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O-Zone Podcast: Press Taylor · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast, presented by by Star Credit
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  Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. I'm here with new
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars offensive coordinator Press Taylor, and I'm someone over a
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  Speaker 1: little bitcuse I'm still trying to get names right, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get faces right. Thank we all are the press.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today. Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to be here. Talk about the opportunity. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm obviously very excited, you know, first chance to be
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  Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator, chance to work with Coach Peterson again,
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  Speaker 1: and really a chance to work with the staff we
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  Speaker 1: have around us. That that's something that really excites me.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, it's it's I feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a given. The opportunity or Trevor Lawrence and
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  Speaker 1: such a talented young quarterback is exciting. What is it
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned at first? So I'll go there about your staff?
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  Speaker 1: What do you like about the makeup Jim Bob Cooter
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  Speaker 1: and and the rest. You know, I really like just
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  Speaker 1: kind of the mixture of personalities and philosophies that are
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  Speaker 1: coming to get Now, there is a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: we have some sort of tie some way shape or
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  Speaker 1: form kind of as we get into this, we all
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  Speaker 1: figure that out. Um, but it's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different ideas a lot of people that from from
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  Speaker 1: the week we've been together. It's kind of I would
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  Speaker 1: say generally the group is low ego, high output. We're
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  Speaker 1: getting a lot of work done early on in a
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  Speaker 1: week when a lot of people don't really seem to
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  Speaker 1: care who's gonna get the credit for anything. Everybody just
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  Speaker 1: wants to contribute. And that's that's really what you want
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  Speaker 1: to be around. You know, we spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time together, work a lot of hours, and so when
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  Speaker 1: you're around guys that get along really well but have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fresh ideas and keep things fun and
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  Speaker 1: exciting and creative. Um, that's something that makes it fun
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  Speaker 1: to come to work every single day. You mentioned there's
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  Speaker 1: a thread, a lot of connections, if you will, with
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  Speaker 1: Coach Peters and with each other. How important do you
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  Speaker 1: anticipate that being Maybe the knowledge you have going into it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of it. Obviously, Coach
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  Speaker 1: Peters and I can speak the same language having been
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  Speaker 1: in the same offense for five years. Um. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know Andrew Bryner is even a guy that worked
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  Speaker 1: with us for a year there, Nick Williams worked with
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  Speaker 1: us there, so we can speak the Philadelphia Eagles language. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then really one of the ties is kind of
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, where Mike McCoy's work with Peyton Manning, Jim
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  Speaker 1: Bob Cooter's work with Peyton Manning, Frank Reich had worked
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  Speaker 1: with Peyton Manning, Frank was with us in Philly, so
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  Speaker 1: we can all myself, Mike McCoy, Jimbob Cooter, we can
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  Speaker 1: kind of speak a certain language based on what I
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  Speaker 1: did in Indie and what those guys have been familiar
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  Speaker 1: with Peyton. Uh. So there are some unique ties that
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  Speaker 1: kind of bring people together. And as long as we
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  Speaker 1: can initially speak the same language, we can work well together.
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  Speaker 1: And then we'll come up with what our languages so
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  Speaker 1: we're all on the exact same page as we move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Is the ad a case of two philosophies coming together,
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  Speaker 1: or they pretty like philosophies that Colts Manning thing, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, and the Peterson thing, if you will. I
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  Speaker 1: would say they're they're they're similar enough in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the way we operate in the past, game and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Now there's obviously things that are unique or
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  Speaker 1: specific to one certain philosophy, but we'll kind of combine
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  Speaker 1: figure out what is best for us, what is best
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  Speaker 1: for our players to put them in position to succeed
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  Speaker 1: as we continue to build this thing. How important you
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  Speaker 1: think it is with that Doug still having a play
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  Speaker 1: calling responsibilities you, as you said, knowing his language, knowing
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he wants. I assume there won't be a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of learning curve where he's looking at you
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  Speaker 1: saying what did you mean by that? Right? And that
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  Speaker 1: that is something that having familiar familiarity with one another. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's important we have a great relationship already coming into
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  Speaker 1: this thing, but it's important we're in lockstep as we
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  Speaker 1: kind of do the legwork throughout the week for him
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  Speaker 1: and prep him each single day on Hey, this is
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  Speaker 1: how we got to hear, this is how we envisioned this.
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  Speaker 1: If if he and I are not having great communication
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  Speaker 1: is going to show up on the field. And so
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  Speaker 1: the relationship we already have previously where we we enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: working together and we were able to see things the
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  Speaker 1: same way. I think that's gonna go a long way
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  Speaker 1: in terms of being able to build build out his vision.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of silly first day of school question, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: but describe your offensive philosophy. You know, it's funny we
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about this as an offensive staff is
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  Speaker 1: kind of we get into our identity and philosophy and
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  Speaker 1: and it's not going to be the old school where
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  Speaker 1: a West Coast offense, the Bill Walsh West Coast offense,
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  Speaker 1: where this spread offense, where the you know, all the
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  Speaker 1: different versions of triple triple option, all those types of things.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that you'd have a name for it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, we want to be efficient.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be explosive. So whatever that looks like
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  Speaker 1: to us, we want to we want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to score touchdowns when we're in position to score touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: if that is running the ball, throwing the ball, screens, gadgets,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is. We want to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: As long as it puts our players in the best
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  Speaker 1: position to succeed and maximize their abilities. That's really what
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  Speaker 1: we want to do. First time coordinator, Uh, talk about
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  Speaker 1: that opportunity. How important is to do do and what do
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  Speaker 1: you bring? Yeah, you know, and it's anytime you get
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get a little more on your plate.
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  Speaker 1: It's exciting. Um. Now, there's there's challenges that come with that,
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  Speaker 1: but in my opinion, it's a great opportunity that I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited about. You know, I enjoy working with people.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of why I'm involving a team sport like this, So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited about the different voices, all the
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  Speaker 1: different opinions, the different experiences that we can learn from.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the things that it makes it fun
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  Speaker 1: to come to work every day knowing you're gonna learn
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  Speaker 1: something new. So I'm gonna learn from Mike McCoy and
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  Speaker 1: Jim Bob Coonter and uh, Chris Jackson and Phil Rosher,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys coming together. Um, it's exciting for me
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  Speaker 1: to be able to learn that. Um. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we'll be I think we'll be very organized, very efficient,
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  Speaker 1: very creative, um and at the same time very aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: I've delayed this a little bit, but at the question
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  Speaker 1: must be asked Trevor Lawrence thoughts, Uh, how much have
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  Speaker 1: you looked at him? How I guess just impressions and
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  Speaker 1: where's does he need to go next? Yeah? Um, obviously
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  Speaker 1: he was the number one overall pick, and you know
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this somewhere else, but he was probably the
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  Speaker 1: number one overall pick since he was a freshman college.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was always kind of known about him.
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  Speaker 1: The talent was very obvious from coming out of high
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  Speaker 1: school playing college at the high level that he played at.
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  Speaker 1: UM had a chance to speak with Trevor once everything
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  Speaker 1: was kind of finalized, just a chance to introduce myself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of talk about how excited we are
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  Speaker 1: to get a chance to work with him, sit down,
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  Speaker 1: you know, find the plan that best suits him to
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  Speaker 1: have success that he's capable of having. UM. So that's
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  Speaker 1: something that's exciting. And then being in the division last
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  Speaker 1: year with the Colts, we obviously had plenty of crossover games,
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  Speaker 1: so I got a chance to see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's games and you could see that growth throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, we had an opportunity to the
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  Speaker 1: last game of the year as the Colts two we
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  Speaker 1: were winning in came down here to play the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars and Trevor starts out the game and mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: like nineteen of twenty four in the first half, just
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  Speaker 1: kind of let us on fire. So at the time
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  Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy seeing it, but you can see the
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  Speaker 1: growth of this kid um as the season went, and
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  Speaker 1: how good he could be and how good he just
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  Speaker 1: the growth he had during the year was really exciting
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  Speaker 1: to see. Now that you get the chance to coach him.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned building around him. I assume that's the approach.
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  Speaker 1: Take his strength and make it work with what you
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  Speaker 1: guys do. Absolutely, and that that is always that should
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  Speaker 1: always be. The goal of an offense is to maximize
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  Speaker 1: the strength of a quarterback. When the quarterback plays well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the other guys are gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to play well. We're we're not gonna come out
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  Speaker 1: here and say this is what we do and what
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  Speaker 1: we've always done because it worked in the past. For
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  Speaker 1: that quarterback. It's going to be about maximizing what Trevor does,
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  Speaker 1: what what he is comfortable with, as well as the
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  Speaker 1: guys around him. We're not going to do things that
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  Speaker 1: Trevor is great at that the receivers, the running backs,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line, tight end, they're not great at or
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  Speaker 1: we're not comfortable coaching and teaching Um. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: collaboration of all those types of things coming together. So again,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, build the Jaguar offense, We're not going
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  Speaker 1: to do a deep dive on the entire offense, but
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  Speaker 1: your impressions overall the offense that you have to work with. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent now, there are there are,
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  Speaker 1: There's things that we're gonna have to as we go
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  Speaker 1: through building our personnel, and we the first step is
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  Speaker 1: evaluating our personnel of seeing what we feel like we have,
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  Speaker 1: what's what's currently under contract, what's not what what the
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  Speaker 1: holes we may feel like we need defeat to to
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  Speaker 1: fill to fit what we envision ourselves doing. But you're
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  Speaker 1: always evaluating, you're always evolving as that thing goes. So
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  Speaker 1: we're very excited about the pieces that are in place.
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  Speaker 1: We look forward to adding more talent um in a
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  Speaker 1: number of areas. Anything that's gonna make us better, the
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  Speaker 1: ability to be more efficient, more explosive, and as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: we're open to did you bring presses vault with you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting waiting on that to get sent. So when
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  Speaker 1: I left Indie, the defensive staff was basically leaving coach
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  Speaker 1: everflu Scott the Chicago Bears job took a couple of guys,
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  Speaker 1: So I was kind of down the pecking order of leaving,
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  Speaker 1: so the video guys still in the processes. In the end,
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  Speaker 1: I was I was. I tell the other coaches, I
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  Speaker 1: was in once place for eight years, so all my
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  Speaker 1: stuff kind of I was able to keep it all together.
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  Speaker 1: But I built a lot of its offense or it's
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  Speaker 1: everything that is everything as situations, that's funny things, that's coverage,
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  Speaker 1: that's it's everything I've ever had. Is just kind of
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  Speaker 1: what it was. Became classified as my vault. Now the
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  Speaker 1: jewel there they talked about is the Philly Special. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: how much do you have to do with that to
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  Speaker 1: take me through that story from your perspective? That was
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  Speaker 1: purely my job as a quality control. So I was
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  Speaker 1: a quality control for a long time there in Philly. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I saw you see a lot of plays over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over. So at some point I realized I
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  Speaker 1: should be categorizing all this stuff because I know I
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  Speaker 1: see it and build it. So kind of built what
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  Speaker 1: became classified as the vault. Had some trick plays labeled.
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  Speaker 1: Frank came into my office before the Super Bowl. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he was our offense quite out of time. Came in
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  Speaker 1: my office before the playoffs began. I guess and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, give me your five best trick plays. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what fits us. We may need something down the
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  Speaker 1: road and these playoffs. Um. So then I think the
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  Speaker 1: second he left my office, I just followed him out
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  Speaker 1: because I already knew already had it all broken out
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  Speaker 1: of It's really just examples you've seen so and then
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to feel you could do anything. Anybody can
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  Speaker 1: run any play, but you want to feel what's gonna
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  Speaker 1: fit our offense, what we already do. We could playoff
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  Speaker 1: the personnel we have, so you know, having Trey Burton,
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  Speaker 1: who had been a former quarterback, we felt like we
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  Speaker 1: could put him in position to not only make a throw,
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  Speaker 1: but make a good decision. Um nick Folds, being the
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  Speaker 1: athlete he is, we felt comfortable with him catching the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Corey Clement was the back we had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: trust in as a young player to lead the point
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  Speaker 1: on the ball handling. So it all kind of came together.
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  Speaker 1: It was approached, you know, as we watched those ideas. Um,
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  Speaker 1: Frank felt comfortable with it, Doug felt very comfortable with it,
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  Speaker 1: and then we just kinda we call it, kind of
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  Speaker 1: massaging it through the process until it eventually makes it
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  Speaker 1: too a game and gets called. So it was on
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  Speaker 1: a couple of game plans, but we I think one time,
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  Speaker 1: I think even the NFC Championship, we had to convinced
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  Speaker 1: Doug not to call it. We were up pretty big.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to call it in the fourth quarter. We
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  Speaker 1: were like, well, let's hold it and see if we
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  Speaker 1: see if we can call it when we actually need it.
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  Speaker 1: So he I mean, it's it's all on Doug for
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  Speaker 1: and and Nick as well for when they called it
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  Speaker 1: in the way they executed it. But when you put
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  Speaker 1: one of those in, it better work. If it's the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, right, it better work. Absolutely. If you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: call it on fourth and goal at the in the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, yeah, it has to work. So your relationship
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  Speaker 1: with your brother, what does that mean to you? That
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  Speaker 1: means a lot to me. You know, obviously we're very close, um,
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  Speaker 1: just from a personal standpoint, but the fact I have
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  Speaker 1: somebody I can lean on that has done everything that
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking into ahead of me, Um, it's huge. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You we have the connection of the people that we've
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  Speaker 1: worked with, So I know a lot of people he's
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  Speaker 1: worked with. He knows a lot of people that I
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  Speaker 1: worked with. You kind of your network can grow from
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  Speaker 1: that standpoint, so your resources can grow from that standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: But to be able to pick up the phone and
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  Speaker 1: call a head coach and ask his opinion on something,
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  Speaker 1: or Hey, I've I've got to go talk to Doug
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  Speaker 1: about this. How would you how would you want your
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  Speaker 1: coordinator to approach this? You know, you kind of have
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  Speaker 1: just a resource that's that's very close to the experiences
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  Speaker 1: I'm having. That's that that means a lot to me
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  Speaker 1: for people listening. Brother guys, Zach Taylor, head coach, its
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  Speaker 1: Intinanni Bengals. How's he holding up? He's doing well. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's handling it well. I think they're exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really long season when you make a run
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the super Bowl. Um, but he's
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  Speaker 1: doing well. I think he's I think he's exhausted, he's recovering,
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  Speaker 1: but he's excited to get back after it and and
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  Speaker 1: make another run at it and see if they get
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  Speaker 1: it done. I know that what's next for you? Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's man, I got a whole list of things on
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  Speaker 1: my on my desk to get done. Um, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get my family down here as quick as possible. That's
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  Speaker 1: important to me. But you know, whatever we can do
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  Speaker 1: to build the best Jaguar offense, like I said, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to help our team succeed. That's what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do. Whether that's scheme, personnel, whatever, we're all about it.
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  Speaker 1: We're attacking it every single day. Chris Taylor, I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you doing this. I look forward to working with you
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  Speaker 1: can thank you for joining the ozone podcast. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys,