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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "We're going to go out there and play hard-nosed defense." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm always good. Uh I woke up this morning. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: so you know it's always good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a a father, a man of God,
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  Speaker 2: and I get to come do something I enjoy doing
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  Speaker 2: every day. So there's not a worry in the world
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  Speaker 2: for me except uh, trying to stop the Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's a good thing. How much of ahead
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  Speaker 1: of ache kid? A quarterback like ANTHONYA.
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  Speaker 2: Richards is being big, fast, and he's a rookies so
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  Speaker 2: you don't have much NFL TA on him.
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  Speaker 1: That that's the thing about him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a a great athlete and he's developing into a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You see him make.
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  Speaker 2: Great throws at times. But the wild card is you
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  Speaker 2: never know where he's gonna be. He can scramble at
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  Speaker 2: any time. They can r use him in many different ways,
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  Speaker 2: so the unknown's there. We've gone back and tried to
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  Speaker 2: study as much as we can as far as what
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  Speaker 2: they like to do with young quarterbacks and what Florida
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  Speaker 2: uh us, how Florida used him. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, we're gonna go out there and do
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  Speaker 2: what we've been you know, programmed to do. Go out
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  Speaker 2: there and play hard, noose defense, the visual opponent, you know, on.
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  Speaker 1: The stakes already risen excitement allud. How important is it
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  Speaker 1: to get.
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  Speaker 2: It's always good to win the first one, and it's
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  Speaker 2: always good to win the next one.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you get the opportunity to go out there, you
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  Speaker 2: want to go out there and you want to get
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  Speaker 2: the victory. So that's what we focus on. Focus on
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  Speaker 2: preparing and everything else. Take care of the self. You
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  Speaker 2: prepare the right way and go out there and play
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  Speaker 2: the way we play, play hard and play tough, and
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  Speaker 2: believe in each other, and good things will happen.
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  Speaker 1: The leadership that you've seen within.
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  Speaker 2: It's really just the first time he's been recognized as
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  Speaker 2: a captain, but the leadership part of it, you see
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  Speaker 2: it all the time. He's a guy that helps other
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  Speaker 2: veterans and he helps young guys, and he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that does it the right way. He works hard, he's here
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  Speaker 2: all the all the time, he's lifting the weights, he's
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  Speaker 2: running extray, and he's a guy that hangs around Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: and you know, invites other guys to really just work
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  Speaker 2: hard with him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where leaders come from.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you want your best players, your leaders to
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  Speaker 2: be the hardest workers, and he's one of them. What
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  Speaker 2: your guys did knowing what they can do then you were.
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  Speaker 1: Going in last season.
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  Speaker 2: I think last year when we got here, really it
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  Speaker 2: was unknown. But the thing that we saw in film
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  Speaker 2: was they played hard. And this year we kind of
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  Speaker 2: understand that we're still gonna play hard, but we have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of understanding of how to use the
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  Speaker 2: pieces we have, and I think, uh, that's that's a
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  Speaker 2: big part. Being able to understand that we know the
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  Speaker 2: strengths and kind of the weakness of the team now
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  Speaker 2: and able to adjust to when we need to. The
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  Speaker 2: entire preseason and camp your defense up against this Jaguars offense.
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  Speaker 1: From your perspective, what makes them dangerous and how good
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  Speaker 1: do you think they can be? I think.
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  Speaker 2: The main thing about them is they can attack you
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  Speaker 2: in so many ways to so many I guess weapons
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  Speaker 2: that Trevor has to use.
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  Speaker 1: And Trevor's a weapon.
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  Speaker 2: He can throw it, he can run it when he
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  Speaker 2: needs to, and just a poise he's shown now. I
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  Speaker 2: think I t uh told you guys early on he's
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  Speaker 2: throwing in the windows this year that he didn't throw
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  Speaker 2: into last year, and it makes it tough on us
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  Speaker 2: cause we're sitting here like scratching our head, like how
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  Speaker 2: can we stop this? But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: we're glad we have him on our team and excited
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  Speaker 2: to see him go out there and get going.
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  Speaker 1: From a line. How challenging is it to defend against
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  Speaker 1: It's really assignment football.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody has a job to do, which that happens on
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  Speaker 2: every play, but.
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  Speaker 1: Really when you're going up against his own read.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of you have to be in the right
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  Speaker 2: spot and not really fighting the ball. Just understand that
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  Speaker 2: if your guy hands the ball this time, you still
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  Speaker 2: have to have somebody responsible for the quarterback, but if
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  Speaker 2: he pulls it got to be there also. So it
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  Speaker 2: really makes us focus on our fundamentals where our eyes
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  Speaker 2: are all the time, and then understanding the technique that's
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  Speaker 2: required on that play just a little bit. It can
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  Speaker 2: I think that's one of the ways, uh the offense
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  Speaker 2: try to sew down the pass rush. But at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, we'll get opportunities if we do
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to do and stop the run and get
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  Speaker 2: him in certain situations.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what we look to do, you know. Nothing's
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  Speaker 1: gonna change with us.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna stop the run, play hard, and try to
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  Speaker 2: pressure the quarterback and that's how we play and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna continue to play.
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  Speaker 1: That way from this time maybe a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: Size wise, he's bigger he was, he was huge last year,
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  Speaker 2: he's bigger this year. But just his growth, Uh, you
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  Speaker 2: look at him. He's more comfortable. And we were talking
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  Speaker 2: earlier about leadership and he's the guy.
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  Speaker 1: That you see he's a little more vocal now.
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  Speaker 2: He understands the defense and he understands how he can
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  Speaker 2: affect the defense in a positive way.
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  Speaker 1: And we really excited to see him go play.
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  Speaker 2: Song cornerbacks behind the top three guys Brad Buster and
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  Speaker 2: Christian braswell, because I mean, as a coordinator, what do
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  Speaker 2: you like about the potential those guys just uh, the
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  Speaker 2: abilities make plays. You see saw so far in training
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  Speaker 2: camp and in the last couple of preseason games, guys
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  Speaker 2: got their hands on balls and we look at you know,
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  Speaker 2: can they.
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  Speaker 1: Tackle, do they play physical? Are they in the right spots?
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  Speaker 2: And those guys showed that they can do that and
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  Speaker 2: when they get the opportunity, you know, hopefully they'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to impress us.
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  Speaker 1: Like that.
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  Speaker 2: How do you see the past rest rotation kind of
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  Speaker 2: guessing itself out as I think we have a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of guys that we're gonna throw out there, and really
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  Speaker 2: we look at it like running backs. The hot hand's
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  Speaker 2: gonna go. If you got a guy that's out there
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  Speaker 2: that's producing and getting to the quarterback, he'll get more opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: And they know that and they understand that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we got a bunch of guys that can rush a Pastors,
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  Speaker 2: so you know you gotta be on your A game, right,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.