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Press Pass | Caldwell: "You want to be elite." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? I did feel on the first
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  Speaker 1: day of practice seeing your guys out there. Oh, glad
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: to be back. Glad be back. Everybody's moving around good,
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  Speaker 1: So happy to be back. When you guys, do you
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  Speaker 1: guys like when you drafted him? Since then when you
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  Speaker 1: made Campo g a s in the camp and however,
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  Speaker 1: whatever your interactions, then why do you like him more
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  Speaker 1: now than maybe draft dead? We like him more now
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  Speaker 1: because we know the person now, we know the player.
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  Speaker 1: We see the player on film, but the person his
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  Speaker 1: work ethic, when he talks about off the field, that's
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  Speaker 1: what we like about him. And you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to get him going more, get him in
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  Speaker 1: the pads and just see him progress. Do you guys
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  Speaker 1: have any more but update on Devin Lloyd and exactly
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  Speaker 1: how severe the hamstring injury suffered. Was No, We're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna let that take care of herself. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no timetable on it. We'll just let him go.
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  Speaker 1: He's really getting a bunch of good mental reps now,
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  Speaker 1: that's important for young player to get the mental reps.
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  Speaker 1: And he's standing inside coach at Gilbert it and Coach
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  Speaker 1: Sutton myself and he's getting the mental reps, so it's
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  Speaker 1: good for him. Chat well this Uh this spring, we
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  Speaker 1: saw him come in. UH saw his production in college
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  Speaker 1: and then just a mental part of the game. He's playing,
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  Speaker 1: uh real fast for a young guy, and just can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to see once a pad get on. Just to
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  Speaker 1: see him go out there and dude, he's supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: Coach you. UH were a part of the NFL's diversity
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  Speaker 1: program going up to the owners meetings in Atlanta, got
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  Speaker 1: the Bill Walsh diversity coaches out here, UH participating with
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  Speaker 1: training kid keep talking about the importance of these diversity
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  Speaker 1: programs to help diversity by the coach and staffs. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's really Uh. I think it's important. It's good steps.
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  Speaker 1: Going up there this spring was a great opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: me to UH. I played on five or six different teams,
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  Speaker 1: can't can't remember how many, but I know some of
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  Speaker 1: the owners. But meeting him in a different setting was
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  Speaker 1: really good for me to be able to sit down
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  Speaker 1: and talk to him, which is fine, and then talking
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  Speaker 1: about the minority internship. UH, that's how I started. I
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  Speaker 1: was there with the Eagles coach Andy Reid. He brought
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  Speaker 1: me on and able to do that. It's a time
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  Speaker 1: where you can, as a former player or young coach,
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  Speaker 1: find out what you don't know and find out if
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  Speaker 1: you really want to do it. We'll show people and
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  Speaker 1: the guys we have here are working extremely hard so far,
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  Speaker 1: and we're happy to have him. When you guys are
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  Speaker 1: looking at the signing for a what was it about
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  Speaker 1: you about him that really excited one? Production two? Just
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  Speaker 1: when you talk to people around the league, his former coaches,
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  Speaker 1: how smart and how detail he was. And we always
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  Speaker 1: want a guy that stand in front of the huddle,
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  Speaker 1: that's a natural leader, and you know, you can put
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  Speaker 1: him in. You can put anybody in front of the huddle,
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  Speaker 1: but if they're not that leader, the guys aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to really follow them. But he's a guy that throughout
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  Speaker 1: his career he's been that one that you look to
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  Speaker 1: or teams have looked to. And once he got here,
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  Speaker 1: you you just saw it. Uh. He stepped in front
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  Speaker 1: of the huddle, commanded it, he communicates. Well, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're happy to have a guy like that here for
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  Speaker 1: the first time. You know what I mean, Well, I'll
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  Speaker 1: kind of buy us. I'm a former inside linebacker, an
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  Speaker 1: inside linebacker coach. So I liked those guys because I
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  Speaker 1: understand what that means to a team. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on him, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: got broad shoulder, so he's gonna stand up to it
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  Speaker 1: for a toy A and and Josh. So to have
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  Speaker 1: those two like kingpins of that defense with all the
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  Speaker 1: young guys around him and the newdists around him, they
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  Speaker 1: have experience. Oh it's always good to have experience. But
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  Speaker 1: we have a coaching staff that has a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: guys that have played. But when you see guys that
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  Speaker 1: are on the field with you that have been through
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  Speaker 1: it and understand what we want from them, and the
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  Speaker 1: young guys can turn and go ask a question that
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  Speaker 1: they might not want to ask a coach, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, once we have so many leaders
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  Speaker 1: at different positions of we're comfortable like that. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: leadership and experience. At this stage, do you have an
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  Speaker 1: idea of who will be those main leaders of your defense? Really,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to say who the leaders are. In
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  Speaker 1: my mind, the leader of somebody that's out there making plays.
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  Speaker 1: When you're a young guy and you see someone out
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  Speaker 1: there that's doing it, the right way making plays. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the guys you follow, and as coaches we kind
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  Speaker 1: of steer you that way. If you see a guy
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  Speaker 1: that's doing it the right way, go get in his
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  Speaker 1: back pocket because he's doing it the right way, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what you got to model yourself behind. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like you guys will be better against the run, But
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  Speaker 1: when will you know that? When you not know that
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  Speaker 1: it's the one where do you change to join that
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  Speaker 1: in camp when the prides are on. We'll probably better
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  Speaker 1: against the run once we get to the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season find out. But but that's the plan. We
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  Speaker 1: want to go out there and be the best we
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  Speaker 1: can be, and that's the goal right now. Get better
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  Speaker 1: every day, continue to work and we have certain things
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  Speaker 1: we want to focus on, and our focus is what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna try to get better at and be good at.
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  Speaker 1: Get the first time of defense coordinas. We have a
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  Speaker 1: tendency to think that his last stop is what the
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  Speaker 1: defense is gonna look like. Will this have a spin
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  Speaker 1: on it from your entire career? Will it look a
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  Speaker 1: lot like Tom When you think about it as a
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  Speaker 1: coach growing up, growing up, you're influenced by so many
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  Speaker 1: different people out with your Coach Bowls. Uh. He's like
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  Speaker 1: a brother to me, um. But there are certain things
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  Speaker 1: that I've learned in the past before Coach Bowls that
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  Speaker 1: I might want to implement. It's right now. It's just
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to mold it and we're gonna let our
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  Speaker 1: players play and perform in the best way they can.
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  Speaker 1: We'll put them in position to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: make plays through our scheme. Whatever our scheme ends up
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  Speaker 1: being the green dot helmet situation with Devon Messing some
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  Speaker 1: time here at the start of camp, it's really the
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  Speaker 1: green dot is it's just my way to communicate someone
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  Speaker 1: on the field. You can put it up and you
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  Speaker 1: typically want somebody to try the field three downs, and
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  Speaker 1: we anticipate our insideline actor or safety being on the
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  Speaker 1: field three down. So that's still you know, we can
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  Speaker 1: put that on anybody, but normally it's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: stands in front of huddle makes a call so he
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  Speaker 1: can be the I guess, the communicator on the field.
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  Speaker 1: How encouraging is it again, Darius william Which to come
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  Speaker 1: back on the field with more on his brain. It's
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  Speaker 1: really good. You sit back and you watch him a
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  Speaker 1: great actorwards this and for us it's an offseason and
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  Speaker 1: with his injury he was able to walk through. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll be able to get on the field now. Getting
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  Speaker 1: him on the field, seeing his movement, it's a really
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  Speaker 1: good for us and for the other guys to be
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  Speaker 1: able to see him and just see what he brings
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  Speaker 1: to the team. You know what an elite defense is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to look like. You feel like this team has
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  Speaker 1: the personnel right now too more to more eventually become
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  Speaker 1: an elite defense. That's the goal. That's what everyone works towards.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be elite. Whatever team you're on, you
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  Speaker 1: want to be elite, and you come out here every
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  Speaker 1: day at training camp. In our message to them, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta build and it's a process. You get there, you work,
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  Speaker 1: You put the work in every day and then at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, what happens happens. That's the goal.
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  Speaker 1: But I asked you, do you think that the personality
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  Speaker 1: is available here to become elite? That's the thing you
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  Speaker 1: never know. You never know. You have great players. Injuries happen,
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  Speaker 1: but we're constructed to go out there and get better
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  Speaker 1: every day and we set goals for ourselves and our
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  Speaker 1: goal is to be a great team, ads on until
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and obviously play a game four days later. That
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  Speaker 1: sort of challenges as that present, it's really uh, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I see it as a challenge. We have
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  Speaker 1: to get the guys acclimated because the thing about it
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  Speaker 1: is you wanted them to come back, and again we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it's a process. It's not. Yeah, we play
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  Speaker 1: a game in four days, but again the ultimate game
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  Speaker 1: is Opening Day, so we're trying to build for that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, putting ourselves in pads. We'll get enough working
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  Speaker 1: pass coach Peterson. Uh, I understand he has a in
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  Speaker 1: for what we're gonna do, and we're gonna follow the
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  Speaker 1: plan in you know, hit at full speed. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the Michael Josh album was working. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: matters working with the younger guys. Josh works with Trayvon,
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  Speaker 1: but he also works with underracted Cree agents. They've seen
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  Speaker 1: that everything. So is it a side of Josh's leadership
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  Speaker 1: and he's willing to get help any teammated and whatever
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  Speaker 1: tacking more they made, or may I think it is
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  Speaker 1: it's a sign of him being a leader, a good
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  Speaker 1: teammate and also being the man he is. Again, No, however,
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  Speaker 1: you got here, are you here now you're in jack Canville.
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  Speaker 1: You can help us. So we're gonna try to get
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  Speaker 1: everything we can out of you. So again, he's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's been through it. He understands it, so he's
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  Speaker 1: able to spill his knowledge onto the young guys and
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  Speaker 1: they're gravitating to him. You talk about a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other new faces on the defense. What about fully Patakas
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  Speaker 1: I know he kind of you guys mentioned when you
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  Speaker 1: brought him in that he had some leadership qualities. What
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  Speaker 1: have you thought about having Fully around so far? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it was good in that defensive line room, there's characters,
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  Speaker 1: and you got a bunch of of the leaders, and
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the guys. Again, you never can have
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  Speaker 1: enough leaders. And we're lucky enough to have a group
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  Speaker 1: of guys that have played in the league understand what
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  Speaker 1: it takes to play in the league and they're able
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  Speaker 1: to talk to the young guys and help us out
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  Speaker 1: in that aspect. Andreesco a starter. We'll find out on
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  Speaker 1: game day that ptenon who Andre Cisco? Are you pleased
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  Speaker 1: with what he's doing in terms of what you're teaching them?
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  Speaker 1: In the meeting rooms and now he's applying it. Really,
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  Speaker 1: the entire defense right now is learning and they're getting
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  Speaker 1: better every day. I'm pleased with whether they're at they're
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  Speaker 1: just continue to get better. And that's what we look for.
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  Speaker 1: We look for guys that you're gonna make a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: If you make a mistake, the next two or three
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  Speaker 1: days down the line, you don't make the same mistake.
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  Speaker 1: And we're seeing that, so we're we're pleased. Terms Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: coaching more guy. You like his athleticism. Man, he's here,
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  Speaker 1: he's buying in, he's ready to work guys. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys you've already had, Shaq Griffin. What what
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  Speaker 1: do you expect for him? Uh? In his second year
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  Speaker 1: here kind of taking that next step again, talk talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, talk about leadership. Well, he's a guy, he's
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  Speaker 1: been here, he understands, he's been in other places. So
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that the young guys can look to.
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  Speaker 1: All right, how did you do this? What you see here?
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  Speaker 1: And he's happy to instill his knowledge and share his
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  Speaker 1: knowledge with your young guys. So please with that, all right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Okay,