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Speaker 1: Try and beat the rain here. Hopefully everybody's staying warm.

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Speaker 1: U take questions, what's just been we've been like for you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: obviously a change, uh in terms of scheduling, in terms

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Speaker 1: of just you know, obviously everything that's been been going on.

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Speaker 1: But you know, our jobs as coaches is to adapt

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Speaker 1: and uh obviously move on. You know, we have to

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Speaker 1: get ready to play a game here very soon against

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Speaker 1: really get a bonent in the Green Bay Packers, so challenging,

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Speaker 1: but uh, that's our job to rise to the challenge.

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Speaker 1: We'll just use the gami having in Chicago. I know

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Speaker 1: it was a windy day, but yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: it's nothing, nothing necessarily that we uh, you know, didn't

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Speaker 1: foresee the weather being an issue. Obviously going into Chicago,

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Speaker 1: you're always ready for that. And then you know, we

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Speaker 1: we had trained in weather that was actually going to

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Speaker 1: be similar. But the nature is of it is we

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Speaker 1: got to execute better. Part of windy days controls your

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Speaker 1: drop a little bit more so in terms of punting,

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Speaker 1: you know, holding onto the ball a little bit longer.

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Speaker 1: That would allow you to hit more pure of contact

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Speaker 1: to make sure that miss hit Towards the end of

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Speaker 1: the game, doesn't happen. And then on kickoff, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously when the conditions are windy and it's cold and

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Speaker 1: that ball is not gonna fly more. What's more intentional

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Speaker 1: has got to be hitting the sweet spot of the football.

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Speaker 1: And I know Jamie wants to be better. We got

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Speaker 1: to be better and that's something that we will moving forward.

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Speaker 1: It's good Matt a different head coach. Is there a

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Speaker 1: demand for you know, significance. I guess significant's probably not

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Speaker 1: right where but like, you know, a decent amount of

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Speaker 1: changes or is it just like, hey, we're on short

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Speaker 1: time here, let's kind of stick to what we've been doing,

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Speaker 1: you know from that standpoint. You know, our special team system,

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Speaker 1: you know, has been in place and every week you

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Speaker 1: always are adding different wrinkles. So that's always ever evolving.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think the nature of it is,

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Speaker 1: you know, regardless of the change or not, uh, the

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Speaker 1: players have to be confident in the system that they're running.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of that deals with going into this

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Speaker 1: next week with the fundamentals, the technique, the base schemes

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Speaker 1: of what we've done in the past. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we we've had success on special teams, had some blemishes

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Speaker 1: here and there across a couple of games. But you know,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, I'm happy with where

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Speaker 1: our guys are at, you know, and I think we

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Speaker 1: obviously got to continue to work and continue to play

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Speaker 1: consistent football. And again big challenge this week against the Packers.

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Speaker 1: What happened a way? Uh, you know, I think he

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Speaker 1: kicked really well during the game. You know, he kicked

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Speaker 1: really well yesterday as well. So excited to see him

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Speaker 1: continue with more more reps, you know that comfort with

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Speaker 1: Jamie and Casey. But he's excited. You know, he's a

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Speaker 1: guy that obviously, as a true pro, was you know,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily waiting for his opportunity, but ready for his

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Speaker 1: opportunity when it presented itself. And I felt like he

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Speaker 1: took advantage of that. Did he ever heard on that tackle?

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Speaker 1: And alast No, I mean he like the nature of

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Speaker 1: it is like he he got in on a tackle,

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Speaker 1: but he was fine. I'm sorry. I mean, you get

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Speaker 1: there there was like a big custom wind right there

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Speaker 1: that you just saw that whole thing blow over all, right,

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Speaker 1: But no, you know, he kicked really well yesterday. Uh,

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we don't necessarily always want a

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Speaker 1: kicker getting active in on the tackles. But you know

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Speaker 1: who is who is a guy that you know doesn't

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Speaker 1: shy away from anything. The toughness of any football player

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Speaker 1: is embodied by him, regardless of the position that he plays.

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Speaker 1: To the city. Yep, yeah, Like what's what's your thought

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Speaker 1: presence on that? Like when do you pick and choose?

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Speaker 1: Like you don't do that all the time? Like that? Why?

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Speaker 1: And yeah? So yesterday was obviously a windy day, projected

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Speaker 1: weather comes Sunday is gonna call for some wind. You know,

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Speaker 1: could that die down? Absolutely, But on the two days

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Speaker 1: that he's projected a kicking, felt that it would be

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Speaker 1: a good idea for him to kick in the stadium.

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Speaker 1: And I know he in his career, he's always wanted

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Speaker 1: based off of the way the bleachers are set. And

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Speaker 1: every stadium is unique in that sense. You know, realistically,

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Speaker 1: you'd love to kick in every stadium before you actually

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Speaker 1: kick in it. But that's where having a veteran like

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Speaker 1: Kho who is kicked in stadiums across the league helps.

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Speaker 1: But obviously this being our home turf, he wants to

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Speaker 1: make sure that he treats it like his home turf,

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Speaker 1: and any opportunity we get to make him feel comfortable

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Speaker 1: in that stadium, we will. We talked take a couple

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Speaker 1: I don't know, competent. He wouldn't need to go on

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Speaker 1: IR again, did he get birth? He obviously didn't. I

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Speaker 1: ar hit before last game. So what happened? Yeah, to

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Speaker 1: ask calf on that UH with injuries, you know, the

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Speaker 1: fact of the matter is he was put on I R.

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Speaker 1: I know Graham as a competitor did not want that,

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Speaker 1: and you know his confidence going into this week was high.

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Speaker 1: But again can't speak to any of the injuries on that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ben sALS, what what did you like about him? I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously you bring in another kicker to have here. Is

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Speaker 1: it just a matter of liking his talent and seeing

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Speaker 1: what he has? Yeah? So coming out in the UH

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Speaker 1: this draft class, like we always evaluate every specialist coming

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Speaker 1: out and he was one of the ones that you know,

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Speaker 1: we had ranked pretty high. So get an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: work with him at some point, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: is important. You know, I think he's a young and

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Speaker 1: up and coming kicker. The talent is certainly there, and

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Speaker 1: him obviously kicking in weather conditions is really telling to

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Speaker 1: the success that he could have into this league. Obviously

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Speaker 1: kicking in Pittsburgh, in an NFL stadium when the weather

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Speaker 1: is cold, when the wind wind is prevalent, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think makes his value a lot higher. So excited

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Speaker 1: to work with him, see see where he's at. I

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Speaker 1: know it's really new here for him and for us

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Speaker 1: with him, but you know, he's a guy that you know,

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Speaker 1: we've obviously identified early on in the draft process that

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Speaker 1: were like, this guy has a chance to kick in

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Speaker 1: this league. So when an opportunity presents itself, would like

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