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Speaker 1: Your kicker, but just as a special scenes nextpert, how

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Speaker 1: the hell does Baits make his kick do that? I've

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that may not be intentional.

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Speaker 3: He's just trying to hit a ball flush, and when

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Speaker 3: you're at more distance, you're trying to bring more speed

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Speaker 2: So sometimes when you.

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Speaker 3: Hit it with more violence, that ends up happing it

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Speaker 3: basically like wraps in. It could go in now, it

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Speaker 3: could go out in depending on what part of the

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Speaker 3: seam you hit. So tho those long distance kicks, he

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Speaker 3: just he swung hard at it and you know, obviously

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Speaker 2: So he did a good job making that kick.

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Speaker 1: It looked like the players thought it was obviously going wide, right,

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Speaker 1: and you go on the sideline, could you did you

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Speaker 1: think it was going wide?

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Speaker 2: I mean it's hard to see from the sideline.

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Speaker 3: And there's been times, you know, throughout my career where

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Speaker 3: I thought the ball has been going in or ball

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Speaker 2: The other way around.

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Speaker 3: So I kind of wait until I see those rests

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Speaker 3: put up either no good signal or a good signal.

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Speaker 2: Where's where's Jamie att? Confidence wise? In your mind?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know the numbers weren't terribly the other day,

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Speaker 3: but he still didn't didn't to make he was hitting

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Speaker 3: the ball super flushed consistently. Yeah, I think confidence wise,

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Speaker 3: he's I truly believe he is. He feels like he's

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Speaker 3: a great punter, which we have tremendous faith and belief

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Speaker 3: in him as well. That's part of the experience that

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Speaker 3: he's had. You know, not every specialist is going to

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Speaker 3: consistently sustain success every week. It's the ability to bounce

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Speaker 3: back to recorrect after one rep, and that's something that

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Speaker 3: I truly believe he knows how to do, and he's

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Speaker 3: done before in his in his career, so to me,

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Speaker 3: for him, he understands this and we've talked about it.

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Speaker 3: It's about being process oriented. So you know, sometimes if

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Speaker 3: you mis hit a ball, it's you know, going back

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Speaker 3: to the fundamentals of the drop, the catch, the steps,

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Speaker 3: the fundamentals that takes to hit the big ball, which

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Speaker 3: he's ready to attack success and fix those things.

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Speaker 1: And do you see anything fundamentally that you know you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I think every uh yeah, yeah, yeah, So

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, Like that's what

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Speaker 3: recurring theme of what it's been a lot of times

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Speaker 3: that drop does reflect ball contact because that is the uh,

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Speaker 3: the most important part for a punter being able to

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Speaker 3: so many things that could happen with it, right The

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Speaker 3: The drop could be inside, and your leg is reflecting

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Speaker 3: the kick direction on that. So you know, that is

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Speaker 3: an important part of correcting a punter's fundamentals. But like

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Speaker 3: I said, the every rep is so singular that you're

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Speaker 3: you're really focused on just what is your routine? What

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Speaker 3: you know correlate to sustained success.

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Speaker 2: Does the DC change have any impact on you?

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Speaker 3: Like, obviously you have to be in touch with the

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Speaker 3: like working with Charlie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Great.

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Speaker 3: Charlie is a great football coach, a great person, and

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Speaker 3: everybody on your staff is really easy, easy to talk to.

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Speaker 3: You know, when it comes to the game day rosters,

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Speaker 3: we all have discussions, you know, with the head coach,

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Speaker 3: that football game, We're all gonna come together. There's no

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Speaker 1: You want to touch back on the kickoff at the

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Speaker 2: The long return.

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Speaker 3: it's not necessarily that we wanted to touch back. There

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Speaker 3: we just got to do a better job getting off blocks.

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Speaker 2: What have you seen from Dalen? I know he was

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Speaker 3: I think he took advantage of his first opportunity. Number one,

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Speaker 3: it wasn't too big for him. You know, he he

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Speaker 3: When you do your job, those plays that you're supposed

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Speaker 2: He's supposed to make and he did so.

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Speaker 3: So really happy where he's at, and if he gets

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Speaker 4: With KUP now it seems like he's kind of settled

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Speaker 4: in with you guys. You guys know what you're getting.

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Speaker 4: How how challenging of it was a process for you

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Speaker 2: Yeah. To me, it's a time on task.

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Speaker 3: So you know, obviously, the more time you have working

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Speaker 3: so he understands that last week's success or the week

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Speaker 3: priors don't necessarily correlate to having success the next day.

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Speaker 3: So his focus is on what could he do to

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Speaker 3: we would rather not have him active in tackling, you know,

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Speaker 3: Like I said, we got to do a better job

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Speaker 1: Why do you like Ray as a kick return I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: why do you like Eric Ray as a kick returner?

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Speaker 3: You know, he's had a ton of experience doing it.

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Speaker 3: He's a he's a running back that's used to carrying

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Speaker 3: You know, although that was his first game, you know,

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Speaker 3: you know, after that mistake was made, he came up

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Speaker 3: just got to make it right. And part of making

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Speaker 3: you know, to make sure he's catching that ball forward boss,

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Speaker 2: So the one thing I'll say about.

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Speaker 3: Our group and its entirety is they want to do

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Speaker 3: games and continue to be an explosive unit, which I

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