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Speaker 1: Everybody afternoon. Good. Sometimes they're the games away unfolds with

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Speaker 1: what's going on offensively and defensively, where special teams aren't

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Speaker 1: going to have as great of an impact potentially. Was

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Speaker 1: last night one of those games? And how do you

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Speaker 1: do you just focus all the corporage units in that

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Speaker 1: it was one of those games where just a great

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Speaker 1: football game. And I think just a normal a normal play,

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Speaker 1: you know, just a normal punt is always potentially a

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Speaker 1: big factor. And I thought our guys, you know, covering

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Speaker 1: did a good job of turning the field over. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what our net was a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: but it felt like we were running and you know,

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Speaker 1: competing and turning the field. Um, but the kickoff, kickoff

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Speaker 1: a turn was kind of negated, just the touchbacks. But

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Speaker 1: it feels like every play, no matter if it's fourth

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Speaker 1: and eight with two and a half, you know, five

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Speaker 1: minutes from the second quarters, it feels like a big play. So, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what a game. The game. There was a punt from

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Speaker 1: your own six for anger. I want to see it's

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Speaker 1: probably it puts in, but you directually put us in

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Speaker 1: towards CJ's side yep, and then the holding called and

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Speaker 1: finus five return. It'd be like an end of seventy.

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Speaker 1: Can you just kind of run through that, it's for

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Speaker 1: real decision. Yeah. We worked on backed up punts quite

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Speaker 1: a bit and where we're inside the five because it

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Speaker 1: you know, we wanted to punt it to the right,

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Speaker 1: and we wanted to put CJ over there to the right,

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Speaker 1: and we had a game plan for Brian how we

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Speaker 1: wanted him to punt it. And Brian had a great game.

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Speaker 1: I mean he nailed it with the distance, direction, hang time,

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Speaker 1: and he gave CJ a chance. Then the rest of

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Speaker 1: the gays inside. It just felt like a good tidal

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Speaker 1: wave of bodies coming downhill and it feels good to

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Speaker 1: watch the guy who's running because you can see it.

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Speaker 1: But but better than that, you can like feel it

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Speaker 1: a lot of times on the side and you can

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Speaker 1: feel the speed in the in the competitiveness, and that

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Speaker 1: one felt good and we turned the field over pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I think it was closer to the end of the

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Speaker 1: second quarter on that one, which sometimes those moments you know,

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Speaker 1: to back the other off fense up, especially when it's

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Speaker 1: maybe later in the half of the game, gives them

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Speaker 1: a little longer feel. That's that's our job, Yeah, trying

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Speaker 1: to punch. How do you like the sit and say

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Speaker 1: this is for you, this is for you. Said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a good question, and actually talk to coach McCarthy

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Speaker 1: about that this morning. We kind of call Cedric our

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Speaker 1: utility man on punt return where he can come inside

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Speaker 1: and rush hold up, go outside and block the gunners,

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Speaker 1: or return punts. CD of courses just to return punts,

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Speaker 1: but to decide which one is the one who's actually

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Speaker 1: returning punts. To be honest with you, sometimes I let

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Speaker 1: them choose. I mean, they're they're great buddies. They got

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Speaker 1: each other. Who wants it? Um, you know, maybe CD's

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Speaker 1: got a big load coming up on offense on this

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Speaker 1: next series, so settle take it or vice versa. So um. Really,

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Speaker 1: most of the time I let those guys kind of

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Speaker 1: they want to do. To be honest with you, last

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Speaker 1: they came after one. Um we did. Okay, there's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of an error that you know, we'll take

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Speaker 1: care of on Thursday for sure. Did you go after

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Speaker 1: nail pump today just kind of stopped you or do that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean we we mixed it up pretty good. I

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Speaker 1: think I think most punts there's an element of pressure,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's bringing one or bringing eight sometimes

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Speaker 1: everything in between. So, um, not to give away too much,

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Speaker 1: I think every punt return has most of the times

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Speaker 1: some element of between one or eight coming. Sorry to

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Speaker 1: had a punk coming out of their end zone and Cedric,

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Speaker 1: situation where they made that call or is there something

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I told said and c Ad,

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Speaker 1: I said, hey, this is the play call, and um,

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Speaker 1: Were covered with the eight inside and whoever is back there,

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Speaker 1: this is the call and give it a run. Man.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of it's really cool to be able to

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Speaker 1: have two guys that can do that, because I haven't

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Speaker 1: had much experience with a buddy system at punt returner.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's I think it's a good tactical

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Speaker 1: way to use two really good guys. You said a

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Speaker 1: little more of an anger. How how you feel he

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Speaker 1: he hadn't had a lot of puns think of us

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Speaker 1: first a couple of weeks, but not just last night.

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Speaker 1: How has he been performing overall? He's been how standing?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I go back ten years ago when he

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Speaker 1: came out for the draft. I worked him out, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I've always thought he's been just a really prolific

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Speaker 1: punter with the operation is really good. His ability to

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Speaker 1: I think one of the best things he did yesterday

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Speaker 1: he really fed our gunners to the direction that we

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Speaker 1: asked him to punt it. I mean, we've been working

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Speaker 1: And I thought he had a fantastic game last night.

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Speaker 1: Really really proud of him. And he's a really hard

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Speaker 1: working He's doing a really good job holding too, which

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Speaker 1: This is more maybe a philosophical question late in the game.

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Speaker 1: You see it the Green Bay San Francisco game, playing

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Speaker 1: the game and kicking off, do you ever does it

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Speaker 1: always just say touchback is always the operative way to

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Speaker 1: one making them burn some clock and cover a kick. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was that was a Sunday night game, right, so

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Speaker 1: And I think there are situations where you say, hey,

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Speaker 1: they had a really good quarterback. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: kick off the ball in play and you tackle them,

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Speaker 1: let's just say the twenty five equivalent of a touchback,

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Speaker 1: you know, you burn off probably six or seven more seconds,

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Speaker 1: which could be the difference in the game. They had

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Speaker 1: no timeouts, So there has been situations in my past

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Speaker 1: Time is very much of the essence, and so you

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Speaker 1: up field position. We have one a couple of years

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Speaker 1: the game. So there are situations. Very good observation by

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Speaker 1: you because when that game was happening and in that situation,

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Speaker 1: I said, this would be an opportunity to put it

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Speaker 1: in play to at worst just burn some clock. C Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he kind of got his hamstring on that kickoff. We

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Speaker 1: We got um is He muk Oama in there, so

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Speaker 1: we got some young guys, some reps just because we

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Speaker 1: we just felt like, let's not push it because there

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Speaker 1: was actually a lot of running in the game. We

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Speaker 1: kicked off seven times, even though touchbacks is still a

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Speaker 1: lot of running. We punted four, We had six punt returns,

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Speaker 1: so there was there's a lot of running for those guys,

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Speaker 1: and the hamstrings were starting to be felt by a

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Speaker 1: lot of the high speed runners. So short week and

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Speaker 1: they'll be pros and they'll be ready to go on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: What touchas um just letting Greg swing. To be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, I think last week keeping him in just

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Speaker 1: him pull some other kickoffs back to maybe place him

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Speaker 1: be way overthinking it. But going into the Charger game,

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Speaker 1: I said, let's just let him swing at it. Don't

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Speaker 1: yard line directional. He kicked it good against the charge.

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Speaker 1: I said, let's stay with the same, you know, mindset,

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Speaker 1: whether it has anything to do with anything or not.

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Speaker 1: Just let him swing at it. And he hit him good,

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Speaker 1: so we just let him hit a good all right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, all right, thanks, thanks,