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Press Pass | Jaguars Players on AFC South Showdown vs. Titans · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Kind of recovery process. How are you feeling at your first.
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  Speaker 2: Practice back then? Uh, feel pretty good. Get out there.
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  Speaker 3: It was just walked through, so not too much physicality
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  Speaker 3: going on, but it.
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  Speaker 1: Was good with your rehab for this or you trying
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  Speaker 1: to get back this week, have you had any indication
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  Speaker 1: yet or gonna see how the week posts.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, just see how the week for rests and then
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  Speaker 2: we go from there.
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  Speaker 1: So the past twe weeks, the defense has been dominant.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you worked a lot with Antonio and kind
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  Speaker 1: of talking with some of the other DB's gotten here.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from the sideline the passworks.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's been great. I mean they've been out there
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  Speaker 3: communicating and playing fast. I mean they're very youthful, so
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  Speaker 3: they run around really fast, and uh it's been shown
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  Speaker 3: and uh it's been resulting in some wins.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the most important part.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like you were playing some pretty good ball
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  Speaker 4: before obviously got into your house, had just rove been
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  Speaker 4: and U how do you get back?
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  Speaker 2: I guess the love when you were.
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  Speaker 3: Playing that before you went down, Just doing the things
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  Speaker 3: I was doing before, making sure I detail every y
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  Speaker 3: uh outcome that I can go through during the game
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  Speaker 3: and uh now most importantly and making sure I'm in
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  Speaker 3: the right.
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  Speaker 2: Health, uh to do that and be full speed.
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  Speaker 5: So that what quarters to Chrishall last season Leam was
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  Speaker 5: talking about how important November sevens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially for the way.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I just how do you guys talked about
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  Speaker 5: how you're kind of important? These last difficial games are?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, most definitely.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, anytime you able to play, meaning for football
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the year, it's always important.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't been able to do that in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Year, but uh, you know, now we're embarking on new
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  Speaker 3: waters and being able to do that. So every game's
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  Speaker 3: big and you whatever momentum you build, you wanna carry that,
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  Speaker 3: uh going into the postseason.
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  Speaker 5: Has anyone told you about the training's robbery?
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  Speaker 2: Huh uh No, I'm not familiar.
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  Speaker 5: You have to ask job Well bit a rivalry between
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  Speaker 5: the jobbers and the tea Okay, so I know it's
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  Speaker 5: like college rivalry. Yeah, kind of feels like that now
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  Speaker 5: with you guys this weekend. Well mean, you gotta you
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  Speaker 5: have to ask him about what if this rivalry means.
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  Speaker 2: Or I'm gonna have to ask him cause you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was in the Fcson floor.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like, I don't really know who who rivals
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  Speaker 3: with who you know coming from the other side.
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  Speaker 2: I C I can't can't.
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  Speaker 3: Really s speak too much on it over here, So
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  Speaker 3: I'll I'll ask, I've you kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of seen this defensive grow, you know since week one
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  Speaker 2: out of you guys have a couple of months under
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  Speaker 2: your belt. Uh, just communication really between all levels.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, linebackers communicating with D line and you know DB's
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  Speaker 3: communicating with.
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  Speaker 2: The linebackers, and you start to see the result.
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  Speaker 3: When you start to whole teams and six points in
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  Speaker 3: the low scoring games.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, talk about that communication.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, you guys play your best win the communication is
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  Speaker 4: key and how important is that to keep that going
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  Speaker 4: out tea down the stretch case you guys have any
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  Speaker 4: bigger plans to see.
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  Speaker 3: The team, I mean, it's a everyday thing. You know,
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  Speaker 3: It's not a day you can come out there and
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  Speaker 3: not communicate with somebody. If you see something, say something,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, that's what contributes to wins.
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  Speaker 6: So I really just uh, it was kind of full
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  Speaker 6: circle of watching year whin they're IVY League championship and
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  Speaker 6: like that's the kind of environment I was playing uh,
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  Speaker 6: and not too long ago. And then it's always taking
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  Speaker 6: the next step. I feel like, uh, always just trying
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  Speaker 6: to make my mark. Uh, just be be per consistent
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  Speaker 6: and be reliable for my teammates and stuff. And then
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  Speaker 6: you know, eight years later you look up and uh,
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  Speaker 6: you have a thousand, and I remember looking back like
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  Speaker 6: you my fifty years like ooh, my being a achievable
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  Speaker 6: thing for me, and I did no clue would come
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  Speaker 6: up so fast, so really crazy. Uh. I have more
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  Speaker 6: to say about when I'm done playing, But in the moment,
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  Speaker 6: I just wanna keep winning games.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: How we're doing here this year?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, being productive and playing my style of football that
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  Speaker 6: I like doing. Like it's just uh uh a testament
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  Speaker 6: to me being around a ball, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 6: like validation that you know, I'm doing good things in
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  Speaker 6: this league for sure.
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  Speaker 4: You've always been a guy your stressed team, successor or
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  Speaker 4: anything else to us that it mean not much more
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  Speaker 4: that happened than a win.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I've wanted.
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  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, my dad texted me. Uh so I asked
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  Speaker 6: the the Jaguars like a week before I guess the ESPNS.
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  Speaker 6: I had already a thousand. I had no clue Uh,
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  Speaker 6: my dad texted me. I was like, oh, I got
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  Speaker 6: a thousand tackles, like, uh, how come I ever heard
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  Speaker 6: about this? And then they told me I still needed
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  Speaker 6: some more. So then when I I knew I was
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  Speaker 6: gonna get it that game, uh if I just played
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  Speaker 6: my ball. So then I just wanted to win to
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  Speaker 6: make sure went like a sad little feeling or anyhing
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  Speaker 6: like that. So I I like being turned with my boys,
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  Speaker 6: and we played a good game. I felt like, uh,
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  Speaker 6: resilient game, great, great win. So it all be always
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  Speaker 6: be a good memory.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty exclusive clu of anybody in there you look up
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  Speaker 3: to growing up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know the names. You know the number?
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  Speaker 6: How many are in it? Fifty nine, I think it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your number fifty nine.
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  Speaker 6: Fifty sixty, fifty something. Yeah, that's really cool. Like there's
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  Speaker 6: been a lot of people who played football in the
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  Speaker 6: National Football League and maybe one of fifty something, Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows, I'm one of them. So yeah, Like I get.
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  Speaker 6: To tell my kids when they're born one day I
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  Speaker 6: really did something when they look around and see what
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  Speaker 6: we got, like it's because I was. I was out
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  Speaker 6: there doing something for us. So you get the ball
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  Speaker 6: we got the win. We got the win, so yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I got pictures from it and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't all.
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  Speaker 6: I got a game ball, Yeah, not the ball, but
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  Speaker 6: I got a game ball.
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  Speaker 1: So it was fun.
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  Speaker 6: How many more you got in.
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  Speaker 2: You fall in December? That, Oh, it's it's cool.
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  Speaker 6: Just you know, I talked about earlier Styre staying ahead
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  Speaker 6: of the accounts. So we put ourselves in this position
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  Speaker 6: where every game matters. Uh, and then in November December,
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  Speaker 6: you got to be winning these games. You want to
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  Speaker 6: make the big dance. Remember we're talking a couple years
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  Speaker 6: last year, Like, they don't reward losers in this league.
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  Speaker 6: So you wanna get into the big Dance, you gotta
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  Speaker 6: be winning all the way through. But we did a
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  Speaker 6: good job getting ourselves to this uh moment where these
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  Speaker 6: m games do matter. So let's finish the job that
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  Speaker 6: we had started. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 7: How many more years of a hundred tackles you got
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  Speaker 7: in you?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Every every year I play, I want to make a hundred.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah I'm out there playing. I want to be
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  Speaker 6: productive and be run the ball for my teammates. H.
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  Speaker 2: I felt really good.
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  Speaker 7: You know. It's just good to get back out there
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  Speaker 7: after sitting for six weeks, so it felt really good
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  Speaker 7: to be back out there with my teammates and you know,
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  Speaker 7: making a couple of plays uh made it feel even better.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm just I'm blessed, thankful. Uh, God is good.
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  Speaker 1: The run game's been very impressive obviously when you got
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  Speaker 1: back as well. But how much accomplishment do you kind
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  Speaker 1: of take in that? I know you love to block
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  Speaker 1: for setting those guys up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I love doing anything to you know, put the team
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  Speaker 7: in position to win football game. So uh, whatever that is,
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  Speaker 7: whatever the coaches want me to do to help the
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  Speaker 7: team win, that's that's what I look forward to doing.
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  Speaker 7: So it's it's been fun. I love contributing any way
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  Speaker 7: that I can.
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  Speaker 2: How could you revision games?
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  Speaker 6: And how much emphasis has I re put.
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  Speaker 2: That put on that this week? Uh? So far?
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  Speaker 7: I mean I think he puts emphasis on it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. We always wanna.
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  Speaker 7: Win every single game we play, you know, so uh
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  Speaker 7: for for me, I don't really look at it like
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  Speaker 7: anything different. I know it's a bigger deal for you
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  Speaker 7: guys and cause we play 'em two times a year,
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  Speaker 7: But I just gotta stick to my process and what
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  Speaker 7: I do, and uh, everything will work out for me,
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  Speaker 7: how I wanted to work out.
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  Speaker 4: Body feel after that game, Chris came back in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt pretty good. Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Some of the other tight ends, Johnny Hunter, Uh, Johnny
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  Speaker 7: q Uh, they had some reps in the in the
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  Speaker 7: run game, so uh, they took a little bit off
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  Speaker 7: of me, and I just look forward to getting back
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  Speaker 7: out there being my full self and contributing to this team.
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  Speaker 4: You expect to ramp up, even play more snaps this week. Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Whatever they want me to do to win football games,
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  Speaker 7: that's what I expect to do. I c I don't
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  Speaker 7: got a answer for you. Uh for that, I don't
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  Speaker 7: call the plays, but uh, I just like to contribute
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  Speaker 7: anyway I can.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't seem like it took too long for you to
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  Speaker 4: kind of get back into a rhythm. How important is
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  Speaker 4: it not just for you, but for the team in general.
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  Speaker 4: NA get into a rhythm, kind of keep things going
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  Speaker 4: down the stretch.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think rhythm is very important for offense, Rhythm, momentum. Uh,
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  Speaker 7: anything that you can do to keep moving the ball
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  Speaker 7: down the field.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: It was important for me because I feel like every
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  Speaker 7: time that I'm able to, you know, just touch the
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  Speaker 7: ball early in the games. It just sets my mindset
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  Speaker 7: for the game to be aggressive and and that's in
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  Speaker 7: whatever I do, you know, a past game, run game,
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  Speaker 7: whatever it is. So I'm just thankful that the coach
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  Speaker 7: has caught it out and we executed it, cause you know,
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  Speaker 7: everybody's gotta execute for for for one person to get
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  Speaker 7: the ball. So uh it was a good play for
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  Speaker 7: all of us.
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  Speaker 2: You guys pretty frequently last week is what's that saying about.
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  Speaker 7: You guys offense and resilient? Man, you gotta be resilient
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  Speaker 7: to play this game. And uh I I think that's
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  Speaker 7: something very important, and I think that's something that we
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  Speaker 7: have done this offseason is just continue to put emphasis
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  Speaker 7: on that and and be a resilient team. The I
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  Speaker 7: think the best teams are the most resilient. You know,
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  Speaker 7: you gotta fight through adversity. There's gonna be some adversity
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  Speaker 7: anytime you step on the football field. So uh, I
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  Speaker 7: think we did a great job fighting back the whole
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  Speaker 7: entire game. And I'm proud of the team for that
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  Speaker 7: cause that's big.
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  Speaker 2: And what it liam was kind of highlighting the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks. What was it like for you just
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  Speaker 2: kind of see him get his reps and get his chances.
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  Speaker 7: While it made me very excited man, you know, just
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  Speaker 7: for him to get his opportunity and go out there
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  Speaker 7: and display that what he can do, cause you know,
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  Speaker 7: he's obviously more than capable. You gotta see him tearing
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  Speaker 7: people off in the run game, and I I love
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  Speaker 7: that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 7: You guys uh always talk about you know, run blocking
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  Speaker 7: and stuff like that. But when I see my guys
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  Speaker 7: go out there, whether it's Quinton, Johnny Hunter, whoever it is,
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  Speaker 7: you know, go out there and they put somebody on
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  Speaker 7: the ground, that just make me even more hyped up,
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  Speaker 7: cause now it's like I gotta go do it now,
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  Speaker 7: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, they've been doing a good job and I'm
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  Speaker 7: just I'm happy for for them.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about resiliency a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: How do you guys turn that into kind of consistency
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  Speaker 4: rather than having kind of hides and lows and just
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  Speaker 4: staying high in.
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  Speaker 7: I think it starts with our preparation, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 7: we gotta continue to come out and put good days
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  Speaker 7: together and practice. That's the most important thing. Practice should
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  Speaker 7: always be harder than the game. So uh, I think
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  Speaker 7: that being resilient and you know, fighting through is uh
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  Speaker 7: definitely a practice thing, and I think we'll keep doing that.
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  Speaker 7: We have good leadership on this team, and I think
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  Speaker 7: we're starting to learn, uh what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're not surprised, but how would you assess
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  Speaker 1: what you've seen from Parker the past couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not surprised at all, you know. I I've been
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  Speaker 7: telling y'all from the jump how special for a player
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  Speaker 7: he is. You know, I've been with him for six years,
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  Speaker 7: and every single time something pops off or he gets
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  Speaker 7: a punt and said, I'm like, he's gone, Like I
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  Speaker 7: don't even gotta.
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  Speaker 2: Watch it, you know.
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  Speaker 7: So, Uh, Parker's great man and and he he and
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  Speaker 7: he pushes me to, you know, wanna be even better.
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  Speaker 7: So uh, I'm I'm super appreciative of Parker, you know,
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  Speaker 7: being me and him being a part of each other's journey.
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  Speaker 7: And we're just gonna keep getting better every single week.
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  Speaker 7: And you know, uh, being reliable playmakers for this organization.
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  Speaker 4: What's happen?
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  Speaker 7: The gotta have the bake mac and cheese and the
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  Speaker 7: yams mixed together. You know, I'm not really a Turkey guy.
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  Speaker 7: But that's what I look forward to the most, the
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  Speaker 7: baked mac and cheese and the yams. Uh So, if
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  Speaker 7: y'all got any good spots in Jacksonville right now today
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  Speaker 7: that I can go pick up man, y'all let me know,
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  Speaker 7: but
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  Speaker 1: Make