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Conference Call: Doug Marrone, December 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Doug. I just was wondering if if you had any
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  Speaker 1: conversations with Tom last night or shot at any point
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  Speaker 1: about your job security. I know we talked about having
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  Speaker 1: asked you that you know the rest of the year. Unfortunately, No,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. I understand that. I you know the way
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  Speaker 1: it's I mean, my experience has always been in the
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  Speaker 1: way I approach it. You know. I just go in
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  Speaker 1: there and keep going as hard as I can until
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  Speaker 1: you know, someone tells me otherwise. I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: look for any type of assurances and I don't I don't,
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  Speaker 1: I don't ask for it. So, um, So the answer
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  Speaker 1: to that question is is no. But I'm the type
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  Speaker 1: of person that just goes a hundred miles an hour
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  Speaker 1: and we're in a tough situation. I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: this team right, so I'm not looking for that or
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  Speaker 1: asking for that. Um trying to handle all my responsibility
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  Speaker 1: right now as as a head coach and get this
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  Speaker 1: team you know, to play, to play, better, perform better,
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  Speaker 1: go tell you doing man good? John. You look back
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  Speaker 1: when you look back on last year, just just being honest,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it just seems like you like everything you did,
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  Speaker 1: everything you said, they got across to the players, and
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  Speaker 1: it just seemed like this season, why has it been
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  Speaker 1: so difficult for you to get through with the get
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  Speaker 1: through to the guys of it, you know, speak of
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  Speaker 1: penalties they still make kind of yeah, I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a great question. It's something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I go about UM. You know, you go back and
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  Speaker 1: forth in your mind the whole time. And like I
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  Speaker 1: said before, you know, being the head coach, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to take responsibility for that. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: never shied away from it. It's UM. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a challenging aspect to UM message the team
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  Speaker 1: where you feel like last year, you you know, you
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  Speaker 1: did a good job. You felt that UM, you know
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  Speaker 1: there was a buy in you know, people UM really
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  Speaker 1: believed in it. And then you know this year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably starting UM, I don't know obviously after the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter season, you know, you start to say, okay, what
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  Speaker 1: you know, why? How how have I not been clear?
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  Speaker 1: How haven't been able to get this point across, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from a communications standpoint, And I know for me, I
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  Speaker 1: can't speak for anyone else. You know, that's that that's
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  Speaker 1: on me, I've got to do a better job. When
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  Speaker 1: you're the head coach, it's your responsibility to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get to the coaches and the players for a
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  Speaker 1: clear understanding of you know, what we have to do
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  Speaker 1: and how we perform and everything that happens in between
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  Speaker 1: those lines. So, um, you know that's something I take
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for. And UM, I obviously haven't done a good
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  Speaker 1: job there. So looking back on tape, uh, does it
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  Speaker 1: look like the effort was there, especially on the deep
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  Speaker 1: inside of the ball And did you ever get a
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  Speaker 1: sense that maybe these guys checked out a little bit
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  Speaker 1: after ending that seven game losing streak. Well, I think
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  Speaker 1: that Uh no, you know what, I did not see
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  Speaker 1: that on tape. And I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that you know, you can point out to um.
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  Speaker 1: You know obviously you know with the with the runs
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  Speaker 1: and and with Derrick Henry who obviously we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect for him, and both Lewis and running back.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you see on the film is you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's there's people that are able to make the play.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, again, we didn't have good angles. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't stick to the tackling plan, which you know, I
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  Speaker 1: I take responsibility for of how to you know, get
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  Speaker 1: them down. And I think one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: come up, you know when people talk about this, which
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  Speaker 1: is an obvious question, you know when you're when you're struggling,
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  Speaker 1: is that um, you know, at the end, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we we go for it on fourth down, trying
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  Speaker 1: to knowing that we've got a score, you know, three
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  Speaker 1: times and um, you know, giving the ball back and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, tough a tough area to field,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the defense goes out there and and
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  Speaker 1: stops them, and you know they're excited about it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, I know some people can look at
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  Speaker 1: and say, you know, what are they doing? They you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting their buck kick. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it shows the importance you know, for them to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and continue playing for um, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Sixty minutes follow up on that, on the run, Doug
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  Speaker 1: Leon Jacob showed some unbelievable pursuit. But where was everybody
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  Speaker 1: else on that play? Where was the point? I mean
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  Speaker 1: the j was there first, right and then you saw
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  Speaker 1: you know Leon coming. Uh, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys up front that got stuck, got blocked um guys
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  Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the field that had their
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  Speaker 1: head turned, you know, because they were man coverage. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that go into it. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's a player that has to be stopped
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  Speaker 1: right there with the fit um and that place you
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  Speaker 1: never really get get to where had gotten too. He
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  Speaker 1: did some of the players last night, talking to the
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  Speaker 1: players that they think opponents that figured out the team
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  Speaker 1: how to attack the team. And he wants to know
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  Speaker 1: if if you believe that, and if you and how
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  Speaker 1: concerning is it maybe that that players feel that way. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if they did, you know, and I wish they would
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  Speaker 1: come to me. You know, I haven't had a player
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  Speaker 1: say that to me, So it's a little disappointing that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they want to they want to speak through
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  Speaker 1: other people. Um, it's disappointing that they won't put their
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  Speaker 1: name on it. I mean, those things always disappoint you,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And but at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, those things happen, you know, teams that
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  Speaker 1: are losing. So to answer your question in the right
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  Speaker 1: professional way, every scheme that people play, all right, everyone knows,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the weaknesses to that scheme. You know. Now
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  Speaker 1: you know we play three D, we play quarters, we
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  Speaker 1: play two, we we we mix it up quite well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: when you're inconsistent and you have a game against a
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  Speaker 1: high powered offense like Indianapolis the week before the you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't really hear a lot of that all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden. Now the scheme works, um when you have
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  Speaker 1: a poor performance, um, and then it talks about scheme
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  Speaker 1: before him. This last night was you know, obviously defensively,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's what we're talking about is poor angles,
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  Speaker 1: poor tackling. You know, we had a back run for
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty eight yards, um and broke a
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  Speaker 1: record in a long run. I don't know. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: know we're we're an eight man front team. So what
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  Speaker 1: other scheme can you potentially get in? You can't go
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  Speaker 1: nine men up. I guess you could, but you're playing
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  Speaker 1: cover zero and the other ways you play cover two
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  Speaker 1: and you have seven. But all those runs were you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had extra people up in the box. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that's that's tough when you hear stuff like that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just curious, but you guys went to uh to Cody
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  Speaker 1: hoping to you know, bring some life into the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Has there been any thought of going back to Blake
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  Speaker 1: after the two games? You know, not a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of difference on offense. Well, I think you know one thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it shows I think that you know, obviously, Um,
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  Speaker 1: Cody is a tough kid, you know, just just the
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  Speaker 1: same way. And I thought he he ran a well.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was aggressive in his throws. He threw
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  Speaker 1: the ball downfield when we had opportunities. Um, I think
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  Speaker 1: he took some shots. I think there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: that obviously you always want back. Um. But again, I
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think it's the overall production, you know,
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  Speaker 1: of the offense. I said it before. You can't put
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  Speaker 1: it on you know, one person or one coach. But um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there were some things I thought that he
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  Speaker 1: improved on from the week before. So uh no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not I'm not thinking that way. Doug. On the quote
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  Speaker 1: sheet after the game, you were asked a question about
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  Speaker 1: the effort and Derrick Henry what have you? And this
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  Speaker 1: is the first sent this is what was transcribed, And
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  Speaker 1: you tell me if this is correct or this is
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  Speaker 1: what you how you meant to say it? Your quote? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think when you're going to look at the film.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to I don't think you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see the effort. Now that would that quote
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  Speaker 1: there would seem to contradict what you just said a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes ago. Did you Did you mean to imply
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  Speaker 1: that I don't think you're going to see lack of effort,
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  Speaker 1: And somehow that didn't get uh communicated to the media
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  Speaker 1: in your fresh conference last night. Yeah, I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about, you know, you're not gonna see a
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  Speaker 1: lack of effort, uh from you know, from the players,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I think you know what I said
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  Speaker 1: before was I thought, you know, and I saw it
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  Speaker 1: again today and obviously you're looking for that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're watching the film, you know, you're seeing guys
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  Speaker 1: that are um, you know, obviously getting blocked, you know,
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  Speaker 1: up front, you know, not not you know, just getting blocked,
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  Speaker 1: just not being able to defeat the block in front
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  Speaker 1: of them. And then you see players that are you know,
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  Speaker 1: hustling to try to get back into position to be
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  Speaker 1: extra players, ones that aren't being blocked and not you know,
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  Speaker 1: following the tackling plan. I mean, a guy like Henry
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  Speaker 1: you have to have a a tackling plan for him.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think that's the thing that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I look back on and say, you know, what, could
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  Speaker 1: I have done a better job? I did a poor job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, angles obviously come up. But you know we
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  Speaker 1: knew going into the game. You know, he can get downhill.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big bounce runner. We've got to keep him contained.
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  Speaker 1: And we knew that he was. You know, I had
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  Speaker 1: a big stiff arm, and you know we saw that
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  Speaker 1: last night, but you didn't see um. For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't, you know, feel like communicated it well
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  Speaker 1: enough that you know, we have to make sure we
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  Speaker 1: stay low on him. And I believe in the same
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  Speaker 1: and the same answering of that question, you know, I said.
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  Speaker 1: You know, then at the end of the game, UM,
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  Speaker 1: an example I put up was, you know, Jalen goes
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  Speaker 1: low and and get them down. And that was the
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  Speaker 1: plan the whole time, to make sure that we go
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  Speaker 1: low on him and get to his legs and stay
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  Speaker 1: away from his upper body. Okay, As a follow up
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  Speaker 1: to this, uh, you said you looked at the tape
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  Speaker 1: and you don't see any lack of effort. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna bring up one play to you,
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen yard touchdown run that Derrick Henry has. Can
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  Speaker 1: you actually look at that play and and be convincing
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  Speaker 1: that you feel that your players gave effort on that
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  Speaker 1: particular play? Well, I think again again, I think I
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  Speaker 1: would say, listen, there there's effort, but it is it
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  Speaker 1: is there production in it? No, I mean there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things going around. Um you know that there
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  Speaker 1: was I believe a jet sweep, fake jet sweep on
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  Speaker 1: that play, or it was an inside isolation play. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm I can't recall. I remember the end of the play.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that, Um, you know, Miles was pushed out,
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  Speaker 1: Um on the right side. We had a big crease
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  Speaker 1: on the inside. I believe it was a power play.
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  Speaker 1: They came up and um, you know, it's just just
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  Speaker 1: the pointing that we didn't have, you know, the people
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  Speaker 1: where they should be fitted, um, in that particular run,
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  Speaker 1: and that we weren't able to get them down. So
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  Speaker 1: um again, I you know, I think I think it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to talk about a team with lack of effort
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  Speaker 1: when you know you saw things that at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game. It that really really they were. They
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  Speaker 1: were fighting hard and just you know, truly disappointed. I
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  Speaker 1: guess the biggest thing I was disappointed and it was
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  Speaker 1: obviously the tackling uh Doug Yeah update on Unwell um
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  Speaker 1: in terms of when he might be available activate what
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  Speaker 1: today I believe is that how it is or and
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  Speaker 1: uh and anything on Safarian Jenkins, Safarian Jenkins is not
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  Speaker 1: ready yet UM. And then with Josh Wells, UM, I
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  Speaker 1: believe that we will uh do something as you know,
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  Speaker 1: UM when that day comes that bring him up to
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  Speaker 1: the roster.