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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, first of all, Um, I've been over here a
- 0:02Speaker 1: couple of times, um, and really enjoy the trip. Um,
- 0:09Speaker 1: if you're an NFL fan, Uh, this is a this
- 0:12Speaker 1: is a great venue of great game to be a
- 0:14Speaker 1: part of. And and for the Jaguars and the organization
- 0:18Speaker 1: you know, and in Mr Kahn and what he's invested
- 0:21Speaker 1: in over here. Um, it means a lot to him,
- 0:24Speaker 1: means a lot to the organization, means a lot to
- 0:25Speaker 1: our players, you know, to come over here and have
- 0:28Speaker 1: such a great fan base you know here, Um that
- 0:31Speaker 1: that support the Jags and and um, you know we
- 0:34Speaker 1: look forward to it. Um. It should be a great
- 0:36Speaker 1: crowd you know Sunday and and uh it's you know
- 0:40Speaker 1: it's something that our players feed off of. Yeah, you
- 0:54Speaker 1: know it. The two other times I've been over here,
- 0:58Speaker 1: you know we've traveled on Thursday. Uh, getten here today
- 1:00Speaker 1: and and keep keep you know, keep things moving, keep
- 1:04Speaker 1: things rolling. And you know, I really don't think there's
- 1:06Speaker 1: a right or wrong answer, you know, um for when
- 1:09Speaker 1: when teams come over But UM, I enjoy the Thursday
- 1:13Speaker 1: into Friday. You know it's it's kind of a shock
- 1:16Speaker 1: the system once you get here. But um, it's it's uh,
- 1:20Speaker 1: you know, we got a great team that it spends
- 1:22Speaker 1: a lot of hours putting this trip together, you know,
- 1:25Speaker 1: and um it's it's seamless, and I just kind of
- 1:28Speaker 1: get out of the way and let them take over
- 1:30Speaker 1: and they just they just tell me where to be. Yeah,
- 1:40Speaker 1: you know, And again I don't think there's a right
- 1:42Speaker 1: or wrong answer. I like sleeping in my bed for
- 1:46Speaker 1: a couple more days. I like game planning and preparing
- 1:50Speaker 1: you know at home, um, with with our offices and
- 1:54Speaker 1: the field and everything. It's just it's just my preference,
- 1:56Speaker 1: you know, quite honestly. Um. But again I don't think
- 2:00Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the right way. It's just that's the
- 2:03Speaker 1: way I enjoy. I enjoy doing it, you know, get
- 2:05Speaker 1: the days in, you know, and get the guys um
- 2:09Speaker 1: somewhat acclimated best we can, and prepare before we make
- 2:12Speaker 1: the trip over. Yeah. He uh, you know, he worked
- 2:19Speaker 1: today limited limited basis. Um, we are going to try
- 2:22Speaker 1: to push him one more day tomorrow. I'll see where
- 2:24Speaker 1: he's at. But um, if he can't, then you know,
- 2:27Speaker 1: we'll be back to where we were, you know last
- 2:29Speaker 1: weekend with with Christian, you know, doing the punts and Jamachael,
- 2:33Speaker 1: uh you know, on the kickoff returns and things of
- 2:36Speaker 1: that nature. But but we'll see one more day, see
- 2:39Speaker 1: where he's at. And we're optimistic back obviously appear Travis
- 2:56Speaker 1: does that necessarily Travis, I've I mean, I believe he
- 3:06Speaker 1: can definitely get more carries, more touches, uh, you know, obviously,
- 3:12Speaker 1: But but we've got a lot of faith and belief
- 3:15Speaker 1: in Jamachael and obviously Snoop and and you know that's
- 3:18Speaker 1: why we drafted Snoop and and and got him in here.
- 3:21Speaker 1: So it's a good opportunity for him. But we know
- 3:23Speaker 1: Travis is going to get the bulk of the bulk
- 3:25Speaker 1: of the work. And but at the same time, those
- 3:27Speaker 1: other two, um have to be ready to go. And um,
- 3:30Speaker 1: you know, excited to watch those three play on Sunday. Yeah,
- 3:46Speaker 1: I listen, I've I've played or coached against him a lot,
- 3:49Speaker 1: and that's one of the things that that I appreciate
- 3:52Speaker 1: about him. His his his willingness to run, you know,
- 3:55Speaker 1: and and extend plays and plays tough that way. And um,
- 3:59Speaker 1: you know, I would expect that he's pretty close to
- 4:03Speaker 1: if he takes the field, and AND's something that our
- 4:05Speaker 1: defense has got to be prepared for and they gotta
- 4:07Speaker 1: understand that, you know, when when certain things break down,
- 4:11Speaker 1: he's gonna take off and run. And you know, we've
- 4:14Speaker 1: got to make sure that we uh, you know, do
- 4:17Speaker 1: our job, especially on scrambles, that we attach ourselves to
- 4:20Speaker 1: a receiver number one and then number two, make sure
- 4:23Speaker 1: that that he you know, we limit the amount of
- 4:26Speaker 1: yards that he can't get, you know, if he does scramble. Yeah,
- 4:35Speaker 1: you just want me to give the game plan away.
- 4:38Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean, I might have
- 4:41Speaker 1: been born at night. It went last night. You know
- 4:55Speaker 1: what what probably his impressed me about Travis one h Um.
- 5:00Speaker 1: You know, we we know as athleticism, we know what
- 5:02Speaker 1: he's done, you know, in college and obviously is short
- 5:05Speaker 1: time playing last year. But I think, um, the way
- 5:11Speaker 1: he continues to develop and grow every single week. You know,
- 5:16Speaker 1: he he doesn't make the same mistake twice and that's
- 5:20Speaker 1: a growth mentality that he has. And you know, he's
- 5:23Speaker 1: a hard worker. He hard works hard in practice. He
- 5:25Speaker 1: wants to get better, he wants to learn, h he studies,
- 5:30Speaker 1: you know, and those are all things that really kind
- 5:31Speaker 1: of stand out to me. You know, obviously this is
- 5:35Speaker 1: my first the first year to be around him. But
- 5:37Speaker 1: but those are thinking for a young running back. And
- 5:40Speaker 1: how he uh also takes care of himself physically, you
- 5:43Speaker 1: know once he's off the field. UH is a big
- 5:45Speaker 1: part of that. And you know he does a nice
- 5:48Speaker 1: job there. Y you know, Trevor's Trevor is another one
- 6:02Speaker 1: that's learning our system. He's growing in our system. You know,
- 6:06Speaker 1: he's got that growth mentality where he wants to get
- 6:08Speaker 1: better every time he takes the field. You know, I
- 6:10Speaker 1: think these last couple of weeks he's kind of proven
- 6:12Speaker 1: that and and um, you know, he just just a
- 6:16Speaker 1: great leader in the locker room, you know, on the field,
- 6:18Speaker 1: great communicator with us as a staff and and really
- 6:22Speaker 1: has um you know, really embraced I think just new
- 6:29Speaker 1: staff you know in three years, right, three years, different
- 6:34Speaker 1: head coach, different coordinator, different position coach these last three years.
- 6:38Speaker 1: And how he sort of handled that and matured through that,
- 6:41Speaker 1: UM And and that's that's hard to do, you know
- 6:45Speaker 1: for a young player. And he continues to get better,
- 6:48Speaker 1: continues to grow and and uh, I think I think
- 6:51Speaker 1: you know, the sky can be you know the limit
- 6:54Speaker 1: with him. You know, that's that's a big part of
- 7:15Speaker 1: the game nowadays is the is not only the physical
- 7:19Speaker 1: part of it, but the mental part as well. And
- 7:21Speaker 1: that's something that we we spend a lot of a
- 7:23Speaker 1: lot of time, um, helping our players and providing the
- 7:27Speaker 1: resources you know, that they need if if they're dealing
- 7:30Speaker 1: with something, you know, off the football field, and maybe
- 7:32Speaker 1: even the stress of playing you know, sometimes can affect players.
- 7:37Speaker 1: And we've got a great team in place with the
- 7:40Speaker 1: Jaguars organization that um, they do a great job providing resources,
- 7:45Speaker 1: they do a great job of providing one on one counseling.
- 7:48Speaker 1: They just do a great job of the support away
- 7:51Speaker 1: from football you know that these players need. And and UM,
- 7:56Speaker 1: it goes a long way, uh, you know, to be
- 8:00Speaker 1: able to see the health and mental health of these
- 8:01Speaker 1: young young athletes because there's there's a lot of demands
- 8:05Speaker 1: on their time. There's a lot of demands to play. Um,
- 8:09Speaker 1: social media is a real thing and and and there's
- 8:12Speaker 1: a lot of stress there and being able to handle
- 8:14Speaker 1: that and sort of compartmentalizing everything, I think goes a
- 8:18Speaker 1: long way to the success they have on the field. Yeah,
- 8:36Speaker 1: don't fumble, no, I mean, you know, it's it's it's
- 8:43Speaker 1: something that we talk about. It's something we work on
- 8:45Speaker 1: every week. We talked about a lot um and I
- 8:48Speaker 1: don't I'm gonna type of coach too. I don't want
- 8:50Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time talking about turnovers and interceptions,
- 8:53Speaker 1: fumbles and that, because I don't. I don't want it
- 8:55Speaker 1: to like penetrate their brain, you know. And now that's
- 9:00Speaker 1: all they're thinking about, so they become hesitant on the field.
- 9:03Speaker 1: But look, they're they're professionals. They understand it. We've got
- 9:06Speaker 1: to take care of the football, you know. And and uh, um,
- 9:10Speaker 1: you know, we've we've we've been okay there. We can
- 9:13Speaker 1: be better obviously, um and and the guys know it.
- 9:17Speaker 1: But but we do reiterate it each week and work
- 9:20Speaker 1: on good Yeah one more oh yeah, m you know,
- 9:55Speaker 1: I think I think this is a trip that that
- 9:56Speaker 1: that does a lot of that what you're asking, um,
- 10:00Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, we are traveling, you know, a long way,
- 10:02Speaker 1: you know, into a different country and and and it's
- 10:05Speaker 1: really opportunity for a lot of these players who have
- 10:07Speaker 1: never traveled out of the United States to experience a
- 10:10Speaker 1: different culture, a different world, a whole whole different um,
- 10:14Speaker 1: you know, lifestyle and and and it's positives good, you know,
- 10:17Speaker 1: and and it's I encourage them to take advantage even
- 10:21Speaker 1: tonight or tomorrow afternoon, to you know, experience that you know,
- 10:24Speaker 1: and and UM do it with their teammates you know,
- 10:27Speaker 1: and and it just, uh, it builds more I think, unity, camaraderie,
- 10:33Speaker 1: the more chances the players can hang together, um, and
- 10:36Speaker 1: and then it will show up on the field, you know,
- 10:39Speaker 1: eventually