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Jags Drive Time: Friday, August 17 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jack Wars. Did you Jack Wars? Did you Jackuars? Dr
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Speaker 1: so Jaguars Drive A Time starts right now. Good morning,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to Jack's Drive Time Live from Minneapolis and
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Speaker 1: the team Hotel Brian Sexton, John oh is your Ashland
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Speaker 1: Sullivan and head coach Doug Marone joins us this morning. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it kind of feels like we're sitting in someone's living room, Donnan.
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Speaker 1: We're actually in someone's sweet someone shall not be named exactly.
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Speaker 1: You know, the rest of us all have these these
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Speaker 1: small single beds coming in here and places like the
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Speaker 1: taj Mahal and someone doesn't make his bad Frankly, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean we're obviously if people were literally viewing a
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Speaker 1: let's be it's Patrick Kavanaugh's room. Just go ahead and
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Speaker 1: let's go. Let's move along. And we've been in room
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Speaker 1: early every morning to do this show, and so thank
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Speaker 1: you Patrick for opening the doors for us. UM coach,
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Speaker 1: it's been a busy couple of days up here. You
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Speaker 1: said you came here to get better. When you watch
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Speaker 1: the tape the last couple of nights, did you see that? Oh? Definitely,
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Speaker 1: I mean you know, and that's that's for everybody. I
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Speaker 1: mean both teams. You know, you get in there and it's, uh,
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Speaker 1: you're playing a team like Minnesota that's really uh has
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Speaker 1: a great roster for really from top to bottom, and
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Speaker 1: you're able to go out there and and it's different.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know, we've been going against each other
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Speaker 1: for a while now, and you know, schematically, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're seeing the same type of scheme, and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, you come up here for two days, then
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Speaker 1: it's something totally different. So I think just you know,
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Speaker 1: just being able to work on that going in there,
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Speaker 1: and plus the competition and seeing how players, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: rise to the occasion, see if they know how to practice,
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Speaker 1: which is probably the thing I'm most proud of. I
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Speaker 1: think you saw both teams go out there, and both teams,
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Speaker 1: you know, the thing that amazed me about this one
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Speaker 1: is that you saw more players, whether it was our
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Speaker 1: team or their team, helping players up, and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: it truly felt like we're just one team out there
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Speaker 1: trying to get better. Coach there you as these things approach,
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Speaker 1: you always hear people say, well, you can never get
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Speaker 1: two teams together without having stuff across the ball, as
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Speaker 1: you said, but you guys met the players met. Can
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Speaker 1: that work going for? I mean, is there a reason
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Speaker 1: there has to be fights during these things because you
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Speaker 1: guys certainly avoided without even anything close to an incident. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I've been I've been fortunate. I think that,
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Speaker 1: you know, when I was in Buffalo and then and
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Speaker 1: then here in Jacksonville last year and then this year
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Speaker 1: that we've been able to have joint practices and not
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Speaker 1: have you know, any of that uh stuff go on
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Speaker 1: that that just hurts hurts the team. And someone asked me, like, one,
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Speaker 1: are the one things you're looking for are young players? Well,
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Speaker 1: one of the things I'm looking for is exactly that.
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Speaker 1: You know, can they um, you know, they're not going
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Speaker 1: to make the team by getting in a fight. You know,
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Speaker 1: if anything, they can get themselves cut. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, I think that you know, we get the
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Speaker 1: players together, the players talk to each other. You know,
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Speaker 1: they understand what we're trying to accomplish. Um, we understand
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Speaker 1: that it uh when he's joined practices go on, you
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Speaker 1: know everybody's waiting for that. You know, everyone's waiting for
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Speaker 1: this this altercation to take place. So they can post
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Speaker 1: it online and show and that's not That's not how
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Speaker 1: we want to look as a league, and especially that's
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Speaker 1: not how we want to look as um, you know,
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Speaker 1: players in our organization. And I think it's important that
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Speaker 1: we understand that, hey, this is practice. We don't want
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Speaker 1: this out there about us as players or coaches. And
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Speaker 1: I think that, you know, everywhere I've been, the players
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Speaker 1: have have done a really good job of it and
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Speaker 1: we've been able to get good work in and get better.
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Speaker 1: How the players meeting idea come up? Well, I had
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Speaker 1: one when we played when out of the Buffalo we
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Speaker 1: went to Pittsburgh. You know, we had the same thing,
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Speaker 1: the players met and then uh coach Zimmer called me
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Speaker 1: up and said, hey, you want to bring a group
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Speaker 1: of players he I said absolutely, and we both went
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Speaker 1: in there. And I think what it is is that
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Speaker 1: as coaches, you know, obviously we can police that's probably
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Speaker 1: not a good word, but police to the actions, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying on the field, But um, what's
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Speaker 1: more do it? Then? I think it's it's it's real
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Speaker 1: meaning that you know it's coming from them. The more
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Speaker 1: veteran players, you know, talking to so as soon as
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Speaker 1: they see something happening, they can get it under control
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Speaker 1: before it starts a larger altercation. You know, this the
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Speaker 1: joint practice thing, at least from the Jaguars perspective, us
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Speaker 1: to be really regional, you know, the the box of
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Speaker 1: the Saints and the Panthers through the years. Last year
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Speaker 1: you go to New England. This year you come up here.
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Speaker 1: The Rams were in Baltimore, the Texans in San Francisco. This,
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Speaker 1: this whole idea has become commonplace around the league. Obviously
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Speaker 1: it's valuable. Yeah, I I believe so, I I have.
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Speaker 1: You know, I just think it. I think it helps.
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Speaker 1: It comes at a really good time, you know. My
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Speaker 1: my my philosophy is to try to do it within
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Speaker 1: the first two weeks of camp. Uh. If I had
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Speaker 1: my preference, I would do it. You know, the first
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Speaker 1: week I think it breaks it up pretty good. But
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Speaker 1: the second week is good. Um. You know I I
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Speaker 1: and I think it's really a lot of it is
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Speaker 1: dictated on the preseason schedule. You know where where are going,
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Speaker 1: what you're doing, um, you know who you're playing. And
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Speaker 1: then really a lot of it's the facilities, which I
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Speaker 1: have to say, I don't think i've ever seen uh
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Speaker 1: anywhere college and if you know college or or at
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Speaker 1: our level, the facilities that are up here in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: And I appreciated the University of Minnesota giving us the
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Speaker 1: you know, ability to go to walk through there. You know,
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Speaker 1: Mark Coyle's the a D and p J. P J
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Speaker 1: flected the head coach. You know, we went in there
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Speaker 1: and and and that saved us that that that helped
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Speaker 1: our players being able to rest more because it was
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Speaker 1: much closer than the Vikings facility. I always thought Zimmer
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Speaker 1: was one of the more underrated coaches in the league.
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Speaker 1: Coach his teams. What is it about? And that sets
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Speaker 1: him apart aside from town. But what do you see
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Speaker 1: from him as a coach? Yeah, I mean strict discipline, schematically,
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Speaker 1: they give you issues. Um, they hustle, they run, they
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Speaker 1: were in shape. Um there's there's just a lot of
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Speaker 1: things and not you know, highly penalized team. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: is there's so many things and he has he has
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Speaker 1: you know, himself and the rest of those coaches doing
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Speaker 1: outstanding job. You know, guys like us, we want to
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Speaker 1: look at the practices and say, all right, he had
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Speaker 1: a good day, he didn't have a good day. He
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Speaker 1: won that rep. You know he didn't win that rep.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about sound like a coach right there, and
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Speaker 1: there you go. It's it's easier for you because you
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Speaker 1: know what you're looking for, and it's not as easy
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Speaker 1: for the bystander, whether it's the fan or whether it's media.
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Speaker 1: How do you judge these because the whistle is quick
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Speaker 1: in a lot of cases it is, but you know
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Speaker 1: a lot of it. So basically you go out there
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Speaker 1: and there's a little quick whistle, but you're able to
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Speaker 1: see whether the player in the first three steps, if
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Speaker 1: he has the right angle, if he's in good position.
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Speaker 1: You know, then it's just a matter of the finish.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of times, you know, players that have
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Speaker 1: played before, you've you've seen them finish or you've seen
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Speaker 1: them tackle. But I think that's why I've always said
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Speaker 1: I so I take these practices a little bit higher
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Speaker 1: than a practice against each other. But I think the
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Speaker 1: preseason games a little higher than these practices because you
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Speaker 1: know it is live, so you know, you can see.
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Speaker 1: You know, whether you're a skill player, you know you are,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna catch the ball in the middle, or you're
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Speaker 1: gonna finish someone that's an offensive lineman, are you gonna
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Speaker 1: be able to you know, run and when you get tackled,
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Speaker 1: you know, not have that ball jard loose and have
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Speaker 1: good ball security. And then the other the other phase
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Speaker 1: of it is, you know on the defensive side, you know,
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Speaker 1: are you gonna be able to tackle? Are you gonna
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Speaker 1: be able in the right position? Are you playing with
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Speaker 1: the proper technique? So uh, a lot of things you
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Speaker 1: can find out that players can put themselves in a
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Speaker 1: position and these two practices, but you still have to
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Speaker 1: go to the games when it's live to see if
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Speaker 1: they can get the results. So the thought after Wednesday's
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Speaker 1: practice was Blake struggled? Is that accurate? And did he
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Speaker 1: improve yesterday? Yeah? I mean it's like I said, I
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Speaker 1: got that question yesterday. They like, hey, you know, you
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Speaker 1: know he didn't have a very good day yesterday. But
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Speaker 1: you know, you know what are your opinion on that?
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Speaker 1: Was you have to do to get better? You know,
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Speaker 1: all legit questions, but a lot of it. You know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you're you rely on other factors, you know for
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Speaker 1: your performance. You know, how was the protection was it
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Speaker 1: always was? He was it a clean pocket all the time?
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Speaker 1: You know? How about from the standpoint of not just
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Speaker 1: the wide receiver's tight ends and running backs. You know
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Speaker 1: where they are they being covered? Are they winning? You know?
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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, again, I'm gonna go back
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Speaker 1: to overall we have we have to do a better job.
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Speaker 1: And yesterday we had a pretty good period. And at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, that's one of the reasons why,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's enjoyable to be up here because
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Speaker 1: you know you're facing you know, everyone talks about our
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Speaker 1: defense and we have obviously a very good defense, but
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Speaker 1: they were number one in the leg you know, so
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Speaker 1: you're going against the number one defense up here in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: You're going to get the number two defense every single
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Speaker 1: day in practice. So you're you're not going to go
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Speaker 1: out there and consistently be able to you know, perform
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Speaker 1: at a high level on those on those two types
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Speaker 1: of defenses. And if you are boy, you really feel
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Speaker 1: good about about yourself. But you know, there's a lot
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Speaker 1: to be learned. And I think overall, you know, you
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Speaker 1: want to go to the quarterback of an individual effort,
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Speaker 1: but I think we got to just get every you know,
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Speaker 1: he's got to get you know, he'll do a better
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Speaker 1: job and everyone else has to do a better job. Coach,
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Speaker 1: you obviously believe in stressing these guys during training camp.
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Speaker 1: Uh have you done that to your satisfaction? And is
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Speaker 1: that part over hours? It's still to go still on
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Speaker 1: that camp fase? No, we're still in camp. Fase still
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Speaker 1: Uh the end of the next week, you know, the
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Speaker 1: third preseason game. You know, I think, um, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I try to like, you know,
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Speaker 1: force things. These are things that their schedules thought about,
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Speaker 1: you know. Uh, well in advance. You know what we
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Speaker 1: want to get accomplished and what we want to do.
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Speaker 1: You know, as you see, you know, my thing is
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Speaker 1: to put in you know, the most possible you know,
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Speaker 1: work and things of that nature. Knowing that, you know,
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Speaker 1: you can always back down, but you can never go
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Speaker 1: in and say, hey, we're gonna add this those players
9:35
Speaker 1: you know, whoa, whoa, you know, wait a minute here,
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Speaker 1: So you know, we try to max that out from
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Speaker 1: the beginning. I think, you know, you know, there is
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Speaker 1: there was a little bit of I try to create
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Speaker 1: what I call adversity. Uh, you know last week or
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Speaker 1: something I wanted to you know, switching to schedule on
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Speaker 1: them when when they came in. We knew his coaches
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Speaker 1: just wanted to do something like that just kind of
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Speaker 1: throw off the timing and what they were prepared to
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Speaker 1: do to see how they react to it. They did
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Speaker 1: a nice job. And then, um, you know, coming up
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Speaker 1: here it's I think it's tough. You you know, you practice,
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Speaker 1: you get on a plane, you fly up here, you
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Speaker 1: wake up the next day, you're walking through your practicing.
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's a little bit of adversity
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Speaker 1: in that. So you know, those are the things we do,
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Speaker 1: and you just want to stay on edge. I know,
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Speaker 1: for myself, if I'm starting to feel comfortable, then we're
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Speaker 1: in trouble, meaning myself. So you know, you want that.
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Speaker 1: You want to be comfortable being uncomfortable, and I think
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Speaker 1: that's what keeps you on your toes and that's what
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Speaker 1: keeps you progressing. For us, just watching practice, there's been
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Speaker 1: a few guys that have stood out. D J. Hayden
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Speaker 1: made a great interception yesterday. Looking back at the past
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Speaker 1: two days, who stood out to you, Well, I think
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Speaker 1: there's there's flashes of of of people. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that you know, there's uh, you know, uh, you know.
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Speaker 1: DJ Chart did a nice job. You other day, he
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Speaker 1: caught a real deep ball, you know, d D. Westbrook
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Speaker 1: Cott one. Uh, you know, Blake, I thought was throwing
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Speaker 1: a ball well, you know, vertically to you know, give
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Speaker 1: us a chance to make plays. You know, I thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, some matchups on the offensive line, some of
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Speaker 1: the second team guys, you know, we have some starters
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Speaker 1: out with the first teams. They went up there and
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Speaker 1: did a nice job. A couple of guys have been
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Speaker 1: starting to play better. I think that, you know, the defensively,
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Speaker 1: I really thought we had we played well, um really
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Speaker 1: in all all three of them. You know, it was
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Speaker 1: a little bit uh not not as uh, we just
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Speaker 1: had to clean some things up from the first day.
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Speaker 1: But I think our defense had you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: two good days and then um, offensively, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: as you know, the players there, but special teams is
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Speaker 1: the other area that you know, we're really taking a
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Speaker 1: good look at. And you know, we really worked the
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Speaker 1: butts off and now we got to see the results
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Speaker 1: in the game. Because when you're looking at the end
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Speaker 1: of the back end of the roster, the depth of
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Speaker 1: the roster, you want to make sure that you know,
11:42
Speaker 1: in the back of my mind it's always forty six,
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Speaker 1: you know, the amount of players that are that are
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Speaker 1: addressing for the game. So the backup at a position,
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Speaker 1: the more you can contribute to special teams. And I
11:53
Speaker 1: can guarantee you eighteen twenty something snaps the game and
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Speaker 1: you can play at a high level of results. Well,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get the nod over the guy that may
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Speaker 1: he's just a little bit better than you at that
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Speaker 1: position because we're gonna be able to use them and
12:03
Speaker 1: this way we can be a complete team. You know,
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Speaker 1: ten twelve years ago, there was a kid at the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the depth chart named Montell Owens, who you know,
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Speaker 1: ninth round or ninth running back from the University of Maine,
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Speaker 1: and at the end of training camp he turned out
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Speaker 1: to make the roster because he's pretty good on special teams.
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Speaker 1: Turned out to be a three time pro bowler on
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Speaker 1: special teams. Is there anybody that you've seen it's really
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Speaker 1: stew it out amongst that undrafted rookie group that has
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Speaker 1: to make it on teams that we should be watching
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Speaker 1: for on Saturday night in Minnesota. Maybe two guys, well,
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Speaker 1: you know there are there. There are two or three
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Speaker 1: players that I think have have really been performing well.
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Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, I
12:39
Speaker 1: just don't want everyone to know in case, you know,
12:42
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that you know, you don't
12:46
Speaker 1: want to say that, and then all of a sudden
12:48
Speaker 1: you're trying to you know, and and this is what
12:50
Speaker 1: it is. It's really trying to sneak somebody on, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe your practice squad if some one of those players
12:54
Speaker 1: don't make the team. But I think we do have
12:56
Speaker 1: people in a position that you're talking about, you know,
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Speaker 1: they're going to have that ability. And I think these
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Speaker 1: next you know, three games, the preseason game, because they've
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Speaker 1: shown the ability to do well in practice, they're shown
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Speaker 1: the ability to be to you know, be in the
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Speaker 1: right position that we've just got to see if they
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Speaker 1: can create the results. So you know, we'll be we'll
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Speaker 1: be looking at that for the next uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: three weeks. I'm gonna take a chance here, Brian and
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Speaker 1: assume that Myles Jack will be on the team. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about Myles. Yeah, has he played
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Speaker 1: on film and in your eyes as well as he's
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Speaker 1: looked because he looks faster, he looks like he's getting
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Speaker 1: that comfort that you want Yeah, I mean absolutely, I
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Speaker 1: mean he was he was a heck of a player
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Speaker 1: for us last year, and I think he's come back
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Speaker 1: this year and you know, really working hard to to
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, to play better and perform better.
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Speaker 1: I think that you know, each of these players, no
13:43
Speaker 1: matter whether they've gone to the Pro Bowl or you know,
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Speaker 1: it's their first year started, they want to perform well. Um. Obviously,
13:48
Speaker 1: we have you know, very high expectations for ourselves on defense,
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Speaker 1: and you know, our linebackers are a key part of it.
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Speaker 1: And I think that mentally they've gone in there and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, they went hard. I think the one thing
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Speaker 1: that you know, people won't really talk about when they
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Speaker 1: talk about our defense, you know, and I think it
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Speaker 1: showed a little bit the other day, is really just
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Speaker 1: a speed that we have. I mean we we have
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Speaker 1: you know, fast guys. I mean we run into the football,
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Speaker 1: We get a lot of people around the football. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing that like when as
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Speaker 1: a as a coach or an ex offensive coach, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you're looking in the league, when I look at
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Speaker 1: the defense, I'm like, those guys are fast, and you
14:21
Speaker 1: know it's especially at you know, we know the deep end,
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Speaker 1: you know the dbs are but you know, you know
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Speaker 1: Miles and Telvin. I mean those those guys are very
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Speaker 1: very fast and and that both physical players too, you
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Speaker 1: know the other side of it, the power up front.
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Speaker 1: I thought Marcel Darius had two really good days. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think we did a good job up front. I think, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know Calaius you know shows you know, he's consistently
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Speaker 1: doing it and nothing slowing down with him. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: Marcel's had a good day, John's had you know, good days.
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Speaker 1: You know, Loreni mccraie has been doing doing well for us,
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Speaker 1: you know Abe Jones. I mean, you know upfront, we
14:55
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys up front that can play
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Speaker 1: and and they know, you know, this competition and at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of that, you know, for those roster spots.
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Speaker 1: So you know, you're getting a lot of good effort,
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Speaker 1: a lot of good player out of that group where
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Speaker 1: we let you go. Today is an off day in
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Speaker 1: terms of practicing, not practicing with the biking. So what
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Speaker 1: what what today for you? When you coach? What do
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Speaker 1: you got to get done? Well? You know when we
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Speaker 1: came up here and practiced, you know, there were still
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Speaker 1: some things that we wanted to look at. There's still
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Speaker 1: some plays and some calls defensively and we just wanted
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Speaker 1: you know, so we go out that practice, but you know,
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Speaker 1: we haven't gone over a game plan, you know, with
15:31
Speaker 1: with the players. So today is more okay, here's here's
15:34
Speaker 1: our game plan. These are the players we like against
15:36
Speaker 1: them either, you know, this is how we're gonna attack them.
15:38
Speaker 1: Because I think what people may not realize our listeners
15:41
Speaker 1: is that, you know, the first preseason game are only
15:44
Speaker 1: prep for them is really the night before, you know,
15:46
Speaker 1: the day before our second preseason games the same you know,
15:50
Speaker 1: Atlanta we put a little you know, we put we'll
15:53
Speaker 1: put a little bit more time in and the fourth
15:55
Speaker 1: game we really don't game plan for because we're getting
15:57
Speaker 1: ready for the first game of the season. So you know,
16:00
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty much standard operation. Not everybody does that,
16:04
Speaker 1: but uh, a lot of teams in the league do that,
16:07
Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's it's very it's very difficult
16:10
Speaker 1: you know when people when you look at these preseason games. Uh,
16:14
Speaker 1: you know Tom Brady said yesterday, you know, hey, we're
16:16
Speaker 1: not scheming, we're just you know, just running a couple
16:18
Speaker 1: of players here and there, and and and and I'm
16:20
Speaker 1: listening to him and I'm like, yeah, I mean, that's
16:22
Speaker 1: that's what you do in the preseason. So um, our
16:25
Speaker 1: players are pretty much getting the game plan really the
16:28
Speaker 1: day before these games. So then, you know, and that's
16:31
Speaker 1: that's also a test too. You know, it's a test
16:33
Speaker 1: of how you can take that information in a short
16:35
Speaker 1: period time. Now they're not as large as the game
16:38
Speaker 1: plans on on on in the season, but it's also
16:41
Speaker 1: a test of saying, hey, listen, here the players that
16:43
Speaker 1: we're running with this group, run pass or here the
16:45
Speaker 1: defenses were calling here to pressures and seeing how they're
16:48
Speaker 1: able to pick that up, study it and go out
16:50
Speaker 1: the next day and execute it. That's also part of
16:52
Speaker 1: the evaluation. Right, busy day and a busy day tomorrow.
16:55
Speaker 1: You stadium guy at all, you didn't see this new
16:57
Speaker 1: place to do I am because you know, I I
17:00
Speaker 1: didn't know what I was. You know, my expectations were
17:03
Speaker 1: coming up here and going to the silly and I
17:05
Speaker 1: know that with a new facility, but you know, I
17:07
Speaker 1: was totally blown away by it. I really wasn't, and
17:10
Speaker 1: so was everyone else. I mean, the players, uh, the staff,
17:14
Speaker 1: um and then you know, I think a couple of
17:17
Speaker 1: people on our staff have gone through some tours of it.
17:19
Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough to get in there. So now
17:22
Speaker 1: I'm like, holy cow, that's a practice, you know, that's
17:23
Speaker 1: the facility. You know. Let's see. I'm kind of, you know,
17:27
Speaker 1: excited because you pretty much have been in every stadium
17:30
Speaker 1: you know when you're in the NFL, so you don't
17:31
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, I know the locker room, you know
17:33
Speaker 1: where to go. But here I'm going into a stadium
17:35
Speaker 1: where I don't. I don't know where anything is, which
17:37
Speaker 1: I think is important. That's why we're bringing a team
17:38
Speaker 1: over there, so they know where the locker room is.
17:40
Speaker 1: So this way, when we go in there tomorrow because
17:43
Speaker 1: we have an early game, they're not like what, they're
17:46
Speaker 1: not like. There's no anxiety about where we are, where
17:48
Speaker 1: we're dressing, and where we're meeting, and so I like
17:50
Speaker 1: to walk through that and get the players the field.
17:52
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17:55
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20:15
Speaker 1: wrapping up a busy week here with the game tomorrow
20:18
Speaker 1: one o'clock Eastern time kickoff on the CBS back in Jacksonville. Um,
20:23
Speaker 1: Doug is I don't know whether the right term coach. MA. Yeah,
20:28
Speaker 1: he absolutely himself. He comes off as so intense so
20:32
Speaker 1: many times, and yet he sits down and starts answering
20:35
Speaker 1: questions in such a thoughtful way. I asked him to
20:38
Speaker 1: question about the young guys and whom I teams. I
20:42
Speaker 1: don't want to answer that. Well, Tom, when I did
20:45
Speaker 1: his radio show, which I don't want to answer that
20:47
Speaker 1: need stop. But then dougas well, I don't want to aser,
20:49
Speaker 1: and here's why, and gives you an answer you didn't expect.
20:51
Speaker 1: It was great answer, right, and feels bad that he
20:54
Speaker 1: can't answer it for you. What I mean, he's just
20:56
Speaker 1: he's he's so people. You can't pigeonhole him in to
21:00
Speaker 1: being this kind of coach, a player's coach, or this
21:02
Speaker 1: kind of coach, a Belichick or a Parcels kind of coach,
21:06
Speaker 1: even though we kind of leans in that direction. Um,
21:09
Speaker 1: he's different and different is good. I think that's important
21:12
Speaker 1: because the quickest way for a head coach. And I
21:17
Speaker 1: wasn't around Doug and Buffalo, so I don't know how
21:20
Speaker 1: he approached it there, but historically, the quickest way for
21:23
Speaker 1: head coach to get in a lot of trouble and
21:25
Speaker 1: lose players is to not be himself. You're around these
21:28
Speaker 1: guys so much, and you're here in the day to day,
21:31
Speaker 1: around everybody in the building so much that if you
21:34
Speaker 1: try to be something you're not, you're going to come
21:37
Speaker 1: off phony. And players are very quick to sense phony.
21:42
Speaker 1: So it sounds to me from talking to players like
21:45
Speaker 1: Doug's taking the approach of this is who I am.
21:48
Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk this walk, and you know, stay in
21:51
Speaker 1: in the right shoes if you will, and do that
21:55
Speaker 1: every day. And as long as you do that usually
21:58
Speaker 1: don't come across contradict seen yourself. I'd have a hard
22:01
Speaker 1: time believing he ever contradicts himself. As long as he's
22:04
Speaker 1: true to himself, I think he's done that so far
22:06
Speaker 1: a year and half of the job. Big Thing one,
22:09
Speaker 1: Well at the chat, thought Doug, let me let me
22:11
Speaker 1: share this one last thought, and that I just I
22:13
Speaker 1: left my head. Sorry, here we go, Big Thing. That
22:17
Speaker 1: was great, It's real right, We'll just leave. I just
22:20
Speaker 1: went right on my head. Big Thing one is better.
22:22
Speaker 1: Thursday was just a better day for the Jaguars. The
22:25
Speaker 1: defense was dominant, yet again, But the offense just looked
22:27
Speaker 1: better Wednesday. It was kind of a tough day for them.
22:30
Speaker 1: But Blake Bortles met the media yesterday and said that
22:32
Speaker 1: the offense looked crisper and just more in sync with
22:34
Speaker 1: each other. Well, I mean, Doug started off Wednesday saying, look,
22:37
Speaker 1: we're just here to get better. Mike Zimmer said the
22:39
Speaker 1: same thing. We just want both teams to get better.
22:41
Speaker 1: So the question John is did you see better over
22:44
Speaker 1: two days? Well, the offense certainly looked a lot better
22:49
Speaker 1: the second day. Um, I think what Doug said probably
22:52
Speaker 1: has a lot of merit. The Jaguars got on a
22:56
Speaker 1: plane late Tuesday, arrived Wednesday. Um, it wouldn't be surprising
23:03
Speaker 1: if if they were a little out of sorts during
23:06
Speaker 1: that practice on Wednesday. I'm not gonna say it was
23:08
Speaker 1: similar to when we go to London that first time
23:10
Speaker 1: in London, where you're all trying to figure out where
23:12
Speaker 1: you are. But it was kind of weird. Uh, It's
23:16
Speaker 1: something you have to adapt to during the season. So
23:17
Speaker 1: I hear fans saying, well, if if they're going to
23:20
Speaker 1: struggle and in a practice and they're gonna struggling in
23:22
Speaker 1: the game, I think it's like it is an unusual
23:25
Speaker 1: situation to come into practice. I think I think they
23:27
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with it. Um that said,
23:30
Speaker 1: I thought the defense started strong on Wednesday as we
23:34
Speaker 1: talked about Brian just the front of this defense being
23:37
Speaker 1: very dominant, and then if anything, it was it was
23:42
Speaker 1: twice that yesterday. I mean the defense practiced, I thought
23:45
Speaker 1: as well as I've seen it practice in training camp
23:48
Speaker 1: yesterday in the outdoor session of that practice. So in
23:52
Speaker 1: terms of getting better, I give a guy that has
23:54
Speaker 1: to have improved, and that's Cam Robinson because the Neil
23:58
Speaker 1: Hunter yesterday, he reminds me and player comparisons are always
24:02
Speaker 1: so tough, especially from different years. But Michael McCreary, you
24:04
Speaker 1: remember him from the Baltimore Ravens, just a water wheel guy,
24:08
Speaker 1: never stops moving, right, long arms, really active. Daniel Hunter
24:12
Speaker 1: is one of the best pass rushers in the league,
24:13
Speaker 1: and Cam struggled with him on Wednesday, and I thought
24:17
Speaker 1: did much better against him on Thursday. It's those little
24:20
Speaker 1: one on one matchups where you can see it's hard
24:23
Speaker 1: to say well a guy won or a guy lost,
24:24
Speaker 1: but you can say, well he did better there. And
24:27
Speaker 1: I saw some of that around between the first and
24:30
Speaker 1: second teams. But Cam Robinson's the guy. I think this
24:34
Speaker 1: kind of experience against that kind of pass rush will
24:36
Speaker 1: set him up. Yeah, I thought he held his own
24:38
Speaker 1: And it's important because h Cam Robinson is a huge
24:43
Speaker 1: story on the offensive line so far. I've seen the
24:46
Speaker 1: interior lender Uh Norwell hadn't been practiced in the last week,
24:50
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming based when we saw Earli he's gonna
24:53
Speaker 1: be fine and can has gotten better. But Robinson is
24:56
Speaker 1: a guy that if he plays this year the way
24:59
Speaker 1: he played last stay, that's not good enough. It was
25:01
Speaker 1: fine last year as a rookie coming in, but if
25:04
Speaker 1: he's going to be the player they think he's gonna be,
25:06
Speaker 1: he has to improve from last year. Early on in
25:09
Speaker 1: camp from talking to people who know offensive line, he
25:11
Speaker 1: really hadn't done that. So he has got to improve
25:14
Speaker 1: because the left side of that line, you assumed with
25:17
Speaker 1: Norwell when he came in that you would have a
25:19
Speaker 1: rock the left side of the line. Cam Robinson's the
25:22
Speaker 1: guy who needs to be rock solid. Well. McCrary used
25:24
Speaker 1: to Givessell fits and that's saying something because not many
25:27
Speaker 1: pass rushers did and BESSELLI was over there yesterday talking
25:31
Speaker 1: after the reps with him with Cam about how you
25:35
Speaker 1: deal with that guy who can go either way, whose
25:37
Speaker 1: hands and arms are always in your face. Um. I
25:40
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting, and I thought from day one
25:44
Speaker 1: to day two it was a good sign the way
25:46
Speaker 1: that the young tackle. I saw the exchange too, and
25:48
Speaker 1: more importantly than Basselli talking, which Bassello talked to anybody,
25:52
Speaker 1: was it looked like Cam was listening and taking it in.
25:54
Speaker 1: And sometimes young players you see their eyes glaze in
25:57
Speaker 1: that situation. Offensively, we can't forget that they were playing
25:59
Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league. And I think
26:01
Speaker 1: it's great that coach Marrowe mentions that because a lot
26:04
Speaker 1: of times we even say that are Jaguars on the
26:06
Speaker 1: number one defense in the league, but he has always said, no,
26:09
Speaker 1: they're number one. And when you when you talk about that,
26:11
Speaker 1: you've got Xavier Rhodes, who we don't see a lot
26:15
Speaker 1: of and people in Tallahassee and Florida State fans remember,
26:18
Speaker 1: but you see him walking off the practice field. I
26:20
Speaker 1: mean he's built like Jalen. I mean he's he's tall,
26:22
Speaker 1: he's got the long arms and the big hands and
26:25
Speaker 1: explosive athleticism. That goes along with that. So the chance
26:28
Speaker 1: for Marquis to line up and test himself right or
26:32
Speaker 1: d J Chark against these guys just gives them more
26:35
Speaker 1: opportunity to come back to the key word, yeah and
26:39
Speaker 1: there was in the Twitter area is always going to
26:42
Speaker 1: be angst whenever there's a series of tweets O Blake struggling.
26:47
Speaker 1: The offense is struggling this well, the the Minnesota offense
26:52
Speaker 1: also struggle against the Jaguars defense, with the exception of
26:56
Speaker 1: the Wednesday practice where Kirk Cousins looks really good in
26:59
Speaker 1: the red zone drill early, but beyond that, you know,
27:03
Speaker 1: if these two teams played, it would be a tight,
27:06
Speaker 1: low scoring game because both these defenses got the better
27:09
Speaker 1: the offenses. So with the Jaguars, Brian think we talked
27:13
Speaker 1: about it. This team is gonna have to run and
27:15
Speaker 1: it's gonna have to be dominant in the front seven. Well,
27:18
Speaker 1: the offensive line in the running drills that I saw
27:20
Speaker 1: looked very good. The Jaguars did this team this week
27:25
Speaker 1: was what you expected it to be. Well, we'll see
27:28
Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon tomorrow at one o'clock we'll see if
27:31
Speaker 1: they got better again. The outcome of the game doesn't matter,
27:34
Speaker 1: but watch some of these individual matchups and see how
27:36
Speaker 1: Robinson does against number Dan Neil Hunter, a kid who
27:41
Speaker 1: has twenty five and a half sacks in just a
27:43
Speaker 1: couple of years. So he's kind of their unique in
27:45
Speaker 1: gock Way in terms of he's been that explosive guy
27:47
Speaker 1: who's come on the scene. All right, what's a big
27:49
Speaker 1: thing too? Big thing too is focus. With the collective
27:52
Speaker 1: bargain agreement, we now players can only be on the
27:54
Speaker 1: field for so long, so these coaches have a short
27:56
Speaker 1: amount of time to get a lot of things done.
27:58
Speaker 1: So situational play has come in a lot with these practices.
28:02
Speaker 1: And we talked to coach Marone, we talked to Keena
28:04
Speaker 1: macartell and he said, yes, we can't yell at a
28:06
Speaker 1: guy if he messes up in the game if we
28:08
Speaker 1: didn't expose it to him in practice. So we all
28:10
Speaker 1: look forward to the team segments of practice because that's
28:14
Speaker 1: when you see the eleven on eleven. Well, the interesting
28:17
Speaker 1: part about the Joy practices on side by side field,
28:19
Speaker 1: you have the Jaguars offense against the Vikings defense and
28:22
Speaker 1: the Jaguars defense against the Vikings offense. I mean it's
28:24
Speaker 1: like a buffet, Go watch what you want to watch.
28:27
Speaker 1: And what was really interesting was yesterday they had one
28:30
Speaker 1: scoreboard up and both teams were doing the exact same thing.
28:35
Speaker 1: Fifty one seconds left to play third down in eighteen.
28:39
Speaker 1: That's really what training camp has become. It's not so
28:43
Speaker 1: much about coming up here and running your offense against
28:46
Speaker 1: running their defense or vice versa. It's about situations. And
28:50
Speaker 1: Keena McCardell said to us yesterday, Look, I can't be
28:53
Speaker 1: mad at a kid if he faces third down and
28:56
Speaker 1: sixteen with fifty seconds left and we haven't at least
28:59
Speaker 1: talked about here's what we're gonna see. Football, Thanks in
29:03
Speaker 1: large part to Bill Belichick, has become more of a
29:06
Speaker 1: situational coaching and training camp now has become that way too.
29:11
Speaker 1: And it's almost as you said, Ryan, with the time
29:13
Speaker 1: that you have, the way practices are structured, you're not
29:18
Speaker 1: able to get in situations for two and a half hours.
29:20
Speaker 1: You have to have individual work early, you have to
29:22
Speaker 1: have something. So it's really impossible for the coaches to
29:26
Speaker 1: have covered every possible situation enough for every player to
29:30
Speaker 1: be just down drilled into it. There's still situations where
29:34
Speaker 1: the player, the intelligence of the player in the football savvy,
29:37
Speaker 1: the player has to come out what's it's actually there,
29:40
Speaker 1: you know, Doug, And the way these coaches are, there
29:43
Speaker 1: are a litany of things that they're not able to
29:46
Speaker 1: get to enough. But you do the best you can
29:49
Speaker 1: and you put them in the situations that translate to
29:51
Speaker 1: as many other situations as possible. And Fred said to
29:54
Speaker 1: me yesterday people were called that Fred finished his career
29:56
Speaker 1: with the Patriots and with Belichick, and he said he
29:58
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised when the Patriots came from behind to beat
30:03
Speaker 1: the Falcons and the Super Bowl. He said, because the
30:05
Speaker 1: situations were all laid out. That's the way Belichick coaches.
30:09
Speaker 1: They looked at Atlanta, who had a bunch of twenty
30:12
Speaker 1: point leads, and they knew that Atlanta was going to
30:14
Speaker 1: jump out, and they knew the defenses that Atlanta liked
30:17
Speaker 1: to play when they were ahead, and so all they
30:20
Speaker 1: do is practiced those kinds of situations. And because of
30:23
Speaker 1: the success they've had, Belichick's influence on training camp and
30:28
Speaker 1: on practice has has made it a very situational type
30:32
Speaker 1: of deal. It's funny when we we talked to three
30:34
Speaker 1: guys about that and they all mentioned Bill Belichick without
30:37
Speaker 1: talking to each other. So you know that he has
30:38
Speaker 1: a huge influence in that all right, big big thing
30:42
Speaker 1: three team has his back. So we all know what
30:45
Speaker 1: happened this week with Jalen Ramsey and the GICU article
30:47
Speaker 1: where he was giving his opinion on quarterbacks. So we
30:50
Speaker 1: didn't really hear much about the team, but what they
30:52
Speaker 1: thought of it. Yesterday we spoke to Blake Bortles and
30:54
Speaker 1: Class Campbell, who had a bite about it. A lot
30:57
Speaker 1: of stuff has been said about me and it never
30:59
Speaker 1: affected me. So I imagine most of those guys that
31:02
Speaker 1: um were mentioned and some of that stuff probably brushed
31:04
Speaker 1: it off and um, you know, if they took it
31:06
Speaker 1: too hard or whatever, then uh, they probably got bigger
31:09
Speaker 1: problems than than that. He has opinions, you know, and
31:12
Speaker 1: he likes voicing them, and you know it makes him
31:14
Speaker 1: a special guy, you know. I mean, I love how
31:16
Speaker 1: authentic he is. You know, he doesn't beat around the
31:18
Speaker 1: bush at all. Uh. You know, some of those guys
31:20
Speaker 1: might try to, you know, play their best games against us,
31:22
Speaker 1: but that's how I was supposed to be. Anyway, it's
31:23
Speaker 1: good football. You know. We'll be rally behind him, you know,
31:26
Speaker 1: and uh, play hard together and hopefully we can make
31:29
Speaker 1: him look, you know, like he knows he's talking about So.
31:36
Speaker 1: I liked when Blake Bortles said, you know, as a quarterback,
31:39
Speaker 1: if you can't handle someone giving your opinion on you,
31:42
Speaker 1: it shouldn't affect your game. Planet shouldn't affect how you
31:44
Speaker 1: go on the field. Nothing should be an opinion on that. Um,
31:47
Speaker 1: this could have been a big distraction this week. I
31:50
Speaker 1: don't get the sense talking to guys that it is
31:53
Speaker 1: they know who Jalen is, they understand what he brings
31:56
Speaker 1: to the team. I thought different guys were obviously more
32:00
Speaker 1: willing to go into depth. Kelvin Smith didn't want to
32:02
Speaker 1: talk about it at all, Right, But when you have
32:03
Speaker 1: the leader of the offense and the leader of the defense,
32:05
Speaker 1: most thing, it's it's no big deal. It's about performance
32:08
Speaker 1: that sets the tone for the entire locker room. What
32:10
Speaker 1: could have been a a really difficult week in an
32:14
Speaker 1: ugly week has been pretty smooth. Well as far as
32:19
Speaker 1: the g Q article specific, Um, it's not. I mean,
32:25
Speaker 1: it's not like the teammates would be surprised that Jail
32:28
Speaker 1: They get it, they get who is They've been around
32:30
Speaker 1: him for two years. They like that part of them,
32:34
Speaker 1: they like being around him. They've it was a team
32:38
Speaker 1: last year if you remember that on several occasions to
32:41
Speaker 1: Sean Gibson going to Cleveland. Uh was very outspoken about Cleveland.
32:47
Speaker 1: There were other situations. Uh, there was the Blake Boarder
32:50
Speaker 1: situation late in the season where other teams we're criticizing him.
32:55
Speaker 1: The theme of this team in the last six weeks
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Speaker 1: this season last year was we're gonna rally around our guys,
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Speaker 1: And especially after the after the Ta Sean thing, all
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Speaker 1: the players were like, look, he'd say whatever he wants
33:06
Speaker 1: to say, We're gonna have his back. Um. First of all,
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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody on the on the team, when
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Speaker 1: they read the article, we're probably surprised if if you
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Speaker 1: had picked one guy to do those things and the
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Speaker 1: team had been jailing. So I didn't expect it to
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Speaker 1: be a big distraction for him. I thought the best
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Speaker 1: part was Blake's final quote when he talked about, you know,
33:26
Speaker 1: people have been critical to me. If if quarterbacks are
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Speaker 1: gonna worry about that, they probably have bigger problems. Vintage
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Speaker 1: Vintage all right. I don't think there's anything more to say.
33:36
Speaker 1: What will be interesting is Jalen returns on Monday. Uh
33:39
Speaker 1: during training camp, the locker room isn't open. They bring
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Speaker 1: players to us Monday, Jalen's back and the locker room
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Speaker 1: is open to the media. That'll be fun. I think
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Speaker 1: it could be a storyline. Probably probably will be all right.
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Speaker 1: here we go, Here we go. I think you should
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Speaker 1: go first zone on guys to watch this week. UM.
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Speaker 1: I chose Leonard for Nett for this, and it's really
36:53
Speaker 1: more the entire offensive line, the run blocking. UM. It's
36:58
Speaker 1: difficult in preseason to get a completely accurate feeld because
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Speaker 1: so much of The running game is how you do
37:06
Speaker 1: it over four quarters. Especially with this team, it's commitment
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Speaker 1: to it. They're gonna be times during a game where
37:12
Speaker 1: they don't run well early where they get to it late.
37:15
Speaker 1: So I don't necessarily think that if if they don't
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Speaker 1: run well in a preseason game, it's a disaster. Important
37:23
Speaker 1: and it's so important for this team to be able
37:25
Speaker 1: to run. This is not going to be a team
37:28
Speaker 1: that plays the running shoot pop gun offense. It's gonna
37:31
Speaker 1: base itself on the running game. I'd like to see
37:35
Speaker 1: maybe a couple more series from that first team bunch
37:38
Speaker 1: and see if they can do for an extended period
37:41
Speaker 1: what they did early. All of that said, I don't
37:45
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get the real test of this running
37:47
Speaker 1: game until Andrew Norwell gets back. So let's see what
37:50
Speaker 1: happens tomorrow night and see if it will or tomorw
37:52
Speaker 1: afternoon and see if it can translate going forward. My
37:57
Speaker 1: guy to watch is dj he and I thought he
37:58
Speaker 1: had the play of the day yesterday win and he
38:00
Speaker 1: got an interception from Kirk Cousins in the final play
38:02
Speaker 1: of the eleven on eleven. Kind of a jack of
38:04
Speaker 1: all trades. D J Hayden first round pick, and he's
38:07
Speaker 1: really I think with all this Jalen Ramsey stuff going on,
38:10
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are getting the chance to prove
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Speaker 1: themselves and I think this week he's definitely done that.
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Speaker 1: So I think on Saturday, I'm excited to watch him
38:16
Speaker 1: and he's a guy. Look, we've talked about the health
38:18
Speaker 1: of this defensive year ago. They were going to be
38:20
Speaker 1: injuries in the second or they're the guys that will
38:22
Speaker 1: have whether their soft tissue or things to keep them
38:24
Speaker 1: out over time. They're going to have to have DJ
38:27
Speaker 1: Hayden play multiple roles. So for him, Uh, every preseason
38:30
Speaker 1: rep on the outside is a big rep. Um. That
38:34
Speaker 1: was a big time interception by the way that he had.
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Speaker 1: He was twelfth overall pick, debated Kirk Cousins um and
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Speaker 1: it was a big time veteran interception thing with d
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Speaker 1: J Hayden. Good cover guy. Aaron Colvin was a fantastic nickelback. Uh,
38:49
Speaker 1: they feel better about d J Hayden if something happens
38:52
Speaker 1: to the outside outside guys that they're in better shape.
38:56
Speaker 1: So is he gonna be the blitz nickel that Aaron was?
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Speaker 1: I don't know In terms of coverage in terms of
39:02
Speaker 1: being able to slide outside of something that happens to
39:04
Speaker 1: one of those top guys. They feel like they're in
39:05
Speaker 1: good shape with him. Yeah, just options as a whole. Right.
39:08
Speaker 1: So my guy is Cam Robinson, and we talked about
39:10
Speaker 1: you know him this week against the Neil Hunter um.
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Speaker 1: But I go back to the a f C Championship
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Speaker 1: game and and when the game was on the line,
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Speaker 1: James Harrison, who's what forty years old, had a couple
39:22
Speaker 1: of rushes against Cam where he won. So when the
39:25
Speaker 1: game is at its biggest moment and you're facing the
39:28
Speaker 1: best pass rusher, the other team has to send it you.
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Speaker 1: He needs to be better this week. Getting the opportunity
39:34
Speaker 1: to line up against these Vikings. He did not see
39:36
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin, uh, the all Pro pass rushing defensive end
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Speaker 1: for the Vikings, who did not practice this week because
39:42
Speaker 1: of injury may or may not play on Saturday. They
39:45
Speaker 1: hadn't said anything is of yesterday, but the chance to
39:47
Speaker 1: get the reps in a preseason game. I know it's
39:49
Speaker 1: not the same as a playoff game, but lining up
39:52
Speaker 1: knowing you've got to stop that guy, I need to
39:55
Speaker 1: see more from him. In Key moments this year, and
39:58
Speaker 1: reps like this in the preseason go a long way
40:01
Speaker 1: towards it. So for however long the first team offensive
40:05
Speaker 1: line plays and he plays, I'll have my eyes focused
40:07
Speaker 1: on him, and I'll be watching Borders too. It'll be
40:10
Speaker 1: frank because it wasn't a great practice for the passing
40:14
Speaker 1: offense on Wednesday. This is a tough team to pass
40:18
Speaker 1: well against. They looked so good early. It was such
40:21
Speaker 1: a good drive against the Saints. I anticipated maybe playing
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Speaker 1: two this week. You would like to see. I don't
40:27
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna if you're gonna go right down
40:29
Speaker 1: to score touchdown this team, but you want to see
40:31
Speaker 1: some first downs. You want to see these receivers who
40:34
Speaker 1: looked really good against the Saints be able to at
40:37
Speaker 1: least get a sniff of separation against the secondary. If
40:39
Speaker 1: they play well tomorrow night, it's a good or they
40:42
Speaker 1: play it to more afternoon, it's a good sign for
40:44
Speaker 1: these guys, and it's a good test because for two
40:48
Speaker 1: series at least, I think they're gonna get a good
40:50
Speaker 1: test for this first team defense. All right, So that
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Speaker 1: wraps up Jack's drive time from Minneapolis. We certainly appreciate
40:57
Speaker 1: the time we spend with you every morning eight to
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Speaker 1: nine thirty. Don't forget the live stream by Universal Orlando.
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Speaker 1: So thanks to Patrick and Dave and Joe and the
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Speaker 1: whole crew a back in Jacksonville. Um, John Ashly, thanks
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Speaker 1: for carrying me all week. Oh no problem, don't mention it.
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Speaker 1: You feel like you're got enough credit now. Yes, they
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Speaker 1: had a look for the show. We'll see you Monday morning,
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Speaker 1: eight thirty from t I A A bank Field in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Everybody enjoyed the game one o'clock
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Speaker 1: kick off on Saturday,