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Press Pass | Press Taylor on Walker Little in Starting Lineup, Trevor Lawrence, ETN in Week 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What does that give you?
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  Speaker 2: Those two how do they compliment each other?
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: And you know, is it fun to kind of figure
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  Speaker 1: out way to kind of use those guys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly, you know, I mean it's kind of I
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  Speaker 2: think anytime anybody has two backs that produce, it's always
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  Speaker 2: kind of to use the thunder and lightning phrase, and
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of what it feels like. You know, tanks,
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  Speaker 2: they have different styles, they have enough blend of being
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  Speaker 2: able to do everything to where I think we can
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  Speaker 2: avoid some tendencies with that. And then honestly, Dearanis is
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  Speaker 2: a great blend being kind of that third guy that
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  Speaker 2: supplements to where like we went through a couple of
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  Speaker 2: games stretch without TJ in there, Deernus is able to
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  Speaker 2: fulfill that role of kind of being the pass catcher,
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  Speaker 2: doing a little slash everything. And then if the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: if we were ever to miss Tank, we feel like
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  Speaker 2: Dearanis and TJ have a one to two combination that
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  Speaker 2: could do a lot of things. So, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: very excited about that backfield. Anytime you have good players,
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  Speaker 2: it's a good thing, that good thing to have to
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  Speaker 2: deal with.
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  Speaker 1: This is what guy's envision when you took Tank last year.
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  Speaker 1: It just took a little while to.
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  Speaker 2: Get here, right right, Yeah, and kind of the same
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  Speaker 2: thing we talked about, just letting Tank be able to
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  Speaker 2: grow and step into, you know, the roles we expect
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  Speaker 2: before him producing the way he's been able to produce
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  Speaker 2: this season's been the expectation from the jump pass protection line.
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  Speaker 1: He still have ways to go there or No.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's like any young back. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: always very different than coming out of college. College. They're
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  Speaker 2: not putting a lot of those scenarios of the third
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  Speaker 2: down for us is very different than the third down
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  Speaker 2: in college, honestly. I mean you still see teams in
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  Speaker 2: no huddle. They don't face as many third downs I
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  Speaker 2: believe in college football. And then there's more play actions.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just pure drop back, exotic pressure looks, things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But in terms of identification things like that, Tank does
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  Speaker 2: a very good job and it's very important to him.
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  Speaker 2: He spends a lot of time on it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, Honestly, if you just have to rank the backfield,
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  Speaker 2: the other two guys are probably better at this point.
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  Speaker 2: That does not mean we don't believe Tank is good
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  Speaker 2: at that role. Right there, and I think he continues
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  Speaker 2: to grow. But you know, we want to continue to
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  Speaker 2: put the best people in the best position to do
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  Speaker 2: what they do really well. Right now, this is a
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  Speaker 2: new thing for him getting his number called.
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  Speaker 1: Now that person is done for the year.
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  Speaker 3: But where do you think he's grown in the last
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  Speaker 3: year versus you know, last year he gets his number
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  Speaker 3: calling and it might have been a little action of more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think it's always hard just being a backup.
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  Speaker 2: These guys all come out of college being the guy,
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  Speaker 2: and now you're the backup, whether you're the fourth, fifth,
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  Speaker 2: you really you're the backup at all spots. So Christian
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  Speaker 2: goes down and go on the slot. If you know
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  Speaker 2: last year somebody else went down, he went outside. There's
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  Speaker 2: kind of that flexibility where maybe that's a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's a little tougher just mentally having to prepare
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  Speaker 2: for that, and then it slows you down a little
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  Speaker 2: bit in the way you play. Where now I think
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  Speaker 2: Parker knows the ins and outs of the past game
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  Speaker 2: and the offense as a whole, so it's not a
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  Speaker 2: big deal for him to just be thrown in the
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  Speaker 2: game and move around the formation, move around letter wise, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: he's playing and be able to play at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: Now you just start to see these guys as they
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  Speaker 2: settle in with their confidence, their skill set flashes more
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  Speaker 2: and more. You see that with the like we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about with Tank, Brenton, all these younger players. Now
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  Speaker 2: you're really seeing just the skill set that we saw
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  Speaker 2: originally when they're in their fourth fifth year of college
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  Speaker 2: in one system. You were starting to see that come
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  Speaker 2: out a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: What is your.
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  Speaker 3: Reaction trading a player like Cam or really what this
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  Speaker 3: opportunity means for Walker moving forward?
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  Speaker 2: Excited for Walk? You know, Uh, he's a guy that's
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  Speaker 2: continued to do everything we've asked of him, be selfless,
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  Speaker 2: put it, put the team first. I'm so excited for that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll definitely miss Cam. Cam's a guy that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: been a staple here for us since we've gotten here
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  Speaker 2: three years ago, whatever that may be. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: you think of the Jaguars, honestly, Cam is one of
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  Speaker 2: the guys you think of. So it's tough to see
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  Speaker 2: somebody that gave so much for us while we were
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  Speaker 2: here in this regime to himself or of himself to
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  Speaker 2: the team. So that's always tough. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: lose anybody. We've become a tight knit group in the
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  Speaker 2: unit room that we're in, but excited for Walker's opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Know Walker will step into it and do a good job.
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  Speaker 1: It's when Walker's played.
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  Speaker 3: He's played because Cam was out, so it was always
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  Speaker 3: kind of temporary thing. Do you think it can mean
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  Speaker 3: anything for him knowing that these next nine games it's
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  Speaker 3: not a temporary thing and like he's the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that probably helps in some way shape
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  Speaker 2: or for him. And again you have to get his
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  Speaker 2: mindset on that, but I could see where that would
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  Speaker 2: make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe why when you lost Christian for those five games,
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  Speaker 1: now moving forward to this year, losing in for these
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  Speaker 1: last night, what have you sort of learned from that
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  Speaker 1: that can maybe help you this year.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think a lot. It's always
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  Speaker 2: a game to game basis, so you're always going in
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  Speaker 2: every game and you start the week with who's available
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  Speaker 2: to us, how do we utilize our best players? So
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  Speaker 2: if Christian's not available, that everybody kind of moves up
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  Speaker 2: the pecking order in that sense, and who's healthy, who's
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  Speaker 2: ready to go, that's always the starting point. So We
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  Speaker 2: don't even look at it as Christians out for the season.
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  Speaker 2: We look at it Christian is not playing this week,
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  Speaker 2: and the next week. We'll deal with who's playing, who's
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  Speaker 2: available to us as that goes. So I think this
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  Speaker 2: is just kind of how you deal with a week.
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  Speaker 2: It's not something that we're not looking ahead to five
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  Speaker 2: weeks from now or anything like that. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think you do have the confidence in Parker, you
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  Speaker 2: have the confidence in Brenton to step in if the
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  Speaker 2: twelve personnel becomes a little bit more prominent moving forward
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  Speaker 2: in the past game like it did last week. You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously Brian has proven his worth in this system. Gabe
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  Speaker 2: continues to grow. Tim Jones has always been a reliable,
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  Speaker 2: steady force for us when he gets this chance to contribute.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you just have confidence that these guys
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  Speaker 2: just continue to grow in the system.
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  Speaker 1: He can't go, how do you replace them?
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  Speaker 2: The same thing I mean is what gives us what
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  Speaker 2: we're looking for. If we're looking for a speed element
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  Speaker 2: down the field on a certain concept, who is available
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  Speaker 2: that can give us that aspect of things. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of the same thing of building a game plan.
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  Speaker 2: If he can't go, you have contingency plans of this
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  Speaker 2: is what's going to give us what we want on
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  Speaker 2: this particular play. If he can go, how do we
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  Speaker 2: mix them in? I think the challenging thing is always
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  Speaker 2: when you don't know when a guy's truly day to
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  Speaker 2: day like this, You've got to build a plan without him,
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  Speaker 2: but then have your areas to insert him if he
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  Speaker 2: makes it to game day and things like that. So
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  Speaker 2: that's always a little bit more of a challenge. But
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  Speaker 2: every single play we're looking at the people we put
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  Speaker 2: on the field. What do we expect the defense to
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  Speaker 2: respond with? What does that mean defensively, coverage wise, front wise,
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  Speaker 2: pressure wise? What are we going to get from them
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  Speaker 2: if we do This probably isn't an answerable question, but
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  Speaker 2: how do you start fast in such a topic this week?
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  Speaker 1: How do you I guess approach that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's certainly something we're looking into, because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the statistics of gaining an early lead at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the quarter, end of the half, things like that
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  Speaker 2: are critical. It changes the way you play the entire
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  Speaker 2: game if you're playing with the lead versus playing from behind.
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  Speaker 2: So that's something we're looking at. But you know, when
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  Speaker 2: we look, we've got to be efficient early on in
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  Speaker 2: certain situations. There's some areas of our game where we're
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  Speaker 2: not as efficient early in a game. We kind of
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  Speaker 2: find our stride later, and we got to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what that is. Are we as coaches putting our players
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  Speaker 2: in the best possible position early in a game to
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  Speaker 2: maximize the look they're getting to have confidence in what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing, getting the ball to our best players early,
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  Speaker 2: doing things our quarterbacks comfortable with. How do we get
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  Speaker 2: them set? Does it go back to Saturday night walk
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  Speaker 2: through of understanding what we're looking at. Does it go
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  Speaker 2: back to our pregame routine Sunday so the first snap
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  Speaker 2: we're ready to roll. Does it go back to what
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  Speaker 2: we practiced throughout the course of the week. So all
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  Speaker 2: things that we're continuing to look into because we understand
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  Speaker 2: the importance of scoring early forever after adversity at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day twice, like he kind of came
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  Speaker 2: back from that twice and lets its best drives in
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  Speaker 2: the season. Trevor's, I mean, part of it's just in
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  Speaker 2: those situations, those circumstances, your character gets revealed, your football character,
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  Speaker 2: But you're just character. Trevor I've never seen Trevor flinch, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: and all the things that have happened him playing hurt,
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  Speaker 2: guys getting hurt around him, guys he relies on all
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  Speaker 2: the time, new faces in the huddle. Sometimes he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know until he's in the huddle that somebody's out and
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  Speaker 2: the communication goes through the headset so and so's out,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe it don't always get to him. He looks around,
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  Speaker 2: calls a play and there's somebody staying there he didn't expect.
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  Speaker 2: He never flinches. He just continues to be unflappable, steady
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  Speaker 2: force for our team, honestly, and the offense in the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: And I think part of it he has a lot
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  Speaker 2: of confidence in those guys. He spends a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time off to the side, throwing with those guys, talking
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  Speaker 2: with those guys, just spending time with them to where
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  Speaker 2: not only does he have confidence in them, I think
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  Speaker 2: they know he has confidence in them and he believes
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  Speaker 2: in them, and I think that helps empower players to
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  Speaker 2: play better. So I can't say enough good things about
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  Speaker 2: the leadership he's shown for the three years I've been here,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously last week, when you know bolts are flying
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  Speaker 2: and things happen, people go down, and you've got to respond,
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  Speaker 2: and this is what's asked of you as a franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought he rose to that challenge and put
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  Speaker 2: us in position to win the game. Did that inspire
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  Speaker 2: more confidence than some of those guys that you do
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  Speaker 2: have to rely on now with injuries, you know, guys
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  Speaker 2: making plays in a crucial situation. Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think anytime you see those guys, you
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  Speaker 2: believe they can, but until they're in the position, until
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  Speaker 2: they do it, you really don't know. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of times. There were probably times
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  Speaker 2: I was reading on the call sheet, I just you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of ron bergened it and read eleven personnel and
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  Speaker 2: everybody's yelling, you don't have eleven, and so we only
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  Speaker 2: had twelve. So then we just kind of, I really
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  Speaker 2: just call a concept at times and say, you guys
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  Speaker 2: line up where we need to line out, like, get
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  Speaker 2: where we need to get to to be able to
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  Speaker 2: run this this concept we ran. I think we had
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  Speaker 2: a big third down conversion of Britain strange with Evan
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  Speaker 2: and Brenton in a position that they were not in
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  Speaker 2: as we practiced that, but obviously we didn't have anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: They had to go. They know exactly what to do,
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  Speaker 2: they understand the concepts. Going back to our work in
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  Speaker 2: April of we do a lot of this stuff where
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: we just call concepts no formations and you guys figured
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  Speaker 2: it out and then that work kind of comes in.
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  Speaker 2: But again, being in a second year, I think obviously
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  Speaker 2: helps Brenton standing next to Evan them talking through the concept,
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  Speaker 2: Trevor communicating the huddle. There's a lot of those things
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  Speaker 2: that we had confidence in, but obviously to see it
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  Speaker 2: show up and come to fruition in a critical moment,
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  Speaker 2: it's a big deal for all of us. Thanks Gus