 Coach, I was just asking about the same returner, Deontay Harris. He's been, you know, I guess doing the punts and the kickoffs. What problems does he present for y'all? One, he's a very great returner with a ball in his hands. He's very fearless as a runner, D-Led, whether he's going north-south with the football or going east and west. He has the speed to get around cover's units and he's fearless in a way where he could catch the ball in traffic as a pun returner and get north-south immediately with the football in his hands. And he has a great job too, breaking arm tackles. So he looks to create plays, you know, create a spark for their offense and flip the field when it comes to the opportunity. But he runs bigger than the size. He runs bigger than the size and it's going to be a great challenge for us this weekend and our guys are looking forward to the challenge of going out there and, you know, being brilliant with the basics, our basic fundamentals when it comes to leveraging the football and tackling. And if you look at the punner, it looks like he's having a pretty strong year. Yes, he is. You know, coming out of Penn State, he was, you know, down last year, so technically this is, you know, rookie season as you say. He's doing a great job with the, you know, getting the ball out, directs on punting. And, you know, also too, their protection units when it comes to Pump Pro, they do a good job protecting for him to give him a clear pocket and then their gunners, whether it's J.T. Gray or it's Ty Montgomery going downfield, forcing fair catches or making plays on the returner. So, you know, punting coverage, working together there. They do a really great job. How do you feel your units are at and, you know, getting baits, you know, up to the roster for good and not being a promotion in the last two weeks? You know, it just comes back to, you know, making the most out of our roster, you know, moving people around, getting the best out of what we have on the roster. Our guys continue to get better at reps. There's some plays that we left on the field last week, but it was a great learning tool for us last week to look at the film and come back and see what we could put on the field this week. You know, whether it's baits, whether it's, you know, having Avery Williams back on the field, you know, moving guys around. Kendall Sheffa was going down there making plays and forcing fair catches as a gunner. It's a good collective group. Those guys playing together and being able to have a feel for one another and getting that continuity going with that group of special teams. I know I asked you this a few weeks ago, too, but when you look at it because baits, they have 153 and bothers, they have 153 and they don't have as much teams. What is a core special teams guy that they're deciding on? How much in that decision are you, how much decision do you have in that versus our authority just making that decision and saying, hey, this is the F4. When you're saying like if a guy plays on four phases or not, or more so being on part of the 48. The 48, 50, 30, more than the four phases. It's a collective effort. I'll have conversations with both Arthur and Terry when it comes to that, but at the end of the day those are decisions made by those two when it comes to who's up on the 48 man roster and then it's up to myself and Coach Hoffman to put together the best group out of that 48 to put the best group out there on the field. The cool thing about it with our room is it's very versatile with our room and we try to keep a small menu, big understanding so guys can go out there in multiple positions and be able to execute at a high level, Mike. How much, maybe not carpalange is the right word but how much do you have, if once they say, okay, this is going to be the 40, 46, 48. How much of, I want the X guy for X, I want X guy for three phases of the, like how much do you have a say in that versus like, or do they come to you and say this and this guy's part of the offensive game plan for maybe like 35 players versus what he wants to get to you or defensive game plan so you can't have him on every phase this week or do you need to rotate him in and out or take carpalange as an example? Again, that's a collective, you know, decision and those are the conversations that I have with, you know, both, you know, Arthur, you know, when it comes to Dean, it comes to Rags, when it comes to who's playing on what positions, what's their volume going to be on offense and defense and how that correlates with special teams and how important their role is or how many roles or how many positions that they're playing on special teams because again, on offense and defense you have those type of positions, whether it's quarterback, running back, you know, tight end, on special teams you have various positions too, so getting that proper fit, getting guys in the right position and there's no easy remedy or there's no easy equation to that but my job as a special teams coordinator Mike is to make sure that, one, I'm paying attention to the whole team, offense and defense, what the roles are for those players that particularly weak because their roles may change every week, every role might change on defense or Richard Grant's role might change on defense, Wayne Gaumman role might change on offense and depending on the workload and intensity that they're playing with that might vary on special teams and what we're doing on special teams and it's also too based on the type of special teams that we're going against and that's something also too whether it's injuries, guys getting banged up not only during the week but also in-game adjustments too when it comes to that because a guy may go down on offense which now their backup has to go in and then that trickles down to special teams and having that answer ready and having that person ready to go when it comes to being a starter now on special teams when you were a backup on special teams. How do you handle on a week-to-week basis? In that entire situation it's like you're here for a couple of days like do you work with them at all? Did you kind of say, okay, like, hey, there's a locker, like, you know, maybe we need you, maybe we don't? Or do you handle that? I mean, with this day and age now with the pandemic it's something that we're kind of used to whether the guys on practice squad throughout the whole week or if he's there for two days it's just being prepared before the opportunity presents itself and Elliott's been handling it well whether he's in the building throughout the whole week or if he shows up at the end of the week he knows when his number is called that he's going to be prepared before the opportunity presents itself so it's our job as coaches to make sure there's communication when he is in the building and getting them ready and prepared for if the opportunity presents itself. He's been great, he's been handling it well when he is here and then, you know, whatever happens, happens but it's our job to make sure that he's prepared if the opportunity presents itself and then if it doesn't, then he knows that he's doing a great job whether it's in practice or, you know, those Friday or Saturday practices getting ready for that opportunity. Do you show up on Fridays or Saturdays or do you just kind of, like... It varies. You show up, like, we know what you've been doing it varies. It depends on what we have going on for that practice or that, you know, those days of practice but it varies when it comes to him but, again, he's been doing a great job we've watched him work, he's been in the building before he has a strong leg and whatever happens happens, you know so if he gets the opportunity down the road I know he'll make the most of it. How is Dustin doing as a punter punting into your coverage philosophy, right? In terms of him getting the ball exactly where you want it to where your coverage is going to go? Is he fitting in well in that regard? Yes, Scott, I believe, you know one thing is, like, the protection is the protection that lanes are the lanes but that doesn't mean anything if we can't get the ball to where it needs to get to so, you know, last week I thought Dustin had a better performance even with a little bit of pressure you know, getting in his lap he did a great job of, you know, being poised and getting the ball off he continues to get better with reps and being in our program and in our system and he's been great for our room you know, not only for the specialist but for the entire team he brings, like I said last week he brings calmness to the position he's seen it all he's seen the good, bad, you know he's been part of Super Bowl he's had a lot of success as a punter in his career and it's great to have him in here because he knows his most reps that he's had out of the three games and you can see he's getting better with reps and we're very blessed to have him in the building Now that you have Cam back at practice how are you going to evaluate that position as he kind of gets back into the full thing? You know, for Cam it's just more so individually just seeing how he's feeling coming back and being able to get back in his rhythm Scott, when it comes to, you know catching the ball, punning holding all those different things right now, you know the guys that are up those are the guys that are playing and when that time comes down the road whatever happens happens but that's not a decision based on me all I could do is he's on the field I get the opportunity as a coach to work with him and help him get better and help him get back in the groove of being a punter One last thing you've got other guys on the roster who have kind of made a living on special teams but Darren's been good at that for a long time getting a guy like that who understands the importance who can be a core special teamer for you to get that mid-season does that kind of give you guys a lift what does his addition do from your perspective? He brings juice, brings physicality he understands his role when it comes to being part of the team he knows that he's made a living off of special teams just like other players on our team but he's just one other player to add to the mix and add to the equation for our team and our special teams units he does a great job of just understanding his role and being the best at his role and being in the present when it comes to that so that helps those younger guys on our team the younger positions like linebackers, DBs maybe a younger running back understand hey he's been doing this for X amount of years and this is an opportunity for me to one get on the field because everybody wants to play everybody wants to get a helmet on Sunday but how do you get that helmet on Sunday? Coach you got Austin Eckler undrafted free agent in 17 no reason why he got a helmet on Sunday was because he was a starting four phase player and then you're always one play away maybe one test away from playing on offense or defense we want everybody to play on offense and defense but you got to start somewhere and you get opportunity to cross that line and you get the chance to be a part of the kicking game whether we're kicking off coverage game or returning offensive phase you get opportunity to showcase your talent and then also number one and first and foremost help the team I want to go back to what you were saying earlier about you know how guys getting more opportunities on defense kind of they taste what you all do on special teams I mean when it comes to Richie Grant and Avery Williams and their roles kind of expanding defensively how does that kind of change the logistics of kind of how much you want to put them out there on special teams you know from a week to week standpoint yeah it just again it's week to week it depends on their role and then also to our job as coaches to pay attention throughout the game is that going because you know a guy might go into the game thinking that he's going to be playing only on certain downs and then something that can happen or he's playing a great game and he has the hot hands to keep him in the field as our job as coaches to make sure that we're in the present we're paying attention to those things and making sure that we're not wearing guys out when it comes to you know having them play like 80 plus reps you know unless we're in a situation we're in overtime it's got to have a situation so those things are pretty fluid especially on special teams but first and foremost we know like guys like Avery and Richie they've been doing a great job and continue to get better on special teams so that's just my job as a coach I can't answer that question now because it's a case-by-case it depends on how it's going but whatever role they have they're trying to make the most out of it love your shirt by the way thank you anything else