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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "It’s a short-term memory each week." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You know, ultimately comes down to the players making the
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  Speaker 1: plays and being in the right positions and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the preparation during the week is what stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me, you know, and how we practiced last week.
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  Speaker 1: But but Mike having that plan and putting that plan
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  Speaker 1: together and and executing that Um was was was was
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  Speaker 1: really good sort of growth that you've seen in him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean his second game as a defensive coordinator and
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  Speaker 1: he's able to call and shut out and the players
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  Speaker 1: had a big role in it, but that's pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: It is Um you know, and again it's it does
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  Speaker 1: come down to the players, you know, being in the
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  Speaker 1: right positions and and that's a credit to to Mike
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  Speaker 1: and the staff on defense for again, you know, coaching
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  Speaker 1: them up last week and what they asked them, the players,
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  Speaker 1: to do, and Um, they felt comfortable and and just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, it's like on offense. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: know when when you're having success, every every seems like
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  Speaker 1: everything works right and uh, Um. But yeah, overall, I
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  Speaker 1: thought Mike did a nice job putting that plan together. Good.
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  Speaker 1: The video came out yesterday of Marvin giving the game
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  Speaker 1: ball and then you jumping around with the guys, just
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  Speaker 1: how fun was that locker room to be in after
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  Speaker 1: a win, especially in the faction that you guys get it? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. It's great to celebrate with your team and
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  Speaker 1: your you know, the teammates and Um, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was honored that they did that and Marv presented that and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and to get the first one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: here in in in Jacksonville for me and Um, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, I like I told the team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's a group effort to team effort,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and you know we win and lose as
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  Speaker 1: a football team. And that was my message to them.
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  Speaker 1: But special time. You know what brock it is on
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  Speaker 1: the west coast with the eagles. I bet you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell me it's pretty good. Four, three, uh, this heatorically
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  Speaker 1: is struggled on the west coast. Is there? Is there
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  Speaker 1: a secret? And East Coast heat going out there and
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  Speaker 1: having the test? Well, you know, we we understand too.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a long you know, it's a long flight.
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  Speaker 1: Number One. Um, you know, my first year in Philly
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  Speaker 1: and sixteen, I think, we went to Seattle. UH, left
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  Speaker 1: on Friday and went out there and didn't have very
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  Speaker 1: much success on Friday going out there. I believe that
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  Speaker 1: was that time. And and then, you know, I did
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  Speaker 1: I did some research with some of the some of
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  Speaker 1: the sleep experts and some of the people that are
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  Speaker 1: kind of more professional that way. And, Um, come to
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  Speaker 1: find out, if you can kind of keep your your
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  Speaker 1: body clock on east coast time and leave on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and and just, you know, Um, treat it that way,
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  Speaker 1: you tend to have a little bit more success on
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  Speaker 1: Game Day, especially when you wake up and you feel
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  Speaker 1: a little more refreshed. So, you know, we'll go out
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. You know, we'll keep everything Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as if we're here at here at home, on East
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  Speaker 1: Coast time, and and it just it just seems to
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  Speaker 1: work out. We got to make sure that the players
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  Speaker 1: stay hydrated and the nutrition aspect and, you know, work
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  Speaker 1: out some of the you know, flight issues. You might
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  Speaker 1: have some you know, inflammation and things like that on
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  Speaker 1: the flight. Will work all that stuff out when we
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  Speaker 1: land and Um, you know, just just prepare ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: play a game. When you take good teams out there right, well,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta have good teams to go out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because historically to those teams who are recently have been
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  Speaker 1: pretty good on the west coast. So this is Um,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is a pretty good team we're playing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this weekend, Evan Ingram said, the team expected
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  Speaker 1: to win yesterday. How have you seen that confidence growing
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  Speaker 1: in the guys in the locker room where there there's
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  Speaker 1: that expectation to go out and win? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and again it to me it goes back to practice
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  Speaker 1: and and and the way they practice is the way
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  Speaker 1: they play and they expect to practice well. So they
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  Speaker 1: expect to play well and and win those games. and Um,
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  Speaker 1: credit the players for for having that mindset and having
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  Speaker 1: that attitude. You know, each each week and Um just
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  Speaker 1: shows confidence in in them and kind of where they
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  Speaker 1: are the maturity of the football team. and Um, you
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  Speaker 1: know not every weekend is going to be like that,
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  Speaker 1: but but you know, yesterday it was and and it
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  Speaker 1: was it's something. Uh, I think that the guys can
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  Speaker 1: can kind of feed off of good between James and
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  Speaker 1: trazz James Robinson. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, it's it's either the hot hand or
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  Speaker 1: it's just the way the players are being called. You know,
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  Speaker 1: who's in the game. It's it's not against one back
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  Speaker 1: or the other. They're both gonna get playing time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: both at an outstanding job again yesterday in the run
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  Speaker 1: game and and uh Um, you know, travis a little
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  Speaker 1: more with some of the screens and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Took advantage there. So but both are doing a really
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  Speaker 1: good job. Player like Christian and his versatility as a
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  Speaker 1: play caller. Just how much fun can you have moving
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  Speaker 1: him around and getting him him into space? Like the
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  Speaker 1: first touchdown, you brought him into the backfield. They had
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  Speaker 1: an all pro, pro bowls state cornerback on the other
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  Speaker 1: side and he wasn't able to cover him because Christian
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  Speaker 1: was able to get into space. Well, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: why we game plan and and try to put our
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  Speaker 1: players in position. And you know, uh, trevor and you
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  Speaker 1: know Trevor and Christian have worked on that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we actually had that play up the week before, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Washington game. We just didn't use it and and
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  Speaker 1: I felt it was good this week in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone and and pulled it out. So but yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's match. This leaves about matchups, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and Um again trying to put our position, you know,
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  Speaker 1: our players, uh, in positions to be successful in the
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  Speaker 1: game and defensively, they're doing the same thing. They're putting
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  Speaker 1: their players, you know, on our best players too, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes they're gonna get us and sometimes we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get them, you know, but it's uh, it's good. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a guy like Christians, a marv uh, the two
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  Speaker 1: running backs, you know, Evan, you can move them around
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  Speaker 1: in your formations and create those matchups. Okay, yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: kind of game did Richard Jenkins after you guys? I
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  Speaker 1: think you had three pass breakups to go along with
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  Speaker 1: this pick. He played well. He played sound, Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the leaders back there. He uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he played. He played physical, you know, the whole game, um,
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  Speaker 1: too kind of too kind a shot from their runner
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  Speaker 1: and and uh and stood in there. So yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: he played. He played really well. How hard well, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to me, it's it's it's it's up to
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  Speaker 1: the team. It's up to the players really, but but
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  Speaker 1: for me it's it's kind of easy because the message
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  Speaker 1: is always gonna be the same thing. It's all about us.
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  Speaker 1: Going want to know this week and it doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: matter what we've done in the past. And and Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a short term memory. Each week it's
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  Speaker 1: a new set of challenges and so, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: my job to make sure that the guys stay focused
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  Speaker 1: that way and and, uh, never lose sight of that,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, that's when that's when you get beat,
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  Speaker 1: when you start kind of, you know, feeling full of
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  Speaker 1: yourself just a little bit after something like this on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday or you know, you have success a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks in a row and and Um, you want to
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  Speaker 1: build on the momentum, of course, but at the same
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  Speaker 1: time you gotta stay humble and grounded and continue to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, improve at what you're doing. Watching I just
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  Speaker 1: think the way he controlled and managed the offense, his efficiency,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Um, getting the ball out of his hand.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the defense extremely well. You know, found found
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  Speaker 1: the right guys, you know, in the right spots. And
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  Speaker 1: and and again we've talked, we talked all last week about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Gust Bradley type of defenses. You kind
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  Speaker 1: of know where they're going to be. And so we
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  Speaker 1: have to maintain that discipline on offense. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's part of that and and he he didn announced
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  Speaker 1: any job in the game. Um, you know, just delivering
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  Speaker 1: the football. I'm very accurate to you know. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a lot of uh, you know, back shoulders or low balls,
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  Speaker 1: things like that. He was very accurate with that. Or
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  Speaker 1: is it mechanically her right Handy quarterback and roll left
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  Speaker 1: and then throwing the back? Yeah, it's it's a tough
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough throw. You know, it's a tough throw,
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  Speaker 1: but it's one of the things that, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: try to do as much as we can. We can
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  Speaker 1: feel like we can go either way. You know, with Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: because he's very accurate out of the pocket. Um made that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a couple of tough throws going to his left,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the one to to marvel than the one to
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  Speaker 1: Christian down the field. So difficult to do, but but
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  Speaker 1: he makes it seem pretty easy. You've seen from your
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  Speaker 1: defensive front through two games so far. Well, Um, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: because I take what we did in the Washington game
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  Speaker 1: and they learned from that game and then they came
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday and performed well and they stayed disciplined. Um,
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  Speaker 1: other than the two long runs where there were some
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  Speaker 1: communication issues. They stayed really disciplined in their lanes and
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  Speaker 1: and trusted each other. Backers were downhill. But the D
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  Speaker 1: line then getting after him in the passing game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: putting pressure on on on Matt all day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: was was the difference really in the game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a defensive, defensive perspective. So very pleased with the
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  Speaker 1: D line. Um, and something they can obviously build up.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see things maybe so down a little bit
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  Speaker 1: for the rookies, tray Vallon, Devon and Luke? Yeah, I did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and again that's that jump between the
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  Speaker 1: first and second game. We saw it, Um, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you'll see another jump between second and third game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously on the road. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: things kind of kind of calmed down for him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. You know, they can, they can still calm
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit more, but you know, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: all smart guys and and uh Um, they play extremely hard,
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  Speaker 1: they play within themselves and and Um and do some
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  Speaker 1: good things. Two Games the team is leading the league
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  Speaker 1: in turnover differential. Just how important is that for the
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  Speaker 1: defense to be coming away with those takeaways and getting
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  Speaker 1: offense extra shots, especially as the season goes on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's very important. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about creating turnovers and and uh, you know, try
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  Speaker 1: to get as many in practice as we can, whether
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  Speaker 1: we're punching the ball out or or catching interceptions. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's good to be in that position now,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, it's something we've got to sustain and
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  Speaker 1: we've got to maintain it throughout the course of the season.
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  Speaker 1: and Um, you know, any time, I think even in
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  Speaker 1: this game, where interception on the first possession of the
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  Speaker 1: of the game and then the offense goes fifteen plays,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in nine minutes and scores a touchdown, that's
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  Speaker 1: and then, you know, a fourth and three in there
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  Speaker 1: and some you know some, some nice plays. That's that's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, complimentary football, right and and Um, it just
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  Speaker 1: helps gain an extra possession for your offense. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: any team would say that if you can do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know you can, you can win, win more games
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  Speaker 1: if you're on the positive side of that. When you're
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  Speaker 1: game planning, are you like, in your mind at least
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  Speaker 1: expecting the team to get those takeaways from what you've
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  Speaker 1: seen in training camp, in before. Well, I mean you
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  Speaker 1: you expect to, you know, create some turnovers, Um, but
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  Speaker 1: and you also expect the offense to keep the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and not turn it over. You know, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, defenses are taught to punch and swipe and
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  Speaker 1: and and get the ball out and Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the cults are one of the better teams at doing that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, historically they've they've always been good at it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's something that we talked about during
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  Speaker 1: the week with our with our team. We keep keep
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  Speaker 1: talking to our defense, you know, about creating turnovers and
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  Speaker 1: and Um, and go from there. No, not at all,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. This is the second time, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: that he and I have faced off against each other. Um,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of respect for frank and what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: and just just wished him well and told him we'd
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  Speaker 1: see him in a couple of weeks. What do you do, defer?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it was at home, you know, so it's just
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: going home, relaxed with family. Had family in town. Um, just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and watch the rest of the Games on
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  Speaker 1: some day and and then really kind of just in
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: my mind, just go through the game. You know, you're
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: just kind of rehashing everything, every decision, every call, every
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  Speaker 1: you know, every aspect of the game in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: But Um, you're sitting there just relaxing and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta get up early and get in
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  Speaker 1: here Monday and get ready for the next week. Always, always,
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  Speaker 1: the chargers. What kind of stands out? I know they
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  Speaker 1: had a few extra days to prepare for it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Well, we'll get onto the chargers today and
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of this week. But you know, Um, UH,
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  Speaker 1: number one, they got a great quarterback, number one, big
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  Speaker 1: physical guy, you know, throws the ball well, I got some,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some targets to throw too. On the outside,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Mike Williams and Allen if he, if he
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  Speaker 1: makes it back this week, and we'll see there. But
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: you know, defensively, we understand to two outside Linebacker d
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  Speaker 1: n type guys. You know in Bossa and Khalil that
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  Speaker 1: are are tremendous, tremendous players. Um, they can get after
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback and you know, you saw that in the
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: chiefs game. You know Thursday night, how they can then
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: put pressure on the quarterback. And you know, we're just
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning stages really of watching them and and
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  Speaker 1: and putting a plan together but Um, you know, coach
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  Speaker 1: stays got a pretty good football team out there all right, guess.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, guys,