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Speaker 1: How does uh nates return impact Colin. It's gonna help

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Speaker 1: him a lot. Uh You know, anytime you're a young

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Speaker 1: the league, and then you get a chance to learn

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Speaker 1: from a veteran special teams player, that's a you know,

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Speaker 1: that's a big advantage you know for him, so um

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Speaker 1: getting it back in here and being in the meetings

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Speaker 1: with him and and really just kind of being you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's protegete, you know, just learning from a guy

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Speaker 1: who's done it at a high level for for for

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Speaker 1: a long time. That's its advantageous to him. Ready to go, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you practiced yesterday. He's ready to go, Is it is?

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Speaker 1: It seems I mean usually things aren't seamless. Is it

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Speaker 1: seamless or there's still you know, he's it's like anything else.

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Speaker 1: He's gotta get you know, getting football shape and get

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Speaker 1: used to the volume. But you know, as far as

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Speaker 1: scheme and everything else, he's goods. Darius earn to trust.

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Speaker 1: Darius is earning everyone's trust. You know, he's getting out

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Speaker 1: here and he's he's working. You know, he's a rookie.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to find his way in the league. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna try and uh find his niche and he's doing

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Speaker 1: a good job. Is he's he's he's different. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's definitely special at what he calls all having him

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Speaker 1: out there to be possibly the first giant to touch

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Speaker 1: the ball and you know who knows you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's a it's one of those deals where whatever situation

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Speaker 1: comes up, we'll deal with it. We got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of options at that spot, which is which is good, um,

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Speaker 1: and we'll just keep working those guys, will keep rolling

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Speaker 1: them and see what ends up back there in game.

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Speaker 1: You're still open the air. But how that's gonna check out?

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Speaker 1: Are you you kind of set on somebody at this point?

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Speaker 1: We'll see. I mean, it's again, we got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of options. So we got three or four guys that

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Speaker 1: can do it and we'll find out when you will

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Speaker 1: wait that you know, obviously, with a punk returners sometimes

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Speaker 1: if you need a big play, he puts someone back there.

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Speaker 1: If you don't you know or you your ball security

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Speaker 1: is always the most important thing. So how do you

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Speaker 1: weigh that even with a guy like a Darius who

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Speaker 1: you say, well, if he gets the ball in his hands,

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Speaker 1: he can make something happen, but we have to make

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Speaker 1: sure whoever has that ball gets the ball in his

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Speaker 1: hands first and doesn't lose the ball. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: the most important thing. We always tell our guys when

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Speaker 1: it comes to punt return, and you know, especially punt return,

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Speaker 1: the most important thing is so we're getting the ball back.

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Speaker 1: So the ball is the most important thing. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously ball securities is is the number one issue.

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Speaker 1: So once we uh you know, we get that secured,

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Speaker 1: everything else take care of himself. All those guys back

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Speaker 1: there and capable make a please Darius good in that

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Speaker 1: when you say that's a bull security guy, he's he's uh,

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Speaker 1: he does a good job. You know, he's he's a wiry,

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Speaker 1: strong guy. Uh and uh no, he does a good

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Speaker 1: job of fielding the wall. What is find eight or

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Speaker 1: strength as a returner. We've all seen him be dangerous

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Speaker 1: throughout his career. But what makes him dangerous as a

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Speaker 1: return You know, he has he has great vision. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's powerful, he has excellent change direction. Uh, he can

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Speaker 1: make all of his cuts at full speed. And he's

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Speaker 1: and he's just competitive and he wants to you know,

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Speaker 1: he wants to do it, and that's a lot of

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Speaker 1: times you get guys that, you know, they start to

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Speaker 1: climb the ladder on offensive defense, and that return part

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Speaker 1: of the game kind of fades. If they have that

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Speaker 1: if it's you know, if it's Nickel, if it's Dime.

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Speaker 1: If you put him back there running back, I bet

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Speaker 1: you know it wouldn't You wouldn't notice the difference with

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Speaker 1: him playing offensive defense. He's just a football player, you know,

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Speaker 1: so that that's what makes him special. I know it.

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Speaker 1: I forget even who said it, but it seemed appropriate

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Speaker 1: that you hear him before you see him. I think

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Speaker 1: it was Joel last year. Um, how do you I mean,

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Speaker 1: do you hear him more than what Pat Graham would

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Speaker 1: He's he's always wanting opportunities, you know, pep Is is

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Speaker 1: you know, that's what makes them special, you know, because

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Speaker 1: he loves compete, and he competes at a hide up,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you know him getting out here and

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Speaker 1: being able to do all the different things he can do.

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Speaker 1: You know, providing that value and adding value to your

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Speaker 1: football team. You know, that's it's it goes without saying.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's in viable to you. I

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Speaker 1: mean he's just he does so much cash. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the broncast this week, Oh man, um, Tom McMahon,

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Speaker 1: You know, they give you a lot of chemicks. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get fakes, you get surprised on side, you get

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Speaker 1: you know there, it's different than any other team in

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Speaker 1: the league. How they punk the ball with direction and

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Speaker 1: limited hanging the distance to try and get your return

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Speaker 1: or running sideways, and it's it's it's challenging, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you always gotta, you know, stay on your toes

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Speaker 1: and and give your swinging gate on on the punt

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Speaker 1: team and they can give you one of them. Feel

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Speaker 1: but I mean they give you all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So they make you prepare for everything, and you just

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Speaker 1: gotta stay on top of it and just be ready

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Speaker 1: for all the situations that might come up. I said,

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Speaker 1: you have three or four options. First, a kick returner,

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Speaker 1: do you prefer to just land on one guy? Though?

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Speaker 1: You know, anytime you can get continuity is always good.

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Speaker 1: It's just like you know, playing the same quarterbacks, just

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Speaker 1: like having the same running back. Just you know, anytime

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Speaker 1: you can get consistency and continuity in the spot, that's

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Speaker 1: what you want. So guys can build chemistry, so you

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Speaker 1: know that. But that's my job. You know, I might

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Speaker 1: have as especially in coordinator. We might have four or

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Speaker 1: five guys return kicks in one year. You know, shoot,

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Speaker 1: I've had it when you had two or three doing

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Speaker 1: Is there punting one of those Australian guys who kind

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Speaker 1: of he's that's it's just there. There their philosophy when

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Speaker 1: it comes to punt, he's used the Australian style of kick. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He will use the Aussie kick to offset, he'll offset,

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Speaker 1: pull the ball back to his left and he'll kick

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Speaker 1: it out to the right again, get you moving and

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Speaker 1: hit you hit a regular punt. So that's kind of

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Speaker 1: their deal when it comes to the punty. They want

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Speaker 1: to get you moving. But he does have the Australian

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Speaker 1: style of kids. Definitely, you guys can't do it. But

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Speaker 1: I guess the team that's that tricky is having ever

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Speaker 1: been bad, especially important because of his recognition of maybe

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Speaker 1: like what's coming. Yeah, I mean absolutely, he's time you

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Speaker 1: get a veteran guy that that's been around. Let's played

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Speaker 1: against other people, you know. It's uh, it's always good

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Speaker 1: to have you know. I think this might be the

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Speaker 1: noisest press count conference that you were used to. Good,

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Speaker 1: let us know what question you don't you know job,

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Speaker 1: It's it's always good to have Nate out there and

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Speaker 1: his experiences is awesome