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Yeah, yeah, well this last week, uh, I was playing, so I really didn't have too much time to think about it, although we knew we were trying to get into field goal range and we, and, and at the time I really didn't care. As long as

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we got around the 50 somewhere. I knew we had a shot at it. And uh, as far as what goes through your mind, you don't have time to think about it. The only thing that that I try to do is to concentrate on the, the spot

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on the ground where the holder is going to put it and watch the ball into his hands as a center snaps it and go through my mind mentally that I'm going to take the right steps and say to myself to follow through and just actually concentrate

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on the kick itself and nothing else. I don't have time to think about the consequences or what the fans will think or what the outcome might mean to the ball club. We always feel that every time we line up we're gonna make it. And uh, we've

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always been optimistic. And uh, if you don't feel that way, I don't think you have a chance to tell me about the teamwork involved in placement kicking from placement. Well, I think that it starts with uh the front line holding out the rice from the defensive

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men, if they can slow them down a little more than usual, particularly in a long kick like that. Uh, it helps your timing. Then the center has got to get that ball back with a lot of zip on it and the holder's got to put it

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down basically on the spot that we mark on the ground with the laces pointed straight in the direction you want to kick. And if you get all those things proper, then it's up to the kicker to apply the kick. And if all those things are right,

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then you got a chance. If if they're off a little bit, your chances are a little slimmer. They're not diminish completely, but they're a little slimmer. But if you have all that perfect timing between the center, the blocking, the holder in the kicker, uh, your percentages

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will go up. You went in there both against Pittsburgh and last week against Cleveland through about a 30 yard pass the first time, that must be a little bit difficult to crank up like that right off the bat. Well, no, actually against Pittsburgh, I threw out

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about 35 yards in this last week, about 35 or 40. Uh, no, it really isn't for me because I'm really, I I stay warm along the sidelines by just uh, doing deep knee bends and moving your arm around and I, like I said, you're always mentally

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prepared to go in there. So it comes as no shock to me if I have to go in and throw immediately pacific. Yeah. So the Children get to know each other terrible business. Yeah.