Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. We
Speaker 1: are sending a couple of special teamers to the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl out in Las Vegas next month. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: what that means for Punch or trust Way and Jeremy
Speaker 1: Reeves Fresh So appreciate you coming back on a players
Speaker 1: club with us. Good to be back. Season twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two season is over. What will you remember most about
Speaker 1: this this year? Yeah? I think, Um, Now, selfishly, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the punt team, as you know, that's
Speaker 1: typically what I focused on. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: that that Chicago game where we had been having a
Speaker 1: pretty good year as a punt team, but then that
Speaker 1: Chicago game when we had that turnover whenever the returner
Speaker 1: muff the punt, we get the ball inside the ten,
Speaker 1: we go on to win the game. Another muff punt.
Speaker 1: Then the last game of the year, another muffpunt, and
Speaker 1: then the birth of the gs NLS. Right, that bond
Speaker 1: that I that's rights, the bond I had with the guys.
Speaker 1: I just I just had had so much fun, and
Speaker 1: that is that's part of the satisfaction and then also
Speaker 1: part of just the frustration, and it feels a little
Speaker 1: incomplete because it feels like it feels like we should
Speaker 1: be getting ready for another game. You know, it feels
Speaker 1: like we left something on the table. And so that
Speaker 1: is definitely that bond that I had with our punt
Speaker 1: team this year. Um, that was really fun to be
Speaker 1: a part of. Speaking of those muff punts, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I love when I see our team take advantage of
Speaker 1: those opportunities, and I'm I smile sometimes just knowing that
Speaker 1: they got to give trust a little more credit because
Speaker 1: you're doing some of that ball. It's something. It's a
Speaker 1: spin on that ball, and and I love how they
Speaker 1: slowed it down this past week when they showed it
Speaker 1: and how it was coming down. I'm like to see
Speaker 1: that's the spin. I'm telling Is that something that you
Speaker 1: you emphasize in certain situations on the field or you're
Speaker 1: doing that more often than we know. Yeah, So all
Speaker 1: three of the muff punts, Um, they all took place
Speaker 1: inside the twenty. Uh So I don't want to hit
Speaker 1: a touchback and then you had a really dangerous returner
Speaker 1: back there, Turpin who's going to the Pro Bowl. But
Speaker 1: in general, when you're I call it in between clubs
Speaker 1: so you're not quite going to hit your pooch punt
Speaker 1: the end over in Australian style, but you also just
Speaker 1: can't launch a bomb. So I kind of tilt the
Speaker 1: nose up a little bit and I try and send
Speaker 1: that thing way up into the air so it has
Speaker 1: controlled distance while still gaining some ground. And so when
Speaker 1: that thing goes all the way up and starts to
Speaker 1: turn down, a lot of guys like Dax alex ericson,
Speaker 1: a lot of the fellas have told me that at
Speaker 1: some point it actually comes down almost backwards, and so
Speaker 1: that i'd like to think I throw a little voodoo on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, I was gonna ask ask you,
Speaker 1: do you have different names for your punts like that?
Speaker 1: You might want to call that when the voodoo, you know,
Speaker 1: do you know? I will I'll call that when the
Speaker 1: voodoo because I did. I don't have a nickname for
Speaker 1: that pump. So yeah, I'm gonna call it, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call that the voodoo ball. Now. So when
Speaker 1: I'm in between clubs, it's time to bust out the voodoo.
Speaker 1: Then I have what is called a screamer. So if
Speaker 1: I see the returner playing me one way. I try
Speaker 1: and hit this a low line drive like fifty sixty yard.
Speaker 1: So I used to call the stinger, but Coach Nate
Speaker 1: called it the screamer. I'll go with screaming. That's all right.
Speaker 1: You got you got the screamer, you got the voodoo. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we appreciate that. Yeah, appreciate you coming on the show
Speaker 1: and joining us again. Hey, yeah, man, let's get ye
Speaker 1: have with y'all. All right, man, Jeremy, we thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us again on the Players Club. Absolutely special teams. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Guys went out with a bank again, making them a
Speaker 1: lot of plays against the Dallas Cowboys. How'd you feel
Speaker 1: about the way you guys played? Sustending man, gangs, gang stuff,
Speaker 1: no lame. Hey, that's that's the that's the standard though. Man, guys,
Speaker 1: guys understand it. You know that the tone was set,
Speaker 1: like I said on the first show after that Detroit
Speaker 1: game that, uh, you know this ain't We got to
Speaker 1: put a better product on the field. We can change games.
Speaker 1: And uh, these young guys are stuffed up. Man to
Speaker 1: the challenging some super problem, super happy before man speaking,
Speaker 1: the young guys seeing Holmes go out there and be
Speaker 1: right there, the right place at the right time. Man.
Speaker 1: How big is that for him? Man? I think he's
Speaker 1: been flashing all year long and for him to end
Speaker 1: his season, you know, having a big play like that
Speaker 1: that you know that changed a lot of things things
Speaker 1: in the game. You know how big you think that
Speaker 1: was from confidence building? Man? When you when you can
Speaker 1: do something like that to fake the game, Um, not
Speaker 1: for the first time, but for the second time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um and uh on the stage like that end of
Speaker 1: the season. You know, that's something that you can carry
Speaker 1: into the next year. You know that that confidence booster
Speaker 1: of like yeah, man on that dude and the guys
Speaker 1: from the opposite team, you know Vet like, you know,
Speaker 1: going's over there, Vett, dude established, you know, telling them
Speaker 1: like hey man, you do like I respect that. You know,
Speaker 1: like that's something that he can carry into the next
Speaker 1: year and then every year. Speaking the Pro Bowl, you'll
Speaker 1: be playing that in a couple of weeks. You kind
Speaker 1: of got your list together. Who's going to come out
Speaker 1: there and be with you the Pro Bowl. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you. Uh, it really ain't hit me.
Speaker 1: I still even feeled out all the information so locked in. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know when that when that time comes,
Speaker 1: you know, I figure i'd probably just be my dad
Speaker 1: in all honesty, because um, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: dinamic to know this stuff. It's the first for me,
Speaker 1: So I don't know what's going on out there. But uh,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna right now the folks just go home
Speaker 1: and you know, talk my family, um and go, you know,
Speaker 1: talk to these kids and tell them like, man, um,
Speaker 1: yeah I walked it, I did it. I'm here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like you just show him, like you know, it's possible.
Speaker 1: Now that's a good take, head. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: by time it's time you feel those forms out, it'd
Speaker 1: be a two or three people you add to you
Speaker 1: got to bring a friend or two with you. What
Speaker 1: the guy what what the guys? The DVS cam and
Speaker 1: uh you know Corn and Bobby and all that we're
Speaker 1: talking about coming out there. You gotta have its Vegas too.
Speaker 1: I never been to Vegas time. Yeah, I heard you're
Speaker 1: looking forward to the flag football game or just kind
Speaker 1: of just being in the pro bo with having that
Speaker 1: experience in general, just the experience honestly, I mean, like
Speaker 1: I don't know my story, like most guys don't get that.
Speaker 1: You know, even guys that don't have my story that
Speaker 1: get dropped you though, they still don't get that, don't
Speaker 1: get them. So just the whole experience of that man
Speaker 1: and being one of the you know, the best guys
Speaker 1: in the league this year. Man, I'm just gonna so
Speaker 1: call that in and use that for next year. That's
Speaker 1: that's gonna be motivation in itself, man, And see those guys,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna already make a person like you who's humble,
Speaker 1: it's hungry to just go out there and want to
Speaker 1: get out of it again. Honestly, That's what I saw
Speaker 1: when I was out there, and I remember making packs
Speaker 1: for myself, just mentally saying, Okay, I want to do
Speaker 1: this and I want to see it again. Unfortunately, and
Speaker 1: then paying out that way. I was an alternate I
Speaker 1: think three or four times after that, but you know,
Speaker 1: it happens, you know what I mean. But just being
Speaker 1: around those guys, I still had a chance to embrace
Speaker 1: the moment. So that's what you're gonna probably do it.
Speaker 1: And it's a little different from our time and we
Speaker 1: played in the game, and you know, probably gonna have
Speaker 1: more activities for you guys to do that that we
Speaker 1: didn't have to do. But you're definitely, you know, you're
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy the experience. One of one of the coolest
Speaker 1: things they did. Did I'm sure they probably still do it.
Speaker 1: We used to visit one of the military basis, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have basis out of and in Vegas.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a cool experience. Just going able to
Speaker 1: do that, I think we do. Oh really, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty pretty cool experience. Man. I'm super Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. I'll be going to our base back
Speaker 1: home I get home. That's dope. So yeah, but we
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us to get on the players Club. Always, always,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. Thank y'all for everything this year.
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