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Preparing for Season Opener | Week in Review: September 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The Jaguars visit the Indianapolis Colts in Week one. Quarterback
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence has weapons all over the field, but he
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Speaker 1: isn't worried about receivers clamoring for touches.
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Speaker 2: That's big. I think it takes a lot of pressure
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Speaker 2: off me. You know, that's one less thing to worry about,
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Speaker 2: because that is a that's a real thing. You know guys,
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Speaker 2: and you know certain teams and positions that you know
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Speaker 2: they want, not that they're not that they don't care
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Speaker 2: about winning, but they're they also really care about, you know,
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Speaker 2: getting there, getting their touches, getting the ball, getting their stats.
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Speaker 2: And of course we all wanna we all want to
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Speaker 2: have good stats and we want to play well. Like
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Speaker 2: that's I'd be ideal you do that in win the game.
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Speaker 2: But when we're talking about guys like you should always
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Speaker 2: if you win the game, doesn't really matter what your
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Speaker 2: stat line is, even if you have one catch, no catches.
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Speaker 2: If I you know, threw a pick through two picks
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Speaker 2: and we win. Obviously, I'm not gonna be happy with
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Speaker 2: my performance, but I'm gonna celebrate with the team. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna be happy we won the game. That's what this
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Speaker 2: league's about. It's hard to win. So when you find
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Speaker 2: ways to win, you know, that's That's the cool thing
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Speaker 2: about our team is we enjoy it. You know, we
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Speaker 2: we understand that it's hard to win, and we have
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Speaker 2: that perspective of it's not really about personal stats individual stats,
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Speaker 2: it's about the team and you know, but with that,
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Speaker 2: you know, guys take pride in their performance. So I
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Speaker 2: think there's a fine line. You don't wanna you're not
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Speaker 2: happy with, uh, you know, mediocrity, like you wanna play
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Speaker 2: well and you wanna put your best stuff out there.
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Speaker 2: But there's a fine line, for sure.
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Speaker 3: You said earlier that it doesn't matter at what everybody
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Speaker 3: else thinks about or what the outside perceptions are. What
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Speaker 3: have you?
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Speaker 4: So do you do you?
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Speaker 5: Is there not any kind of feeling in the locker room?
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Speaker 5: Obviously the Jiggers are getting a lot of good positive
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Speaker 5: attention here in the preseason.
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Speaker 1: W y would you almost rather not?
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Speaker 5: Would you rather be under the radar instead of having
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Speaker 5: people acknowledge you hate the Jags.
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Speaker 6: This is a this is a super Bowl contending team.
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Speaker 2: I don't really care, to be honest, you know, I
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Speaker 2: think it's I think it's more dangerous to have people
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Speaker 2: praising you than than to not have any expectations. But
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Speaker 2: with the group we have, I it doesn't worry me
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Speaker 2: at all. I mean, I think we we know how
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Speaker 2: to work, come to work every day with the same mindset.
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Speaker 2: But that's the biggest thing. Is that's why I don't
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Speaker 2: really Everyone always asks about expectations and how you deal
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Speaker 2: with them, Like you don't really deal with them, You
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Speaker 2: just don't listen to them. Like, what doesn't matter what
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Speaker 2: you know? This guy said over here. He's not in
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Speaker 2: our locker room. He's not a part of our team.
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Speaker 2: And even if he said something good, we go out
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Speaker 2: and lose Sunday, everyone's going be like, oh, I told
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Speaker 2: you they weren't gonna be in agains. It doesn't really matter,
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Speaker 2: you know what people say or you know, so we
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Speaker 2: just have to keep our ship tight. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing that coach has done a good
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Speaker 2: job of is is making sure we do that and
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Speaker 2: and managing all those expectations, cause that's just it's they're
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Speaker 2: not real. It's not a real thing.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: We have to go play every Sunday and put our
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Speaker 2: best foot forward. And you can't do that if you're
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Speaker 2: listening to what other people are saying.
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Speaker 1: What's the challenge of facing a defense week one, the
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Speaker 1: same coordinator, maybe some new players out there.
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Speaker 4: For the coach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely some challenges, you know, facing these teams
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Speaker 2: in the first two, three, four weeks of the season
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Speaker 2: when there's not much tape out there and it's I'd
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Speaker 2: say it's more challenging when it's a new coordinator and
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Speaker 2: everything's changed, that's definitely more challenging. And but same here
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Speaker 2: with this with this team. You got a lot of
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Speaker 2: new players and there's a little bit of preseason film,
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Speaker 2: but you never know if that's what they're gonna do
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Speaker 2: or they gonna do more, do they show something they're
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Speaker 2: not gonna do, Like who knows, and you got you
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Speaker 2: gotta go play the game. But I think obviously with
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Speaker 2: this coordinator, coach Bradley, he's done a great job and
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Speaker 2: all the places he's been, you know, he does what
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Speaker 2: he does. He has his system, and of course he's
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Speaker 2: gonna have I'm sure some wrinkles and some new stuff
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Speaker 2: being a division opponent, especially when we played him twice
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Speaker 2: last year. But they're a really disciplined group. They do
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Speaker 2: what they do, they do it well. You know, that's
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Speaker 2: kind of where he he makes his money is by
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Speaker 2: doing that. And the guys are really well coached. They're
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Speaker 2: in the right spot. So even if it's one of
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Speaker 2: those things like even if you know what they're doing,
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Speaker 2: you still got to go beat them, and vice versa.
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Speaker 2: If they know what we're doing, they still have to
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Speaker 2: cover rest of stuff to do all that. So I
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Speaker 2: think that's how the game's played too. There's you know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes not as much trickery as you might think. Obviously
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Speaker 2: you're going to have some plans and some secrets, some
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Speaker 2: stuff up your sleeve. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: you know, you coach your guys to do something and
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Speaker 2: to you know, play assignment football, and they do a
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Speaker 2: really good job of that, So we got to go
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Speaker 2: beat them.
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Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator Press Taylor this week discuss the character they
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Speaker 1: look for in players and much more.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's one of the things we've talked about in
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Speaker 7: front of our guys. We talked about as the staff,
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Speaker 7: but we talk about it to our guys. We believe
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Speaker 7: that character is a competitive advantage. We have guys that
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Speaker 7: have high character. We have guys that have high football
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Speaker 7: character as well, and that our guys love to prepare.
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Speaker 7: If they love being in meetings, they love meeting on
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Speaker 7: their own, they love practicing, and so we think that
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Speaker 7: gives us, in a league of parody, some of an
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Speaker 7: advantage of we know how these guys preparing what they do,
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Speaker 7: so we've invested in that, and we spend money to
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Speaker 7: bring in guys. We spend time to research these guys character,
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Speaker 7: like we were talking about with Tank earlier, to research
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Speaker 7: their football character, their personal character, because we feel like
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Speaker 7: that adds to our building as a whole, of the
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Speaker 7: energy in the room, the energy and the building, and
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Speaker 7: then the way these guys approach in the preparation they
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Speaker 7: put in to get ready to play on a Sunday.
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Speaker 4: We love a good comeback story. But how do you
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Speaker 4: build early leads this year?
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Speaker 7: Having to if you score early and they don't you
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Speaker 7: build early leads? No, I mean you always go out
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Speaker 7: every drive you're thinking you're going to score. So that's
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Speaker 7: certainly a big part of it. Now, last year we
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Speaker 7: felt like there were times we could move the ball
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Speaker 7: early and we turn the ball over. That happened through
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Speaker 7: the preseason as well. I mean our starters had two
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Speaker 7: drives to start the preseason. We turn the ball over
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Speaker 7: on both of them if through an interception, we fumbled
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Speaker 7: at the one. Now they built the confidence that we
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Speaker 7: move the ball down to the one yard line, But
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Speaker 7: we obviously want to finish with points and so that's
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Speaker 7: a big part of it. But really it's just understanding
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Speaker 7: our plan, who's doing what, making sure we have the
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Speaker 7: right plays, making sure everybody is prepared for the moment
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Speaker 7: and as confident as possible in executing their job at
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Speaker 7: a high level. There's no secret, Sauce. I think every
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Speaker 7: team tries to go out and score early is generally
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Speaker 7: the ultimate goal.
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Speaker 2: Anton Garrison's about to make his first start.
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Speaker 1: How did you see him develop over the course of
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Speaker 1: training camp?
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Speaker 7: And that pat really to people on similar to all
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Speaker 7: our young guys. You just saw him get better every day.
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Speaker 7: Obviously he dealt with the shoulder injury early on and
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Speaker 7: missed some days here and there, but he's really taken
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Speaker 7: to Phil's coaching the guys around him, buying into the
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Speaker 7: room and the culture of the offensive line room has itself,
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Speaker 7: and it's got to bring some comfort to him. Know
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Speaker 7: when you're standing there next to brand Sheriff and you
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Speaker 7: know the comfort of the communication from the guy next
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Speaker 7: to you and relying on a guy to do his
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Speaker 7: job so you know you can do your job. There's
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Speaker 7: not there shouldn't be any doubt in Anton's mind about
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Speaker 7: the guy next to him knowing his job, doing his
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Speaker 7: job at a high level. So you know, we just
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Speaker 7: want Anton to go out and play and do what
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Speaker 7: we think he's capable of doing.
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Speaker 1: Earlier in the week, Wide receiver Christian Kirk explained how
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Speaker 1: different this Jaguars offense could be.
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Speaker 8: I would say there's some similarities, but it's different in
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Speaker 8: a sense of just the way that we operate. You
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Speaker 8: just feel the efficiency, the effectiveness and everybody's on the
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Speaker 8: same play, on the same page. Kind of talked about
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Speaker 8: it a lot, you know, this offseason of being able
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Speaker 8: to see, you know, tons of different looks and reps
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Speaker 8: and being able to get time on task, having a full,
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Speaker 8: you know season in this in this system. You know
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Speaker 8: you coming now and it's kind of like you know
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Speaker 8: it like the back of your hand. You know, you
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Speaker 8: know what you can get, you know what works and
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Speaker 8: what doesn't work, and you know what you know we're
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Speaker 8: trying to accomplish on each and every play. You know,
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Speaker 8: that's a big part. You know, you may have a
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Speaker 8: route and a concept that you may think is you know,
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Speaker 8: a route that you know you're trying to get somebody
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Speaker 8: else open, or you know you're trying to do you know,
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Speaker 8: one thing, but it really has a great impact on
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Speaker 8: what you're you're trying to accomplish. So I think for
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Speaker 8: all of us, we got more of a grasp on
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Speaker 8: what we like to do and what we're good at.
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Speaker 4: Some high expectations for the team this year. How did
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Speaker 4: those feel at the end.
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Speaker 5: Of the year.
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Speaker 8: You know, I think for us, and you know, my
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Speaker 8: mentality behind it is we have to block all that out,
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Speaker 8: you know. And now that's the difference is now there
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Speaker 8: are expectations for us. Last year, there wasn't any expectation
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Speaker 8: and so you know, people kind of started raising eyebrows
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Speaker 8: when we were winning games last year. Now people are
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Speaker 8: just gonna expect us to do that. So so for us,
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Speaker 8: it's just going out there and you know, playing to
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Speaker 8: our standard and playing to you know, our ability and
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Speaker 8: just taking it one week at a time, you know,
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Speaker 8: not being able to lose that edge and lose you
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Speaker 8: know what got us to where we were last year.
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Speaker 1: And wide receiver Calvin Ridley thinks they're going to be strong.
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Speaker 9: Me personally, I think this offense is pretty good.
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Speaker 1: I'll just be honest.
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Speaker 9: We got a lot of great playmakers at every decision.
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Speaker 9: To me, I think it's just about believing and coming
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Speaker 9: together each week and practicing well with each other and
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Speaker 9: being more tight as a group friends just to have
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Speaker 9: each other's back, and just to make those extra plays,
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Speaker 9: being a stand in the moment.
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Speaker 1: But like I said, I think it's just us.
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Speaker 9: Getting on that field, just keep practicing, keep playing, and
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Speaker 9: I think it's gonna come to be something really nice
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Speaker 9: towards the end.
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Speaker 1: Now the defense, middle linebacker Fourier Luika knows the continuity
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Speaker 1: of the Jags defense will be big for them.
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Speaker 10: What to expect out of specific calls that we have,
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Speaker 10: being able to play off of each other and already
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Speaker 10: knowing where my boy is. You know, even if I
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Speaker 10: might be dropping this way, you know, my help might
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Speaker 10: be to my left or something. Just knowing where all
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Speaker 10: the pieces fit on the field. I think it's gonna
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Speaker 10: be huge, and then you know, hurry up. Obviously being
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Speaker 10: able to communicate with each each other on the field,
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Speaker 10: already knowing what to expect from each other out there,
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Speaker 10: just being able to play faster when we see a
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Speaker 10: look what's the I.
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Speaker 4: Guess chess match. Like when you're going against a rookie quarterback.
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Speaker 4: A lot of people talk about defenses being able to
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Speaker 4: kind of take advantage of that. Do you look at
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Speaker 4: it that way where you've got a guy who's still learning,
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Speaker 4: I guess the NFL game.
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Speaker 10: I'm sure as the game goes on, or you know,
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Speaker 10: as the coaches scout him, we'll kind of try to
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Speaker 10: see what a flaw might be. A lot of times
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Speaker 10: you get a rookie guy he's confusion with looks. Maybe
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Speaker 10: bring some pressure from opposite where it looks like it's coming.
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Speaker 10: See if you can pick up on that. Obviously as
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Speaker 10: great talent running the ball as well, you know, a
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Speaker 10: strong arm as well, So we'll see how the how
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Speaker 10: to combat that is the game goes on or going
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Speaker 10: into the game, but we got to see, you know,
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Speaker 10: kind of through film study, kind of through experience. As
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Speaker 10: the game goes, you know what we can attack them with.
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Speaker 4: Let the league in tackles back to back years. You're
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Speaker 4: trying to repeat that.
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Speaker 11: I'm trying to win.
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Speaker 10: As many games as possible. You know, if the ball
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Speaker 10: leaks out or if I'm in my gap and stuff,
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Speaker 10: you know, I make those tackles and I want to
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Speaker 10: make more. Obviously, I want to not miss tackles. I
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Speaker 10: want to make plays in the ball. I want to
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Speaker 10: just win games. Do whatever it takes to win games.
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Speaker 10: And you know, if God lets me be around the
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Speaker 10: ball for tackles down, that's how that goes. But having
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Speaker 10: a goal to lead the league in tackles, it's really
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Speaker 10: just effort to getting to the ball as much as
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Speaker 10: possible when when, when it's required.
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Speaker 1: Let's rewind nout to Monday afternoon on Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: Radio Pete Prisco, Tony Bisselli and I looked at plans
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Speaker 1: to slow down Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson. They'll have a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a test here week one with the
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Speaker 1: mobility at least of Anthony Richardson. And I guess the
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Speaker 1: challenge this week is keeping him contained and you know,
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Speaker 1: forcing him to stand in there and make throws down
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Speaker 1: the field. I mean that that would be advantageous for
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Speaker 1: the back end of the Jaguars defense, I would guess, right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, But it's also how are they gonna use him?
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Speaker 5: I mean, are they gonna gimmick the whole offense up
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Speaker 5: form or they gonna allow him to drop back and
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Speaker 5: throw the football. That's the unknown with him. I would
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Speaker 5: imagine they're gonna use him in the way they use
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Speaker 5: Hurts in Philadelphia. But again, when you're a pass rusher
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Speaker 5: in this that style, Tony, you have to be a
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Speaker 5: lot more disciplined in your rush up the field or
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Speaker 5: else you could have problems.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you got to keep your lanes. You
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Speaker 6: gotta have your rush lanes. You hear a lot of
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Speaker 6: teams talk about kind of a mush rush where you're
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Speaker 6: just kind of forcing him to stay in the pocket
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Speaker 6: and operate from the pocket, and.
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Speaker 1: Jackson a mush rush all last year.
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Speaker 5: I don't think they want to do that again this year.
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Speaker 6: That's not very nice, but I do think. I mean, listen,
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Speaker 6: he's an athletic, big strong kid, big arm. If anything.
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Speaker 6: The question about him is his accuracy. You saw that
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Speaker 6: at Florida is limited time there. I think a great
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Speaker 6: comparison is Josh Allen. And I think what you saw
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Speaker 6: in Josh Allen early in his career because he was
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Speaker 6: inaccurate at Wyoming, but it had all the tools and
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Speaker 6: it took him time to get comfortable and reading defenses,
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Speaker 6: and because remember Pete, how inaccurate.
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Speaker 13: He was early, but he really was, you know what.
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Speaker 5: That was a perception of him at Wyoming. And I
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Speaker 5: went back and I remember I went back and watched
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Speaker 5: all his games on tape and and one thing he
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Speaker 5: had passed his donkin off guy's faces in hand. He
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Speaker 5: had terrible players at Wyoming. It was different, not that
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Speaker 5: not that Richardson, that talented star.
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Speaker 11: But it's not like it's a little different.
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Speaker 5: It's a little different.
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Speaker 1: But I get your point.
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Speaker 6: It's a good comparable. But all reports out of Indy
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Speaker 6: and this is the word coming out of Florida. He's
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Speaker 6: a great kid, smart but you know, loves ball like
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Speaker 6: Jim Ratt and so he's gonna figure it out. I
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Speaker 6: think he's going to be a good player. And I
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Speaker 6: think the question is is how do they utilize him
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Speaker 6: early to kind of get his feet wet and make
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Speaker 6: sure he's comfortable. I think it's going to be what
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Speaker 6: you said, Pete, a lot of Jalen hurts. I think
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Speaker 6: you're going to see read options. I think you're going
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Speaker 6: to see a lot of you know, movement of the pocket.
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Speaker 6: I think they're asked to be use his legs when
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Speaker 6: he can, and that creates a problem for a defense
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Speaker 6: when you're that athletic, when you're that talented, and it
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Speaker 6: changes how you rush, it changes you know, what you
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Speaker 6: want to do defensively, how aggressive you can be. I mean, heck,
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Speaker 6: you play any man coverage and go after him and
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Speaker 6: you miss him. He's off to the races and there's
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Speaker 6: no one to go get him, and so I would
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Speaker 6: expect a lot of zone for time.
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Speaker 5: Do you spy him on third down passes that I don't?
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Speaker 6: I don't think so, Pete. Now, if you're going to
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Speaker 6: play zone, right, you know, I think you know, I
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Speaker 6: think I think you can play goods zone coverage.
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Speaker 5: For they doesn't actually have receivers that scare you if
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Speaker 5: you did match up with him and mand Man either though.
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Speaker 6: No, but I think man man the danger with man
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Speaker 6: man to ther back, you bet you better have someone
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Speaker 6: allocated for him then because if he breaks container or
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Speaker 6: gets out of that rush, see you later.
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Speaker 5: I think this is where Devin Lloyd's speed and his
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Speaker 5: ability to be a better player than he was a
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Speaker 5: year ago and understand the concepts of the defense will
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Speaker 5: be and play big in this game. I think that's
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Speaker 5: just me.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Airs Monday four to six pm on ten to
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Speaker 1: On The Doug Peterson Show Thursday night, how to craft
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Speaker 1: a game plan with so many weapons at the coach's disposal,
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Speaker 1: but also the defensive topic of the week, how to
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Speaker 1: defend the Colts quarterback.
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Speaker 14: You mentioned earlier about watching what he did in college,
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Speaker 14: you watch what they did in Philadelphia, and you watch
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Speaker 14: what you can in the preseason. I'm sure it's gonna
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Speaker 14: be a little stressful to figure out what they're gonna
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Speaker 14: do offensively. But the one thing that is for certain
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Speaker 14: you're gonna see that RPO kind of offense is that
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Speaker 14: one of the most challenging offenses that linebackers face on
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Speaker 14: a day in day out basis. I mean, I never
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Speaker 14: had to face out when I was playing linebacker, but
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Speaker 14: I can't imagine is it a run. Is a quarterback
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Speaker 14: going to keep it or is he gonna pull it
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Speaker 14: back out and throw.
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Speaker 1: The football right?
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Speaker 13: It is a challenge, you know, it takes a lot
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Speaker 13: of discipline, a lot of eye discipline. You know, our
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Speaker 13: RPO game, when we do it with Trevor and our guys,
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Speaker 13: I mean, the defense can't be right. You know, the
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Speaker 13: linebacker is going to try to make a play. Well,
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Speaker 13: then he's out of his gap and we throw it
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Speaker 13: in behind him, or he wants to stay in his gap. Well,
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Speaker 13: now they're one man removed on defense. So what opens
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Speaker 13: up a running lane and you kind of block him
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Speaker 13: without blocking him, you know, so to speak. And so
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Speaker 13: it's a it's a challenge for your linebackers. It's a challenge,
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Speaker 13: and they got to stay completely disciplined. And then once
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Speaker 13: they may key, once they diagnose, they have to run
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Speaker 13: and react and then they got to be good tacklers,
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Speaker 13: you know, and to get the ball carrier on the
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Speaker 13: ground and or the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: It's the Doug Peterson Show, the first one of the
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Speaker 1: regular season. All right, let's turn it around. You mentioned
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars offense and all the weaponry that's out there
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Speaker 1: for you. I mean it's week one, It's like Christmas Day.
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Speaker 1: What do you pick out from the tree first? How
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Speaker 1: do you how do you narrow it down for a
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Speaker 1: game plan in week one?
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Speaker 13: You know, the thing that I've been really impressed with
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Speaker 13: our guys and there is talent on offense, is they're
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Speaker 13: they're very unselfish, they're very team oriented players. It doesn't
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Speaker 13: really matter whoever whoever's gonna have the hot hand is
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Speaker 13: going to have the hot hand. It could be Christian
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Speaker 13: for six or seven catches, could be Evan and maybe
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Speaker 13: it's Calvin, maybe it's a maybe it's Etn Jamal, whoever
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Speaker 13: it is, and you continue to continue to feed that
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Speaker 13: hot hand. I think the one thing as coaches and
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Speaker 13: play callers, you can't get caught up into saying, Okay,
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Speaker 13: I've got to get all our guys this many targets,
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Speaker 13: this many touches. That's not the way the game is played,
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Speaker 13: and we ask our quarterback to do the right thing
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Speaker 13: with the football. So it's exciting to have weapons available
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Speaker 13: to you, but it's also you got to stay within
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Speaker 13: the game plan and the framework of team right to
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Speaker 13: be able to get a win and go on the
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Speaker 13: road and do that.
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Speaker 1: The Doug Peterson Show here Thursday is at five o'clock
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Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Radio Network, with the call of the
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Speaker 1: game Sunday on Fox Sports, it's play by play man
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Speaker 1: Kenny Albert. The NFL on Fox is celebrating its thirtieth
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Speaker 1: season this year, and Albert is the only game announcer
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Speaker 1: to be on the air for all thirty seasons on Fox.
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Speaker 1: He knows the Jaguars are trending.
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Speaker 11: Upward, absolutely, and it's sort of reminiscent. I remember doing
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Speaker 11: a couple of games early on around ninety five, ninety six,
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Speaker 11: ninety seven, when the Jaguars first came into the league,
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Speaker 11: and I specifically remember a game I'm pretty sure it
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Speaker 11: was ninety five, meeting with Tom Coughlin for the first time,
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Speaker 11: and then the next year they have the great success
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Speaker 11: in the playoffs, as did Carolina. The two expansion teams
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Speaker 11: from ninety five. So I've always been a big fan
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Speaker 11: of Doug. Peterson did many Eagles games during his tenure there,
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Speaker 11: and he's done a terrific job in Jacksonville watching the
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Speaker 11: progression of Trevor Lawrence and the entire team. Haven't worked
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Speaker 11: a game, like I said, since twenty eighteen involving the Jaguars,
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Speaker 11: but watched the playoff games last year in preparing for
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Speaker 11: this game. Very excited to sit down with Doug and
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Speaker 11: Trevor and a couple of the others on Saturday and
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Speaker 11: then call the game on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Kitty Albert, NFL on Fox with US Jaguars Colts coming up. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know what helps the head coach has great success
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Speaker 1: as a franchise quarterback, and they seem to have one
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Speaker 1: here in Jacksonville. And Trevor Lawrence and we all know
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Speaker 1: what happened his rookie season and not an ideal start
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Speaker 1: for him, but a reset last year and about halfway
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Speaker 1: through he really started to figure it out. But that
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Speaker 1: growth can continue. Now everybody's back. This is this is
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Speaker 1: a rare moment that everybody almost is back from an
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Speaker 1: offense and a defense for that matter, from last season
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Speaker 1: before all the contract things happened in the next year
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Speaker 1: or two, and that can help the quarterback continue to grow.
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Speaker 1: But what can that growth do. Yeah, for the football team,
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Speaker 1: but for the organization as a whole.
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Speaker 11: You're right jp that continuity having just about every starter
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Speaker 11: back is huge. You know, we've seen teams that have
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Speaker 11: had success in the past just get decimated in free agency,
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Speaker 11: lose players along the way. But when you talk about
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Speaker 11: Trevor Lawrence, you know, I think back to so many
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Speaker 11: quarterbacks who didn't necessarily have that success right away or
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Speaker 11: even play much the first year. You know, Drew Brees
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Speaker 11: sat his first year out in San Diego, Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 11: sat for three years in Green Bay behind Brett Farr
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Speaker 11: before he got an opportunity. And you think back to
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Speaker 11: Troy Aikman and Eli Manning and Peyton Manning their first years.
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Speaker 11: You know, the stats weren't that great. It was a
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Speaker 11: learning experience. So it does take time. And when you
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Speaker 11: look at what Trevor did last year during the second
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Speaker 11: half of the season, you could tell just the confidences building,
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Speaker 11: you know, working with with Doug Peterson and the coaching staff,
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Speaker 11: you know, for the first time and just growing each
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Speaker 11: each week, and it certainly plateaued up during the latter
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Speaker 11: stages of the regular season last year into the postseason,
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Speaker 11: and the Jaguars certainly hope that it carries over to
21:34
Speaker 11: the start of this season.
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Speaker 1: The full conversation with Kenny Albert available now on the
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Speaker 1: Official Jaguars podcast network. Let's wrap the week with wide
21:42
Speaker 1: receiver Zay Jones with John Oser on the ozone podcast.
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Speaker 3: You make sure the kids in the room understand that that, hey,
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Speaker 3: just because this was sweet last year, sure doesn't mean
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Speaker 3: that it's given.
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Speaker 15: I think where my father comes to play in the
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Speaker 15: question that you're asking is he has emphasized the business
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Speaker 15: and production based style a performance that that happens in
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Speaker 15: this league, and it's it's hard because you have to
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Speaker 15: maintain like this harmony of coming to work, doing your job,
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Speaker 15: having fun, bonding with with guys, and enjoying time with
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Speaker 15: your coaches, but ultimately knowing that there is sort of,
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Speaker 15: you know, a darker side of the business that incurs,
22:29
Speaker 15: and so we have to be ready to go at
22:33
Speaker 15: every moment. Each week presents its own opportunities and you
22:37
Speaker 15: have to adapt to those to those weeks and and
22:40
Speaker 15: those years and so as a leader in the room,
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Speaker 15: it's trying to help create the sense of urgency of
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Speaker 15: understanding how difficult this is going to be and how
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Speaker 15: challenging of an aspect it is to climb this hill
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Speaker 15: into the playoffs. But at the same time, you know
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Speaker 15: who wants to live uptight and just you know, just
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Speaker 15: tense all the time. And so I think what the
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Speaker 15: Jags have done at least has created that environment of like,
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Speaker 15: we know what it takes, we understand what's in front
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Speaker 15: of us, we understand, you know, the expectations that come
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Speaker 15: with it, but we focus on us, We enjoy ourselves
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Speaker 15: and we work hard. In the same sense, so very
23:25
Speaker 15: grateful to be here.
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Speaker 3: I don't you know, it's a little bit, it's a
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Speaker 3: little bit of a cliche. But does Doug being a
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Speaker 3: former player help him relay what you're talking about, sort
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Speaker 3: of find that balance or is that or I do
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Speaker 3: all coaches realize that, I mean, it's a business, and sure.
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Speaker 15: Sure, yeah, I think I think Doug can relate to
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Speaker 15: us in the sense of knowing what our bodies go through,
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Speaker 15: knowing mentally what we're experiencing, you know, the grueling days
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Speaker 15: of camp and things like that he's he's he's gone
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Speaker 15: through the dog days, so to speak. But Doug has
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Speaker 15: his own unique style of how he gets things done.
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Speaker 15: You can tell that he cares about us and he
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Speaker 15: cares about his players. But like any you know, using
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Speaker 15: the analogy of a father figure, he's not afraid to
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Speaker 15: discipline and be hard and be tough, and also understanding
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Speaker 15: that he may see some things that we don't see
24:27
Speaker 15: and we just have to trust him and trust what
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Speaker 15: he's doing. So if he's changing practices around, if he's
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Speaker 15: manipulating weights or you know, walk through throughout the day
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Speaker 15: or whatever it is, he's doing it for a particular reason.
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Speaker 15: And for myself, I haven't won a championship yet at
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Speaker 15: this level, and so in those areas I do lean
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Speaker 15: into Doug's expertise and the guys in the room who
24:50
Speaker 15: may have a little bit more experience than I do.
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Speaker 15: So it's a working conglomerate of just everyone just you know,
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Speaker 15: putting their chips in and and really striving at this
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Speaker 15: thing together.
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