 All right, Kate York, year two has arrived and we welcome in the former LSU All-American current kicker for the Cleveland Browns, entering his second season in fact. Kate, you're coming to us from your truck. Yeah, we have construction going on inside so I thought it might be too loud, so I came out here. Yeah, Kate, my producers ratted you out and said that you were doing what any 22-year-old would do was cleaning up their car before they came on the television. What's back there like scraps from a Swenson's number two extra fries? Like what's going on? Now I eat healthier than that. I had like a bag that I had my meal prep in last week and I just need to clean it out. There's no food in there, but it's just had to move around. All right, Kate, we had a very different life as 22-year-olds because I did not have my food prep bag in the back of my 97 Nissan Ultimo with rust on it. Like you are at the facility in Cleveland. I'm really excited for you. I really am for this year. I think it's going to be incredible. You've got a year of NFL experience behind you now. So let's start at the beginning of the kicking journey though. You started on that 2019 LSU championship team that a lot of people do consider the best college football team ever assembled. You had Joe Burrow, you had Justin Jefferson, you had Jamar Chase. When did y'all realize that you had something super special? Well, I mean, I was an ignorant freshman coming out of high school, so I really didn't understand what was going on. I remember hearing people say, I was friends, I lived with one of the fourth string, I think the fourth string quarterback and he was telling me that Joe was going to win the Heisman this year. I was like, all right, dude, whatever. And then we got into like game like two or three. I'm like, oh my gosh, this is kind of cool. And then it just like never lost. And then it kind of ruined, not ruined, but it spoiled my outlook on college football because in the next year we lost the first game. I was like, oh, that's what that feels like. So it was special. And now I know you have to go against Joe Burrow, so you can't say that much nice stuff about him. But maybe like, what was the moment you were like, man, he's like nobody else or he's really set apart. That fourth and like 15 or whatever against Texas where he threw like the over the guys helmet to Justin Jefferson for the touchdown. That was a cool play. Yeah, you answered that really quickly. I can't imagine what those practices are like to sit back and pop popcorn. It's unbelievable. Well, I mean, I do stuff during practice. Not like I just sit there the whole time, but once we were done with our stuff, it was cool to watch. Kate, that's really well said. That was dumb of me to say. I was thinking about what I would do at those practices. Just sit back and watch you do your stuff and then watch them do their stuff. Of course. So before you went to the NFL, was it nice to say that you could have had a career with Dude Perfect being their kicking expert? Let's get into that. Oh my gosh, I forgot about this. Talk me through this. Well, it had been, it was, I was on, so that is my Avery Atkins, who's the one holding the ball right there. He was my holder, my last two years at LSU as a punter kickoff guy. And he, so LSU Barstool, yeah, he catches it on the jet ski. LSU, we were on this trip when LSU Barstool tagged me and someone else doing like a different version of this. So it was like our mission at the lake that day to do this. So we woke up and went out and had some guy on the jet ski and it took us 15 tries. 15? Which, It's low. I would like to say it took me like three tries, but it took some calculations. So 15, I don't think that's that bad though. Yeah, I mean, it was the jet skis fall, right? For sure. I had every ball perfect. That's what we like to hear. You know, I was at the NFL draft a couple of weeks ago now. Gosh, that was in Kansas City and the Niners. They took a lot of heat for draft and Jake Moody in this third round. I don't see any edge rusher pulling off a trick like that that I decide. I don't see any detackle doing that. You were drafted in the fourth round last season. I would like you, Cade, to defend why kickers should be drafted in the first four rounds. I mean, I love it. I hope that someone next year gets drafted higher than Jake. We had, actually there was two guys drafted higher than me this last year. Jake and Chad, I'm actually good friends with. I hope it continues to just keep pushing forward and forward because no one scores more points than the specialist. And if you've got, you don't see any Super Bowl winning teams with a back kicker. So I think it's a positioning to be taken more seriously in the draft. And I hope that us that have been getting drafted early and earlier can keep putting a good name out there for those guys and keep pushing it further and further up. And maybe we can start getting guys in the second round again. I love that. So like last year, let's just dig into it a little bit. I don't want to talk that much about it because it was last year. This is this year. You're already focused on this. It was a bit up and down. I mean, the first game, you snapped that 17 game losing streak. We'd love to see it. Everybody I talked to about you do says that you're so confident. You don't lack in that. You've got a new guy that's really excited to work with you there and Bubba. I'm going to ask you since there were some ups and downs as there should be your rookie year, especially kicking in Cleveland, what was your highest high of last year? Did we just see it? What was the best moment you had? I mean, yeah, that was definitely up there. But I think one of my other good moments was the Patriots game because I had come off of a missing a game winning kick and it was a pretty low moment for me. I had to really be intentional about pulling myself out of that and just going on next game and just having a good game the next week felt pretty good. And it's never really been like the big moments that I fall from like I struggle with because even that game winning that I missed, I've missed it by a foot and I hit it really well and I can't get too mad about it. It's more been like those small moments where I get too confident or too comfortable and I really just need to be better about hyper-focusing on those kind of stuff. And if you make all the game winners but miss everything else, you're not going to have a good year. So I just, it's a smaller like medium range takes. I just need to put a little more focus on. It's exactly what I did in my freshman year of college too. So just a lesson to learn and move on to the next year. So then how are you focusing on that? Like what do you specifically teach me a little something? Like what do you, how do you attack that this year? It's not necessarily kicking the ball better or anything like that. It's more just having the same routine for every kick and trying to recreate. I don't ever want to be comfortable because when I get comfortable, that's when like I think stuff starts to go wrong. So I just putting myself in situations where I'm never comfortable and trying to just recreate the same kick every time, especially with the mental game. I would tell myself, if I can make it to a jet ski on the 15th try, cause it would take me a million tries to do, I can do this in this whatever situation that is. Here's the deal. So I do like a live show every day, right? So things go wrong every show. And I don't have any time to think about it cause I get off set and I'm like, oh, should I have a show in 23 hours? Like I have, I move on right away. I would not like it if I had a week between shows because I would, I am a stew on it person. I, and the way that I live my life, like it doesn't affect me that way. Like I have to just be on my stuff and like roll out there. How do you go through a week or maybe like you didn't like a kick or like I'm not even talking about with the Brownsters in general in your mindset. Like how do you manage not thinking about what happened when you have a whole week between games? I don't think you can try and stop yourself from thinking about it. Cause if you, if you tell yourself to not think about an elephant, you're going to think about an elephant. Like it's like, you can't just like not like push it out of your mind. I think you have to think about it and accept it. And it's more about for me, for the first time in my career, I actually missed two kicks in a row this last season which was probably my least favorite moment about the whole year. I've been probably myself being good about whenever something goes wrong, I almost get even more motivated and be able to step up in the next moment. So whenever I have a bad game, I usually don't follow it with two bad games in a row. I usually, or at least the next kick I go out there, it's going to be a good kick. So I kind of try and channel it to almost pissing me off and like going to like be really good on the next one. I try not to let it leak into, oh, well, no, what if I do it again? So it's more just, you have to think about it, accept it and be able to kind of channel that in the right direction rather than letting it go in the wrong way. I love that. Kate, you're going to have a great second year. I'm so excited to watch it. Bubba, last time I heard from you was quotes that I was reading, you were at your locker cleaning it up like that sucks. Nobody wants to end the season cleaning up their locker, feeling like they want more to give. And then you have Bubba Ventrone come in there and he says that he had you ranked like highest hell on his list of guys and he's so excited to work with you. Have you spent time with him? What's that been like? Yeah, we spent plenty of time together and I've really enjoyed it. I love coach brief and I think the world of him and he's one of the reason I'm here and I have nothing but positive things to say about him but Bubba is a very like, they're kind of opposite to each other and it's kind of a cool new start. So it's been Bubba's much more give you a ton of space and it's been pretty cool to kind of go through with him and I'm enjoying getting to know him and it's cool that he played here and it's cool that actually I knew him from the draft process from before and I've only heard good things about him and I'm excited to see how it goes. Okay, so when you say that he gives you space, I like that because you were adamant, Kate, that given the opportunity, you could break the NFL record for longest field goal of 68 or 68 yards. Is Bubba the kind of guy that will give you that opportunity if it comes up this season? See, I've always, I don't think, I think pre for to let me do that last year if he would have had the chance. I don't think that's a special change coordinator. I think that's more of a situational thing but I'm sure any special change coordinator if their kickers confident they would be excited to watch them do that. I mean, I would like to see that. I would just, I need to get, I need a direct line to old Bubba and I'd like to see that happen. Okay, I would love to know before you go, any superstitions? Like what are your superstitions, your rituals look like? Oh, there's so many. I try not to let it, like if your superstitions don't go well, like it's not like, oh no, no, I'm gonna have a bad day. So I had to be careful with that but there are like tons of random things I do all the time. Like when I'm in pre game, if you watch me the way I kick in the net, I do the same after the last kick, I like pick the ball up, I spin it in my hands and then I like drop it and drop kick it with my heel backwards into the net. Like every time I do, I have the same thoughts in my head every time I go and kick or I try to again, something I'm gonna be better about next year. What are the thoughts? I'll keep that one to myself. Okay. And like in the locker room, my pre game, like I eat the same food all the time. I have the same gummies. I have like a Rice Krispie treat at halftime. Like there's tons of stuff. You have a Rice Krispie treat at halftime? Like out of the wrapper or like somebody makes them for you? No, out of the wrapper. That's so cute. That's like, I think that's a popular thing because like I didn't even have to ask for it. Like LSU did it and now I came to Browns and they're all there. You need to get that, that Rice Krispie treat sponsorship, Katie Ork and we are hoping for it. We wish you luck. Let me tell me before you go, the vibe around that Cleveland. I mean, those fans, they want to win. They want to contend, of course. What is the vibe and the energy around the facility right now? The vibe around the facility is everything. Like we're doing a bunch of different stuff this year. Like I don't, I haven't heard one negative thing yet, which has been, it was something I was used to at LSU because the last two years was a bunch of like turmoil and struggle. And even last year, it was a little bit wishy-washy, but I've heard like zero negative stuff. It's like the most team camaraderie I've been around since my freshman year at LSU. It's been actually like very enjoyable to go to work every day. And I've actually, I'm excited to walk back in there after this and get back to work. So it's pretty cool. Sorry, they kicked you out to your car buddy, but we appreciate you making the time. Katie Ork, everybody, with the Cleveland Browns entering year two, the word is excitement. The word is 68 yard field goal. You won't tell me your thoughts, but we're giving you all the Rice Krispy Treat vibes going into 2023. Good luck and thank you. And just get a burger. Just like.