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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Legends Podcast, an NFL podcast for

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Speaker 1: the players, by the players. Here is your host, four

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Speaker 1: team year NFL veteran and Hall of Famer Anius Williams.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Legends Podcast. I'm Chad Pennington, guest hosting

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Speaker 1: for Nius Williams. We are recording this today in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: where the NFL's Youth Football Advisory Committee just hosted the

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Speaker 1: first Legends Coaching Clinic. Each of the thirty two NFL

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Speaker 1: clubs have selected an NFL legend who has gone into

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Speaker 1: coaching to participate in our clinic. We have had an

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Speaker 1: absolute blast with all of these legends. Uh this week

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Speaker 1: and today with me is Mike Koefer from a place

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Speaker 1: kicker for the Saints, forty Niners and Colts. Mike, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for being here. I love to be here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Chaff. We have talked about in our clinic, Mike,

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Speaker 1: just how coaches have influenced us in our careers and

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Speaker 1: even post career. Uh. Can you talk about who you

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Speaker 1: try and emulate when you're out there coaching and some

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Speaker 1: of the coaches that may have made an impact in

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Speaker 1: your life. Yeah. Um, you know we talked to our

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Speaker 1: kids a lot. And I'll preface you know what the

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Speaker 1: general information you'd like. But we talked to our kids

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Speaker 1: a lot about in football. You know, when we think

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Speaker 1: back and we think in the high school and even

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Speaker 1: some of the youth days. You know, I tell these kids,

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Speaker 1: you know, I played baseball, I played basketball, I played football,

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Speaker 1: I played soccer. We all get together twenty thirty years later,

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Speaker 1: I want kids to understand that that that those ideals

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Speaker 1: that you know, the things you learned playing football. And

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Speaker 1: two days about those are the components, those are the personalities,

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Speaker 1: Those are the behaviors you know that that you develop

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Speaker 1: on and off the football field being around each other,

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Speaker 1: that will last, you know, a lifetime. Um now to

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Speaker 1: alter back to that, probably the biggest influence in my

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Speaker 1: life coaching wise, other than my dad and my mom,

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Speaker 1: um was my head baseball coach in high school. But

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Speaker 1: but he was that if there's anybody I try to emulate.

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Speaker 1: Ed Walton at Charlotte County Day School just a tremendous man.

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Speaker 1: If I could be half the man that he wasn't

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Speaker 1: a success. From your perspective. What made him tremendous, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I think one it was his passion for

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Speaker 1: the old day, you know, and we call it, we

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Speaker 1: I guess you know that that people probably attributed a

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Speaker 1: and we're not gonna do that. You know, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be about team. When we hit the field, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do it the right way. We're gonna put the work

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Speaker 1: on off days, and then when it's time to play.

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Speaker 1: lot I feel like today, I see a lot of

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Speaker 1: the only way they're going to improve is letting them play,

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Speaker 1: letting them make mistakes, but also letting them be successful

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Speaker 1: so much you. I totally agree with you. We we

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Speaker 1: whole lot. But um, you know, just seeing seeing meet

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Speaker 1: game is great. But then also you know, the way

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Speaker 1: the way the legend community you know, um integrated, you

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Speaker 1: They want to be successful, you know, they want to

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Speaker 1: work hard. It's just the the confines that they're doing

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Speaker 1: They play on machines. You know. We went out and

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Speaker 1: It's there. So, you know, I feel like there was

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate you letting me ramble, absolutely, and I

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Speaker 1: You know, the true respect for the time and effort

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Speaker 1: to control that narrative. And Mike, this has been fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed talking with you and thanks so much

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