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Speaker 1: Special Teams coordinator Cam Accord has joined us. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: start with Philip Perry, followed by Evan Lazzar. Hey, Cam,

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Speaker 1: how's it going good? Phil? Are we doing this morning? Good? Good?

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Speaker 1: I'm curious after cutdown day the other day, it probably

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Speaker 1: went from you having a an incredibly large number of

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Speaker 1: people to manage down to a slightly more manageable number

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Speaker 1: of people. But how does your job change between maybe

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Speaker 1: last Friday in today in terms of the guys that

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Speaker 1: you're working with. You know, that's one of the unique

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Speaker 1: positions about being in the Special Teams as you get

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Speaker 1: to work with so many different guys and just try

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Speaker 1: to put them in the best position and the fundamention.

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Speaker 1: And then once the cutdowns happened, now you're like, all right,

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Speaker 1: what kind of position can I put this guy in

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Speaker 1: to succeed the most? And now you're juggling so many guys.

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Speaker 1: You go from having a backup at every position to

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Speaker 1: now one guy's backing up four spots or this guy's

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Speaker 1: backing up three spots. So it's you know, that's probably

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Speaker 1: the biggest enjoyment slash challenge that I have as a

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Speaker 1: Special Team's coach is figuring out who can fit in

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Speaker 1: so many different roles a month. Then who can you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: he does this really well, this guy does that really well.

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Speaker 1: How can he get them both on the field, even

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Speaker 1: if they are playing the same position. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit different from an offensive a defensive. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: got like a call to backup running back. You know

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be able running back. Well, our backup off

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Speaker 1: tackle on kick all return, may also be the backup center.

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Speaker 1: He may be the backup in So it's just finding

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Speaker 1: that guy that with the techniques and the fundamentals that

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Speaker 1: he has in the skill set, what positions and how

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Speaker 1: he can handle the majority of situations. And that's the

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Speaker 1: hardest challenge, to be honest with field, But that's also

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Speaker 1: the most enjoyable because now you're like, all right, I

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Speaker 1: put this guy in position. It worked out. That's the

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Speaker 1: best part about it. Great, thanks, thank you. Next question

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Speaker 1: Doug Kae followed by Alex birth Warning. Cam just wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask what confidence level you have and the guys

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Speaker 1: in the return positions returning kis more and Doug, you

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Speaker 1: know that position as a group, you know, we've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of different guys we're working back there. Um,

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Speaker 1: just trying to you know, put the guys in the

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Speaker 1: best position. Working a lot of guys, especially the situation

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Speaker 1: we're in this year, you never know what may happen,

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Speaker 1: what may happen throughout the week. So you know, going

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Speaker 1: right now, they're doing good every day, They're getting better

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Speaker 1: every day, and that's all we can ask of them

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Speaker 1: right now. Next question, Olex Birth I'll encourage anybody else

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Speaker 1: to raising hand if you have a question. More and

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Speaker 1: camp more and out. Seems like this year you guys

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Speaker 1: have had a turnover in terms of the special team's core,

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Speaker 1: not just Stephen, but Brandon opted out, Nate Ebner has gone,

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Speaker 1: Brandon King's on I R. And it almost seems like

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Speaker 1: you have less of those dedicated special teams guys. I'm

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Speaker 1: curious if that's how you see it and how that views.

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Speaker 1: Like you were talking about before setting the depth chart.

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Speaker 1: You know, the biggest thing we try to teach the

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Speaker 1: guys is each guy has to establish his roles. And

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Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing is as these guys are in

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Speaker 1: practice and they're working together, you know, they're starting to

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Speaker 1: establish roles. Certain guys are starting to show up here

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Speaker 1: show up there, and that's also going to be a

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Speaker 1: progression because we didn't have preseason games this year, is

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Speaker 1: who we're going to take some of these roles, you know,

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Speaker 1: and guys were starting to step up in those positions

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Speaker 1: and we just got to continue to move forward and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be an involving process this year obviously throughout

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Speaker 1: the season. But those guys obviously were great players when

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Speaker 1: they were here, good players. They helped us out. But

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like the philosophy, the next guy's got

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Speaker 1: to move up, and that goes back to you know,

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Speaker 1: Reverence Fields questions, who's that next guys? Who are the

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Speaker 1: guys we can put in those positions? And then that's

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Speaker 1: the part of my job as a coaches. I've got

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Speaker 1: to put those guys and find those guys to fill

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Speaker 1: those roles. Next question Bob Socie, followed by Jimmy Fright.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Stacy, good morning, cam More. I'm doing and doing well.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the difference when you

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Speaker 1: have two kickers like you do now on the practice

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Speaker 1: squad at the moment between a rookie in the NFL

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Speaker 1: and someone who has the kind of experience that Nick

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Speaker 1: does I'm sure that the skill setting for a kicker

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Speaker 1: involves much more than just kicking the ball through the

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Speaker 1: goal post. All the things that a kicker has to

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Speaker 1: think about and do at this level. How do you

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Speaker 1: describe that gap that a rookie faces in the NFL

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Speaker 1: versus college and how much does that factor into your

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Speaker 1: evaluation of that player over the course of time from

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Speaker 1: the beginning of training camp to this point. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that goes you know, not just in the kicker position,

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Speaker 1: but as position as a whole. As anytime you have

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Speaker 1: a rookie, you have a veteran, you know it. The

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Speaker 1: biggest thing for the rookie guy do is to learn

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Speaker 1: from the older guy, and there is a gap in

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Speaker 1: the ability to learn and process and the many situations

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Speaker 1: they've been in. So I just got to do your

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Speaker 1: best and put them in the most situations you can

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Speaker 1: to create game environments because we obviously, like I say,

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Speaker 1: we didn't have that so many pressure situations that we

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Speaker 1: can establish in a game, whether it's just Nick or

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Speaker 1: justin those guys out there are other players, you know,

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Speaker 1: We're just trying to put them in the most frush

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Speaker 1: situations and see, you know, every day you know, it's

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Speaker 1: a challenge get out there and to just improve every

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Speaker 1: day out there with those guys. And Bill mentioned the

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Speaker 1: difficulty of evaluating a kicker in August in New England

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Speaker 1: versus what you're going to experience come November and December.

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Speaker 1: What have you learned in your time here alongside Joe

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Speaker 1: in the past and in your role about kicking in

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Speaker 1: New England and the difficulty of doing that. Well, first off,

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Speaker 1: never trust the weather. You don't have a clue what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen. And I'm just tell you it's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be sunny, it'll be rain um so, but you know,

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Speaker 1: the best thing you can do is it does evolve.

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Speaker 1: You know, it gets cold here. The wins a factor,

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Speaker 1: so you've got to find guys you know, that can

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Speaker 1: handle the elements up here kicking and you have to

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Speaker 1: be It changes on a game by game basis. Um,

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Speaker 1: you may be banging touchbacks out the back of it's

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Speaker 1: nice and sunny and it's beautiful. In the next time

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Speaker 1: now we're having the cover kicks, you know. So it

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Speaker 1: changes game by game, and that a lot of guy

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Speaker 1: goes into the pregame adjustments and like, all right, well

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Speaker 1: this is the weather today, so how are we going

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Speaker 1: to handle you know this today? And that's part of

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Speaker 1: the coach, you know that, going into the game and

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Speaker 1: knowing where your guys are. Thanks, Kem, thank you. I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna end up making this when the last

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Speaker 1: question go ahead, Jim mc brian, Morning Kim. This kind

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Speaker 1: of piggybacks off Bob's question. How do you find enough

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Speaker 1: pressure situations and snaps four two guys at this stage

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Speaker 1: and in practice, Lauren, Jim, So, I think the one

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Speaker 1: thing we can do is just look at situations out

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Speaker 1: throughout the history have ever showed up and try to

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Speaker 1: replicate those like mentally give it to him. You know, hey,

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Speaker 1: is this down and distance? It is a game winner,

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Speaker 1: it's a last second field goal, It's any situation you

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Speaker 1: can think of that shows him the can game. You

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Speaker 1: gotta tell the guy when you right, befos going out,

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Speaker 1: potentially what's gonna happen. And it's not like a game,

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Speaker 1: let's just be up. But the closest we can get

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Speaker 1: it to it, we have to and you know you

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Speaker 1: may just throw out there something that practice like oh nope,

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Speaker 1: that didn't that didn't happen, there was a penalty randomly

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Speaker 1: or something like that, just to make them mentally think

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Speaker 1: like oh okay, reset their mental clot get them back

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Speaker 1: to running back to the silad. Just anything we can

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Speaker 1: do to make it harder than what it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: like in the game. And you know that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, players don't really like that too much when

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Speaker 1: you're trying to just force adversity, adversity adversity and challenge situations.

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Speaker 1: But that's what we have to do, um and that's

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Speaker 1: why I have to approach it every day. It's just

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Speaker 1: as much as you can rely on the past, the film,

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Speaker 1: study and just recreate those situations in the game as

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Speaker 1: best you can. Thanks you, thank you very much, kim I.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna create the deck for Steve Belichick will be next, Okay, Yeah,