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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "The overall depth of the roster, we're in a better place than we were last year." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: One because the participation, the amount of guys that are here,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the number one thing that I look at
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  Speaker 1: because it's a voluntary off season program. Right next week
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  Speaker 1: is the mandatory Mini camp, the only three days that
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  Speaker 1: you know, the guys are required to be here. So
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  Speaker 1: I've been really pleased being having great participation, great effort,
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  Speaker 1: guys are doing the right things. Yeah, we've been able
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  Speaker 1: to work on some stuff that the coaches have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taken away from last season or new ideas, new thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: We've been able to implement those, you know this this
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  Speaker 1: spring and and really, uh, you know, just just get
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  Speaker 1: stuff on film.
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  Speaker 2: Really, but it's been it's been a good off season
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 1: Have they decided how you're going to handle Mini camp yet?
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  Speaker 2: I have? Are you going to probably not?
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  Speaker 3: Doug the news this morning that Leonard Floyd siding with Buffalo,
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  Speaker 3: How would you evaluate where your pass rush is now?
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  Speaker 3: And I know Trent said following the draft, you guys
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  Speaker 3: are not a finished product yet. So do you look
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  Speaker 3: at the market now and do you say, hey, is
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  Speaker 3: now the time you move because some of these.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are going to get scooped up. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously it's a good player and and guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna get get scooped up. But listen, it's you
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  Speaker 1: also have to you can't just jump at the first
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  Speaker 1: thing you know that's there. And obviously, you know somebody
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  Speaker 1: has to fit your roster and fit you know, your structure.
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  Speaker 2: Financially and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, there's gonna be guys probably going into
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  Speaker 1: training camp. There's gonna be guys coming out of training
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  Speaker 1: camp that that will take a look at. But you
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  Speaker 1: know those are all things for you know, conversations for
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  Speaker 1: down the road. And and we've been pleased with the
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  Speaker 1: guys that are here and been working and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to get get them better and ready
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  Speaker 1: to go benefit from the launch ownership. How have I
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  Speaker 1: seen that benefit guys? Well, you know, I tell you
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been. It's been a good program. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a real good program. We've been able to, uh, not
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  Speaker 1: only implement it during the regular season, but also in
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  Speaker 1: the off season program and bring guys in that can
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  Speaker 1: can you know, get on your radar screen, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: And then the guys you know from me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having Henry Burris last year and Greg Austin this year.
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  Speaker 1: And and guys that are you know, on offensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball that that can work with the coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: work with myself, uh, the quarterback coach, and and and
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  Speaker 1: be a part of, uh, of what we're doing there.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a really good pipeline for you know, young coaches,
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  Speaker 1: young minority coaches to really uh. You know, the emphasis
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  Speaker 1: is obviously the offensive side of the ball because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times that tends to be a pipeline towards
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  Speaker 1: the head coaching position or a coordinator's position. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a really good program league wide, and you
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  Speaker 1: know we take full advantage of it. Conversation with Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen is he to go to the and where he is? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know Bill Shuey, his position coaches, has probably talked
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  Speaker 1: to him the most and and keeps me updated on
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  Speaker 1: on where he's at and what he's doing. And and
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  Speaker 1: he he's working, he's not you know, he's listening. He's
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  Speaker 1: not you know, taking this time off. He's he's working
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  Speaker 1: and preparing himself and you know we should see him
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  Speaker 1: in here next week. What have you going about Andre
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  Speaker 1: Cisco's progress heading into the season.
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  Speaker 2: Really good, really good?
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  Speaker 1: A little bit, a little bit bigger, a lot of confidence,
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  Speaker 1: you know, healthy, and you know he's done, He's done.
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  Speaker 2: A really nice job. You know him and him and
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  Speaker 2: you know ray Sean.
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  Speaker 1: Having a full season together last year is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: gonna be better for those two, you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: back end and and the communication. But like where he's at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's in a good place heading heading into
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  Speaker 1: the season, heading into training camp.
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  Speaker 3: At least last week you told us Ridley was gonna
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  Speaker 3: be not not full go right, gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: held back a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's in there, like for the majority of
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  Speaker 1: the stats city who's snuck in on some of them?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a good problem to have that he's you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, kind of not that he's sneaking in problem to have.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it is.
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  Speaker 1: But let's look, it's some of the some of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I'm doing with the with the team drills
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  Speaker 1: is I'm trying to I'm trying to eliminate collisions, so
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  Speaker 1: we're slowing the pace down so he can actually get
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  Speaker 1: in there. He if you notice, he's not a full
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  Speaker 1: speed right, He's not. He's not doing anything one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: and nor is the rest of the team. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a way to kind of get him in there, uh,
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  Speaker 1: under a controlled tempo. Uh. But it's good to see
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  Speaker 1: him get in there, and and you know, he continues
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  Speaker 1: to learn and process the information and it's doing good.
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  Speaker 3: Is it hard not to let him go full speed
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  Speaker 3: just to see what you got to?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we saw him early in phase two kind of
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  Speaker 1: go go full speed, and and it's exciting to see
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  Speaker 1: what he can do and what he can bring. And
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  Speaker 1: and at this time really too we because we even
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  Speaker 1: even guys that are that are sort of nursing injuries
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  Speaker 1: from the season right that are still lingering that that
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  Speaker 1: it's a way to let them practice and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get get the mental reps in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: under a controlled environment.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of going back to the player acquisition stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, DeAndre Hopkins obviously was released.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering on or.
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  Speaker 1: Hear taken from the team perspective, if you guys would
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  Speaker 1: be interested in him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's hard to speak on guys obviously, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, cause we got a really good room right now,
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  Speaker 1: and and it's hard to hard to add someone of
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  Speaker 1: his caliber and his talent to a room that's already talented,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and you know, we're you consider everything,
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  Speaker 1: but but at this time it's not a it's not
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  Speaker 1: a reality.
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  Speaker 2: For us to to bring someone like that in and
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  Speaker 2: then just Trevor Warrence is sort of leadership growth. Where
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  Speaker 2: have you've seen him develop in that area and what
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  Speaker 2: do you expect to moving forward?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he's uh, you know, second year with us, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: third year in the league, so you know, the development
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  Speaker 1: and the growth, you know, we got to see the
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  Speaker 1: way he ended the season last year is what we
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  Speaker 1: got to see to start the season right and just
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  Speaker 1: just continue that progression with him. And he's on the
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  Speaker 1: right track. He's doing everything that we've asked him to do.
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  Speaker 1: He's again a uh, a young player on our team.
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  Speaker 1: He's the you know, he's the he's the key to
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the offense and makes it makes it work.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, he understands his role from the standpoint of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, put the ball in the playmaker's hands, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But now having a full year of our offense under
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  Speaker 1: his belt too, that that gives him a lot of
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  Speaker 1: confidence where you know, y last year we were still
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  Speaker 1: teaching and he was still learning and you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: still learning, but the uh he he's now teaching, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the offense to the other guys.
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  Speaker 3: Does if he go beyond any stats or Royal Robertson
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  Speaker 3: Harris pre ex.
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  Speaker 1: What do you what does he get your football team
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  Speaker 1: that goes past any sacks or tackles or things like that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, from the field standpoint, you look
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  Speaker 1: at what he did towards the back half. He's another
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  Speaker 1: one that really improved you know, the the the pressure
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  Speaker 1: rates and and things like that. You know from from
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  Speaker 1: a D line position. Just a tremendous leader.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Guys respect him, you know, on and off the football field.
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  Speaker 1: He loves being here and and just a guy that
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  Speaker 1: that really is another part of the culture of our
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  Speaker 1: locker room, you know. And and excited that we were
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  Speaker 1: able to to you know, sign him up for a
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  Speaker 1: few more years and and get him get him here
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just uh, he he comes to practice
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  Speaker 1: every day, he doesn't complain, he works hard, and those
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  Speaker 1: are the type of guys that you know, even for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit older veteran guy, you know, Uh, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you like to see, cause that's a great message
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  Speaker 1: to the young guys on how to how to prepare
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  Speaker 1: and how to how to study and how to get
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  Speaker 1: themselves ready. What uh than Ingram not here that opened
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  Speaker 1: up a few extra reps a tight end. Have you
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  Speaker 1: seen any of young players really able to kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of take advantage of those and start to stand out?
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  Speaker 2: I mean Garrett Prince, you know, and Luke. I mean
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  Speaker 2: Luke didn't get a ton of reps last year, so
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  Speaker 2: this is great for him, you know, moving in there.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, obviously with the Garrett Prince just getting some
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  Speaker 1: opportunity there, and and then of course with Brenton Strange too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's great that we can give him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, more of a full load and and see
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  Speaker 1: what he can do and what he can handle.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's you know, I it's it. It is
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  Speaker 2: what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But but you know, it's exciting for the young guys
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  Speaker 1: that are here cause we get a chance to coach
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  Speaker 1: them and and get them in a position to to
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  Speaker 1: help us as we move forward.
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  Speaker 3: Yuh. Very obviously this time of the year, everything's optimistic.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody's got you know, hopes and dreams that
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  Speaker 3: think they're getting fulfilled at at this time. What is
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  Speaker 3: your biggest concern if you had any about either the
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  Speaker 3: roster or just anything that's pertaining to the organization.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something that you think about quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, number one, you know, we got to come
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  Speaker 1: out of the off season healthy. You know, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to set back with a player at this late
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  Speaker 1: of the late in the state, you know, or this
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  Speaker 1: late in the calendar year as far as the off
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  Speaker 1: season goes, and everybody be healthy going into training camp.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, that was sort of the I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the goals coming out of the draft and
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  Speaker 1: free agency. One signing our own players, which which we
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  Speaker 1: you know, majority of the guys we.
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  Speaker 2: Were able to sign.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then adding depth, adding adding guys that
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  Speaker 1: could potentially contribute on special teams, which we did in
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  Speaker 1: the draft, or some young players that we really like
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  Speaker 1: and it'd be great to see them, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: the pads come on in training camp and how they
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  Speaker 1: how they move around and function and all that. But
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think from a standpoint of of just
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  Speaker 1: the overall depth of the roster, I think we're in
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  Speaker 1: a better place than we were last year. But concern wise,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at the you look at the big
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  Speaker 1: picture of things. I mean, I like the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we've got some young secondary guys that that can work
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  Speaker 1: inside and outside. There's there's some some valuable players you
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  Speaker 1: know there that could possibly help us. I mean depth
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  Speaker 1: at linebacker, depth at d line, and we talked about
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  Speaker 1: the edge rush, you know, the pass rush there, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, offensive line we got deeper. This is one
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  Speaker 1: of the better top to bottom offensive lines that we've
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  Speaker 1: had in a long time. You know here, receiver room
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  Speaker 1: looks good, running back room looks good. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: right now, I would say everything looks great. A right,
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  Speaker 1: Ask me in about three months, how long.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think this team will handle uh being the
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  Speaker 3: hunted in terms of certainly within its own division that
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  Speaker 3: you guys are a pretty strong favorite. How long do
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  Speaker 3: you think they will hear?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, no, that and that's that falls on me.
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  Speaker 1: That falls on me to make sure that they they
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  Speaker 1: don't look past what we're what we're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: accomplished today, and that that's on me to make sure
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  Speaker 1: we don't look.
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  Speaker 2: Down the road and last year's last year.
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  Speaker 1: And you just have to keep reiterating the point, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've said this in here before it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a new team, it's a new season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got to start over, and that's got to be
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  Speaker 1: the mentality.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's great what we did, but we haven't done anything
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  Speaker 1: in twenty three you know, and we haven't played a
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  Speaker 1: football game.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, so I've got a lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 1: But it falls on me to make sure that they
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  Speaker 1: stay they stay level headed and grounded and keep working hard.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell at this stage if a young pass
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  Speaker 1: rusher has gotten better with their past rush technique and
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  Speaker 1: asking about trademon but I'm just curious technique. You can
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  Speaker 1: you can see it's hard. You don't have pads on,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't you can't do one on ones. We
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  Speaker 1: can't do anything, you know, from a physical nature. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can see it. You can see it
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  Speaker 1: in the drill work. You can see what he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to get done. You know, even when we are at
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  Speaker 1: some team settings, you can see some some flashes there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you can definitely tell if a guy has
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  Speaker 1: been been working on his craft and and uh trying
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  Speaker 1: to get himself better, he's getting better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's No, he's working on the things he needs
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  Speaker 2: to work on.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know coach who he's done a nice
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  Speaker 1: job with that this offseason, having a plan for the guys,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, and Trayvon knows he's got to
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  Speaker 1: work on some different things and and you know, get
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  Speaker 1: himself ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: I know, Trayvon has also worked with Coach Buck for
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more from what we've seen that by
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  Speaker 3: design or just by nature of certain well Buck.
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  Speaker 1: Is your interior D line guys, builds more your outside
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  Speaker 1: backer guys. So being able to cross over and work inside,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's you're closer to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And with with Trayvon's length, there's some things that that
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  Speaker 1: Buck has more experience and then then then build us.
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  Speaker 1: So there's gonna be some cross over there, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you,