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O-Zone Podcast: Darrell Bevell · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast, presented by by Star Credit
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Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. This week's guess somebody
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about and I know that Jaguars fans will
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Speaker 1: be excited to hear from him. It's a strange time
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Speaker 1: with bringing in a new coaching staff because they're hard
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Speaker 1: at work, they're busy, they're not thinking about the media yet,
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Speaker 1: but yet fans want to know what these guys are doing.
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Speaker 1: So this is our first opportunity to really to sit
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Speaker 1: down and talk with Jaguars offensive coordinator Darryl Bevil and Darryl,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing this first of all, and a
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Speaker 1: very general lead in how's it going. Yeah, Well, one,
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Speaker 1: I can't believe that we're still doing this. We're still
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Speaker 1: on zoom after all this time, you know, but it's
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Speaker 1: going great. I mean, we've been in the office here
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Speaker 1: for for quite a while since January and um and
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Speaker 1: we've just kind of grinding away really just putting together
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Speaker 1: the plan and uh, you know, you know, whether it's
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Speaker 1: the plan of you know, acquiring the talent with the draft,
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Speaker 1: with the free agency. Also during that time we're putting
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Speaker 1: a playbook together as well, you've been through this before.
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Speaker 1: NFL coaches have switched jobs, they go to new regines. Um,
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Speaker 1: is there anything that strikes you about the process that
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Speaker 1: you're going through now that's any different, any more exciting?
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Speaker 1: Anything that sort of stands out about putting this together
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Speaker 1: compared to your past stops. Yeah. I mean, I mean,
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Speaker 1: obviously there's great excitement here in Jacksonville. One. Obviously, we
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Speaker 1: you know, we've got coach Urban and Um, and I
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Speaker 1: mean I think there's obviously buzz here in Florida because
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Speaker 1: of that. And you know, his his history and the
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Speaker 1: things that he's done in in his past, whether it's
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Speaker 1: turning bowling Green around or Utah or Florida or Howse State.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's one everywhere he's been. So I think
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Speaker 1: that's something that that naturally creates a buzz. I think
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Speaker 1: having the first pick in the draft obviously creates, you
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Speaker 1: know a little bit more buzz um. And then what
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Speaker 1: we're able to do in free agency, some of the
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Speaker 1: guys were able to bring you in. I think there's
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Speaker 1: excitement there and and uh, you know all of us coaches,
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Speaker 1: I mean we're just here working. We're ready to get
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Speaker 1: to work with these guys can't wait till we get
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Speaker 1: can get our hands on them and you know, start
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Speaker 1: teaching them of the things that we're gonna do this year.
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Speaker 1: You hadn't really met Urban before. This is it sort
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Speaker 1: of your first go around impressions? Uh, how is that
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Speaker 1: relationship and what is it like sort of installing that
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Speaker 1: game plan and meshing with him if you will game
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Speaker 1: plan but the offense, Yeah, it's I mean it's been Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's been great. So for you know, first of all,
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Speaker 1: as you know, it's I mean, it's a little bit
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Speaker 1: different in this business to to not have any connections
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Speaker 1: at all, um, you know somewhere along the way and
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Speaker 1: we had we had not so I think you know,
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Speaker 1: just um, you know, getting the interview with them, having
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Speaker 1: that opportunity and um, and then being able to mess
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Speaker 1: the way that we did. I thought that was exciting. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, as as far as you know, preparing this
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Speaker 1: stuff with him, it's it's been great, you know. We
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of given tape. We got
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Speaker 1: a lot of great minds here. You know, George Warhop
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Speaker 1: is here still with you know, with the offensive line,
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Speaker 1: we brought Brian Schottenheimer in myself and you know, and
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Speaker 1: as well as other guys, but um, the communication between
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Speaker 1: coach urban um the offensive staff, you know kind of
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Speaker 1: have feelings of what he likes, what he wants to
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Speaker 1: do where he's at UM. But then you know, being
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Speaker 1: able to blend I guess where Brian's bend, where I've been,
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Speaker 1: um and George has been I think, just being able
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Speaker 1: to blend all that together to be able to come
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Speaker 1: up with the best plan. Um. You know, And the
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Speaker 1: plan starts one way, and then once you start getting
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Speaker 1: the players and start you know, putting those players in
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Speaker 1: and that play then then then that plan can morph,
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Speaker 1: you know, and we're gonna make sure that whoever our
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Speaker 1: guys are that we're getting that we'll put them in
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Speaker 1: the best place, you know, position to be successful. But
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Speaker 1: right now, you know, what what is our core? What's
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Speaker 1: our base? Where are we gonna start one day one
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Speaker 1: when they walk in here? And then the more we
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Speaker 1: get to know him, then the more we'll it will
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Speaker 1: start to move around. Is this a case where you
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Speaker 1: put the playbook in page by page? I mean, is
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Speaker 1: it that detailed? Or uh about giving away too much?
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Speaker 1: How does that process work? Once he gets sort of
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Speaker 1: granular with it. Yeah, we start on page one, um,
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Speaker 1: no question, and you know, start with you know, where
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Speaker 1: how how do we huddle? You know, where the guy
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Speaker 1: standing in the huddle, and then we we read through
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Speaker 1: each each and every page just to make sure, you know,
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Speaker 1: I I believe that it's important for all of us
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Speaker 1: to be speaking the same language. That that it's not
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Speaker 1: one guy says that this way, one guy says it
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Speaker 1: this way. I think it's it's powerful when you know
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Speaker 1: when your whole staff is aligned and and has the
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Speaker 1: ability to speak it exactly the same way. So if
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Speaker 1: they asked me, if they asked the quarterback coach, they
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Speaker 1: asked the receiver coach, everybody says the exact same way.
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Speaker 1: And so we start on page one and you know,
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Speaker 1: we go through the general information section of you know,
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Speaker 1: the cadence to huddle, those kind of things. Then we
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Speaker 1: start getting into like, okay, what are we calling these
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Speaker 1: things when you know, when we line up in this formation,
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Speaker 1: what's the best way to communicate it is at the
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Speaker 1: simplest all those questions that we go on, then you know,
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Speaker 1: how do we call the defenses? Because everybody has come
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Speaker 1: from a little bit different areas and you know, at
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Speaker 1: some point, you know, we gotta we gotta pick a
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Speaker 1: language for the Jaguars, and that's what we've been sitting
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Speaker 1: in there doing. And uh you know, there's some familiarity
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Speaker 1: because you know, Brian Schotenheimer took over for me in
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Speaker 1: uh in Seattle, which is interesting. You know, so he
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Speaker 1: kind of went in and had the burbage that I
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Speaker 1: had when I went in when I was there, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, he did his deal and change some
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Speaker 1: of it. But there's enough where him and Sanjay receiver
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Speaker 1: coach and myself where you know, we say a couple
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Speaker 1: of words like yep, let's do that, and uh so
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Speaker 1: it's been great. It's not that clear cut. You're sort
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Speaker 1: of inventing some new burbages. You go, right, yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: you know what what what's the what's the best and
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Speaker 1: what's gonna be the simplest for the quarterback? I mean
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Speaker 1: that's you know, hey, I've called it this, this guy's
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Speaker 1: called it that. You know, Coach Germans called it this.
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Speaker 1: Um It's like, okay, you know, Coach German, let's do
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Speaker 1: let's do it that way. You know, I kind of
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Speaker 1: like that idea or now I've called it this way.
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Speaker 1: This is gonna how it's gonna come out. So I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna stick with that one. Oh that shortens that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's let's do that. He got it down to one
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Speaker 1: word rather than three words. Let's shorten that and use this.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of give and take there. That's
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Speaker 1: fascinating stuff. That's uh, and what fascinates most fans. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they want to know exactly how the offense is gonna look. You,
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Speaker 1: as a coach, I don't want to tell us how
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Speaker 1: the offense is gonna look yet. So within the parameter
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Speaker 1: of that, is there a hint about how you might
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Speaker 1: want this offense to look? Uh? That will help them
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Speaker 1: understand without giving away too much. Yeah, I mean, you know, John,
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Speaker 1: the hard thing is to tell me who I have,
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Speaker 1: you know, tell me who's out there on day one,
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Speaker 1: and then I you know, I'll give you a better
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Speaker 1: answer on what it's gonna look like. But you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean, there are there are fundamental beliefs, you know,
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Speaker 1: things that that I believe in that coach Urban believes in.
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Speaker 1: And you know number one is running the football. You
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Speaker 1: know that doesn't mean you have to establish or run,
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Speaker 1: but it means, you know, you want to be able
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Speaker 1: to run the ball when you want to run it. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's times you have to run it and you want
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Speaker 1: to be able to do that really well. And then
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Speaker 1: when we get in the past game, I want to
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Speaker 1: be explosive. I want big plays. Uh, you know, we
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Speaker 1: want to have opportunities to throw the ball down the field.
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Speaker 1: If the opportunity is not there, then we want to
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Speaker 1: be able to check it down. But you know, we
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Speaker 1: want to have those opportunities to to get big plays
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Speaker 1: and flip the field. Two guys who you've been associated
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Speaker 1: with I want to ask you about and probably me
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Speaker 1: as a fan more than anything, just fascinated to know
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Speaker 1: about these guys. But Brett Farve, you obviously have much
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Speaker 1: a mass relationship and a big part of your career.
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Speaker 1: You're a big part of his. Um, what did you
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Speaker 1: learn being around him? Uh? How did he influence you
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Speaker 1: as a coach? I guess yeah, I mean he he
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Speaker 1: influenced me. And um, you know, I was a young
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Speaker 1: coach when first started, you know. So I started out
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Speaker 1: as the you know, the quality control coach for my
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Speaker 1: first three years in Green Bay, and then after three
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Speaker 1: seasons I became the quarterback coach and so, UM, I
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Speaker 1: was able to sit in there and and you know,
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Speaker 1: those those three those first three seasons, I was able
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Speaker 1: to learn what I needed to know. I was able
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Speaker 1: to listen to the coordinator how he wanted it done.
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Speaker 1: I was able to listen to the quarterbacks on on
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Speaker 1: what you know, what they kind of liked, what they preferred. Um.
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Speaker 1: And then so when I was able to get my shot,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think the kind of thing I learned
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Speaker 1: was those guys really want to be coached. They still
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Speaker 1: want to be coach no matter where they are, and
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Speaker 1: if you can give them any information that is going
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Speaker 1: to help them be successful on Sunday, then they're all ears,
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Speaker 1: you know. Um. So you know, make make sure that
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Speaker 1: you're clear, make sure that that you're concise with your information,
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Speaker 1: and make sure that you can deliver it well to
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Speaker 1: to them. UM. I thought, I think it was something important. UM.
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Speaker 1: As far as the way he played the game, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he played the game with I mean for the love
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Speaker 1: of the game. I mean, he absolutely had a blast
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Speaker 1: while he was playing. But he was as competitive as
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Speaker 1: they come, you know, in any of those situations, Um,
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Speaker 1: he was. He was as tough as they come as well,
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Speaker 1: you know, so being able to see that is you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of shapes you ont like what you want your
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Speaker 1: quarterback to be, how you want them, you know, what
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Speaker 1: their mentality you want to be. Um. But he's just
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Speaker 1: you know, he was a phenomenal player. Um and uh
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean one of the great greatest ever
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Speaker 1: do it. Yeah. I had a chance to get to
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Speaker 1: know Jim Caldwell when I worked in India and he
8:48
Speaker 1: was working with Peyton, and he always said, think about
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Speaker 1: the great ones, is you better come prepared every morning
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Speaker 1: because they're gonna press you know. So if you come prepared,
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Speaker 1: it's fine. But if you don't and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, I guess you get exposed there a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So probably the same thing with Brett. Yeah, absolutely, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's what I was saying that, you know. I
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Speaker 1: mean it was already kind of a daunting enough task
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Speaker 1: because I mean he's he's like, uh, I think, like
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Speaker 1: two months older than me or three months older than me.
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Speaker 1: You know. So when I was coaching him at the time,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, imagine I'm a young coach here,
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Speaker 1: I am coaching you know, Brett Farve. So Um, that
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Speaker 1: that is definitely true what coach Calwell said that you
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Speaker 1: want to come in and you need to be prepared
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Speaker 1: if if you don't, you know, um, the guys want
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Speaker 1: to be able to build trust with you. And you know,
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Speaker 1: if you can tell them things like I said, if
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Speaker 1: you tell them things that that can help them, then
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Speaker 1: they're gonna then they're gonna, you know, pay attention and
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Speaker 1: they're gonna listen. But if they don't think you know
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Speaker 1: what you're doing, then immediately you lose that trust with them.
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Speaker 1: And um, you know, so you do definitely do have
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Speaker 1: to come prepared. And um he was. He was also
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Speaker 1: tireless worker, you know. He he would uh you know,
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Speaker 1: he was always one that joked about how much time
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Speaker 1: we spent at the office. But then you would see
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Speaker 1: him sneaking back in late and he be You go
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Speaker 1: down to one of the meeting rooms and there he
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Speaker 1: was watching tape all by himself. You know, he of
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Speaker 1: the guys who acts like it comes naturally, but he
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Speaker 1: works for it, Yes, no doubt. Uh. I guess the
10:06
Speaker 1: same thing about Russell Wilson. You guys are obviously, uh
10:09
Speaker 1: associated with each other very strongly and a huge influence
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Speaker 1: in both directions. Yeah, you know, I mean obviously the
10:18
Speaker 1: same alma mater. You know, both of us Wisconsin guys
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Speaker 1: who played the one one season at Wisconsin. So, um,
10:23
Speaker 1: you know that was an immediate tie, you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of something that helped you build that trust that that
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Speaker 1: we talked about. Um, and he was interesting, you know
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Speaker 1: he was he was the third round pick that we
10:30
Speaker 1: were able to bring in and kind of groom him
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Speaker 1: from really day one, and UM, you know he he uh,
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Speaker 1: he came in in the off season, did a really
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Speaker 1: nice job in in rookie minicamp, had a rough first day,
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Speaker 1: but then from you could see from that day on
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Speaker 1: that he just continued to get better and better and
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Speaker 1: he didn't make the same mistakes over and over again. UM.
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Speaker 1: Super driven guy. I mean, um, as as driven to
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Speaker 1: be the best as probably I mean maybe as as
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen. And um, he just he talks about it.
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Speaker 1: He almost he almost talks it into existence, you know.
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Speaker 1: And UM, he just he just really believes in himself.
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Speaker 1: He has a great belief in himself. And and you know,
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Speaker 1: and he does he does definitely work out it. I
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Speaker 1: mean you know that that he's a tireless worker as well. Um,
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Speaker 1: totally different kind of guy than you know than a
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Speaker 1: Brett Farb. Obviously, the first thing you go to is
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Speaker 1: the size, you know, and then the style of game
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Speaker 1: that they played. Um, but you know, a special player
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Speaker 1: in his own right as well, and you know, bring
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Speaker 1: him in along along early in his career. You know,
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Speaker 1: that first season we started you know kind of I
11:30
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to say training real training wheels,
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Speaker 1: but we kind of kept it simple. And then you know,
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Speaker 1: it became clear pretty early that that he was a
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Speaker 1: dynamic player that he could handle more than we were
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Speaker 1: asking of him at the time, and so we just
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Speaker 1: started to give him more and more and then it
11:45
Speaker 1: was just like they just let it go and um,
11:47
Speaker 1: we we you know, basically just you know, took the
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Speaker 1: wheels off and let him go. We're going to assume
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Speaker 1: that you'll be coaching a young quarterback and we want
11:56
Speaker 1: to talk about any names yet, how will having been
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Speaker 1: around Russell helped that. I assume there'll be things you
12:02
Speaker 1: can draw from, But I also seem they're all different, right, Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: they're all different, and um, you know, fortunately for for me,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I've got a great right hand man
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Speaker 1: with Brian Schottenheimer and he's he's got a guy that's
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Speaker 1: done the same thing. So you know, I was able
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Speaker 1: to take a young quarterback with you know, with Russell Wilson,
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Speaker 1: I mean he had Mark Sanchez got them in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: You know, so we both have great experience with it,
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Speaker 1: and so you know that's something that's on our on
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Speaker 1: our forefront of our minds to make sure that we
12:29
Speaker 1: put this kid in the best situation, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: possible to succeed and and his ability and whoever this
12:36
Speaker 1: ends up being, you know, his ability to learn and
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Speaker 1: how fast he can pick it up. Just like I
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Speaker 1: said with Russell, you know, it became clear early that
12:43
Speaker 1: you know, go ahead, you can you know, because sometimes
12:45
Speaker 1: when they come in John, you know, it's like drinking
12:47
Speaker 1: through it from a fire hose. You know, there's just
12:48
Speaker 1: so much information coming at him and so um, you know,
12:52
Speaker 1: how much can they take in? And and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: we found quickly over time that that you know, Russell
12:57
Speaker 1: could handle more and more. So we started giving it
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Speaker 1: to him. And it could be that kind of process,
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Speaker 1: or it could be you know, just yeah, we're doing well.
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Speaker 1: Just continue to you know, kind of feed it gradually
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Speaker 1: and you know, we'll get where we need to go.
13:08
Speaker 1: Being an interim head coach last year, that change your
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Speaker 1: perspective on anything. Yeah, there's it did change my perspective.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's um, there's a lot more of things
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Speaker 1: going on that uh that you really don't know about
13:20
Speaker 1: until you're until you're in that chair, you know, I
13:22
Speaker 1: think you kind of go with you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I know it was for me. I was just so
13:26
Speaker 1: worried about what I was doing and you know, making
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Speaker 1: sure the offensive was prepared and make sure the staff
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Speaker 1: was prepared on my side, and you know our players,
13:33
Speaker 1: and you know, all of a sudden, you've got to
13:34
Speaker 1: open up your view and you gotta pay attention to
13:36
Speaker 1: a lot more stuff than than just a football, you know.
13:39
Speaker 1: And I mean you could even talk about the football
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Speaker 1: now you're like with all defense, you're with special teams
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Speaker 1: and you know, you you know how you're gonna handle that.
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Speaker 1: You're handling the whole team now you're talking to them.
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Speaker 1: But then there's other stuff in the building. You know,
13:51
Speaker 1: there was all the COVID stuff. I mean, there was
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Speaker 1: so much stuff last year. It was it was it
13:55
Speaker 1: was kind of crazy to do for those last five
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Speaker 1: weeks and Tony Dungey tell me, first thing you had
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Speaker 1: to learn from going to coordinator to head coach was
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Speaker 1: you can't solve it by going into the film room
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Speaker 1: and turn off the lights. Yeah, and it's a big difference.
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Speaker 1: It's a difference. I'm not sure a lot of fans
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Speaker 1: really grasp just how much of a leadership role the
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Speaker 1: head coach is not. The coordinators aren't leaders. But there's
14:18
Speaker 1: a different dynamic there, obviously, and there's less football in
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Speaker 1: it too, you know. There there really is like your
14:23
Speaker 1: your time starts getting pulled in in a little bit
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Speaker 1: different directions, so, um, there can be a little bit
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Speaker 1: less football. Um, you know. Unfortunately I was still doing
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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator as well, and so I was, you know,
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Speaker 1: I kind of kept my same routine, but I could
14:35
Speaker 1: see how you can get pulled in the many different directions,
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Speaker 1: no doubt if I could maybe two or three more.
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Speaker 1: And asked you specifically, and you've been on the field
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Speaker 1: with these guys yet, but there's been a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a different dynamic receiver now that when I last
14:47
Speaker 1: talked to you, what do you think you're a group
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Speaker 1: now that you've added Marvin Jones to it. Oh. I
14:52
Speaker 1: mean well, first of all, I mean I was fortunate
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Speaker 1: to have Marvin you know last year in Detroit or
14:56
Speaker 1: the last two years in Detroit. And uh, you know, again,
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Speaker 1: number one, a great person, you know that. I think
15:02
Speaker 1: that's always important, something that that we're definitely looking for
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Speaker 1: here with the Jaguars. And um, he's I mean he's
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Speaker 1: he's got a great family, you know, and um so
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Speaker 1: just uh, you know that's kind of thing I go
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Speaker 1: to first. But then as a football player and he
15:17
Speaker 1: needed I think he ended up you know, just you know,
15:19
Speaker 1: a few yards short of of a thousand last year,
15:22
Speaker 1: like nine touchdowns, and um, competitive player wants you know,
15:27
Speaker 1: wants the football in his hands, you know as as
15:29
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and can make plays with it. Hass
15:33
Speaker 1: abilities still go downfield, got a great field underneath. Um
15:35
Speaker 1: he'll do this. He'll do the dirty work for you.
15:37
Speaker 1: He'll go in there and block if you if you
15:39
Speaker 1: ask him of that. Um So, just you know, just
15:42
Speaker 1: a well rounded player, but also a guy that's going
15:44
Speaker 1: to have the leadership qualities to help some of those
15:47
Speaker 1: younger guys in the room. He's been in the league
15:48
Speaker 1: a long time. Um, you know, he'll be able to
15:50
Speaker 1: impart some knowledge that he has. Um. Also, he has
15:53
Speaker 1: knowledge of the offense and some of the things that
15:56
Speaker 1: you know, gonna kind of ask him to do. He can,
15:58
Speaker 1: he can translate if he needs to try slate and
16:00
Speaker 1: maybe put it in different terms. How we you know,
16:02
Speaker 1: how we did it um, and you know, just be
16:05
Speaker 1: able to take those guys a little bit under his wing.
16:07
Speaker 1: I mean, we still want him to be a great player,
16:09
Speaker 1: but you know as well as kind of hey, you'll
16:11
Speaker 1: show these guys your routine. Don't be afraid to talk
16:13
Speaker 1: talking about it, you know, don't be afraid to bring
16:15
Speaker 1: them along, and you know, say here's what I've done,
16:18
Speaker 1: Here's how I take care of my body, Here's how
16:19
Speaker 1: I you know, here's how I recover. Just all those
16:22
Speaker 1: kind of things. He's an easy guy to bang the
16:24
Speaker 1: table for obviously, so offensive line able to get Cam back.
16:30
Speaker 1: How important is it to you? How important was that
16:33
Speaker 1: the concept of continuity with that group, considering your it's
16:38
Speaker 1: gonna be a young quarterback, got new offense with continuity,
16:42
Speaker 1: I assume it's a group you feel like you can
16:43
Speaker 1: trust to to get him. Uh get camp was was
16:47
Speaker 1: really important? You know, because uh that left tackle position
16:52
Speaker 1: is you know, you know, you assume you're gonna have
16:53
Speaker 1: a right hand at quarterback in most of these cases, right,
16:56
Speaker 1: so that's the guy that protects the back side. Um.
16:59
Speaker 1: And and and then as you spoke about, you know,
17:01
Speaker 1: the the the continuity with the five guys, to keep
17:04
Speaker 1: those guys together, I mean, I think that's you. You
17:06
Speaker 1: can't really overstate that because, um, the communication, Um, the
17:11
Speaker 1: little nuances that happened in there when a guy is
17:13
Speaker 1: playing side by side with somebody you just kind of
17:15
Speaker 1: get used to. Okay, this is kind of how he
17:18
Speaker 1: passes off these stunts. This is you know, this is
17:21
Speaker 1: how he does you know, this is how he takes
17:23
Speaker 1: a set on this kind of call and you get
17:25
Speaker 1: a feel for playing next to you know, next to
17:27
Speaker 1: one another. So to be able to basically have those
17:29
Speaker 1: five guys, um, you know, altogether the communication another year,
17:34
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a great old line coach and coach
17:36
Speaker 1: warhop staying together. Um, you know you're looking forward to
17:40
Speaker 1: that being one of our strong groups. Silly question, How
17:44
Speaker 1: important are the next two or three months going to
17:46
Speaker 1: be once you get these guys presumably back in the field.
17:49
Speaker 1: You know, it's always important when it's new like this,
17:53
Speaker 1: the process of learning this and coming together as a
17:55
Speaker 1: team right now, yeah, I mean this is this is
17:57
Speaker 1: where it starts. This is where you begin to build it,
17:59
Speaker 1: you know, when you're I mean there's there's nothing right
18:02
Speaker 1: now for for months, you know, in terms of playing
18:05
Speaker 1: the game, and so right now is really where you
18:08
Speaker 1: build all that, Where you build your team, where you
18:10
Speaker 1: build your culture. And you know, so that that's on
18:13
Speaker 1: us as coaches, where you know, we're chomping, like I said,
18:15
Speaker 1: at the bit to be able to get started. So
18:17
Speaker 1: you know, we can tell them all the things that
18:18
Speaker 1: we want to do. We want to tell them how
18:20
Speaker 1: we want to use them. We want to start coaching
18:21
Speaker 1: the the offense and the defense. We want to get
18:23
Speaker 1: our terms in. We want to get that communication where
18:26
Speaker 1: everybody's speaking the same language down. And so you know,
18:29
Speaker 1: we feel an urgency and um, you know, and and
18:32
Speaker 1: but the you know, the time it takes sometimes for
18:36
Speaker 1: a team to jail, I think is something that that's
18:38
Speaker 1: super important. And this is the time of year that
18:40
Speaker 1: you do it. When you see the guys throwing the
18:42
Speaker 1: weight around, when you see the guys doing the extra work,
18:44
Speaker 1: and your guys over there and you're encouraging one another,
18:46
Speaker 1: and you're working together with one another, and you know
18:48
Speaker 1: you're going through some of the pains of learning together. Um.
18:51
Speaker 1: I think all that stuff, you know, starts to build
18:54
Speaker 1: that camaraderie. During a very busy time, you're willing to
18:59
Speaker 1: take five minutes and talk to us. I appreciate it
19:02
Speaker 1: very much. I look forward to working with you. And
19:04
Speaker 1: thanks for being on the Other Zone podcast today. It
19:06
Speaker 1: means a lot. Thanks, John, appreciate it. Yeah,