“I mean, I take the compliment, Tremayne said with a grin. “I appreciate those guys, it’s definitely something, I just love being on that kick unit with dudes that are just flying around like TI and Claud and Bam, to name a few, and I mean everyone everyone on that team is flying down there. It’s just it’s so fun, just watching the tape after seeing guys run down and like all of us celebrating, so like you know that’s one of my favorite plays every game.”
And this week, everyone had a chance to share in it.
During their first team meeting after the Falcons game, Dave Canales devoted an entire segment of the team meeting to kickoff coverage, which is not common in a world where there’s an entire team to address.
But the urgency with which they played created some from Canales, too.
“I love the fact that we just went for it and then to have the coverage unit be such that you can put the ball anywhere and these guys are going to run with their hair on fire and if someone’s just out of the lane, someone’s going to cover for them,” Canales said. “And that’s all effort as well. It’s the assignments, it’s talking through what happens if this guy gets out of his lane, we need to make up for it, but then it also just comes down to flat-out effort and guys flying in to show up, or somebody might have gotten doubled.
“We watched all the kickoff coverages as a team. Just to show the spirit of our play-style, I truly believe that kickoff coverage kind of exemplifies who we want to be and that’s why I love special teams, but especially on kickoff, especially when you can start the game with a kick to be able to show the effort, the enthusiasm after great places of them celebrating the toughness, playing smart off of each other and then finishing each play.”