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Christian Kirk on WR Group Culture, Managing Expectations | 1on1 | Training Camp · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You seem excited, enthusiastic about where this team left off
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  Speaker 1: last year and the possibilities ahead, certainly on offense. What
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: makes you so optimistic about this group?
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  Speaker 2: I think because of you know, the type of guys
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  Speaker 2: that we have in our group, and just the approach
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  Speaker 2: day in and day out, spending time with one another
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  Speaker 2: off the field, and just the like cohesiveness we have
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  Speaker 2: as a group, I think will hold us together and
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  Speaker 2: it sets the tone. Everybody's on the same page. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when we come out here to be the best group
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  Speaker 2: and that's our standard. And so you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: have guys like that in a group to be able
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  Speaker 2: to push one in each other and on days when
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  Speaker 2: another guy's not playing to the level of our standard,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are gonna bring them with, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: you're only as good as your worst guy, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know, for us, it's just attacking every day and
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  Speaker 2: you know, being able to scratch the surface of what
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  Speaker 2: we can be last year into this year, I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of expectations from us to go out
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  Speaker 2: and you know, perform at a high.
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  Speaker 1: Level going into year six. How different are you feeling
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  Speaker 1: than you were, say, year one, Year two, in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've you've been at this for.
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  Speaker 2: A while, way different, way different. I'm a little more
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  Speaker 2: chill on day one, you know, just taking it day
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  Speaker 2: by day, not trying to kill myself on the first
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  Speaker 2: day because I know it's a long camp, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just being smart, being efficient, making the plays when they
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  Speaker 2: come to me. But also, you know, honestly this camp,
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  Speaker 2: just focusing more on being a leader, being more of
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  Speaker 2: a vocal leader, and you know, just teaching these guys
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  Speaker 2: and coaching these guys up to the level of our
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  Speaker 2: sander and what we do here, and you know, pushing
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  Speaker 2: ourselves to be the best group in the league. That's
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  Speaker 2: our goal right now. So it's definitely a different role.
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it and like I said, just taking it
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  Speaker 2: day by day.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with Ridley. How different is he now? All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden with the route running and the stop startability,
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  Speaker 1: everything he brings is just a different gear on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he operates at a different level of movement,
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  Speaker 2: as we like to say, you know, but just his
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  Speaker 2: explosiveness and to be able to have that on the outside,
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  Speaker 2: to be able to put a guy out there one
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  Speaker 2: on one and tear a part of defense. Just adds
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  Speaker 2: to the dynamic ability of what we're able to do
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  Speaker 2: because we have so many different guys that can burn
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  Speaker 2: you in different ways. It's gonna be it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: hard for defenses to prepare, but you know, for us,
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  Speaker 2: it's just you know, maximizing our ability. But he had
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  Speaker 2: a great day today and you know, I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: see where he goes from from here.
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  Speaker 1: But back to the group now as a whole with
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  Speaker 1: him in it, and Ingram just signed his deal, so
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  Speaker 1: throw him into the mix too. There's one football Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about that a lot last year. You guys
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  Speaker 1: handled that pretty well, it felt like. But it's all
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  Speaker 1: about the team and the offense move and ahead. Just
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  Speaker 1: to keep everybody on the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we said it last year. It's check
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  Speaker 2: your ego in at the door. Uh. And that's gotta
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  Speaker 2: be the key. If you're gonna have players like this,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna you know, everybody needs to get their own
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  Speaker 2: and you know when that happens, that's how you win
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  Speaker 2: football games. Uh. You know, one person is not gonna
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  Speaker 2: win you a football game. There may be times where yeah,
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  Speaker 2: one guy is gonna get relied on and you know
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna carry us towards that way. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: when we get into the playoffs and we get into
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  Speaker 2: the nitty gritty and and you know, adversity starts to strike,
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  Speaker 2: we need everybody. So you know, as a unit, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we need to operate that way. Just kind of buy
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  Speaker 2: into what we're doing and keep our long term goal
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  Speaker 2: in sight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much NFL Network or ESPN you watch,
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  Speaker 1: or any of the preseason hype shows or any of that,
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  Speaker 1: but most of those you watch, the Jaguars are the
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  Speaker 1: favorites to win the AFC South. Do you guys buy
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  Speaker 1: into that? Do you worry about that stuff? Is there
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  Speaker 1: added pressure with that being the hunted team instead of
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  Speaker 1: the team that's up and coming like you were last year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think the only apprehension to it is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, guys looking into that and listening to that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because last year we weren't even in the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: We were still in the conversation as being one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst teams in the NFL. And so I remember
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  Speaker 2: that feeling. I know all the other guys remember that feeling,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, the motivation the edge that we had
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  Speaker 2: to get to the point to where we need to
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  Speaker 2: be and we can't lose that. You know, Doug said
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  Speaker 2: it best yesterday in our team meeting. He said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: greatness isn't about what you did, It's about what you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do. And you know, we can't listen to
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  Speaker 2: the noise. And when we win a couple games this season,
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  Speaker 2: nobody's gonna stand up and cheer loud for us. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna say that's what they're supposed to do. And so
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  Speaker 2: we just got to go out there and you know,
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  Speaker 2: manage expectations and you know, control our energy and what
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  Speaker 2: we do.
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  Speaker 1: Final thought for today, getting to walk through this facility
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  Speaker 1: for the first time in the last few days, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think this is pretty spectacular?
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  Speaker 2: I know, we're we're talking, we're joking around. It's almost
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  Speaker 2: like we're only gonna be here for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta leave. You know, it still doesn't It's like
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  Speaker 2: when you move into a new home. You're still trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out all the kinks, don't know where the
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  Speaker 2: bathrooms are, and I'm walking around namelessly. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: where to go half the time. But it's beautiful, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being able to show up to work and you know,
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  Speaker 2: have somewhere like this, have the fans out here and
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  Speaker 2: the energy that they bring is just so cool. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad, you know, the Jaguarars. Jaguars have been around
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  Speaker 2: for a while. To be you know, the first player
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  Speaker 2: that's in this building, I think it's pretty cool. So
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a really cool moment for this organization, for
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  Speaker 2: the city, and like I said, it's it's a blessing
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of it.