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Press Pass | Press Taylor on Bye Week Self Scouting & First Down Efficiency · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so mine, I have my dad was diagnosed with
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  Speaker 1: Parkinson's should I don't even know how long ago. Now
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  Speaker 1: has been doing really well with it, but that's obviously
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  Speaker 1: a thing that's been near and dear to my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Is just Parkinson's research, cancer research, all the different things
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  Speaker 1: like that. And then last year I did Special Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: I have an older sister was born with downsenterm so
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  Speaker 1: Special Olympics has been a huge part of our family
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  Speaker 1: since I can remember. My dad's been Winter Games chairman
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  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma for Special Olympics, and that's always.
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  Speaker 2: Been something very involved in.
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  Speaker 1: But this year switched it up and went with Parkinson's,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you for that question. He goes into a
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  Speaker 1: bye week self scout, like take us through day by day,
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  Speaker 1: what you guys look for and then what came out
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  Speaker 1: of it before. Yeah, really, you kind of want to
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  Speaker 1: do an autopsy of everything you assigned different points now
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  Speaker 1: throughout the process of us for a week, everybody kind
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  Speaker 1: of has their area of expertise, whether it's run game,
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  Speaker 1: short yardage, third down, red zone. We kind of divvy
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  Speaker 1: all these different divisions up, so then we want everybody
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  Speaker 1: to kind of a do a self scout of your area.
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing well? What are we not doing well?
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  Speaker 2: Who are utilizing? What are we getting from people?
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  Speaker 1: Are we getting what we expected to get going into
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  Speaker 1: a game in that situation?
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  Speaker 2: Why have we been successful? Why? How do we do
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  Speaker 2: more of this?
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  Speaker 1: How do we feature more of this person protect this situation?
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  Speaker 1: So you kind of just go every single section. You
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in that early in the week,
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the week. All right, let's get together,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk through it. Okay, what adjustments are we going
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  Speaker 1: to make in the back half of this season two?
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  Speaker 1: Or how are we going to dive a little deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the things that we've done well and maximize.
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  Speaker 2: More of that.
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  Speaker 1: And again, every game is its own. So there's some
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  Speaker 1: times where we were really good at this this week. Well,
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  Speaker 1: who we're playing that just done line up this week?
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  Speaker 1: So you're trying to find all the different areas you
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  Speaker 1: can do those, dive into the things you do well,
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  Speaker 1: maximize those.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's certain things that we're.
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  Speaker 1: Not good at that. Okay, how do we get better?
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  Speaker 1: We need to do this. How do we get better
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  Speaker 1: at this? What situations we put people in versus?
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  Speaker 2: Let's table that one for a while and let's move
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  Speaker 2: forward with something else. Change.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's more just fine tuning and trying to
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  Speaker 1: you know, you go into the season thinking you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be one certain thing in one certain area, or this
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  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna do, and then you got to
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  Speaker 1: be real and honest with yourself and critical of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: If we're not good at this, Okay, well it's one
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  Speaker 1: thing to say we're not good at.
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  Speaker 2: Why are we not good at? How do we get
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  Speaker 2: better at? Do we need it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it something so that it just leads to deeper thought,
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  Speaker 1: deeper discussion into each area. What's the challenge, if any
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  Speaker 1: would Trevor potentially playing this week and trying to balance
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  Speaker 1: that with Mac Jones being ready to Yeah, it's always
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  Speaker 1: hard to not fully know exactly who's available to you
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  Speaker 1: on game day on Wednesday, because you want ideal world.
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  Speaker 1: This is who's gonna run this, play, this is going
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  Speaker 1: to do this, throw this type of ball to this
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  Speaker 1: type of player, so you just get the majority or
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  Speaker 1: the bulk or all the reps. So with Trevor just
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  Speaker 1: being day to day, we'll just kind of play it
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  Speaker 1: day to day and see where we're at and do
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  Speaker 1: our best to get Mac prepared. We trust that Mac
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  Speaker 1: will get himself very prepared, regardless of him getting physical
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  Speaker 1: reps or not. On certain plays. We do a lot
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  Speaker 1: post practice, pre practice to make sure those guys are
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  Speaker 1: very comfortable with the entire plan, and there's communication throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of the week. What do you have to
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  Speaker 1: what do you have to do with Gabe Davis now
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  Speaker 1: out for the season.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how do.
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  Speaker 1: You sort of divvy up the reps or do you
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  Speaker 1: call them Elijah Cooks or what do you sort of.
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  Speaker 2: Do in that situation?
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  Speaker 1: Again, it's there will be somebody that will will somebody
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  Speaker 1: will get a role that they probably didn't have previous
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  Speaker 1: weeks just because Gabe was in that position. And then
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  Speaker 1: each play you kind of look through who gives us
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  Speaker 1: what we need to accomplish that play. There's times where
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  Speaker 1: it may be more twelve personnel, But again, if you're
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  Speaker 1: going down the rabbit hole being in twelve personal as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to eleven personnel, what is the defense going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Do we get based, we get nickeled, do we get
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  Speaker 1: different defenses? So every single play you're always looking at
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  Speaker 1: whoever we put out there, what are they going to
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  Speaker 1: put out there, what's the situation they're going to play
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  Speaker 1: a certain defense in and how do we respond to
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  Speaker 1: give ourselves the best possible position on that play. What's
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  Speaker 1: your feeling of why the running game has regressed seams
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  Speaker 1: in the past months. I mean, it's hard to run
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  Speaker 1: the ball. I think it's just because it's coordination of
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  Speaker 1: eleven people. A lot of times it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: different sometimes than throwing the ball, where maybe I get
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  Speaker 1: one guy in space and I get an ability to
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  Speaker 1: get the ball of our hand to make a play,
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  Speaker 1: where eleven guys getting synced up has just been tough.
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  Speaker 2: But also game situation has been tough.
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  Speaker 1: You get behind in a game, it's harder to stick
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  Speaker 1: with runs, or if you're three and out, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to continue to try to run the ball because you
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  Speaker 1: don't get in that rhythm of it. Sometimes it's just
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  Speaker 1: calling runs. I got to do a better call more
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  Speaker 1: runs for us, giving us those opportunities. But obviously first
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  Speaker 1: and second down efficiency gives you the opportunity to get
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  Speaker 1: more first downs, more plays, and then you kind of
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  Speaker 1: let everybody get a lather going get into certain situations
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  Speaker 1: that you really tried to maximize on Wednesday, when you're
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  Speaker 1: putting in your first and second down plan, is how
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  Speaker 1: much is that, you know, exact cerbating the pressure on
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback right to perform.
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  Speaker 2: At a high level when he's not getting a running
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  Speaker 2: game support.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, playing second, long, third, and long. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: hard on a lot of people. If that's what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: that's hard.
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  Speaker 2: On your line.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to be in drop scenarios
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  Speaker 1: against the defensive lines across the league these days, So
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  Speaker 1: it makes things tougher from that standpoint, But it obviously
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  Speaker 1: running the ball does a lot of good for our
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  Speaker 1: entire team. I think of us being able to stay
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  Speaker 1: on the field. But whatever we do run pass screen movement,
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  Speaker 1: we want to be efficient. I mean, that's the number
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  Speaker 1: one goal. So whether it's running for four yards on
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  Speaker 1: first down that we'll take that. We'd love to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do that consistently. If we throw it, we
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  Speaker 1: need to put it in play, we need to do
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  Speaker 1: a good job protection, We need to do a good
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  Speaker 1: job being we're supposed to be catching the ball advancing forward.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not necessarily just the run game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that our first and second
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  Speaker 1: down efficiency needs to be better.
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  Speaker 2: It's it easier to bring Trevor back because it's not
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  Speaker 2: throwing shoulder injury that you had last year, and you're
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  Speaker 2: not having to worry about which throws he can it
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  Speaker 2: can't make this time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean really, any of this stuff, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback or anybody else, we're just deferring to the
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  Speaker 1: medical staff. If he puts himself in a position where
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  Speaker 1: he can protect himself, he's not going to endure himself further.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the limitations are, and they tell us the guy's
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  Speaker 1: available to play, we'll communicate them with that player, make
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  Speaker 1: sure he's on board with everything we've got going forward,
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  Speaker 1: and move forward there. So, whether it's quarterback, anybody, it's
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  Speaker 1: really what they can tolerate and what the medical opinion
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  Speaker 1: is that and we our biggest deal is I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he has, what he's got, what
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  Speaker 1: the diagno anything?
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  Speaker 2: Can he play? Yes? Okay, here you go, and then
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  Speaker 2: we go from there.
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  Speaker 1: And if they give us the clearance that a guy
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  Speaker 1: can play or can't play, then we'll just move forward
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  Speaker 1: with our plan.
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  Speaker 2: From that standpoint, they shouldn't have to alter the because
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  Speaker 2: without pain, you know what I mean. Like last year
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  Speaker 2: it was, yeah, he can make all the.
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  Speaker 1: Throws as far as I know, Yes, yeah, there may
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  Speaker 1: be I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll kind of see as we go.
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  Speaker 1: And again it's just feedback involvement from him and the
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  Speaker 1: medical staff as well. What do you want to see
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  Speaker 1: from Brian the last six when you just finish out
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  Speaker 1: the year strong to start that he had. I mean
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing is just continued growth every single week,
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  Speaker 1: which is what he's done. I think one of the
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  Speaker 1: coolest things was him playing through injury, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was something you didn't necessarily know. We didn't know
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  Speaker 1: how bad his injury was, what he could tolerate, what
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  Speaker 1: he could do. We tried to keep him out of
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  Speaker 1: certain situations for probably two weeks there, just to protect
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  Speaker 1: him from himself a little bit, because but he was
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  Speaker 1: fired up, ready to go. He gets better every single week.
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  Speaker 1: We've been able to move them all around the formation,
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  Speaker 1: do a number of different things with him, hand him
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  Speaker 1: the ball. He's probably been a better ball carry than
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  Speaker 1: we anticipated even coming out of college. So that's been
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  Speaker 1: cool to see.
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  Speaker 2: But just his overall maturation throughout the course.
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  Speaker 1: Of when we got him back in April to you know,
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  Speaker 1: the first time we got him in the building with us,
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  Speaker 1: to where he is now has been really really cool
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  Speaker 1: to see and just watch him continue to grow every
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  Speaker 1: single week.
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  Speaker 2: Seems out about the Texans defense, How different are they now.
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  Speaker 1: Than they were back in the week, for I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they have different players available and different players down throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of it. Obviously getting Deniko available, losing Petrie
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  Speaker 1: in there. Jimmy Ward I don't believe played against us
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  Speaker 1: the first time we played them as well, But you
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  Speaker 1: watch just they've kind of made some adjustments in the
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  Speaker 1: back end with who's playing there.
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  Speaker 2: They've added Devin White.
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  Speaker 1: They're really good, They're really fast. It's not an overly
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  Speaker 1: complicated scheme. You pretty much have an idea who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be weare now. Obviously they have their mixers in there.
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  Speaker 1: They've played us coverage wise a little differently than they
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  Speaker 1: play some other people at times, so that that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the cat and mouse throughout the course of the
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  Speaker 1: game of all Right, we came in thinking this, we're
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  Speaker 1: getting a little more of this, we adjust how quickly
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  Speaker 1: do they adjust out?
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  Speaker 2: So they're really well coached. They play really really hard.
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  Speaker 1: It really starts with the defensive ends, and they do
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  Speaker 1: a great job getting up the field, kind of ruining
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  Speaker 1: everything you're trying to get outside the tackles and things
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  Speaker 1: like that, and then the interior just firing off the ball,
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  Speaker 1: jumping up, getting vertical, causing issues in the backfield. I
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  Speaker 1: think that everything kind of starts with their defensive line
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  Speaker 1: and really the two ends to start ye