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Press Pass | Lawrence: "I thought we had a great day today" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's up. How are you doing seeing see you know,
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  Speaker 1: all you guys in a different state. I haven't seeing
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  Speaker 1: a different team. It's great, you know, it's fun. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just say he's off. Yeah, be a little easier. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was great just getting to go up
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  Speaker 1: against different team. You know, we're so used to going
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  Speaker 1: against our guys. You see these the same looks, but
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  Speaker 1: also a lot of different stuff, you know, defense experiment
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  Speaker 1: and stuff on you and then to come out here
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  Speaker 1: and really not do a whole lot of prep because
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  Speaker 1: you're coming here to just get some work in and
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  Speaker 1: just see different you know, structures and all that and
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  Speaker 1: have to adjust on the fly. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: our base rules, but really putting them to the test
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  Speaker 1: and really challenges us just to communicate, especially up front
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  Speaker 1: and then all the skill group and making sure we're
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. You had a bunch of different
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  Speaker 1: coverages then we're used to from our defense. So um,
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  Speaker 1: it's good, you know, it challenges you. Um. I thought
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  Speaker 1: we had a great day to day. I thought we
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  Speaker 1: brought a lot of intensity and looked sharp, So it
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  Speaker 1: was good. It things like you guys look particularly sharpen
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone, near the end of the day, like,
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  Speaker 1: what what sort of change in terms of the mindset
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  Speaker 1: going in from the earlier red zone periods of that one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, Um, I mean every play is different every
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  Speaker 1: you know all those every play we're working something different.
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  Speaker 1: The defense is throwing a lot of different coverages out,
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  Speaker 1: so a lot changes from play to play, and you
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  Speaker 1: gotta adjust. And I thought towards the end um, after
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  Speaker 1: seeing kind of what they were doing, obviously they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have some wrinkles and um, they're gonna change it up
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  Speaker 1: every play, but you know what they want to do
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  Speaker 1: and how they want to play certain formations and whatever
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, so you've got a better idea. And
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  Speaker 1: timing is a little bit quicker as you get used
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  Speaker 1: to it. So I thought that sped up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And I just thought guys did a good job of
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  Speaker 1: adjusting routes getting open. Um. I thought we looked sharp.
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  Speaker 1: We ran the ball great today too, which was really
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  Speaker 1: good to see. Back in your home state. Were you
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of see any family or anything. This week,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping so, you know, I really figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still kind of working through the schedule. See if
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  Speaker 1: I got any time, hopefully, you know, if I can't
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  Speaker 1: make it all the way home, maybe my parents can
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  Speaker 1: can come up here or down here and um and
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  Speaker 1: grab some food or something. So we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: work something out. I'd love to see him. Um. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it feels good to be back in Georgia. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it seems so close. You hop on the plane. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a forty five minute flight up here, so it's close.
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  Speaker 1: But just haven't been back in a while, so it
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  Speaker 1: feels good. How long does it take for the offense
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  Speaker 1: to kind of get on the same page new offense
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  Speaker 1: Christian Kirk's news, A Jones is new, Evan Ingram knew,
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  Speaker 1: somebody new faces around? How long does it take? And
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  Speaker 1: looking kind of far to that, I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's same. I think it takes, uh, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: just depends. It takes. Depending on the group, the system,
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  Speaker 1: it can take longer. Um. I just think when you're
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  Speaker 1: installing a bunch of different plays and you see all
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  Speaker 1: these different looks, you got to talk about each one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this concept versus certain coverage, and you kind
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  Speaker 1: of gotta wait until it happens to make some of
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  Speaker 1: the corrections It's hard. You can draw it all on paper,
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  Speaker 1: but when a guy actually has the rep, including myself elf,
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  Speaker 1: and you see it unfold, and you see a guy
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  Speaker 1: come out of around a certain way and you know
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  Speaker 1: you wanted a little bit different kind of have to
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  Speaker 1: work through that until you know it and then you're
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. Like we had a great rep today,
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  Speaker 1: me and Day. I won't go through all the details
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  Speaker 1: and bore you guys, but just something we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about the other day, the little details of coming flatter
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  Speaker 1: on a certain route versus a certain coverage and did
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  Speaker 1: just that and hit him on it, and just seeing
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff come together. It does take time, but
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  Speaker 1: I think our guys have done a good job of
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  Speaker 1: doing it pretty quickly. Season. Do you like where you
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  Speaker 1: are personally from the starting training to I really like
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  Speaker 1: where I'm at. I think as far as offense goes,
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  Speaker 1: I feel really comfortable, feeling more and more confident each day. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and just feel really good with where I'm at with
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  Speaker 1: all the receivers, tight ends, running backs and then protection.
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  Speaker 1: Our communication, especially me and Luke is getting really really
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  Speaker 1: good and we're on the same page more and more so.
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  Speaker 1: Just I have a lot of confidence in that group
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  Speaker 1: up front, and I love where we're at. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've said it before, it's about getting better every week,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see you know where we're at in a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. Make to that end. What did you come
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  Speaker 1: into camp as your with with your your goals, your
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  Speaker 1: main objectives personally individually or as a team, um individually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'd say I said it when training camp started.
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  Speaker 1: Just trying to limit turnovers and that's a simple thing
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  Speaker 1: but obviously super important. You saw last year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're trying to follow over a lot that puts
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  Speaker 1: you it's hard to win games and you turn it
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  Speaker 1: over a lot, So that's that was a big emphasis.
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  Speaker 1: And then also just mastering the system, you know, from
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  Speaker 1: going going from one system to another and not having
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  Speaker 1: that I guess carry over from year one to year two.
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted to master the system and know the
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  Speaker 1: ins and outs and feel great about it come week
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  Speaker 1: one and throughout training camp, I really feel, um like
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  Speaker 1: I've done that, and obviously there's more to do, but
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  Speaker 1: I feel really comfortable in the system, about impressed in
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  Speaker 1: their style of teaching. What can you tell us about Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very conversational UM, I think it's always you know, they
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  Speaker 1: see some in a certain way, but they're always picking
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  Speaker 1: our brains and seeing what we like. Is at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, it's something that Coach Peterson, Press Um,
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  Speaker 1: Coach McCoy, Jim Bob, all those guys say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're the ones that are out there playing, so if
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  Speaker 1: we don't like something a certain way, we're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it that way. So there's always a conversation. They
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  Speaker 1: do a really good job of involving all the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: and we all put our heads together, and UM, I
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  Speaker 1: think we just jel really well. Your Cartersville and Georgia
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  Speaker 1: roots kind of helped shape you and the person. I think, Um,
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  Speaker 1: just having that small town. A lot of my life
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  Speaker 1: kind of was around football. Um. Football is huge in Cartersville,
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  Speaker 1: and I just think growing up in that small town
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of character. UM. I mean that was
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  Speaker 1: a big thing. And then you know, mostly I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of who I am goes to I mean
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  Speaker 1: in my faith for one, but my family, and that
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  Speaker 1: obviously has a lot to do with Cartersville too. But
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  Speaker 1: the way my family raised me, Um, humility was always
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  Speaker 1: a really important thing. So I think that's the kind
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  Speaker 1: of the staple of who I try to be. And um,
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  Speaker 1: it's mostly from my family, but also coming from a
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  Speaker 1: small town that's a big part of that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oils from Jacksonville. Yeah, yes, and no obviously you're not
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  Speaker 1: youre no, you're not near the water in Cartersville or
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  Speaker 1: the ocean ocean anyways. But yeah, I mean it has
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  Speaker 1: that feel to it. It's a you know, tight community.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little different. Mean, jackson is technically like a
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  Speaker 1: really big cities. There's a lot of a lot of land,
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  Speaker 1: but um, it has it has a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: the same field. I mean, it's they're different, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like managing so many different skills sets around
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  Speaker 1: you mean, Chris Manher it's very different from the Ingram
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  Speaker 1: Christiane Kurk, very different from Levisko Chanel. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta get from a bunch offfferent guys that have very
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  Speaker 1: specific skill sets. You have to go in there kind
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  Speaker 1: of I mean, the same play call could be very
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  Speaker 1: different when you got Labiskan this slide as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: Christiane Kirk. Yeah, you know, and that's um, that's something
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  Speaker 1: obviously that my alert is always up you know who's
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  Speaker 1: in there. You gotta know your personnel. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing in this game is knowing your matchups.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing you can have a perfect play call,
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  Speaker 1: but you gotta know where to go with the ball
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  Speaker 1: and who you like on the matchup. So no and
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  Speaker 1: that and different guys, like you said, do different things well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's something that this coaching staff has
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  Speaker 1: done a great job and putting guys in certain positions
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  Speaker 1: and with personnels and different formations to get guys in
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  Speaker 1: a spot where they can succeed. And I think we're
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  Speaker 1: You're always kind of figuring out more and more who's
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  Speaker 1: really good at what. But I think we're we had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good idea right now and I like where
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  Speaker 1: we're at going into the last preseason game and going
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  Speaker 1: into Week one. Awesome. Thank you all. I appreciate you