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Preparing for Week 1 vs. Washington | Jags Broadcast Week in Review: September 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: t I A. A. Bank. It's Friday, September nine. I'm J. P.
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Speaker 1: best of the press conferences this week, starting with second
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Speaker 1: year quarterback Trevor Lawrence. He went through a wild rookie season,
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Speaker 1: of course we all remember that, but now says things
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Speaker 1: have calmed around him. That's exciting because just to see
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Speaker 1: how far we've come in a year in my through
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Speaker 1: my lens, you know, obviously it's different for everyone else.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen as much as I've seen just because
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Speaker 1: we've only had a couple of preseason games and now
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Speaker 1: we're to start the season. But to see the improvement
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Speaker 1: guys of the of the guys that were here and
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Speaker 1: see how much better that we've gotten than. Obviously, the
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Speaker 1: new additions have helped a ton um and just the
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Speaker 1: whole mindset. I think the culture is really flipped. And
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Speaker 1: that's something that doesn't happen overnight. So it's taken a
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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of work by a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: and I think we're in a great spot right now
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Speaker 1: and we just gotta keep building on that. Obviously, you've
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Speaker 1: got to sustain it. And I'm just really excited to
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Speaker 1: now have an opportunity to prove it. You know, this one,
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Speaker 1: this one counts, and we're gonna, you know, have seventeen
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Speaker 1: games at least to prove who we are. There are
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Speaker 1: plenty of new contributors on offense and a brand new
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Speaker 1: offensive system. Lawrence explained his thoughts on what the offensive
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Speaker 1: identity might be offensively. I mean, I think we're a
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Speaker 1: really hard nosed team up frontum that can run the ball.
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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna create a lot of explosives down
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Speaker 1: the field. That's something that I'm really confident with the
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Speaker 1: guys we have. I think we've got a couple of
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Speaker 1: great backs, um, and that those are kind of that
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Speaker 1: goes to by our offensive commandments, you know, protect the football,
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Speaker 1: create explosives, ball security, all those things. And there's there's
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Speaker 1: more of them too, you know, we could talk about
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Speaker 1: but and that's just what we live by us who
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Speaker 1: we try to be. Now. The head coach, Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: he's facing his old Philadelphia quarterback Carson Wentz now with
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Speaker 1: the Commanders. It was wins his second year when he
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Speaker 1: took a huge step for the Eagles and now Lawrence
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Speaker 1: is entering year two for the Jaguars. But Peterson explained
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Speaker 1: the differences so far. Year two for Trevor is a
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Speaker 1: different staff, right, different different head coach, different coordinator, different
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Speaker 1: position coach. Where Carson year two it was the same
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Speaker 1: same guys and there was consistency there, you know. And
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Speaker 1: although we've seen tremendous growth in Trevor year two, for
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Speaker 1: for Carson with us, there there was another there was
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Speaker 1: another step, there's another leap there, and you know, those
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Speaker 1: are things that we're trying to get Trevor to right
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Speaker 1: that level that with Trevor in our system, and you're
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see it probably throughout the course of the season,
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Speaker 1: you know, but I think time will tell you know,
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Speaker 1: with with him. The head coach was also asked this
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Speaker 1: week off the Jackson needed a win to validate all
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Speaker 1: Dave instilled in the team this offseason. Well, I mean, listen,
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Speaker 1: you want to win every football game. There's there's no
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Speaker 1: question about that, UM. And you want you want to
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Speaker 1: do the things we talked about, right. You want to
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Speaker 1: take care of the football, you want to create turnovers,
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Speaker 1: you want the ability to run the ball, stop the run.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's all those things we've talked about from
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Speaker 1: from day one. And I think if you do enough
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Speaker 1: of that in any game, your your chances of winning
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Speaker 1: are you know, increase. But we just have to focus
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Speaker 1: on us and make sure we're doing everything we can
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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, um, give our players the best
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Speaker 1: opportunity to be successful on game day. This is also
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Speaker 1: the first time Press Taylor has been an offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: with Doug Peterson, and the first time they'll operate during
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Speaker 1: a real game. Taylor will be in the press box
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Speaker 1: with Peterson calling plays on the field. But Taylor has
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Speaker 1: been around the Jags head coach long enough that he
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Speaker 1: has a pretty good idea of when to chime in
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Speaker 1: and when to lay out. That's the benefit of having
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Speaker 1: spent five years with Doug, of knowing what he expects
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Speaker 1: on the headset, what the communication like is, and through
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Speaker 1: the four preseason games as well, of everybody kind of
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Speaker 1: understanding what that is. And I think I have a
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Speaker 1: good feel for what kind of communication he expects and
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Speaker 1: he likes. And then kind of when he's he's in
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Speaker 1: his flow and you kind of give him time to
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Speaker 1: make the play called. There's not a lot of extra
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Speaker 1: chatter on the headsets for him. And usually we're in
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Speaker 1: lockstep with most things. You know, we've talked about, We've
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Speaker 1: gone through scenarios, whether it's throughout this week as we
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Speaker 1: built each section of the game plan to even Sunday morning,
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Speaker 1: we'll get a chance to sit and meet before the
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Speaker 1: game in the locker room in the air conditioner, kind
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Speaker 1: of talk through all right, if you get this, what
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Speaker 1: are we thinking? Where we have both of us just
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Speaker 1: bouncing ideas around um and so we're all kind of
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Speaker 1: on the same page. So then once he's going, he's
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Speaker 1: got it going. We moved to the locker room this week.
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Speaker 1: Right guard Brandon sheaff've spent the first seven years of
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Speaker 1: his career with Washington and went to five Pro Bowls.
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Speaker 1: He'll run out of the tunnel at FedEx Field as
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Speaker 1: a visitor this week, and it's a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be really weird. You know. I've spent my
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Speaker 1: seven years there, had had a lot of fun, a
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Speaker 1: lot of memories. But it's gonna be it's gonna be different.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited because, uh, you know, it's to start to
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Speaker 1: the new season and we're playing football and this is
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Speaker 1: our job and this is what we dream about doing.
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Speaker 1: So how were you going to be named the captain
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Speaker 1: of a Disney team? It feels great, you know, it
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Speaker 1: means that, you know, that was one of my goals
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Speaker 1: is to do everything the right way, and you know,
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Speaker 1: obviously just trying to lead by example and for them
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Speaker 1: to be to vote me as a captain is a
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Speaker 1: tremendous honor for me, and I don't take it lightly.
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Speaker 1: So I'll do whatever I can for absolutely anybody in
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Speaker 1: this building. Have just what speaks to you? Uh you know,
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Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think we're physical. I think we're
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Speaker 1: gonna be tough. I think we got a heck of
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Speaker 1: a quarterback behind us. We're excited to block for him.
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Speaker 1: Some great running backs some great receivers. So if we
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Speaker 1: can put it all together, I think will be pretty dangerous.
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Speaker 1: But it's all about you know, Like coach always, he says,
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Speaker 1: take it one day at a time, and uh, when
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Speaker 1: Wednesday comes, you know, put the game plan together and
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Speaker 1: then get ready to go. The number one overall pick,
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker, the outside linebacker for the Jaguars, will make
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Speaker 1: his regular season debuts Sunday. He said this week the
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Speaker 1: draft status doesn't matter much anymore. I mean, yeah, that
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Speaker 1: they'll lean on me, of course, that's why I'm drafting
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Speaker 1: in that position, but them them knowing me, I'm not
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Speaker 1: that type of guy. Don't like, you don't have to
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Speaker 1: refer to me in no first rounds that I'm just
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Speaker 1: I'm a regular football player like everybody else. I'm here
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Speaker 1: to get paid, just like everybody. At number twenty seven overall,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars selected Devin will In, a linebacker from Utah.
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Speaker 1: It's been a long time dreaming of this moment to
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Speaker 1: play in a regular season NFL game. Yeah, for so long,
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Speaker 1: ever since I started playing football. This is the goal.
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Speaker 1: And um, you know, really I haven't thought about it
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Speaker 1: too much because I've been just trying to prepare, you know,
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Speaker 1: so I can't go out and execute at a high level.
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Speaker 1: But I know there's gonna be a lot of most
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Speaker 1: is running through um, and I know they're also gonna
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Speaker 1: go away pretty quick because I'm the type of guy
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be locked in and I'm gonna be ready
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Speaker 1: to play. You were known as a kind of a
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Speaker 1: film rap. I guess really for a better term at Utah.
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Speaker 1: How different is that here? I mean, there's probably more
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Speaker 1: time for that here. How do you balance that in
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Speaker 1: the NFL? How do you compare the two? So much
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Speaker 1: more time because you don't have classes, and it's really
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Speaker 1: it's really nice, And I really feel like I have
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Speaker 1: a good balance now of how much is enough but
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Speaker 1: not too much, because I feel like even a Utah
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Speaker 1: I might have done I wouldn't say too much, but
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Speaker 1: there can be to a point where you watch too
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Speaker 1: much in the overthing on the field versus just watching
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Speaker 1: the right amount, getting good amount and then going out
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Speaker 1: and trusting you but also just playing ball. So I
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Speaker 1: feel like I got that good amoun out and like
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Speaker 1: you said, it's a lot more time. So that's nice.
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Speaker 1: When we look back at this defense at the end,
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Speaker 1: of the year. What what is the calling card of
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Speaker 1: this defense going to be? If you had to say
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Speaker 1: it going into week one, you don't know, I hadn't
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Speaker 1: played a game yet, But what does it feel like
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Speaker 1: for you guys? Um, I think we're gonna be an
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Speaker 1: attacking style defense. We're all about taking the ball away,
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Speaker 1: stopping the run, and getting after the quarterback. So take
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Speaker 1: aways the number one. We want to get the ball
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Speaker 1: back to the offense so they can do their thing.
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Speaker 1: Um Less, we want to give them as much time
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Speaker 1: as possible to score. But then um also hanging our
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Speaker 1: hat on running the defense, stopping the run on first
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Speaker 1: to take it down. And then we got you know,
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Speaker 1: uh to too many pass rushers. You know, we've got
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Speaker 1: so many guys that can get after the quarterback. So
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Speaker 1: we're gonna give them a chance, let them loose on
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Speaker 1: third and long. Um, we don't want to make a
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Speaker 1: third and store. We want to you know, make a
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Speaker 1: long down and distance. So just guys that are just
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Speaker 1: you know, an attacking style of defense. There's no such
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Speaker 1: thing as too many pass rushers. By the way, the
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Speaker 1: turnover thing, you were around the ball a lot at
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Speaker 1: Utah hands on the football takeaways, interception returns, the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: How much of that is a mentality? How much of
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Speaker 1: that is film study? Come, come combine? How does that
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Speaker 1: work for you? I think, um, everything plays a role
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Speaker 1: and when you put it all together, it just shows
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Speaker 1: up even more. Um. Some people just have a natural
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Speaker 1: athletic ability. UM. Some people, like you said, film study,
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Speaker 1: they're always they just know where to be. UM. And
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Speaker 1: some people just it's a mentality they say they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be around the ball. I feel like I have a
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Speaker 1: good combination of all all three, you know, athleticism, film study,
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Speaker 1: and um, just that mentality of you know, I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to get the ball around. I'm always taking turnover
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Speaker 1: so um, you know that's my thing is, you know,
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Speaker 1: getting the ball back to the offense, making big place
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Speaker 1: and finally, running backs are under the microscope this week,
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Speaker 1: James Robinson has been given the green light to return
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Speaker 1: to play after an achilles injury late last season. On
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Speaker 1: the post practice water break presented by Crown Royal this week,
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Speaker 1: he shared with me how the rehab process with and
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Speaker 1: how the athletic training staff helped keep him on track.
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Speaker 1: What was the most difficult a challenging part of that
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Speaker 1: maybe mentally to get through Uh. Probably like right after surgery.
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Speaker 1: It was just like I couldn't do anything. Uh, showing
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Speaker 1: room was hard, and I mean I was just like
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Speaker 1: in the bed like all day and not able to
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Speaker 1: do anything at all. I mean, I'll come here, do treat,
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Speaker 1: I do treatment, but it was really just I was
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Speaker 1: still in the cast and stuff, so I still couln't
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Speaker 1: do anything. I was doing stuff in my right leg,
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Speaker 1: just keeping it strong. But um, yeah, I think that
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Speaker 1: was the hardest part, just me playing around for like
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Speaker 1: three months and not being able to do anything. You
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Speaker 1: can only do so much physically. So what do you do?
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Speaker 1: Do You watch Netflix? TV? I mean, how do you
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Speaker 1: kill Todd? Um? I get Netflix? I mean me just
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Speaker 1: playing games, I guess. I mean I was kind of
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Speaker 1: just kidding. I was already bored, but I don't know
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Speaker 1: what to do with myself just sit later and look
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Speaker 1: at the seeling. I guess I was. I mean the
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Speaker 1: only thing I did was watch TV, like you said,
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Speaker 1: and it was in the training room. So you finally
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Speaker 1: got back out there though, once you're out there running again.
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Speaker 1: I think you told me a little earlier in the
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Speaker 1: offseason that's when you realized, Okay, I can actually move
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Speaker 1: around and do some things now. But you have to
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Speaker 1: balance that out. You don't want to push it too
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Speaker 1: hard and go over the top, but you still want
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Speaker 1: to get some work done. How did they keep you
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Speaker 1: on track just day to day and not let you
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Speaker 1: go a little too far ahead. I'm just like a
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Speaker 1: little trackers that we got on our jersey and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. Uh, they kind of try to keep my
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Speaker 1: yards up with other guys. I mean I wasn't up
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Speaker 1: there obviously at the beginning, but um, they tried to
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Speaker 1: limit how much how much I do but day by
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Speaker 1: day and stuff like that, and just seeing how I
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Speaker 1: feel coming in the next day. And if I felt good,
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Speaker 1: then we were good to move on. But if I
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Speaker 1: felt a little soreness or something like that, and then
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Speaker 1: they weren't doing it by the feeling the soreness like
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Speaker 1: it was were they were surprised to I mean, not
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Speaker 1: the best of our shows this week. Thursday. On Jack's
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Speaker 1: Drive Time, the Commander's Senior VP of Media and Content,
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Speaker 1: Julie Donaldson joined Ashman Sullivan, John Ozier, and Brian Sexton
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Speaker 1: and she was asked how head coach Ron Rivera for
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Speaker 1: the Commanders keeps the team's focus on football with all
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Speaker 1: the noise around the organization. Yeah, we asked him that
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Speaker 1: question a lot, because since he's come here a couple
12:38
Speaker 1: of years ago, taking over a team that just had
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Speaker 1: three wins. COVID happens, he ends up having cancer, doesn't
12:43
Speaker 1: miss a game, but he's going through treatment throughout the
12:45
Speaker 1: entire season, and you could see him just physically white
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Speaker 1: Alex Smith coming back from injury. On everything that happens
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Speaker 1: around the quarterbacks, I think he's had like six or
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Speaker 1: seven different starting quarterbacks in just a few years. That
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Speaker 1: he has been here. Um. He attested to his military
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Speaker 1: background of just being kind of steady. And that's the
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Speaker 1: one thing that when I first took on this job
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Speaker 1: and was kind of learning about him, everybody would say
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Speaker 1: he's a very steady leader. Uh. And he continues to
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Speaker 1: be that way as he goes through everything now and
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Speaker 1: still kind of trying to lead this team. UM to
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Speaker 1: be able to say, okay, like one of his favorite
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Speaker 1: sayings is what's interesting and what's important? You know, like,
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Speaker 1: is it interesting, okay, then let's not put pretty much
13:23
Speaker 1: attention into it. If it's important, then we need to
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Speaker 1: focus in on it. Um. So he's done a really
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Speaker 1: good job kind of leading this team, and they've taken
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Speaker 1: on his personality as well, and you can kind of
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Speaker 1: see that this year with the players. Surely you could
13:34
Speaker 1: make the argument that this is, uh, this could be
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Speaker 1: a last chance for Carson. Whit is certainly a third chance,
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Speaker 1: which for NFL quarterbacks, you know you don't get that many.
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Speaker 1: How is he approaching it? H what's your sense of
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Speaker 1: sort of where he's at mentally going into this thing.
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Speaker 1: I've been impressed by Carson. I mean, he gets hit
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Speaker 1: up on this question almost every single interview he gets
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Speaker 1: of that. Look, it didn't work out with the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: it didn't work out with you know, your guru that
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Speaker 1: drafted you. You know you're worth the Colts. And of
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Speaker 1: course everybody remembers that game that he had against you
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Speaker 1: guys last season that basically lost him his job in Indianapolis. Um,
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Speaker 1: which is why he's here in Washington. And look, I mean,
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Speaker 1: coach Vera's gone out there and made a very public
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Speaker 1: that we want you, We want you to know that
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Speaker 1: this is your team. We believe in you. They believe
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Speaker 1: they can get him back to the form um that
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Speaker 1: he was in Philadelphia before he became succumbed to a
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of different injuries that kind of just like
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Speaker 1: set things off in a bad course for him. But
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Speaker 1: he comes in as a different leader and a different man.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he claims that, you know, his faith is
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Speaker 1: first and foremost most important to him. So that keeps
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Speaker 1: him steady. That he's got a family, his two little
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Speaker 1: girls that don't care if he throws interceptions or has
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Speaker 1: a bad game. Uh, And so that kind of keeps
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Speaker 1: him grounded in the nets football after that, And make
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Speaker 1: no mistake, this means a competitor. He understands the pressure,
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Speaker 1: he understands what this season means to him in his
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Speaker 1: career as a starter. Um. But so far, I mean,
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Speaker 1: we're all curious to what does how does he do?
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Speaker 1: You know, like he's got that arm to stretch the field.
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Speaker 1: We have the speed with Terry mcclorde and John Dodson
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Speaker 1: to be able to draw those defenders away. Um, but
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Speaker 1: is he gonna, you know, be as accurate um as
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Speaker 1: you want at times? So I think we're all just
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Speaker 1: gonna sit back and wait and see how this offense goes.
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Speaker 1: But mentally, I feel like he's coming in pretty sound
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Speaker 1: and pretty confident in himself. Julie, how is your old
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Speaker 1: buddy Jack del Rio deploying his defense without Chase Young,
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Speaker 1: your best defensive player? And what are the best pass
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Speaker 1: rushers in the game? How are you? How is del
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Speaker 1: Rio overcoming the absence of such a great player early on? Yeah? Well,
15:32
Speaker 1: last season Chase Young didn't get off to the hottest
15:35
Speaker 1: start that we anticipated. After winning Defensive Rookie of the
15:38
Speaker 1: Year and having what eight nine sacks or so um
15:40
Speaker 1: in that season, you tend to expect those players to
15:43
Speaker 1: take big steps in big leaps. He was struggling a
15:45
Speaker 1: little bit early on. Then when he goes down to
15:48
Speaker 1: an injury, which is pretty gruesome with an a c
15:49
Speaker 1: L and some other things mixed in there, like he's
15:51
Speaker 1: gonna at least miss the first four games of the
15:54
Speaker 1: season starting on the physically and able to perform list. Um.
15:57
Speaker 1: But they came together as a unit when he was out.
16:00
Speaker 1: One of the issues they had last season if they
16:01
Speaker 1: thought a lot of guys were just going for the
16:03
Speaker 1: numbers and playing individually, not as one unit. Um, And
16:06
Speaker 1: that's something as Ryan Carrigan, as he is now on
16:09
Speaker 1: our coaching staff having retired the all time sack leader
16:12
Speaker 1: for Washington, Um comes in and says, you have to
16:14
Speaker 1: rush as one, and so they kind of fall a
16:17
Speaker 1: little bit more into their system without Chase out there.
16:19
Speaker 1: But look, Montes Sweat is an animal of himself, a
16:23
Speaker 1: first round draft pick, UM, and he has been quietly
16:26
Speaker 1: bracking up some pretty good numbers. You know, you've got
16:29
Speaker 1: the interior line with Jonathan Alan durn Payn. Durn Payne
16:32
Speaker 1: has been having an outstanding camp. James Smith Williams is
16:35
Speaker 1: coming in on the other side filling in for Chase Young. Um.
16:38
Speaker 1: Look he might not be a Chase Young, but he's
16:40
Speaker 1: a very capable edge rusher as well. So they're trying
16:43
Speaker 1: to play more within this system as opposed to playing individually.
16:46
Speaker 1: Jack's drivetime here is Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings on
16:49
Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com and the Jags social media channels Twitter, Facebook,
16:54
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Also this week, it was the return of
16:56
Speaker 1: the live version of Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. Buck
17:00
Speaker 1: he Osha and I talked through how Jaguars had coach
17:02
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and in turn the Jaguars defense could have
17:06
Speaker 1: an advantage and preparing for Commander's quarterback Carson Wentz, if
17:09
Speaker 1: you've had him as your quarterback before and Doug Peterson
17:14
Speaker 1: and the staff, Yeah, Doug's the head coach, but there's
17:17
Speaker 1: a new defensive coordinat around here. How do you prepare
17:20
Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz? Do you do you look back to
17:23
Speaker 1: Philly stuff? Do you look back to Indy stuff? How
17:26
Speaker 1: do you manage this now that he's on his third
17:28
Speaker 1: NFL team. It's a mix of studying what he did
17:32
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis the last time he saw him, what he's
17:34
Speaker 1: done in the preseason with the Commanders, and then based
17:37
Speaker 1: on the intel that you know from working with him intimately.
17:41
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson knows what makes Carson Wentz tick, not only
17:45
Speaker 1: because he coached him for him full of years, but
17:47
Speaker 1: he drafted him. So he had to do all the
17:49
Speaker 1: research to really figure out how he's wired, what he thinks,
17:53
Speaker 1: and in doing that he had to be able a
17:55
Speaker 1: playbook for him based on those uh, those thoughts, and
17:58
Speaker 1: so there's no one better in terms of being able
18:01
Speaker 1: to prepare for Carson Wentz didn't Doug Peterson. He can
18:03
Speaker 1: tell mikel exactly when he was a young player and
18:06
Speaker 1: he was athletic. He didn't like this now that he's
18:08
Speaker 1: an older player because the last time do academy and
18:11
Speaker 1: eventually had to bench him here the things that gave
18:14
Speaker 1: him problems. Carson Wentz is going to face his demons
18:17
Speaker 1: this weekend, and depended upon if he's gone to therapy
18:20
Speaker 1: and work through some of those issues that plagued him,
18:23
Speaker 1: he would either play well or he would go back
18:25
Speaker 1: to struggling like he struggled in the past. Yeah, that
18:27
Speaker 1: was interesting. I talked to The Commander's senior writer, my Cohort,
18:31
Speaker 1: if you will, on Tuesday, and he mentioned that one
18:34
Speaker 1: of the first things the Commanders did when they brought
18:36
Speaker 1: in Wentz was basically tell him, we're bringing you in
18:40
Speaker 1: because we want your skill set. Uh. He didn't say it,
18:45
Speaker 1: but I think the implication there is that is that
18:47
Speaker 1: the Colts sort of brought him in and to sort
18:48
Speaker 1: of manage uh and and and be the veteran. I
18:52
Speaker 1: don't know that's what Wentz is. Uh So I think
18:56
Speaker 1: you will see the Commanders try to bring back uh
18:59
Speaker 1: using wents his legs and making plays, etcetera. Uh So,
19:04
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how that plays into this
19:05
Speaker 1: week's game, but I think this team wants to showcase
19:12
Speaker 1: maybe what Wentz does well, maybe a little more than
19:14
Speaker 1: the Colts dead. I didn't follow the Colts enough to
19:17
Speaker 1: know how much they did that last year, but it
19:20
Speaker 1: strikes me that could be a difference in Wentz. But uh,
19:23
Speaker 1: I agree with Buck, this is a mind game game
19:26
Speaker 1: for Wentz this week. I'll say this about Carson Carson
19:28
Speaker 1: Winson Washington, that's a little different than the Carson wentesday
19:31
Speaker 1: we saw in Indianapolis. In Indianapolis, he had the best
19:34
Speaker 1: offensive line of football that you could ever be behind.
19:36
Speaker 1: He also had a top notch running back and Jonathan Taylor.
19:40
Speaker 1: The wire receivers are not necessarily up to what the
19:43
Speaker 1: commanders can present. When you think about Terry mclauren and
19:46
Speaker 1: some of their young receivers. I believe Frank Wright is
19:49
Speaker 1: an upgrade as a play caller than what Scott Turner
19:53
Speaker 1: is in Washington. And so if the Washington commanders want
19:56
Speaker 1: to put Carson Wentz out there and let him run around,
19:58
Speaker 1: it's going to be problem when attict for Carson Wentz
20:00
Speaker 1: because he's not the athlete that he was in North
20:02
Speaker 1: Dakota State, and so if he ventures outside of the pocket,
20:05
Speaker 1: as he's prone to do when things get a little
20:08
Speaker 1: harry in the pocket, he is going to take a
20:10
Speaker 1: big shot. And that's just the way it is because
20:13
Speaker 1: he's not mobile enough to do uh the elusive stuff
20:16
Speaker 1: that he used to do, and he's not necessarily looking
20:18
Speaker 1: to run over people like some of the bigger quarterbacks
20:21
Speaker 1: like a Josh Allen could do. So his best bet
20:24
Speaker 1: is to stay in the pocket and to try and
20:26
Speaker 1: deliver the ball on time and on target. Is not
20:29
Speaker 1: his strong suit. But he's going to have to play
20:32
Speaker 1: in the pocket because he ventures out there with those
20:34
Speaker 1: big dudes that we've seen on the Jaguars defense, it
20:37
Speaker 1: is going to be a problem when Trayvon Walking, Josh
20:39
Speaker 1: Allen and those gotta start hunting. He's fixing to get hit. Yeah,
20:44
Speaker 1: And I've been saying a wait to me if if
20:48
Speaker 1: if the Jaguars in the first half are running in mass,
20:53
Speaker 1: defensively towards some screen and posing as as all these
20:58
Speaker 1: kids have to do these days is after interception, Buck,
21:01
Speaker 1: I don't like it, but that's how it is. If
21:03
Speaker 1: they're doing that in the first half, I think the
21:05
Speaker 1: Jaguars win the game. If they forced to turn over,
21:09
Speaker 1: get inside his head or whatever that is, If the
21:11
Speaker 1: game's going in a way that they're pressuring and causing disruption,
21:16
Speaker 1: then I think I think the Jaguars win. And I
21:19
Speaker 1: ain't giveaway takeaway for every team in the league is crucial.
21:22
Speaker 1: I think for this Jaguars team, considering that I had
21:25
Speaker 1: nine last year, I think that is a mammoths mammoth
21:28
Speaker 1: stat for this team this year. Nine seven interceptions last year. Buck,
21:32
Speaker 1: that's not that's not enough. No, that's not enough. So
21:35
Speaker 1: there are a couple of things that I'll say that
21:37
Speaker 1: uh oh, because you're you're on it. The turnovers have
21:40
Speaker 1: to come because when you have a young, energetic defense
21:42
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars, that they're gonna feed off of that
21:44
Speaker 1: you saw already in the preseason and it doesn't count,
21:48
Speaker 1: but it certainly matters. When the number one defense played
21:51
Speaker 1: and played well, you can see the energy pickup, you
21:53
Speaker 1: can see the effort, the way they ran to the ball.
21:56
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this because the Jaguars have not been shot.
21:59
Speaker 1: I'll talking about the physicality and the toughness and what
22:01
Speaker 1: they want to do. I believe the game will ultimately
22:04
Speaker 1: be decided if the Jaguars are able to hit Carson
22:07
Speaker 1: Wentz very early in the game. Somebody has to put
22:10
Speaker 1: a hit on Carson Wentz early, because all quarterbacks change
22:14
Speaker 1: once they started getting hit. It quickens the clock, it
22:16
Speaker 1: changes the way they go through their p regressions. They
22:19
Speaker 1: begin to rush through things and you see interceptions happen
22:22
Speaker 1: off tips and overthrows. So if Josh Allen, Trayvon Walkers,
22:26
Speaker 1: someone inside, if they're able to get the Carson Wentz
22:28
Speaker 1: early and hit him, it is going to change the
22:30
Speaker 1: way that he plays and he will remember those bad images,
22:34
Speaker 1: the nightmares that he had in the bank. Those things
22:37
Speaker 1: that come back up quickly gets off to a poor start.
22:39
Speaker 1: Catch Hunting Up with Bucky Brooks Wednesdays at four o'clock
22:42
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars social media channels and Jaguars dot Com,
22:46
Speaker 1: And finally this week, a preview of an interview that
22:48
Speaker 1: will running full on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network Saturday,
22:53
Speaker 1: with a portion of that running Sunday on Countdown to
22:55
Speaker 1: kick Off on the Jaguars Radio Network. It's NFL on
22:58
Speaker 1: Fox analyst Robert Smith, who provided his overall thoughts about
23:02
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and much more, what are your expectations for
23:06
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and two from the outside looking in? Well,
23:10
Speaker 1: you know, there's no reason to go back into all
23:12
Speaker 1: of the things that we're going on last year with
23:14
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer and around the organization and the turmoil, let
23:18
Speaker 1: alone some of the issues just you know, with the
23:21
Speaker 1: way that the team was playing. You know, I think
23:24
Speaker 1: you learned really everything that you need to know about
23:27
Speaker 1: most of the guys in the locker room. When you
23:28
Speaker 1: saw that game against Indianapolis at the end of the season,
23:31
Speaker 1: it was a perfect opportunity really for Jacksonville had just
23:35
Speaker 1: kind of fold and say, hey, we're just gonna play
23:37
Speaker 1: for the number one pick here and uh not worried
23:40
Speaker 1: about it, protect our guys. But they went out there
23:42
Speaker 1: against the Indianapolis team that was fighting for a playoff spot,
23:46
Speaker 1: winning their in situation, which is ideal. Uh And and
23:50
Speaker 1: Jacksonville played really tough. And you you said it, I
23:52
Speaker 1: mean spending all that money bringing in Christian Kirk, you know,
23:55
Speaker 1: bringing in Branding Sheriff on that offensive line. Uh, you know,
23:59
Speaker 1: to uh solid players on defense as as rookies with
24:02
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker and Devin Lloyd. I mean, the pieces are
24:06
Speaker 1: in place, I think for a pretty dramatic turnaround. And
24:09
Speaker 1: you never know how things look on the field until
24:12
Speaker 1: you get on the field and start playing. But I'm
24:15
Speaker 1: really excited to see what this team is going to do. Robert,
24:17
Speaker 1: of course, you're running back in the National Football League
24:20
Speaker 1: for a long time, couple of Pro Bowls, so you
24:23
Speaker 1: probably have a good understanding of what both Travis Etn Jr.
24:27
Speaker 1: And James Robinson are having to come back from. Travis
24:31
Speaker 1: c t and of course miss last season with the
24:32
Speaker 1: list Frank injury and his foot. James Robinson is good
24:36
Speaker 1: to go. He's clear to play Sunday after an achilles
24:39
Speaker 1: injury late last season. Having both of those guys back
24:42
Speaker 1: on the field is fairly remarkable considering what ten fifteen
24:47
Speaker 1: years ago in the NFL. If you had one of
24:49
Speaker 1: those injuries, it was a career possibility. Your career could
24:53
Speaker 1: have been over the fact that they're back, that's a
24:55
Speaker 1: boost for this team. Yeah, it certainly is. And you know,
24:58
Speaker 1: quarterback's best friend. Only to have you know that that
25:01
Speaker 1: that stout running game, and then you know, you bring
25:03
Speaker 1: in Evan Ingram and hopefully he can get over some
25:05
Speaker 1: of those drop issues and you you gotta gotta target there.
25:09
Speaker 1: So quarterbacks love to have a solid running game and
25:11
Speaker 1: a tight end that they can drop the ball off too.
25:14
Speaker 1: So I think it's it's it's exciting, really, I'm sure,
25:18
Speaker 1: especially for Trevor Lawrence to have those guys back and
25:21
Speaker 1: you get something a little bit different out of those guys.
25:23
Speaker 1: James Robinson. James Robinson more of a you know, a
25:26
Speaker 1: banger type et n really not known for that, but
25:29
Speaker 1: certainly known for his pass catching ability, uh and and
25:32
Speaker 1: really even to line up on the outside, which we
25:35
Speaker 1: saw a lot of out of him at Clemson with
25:37
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. So excited once again really for the pieces
25:42
Speaker 1: that this offense has to work with, and with an
25:45
Speaker 1: offensive mind like Doug Peterson who knows what you see.
25:48
Speaker 1: You know, I know in the pasty've done a lot
25:50
Speaker 1: of uh two tight sets, uh, you know, but I
25:53
Speaker 1: think that, you know, with versatile chess pieces like he
25:57
Speaker 1: has in this offense, I think it's it's to be. Uh,
26:00
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a defensive coordinator's worst nightmare, especially going
26:04
Speaker 1: into Week one, because you just don't know what you'll see. Hey, Robert,
26:07
Speaker 1: did you ever have an injury like this? I mean
26:10
Speaker 1: a lot of the coming back is a running back
26:12
Speaker 1: with something with your feet or lower extremities down there.
26:16
Speaker 1: It's above the shoulders getting past it mentally, did you
26:19
Speaker 1: ever have anything like this? Yeah? So I tore my
26:21
Speaker 1: a c L my rookie season, and I tore my
26:23
Speaker 1: m c L pcl uh in my fourth season. It
26:27
Speaker 1: was relatively healthy for my last four years. But yeah,
26:31
Speaker 1: it's a you're you're definitely you know, spot on in
26:35
Speaker 1: your analysis there, because there is the physical part of it,
26:38
Speaker 1: you know, is it ready, but then convincing yourself that
26:41
Speaker 1: you can go out there and do the same things.
26:42
Speaker 1: I'll never forget coming back after the a c L
26:45
Speaker 1: got into one of those one on one pass blocking
26:48
Speaker 1: drills against the linebackers, which hated anyway, but especially that
26:52
Speaker 1: here um and uh you know got uh it was
26:56
Speaker 1: it was a little bit wet on the grass that
26:58
Speaker 1: day and during the drill, you know, my right knee
27:00
Speaker 1: to it just kind of uh, you know, lost my
27:04
Speaker 1: right foot, lost footing and stretched out my right knee,
27:06
Speaker 1: and you know, from that point forward it was like, hey,
27:09
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's okay, and uh, you know,
27:12
Speaker 1: it's a it's definitely a hurdle that you have to
27:14
Speaker 1: get over and after you've been through it once and
27:16
Speaker 1: certainly don't want to have to go through it again,
27:18
Speaker 1: but much easier the second time around again. The exclusive
27:21
Speaker 1: extended interview with Robert Smith runs Saturday on the Official
27:25
Speaker 1: Jaguars podcast Network. Coming up Sunday, it's Week one in
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27:32
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. Were on the air in Jacksonville at ten
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