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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "I think we've got a great plan." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: A room and the new faces in there are. How
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  Speaker 1: much more important leadership going to mean this season? Um?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he was a big leader for us last
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  Speaker 1: year and same same this year. Obviously different room, But
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  Speaker 1: I think to that connection that me and him have
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  Speaker 1: just playing together for a year now, um, and just
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  Speaker 1: how we communicate, I think that shows a lot too,
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  Speaker 1: especially to the younger guys that the guys that just
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  Speaker 1: came in. Um. So, I mean, I think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: huge than just his voice in the room, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the offensive meetings all that. In his experience, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's got a good, um obviously head on his
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  Speaker 1: shoulders and has a lot of experience to draw from.
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  Speaker 1: And I think guys really listen when he talks. In
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  Speaker 1: an interview of the other day, Doug kind of said,
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  Speaker 1: you remind him a little bit of how Brett Farve
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  Speaker 1: is from your leadership style standpoint. Brett Farve obviously a
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  Speaker 1: guy with a golden jacket, Doug said today, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really throw around those sorts of comparisons lightly. How much
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  Speaker 1: does it kind of mean for you when you your
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  Speaker 1: head coach is kind of comparing you to a guy
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  Speaker 1: that he was on a team with seeing firsthand that
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  Speaker 1: is in Kingdon. Yeah, I mean obviously that's a definitely
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  Speaker 1: a compliment and I'm appreciative, you know, trying to pay
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  Speaker 1: too much attention to any of that, but um, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's cool to be you know, using the same
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  Speaker 1: sentences as Brett and just seeing how his career was
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  Speaker 1: and how great a player he was. That's obviously, UM
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  Speaker 1: cool thing for me. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: like I gotta go, I gotta go prove it on
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  Speaker 1: the field and perform, So it doesn't really change anything,
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  Speaker 1: but it's definitely definitely cool. Think what do you like
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  Speaker 1: about this group? Man? I just think they got the
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  Speaker 1: right mindset. I think um Sheriff coming in really has
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  Speaker 1: elevated the whole group. You know, it's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the same guys that have been here, but bringing in
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  Speaker 1: him and just his veteran presence, but also just his
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  Speaker 1: work ethic and the way he attacks every day, always
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, never complains, just has that grit. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit nasty like that's that's something that those
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  Speaker 1: guys see and I've seen it all, you know, O
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  Speaker 1: t a s and camp and to see a guy
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  Speaker 1: who has had as much success as he's had on
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  Speaker 1: his eighth season, I believe, and still brings that intensity
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  Speaker 1: every day. I think it's elevated the whole group. You
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  Speaker 1: think some of the great quarterbacks in this league have
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  Speaker 1: had long term relationships with their centers, Manning and Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: far Vin Winters, those guys. What do you like about
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  Speaker 1: the center as he gets started with his career. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's done, He's done a great job. We've
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about him a lot and just um how
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  Speaker 1: smart he is, for one, and I think he's been
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  Speaker 1: playing really well, playing at a high level. You can't
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  Speaker 1: tell he's a rookie at all um, and just starting
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  Speaker 1: to build that relationship now obviously you know he just
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  Speaker 1: came in. I'm only on my second year. Hopefully this
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  Speaker 1: is something that we can grow and build and be
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  Speaker 1: together for a long time. So that's that's the goal,
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  Speaker 1: I think, for myself, for him, his organization. Obviously, when
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  Speaker 1: you when you get someone, that's that's the plan. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going great. And just the like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing you know with Sheriff obviously a younger guy,
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  Speaker 1: but just the intensity he brings, really serious about his business,
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  Speaker 1: especially being a rookie thrown into that role early, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and he's handled it well. So it's been impressive. When
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  Speaker 1: you think about where you were a year ago at
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  Speaker 1: this time, I mean, so much has changed. Uh, your
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  Speaker 1: new coach, new staff. Uh you have even though last
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  Speaker 1: year didn't go the way you wanted to, you have
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of at least having gone through it. And
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  Speaker 1: you see the upgrades that have been done in the
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  Speaker 1: offseason to your side of the ball. How much does
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  Speaker 1: that do for your confidence going into the season opener
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  Speaker 1: this week? It's exciting, you know, it's exciting because just
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  Speaker 1: to see how far we've come in a year and
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  Speaker 1: my through my lens, you know, obviously it's different for
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  Speaker 1: everyone else. I haven't seen as much as I've seen
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  Speaker 1: just because we've only had a couple of preseason games
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  Speaker 1: and now we're about to start the season. But to
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  Speaker 1: see the improvement guys of the of the guys that
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  Speaker 1: were here and see how much better that we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: than obviously the new additions have helped a ton um
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  Speaker 1: and just the whole mindset. I think the culture is
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  Speaker 1: really flipped, and that's something that doesn't happen overnight. So
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  Speaker 1: it's taken a lot of a lot of work by
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, and I think we're in a
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  Speaker 1: great spot right now, and we just gotta keep building
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  Speaker 1: on that. Obviously, you've got to sustain it. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: just really excited to now have an opportunity to prove it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this on this one counts and we're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have seventeen games at les Us to prove
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  Speaker 1: who we are. What does this do for your own
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  Speaker 1: personal confidence level? Because it seems like the way you've
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  Speaker 1: talked this whole preseason strikes me as you being so
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  Speaker 1: much more confident quarterback. I think it's done a lot
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  Speaker 1: for me, you know, I think the trust that I
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  Speaker 1: have and all the guys around me is is really
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  Speaker 1: high right now. Um. And like you said, I've I've
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  Speaker 1: learned a lot in the past year, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good are a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of bad, some good too, um, and just things that
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  Speaker 1: I've learned from. And I think having that confidence of
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  Speaker 1: experience is a thing too. And then obviously having really
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  Speaker 1: good players around you helps anyone's confidence. So just trusting
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  Speaker 1: those guys, the guys up front, guys in the perimeter,
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  Speaker 1: the running backs. We got just really really excited conversations
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  Speaker 1: at all with Trayvon about the pressure of being the
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  Speaker 1: number one or road pick, or the ramp up to
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  Speaker 1: the season different than what he's already gone through, and
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  Speaker 1: you guys related all in that context. We've had some conversation.
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  Speaker 1: It's not necessarily about that, I think, just in general
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  Speaker 1: life stuff. You know, we'll talk every once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the way he carries himself is gonna
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  Speaker 1: serve him well. Just not a guy that has a
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  Speaker 1: big spotlight on him just because he's he doesn't attract
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  Speaker 1: any attention. And that's something that I respect a lot
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  Speaker 1: about him. Um, And I think he's gonna be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: We got a bunch of people around him to help him. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's not. If I did talk to him and be
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  Speaker 1: you're not doing on your own. We're all in this
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  Speaker 1: with you, and that's and that's the message. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the message through the whole team anyway. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he feels too much pressure right now. Um. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: as the year goes on, there's gonna be ups and downs,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just the way the way the NFL is
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  Speaker 1: like some game. It's the same thing during games the
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  Speaker 1: ebbs and flow, and you just gotta stick to it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the big thing. Our message to the team
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  Speaker 1: is just um, games aren't gonna always go your way,
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  Speaker 1: but you gotta find a way to finish. And good
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  Speaker 1: teams do that, so same thing in a season. And
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  Speaker 1: I think Trayvon is gonna learn that as it goes.
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  Speaker 1: But the way he carries himself, he's gonna be He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fine. I don't worry bout him at all.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are picking number one overall from two hours
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  Speaker 1: within each other. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, it is. It
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  Speaker 1: is crazy, And that's guy I've I've seen the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, and I kind of have my I
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  Speaker 1: never really thought that we end up playing together, and
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  Speaker 1: to now be on the same team and to see
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  Speaker 1: the way that the whole team has come together is
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  Speaker 1: really cool. When you start looking at this commander's defense
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  Speaker 1: and then look at what the offense did over the preseason,
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  Speaker 1: do you kind of look at the game plan and say,
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  Speaker 1: they have no idea what we're getting ready to come
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  Speaker 1: out there and do. And that give you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of like a step on them to start the game. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and no, I mean yes, because I'm confident in what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing and the plan that we've put together so far,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel great about I think the guys love it.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're really excited. But also the same way,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know exactly what they're gonna do, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: first first couple of games this season are always like that,
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  Speaker 1: you're going off last year's film in the past and
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  Speaker 1: obviously the same decordinator, but you never know what new
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  Speaker 1: wrinkles they're gonna they're gonna have. And obviously this is
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  Speaker 1: a team where you know coach Peterson and Press and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those A lot of our coaches played
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  Speaker 1: against them there in the same division for a while,
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  Speaker 1: so they have a history. So I'm sure they'll have
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  Speaker 1: they'll have a plan for us, just like we have
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  Speaker 1: a plan for them, and it's really about executing that
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  Speaker 1: and then adjusting as you go on. Okay, what are
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  Speaker 1: they what are they actually doing? And you know, making
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  Speaker 1: those in game adjustments. But I'm yes'm I'm really excited,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we've got a great plan. Culture has
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  Speaker 1: sloped in a year. If not anything to do, how
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  Speaker 1: do you gauge your measure or quantify that it's that
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  Speaker 1: it's term like that. Yeah, I mean I think it's
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  Speaker 1: you can just feel it, you know in the building, um,
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room with the coaches everything. The positivity
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  Speaker 1: of the confidence that people are walking around with. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the main thing. And then like I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of hitting at is, yes, it's it's changed, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's in a great spot. But it's all
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  Speaker 1: it's about maintaining that. It's not that's that's something that
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  Speaker 1: you can lose obviously, you know here in other places
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  Speaker 1: that's happened before. So it's about really every day putting
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  Speaker 1: your best foot forward. Do you need to win to
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  Speaker 1: kind of validate everything you guys have done? Coaches, the
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  Speaker 1: direction you guys are enditing, I wouldn't say, and I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't phrase it that way. Um, it's a tricky one there.
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  Speaker 1: Uh but but but how much validate I mean when
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  Speaker 1: obvious see that's that's that's the plan, that's the goal,
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  Speaker 1: and we feel we feel great about, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: our game plan and how we've we've prepared ourselves. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same at the same time, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you lose the first game, you got sixteen more,
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  Speaker 1: still make the playoffs, still got everything ahead of you, So, um,
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  Speaker 1: well we're gonna go. We're gonna take it as we go,
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, I feel feel really confident. So it's not
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  Speaker 1: a thought that we're there's no thought of losing, But
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  Speaker 1: there's no thought of if we lose this game, you
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  Speaker 1: know this, all the work we've done is gone. That's
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  Speaker 1: not how it works either. So it's just about having
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  Speaker 1: that mindset. The best start help the confidence in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room and in the building going through. Definitely, definitely,
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  Speaker 1: I think to your point though, the confidence that would
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  Speaker 1: bring just to be able to show the work we've
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  Speaker 1: put in and um, where I feel like we are
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  Speaker 1: as a team, and how much we've improved, and how
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  Speaker 1: prepared we are to be able to get a win
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  Speaker 1: and started season. Want to know, I think it'd be
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  Speaker 1: huge for our team, the city, just the fan base
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  Speaker 1: all the way around. So that's that's the plan. This
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  Speaker 1: franchises law to the energy, No idea, no idea. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really care too much. You get excited about the
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  Speaker 1: game plan. I mean I'm setting pretty excited about what
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  Speaker 1: you got to plan and do every week. Conscious that
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  Speaker 1: change Rock season. I mean the game plan changes because
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  Speaker 1: of you're playing or or um. I mean, it varies
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  Speaker 1: week to week. You face some teams that have a
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  Speaker 1: similar the coaches come from a similar tree, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it's you see a lot of the same things.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, you have your offense in and that's
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  Speaker 1: what you always go back to when you make a
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  Speaker 1: game plan. So everyone is typically familiar with what we're
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  Speaker 1: putting in. We just make it look different or maybe
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  Speaker 1: we didn't carry it the week before, but it's still
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  Speaker 1: a part of our offense. So that is constantly changing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't carry everything that we did in camp,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the installs, however many of them there were.
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  Speaker 1: We don't carry all that into a game plan. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you pick and choose what fits the team you're playing
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  Speaker 1: best and and go from there. So that that changes
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  Speaker 1: a lot you with your identity and as a team. UM,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you mean offensively? Defensively? Offensively, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're a really hard nosed team up frontum
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  Speaker 1: that can run the ball. I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: create a lot of explosives down the field. That's something
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  Speaker 1: that I'm really confident with the guys we have. I
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  Speaker 1: think we've got a couple of great backs. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: that those are kind of that goes to by our
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  Speaker 1: offensive commandments, you know, protect the football, create explosives, um
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  Speaker 1: ball security, all those things. And there's a there's more
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  Speaker 1: of them too. You know we could talk about but um,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just what we live by. Us Who we
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  Speaker 1: try to be a captain this year? How much does
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  Speaker 1: that mean to you just know when it's coming from
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, it's huge. You know. Obviously was named
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  Speaker 1: to captain last year, which was a big honor as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie. You know that's something that I don't take lightly.
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  Speaker 1: And then the same thing this year with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of new faces. Um, there's there's I think there's what
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  Speaker 1: there's five of us that are captains, and I really
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  Speaker 1: think that's a great group to represent this team. But
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  Speaker 1: there's plenty of other leaders. You know, I've said it before,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of other guys that represent the team.
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  Speaker 1: All of the guys do. And I'm really confident in
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  Speaker 1: how everyone will carry themselves and just a great group
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  Speaker 1: to be with. And I'm excited. And you've talked before
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  Speaker 1: about Pocks out of r C. James drops him back
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  Speaker 1: he'll be officially back this Sunday. Just how are you go?
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  Speaker 1: Are you to see him, you know, back in the
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  Speaker 1: back going with you? I'm excited, I know he's he's
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  Speaker 1: super excited just to see that. You know, he had
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  Speaker 1: a front row seat to see his recovery and um,
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  Speaker 1: the challenges with that and just how hard he's worked
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  Speaker 1: to get back. And I'm really proud of him, but
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  Speaker 1: excited to have him back there too. Awesome. Thank you all.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you guys have a go.