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Press Pass | Jenkins: "My mindset is to be the last man standing.” · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Man, just like always man, the the first few days
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  Speaker 1: you're getting acclimated you coming out, uh, get acclimated to
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  Speaker 1: the heat, to your teammates. Yuh, you got a few
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  Speaker 1: new fe faces, but for the most part, everybody pretty
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  Speaker 1: familiar with each other.
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  Speaker 2: So everything's going pretty smooth right now.
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  Speaker 1: How different so they just back how much or how
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  Speaker 1: much a grouping it is from. Yeah, this is a
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  Speaker 1: much more professional facility as you can As you can see,
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  Speaker 1: it feels got it good out here. The grass feels good,
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  Speaker 1: the turf, the uh, all the amenities and everything is
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  Speaker 1: just it's just top tier. So uh it feels good
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  Speaker 1: to just uh be treated like a pro, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying we weren't, but but definitely feels good to
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  Speaker 1: have all this at our uh fingertips.
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  Speaker 2: How would it have been pretty huge since the last
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  Speaker 2: year two?
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  Speaker 1: Like that was your your best season of your career,
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  Speaker 1: And just so what do you want to build on?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want to improve on from from formal
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  Speaker 2: last season?
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  Speaker 1: Just uh, just just staying consistent, Just continue to come
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  Speaker 1: out here and prove that, uh, you know I can
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  Speaker 1: do that game in and game out. I I I've
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  Speaker 1: been training and working and and and and really you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: put my best foot forward so I could be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that for my team.
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  Speaker 2: And in any given situation this off season, if you're
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  Speaker 2: getting ready, and then you would ass.
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  Speaker 1: Or oh, I would just say probably like more conditioning,
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  Speaker 1: just so that when it's when it's late in that
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter and you know, everybody tied, Like my mom said,
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  Speaker 1: it is to be the last man standing. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: if I can look as good as I did on
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  Speaker 1: the first play, then then that's all I would need
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  Speaker 1: is your Typson insist scout, just what are you saying
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  Speaker 1: out of them this offseason and really just as you
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  Speaker 1: spend time with them going into your third year in
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  Speaker 1: tape of us, just true professionals, man, they always want
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  Speaker 1: to get better. They always asking questions, and they're not
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  Speaker 1: afraid to come and ask questions.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Uh, they're both really really good players.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes players that are that are that good,
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  Speaker 1: they they seem like, I mean, they tend to kind
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  Speaker 1: of feel like they can do stuff on their own,
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  Speaker 1: but they still come and come to the older guys
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  Speaker 1: like me and d Will and just really continue to
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  Speaker 1: keep that open earle.
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  Speaker 2: Ask the sorry, how much more comfortable are y'all in
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  Speaker 2: Mike Caulbolls defense going into your second year with them though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: really comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: It's always good to come back into a scheme.
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  Speaker 2: Or situation that is familiar.
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  Speaker 1: So I know when I was with the Chargers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we were in the same scheme for shoot all four years,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, that really played to my benefit, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the same thing can happen here as well.
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  Speaker 1: Last year we were just getting familiar with you know,
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  Speaker 1: the play calls, the coaches and everything like that.
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  Speaker 2: But now we know are the things that can beat us.
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  Speaker 1: We know what plays to our advantage and what plays
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  Speaker 1: to our disadvantages. So it's always good to come back
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  Speaker 1: to a familiar scheme.
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  Speaker 2: The turnovers last year, how do you make sure that
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  Speaker 2: that does it that continues into the season.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Bob Sutton, I always say, you move towards
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  Speaker 1: your most dominant thought. So it constantly has to just
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  Speaker 1: be on your minds. You know, when you're out here
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  Speaker 1: on this practice field, you gotta be thinking about the turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: You can't go through the motions and just hey let's
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  Speaker 1: get through practice day. Is hey I gotta take the
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  Speaker 1: ball away.
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  Speaker 2: So communication with these guys coming back. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: guys won't play together now, but in that secondary, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's great. It's great. Just like I just said, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: We got the same faces coming back, so I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're familiar with being around each other.
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  Speaker 2: Our lockers are literally right next.
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  Speaker 1: To each other, so anything, even if we miss something
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  Speaker 1: out here, we can go back into the locker room
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  Speaker 1: and talk about whatever we need to talk about. And
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  Speaker 1: our coaches always make sure that we understand our assignment
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  Speaker 1: no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: I know. It's sorry if you see anything and immediately different.
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  Speaker 2: Go better from guys like Trayvon and Devn and going
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  Speaker 2: in a year too, the just look way more comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the thinking is out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: They're just playing because just like I said, we're coming
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  Speaker 1: back into a familiar situation, so they don't have to
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  Speaker 1: do too much thinking. They could just come out here
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  Speaker 1: and kind of just go off what was what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing last year, but even better now because they
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  Speaker 1: understand a lot more stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Outside this team know about the offense. What do you
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  Speaker 2: guys wanna show.
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  Speaker 1: As a defense man that we're top five defense in
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  Speaker 1: the league and and that's and that's just real. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like we put some good things
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  Speaker 1: on film last year, but this year is just being
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  Speaker 1: it's about being more consistent.
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  Speaker 2: Uh uh.
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  Speaker 1: We had some you know, we had some highs, we
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  Speaker 1: had some lows, but I don't wanna fall to and
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  Speaker 1: seven like we did last year.
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  Speaker 2: Just come out here and not play behind the eight ball.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just let's just get things going early and have
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  Speaker 1: people have to catch up to us. Absolutely, he feels
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  Speaker 1: like people around the league still aren't giving you guys
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  Speaker 1: the respects that you probably deserved.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel the same way. It's all good, it's it.
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  Speaker 1: It just it just keeps that chip on our shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: and then that just gives us more just another thing
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  Speaker 1: to come out here and just work at. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people people wanna the critics wanna say how we're not
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  Speaker 1: this and not that. Uh. I don't even think we
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  Speaker 1: had any accolades on defense last year. But it's just
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  Speaker 1: another thing to keep working towards and and we'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the younger guys, just what did you see
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  Speaker 1: now if Joeyo Johnson so far in terms of study,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been taking him under your wing or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, absolutely, he comes and asks me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if if I'm out here he sees something well or anything,
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  Speaker 1: he'll come up to me and be like, hey, Jens,
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  Speaker 1: what did you see that play? And I'll break down
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  Speaker 1: the entire thought process to him, because I want them
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  Speaker 1: to be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Learn earlier than I did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't feel like I started like learning
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  Speaker 1: the game until maybe like year three, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: these guys had advantage in my opinion, because they really
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  Speaker 1: have vets that that will really teach them step by
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  Speaker 1: step their thought process the game being situational things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and he's just really eager to learn.
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  Speaker 2: Good kid, all right, all right, thank you,