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Press Pass | Rayshawn Jenkins: "...I want to be a tone setter." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: I feel like this is a week too kind of restart,
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  Speaker 1: you know, reset ourselves to kind of you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Okay, what what what did we do well?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, what what did we do bad?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, kind of just self scout.
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  Speaker 1: This is self scouting week, just so we can get back, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, kind of change its trajectory right here.
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  Speaker 1: Did you talk a little bit about the defense, because
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  Speaker 1: it does seem in the last five or six weeks
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  Speaker 1: things have not it seems like things have regressed us.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned on after the game about the brown coverages
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  Speaker 1: on the top touchdown passes. So I mean, it's what's
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  Speaker 1: what's been going on that the defense is not ascending?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean it's it's it's team sports. So
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  Speaker 1: you can't really you know, point fingers that you know, whoever.
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  Speaker 1: But I would definitely say we could definitely tighten the
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  Speaker 1: screws a bit, you know as a unit. Um, just
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  Speaker 1: just settle down, man, and just really be on every
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  Speaker 1: detail of the game. This is a game that's turned
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  Speaker 1: more in my opinion, more mental than anything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it can be just uh, running hit running hit,
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  Speaker 1: it's not it's thinking about you know, how am I
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  Speaker 1: getting set up this play? You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: how are they trying to attack me in the defense
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  Speaker 1: this place? So we gotta just be more cerebral with
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. I would, uh, hey, we need to
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  Speaker 1: fix just being more consistent. Um, just a consistency is
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  Speaker 1: not there. We as a unit, we make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good plays and you see a lot of flashes
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  Speaker 1: uh throughout most of the game. But it's when we
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  Speaker 1: get in those um times that we really need everyone
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  Speaker 1: to really be on their stuff. We need to everyone
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  Speaker 1: needs to be conscious of that moment there. What we
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  Speaker 1: have done well in my opinion, um takeaways. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we we've really gotten after the ball this year.
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  Speaker 1: Our d line is you know, we can really in
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  Speaker 1: the back end, we can really feel those guys up
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  Speaker 1: up front, um, you know, and in our defense is
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  Speaker 1: much faster, much a really physical. So we just need
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  Speaker 1: to do the right stuff all the time. So seeing him, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's great. Man. I love when when you know,
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  Speaker 1: young professional comes in the league and like you say,
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  Speaker 1: it just grows from you know, game in and game out.
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  Speaker 1: Cisco is a guy He's like I say, he's a
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  Speaker 1: young professional. He's comes in, he takes it very serious.
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  Speaker 1: Um and and I love to be around guys like
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  Speaker 1: that because when when we when I'm out on the field,
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  Speaker 1: I know like there's guys out there that's prepared, like
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  Speaker 1: like I have so good one, you know, like light
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  Speaker 1: switch turned on kind of games from yeah. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, man, this in this league, man, just it's
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  Speaker 1: all about consistency. Man. Like I just said, just a
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  Speaker 1: last games, last game. Now that's as you gotta learned
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  Speaker 1: this in this In this league, man, every week you
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  Speaker 1: have to come out and improve yourself every week. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter what I did last game. Good game, last game,
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  Speaker 1: but this game, let's go, let's have another game. Last game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, is it two weeks or two
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  Speaker 1: months of the season remaining? Where are you and where
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  Speaker 1: do you see the team being mentally now compared to
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  Speaker 1: maybe going into the buy last year? How different is
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  Speaker 1: it right now based on everything? I mean honestly I
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  Speaker 1: can't even remember back to last year. So I mean
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  Speaker 1: but going into this year, uh, going into this by me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just always looking to improve like that, that's just
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  Speaker 1: what it is. And I improve improve improved however that
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  Speaker 1: may be, where did that be more film study, more recovery,
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  Speaker 1: physically whatever. I'm just looking to improve U. And that's
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  Speaker 1: where kind of the the mindset, had space of the
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  Speaker 1: team is right now. I believe that self improvement it's
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  Speaker 1: the first step to know kind of kind of improving
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  Speaker 1: the team. So if you're good, coming search something to
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  Speaker 1: the team and ultimately team will you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: find this way to being on that on that path
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  Speaker 1: as well. Not the hard last but this time last year,
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  Speaker 1: these were really starting to fall apart there. Despite the record,
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  Speaker 1: there seems to be a pretty good amount of stability
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  Speaker 1: right now. How much easier is it in this environment
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do some positive things? You know,
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  Speaker 1: coming back after the line? Uh, I mean, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say it's easy. I mean it's hard. Every day I
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  Speaker 1: walked into this building, it's hard. So it's it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be hard. It's it's just it's just simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard, the same as last year. Is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hard even if I was on a good team.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, it'll be hard to do whatever we need
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  Speaker 1: to do because it's the National Football League. The the
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  Speaker 1: margin ror is very small in this league. So whatever
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  Speaker 1: we're doing from this point on, man, we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to do it. Uh discipline a and and and
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  Speaker 1: be relentless everybody really in the season and you guys
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  Speaker 1: one over just thinking, Okay, this team ready to turn
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  Speaker 1: the page and you know, fill with the strich and
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  Speaker 1: really take off. Still say that that's this team is
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  Speaker 1: closer than made the record. Yeah, absolutely, I mean we've
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  Speaker 1: got seven games level, we've seen that three and seven.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we can finish with double digit wins. But
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  Speaker 1: like I said, it's gonna be hard. It's it. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hard, man. So everyone just needs to be
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  Speaker 1: on this stuff. Um really be be be doubt man.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be doubted in this league. Rot It's it's
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  Speaker 1: like I said before, man, it's Martin errors is. It's
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  Speaker 1: small and it's been and it's been killing us lately,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, and I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: do have a young team, but we get we get paid,
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  Speaker 1: you know, man, we get paid to do what we do.
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  Speaker 1: So so you gotta come out here and perform every week.
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  Speaker 1: You have one or two like splash players, a little
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  Speaker 1: really big players. What it has kind of changed for
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  Speaker 1: you this season. I know, coming off of the injury,
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  Speaker 1: you said you had a lot of expectations way back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, training can Um. I know I keep saying
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  Speaker 1: this word, but consistency, man, that's all I think about, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: That's all I think about, just coming here and and
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  Speaker 1: like you say, I gotta I gotta do that every
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  Speaker 1: game if I'm the guy who I think I am,
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  Speaker 1: who my team thinks, abu him, I got I gotta
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  Speaker 1: do that every game. So um yeah, man, I uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're losing, so I mean that doesn't make it better,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd like to get you know, just more of that,
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  Speaker 1: just more of that into the defense, and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how it goals. Do you feel like when you do
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  Speaker 1: have one of those players, you kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: spread that around it and inspires other guys to step
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  Speaker 1: it up. Yeah. Absolutely, It's It's it's contagious. That's just
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  Speaker 1: like if not only me, if well Josh Allen makes
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  Speaker 1: it play, shoot, that's gonna maybe you want to make
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  Speaker 1: it play. You know, I got I see my guy
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  Speaker 1: here balling. I'm ready to go now, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I see Fourier come down and make a hit,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to go, Like you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: they see me come down and make a head they's
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  Speaker 1: just setting a tone like and that's what I say
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  Speaker 1: every game, Like I want to be a tone setter,
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  Speaker 1: Like I want to be the one who who who
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  Speaker 1: ignites that that fire within within my unit to hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. You know what I'm saying. So mentioned yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that the headsets malfunctioned on the areas Tony touch up.
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  Speaker 1: So what could you describe what it was like for
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  Speaker 1: you on that play? Were you guys getting when you
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  Speaker 1: guys wouldn't talked about it afterwards? Were you guys getting
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  Speaker 1: two different calls? Yeah? So, like you said, the head
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  Speaker 1: set had it went out for about three plays down
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone, and we were, uh, basically just
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  Speaker 1: trying to remember as players because we couldn't there was
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  Speaker 1: no more communication from player to coach. So now we
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  Speaker 1: had to go. Well, honestly, the safeties didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: the headset didn't go out, so when we did realize,
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  Speaker 1: we tried to collectively come together and and call a
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  Speaker 1: call that we had been practicing all week in practice,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, the communication was just bad. To hurry it
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  Speaker 1: was a tempo with it too, So it was just
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  Speaker 1: like it was a bunch going on motion with it.
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  Speaker 1: So it was it was just a bunch going on.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, candariuses and motion and nobody
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  Speaker 1: went with him. And you know, in a situation like that,
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  Speaker 1: even if there's confusion in the headset, you would think
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  Speaker 1: somebody would have would have noticed it. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if everyone was in their head playing the same defense.
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  Speaker 1: Now when you got people playing two different defenses. The
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  Speaker 1: guy who's supposed to run over he yes, he would,
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  Speaker 1: and the right defense, but he thought he's playing a
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  Speaker 1: different defense. So it just says what it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: a bunker. Shouldn't someone have called time out on the kield?
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  Speaker 1: You guys have the ability to do, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't mention the time house. If you don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: leave out the coaches in the in the quarterback. How
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  Speaker 1: mess with no time house? So is there anyone on
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  Speaker 1: the field that doesn't have that ability that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, you know, I wouldn't burn the town
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  Speaker 1: out there. I just wouldn't do that. That's not you
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  Speaker 1: never know when you're gonna need the time about. So
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  Speaker 1: I just no not that offense. Yeah, maybe Billy a
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  Speaker 1: game something like that and that. In that case, you
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  Speaker 1: just hope the quarterback may not look over there, but
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  Speaker 1: you play the best quarterback in the league, so he's
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  Speaker 1: getting over there. You know what I'm saying a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of different off topic here, But you were playing
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  Speaker 1: on the field that you don't want to play on.
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  Speaker 1: Turf wise, turf wise turf. I don't like playing on
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  Speaker 1: turf like at all. Uh so all turf. Actually hate turf.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just bad on my bones. My bones are
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  Speaker 1: sore after every My joints are literally sore at there.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I played on turf. Yesterday I played on grass.
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  Speaker 1: Felt great. Practice on grass here, I feel good. Uh Turf,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't like. There's a lot of injuries that
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  Speaker 1: come with turf from everything. Did that factor you're deciding
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  Speaker 1: to come to Jacksonville? No? No? Do you do you
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  Speaker 1: understand like why they're calling like calling for six ves.
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  Speaker 1: I heard they just had bad fields, But I mean
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  Speaker 1: I agree with it because curif I just I just
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  Speaker 1: don't like this count crete. I mean, I mean slimed
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  Speaker 1: on concrete. It doesn't feel good. You're way too pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Equal offers would you choose to the grass field? I was.
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  Speaker 1: I did have two weekly offers and it was actually
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  Speaker 1: had an offer beg to here, and I just it
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  Speaker 1: was it was Florida. Yeah, so I gotta come to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm the Florida man. Yeah. Right there you go
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  Speaker 1: without for the last few weeks. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you've got such showing this a secretary? Overall, I
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  Speaker 1: feel to be a pretty good next man up mentality.
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  Speaker 1: We had young guys come in um and and it
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  Speaker 1: still looks uh, you know, it looks apart. Obviously we
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  Speaker 1: would love to have Shot. He's one of our playmakers
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  Speaker 1: here on the team, but this is the National Football League. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: next man up man, that's just like me. I went
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  Speaker 1: down last year and next man up it is. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's the nature of the It's
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  Speaker 1: the nature of the game and it just is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. So but we we definitely love to have
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  Speaker 1: them back. How valuable is that experience for a guy
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  Speaker 1: like oh? Huge? Because I mean, in my opinion, as
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  Speaker 1: soon as you can get in here right away and
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  Speaker 1: start playing football, you start learning, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: That's when you really start learning when you can really
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: get thrown in in those live situations. And yeah, does
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  Speaker 1: learning mean I might have to get beat a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times? It is what it is. It's these guys
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  Speaker 1: get paid to you know what I'm saying. But the
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  Speaker 1: coaches have to realize that. Uh you know, players have
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  Speaker 1: to realize that. But uh, when you got guys that that,
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  Speaker 1: you know they might get beat sometime. But A I
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  Speaker 1: like his playmaking ability out here more so, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: which one did you give up? So it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: one of those things. Thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thank you, thank you,