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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "You just cut them loose and go play." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: I'll say this. He practiced yesterday, Um did well. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously no setbacks. We gotta get through today, obviously, say
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  Speaker 1: it's a big day. It's a good you know, Friday's
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  Speaker 1: are our review days of the game plan. So we
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  Speaker 1: get through today, then you know things things look positive.
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  Speaker 1: He said he needed to see Devin sort of go
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  Speaker 1: through that Wednesday, Thursday, and I guess today, what did
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  Speaker 1: you see from him? And is he ready to take
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  Speaker 1: that next step to start potentially sending Yeah. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's done everything you know, we've asked him to do
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  Speaker 1: and what the trainers have asked him to do, and
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  Speaker 1: he's he's healthy, and I think he's back to to devon,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and um you don't. Yeah, I get
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  Speaker 1: through today and um tomorrow and but everything everything should
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  Speaker 1: be should be okay. What kind of differences make on
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  Speaker 1: the field, I mean, just from what you guys have seen,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's been limited, but can you already tell
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  Speaker 1: that you know he's making an impact? Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you love his athleticism, he love his height. He's long,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and it's hard to throw balls over him
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  Speaker 1: in practice, and you know he's been able to bat
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  Speaker 1: some things down and and and do do some really
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  Speaker 1: good things in practice. And you know, he just has
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  Speaker 1: to continue to do that within the scheme and just
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  Speaker 1: understanding his role and um, but but he's I think
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  Speaker 1: he's in a good place mentally, you know, just just
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  Speaker 1: watching him out there and and talking to him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and physically he's he's doing doing good in
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  Speaker 1: a good spot. Like him and James Robinson have been
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  Speaker 1: limited in much of camp and didn't really get a
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  Speaker 1: ton of work. Do you worry about their conditioning level
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  Speaker 1: of football shape? You know what I mean, you have
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  Speaker 1: to see how that goes my first quarter. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of worry about that with the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: entire team, the fact that they're all playing now for
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  Speaker 1: sixty minutes you know, and um, but but I don't
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  Speaker 1: really worry too much about their conditioning just because of
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  Speaker 1: how much they actually work harder I think when they're
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  Speaker 1: doing their rehab than when they're actually out there a practice.
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  Speaker 1: And um, but both of them have have seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be fine. You know, I haven't seen any um setbacks
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  Speaker 1: with these two guys, and and um, you know suh, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know you've got a monitor a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with guys who have been injured previously, just to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that they're still um, you know there are
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  Speaker 1: no setbacks like Lloyd specifically, Is there really no substitute
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  Speaker 1: for a rookie for reps, game reps, practice reps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as many as you can get, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as many as you can get him. Um, you'd love
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  Speaker 1: to see him take them all. But you know there's
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  Speaker 1: also you know, guys behind him. You know, Chad needs
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  Speaker 1: to take reps and you know guys like that, and
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  Speaker 1: you know Shack needs to take reps. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just a matter of just finding a balance between
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  Speaker 1: all that, you know, and and then and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: come Sunday, you just cut them loose and go play.
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  Speaker 1: Darius Williams hasn't really played any games yet. He's been
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field the past couple of weeks. What
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  Speaker 1: have you seen from him and just in terms of
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  Speaker 1: his uh availability on Sunday, do you expect him just play? Um,
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  Speaker 1: as far as you know health wise, he's doing really well.
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  Speaker 1: You know he was he was cut loose a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks to go, you know, off of them basically
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  Speaker 1: off the injury port. But um, you know he's he's
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  Speaker 1: in a good place. You know. We we kept him
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  Speaker 1: out of the last preseason game for a reason. He
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  Speaker 1: got some great work up in Atlanta and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the joint practice there and didn't really need to see
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  Speaker 1: him make tackles or anything like that. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: just feel comfortable with that. But um, smooth operator, you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh smooth dB um does some good things. Smart guy
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  Speaker 1: fits into the system well, you know, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: time to go play. Yeah, any pre game ritual when
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  Speaker 1: you were a player, do you have one as a coach? Um?
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  Speaker 1: Not really don't. I mean, yeah, no. The only thing obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I like to get to the stadium early, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: home or away, and you just kind of watch everything
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, wake up at the stadium a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and um but just nothing, nothing really out
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  Speaker 1: of the ordinary other than just getting there earlier. Is
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  Speaker 1: quiet sometimes, you know, when you're sitting in your office,
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  Speaker 1: is reviewing the game plan or you know, maybe just
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  Speaker 1: watching watching TV or something like that, just to kind
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  Speaker 1: of get your mind freed up just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But nothing, I'm trying to think, nothing too crazy or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. Nothing like that. I do change my
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  Speaker 1: either advisor a hat. That's probably the only thing whether
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  Speaker 1: it's raining or sunshine. And you know, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: there's a little rain, so I might have to wear
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  Speaker 1: a hat. How about travel, This is a team that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't traveled very well. It's a young team. Any particular
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  Speaker 1: philosophy or ideals that you tell these guys about how
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna travel, you know, Um, basically, just keep talking
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  Speaker 1: to them about how to handle themselves on the road
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  Speaker 1: and eliminate distractions around them, especially once we get there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's there can be some different things pulling
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  Speaker 1: on everybody, you know, coaches and players, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: family or dealing with tickets or you know, setting up transportation,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it might be. Whatever you can do to try
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate some of that, and then just keep talking
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  Speaker 1: through them that that you know, we have to we
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  Speaker 1: have to treat each game kind of the same, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and have that have that approach you know,
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  Speaker 1: every single week. And um, you know, part of the
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  Speaker 1: success in in the NFL. And we saw it last
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  Speaker 1: night as winning winning on the road, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you gotta you gotta be able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Where are the challenges that come from playing away. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that this team hasn't one away I think in
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen games. Just how tough is that to go
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  Speaker 1: into another team's stadium and play well. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if we just keep it about us and not worry
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  Speaker 1: about the crowd or the weather or any of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just just focus on us and our jobs
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  Speaker 1: and what we need to do. I think. I think
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  Speaker 1: you can. You know, you come away with more wins
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  Speaker 1: than than losses, I think. But it's always a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Um, everything is a little bit different. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, you know, it's it's part,
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  Speaker 1: it's part of it. And um, you know, part of
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  Speaker 1: the success every year is just how you handle the road.
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  Speaker 1: Any anyone at all that you've been here, have been
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  Speaker 1: Washington a bunch of time, you know, first game in
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  Speaker 1: the news. Yeah, no, just uh, staying in the same place,
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  Speaker 1: you know, real familiar with that area obviously, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the stadium and the layout and all that is,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to get around and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: um traveling, I mean it's you know, it's spread out
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  Speaker 1: to you know, from the airport to land over into
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  Speaker 1: the stadium and everywhere else. I mean it's it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everything's a little bit spread out, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it's we're kind of used to it. Appreciate six
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  Speaker 1: caps and have have you decided on who you're gonna payes?
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  Speaker 1: Who is it Cam Robinson this week? What kind of
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  Speaker 1: we went into that decision? Ah, you know, it's he's
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  Speaker 1: a good one to to to start start the year
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  Speaker 1: with the five. You know they were him picked and um,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's really shown great leadership you know with the team,
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  Speaker 1: Um since since uh you know, being resigned you know
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  Speaker 1: back in the spring and all of that, and he's
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  Speaker 1: he's bought in. Um hasn't been easy for him as well,
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  Speaker 1: you know here and and I've been some challenges and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: But he's you know, he's in a good place and
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  Speaker 1: uh so good person to kick it off with. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right,