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Trevor Lawrence taking it one week at a time | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick with the a f C Offensive Player
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  Speaker 1: of the Week, the first time since two the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: have had one of those, and of course it's quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. It's nice to finally get to talk with you.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, how are you, man? What's up? Doing good?
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  Speaker 1: I know it's been shooting. I guess been here a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half now, still haven't haven't gotten in here,
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  Speaker 1: but doing well. Thanks for having and thanks for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time. And so how does that sound coming off
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  Speaker 1: the tongue? A FC Offensive Player of the Week sounds good? Man?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's it's it's cool to to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get that, you know, honor whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to call it, that achievement. But I think it just
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  Speaker 1: speaks to kind of the team and how well we've
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  Speaker 1: been playing. It's not obviously just me. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of stuff that goes into that, and
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  Speaker 1: the guys up front, receivers, running backs, and the defense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's just been been playing well and it's
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  Speaker 1: all coming together. We'll get to this offense and this
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  Speaker 1: week's game coming up in a little bit. But if
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  Speaker 1: you had to kind of great at how different of
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback are you now in week four of this
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  Speaker 1: season year two than you were last year? Yeah? I
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  Speaker 1: mean I think I'm obviously the same guy. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I have had people ask me like, what, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on this you know, this year and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm the same same person. I just think
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  Speaker 1: I've one it's a lot. It's a much different situation
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  Speaker 1: this year. I think with the team, the mindset, the
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  Speaker 1: way we've been playing, we have a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 1: And then too, I've I've just learned a lot over
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  Speaker 1: the past year. I think I've learned how to play
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  Speaker 1: the game. Obviously there's a lot more to learn, but
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  Speaker 1: just situationally, I've gotten a lot better um and I
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  Speaker 1: think just staying on schedule has been a huge thing
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  Speaker 1: for us and has allowed us to kind of play
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  Speaker 1: our game and pick our spots and be able to
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  Speaker 1: play smart and give our and always give ourselves a
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  Speaker 1: chance to win. I think you see that in all
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  Speaker 1: three weeks that we've played, and that's that's the that's
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  Speaker 1: the idea, right is just to be able to have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win the game. I'm curious about your
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  Speaker 1: weekly preparation. Maybe how that's changed from last year as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie and then a new staff coming in. Take
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  Speaker 1: us through your Monday through Saturday. What happens every day
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  Speaker 1: for you to get you ready for game day? How
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  Speaker 1: has that changed over the Yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's been a similar schedule, but I think
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  Speaker 1: I've I've just dialed in more on the things that
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  Speaker 1: I watched tape wise, a certain cut ups, and just
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  Speaker 1: the way the week runs, you know, each day having
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  Speaker 1: specific cutups you want to watch and all that. So Mondays,
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  Speaker 1: we'll come in, review the past game, have a we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a little like lift and movement thing first, then
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  Speaker 1: we'll have offensive meeting, review the game, put that to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Then after that, you know, I'll stay for two and
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  Speaker 1: a half hours or so and just start watching games.
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  Speaker 1: The next opponent. Usually I'll watch all the games and
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  Speaker 1: the break breakdown, so it's it's four or five games,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll watch that, go get my massage, go home,
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  Speaker 1: maybe watch a couple of cut ups at the house,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm just kind of hanging out Monday night Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: really just starting my first and second down cut ups.
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  Speaker 1: If I hadn't started them the night before and watch
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  Speaker 1: those for two to three hours. That's our off day,
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  Speaker 1: so I usually get treatment at the house. I don't
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  Speaker 1: come in. I watched. I got my office set up
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  Speaker 1: at the house, so watch tape there. Um, kind of
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  Speaker 1: get ready to roll. Then we get our first second
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  Speaker 1: down plan usually that night, you know, I'll get an
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  Speaker 1: email to me and I'll just look over it real
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  Speaker 1: quick for I go to bed. Come in Wednesday, we
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  Speaker 1: install everything as a team, go through practice. We finish
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  Speaker 1: up later on Wednesdays, so me and the QBS will
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  Speaker 1: will stay after and we'll watch third Down. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: third Down tonight. Um, we'll watch that till usually about
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  Speaker 1: eight o'clock or so, depending on the day, we'll roll
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  Speaker 1: roll through all those situations. Thursday, same exact thing, but
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  Speaker 1: we go red zone. Friday is a shorter day here,
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  Speaker 1: we get down earlier. So then I'll go in there
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  Speaker 1: and work on my call sheet, watch some two minutes,
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  Speaker 1: some different cutups I need to watch, um, and then
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  Speaker 1: won't bore you with all the details. But then Saturday
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  Speaker 1: is is a little micro version of that. If I
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  Speaker 1: need to touch up on a few cut ups. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is. Kind of look over the week definitely just
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  Speaker 1: reviewing the call sheet those last two days a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and you get involved in the call sheet. I mean
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  Speaker 1: this is that's the point where you kind of sit
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  Speaker 1: down with Press and done and hey, I like this,
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  Speaker 1: like this, don't like this, And it's really a team
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  Speaker 1: collaborative effort. It feels like, Yeah, so throughout the week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're communicating things. I like, I year is
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  Speaker 1: I might have after watching the third down tape or
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  Speaker 1: the bread zone tape, and then I kind of match
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  Speaker 1: that with what they with the ideas that they've drawn up.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean usually they're they're very similar and if
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  Speaker 1: and if they're not, we can't get on the same
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  Speaker 1: page and do a great job of communicating. And um, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday is when we go through the call sheet and
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  Speaker 1: we talk about everything, different situations, what what our favorites are,
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  Speaker 1: certain place here and there. If I want to move
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  Speaker 1: something to a different area, they they have a change
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  Speaker 1: because there's changes throughout the week. Every day on the
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  Speaker 1: call sheets, there's some last minute changes and then we're
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  Speaker 1: always doubting on that. We meet a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday and we're greater role Trevor Lawrence with a
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars quarterback. You've got some veteran wide receivers around you,
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  Speaker 1: tight ends. I mean the confidence level shows on the
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  Speaker 1: field when guys are where they're supposed to be. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they've been in this league for a long time. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run the right route. You just got to put
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  Speaker 1: the ball on the right spot. And you're starting to
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  Speaker 1: spread the wealth a little bit to three or three
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  Speaker 1: different guys had touchdowns last week. To have that veteran
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  Speaker 1: crew around you to throw the ball two has to
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  Speaker 1: be a comfort. It's great. I mean, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: just aren't players there where they're supposed to be. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think the way they communicate, they're all different, just
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  Speaker 1: as you know anyone is. But but they all communicate
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  Speaker 1: really well. And I think we all have that that
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  Speaker 1: chemistry and it's it's been built over the the course
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  Speaker 1: of you know, me, me and Marvin have been playing
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  Speaker 1: together now for going on two years. But but as
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  Speaker 1: far as A and Christian and Evan and some of
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  Speaker 1: the new guys, that's something we've been working on since
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  Speaker 1: the spring, and I think it's paid off the amount
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  Speaker 1: of work we put in, and um, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: it's starting to show. Fourth down calls. Doug Peterson is
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  Speaker 1: not afraid to roll the dice. How does the team
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  Speaker 1: respond when the fourth down plague comes into the huddle? Man,
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  Speaker 1: we love it. I mean, just like i've I've said before.
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  Speaker 1: The confidence that that we have, that they have in us,
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  Speaker 1: the staff I'm talking about, that shows when you're willing
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  Speaker 1: to go for it. I think first series of the game,
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  Speaker 1: we're on around the fifty maybe plus forty five somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in there. It's fourth and six and we go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Even even I was thinking we're gonna run the punt
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  Speaker 1: team on and he goes for it. And just the
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  Speaker 1: confidence he has in us and um should have missed
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  Speaker 1: the or there should have actually converted it, but anyways,
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  Speaker 1: just the confidence that he has in us and really
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  Speaker 1: in our defense to it, it's two fold. It shows
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  Speaker 1: that one he's put he he knows that we can
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  Speaker 1: we can go get the first down, and if we don't,
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  Speaker 1: he's confident enough in our defense to hold him, giving
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  Speaker 1: him a good field positions. So I think, guys, it
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  Speaker 1: gets guys excited, and I know our our defense feeds
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  Speaker 1: off that too. Trevor, you've been on good teams in
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  Speaker 1: your past, obviously, in college, Um, is this team good?
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  Speaker 1: And why is this team good? Or do you know yet? Definitely,
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  Speaker 1: I do believe it. We're a good team. I've been
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  Speaker 1: saying that. I don't think anyone can deny that. At
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  Speaker 1: this point. It's really about and and I'll say that
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  Speaker 1: we've played We've played well up until this point. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we played great in week one, Um, like
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about it, then got better each week and
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  Speaker 1: the last two weeks think we've played really well. And
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  Speaker 1: that's really what this league is about. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of teams that are good some weeks, not good other weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just about getting better every week. And you
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  Speaker 1: know you're not You're not necessarily gonna win every game
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  Speaker 1: when you look back at it, but being able to
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  Speaker 1: put yourselves in a position to win every game and
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  Speaker 1: really build weekend and week out and to where at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season you're playing your best football.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the goal. When I think this team and
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  Speaker 1: our staff understands that, and we're just trying to take
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  Speaker 1: it one week at time. You can manage the clippings
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  Speaker 1: and the headlines and all that and put it aside, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's for sure. Yeah, yeah, And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the That's the thing about this team we've done
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  Speaker 1: a good job is we've known who we are since
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  Speaker 1: the spring, and we've there's been a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good, bad, whatever stuff said about us. We
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  Speaker 1: don't really care, you know, it's no one thought we
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  Speaker 1: were any good, and then we go and win a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games and everyone wants to hype us up.
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  Speaker 1: Now we don't really we don't really care about any
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff. So we just want to keep playing
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  Speaker 1: with that edge. And that's I think that's what you've
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  Speaker 1: seen in the first three weeks. A couple more minutes
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  Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence, Jaguar's quarterback with us. UM, what was
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  Speaker 1: the last time you practiced in a hurricane? By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that happened on Wednesday as a first.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I ever have. The weather was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit a little bit interesting out there at practice,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of wind going on. It might rain on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: So the little practice, wet ball drill, get ready? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So the Eagles, this is a team that's
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  Speaker 1: a veteran group on defense. Um, they're three and oh
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  Speaker 1: obviously for a reason. And they feel like up there,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't even played a complete game yet to get
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  Speaker 1: to three. And oh, um, what do they do well?
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  Speaker 1: On defense? The Eagles a lot of things. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you just you look at the way their their defense
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  Speaker 1: is set up. They do a great job of limiting
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  Speaker 1: big plays. Um, they really, I mean, they got great
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  Speaker 1: players everywhere, So that's that's just every every defense is
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  Speaker 1: gonna have great players. But the guys on the interior
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  Speaker 1: do a really good job. Really smart, strong athletic guys
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  Speaker 1: that they roll in and out. They keep their guys fresh,
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  Speaker 1: and then they've got a lot of depth, so that
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  Speaker 1: helps them. Um, and their backers. I think they play
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  Speaker 1: really smart. This guy's in the edge, good pass rushers, um.
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  Speaker 1: But then just in the back end, I think they're
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  Speaker 1: really smart, experienced players. You look the way Darius Slay
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  Speaker 1: is playing. Uh, Darius Slay is playing. He's played really well,
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  Speaker 1: especially these first three weeks this season. So but all
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  Speaker 1: those guys are playing well, and I think that's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a good challenge for us, you know. Really, I
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  Speaker 1: think just a good all around defense. Um, not really
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  Speaker 1: a lot of week links so um, just we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to play a clean game, and you know that's
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  Speaker 1: what's expected anyways. And what's the next step for you?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you've had two great weeks in a row. What's next?
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  Speaker 1: What what can you do better? Personally? I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things detailed things I could get into.
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  Speaker 1: I think just not giving yeah, for sure, I think
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  Speaker 1: just consistency. Um. You know, I think last week had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of miss throws on that third and fourth
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  Speaker 1: down first series of the game that I wanted back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there was just only a handful in the game,
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  Speaker 1: but still those are things that you watch and you
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  Speaker 1: want back. But I think just doing it weekend and
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  Speaker 1: a week out. I think I've been honestly pleased with
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  Speaker 1: how I've played last two weeks as far as my
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  Speaker 1: one focus is just playing well enough to give us
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win. And we've done that last two
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  Speaker 1: weeks and we've one handed lease. That's that's the That's
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  Speaker 1: the goal for me, and I've done that. But I
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  Speaker 1: just want to keep doing that every week. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that's really the goal for me. All right, final thought
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  Speaker 1: with you here, and I know you've heard about it
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  Speaker 1: already this week Doug Peterson school back to Philly. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he want a super Bowl with the Eagles, but he's
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  Speaker 1: not one to make it about himself Philly's publicly. How
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  Speaker 1: big would it be, though, for this team to go
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  Speaker 1: help him get a win in that place? Be huge?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's some emotion that goes with that.
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  Speaker 1: Um and you've had you have that much success somewhere
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  Speaker 1: and then look at the way it ended, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his tenure there and um, where we're at now. I
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  Speaker 1: know there's there's definitely some some motivation from all of us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure from coach too. And it's not that's not
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  Speaker 1: something we're necessarily focusing on because it's it is just
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  Speaker 1: another game, and it's important because it's the next one,
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  Speaker 1: not because we're playing the Eagles. So for us, it's
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity to showcase who we are once again
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  Speaker 1: this week, and that's what we're focusing on. But of
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  Speaker 1: course there's there's that motivation and there's that emotion behind it,
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  Speaker 1: and definitely want to go get a win. And this
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  Speaker 1: is I mean, it would be a huge road win.
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  Speaker 1: This is a hostile environment and obviously they're three and oh,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a big game. Yeah, getting ready for some
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  Speaker 1: insults from the Philly. So hey, thanks for the time, Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: good luck to Thanks man,