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The O-Zone Podcast | Jaguars QB Coach Spencer Whipple Talks Working w/ Lawrence, Coen · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Soon. Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer
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  Speaker 1: John Osher.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, welcome into this week's Ozone podcast, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: joined today by Jaguars quarterbacks coach Spencer Whipple.
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  Speaker 3: How does that sound? Sounds great? I mean, it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like a.
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  Speaker 1: Great opportunity, and you know, to do it with in
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  Speaker 1: this organization, and then with people around me that I'm
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know, and then meeting some of the
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  Speaker 1: new people on staff, the players, just the building. Everything's
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  Speaker 1: been great, just the transition in itself, and just just
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  Speaker 1: very fortunate for this opportunity to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Now. We we talked a little bit before we started this.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little tricky for me to get the entire
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  Speaker 2: Whipple Cohen timeline, but take me through it if you will.
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  Speaker 2: I know, your father, Mark Whipple, who is a test
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  Speaker 2: Well coach for a long time, recruited Liam at U
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  Speaker 2: Mass and that was where you guys first sort of
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  Speaker 2: joined to know each other.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was two thousand and three, was my
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  Speaker 1: father's last season at U Mass and he was recruiting
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  Speaker 1: him for that four season.
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  Speaker 3: I believed to come in and I kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, I don't even know if Liam remembers this, but
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  Speaker 1: being in a height in one of the gymnasiums on campus,
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  Speaker 1: and they were holding a high school camp and Liam
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  Speaker 1: was a very you know, sought out to recruit there
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  Speaker 1: in the Northeast, coming out of a Rhode.
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  Speaker 3: Island and I was still in high school at the time.
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  Speaker 1: And they kind of did the camp and then afterwards
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  Speaker 1: they did like a throwing session, and really what it
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  Speaker 1: was was an evaluation of Liam for that program. But
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  Speaker 1: I also kind of jumped in and mixed in because
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  Speaker 1: I was just there and my dad was there, so
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  Speaker 1: I was getting some throws, but I didn't stack up
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  Speaker 1: to what he put on display that day, because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if your members up.
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  Speaker 3: But it was a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think obviously when you cover people and
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  Speaker 2: when fans get to know coaches who come through, they
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  Speaker 2: know them in that moment. But he was a big
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  Speaker 2: time player. Oh yeah, and in that area the country
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  Speaker 2: is a is a big deal, right, Yes, yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 1: I know, he's got all the records there a U
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  Speaker 1: mass in terms of passing.
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  Speaker 3: He played early on in his career.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what game it was, but he was
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  Speaker 1: you know, he played for not played a lot of
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  Speaker 1: football at UMass and they you know, each year they
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  Speaker 1: played one or two you know, one a at the time,
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  Speaker 1: which was called FBS teams, and they always held their
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  Speaker 1: own And he had a very very successful career and
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I said, broke a lot of records
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  Speaker 1: Northeast U Mass whatever it may have been, and played
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football and had a huge impact. And
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  Speaker 1: really going back there when we all went back to
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  Speaker 1: coach together, you could kind of see, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: some of the legs he left. And then I ended
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  Speaker 1: up going my second year at college, I transferred there
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  Speaker 1: to U Mass. I ended up playing with Liam for
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  Speaker 1: a season two and so I kind of saw it firsthand.
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  Speaker 2: So played with him for a season and then coached
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  Speaker 2: with him at UMass. I guess the question would be,
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  Speaker 2: what is it about his approach about being in his
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  Speaker 2: system and working for him that excites you? Why?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's good to be friends with the guy,
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  Speaker 3: But you.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't change careers and change paths if you didn't believe
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  Speaker 2: in him. What do you believe about what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: I just think he you know, and he touched on
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  Speaker 1: this as well, just his time that he's obviously we
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  Speaker 1: all get exposed to a number of different people approaches
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  Speaker 1: those things.
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  Speaker 3: He was had the opportunity to go in.
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  Speaker 1: LA with Sean and you know, learn all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that whole system, the way things are taught, the culture,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive philosophy and those things. And I kind of
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  Speaker 1: kept up with Liam, you know, as you know, we
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  Speaker 1: played in the same division. I was with Arizona, he
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  Speaker 1: was with LA, So i'd see him twice a year
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  Speaker 1: and followed him when he went to Kentucky and kind
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  Speaker 1: of would I would turn on his games there during
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  Speaker 1: the season, after the season.
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  Speaker 3: And just try to stay up with him.
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  Speaker 1: And I just I just always thought he's always had
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  Speaker 1: a you know, he's creative and he has a system
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  Speaker 1: that we use, but he's also not afraid to go
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  Speaker 1: outside the box, be creative and be explosive, always hunting
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  Speaker 1: for those big plays, getting playmakers involved. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the same things we had talked about when we
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  Speaker 1: worked at UMass. And then he goes off and gets
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  Speaker 1: a chance to go with the Rams and takes all
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  Speaker 1: this knowledge and applies it and keeps growing. So he's
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  Speaker 1: been exposed to a number of different people, but he's
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  Speaker 1: always had a a football mind, you know, talking about
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  Speaker 1: his days when he grew up and kind of sharing
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  Speaker 1: that similarity with our fathers, and so we'd always we
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  Speaker 1: always just enjoy talking football quarterback play, you know, at
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  Speaker 1: any point, whether we're working together or not. It was
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  Speaker 1: just always, you know, great things that we text called Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what were you doing here on this play?
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  Speaker 3: When you call this? What was your thought?
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  Speaker 1: Did you think you were get to get this? And
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  Speaker 1: so I've learned a ton from over the years, and
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  Speaker 1: excit learn more.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about growing up around a coach, especially
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  Speaker 2: if you clearly it seems like you knew early on
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  Speaker 2: you loved it. Why does it seem like your knowledge
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  Speaker 2: maybe at a younger age, is advanced if you've been
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  Speaker 2: around the coach when you were growing up, it's sort
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  Speaker 2: of self explanatory. But do you feel like that's the
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  Speaker 2: case just being around the game when you're a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's natural that you probably probably spend
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  Speaker 1: a little more time around the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I remember growing up and I just.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of I just thought it was just kind of
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  Speaker 1: the way of life, you know, that was just you
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  Speaker 1: kind of go to the game and I get to
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  Speaker 1: take my ball and run around on the field and
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  Speaker 1: be around the team in the locker room and the
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  Speaker 1: meeting rooms and.
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  Speaker 3: Watch a bunch of football. But you know, it comes with.
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  Speaker 1: Sinks in and sinks in, and then you go to
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  Speaker 1: high school and go through grade school and you just
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  Speaker 1: want to It's something that's been a part of it
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  Speaker 1: for so long long that you you kind of just
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  Speaker 1: you love, you get curious. You know, I enjoy watching film,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy watching games. I love what I do each day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in terms of coming in and seeing all
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  Speaker 1: the new things that are happening around the league, being
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  Speaker 1: able to implement things, how to help players, how to
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  Speaker 1: help players grow and reach their potential. And so I've
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  Speaker 1: been really fortunate to be around of great coaches, but
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  Speaker 1: also coaches that are willing and able to share their
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and you know, have a passion for helping other coaches. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just a ton of names I've been involved around,
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  Speaker 1: and I've gotten to know the great friends and close
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  Speaker 1: friends and mentors that have taught me so much, and
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  Speaker 1: so just their willingness to be open and share and
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  Speaker 1: collaborative as we worked, you know, is really the why
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  Speaker 1: I'm fortunate to to you know, keep growing every day
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  Speaker 1: because of those.
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  Speaker 2: People tell me about the quarterback coach's role. It's easy
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  Speaker 2: to see it in the media again and say, okay, it's.
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  Speaker 3: The quarterbacks coach.
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  Speaker 2: What do you feel like your responsibilities are on a
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  Speaker 2: daily basis?
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  Speaker 3: And I say.
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  Speaker 2: Responsibilities top priorities. Uh, how do you help that player?
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  Speaker 2: What's the key to it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, with our setup and we have
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  Speaker 1: guys who have been around a number of great quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: that have played really well in this league in terms
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  Speaker 1: of Liam and Grant, and so you know, my job
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  Speaker 1: is just to carry out the message from Grant, from Liam,
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  Speaker 1: you know how we're going to install and you know,
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  Speaker 1: carry that through with a quarterback room and implement and
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to find ways and see how we
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  Speaker 1: can you know, maybe improve and help and deliver that message.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we really have just scratched the surface
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  Speaker 1: obviously from just starting this offseason program. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: me and myself, those guys have come from a similar system,
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  Speaker 1: Grant being in Minnesota and and Liam from LA and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've been a derivative of that.
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  Speaker 3: West Coast system.
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  Speaker 1: But for myself too, just finding time for myself to
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  Speaker 1: learn a little bit more and and and then be
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  Speaker 1: able to take that knowledge and and also carry out
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  Speaker 1: out that message for the group and for all the
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  Speaker 1: guys in the room and on offense a.
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  Speaker 2: Ton of similarities with the cardinals for six years before this.
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  Speaker 2: Offenses tend to sort of change and evolve and come
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  Speaker 2: back to each other over time, if you will, similarities
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  Speaker 2: between what you guys were doing in Arizona and what
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was in terms of terminology and some of
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  Speaker 1: the things I've been used to and I've really been
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  Speaker 1: around somewhat of the same system for quite a long
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  Speaker 1: time in terms of where I was in college and
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  Speaker 1: then had different exposures some other systems in Arizona which
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  Speaker 1: were great just to see new things. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, words will change, systems will change.
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  Speaker 1: The neat thing about it is to be able to
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  Speaker 1: compare and say, hey, I have the exact same concept
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  Speaker 1: in this case, but you know, I've heard here's here's
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  Speaker 1: a maybe a better way to teach it, or here's
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  Speaker 1: a better way that the players can grasp it, or
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is maybe just a slight adjustment to
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  Speaker 1: a certain route or a certain thing that you know,
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  Speaker 1: Another team may do or coaches that I've gotten to
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  Speaker 1: know here in the last couple of months may do,
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  Speaker 1: and you kind of note those things and you kind
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  Speaker 1: of carry it with you. So always open, always, you know,
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  Speaker 1: wanting to learn more and try to provide the best
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  Speaker 1: stuff for the players, the best information, the best way
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  Speaker 1: that they can learn it and they can comprehend and
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  Speaker 1: turn execute on the field. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm constantly searching for.
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  Speaker 2: We're a few minutes in and I know everybody's sitting
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  Speaker 2: your wive and she ass the quarterbacks coach about the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback yet, So tell me about him. A first impression
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  Speaker 2: to Trevor Lawrence and what the beginning steps of working
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  Speaker 2: with him have been.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, he's just been unbelievable. I mean he's been
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  Speaker 1: you know, just a great, great person at heart. He's
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  Speaker 1: super hard working, diligent, takes care of himself, he's eager
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  Speaker 1: to learn, he wants to improve, you know, just in
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  Speaker 1: the small time samples as we have here, but you
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  Speaker 1: can just tell the guy he cares about it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the team and improvement and all the things that it
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  Speaker 1: comes with playing the quarterback position, which which can be
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  Speaker 1: a lot and He's just been great to work with,
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  Speaker 1: these these you know this time we've been together. His
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  Speaker 1: eagerness to find out more about this system. Hey, when
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  Speaker 1: can I When can I learn a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: or dig in? And so that's just that's when it
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  Speaker 1: comes with being a you know, a high level.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback in this league.
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  Speaker 1: And he's just as far as in terms of a
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  Speaker 1: person and preparation just been unbelievable and just nothing but
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  Speaker 1: you know, great things to say.
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  Speaker 3: So far as we've been working with him. We can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to keep keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Got you the storyline so far? In last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: both of them have talked about it, Liam and Trever
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  Speaker 2: how footwork and when we say foot with the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: it tends to get misunderstood a little bit. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's working on footwork, But tell me why footwork is
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  Speaker 2: so important.
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  Speaker 3: In this system.
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  Speaker 2: He touched on it publicly a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 2: about how the timing of that really helps with reads.
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  Speaker 3: You know more about it than I do. So why
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  Speaker 3: is it so important in this system?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's built around you know, the system goes
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  Speaker 1: back number, you know, number of years, and you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the original things were from Walsh and
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  Speaker 1: talked about, you know, the West Coast passing and obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's grown since since then in a lot of different
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  Speaker 1: avenues in different ways. But really what you try to
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  Speaker 1: do in the quarterback position and in terms of tying
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  Speaker 1: it together with the offensive installation and the pass game
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  Speaker 1: itself and even the run game in most cases, is
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  Speaker 1: just to have a foundation, a set list of footwork
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  Speaker 1: that you can adhere to. And I think what that
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  Speaker 1: does for a quarterback and really at any position of
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is what you know we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: expecting or asking you to do on.
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  Speaker 3: Every given play.
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  Speaker 1: If you can get yourself as close to you know
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  Speaker 1: what we're looking for in terms of a perspective, we
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  Speaker 1: know the result is going to get us what we
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  Speaker 1: want in terms of execution.
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  Speaker 2: So, as Williams said, takes a little bit of thought
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  Speaker 2: out of the I thought, but it playing with a
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  Speaker 2: clear mind is what he likes to.
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  Speaker 1: It gives you a blueprint for you do it a
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  Speaker 1: number of times over and over, and I know exactly
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  Speaker 1: when I'm gonna throw this past concept. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take this footwork and rhythm and that's going to time
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  Speaker 1: up to get me back and is it always cut
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  Speaker 1: and dry and clean like we're playing on a board. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. This is the super competitive league. Things change,
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  Speaker 1: there's so many variables. But to be able to fall
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  Speaker 1: back on that foundation that you have and can get
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  Speaker 1: you in the right place.
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  Speaker 3: Your feet are.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking to you constantly and tell you where and how
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  Speaker 1: to go with the football. I think it's just comforting
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  Speaker 1: for a quarterback, you know, just to operate in a
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  Speaker 1: system like that where I know I can fall back
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  Speaker 1: to this blueprint and you know, in most cases if
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  Speaker 1: I'm close to it, good things should happen.
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  Speaker 2: And fairly common for a quarterback who hasn't been in
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  Speaker 2: this system to have to adjust to that little bit
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  Speaker 2: right because you haven't done it before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, Trevor's the guy who's played
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football through his career, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: his exposure is you know, he's got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: exposure to footwork, to playing quarterback, to those things you
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  Speaker 1: know that it's talked about, so you know, just the
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  Speaker 1: installation piece that we've had the talking through him, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's he's super dialed when it comes to footwork and
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  Speaker 1: understanding and seeing the vision. Okay, Yeah, here's what Here's
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  Speaker 1: what I see you're saying here, and I can see
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  Speaker 1: exactly how this goes in.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other piece of that is to that
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  Speaker 3: point of him playing.
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  Speaker 1: So much football, you know you kind of listen to
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  Speaker 1: him sometimes, Hey, what do you think on this? Do
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  Speaker 1: you feel comfortable on this this given concept? You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe taking this footwork and.
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  Speaker 3: Feeling this out.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been you know in terms of that, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a great mindset, he's got a great approach and
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  Speaker 1: you know, willing and eager to improvement.
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  Speaker 2: What has been back to Liam a little bit, what's
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  Speaker 2: been your biggest impression so far working with him as
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  Speaker 2: a head coach in terms of that that adjustment being
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  Speaker 2: in front of the room, being guiding the team. It
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  Speaker 2: seems like it's a thing that he was, I want
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  Speaker 2: to say, born to do, but very comfortable in that room.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's got great command, he's great with the players,
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  Speaker 1: he's demanding, he knows how to hold accountability.
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  Speaker 3: You know, just the message he's delivered over the course.
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  Speaker 1: The less you know, since we've been together with the team,
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  Speaker 1: I think has been has been great and it's been
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  Speaker 1: clear cut, concise. You know players are you know, able
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  Speaker 1: to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: And take that message and go with it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, he just has an infectious personality
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  Speaker 1: getting around, you know, talking to the guys and and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, just like we all are, he loves ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he loves to do football.
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  Speaker 1: So on top of all doing you know, having the
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  Speaker 1: command and having the influence in terms of culture and team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's a football guy at heart, So
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  Speaker 1: just being able to you know, for him to have
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  Speaker 1: a conversation in a hallway or meeting, hey, here's here's
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  Speaker 1: what I see on this, here's how you know I
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  Speaker 1: could see it adjusted, or here's how I can help you.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, that's what you know, coaches,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're here to do is serve the players
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  Speaker 1: and help them grow and and he's just it's been
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch him, you know, from knowing him so
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  Speaker 1: long and watch him in this role and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just just see him, you know, do so well, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Is there stuff do you see?
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  Speaker 2: And if the answers no, it's fine. Do you see
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  Speaker 2: ever any of your dad's.
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  Speaker 3: Influence in him?
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  Speaker 2: Anything that you know because he he coached under him,
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  Speaker 2: for a little while.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was his first a sort of
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  Speaker 3: big times job. Do you see any of that in him? Ever,
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  Speaker 3: I can't say.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say for certain if if he, if he does,
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  Speaker 1: I think i'd probably I'd probably know it because.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard of my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: So but yeah, if he, if he will see how
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: when the bullets start flying, or you know, if he
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: you know, lose his cool or you know there's something
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: then or you know, if there's certain things he may say.
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  Speaker 1: But now, I haven't seen anything just yet. You know,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Liam has been around a ton of different people, and
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: sure at the end of the day, he's kind of
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: you know, he's himself first and then has those influences.
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  Speaker 3: So I can't point to anything just yet.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: What a final thing and then we'll move on to
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  Speaker 2: what we call the ozone five. Why ready now? I
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: mean meaning as a quarterbacks coach, where are you better
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: than you would have been five years ago for this job?
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: It's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought of this through my career because I
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: played quarterback growing up, and when I got into coaching,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the first room I got in and my first year
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: was the quarterback room, and I didn't get in back
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: into that room until one year in twenty eighteen. Until now,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I've spent some time in and out in Arizona, but
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: around it, the bulk of it had been, you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: in different position rooms, you know, whether it be tight end, receiver,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: you know, even stopping in the offensive line room, running back,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: having coach in the running.
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  Speaker 3: Back room for a year.
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  Speaker 1: So those things have kind of to to grow up
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  Speaker 1: through my life and always being on quarterback and not
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: really you know, knowing what's going on, but not knowing
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the interest keys intricacies of other positions and having that
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: ability to get in that room and and.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: See different things.
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  Speaker 1: I think that I was super fortunate to be able
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: to take a lot of those things and now kind of,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: you know, have that different perspective for the quarterback room.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And while that whole time was going on in different positions,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that at heart, my my my favorite position is that
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: is the quarterbacks being in that quarterback room, and That's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: what I've grown up doing. So but just to have
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to take those things working on defense and
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: take those things back with me into the quarterback room
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and to be able to talk the language with them,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I'm just super grateful for it because I think that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you know, that's helped me a bunch.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: That sounds like a like an OC and head coaches
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: as I eventually.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Just I'm just happy right now that I have this
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: role and and learning and helping and like I said,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I just I love coming to work each day.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I really do.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: It's just something I It's not work for me, it's
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: a passion and I'm you know, super passionate and fired.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Up to be here.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Got you the final thing we do, we call it
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: the ozone five. It's five quick fun questions. Uh, Spencer Whipple,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: what was your last binge watch?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Binge watch?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I might have to get my wife to tell me
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: what we watched, but she's she's more up on the shows.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: But I, uh man, if.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: There's a good show out, we try to watch it
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and sit down sometimes that we don't. I know, there's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: big ones. I always see him talked about throughout the country.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: My favorite show of all time was The Office, and.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: So that was my watching The Office right now.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was something that I had watched in high
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: school even or growing up, and uh now it's now
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I walk into and it's always on the TV. It's
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: it's taken off some of the so so I'll sit
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: down and you know, I don't necessarily binge watch it anymore,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: but I'll watch it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: If it's on.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: And but in terms of any new shows, I can't
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: quite put my fingers any new ones.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: The last song you heard on the way in this morning, man,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I think I was.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: I might have been just kind of riding in. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: can't remember what song.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I know I got to work out this morning and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and Coach Giano had some some classic rock on which I.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Enjoy so they so we had a little I know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: there was a CDC. He was rolling Stones.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: There was a little grunge music in there, nineties alternatives,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: so that was the he had it kind of rocking
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: in there, so it was it was good. That was
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: probably the last thing I listened to. I'm pretty diverse
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and it comes to music. There's not much that I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: don't care to listen.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: For good deal. Uh your best football memory, Wow, this
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: is tough one.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: There's just so many moments that can come to me
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and I think, uh, just learning experiences through this whole
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: time growing up playing from I think it always comes
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: back to the people that you're around and those relationships
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: that you built, because ultimately that's what that's what it's about.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And when you're in the moment, it's the work, the work,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the work. And as you look back and reflect on
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: those times where you've you've grown and people have helped
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: you and you know, reached out and and and we're
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: willing and able to you know, coach you up and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: give you knowledge, those are the things that carry with
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: me and think about because at the end of the day,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a relationship, it's a.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: People's business, it's a people's.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Game, and so those are the moments, those those people
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that I've come in contact with and doing so now
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that that always going to stand out for me.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Got you, Uh, sport other than football that you were
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: good at?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Oh Man?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I played baseball and basketball a little bit growing up,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and golf quite a bit growing up. But I just
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: every all my I felt like I poured all my love,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: my heart, my soul into into football. So there wasn't
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: one sport other than football that I that I could
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: say I was actually really a good player.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: At the UH.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming this is pretty obvious in your case. The
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: person most responsible before you be in here.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I'd say my father, you know, my dad, and he.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Can come up what he meant. I mean, I know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: it's so much because the career, you know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And that's and that's part of also my family, my
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: mom and my brother and just by the whole family experience.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: But to the lessons that he's he's taught, man, continue
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to teach me just growing up and especially not just football,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: but in life and and the things you take with you,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: but but certainly the game itself. And I was just
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: fortunate to have him as a resource, you know, him
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: going through the coaching and you know, maybe took him
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: quite a.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: While to get where he's he was.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: At and and work his way up, but he would
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: always give me little tidbits and lessons and things that
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I could take with me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Sure, and the perspective profession.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Used today in terms of you know, how things operate,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: how things are going, and the things that you can
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: do that I can do personally to help myself to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: continue to grow.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: And he was just big on that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, I would say him for sure, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: my family just all the support they've always given me.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And then like I mentioned, all those people that I've
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: come in contact with whether it be coaches, players, they
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: all kind of shape you who you are as a coach.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm super fortunate to, you know, be
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: around all those people.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I got you, Spencer Whipple.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I know this is a busy time a year when
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a group is trying to transition and get going, so
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you joining the Other Zone podcasts and look
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: forward to working with you down the road.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: That's great. Thank you, John, I appreciate it. Thanks for
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: having me