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Press Pass | Walker: "Josh has been a great mentor to me." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: How y'all doing. How was it felt? You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just getting out there in the preseason actual NFL. You know,
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  Speaker 1: came act because says, you know, practice actually feels good
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  Speaker 1: just to actually get out down feel with other guys
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  Speaker 1: that's been in the NFL. Really just getting game wanted
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  Speaker 1: and you've been going to get the couple guys count
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  Speaker 1: of comments. Were you just seeing I can't go against
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  Speaker 1: definitely has. Of course I haven't played too many snaps,
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  Speaker 1: but just from those beginning snaps that beginning early in
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  Speaker 1: the game, I want to like, I really be thinking
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  Speaker 1: to myself, like, oh, I can really go a whole
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  Speaker 1: game planning against these guys. Coach Peterson said, he wants
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  Speaker 1: you guys to maybe go a little bit into the
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  Speaker 1: second quarters this week defense and play more. It's not
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  Speaker 1: gord to you. You think, just you guys to get
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  Speaker 1: those recks together for a week one. Definitely just get
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  Speaker 1: to get the chemistry down, specially amongst the front seven
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  Speaker 1: with some things that we do up front, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's gonna play a big part just with the
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  Speaker 1: transition going into the regular season. You've been in training
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  Speaker 1: camps for a while high school, college, How is this
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  Speaker 1: one compare or is it a grind? Uh, you need
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  Speaker 1: to mix it up a little bit. It's definitely still
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  Speaker 1: a grind, but coming from the University of Georgia, they
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  Speaker 1: definitely prepared before. Like here, you don't at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Georgia with full pass every day. Here you might
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  Speaker 1: get shelves here they're full past two days back to back.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing too crazy, but it's definitely been a grind. Tho.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely a ground. What's next way next week can
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  Speaker 1: be like for you going closer to home, Uh, next
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  Speaker 1: week for me, it's very big. Like I'm from the
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  Speaker 1: state of Georgia. I know a lot of my my hometown.
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  Speaker 1: To bid the game, it's really gonna mean a lot
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  Speaker 1: to me just for my hometown people, younger kids to
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  Speaker 1: be able to come to the games. They're gotta blessed
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  Speaker 1: together to bring him to the game just to see.
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  Speaker 1: So you're gonna really mean a lot to be to
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  Speaker 1: be able to put on the show and just show
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  Speaker 1: them the right way anybody get to they're gonna come
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  Speaker 1: to practicing down. I don't think so. No, Shu, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna organize that the bus stuff, I didn't. That's something
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  Speaker 1: that my community does like I have a strong community
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  Speaker 1: everybody or something like that. They all come together than
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  Speaker 1: they'll do it for the kids, to do it for
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  Speaker 1: that stuff as well. Now anybody thought it wasn't any
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  Speaker 1: one of the US training team days, it's still not
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  Speaker 1: gonna touch what It's gonna be like a one o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon in Georgia. Uh, definitely not one thing
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  Speaker 1: I can't say about The heat down here is definitely
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  Speaker 1: a lot more human. It's more dry, makes it harder
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  Speaker 1: to breathe, catch your broth. But it's something that just
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  Speaker 1: comes with the game. Do you what do you think
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  Speaker 1: the value of Yeah, you have preseason games, but the
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  Speaker 1: joint practice was another team. What do you think of
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  Speaker 1: value that is gonna be touch with you? For me,
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  Speaker 1: that just boosts up the competition a lot more and
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  Speaker 1: then be able to go against It's basically like a game,
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  Speaker 1: but in a practice setting, so I'll just be able
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  Speaker 1: to take some things that I would do in the
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  Speaker 1: game and working on another defensive. Growing up, I was
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  Speaker 1: a Falcons fan, but I really was. I just went
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  Speaker 1: for the facton because that's my hometown team. Everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we do not know if you're conditioned enough for the
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  Speaker 1: right be on until you kind of play on September eleven,
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  Speaker 1: the whole game. I mean, you can't mimic that right
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  Speaker 1: most definitely, That's just something that comes with it, Like
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  Speaker 1: practice is supposed to be harder than the game. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm expecting to come into the game and pretty good shape. Though,
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  Speaker 1: So I can't say, just continue to come out hand
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  Speaker 1: grind and then it I'll pay off in the game
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  Speaker 1: exactly one. You hope to cause a fun a week two.
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  Speaker 1: In the present, you feel like you're on a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good your directory where you want to be. Definitely, i
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  Speaker 1: still have a lot of work to do and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just want to continue to grow from here. Yet, Devin,
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely kind of see that whenever that does happen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm definitely ready to see Devin. Devin in
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  Speaker 1: my locker made so we talked about it every day.
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  Speaker 1: He just talks about how anxious he is to get
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  Speaker 1: back out here on the field and be with the guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to see it. For him and college, he
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  Speaker 1: was a great player, and I'm ready to see what
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  Speaker 1: the things that he's learned since he's been out how
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  Speaker 1: it transitions onto the field in the dry processing, and
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  Speaker 1: you were a little anxious to have that one job.
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  Speaker 1: Is it kind of her leaf now that you know
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  Speaker 1: you have this one spot and now you just working
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  Speaker 1: just getting really good at it. Definitely that was my
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  Speaker 1: main goal coming in that all they wanted me to
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  Speaker 1: do is just focus on this one position. Once I
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  Speaker 1: get everything down, like the game, like the game of
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  Speaker 1: football already have that, so everything just comes along with
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  Speaker 1: knowing my one position. Has there been anything maybe you
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  Speaker 1: struggle with. Everyone talks about the transition, how much faster
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  Speaker 1: it is. Is there this one thing that you're like, Man,
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  Speaker 1: this is really hard. I gotta work harder at it.
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  Speaker 1: One thing for me, I had to say my path
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  Speaker 1: just playing with good path level. Like I'm a tall guy,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes once I do like a move or something,
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  Speaker 1: make an inside move or whatever, I'll be too high.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get myself right with my path level.
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  Speaker 1: Draw like a wee bit of time to talk to
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  Speaker 1: much about what you said, Josh. He has been a
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  Speaker 1: great mentor to me. He's been one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that's been there ever since I got drafted. The person
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  Speaker 1: I got drafted, he's shot me a text just congratulating me.
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  Speaker 1: And ever since I got here, he took me on
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  Speaker 1: his wing, taught me everything that he knows and a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. It's a very great form. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: all