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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "It comes down to the preparation..." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Does this in any way, I feel like a possibly
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  Speaker 1: franchise turning the Quarner victory for you. You know, I
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: think I still think it's too early to tell. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just so proud of these guys, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: way they the way they work during the week, and um,
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  Speaker 1: they're beginning to to see, I think, just what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to to win in this league, and it takes
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  Speaker 1: the hard work in preparation, and um, they're starting to
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  Speaker 1: come together as a football team. And that's that's all
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  Speaker 1: I can ask for. They play extremely hard, and that's
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  Speaker 1: just what I told him after the game, is is
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  Speaker 1: that if they continue to to do these little things right,
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  Speaker 1: good things can happen to this football team. And today
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  Speaker 1: was an example of that. The decision early on too,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it looks like you might were considering maybe
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  Speaker 1: going forward on the fourth and three on when it
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  Speaker 1: was a scoreless game. The first quarter happened, and then
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  Speaker 1: you went ahead and take the field. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of playing a chess match back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Day and I and just with personnel substitutions and
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  Speaker 1: different things, and um, you know I was going to
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  Speaker 1: kick it all along, you know, while we were down
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  Speaker 1: there and get the three points at that time. But um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were just kind of just going back
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  Speaker 1: and forth with some personnel in and out of the game,
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  Speaker 1: making it simulate like we might go for it on
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  Speaker 1: fourth down, and but ultimately, you know, I had made
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  Speaker 1: my mind up to kick the field goal. Does does
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  Speaker 1: this win in any way say anything else to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the league, Like the Jags aren't the Jags
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  Speaker 1: you guys have seen the last couple of years, or
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be you know, I can't speak for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the league. UM, I can just speak for
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  Speaker 1: for our team. And uh, this is this is a
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  Speaker 1: great win against a really good football team. This is
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  Speaker 1: a this is a you know, a playoff caliber football team.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know, again, our guys, just if we
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  Speaker 1: just trust our process and do do the little things right,
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  Speaker 1: you know during the week, you know, we're we're we're
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  Speaker 1: still young, and we're still learning and how to win
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, how to how to do all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And I think this was just a great
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  Speaker 1: step in that direction. You know, typically on the fourth
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  Speaker 1: and one, it could it could hope it could pop
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  Speaker 1: like that, you know, because they had they had been
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  Speaker 1: you know on that first half. Really, I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: a third quarter. Um, they had uh you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of stacking loading the box up. They had
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  Speaker 1: six man fronts, they were in out of five man fronts,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, um, you know, our guys did a
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  Speaker 1: great job and just sort of cave in that left
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  Speaker 1: side down and and um Jay Rob did announcestanding job
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  Speaker 1: of just hitting the edge and go on. So it
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  Speaker 1: happens that way, you know, UM, glad it happened us.
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  Speaker 1: What's the most impressive thing about this victory to you today?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's how we finished. I think it's how
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  Speaker 1: we finished this game. Um. You know, the offense went
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  Speaker 1: down and scored when we had two at the end,
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  Speaker 1: and then the defense stopped them at the end, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and and that's something that I think hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: the case. Uh here and and these guys are the
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  Speaker 1: guys are playing with confidence, and you know, winning can
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  Speaker 1: do that, and and um, but but at the same
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  Speaker 1: time we understand that, you know, it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: the preparation during the week, you know, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: that's what pays off on game day when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about these guys about learning how to win? Is that
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  Speaker 1: doing during the week, see the results Sunday and didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it all over again and multiple weeks. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's twenty four hours, you know. You you you enjoy
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  Speaker 1: it for twenty four hours and you're on to the
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  Speaker 1: next I mean, that's it's a it's short. It's short
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  Speaker 1: lived in this league, and it's unfortunate. But we're definitely
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  Speaker 1: gonna enjoy this on the four hour ride home and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, get some sleep and and turn
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  Speaker 1: around and do it again. Trevor completed that nineteen at
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty two of his passes. Well, why was
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  Speaker 1: it that he was able to be so effishing, especially
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  Speaker 1: late in the contest from your perspective, offensive line? Offensive
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  Speaker 1: line gave him protection, you know, And when when they
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  Speaker 1: give him the protection and we've got the skill guys
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  Speaker 1: to to to get open, he's gonna find them. And
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  Speaker 1: and that's where it starts. And and I thought our
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  Speaker 1: offensive line really really took control of this football game,
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job up front, not only the run
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  Speaker 1: with the past and and that's the reason why he can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, complete that many in a row. It's just
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the offensive line is giving him time
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, guys are getting open form.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like the defense set the tone for this
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  Speaker 1: game with the two early turnovers. It's now eight to
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  Speaker 1: one now and takeaways versus giveaways for the Jaguars. You
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  Speaker 1: guys were minus twenty in this department last year. So
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  Speaker 1: can you talk about you keep bringing up the negative.
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  Speaker 1: Did you just talk about whether what do you feel
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  Speaker 1: the defense they have set the tone for the game
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  Speaker 1: with those two early tother I believe so. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: something we talked about quite a bit is creating turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: you know with the defensive unit, and um, they gosh,
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  Speaker 1: we started the game, you know again today with a
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  Speaker 1: couple of a couple of turnovers like that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we did get the points off them, but I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to have gotten a touchdown off, especially the one down
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  Speaker 1: deep in the red zone. But listen that the defense,
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  Speaker 1: if they keep creating uh turnovers like they're doing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it helps the football team and and uh it
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  Speaker 1: helps the offense and we can score points. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: good things will continue to happen. But we're holding the
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  Speaker 1: ball in the second half like you were able to
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  Speaker 1: How much did the first half help too, because I
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  Speaker 1: think you had a two to one at JEM possession time. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've gotta be efficient on all downs, right, Um,
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  Speaker 1: in order to possess the ball like that. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: be good on first down, your second down stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: then you gotta convert third downs, right you gotta you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do that on on third down. And there were
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  Speaker 1: a couple of fourth downs we we executed, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know that's all part of time of possession, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, you know we played we played a
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  Speaker 1: hurry up a couple of times during the game and
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  Speaker 1: just try to keep the pace you know, a little
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  Speaker 1: a little different for them. Um. So it's a great defense, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a really good defense. It's a good front. Um.
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  Speaker 1: They can they can obviously, you know, put as many
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  Speaker 1: guys in the box that they need to stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: They're good, you know pass rushers. But you know we
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  Speaker 1: have to be a fishing on first and second down
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  Speaker 1: and really third down, stay on the field, and that all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, equates the time of possession. Conserve you that
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  Speaker 1: you hadn't finished some drives in the first half and
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  Speaker 1: white change and what did you say about the offense
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  Speaker 1: in the second half that you finished, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to finish with touchdowns, you know, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone there. But you know, it was good
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  Speaker 1: that we made the adjustments at halftime and and and
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  Speaker 1: really um, you know, came back in the second half
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  Speaker 1: and and and finish those drives in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what just gives your team, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: gives your team a lift of course of fourth down
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  Speaker 1: there and the third quarter was big obviously, um and
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  Speaker 1: then right there at the end, being able to finish.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, all those all those are um kind of
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  Speaker 1: lifts the spirits of everybody play play with a lot
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  Speaker 1: more confidence. The fourth down that Jay Rob broke was
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  Speaker 1: were you waffling in your mind on that about whether
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  Speaker 1: to go or no? No, no, because where we were
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  Speaker 1: on the field fourth and one, maybe a little longer,
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  Speaker 1: it was yeah, we were gonna go forth there. Could
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  Speaker 1: you sense that Herbert was less than full strength and
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  Speaker 1: where you kind of surprised he was out there late
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth with the margin being what it was. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can't speak for you know, their coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: but um, I didn't see anything in him you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know there was one shot that maybe he got
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  Speaker 1: up and went a little bit, but I thought he
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  Speaker 1: played tough, played played uh, played strong. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a great, great young quarterback in this league and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect for him, um, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: you know he's gonna he's gonna be okay, and they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna win. They're gonna win a bunch of games in
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  Speaker 1: the future. It seemed like Devin Royd was able to
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of success for the second straight week.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think has sort of quick for him?
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  Speaker 1: And what do you think of this play over the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. Um, yeah, I just think he's
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  Speaker 1: he's he's fitting into the scheme, fitting into the defense.
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  Speaker 1: He's understanding his role. You know, I challenged the guys
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  Speaker 1: each week too, you know, understand the game plan and
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  Speaker 1: and understand their job and what what they um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and how they can fit. And you know he's doing that.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's obviously these games are valuable, you know for him,
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  Speaker 1: he's settling in. Tremendous player. He had a heck of
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  Speaker 1: a you know, uh past deflection there, you know, down
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  Speaker 1: the field late and just uh, he's a good put
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  Speaker 1: football player kind of settling into his role. Trevor being
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  Speaker 1: willing to take some of that shorter stuff and not
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  Speaker 1: forcing the ball down the field. Does that show a
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  Speaker 1: significant progress with him? Yeah, you know it does. And
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, um, the guys are doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job up front, as we mentioned, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the protection, guys are getting open and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had opportunities to take shots and we we can
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  Speaker 1: we completed those down the field. You know. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how many explosives we actually had, but there
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  Speaker 1: were some opportunities there and we hit him and we
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  Speaker 1: were efficient in the passing game and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's all we can ask of our guys, right and
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  Speaker 1: um takes eleven to do it, but but he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was very efficient, very accurate. We talked about that
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  Speaker 1: this week against a team that plays a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you know, man man coverages. It predate you. But what
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  Speaker 1: does it mean to pick up a road win early
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  Speaker 1: in the season and kind of a snap that word.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's everything for this team, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's exactly what the guys were talking about,
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  Speaker 1: the ones that have been here and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's good to get a road win. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: guess the great football team, you know, travel across country
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  Speaker 1: like this. I mean, it's uh credit to the to
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the locker room for doing that, and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know it's uh, you know, hopefully it's
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  Speaker 1: the start of things to come and and and hitting
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. Thank you, all right, guys,