1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: How was planning around Jamie this past week given injury 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: that he had. Uh, I mean, anytime you have to 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 1: deal with those things, you just gotta be smart, you know, 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: and communication is key. So we talked every day about 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: how he was feeling, and we just kind of just 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: went from there. 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 2: You know, it's you always gotta be this. 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: Time of year, you know, in the back end of 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: the season. It's got a lot of reps in that leg, 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: and you just gotta be smart. He's you know, getting 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: a little tender. So we're just trying to handle it 12 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: the best way we both saw it fit. 13 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 3: In the training stand, a long punt return, what do 14 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 3: you see when you when you see that, you say 15 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 3: it's the punt slow, or you say, hey, the tackling 16 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 3: was bad. 17 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: It was all of that, right, So I mean, you 18 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: get you get a punt with no hangar distance against 19 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: probably one of the best punt returners in the league. 20 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: I want to say he was ranked third or fourth 21 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: going in, you know, average almost fifteen yards of return. 22 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: So we talked about how we wanted to contain him, 23 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: and we just didn't execute. 24 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: You know, Jamie didn't have a great bunt. 25 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: He'll be the first one to tell you, uh, and 26 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: then we didn't tackle very well in space. You know, 27 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: our best, our best five guys mistackles, you know. So 28 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: I mean against that guy, that style of returner, you 29 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: gotta make tackles in space or he's gonna carve you up. 30 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: And you know he's been carving people up all year, 31 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: so you know, as the first big one, we're giving 32 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: up all year. 33 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 2: But again, you got to be able to execute under 34 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 2: pressure when it's time. So that's just what it is. 35 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 3: You're sitting there raving about him. 36 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 4: It makes me think like the entire league had a 37 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 4: shot to claim that guy, right he was he was 38 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 4: cut at the end. Are you are you surprised? You know, 39 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 4: you think about that in retrospect that teams don't want 40 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 4: to obviously use that spot on just the returner, right. 41 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: I mean it's the young players. I say this all 42 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: the time, like, you know, young players make mistakes and 43 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: they got to grow in this leg, you know. And 44 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: then and he's he's a little guy, you know, so 45 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: he's five eighties, one hundred and seventy pounds, and you know, 46 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: personnel people are not salvating all over themselves to you know, 47 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: get a little guy like that. 48 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: But those are the guys that'll get you. You know, 49 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 2: we're in the serengetti, you. 50 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: Know, that's it ain't the big lines and they'll get 51 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: you to but them little dudes will get you too, right, 52 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: So you got to you gotta be alert for the 53 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: black Mama in the tree, you know. So, I mean, 54 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: it's just that's just what it is, you know. But 55 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: he's a good player, and you're right, everybody did have 56 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: a chance. It's just you know, they grow up, they 57 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: hit the stride and you know, some synergy between him 58 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: and their unit, and he's doing a good job. 59 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 5: Does Mason not have a good kickoff Lake? Because it 60 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 5: seemed everything is really short. 61 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: You know, it's the first time he's kicked off in 62 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: the wall and uh, you know, going in certain directions, 63 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: it might not look like it, but going in certain 64 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: directions and wind was blown a little bit. So you know, 65 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: it's Mason Crosby twenty three years old. No, he's not, 66 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: you know, he's thirty eight years old. Whatever he is. 67 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: You know, he's he's in his seventeenth year in the league, 68 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: you know. So, I mean, that's that's. 69 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 2: What it is, you know. I'm sure John Elway. 70 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: When he was you know, twenty three, he could throw 71 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: up further you know when he was forty, you know, 72 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: So I mean it's just over time you lose power, 73 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: you know, you do some of that stuff. But he's 74 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: still definitely serviceable and he did a really good job 75 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: for us every day. 76 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 5: What was that like get you know, getting to the 77 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 5: point where you had Mason here last week, because when 78 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 5: we had talked to you, you were still thinking about, 79 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 5: you know, what options you would have, but then Games 80 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 5: essentially told us, look, it's going to be caved, right. 81 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: What was that like? 82 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 5: And you know, when you have a veteran, what do 83 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 5: you focus on when you get. 84 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: Him in here? Just the timing, just him and the operation, 85 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 2: just making it. 86 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: You know those guys, you know, when you get a 87 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: veteran kicker, guys that has ten plus years in this league, 88 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: you know, really seven plus, they know exactly. 89 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 2: What they want to do and how they want to 90 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: do it. 91 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: So now it's just a matter of getting him in 92 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: here with the snapper and the holder and telling them, hey, look, 93 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: this is how I liked the ball, this is how 94 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: I want it. Okay, if it's if we're in the wind, 95 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: if we're in the you know, we're outside and we're 96 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: playing the winning conditions. I want you to lean it 97 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: this way versus this kind of win. I want you 98 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: to lean it this way versus you know, it's just 99 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: the small details of the job and and they just 100 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: get comfortable with each other and that, you know, and 101 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: that just takes that takes some time. You know, it 102 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: just doesn't happen, you know, through eight reps, right, they 103 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: got to get it here and kind of work through 104 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: it and they don't have to kick a ton of balls, 105 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: but you still got to work the operations where they 106 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: all feel comfortable with it. 107 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 2: Want to kick offs. 108 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 4: Why have you guys gotten to the point where like returns, 109 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 4: where you're just not not going to return them. 110 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's all analytical, you know, it's it's 111 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: all kind of based upon analytics. So you know, if 112 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: we get a ball that's out you know past a 113 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: certain point, we'll return it. But if it's you know, 114 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: if it's deep, if it's one, two, three yards deep 115 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 1: at the goal line, you know, we'll make other decisions. 116 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: But you know, it's just more based on analytics. 117 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 3: What do you think of that? 118 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 4: I mean, that's Basically, you're basically saying that, you know, 119 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 4: you're not kickoffs are dead unless it's you know, a 120 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 4: short kick, not. 121 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: Not necessarily, uh in some situations where we will return, 122 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: you know, but for the most part, that's kind of 123 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: our rule. 124 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 4: Though it's that hard for you, Is that hard like 125 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,799 Speaker 4: to come to that realization 126 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: Life in a big city, That's what it is.