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Speaker 1: Last week of trade. Glad to be inside this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: last week's conditions, I could safely say we're some of

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Speaker 1: the worst I've been in in MetLife, and that those

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Speaker 1: gusts will wind. Really I mean they got up to

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Speaker 1: thirty five miles per hour, so it's challenging. But obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, kicking in the northeast, Uh, that's something we

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Speaker 1: you know, we we look forward to. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a cool opportunity to compete when the

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Speaker 1: conditions aren't ideal. So having gone through that, yes, you are,

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Speaker 1: you're pretty excited about going back indoors and uh in

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Speaker 1: a little bit more controlled environment, just in terms of

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Speaker 1: wind and all that. How would you says, Hey, right

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Speaker 1: now he's you know in the return heame's obviously done more.

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Speaker 1: Now how would you says? It's at this point, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he's a top tier kickoff returner. You know,

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Speaker 1: he he's starting to see the concepts really well, so

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Speaker 1: he understands how to set up his blocks, he sees

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Speaker 1: space naturally, and obviously the the the natural athletic skill

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Speaker 1: set that he has you can't coach, right, the top

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Speaker 1: end speed that he can get too quickly, he's done

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Speaker 1: a good job taking care of the football. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: just the more reps, the more time on task, I

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Speaker 1: think it's given him even more confidence. So you know

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Speaker 1: it's cool to see him, you know, have some explosives

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Speaker 1: in the return game for a guy that you know

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Speaker 1: just started doing it, so he's very hungry to continue

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Speaker 1: to do it. Uh. And you know, I truly believe

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Speaker 1: that our guys blocking for him also have a lot

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Speaker 1: of belief in him, which there's something to be said

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Speaker 1: about that knowing that that guy can score at any point.

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Speaker 1: So it's all levin every time, and and Tay's a

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Speaker 1: big part of why we've had success on that unit.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen from souls that run in? Yeah, he's,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I believe last week he was a

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Speaker 1: guy that was really looking forward to working with at

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Speaker 1: some point. You know, I truly think that he has

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Speaker 1: ability to kick at this level and at a eye level,

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Speaker 1: and he's done a good job of understanding we do

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Speaker 1: things here, articulating how he likes his operation in terms

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Speaker 1: of field goal holds, which requires everybody to be on

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Speaker 1: point with that. So you know, he's kicked a little

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Speaker 1: bit and we've seen him a few practices and excited

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Speaker 1: to continue to work with them so much. He hit

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Speaker 1: a couple of punts very low, right, it was how

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Speaker 1: much of that was by design? How much that was

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Speaker 1: just it's hard to kick in those conditions, Yeah, combination

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Speaker 1: of both. You know, like when you if you try

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Speaker 1: and truly hit a ball up high in those conditions,

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Speaker 1: when you're kicking into it, it's going to get blocked

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Speaker 1: by that wind and you're not going to get any

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Speaker 1: distance with it. So there's an element to trying to

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Speaker 1: knife through that wind with a lower hanging punt, which

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Speaker 1: means there's certain mechanics from a punt standpoint that have

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Speaker 1: to have to coincide with that. That's dropping it lower,

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Speaker 1: holding onto the ball a little bit longer, and then

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Speaker 1: making sure that your lines are right, and that allows

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Speaker 1: you to still get a net that potentially flips the

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Speaker 1: field in some regard because those conditions obviously being there

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Speaker 1: were difficult. But I thought he did a nice job,

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Speaker 1: you know, being able to net forty five plus there

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Speaker 1: in those conditions. I think is is really good by

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Speaker 1: the punter. So I thought Jamie did a nice job

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Speaker 1: rebounding and having a good game. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much time you gotta spend with Calf when you guys

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Speaker 1: are all coordinators. But what have you seen in him since,

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Speaker 1: you know, since he took over the head role, and

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Speaker 1: you know what, you know, obviously he's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a fire drill last week, I'm assuming so just to

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Speaker 1: kind of get affliated, Yeah, So so Calf number one

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Speaker 1: is a tremendous human being. I really, I really believe

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Speaker 1: like his intentions with everything he does, he puts his

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Speaker 1: whole heart into it, and the players feel that he's

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Speaker 1: very even keel and he's a great leader of men.

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Speaker 1: You know, he he has a definitive plan on how

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Speaker 1: he wants things to look like, but he's very he

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Speaker 1: likes to integrate everybody's ideas into that and ultimately his decisions,

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Speaker 1: you know, those those are things that we try and

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Speaker 1: support as well. So, you know, I think CAF has

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Speaker 1: done an outstanding job in in this capacity. And you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously I truly believe that he has the ability to

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Speaker 1: be a head coach in this league for a long time,

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Speaker 1: you know, and and you're hearing that in the team meetings.

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Speaker 1: Just his ability to convey a message to the team.

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Speaker 1: These guys play hard for him. He's very organized. It's

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Speaker 1: everything that you want in a head coach, and you

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Speaker 1: know that's obviously why he's had success as an offensive

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Speaker 1: corner and why he's gonna have success as a head coach.

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Speaker 1: Why did you make the change on who's doing the

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Speaker 1: kickoffs last week or right? Yeah, that was last week? Right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So so number one, I think, uh, projected weather has

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Speaker 1: something to do with that a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 1: trying to make certain that Jamie's focus was when we

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Speaker 1: had those opportunities to punt to punt, were on that,

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Speaker 1: given that the circumstances weren't going to be ideal for anybody.

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Speaker 1: And then also to keep Coup in the flow of

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Speaker 1: the game as well. You know, the lines obviously changed

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Speaker 1: when the wind is at your face versus the wind

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Speaker 1: at your back, but generally when it's windy in general

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Speaker 1: and you're getting a crosswind, that also affects truly how

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Speaker 1: far you can go, just because once you hit it

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Speaker 1: up there, you're at the mercy of where that gust

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Speaker 1: of wind goes. So it also kept Coup in the

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Speaker 1: flow of the game, not knowing when we're going to

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Speaker 1: attempt field goals based off the field position and I

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Speaker 1: thought it truly helped both those guys, Ko and Jamie,

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Speaker 1: and I thought they did a nice job. Obviously, we

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Speaker 1: want the one p at back that Khu knows that

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Speaker 1: he can make it. We have tremendous belief in his

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Speaker 1: ability to do that, even at forty eight yards he has,

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Speaker 1: he has that mindset to do so, and we you know,

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Speaker 1: we obviously got X in that situation. But I thought

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Speaker 1: both guys did a nice job. Penalty on the p

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Speaker 1: A T Yeah, So, uh, there was a chop block called.

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Speaker 1: What the nature of field goal is there's no space, right,

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Speaker 1: there's no gaps, so everybody's interlocked, and there's because they're interlocked,

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Speaker 1: there's piles that generate what that happens. So we got

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Speaker 1: to do a better job of really being clean with

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Speaker 1: their footwork number one, which will allow for a cleaner pocket.

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Speaker 1: But the nature is there's not a lot of room

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Speaker 1: it takes is somebody to get leaned into and they

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Speaker 1: potentially lunge, and when they lunge, that's where the chop

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Speaker 1: blocker was called. So we just got to be cleaner

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Speaker 1: with our footwork to make certain that doesn't get called again.

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Speaker 1: The leaf Raymated was here a long time ago when

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Speaker 1: he was a young player. He's established himself, I think

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Speaker 1: as one of the better returners in the league. What

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Speaker 1: do you see from him? Absolutely, Kleif is a dynamic

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Speaker 1: duel returner. He he has the elite top end speed

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Speaker 1: that you want in that position. He has the short

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Speaker 1: area quicks to make you miss. He's a dangerous guy

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Speaker 1: with the ball in his hand, and he's obviously earned

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Speaker 1: that credibility of being one of the top returns in

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Speaker 1: this league. And you see the production show up every

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Speaker 1: year he's been in this league. So it's a great

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Speaker 1: challenge for our guys. You know, we gotta we gotta

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Speaker 1: make certain that our locations are right, are bridge fundamentals

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Speaker 1: are right, and then ultimately bringing a guy like that

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Speaker 1: down with good tackling fundamentals. So I think Khalif is

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Speaker 1: a top tier returner and obviously tremendous respect for him

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Speaker 1: and coach Fip and coach Campbell. I think they really

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Speaker 1: do a good job just in terms of special teams

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Speaker 1: in general over there being aggressive and showcasing a guy

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Speaker 1: like Khalif and other players on the roster. What did

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Speaker 1: ad daaling, shadow warrant and elvision. Yeah, so number one.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a truly a smart football player. High

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Speaker 1: football IQ has ability to learn multiple positions without getting

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Speaker 1: all those reps. So there's a lot of value in that,

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Speaker 1: both offensively and in the kicking game. And you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously we've been high on him from a special team standpoint.

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Speaker 1: He excelled in the preseason, so he never he didn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily know when his opportunity was going to come up,

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Speaker 1: but he prepared the right way every week, and when

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Speaker 1: he got the opportunity last week, I thought he took

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Speaker 1: advantage of it, you know, basically having two tackles with

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Speaker 1: little reps run in the practice week and stunning his

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Speaker 1: tail off. It's cool to see a kid like that

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Speaker 1: half production in this league. And I know when his

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Speaker 1: opportunity arises next that you know he'll relish in those

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Speaker 1: in those moments, so really cool to see him as

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