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Speaker 1: Welcome into lounge presented by DraftKings.

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Speaker 2: I'm Ryan Mink here with Clifton Brown and we are

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Speaker 2: thrilled to sit down with punter Jordan's Stout.

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Speaker 1: Fresh off of Pro Bowl. No, congratulations, man, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: That is awesome your first Pro Bowl. So take us

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Speaker 2: through how you found out? He called first all how

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Speaker 2: it went down?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I found out yesterday around six somebody

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Speaker 3: called me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put their

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Speaker 3: name out there.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, keeping this serious.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they called me. I was getting massage. My massage

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Speaker 3: there was like do you want me to leave? Like no, no, No,

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Speaker 3: it's fine, Like you're part of the reason I'm here,

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Speaker 3: Like stay. So got the news. My fiance was right

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Speaker 3: there with me. She found out with me. After that,

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Speaker 3: you know, we we were like happy, smiling. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: then massage happened for another thirty minutes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of just like sat there and thought about it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy feeling.

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Speaker 3: I think this is a first time in my career

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Speaker 3: that it's really sunk in, like right away, like high school,

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Speaker 3: you want to make All State and you do it,

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Speaker 3: and then you have another goal, and then you go

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Speaker 3: to college and you want to be put on scholarship,

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Speaker 3: and then you get put on scholarship, and then you

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Speaker 3: go you get drafted, and then you want to make

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Speaker 3: Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So like, really, what's next? Yeah, this is.

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Speaker 3: The goal, Like, this is like the peak of what

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Speaker 3: I can do as an athlete, and it's just a

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Speaker 3: crazy feeling that all that hard work is paid off.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's really awesome.

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Speaker 2: I guess the next is you know, a masterful punt

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Speaker 2: goes out of bounds at the one in the Super Bowl, right,

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Speaker 2: that's yeah, yeah, that's the next goal.

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Speaker 4: Then I was saying, like the main goal is like

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl of course.

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Speaker 1: Like individually, right, Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Like that's I mean, that's the.

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Speaker 1: Pens right right right, but that's also.

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Speaker 3: Who Right after the massage, I call my family, of course.

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Speaker 3: First off, my parents. My dad had just woken up

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Speaker 3: from an app. I said, I have some good news,

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Speaker 3: and he said pro Bowl. I said, yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 3: you got it. My mom, of course, threw her hands

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Speaker 3: up in the air and was happy crying. It's really

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Speaker 3: cool because without them I wouldn't I wouldn't be here. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: back to the what we're talking about prior to getting

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Speaker 3: on air. I played soccer my whole childhood and I

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Speaker 3: played club, Like I said, my dad drove me an

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Speaker 3: hour and like thirty minutes every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Like while I was in elementary school, middle school, nice

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Speaker 3: up to the party of high played soccer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then also like when I started kicking, I had

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Speaker 3: a coach in Uva. His name is Jimmy Hall. That's

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Speaker 3: who I trained with. It went to a Uva camp

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Speaker 3: my after my ninth grade year of high school. He's like,

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Speaker 3: I see potential in him, Like I would like to

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Speaker 3: work with him. And he convinced my dad and so

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Speaker 3: we drove every other Sunday five hours, oh where I'm

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Speaker 3: other Sunday and I laid in.

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Speaker 4: The back and slept. Wow, five guys after every time,

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Speaker 4: it was great.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible.

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Speaker 2: I have to arrange a pick up for my kid

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Speaker 2: from basketball practice five minutes away from my.

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Speaker 1: House, yeah, five hours.

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Speaker 3: They sacrifice so much and so I appreciate them and

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Speaker 3: to share that moment with them was really cool.

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Speaker 1: That is very cool.

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Speaker 2: So I quickly want to go back to a moment

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Speaker 2: this season when we were talking after the Jets game,

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Speaker 2: that Randy Brown has told you this season that if

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Speaker 2: you do poorly, we're going to cut you. If you

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Speaker 2: do okay, we'll resign you. And if you do too well,

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Speaker 2: what's the future. It's a contract year for you, probo

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Speaker 1: So what does this mean, Jordan, for the future.

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Speaker 3: Here being said, there's no place I would rather play

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Speaker 3: You know, they're gonna have to pay me.

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Speaker 1: I think that we all know what happen, you know.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's about the extent of it.

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Speaker 4: I say, God, I don't want to get into it.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to get into the logistics of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but playing AFC nor is hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And like to my own horn a little bit,

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Speaker 3: like having the numbers I had this year, and of

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Speaker 3: course that's fifty percent me, that's fifty percent the punt team,

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Speaker 3: like delivering me seeds every single play, Like without those guys, like,

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Speaker 6: So yeah, for all those reasons you just talked about,

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Speaker 6: we all kind of knew this was a make or

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Speaker 6: break year for you. So you made it? What made

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Speaker 6: it for you? Why why did it come together this year?

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's funny because as a punter, a

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Speaker 3: lot of the time you can't go into games with

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Speaker 3: goals because like I might have zero punts, I might

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Speaker 3: have ten punts, like you're never gonna know. And sometimes

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Speaker 3: when the offense does worse, that means I'm in a

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Speaker 3: So it's it's real funny. It's like I don't want

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Speaker 3: I want the offense to score touchdowns. I want to

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Speaker 3: go hold extra points. That's that's what I want. So, like,

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Speaker 3: what you want to do is really difficult, right right.

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Speaker 2: Take us through your off season preparation and how you

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Speaker 2: trained for this season, maybe differently than you did in

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Speaker 3: I started punting a little earlier. Yeah, Aj is a

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Speaker 3: lose it, you don't have to get it back. So

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Speaker 3: I had a long year. After second year, I went

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Speaker 3: I did speed training for like two months, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I was really really athletic, but that's timing for punting

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Speaker 3: like a full month to like figure out contact, like

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Speaker 2: And can you tell, listen, why did you want to

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Speaker 1: Why do you want to get faster?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to play in AFC North and I like,

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Speaker 3: hangtime is king? How can I get better? Hangtime without

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Speaker 3: trying its hard. So like if I can make my

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Speaker 3: could be hitting pooch punts all year and after my

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Speaker 4: This year I had five pooch punts.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Right, So I was in that area of the field

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Speaker 4: And that's like part of it.

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Speaker 3: It's like circumstance this year, like I was able to

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Speaker 3: But right, you know, like I said, I would have

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Speaker 4: I'm glad I was able to take advantage of it.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad the guys out on the field did a

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Speaker 3: great job and and helped make me look good. I'm

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Speaker 3: glad I could help make them look good.

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Speaker 2: So you said you did the speed training that didn't

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Speaker 2: going into year that was three.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was going into three. So now going into

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Speaker 2: I know we talked about this before, but share with

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Speaker 2: listeners and viewers about you know, you went to the beach.

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Speaker 4: And how that went back to you went to San Diego.

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Speaker 4: I started punting earlier. Yeah, that's the point.

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Speaker 3: I guess I should have gotten to Aya started punting

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Speaker 4: And I think, no matter how old you get, you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was his body surfing.

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Speaker 4: What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: He body surfing surfing? Oh real?

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Speaker 4: The front office about that.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that'll be a sound bite, right, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: just like enjoying myself. You know, I love San Diego,

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Speaker 3: Coles there, Jack Fox, Daniel Wheeling. Like a bunch of

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Speaker 3: Like they like playing in the water, they like surfing,

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Speaker 3: they like going out punting and working out, and it's

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Speaker 3: like it's a lifestyle and it almost feels like a hobby. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's like I enjoy what I'm doing, especially in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So did it feel like, like what did that

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Speaker 2: Did it feel like you just came into the year

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Speaker 2: like in the right headspace you're talking about did it

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Speaker 2: easy of the pressure and you're just feeling the beach vibes.

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Speaker 2: You're this Virginia kid. You're like, yes, I just feel great.

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Speaker 2: Like what did that do?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Like my rookie, that's what they told me, they get away,

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Speaker 4: I love punting. It's like it's my favorite thing in

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Speaker 2: Get away, but also do football. Yeah, So combine the two.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I wish I could tell you.

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Speaker 6: You kind of touched on it seems to me like

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Speaker 5: Is that true? And how much do other punters kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it is a community, and I feel

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Speaker 1: How did they How did you kind of learn that

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Speaker 1: Like literally standing next to them on the beach, Like,

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Speaker 4: Through that sponsored by Smart Water.

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Speaker 1: I'll show you with this.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, here we go. We're going it's like

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Speaker 3: Interesting traditional boom rangs like almost sideways. You swing up

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Speaker 4: So I just like I was like, it's like a

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Speaker 3: Normal boom rangs, Like I want more than that, So

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Speaker 3: I played around with like turning the ball more here. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: They know I'm doing a boom rang. I'm lined up

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Speaker 3: A lot of the mishits go left. Boom raing is

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: And how did that differ because Sam Cook, I know,

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Speaker 2: Like how did his influence and the boomerang also kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Sam is a huge part and like

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Speaker 3: And it is the thing for me is like my

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Speaker 4: So that's what we did.

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Speaker 3: We had turnovers, We had pooch punts and pooch punts

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Speaker 3: It's just like something that I found out through trial

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Speaker 3: and it's kind of what happened, kind of not because

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Speaker 6: So may I ask is there more in the arsenal

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I refuse to believe that there aren't more punts to come.

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Speaker 3: Do I have any idea of what they're going to

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Speaker 3: And I promise you, maybe not next year, maybe not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm interested in You know, we talk about Sam

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Speaker 2: He probably was telling dad jokes when he was twenty

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Speaker 4: His oldest son is older than me.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, then he had the licensees dad jokes at twenty

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Speaker 2: You're smiling all the time and you're super outgoing like Sam.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean that when he was.

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Speaker 3: A player, he was very stern and very serious, very

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Speaker 3: And everyone's different, right exactly, and it's worked for both

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Speaker 2: And like I don't know, and you know, following in

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Speaker 3: You know, it's something I tried not to think about

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Speaker 3: if I do my job surface level, then then I'll

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00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,480
Speaker 3: be okay, right, And now I have to taken that

442
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,760
Speaker 3: through this whole year, and it's helped me a ton

443
00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:42,560
Speaker 3: less pressure really because now Renny knows harbes nose, Chris knows.

444
00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,040
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, I'm going to do my job. What

445
00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,320
Speaker 3: happens in the air, like, can't help it right right right?

446
00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,879
Speaker 6: You said you didn't know you know exactly when it

447
00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,560
Speaker 6: clicked or you know the moment. But the Jets game

448
00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,440
Speaker 6: is something a lot of people are going to talk

449
00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:56,920
Speaker 6: about with this Pro Bowl season.

450
00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:57,359
Speaker 7: With you, you have.

451
00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,960
Speaker 6: Seventy four yard punt, yeah six if you're on average

452
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,359
Speaker 6: for the game. How much did a game like that

453
00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,719
Speaker 6: you talked about helping the team win the game when

454
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,520
Speaker 6: offense wasn't cooken for you to come through in a

455
00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,440
Speaker 6: moment like that, how much did that play into maybe

456
00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:14,320
Speaker 6: what happened the rest.

457
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:14,520
Speaker 5: Of the way.

458
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'd say that's one of my favorite

459
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,520
Speaker 3: games of my career, it's like, how often am I

460
00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,119
Speaker 3: able to like noticeably make a game changing impact. It's

461
00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,159
Speaker 3: not too often as a punter, because I can hit

462
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,800
Speaker 3: a punt ninety nine yards down on the one and

463
00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:28,520
Speaker 3: they can drive all the way down the field and

464
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,760
Speaker 3: right it does. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but for it

465
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,080
Speaker 3: to be at the end of the game down like

466
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,320
Speaker 3: a touchdown or three points, I can't remember exactly what

467
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,280
Speaker 3: it was, but to hit that punt in that moment,

468
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,439
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter when it means the most, And

469
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,960
Speaker 3: that's what the coaches always talk about, is like, can

470
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Speaker 3: you do it in the fourth quarter?

471
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:45,000
Speaker 5: Though?

472
00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:46,760
Speaker 3: Can you do it when the pressure is the highest?

473
00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,679
Speaker 3: And to do that, man, it's really rewarding, more rewarding

474
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,240
Speaker 3: than any other punts that you can have because it

475
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,600
Speaker 3: means the most. And you kind of felt like I

476
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,320
Speaker 3: sealed the game. And of course there's fifty three guys

477
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,320
Speaker 3: who stilled that game, but yeah, I mean I had

478
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,760
Speaker 3: a larger impact than usual. And you know that was

479
00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,400
Speaker 3: that was one of the windiest games of the year.

480
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,960
Speaker 3: And I was sitting back there before that seventy three

481
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,520
Speaker 3: yard punter sixty eight whatever it.

482
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,760
Speaker 4: Was, and I was like, oh no, this could be bad.

483
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,400
Speaker 3: And I tried not to get that negative headpace much,

484
00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 3: but it was so windy back there in the end

485
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,879
Speaker 3: zone where I was punting that I was like like

486
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,439
Speaker 3: gone to play, looking over the sideline, like go for it,

487
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 3: go for it. And then you know, sometimes I say,

488
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 3: it's God. It's like I hit the ball, it gets

489
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,879
Speaker 3: up in the air. It's like there's no wind at all,

490
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 3: and there's a wind pocket up top that right in

491
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 3: my back just catches it and it just it looked

492
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 3: like it went forever, like it didn't feel any different

493
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,840
Speaker 3: off my foot than any normal like forty five yard

494
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,600
Speaker 3: fifty five yards and over, but it just it just sailed.

495
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,440
Speaker 3: And it happened twice that game, right right, that's awesome.

496
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 3: And that was like a huge ovation from the crowd.

497
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,919
Speaker 3: It's not often that you see the punter get the

498
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,360
Speaker 3: ovation in the stadium.

499
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 1: That was cool. Yeah, it does.

500
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:54,640
Speaker 4: It's so cool.

501
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 3: And you know, I said, after I lost control of

502
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 3: my body, I just I just threw my arms out

503
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 3: and started yelling because you don't it's just like an

504
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 3: out of body experience, like everyone is on their feet

505
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 3: yelling for the punter like that doesn't happen.

506
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool to me, Like I feel like watching

507
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 2: you so far in your career, Like there you talk

508
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 2: about the confidence of punting, and for me, it felt

509
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 2: like sometimes you like cared so much about it and

510
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 2: sometimes it felt like the mental side of the game,

511
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,200
Speaker 2: like you were thinking so much about it right and

512
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 2: and correct me if I'm wrong or stop me. But

513
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,360
Speaker 2: it felt like sometimes the mishits like felt like, oh man,

514
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 2: he's in his head. Like you felt that pressure because

515
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,200
Speaker 2: there is a ton of pressure when you're a punter

516
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,439
Speaker 2: and everybody's looking at you. It's like a kicker, you know,

517
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 2: same way on a field goal attemp. Like it's a

518
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,440
Speaker 2: lot of pressure. And it felt like this year maybe

519
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 2: because of the off season. Maybe it's because you know,

520
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 2: you got off to a good start and you hit

521
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 2: some great punts and things were going well, and it

522
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 2: felt like momentum was picking up that that pressure just

523
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 2: kind of and you were just like playing your game.

524
00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 2: Is that an accurate description or how would you describe it?

525
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:01,280
Speaker 1: Yeah?

526
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes you get overwhelmed on the field, and

527
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 3: I feel like that is because I care so much,

528
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 3: like genuinely, like I I this is like I my

529
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 3: why is I want to provide for my future family

530
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 3: and I want to be the best punter to ever

531
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 3: play the game, like playing and simple. So like the

532
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 3: stress of that that I put on myself is is

533
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 3: rough at times. And you know the boomerang I said,

534
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,199
Speaker 3: is it's a great ballout punt. You just hold it

535
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,679
Speaker 3: out there and you just swing as hard as you

536
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 3: can and then they get like I said, like if

537
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 3: it goes left, great, if it goes right great, if

538
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 3: it goes middle great.

539
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 4: Because they're not going to catch it. You're gonna have

540
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:35,199
Speaker 4: a hard time catching it.

541
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 3: So I think testament to the boomerang a little bit,

542
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,640
Speaker 3: it did, like it eased up the stress. There wasn't

543
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,120
Speaker 3: really any expectation for it that you.

544
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 2: Couldn't have to be so pinpoint like directional punting. It

545
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 2: has to be on that yard line, yeah.

546
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 3: Because it's like as they should, but like they hold

547
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,639
Speaker 3: me to such a high standard, like they want the

548
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,239
Speaker 3: ball turn over outside the numbers or not even that

549
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 3: on the red line or out of bounds.

550
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 4: And again AFC nor it's windy.

551
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 3: If I hit a perfect ball like right to the

552
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 3: out of bounds mark, if something happens up top where

553
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 3: the wind catches it and it pushes it out of

554
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 3: bounds and it's a twenty yard chink that could be

555
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 3: a perfectly hit ball.

556
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 4: So it's like stuff like that.

557
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 3: It's it's tough, but I mean they know how good

558
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 3: I can be, and that's why they put that. That's

559
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 3: why the expectations so high, right, and then it's finally

560
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 3: paid off this year and the boomerang help with that.

561
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

562
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 6: You've mentioned the AFC Nord a couple of times of

563
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 6: plenty in it. Do you think that has made you

564
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 6: a better punner plunning in the conditions that you have

565
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 6: to pun in and do you think that maybe you

566
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 6: know there's some punners if they had to do it,

567
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 6: wouldn't be able to handle as well as some of

568
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 6: the guys we had to do it.

569
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I can't really speak on if

570
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 3: anyone else could or couldn't do it. It's not my place

571
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 3: to say. I think if like AJ he plays in

572
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 3: a dome at the Raiders, but I promise you if

573
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 3: he was in the FC North, he'd be doing just

574
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 3: as well. It's like some guys have that mentality, and

575
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 3: I feel like that's what it is. It is it's

576
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 3: just a mentality and you just have to learn It's

577
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 3: it's different playing playing in cold weather. I mean, Green

578
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 3: Bays Punter has done a really really good job this

579
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 3: here and and he's playing and it seems like the

580
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 3: last eight weeks it's been under twenty degrees. So yeah,

581
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 3: I mean it feels harder. But also when you're in

582
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 3: a dome, like the expectation you have to do it right,

583
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 3: there's no misses, like, there's no excuses, right, and then

584
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 3: in windy conditions at least I can be like, hey,

585
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 3: I hit that ball perfect, but something happened up top right,

586
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: it can't help it.

587
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 4: Like mentally you have that.

588
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 3: Excuse if you if you will an excuse. I don't

589
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 3: like using excuses right right, But yeah, I mean you

590
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 3: could look at it both ways. It's like it's it's

591
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 3: more stressful to play a dome because the expectation is

592
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 3: what you have to do. And then and they have

593
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 3: seen north maybe you don't have to necessarily do it

594
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 3: every time and you'll they'll give you some leeway. So hard,

595
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 3: hard answer, hard question to answer, but that's that's how

596
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 3: I feel about it.

597
00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,479
Speaker 1: And how did you know?

598
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 2: Following up, Sam impact your conversations and the way you

599
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 2: mentored Tyler Loop this year, who followed up Justin Tucker.

600
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta know rookies are stubborn.

601
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 3: I was stubborn, Randy in my air, justin Sam, Chris Nick,

602
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 3: everyone telling me what I need to do.

603
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 4: When I didn't think that's what I needed to do.

604
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 4: So it's that's tough.

605
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 3: And they were right about most of it, but they

606
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 3: were wrong about some of it too, And so you know,

607
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: I kind of give Tyler his space. I let him

608
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 3: do his thing. He knows more about kicking than I

609
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 3: did than I do, even though I did it, and

610
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 3: he's here for a reason. Randy is a very good

611
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 3: kicking coach, like probably, I mean probably the best in

612
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 3: the world. I mean, look at his track record. So

613
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,239
Speaker 3: I technical stay away from it. I don't give him

614
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 3: any tips or anything like that, but the mental side

615
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 3: of the game, of course, when he has questions, when

616
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 3: he wants information, I always am the first one to

617
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 3: be like, yeah, man, this is how I feel about it.

618
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 3: This is my experience. I wish someone would have told

619
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 3: me this. In reality, they did, I just didn't listen.

620
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: So it's yeah, Tyler was the first kicker the Ravens

621
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 2: ever drafted. You were a fourth round pick here, which

622
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 2: did come with those expectations. You talk about high expectations

623
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 2: from coaches.

624
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: And all that about where they want that punt.

625
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 2: I mean expectations were high for the moment you were drafted,

626
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 2: being a fourth round pick here. Sure, how much did

627
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 2: that impact you early in your career here?

628
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 3: You know, I'd love to say I did and think

629
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 3: about it, but and maybe maybe I didn't, But it

630
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 3: was always in the back of my head.

631
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 4: I guess it is.

632
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 3: It's like your fourth round draft pick, you're the highest

633
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 3: drafted punter since Brian Inger in two thousand and nine,

634
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 3: twenty eleven, whatever. It was right, like you're going to

635
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 3: be perfect, right, right, Like you're not going to mess up,

636
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 3: like you can't your fourth round right, so right.

637
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 1: I certainly understand how that would go through your head.

638
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 3: It's not like coming as an undrafted guy who like

639
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 3: there are no expectations and when you do well, it's like,

640
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 3: oh wow, yeah, he's good for me. It was like

641
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 3: when I I did well, it's like, okay, you did it,

642
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 3: Like that's.

643
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 4: What you were supposed to do.

644
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 3: Right, So first three years it's kind of how it

645
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 3: felt this year, It's like it's a little different.

646
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

647
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: Well and now making the probole, I mean, is there

648
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: a feeling do you does your head go to any

649
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 2: space of like, all right, I justified it fourth round.

650
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 2: I'm a pro bowl, I'm a prople punter.

651
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 5: Now.

652
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I said, this just feels like it

653
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 3: hit me instantly, like as soon as they got the information.

654
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 4: I'm like, wow, I did it right right.

655
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 3: And I look back to all the hard work and

656
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: all the down times, all the bad punts, all the

657
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 3: good punts, just like it was all for a reason.

658
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 3: It all happened to put me here so I could

659
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 3: be on your podcast.

660
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Speaker 7: And.

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Speaker 1: This is what I've been working.

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Speaker 2: Take us back a little bit to your You were

663
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: saying before we started taping that that you were a

664
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Speaker 2: soccer player growing up and and you grew up in

665
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Speaker 2: Let me get this hand honkers.

666
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 3: It's actually honaker. I understand why people wouldn't want to

667
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 3: say that. It sounds crazy, but like everyone when we

668
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,360
Speaker 3: were growing up, they would call it honeker the news,

669
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 3: it's not what it's called. How they saying it like that.

670
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 3: I would like to talk about my hometown a little

671
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 3: bit ye, it's Heath Miller went there off Steelers.

672
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 4: For eleven years in the league.

673
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 3: Other than him, I'm the only other person ever out

674
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 3: of that high school to even play Division one football.

675
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 3: Oh wow, so it's just me and him. Well, it's

676
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 3: a very small town in like southwestern Virginia kind of

677
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 3: border like close to Tennessee, West Virginia and North Carolina area.

678
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: Like really is it's the Boonies. It's the middle of nowhere.

679
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 3: That's why my dad had to drive me an I

680
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 3: would have to go to a soccer practice because we

681
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 3: didn't really have soccer there.

682
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Speaker 1: Wow.

683
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did high school youth, but it's like if

684
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: I wanted to play at a high level in the future,

685
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 3: we had to go elsewhere to to to where the

686
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 3: talent's hire right right.

687
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 4: It's it's an amazing little town, great pace.

688
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 3: People like uh, it's like Appalachia as a whole is

689
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 3: like they're misunderstood because people think they they're dumb, but

690
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 3: in reality, they're just simple people who are really happy

691
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 3: because there's no stress there. It's like you farm, like

692
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 3: you have like you work at the local convenience store.

693
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 3: You have your own little like chiropractor, practicers like one

694
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 3: of them, like of everything. There's no competition. It's just

695
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 3: like a good life and everyone's happy. But it's an

696
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: amazing area. I'm so happy to have been raised there.

697
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 3: I love my people back home.

698
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that. They're like you're in the head.

699
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: They're in the newspaper there all the time. Like every

700
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: time you do something well, it's like local guy, local

701
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: puns are still doing great stuff. Like that's that's kind

702
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 2: of the perks of the small town life for sure. And

703
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: you said that you were really a soccer player and

704
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 2: had the fat head, the David Beckham fat head, And

705
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: so how did you come to be a football player

706
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: when you were so invested in soccer's kid?

707
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like I said, I had Osgod slaughter at

708
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 3: my knees. It's where I grew too fast from what

709
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 3: was it, I said, ninth grade. The being in my

710
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 3: ninth grade year, I was start at five to five

711
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 3: and then I ended up at sixth three at the

712
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 3: end of that that that summer the next summer after

713
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 3: the school year, so I was having issues. So I

714
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 3: was out at soccer practice at the high school ninth

715
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 3: grade year. The quarterback who's a stud's the coolest guy

716
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 3: in the school. You know, he comes up, he's like, hey, man,

717
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 3: can you hit a Can you hit me a field goal?

718
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, of course, I'm a little ninth grader,

719
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: a quarterback talking to me right now.

720
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 4: And so I hit a field goal.

721
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 3: I think it was like forty yard field goal off

722
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 3: the ground, first time I'd ever even tried.

723
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 4: Yeah. He's like, I would like you to play for

724
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 4: us next year. I'm like, all right, sure.

725
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 3: Then after that, you know, my dad very hands on

726
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 3: with was sports my entire life. I told him, or

727
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 3: he was probably at the practice and probably heard, It's

728
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 3: like do you.

729
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 4: Want to do it? But you want to try it?

730
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 4: I'm like yeah.

731
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 3: He's like all right, well, let's let's find you someone

732
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 3: that can train you. That's where we ended up going

733
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 3: to that camp in ninth grade year at Uva and

734
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 3: the time I was still five five, and the coach

735
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 3: at the camp the Uva camp was like, I see

736
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 3: potential in Jordan.

737
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 4: I would I'd like to coach him.

738
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 3: Uva is five hours from where I'm from, so every Sunday,

739
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 3: every other Sunday, my dad drove me five hours to

740
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 3: Uva to to go kick and punt even in season,

741
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 3: Like it's like all year, that's great. Got to give

742
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 3: a lot of credit to Pop for that one.

743
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 2: And the punting coach to seeing you shoot up. But

744
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 2: you're like two inches taller every time you see him,

745
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: he's like, what is this the same kid? Yeah?

746
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: Right, it did. It definitely helped.

747
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: The taller I got, the more he's like, oh, this

748
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 3: kid could actually do it right, right, Like punting is

749
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 3: about leverage. And honestly, when I first started, it was

750
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 3: like I was a kicker. I was a kicker who

751
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 3: could punt. He was a punter at UVA and coach,

752
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 3: and so I was taught to be a combo guy

753
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 3: coming up. Ended up getting a walk on spot at

754
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech. Right, I ended up kicking off there after

755
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 3: my red shirt year. Okay, Like that's not enough. I

756
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 3: want more than that. I felt like I was I

757
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 3: was competing with the starting kicker and punter, and statistically

758
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 3: in practice I was doing better. But I don't know

759
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 3: if they thought I was too mature or I wasn't

760
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 3: ready physically what it was, because like I said, like

761
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 3: I shot up from five to five to six three.

762
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 3: So my freshman year of college, I was still.

763
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 4: Bones the bones.

764
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 3: I couldn't bench one thirty five. So I felt like

765
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech was like a hard nose, like lunch pel defense,

766
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 3: gritty team who like really respected.

767
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 4: Guys who were like physical and big and mean and tough,

768
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 4: and you know me.

769
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: You know my personality.

770
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,239
Speaker 3: I'm taller now, I'm more muscular now, but like early on,

771
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 3: like I didn't, I couldn't gain that respect. So you know,

772
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 3: there was one meeting where I met with a special

773
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 3: teams coordinator after it was an off seasons, after spring game,

774
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 3: I went what was it, two for two on field

775
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 3: goals and the starter went one for three, And after

776
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 3: that there was a press conference. They said that the

777
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 3: other kicker was still their guy. So I went to

778
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: my spect team square. I'm like, hey, I want more

779
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 3: for myself. I can do this. I want to be

780
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 3: the guy. I've proved it time and time again. And

781
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 3: he's like, he's like, you can't do that. You you

782
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:19,959
Speaker 3: can't be the star here. I told her, I want

783
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: to play in the NFL. That's why I wanted to

784
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 3: be the guy.

785
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 4: And he's like, he's like, NFL, that's not it's not reasonable. There.

786
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 3: Wow, I don't even I don't even feel bad like

787
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 3: talking about it. I'm he's not a light a fire

788
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 3: out there anymore. And you know, so I'm like, I

789
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 3: want to enter the portal. Yeah, I can't reach my

790
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 3: goal if i'm if I'm here and I'm not. If

791
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 3: i'm I'm not playing. And I've never quit anything in

792
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: my life. So I was the biggest decision I'd ever

793
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 3: had to make is leaving there and Virginia Texas the

794
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 3: team I grew up liking to my my grandfather liked

795
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 3: that was his favorite team, my dad and my all

796
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 3: my friends, you know. Bet On myself got a scholarship

797
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 3: at Penn State.

798
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 4: Went there.

799
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 3: First year, I I did long I did kickoffs, and

800
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 3: I did long field goal.

801
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 4: Step in the right direction.

802
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: Next year, I kicked off and I kicked it was

803
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 3: the line had moved in, so I was kicking more

804
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 3: field goals. The punter ahead of me was Blake Gilligan.

805
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 3: He's the punter at Arizona. He got her earlier in

806
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 3: the year, but he's doing really well. He's a great punter.

807
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: So I wasn't punting. It wasn't really like I thought

808
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 3: after he graduated that I maybe would be the punter.

809
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 4: I could be the punter.

810
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 3: But that year went well, kicked off, kicked longer field goals,

811
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 3: the line went in a little bit, so I was

812
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 3: a step in the right direction. Then my senior year finally,

813
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 3: or is the next year, Yeah, I got the punning job.

814
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 3: Blake Gilligan graduated, Yep, he's gone, so then I'm punning.

815
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 3: I ended up holding that year for the kicker and

816
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 3: I was kicking off, so step in the right direction.

817
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 3: After that, I had a terrible junior By the way,

818
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 3: it was, it was COVID year and we played later

819
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 3: in the season and it was in Penn State.

820
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 4: It was freezing cold.

821
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 3: The football we used is it was the worst football

822
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 3: you could possibly use as a specialist. Yeah, so that

823
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 3: was that was Yeah, was really tough. Then finally senior year,

824
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 3: I talked to quarterback.

825
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 4: He switched footballs. I got him to switch football. Sean Clifford,

826
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 4: he's quarterback, switched footballs.

827
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

828
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 3: That's my argument was the ball we used before was

829
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 3: so narrow. I'm like, hey, man, like, you want to

830
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 3: go to the NFL too, right, He's like yeah. I

831
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 3: was like, well, you can't, like with this football, They're

832
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 3: going to say you're hand small or something like, you

833
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 3: wouln't want to use this football because when the NFL,

834
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 3: like is scouting you, they don't want to be like, oh,

835
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 3: well he uses this football. The NFL football is way big, right,

836
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 3: He's not gonna be able.

837
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: To show he switched for me. And there you go.

838
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 4: I owe him.

839
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 3: I owe him a lot because that football made a

840
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 3: big difference. My junior year, I was eleventh out of

841
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 3: twelve teams in the Big Ten. Yeah and punting yeah.

842
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 3: And then my senior year I was first with the

843
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 3: changes to the ball. Of course, hard work as well,

844
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 3: and I'd matured and I got bigger, stronger.

845
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

846
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that's our path through college. Well I didn't

847
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 4: ask me a.

848
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 7: Question about it, but no, I just kind of well,

849
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 7: you were meant to be a Raven because you know,

850
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 7: when I was looking up your hometown, I noticed that

851
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 7: you grew up fifteen minutes from a town called Raven.

852
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, Raven, there you go.

853
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, my uh, my grandparents live close to Raven, really

854
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 3: close to Raven.

855
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: It was all meant to be. Never know the whole story.

856
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: You never thought about that, that the whole story. It

857
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: led you here, man, And then to the Pro Bowl.

858
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 3: So the whole point, like what I was saying, I

859
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 3: started with my hometown, got into college, had some hardships,

860
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 3: but it's bet on yourself.

861
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 4: It's that That's the that's the message I wanted to

862
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 4: get out there.

863
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 3: It's like it's not supposed to be able to happen

864
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 3: from there, but like if you put your mind to it,

865
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 3: like you can do it, and if you set the

866
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 3: goal you can't achieve it.

867
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

868
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I truly believe that, like especially now today because

869
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 3: it finally happened.

870
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, totally living testament. Well, congratulations Jordan, thanks for

871
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 2: joining us.

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Speaker 6: Thank you guys, thanks.

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Speaker 2: Gambler must be twenty one or order to play so well,

884
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 2: big thanks to Jordan, and he's having an awesome season.

885
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 2: I mean, he's number one in the NFL in punting

886
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 2: average at forty four point nine yards. He's number three

887
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 2: in gross average at fifty point five yards, So I

888
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: mean he's right up there. He's at the top, and

889
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: it's good to see a guy who you know, it

890
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 2: was kind of a roller coaster first three years, as

891
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 2: he described, and for him to really take off this year,

892
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 2: it was great for the Ravens and great for him

893
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 2: personally and his his pocketbook eventually.

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00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, very likable guy.

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00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, we saw his personality and yes, he cares deeply

896
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 6: about what he does. I mean, he says he wants

897
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 6: to be the greatest punter ever. I mean, when you

898
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 6: have that type of motivation, you're not going to stop

899
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 6: just making your first Pro Bowl yep.

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Speaker 5: And sometimes when you.

901
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 6: Get an accolae like that, it actually frees you to

902
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 6: go on and be your best. I mean, he's really

903
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 6: wanted to for a long time show that. Hey, they

904
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,439
Speaker 6: spent a fourth round pick on me, I'm worthy of that,

905
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be a great punter. Well this year he

906
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 6: has been a great punter, the best in the NFL, YEP.

907
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 6: And he's got that type of talent and motivation where

908
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 6: from this point on he could really take off.

909
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just incredible. The story of like, you know,

910
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 2: it really didn't come together until senior year of college.

911
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 2: You know, in high school he was really more interested

912
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 2: in you know, he's playing soccer really growing up. So

913
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 2: it really is a testament to man, like, if you

914
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: want to chase it, like you said, just go chase it,

915
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have struggles and it's not gonna come together,

916
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 2: and then sometimes it it'll click and and just keep

917
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: going after it.

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Speaker 1: So pretty awesome.

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00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 2: The Ravens, uh, you know, their fourth round investment paid off,

920
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 2: and hopefully he's here for a long time. He's I'm

921
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 2: sure gonna have some suitors, but the Ravens kept Sam

922
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 2: Cook here for a long time, got numerous extensions done

923
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 2: with him.

924
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: Hopefully the same thing happens to Jordan Stout.

925
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 6: Well, right, he said he wants to finish his career here,

926
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 6: doesn't want to kick anywhere else. Certainly, the Ravens want

927
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 6: to keep him. So usually when both sides wanted to

928
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 6: happen that badly, it does. And either way, though he's

929
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 6: obviously taken advantage of being in his contract year, it's

930
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 6: a great story for him.

931
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 5: I love the story about, you.

932
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 6: Know, the Virginia Tech coach who told him he wasn't

933
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 6: going to make it in the NFL. He wasn't a

934
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 6: realistic dream. Sometimes that's exactly what you need to hear,

935
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 6: someone telling you you can't do something, and he did it,

936
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 6: so kudos to him.

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00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 2: Hey, sure, a quick story. This is my college editor

938
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 2: told me the same thing. College newspaper after freshman year said, no,

939
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 2: you were not advancing you, buddy. You're covering the same

940
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 2: cross country beat you covered last year. I don't know, Cliff,

941
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 2: you ever cover cross country. It is not an especially

942
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: sexy beat.

943
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 6: No, my BRIEFIX it was I want to do something.

944
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: Covering the NFL is a lot more exciting. I'll tell

945
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: you the cover a little bit.

946
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 2: You know, hate to the cross country runners out there,

947
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: but you know, and hey, that little fire under me

948
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 2: in my career and yeah, when somebody says you can't, man,

949
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to show you.

950
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to show you I.

951
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 2: Can, and so kudos to Jordan Stout for doing exactly that.

952
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 2: And Jordan's one of six Pro bowlers for the Ravens.

953
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 2: It's tied for the most in the NFL with the

954
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks, the forty nine ers, and the Temver Broncos.

955
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 2: So the Ravens other Pro bowlers along with Jordan's Stout,

956
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 2: it's wide receivers A Flowers, It's fullback Patrick Ricard, inside

957
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 2: linebacker Rokwan Smith, safety Kyle Hamilton, and then the last

958
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: one is center Tyler Linderbaum. And so congrats to all

959
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: six of those guys, very well deserved.

960
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: Cliff. Did you have any other takeaways from the Ravens

961
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: Pro Bowlers.

962
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 6: Well, that's just that, Yeah, I mean, the Ravens have

963
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 6: a nucleus of players who you have to we are

964
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 6: Jordan was his fir, but the rest of them, you know,

965
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,439
Speaker 6: they've done this before, and yeah, they have a high

966
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 6: standard for themselves. And yeah, it's just part of a

967
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 6: nucleus of Ravens that you know are keeping them I think,

968
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 6: you know, for years to come in that kind of

969
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 6: Ravens culture of you look at the Ravens roster Pro

970
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 6: bowlers from their inception. You know, we've got Hall of Famers,

971
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 6: got peopled every position. So yeah, I mean again, even

972
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 6: though the phase of the Ravens haven't had the kind

973
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 6: of season they've won it, they've definitely had some players

974
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 6: who've excelled.

975
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's kind of the thing. You love

976
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: to see it. You love it for those guys. It

977
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: reinforces that. Man, the Ravens had one of the most

978
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 2: talented rosters in the NFL this season, you know, and

979
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 2: the guys that were alternates, you know, Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry,

980
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews. I mean, absolutely superstars, some of the best

981
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 2: in their games. So that's not even among the six, right,

982
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 2: Ronnie Stanley, Right, Like they the list goes on beyond

983
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: those six stars that the Ravens have had, and to

984
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: your point, obviously they haven't had as a team. It

985
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: just hasn't come together for a variety of reasons that

986
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: we've talked about many times on this podcast. So like,

987
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: you know, it's a little bit of you're like, man,

988
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 2: all those other teams that had six Pro bowlers to

989
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 2: go into the playoffs. The Ravens are on the brink

990
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 2: and it's not over maybe they still get in, but

991
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 2: it kind of does reinforce this. This was a very

992
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 2: good team, and yeah, it's kind of just a shame

993
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 2: that it didn't come all together as much as they hoped.

994
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: Maybe it still will if they get into the playoffs.

995
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 6: You never know, I mean at this point, yeah, try

996
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 6: and when obviously sat and then see what happens. But

997
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 6: certainly again that nucleus of town as long as it

998
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 6: keeps coming in.

999
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: Well, and it's young.

1000
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 2: I mean, you look at all those guys, Rokwan and

1001
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 2: Ricarder really the only kind of thirty year old you know,

1002
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 2: they're vets right right, and but those other guys are

1003
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 2: all very young players, and the Ravens are going to

1004
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 2: have some contract decisions on some of them. Jordan Stout.

1005
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 2: I mean, you have Tyler Linderbaums in a contract year.

1006
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,959
Speaker 2: You have Zay Flowers just finished year three. He's gonna

1007
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 2: be eligible for an extension. They got to decide on

1008
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 2: the fifth year option with him, which is not gonna

1009
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 2: be cheap for a wide receiver. And so like this

1010
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 2: is always the it's great you have great young talent,

1011
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 2: now you gotta pay it right, And so it's kind

1012
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 2: of the catch twenty two.

1013
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's what I want to say.

1014
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 6: I mean, better to have that problem than having guys

1015
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 6: and I can't.

1016
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:33,959
Speaker 5: Wait to give it to this guy.

1017
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 6: It's better to have too many players who well, let's

1018
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 6: pace a No team can keep every player that they

1019
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 6: want to.

1020
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 5: That's the salary capriality. Yep.

1021
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 6: But yes, when you keep bringing in talent, even when

1022
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 6: you lose one or two, when you talk about six

1023
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 6: Pro Bowlers more alternates, you know, when you get up

1024
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 6: to almost sometimes ten eleven guys going to the Pro

1025
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 6: Bowl one way or another, you can keep on having

1026
00:43:59,239 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 6: good teams.

1027
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Speaker 2: That twenty two draft class was pretty great, speaking of

1028
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 2: I mean you talk about Kyle Hamilton, Tyler Lindenbaum, now

1029
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 2: multi year Pro Bowls for both of those guys, and

1030
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 2: now also Jordan Stout. Oh and plus Travis Jones, who

1031
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 2: you just gave a big contractor session two like that

1032
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 2: twenty two draft class just keeps looking better and better.

1033
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 2: So big thanks to Jordan Stout, Big thanks for our

1034
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Speaker 2: listeners and viewers for watching.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back later.

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Speaker 2: This week to get you ready for that big Ravens

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