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Interview: Quarterback Gardner Minshew II · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Check Wars quarterback Gardner Minshew with us after the third
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  Speaker 1: training camp. Practice stopped a little bit short today, but
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  Speaker 1: through three days of camp so far. How's it going
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  Speaker 1: for you? How you feeling? Is it what you expected? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of what I've expected, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you learn new things every day, and that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the most exciting things to me, just going out there
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  Speaker 1: learning new things, trying new things, and just trying to
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  Speaker 1: get better every day. With your experience in your college days,
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  Speaker 1: just moving around so much and and changing situations as
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  Speaker 1: as many times as you did, I get a feeling
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  Speaker 1: that not a lot will phasee you in terms of
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  Speaker 1: something new. How different has this NFL experience been in
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  Speaker 1: terms of learning a playbook, a new situation, another new
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  Speaker 1: place for you. You've done this so many times, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably not that huge of a deal. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that big of a deal. The good thing is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with us, we have our group of rookies
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  Speaker 1: that are really tighten in coming in all with the
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  Speaker 1: same purpose to get better and to try to learn um.
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  Speaker 1: So that's made it a lot easier and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun getting to do it with these guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: what's been the most difficult change so far coming to
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  Speaker 1: the league. Maybe something you didn't expect when you arrived
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  Speaker 1: here in the NFL. Man, it's uh, it's obviously a
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  Speaker 1: demanding schedule, and that's something that you're you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: warned about. Um. I'd say one of the biggest things
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  Speaker 1: is just the volume of the playbook and the um
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  Speaker 1: the details of every play um, because it's easy to
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  Speaker 1: you know on know it on paper, but to get
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  Speaker 1: out and do it and no little nuances of each thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we're at right now and trying to get
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  Speaker 1: better at that so we can actually go out and
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  Speaker 1: play games. You've had difficult offenses though in your past.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that the air rate is not you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're throwing the ball over the yard. You got a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on there. Um. How different is this offense
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  Speaker 1: compared to what you were working in Pullman, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would just say any NFL offense versus college offense, it's
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  Speaker 1: just gonna be more detailed. And I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing is you know, each play has multiple checks,
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  Speaker 1: multiple conversions for receiver. So just getting where I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the same page as all the guys we're all seeing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. That's just what we're trying to work
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  Speaker 1: through right now. Gardner Minshew with a Jaguars quarterback. How
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  Speaker 1: has the work been with Nick Foles? And is you
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  Speaker 1: know when he came into this room, you guys kind
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  Speaker 1: of came in obviously the same year here. What's he's
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  Speaker 1: been like to work with? Man? Nick has been incredible.
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  Speaker 1: He's really, you know, gone out of his way to
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  Speaker 1: help me. He's always you know, let me ask questions
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  Speaker 1: that I ask a lot, But man, he's been great.
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  Speaker 1: He's awesome, dude, and uh, you know, really super fortunate
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  Speaker 1: to be here working with him. And then the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the group. You said that group is pretty tight
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  Speaker 1: in that quarterback room, you and Scott Milanovitch is in
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  Speaker 1: there with you, and of course, uh, Flip comes in
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  Speaker 1: there too, I'm sure, and it has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time with you guys. To have those four guys, five
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  Speaker 1: six guys in that room together, how how how tough
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  Speaker 1: was that to get that chemistry with you guys or
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  Speaker 1: is it just kind of come naturally once you're in
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  Speaker 1: that environment together. No, it definitely comes naturally because it Man,
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  Speaker 1: We're we got a lot of good dudes in the room,
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  Speaker 1: and that makes it a lot of fun. I'm not there.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try to sit back and just soak it all in. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, saying not heard right now and just uh.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been a lot of fun here in their
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  Speaker 1: conversations and and seeing the collaborative effort to get on
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  Speaker 1: the same page and just learning from you know, really
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the room, Gardner Minshew with us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: as a rookie sometimes it can be tough, certainly as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback to to own the huddle. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of veteran guys that are working there with you,
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  Speaker 1: within this league for a long time. How do you
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  Speaker 1: do that as a rookie? How do you make your
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  Speaker 1: presence known to be authoritative and and take control of
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  Speaker 1: the situation. Yeah, but that's been one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: things I've been trying to do since I got back
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  Speaker 1: at camp, and I feel like I progressed more as
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  Speaker 1: much in that as I have anything this summer um.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing is you have to
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  Speaker 1: know what you're doing, you know, and I've definitely put
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  Speaker 1: the time in on the playbug to have that confidence
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  Speaker 1: where you can go in and step in the huddle,
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  Speaker 1: know what you're doing and not out of second guess
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  Speaker 1: yourself and that unless you go out and portray and
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  Speaker 1: play with a lot of confidence. All right, So we're
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  Speaker 1: three days in, going to day for tomorrow, full pads
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  Speaker 1: for the first time on Sunday. What's next on your checklist?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to get accomplished? What have you
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  Speaker 1: accomplished so far? And camp personally, and and what's tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: gonna hold or is it too early to tell? No,
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  Speaker 1: I treat every day like it's game to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and I compete, um, try to be the best
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  Speaker 1: that I can be, trying to learn as much as
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  Speaker 1: I can, even if I'm not taking the rep. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to learn UM and just just trying to soak
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  Speaker 1: it all in right now and as we go throughout camp,
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  Speaker 1: prove that, uh, you know what, I'm the best guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, That's that's I think it should be everybody's attitude,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going and proving um that they can do it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm trying to do. Thanks, but I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you.