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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Jaguars' Offensive Growth Ahead of Texans · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: So you got Jacobe Myer's on the team. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: know you guys only chasing that, but in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what you've seen from getting so far, what is he like.
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  Speaker 2: He's been great so far. I mean, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: just just met him. So obviously I don't know him
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  Speaker 2: super well. But you know, Mac Jones actually texted me
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  Speaker 2: when when we got him, uh, I guess it was yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: He texted me and said, you know you're gonna love him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the favorite guys I played with.
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  Speaker 2: So he said great things about him, and I talked
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  Speaker 2: to Jacoby about that today. They played together iy thing
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  Speaker 2: for three years in New England. So just hearing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Max say that. And I've heard a lot of really
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  Speaker 2: positive things about him as a person, and then I've
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  Speaker 2: watched him play a good bit and I've always really
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  Speaker 2: liked his game and the way he plays, and he's
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  Speaker 2: a he's a great player. So uh, obviously I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to add him and get him involved and just get
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  Speaker 2: him up to speed as soon as possible. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: he seems really smart, like he's picking it up pretty
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  Speaker 2: quick already. Obviously, Gonna help him as much as I
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  Speaker 2: can and get him going. But yeah, glad we have him.
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  Speaker 1: That's you know, did you.
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  Speaker 2: Work within after practice just to try to get him
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  Speaker 2: more up to speed or you try to add more mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll we'll spend some time. We spent a
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  Speaker 2: little time today after practice. It's it's a balance because
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to He's been playing in Vegas all
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  Speaker 2: year too, so it's not like he's been chilling. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's been playing and so he's got some some miles
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  Speaker 2: on him from the season. So you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: overload a guy too much. You want to feel fresh
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  Speaker 2: going in Sunday. But as far as talking through stuff,
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  Speaker 2: the conversation has been pretty consistent throughout the day. And
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  Speaker 2: then today we're gonna spend some time together to going
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  Speaker 2: through some things and just getting on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: So that's important, and then getting as many extra reps
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  Speaker 2: as possible. But you also want to keep guys fresh
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  Speaker 2: for game day, and you know, you could run in
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  Speaker 2: a million times during the week, but you want them
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  Speaker 2: to feel good on Sunday, go out there and fly around,
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  Speaker 2: and which I don't think I'll have any problem with.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he looked great today and you know practice
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  Speaker 2: is hard, and it was good to see.
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  Speaker 1: Talk on and not winning those type of games. I
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  Speaker 1: think that he took an exception today. So kind of
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  Speaker 1: going into this game, how do you keep the emotions
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  Speaker 1: and shading that way outside of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important in every game. Actually in a division
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  Speaker 2: game where there is that there's gonna be that edge.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's gonna be physical, competitive game. I mean
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  Speaker 2: every week is, but especially in your division. So we
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  Speaker 2: kind of know that that's what it's gonna be like,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we got to keep we got to
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  Speaker 2: keep our composure, stay focused, stay you know, locked in
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  Speaker 2: on the details. That's what matters execution. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a big thing for us, is just staying on track.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously you know it's gonna be a physical, competitive
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  Speaker 2: game and that's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Matter, and you know it always will.
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  Speaker 2: But we got to keep our composure and I have
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  Speaker 2: confidence that will do that.
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  Speaker 1: But that's important for sure. Houston's defense obviously top ranked.
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  Speaker 3: Do they run a lot of stuff that they do
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  Speaker 3: very well or is it a narrow scheme.
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  Speaker 1: That they just do exceptional? Yeah, it's more the latter.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just they do what they do and they
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  Speaker 2: do it well, obviously they have wrinkles, they have game
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  Speaker 2: plan things that they you know, throw in every week
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  Speaker 2: that might be a little bit different, but I'd say overall,
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  Speaker 2: their scheme is been pretty consistent throughout the years and
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  Speaker 2: throughout this coaching tree.
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  Speaker 1: So they just do it well. And they have good players.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's they play hard, they're physical, they have
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  Speaker 2: a really good group up front, they can cover in
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  Speaker 2: the back end, their linebackers fly around. I mean you
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  Speaker 2: add all that together, it makes a pretty good defense.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean they just play hard, well coached, physical,
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, they get their hands on the ball
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  Speaker 2: and they get a lot of turnovers. They do all
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  Speaker 2: those things. They do all the things that make good
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  Speaker 2: defenses good, they do them well. So you know they're
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  Speaker 2: a good unit.
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  Speaker 3: Als.
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  Speaker 2: Parker Washington grown is a guy that you can count
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  Speaker 2: on eight catches against the Raiders on nine targets.
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  Speaker 3: But how has he developed that chemistry with the pay games?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think you know, throughout the years, he's had to
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  Speaker 2: step up a lot of different times, and it's been
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't been quite as I guess consistent until this year,
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  Speaker 2: not from him, but just the amount he's been asked
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  Speaker 2: to step up and kind of fill that role. In
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  Speaker 2: the past, it's been kind of here and there with injuries,
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  Speaker 2: and he's always done a great job. And I've always
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  Speaker 2: liked how he played, and I fel like we had
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good chemistry that's definitely grown, especially this year
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  Speaker 2: and just seeing them, you know, make play after play,
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  Speaker 2: and the way he practices. I think that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Is he practices so hard and you get to see
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  Speaker 2: every look full speed, and the way he comes off
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  Speaker 2: the ball. I mean, he really works his tail off,
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  Speaker 2: and I think as a quarterback that gives you a
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  Speaker 2: lot of confidence because you've seen all these different routes
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  Speaker 2: full speed and you know exactly.
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  Speaker 1: How I was gonna run it.
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  Speaker 2: He's really good at communicating, always comes and talks to
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  Speaker 2: me after different reps, and I think all those over
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  Speaker 2: the years kind of banked reps have stacked up to
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  Speaker 2: where now our connection is is getting stronger and stronger,
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  Speaker 2: and you see it showing on Sundays and he's making
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  Speaker 2: a lot of plays for us kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of fielding off of that give us your perspective on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday and maybe you don't even realize it when you're
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  Speaker 3: down to just Johnny as the tight end, and so
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  Speaker 3: you got Johnny as the one tight end. Obviously the
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  Speaker 3: plan was for Cole to be in that jumbo package.
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  Speaker 3: But then in the fourth quarter when it's Tim Austin
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  Speaker 3: Parker as your wide receivers and eleven person a, like,
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  Speaker 3: do you realize as the quarterback like, oh, okay, Like
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  Speaker 3: I'm it's shifting who I actually have at my disposal
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  Speaker 3: to be throwing the ball to and who's in front
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  Speaker 3: of bank.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you realize that. I think it's important
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  Speaker 2: to know to know who you're throwing to. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there is an aspect of that, but also you have
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  Speaker 2: the same job to do. And I trust these guys
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  Speaker 2: that are coming in. And the biggest thing is like
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  Speaker 2: is guys know what to do. Play hard. You know
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  Speaker 2: when when they're open, they're gonna get the ball. And
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of confidence in our guys to
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  Speaker 2: know what to do and to play hard.
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  Speaker 1: So at that point, you know, the haze.
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  Speaker 2: In the bar and you gotta go out there and
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  Speaker 2: let it rip and see who's open and give them
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  Speaker 2: a shot. And those guys did a great job of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maximizing their opportunities and at the end, I'm
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  Speaker 2: echoing the personnel, but I don't even know who's coming
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  Speaker 2: in the game anymore at the end because everyone's switching around.
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  Speaker 2: I'm having to, you know, talk to certain guys because
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  Speaker 2: you plan, you have your game plan, and you plan
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  Speaker 2: on having a certain guy in a certain position. And
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  Speaker 2: then when people get hurt, now you're like telling people,
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  Speaker 2: are you go here? Because it's the personnel doesn't talk
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  Speaker 2: to you anymore because you weren't in the plan and now,
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  Speaker 2: So there was a lot of that changing around, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought the guys did a good job of keeping
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  Speaker 2: our composure and really having to swap a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things around and still execute the calls. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: hats off to the group for doing it. And Cole
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  Speaker 2: was our extra tight end, our jembo tight end. And
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  Speaker 2: then Ezra goes down before overtime, so Cole is in
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  Speaker 2: that guard and now Chuma is the new jumbo guy.
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  Speaker 1: So there was a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Moving parts and guys it just were prepared. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it shows that everyone was ready to play.
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  Speaker 3: It really felt like and I know in the overtime
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  Speaker 3: it was eight rushing plays one passing play, but it
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  Speaker 3: felt like in that fourth quarter in the overtime that
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  Speaker 3: the passing game was moving, not that it wasn't throughout
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  Speaker 3: the course of the game, but really moving at that
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  Speaker 3: portion of the game. And so Liam said he felt
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  Speaker 3: like the office was simplified. A couple of guys in
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  Speaker 3: the locker room said as much too, maybe less emotion.
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  Speaker 3: Did you feel that that simplification was leading to success
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  Speaker 3: as well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it helped. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: a good point. I don't know if that's the only thing,
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  Speaker 2: because we did have some a few moving parts in
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  Speaker 2: the plan, but definitely there were some some more simple
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  Speaker 2: calls I guess throughout the plant scattered in and I
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  Speaker 2: think that might have helped us just.
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  Speaker 1: Get going and keep us on track.
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  Speaker 2: And I also think the things in the second half
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  Speaker 2: that hurt us in the first half, the penalties and
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  Speaker 2: some of the motion things, we just sharpened up all
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  Speaker 2: the was and kind of obviously were sloppy in the
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  Speaker 2: first half, so we were sharper and didn't hurt ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: so we were able to stay on schedule. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a cool feeling when you can run the ball that
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  Speaker 2: many times and obviously you are expecting to throw it eventually.
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  Speaker 2: As a quarterback and then you just keep running and
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  Speaker 2: keep getting positive yards, so I don't care. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: to keep running it if they can't stop it. So
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  Speaker 2: it was it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Comfort easy to turn around get traps guy Darren.
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  Speaker 2: How much his pre guys, I mean, just the confidence
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  Speaker 2: in him making plays, whether it's in the passing game,
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  Speaker 2: taking a check down and turning into something. You saw
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  Speaker 2: what he did at the end of the game last week.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that was a huge play for us, and
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  Speaker 2: obviously in the in the running game too. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's played really well. He's gotten Our group has
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  Speaker 2: done an awesome job up front clearing lanes and and
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  Speaker 2: moving people for him. But he's also made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of plays where he's made something out of maybe not
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  Speaker 2: a great gain, and he's made five, six seven yards
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  Speaker 2: of it a lot of times too. So I think
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  Speaker 2: those two things playing together, the group up front playing
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  Speaker 2: great and him break tackles making plays, is why our
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  Speaker 2: rush game has been pretty good this year. So got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to build off that. He's had a great year,
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  Speaker 2: and like you said, I mean, to have him back
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  Speaker 2: there as a compliment is huge mesicality for this time
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  Speaker 2: and all your years playing with him, is that kind
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  Speaker 2: of something without him people kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of undreading draft years?
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  Speaker 2: I think so, you know, he's he's always been a
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  Speaker 2: really fast guy that you see him just accelerate past people,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the open field. You see him be on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline and people seem to like take the wrong angle.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's deceptively fast. But also when people hit him,
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  Speaker 2: they just fall off him. His lower body is really strong,
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  Speaker 2: low center of gravity. I mean, he he really kind
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  Speaker 2: of bends and absorbs hits in a unique way. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to describe it. It's it's funny just
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  Speaker 2: watching people fall off him. He's not the biggest guy necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: but I've always known that because I play with him
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. But yeah, it's probably something that
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  Speaker 2: not everyone thinks about.
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  Speaker 1: Play And how excited do you get to run that.
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: When it doesn't work? Yeah, I mean didn't work. Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty excited about it, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: Travis was probably pretty excited about it too, So, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it wasn't as open as we planned obviously, so
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  Speaker 2: they covered it good. Gotta give, you know, tip your
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  Speaker 2: hat to them, but obviously didn't expect it the one hopper.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't in the plan, but you know, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: one that worked. Obviously didn't hurt us too bad, so
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  Speaker 2: it ended up being fine. But yeah, it didn't go
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  Speaker 2: exactly as planned. I played some baseball. I probably played
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  Speaker 2: shortstop at some point. But yeah, that's what it felt like,
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  Speaker 2: getting off the one hop and turn and make a throw.
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  Speaker 1: It is the first time he talks the trench draps hi.
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  Speaker 3: Lo short actions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How big was that? Yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: I mean just obviously the energy and juice he brings to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the team, both sides of the ball, and
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  Speaker 2: the type of the type of guy he is, the
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  Speaker 2: way I mean, he loves football, and I guess just
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  Speaker 2: seeing him not be out there is the is the
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  Speaker 2: worst part for I know, for him, I know he
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  Speaker 2: wants to out there with us. And then the sparky
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  Speaker 2: is for our team, it's obviously huge. I mean he's
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  Speaker 2: he's a big spark for us. Has made some huge plays,
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  Speaker 2: and he was continuing to get better and better. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's what you know I hate the most, is
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  Speaker 2: like the development and just seeing him get better and
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  Speaker 2: better in our chemistry growing Obviously after that, La game,
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  Speaker 2: he kind of came along and made some huge plays
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  Speaker 2: and so.
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  Speaker 1: That's a bummer.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, as far as guys stepping up, it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of the theme of the week after that,
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  Speaker 2: and then obviously how the game went, guys getting kind
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  Speaker 2: of dinged up and other guys having to step up.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big opportunity for our team and guys
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  Speaker 2: answered the call. So got to continue to do it.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously bum that, you know, Travis isn't gonna be
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  Speaker 2: with us for a while.