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Press Pass | HC Doug Pederson on Jaguars Bye Week · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: To go to the top topics and the tea came
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit yesterday in the first game.
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  Speaker 2: How how real was that to you?
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  Speaker 3: And how how much of passage maybe a function of
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  Speaker 3: solectrician you already had this year and just you know,
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  Speaker 3: all the play I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, I think you just kind of answered the question. One.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been on the field a lot in the
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  Speaker 4: last four games, you know there, I think it was
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  Speaker 4: right around eighty eighty snaps on average, you know, give
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  Speaker 4: or take a few plays. That's a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in a row consecutively, in a row to.
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  Speaker 2: Be playing.
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  Speaker 4: Eleven straight games, you know, uh, two weeks in London.
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  Speaker 4: And look, I'm not not making excuses for anything. I'm
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  Speaker 4: just kind of trying to paint a picture. And then
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  Speaker 4: and then you add on top of that, we're not winning.
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  Speaker 4: We're not we're not executing, we're not winning games. So
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  Speaker 4: I think I think all of that from a team perspective,
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  Speaker 4: not just the defense, but a team perspective.
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  Speaker 2: The guys are the.
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  Speaker 4: Guys retired, the guys are mentally and physically fatigued. This
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  Speaker 4: is a good time to step away and take a
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  Speaker 4: break and recharge.
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  Speaker 2: For the last six games.
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  Speaker 1: The margin of defeat yesterday, how much of that was
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  Speaker 1: the function of playing what everybody regards as a really,
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  Speaker 1: really good football team, and how much of it was,
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  Speaker 1: if any at all, your players in any way letting
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  Speaker 1: go of the rope a little bit in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe they're letting go of the rope.
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  Speaker 4: I don't. It is a good football team. They are good,
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  Speaker 4: and they're gonna play for a long time. I think
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  Speaker 4: this year, you know. I mean, that's that's just without
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  Speaker 4: without question in the NFC. I look at it, and
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  Speaker 4: even visiting with guys today and seeing the guys today,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 2: They are they're they're tired.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's been you know, each week, each Monday, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we haven't felt very good. And and that also weighs
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  Speaker 4: on it. You're going into the next week, You're trying
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  Speaker 4: to motivate yourself again, You're trying to get yourself, you know,
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  Speaker 4: pick back up for another game and excuse me. And
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  Speaker 4: that's hard, that's hard emotionally, you know. And and then
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  Speaker 4: like I said, you you you go out, you don't
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  Speaker 4: coach well, you don't play well. Obviously, what result of
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  Speaker 4: you're trying to trying to get At the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, you are trying to win a game. And
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  Speaker 4: and I see these guys practice and and do the
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  Speaker 4: things during the week and and not be rewarded for
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  Speaker 4: that on on Sundays and and so that also plays
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  Speaker 4: a part, you know in this as well.
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  Speaker 2: Can you confirm the news about Gabe? And then was
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  Speaker 2: anybody else banged up to the point where what was
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  Speaker 2: the news you heard about A Davis? I know, I
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure you asked the question first before
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  Speaker 2: I give any information. See how this works. But does
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  Speaker 2: it look like yes, he is.
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  Speaker 4: He is going to miss the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 4: It is, it is confirmed to this morning. So gosh,
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  Speaker 4: I I hate it for him. He's battled through some
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  Speaker 4: injury this season and but he was in good spirits
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  Speaker 4: today when I saw him. But he'll he'll miss the
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  Speaker 4: remainder of the year. Everybody else came out, you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: Ezra just kind of tweaked his ankle, same one he's
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  Speaker 4: had and he's fine. Walker little came out, had a
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  Speaker 4: little knee tweak in there. He's gonna be okay. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: else is Cisco or Tyson, you know, he came off
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  Speaker 4: kind of holding all the three DB's, Darby, Buster, Tyson,
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  Speaker 4: are all gonna be fine?
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  Speaker 1: What about Morse?
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  Speaker 3: You get poked in the young.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he got poked in the eye, came out for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit there that actually went back in the
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  Speaker 4: game late, and uh, he'll be He'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: So have you said post game that he would evaluate
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  Speaker 1: potential changes to your staff, potential changes at hand? Have
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  Speaker 1: you decided on anything.
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  Speaker 2: No, still evaluating.
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  Speaker 5: Have you had conversations with Shod that that's your.
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  Speaker 2: Back just after the game.
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  Speaker 5: Are you meeting with Shaw today tonight? Mmmm?
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean not yet.
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  Speaker 5: But I mean, you don't have anything schedule, and there's
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  Speaker 5: something in books further, I wouldn't tell you, But no,
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  Speaker 5: that's uh who who told Shad that this was the
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  Speaker 5: best team ever assembled? I mean, I can't imagine that
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  Speaker 5: him being away from them, that he just decided that
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  Speaker 5: on his own.
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  Speaker 4: I I don't, I don't know, okay, I I I'm
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  Speaker 4: not privy to the conversations that Shod has or who's
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  Speaker 4: who's he talking?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I just I don't know. I can't answer
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  Speaker 2: that was it you?
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  Speaker 1: No? Okay?
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's a lot of play this time of year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I get it, I get it. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we talked. We Yeah, no, we talk a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we pre pre season, offseason, I mean going
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  Speaker 4: into the season. You got high expectations obviously for your
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  Speaker 4: football team, as you should everybody does, start of uh camp,
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  Speaker 4: start of the regular season, and you know rightfully, so, do.
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  Speaker 5: You have the authorities to fire Ryan Nielsen yourself or
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  Speaker 5: would you have to get up proved through Trent.
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  Speaker 2: Or shot or both. Nah. I would definitely have a
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  Speaker 2: conversation with with them first if that were the case.
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  Speaker 2: But we're not. We're not. There is there is there any.
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  Speaker 5: Unwritten rule in the NFL about firing coaches in this
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  Speaker 5: like two or eleven firing assistance when it.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like I think you gotta be.
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  Speaker 4: I think you gotta be really, really careful when you
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  Speaker 4: start pointing fingers at certain people.
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  Speaker 2: It's a dangerous thing.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not gonna do that, not doing it, not
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  Speaker 4: right now, because that's as a head coach in this
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  Speaker 4: league that's going through what we're going through. You're you're
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  Speaker 4: you're pointing a finger, and if it's gonna be pointed,
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  Speaker 4: it needs to be pointed at me.
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  Speaker 2: To start with me, right, So that's enough on that you.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously you're gonna get a lot of heat, as you
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  Speaker 6: just mentioned, But what what do you Kelly's fans that
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  Speaker 6: that had such high hopes and they're seeing what they
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  Speaker 6: saw yesterday, just a franchise worst.
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  Speaker 2: In so many categories.
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  Speaker 4: I'll say this, and I told the team this today,
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  Speaker 4: and I told to him after the game, that the
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  Speaker 4: team that was out there yesterday that it was not us.
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  Speaker 4: That's not who we are, that's not who we stand for.
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  Speaker 4: There's enough pride in that locker room, enough pride on
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  Speaker 4: the coaching staff to whether we win, you know, whether
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  Speaker 4: we win the game or not. Right, how we performed,
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  Speaker 4: it's not who we are. It's not who we are.
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  Speaker 4: It's not it's not how I coach, it's not how
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  Speaker 4: we prepared during the week. It's not how the players
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  Speaker 4: practice and and what they put their bodies through. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think many people understand what these guys go through
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  Speaker 4: during during the course of a week.
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  Speaker 2: These guys play, and this is this is across the league.
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  Speaker 2: This is not just us.
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  Speaker 4: This is everybody who puts a uniform on game days.
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  Speaker 4: They're they're playing through pain, they're playing through injury. They're
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  Speaker 4: playing hurt and sore, and especially this time of the year,
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  Speaker 4: and so my my hat is off to those players
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  Speaker 4: because of what they battle through. And so you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can. You can criticize me all you want, point
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  Speaker 4: the finger at me. That's fine because it's where it starts.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, for the players, uh, they they put
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  Speaker 4: their best foot forward every single day.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday was not who we are.
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  Speaker 4: And to Jean's point, I mean this is this is
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  Speaker 4: an exhausted team right now and we need this week
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  Speaker 4: to to get rejuvenated again, get fresh again, get ready
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  Speaker 4: to go for the last you know, six weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Regrets about you?
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  Speaker 6: You had tough camps last couple of years too, and
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  Speaker 6: sometimes it's worked out. But now as you look back,
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  Speaker 6: do you ever regrets that how hard you guys practice,
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  Speaker 6: how long you practice from camp to.
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  Speaker 2: Em at some of the early stages of the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe it's caught up team. I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I you know, look, I always tell the guys too,
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  Speaker 4: there's there's no substitution for your hard work in preparation.
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  Speaker 2: Right, this is a football this is a football game
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  Speaker 2: of sport.
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  Speaker 4: It's contact. You gotta put pads on. You got to
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  Speaker 4: do those things to condition your body. The way camp
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  Speaker 4: and the way the schedule and the way the CBA
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  Speaker 4: and way everything is sort of laid out for us.
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  Speaker 2: To do that once a week, you know, twice a
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  Speaker 2: week at the most when when camp starts. When really
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  Speaker 2: when pads come on, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: And you got to remember too, we we do mote
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  Speaker 4: the bulk of our hitting before we play a game, right,
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  Speaker 4: and then we do maybe that second week because we
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  Speaker 4: do a joint practice, right, so, and then after that
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  Speaker 4: you're kind of getting ready for week one. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: very conscious of getting the guys ready.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at that Miami game, we're
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  Speaker 2: flying around, we're fresh, we're you know, our guys were
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  Speaker 2: in great shape, right.
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  Speaker 4: So that's the goal coming out of camp is being
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  Speaker 4: in that position now as the season goes, right, the
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  Speaker 4: bodies were down, where's on the mind. Losing obviously doesn't
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  Speaker 4: help that, right it Actually I guess it. I guess
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  Speaker 4: it does kind of help that, right.
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  Speaker 2: I Mean, it just kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Fans the flame a little bit, and it and it's hard,
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  Speaker 4: it's hard to to each week pick yourself back up
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  Speaker 4: when when you're defeated, and it's.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a uh again, a credit to the
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  Speaker 2: players for.
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  Speaker 4: Rolling up their sleeves each week, going to work, getting
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  Speaker 4: ready to play another football game, putting their bodies on
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  Speaker 4: the line one more time, right, you know, uh, for themselves,
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  Speaker 4: for their families, for the fans, in order to win
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  Speaker 4: a game.
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  Speaker 5: Following up on that, what about London. I know you
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  Speaker 5: won some games coming out of London last year, so
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  Speaker 5: maybe that eventure catches up to you this year. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: four game Street after four games in the Street, after London,
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  Speaker 5: is there any think there's any correlations at disappointed worts.
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  Speaker 2: To I think it's something we need to take a
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  Speaker 2: look at where the buy is, you know, ten days
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  Speaker 2: over there.
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  Speaker 4: I know we always go early in the season, so
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  Speaker 4: having to buy early in the years, I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 4: like that as much, but I think we need to
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  Speaker 4: take a look at where it is, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: the timing of it as we move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Always the guys loose tomorrow or today.
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  Speaker 4: No, my plan was to bring him in tomorrow and
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  Speaker 4: we're still We're just still getting together tomorrow in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: We got a couple of things we got to take
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  Speaker 4: care of, sort of business side. But other than that,
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  Speaker 4: my plan was to get him in here and do
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  Speaker 4: a little work tomorrow as well. But I think where
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  Speaker 4: we are, the best thing is just cut them loose,
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  Speaker 4: let them, let them start getting healthy, let them get fresh,
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  Speaker 4: get away, get away from me. I'll get away from them,
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  Speaker 4: you know type thing, and enjoy the week. You guys
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  Speaker 4: even watch we did this morning and again to that point,
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  Speaker 4: if if I'm not and I and I shared with this,
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  Speaker 4: you know this morning, if if I don't keep my
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  Speaker 4: foot on the gas with these guys, then and it's
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  Speaker 4: almost like you are pulling the plug on the on
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  Speaker 4: the season. And so I'm not gonna do that for
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  Speaker 4: these players. I'm gonna keep pushing them. I'm gonna keep
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  Speaker 4: showing them. I'm gonna show them the good, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: show them the bad. We have to get through these games,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we gotta watch the tape and in in
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  Speaker 4: order to in order to get better.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think it's important to do that, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why we did it today.
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  Speaker 6: That is up for.
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  Speaker 5: Potential change that you're evaluating right now.
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, I really wish everything's but let's just put this way.
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  Speaker 4: Everything's on the table. Let's leave it at that. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of times after those tough losses, you talked about
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  Speaker 4: wanting to get back out of the field to get
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  Speaker 4: the bad taste, talking about lives.
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  Speaker 2: It's time different cause I think it's a reset. This
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  Speaker 2: is a reset.
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  Speaker 4: If we're nine and two, I'd be like, no, let's
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  Speaker 4: not have a break, Let's keep rolling. I think you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. But the where we are and
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  Speaker 4: and you know, still six games to go, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's time to to just hit the reset button and
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  Speaker 4: and just sort of rewind, you know, kind of get
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  Speaker 4: get like I said, get fresh again. Coaches and players
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  Speaker 4: and the coaches need and this is what I challenge
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  Speaker 4: them to this week. This week, we got to go
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  Speaker 4: back and we gotta look at everything right from a
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  Speaker 4: schematic standpoint, player standpoint, personnel standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff. This week.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, if we're if we come out
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  Speaker 4: of this buy and we just kind of keep doing
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  Speaker 4: the same things and trying to expect different results, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's probably not gonna happen, right, So we gotta do
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  Speaker 4: some little little things, some minor things.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it. And that's what we're gonna spend these
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  Speaker 2: next couple of days doing do you.
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  Speaker 4: Look at it and make changes to things even if
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  Speaker 4: you don't they're broken, just to try and.
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  Speaker 2: See if that can.
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  Speaker 4: If it's not broke, don't fix it, right, I mean
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  Speaker 4: that that just goes without saying, you know, if if
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  Speaker 4: if something's working, let's let's figure out how to keep
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  Speaker 4: doing that right and and but if it's something we
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  Speaker 4: like and we need to tweak it, we'll tweak it.
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  Speaker 2: But if it's if it's working, I'm not gonna fix it.
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  Speaker 2: No need to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I uh, let's just say there are things that
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  Speaker 4: that are that are we need to coach some things
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  Speaker 4: a little bit better, see things, anticipate them.
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  Speaker 2: There's some there's there, there's there's there's some good on
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  Speaker 2: the film. There's That's the thing about it too. I think.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes people are so fixated. I think on the final result,
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  Speaker 4: which is listen, it's it's the it's the number one thing.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. Okay, it's a win or it's a loss,
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, got it.
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  Speaker 4: But it's how did we get there? What did we
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  Speaker 4: do in between? From snap the whistle? And there are
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  Speaker 4: some really good things. There's there's some physicality things. There's
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  Speaker 4: some you know, some provement in the secondary b T
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  Speaker 4: obviously is a bright spot. I mean, there's there's some
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  Speaker 4: things out there that, you know, Brent and strange, there's
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  Speaker 4: some things out there that that that leads you to
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  Speaker 4: believe that we got to continue going down that path
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  Speaker 4: and and and sort of find ways to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: either get the ball to one m or at least
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  Speaker 4: give 'em opportunities and during the game.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks coach,