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Speaker 1: Jake, how you doing? IM good? How are you all right?

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Speaker 1: Good to see you. I think it if I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 1: it might be the first time you've had a chance

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you since the off season. So

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Speaker 1: how was the off season? What were some of the

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Speaker 1: exciting things you got to do? Yeah, it was a

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Speaker 1: good off season. I had a chance to go back home,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the beach weather a little bit, and focus on

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Speaker 1: planning a lot more and just winning my technique for

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Speaker 1: this season. Yeah. And then to follow up with you,

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Speaker 1: where where four practices here into camp? How do you

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Speaker 1: feel like things are going. We saw some punt team

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Speaker 1: work out there the last couple a couple of these

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Speaker 1: last sessions. Yeah, it's going great. Just trying to get

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Speaker 1: better each and every day and being as consistent as possible.

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Speaker 1: Next question, Eric grew sorry about that, Jake, I was

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Speaker 1: I was onlying with With all the COVID restrictions, Was

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Speaker 1: it a little easier for you to practice just because

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Speaker 1: it's something you kind of do on your own, Like

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Speaker 1: did that make your life maybe a little bit easier?

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Speaker 1: And now that it's easy? But yeah, well I already

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Speaker 1: had to stand fifteen yards away from the snappers, so

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Speaker 1: it's built into the position. But because you don't need

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Speaker 1: you don't really need anyone when you're practicing alone, right,

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Speaker 1: you don't. Yeah, there's there's different types of workouts I

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Speaker 1: can get. Sometimes I can punt out of hands. I'm

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Speaker 1: just like spinning it to myself and that's good work.

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Speaker 1: But it's also a lot better when I'm catching snaps

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Speaker 1: from Joe from Cardona, a lot more realistic to a

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Speaker 1: game situation. I was kind of hanging around him trying

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Speaker 1: to get as many ready this off season, and is

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Speaker 1: there is it almost like when you, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: if I go to the practice range for golf, like

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to hit shots a certain distance, and I had,

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Speaker 1: like I played games in my head to keep it interesting.

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Speaker 1: Do you start of have to do the same thing

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Speaker 1: when you're putting working like, well, let's see if I

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Speaker 1: can pain this exactly on the three and stuff like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you play games when you're out there practicing, Like you'll

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Speaker 1: find a trash can on the side of the field

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Speaker 1: and try and hit it into the trash can to

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Speaker 1: simulate dropping it right on the five, or I also

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Speaker 1: have landmarks, like you're always just trying to get it

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Speaker 1: as close to the sideline as possible. So just practicing good,

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Speaker 1: realistic game reps anytime you can. Next question A Marth Jake.

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Speaker 1: I remember talking last year about holding. You talked about

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Speaker 1: having to work with so many different kickers. How's it

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Speaker 1: been so far working with Justin for Holding. It's just

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Speaker 1: always been working with me and Joe and just trying

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Speaker 1: to maintain chemistry and just get better each and every

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Speaker 1: day with our operations, trying to make sure we can't

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Speaker 1: be as smooth as possible and each and every kicker

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Speaker 1: as it is, a different preference is so it's just

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Speaker 1: trying to be able to cater to each kickers as

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Speaker 1: well as I can. Does it seem like this last

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Speaker 1: year it adjust to three different kickers and now there's

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Speaker 1: a new kicker and are kind of just waiting for

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Speaker 1: it to be like, all right, I've got a guy

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Speaker 1: that I'm used to in a routine that I'm used to.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm just trying to get comfortable with my process,

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Speaker 1: get comfortable with Joe's process, UM, and we're ready for

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Speaker 1: whatever we're I'm comfortable with whatever kicker is UM in

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Speaker 1: front of me. Thank you. Next question, Eric Crew Jake,

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Speaker 1: with the success you did have last year, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what do you think, what do you need to what

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Speaker 1: do you look and do improve on? Can you say

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Speaker 1: that when we're talking you broke up a little bit?

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Speaker 1: Sorry with with the success that you did have last season,

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Speaker 1: What's what's the number one thing you're trying to improve

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Speaker 1: on or what do you what do you want to

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Speaker 1: get better at right now? Well, as a specialist, consistency

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Speaker 1: is key, and I'm just always trying to be the

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Speaker 1: most consistent hunters and kickoff guy and holders can be

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Speaker 1: just trying to make sure every practice rep I take

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Speaker 1: is meaningful so that each game rep is just that

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Speaker 1: much easier. And I don't know if you saw I

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Speaker 1: can't remember and I'm part of not remember who it was,

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Speaker 1: but I saw a kicker. I think so that with

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Speaker 1: no fans in the stands, it's could possibly affect the wind.

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Speaker 1: And you started thinking about stuff like that is I mean,

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Speaker 1: if do you even put anything into that or uh,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be climate, There's gonna be wind, whatever rain,

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Speaker 1: any situation. You go play a football game in um,

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Speaker 1: I go out there and perform whatever play in front

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Speaker 1: of me. So I'm not too worried about thinking about

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Speaker 1: what fans get paid the weather at all. Well, he said,

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Speaker 1: the fans, like not having them in the stand might

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Speaker 1: actually increase the wind, which is going to then affect

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Speaker 1: the distances the balls are gonna go. You know, I

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Speaker 1: have no idea. I'm actually thanks. Next question my Greece cheek.

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Speaker 1: You guys have the change and the special team's coach

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Speaker 1: with Joe no longer there, How has that affected you? Um,

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Speaker 1: it's just next man up. Um has been great and uh,

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Speaker 1: he knows our process. I know his process. It's been

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Speaker 1: an awesome thing. And I'm one of the things we

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Speaker 1: watched in practice. I want to say it might have

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Speaker 1: been two days ago you were doing some of the

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Speaker 1: punts and trying to get him down, you know, inside

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Speaker 1: the ten or close to the goal line. UM, I

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Speaker 1: know we talked a lot about that last year as well. UM,

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Speaker 1: can you take us through that and sort of what

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Speaker 1: you're trying to I mean, obviously where I know what

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Speaker 1: technique that goes into that, like what you're trying to

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Speaker 1: refine on that particular part. Sure, it all has to

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Speaker 1: do with the drop of the punt and angle the

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Speaker 1: nose down so that you can put the ball and

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Speaker 1: make the ball have backspin. It's not a hopefully process

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Speaker 1: that it will always have backspin. The ball kind of

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Speaker 1: bounces forward sometimes, but um it gives it the best

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Speaker 1: shot for it to have hang time. And if not

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Speaker 1: bounce backwards, it'll bounce straight up and Slater will be

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Speaker 1: down there and usually that ends in a good play.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, yeah, all right, thank you Jake, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you