Matthew Slater, thank you so much for joining us, sir.

Good morning, gentlemen.

Thanks for having me.

How's the hamstring, first of all?

You know, it's getting better day by day.

It's obviously been a frustrating year.

I don't need to deal with that, but sometimes that happens is football.

Now that you guys got, I mean, it's fun.

I mean, it's kind of upsetting because Nate Ebner was just announced he's going to be on the IR, who's just put on the IR yesterday. With special teams, with you on the sidelines, how can you help the team? Like, how when you're not playing, are you an asset to helping these guys who are in there because right now it seems like

there's a lot of people who are going to be playing positions they're not used to playing

yeah certainly there are a lot of moving parts and you know you hate to see what happened to

on sunday it really hurt all of us to see it but i think you know when you're not in there you

have to be as vocal as we can,

almost like being a third coach out there, helping Joe Judge and Raven Trone, and just trying

to tell guys, you know, keep them reminded on little details, things that you see throughout the course

of the game, things that you've seen on film, and just try to lead

in that way until you can get back out there.

Now, do you keep the helmet on?

Do you stand close to Bill?

Do you want to get out there and play receiver?

Are you frustrated when that's not happening?

You know, it's tough.

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