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Speaker 1: Welcome in, Welcome back, another episode of Texan's Huddle. I

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Speaker 1: am indeed here is Drew and the player of the game,

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Speaker 1: player of the week, player of the month, depending on

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Speaker 1: the position in the side of the ball. Kimie Fairbaren

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Speaker 1: is joining us here in Texan Huddle. Typically as a

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Speaker 1: former defensive lineman, we don't get a chance to really

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Speaker 1: talk to special teamers, the kickers and stuff. But man,

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Speaker 1: what you've done here, what you've been doing, it is

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Speaker 1: pretty impressive. And welcome to Texans Huddle and congratulations on

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Speaker 1: the success.

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Speaker 2: Pleasure for all that. Yeah, happy to be here this squad.

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Speaker 1: I will say that I've always wanted to ask this

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Speaker 1: question to kickers. What's going through the mind? What's going

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Speaker 1: through your mind? You just came off of the game

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Speaker 1: winning field goal. What's the thought process before you swing

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Speaker 1: that leg before?

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Speaker 2: I've learned that simple thoughts are best.

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Speaker 3: You know, when you try to clutter your mind with

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Speaker 3: a lot of things, it kind of makes things messy.

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Speaker 3: So the routine of it, you know, building that through

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Speaker 3: pract this, through the season, through the off season, all

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Speaker 3: that controlling your thought and eliminating distractions, things that don't matter,

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Speaker 3: you know, situation you know, the period of the game,

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Speaker 3: whatever it may be, and just focusing. You know, for me,

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Speaker 3: it's my breath and like connecting to the ground my feet.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of feel. For me, it's less about thought.

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Speaker 3: More about feel and then you just let it rip,

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Speaker 3: you know, just trust and know and let it rip.

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Speaker 1: That's very interesting, you know, to be like one with

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Speaker 1: the ground. That sounds pretty cool. Like do you do

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Speaker 1: you practice that? You know what you're saying. Do you

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Speaker 1: practice the breathing? Do you practice the thought process during

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Speaker 1: the week?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely after a certain period, Like for me, it's less

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Speaker 3: about technique. I do practice all my technique obviously it's

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Speaker 3: important part. But after that then it becomes you know, mental.

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Speaker 3: You know, kicking is one hundred percent mental to me.

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Speaker 3: After you know, it's similar to the golf, like you

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Speaker 3: have your swing and now you just have to trust

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Speaker 3: your swing. So being able to connect to my breath,

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Speaker 4: Sounds like a peaceful process there for Kayami Fairbairn, and

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Speaker 4: it really is on the way up. But I was

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Speaker 4: at about the fifteen yard line on the textan sideline

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Speaker 4: and I had my phone out.

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Speaker 5: I was focused just on you.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even like follow the ball, but it was

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Speaker 4: interesting to watch, and I stayed I didn't look.

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Speaker 5: I didn't see what was going on.

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Speaker 4: You kick it, you kind of watch, and then you

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Speaker 4: sort of stroll off towards the sideline. You take off

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Speaker 4: your helmet, throw it on the ground and flex and

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Speaker 4: the place goes at least that sideline goes bananas. The

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Speaker 4: crowd goes pretty quiet there in Tennessee. What what was

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Speaker 4: the was the emotion? How good did it feel? What

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Speaker 4: do you remember after after it left your foot?

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Speaker 2: There wasn't a lot of thoughts after.

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Speaker 3: It was all in that moment of the kick, and

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Speaker 3: then honestly, it was just like just emotion after that.

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Speaker 3: My favorite part of that whole thing. And it's like,

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Speaker 3: because I've had game winners before, but watching other kickers

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Speaker 3: it's the guys on the field, but the sideline, that's

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Speaker 3: what I love. I like watching that seeing how the

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Speaker 2: Is what I love. So I wish I would have

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Speaker 2: like those guys are it's such a thankless job.

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Speaker 3: Weeks and all those guys like blocking, like that's such

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Speaker 3: a thankless job. So first, you know, thank them, and

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Speaker 3: then to the sideline is just like the brothers. You know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, how much of that joy that was in there?

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Speaker 4: How much of that was being gone for so long?

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Speaker 4: And I kind of talked about this with you after

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Speaker 2: Oh no doubt.

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Speaker 5: We'll get till that later.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was tough watching, but you know, when things

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Speaker 3: our last few years haven't been easy, so you know,

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Speaker 3: having these you call it stress of you know, a

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Speaker 3: enjoy that stress because you know what it's like to

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Speaker 3: not have that, you know, in December Games. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: But now it's different and there's there's meaning behind it,

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Speaker 2: and it it makes it more special for sure.

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Speaker 6: When do you know it's good?

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Speaker 1: Like this last kid we'll focus on that, is that

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Speaker 1: as soon as it's off the foot, like do you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much immediately when I when I hit it.

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Speaker 3: But honestly, before that, you know, like you in those

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Speaker 2: You know, you have to you have to know.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I've learned that through experience with missing and

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Speaker 1: So you say before are you saying, like, before you

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Speaker 1: actually make contact, you're like, I know this was going

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's just a mental mind set.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, when I hit the ball, then yeah, then

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Speaker 3: it's like that one came off good.

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Speaker 6: Oh nice, and it's nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But before I forget because VanderMeer told me to

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Speaker 1: ask you how your golf swing or how golf helps

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Speaker 4: Oh, you're the best golfer on the team right now.

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Speaker 3: Right, I would say case probably. We haven't really had

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Speaker 3: a matchup. We his handicaps better than mine and he's

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Speaker 3: got a few more. Uh, he's got some cool hookups.

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Speaker 3: You knows some good courses, so that was important too.

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Speaker 3: So I you know he's I hope to play to

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Speaker 2: We know we keep it light.

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Speaker 3: But it's fun for my golf skin. Compared to my

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Speaker 2: Is just the same. The technique, Uh, there's.

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Speaker 3: A lot more aspects of golf where you have to

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Speaker 3: where kicking you're just hitting you know.

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Speaker 2: Your best ball. So that's a little bit different.

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Speaker 3: But when you're getting into the game, it's like, you know,

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Speaker 3: whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: You need to hit a putt, a chip. That's important.

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Speaker 3: It's like, how do you develop that that on switch,

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Speaker 3: that focus switch. And that's what I try to do

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Speaker 2: I guess you.

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Speaker 4: Grew up your hell of a soccer player growing up

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Speaker 4: in Hawaii. You pick up football there in high school,

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Speaker 4: I believe when did golf come into the game into

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Speaker 2: I was on the golf my senior year.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so high school.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't serious. It was just kind of you.

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Speaker 5: Get out of school for the day, right exactly.

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Speaker 2: And you get to hang out on a golf course

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Speaker 3: After that, you know, my dad got me a set,

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Speaker 4: Andy, and I have heard this from a few of

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Speaker 4: your counterparts have been on the show, that the golf

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Speaker 2: You keep going absolutely bit me.

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Speaker 3: And then, yeah, I spent a lot of time wildcat

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's just kind of been something I've continued

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Speaker 6: Did you take lessons?

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Speaker 2: I did? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Do that like when you take these lessons it is

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Speaker 1: kind of similar to being coached up on out to

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Speaker 1: because everybody who I talked to who's really into golf,

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Speaker 1: I'm not because I'm horrible at it. It took me

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 1: They just talked about how such a different approach and

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Speaker 2: But yeah, to say this, like for golf, it's like.

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Speaker 3: You're not naturally good at golf. No one is, or

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Speaker 3: and you do. But with a golf coach, to me,

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Speaker 3: it's like they if you don't have a golf coach,

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Speaker 3: of what you need to focus on, what your tendencies are.

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Speaker 2: So that's helped a lot for me.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to kicking because I played

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Speaker 1: with one of the greats. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: remember the name David Akers. He was a kicker with

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Speaker 1: can't remember if he put it out there, but we

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Speaker 1: just knew, like, you know what, don't go say hey,

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Speaker 1: you got this or we're with you no matter what,

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Speaker 1: we just stayed away. Is that something that's common in

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Speaker 1: before the kick.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've never had that conversation with anybody about stay away

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Speaker 3: the way things have gone, I've naturally just kind of

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Speaker 2: Bubble, I guess of bubble of focus.

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Speaker 3: And you know, if someone did come up to me,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes I mean think about it, talk with

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Speaker 3: That's who kind of brought the love to me showing

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Speaker 1: Why do you think we as a country have not

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Speaker 6: Like the rest of the world.

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Speaker 1: Has well we're literally the only country and my parents

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Speaker 3: Might be the flopping out of the soft Yeah it

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Speaker 5: But it's growing though soccer it's not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not what some of the other sports are,

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Speaker 4: You know what we did, he said, boys, get in

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Speaker 4: And that's that was our soccer. Whereas I've got boys, wow,

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Speaker 1: It may be growing on the little league level because

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Speaker 4: I just feel like this didn't exist, Like people didn't

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Speaker 6: Well, they didn't have the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: But I I don't see our best athletes still playing.

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Speaker 1: Look at Kaymi, he said, you know what' screw soccer.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play football. And he's a football star now.

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Speaker 1: I actually would, but uh, and I get what you're saying, Drew,

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying We're gonna win the World Cup next summer.

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Speaker 4: Soccer is getting more popular. I'm not saying it's overtaking anything.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say the best ones are necessarily, but

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Speaker 4: Man, we're er en off course because you've got Kayeni

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Speaker 4: Fairbarn here. Kaymie, You're unless something weird happens. You are

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Speaker 4: Four field goals, two of them beyond fifty the game winner.

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Speaker 4: How sweet has this season been? You alluded to it earlier,

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Speaker 2: Man? Yeah, I think you find your love when it's

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Speaker 6: You know why?

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Speaker 2: You know, if you're not winning, what do you love?

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Speaker 3: That's what that period of you know, those three years

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Speaker 2: Special, and you feel that in the brotherhood and you know,

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Speaker 3: You know, the fans like people coming back and you know,

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Speaker 1: Is there a different mindset when and you're kicking for

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Speaker 2: I try not to. I try to not let it

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Speaker 3: You know, if we're winning or losing in the game,

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Speaker 2: If you're losing, so I try to let that bother me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was good for the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Before it was just I mean, the guys at

441
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,640
Speaker 3: this level, they're you're just not kind of miss that.

442
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,280
Speaker 3: So having to turn on that switch, like I said,

443
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,440
Speaker 3: and pats, they matter, especially, you know if it's you're

444
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,200
Speaker 3: We had that situation this past weekend where we scored

445
00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:13,640
Speaker 3: late and we needed to tie the game.

446
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:14,680
Speaker 2: That thirty three.

447
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:19,120
Speaker 3: Now becomes a little bit more pressure. And when you're

448
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,199
Speaker 3: on the practice field alone, it's like, thirty three, how

449
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,199
Speaker 3: do I this looks close? And then you get to

450
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,159
Speaker 3: the game, it's like, oh, that looks a little farther

451
00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 3: right now. But that's just you know, just just thoughts

452
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 3: and yeah, like I said, get back to your routine

453
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 3: and make the kick.

454
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Speaker 4: And hell, it paid off for the Texas because what

455
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Speaker 4: they do, what the Titans do on the very first

456
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Speaker 4: drive of the game, they score the touchdown and they

457
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Speaker 4: missed the pat So you you guys were tied at

458
00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 4: the end of the game and you go in overtime

459
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 4: that every point matters. Like we say, Case, Keenum, that's

460
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 4: your ping pong partner, right, it's my boy. What how

461
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,480
Speaker 4: fierce are these ping pong because I've seen glimpses of

462
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Speaker 4: them when we come to the locker room to interview

463
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Speaker 4: you guys after practices sometimes, Yeah, those.

464
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Speaker 3: Might be one of my favorite times of the week,

465
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Speaker 3: no doubt. We we have our own We got lyft

466
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,399
Speaker 3: and all this stuff, so we try to squeeze it

467
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 3: in when we can. There's a lot of always media

468
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 3: getting in our way when so we give them a

469
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Speaker 3: little entertainment. But Case is probably the best pingle player

470
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Speaker 3: I ever played. So we've had some heated battles.

471
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Speaker 4: And I've seen you, uh seen you messing around with

472
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Speaker 4: Titus Howard. Also, he's pretty good teys, all right, you

473
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 4: can take him.

474
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 3: He doesn't have a backhand. So it's just I mean,

475
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,680
Speaker 3: you can play around, you.

476
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Speaker 4: Know, I gotta get y'all's perspectives because you're you're both

477
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Speaker 4: will have perspective on it. So you've been here, and

478
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Speaker 4: I'm sure ping pong tables have been here and then

479
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Speaker 4: been taken away quietly. And I'm guessing was there ever

480
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Speaker 4: a ping pong table in your career in Washington Philadelphia?

481
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Speaker 1: Oh, there's definitely one, but it just collected dust. It

482
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Speaker 1: was all about the Xbox and PlayStation. I don't play

483
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Speaker 1: any of those. I'm more there domino guy, but uh

484
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Speaker 1: we the only time we did ping pong was during

485
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Speaker 1: training camp at Lehigh University and Koy Detmer backup quarterback

486
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Speaker 1: was by are the best ping pong player.

487
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Speaker 4: So all the skill guys excuse me, the specialist in

488
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Speaker 4: the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's usually how it goes. Where is it now?

490
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Speaker 6: Where is it now?

491
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Speaker 2: The ping pong take the middle of our locker room,

492
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Speaker 2: really center court. Yep.

493
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Speaker 6: You don't have to set it up every day and

494
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Speaker 6: or is it.

495
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Speaker 3: Just it's there and then obviously when the games come

496
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Speaker 3: around in the weekend, we'll take it out.

497
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's pretty much pretty much permanent.

498
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we definitely did not have it.

499
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Speaker 4: I've always found it fascinating because I don't think it matters.

500
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Speaker 4: But you'll see sometimes coaches just yank it out and

501
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 4: say like not say, but like this, we've got to

502
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 4: get focused back on football, and then you know a

503
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 4: few years later creeps back in. You know, what's your

504
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Speaker 4: what's your thought on that?

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Speaker 3: Oh good question, my mindset behind it. I always welcome competition.

506
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Speaker 3: I think that's good wherever you may find it. It

507
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Speaker 3: just creates that, you know, and then plus on top

508
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Speaker 3: of that, I think it's a great warm up moving

509
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Speaker 3: your feet, And I like, why wouldn't you want that

510
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Speaker 3: kind of skill? You know, something you work on every day?

511
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Speaker 3: How can that not translate to you know, we got

512
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 3: old linemen playing like Titus, Jimmy, like all these guys.

513
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 3: Davis plays, you know, all the receivers. So to me,

514
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 3: it's just why not obviously keep the main thing the

515
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Speaker 3: main thing?

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00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:11,719
Speaker 2: Two the things you gotta do.

517
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Speaker 3: You gotta take care of responsibilities before you can have fun.

518
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 3: But you know, hopefully we got the right guys in

519
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Speaker 3: the building who are doing that.

520
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Speaker 1: Anyway, he won't say because he's I can say it

521
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Speaker 1: if a coach does that, he's lost the team if

522
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Speaker 1: he's taking away a ping pong table. Let's say you

523
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Speaker 1: have a three game losing streak, and if some boneheaded

524
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Speaker 1: coach and I'm taking away the ping pong table, in

525
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 1: my opinion, you've lost the team, because, just like Connie said,

526
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 1: it's a way to bond if you have players that

527
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: are saying to themselves, you know what, I don't think

528
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna study the playbook. I'm just gonna go play

529
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: ping pong. You have the wrong player anyway. So it

530
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Speaker 1: just feels like a drastic move where grown men who

531
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Speaker 1: love the sport more, if not, you know, as much,

532
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Speaker 1: if not more than the actual coaches. They don't need

533
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 1: to be punished because they're losing. That's more of a

534
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Speaker 1: high school move. If anybody did that when I was

535
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, I would have lost respect for them

536
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Speaker 1: as a coach.

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Speaker 4: I remember seeing when Parcels took over the Cowboys. You know,

538
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 4: all that stuff was gone, it was before games started

539
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 4: and everything. But remember that was a story. All the

540
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 4: ping pong tables are going. It's like, okay, yeah, whatever

541
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Speaker 4: is that why.

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Speaker 1: They lost years ago? And I know Parcels is a great, coach, Sure,

543
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Speaker 1: that's I just now. I would think that most of

544
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Speaker 1: the team would say he's lost us.

545
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Speaker 5: Gotcha?

546
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Speaker 4: All right? So with all that in mind, what's next

547
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Speaker 4: for you guys? You get three games left? This is

548
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 4: a massive, massive showdown Cleveland Browns. Before the season, you think, well,

549
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 4: I don't know what what's gonna what they're gonna look like.

550
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 4: You know, they are a game above the Texans and

551
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 4: the standings. There's a lot to play for both sides.

552
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Speaker 2: Yeah, great, Yeah, great question.

553
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Speaker 3: I think that focus comes in, you know, continuing to

554
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 3: do what we've been doing like every week. It's been

555
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 3: important and I want to say we're getting used to that.

556
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 3: But it's like, okay, you know, that's that's reload, you know,

557
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 3: and this is another big week. We got a lot

558
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 3: of guys were turning from injury, so it's time to

559
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 3: get back to work. And you know, coach and all

560
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 3: our coaches have depend great about resetting us mentally. You know,

561
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 3: whether it's the low of last week coming off the

562
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 3: Jets game, or the high this week of coming off

563
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 3: the win. It's like, Okay, get back to us and

564
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: let's get back to work.

565
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. I've always wondered, but never asked.

566
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Speaker 1: This is what I love about being on this side

567
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: of the mic. Now now the plain days are over

568
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: with kickers and punters, but I'm gonna focus on kicking.

569
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: Do you watch film on the approach of the defense,

570
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Speaker 1: like how they're going to try to block it? Or

571
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Speaker 1: does that like you talked about, does that give you

572
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Speaker 1: too much to think about? Do you focus just on

573
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Speaker 1: what you're doing? But do you ever watch film on

574
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Speaker 1: the opponent?

575
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: Talking about the.

576
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Speaker 6: Field goal blog? Yeah?

577
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah I don't.

578
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 3: I think if I do my job and us as

579
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Speaker 3: an operation do our job.

580
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Speaker 6: Then it doesn't matter.

581
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Speaker 3: It really doesn't matter. And if they do sneak in

582
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 3: somehow and something happens, then you know, move on to

583
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 3: the next kick. So that's just part of the game.

584
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 3: You can't be perfect, know what he is and just

585
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 3: live with that.

586
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: So with that being said, and that's cool to know.

587
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Speaker 1: I just always wondered, do you watch film on yourself?

588
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 6: Yeah?

589
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 2: Absolutely?

590
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 3: Technique wise, I usually go back to, like I said earlier,

591
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 3: the feels of things I was feeling, you know, mentally,

592
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 3: where was my thoughts If I was a little distracted,

593
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: you know, like maybe I was thinking about the wind

594
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 3: or something and not hitting my true ball. That's the

595
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: kind of stuff I try to reflect on.

596
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Speaker 6: All Right, we're gonna take a quick time out. Don't

597
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 6: touch that.

598
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Speaker 1: Dow the player of the week, player of the month

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Speaker 1: sitting right next to us here in Texans Huddle. We'll

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Speaker 1: be right back. Welcome in. Welcome back, Texans Huddle. I'm

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Speaker 1: Indy Kalu. He is Drew Doherty, Kamie Fairbarn joining us

602
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Speaker 1: here in the Texan Huddle. Second segment. Enjoyed the conversation.

603
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Speaker 1: Let me, I'm sure they ask you this all the time,

604
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Speaker 1: and again with my background being of Niger in descent,

605
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: first generation, our names are important. You know, our names

606
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: mean a lot to us. So first and forgive me,

607
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: because again I'm sure you've been asked this million times.

608
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: Can you say your a name and its entirety and

609
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Speaker 1: then kind of talk about the importance of your culture

610
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: of places behind their names.

611
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, of course. So my whole name is John

612
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: Christian and that was given to me.

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Speaker 6: That is so awesome.

614
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a mouth fault.

615
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 3: Truthfully, I didn't learn how to spell it till like

616
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 3: seven or eighth grade, so got to sound it out.

617
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 2: Here and there.

618
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that name, I don't ever remember learning it.

619
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Speaker 3: It's always just I've always just known how to say it.

620
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 3: And it was cool for me kind of the turn

621
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Speaker 3: the page a little bit of like giving a name

622
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Speaker 3: to my son and the meaning that goes behind it.

623
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Speaker 3: And it's like in the Hawaiian culture, it's it's who

624
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 3: you are, you know, and the meaning of it, and

625
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 3: you know it comes from your family. They kind of

626
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 3: give you this name and it's like a gift. And

627
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 3: to me it's kind of like I've strived to live

628
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: by it a little bit, yeah, to get all deep

629
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 3: and stuff, but yeah, to see and give it to

630
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 3: my son, it's it's been a cool process of like

631
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: just going to that next level of thinking about what

632
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 3: you want for somebody. And it's not like a fortune

633
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 3: teller or a fortune cookie or whatever it is. It's

634
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 3: just like a feeling that I had for him. And

635
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: I'm becoming a parent and all that stuff. Like I'm

636
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 3: really thankful for my parents and my family and what

637
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 3: they what they gave to me.

638
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 6: That is awesome.

639
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Speaker 1: So when you had your son, and congratulations on the

640
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: young man. So like in my culture, you're supposed to

641
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: name your firstborn after your father. So all the firstborn

642
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: sons are named that after their grandfather, which you you said,

643
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Speaker 1: it's more of a feeling, it's what you want. Are

644
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: there any rules or guidelines that you're supposed to follow,

645
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: like familiar rules through the family or how does that work?

646
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Speaker 2: A little bit.

647
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 3: They talk about like dreams and stuff. When you have

648
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 3: dreams about your your son or your daughter, whatever it is,

649
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 3: and it's like the.

650
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Speaker 2: I guess you know, the gods of Hawaiian gods or god.

651
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: Whichever you believe, whatever you whatever religion you believed in,

652
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 3: it's like they're telling you, they're giving you a glimpse

653
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 3: of sight into what you want your what they want

654
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: for your kid. And it's almost like a curse not

655
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Speaker 3: to pass that on to him or to her. So yeah,

656
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Speaker 3: just kind of going through that process, it was it

657
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Speaker 3: was cool.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was.

659
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 3: It was learning from my family, my aunties, my uncle's

660
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 3: back home, and kind of picking their brain about how

661
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 3: to go about it. It was special.

662
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 6: Yeah.

663
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 4: So Kaini, what does your full name, your full name mean,

664
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 4: and what does your son's full name mean?

665
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: Yeah?

666
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 3: So mine Emi means to seek and my mom loved

667
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 3: that name and she just didn't want me to seek anything.

668
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 2: You know, you can. You can search for something and

669
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: get lost, you know.

670
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 3: So the whole name means to seek wisdom and talents

671
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 3: with knowledge on a firm foundation.

672
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 2: So yeah, just take that and I tried to live

673
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: by that.

674
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 3: And then my son is Kukuila kila oma Khalie, and

675
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 3: it means strong, poised and standing tall with with with humility,

676
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 3: guided by peace and openness.

677
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well I saw I saw his young son

678
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 4: when he was about seven eight months old at training camp,

679
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 4: and he was always upright and he had nice chubby cheeks.

680
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 5: He looks healthy man, well fed, well fed.

681
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 4: Hey, so turn about his fair play. We've we heard

682
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 4: his and I heard Rick Smith one time when you

683
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 4: and I were doing something about fifteen years ago. He

684
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 4: called you by by what I think is your first name,

685
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 4: but n D Kalue, that's not your lose your initials

686
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 4: for your your first name?

687
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 5: What is your name kyl okay? And what's what's the

688
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 5: meaning of that?

689
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 6: Long life? Prosperity will come all right?

690
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: And the last name is warrior of thunder, So you know,

691
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: similar to Kyamie.

692
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 6: There's a lot of you don't play with your names.

693
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 4: And the.

694
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: Only reason we go by n D is obviously you

695
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: don't want to lose your your culture, your tradition when

696
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: you move over to the States. But at the same time,

697
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: you have to understand when growing up. It's funny when

698
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: I was in elementary and they do role call the

699
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: beginning of the year and you have a new teacher.

700
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: She'll be saying everyone's name this, She'll pause, then all

701
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 1: my friends will be like, oh, it must be your

702
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: term for your name. So you know, when you see

703
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: all that, it's kind of tough for people.

704
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 5: But when you're around the house, what would your parents

705
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 5: call you?

706
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: You know they actually not because they were watering it down.

707
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: But even in Nigeria they call you n D. And

708
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: the reason do that is every boy is named after

709
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: the father's father. So my grandfather had eight sons, so

710
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: all of his sons are named after him. So when

711
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: you're all in the village together, you have to know

712
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: who you're talking to. So n D is induquate DK.

713
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: DK is my dad's name. Then my cousin he's Indu,

714
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: which is his father's name. So that's how you kind

715
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: of know the difference. So that they so they did

716
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: call me nd just so.

717
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 5: You know, like, would your brother?

718
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: Uh so if I had a brother, I have two sisters,

719
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: who is that that's my cousin?

720
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 5: What would he go?

721
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 6: Or M?

722
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: So they'll say or an E or you know, they'll

723
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: say something yes, just to kind of make sure you

724
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: know who you're talking about.

725
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 5: Remember Rick saying he called him?

726
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, he said the government name is

727
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: to say yeah, yeah, but that's very cool. And I've

728
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: I've played with some guys from Hawaii and I've always

729
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: known that it was special. You know, it wasn't just like, oh,

730
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to name them red because that's my favorite car.

731
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool. All right, Back back to the

732
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: sport of football. You know, three games is three or

733
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: four games left?

734
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 6: Game?

735
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,959
Speaker 1: Three games left? How tough is it not to do

736
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: the whole standing?

737
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 6: Watch?

738
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: Like do you watch the standings and say, well, if

739
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: Jacksonville loses this game or this that or the other,

740
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: how tough is it? Just a just focus on what

741
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: we gotta do.

742
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I definitely peak about all that stuff.

743
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 3: Not gonna lie, you know, see how the other games

744
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 3: are gone.

745
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 2: That's just natural.

746
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, But the nice part about our situation is we

747
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 3: control our destiny. So it's just you know, then it

748
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 3: kind of becomes a lot simpler. It's like, hey, you know,

749
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 3: we can do this, and if we put in the effort,

750
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 3: put in control what we can control and whatever else,

751
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,959
Speaker 3: you know, let them do what they want to do.

752
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 4: How much do you kick during the week in practice?

753
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 4: Because I imagine there's a balance. You don't want to

754
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 4: wear yourself out, you got to stay sharp, so on

755
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 4: and so forth.

756
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 5: What's that regiment?

757
00:33:58,760 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 6: Like?

758
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the quality over quantity type thing? For me?

759
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: Usually I kick Wednesday, Fridays and then Sundays obviously.

760
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: So day apart, get the rest after.

761
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 3: The Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and then you know, heavier day

762
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 3: on Wednesday and then sharpen up on Friday and then

763
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 3: let it rip on Sunday.

764
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: You know, I keep asking you about the mental aspect

765
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: because I never envied a kicker, because I'm always like,

766
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: I don't want to be in that, you know, in

767
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: that guy's shoes. What is it like during the game

768
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: where there's three quarters and you haven't even stepped on

769
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: the field, Like are you staying on the bike? Are

770
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 1: you kind of going through the thought process you talked

771
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: about earlier in the show.

772
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, you go through little mental rehearsals.

773
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 3: I guess you'd want to say of like, you know,

774
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 3: maybe the other team had a pah or a field goal,

775
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 3: and you kind of all right, if I was in

776
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 3: that situation, what would I be doing?

777
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: You go through it in your head. But yeah, that's

778
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 2: the hard part for sure, is if.

779
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 3: You haven't touched the field for a while and then

780
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you're you're called upon. Thankfully, I've

781
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 3: been in that situation, so you kind of know how

782
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 3: to manage your You know your body and your emotions,

783
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 3: your mentals. So yeah, I think once you get to

784
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 3: the game time, it's just you know whatever comes comes

785
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 3: and don't resist anything.

786
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: With that being said, do you ever get upset when

787
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: you feel like they're within your range? But not this coach,

788
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: with any coach is playing it too conservative for you?

789
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: Like are you ever thinking yourself, come on, coach, I

790
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: can I can make this.

791
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 3: I think I always have that attitude is if, yeah,

792
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 3: if it's best for the team to punt it and

793
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 3: set us up, then you know, so be it. And

794
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 3: if it is called upon me and I welcome that too,

795
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 3: let's go, So I try to show like if it's

796
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: third down and I'm waiting there on the sideline and

797
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: I creep out, it's like, hey, I'm ready, but if

798
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: whatever's best for the team.

799
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 5: I've seen that. I've seen the creeping sometimes.

800
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you kind of get the little jog out like

801
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 3: you're getting ready to go.

802
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's interesting.

803
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 6: Hey.

804
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 4: One thing we do on the show is we talk

805
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 4: about position group dinners.

806
00:35:58,400 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 5: Do you guys do that? Do you guys? The three

807
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 5: you get.

808
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 3: Together occasionally, but for us, all of us have kids

809
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 3: now right right right, so yeah, it's you know, Friday

810
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 3: becomes about about them and then you know, maybe date

811
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 3: night with your wife all that kind of stuff, So.

812
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 5: It's infrequent when you guys do get together.

813
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes if birthday or you know occasion, we might bring.

814
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 2: In the whole family with us too.

815
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 5: That's cool.

816
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, what do you'all do when y'all when that

817
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 4: happens at somebody's house or y'all go out?

818
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 2: Uh, we have gone to my house before. Sometimes just

819
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 2: go grab some tacos or something something easy. Yeah, I

820
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 2: got you.

821
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 6: I like, how y'all do it? All right, We're gonna

822
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 6: take a quick time out.

823
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 2: So how is your boy now he's almost a year.

824
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 6: Will this be your first Christmas with him?

825
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 2: First one?

826
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 6: Okay, good.

827
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: On the other side, we're gonna ask what's the perfect

828
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: gift for your son? And what does Kymie want off

829
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: the football field for Christmas? We'll talk about that and

830
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: much more. Texan Huddle. Right here, Welcome in, Welcome back.

831
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: One more segment to go, right here, Texan Huddle. I

832
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: am indeed he's Drew Kymie joining us here in the huddle,

833
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: and before we left, I gave him a few seconds

834
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: to think about it. We're six days away from Christmas. Obviously,

835
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: when you think Christmas now, we forget the reason for

836
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: the season. It's all about the gifts. So we'll play

837
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: into that one. You're gonna spend your first Christmas with

838
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: your baby boy, So what gift are you buying for him?

839
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: And what do you want? You know, the men always

840
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: get overlooked, the husbands and fathers always get overlooked. So

841
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: what do you want off the field? What do you

842
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: want to unwrap?

843
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 2: Shoot?

844
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 3: Well, I think the obvious one would be you know,

845
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 3: we're playing on Christmas Eve, so that would be a

846
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 3: gift for me and a lot of other people in

847
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 3: this stadium.

848
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 2: Get that dumb have a great dead Christmas. But it's

849
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: something on a wrap. That's a good question. I think

850
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,439
Speaker 2: I put it on my Christmas list. There's this.

851
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 3: There's this little like caddy, a stroller caddy where you

852
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 3: can attach it to a stroller, and it's got these

853
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 3: slots for golf clubs. So I'm gonna take my son,

854
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 3: put them in the stroller, and then put all my

855
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 3: clothes so you can walk you're outside with your son,

856
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 3: and then I'll get my son a little mini putter.

857
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 5: So there you go.

858
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, perfect, Yeah, golf related.

859
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: Look a true dad, It is golf related. And he

860
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: still throws in some of the first son. So that's

861
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: a true taken away.

862
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 5: Have you seen people you know?

863
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: I haven't. I haven't. It's come up on the Instagram

864
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 2: feed pretty much.

865
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna probably come up on our Instagram feeds

866
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 4: now that we're talking about our phones.

867
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 5: What's your favorite Christmas song?

868
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 2: I mean, MACA, that's a good one.

869
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good one about you.

870
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: Know what, I'm gonna sound real bah humble, Sure, I

871
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: don't know, I can't you know what?

872
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 6: Maybe?

873
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: Uh, what was the hottest Queens Brun DMC. Yeah, yeah,

874
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 1: it was a die Hard's yours. Uh.

875
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 4: I like Carol and Caroling by Nat King Cole White,

876
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 4: Christmas being Crosby Last Christmas Wham wham.

877
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 5: Yeah why not.

878
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to look that one up.

879
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you you've heard, let me ask

880
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: you all this, and I'll say this as even though

881
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 1: I sound like I'm not into Christmas, I am. One

882
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 1: of my favorite Christmas movies is the old school movie

883
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: where and I can't even remember the name, but I

884
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: watched it in elementary where he said, oh I shouldn't.

885
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 6: Have been born.

886
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's a wonderful, Like it's a wonderful. My

887
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 5: favorite movie ever?

888
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 6: Oh?

889
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 5: Is it movies?

890
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 6: Yeah? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie?

891
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're on a little kick right now. We try

892
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 3: to watch on it, you know, turn it on every night.

893
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: Nice right now. Polar Express.

894
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 5: I think that's a good. Yeah, Okay, a cartoonish cartoon.

895
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to try that.

896
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 4: That's it's pretty. It's good with yeah, good with kids.

897
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 4: I forgot Stevie Wonder has like three bangers. Uh, that's

898
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 4: what Christmas means to me, that's that's my.

899
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: Favorite's Mariah carry Christmas?

900
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's on every store YEP, it's playing in the

901
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 4: gazillion stores right now.

902
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: Okay, I saw the shock in your eyes when he

903
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: said It's a Wonderful life. It's his favorite movie ever.

904
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: What's your favorite movie? Favorite movie regardless of genre? Man, Like,

905
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: when you're relaxing on the couch, it's on, no matter

906
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: what you say, you know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna

907
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: watch it because it's on.

908
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 3: The first one that comes to mind, probably like Interstellar,

909
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 3: maybe Goodwill Hunting.

910
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, like that's strong.

911
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are those are two that come off the

912
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 2: top of my well.

913
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 6: Was the first one I have even heard of that?

914
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 2: Interstellar? Yeah, there was Space one.

915
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 5: To check that I've heard of it. I've never seen

916
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 5: so you recommend it?

917
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 6: Should? Should? I sit on the couch? And definitely Interstellar.

918
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 2: It's a trip for sure.

919
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 3: It's about space in the future and Matthew McConaughey is

920
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 3: in it and Hathaway.

921
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, how have I not heard of that? Good?

922
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm glad to thank you You've given me something to

923
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: watch in the favorite you know, as I'm asking kind

924
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: of that I'm like, that's it's a loaded question because.

925
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 5: It's more like yeah, like seven or eight.

926
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, but uh, New Jack City. I really enjoyed New

927
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: Jack City. Scarface, as bad as the acting is, maybe

928
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: it was the point of my life when I watched it.

929
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: Have you seen Scarface with I Just that's one movie

930
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: that no matter what, I'm stopping it and I'm not

931
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: one of these fake want to be gangsters, but there's

932
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: just something.

933
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 6: About the captivating. Yeah. Then Coming to America was just yeah,

934
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 6: there's just good.

935
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's such a tough so give us your your

936
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: three that just popping into your.

937
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 4: Head when love die hard. Good One Hunting was yeah,

938
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 4: the first first Good One. Hunting is phenomenal movie. I've

939
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 4: seen that a bunch and it does never diminish.

940
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 5: Gosh. I love.

941
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 4: A lot of baseball movies too, like sports movies, Field

942
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 4: of Dreams, Full Durham, The Natural.

943
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,439
Speaker 2: You got categories right, Yes, Sports.

944
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 5: Michael MoES like Heat, Collateral like those are all good.

945
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

946
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: I'll say one that caught me off guard because I

947
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: had no idea what it was going to be about,

948
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: and sometimes that makes it a better viewing experience for me.

949
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: A Green Mile have you seen the Hell of the movie,

950
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: Like I didn't know about the the what's the word

951
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, you know, the aspect of the fact

952
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: that it's the fantasy part of right, you know.

953
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 6: So when I saw that, I was like, oh, whoa,

954
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:35,399
Speaker 6: where did.

955
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 4: I haven't seen that for like twenty five years when

956
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 4: that was That's right one classic?

957
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: Do you listen to me? Like before the games? You

958
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: depending on positions, certain guys you know, try to get hype.

959
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: They try to stay cool, like pregame, Are you listening

960
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: to anything?

961
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 2: Not really, I I've tried that, And I like to

962
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 2: be in my surroundings and observe and hear stuff, and

963
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 2: I feel more comfortable that way.

964
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 3: If I had headphones on, I'd feel like shut off.

965
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 3: So I like to be, you know, hearing guys talk,

966
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 3: you know, whatever it is. So that just works for me.

967
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,800
Speaker 1: How important is it for you to, you know, really

968
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: watch the game, watch the offensive defense and kind of

969
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: understand what's going on.

970
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm definitely I'm more free on when

971
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 3: we're on defense, just because I'm not locked in going

972
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,240
Speaker 3: on offense. I definitely keep an eye on the offense

973
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 3: obviously as they move down the field, But it's more

974
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 3: of like observing, not getting like attached to whatever is happening,

975
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 3: so I can kind of stay in my zone.

976
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 2: But yeah, I definitely keep track of the game.

977
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 4: When the Texans are on offense, and say they're down

978
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 4: on the other end of the field at like the

979
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 4: twenty five, you're usually on the other end of the

980
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 4: sideline right kicking into that because there's two nets, right.

981
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 2: And if we're on our own twenty five or like you're.

982
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 4: About to score, you're you're closer to the opposite twenty

983
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 4: five and you kind of flip right, you sort of

984
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 4: stay opposite the action.

985
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I like to do that because I can

986
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 3: come onto the field and walk towards the field goals,

987
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 3: so it looks like the field goal is getting closer

988
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 3: and smaller or not smaller, larger rather than you know,

989
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 3: just the awkwardness of coming right from the side.

990
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 4: That makes way more sense than I thought. You just

991
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 4: did it because you didn't You wanted a clearer path

992
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:21,479
Speaker 4: to walk. You didn't want to have to walk.

993
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: Definitely, that aspect of it.

994
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 4: That your yours makes a whole hell of a lot,

995
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 4: and I didn't even think of, Yeah, that is cool.

996
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: You know, this is fascinating because this is one part

997
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: of the game I just don't know anything about. So

998
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: to hear the mental aspect, the mental approach, even how

999
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: you approach and walk onto the field like or our

1000
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: dumb asses is z line. We're just run on the field,

1001
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: like where's the ball? Okay, there it is. But you're like,

1002
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: so when is that taught? Like did somebody teach you

1003
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: that at an early age or is it more natural?

1004
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1005
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 3: Taught, and then you just kind of I've always liked

1006
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 3: to watch other kickers in their routines, whether you know,

1007
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 3: if you watch somebody and you can see what they do,

1008
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 3: you almost get to learn what you don't like and

1009
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 3: what you do like, so you know what works for

1010
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 3: you and what doesn't work for you. So yeah, my

1011
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 3: coach did mention something like that. Just you got to

1012
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:15,280
Speaker 3: figure it out for yourself.

1013
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 4: Who are the kickers that you leaned on as far

1014
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 4: as like I watched this guy, I watched this guy.

1015
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 4: Who would you get the most info from and pattern

1016
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:24,399
Speaker 4: most things after?

1017
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 5: Was it a combo of guys?

1018
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely a combo.

1019
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 3: Robbie Gold for sure, he's retired, but he was definitely

1020
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 3: one of long time. One of my favorites, especially being

1021
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 3: able to du It's Chicago. Dan Bailey, he was he

1022
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 3: was lights out for a long time.

1023
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 5: Cowboys, Yeah, yep.

1024
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 2: And then obviously like the Great Spantari.

1025
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 3: You know, just they all have different techniques, they all

1026
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 3: swing a little different, but just their approach to the

1027
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 3: game mentally, you know, it's all has been elite.

1028
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: What's the relationship like during training camp when they bring

1029
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: in other kickers for the other positions, your thought is

1030
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: how we could be friends and hopefully the guy makes

1031
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: a team, but with kickers, like only one of us

1032
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: is gonna make it.

1033
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 6: So is it more?

1034
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: Are you mentoring the young guy or are you looking

1035
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: at him like, no, that's my competitor.

1036
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 5: Both.

1037
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 3: I don't see why you can't have respect for a

1038
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 3: guy that you're competing with. If they ask me questions,

1039
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 3: I'll answer them truthfully. I'm not trying to, like, you know,

1040
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 3: make you know if I want him at my best,

1041
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 3: because that's gonna make me better. I've always personally liked

1042
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 3: kicking with other kickers because we go out alone.

1043
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 2: It's it's different.

1044
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 3: You know, you're you're working on stuff, but there's when

1045
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 3: there's somebody else there, it's like, all right, I gotta

1046
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 3: be sharp today. Kind of brings you up a little bit,

1047
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 3: you know, rise to that, you know, if occasion, I

1048
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 3: guess whatever it is when it's important.

1049
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, when other kickers come, it's just you know,

1050
00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 2: it's part.

1051
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: Of the game, part of the job. Yeah, so so

1052
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: you actually give them good advice. So like me, I'll

1053
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: be like, no, you gotta kick it with your toe.

1054
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:09,479
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta you gotta go with you gotta

1055
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: go with the wind.

1056
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 2: So I definitely do that, you know, like let's kick.

1057
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 2: Let's kick against the wind today.

1058
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 5: If you approach it, then try to kick.

1059
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, so that's cool.

1060
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: I figured, uh, you know, there's always gonna be these

1061
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: battles in training camp, but with kickers, it is there's

1062
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: only one spot. So I didn't know how intense the

1063
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: relationship would be off the field.

1064
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it is what it is.

1065
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 3: You know, if hopefully you it makes you better, that's

1066
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 3: the way I look at it.

1067
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: Well said, what's made you better? And the textan fans

1068
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: are definitely appreciative of it. Appreciate what you've been doing

1069
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: here for so many years, and keep it up and

1070
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,280
Speaker 1: we really appreciate you joining us here in Texas.

1071
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate the love you know, the city, the fans.

1072
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for stinging with us hoping to

1073
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 3: make you guys proud. Thanks for your guys time today

1074
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 3: and go Texans.

1075
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: You've already made us proud for Kymi, for Drew I am. Indeed,

1076
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: this has been Texan Huddle