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• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Away games you guys spend a lot of time together
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: as a team this is a long trip to london
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: how much how close can this team kind of get
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: you've done this trip before.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah i mean just being at the hotel obviously we're
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: like we stay in the country so we're like two
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: hours away from the city so you know for the
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: guys i do stay that's a good time for us
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: to kind of just chop it up play some games
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: hang out what you know i'm saying watch some film
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: together and uh i think we do a good job
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: at that uh we got a So guys just want
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: to watch more tape, trying to get used to communicating together,
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: knowing what the game plan is. We got the time,
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: so might as well use it. We don't waste no
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: time out there.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: I know this is already a pretty close locker room,
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: but you can never have too much time together, right?
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: No.
• 0:48
  Speaker 4: You know, no. You know, you're a grown man.
• 0:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but like the brotherhood that.
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: You get to know your teammates. We like each other.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, we like each other, man. So we like
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: being around each other. We all have good positive energy. And,
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: you know, we also go to dinners. You know, we
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: do dinner nights. And it's just for everybody just to
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: get together, kind of just chill out, be who we
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: are outside the building and just vibe out.
• 1:16
  Speaker 6: Liam mentioned treating this like a business trip.
• 1:19
  Speaker 7: How do you go about instilling that in the younger
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  Speaker 7: guys who haven't really done this before?
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  Speaker 2: Just find the leadership, you know what I'm saying? Just
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: ask the guys, like, what do y'all do on the
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: days off? What do y'all do the night before?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? So just, you know, having
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: those guys just ask questions.
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  Speaker 2: And the older guys, like, you know, myself, you know,
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: I kind of keep to my senior routine as much
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: as I can. I kind of wake up at the
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: same time that I normally wake up. just trying to
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: adapt my body, my mind to like, this is nothing
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  Speaker 2: has changed. And the quicker that I can adapt to that,
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: then the better I'm usually here.
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  Speaker 1: Foye, AFC defensive player of the week. What's he kind of,
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: what have you seen from him? You've been with him
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: for a few years. What's he kind of mean to
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  Speaker 1: this defense?
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not surprised. I feel like he plays
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  Speaker 4: at a high level every week.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's a guy that's capable of making
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  Speaker 2: every play that comes to him. And he's just doing
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  Speaker 2: what needs to be done, you know, being where he
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  Speaker 2: needs to be and making the best of it. So,
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to Foye. I think he's deserving of it.
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: I wish he could get more love, and I know
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  Speaker 2: he will when the time comes.
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  Speaker 4: Liam has talked about anywhere, anytime, anyplace. Have you seen
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  Speaker 4: the locker room kind of embrace that message? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: just by the way we play.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, you know, I think it's like an
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: in-the-moment message, but it's kind of going to translate to.
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  Speaker 4: What we're going to be doing. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: just getting on it now.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: Understanding that we have five home games here in Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're playing two in London home games, but
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: in London, and a lot of play games. So it's
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: like anybody can get it anywhere, anyplace. So guys are
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: honing into that. Guys are sticking to the schedules, and
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: we're playing some really good football right now.
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  Speaker 4: Josh, how unique is it to face an offensive line
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  Speaker 4: like that?
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  Speaker 3: Just had a guy retire and then just traded another
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: two starters. One guy retired and one guy got traded
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: all in the same week.
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think, you know, I mean, obviously
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: with Lane's situation, you know, I pray that everything would be,
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: I pray that everything's okay with him. And, you know,
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: if he is dealing with certain things, I hope he,
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: you know, handles that and spend time with his family. Because,
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: you know, the longer you play, obviously, you start to
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: see a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot, experience a lot.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, it's a serious thing. So pray for him.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously the training, obviously they want, hopefully they
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  Speaker 2: won't do nothing. They won't trade somebody that.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't have anybody for them to play.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like the next man up already going to
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  Speaker 2: know this game. So, you know, we can't be system
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  Speaker 2: to like, oh, they're down on two players.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's like they're going to come in, whoever it is,
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  Speaker 4: come in fresh, come in. Where you play some good football,
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  Speaker 4: we got to be ready for it. How does it
• 3:57
  Speaker 4: change your approach when you're watching tape of them? You
• 4:00
  Speaker 4: have to look at the other guys? I mean, I'm
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: playing against Jordan Malata.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, and that's a tall task within itself.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited about that matchup. Trey's excited about his matchup. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if we trust our eyes, be where we're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be, the players are going to come to us.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not really chasing them. Just kind of let
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: it come to us and just play our game of football.
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  Speaker 6: You guys have been constantly raising the floor, raising the standard.
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  Speaker 8: Do you guys ever feel like you're getting complacent at
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  Speaker 8: where you're at or are you constantly raising that bar
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  Speaker 8: to the next level?
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  Speaker 4: I hope not. I mean, you know, our message is
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  Speaker 4: very simple, man.
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  Speaker 2: Stick to our routine. Stick to how we practice. Stick
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  Speaker 2: to how we play. And play football the way we
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: play football. So I think guys are honing into that and,
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: you know, we're ready for this. You know, it starts today,
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: lead to tomorrow, have a good practice tomorrow, have a
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  Speaker 2: good practice Friday. Obviously travel, we do all these things. But,
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: you know, it starts day to day. And as long
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: as we can stick to that, we'll be fine.
• 5:00
  Speaker 10: With these two upcoming matchups, this year will mark ten
• 5:03
  Speaker 10: total games for you played in London, both on the
• 5:06
  Speaker 10: field and off the field. What is your favorite part
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  Speaker 10: about playing in the U.K.? I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, again, I know I'm like a dead horse right now,
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: but I love Sushi Samba.
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  Speaker 4: That's my spot. And I love going out there.
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: Just to eat some good food. And obviously, playing football
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  Speaker 2: is cool. Good experience, Wembley, Tottenham. That's a great experience.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, I like to go to my little
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: spots I've been digging into these last couple of years.
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: You guys had a tough matchup with Joe Burrow last week.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: Now you go up against Jalen Hurts and a beat-up
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Eagles team.
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  Speaker 6: What are you guys honing in on?
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: Us?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's all about us.
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: Again, if we start labeling things, then guys will start
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: wondering and being outside of themselves. So for us, it's,
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: you know, understand what's happening. Obviously, you want to know
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: your person that you're playing against, but it's about us.
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: It's about me.
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: It's about me knowing what I need to do and
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: trusting that camp is going to put us all in
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  Speaker 2: a situation to be successful because they're here, I mean,
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: 24 hours a day, I feel like, with no one camp.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, they put the time.
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: And so for us, we have to trust that and
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  Speaker 2: just go out there and execute all the calls that need.
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: To be had. A simple question is, why are you
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: guys so good in the red zone? Guys are, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's harder for the offense to score there.
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  Speaker 2: And we, you know, we do a great job of suffocating,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the back end and guys up front
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  Speaker 2: and just being relentless up front. But we're just guys
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  Speaker 2: playing Good, complimentary football. We don't want them to score.
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  Speaker 2: We need to defend every blade of glass, and that's
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  Speaker 2: our mentality. And we've been executing really well.
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  Speaker 3: Does it matter when you're doing the two weeks over
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  Speaker 3: there that you're not moving? Does it matter to you guys, players,
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: that you're not switching hotels? I think the last time
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: you guys did two weeks, you had to switch.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Midway through.
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  Speaker 4: No, that was two years ago. That was two seasons ago.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll be staying at the same hotel this year.
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  Speaker 2: I like this hotel that we stay at.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they kind of know us. So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we have a relationship with them over there. And they
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  Speaker 4: treat us well, man. The food's really good.
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  Speaker 3: You feel like you guys have an advantage in London
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  Speaker 3: because you've done it so well?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. We just got to go out there, execute,
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  Speaker 4: do it, you know. play our brand of football, we'll
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: be all right. Yeah, it's everything.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what allows us to go out there and,
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  Speaker 8: you know, keep the defense on their toes. That's the
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  Speaker 8: best part. And give a lot of guys opportunities. And
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  Speaker 8: you don't know who's about to get the opportunity. So
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  Speaker 8: that's really cool to see and just to go out
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  Speaker 8: there and continue to And most importantly, it's about winning games.
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: And we were able to get a win, so that's
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: all that matters.
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  Speaker 9: Is it unique that none of you guys seem bothered if.
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  Speaker 8: It's not your day, right? Yeah, it's plenty of games.
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  Speaker 8: We got a lot of opportunities. So the best part
• 8:16
  Speaker 8: about this offense is that we just love to see
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  Speaker 8: other guys making plays, and we just feed off that energy,
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  Speaker 8: and we continue to keep going.
• 8:24
  Speaker 6: How do you feel about handling this trip to London?
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  Speaker 8: Just treat it as is.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, just be ready for the flight.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like the best part is that we do
• 8:34
  Speaker 8: leave in the evening, so you get an opportunity to
• 8:38
  Speaker 8: get some rest then. And then from there, just attack
• 8:42
  Speaker 8: it as you've been doing. Same routine. Try not to
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  Speaker 8: change it much and just be you.
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  Speaker 7: For some of the young guys who this is their
• 8:50
  Speaker 7: first time going to London, what do you kind of
• 8:52
  Speaker 7: tell them going into it?
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  Speaker 8: I'd say you'll enjoy it, but you'll definitely feel a
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  Speaker 8: little tired when you get there and you want to
• 9:02
  Speaker 8: stay up. So that Friday when we get there, that
• 9:05
  Speaker 8: Friday morning, you just want to stay up the whole
• 9:07
  Speaker 8: day and then get a good night's sleep. rest that
• 9:11
  Speaker 8: Friday night and then wake up Saturday and hopefully you're
• 9:14
  Speaker 8: feeling good. Sunday usually when it comes around, you feel normal.
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  Speaker 8: So that's pretty much what I'll tell them and just
• 9:22
  Speaker 8: go out there and have fun like we always do.
• 9:23
  Speaker 6: The Eagles obviously pretty depleted right now.
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  Speaker 7: How do you manage to not let that kind of
• 9:28
  Speaker 7: infiltrate the locker room knowing that they're down a few
• 9:30
  Speaker 7: guys and still stay focused on the task at hand?
• 9:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, just continuing to hone in on our process and
• 9:37
  Speaker 8: And that's continuing to just make it about us and
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  Speaker 8: how we can get better and how we can attack
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  Speaker 8: each day. And I feel like that's what's been special
• 9:45
  Speaker 8: about us. We're just focused on what was today's practice
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  Speaker 8: and just being our best selves and attacking our process.
• 9:52
  Speaker 6: I was going to ask you, are you willing to
• 9:54
  Speaker 6: give us your best English accent?
• 9:56
  Speaker 8: Nah, I'm not here to play right now. I feel like,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, for me, it's just, I go by the days. So, like,
• 10:21
  Speaker 8: when he says that, what it means to me is
• 10:23
  Speaker 8: just I'm going to go, like, today.
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: Like, we want to focus.
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  Speaker 8: Like, you talked about the Eagles and maybe some guys
• 10:28
  Speaker 8: are down. But, like, our thing, you know, you want
• 10:31
  Speaker 8: to continue to make it about us and continue to
• 10:33
  Speaker 8: be on our process. And the game and how we
• 10:36
  Speaker 8: stay ready and get ready is attacking today and attacking
• 10:40
  Speaker 8: that practice. So, anyone, anytime, like, the time is right now.
• 10:44
  Speaker 8: The practice today was the time. So, just attacking it
• 10:47
  Speaker 8: like that and, like, having fun. And that's really what
• 10:50
  Speaker 8: it is.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: And just making it continue to make it about us.
• 10:52
  Speaker 6: What are you seeing out of the Seagulls defense as
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: you prepare for them on Sunday?
• 10:56
  Speaker 8: Real sound defense, too high shell to start, you know,
• 11:02
  Speaker 8: but they, they do a great job of just keeping
• 11:04
  Speaker 8: things in front of them and their physical fly to
• 11:07
  Speaker 8: the football.
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: And like I said, it's a great unit.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I feel like they're really good at their
• 11:13
  Speaker 8: system and Like, every week, you know, it's a good opponent,
• 11:17
  Speaker 8: so we got to come out there ready to go.
• 11:19
  Speaker 11: When I see Travis make a play, like, I might
• 11:21
  Speaker 11: be more excited for him than him.
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
• 11:24
  Speaker 11: So, like, the more we do together and, you know
• 11:26
  Speaker 11: what I'm saying, the more we compete together, I think
• 11:28
  Speaker 11: the better the on-field product is.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Antonio said you came up with the square-up selling.
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm, yeah.
• 11:34
  Speaker 11: One day we was at practice, like a Friday practice,
• 11:37
  Speaker 11: and we were bumping good. Like, we were bumping against
• 11:39
  Speaker 11: the offense, and we were scrapping them. And I just
• 11:41
  Speaker 11: kind of came up with it. It was kind of
• 11:43
  Speaker 11: like on the fly. We've been sticking with it ever since.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: Coach told us today that he said something to you
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: about you don't need any outfits.
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: Just bring your helmet and your cleats. Yeah, I told Coach,
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: don't worry about that. I'm going to be ready to play.
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: I told him, don't worry about that.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: What made him say that to you, though?
• 11:58
  Speaker 5: I be fresh, man.
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? I be fresh, man.
• 12:00
  Speaker 11: I take pride in being fresh, you know. I like
• 12:04
  Speaker 11: to show up looking good. I'm my most confident.
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: Me on game day. Do you have a London fit, though?
• 12:11
  Speaker 5: Nah, my girl will figure it out for me.
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: She'll figure it out for me. You've made this trip
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: a few times. What would you kind of emphasize to
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: the younger guys? This is going to be their first time.
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: Right now, I'm trying to work on your routine.
• 12:23
  Speaker 11: Obviously, it's kind of a little different out there and
• 12:25
  Speaker 11: the stuff that we can do. So just try to
• 12:26
  Speaker 11: find your routine and try to stick with it. We're
• 12:29
  Speaker 11: out there for 10 days. So me personally, I'm just
• 12:31
  Speaker 11: trying to find. Right now, I'm looking for massage therapists
• 12:33
  Speaker 11: and stuff like that to kind of work on my
• 12:35
  Speaker 11: body while I'm out there. I try to stay as
• 12:36
  Speaker 11: close to my routine that I have here out there.
• 12:38
  Speaker 8: And then Liam has talked about, you know, you guys
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  Speaker 8: embracing like anywhere, anyone, anytime.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: How have you guys kind of taken that message and
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: just embraced it?
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  Speaker 11: I think it's just like it's kind of what we
• 12:49
  Speaker 11: preach at this point. I think it's kind of in
• 12:50
  Speaker 11: our DNA. We don't really care about where we play.
• 12:52
  Speaker 11: We'll play in the parking lot for real. We're just
• 12:55
  Speaker 11: excited to play.
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: You know, we work really hard.
• 12:57
  Speaker 11: So anytime we're able to put that on display, we're
• 13:00
  Speaker 11: excited for it.
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: Jaren, the Eagles are obviously quite wounded at the moment.
• 13:03
  Speaker 7: Just how do you make sure that the fact that
• 13:05
  Speaker 7: they're down a few guys doesn't infiltrate this locker room?
• 13:07
  Speaker 6: You stay focused on the task at hand?
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  Speaker 11: We don't really think about stuff like that. I think
• 13:11
  Speaker 11: we just go out there and do our thing, do
• 13:14
  Speaker 11: what we practice, and be us. And I think everything
• 13:16
  Speaker 11: kind of handles itself.
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: What are you seeing out of this Eagles offense as
• 13:19
  Speaker 6: you guys.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: Prep for them on Sunday? Obviously, they're a physical group.
• 13:22
  Speaker 11: I think they pride themselves on being a physical group.
• 13:25
  Speaker 11: Jalen Hurts does a good job of being in command
• 13:27
  Speaker 11: of the offense, and they got a couple good weapons,
• 13:30
  Speaker 11: you know, so I think it's the NFL.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: Obviously, you got to come ready to play. You got
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: a favorite camp quote?
• 13:35
  Speaker 11: There's so many, like, and I don't know, you know,
• 13:39
  Speaker 11: if I'll be able to say them, like, on here, but, like,
• 13:42
  Speaker 11: the most famous one is, like, we're going to whoop
• 13:43
  Speaker 11: their ass. Like, that's kind of like, that's the one
• 13:46
  Speaker 11: I hear, like, every day. Like, every morning about, like, 745, like,
• 13:50
  Speaker 11: that's the one I hear.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: It's job one, right?
• 13:52
  Speaker 11: Whoop the man.
• 13:54
  Speaker 10: What's it like getting ready for a Philadelphia team where
• 13:56
  Speaker 10: there's some unpredictability in terms of it all being over?
• 13:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we play their scheme, not their players.
• 14:01
  Speaker 9: I know they play very hard. That's their DNA up there,
• 14:04
  Speaker 9: and it's going to be a gritty, grimy game. So,
• 14:06
  Speaker 9: you know, they like to hold the ball as long
• 14:08
  Speaker 9: as possible. I feel like even now that their snap
• 14:10
  Speaker 9: count's being held down all the way, if they can
• 14:13
  Speaker 9: hold the ball as long as possible, keep our offense
• 14:15
  Speaker 9: off the field, they'll try to do that, I feel like.
• 14:17
  Speaker 9: That means it's going to be a physical game. They
• 14:19
  Speaker 9: can play that type of ball if they want to.
• 14:21
  Speaker 9: So it's our job, as we've been doing, to stop
• 14:23
  Speaker 9: the run. But also, if they want to dink and
• 14:25
  Speaker 9: dunk RPO, if they want to take shots, we can't let.
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: Them sustain drives. Get the ball back to our offense
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: and let them work.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: Boy, a little comment.
• 14:31
  Speaker 9: Thank you so much.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Hey, I know he just asked you about it, but
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: AFC Defensive Player of the Week, does that, I mean, congratulations,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: does that mean anything to you, that sort of accolade?
• 14:40
  Speaker 9: Oh, for sure it means something. I was already on
• 14:44
  Speaker 9: to the next week. We've got this London game we've
• 14:46
  Speaker 9: got to prepare for. We've got to play better.
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: As a unit. Obviously, we keep people off the board
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 14:51
  Speaker 9: But we can play even cleaner in the defensive unit,
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: so we're trying to improve on that, and I think
• 14:56
  Speaker 9: Philly's a good.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: Test for us.
• 14:58
  Speaker 9: The way that they play and their play style, in
• 15:01
  Speaker 9: order for us to enforce the way that we play,
• 15:02
  Speaker 9: we just play cleaner.
• 15:03
  Speaker 10: As a unit.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: I know you're on to the next, and the most
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: important thing is getting the win the upcoming week and
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: even last week, but to be able to be recognized
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: around the league for your kind of play like that.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, stacking those accolades still has to feel good
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: as you kind of try and get some of the
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: respect you've earned.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. For sure.
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: I mean, it does come with that, and I always
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: want to be respected for the work that I do
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: put in. And, you know, last week was a big
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: week for me as well as my college coach had
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: passed away, and his son went up and got himself
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: an accolade.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Dante did, so I wanted to match him. So that
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: was cool to do. So we'll just honor that to
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: Coach Reno, but also honor it.
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: To the team because we needed to get the win
• 15:38
  Speaker 9: in order for me to get that.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: So everybody.
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: battling out to the end rayon coming up with that
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: fourth down stop that was big.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Time how cool was it to see him step up
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: in that in that big.
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: Moment that was cool i mean hell of a player
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: he's a great football player just being in the right
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: spots and communicating i'm gonna keep pressing him to do
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: that but you know as soon as we are all
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: trusting what we know how to do on the field
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: you can see that shine so when he did that
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: you know keep that confidence going forward i got a
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: lot of confidence.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: In him what makes this defense so good in the red.
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: Zone kind of why he's talking about just trusting being
• 16:06
  Speaker 9: in the right spots and uh kind of anticipating the
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: beaters to our coverages, but really stopping the run first
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: in the red zone. Now they got to throw it
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: on a second and longer, third and longer, and then
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: understanding the routes that teams will try to do to
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: beat our coverages and be able to communicate our way
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: through that.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: A long trip to London on deck. You guys are
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: going to have plenty of time to kind of hang
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: out off.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: The field together the two weeks out there.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: How important is, I guess, getting to know your guys
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: off the field, that brotherhood to showing up on the field?
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a good bonding experience. It's all geared towards
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: winning that first game though. So we get there, uh,
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: you know, in order for us to get on the
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: clocks or whatever, we got to stay up. So there's
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: a lot of staying, uh, in the lunchroom and stuff,
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: talking and stuff, watching film together. We got nothing else
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: to really do out there. And then luckily for us,
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: the city's kind of far away. So everybody's kind of,
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't say locked in it. It's a, you know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: we're all tight and, uh, hanging out together in the hotel, um,
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: doing everything we can to get our little extra work
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: in and get our extra preparation in to win that
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: first game. Then obviously you have an off day. So, um, Everything,
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: I'm worried about that first game right now. Just the
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: trip in general helps you get closer to the team.
• 17:11
  Speaker 10: Speaking of that first game, you're going up against another
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: really tough quarterback in Jalen Hurts.
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: What are you seeing out of this Eagles offense? They're
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: very detailed. They're good competitors. Jalen can make a lot
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: of things happen. He can throw it on time. He
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: can buy a lot of time and throw it off schedule.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: The run game, they have a lot of eye candy
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: with that. They can do the quarterback run. They can
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: hand it off. Their linemen are dynamic. They've been dynamic
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: for a long time. So really you have to be
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: on your details and then be able to out-physical them
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: all the way through the game because they are a
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: very big unit, but they definitely pride themselves on being
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: physical and outworking you through the downs.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: You have a C on your chest.
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: How are these rookies coming up to you as they
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: ask about the London game and preparing for that and
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: the trip overseas and all that?
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: I'll be talking to them.
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: They haven't really came up to me, so I'm going
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: to go talk to them because that first game is
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: very important. So we've got to come out making sure
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: that we own our preparation the right way, having the
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: energy for the game, being on the right schedule, clock
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: out there, and just preparing all the way through until
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: the game starts.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Liam has really pushed the message of you guys being
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: ready to play anywhere, anytime, any place.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: How do you guys kind of embrace that? How do
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: we embrace the plan? I mean, we have to win
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the game.
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: So wherever the ball is spotted, we've kind of been
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: through this a little bit last year.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: And then going forward, you know, we don't have a
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: lot of home games. But if we want to get
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: to where we want to be, you know, we have
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: to win the game.
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: So we stop kind of worrying about the crowd or
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: the narratives or whatever.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: The game place.
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: When you spot the ball and realize there's two field
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: goals on each side, it's all the same game. I
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: think it's just the DNA of everybody in this locker room.
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: We have something to prove every time we step on
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: the field. We just have to come out and play
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: that way.
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: You're a four-defensive player of the week, honors and Ventro,
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: statistically one of the highest-graded linebackers in the NFL this year.
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: What would you say is the ceiling for you as
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: a tandem?
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: Week to week, get a little bit better. I don't
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: really know about ceilings. We just got to get better
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: and improve it every week. I'm happy the way we're playing,
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: but we should be playing better as well. But we
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: have to keep growing as a unit and as a
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: defensive unit, and then sky's the limit, I guess.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: But you got to do that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: If you don't actually do it and take action towards it,
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: it really don't mean nothing. So good little start, but
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: we got a lot of long ways to go.
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: Also, two pass deflections and two interceptions in the first
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: four games. It feels as if your pass coverage ability
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: has really found its stride in recent years. What is
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: it about you that's been able to find your rhythm
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: this late into your career?
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: It's definitely a little bit part of the coordinator, a
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: little bit more eyes back. I play with coordinators a
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: little bit more matching, so if I'm on my coverage
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: the ball probably won't won't get there remember with the
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Falcons a lot I was matched up man-to-man on tight
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: ends the whole game and stuff so I like to
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: hammer them up on the line of scrimmage so the
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: ball not really coming um if it is coming it's
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: probably because they're open so uh you know it's just
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: owning the coverage in the defensive line making sure the
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: ball comes out quick and understanding where I fit in
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: our coverage here in uh Jacksonville I got whole bunch
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: of pass deflections last year.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: This year, my.
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: Hands work, so I'm catching them. So we got to
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: continue with that and hopefully get my hand on.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Some more balls. Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Coach Camp. I like one of his quotes.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: I can't quote it exactly, but I wrote it right
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: in on my mirror at one point every year. Um, the,
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: like the greatest thing, the most divine thing in life is, uh,
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: fighting the losing battle and not losing it. And I
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: feel like a lot of times for a late round
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: draft pick, me with myself going forward, never getting the recognition.
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: I feel like I deserve early. Um, you know, things
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: don't just come your way. You got to go earn it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: And if they don't come, it's like, you got to
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: keep going out and proving it and proving it and
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: proving it again. No matter how good you do, somebody's
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: going to want you gone. Somebody, so it's a losing
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: battle that you keep fighting, but it's never ending. It's
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: you don't lose it. You don't, you just sustain, you
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: keep getting better. And that's the best feeling in life.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: Like you still here when they don't want you here.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: So it's proven it to myself that I belong, but
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: it's kind of the chip that I always have on
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: my shoulder. But it's a chip that I play with
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: and I make sure everybody feels it. And they, they
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: come with me with that same energy. Whoop the man.
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: Job number two, whoop the man again.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: We got, there's no, there's no notes on the job
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: number two. So it's always whoop the man, whoop the man.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: But I like to be in the right spots first
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: and whoop the man.