1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. We 2 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: are sending a couple of special teamers to the Pro 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Bowl out in Las Vegas next month. We'll talk about 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: what that means for Punch or trust Way and Jeremy 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: Reeves Fresh So appreciate you coming back on a players 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: club with us. Good to be back. Season twenty twenty 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: two season is over. What will you remember most about 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: this this year? Yeah? I think, Um, Now, selfishly, I'm 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: gonna talk about the punt team, as you know, that's 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: typically what I focused on. Yeah, I think I think 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: that that Chicago game where we had been having a 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: pretty good year as a punt team, but then that 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: Chicago game when we had that turnover whenever the returner 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: muff the punt, we get the ball inside the ten, 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: we go on to win the game. Another muff punt. 16 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: Then the last game of the year, another muffpunt, and 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: then the birth of the gs NLS. Right, that bond 18 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: that I that's rights, the bond I had with the guys. 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: I just I just had had so much fun, and 20 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: that is that's part of the satisfaction and then also 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: part of just the frustration, and it feels a little 22 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: incomplete because it feels like it feels like we should 23 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: be getting ready for another game. You know, it feels 24 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: like we left something on the table. And so that 25 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: is definitely that bond that I had with our punt 26 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: team this year. Um, that was really fun to be 27 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: a part of. Speaking of those muff punts, Um, you know, 28 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: I love when I see our team take advantage of 29 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: those opportunities, and I'm I smile sometimes just knowing that 30 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: they got to give trust a little more credit because 31 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: you're doing some of that ball. It's something. It's a 32 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: spin on that ball, and and I love how they 33 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: slowed it down this past week when they showed it 34 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: and how it was coming down. I'm like to see 35 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: that's the spin. I'm telling Is that something that you 36 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: you emphasize in certain situations on the field or you're 37 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: doing that more often than we know. Yeah, So all 38 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: three of the muff punts, Um, they all took place 39 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: inside the twenty. Uh So I don't want to hit 40 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: a touchback and then you had a really dangerous returner 41 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: back there, Turpin who's going to the Pro Bowl. But 42 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 1: in general, when you're I call it in between clubs 43 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: so you're not quite going to hit your pooch punt 44 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: the end over in Australian style, but you also just 45 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: can't launch a bomb. So I kind of tilt the 46 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: nose up a little bit and I try and send 47 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: that thing way up into the air so it has 48 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: controlled distance while still gaining some ground. And so when 49 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: that thing goes all the way up and starts to 50 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: turn down, a lot of guys like Dax alex ericson, 51 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: a lot of the fellas have told me that at 52 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: some point it actually comes down almost backwards, and so 53 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: that i'd like to think I throw a little voodoo on. Yeah, 54 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, I was gonna ask ask you, 55 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: do you have different names for your punts like that? 56 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: You might want to call that when the voodoo, you know, 57 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: do you know? I will I'll call that when the 58 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: voodoo because I did. I don't have a nickname for 59 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 1: that pump. So yeah, I'm gonna call it, thank you. 60 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call that the voodoo ball. Now. So when 61 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: I'm in between clubs, it's time to bust out the voodoo. 62 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: Then I have what is called a screamer. So if 63 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: I see the returner playing me one way. I try 64 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: and hit this a low line drive like fifty sixty yard. 65 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: So I used to call the stinger, but Coach Nate 66 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: called it the screamer. I'll go with screaming. That's all right. 67 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: You got you got the screamer, you got the voodoo. Yeah, yeah, man, 68 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: we appreciate that. Yeah, appreciate you coming on the show 69 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: and joining us again. Hey, yeah, man, let's get ye 70 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: have with y'all. All right, man, Jeremy, we thank you 71 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: for joining us again on the Players Club. Absolutely special teams. Y'all. 72 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: Guys went out with a bank again, making them a 73 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: lot of plays against the Dallas Cowboys. How'd you feel 74 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: about the way you guys played? Sustending man, gangs, gang stuff, 75 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: no lame. Hey, that's that's the that's the standard though. Man, guys, 76 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: guys understand it. You know that the tone was set, 77 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: like I said on the first show after that Detroit 78 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: game that, uh, you know this ain't We got to 79 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: put a better product on the field. We can change games. 80 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: And uh, these young guys are stuffed up. Man to 81 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: the challenging some super problem, super happy before man speaking, 82 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: the young guys seeing Holmes go out there and be 83 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: right there, the right place at the right time. Man. 84 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: How big is that for him? Man? I think he's 85 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: been flashing all year long and for him to end 86 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: his season, you know, having a big play like that 87 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: that you know that changed a lot of things things 88 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: in the game. You know how big you think that 89 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: was from confidence building? Man? When you when you can 90 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: do something like that to fake the game, Um, not 91 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: for the first time, but for the second time. Yeah, 92 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: um and uh on the stage like that end of 93 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: the season. You know, that's something that you can carry 94 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: into the next year. You know that that confidence booster 95 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: of like yeah, man on that dude and the guys 96 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: from the opposite team, you know Vet like, you know, 97 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: going's over there, Vett, dude established, you know, telling them 98 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: like hey man, you do like I respect that. You know, 99 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: like that's something that he can carry into the next 100 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: year and then every year. Speaking the Pro Bowl, you'll 101 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: be playing that in a couple of weeks. You kind 102 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: of got your list together. Who's going to come out 103 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: there and be with you the Pro Bowl. I ain't 104 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: gonna lie to you. Uh, it really ain't hit me. 105 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: I still even feeled out all the information so locked in. Yeah, man, 106 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: but uh, you know when that when that time comes, 107 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, I figure i'd probably just be my dad 108 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: in all honesty, because um, I don't know how to 109 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: dinamic to know this stuff. It's the first for me, 110 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: So I don't know what's going on out there. But uh, 111 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna right now the folks just go home 112 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: and you know, talk my family, um and go, you know, 113 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: talk to these kids and tell them like, man, um, 114 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: yeah I walked it, I did it. I'm here. Yeah, 115 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: Like you just show him, like you know, it's possible. 116 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: Now that's a good take, head. I mean, I'm sure 117 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: by time it's time you feel those forms out, it'd 118 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: be a two or three people you add to you 119 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: got to bring a friend or two with you. What 120 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: the guy what what the guys? The DVS cam and 121 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: uh you know Corn and Bobby and all that we're 122 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: talking about coming out there. You gotta have its Vegas too. 123 00:05:53,080 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: I never been to Vegas time. Yeah, I heard you're 124 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: looking forward to the flag football game or just kind 125 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: of just being in the pro bo with having that 126 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: experience in general, just the experience honestly, I mean, like 127 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: I don't know my story, like most guys don't get that. 128 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: You know, even guys that don't have my story that 129 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: get dropped you though, they still don't get that, don't 130 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 1: get them. So just the whole experience of that man 131 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: and being one of the you know, the best guys 132 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: in the league this year. Man, I'm just gonna so 133 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: call that in and use that for next year. That's 134 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: that's gonna be motivation in itself, man, And see those guys, 135 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: and it's gonna already make a person like you who's humble, 136 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: it's hungry to just go out there and want to 137 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: get out of it again. Honestly, That's what I saw 138 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: when I was out there, and I remember making packs 139 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: for myself, just mentally saying, Okay, I want to do 140 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: this and I want to see it again. Unfortunately, and 141 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: then paying out that way. I was an alternate I 142 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: think three or four times after that, but you know, 143 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: it happens, you know what I mean. But just being 144 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: around those guys, I still had a chance to embrace 145 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: the moment. So that's what you're gonna probably do it. 146 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 1: And it's a little different from our time and we 147 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: played in the game, and you know, probably gonna have 148 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: more activities for you guys to do that that we 149 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: didn't have to do. But you're definitely, you know, you're 150 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: gonna enjoy the experience. One of one of the coolest 151 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: things they did. Did I'm sure they probably still do it. 152 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: We used to visit one of the military basis, and 153 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure they have basis out of and in Vegas. 154 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: So that's that's a cool experience. Just going able to 155 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: do that, I think we do. Oh really, yeah, yeah, 156 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty pretty cool experience. Man. I'm super Yeah, 157 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: I gotta go. I'll be going to our base back 158 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: home I get home. That's dope. So yeah, but we 159 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,119 Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us to get on the players Club. Always, always, 160 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. 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