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Speaker 1: At camp, Jarrion obviously was playing.
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Speaker 2: In a bunch of different roles on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Sure.
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Speaker 1: What does having a guy like him allow you guys
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Speaker 1: to do on defense?
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Speaker 2: A lot.
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Speaker 3: He allows us to do a lot.
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Speaker 4: Jarrion has worked really, really hard to understand really all
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Speaker 4: the ins and outs of the defense. And he's one
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Speaker 4: of those guys for us that can just move around,
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Speaker 4: understands all the roles. I was talking about teaching part
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Speaker 4: to whole, I think, last week or a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: He's one of the guys that really took to that, honestly,
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Speaker 4: since I've been here. But he's a really, really savvy
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Speaker 4: football player, understands everything about our system, and it really
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Speaker 4: gives you a lot of options and multiplicity to have
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Speaker 4: a guy like that.
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Speaker 3: A lot of good ones.
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Speaker 4: He's a hell of a player. Like you said, I
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Speaker 4: was around him a bunch when we were in Miami.
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Speaker 4: extremely hard worker, but just a really good player overall.
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Speaker 4: Great in and out of the breaks, line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 4: There's really, you know, and really hard to tackle after
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Speaker 4: the catch. So he gives them a guy that can
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Speaker 4: stretch the field a little bit, a guy that's caught
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Speaker 4: the ball over the middle of the field throughout the
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Speaker 4: course of his career. And like I said, a guy
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Speaker 4: that can do things after the catch with the ball.
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Speaker 3: How do you feel like Ventrell handled the first game?
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Speaker 3: I thought he did a really good job.
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Speaker 4: You know, certainly like everybody, things to correct, but Ventrell,
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Speaker 4: did exactly what I felt he would do. You know,
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Speaker 4: he'd be really physical, was on the screws in terms
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Speaker 4: of knowing what to do, you know, and was very,
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Speaker 4: very disciplined on some things. They gave him some tough
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Speaker 4: reads in the game, and I thought he really did
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Speaker 4: a great job with it. It was credit to him,
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Speaker 4: credit to Tim Lukabu. You know, he spent a ton
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Speaker 4: of time with Tim over the last year and a half,
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Speaker 4: and I thought.
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Speaker 3: He really did a good job the other day.
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Speaker 5: To get kind of Josh and Trayvon that first sack
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Speaker 5: out the gate.
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Speaker 3: And get them going early? Yeah, I mean, I thought
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Speaker 3: they affected the game the other day, which is usually
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Speaker 3: the case.
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Speaker 4: You know, usually with those guys in there, they affect
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Speaker 4: the quarterback and, you know, obviously affect the offensive line.
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Speaker 4: And we're hopeful that they'll do that every game, you know,
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Speaker 4: from here on out. But they're just there.
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Speaker 3: You can count on those guys. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: You can count on them to play with great effort.
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Speaker 4: When you go back and look at the game, they
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Speaker 4: played with great effort every snap. And that's the thing
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Speaker 4: I was most proud of for those two guys.
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Speaker 3: Great question.
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Speaker 4: I have a firm belief on this that I think
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Speaker 4: it's a little bit of both. You know, obviously you
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Speaker 4: have to work on it, but I do think there
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Speaker 4: are certain players who have a knack for it, and
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Speaker 4: it really isn't much different than hitting a baseball guy
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Speaker 4: that has very good hand eye. A lot of times
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Speaker 4: that shows up. You know, so some guys are a
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Speaker 4: little bit more accurate than others. Obviously, you're working on
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Speaker 4: all those things with everybody, you know, in terms of
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Speaker 4: what you're looking at when you strike something, you know,
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Speaker 4: and how you punch something. And really, it's more about
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Speaker 4: how fast your hand can get from point A to
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Speaker 4: point B as it is. It's more important in that
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Speaker 4: regard than it is to try and really strike the
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Speaker 4: ball hard a lot of the time. You know, it's
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Speaker 4: that cobra strike that usually gets the ball out. And
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Speaker 4: Ventrell has that. He's done a really good job with that.
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Speaker 4: Throughout my time here, I've always been impressed with that.
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Speaker 4: I thought that went pretty good overall. I thought our
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Speaker 4: safeties also did a great job. Your safeties are usually
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Speaker 4: the quarterbacks and your defense. If you don't have guys
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Speaker 4: that are great communicators in that position, it's hard for
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Speaker 4: everybody to be on the same page. I think with
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Speaker 4: the safeties that we have out there, they did a
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Speaker 4: very good job with that. Jordan's always been a guy
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Speaker 4: like that. who at the nickel position, that's one of
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Speaker 4: those positions also. You know, it's a hybrid corner linebacker
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Speaker 4: type of position. So that guy usually has a lot
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Speaker 4: of moving around to do. He has a lot of
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Speaker 4: communication that he has to get through before the ball
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Speaker 4: is snapped.
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Speaker 3: I thought Jordan did a great job with that.
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Speaker 4: And I thought, like, to answer your question, Travis, Jarrion, Buster,
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Speaker 4: those guys all did a great job with communication as well.
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Speaker 4: You guys are able to use a lot of different
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Speaker 4: combinations of quarterbacks, Travis and Buster, Johnny and Buster.
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Speaker 3: Is that kind of a rare luxury at this level?
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Speaker 3: Have you been around it very often? No, I think
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Speaker 3: that's extremely rare.
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Speaker 4: Great thing to be able to kind of tinker with
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Speaker 4: every game and go into it in terms of who
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Speaker 4: your matchups are, who's in together, when. I think it
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Speaker 4: gives you an opportunity to keep guys fresh, but also
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Speaker 4: when you have four guys at the corner position of
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Speaker 4: that caliber.
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Speaker 3: I haven't been around that.
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Speaker 4: And the other thing I'll say about that is they're
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Speaker 4: really selfless guys. You know, they love playing together, love
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Speaker 4: they love football, you know, all the, all the nuances
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Speaker 4: that come with that and that position and knowing it
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Speaker 4: and challenging each other to know it better every day.
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Speaker 3: That's been really fun to watch with those guys too.
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Speaker 4: What is an example of a tough read that Miller was.
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Speaker 3: Able to diagnose? A tough read.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think when you look at some of the things I, I,
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Speaker 4: alluded to this last week, I think Coach Munkin over
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Speaker 4: the course of his career, he's done a ton of
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Speaker 4: things in the run game that are always difficult. I
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Speaker 4: thought he challenged us with some stuff the other day.
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Speaker 4: I thought Ventrell did a very good job with it.
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Speaker 4: That's something that I've always been impressed with Ventrell, that
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Speaker 4: part of his game. I think he does a good
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Speaker 4: job seeing it. And some linebackers see it.
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Speaker 3: Better than others.
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Speaker 4: It's something you're constantly working on, reads and run fits
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Speaker 4: and making sure your eyes are right. I've talked about
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Speaker 4: that in here a little bit, but I thought he
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Speaker 4: did a good job at that. Is it helpful that
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Speaker 4: you played the Broncos so late in the last season? Yeah,
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Speaker 4: always good when there's a little bit of familiarity. You know,
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Speaker 4: we played them at the end of the year, I
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Speaker 4: think right before like Christmas or so. So, yeah, there
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Speaker 4: probably is some familiarity with some of our guys, you know,
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Speaker 4: that last game plan against them. And then obviously, you know,
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Speaker 4: remembering some of the things in the game, you know,
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Speaker 4: and some of the things that you used to teach. So, yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's a good thing, I think. I thought Caleb did
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Speaker 4: a good job overall. Like everybody, like I said, some
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Speaker 4: things to clean up, but I thought he did a
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Speaker 4: good job. I thought he made some really good tackles,
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Speaker 4: and I thought he communicated well throughout the.
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Speaker 3: Course of the game, so we were pleased with that.
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Speaker 3: You talked a little bit about Travis getting out there
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Speaker 3: on the field.
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Speaker 2: I mean, first game, accident back out there after the injury.
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Speaker 4: How did you feel like he did at corner? I
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Speaker 4: thought he moved around really good. You know, and I
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Speaker 4: thought he didn't get a lot of ops for sure.
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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? So that's usually a good
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Speaker 4: thing at corner. But I thought overall he really did
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Speaker 4: a good job. And, you know, his eyes, his feet,
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Speaker 4: all that stuff looked good. And, you know, like you said,
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Speaker 4: getting back your first game, I thought that was a
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Speaker 4: great start for him.
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Speaker 3: You get you get a.
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Speaker 4: Really uh you get some some great opportunities to do
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Speaker 4: that in practice against trevor um you know like you
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Speaker 4: said he can move around back there and make plays
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Speaker 4: and flip his hips and get the ball out 50
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Speaker 4: 60 yards downfield sometimes in practice which is pretty impressive
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Speaker 4: and It really is a help to your defensive backs,
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Speaker 4: I think, to play against a guy that can keep
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Speaker 4: plays alive in practice every day.
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Speaker 3: So I think that is a great thing for us.
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Speaker 4: And we've got a hell of a challenge coming up
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Speaker 4: for us here on Sunday with Bo Nix because I
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Speaker 4: think he does a really good job of that too,
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Speaker 4: keeping plays extended. And then also getting the ball out
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Speaker 4: in a timely fashion.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: They do a really good job with the rhythm of
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Speaker 4: their pass game, early down, third down.
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Speaker 3: So it's a challenge on every level.
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Speaker 1: With a handful of hybrid guys, whether it's Gardak, Jari,
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Speaker 1: and Antonio, that you can really kind of move around
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Speaker 1: like chess pieces, just how deep can the bag kind.
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Speaker 3: Of go from person to person?
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Speaker 4: That's one of the things that I feel like when
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Speaker 4: I was in Miami, you know, Flo used to talk
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Speaker 4: about that a lot, and it was something that had
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Speaker 4: a big effect on me. And in our system, we're
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Speaker 4: always looking for guys that have position flexibility and a
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Speaker 4: multiple skill set.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes, you know, I think.
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Speaker 4: Like, even working with Vic, he had a really good
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Speaker 4: knack for seeing what a guy could do, even if
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Speaker 4: he hadn't done it in a game like Andrew Van.
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Speaker 3: Ginkle was one of those guys for us in Miami.
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Speaker 4: Um, I think he did that with Zach Bourne and, um,
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Speaker 4: in Philadelphia to a degree, you know, and there's some
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Speaker 4: guys here who we've tried, we've tried to do that with. And, um,
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Speaker 4: I feel like those guys had a big impact on
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Speaker 4: me that way, you know, just looking at things and
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Speaker 4: trying to see some certain skillset within guys, you know, that,
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Speaker 4: that shows, uh, multiplicity in their skill set and gives
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Speaker 4: you some position flexibility. And I think that, that makes
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Speaker 4: you like even Trayvon. I know we talk about that
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Speaker 4: a lot. You know, he does a lot of things
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Speaker 4: and sometimes on his feet, he's, he's inside. He goes
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Speaker 4: all the way down from nose guard to the outside linebacker.
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Speaker 4: So it gives you a chance to be flexible.
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Speaker 1: You look at that chess match with like the different formations,
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Speaker 1: whether you're, you're not adjusting to the offense, you want
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Speaker 1: the offense to adjust to you a little bit because
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Speaker 1: you can throw different things at them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think you always have to have some of that,
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Speaker 4: you know, You know, and you're really part of that
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Speaker 4: is you got to have smart guys, you know, guys
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Speaker 4: that really understand what you're trying to do.
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Speaker 3: We're blessed with that here. We're super fortunate. We have
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Speaker 3: a lot of smart guys.
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Speaker 4: And I think they did a great job with the
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Speaker 4: evaluation of building our side of the ball that way.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, that's always part of it.
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Speaker 4: That, that chess match, you know, I think they do
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Speaker 4: a great job with that too on their side.
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Speaker 1: We've seen Trevor able to develop chemistry pretty quickly with
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Speaker 1: wide receivers.
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Speaker 2: We saw with Jacoby last.
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Speaker 1: Year when he came in, they were able to develop
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Speaker 1: chemistry quickly. What is it about him that is allowing
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Speaker 1: the offense to.
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Speaker 2: Cater to that? I think that's an interesting question.
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Speaker 5: I think it's in part who those guys are individually,
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Speaker 5: the relationship that those guys have and kind of their
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Speaker 5: skill set and how they fit within our offense or
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Speaker 5: within their.
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Speaker 2: Roles on our offense.
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Speaker 5: I don't know that there's any one thing in particular
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Speaker 5: that Trevor is doing with the guys collectively, but it's
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Speaker 5: probably his approach and his understanding of the details of
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Speaker 5: each player, each concept and the way guys run certain routes.
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Speaker 2: Because, for example, if you run an out route with.
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Speaker 5: Parker, it may be a little bit different from the
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Speaker 5: way that he runs and tries to attack a defender
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Speaker 5: than the way Jacoby does. And I think Trevor does
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Speaker 5: an excellent job of understanding how that changes maybe his
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Speaker 5: timing or the way that it's going to look or
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Speaker 5: the response that it will elicit from the defense. And
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Speaker 5: that's not always something that's easy for guys to pick
10:35
Speaker 5: up or easy for guys to even understand because a
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Speaker 5: play might have literally the same name and play like
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Speaker 5: two different plays based on the way guys are doing it.
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Speaker 5: So for him to have enough mastery of the offense
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Speaker 5: to understand what the concepts are and what the concepts
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Speaker 5: are trying to attack, but then how those will be
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Speaker 5: differentiated based on how we're lined up or who's running
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Speaker 5: those concepts shows a really strong understanding of the offense.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot. That's a long answer. There's a lot.
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Speaker 5: I mean, the physical stuff probably pops out on the tape.
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Speaker 5: My answer is probably the coach speaks stuff, the stuff
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Speaker 5: you see behind the scenes, which is, him in here
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Speaker 5: late working, him meeting extra with Coach.
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Speaker 2: Mendelson all the time.
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Speaker 5: Those two guys do a fantastic job going through the
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Speaker 5: game plan, understanding the details of why we're running certain
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Speaker 5: plays or certain run concepts or how we're going to
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Speaker 5: hit certain blocks, what his footwork is, what his technique is,
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Speaker 5: and how things will be communicated. He's a guy that
11:28
Speaker 5: wants to be right and wants to understand the details
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Speaker 5: of the different things that we're putting into a game
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Speaker 5: plan or the different adjustments that Trevor may get to
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Speaker 5: at the line of scrimmage. And to have that type
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Speaker 5: of approach as a rookie, really the process that he
11:40
Speaker 5: has every single week to stick to learning the things
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Speaker 5: he needs to learn, to try to understand a defense,
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Speaker 5: understand how we're attacking defense, understand our adjustments off of that.
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Speaker 5: It's a lot mentally. And then to be able to
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Speaker 5: go out there physically and do it. I mean, that
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Speaker 5: just speaks to his work and his effort along with
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Speaker 5: the athlete and the football player that he is. So
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Speaker 5: it's probably the behind the scenes stuff that I love
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Speaker 5: the most, but, but if you went through the whole
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Speaker 5: list of the things I like, it'd be a, be
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Speaker 5: a really long list.
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Speaker 1: How do you guys avoid overthinking this week? Like, you
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Speaker 1: played this team so recently, kind of, I guess you
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Speaker 1: would say. How do you avoid not going in, saying, okay,
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Speaker 1: we have to change this about this because the last
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Speaker 1: time we played, we regretted this, and they'll be expecting that?
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Speaker 5: Sorry.
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Speaker 2: No, that makes sense.
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Speaker 5: That's a good question because that comes up all the
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Speaker 5: time when we have division opponents because it'll happen later
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Speaker 5: this year. It happened last year when you play a
12:27
Speaker 5: division opponent, and then two weeks later sometimes you're playing
12:29
Speaker 5: the same exact opponent. So there's definitely a balance that
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Speaker 5: you're trying to strike But that balance kind of exists
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Speaker 5: throughout the season where even if we were playing a
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Speaker 5: different opponent, we still want our plays to be complementary.
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Speaker 5: We still want our routes to look similar or a
12:44
Speaker 5: receiver have a route that's an in-break, then he has
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Speaker 5: an out-break off it. Or we have a run that
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Speaker 5: looks like this, and then it's a play-action pass that
12:51
Speaker 5: looks like that. So whether we're playing the same opponent
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Speaker 5: from the end of the year last year or we're
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Speaker 5: playing a different opponent, they're still going to be watching
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Speaker 5: our tape from the week before. And we still want
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Speaker 5: to have our same great plays that we maybe ran
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Speaker 5: the week before, or maybe we have.
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Speaker 2: A couple adjustments. And then you're tailoring it to the defense.
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Speaker 5: So I think that that adjustment that you make based
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Speaker 5: on who you're playing kind of exists, or sorry, really
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Speaker 5: I should say a game that you've previously played against
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Speaker 5: that opponent, that kind of exists throughout the season because
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Speaker 5: you're always evaluating what did we just do? What are
13:19
Speaker 5: they trying to defend? And balance that out with what
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Speaker 5: are we good at? Because just because we just did
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Speaker 5: something doesn't mean we're not going to.
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Speaker 3: Do it again.
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Speaker 5: So you're always trying to find the balance of, complimenting
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Speaker 5: previous plays and then finding the same ways to run
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Speaker 5: those plays you just ran.
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Speaker 2: I think it starts with probably our play style.
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Speaker 5: We want to set a mentality with the way we're
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Speaker 5: going to run the ball, regardless of the scheme. So
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Speaker 5: whether it's an outside play where we're running around the corner,
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Speaker 5: around the edge, or whether we're running right downhill, Adam,
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Speaker 5: there's a mentality to every single run, whether it's offensive
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Speaker 5: line or the backs.
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Speaker 2: And that physicality I think showed up.
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Speaker 5: Now I think we continue to elevate that standard, And
13:56
Speaker 5: get all 11 guys to have that full strain, full
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Speaker 5: speed for the entire play on every single play. But
14:03
Speaker 5: we know we're always gonna be pursuing that kind of perfection,
14:05
Speaker 5: that type of standard. But I'd like to see what
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Speaker 5: I saw from all the different rooms. You saw the
14:09
Speaker 5: wide receivers being physical at certain points. You saw the
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Speaker 5: tight ends being physical on the edge inside, trying to
14:15
Speaker 5: attack people down the field, trying to attack people at
14:17
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. And you even saw from the
14:18
Speaker 5: offensive line, they're getting out there on the perimeter, whether
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Speaker 5: they're blocking defensive backs or blocking defensive line. I think
14:23
Speaker 5: that's probably the most encouraging is really the play style
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Speaker 5: because that's the starting point for everything. On top of that,
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Speaker 5: you see the backs with their reads and some of
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Speaker 5: the scheme stuff that we've tried to detail up and
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Speaker 5: improve over the course of the offseason. But I think
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Speaker 5: as long as we have the mentality running the ball,
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Speaker 5: we'll be able to overcome a lot of issues.
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Speaker 3: What makes baseball so good to just break and tackle,
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Speaker 3: just falling forward? Is it just something that's innate?
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Speaker 5: Well, there's certainly an element of that to it. It's
14:45
Speaker 5: also a credit to his hard work that he puts
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Speaker 5: together in the weight room. He's in the facility all
14:49
Speaker 5: the time, whether it's working on his body or getting stronger,
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Speaker 5: getting faster. He is such a strong and fast guy,
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Speaker 5: especially for his size. I don't think people truly realize
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Speaker 5: how strong he is for a guy because he's not
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Speaker 5: maybe the biggest back from a weight perspective, but you
15:03
Speaker 5: combine that speed and strength element, there's a lot that
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Speaker 5: he can do. And I think I mentioned it a
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Speaker 5: couple weeks ago, how having a back like Tootin and
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Speaker 5: even C-Rod and Amir in there and LaQuinn in there,
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Speaker 5: that can run inside, they can run outside, and then
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Speaker 5: they can be threats in the pass game. It's a
15:16
Speaker 5: huge luxury for us because we have third downs and
15:19
Speaker 5: you see all those guys in there. We have passing downs,
15:21
Speaker 5: it's second and long, and any guy could be in
15:22
Speaker 5: there and they could be running around and they could
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Speaker 5: be protecting. Now it's first down and they could be
15:26
Speaker 5: running outside, they could be running inside. So it makes
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Speaker 5: it nice for us because it allows us to keep
15:30
Speaker 5: the entire offense open and keep the defense balanced and respecting.
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Speaker 2: All the different things we can do.
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Speaker 5: So Tootin's ability, I think that physical ability is partly innate,
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Speaker 5: partly something he works at, and then it's something that
15:40
Speaker 5: is really highlighted because of how well he practices some
15:43
Speaker 5: of the schemes. Because if you don't understand the reads
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Speaker 5: and where you're trying to hit certain runs, that slows
15:49
Speaker 5: you down and maybe limits your chance of breaking that.
15:50
Speaker 5: But because he knows where he's cutting, because he knows
15:53
Speaker 5: where he's going, how the blocks are going to play out,
15:54
Speaker 5: you can play just that much faster and know who's
15:56
Speaker 5: the guy who's going to tackle me, who's the guy
15:57
Speaker 5: I'm attacking as a ball carrier. So I think there's
15:59
Speaker 5: a lot of things that go into it, but that
16:01
Speaker 5: room in general, I think, you know, I'm fortunate to
16:04
Speaker 5: be able to coach those guys.
16:05
Speaker 2: I'll say that.
16:06
Speaker 5: The touchdown to Josh Cameron, what'd you think of the throw?
16:10
Speaker 2: Well, That's a great question.
16:12
Speaker 5: I think from my vantage point on the throw, it's
16:15
Speaker 5: one of those ones where you hold your breath a
16:16
Speaker 5: little bit, but I got faith in Trevor and I
16:18
Speaker 5: got faith in Josh, and that's what we've seen from
16:21
Speaker 5: Josh all training camp. You see a guy that's continued
16:23
Speaker 5: to make contested catch after contested catch. He's so strong,
16:26
Speaker 5: so physical, great at the top of the route that
16:28
Speaker 5: you have confidence that, hey, you put the ball his way,
16:31
Speaker 5: he's going to go find a way to make a play.
16:32
Speaker 5: So it was awesome to see him come down with
16:34
Speaker 5: that thing. Now, I know that Trevor made the joke.
16:36
Speaker 5: We'd love to see him get the game ball. We
16:37
Speaker 5: can't have two guys getting that ball afterwards, but I
16:39
Speaker 5: was really fired up for him.
16:41
Speaker 2: Once he got that, he.
16:42
Speaker 5: Does so much hard work in the run game and
16:45
Speaker 5: he has so much hard work running different routes where
16:46
Speaker 5: he doesn't always get the ball.
16:47
Speaker 2: So to see him get that one there was, it
16:49
Speaker 2: was awesome.
16:50
Speaker 1: How helpful is it to have guys like Josh and
16:52
Speaker 1: CJ who you can get out there that you trust
16:54
Speaker 1: to be able.
16:54
Speaker 3: To go do some of the dirty work?
16:55
Speaker 2: Huge.
16:56
Speaker 5: It's a lot like I talked about with the backs,
16:58
Speaker 5: because when you have receivers and now we have three
17:00
Speaker 5: or four receivers that can do dirty work and go
17:02
Speaker 5: block and they can still run different routes. I mean,
17:05
Speaker 5: we've got them in there in the red zone to
17:06
Speaker 5: run routes. So it's not like you're as a defense,
17:08
Speaker 5: you can, sit there and say, anytime that this guy's in,
17:11
Speaker 5: he's just blocking or anytime this guy's in, he's just
17:14
Speaker 5: running a route because we have a number of wideouts
17:17
Speaker 5: that can all do different spots and line up in
17:19
Speaker 5: different spots. It's a huge luxury, just like the running backs,
17:22
Speaker 5: because now we can keep the offense open, whether we're
17:25
Speaker 5: in 12 personnel with this guy at receiver, 11 personnel
17:27
Speaker 5: with that guy at receiver. And even throughout the game,
17:29
Speaker 5: you have a hot game like that the other weekend
17:31
Speaker 5: and guys can rotate through and you're not worried about
17:34
Speaker 5: guys getting completely gassed because this guy's got to be
17:36
Speaker 5: on this specific play. So we have no problem whether
17:38
Speaker 5: we're an 11-person. We've got to put CJ and Josh
17:40
Speaker 5: out there, or it's Parker, Washington, and Jacoby.
17:43
Speaker 2: We can run the same plays.
17:44
Speaker 5: That's a huge luxury, not only for us as we
17:46
Speaker 5: game plan, but for Liam as a play caller.
17:49
Speaker 1: How have you seen Parker kind of– you saw him
17:51
Speaker 1: break out last season. How have you seen him kind
17:53
Speaker 1: of blossom over.
17:54
Speaker 3: Your time here in Jacksonville?
17:58
Speaker 5: The one thing that I think stands out with Parker is,
18:01
Speaker 5: first and foremost, his consistency, which maybe some people take
18:05
Speaker 5: for granted or we take for granted a little bit.
18:06
Speaker 5: because he hasn't been a household name or people don't
18:09
Speaker 5: always know him or think about him in the same
18:11
Speaker 5: role that he's in now from when we first got here.
18:14
Speaker 5: But he's been making plays like that since we showed
18:16
Speaker 5: up or since at least I've been here. So he's
18:19
Speaker 5: been consistent in the same guy. So whether he was
18:21
Speaker 5: getting the ball as the number two or whether he's
18:24
Speaker 5: getting the ball as the number one in a progression
18:26
Speaker 5: or he's in the position he is right now, he's
18:28
Speaker 5: still running routes as hard as he can, winning on
18:30
Speaker 5: every route, working hard after practice, first guy in the building.
18:33
Speaker 5: So that consistency is something that hopefully I try not
18:35
Speaker 5: to take for granted because it's hard that, you know,
18:37
Speaker 5: you're fighting human nature for a lot of guys. You
18:39
Speaker 5: start to get some success, and then you can become content,
18:42
Speaker 5: and he's just continued.
18:43
Speaker 2: To work and work and work. So I love that
18:45
Speaker 2: about him.
18:46
Speaker 5: Another guy, you know, it probably sounds like I'm on
18:48
Speaker 5: repeat here talking about the backs and the O-line, but
18:51
Speaker 5: those are guys we're really fortunate to have.
18:53
Speaker 4: Besides having good players, how does Vance Joseph's pressure scheme stress.
18:56
Speaker 3: On the offensive line?
18:59
Speaker 2: The offensive line?
19:01
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot that he's done, whether it's
19:04
Speaker 5: the different fronts, the different pressure packages, the different personnel
19:08
Speaker 5: groupings over the course of the years to try to
19:11
Speaker 5: make those guys identify and diagnose what they're trying to
19:15
Speaker 5: do to us, what they're trying to elicit out of
19:16
Speaker 5: our protection system. So having a really strong conceptual understanding
19:21
Speaker 5: of our rules, knowing that we're going to get a
19:23
Speaker 5: blitz or we're going to get a front or look
19:25
Speaker 5: that maybe he's never shown before.
19:27
Speaker 2: He's going to be creative.
19:28
Speaker 5: He's going to present looks that we haven't seen not
19:30
Speaker 5: only from him, but no other opponent on our schedule.
19:33
Speaker 5: So knowing that going into the game, We have to
19:35
Speaker 5: have an expectation and understanding that there are going to
19:37
Speaker 5: be pressures that maybe he has run before.
19:39
Speaker 2: What's our answer to those? But really, what are.
19:41
Speaker 5: Our rules and how can we be sound fundamentally and
19:44
Speaker 5: technically so that way we can block up something that
19:47
Speaker 5: maybe he designed specifically to try to beat us?
19:50
Speaker 2: So i think those.
19:51
Speaker 5: Guys do an excellent job whether it's first down second
19:53
Speaker 5: down third down red zone all the situations of the
19:55
Speaker 5: game you know that he's going to be pressure ready
20:00
Speaker 5: that's a great question i think there's a lot of
20:02
Speaker 5: different ways we try to approach it because We've got
20:05
Speaker 5: different guys that we love on different routes, and we
20:07
Speaker 5: know that he could be lined up in a variety
20:09
Speaker 5: of different spots. So you have kind of contingency plans
20:11
Speaker 5: for all the different ways that they can deploy him.
20:13
Speaker 5: So you go down the rabbit hole a little bit
20:16
Speaker 5: of if he's lined up here, then we can do this.
20:18
Speaker 5: If he's lined up there, then we can do that.
20:20
Speaker 5: If he's lined up here and doing this type of coverage,
20:23
Speaker 5: then we do that. So you end up with a
20:25
Speaker 5: lot of different plans for a guy like that. So
20:27
Speaker 5: it's hard to say this is the one way you
20:29
Speaker 5: attack a guy like that because there's so many different
20:31
Speaker 5: ways that they can play him. And that's rare to
20:33
Speaker 5: find nowadays when you get a corner who can play inside.
20:35
Speaker 5: He can play outside. He can play the field. He
20:36
Speaker 5: can play the boundary. He can travel with guys. He
20:38
Speaker 5: can stay to his side.
20:38
Speaker 2: He's good in zone.
20:39
Speaker 3: He's good in man.
20:40
Speaker 2: And then he can get up there and tackle.
20:41
Speaker 5: So he's probably one of the few guys where you
20:43
Speaker 5: probably need really a ton of contingency plans because he
20:46
Speaker 5: can be on all.
20:47
Speaker 2: Those different spots.
20:48
Speaker 5: So we're going to try to find our best way
20:50
Speaker 5: to balance that out and figure out the best way
20:52
Speaker 5: based on how they want to play. So it's a
20:53
Speaker 5: little bit of a cat and mouse game at times.
20:55
Speaker 5: We certainly want to be attacking whoever's on the field,
20:58
Speaker 5: whether it's him or the other corners or the safeties.
21:00
Speaker 5: We trust our guys to go out there and win,
21:03
Speaker 5: but there is an element of being aware of.
21:04
Speaker 2: A player of that caliber, regardless of where he lines up.
21:08
Speaker 4: Awesome.
21:09
Speaker 1: Pretty good.
21:09
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, guys.
21:10
Speaker 1: Thanks, guys. Thank you.