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Speaker 1: All right, Stacy, Thanks Cam, good to see you again.

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Speaker 1: How's your off season been you your quite a quote

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Speaker 1: off season. Yeah, it's been good, Bob, it's been good.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm just glad to be back out there

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Speaker 1: But it's been a good off season, you know, ready

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Speaker 1: deep dive in the last season, what what did you

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Speaker 1: learn about the unit? I know there's that old expression

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Speaker 1: and coaching in sports that's never as good as it seems,

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Speaker 1: never as bad as it seems. And you guys have

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Speaker 1: been at the top of the league in special teams.

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Speaker 1: Last year was a bit you know, there were some

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Speaker 1: disappointing times. But what did you learn when you had

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Speaker 1: a chance to really do a deep dive? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: any chance you get to go back and actually review everything, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, from start to finish, you know, and you're

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Speaker 1: actually coming back and you're actually watching whether it was

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Speaker 1: spring ball and OTAs last year. Starting at that point,

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Speaker 1: I think you always have to go back to the

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Speaker 1: very beginning. What did you do well? Um? What did

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Speaker 1: you improve him? You know, I think that goes back

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Speaker 1: to we've got to be the fundamentals. Um. I know

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Speaker 1: I say that a lot, but that's truly the answer.

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Speaker 1: If your fundamentals are good and your techniques are good,

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Speaker 1: that handles you know, your issues or anything that shows up.

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Speaker 1: So we just got to really stressed that. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've been definitely going to be harping on that's the

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Speaker 1: fundamentals of techniques and doing those consistently, I would say,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's the thing. Consistently doing them day in

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Speaker 1: day out on the practice field, you know, getting this stuff,

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Speaker 1: making sure you're ready to go, and then carry over

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Speaker 1: to the games on top of fundamentals, you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: looking to make more plays, perhaps in the return game.

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Speaker 1: And you guys drafted a young man who was one

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Speaker 1: of the best in college football not only last year

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Speaker 1: but really in recent memory. And Marcus Jones. How closely

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Speaker 1: did you evaluate him during the scouting process? What excites

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Speaker 1: You know, we try to watch any guy that catches

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Speaker 1: they help us to have a chance. You know the

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Speaker 1: difference thing for coming from college to pro is you know,

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Speaker 1: we gotta learn to field the ball, the weather, the wind,

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Speaker 1: the NFL punt, just to hang time in general. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know, changing directions. So you know, obviously college is

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Speaker 1: thank you, Bob. My next question Andrew killing him. Hey, Cam,

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Speaker 1: You know, Jake. You know, it's definitely been working hard

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Speaker 1: really excited to have him out there. You know. Obviously

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Speaker 1: saying how much he actually means to us, not only

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Speaker 1: me as a coach, but it's our locker room as well. Cam,

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