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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Those are all things we’ve got to address..." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: So if you decided to go ahead and kick the
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  Speaker 1: field goal, you're still only up one score. Correct. If
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  Speaker 1: there had been maybe four or five less minutes on
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  Speaker 1: the clock, would you have probably gone ahead and kick. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's there's a lot of a lot of scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they could they could play into that. Um.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of time you know left. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I took in consideration how we were moving the ball
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  Speaker 1: offensively quite frankly. Um. And and so you know, felt
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  Speaker 1: good about going forward in that situation. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: it was a half yard as opposed to maybe a yard.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing. I mean, you gotta go you know,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen inches or so right, Um, yeah, I mean you should.
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  Speaker 1: You should pick those up percent of the time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: j Robinson has he heard or now I mean he
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  Speaker 1: he has been dealing with with some lower body uh
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  Speaker 1: you know issues, um, preferably your I should say most
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  Speaker 1: in his knees right now. Um. But he you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's listen. He is a big part of what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We know Travis is playing you know well right now too.
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  Speaker 1: And and it doesn't take anything away from James. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it just so happens that in certain situations, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Travis is getting the ball. Uh. But as we move forward,
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  Speaker 1: we're always going to continue to find ways to to
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  Speaker 1: get James you know, going um in the mix, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know he's a big part of what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Is that like any sons. And because he wasn't not needing, Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's just soreness. And then you know he was dealing
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  Speaker 1: with it a little bit in the game. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: and look, I'm I'm big about guys that that uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want to make sure they're I know
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  Speaker 1: they're not always gonna be a percent in games, but
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  Speaker 1: I want him to be close and I want him
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  Speaker 1: to you know, not worry about it, you know, from
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  Speaker 1: a mental standpoint. Um. And and again it just kind
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  Speaker 1: of goes back to, you know, how well Travis was playing,
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  Speaker 1: you know at the time. So again it's nothing it's
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  Speaker 1: nothing about James is playing time, it's nothing about him
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  Speaker 1: as a running back. UM. I got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: confidence in James. We're going to continue to find ways
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  Speaker 1: to get him on the field because I you know, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like as an offense, we are we are
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  Speaker 1: better when both those guys are playing. After each loss,
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  Speaker 1: this season. You've basically said, the teams kind of beat
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  Speaker 1: theirselves in different mistakes kind of show up. How frustrating
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  Speaker 1: is it for you as a coach that it feels
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  Speaker 1: like there's new mistakes for four weeks in a row. Now, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's frustrating. Um, you know, But the thing
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  Speaker 1: is to the guys. The guys know, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing about it. They've they've played a lot of football.
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  Speaker 1: They understand when the mistakes are made. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, it's on us as coaches to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that they that they not want they understand,
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  Speaker 1: but too that we we helped fix it right and
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  Speaker 1: we helped correct and give them the answers. So that
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  Speaker 1: falls on the coaches, you know, and and then the
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  Speaker 1: players having to execute the game plan and knowing their assignments.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that part of it's on them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why it's a two way street. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: these mistakes have kind of kept us from winning winning
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  Speaker 1: these close games. How do you think Trey Herndon did yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I thought Tray Tray did a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Um, you know, I know there's some plays
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  Speaker 1: over the top, but but he you know, for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, for someone that's coming in there and and
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  Speaker 1: and filling in and doing a nice job from a
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  Speaker 1: backup position. Um, you know, who knows what's going you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we as we move forward, if if he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have more of a full time role there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what where Shack is this week. But you
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  Speaker 1: know he he plays good, he plays tough, he plays hard. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just excited about hitting him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting more opportunities. Do you think he's earned the right
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  Speaker 1: to start at the spot even if Shack's healthy? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think if Shack's healthy, you can't just discredit that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Shack, Shack obviously is is the starter at
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  Speaker 1: that position. But you know, Trey has done a nice
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  Speaker 1: job that if um, you know Shack weren't able to go,
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  Speaker 1: then obviously he would take that take that spot. This
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  Speaker 1: being a loving week, he's gotta make it a tougher call.
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  Speaker 1: And a guy like Shack, because you have to make
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  Speaker 1: it he can. Yeah, the travel and everything it can.
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  Speaker 1: And again with with Shacks, dree to, you want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that that he's comfortable and we're comfortable and
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  Speaker 1: there's no further you know risk you know, to his
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  Speaker 1: back and you know, just want to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: he's he's a hundred percent. But yeah, a short week
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  Speaker 1: and we're traveling on Thursday, um can it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: a bye week, or not a bye week, but a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday game, you know, where where you want to be
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  Speaker 1: a little more, you know, overly cautious. You mentioned last
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  Speaker 1: week when teams have success against you guys doing something
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  Speaker 1: that future opponents might trying to replicate it. So you
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  Speaker 1: kind of solve the John's offense just quick passing kind
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  Speaker 1: of colts to the week before, Well it was you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of it with some RPO stuff, which
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  Speaker 1: the Colts don't do a ton of that. Um But
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  Speaker 1: you know, we knew too that you know, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of the Giants offense was going to
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  Speaker 1: run through you know, se Quan and and Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly, and you know, um, I thought for about
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  Speaker 1: three and a half quarters, like I said, we we
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  Speaker 1: Kora's Juan pretty well. You know, he had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of a couple of runs in there, but for the
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  Speaker 1: most part I did a nice job with him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the one the one area that that we have to
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  Speaker 1: look at is obviously with the quarterback and some of
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback runs, you know, with with athletic guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and um, those are areas that that uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have to clean up, you know, on the defensive side,
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  Speaker 1: and and um you know, um try to knowing that
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, kind of their game plan. Um, just
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  Speaker 1: kind of focus in and lock in on that and
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  Speaker 1: and uh try to win each down with the quarterback runs.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the defense sort of paying too much attention
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  Speaker 1: to sai kuon or what sort of happened in that area,
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  Speaker 1: you know when you just contain things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it depends on the call defensive call,
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  Speaker 1: because there's there's different ways you can defend it, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you can you can you can bend the
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  Speaker 1: defensive end and scrape the linebacker, or you can you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can charge the defensive end. And there's many different
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  Speaker 1: ways that you can play with the safety there. You
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  Speaker 1: can play corners there. There's a lot of different ways
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  Speaker 1: you can, um play defense there. So it's just all
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  Speaker 1: about the communication and and understanding. Again just goes back
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  Speaker 1: to understanding you know, the the your role, understanding the
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  Speaker 1: call um the nuances of you know, different adjustments that
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  Speaker 1: offense might make that that a defense has to make. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But again, credit credit the Giants. I mean they took
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  Speaker 1: advantage of of some opportunities there and and and hit
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  Speaker 1: us for some QB runs. Giants put down two offensive
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  Speaker 1: linement during the game. Should there have been better push after,
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  Speaker 1: especially after those two guys go out, I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Joan and maybe in the here, yeah, you would think
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  Speaker 1: that you could get a little more pass rush, you
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  Speaker 1: know there. Um Again, you know, listen the guys that
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  Speaker 1: filled into a nice job for them too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's you can't you can't take that away
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  Speaker 1: from them. And and uh, that's something that we uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've got to take a look at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: um and try to you know, in situations like that, dude,
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  Speaker 1: do better. You know. It's the same way with us
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  Speaker 1: when one of their corners went out in the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had an opportunity to take a shot
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  Speaker 1: and we just missed on on a deep ball. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of goes. That's the chess match
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  Speaker 1: of football, you know. And and and try to try
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  Speaker 1: to create those matchups when you can for you alright,
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  Speaker 1: when you were interviewing and taking the job, you knew
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  Speaker 1: that there were be an annual game in London. Was
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  Speaker 1: that anything that caused you any kind of second thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about that's why I'm here. I wanted to go to
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  Speaker 1: London every year. No, you know, No, it was part
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  Speaker 1: of it. I mean we all understand. I think people
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  Speaker 1: around the league understand Jacksonville is gonna be a part
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  Speaker 1: of the London game and the tradition of of playing
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  Speaker 1: over there. And we're actually we're excited. We're thrilled to
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  Speaker 1: be over there and and um, you know, and to
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  Speaker 1: be able to take your team. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of guys that don't get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to travel outside the country and it's a great way
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  Speaker 1: for them to experience a new city. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: London is a great city and uh played football over
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  Speaker 1: There's some great fans over there. Um, you know NFL fans.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna see jerseys from all thirty two teams.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's That's the beauty of going over there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the excitement of going over there. So um, it's we
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  Speaker 1: know we're gonna go there. We're excited about it, looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to it, and and uh, you know it might
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  Speaker 1: be good for us. I didn't mean like second us
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  Speaker 1: about taking the job. Going everything concerned right now about
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  Speaker 1: the about the defense just in terms of you have
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  Speaker 1: only two sacks the last three games, having had a
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  Speaker 1: turnover in almost four full games, and this week there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of penalty issues too. I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 1: just I'm just wondering, do you do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: like the unit is regressing or is it just going
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  Speaker 1: through a little bit of a dry spell. And well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think I think we have as a staff,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to take a look at, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing game plan wise, right, sometimes you can get
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  Speaker 1: like offense, I mean, if if you're struggling offensively, um,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times you try to pull back just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on the volume of information and try
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  Speaker 1: to free up your players mentally a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: so those are all things that we've got to address,
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  Speaker 1: I think here in the next couple of days, and
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  Speaker 1: I really see if we're doing number one, doing too much.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know the other thing too is just um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we've got to understand as players too
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we We've got to do our best
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  Speaker 1: to create turnovers, right, That's that's you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: if you can if you can punch at a football
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  Speaker 1: or or you know, uh, swipe at a football, or
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  Speaker 1: some of these tip passes are just kind of falling
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  Speaker 1: out of reach of our players, you know, getting hands
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  Speaker 1: on the quarterback, getting sacks, whatever it is. We've we've
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  Speaker 1: got to you know, we've got to be able to
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  Speaker 1: figure that out. And sometimes they do come in bunches, um,
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  Speaker 1: but we've got to get back to what we did
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  Speaker 1: I think in the first part of the season, how
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  Speaker 1: we started the season with with getting after the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: creating turnovers, and again understanding what our players do best.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see on the on the extra point
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  Speaker 1: that was missed? Was the chick just too low? No?
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  Speaker 1: We we just I mean there was penetration off our
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  Speaker 1: left side. The guy did a nice job of been
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  Speaker 1: in the corner. Um. I just gotta really just got
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  Speaker 1: a hand on it. Two weeks in a row without
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  Speaker 1: turn overs. He kind of taking the strides you want
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  Speaker 1: to see him take, even if the winds haven't come yet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the last two weeks he's done a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, leading the football team. Um. You know, yesterday
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  Speaker 1: he played, he played tough from a physical standpoint, you know,
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  Speaker 1: played played physical. UM took some shots in there. Um
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  Speaker 1: stand you know, standing tall. You know that last drive
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  Speaker 1: with a minute and four I think left. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we ran about ten plays or so, I mean, and
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  Speaker 1: he took some shots there. It's great to see him
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  Speaker 1: get us down there and in position again. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's on the right track. We just gotta keep him,
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  Speaker 1: keep him headed in the right direction, keep him keep
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  Speaker 1: him focused. Obviously, UM can't get discouraged with where we
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  Speaker 1: are because we're still you know, we're still right there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, UM, with everything that's going on, and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta find a way to get one win
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. And it seems like you guys struggle
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  Speaker 1: a little bit in that area. How do you sort
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  Speaker 1: of uh get it to where you guys are playing
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  Speaker 1: the same way first three quarters and in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the same mentality. You know, each
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  Speaker 1: week you had learned how to finish and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about finishing a play in practice or that
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  Speaker 1: period in practice and then finished practice, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: it's the same way with the game you had learned
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  Speaker 1: to you know, finish the play, finish a quarter a
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  Speaker 1: half and then ultimately the game, and and um, you
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  Speaker 1: know we just keep we just keep working at it
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  Speaker 1: and keep pushing at it and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: creating opportunities for ourselves and and really just uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't obviously be so caught up in mistakes that
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  Speaker 1: that kind of handcuffs you a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you just still gotta go play and be aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: and all of that and and and hopefully, um, you
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  Speaker 1: know we pushed through it and learn how to finish.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for time, all right, than guys. Thanks