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Press Pass | Liam Coen Previews Rams vs. Jaguars · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Coach working to London.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, when we look at a guy like
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  Speaker 2: Travis Hunter, I know a lot of UK fans will
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  Speaker 2: be interested to see such a unique player come over here.
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  Speaker 2: As as far as coaching is concerned, there's no real
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  Speaker 2: blueprints for a player like this. How are you enjoying
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  Speaker 2: the challenge of working out how to work.
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  Speaker 1: With him, how best to use him, how not to
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  Speaker 1: use them? How are you enjoining that challenge? Is it fun? Challenging? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's I mean that's a lot of reason why you coaches,
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  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, is to accept challenges, try to overcome challenges,
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  Speaker 3: and Travis is no different as you mentioned. And so
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  Speaker 3: it's been the scheduling all the way from the beginning
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  Speaker 3: to on the plane ride out here Monday night. We
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  Speaker 3: were sitting on the plane going over any tweaks to
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  Speaker 3: the schedule we may be making this week. So it's
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  Speaker 3: every day, it's it's a great challenge for us. It
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  Speaker 3: keeps everybody really having to be on it in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the schedule, his position, coaches, athletic training, media, everybody
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  Speaker 3: has to be involved in the process. And when you're
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  Speaker 3: working with a guy that does love football and does
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  Speaker 3: love to to work.
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  Speaker 1: He loves to play.
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  Speaker 3: He loves to play the game, and you really want
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  Speaker 3: to help people like that, and and that's somebody that
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  Speaker 3: is ultimately going to continue, I think, to get better
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  Speaker 3: and better each week. But it has been a fun
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  Speaker 3: challenge thus far.
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  Speaker 1: Why have the Rams been so consistent under Sean mcday?
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  Speaker 1: What is what is he built there? It gives him
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  Speaker 1: the ability to consistently play to at least ten wins
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  Speaker 1: every year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you guys know the respect I have for Sean.
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  Speaker 3: I think he is just as good, if not better,
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  Speaker 3: of a coach. After maybe a tough game, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: a tough output for one side of the ball, a loss,
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like he that's when he's at his
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  Speaker 3: best in terms of being able to still put confidence
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  Speaker 3: into the guys, the building, the staff, the culture.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what.
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  Speaker 3: His record is after a loss, which you know that
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  Speaker 3: has a lot to do with determining coaches' successes, I
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  Speaker 3: think in a lot of ways, but in terms of
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  Speaker 3: his ability to get the guys up every single week,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty cool. And the way he addresses
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  Speaker 3: the players, the way that he handles the players, the staff,
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  Speaker 3: the coaches from a positive, you know, state of mind,
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  Speaker 3: but also the standards, the demand, the way that he
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  Speaker 3: ultimately wants that team to play. It shows up every
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  Speaker 3: single week and win, loser, draw.
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  Speaker 1: They play hard quarterback because you coached him. Obviously, I've
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  Speaker 1: heard your admiration for him.
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  Speaker 4: What particular challenges is Anthony and his staff half against
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  Speaker 4: the guy like Zaffer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't trust those eyes now, don't trust his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: But we've talked to it's his full.
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  Speaker 3: Command of the operation that ultimately we have to be
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  Speaker 3: great with our disguises, we have to be great with
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  Speaker 3: our spot drop coverages.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to try to affect the.
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  Speaker 3: Pocket obviously in a lot of ways. But he has
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  Speaker 3: such a great way of dissecting pre snap and then
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  Speaker 3: operating post snap like he sees it pre snap, he
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  Speaker 3: can then can things fix the protections, get.
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  Speaker 1: You in a better football play.
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  Speaker 3: But then okay, post snap, it's his ability to then
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  Speaker 3: see areas, see coverages, but also just see open spots
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  Speaker 3: on the field, not necessarily just looking at receivers. That's
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  Speaker 3: what makes Matthew so special. And so those details for us,
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  Speaker 3: the pre snap, what does it look like, the discipline
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  Speaker 3: in our drops the discipline and our ability to work
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  Speaker 3: our games in stunts and pressures.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna be huge.
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  Speaker 4: This weekne right now and then another tough matchup up front.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think those guys are. I talked to Anton, taught
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  Speaker 3: to some.
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  Speaker 1: Of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're very eager, I think for the challenge to
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  Speaker 3: step up. You know, each week you face an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: in this league up front to see some of the
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  Speaker 3: best pass rushers and whether it's individuals, whether it's a
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  Speaker 3: crew of them, whether it's scheme. We've seen some good
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  Speaker 3: stuff and so we've protected at a high level in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of ways. Last week was a tough go,
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  Speaker 3: so they know, we all know it takes truly, not
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  Speaker 3: just those guys up front. We've got to help them
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  Speaker 3: and have a responsibility as coaches, but also hey, stepping
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  Speaker 3: up to the plate and worrying about us. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: get better at our sets, the way that we slide
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  Speaker 3: and pass protection, the way that we protect our fundamentals,
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  Speaker 3: our techniques, and worry about those things and not so
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  Speaker 3: much the guys that we're playing against.
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  Speaker 4: Trevor's numbers have been better in the last three games.
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  Speaker 4: Is that as a sign that doesn't thinkative of how
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  Speaker 4: he's grown in your system right now or how he's
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  Speaker 4: playing last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I do think that there is There's definitely been improvements
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  Speaker 3: in a lot of ways. I mean, you look at
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  Speaker 3: his ability to still you know, use his legs in
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  Speaker 3: some areas. I thought there was some really good moments
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  Speaker 3: of being able to place some things off schedule, make
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  Speaker 3: some plays. You know, We've got to continue to help
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  Speaker 3: them create you know, one on one opportunities down the
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  Speaker 3: field to be able to push it down there. But
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  Speaker 3: I do think there's been improvement. I think he has
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  Speaker 3: confidence right now. I do so hopefully we continue to
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  Speaker 3: see that growth this week, because, like we told the team,
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  Speaker 3: all of this week is about us.
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  Speaker 1: It's about our preparation, our operation.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get better at the controllables and see how mentally
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  Speaker 3: tough we are.
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  Speaker 1: How do you clean that up? How do you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we tip you know, we typically do game wreckers
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  Speaker 3: today and talk, you know, just talk about the opponent
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  Speaker 3: a little bit and introduce that we know who their
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  Speaker 3: good players are and have a lot of respect for them.
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  Speaker 3: But the message this morning was we've been our game wreckers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in a lot of ways. We played some
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  Speaker 3: really good opponents, and we have a lot of respect
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  Speaker 3: for those opponents.
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  Speaker 1: But until we.
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  Speaker 3: Look at ourselves and fix our mistakes, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: who we're playing. So that's been the message. That was
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  Speaker 3: the message this morning and the team meeting or today,
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  Speaker 3: and how much can we go out and create our
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  Speaker 3: own energy out here in a long walkthrough where you've
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  Speaker 3: got to stay mentally locked in and focused in discipline
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  Speaker 3: and detailed throughout in a course of this day, after travel,
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  Speaker 3: after jet lag, after whatever. It is, no excuses, Let's
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  Speaker 3: go to work and prepare the best week we've had
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  Speaker 3: from a preparation standpoint, and go play to not try to.
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  Speaker 1: Do too much, you know that.
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  Speaker 3: I think some of that did show up a little
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  Speaker 3: bit on Sunday where it's one of those tight ball games.
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  Speaker 3: You're back and forth, you're struggling to maybe make some
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  Speaker 3: things happen in some ways, and guys maybe try to
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  Speaker 3: go outside of all right, the routes at fifteen, I
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  Speaker 3: need to run at twenty because of this or that,
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  Speaker 3: or I got to make a play, and some of
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  Speaker 3: that stuff starts to happen. It's natural, but we need
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  Speaker 3: to let the game also come to us that way
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  Speaker 3: and not try to press and do too much.
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  Speaker 4: Missing or how much is there with Travis in more
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  Speaker 4: of the explosive game, be able to get more out
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  Speaker 4: of the reps that he's getting on the offensive side.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Yeah, I mean, I think it's obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: scheming them open is part of it. Is the number
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  Speaker 3: one is my job, ultimately, our job as an offensive
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  Speaker 3: staff to make sure we're putting him in the progression
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  Speaker 3: and putting them in the position to be number one
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  Speaker 3: as you know a little bit more often in some ways.
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  Speaker 3: And then when he is the primary, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got to throw him catch, you know, we've got to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that we identify it, find them be able
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  Speaker 3: to be at the right spot at the right.
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  Speaker 1: Time from it.
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  Speaker 3: We just had this conversation, So it's I think it's
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  Speaker 3: a combination of a lot of those things that ultimately
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  Speaker 3: can all be controlled.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We can't always say the ball is going to get
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  Speaker 3: thrown to one person based on any play unless it's
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  Speaker 3: just they're spitting it to him and giving them a
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  Speaker 3: ball in hand touch down the field. There's elements to that,
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  Speaker 3: especially when you're not getting a lot of one on
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  Speaker 3: one man coverage, which last week in Seattle was all
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  Speaker 3: shell cover, two soft, kind of letting nothing get behind them.
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  Speaker 3: So that's got to be a little bit predicated on
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  Speaker 3: what we're seeing, but also making sure we're doing our
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  Speaker 3: jobs as coaches, and he's doing his job to be
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  Speaker 3: in the right spot at the right time, and Trevor's
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  Speaker 3: able to deliver it.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's great protection. It's all it takes, all of them.
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  Speaker 2: Did you want to swat spots your previous spadi it's
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  Speaker 2: that trips overseas to play games over head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty nineteen, was able to come out here with
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  Speaker 3: the Rams and that was a cool experience. We stayed here,
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  Speaker 3: practiced here, was able to get down. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: loved London. It's my wife's favorite city. She's out shopping currently,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Really excited to see what that looks like.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, and then this organization has done this
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  Speaker 3: for a long time, and there's a lot of there's
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  Speaker 3: pride in this trip for us. You know, our owner,
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  Speaker 3: our ownership, it means a lot to him and how
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  Speaker 3: his presence is in this city as well, and so
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  Speaker 3: if he has pride in it, we have pride in
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  Speaker 3: it as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think our player and staff.
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  Speaker 3: Members that put this whole thing together take a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pride in what they're doing, and so it's a
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  Speaker 3: great experience and opportunity for us.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned jetnag earlier obviously last year a hurricane and
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  Speaker 2: delayed your progress over to these shows. You've been right
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  Speaker 2: this time last and earlier on the Tuesday. The Rams
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  Speaker 2: are getting here until Saturday. Do you think that gives
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  Speaker 2: the Jackson's voltage?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I fully understand, like I'm you know, working
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  Speaker 3: with Sean, knowing their sports science behind why they are
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  Speaker 3: leaving later, and we, you know, had the same opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to make that decision, and we just chose to come.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 3: It's more so because we've got to buy afterwards, and
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  Speaker 3: so we can not have to deal with getting back
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  Speaker 3: into our time zone as quickly as we would need
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  Speaker 3: to if we were playing a game the following week.
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  Speaker 1: So isn't an advantage. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: There's sports science that kind of supports both, and so
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was a great opportunity for our
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  Speaker 3: guys to get here, you know, be able to be
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  Speaker 3: together a little bit more have a little bit more continuity.
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  Speaker 3: It just came at the right time after a loss,
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  Speaker 3: and our guys are excited, I think to be able
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  Speaker 3: to play out here and be in that stadium playing
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday special teams.
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  Speaker 2: Can you just talk a little bit about what he brings.
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  Speaker 1: It to them. Yeah, he's Ray's got some swagger. Man.
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  Speaker 1: He plays the game very you know, violently.
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  Speaker 3: He's obviously a tough kid and what he's obviously gone
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  Speaker 3: through to in high school to college to get to
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  Speaker 3: where he's at. He takes a lot of pride in
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  Speaker 3: what he does and he knows he's a he's a
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  Speaker 3: darn good player.
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  Speaker 1: He's got confidence right now.
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  Speaker 3: The players in that room, that unit also believe in
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  Speaker 3: him at a high level. And so, man, the who
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  Speaker 3: knows where the ceiling is right in terms of what
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  Speaker 3: he can be in terms of a special team's UH
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  Speaker 3: player in this league.
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  Speaker 1: I think he takes it per.
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  Speaker 3: Arsenal when he's getting double teamed and be able to
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  Speaker 3: beat those things, and when he is getting one on
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  Speaker 3: one opportunities down the field, he's taking advantage of him.
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  Speaker 1: So been really pleased with Ray.
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  Speaker 2: Him because the Service Academy, it's kind of tough to
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  Speaker 2: find the gems out of those places.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of wild.
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  Speaker 3: He I think he forced and he forced like some
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  Speaker 3: ridiculous amount of turnovers coming out of out of Navy
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  Speaker 3: in terms of like whether it was punching them out,
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  Speaker 3: causing them falling on them. He just disrupted a lot
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  Speaker 3: on his tape. So for us, I know, James was
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  Speaker 3: high on him very early on. It was somebody that
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  Speaker 3: we had targeted very early on that they had their
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  Speaker 3: eyes on. And sometimes you're like, well, is the jew like,
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  Speaker 3: is he gonna be able to get on defense and
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  Speaker 3: you know this year and help us? But man, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a great pick, I think, and a great player
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  Speaker 3: for us. So it was a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 3: challenging to go through the process a little bit just
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  Speaker 3: watching it and going through the tape, But man, he
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  Speaker 3: did so many good things that they're a well coached
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  Speaker 3: operation there in Navy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, when you're making a game plan against an
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  Speaker 4: organization that obviously know really well, do you feel like
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  Speaker 4: that's a pro or can it kind of be a
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  Speaker 4: con because you know what Sean.
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  Speaker 1: Knows what you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely a little bit of that chess match
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  Speaker 3: to it in terms of the familiarity factor. But they've
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  Speaker 3: evolved a little bit over the last few years. We've
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  Speaker 3: definitely evolved in some different ways, whether it was last
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  Speaker 3: year in Tampa, this year in Jacksonville. It's not identical
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  Speaker 3: to theirs, and they're not, as you know, identical to ours,
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  Speaker 3: so there's different wrinkles. But I do think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we both probably know some of the details in which
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  Speaker 3: maybe you can affect the protection or be able to
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  Speaker 3: blitz to stop an open side run or a closed
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  Speaker 3: side run.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some of that that definitely goes into it.
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  Speaker 3: I was meeting with Camping the defensive staff for a
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  Speaker 3: little while last night, just watching their tape, going through
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  Speaker 3: some of the thought process and detail of maybe their
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  Speaker 3: scheme and how they're running the play, just so that
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  Speaker 3: they get a little bit more insight. So many of
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  Speaker 3: the ballplays are similar.
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  Speaker 1: That you see each week.
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  Speaker 3: What makes Sean and those guys, I think different. It
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  Speaker 3: is just the details that go into it and the
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  Speaker 3: amount of how specific emotions are, how efficient they are
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  Speaker 3: at their operation pre snap identifying it what they're looking
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  Speaker 3: for maybe in some of these plays, whether they're can
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  Speaker 3: to run or Canada Pass, Canada screens, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's where he has a notch above.
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  Speaker 2: Adapted to being a mentor to Travis on and off
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they do spend a pretty good amount
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  Speaker 3: of time together throughout the course of the day, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's in the meeting setting, whether it's at the walkthroughs,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's post practice one on one. I think a
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool moment was last week going into Kansas City
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  Speaker 3: two weeks ago. Now, they had missed on a throw
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  Speaker 3: in practice a few times, and then Travis and Trevor
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  Speaker 3: stayed afterwards through it five times till they got it right.
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  Speaker 3: And then it came to life on the catch that
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  Speaker 3: Travis made jumping up in the air against Kansas City.
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  Speaker 3: And so that connection hopefully continuing to get fostered, that relationship,
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  Speaker 3: And I think Trevor's a unique leader in the way
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  Speaker 3: that he's He's able to give such great insight for
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  Speaker 3: a younger guy, if you will. I mean, he's kind
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  Speaker 3: of mature beyond his ears in so many ways, So
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  Speaker 3: sometimes I feel like he's a little bit more mature
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  Speaker 3: than me. So no, he's I think that relationship is
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  Speaker 3: getting better and better