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Press Pass | Christian Kirk on Laying the Foundation at 2024 Training Camp · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Week two of training camp underway here at the Miller
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  Speaker 1: Electric Center. Wide receiver Christian Kirk with me House training
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  Speaker 1: camp and going so far, are you kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: your sea legs so to speak. It's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days gone by.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, The coaches did a good job of kind
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  Speaker 2: of ramping up training camp this year. Changed the schedule
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  Speaker 2: a little bit to where we started in the red zone,
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  Speaker 2: especially for the wide receivers, not having a run downfield
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  Speaker 2: as much, you know, kind of break the seal a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and then now we're getting into the more
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  Speaker 2: open field stuff. So I think it's been good so far.
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  Speaker 2: Body's feeling good and I know the guys are responding
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  Speaker 2: to it well.
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  Speaker 1: House. The off season been for you. Obviously you had
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  Speaker 1: that injury. You're trying to come back. Maybe towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of last season. Has rehab kind of gotten you
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  Speaker 1: back to Do you feel where you're one hundred percent now?
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I uh, you know, there was not hiccups, but I
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  Speaker 2: was still working through some things going through OTA's in
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  Speaker 2: mini camp just because you know, still about four or
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  Speaker 2: five months out from my injury, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: just needed to get back home to Arizona and really
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  Speaker 2: just take a second to kind of hone in on
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  Speaker 2: the little things that I needed to fix from a
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  Speaker 2: therapy standpoint. And you know, the five weeks that we
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  Speaker 2: had off over the summer really was a good opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for me to get back in my element and you know,
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  Speaker 2: really do the things to get myself where I need
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  Speaker 2: it to be. And you know, our body responded great
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  Speaker 2: and I feel great coming into training camp, feel like
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  Speaker 2: I got my speedback and nowhere pain. So really excited
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  Speaker 2: for where my body is.
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  Speaker 1: It's great when you come in. Obviously, the wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: group's different this year. You know, people look at the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of days in camp and they're not seeing touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time where you work things out, right,
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  Speaker 1: So what is it like when you come in there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of new receivers when you're working with Trevor
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  Speaker 1: and the other quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a lot of trial and error. You know,
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  Speaker 2: as much as it seems pretty seamless, it's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: difficult thing. So it definitely takes a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: you know, just like I said, trial and err, especially
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  Speaker 2: for guys like Brian, guys like Gabe who are still
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  Speaker 2: trying to pick up the system. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more than just goes into just running around and
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  Speaker 2: catching the ball. You gotta know where your alignment is,
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  Speaker 2: know where the depth of your route, know what coverage
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  Speaker 2: it is, and so when you're out there thinking a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more, it's a little harder to be at
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  Speaker 2: the right place at the right time because you're slowing
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  Speaker 2: down just a little bit. So they've been doing a
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  Speaker 2: good job, and yeah, we've had our misses here and there,
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  Speaker 2: but we've also had a handful of plays from you know,
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  Speaker 2: our guys, especially some of the younger guys that you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of bring some confidence. So it'll all increasingly get
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  Speaker 2: better as camp goes on.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor got his contract extension done in the off season. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys are very close, great bond there.
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  Speaker 1: What did it mean to you to see Trevor's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be around for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just I was just really proud of
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  Speaker 2: him all that he's been through, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: know his rookie year was a tough year to go through,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know year one of us being together,
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  Speaker 2: the first what eight nine games weren't pretty and then
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  Speaker 2: we finally turned it around. And last year being last year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's been a lot of ups and downs here,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been a constant here and you know, bringing
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  Speaker 2: winning football to Jacksonville. And you know, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's another quarterback that I know this city or you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would want here to play with. So he deserves
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  Speaker 2: every bit of that contract, and you know, I'm excited to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, watch him keep growing, you know, into being
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  Speaker 2: the leader you know of Jacksonville for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna see pads go on in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: At this point in training camp, what are you kind
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  Speaker 1: of working on? What are you looking forward to?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me, it's just making every play
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  Speaker 2: that comes my way. Sure, you know, when I get
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  Speaker 2: out there, I don't get too many opportunities, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in camp, being a little bit of an older guy
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  Speaker 2: that kind of watch how much I'm doing, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the young guys have to get their reps and be
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  Speaker 2: able to show what they can do as well. So
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  Speaker 2: when I'm out there, I really just try to take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of every rep that I get and you know,
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  Speaker 2: make sure I'm winning them and just get all the
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  Speaker 2: things in from a release standpoint, catching the ball, developing
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  Speaker 2: my routes. So when wee week one comes around, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just going out there and playing fast.
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  Speaker 1: Just final question for me, just when you have this
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  Speaker 1: time of year, obviously there's a lot of new players,
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  Speaker 1: young guys as well, building that chemistry. You guys talk
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  Speaker 1: about it a lot, but it's important and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like this is the time of year when you really
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  Speaker 1: get that done so that when things maybe don't go
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  Speaker 1: your way later in the year, you've built that. Starting
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  Speaker 1: a training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just especially in the first week, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're really just laying the foundation. And you know we
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  Speaker 2: talk about a lot, especially in our team meeting and
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  Speaker 2: the captain's talked about it. I just you know, having
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  Speaker 2: a vision, you know, for where we want to go
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  Speaker 2: and bringing that out to the practice field every single day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when it gets hot, you're tired, pads come on,
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  Speaker 2: you only had a couple hours of sleep. There's some
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  Speaker 2: negative thoughts that come into your mind. But when you
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  Speaker 2: think back to you know, maybe what happened to us
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  Speaker 2: last year, or you know, you think where we're going
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  Speaker 2: and what we want to accomplish. Kind of pull some
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  Speaker 2: inner of motivation, you know, not only individually but as
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  Speaker 2: a team. So I think as long as we have that,
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  Speaker 2: especially for the young guys, and showing what it's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to look like, you know, we'll keep coming along and
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  Speaker 2: at the end of training camp be a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: football team.
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  Speaker 1: See what everybody's made of. If I like it, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, We'll see you out there for training camp.