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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "It's a matter of being on the same page." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: He did a nice job with some of our run pass,
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Speaker 1: kill alerts checks, things like that, managing the game that way. Um,
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Speaker 1: I thought he thought his vision was was good down
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Speaker 1: the field. Um, you know, made some nice the deep
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Speaker 1: throw to Christians. What I'm thinking of there and and
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Speaker 1: um and then on some of the things he can
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Speaker 1: he can fix is just just get through the progression
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Speaker 1: a little bit sooner. Maybe maybe throw the ball away
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Speaker 1: a little quicker, you know, take those take those hits
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Speaker 1: off him, things like that. What do you do have
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Speaker 1: a play caller when it's you know, a couple of
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Speaker 1: completions in a row, how do you sort of reel
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Speaker 1: them in and make sure that he keeps going and
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Speaker 1: keeps progressing. Well, you know, you don't shot away from anything,
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Speaker 1: but maybe try to find a completion that it's a
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Speaker 1: little bit easier to find, you know, run the football,
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Speaker 1: play action pass something, get him on the move, things
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Speaker 1: like that, to just maybe get him into a rhythm,
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Speaker 1: maybe up tempo. You know, a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of teams will do little up tempo to try to
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Speaker 1: get their quarterback to settle down or at least get
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Speaker 1: into a rhythm. Out of James and Travis in the game. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and he regrets at all about not getting them more touches.
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Speaker 1: I mean not really, not really when you look at
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Speaker 1: the game and how it kind of unfolded. Um, we
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Speaker 1: had opportunities to hit hit those guys even in the
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Speaker 1: passing game, you know, to make plays. First, first opening
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Speaker 1: drift of the game. We just missed Travis in the
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Speaker 1: end zone, miss amount of fourth down. You know, those
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Speaker 1: are all things that you know, those are those are touches, right,
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Speaker 1: those are those are opportunities to put the ball in
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Speaker 1: their hands. And um, you know, I'm a believer to that.
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Speaker 1: You you throw the score in this league, and you
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Speaker 1: run to win, and and um, you know we we
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Speaker 1: did some things put ourselves in position to to score
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Speaker 1: at least seventeen in the first half. You have a
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Speaker 1: specific and any kind of ballpark run balance that you
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Speaker 1: like to have, no, but we monitor it during the game. Um.
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Speaker 1: I'm big on on keeping run pass ratios like like
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Speaker 1: all play callers and and offensive you know, uh coordinators
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Speaker 1: are you know, just to make sure we're staying as
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Speaker 1: balanced as we can. I'm more probably lean more towards
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Speaker 1: the you know, the the p intense stuff, the first down,
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Speaker 1: first intense stuff, you know, just staying away from indicators
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Speaker 1: there potentially earned first downs things like that. Is it
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Speaker 1: hard for coaches in this league? It's such a past
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Speaker 1: centric league now two give the running game a consistent chance,
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Speaker 1: particularly if you fall behind, whether it's one score or
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Speaker 1: obviously when it gets to be two in three scores,
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Speaker 1: it's a different ball game. But I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: I think it can. Um, but I never felt even
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Speaker 1: during a game that we were out of it, you know. Um,
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Speaker 1: we just we just man, gosh, we just hurt ourselves.
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Speaker 1: Penalties and mistakes and you know, we illegal formations and
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Speaker 1: shift those are things we don't we don't do. That
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Speaker 1: was our you know, that was kind of our bread
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Speaker 1: and butter during the weekend practice was was using some
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Speaker 1: unique formations, trying to set up some play actions, set
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Speaker 1: up some runs, you know, and and we just we
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Speaker 1: just bone headed those things and you can't do it,
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Speaker 1: you know, And that's really what what set us back
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Speaker 1: in the game. Some of the guys said that this
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Speaker 1: past loss hurt more than the other losses that they've
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Speaker 1: had in their time here in Jacksonville. Is that kind
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Speaker 1: of tell you that, Okay, we've got this thing heading
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Speaker 1: in the right direction. If because this one's supposed to sting,
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Speaker 1: they should all sting. And you know, I I you know,
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Speaker 1: you've heard the phrase you should hate losing more than
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Speaker 1: you like to win. And you know, especially when it's
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Speaker 1: self inflicted. You know, I can handle a loss if
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Speaker 1: we get beat right, I mean both both good games.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's better good games back and forth comes
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Speaker 1: down to the end, you get beat right. But when
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Speaker 1: when you make the mistakes that we did, the amount
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Speaker 1: of mistakes on both sides of the ball, it's just
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Speaker 1: it's harder, it's harder to stomach. And uh but you know, listen,
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Speaker 1: it's it's week one. We gotta, we gotta. We got
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Speaker 1: a young football team. It's eager to get back out
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Speaker 1: on the practice field and and uh, you know, correct
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Speaker 1: a lot of those mistakes. With the continued struggles in
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Speaker 1: the red zone, do you try to simplifive things? You
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Speaker 1: change anything going into as we put a rest through
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Speaker 1: those sixteen weeks. Um, I think you can run the
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Speaker 1: ball more down there? Uh now, I you know, I
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Speaker 1: mean you just listen. You get down there, the field
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Speaker 1: is a little more restricted. You know, lanes are tighter. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's sort of that touchdown, check down mentality ball out
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Speaker 1: of your hand, you know. And and it's just a
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Speaker 1: matter of just being on the same page. We've got
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Speaker 1: to continue to work at it and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: get better at it and still find ways to get
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Speaker 1: our our playmakers, you know, in position to make plays
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Speaker 1: a little bit last year, not a lot before it
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Speaker 1: went right in days war and he's under pressure a lot.
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Speaker 1: He says that he's still a bit uncomfortable and trusted
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Speaker 1: everything around it on Sundays. No, I think I think
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Speaker 1: he trusts he trusted things around him. I think you know, Listen,
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Speaker 1: it's we've talked about this before. Everything semi new, you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: And and he's still learning, and this is the first
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Speaker 1: time in a while that you know, and each week
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Speaker 1: kind of becomes a new week in the sense of
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Speaker 1: he's working with these guys day in and day out.
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Speaker 1: Right now we're down to the fifty three, we're down
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Speaker 1: to the forty eight, down to the eleven on offense
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Speaker 1: or so and two on offense, and these are now
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Speaker 1: the guys that we're working with, right So we just
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Speaker 1: got to make sure that we're all on the same page.
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Speaker 1: Keep working with uh, you know, the skill guys, the backs,
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Speaker 1: tight ends and and continue to push through. But but
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Speaker 1: you know he trusts us as coaches that we're gonna
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Speaker 1: put him in in great positions and then he ultimately,
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Speaker 1: you know, bottom line has to go before. How much
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Speaker 1: of you changed Trevor's game prep this year, I mean
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Speaker 1: you try to. You know, he's always he's always studied
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Speaker 1: the tape and you know, and and just kind of
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Speaker 1: listening to him verbalize, you know, way back in the
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Speaker 1: spring kind of his his process and stuff, and you
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Speaker 1: know it's it's our job to kind of help him
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Speaker 1: even take it to another level. Um, kind of what
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Speaker 1: to study, how to study it, you know, build cut
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Speaker 1: ups for him that he can look at at home,
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Speaker 1: you know, get with his get with his receivers, get
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Speaker 1: with the offensive line during the week, and you know,
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Speaker 1: just show him those types of things that he can
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Speaker 1: help himself and help the team you know win. Um.
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Speaker 1: Those are always that that we've you know, we've we've
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Speaker 1: done and it's great having a guy like c J
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Speaker 1: two veteran quarterback who's been around it and kind of
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Speaker 1: knows how to do it, kind of help help show
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Speaker 1: him the way you're game with two asks, he didn't
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Speaker 1: go down game. You always that during the game where
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Speaker 1: he kind of start uying the hot guy at one
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Speaker 1: guy out of the other. Um, you know, I mean
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Speaker 1: obviously if there's a there's a hot running back or receiver,
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Speaker 1: you try to maybe find more ways in the game
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Speaker 1: plan to keep getting the football. You know, if they're
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Speaker 1: both still in the game plan and you know you're
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Speaker 1: still looking for ways to to move the football, then
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Speaker 1: you keep them both, you keep them both going. But
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Speaker 1: you know, I thought in a second half where um,
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Speaker 1: you know, Christian became the hot hand so to speak,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the passing game, and Evan started, you know,
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Speaker 1: his targets sort of increased a little bit, and um,
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Speaker 1: and really James and Travis both were We're still pretty
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Speaker 1: pretty hot, you know, and um, you just continue to
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Speaker 1: keep finding ways to get those guys the ball if
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Speaker 1: you match him upward, and you know whatever, the year
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Speaker 1: doesn't always to quaite those kindalized is like a bad teaze.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that was that was a shock to me. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, because I thought during preseason we kind of
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Speaker 1: kept those to a minimum, especially with the starters, and
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Speaker 1: you know, um, you look at the film and and
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously we we sent we sent some men
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Speaker 1: to get some clarification on and to see but hey, listen,
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Speaker 1: you know, um we've got to do better, you know,
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Speaker 1: and and guys understand that, and um, you know it's
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Speaker 1: too many. Obviously you have to keep that number down,
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Speaker 1: you know, five six at the most, and just um
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Speaker 1: you know they can they can cost you games close
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Speaker 1: with Frank Ryan obviously, So how difficult is this week?
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Speaker 1: Is it fun to compete against him? Your career, It's
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Speaker 1: always fun to go against Uh, you know coaches that
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Speaker 1: that I've worked with and have a relationship with. And
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Speaker 1: Frank's a great guy, is a great coach. What he's
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Speaker 1: done there in Indianapolis, and um, you know obviously they've
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Speaker 1: built a championship and a playoff team, and um, you
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Speaker 1: know it'll be, it'll be. It'd be good to see him.
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Speaker 1: But as we know, when it when it teas up
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Speaker 1: and kick it off, we're on the other side, we're
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Speaker 1: trying to trying to beat each other. But um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of fun, a lot of respect
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Speaker 1: for where you realized he's gonna be a head coach
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Speaker 1: one day you had a couple of years obviously, But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's interesting because when Mike McCoy
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Speaker 1: was the head coach, he was Mike's coordinator and then
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Speaker 1: and then things changed there and I was able to
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Speaker 1: get him in Philly, and you know, Mike just Frank
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Speaker 1: just has that demeanor. You know, he's got a head
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Speaker 1: coach demeanor. He's he's kind of got the quiet strength.
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Speaker 1: He's a patient guy and really leads more by example.
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Speaker 1: But you know, been around this league long time, played
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Speaker 1: in this league long time, and and uh just just
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Speaker 1: knows how to you know, he knew he knew back
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Speaker 1: then how to lead our offense to to a championship obviously,
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Speaker 1: and and uh now he's trying to do that in Indie.
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Speaker 1: What did you see on tape from their Week one
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Speaker 1: game where they really didn't go to the run as much,
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Speaker 1: maybe in the first half, but knowing that Jonathan Taylor
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Speaker 1: that heat poses, but knowing that they also still have
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Speaker 1: to play action with Matt Ryan. I mean, that's that's
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Speaker 1: kind of their game, right, I mean, you know, everything's
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Speaker 1: gonna run through Jonathan and and through that offensive line
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Speaker 1: and just everything else comes off of that. And and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, just watching that game, UM, and the way
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Speaker 1: they kind of got on track a little bit in
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Speaker 1: the second half. I mean, that's who they are, you know.
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Speaker 1: And and it's just like on defense, you know with
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Speaker 1: Gus Bradley, I mean it's that's who they are. You
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Speaker 1: kind of know exactly where they're going to be and um,
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Speaker 1: they do it extremely well, and they run the ball
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Speaker 1: extremely well and they played defense well. So, UM, it's
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Speaker 1: a good it's a good test for our guys. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's a you gotta stay discipline with with a group
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Speaker 1: like this. Um, we've got to be better up front,
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Speaker 1: d line in our gaps you know against the run,
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Speaker 1: and linebackers have to have a good vision and you
10:43
Speaker 1: gotta get your safeties and corners involved in tackling. And
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Speaker 1: we gotta be better there because we weren't obviously very
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Speaker 1: good on Sunday. How did you evaluate um shop and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the secondary after Sundays were on us? Um,
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Speaker 1: they were they were good, not great. You know, there
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Speaker 1: were some there was some communication issues back there that
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Speaker 1: that cost you know, cost some big plays, explosive plays
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Speaker 1: in the game, things that you know we were able
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Speaker 1: to you know, show him on tape on Monday and
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Speaker 1: fix and and uh, you know, as we move forward
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Speaker 1: early in the season, we can we can iron some
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Speaker 1: of these things out and and it just you know,
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Speaker 1: it just comes down to, you know, you just gotta
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Speaker 1: locked in for that one play and and you know,
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Speaker 1: be on point and never let your guard down. Do
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Speaker 1: you lose game? Because did Sunday's game validate in your
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Speaker 1: mind what a good complimentary back system you've got going
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Speaker 1: here with two young guys, one of them kind of
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Speaker 1: more of an inside power guy, the other guy shift
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Speaker 1: the outside. Yeah, you know, more than anything, it's solidified
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Speaker 1: who James Robinson is for us, you know, because I've
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Speaker 1: obviously seen him on tape, but we didn't really see
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Speaker 1: him much in preseason, right other than some practice late
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Speaker 1: and you know what he was able to do, um
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Speaker 1: kind of excites you moving forward. And we knew kind
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Speaker 1: of what what teach A is and and was because
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Speaker 1: of his you know, ability to play in preseason. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's uh, it's good to have you know, two different,
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Speaker 1: two different runners like that, you know, make sure run
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Speaker 1: game up, makes the play action, pass up, screen game,
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Speaker 1: you know, whatever it might be. You know, with two
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Speaker 1: guys like that when he touched down the passed. Did
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Speaker 1: you feel do you feel like Tyson had good coverage
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Speaker 1: he just needed to maybe get his head turned around back. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I thought he was. I thought he was right down.
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Speaker 1: You know, a heck of a throw a catch, but
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Speaker 1: I thought he was right there, you know, to make
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Speaker 1: that play and and um, you know, credit them, they
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Speaker 1: made it and Tyson was there, and I know he
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Speaker 1: you know, he feels bad for not you know, for
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Speaker 1: not making that play, but you know it's gonna make
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Speaker 1: him better. It's gonna make him better in no situations.
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Speaker 1: I thought he overall played well and and did some
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Speaker 1: good things in the game. Do you look forward at
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Speaker 1: all to your first home game here at the Bank?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, certainly, certainly. You know, you know,
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Speaker 1: we practice here every day with no fans in the stands,
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Speaker 1: and would be it would be nice to you know,
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Speaker 1: get him out there. We saw what it was like
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Speaker 1: in preseason, but I think with a full stadium and
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Speaker 1: and you know division opponent coming in here, it's, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be exciting. You can walk into a rivalry
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Speaker 1: game where the other team has struggled historically here in Jackson.
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Speaker 1: But do you kind of go back through the books
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Speaker 1: to try and figure out what what keeps going wrong
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Speaker 1: for them so you can make sure it goes wrong
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Speaker 1: again this week. I don't. Um, you know, our our
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Speaker 1: goal and focus is just to be one to know
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Speaker 1: this week. And you know that's our that's our focus.
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Speaker 1: I know that's their focus. And and UM, you know
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Speaker 1: I don't worry about the past. That's why they call
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Speaker 1: it history. Do you? Did you mention that to your
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Speaker 1: team though, that you know they're gonna come like that.
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Speaker 1: Last year's game knocked them out of the playoffs. It's
13:34
Speaker 1: kind of been their motivating factor an all season. Do
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Speaker 1: you mission that to the team that hey, he's got
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Speaker 1: it coming into your fired off? Pretty not really, you
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Speaker 1: don't have to. Um, you know it's an a FC
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Speaker 1: South opponent. It's if you want to get to the postseason,
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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta win your division games. And and
13:50
Speaker 1: that's that's what That's probably more of the message right there,
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Speaker 1: just understanding that and we know this is a good
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Speaker 1: football team coming in here. Um, and you know, obviously
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Speaker 1: they're disappointed just like we are, so it should be
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Speaker 1: a great football game. You go back to that game.
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Speaker 1: I don't abvious see things that could potentially work. Since
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Speaker 1: it's a new scheme, is it just kind of now
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Speaker 1: it's just it's just new scheme. We won't He was
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Speaker 1: able to get in there on Sunday. Did you like
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Speaker 1: how he played? How did he look coming off the cow?
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Speaker 1: You know? Number one, he came out healthy. You know
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Speaker 1: it's a little sore, but he came out healthy and
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Speaker 1: ready to go. This week, Um, I thought I did
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Speaker 1: some really really good things in there, you know, some
14:31
Speaker 1: some things you can see some things too by not
14:33
Speaker 1: playing here in the last couple of weeks, that that
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Speaker 1: kind of showed up things he can fix and correct
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Speaker 1: and you know, be better for it this week. But
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Speaker 1: I thought, overall, you know, nice performance by him, and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, really gives us depth of that D line.
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Speaker 1: And obviously I would think no other injuries, which what
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Speaker 1: does that mean to come out a week one? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, gosh, you know, I feel I
14:56
Speaker 1: feel for the guys in Washington because they lost a
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Speaker 1: few players, you know in that game, and and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we just came away with a few bumps
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Speaker 1: and bruises, and um, it just shows the you know,
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Speaker 1: the credit to you know, Cedric Scott in the weight
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Speaker 1: room and leading the guys there and then are conditioning
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Speaker 1: and how we came out of training camp and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, just a credit to the guys for for
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Speaker 1: you know, how they've conditioned their their bodies to start
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Speaker 1: the season. When I think of the Colts pass rushing,
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Speaker 1: you knowing they brought us in and looking at Quitty
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Speaker 1: Kay Yawn some of those other guys, well, we know
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Speaker 1: Yahn is a great pass rusher. You know. Uh, the
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Speaker 1: force bugler's long, it's six seven in the middle, and
15:35
Speaker 1: you know these guys, these guys have a good first
15:37
Speaker 1: first two steps get off, you know, and they play
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Speaker 1: extremely tight to the line of scrimmage to the ball
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Speaker 1: um and get on. And that's something that we've got
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Speaker 1: to be aware of as as we watch tape and
15:48
Speaker 1: prepare for the game. Is just controlling their front four.
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Speaker 1: You know, not a not a blitz heavy team at all,
15:54
Speaker 1: you know, and you kind of know where they're gonna
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Speaker 1: line up on defense and they play it well. But um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a good test for um, you know,
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Speaker 1: our offensive line. It's it's a good group and um,
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Speaker 1: you know guys that can Guys that can and have
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Speaker 1: gotten after the pastor what sort of problem is gonna
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Speaker 1: wide receiver like Michael Pittman Jr. Give you with his size,
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Speaker 1: strength kind of combination for guys in your secondary, Well,
16:19
Speaker 1: that's just it. You know, size and strength and athleticism.
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Speaker 1: You know, big target um. You know, Matt's always had
16:26
Speaker 1: big targets when he was in Atlanta. You know, guys
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Speaker 1: like that. So he's used to those those guys running
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Speaker 1: down the field easier to find. Kind of put the
16:33
Speaker 1: ball in that direction and they tend to find it.
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Speaker 1: So you know, works cut out for us on the
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Speaker 1: back end. He's a he's a tremendous, tremendious receiver. Got
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Speaker 1: a lot of respect for him and uh, you know
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Speaker 1: our guys will be ready all right, guys, thanks appreciate it.