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Bears special teams coordinator Richard Hightower addresses the team's kicking game issues in the opener, when Cairo Santos missed a 50-yard field goal and the crucial kickoff was botched.
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00:05Yeah, I mean, we never want to leave points on the board.
00:09My diagnosis is always starts with the operation.
00:12That snap, hold, and kick, that wasn't clean.
00:15Protection was good.
00:17That wasn't clean, and we didn't get it done.
00:20And we need to get that done.
00:21It's just the whole operation.
00:23Yeah, the whole operation wasn't clean enough for us.
00:25Yeah, I think, Coach, I already addressed that with you all.
00:28So, I mean, I'm just going to reiterate what he said because it's the truth.
00:33We wanted the ball to go out the back of the end zone, and that didn't happen.
00:36Yeah, when we think we have a discussion,
00:39it's communication between coaches and players, and we communicate.
00:43We thought that we could kick it out the back.
00:46The player thought he could kick it out the back.
00:49If that doesn't happen, then we go to the next option.
00:52Yeah, that's discussed.
00:53We always work with Torrey on that stuff, but that was not an option.
00:58Right there.
00:59And then Torrey's got to give us a good punt, and we've got to do a better job covering.
01:03We knew that kid was a really good player, but we're playing a better returner this week.
01:08So, that's what's exciting.
01:09We're playing all pro this week.
01:13So, it'll be good there.
01:14And then the other part of the message to the team was we left points on the board on field
01:18goal.
01:18And I didn't think that that was up to our liking,
01:23and we obviously didn't want the game to end that way.
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