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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "The guys have been engaged" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Coach, just you know overall in Thoseday popped up on
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  Speaker 1: the injury port yesterday. How are you feeling about his
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  Speaker 1: chances on Sunday? And is that something that just kind
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  Speaker 1: of popped up during practice? Yeah, it just it just occurred.
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  Speaker 1: You know. We we get some things like this that
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  Speaker 1: come up during the during the week, and we just
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure that he's a percent. So we
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  Speaker 1: shut him down yesterday and and um, you know we'll
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  Speaker 1: get through today's practice. We'll have a better uh indication
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  Speaker 1: you know with him, um after today, but we'll make
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  Speaker 1: a decision after that. Thanks, thank you. Make sure he's
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  Speaker 1: raised hands seemed to heavy, Demetrius, and then gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to Ashland. Hey, dog, I hope you're doing well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: just going into this week, how have you felt your
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  Speaker 1: your team has responded sort of just going up to
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  Speaker 1: going up against the next opponent, the Eagules. I know
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  Speaker 1: that it's gonna be a difficult matchup. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: the guys have responded well, um to this week. And
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  Speaker 1: we had you know a little change in the schedule
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  Speaker 1: yesterday because of the weather and and you know, all
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  Speaker 1: to make sure number one that you know, players and
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  Speaker 1: family safety, comes first and make sure that they were
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  Speaker 1: they were you know, protected from the from the storm.
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  Speaker 1: And other than that, the guys have been engaged, they've
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  Speaker 1: been focused, um, you know, trying to trying to just
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  Speaker 1: work off the momentum you know, these last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, you know, get ready for another football game.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's been it's been a good week that way,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the guys are ready to go. Is
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  Speaker 1: this a sort of um, I know you don't like
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  Speaker 1: to use the term benchmark or anything like that, but
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  Speaker 1: just is this a sort of another big test for
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  Speaker 1: your team? Well, you know, I believe so, because it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not only our next next opponent, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: good opponent they're playing. I mean, they're undefeated, they're playing
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  Speaker 1: extremely well, you know, in all three phases, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna have to be disciplined in our
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  Speaker 1: jobs and our assignments and and it'll it'll really see
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  Speaker 1: where where we're at as a football team and how
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  Speaker 1: you know, how we respond after having a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of success these past couple of weeks. Thank you mhm.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go to Ashton. Southerland Sullivan and John Shibley Hey, coach,
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  Speaker 1: how do you prepare your team for a hostile game environment?
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  Speaker 1: Do you pump crowd noise and practice? Do you change
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  Speaker 1: anything knowing you're going into this environment or does it
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  Speaker 1: stay the same every week? No, you know, road games
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  Speaker 1: are different, Um, whether you're playing in a dome or
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  Speaker 1: an outdoor stadium. I I just know firsthand this place
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  Speaker 1: can get extremely loud. We expect it to be loud
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. Uh so, yeah, well we'll use crowd noise.
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  Speaker 1: We used it yesterday and practice. Well, we'll use it
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  Speaker 1: again today, you know. And and um, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just part of it. It's it's it's a great environment
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  Speaker 1: up there. You know, it's a great for football. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a football town. And and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: our guys handled the work of or the week of
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  Speaker 1: practice extremely well. They handled the noise. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: were inside yesterday because of the weather, and they handled
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  Speaker 1: the crowd noise well yesterday. So it just comes down
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  Speaker 1: to communication. Obviously starts with me, you know, getting the
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  Speaker 1: plays into Trevor and then Trevor communicating that with the huddle.
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  Speaker 1: But and the same on defense. Right, It's it's usually
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  Speaker 1: not as loud on defense when you're on the road,
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  Speaker 1: but there's still still gotta be you know, great communication
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  Speaker 1: amongst the players, and I felt like yesterday was was
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  Speaker 1: a good day for that. We'll go to John Shipley,
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  Speaker 1: then we'll go to Brent Martineau. Excuse me if you
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  Speaker 1: hear a dog in the background going going to town
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  Speaker 1: about and Doug. You know, we talked last week a
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  Speaker 1: lot about it being kind of a big test for
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  Speaker 1: Jawan and camp against his past archers. What about kind
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  Speaker 1: of flipping it this week? What kind of test is
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  Speaker 1: it for Josh Allen and Trey Ban against you know,
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  Speaker 1: Lane and Jordan's Well, listen, I got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: respect for for Lane and Jordan both. And Lane Johnson's
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a football player, and and um a
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  Speaker 1: veteran guy. He's you know, he's he's obviously, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: he's pro Bowl calor oliber um, you know, right tackle
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  Speaker 1: in in this league. And um, you know, Josh and
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  Speaker 1: Trayvon both or they got their work cut out for them,
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  Speaker 1: and they've they've got to, you know, really stay within
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  Speaker 1: themselves and be disciplined and you know, try not to
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  Speaker 1: do too much. But at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe show something that he hasn't seen or studied this week, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know on tape. And and then with Jordan's just um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a big guy that that has really
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  Speaker 1: turned into a great tackle in this league and somebody
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  Speaker 1: that the the Eagles have shown confidence in, you know
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  Speaker 1: by extending him and um again just uh, two really
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  Speaker 1: good good tackles that that you know are two guys
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  Speaker 1: that I know they'll be prepared, but but they have
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  Speaker 1: to study the tape and and understand you know, the
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  Speaker 1: one on one matchups and that's that's what this game
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  Speaker 1: comes down to, is your one on ones and trying
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  Speaker 1: to win those and and I know both of our
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  Speaker 1: guys have their hands full this weekend. Thanks and then
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  Speaker 1: just one more from me, you know, if you need
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  Speaker 1: him this week, depending on a Tim Jones, I mean
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  Speaker 1: as he kind of carried over in practice during the
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  Speaker 1: season and what you got saw from him during training
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  Speaker 1: camp in the preseason. Well so the reason we we
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  Speaker 1: kept him on the fifty three. He deserved his spot. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's a he's a very capable um
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  Speaker 1: back up that that is gonna have to play and
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  Speaker 1: and you know if they can't go, then then then
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  Speaker 1: he's the next man up. And that's that's been our mentality.
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  Speaker 1: And you know he also plays a couple of special
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  Speaker 1: teams units as well, and you know he's done a
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  Speaker 1: nice job of preparing himself and staying within himself and
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  Speaker 1: and getting himself, uh, you know, in a position to
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  Speaker 1: to help us on offense. Thanks Doug, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: You bet. All right, We'll go to Brent Martineau, then
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  Speaker 1: John o'shan, Hey, Doug, guy, this is probably a quick one,
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  Speaker 1: and then follow up. You guys end up okay. With
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  Speaker 1: the storm, I mean, everybody, all the player and so
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  Speaker 1: the families pretty good. Yeah, everybody was good. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's some power outages. I think Thursday, um,
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  Speaker 1: either Wednesday night, Thursday evening, you know, with some of
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  Speaker 1: the guys, I think everything has been re word now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's one of the things I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make sure by by sort of modifying the schedule getting
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  Speaker 1: everybody home yesterday, because supposedly that was gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: brunt of the storm and uh, some of the flooding
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  Speaker 1: and different things that happened around our our city here.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure they were safe. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: was and and uh good too, good to see you,
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  Speaker 1: good to hear. And that's techondly. Uh. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw it last night, but a scary seat
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  Speaker 1: obviously with two. Uh and in that game, how you played.
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  Speaker 1: You've been around this thing for a long time. How
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  Speaker 1: far have we come in the NFL in in that
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  Speaker 1: regard and player of safety and and how much do
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  Speaker 1: you attribute some of these things that it's just a
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  Speaker 1: violent game and sometimes things are going to happen. Yeah, first,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, uh, just one of you know, my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers obviously with two and his family at
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  Speaker 1: this time. You know, Um, it was what I saw
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  Speaker 1: on television last night was obviously a violent you know
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  Speaker 1: head injury, uh severe to the to the ground. And um,
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  Speaker 1: you listen, those things are gonna happen in this league,
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  Speaker 1: and um, it's no fault of anybody's, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta keep players safety first. Number one. I know
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  Speaker 1: the league is doing an outstanding job with you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the Guardian caps that we wore in
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  Speaker 1: training camp this year, and um, they're doing everything you
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  Speaker 1: can with with technology and helmets and and things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature. But but these these incidents is are gonna
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep popping up. You know, it's inevitable. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with our game and the speed of the game and
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  Speaker 1: the violent nature of our game, and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we try to minimize them, um. And and we try
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  Speaker 1: to protect our players the best we can. But but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's uh, you know, in the course of the
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  Speaker 1: heat of the battle, it just they happen, and it's unfortunate. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And again you know, our thoughts, my my thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: prayers are with him and and his family and of
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  Speaker 1: course the Dolphins at this time appreciate it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we'll finish up with John Oshan. Hey, Doug,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering this team has lost so much before you
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  Speaker 1: got year and in the two big wins, um, in
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  Speaker 1: terms of confidence, are are you liking what you're seeing?
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  Speaker 1: And how important is it for a team to sort
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  Speaker 1: of have that walk, if you will. I've been really pleased, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with where the guys are, where they've come from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how they've come together as a team, the
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  Speaker 1: way they practice, all those things that you know, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about, you know, in in the
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  Speaker 1: in these press conferences and stuff, and you know it's
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  Speaker 1: just um right now, it's just a matter of keeping
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  Speaker 1: that going, kind of riding the wave and keeping the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we know that every season can't be a
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  Speaker 1: perfect season. There's gonna be bumps in the road, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's how we overcome them, wins or losses,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and sometimes the price of success can
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  Speaker 1: can cover up a lot of things, but the second
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  Speaker 1: you lose a game, it magnifies everything. So you know
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  Speaker 1: there's a fine balance there, and and and and it's
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  Speaker 1: my job as the head coach and leader to to
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  Speaker 1: really point both out right the wins and the losses
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that we stay on task skin. But
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  Speaker 1: I've been really pleased where the team is and the
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  Speaker 1: leadership of the team, and and um just want to
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  Speaker 1: continue that, uh, you know, in a positive direction. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys, You bet