speaker 2: guys who have been through that, they understand what it

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Speaker 2: takes and they get ready early. You talk about what

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Speaker 2: it means to be a forty nine or what's different

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Speaker 2: about the culture here compared to maybe some of your

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Speaker 2: other stops.

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Speaker 4: In the NFL.

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Speaker 2: It's about ball. It's about ball, and it's about it's

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Speaker 2: about doing what's necessary to win. You know, the details

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Speaker 2: are important here, and I've always been someone who's loved

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Speaker 2: when people harp on detail. And Kyle is one of

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Speaker 2: the most detailed coaches I've been around. You know, I

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Speaker 2: can't I can't really think of many others who are

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Speaker 2: that detailed, and that attention to detail, that attention to

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Speaker 2: intensity intent is integral to putting that helmet on. And

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Speaker 2: he makes no mistake about letting people know, like, hey,

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Speaker 2: you have.

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Speaker 3: To earn it.

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Speaker 2: You earn everything here, and everything is about doing things

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Speaker 2: the right way and attacking it. And you know, that's

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Speaker 2: something that I believe into.

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Speaker 4: Look at the as we did the practice with twenty

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Speaker 4: three guys out canceled the Saints' scrimmages and so Okay,

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Speaker 4: from the outside, maybe it looks a little dire, but

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Speaker 4: the way football is practiced now as opposed to way

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Speaker 4: it was maybe you know seven eight years ago, are

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Speaker 4: things not nearly as bad as they love for you guys.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that you obviously want guys to

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Speaker 2: be healthy, and uh, you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: guys who are working through through plenty of things, some

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Speaker 2: that we know about something that we don't. And I

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Speaker 2: think that Kyle was being cautious and uh and looking

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Speaker 2: for people to continue to get work. You know, things

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Speaker 2: are modified this week, but that doesn't mean that we're

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Speaker 2: we're not going out there to get better. The intent

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Speaker 2: is still there, uh, and sometimes you just have to

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Speaker 2: shift the physicality and really hone in a little bit

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Speaker 2: more mentally, and uh, that's what we're that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: So to us, I don't think that people are panicking,

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Speaker 2: you know, if anything, it's it's a time to focus

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Speaker 2: in and make things right, because when things don't feel right,

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Speaker 2: that's when it's got to be right.

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Speaker 1: Appreciated monster hitting the super Bowl and it was you know,

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Speaker 1: you take a pride in that part of your game now,

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Speaker 1: kickoff coverage and being super physical.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think that physicality is something that I've

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Speaker 2: always tried to add and have a part of my game.

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Speaker 2: But just really being being effective and being someone who

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Speaker 2: can be counted on and in open space running down

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Speaker 2: the field. Obviously the kickoff and kickoff return is much

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Speaker 2: different this year. We're still figuring out how that looks

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Speaker 2: and how that we can you know, how we can

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Speaker 2: be most effective. But whatever game plan we come up,

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Speaker 2: I'm you know, one of the people with my first

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Speaker 2: people with my hands up saying hey, I want in there,

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Speaker 2: and I want to be at the point of attack,

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Speaker 2: you know, because I think that it's something that can

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Speaker 2: affect and change games and I want to be a

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Speaker 2: part of that.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: Thanks us.

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Speaker 2: The problem