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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Jakobi Meyers Addition, WR Room & Run Game · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Uh, wait on the injury report for that.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about Jacob and how can you
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  Speaker 2: help your offense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I have followed his career pretty closely,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being in the Northeast myself the Patriots, watching
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  Speaker 3: those guys over the years and then obviously moving into
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  Speaker 3: a couple of different roles former quarterback. Always appreciate that
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  Speaker 3: really in any skilled player. But the ability tough, strong
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  Speaker 3: hands has been physical as a as a separator in
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  Speaker 3: ISO situations. I've only heard great things about the pro
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  Speaker 3: Edgars worked with him in the past as well, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, definitely excited to have him.
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  Speaker 2: The challenge of giving him a set of plays he
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  Speaker 2: feels comfortable with for something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the exact is the challenge is the balance
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  Speaker 3: of you know, how much he can handle, how quickly
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  Speaker 3: can he get some of the formations down. The timing
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  Speaker 3: obviously a practice in some of the you know, just
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  Speaker 3: throwing on air with Trav and getting some rotator, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting some reps that way. But it'll really come down
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  Speaker 3: to just all right, what are the things specific that
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  Speaker 3: you know you want to get him in the flow
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  Speaker 3: of the game. You want to get him opportunities but
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  Speaker 3: also just to go play as a Jaguar, not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: every time he's in. It's something that he has to
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  Speaker 3: go and do. You just want to make sure there's
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  Speaker 3: a balance there. So that'll be a process throughout this
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  Speaker 3: week and through each part of the plan. Okay, normal
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  Speaker 3: D and D, third downs, red zone, how much in
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  Speaker 3: those areas can you give him?
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  Speaker 1: And that's the balance for sure.
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  Speaker 4: This would precipitated by the placing Travis on ir potentially
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  Speaker 4: some other injuries.
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  Speaker 3: To Yeah, just I mean depth, right, just for sure,
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  Speaker 3: numbers alone, we were looking like we could have been
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  Speaker 3: a little thin there coming up. So really proud of
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  Speaker 3: those guys that stepped up the other night and they're
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  Speaker 3: going to continue, excuse me, to contribute and play and
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  Speaker 3: help us go win football games. So a lot of
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  Speaker 3: it had to do with, you know, where we were
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  Speaker 3: at from from you know, an availability standpoint coming out
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  Speaker 3: of that game.
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  Speaker 4: So those two guys, or in particular Trammel and Jones,
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  Speaker 4: knowing that they really hadn't played all that many reps.
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  Speaker 4: I know we talked about it a little bit with
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  Speaker 4: you on the Zoom on Monday, but I'm just curious,
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  Speaker 4: maybe were your eyes open to anything in terms of
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  Speaker 4: maybe the game plan when they were on the field
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  Speaker 4: of just not trying to scheme someone over, just getting
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  Speaker 4: them open that maybe we'll translate moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: To the whole playbook, I think.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean that's something that you definitely felt you
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  Speaker 3: had to not had to simplified and wanted to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that maybe we just didn't motion too much or
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  Speaker 3: you know, calling me. You know, it was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of day some day one stuff, but there was also a.
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  Speaker 1: Few game plan plays that those guys went out and
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  Speaker 1: executed at a high level.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you're when you can just go line up,
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  Speaker 3: call it, not think about anything. Sometimes it does simplify
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  Speaker 3: things for you, and especially as a player when you're
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  Speaker 3: asked to step up in a moment and you're not
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  Speaker 3: thinking about too much and I think about all the
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  Speaker 3: plays in the game play, just think about the moment
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  Speaker 3: and going and executing that moment. So I think that's
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  Speaker 3: something we can definitely build off of.
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  Speaker 2: Does it to make it feel like this and you
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  Speaker 2: know coach that had a relationship with the.
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  Speaker 3: Guy, Yeah, that that is extremely helpful, just knowing the
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  Speaker 3: person first and foremost. A little bit more from from
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  Speaker 3: from EB and just the professional right, knowing what you're
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  Speaker 3: getting from the preparation standpoint, the practice habits.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and then obviously the player, you'll get him up.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's working.
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  Speaker 1: It's different. Yeah, it's different.
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  Speaker 3: So he's it's very different from what he's kind of
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  Speaker 3: done in his last few systems. So I think maybe
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  Speaker 3: just the relationship of EB, maybe knowing how he learns
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  Speaker 3: can help us get on board it a little faster
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  Speaker 3: inside outside of your offense, is it easier to pick up?
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  Speaker 3: It's really the Z and the X maybe have the
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  Speaker 3: easiest time. As the X stability goes away from the calls,
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  Speaker 3: he goes to the cause the F and our offense
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  Speaker 3: that is the adjuster and he has to move a
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  Speaker 3: lot more than other guys. So you can kind of
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  Speaker 3: simple like, if you're the Z and you go the
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  Speaker 3: call is right, you're gonna go to the right, So
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  Speaker 3: it does help a little bit. If you're the X
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  Speaker 3: and the call is right, well, you're going away from
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  Speaker 3: the call. The F is the guy that needs to
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  Speaker 3: do more of the adjusting, and that's where Parker will
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  Speaker 3: be playing.
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  Speaker 2: And when you face the team for the second time
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  Speaker 2: as a play caller, do you have to go back
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  Speaker 2: and look at that a lot, whereas it's still in
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  Speaker 2: your mind, Okay, these are the things that work, These
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  Speaker 2: are the things we should bother with.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they you know, came out in the first game
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  Speaker 3: against US and played a defensive structure that they hadn't
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  Speaker 3: played in normal down in distance really in like the
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  Speaker 3: previous two seasons. You know, that was something that they
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  Speaker 3: had done situationally for sure, short yardage for a minute,
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  Speaker 3: you know, low red zone, but not as much in
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  Speaker 3: normal D and D. So that was something we weren't
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  Speaker 3: really expecting that kind of affected the run game, especially
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  Speaker 3: in the first half. We've got to look, all right,
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  Speaker 3: now they know that, we know that they did that,
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  Speaker 3: so it's like, okay, how much? But it worked for
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  Speaker 3: him too, So that's the cat and mouse game that
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to look into. How much how have they
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  Speaker 3: maybe tweaked some things over the.
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  Speaker 1: Last few weeks. But the structure is the structure and
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  Speaker 1: the players.
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  Speaker 3: That's the most important thing I think about this defense
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  Speaker 3: and US attacking is guys like they're a damn good
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  Speaker 3: defense and they don't stay blocked long and for us
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  Speaker 3: to go and be successful, the plays are the plays
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  Speaker 3: and let we have got to go finish at the
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  Speaker 3: second level, stay attached to blocks, run through contact, block
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  Speaker 3: our asses off on the perimeter.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's going to have to That's how it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to be.
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  Speaker 2: Man, what Utn has done.
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  Speaker 5: Continue to come and see what we had expectation wise
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  Speaker 5: for him.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've always really, I mean, thought he was
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  Speaker 3: a talented player. But the physicality I think is maybe
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  Speaker 3: something that I'm not saying I had. I didn't see
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  Speaker 3: it before you like I've seen it. I just think
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  Speaker 3: it's impressive in person when you see a guy like
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  Speaker 3: on the fourth and two speed option being met by
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  Speaker 3: the safety at the line to gain and just shoulder
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  Speaker 3: down kept going forward.
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  Speaker 1: He's he falls forward a lot more. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a few he kind of stumbled on
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  Speaker 3: in the game a little or got tripped up. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted to stay on his feet and get some more.
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  Speaker 3: But he falls forward a lot more. For I guess
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  Speaker 3: you could say more what people have maybe in his
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  Speaker 3: past called him a scap back or you know, fact
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  Speaker 3: that's more in the past game or outside in the perimeter.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's run between the tackles pretty well. For us,
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  Speaker 3: this year have to sort of get pready to Chad
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  Speaker 3: more for that physicality.
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  Speaker 1: Just what have you seen from that running backs and.
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  Speaker 3: How they've sort of taken all that personality. I've said
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  Speaker 3: that in the in this in the past, Chad's one
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  Speaker 3: of the best football coaches I've ever been around. He
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  Speaker 3: is the energy, it's infectious, the personality, the mindset, the
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  Speaker 3: standards in that room on a day to day basis,
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  Speaker 3: on an hourly basis, but the connection that he's gotten
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  Speaker 3: with those guys, the relationship, but like the fundamentals and
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  Speaker 3: details and of his drills, of of his why and
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  Speaker 3: the things behind what we're asking his players to do,
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  Speaker 3: I think are at an elite level. And you can
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  Speaker 3: definitely see improvement out of that room from all three
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  Speaker 3: of these backs really since they got here. And that's
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  Speaker 3: that's some that's a testament and credit to those guys
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  Speaker 3: for uh, you know, listening, but also going out and
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  Speaker 3: executing it and doing it and having the mindset to
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  Speaker 3: go do it.
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  Speaker 1: A challenge of back a quarterback who doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Have a lot of regular season I've got uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: watching David Mills throw the football for a while. Davis Mills, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: he uh I mean I remember coming out of Stanford
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  Speaker 3: like he can spin the ball. He's a talent. He
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  Speaker 3: can throw the football. I've watched him in preseason games
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  Speaker 3: before where he's you know, started games and their offense
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  Speaker 3: you know, was rolling and so you know he gave
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  Speaker 3: Nico I think on his like second throw of the game,
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  Speaker 3: a fade on there on the right sideline that was
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  Speaker 3: right here.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, it's in. It's talented.
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  Speaker 3: So from a game plan, I know, you know they've
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  Speaker 3: done a little bit more jumbo and you know being
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  Speaker 3: able to run the football with Woody and doing a
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  Speaker 3: nice job that way, So expect a similar planning ways.
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  Speaker 1: It's more so.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the mobility from CJ that he can provide at times,
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  Speaker 3: extending on the boot game, getting them out on the
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  Speaker 3: perimeter and maybe being able to use his legs as
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  Speaker 3: a weapon as well. Defensive side of things.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you look at last week and just
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  Speaker 4: say brock Bauers is anomaly versus then looking at the
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  Speaker 4: Rams game where it felt like Sean was very intentional
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  Speaker 4: in running more twelve than thirteen personnel, versus saying maybe
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  Speaker 4: this is an area that teams are trying to exploit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if you looked at maybe our thirteen
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  Speaker 3: personnel based defense menu of plays going into LA who's
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  Speaker 3: a predominantly eleven personnel team, it was a small, small menu.
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  Speaker 3: So you get in the game and you're getting a
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  Speaker 3: ton of thirteen and you're like, well, you know, right
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  Speaker 3: now we prepared for like two calls. We've got to adjust,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to add, and now you're starting to put
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  Speaker 3: things on the players that maybe we weren't ready for,
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  Speaker 3: or something like that that could happen. We talked about
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  Speaker 3: you look at how Houston they are. They love their wideouts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they like those guys. They like to play eleven.
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  Speaker 3: They got young, good players in Kirk and Nico, so,
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  Speaker 3: but they've also done some more twenty one, twelve, Jumbo thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz.
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  Speaker 1: A really good player.
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  Speaker 3: So these are things that we definitely need to be
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  Speaker 3: prepared for, getting the tight end the ball and space
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  Speaker 3: especially on some of those things. So Brocket is a creature,
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  Speaker 3: he's a stud. But we can do better and be
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  Speaker 3: better in the back end and at the second level
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Among third down office nine conversions the other day, where
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  Speaker 2: is sort of your line as with play color, where
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  Speaker 2: third and five you can still run it is that
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  Speaker 2: we're third and six and sort of how much options
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  Speaker 2: did I get out to it?
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  Speaker 3: That is, it's typically a little bit dependent on their windows.
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  Speaker 3: Each week, your third down windows can change maybe by
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  Speaker 3: a yard or so based on how they change and
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  Speaker 3: how they call it. So it's more so just finding okay,
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  Speaker 3: up to what window can you feel comfortable about maybe
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  Speaker 3: getting some runs off based on what some of the
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  Speaker 3: front structures and lists is that you're seeing. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: you I've always enjoyed being able to do that and
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  Speaker 3: mix it up as well on some of those. But
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  Speaker 3: it's more so based on their windows. What kind of
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  Speaker 3: advantage you can you get from the quarterback design runs
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  Speaker 3: and you guys have been able to at the point, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean big athletic dude that can run and get
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  Speaker 3: them in space a little bit, get them running and
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  Speaker 3: trying to get the ball on the perimeter maybe in
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  Speaker 3: some different ways. Right is you can toss it out there,
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  Speaker 3: you can hand it off out there, right you can
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  Speaker 3: throw a screen out there. It's just another way of
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  Speaker 3: kind of attacking the edge and maybe slowing down their
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: edge players and defensive ends at times when it's like Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm getting cracked, I'm getting kicked out, I'm getting bluffed,
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting red. Like those are the things obviously you're
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  Speaker 3: trying to, especially when you're playing really good ends, to
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  Speaker 3: give those guys some different things.
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  Speaker 1: Warback, what's the best thing about that for you?
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  Speaker 3: Things just football, you know, football feel, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: understanding space angles, leverage, timing right, like timing of concepts,
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  Speaker 3: where you fit in the concept and knowing, okay, am.
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  Speaker 1: I on the primary? Am I not? What is my job?
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  Speaker 3: Just without maybe having to always overcoach it sometimes I
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  Speaker 3: think that helps from a quarterbacks perspective, playing the position.
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  Speaker 1: And then maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I would say just ball skills in generally a lot
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  Speaker 3: of quarterbacks have you know, you're catching the ball, you're
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  Speaker 3: dealing with the ball a lot, right, and.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of quarterbacks to really have good ball skills.
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  Speaker 3: And that's something that showed up on tape for him
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  Speaker 3: as well the last month or so.
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  Speaker 5: As it felt like, you know, with game scripts being
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  Speaker 5: down multiple touchdowns or multiple scores, that's negatively impacted the
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  Speaker 5: pass rush and maybe with a better game script they
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  Speaker 5: could have a chance to impact the game more.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the flat out bottom line is we
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  Speaker 3: got to go a the quarterback better, and whether that's
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  Speaker 3: with scheme or with people, we've got to affect now. Look,
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  Speaker 3: I'll say this, we did out of all the attempts
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  Speaker 3: the other day, I don't I think there was there
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  Speaker 3: was like eighty eight person so I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: crazy percentage of the time the ball was coming out
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  Speaker 3: at about two points some you know it was. They
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  Speaker 3: were running a ton of option, quick option routes, zone
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  Speaker 3: coverage just kind of picking dingdingdingding thing. So it does
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  Speaker 3: become hard to ultimately get to the quarterback when it's
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  Speaker 3: like almost quick game, but it's not, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: that in between of drop back pass that I think
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  Speaker 3: Vegas did a pretty good job of attacking us that way,
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  Speaker 3: And some of those instances are also some more opportunities
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  Speaker 3: to also get some of these, you know, like when
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  Speaker 3: it's in between quicks and drop back. If we can't
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  Speaker 3: get home all right, how can we affect the pocket
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  Speaker 3: or affect the play by getting our hands up like
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  Speaker 3: we obviously did on the two point play to end
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  Speaker 3: the game. But we've got to we've got to affect
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback better.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, for