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Press Pass | Doug Pederson Speaks Before Week 2 of OTAs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Did get back though. All right, let's uh let's begin.
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  Speaker 1: Do you expect anybody everybody to be here there or
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  Speaker 1: any missing and excuse? The only one that won't be
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  Speaker 1: here today is Cam. You know, he's he's been been
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  Speaker 1: traveling with the new baby and everything. He's been going
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  Speaker 1: back and forth to Dallas and and spending time there
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  Speaker 1: and and there. Just obviously this time of year there's
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  Speaker 1: weather and flight issues and different things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: So he's the only one that that won't attend today.
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  Speaker 1: Rock Yes, Cam, Yeah, right there you go. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: ask you you aware of the lawsuit filed began about
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Man's kind of getting signed to your reaction, You've
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  Speaker 1: heard about him. I saw the article that came out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously disappointing to hear the news that took place,
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  Speaker 1: you know, other than other than that, honestly being that
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  Speaker 1: it's a you know, a legal matter at this time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, can't really comment until til more information
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  Speaker 1: is is gathered. That's the first first I've heard of
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  Speaker 1: it is you don't want to answer, but it alleges that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this was like some party scene going on on the flight.
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  Speaker 1: I is that? Is that accurate? Or is that not
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  Speaker 1: what that flight lows? Like going on there? I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: a typical flight is not that way. It's a business trip.
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  Speaker 1: It's a business trip, and and that's how we that's
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  Speaker 1: how we approach it from an organizational standpoint, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from the league standpoint. So for that when I read that,
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  Speaker 1: you know that that part of is disappointing those it
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  Speaker 1: was branded released Oh because of performance? Is that any
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with this? Or did any did you
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  Speaker 1: you know why was he released? Well? I I think
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of reasons. One, yeah, performance,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's obviously in this business. You know, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a coach or a player, it's it's performance driven, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Then you start talking about contracts, and in
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  Speaker 1: the amount of contracts and the number of the dollars
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  Speaker 1: and cents to go into it a little bit, the
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  Speaker 1: age of the player. I mean, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that they can factor into and and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you know, yeah, it's a it's a position that
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  Speaker 1: it's a key position. You know, it's critical it it
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  Speaker 1: it's valuable because it gives us as a team points
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  Speaker 1: you know, on on the board or not. And then
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  Speaker 1: if we have an opportunity to you know, draft somebody
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  Speaker 1: you know, looking looking forward. Uh, then then we take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of that. So, you know, I think there's several
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  Speaker 1: factors and and that not just in in this case
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  Speaker 1: and Brandon's case, but I think that's the same way
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  Speaker 1: with any position that we look at the time you
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  Speaker 1: released made that decision, you didn't you guys didn't know
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  Speaker 1: anything about this or none of this? No, no, right, right?
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  Speaker 1: That is being done on like that flight to London,
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  Speaker 1: or is staff separate from players or yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna get into a ton of those questions,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right now until again more information, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we sit down. I'll just just maybe a brief comment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we do sit down, and and we want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that you know, the players are together
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  Speaker 1: and the coaches together, staffs together and and things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature, and everybody's comfortable and has you know, has space.
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  Speaker 1: Mac Jones that you've spent a little bit of time
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  Speaker 1: for him here in Jacksonville's traded for him. What what
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  Speaker 1: is your encounter with mac ben so far? And uh,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about it? As a player, He's uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's the ultimate pro he's done a great job since
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  Speaker 1: he's been here, you know, spending time you know, studying
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  Speaker 1: the offense, Uh, getting getting caught up you know in
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  Speaker 1: the offense. You know, you can see why. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know I liked him coming out of college. You know,
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  Speaker 1: uh when when looking at quarterbacks back then, and and
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  Speaker 1: uh we're excited to have him. It's uh he gives
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  Speaker 1: us a great room. You know, he and c J
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  Speaker 1: as as kind of you know, competing in that in
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  Speaker 1: that role. And he's done a nice job. He throws
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  Speaker 1: a really good ball. He's smart, he's he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh eccentric, He's can be a little quirky at times.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you you see him out there on the
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  Speaker 1: field doing some different things. But but that's the joy
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  Speaker 1: and the fun. I think that he wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: back to a little bit and and he's done a
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  Speaker 1: he's done a great job for us getting some of
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  Speaker 1: the pressure off a guy. I mean for him coming home.
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  Speaker 1: I mean kind of set a guy for you to
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  Speaker 1: where they can develop to where people thought that he'd be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it can. I think, Uh, change of scenery
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  Speaker 1: sometimes is good you know, for players, for coaches and uh,
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  Speaker 1: for him to get back here around family, you know, friends,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh has been has been good for him,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I think he's embraced it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: since he's been here. You Mike go, Uh was the
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  Speaker 1: search for a new DC Is it like a blank
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  Speaker 1: canvas for you? Or did you kind of have Ryan
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  Speaker 1: and my It was kind of both. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: was a blank canvas from the standpoint of you know
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  Speaker 1: how you know, obviously knowing the defensive personnel and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the way I think the way the league
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  Speaker 1: has We're spending so much time with Ford. You can
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  Speaker 1: call yourself a base three four defense, but you're really
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  Speaker 1: a you know, a four down front because of the
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  Speaker 1: so much you know, Nickel offense and Nickel defense. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's on the field. And and so for me, it
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  Speaker 1: was finding the right fit, the right person. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan was in Atlanta and and you know, unfortunately Arthur
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  Speaker 1: Smith was let go and and so he was he
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  Speaker 1: was a candidate that was available and and definitely had
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  Speaker 1: peaked my interest based on you know, his career where
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  Speaker 1: he had been who had worked with and four and
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  Speaker 1: coach Peyton in New Orleans and coaching the D line
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we feel like that's a rank of ours,
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously here and so he was somebody that
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk to. Okay, So was it about the
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  Speaker 1: scheme that he might bring or is it just the
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  Speaker 1: idea that he might bring out whatever potential you had
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  Speaker 1: on your roster. He was going to bring it out
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  Speaker 1: both both because if you look at where he was
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans and the title, the the where they
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  Speaker 1: ranked defensively when he was there, and then when you
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  Speaker 1: look at what he did in Atlanta, the quick turnaround
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  Speaker 1: defensively he did in Atlanta. Yeah, then you say, scheme right,
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  Speaker 1: But your scheme only works if you got the right
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  Speaker 1: guys right and you got the right players. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that was also enticing for Ryan to come here
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  Speaker 1: to Jacksonville as well because of the type of players
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  Speaker 1: that we had that would fit his scheme. I know,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan last week wouldn't really comment on some of the
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  Speaker 1: younger guys, especially on the secondary because he said he's
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  Speaker 1: trying them at that nickel spot on the outside. Like
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  Speaker 1: you said, you knew the personnel here and you felt
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  Speaker 1: there was a match particularly, you know, was it the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he runs more dime, more quarters? Was it
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  Speaker 1: because you have young guys like Antonio Johnson, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Christian braswell Buster Browns of the world. Was there
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  Speaker 1: like a specific point of emphasis that you said, this
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  Speaker 1: is a match you know, obviously you know youth helps,
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  Speaker 1: but I think the fact that when you when you,
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  Speaker 1: when I talked to Ryan, and when I talked to
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  Speaker 1: and interviewed all the different candidates, that we did the
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  Speaker 1: development right, the development of our of our roster and
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  Speaker 1: everybody on the roster was something that was intriguing to me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And that's that's something that we needed to
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  Speaker 1: we needed to address, we needed to fix. And that's
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  Speaker 1: not just on that side of the ball. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: offense as well. And so I think listening to these candidates,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these coordinators talk about the development and what
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  Speaker 1: they do, what they can do with young players and
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  Speaker 1: how they can get them to perform again, is very
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  Speaker 1: intriguing and very sort of the align the alignment for me,
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  Speaker 1: and and it's no different than you know, myself being
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  Speaker 1: able to develop quarterbacks, being around quarterbacks and and things
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  Speaker 1: of that nature. So that part of it, I think
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  Speaker 1: the development aspect of it was the biggest, the biggest
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  Speaker 1: key for me, you actually talked to by the way
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  Speaker 1: from aspect, I mean, it was it eight or six
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  Speaker 1: or eight, you know, something like that. Don't quote me
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  Speaker 1: on that. At least a half dozen let's call it
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  Speaker 1: half a dozen the bakers and what he went through
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  Speaker 1: last year where you have seen the most role not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily like physical. Yeah, no, physical we know about we
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  Speaker 1: gotta we gotta keep him healthy. But you know, mentally,
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  Speaker 1: I think the number one. I think the way he
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  Speaker 1: leads this football team. You know, he's becoming, uh, the
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  Speaker 1: vocal leader in the locker room, on the field, in meetings,
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  Speaker 1: he's engaging. You know, when we got him three years ago,
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  Speaker 1: he was just learning our system and kind of quiet
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  Speaker 1: and just trying to go through you know, uh themotions,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of of just trying to adapt to
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  Speaker 1: us and get a feel for us. But now he's now,
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  Speaker 1: he's engaging. Now he's given us ideas. Now he's given
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  Speaker 1: us suggestions and ideas and and and really becoming another
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  Speaker 1: you know, a coach, a set of eyes you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the field and that and that's that's just his growth,
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  Speaker 1: that's just his development as quarterback and and and not
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  Speaker 1: changing a lot, you know, schematically and and keep you know,
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  Speaker 1: repetition goes a long way, and and utilizing that repetition
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  Speaker 1: to benefit you know, your football team. And that's where
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  Speaker 1: that's where Trevor's really taken. I think the next step,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for us now it's got to translate on
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  Speaker 1: the field, right and into wins and losses and in
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns versus i's and stuff like that. But that's where
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the biggest growth I think in the in
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  Speaker 1: the few years that we've been together. Take is he
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  Speaker 1: behind stand all that and what you hoped or what
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  Speaker 1: it normally takes? No, I mean, look, it's I learned
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  Speaker 1: this back when I went to Green Bay as a
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  Speaker 1: player under Mike Hongrin. He always he always taught us
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  Speaker 1: you know that it takes three to four years. It
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  Speaker 1: takes that time to develop into into the quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: you you want to become or you you want for
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  Speaker 1: your team. And it's just not an it's not an overnight,
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  Speaker 1: overnight deal. It's not a plug and play deal. You know.
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  Speaker 1: And and some teams, you know, some guys are going
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  Speaker 1: to have success, but but there is that just understanding
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  Speaker 1: the game and learning the game and studying the game
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  Speaker 1: and and and so you know, for Trevor, he's now
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  Speaker 1: into that third year with us, and and so that
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  Speaker 1: that part, I think for us, that's the encouraging part
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  Speaker 1: as an offensive staff, especially myself just just now going
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  Speaker 1: into that third year and this is the this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of that jump year that that he can have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, moving forward to what extent has a a
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  Speaker 1: kicking competition? What are you able to do between Cam
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  Speaker 1: and Riley and kind of where does that stand right now? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I y you we're giving him equal opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the field, each one you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: when we have kicking days, they're getting equal equal shots,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's the field goals or kickoffs, things of that nature. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's yes, it's competition, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're getting everybody some work and seeing you know,
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  Speaker 1: seeing where they where they are. Both guys have done
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  Speaker 1: a great job, you know Cam Cam obviously is still
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're still learning him and what he can do.
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  Speaker 1: But but he's he's got some leg talent and so
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  Speaker 1: does Riley and uh, it's it'll be interesting once we
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  Speaker 1: get into camp to see where it's where it plays out.
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  Speaker 1: And is still kind of have the accuracy that he
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  Speaker 1: always has at this point it happens accuracy, Yeah, does
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  Speaker 1: he look he looks great? Yeah, I mean he looks good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's making all I mean, they make some,
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  Speaker 1: they miss some, you know, not so worried about in May,
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  Speaker 1: but in September and October becomes an issue. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing a nice job. Good. Where do you see
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  Speaker 1: them if you as the coaches at it, but you
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  Speaker 1: see more of the line decision making, was the play
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  Speaker 1: stars and everything. It's kind of all of it. Decision making,
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  Speaker 1: balls coming out of his hand, faster, quicker decisions, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all that part of it. Accuracy, the timing, things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature, you know. D and and again just the
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  Speaker 1: dialogue we're having out there as as maybe CJ and
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  Speaker 1: Mack are taking their rep. You know, he's back there
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  Speaker 1: talking to myself or Press Mike and just always engaging,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And that's that's what you want to see
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  Speaker 1: out of out of your own quarterback. Where the NFLPA
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  Speaker 1: is proposed tweaking OTA's as early as next year, changing
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  Speaker 1: getting rid of some of the spring stuff, and expanding
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  Speaker 1: training camp. Would you be can you see pros and
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  Speaker 1: cons of that. Would you in favor of that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just to see how in the direction they wanna
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  Speaker 1: they wanna go. You know, the off season is great
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  Speaker 1: to kind of build a foundation, you know, and really
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  Speaker 1: see your young players. And it goes back to the
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  Speaker 1: developmental piece, you know, of your young guys, and this
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  Speaker 1: is where this is the time where you want to
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  Speaker 1: start that foundation. You know, the players probably wouldn't like
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  Speaker 1: training camp, you know, being extended, but it's long. It's
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  Speaker 1: long enough as it is, you know. But look, anything
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  Speaker 1: that we do, if it helps the game, and if
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  Speaker 1: it helps better the game, and it's moving the game forward,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for that forward. For the fans. For the players, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's more exposure, it's more opportunities. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's more money, you know, and so yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I think that's it's moving it forward. I think
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  Speaker 1: there would be some a lot of dialogue around that,
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  Speaker 1: but it definitely definitely headed in the right direction. Don't
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  Speaker 1: give your time for a couple of months you're working.
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  Speaker 1: Gave Davis back a little bit, but do you expect
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  Speaker 1: to see him out a little more the next three
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  Speaker 1: weeks or you're gonna hold him off until training camp. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna go slow with him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he worked in last week, He's gonna work in some
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  Speaker 1: more today. Just kind of keeping him out of the
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  Speaker 1: team stuff at this at this juncture, just I just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get tangled up or you know, something
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  Speaker 1: to happen out there. But it's a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: individual stuff. You know, he's getting a lot of work
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  Speaker 1: with Trevor right now, which is good. So we're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna go go slow with that one, Eric and then
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  Speaker 1: also I know Roy was also working on Yes, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're working off to the side. Just don't want any setbacks.
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  Speaker 1: It's early, and you know, these are veteran guys that
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  Speaker 1: know how to play, know how to work. Other than
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  Speaker 1: you know, probably Gabe getting some timing with with Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're just gonna pump the brakes. And boy
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  Speaker 1: had the non contact penny on last week. Was that
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  Speaker 1: from something during the off season in his wrist? You know,
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  Speaker 1: he had the off season deal with his wrist. So yeah,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: what would you like to see from tank fixty into
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  Speaker 1: his uh second year? How would you like him to
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  Speaker 1: evolve his running back now? Got it in. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you this, Tank's done a great job going into your two.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Tanks a smart player, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: I think for him now is just understanding what he
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  Speaker 1: is seeing and particularly in the run game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: anticipating where the hole is going to be. Maybe anticipating,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because it's like a movie screen, right and
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  Speaker 1: that movie screen is constantly moving and it's changing, and
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  Speaker 1: and so for him it's been able to see that
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  Speaker 1: and react and then again you know, kick off return
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  Speaker 1: getting it back that you saw late in the season
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  Speaker 1: last year, we had him back there on some returns
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  Speaker 1: and he did a nice job there. And keep keep
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  Speaker 1: that growth and development going with him. But he's he's
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  Speaker 1: done a really nice job. He's a he's a hard worker.
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  Speaker 1: He practices extremely fast, which I love, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: eager to get get the pads on and see what
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  Speaker 1: he can do. It's on the guardian caps and the
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  Speaker 1: push or safety in that regard. I think the guardian
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  Speaker 1: caps are a good addition, especially in training camp when
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  Speaker 1: we're in pads. It does protect against you know, the
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  Speaker 1: head concussions and things like that and has reduced you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of those some of those injuries, you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, proposing that that they can use them in
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  Speaker 1: games and and things of that nature. I think it's
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: it's a player preference at that point. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what that would necessarily look like on a
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  Speaker 1: player in game. But look, it's it's all about player safety.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one thing that the league has been big on,
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  Speaker 1: and we've been big on, you know, supporting that. And
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have a league if you don't have players.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to keep our players healthy and and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a big part of it.