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Press Pass | Pederson: "I think this week will be important." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You good morning. Last when the experienced being here for
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  Speaker 1: most of training camp and how you worked out in Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my hat's off to Episcopal for allowing us to uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, come out here and and sort of invade
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  Speaker 1: their their space a little bit, are you know, also
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  Speaker 1: to our grounds crew to you know, to put these
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  Speaker 1: fields down and and really a lot of work and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of man hours went into
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting getting us over here, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from the from the busses every day too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just the timing of everything. And I just can't say
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  Speaker 1: enough good things about this situation. The guys have really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it, kind of getting away from our building a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and getting outside here and it's been it's
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  Speaker 1: been really good. And and we've been very fortunate to
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  Speaker 1: have this. All right, everything about how you guys stop.
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  Speaker 1: First off, a tremendous football player. Got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: respect for him and love watching guys like him because
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  Speaker 1: he works so hard at his craft, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: he um just a tremendous athlete. But yeah, it's it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: You definitely have to have a plan, you know, going
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  Speaker 1: into that game and and a lot of times your
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  Speaker 1: your basic protection rules don't exist with guys like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're you're trying to put four hands on
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  Speaker 1: on him if possible. We know that sometimes you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to block him one on one, and it just
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  Speaker 1: it just comes down to that, and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you try to you know, get the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: your quarterback's hands and particularly on third down, and try
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  Speaker 1: to have success running the football. Whatever you can do
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  Speaker 1: to to sort of you know, you can't eliminate him,
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  Speaker 1: but but try to slow it down the best you can.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's fun when you play players of that caliber,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to scheme against players like that, and then
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  Speaker 1: obviously to watch him play. You just hope that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't wreck the game, um as he did in the
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl this year eating on that brown.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've got some young sending players quite honestly
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  Speaker 1: that that that have really kind of caught our attention,
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  Speaker 1: cut our eye. There's there's some nice competition there with
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  Speaker 1: you know, with Izzy and j and some of the
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  Speaker 1: other you know, moves we can do, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: just a it's a tough decision. Obviously we've done this before,
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  Speaker 1: but um, you know, Malcolm was was great for this team,
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  Speaker 1: great for the room, great leadership here for the for
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  Speaker 1: the time he was here, and wish him well and
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  Speaker 1: obviously now it's an opportunity that he can, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: potentially get picked up by another team go into three
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  Speaker 1: four this year with this defense. Over the course of
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  Speaker 1: your career, whether you were with team the previous year
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  Speaker 1: or not, what's been your felist at how long the
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  Speaker 1: cakes for any team, any defense to adjust to a
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  Speaker 1: new system. You know, I just don't. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just the defense. I think the offense. I think the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, timing and skill and all that
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  Speaker 1: can can take some time. You know, these are not um.
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  Speaker 1: Even though this team has been built around the thirty
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  Speaker 1: four um, there's some there's some nuances in it because
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  Speaker 1: it really plays like a four down front um and
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  Speaker 1: and you're moving, you're moving parts around. You know, you've
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  Speaker 1: got Trayvon and Josh who stay left and right. They
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily trade sides. You've got your inside backers that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of stayed left and right, and and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: understanding formations, some three or four teams will actually flip
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  Speaker 1: flip those outside and inside guys. So they're always strong
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  Speaker 1: and weak, and you know it has some consistency that way.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's one thing about our scheme here
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  Speaker 1: and what Mike has brought is that they can stay.
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  Speaker 1: They can stay on that one side and learn that
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  Speaker 1: one side. But again there you know, the tight end
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  Speaker 1: could be two of them, tight end could be away.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's some details of just where the where
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  Speaker 1: the front needs to be set and you know obviously
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  Speaker 1: the run lanes and um the run fits and and
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  Speaker 1: where the safety is insert and you know, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that takes time. UM, with just the details
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  Speaker 1: and the practice of everything. Health is reasonably good. Uh
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  Speaker 1: coup force would you expect because little circumstances. But this
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  Speaker 1: defense to really get better to go, I think so, yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: I think so. The more they get used to each other,
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  Speaker 1: the more time on the grass, whether it's a walk through,
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  Speaker 1: a practice, um, just being around each other. UM, you
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  Speaker 1: can only get you can only get better, you know
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  Speaker 1: training camp to I mean you're you're playing so many
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  Speaker 1: guys and so many guys are in and out of
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  Speaker 1: the lineup that you know you're trying to see everybody
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  Speaker 1: and try to evaluate and make an honest evaluation on
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  Speaker 1: everybody one thing. I know that you know, in a
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  Speaker 1: great example, um, you know with Walker Little in Jowan Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: when when Jowan missed time due to injury, Walker took
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  Speaker 1: all the reps and you saw daily improvement with with Walker.
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  Speaker 1: So it's no different with an entire unit. Right. The
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  Speaker 1: more they spend time together and get all the reps,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the regular season, uh, that's when that's when you
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  Speaker 1: start seeing the real drastic improvements. Are you Are you
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  Speaker 1: a final product in September? No, you want to be
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  Speaker 1: a final product towards the end of the season. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of work to be done.
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  Speaker 1: We're still two days out, But do you have any
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  Speaker 1: idea of players that won't be available Saturday versus how
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  Speaker 1: long we will play the guys that are available. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from from a playing standpoint, I definitely want
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  Speaker 1: to see the the starters go into the second quarter
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  Speaker 1: again this week. I think our defense needs to be
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  Speaker 1: on the field a little bit more. Um. You know
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  Speaker 1: that they've played well in the first two games, they
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  Speaker 1: just haven't played long enough. Um, So I definitely want
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  Speaker 1: to see them play a little bit more, you know, offensively,
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  Speaker 1: if we can if we can do the things we
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  Speaker 1: did last week and and sort of clean up some
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  Speaker 1: of the execution things. Yeah, into the second quarter. Um,
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  Speaker 1: as far as guys that are gonna miss, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, James Robinson who has been ACTI sing lately,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's obviously going to be out. Um, Devin Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: is gonna miss. Will Richardson is gonna miss h BT
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  Speaker 1: Padar's gonna miss. Who's the other one, Darius Williams obviously
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  Speaker 1: he still is gonna miss. I think that's it right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oodus him out there in one of the ones he's
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  Speaker 1: been in team drills. What's kind of the projection right
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  Speaker 1: now in terms of the see like one or two
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  Speaker 1: steps away from full go? Or is he still being
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  Speaker 1: you know, pre cautious, still cautious. You know you're still
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  Speaker 1: you're still not there from a timing standpoint from surgery,
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  Speaker 1: right and it's a shoulder, so, um, you know you've
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  Speaker 1: gotta be careful with that, especially with defensive backs that
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  Speaker 1: the hitting, the contact of the all the movement moving
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  Speaker 1: parts with shoulders and different things. So it's still gonna
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  Speaker 1: be cautious. He's he's doing extremely well. Um, same way
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  Speaker 1: with James, you know, kind of that same situation. We're
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  Speaker 1: right at that that mark where they're they're almost there, um,
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  Speaker 1: but we still need a few more days with James.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him do a spin movie yesterday on the
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  Speaker 1: one yard line. I don't know if you saw that,
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  Speaker 1: Like what emotionally knowing what he's been first since you
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  Speaker 1: back here, Like what what is it like to see that?
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  Speaker 1: It's exciting for us as a staff because, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't all other than him running on the side,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't really seen him, you know, play football and
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  Speaker 1: other than watching tape last year. So we're excited to
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  Speaker 1: get him back out there. Um. Our defense though didn't
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  Speaker 1: really realize he had that orange jersey on and they
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  Speaker 1: were they're supposed to not hit him, you know. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But it was good to see him make some of
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  Speaker 1: those moves and cuts again. Trying to progress him slowly
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  Speaker 1: back into back into work though it will be full
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  Speaker 1: normal workfield for him, Like he's not gonna play in
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  Speaker 1: the board preseason game. I well say, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you just go full steam ahead. I think you
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  Speaker 1: you gradually increase his reps, you know, um, because you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to stress his body obviously. Um. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, he needs to get enough work where
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, uh, possibly ready to go, you know
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  Speaker 1: for Washington. If that's the case, your expectation whole, We'll
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  Speaker 1: be ready. It's the it's the expectation. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the hope that uh, you know, he can be there
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  Speaker 1: at that point, you know, Um, and listen. If not,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's okay. Um, you know, we're we're comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: with the guys behind him, and uh, you know, we'll we'll, we'll,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go with what we have. Is he progressing faster
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  Speaker 1: than maybe you expected it early on? You know it?
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  Speaker 1: It is tricky with the type of injury that he had. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I've been around offensive lineman who had the same injury
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  Speaker 1: that bounced back fast, you know, the other guys, it
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  Speaker 1: takes a little time, you know, but I think in
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  Speaker 1: his case, he's he's on track, you know. Um. But again,
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  Speaker 1: we have to be smart as a staff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: medically and as coaches to make sure that we don't
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  Speaker 1: have any setbacks at this uh at this time. Second issues,
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  Speaker 1: was that a product not I stay hydrated? Was that
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  Speaker 1: a product you think of of not being in the
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  Speaker 1: sun for a week or do you think it was
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  Speaker 1: just that it was super high issue. I just think
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  Speaker 1: it was warm and humid yesterday. I mean it was
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  Speaker 1: and I think it was in the sixty seven percentile
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  Speaker 1: as far as humidity goes. I'm you know meteorologists now,
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  Speaker 1: but um, yeah, it was warm yesterday. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that part, but it was. It was warm yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And also coming off a day off. You know, Um
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  Speaker 1: we've seen that this year when you get a day
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  Speaker 1: off and you try to come back and work. But um,
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  Speaker 1: guys do a good job of taking care of their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: They understand. You know, we're gonna we're playing in the heat,
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  Speaker 1: humidity and uh you know we play at one o'clock
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoons at the bank, so you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got to prepare for that. Do you think tackle what
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  Speaker 1: else do you need to see? You? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's really it's an interesting battle. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think I think this game will be
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  Speaker 1: important for both both players, um, you know, And and
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  Speaker 1: I like how Jawn's responded coming off the injury and
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  Speaker 1: how he's how he played last week and how he's practiced.
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  Speaker 1: Walkers done done an outstanding job as well. So it's
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  Speaker 1: very interesting you know for us, Um, we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: in a good spot with it because you can kind
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  Speaker 1: of go either way and and and the other guy
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  Speaker 1: can be the swing tackle or or whatever. So UM,
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  Speaker 1: I think this week will be important. And then even
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  Speaker 1: when we go to Atlanta and practice against Atlanta will
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  Speaker 1: be another another good opportunity for both of them. How
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  Speaker 1: important are those joint practices and how much can you
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  Speaker 1: learn from your team next week? You know, it's good
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  Speaker 1: for us again to to to get out of here
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  Speaker 1: and and and go somewhere hotter um and practice at
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  Speaker 1: one o'clock in the afternoon. Um, but it does give
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  Speaker 1: you a chance to to evaluate. It's it's game like scenarios,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but under a controlled environment. And UM, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coach Uh, you know, Arthur and I have have talked
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  Speaker 1: and we've discussed and and and kind of put a
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  Speaker 1: plan together for a couple of days that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna work and and uh, and that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: about it. We just we gotta go up there and
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  Speaker 1: work and get some work done. They're gonna do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Um. Starters get quite a bit of time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in those two days it's it's good again.
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  Speaker 1: And and really too, there's camaraderie there because our players
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  Speaker 1: know their players and vice versa. We've got friends on
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  Speaker 1: staff just like they do. So it'll be it'll be
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  Speaker 1: good to get up there. No no, no life, everything
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  Speaker 1: will be. Everything will be the tap off. We'll go
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  Speaker 1: pads one day, I think on Wednesday, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: be in shells the next etnmate in protection and pettils
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  Speaker 1: the ball out of the pickle field. Um, big strides,
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  Speaker 1: big improvement, you know, And that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that kind of when you don't get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time or you miss time, those are the things that
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  Speaker 1: that can kind of slip right, and that's where you
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  Speaker 1: need the most work. But he's he's done a really
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  Speaker 1: good job in protection. He's got really good vision, um,
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  Speaker 1: especially when he has to go from left to right
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  Speaker 1: with his eyes and being in position to uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: either block a nickel dB or a linebacker and and
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  Speaker 1: then use utilizing him out of the backfield. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you saw it, I think Monday night, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: at that practice and yesterday and how we use him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit um and of course, the familiarity with
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Um really helps. Sometimes have a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we see two of them, so we saw
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  Speaker 1: two of this week with Caroline in New England and
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  Speaker 1: it just seems to happen frequently. Now, you said, talk
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  Speaker 1: about camaraderie, but do the two coaches try to you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of tamp that down a little bit ahead of
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  Speaker 1: top so you can't get to work in and also
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  Speaker 1: spend five minutes clear of the field. Yeah, you know it. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate. You know, we we as a team
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  Speaker 1: in organizage, we enjoy practicing against another team. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you do get some good work in that controlled environment,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we're there to work and that's the
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  Speaker 1: communication to the to the team for me, is making
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  Speaker 1: sure an understanding that that's what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to get better as a football team. And
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  Speaker 1: and there's no there's no place you know for fighting,
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  Speaker 1: and we know it's hot and these guys are busting
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  Speaker 1: their tail, but UM, we do the best we can
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  Speaker 1: to um you know, communicate that with them and we
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  Speaker 1: just don't want any setbacks, injuries, broken hands, whatever, UM.
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  Speaker 1: In cases like that do you evaluate your players a
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  Speaker 1: little bit differently when they're going against guys that they're
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  Speaker 1: not as familiar with than maybe at this point in camp.
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  Speaker 1: A guy knows the tendencies of some of his teammates
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  Speaker 1: because they've seen them day in and day out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a little both, um. Even though we're going
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  Speaker 1: against each other, you know, there should be some some
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  Speaker 1: more anticipation with what especially in the offense and defensive
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  Speaker 1: line or you know, the anticipation or where the d
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  Speaker 1: lineman is going, or the anticipation where the offensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: is going. You want to be able to see that
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  Speaker 1: get you know, that get off the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even even receivers and dbs knowing it's like having your
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  Speaker 1: own scouting report, you know, every day out here. UM.
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  Speaker 1: But again, when you go against another opponent, you're you're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to see the you know, the details and
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  Speaker 1: the fundamentals of your coaching. How that translates to another
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  Speaker 1: other football team. You know, we see we see a
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  Speaker 1: certain style of defense every day. UM. Our defense sees
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  Speaker 1: a certain style of offense every day. It'll be good
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  Speaker 1: to go against two different, two different unique styles, UM
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  Speaker 1: to kind of gauge where where the guys are and
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  Speaker 1: how much they've retained of their of their coaching roster
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  Speaker 1: roster construction standpoint, when your first year coach, do you
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  Speaker 1: allow yourself to think that I'm gonna be better off
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  Speaker 1: taking younger guys who are gonna develop versus maybe a
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  Speaker 1: veteran who's got one or two years left. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a fine line. It just depends on kind of
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  Speaker 1: the where you are maybe at that position, and what
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  Speaker 1: you need at that position. Um. Obviously, if a veteran
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  Speaker 1: player is is the guy incapable of continuing on, then yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you probably may want to lean towards that. But listen,
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  Speaker 1: you know this, this league is a young league, is
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  Speaker 1: getting younger, um, and giving a young guy an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to take the bulk of the reps during the course
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Um, just just knowing that he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna get better as the season goes on. All right, guys,