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Interview: Running back Alfred Blue · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Alfred Blue with us. This is camp
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  Speaker 1: number six for you in the National Football League, first
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  Speaker 1: with the Jaguars, of course. How's this one compared to
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  Speaker 1: the previous fight for yourself far? Uh? I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: all the same, you know. Camp is just when you
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  Speaker 1: come out here every day, building that chemistry as offense
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  Speaker 1: as a team and getting better every day, working on
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  Speaker 1: your craft and trying to just get better every day.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about Leonard for that in the meeting rooms,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about Leonard for that on the field. What
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  Speaker 1: do you like about him as a running back and
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  Speaker 1: in the building here? Uh? And then you know, a
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  Speaker 1: funny guy, you know, always smiling, always joking. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's never a dull moment with Leonard, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: uh that's a good thing in the room, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you're in camp, long days, hard practices, and
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  Speaker 1: you know you just got to find that that humor
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  Speaker 1: and uh, laugh and joke around and just come out
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  Speaker 1: and have fun every day. What has been the best
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  Speaker 1: part of your camp so far? What have you done
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  Speaker 1: well so far in camp? But are some things you're
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  Speaker 1: still working on as the last couple of weeks ago here? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I think what I've done, well, it just came in
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  Speaker 1: and been that veteran player. Uh. That just is being consistent,
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  Speaker 1: you know in the pass pro catching the ball, running
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  Speaker 1: the ball, and just overall just doing you know, even
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  Speaker 1: on special teams where I'm being put in fitted and
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  Speaker 1: just doing uh, doing my job, you know, being consistent
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  Speaker 1: and doing your job and getting it done. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, the coaches like that, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what I try to come out every day and
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  Speaker 1: just get better and find another way to do my
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  Speaker 1: job better and stay consistent and doing it. We talked
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  Speaker 1: to a show earlier this week about that special teams
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  Speaker 1: part of it. You know, as a veteran the league,
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  Speaker 1: you can understand that there's some things I have to
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  Speaker 1: do on special teams sometimetimes. You know how to get
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  Speaker 1: that done. Your six year player in the league, whereas
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  Speaker 1: a rookie might have been a star in college, didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to contribute as much on special teams. It might
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a route awakening that that
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  Speaker 1: might give you an advantage of sorts when you have
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  Speaker 1: to go out and do some special teams work. But
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  Speaker 1: it is vital to a lot of guys roster spots here. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's very body if you ain't one of those number
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  Speaker 1: one guys, starting quarterback, starting running back, starting receiving, number
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  Speaker 1: one receiver, you know, uh, the old line even though
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  Speaker 1: starting to line and got to go in and play
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  Speaker 1: field goal and stuff like that. D line gotta do
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  Speaker 1: field goal block. So if you're not, you're not one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys, you know, you gotta go out there
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  Speaker 1: and play Specchi teams. Such teams is a vital part
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  Speaker 1: of the game. You know, they can win and lose games.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of that's one thing the rookies gotta
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  Speaker 1: understand too. It ain't just like you know, some brookie
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  Speaker 1: might feel like a coach just putting in my old man,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't never play speci team while you got me
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  Speaker 1: out there. But once you find the understand because in
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  Speaker 1: college for me, I was a starter and play special team.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, Coach Miles always told us the best
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  Speaker 1: players gonna play special teams. I ain't putting nobody out,
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  Speaker 1: but because it's a key part of the game. You
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  Speaker 1: know it can be one of loss on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: So I was already instilled in me coming into the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that helped me out a lot of
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  Speaker 1: understanding the importance of it is from a town far
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  Speaker 1: from yours, right down the road actually, But how has
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  Speaker 1: he been so far to work where the betteran guy
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  Speaker 1: has been in the league for thirty eight years for
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  Speaker 1: good to sex. Uh, he's been great, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: having that uh, that bond from him being an l.
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  Speaker 1: S U. Him being uh Louisiana native and close to
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  Speaker 1: where I'm from, a hometown where I'm from, and uh
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  Speaker 1: even from New Orleans for lenter. You know, we can
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  Speaker 1: relate to him a lot. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people he know we know from L. S U.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of stuff we can relate to
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  Speaker 1: him in the room and and that makes the situation
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable and uh in the chemistry more better in
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  Speaker 1: the room for us as a whole, you know, where
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  Speaker 1: we can go to him and talk and he have
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  Speaker 1: understanding of our background and where we come from. He's
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  Speaker 1: got some stories now, doesn't think the guy has been
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  Speaker 1: around here for so long in the league and then
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  Speaker 1: football forever. The guy can tell some stories. He got
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  Speaker 1: some stories, and he knows everybody. If you ask him,
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  Speaker 1: he knows, he knows everybody. He got everybody number and
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  Speaker 1: that's the one thing he always tell an, I can
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  Speaker 1: call that person right now. We'd be like called Obama
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  Speaker 1: and he'd be like, oh, do you think you think
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  Speaker 1: it's a game? He got numbers of Obama in this one.
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  Speaker 1: I said, that could be another Obama and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: what other Obama? You know? You know? So it's all
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  Speaker 1: it's all funny games in the room. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's good chemistry in the room, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. You've got some time last week and
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  Speaker 1: week one? Are you expecting time this week? And what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to get out of the game Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night when you play? Uh, just go out there and
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  Speaker 1: showcase what I can do, you know, you know, be
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  Speaker 1: uh mental mistake free, you know, don't go out there
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  Speaker 1: and make mentally Just show the coaches that I'm a
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  Speaker 1: veteran player that knows how to be consistent and go
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  Speaker 1: out there and do his job to a high level.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking to appreciate your time, and I appreciate it.