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Press Pass | Washington & Walker on Momentum, Chance to Secure Division · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Parker, how are you doing doing that? By just so,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: I'm okay.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, hey, park we started you you had a great
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  Speaker 2: training camp, and I'm just wondering, uh, maybe even before that,
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  Speaker 2: but at what point in the off season leading into
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  Speaker 2: this season did you feel like what you were doing?
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  Speaker 2: Uh in terms of getting yourself ready for the season,
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  Speaker 2: When did you figure out that I'm gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: really good year. When was there an epiphany in there
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  Speaker 2: or somewhere?
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  Speaker 3: I just more so I just focused on my preparation
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  Speaker 3: of just being ready for an opportunity. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know what was in store this season. I was
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  Speaker 3: just putting the work in and you know, putting my
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  Speaker 3: just be just ready to put my best foot for it,
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  Speaker 3: regardless of the situation. And so I feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: just been special just to be ready for the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to make the most of them.
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  Speaker 2: And how are you a better receiver this year than
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  Speaker 2: you were last year?
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: What do you what do you think you're doing better?
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  Speaker 1: Grade yourself a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny, like, well, I'll just say just this. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's my third year. You know, growth has to
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  Speaker 3: take place, and I feel like just being more familiar
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  Speaker 3: with what I'm getting myself into as far as a
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  Speaker 3: what a training camp looks like.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: And then even last year, my second year, I've had
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  Speaker 3: chances to see I had opportunity to see what it's
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  Speaker 3: like to be in a bigger role as a receiver.
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  Speaker 3: So just more familiar with that. And I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like for me, the growth is just understanding what is
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  Speaker 3: what it takes to make plays in the NFL. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just been fun.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, thank you, go to Justin, then to Mark, Hey Parker,
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  Speaker 4: how's it going good?
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  Speaker 3: What else?
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  Speaker 5: I remember last week you were talking about how you
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  Speaker 5: were making the most out of your yack and opportunities.
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  Speaker 5: What does that look like when you when you catch
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  Speaker 5: the ball, Like, how do you know you're gonna be
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  Speaker 5: able to pick up more yards?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, well, first it's just a mindset thing
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  Speaker 3: most importantly of just saying like, first off, make the catch,
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  Speaker 3: that's the most important. Can't do nothing without the ball,
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  Speaker 3: But just wanting to get more yards after you catch.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like just a mindset and I feel like
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  Speaker 3: with that, I just try to put myself in different situations,
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  Speaker 3: different catches, against different coverages and ways that I'm thinking
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  Speaker 3: I can get more yack, and I feel like with that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, it's all instincts.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like the more and more I like
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  Speaker 3: practice it and study it and see other great receivers
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  Speaker 3: that do it well and how they do it. I
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  Speaker 3: just kind of use that and then once you get
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  Speaker 3: in the game, it's just whatever instinct kicks in kicks in,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just been special. But it's just most important.
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  Speaker 3: It just been starting with that mindset of being like,
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  Speaker 3: I want to get more yack.
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  Speaker 5: And then you guys have won seven in a row.
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  Speaker 5: Going back to Houston. Do you remember what the locker
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  Speaker 5: room was like after that game and why it's kind
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  Speaker 5: of spurred you guys this far.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like since the beginning, just as a unit
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  Speaker 3: as a team, Liam is just saying we got to
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  Speaker 3: come together and not let anybody tear us apart. And
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that's been really cool because each time
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  Speaker 3: we've had an opportunity to answer to adversity, we've done
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  Speaker 3: a great job and we came together and became closer
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  Speaker 3: as a team. So I feel like we're just building
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  Speaker 3: on that, keeping that momentum going, and we just want
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  Speaker 3: to put our best foots forward and make the run
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  Speaker 3: and have some fun doing it.
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  Speaker 4: Thank Parker, Mark Long, followed by Shipley.
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  Speaker 6: Thank Parker, thanks for doing this. What having this opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to clinch the division at home? What does that mean
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  Speaker 6: for you guy guys? And how special especially after winning
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  Speaker 6: the last two on the road.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just since since I got here as a rookie,
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  Speaker 3: just just trying to get this UH organization and turn
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  Speaker 3: it around, it's been lots of glimpses and we know
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  Speaker 3: we've had a special team since then, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: been cool to have this staff and push us to
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  Speaker 3: be better. And it's just cool to see where we're
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  Speaker 3: at now. You know, we're not just looking too far
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  Speaker 3: in the past. Of of course, we're talking about this
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  Speaker 3: opportunity ahead. But it's just exciting to be like, we've
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  Speaker 3: come a long way and we're just gonna keep building
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  Speaker 3: on that. So I'm excited, We're excited, and we're ready
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  Speaker 3: to have some fun.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Hey Parker, thanks for doing us leading us
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  Speaker 7: talked about how you guys haven't really talked about goals
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  Speaker 7: or anything like that. It's just focused on one week.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do that?
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  Speaker 7: In today's age of like social media and all the
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  Speaker 7: noise and everything, how do you guys do it?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's just I feel like for me, it's
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  Speaker 3: just a part of my process, just the discipline and
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  Speaker 3: consistency of just staying present too and just being in
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  Speaker 3: the moment and feel like from beginning, just just our
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  Speaker 3: team making it about us. You know, that's so important
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  Speaker 3: when we start to look at the outside noise too
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  Speaker 3: much and let that be our foundation, and that's when
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  Speaker 3: it crumbles. But it's just been cool because this whole process,
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  Speaker 3: we've just been looking with them and then letting a
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  Speaker 3: little bit outside noise fuel us in a way and
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  Speaker 3: just give us that extra little cherry on top. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just been cool. And you know, when you're doing
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  Speaker 3: something new and changing the organization or program around, you
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people aren't gonna believe. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just been cool to make this change and have some
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  Speaker 3: fun doing it and we're excited.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks perfect. Hey, Trayvon, how you doing doing good? Hell
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  Speaker 1: about you?
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  Speaker 2: I bet Trayvon, when perhaps maybe this isn't the week four,
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  Speaker 2: but after this week with the younger guys to ask
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  Speaker 2: you for advice or if you offer advice on playoff football,
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  Speaker 2: the whole the preparation and how the games are different.
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  Speaker 2: What's going to be your advice to them, what's the
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  Speaker 2: best thing you can tell them about how to prepare
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  Speaker 2: for this experience.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, one of one of those things kind
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  Speaker 1: of trigger.
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  Speaker 8: It's one of those things where you really just still
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  Speaker 8: want guys to continuously do what they've been doing throughout
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  Speaker 8: the whole process of the season. I feel like that's
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  Speaker 8: going to play a major part in I mean, it
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  Speaker 8: did play a major part in what we are now
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  Speaker 8: to our season, everybody's preparation, what they've been doing leading
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  Speaker 8: up into games and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: But I really don't I really don't like trying to
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  Speaker 1: make it.
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  Speaker 8: Bigger than it's supposed to be because we've been doing
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  Speaker 8: this all year. We just want to continuously do what
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  Speaker 8: we've been doing, prepping wise to get to what we
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  Speaker 8: are now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, justin and long.
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  Speaker 5: What's going on, Trayvon. Can you think back to that
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  Speaker 5: Houston game. You guys have won seven in a row
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  Speaker 5: since then. Can you think back to the kind of
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  Speaker 5: mood in the locker room afterwards and just why it
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  Speaker 5: spurred you guys so far and kind of pushed you this.
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  Speaker 8: Far obvisolutely because we know that was a game that
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  Speaker 8: we should have had. We pretty much dominated that whole game.
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  Speaker 8: I say, it's just all about finishing. We came out,
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  Speaker 8: we started playing fast, and that's the thing that we've
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  Speaker 8: been emphasizing the lot on this back half of the year,
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  Speaker 8: especially after we started fast and finishing fast.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of however long it might tell you might be.
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  Speaker 8: We might have to do it all four quarters, sometimes
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  Speaker 8: you might have to do it more than four quarters.
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  Speaker 8: But coming out of that game, you just, like I said,
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  Speaker 8: all the guys, we just want to continuously tell each
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  Speaker 8: other we got to finish, continuously come closer together as
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  Speaker 8: the game goes on, through out the airs and flows
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  Speaker 8: and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: Just stay together.
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  Speaker 8: So, like you said, it definitely sparked us, and I
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  Speaker 8: feel like that was we needed that.
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  Speaker 1: We needed that game.
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  Speaker 5: And then you guys are the top run defense in
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  Speaker 5: the league. But you're able laden games to close it
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  Speaker 5: out with the pass rush, with the coverage. Just kind
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  Speaker 5: of what is that? I remember you said that Camp's
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  Speaker 5: defense is multi defenses. Just how are you guys able
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  Speaker 5: to be so good at both.
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  Speaker 8: It's more so just about going out there and being
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  Speaker 8: able to execute the play that's being caught.
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  Speaker 1: It's never it's never about the play that's.
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  Speaker 8: Being called or it's always about your athletes being in
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  Speaker 8: the position to make those plays. And I feel like
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  Speaker 8: camp he does a great job of whatever he does. Car,
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  Speaker 8: I feel like it's guys on each level that can
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  Speaker 8: step up to the player and make plays whenever it's needed,
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  Speaker 8: whether that's upfront, whether that's on the back end, linebackers,
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  Speaker 8: or whether that's the dB. So I feel like everything
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  Speaker 8: kind of ties in together. And speaking on the run game,
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  Speaker 8: I just feel like everyone buys in. We know we
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  Speaker 8: have to stop the run in order to be able
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  Speaker 8: to get the rest of the passive. So I feel like
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  Speaker 8: we always take take big pride into us winning first down.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like once you win first down, get them
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  Speaker 8: behind the chains a little get them behind the sticks
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  Speaker 8: a little bit. Then we can kind of we kind
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  Speaker 8: of have the upperhand on the defensive side of the
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  Speaker 8: ball as far as if they're going to play pass
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  Speaker 8: the ball right here or if they're going to try
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  Speaker 8: to run or whatever the situation may be.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you a Manute, Mark long San to John Shipley.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Trey, thanks for doing this. That second half finally
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  Speaker 6: looked like yourself, right, your dominant self you specifically, Can
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  Speaker 6: you just take us through what the season's kind of
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  Speaker 6: been like, first with the hand and the club and
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  Speaker 6: trying to play through that, and then with the knee
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  Speaker 6: and the contraption and trying to play through that. Do
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  Speaker 6: you feel like finally you're getting over the hump?
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  Speaker 8: Maybe a little bit, most definitely, it's always it's always
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  Speaker 8: tough when you're dealing with injury, especially like surgery things
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  Speaker 8: that they it's more but for me it's more so
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  Speaker 8: just by standing the course doing whatever the team needs
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  Speaker 8: me to do, whether that's past rush at this moment
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  Speaker 8: or where it stopped to run. For me, like I said,
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  Speaker 8: it's definitely been a challenge, But I also do feel
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  Speaker 8: myself getting a lot healthier as the weeks go on,
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  Speaker 8: and I feel like that's going to play a big
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  Speaker 8: part down the stretch as well.
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  Speaker 6: Was that second half yesterday about as well as you've
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  Speaker 6: played since maybe going back before the thumb the finger?
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  Speaker 8: In my opinion, when I went back and looked at
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  Speaker 8: the game, I felt like I had a lot that
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  Speaker 8: I could go back and do a lot better. But
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  Speaker 8: they feel like I definitely made a couple of big
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  Speaker 8: plays to help the team out.
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  Speaker 1: But like I say, I still like I have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of room to row for me.
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  Speaker 8: I really don't like putting a ceiling on myself saying
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  Speaker 8: this was my best game or that was my best game.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like it's the sky is always a limit
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  Speaker 8: for me, and I'm just trying to keep going, trying
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  Speaker 8: to continue to.
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  Speaker 1: Get healthy as we go on.
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  Speaker 6: And then what about having a home game with this
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  Speaker 6: these kind of stakes where it's you know you can,
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  Speaker 6: you can? It's a hat and T shirt game, right
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  Speaker 6: can win the division with a win Sunday.
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  Speaker 8: Having a home game, especially having a home playoff game, obviously,
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  Speaker 8: we love that.
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  Speaker 1: We really need that.
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  Speaker 8: Just as far as the atmosphere, it's nothing like once
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  Speaker 8: you get into the playoffs, a home game and the.
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  Speaker 1: Crowds just electrifying.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like that's kind of an extra defender or
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  Speaker 8: extra player that we have. The fans and I feel
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  Speaker 8: like that all play a major role, and that would
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  Speaker 8: definitely be lovely to get a home playoff game as well.
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  Speaker 4: Last one, John Shipley, Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Chrevon, thanks for doing this. Steve. The Jaguars put out
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  Speaker 3: the stat Yes, today.
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  Speaker 7: You and Josh hans Allen, like you know, have gotten
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  Speaker 7: I think ten games together where you each have got
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  Speaker 7: him sacked and it's one of the best in franchise
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  Speaker 7: history of past rushing duos. Just what is that relationship
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  Speaker 7: kind of meant to you off the field on the
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  Speaker 7: field working together?
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  Speaker 1: Just what's that been like since you got drafted?
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  Speaker 8: Ever since I've been drafted, Josh, he's been, like I
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  Speaker 8: always say, he's been one of those guys when I
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  Speaker 8: first came in, just teaching me a lot of the
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  Speaker 8: things that because obviously.
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  Speaker 1: He's been in the league longer than I have.
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  Speaker 8: Just teaching me some of the things that he had
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  Speaker 8: to experience throughout his process. And obviously having somebody on
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  Speaker 8: the other side of you, guys willing to compete with
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  Speaker 8: you at practice day in day out, not just on
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  Speaker 8: the field.
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  Speaker 1: Without the field, he wants me to be a better
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  Speaker 1: person as well.
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  Speaker 8: But when it comes to on the field things, we
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  Speaker 8: both have that mindset to where we're not gonna be
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  Speaker 8: our work whether we're working against each other, where we're
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  Speaker 8: working against other our other players and our player that
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  Speaker 8: plays defensive end or whatever. We just always hold each
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  Speaker 8: other to a high standard, and I feel like that's
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  Speaker 8: what really keeps keeps everything flowing how it should. Like
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  Speaker 8: I say that it only can make you better at
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  Speaker 8: the end of the day, once you have guys like
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  Speaker 8: that that can stay on you and push you to
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  Speaker 8: the limit that you need to be pushed and continuously
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  Speaker 8: get yourself better.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Chary, Thank you.