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Speaker 1: the best way to say it. He's a pro. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He stepped in right away, took a liking to special teams. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and and has got He's gonna play phases for us.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna play a good amount of reps each game

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Speaker 1: and depending on how much he plays offensively and in

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Speaker 1: in in their playing all kind of counter off that.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, he's he can play four phases. He's a stud.

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Speaker 1: He's a really good player, has all the tools. He

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Speaker 1: cares about it. Uh, it's important to him. And like

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Speaker 1: I said, we're excited to have him going down. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got the toughness. That's the biggest thing he has.

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Speaker 1: The toughness, the strength, the speed, it's all built into

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Speaker 1: one and then and then and then the ability to

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Speaker 1: to do it from the from the offensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball, from the tight end position is kind of unique.

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Speaker 1: To be able to go down and make tackles and

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Speaker 1: and be a physical present. So uh, like I said,

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Speaker 1: it was a great, a great pick for us. I

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Speaker 1: know he's done a good job off until but for me,

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Speaker 1: he's been fantastic a few different things throughout the preseason

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Speaker 1: with the if you decided how you want to kind

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Speaker 1: of handle week to week, how the other team approaches decision. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's something we've talked about all off season

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Speaker 1: kind of what it looked like and what we'd see

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Speaker 1: with Ags. Obviously we want the ball in his hands,

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Speaker 1: So we'd love uh to play traditional ball where you

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Speaker 1: just go down and get some normal kickoffs, but we

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Speaker 1: have to expect some of those alternative kicks and squibs

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Speaker 1: and some of those other things. And uh, there wasn't

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Speaker 1: a ton of that. You know, there was only one

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Speaker 1: fair catch in the preseason. Maybe that'll be up more.

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Speaker 1: We'll be a big part of what we do. Now

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Speaker 1: that's not what we do. We we'd love to play

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Speaker 1: normal ball, but there may be a situation what we

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Speaker 1: do do. He's the best, you know, he he's been

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Speaker 1: a leader before he had to see on his chest,

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Speaker 1: you know, not now it's official, but he's been doing

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Speaker 1: that stuff, you know. And and I would say he's

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Speaker 1: been a huge leader in our room in special teams,

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Speaker 1: leading those guys not only by example, but by by

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Speaker 1: leading these guys by encouragement. And and and and and

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Speaker 1: doing all the right things at all times. He's done

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Speaker 1: that with the team. I would even give him credit

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Speaker 1: of being one of our best team leaders, not just

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Speaker 1: special teams. The way you kick off or it's just

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we don't know what's gonna happen,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, you, I mean, I think nobody was

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Speaker 1: showing their cards in in in preseason. We may see

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Speaker 1: some more stuff this, you know, this week, some different

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Speaker 1: wrinkles and we'll have some wrinkles you know, well we

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Speaker 1: see it this week. Who knows, Uh, but we we're

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Speaker 1: gonna definitely have some answers and some different wrinkles that

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Speaker 1: we can throw in. Uh. It is maybe an effect

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Speaker 1: if somebody is fair catching a bunch. You know, we

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Speaker 1: want to play ball, We want to cover kicks. We

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Speaker 1: have a big advantage we feel in in in kickoff coverage.

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Speaker 1: We have a great group. You know, we got a

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Speaker 1: really good group wants to cover kicks, wants to set

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll want to cover kicks the best we can.

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Speaker 1: If we have to do alternative kicks to encourage or

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Speaker 1: discourage the you know, the lack of fair catch, then

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Speaker 1: then we will do that. I think special he's great.

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Speaker 1: He was one of the best in in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League and I think second or third and in

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Speaker 1: special teams tackle. So he's a really good uh pick

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Speaker 1: up at the end of training camp. Uh, he came

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Speaker 1: in right away fit in. UH cares about special teams.

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Speaker 1: He's big, strong, and he can run. So he does

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Speaker 1: really good and he's a he's a big part of

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Speaker 1: what we do. And uh, you know, he's a he

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Speaker 1: does a good job at linebacker, but he is a

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Speaker 1: fantastic special teamer. Uh. You know, he's one of the

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Speaker 1: better in the league. Yeah, Claybrooks has done a really

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Speaker 1: and it is tough to you know, tough to not

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Speaker 1: Jones has really stepped up. D T can do it.

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Speaker 1: We have you know, we have a bunch of guys

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Speaker 1: we may have in the rotation as well. The potential

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Speaker 1: do it the best. On Sunday on different to these

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Speaker 1: how can I do a better job of coaching him,

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Speaker 1: not only him, but across the group, you know, across

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Speaker 1: the whole team of He's been through many talented special

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Speaker 1: teams coordinators and so he's a smart guy that I

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Speaker 1: can learn from a ton, not only on the kicking game,

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Speaker 1: but across the how you treat the players and what

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Speaker 1: are things you did and what you know, what did

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Speaker 1: Joe D do for him back in the day, uh

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Speaker 1: in Denver and all those little details of that I

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Speaker 1: could pick up on. I always pick those guys brand,

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Speaker 1: especially Brandon, who's as smart as he is. That's probably

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Speaker 1: an advantage. You know, it's more true kicks. I would

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Speaker 1: say it's more true kicks. You don't have the win factor,

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Speaker 1: you know in some of these stadiums that you know,

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Speaker 1: it blows pretty good. It definitely can affect the kicking game,

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Speaker 1: not only on the different sides of the field you're

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Speaker 1: kicking into on field goals, but kickoffs it's a bigger

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Speaker 1: deal too. So I think it's just more of a

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Speaker 1: true game you're gonna see natural balls kicked and and

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Speaker 1: you can kick their your best ball, uh you know

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Speaker 1: whatever that yard line is. Oh, definitely, yeah, definitely. I

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Speaker 1: mean I think there's some guys that so, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially kickers, they would probably prefer to be on grass.

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Speaker 1: So that definitely is a factor. But I think ultimately

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Speaker 1: when it's indoors, uh, you know, you got turf, it's

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Speaker 1: a set you know, set yard lines on our on

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Speaker 1: our field goal distances that will be very somewhere hey

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Speaker 1: else appreciate it.