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Press Pass | Lawrence: "Whenever that time is, I’ll be ready to roll" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean there's no doubt, UM get great work
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  Speaker 1: in during the week. I mean, that's why, that's why
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  Speaker 1: we practice, and especially the way our defense is. UM
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  Speaker 1: just do a lot of different things. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: great as a quarterback, geting to go against that every
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  Speaker 1: day makes you think, makes you really communicate with each
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  Speaker 1: other on offense. So that's been great for us all
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  Speaker 1: of camp. And then yeah, of course you know you
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  Speaker 1: want to play, UM, but you also realize what the
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  Speaker 1: coaches are doing, and you know it's a long season,
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  Speaker 1: like being a part of it last year, seventeen games
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  Speaker 1: plus hopefully playoffs all that. Um, it's a long season.
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  Speaker 1: So you know it's a marathon, and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get too far ahead of yourselves. But whenever that
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  Speaker 1: what time is, I'll be ready to roll and get
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  Speaker 1: out there and whatever that is, you know, this week,
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  Speaker 1: next week, however much I play, I don't know yet. UM,
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  Speaker 1: just being as efficient as possible when it is out
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  Speaker 1: there live reps doesn't change anything except for that I
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  Speaker 1: can get hit, But still you play the same way, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll be you know, we'll be ready to
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  Speaker 1: roll day. Johns stood out today he had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of good catches and the one on one with Greg Jr.
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  Speaker 1: We're kind of it's exact just how has he been, um,
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  Speaker 1: and what have you seen from him? He's been great.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're you know, when you get new receivers, especially,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a while to kind of figure out where
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  Speaker 1: everyone fits in, what what people are good at. Because
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of great players, but they're all different.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they'd all do different things well, so and
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  Speaker 1: that's great for us. So it's just kind of figuring
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  Speaker 1: that out, putting guys in the best spot, moving them
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  Speaker 1: around and seeing how they do this versus that, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, moving them all over the place with our
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  Speaker 1: concepts and working from there. And I really feel like
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  Speaker 1: we're in a good spot where we're starting to figure
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  Speaker 1: out who we want on certain routes and the matchups
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And they had a great day. He's
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  Speaker 1: really smart player. Um, it just gets open really well,
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  Speaker 1: uses his length, you know, he's got speed all that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's I think he's a great player and
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  Speaker 1: it's been fun building that connection with him. Thursday watching
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  Speaker 1: I know it was vanilla version of the offense is
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  Speaker 1: that called it? But watching it kind of seeing it
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  Speaker 1: from afar. What was that experience like for you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was cool, you know here and the obviously I
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  Speaker 1: had the the earpiece in so you know here in
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  Speaker 1: the play call, kind of playing the game in my
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  Speaker 1: head and then just watching the guys and and and
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  Speaker 1: cheering them on. Obviously had a lot of guys playing,
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  Speaker 1: and um, just kind of seeing everyone reacted to the
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  Speaker 1: different looks and then, like we talked about, just trying
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  Speaker 1: to play the game in your head too, So that's
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  Speaker 1: always good, you know, like part of you wants to
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  Speaker 1: be out there definitely, but um, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: I think it was good reps for all those guys
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  Speaker 1: and then well, you know, go back to the drawing
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  Speaker 1: board and get ready for this week. Had as much
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  Speaker 1: success as you would like. And goal line, but could
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  Speaker 1: you talk about how the benefit with this defense, the
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  Speaker 1: benefits that they're giving you in those situations yesterday's practice,
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  Speaker 1: the goal line stuff this far away from getting right there? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean our defense they just do a great job.
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  Speaker 1: They're really physical, especially you know our linebackers and our
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  Speaker 1: front seven. Um, I mean Fourier's all over the place
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  Speaker 1: making plays, especially yesterday, So to go up against guys
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  Speaker 1: like that really challenges you. They're really smart. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's sometimes ahead of the play, he's ahead of he's
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  Speaker 1: there before we are. So playing against a guy like that,
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  Speaker 1: um really challenges and helps you. But it's just great competition. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: you guys out here, you saw it. We're getting after it.
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  Speaker 1: Guys who are getting getting fired up, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: it's about, and you know, protecting each other. But also
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  Speaker 1: when you're out here, it's time to compete and we
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  Speaker 1: gotta make each other better. You know, you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Cisco's instinctiveness. Oh yeah, anticipation. Yeah, I mean he's been
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  Speaker 1: playing great. He's a guy you look at safety's um
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  Speaker 1: the guy that's willing to take some calculator risk. But
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  Speaker 1: he's usually right. I haven't seen him be wrong many times.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's had a couple of players. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go in all the details because it might be something
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  Speaker 1: they're doing schematically on defense, But he's had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of plays where he just comes out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, I mean, how can I even see this
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  Speaker 1: guy on this on this route, I'm looking in the
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  Speaker 1: opposite direction, you know. So he's had and you need
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  Speaker 1: plays like that from a safety, you know, to step up.
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  Speaker 1: He's really physical. I mean he's one of the best
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  Speaker 1: open field tacklers i've seen. You know, yesterday we went live,
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  Speaker 1: He's all over the place, not let anybody get by him.
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  Speaker 1: So that's great to see. And um, I think he's
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  Speaker 1: had a great offseason at camp. He goes a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: he said, you feel like you're throwing it as good
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  Speaker 1: as you've thrown it. What goes into that? And you've
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  Speaker 1: always thrown a good ball and stuff, But why do
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  Speaker 1: you say that, Why do you feel that? Well? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I compared to last year, I had a
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  Speaker 1: full offseason to really work on what I think I
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  Speaker 1: needed to work on. You know, last year, finish your
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  Speaker 1: college season, you know, had surgery. I'm out for a while,
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  Speaker 1: you can't really train, and then it's prepping for you know,
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  Speaker 1: the draft and all that stuff, and um, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. Didn't feel like I could
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  Speaker 1: really get my body and shape the way I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to because a lot because the surgery. I mean I was,
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  Speaker 1: I was in shape, but as far as my arm,
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  Speaker 1: I would have liked to be a little sharper. Um
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  Speaker 1: I feel like my arm got a lot stronger this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: and then just mechanics, I worked really hard on keeping
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  Speaker 1: everything tighter, more fluid in my motion, working on all
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  Speaker 1: my arm slots all that. I just feel like the
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  Speaker 1: ball is coming out really from every angle the way
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to. Obviously, you're gonna miss a few every
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  Speaker 1: now and then, but I feel the best I felt.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think you're about the sable pace learning this
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  Speaker 1: offense as you were a year ago from a command
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  Speaker 1: stand point ahead of it? You learned two different offenses
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  Speaker 1: over the last No, I think I'm definitely ahead of
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  Speaker 1: where I was last year. Um. I mean i'd hope, so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think that's the that's the goal. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I think just obviously learned the offense last year helped
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  Speaker 1: me learn this one faster. You know, once you learn one,
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  Speaker 1: it's easier to learn the second one. Um. And then
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  Speaker 1: just having guys like we talked about that are really smart,
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  Speaker 1: that are easy. You know, you can make a check
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  Speaker 1: and they pick it up right away. UM. I think
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  Speaker 1: the guys have done a great job with that. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been a lot of fun and it's just we're
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  Speaker 1: building and building on all the different things that we
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  Speaker 1: can do. Because when you've got guys that know it,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you call, they know it, you can really do anything.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been it's been fun. But used to sweep
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  Speaker 1: doctor or having times were taking and that or he's
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  Speaker 1: doing or anything or no, I have not, so I
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  Speaker 1: can't speak to that. You all of the Travis I know.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there are a couple of collisions yesterday when you
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  Speaker 1: see him take some hits, are are you holding your brother?
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  Speaker 1: And Oppress said he there's a couple. He was like,
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  Speaker 1: he was okay with it. But he was like, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've always known like and you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: Travis had the injury. But Travis, like when we were
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  Speaker 1: in college, I mean, the guy has never hurt. Took
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  Speaker 1: some shots. I feel like he's always popping back up,
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  Speaker 1: just good the next day. All that. So not really
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  Speaker 1: too concerned. But he broke on the sideline. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when he gets hit on the sideline, I'm like, oh gosh,
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  Speaker 1: So I told him just step out right there. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need we don't need that right now. But um,
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  Speaker 1: he said he wanted to get popped. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been hitting a while so he's he'll be all right.
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  Speaker 1: He's tough the last few days. I don't worry. It's
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  Speaker 1: been great see him really, I mean obviously not all
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  Speaker 1: the way back yet, but work in that direction and
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  Speaker 1: just running cutting looks really good. He's in great shape.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's moving really well. UM. So I'm just
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  Speaker 1: excited having back. What was it like fine tuning that relationship,
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  Speaker 1: like working with him on a day and day out basis. Uh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Christian has been been great to work with, Like we're
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  Speaker 1: talked about, just really savvy route running but also really smart,
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  Speaker 1: you know, recognize his coverage is quickly, um, really good
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  Speaker 1: adjusting his routes, finding the open voids um. And then
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  Speaker 1: obviously he's a great matchup for us with his speed
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  Speaker 1: and route running ability. I think he's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a mismatch on most people. So it's been great
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna be He's gonna have a big impact
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  Speaker 1: this year for sure. Thanks awesome, Thank you all.