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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Final Day of Veteran Minicamp · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Same same for me.
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  Speaker 2: The break for you guys, do you want your players
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  Speaker 2: to get a little bit away football and just relax
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  Speaker 2: or a little bit or would you like them just
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  Speaker 2: to still.
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  Speaker 1: Stay often Yes and no, you know, definitely wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get away and relax and enjoyed this last you know
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of summer before we start. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, you know, uh, the message is to
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  Speaker 1: continue to work out, continue to run, you know, continue
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  Speaker 1: to review the information that we gave him this offseason
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  Speaker 1: so that when they come back, they come back ready,
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  Speaker 1: they come back in shape, they come back mentally and physically,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ready to go for training camp today. How
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  Speaker 1: have you felt about the young players being able to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of maybe a few extra wraps with coaches? Good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good doctor. Did you just said when you look
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  Speaker 3: at Brian Thomas's situation where he saw got somebody like
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  Speaker 3: he's got somebody like Gabe, how much do you feel,
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  Speaker 3: just from your experiences with other receivers who come in
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  Speaker 3: as rookies and you know and maybe are highly tapp
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  Speaker 3: how much do you think that that I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: it helps, you know, make the process go so much
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  Speaker 3: better for them if there's guys that are not only veterans,
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  Speaker 3: but are also willing to be really good mentors.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a I think it's a good transition
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  Speaker 1: to have, you know, the veteran leadership in those rooms,
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  Speaker 1: especially in this situation with Brian, you know, being being
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  Speaker 1: the draft pick and and being in that room as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that's it makes his life a
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  Speaker 1: little bit easier from the standpoint of just the comfort
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  Speaker 1: of the guys around him. Not saying, you know, life
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  Speaker 1: on the field is going to be easy and anything
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  Speaker 1: like that, but I think just that transition from from
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  Speaker 1: college to the NFL, what it looks like to be
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  Speaker 1: a pro with guys like Gabe and Christian in that
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  Speaker 1: in that room, and even even a guy like you know,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Jones, who's been around now for you know, a
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  Speaker 1: few years. I mean, there's another guy that has has
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  Speaker 1: great leadership ability, you know, and understands what it what
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  Speaker 1: it takes because he's been one of those guys every
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  Speaker 1: year that's had to work and fight and claw and
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  Speaker 1: scratch to make the fifty three and you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and I think for Brian to be able to see
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  Speaker 1: all of that maybe puts his you know, his mind
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  Speaker 1: at ease just a little bit, you know, as he
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  Speaker 1: transitions now into into camp, which which rams up even more.
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  Speaker 4: Benefit when he was in Buffalo, right, he was there easily,
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  Speaker 4: was there you kind of you know, I mean we
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  Speaker 4: all know that the receiver. If there's any position in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL that's had a reputation as kind of diva ish,
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  Speaker 4: it's been receiver over the years.
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  Speaker 3: But it seems like you've got a room where that
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  Speaker 3: is not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't feel like we have that type of room,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and guys are unselfish, you know, they compete,
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  Speaker 1: they they they they cheer for each other, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and it's not a it's not a you know,
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  Speaker 1: I need a football you know, I need every you know,
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  Speaker 1: target mentality in that room at all. And and uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a good thing because he comes into a
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  Speaker 1: room like that gives him a lot of confidence just
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  Speaker 1: to go out and perform and do what he can do.
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  Speaker 2: In years past, you may have given second year guys off,
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  Speaker 2: whether that was Crayvon and Devin this mandatory mini camp,
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  Speaker 2: they were part of the veterans. Why the decision to
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  Speaker 2: across the board have all the second year guys back,
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  Speaker 2: including from Anton On down this week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Anton, a lot of the vets that are here.
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  Speaker 1: In Anton's case, the injury. Okay, so so I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: They're not medically cleared to leave yet, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: until they get medically cleared. That's why those guys are here.
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  Speaker 1: Guys like Devon Hamilton and you know Anton, and you
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  Speaker 1: know Darnell Savage gave all those guys are still here
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  Speaker 1: this with Roy's here, so otherwise they would have been
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  Speaker 1: you know, the guy's probably on the uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the on the surfboards right now. But but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, and then and then two second year
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  Speaker 1: players who maybe didn't play a lot, you know, last
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  Speaker 1: year and and coming into uh, you know, coming into
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  Speaker 1: their own a little bit. So just want to give
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  Speaker 1: another another three days of just development and growth.
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  Speaker 4: What have you seen from Darnell this week, because it
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  Speaker 4: seems like he's getting closer and closer being back.
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  Speaker 1: He is, he's getting a lot, a lot stronger, getting
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  Speaker 1: more reps, you know, with the defense, he's he's he's
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  Speaker 1: shown a lot of good things out there and just
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  Speaker 1: he's in a good position now. I think when he
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  Speaker 1: comes back for camp, he'll be he'll be ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: You've had an off season now with Mac Jones, just
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  Speaker 3: overall impressions of how he's embraced his early time here.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, he's done a nice job. He's come in, he
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  Speaker 1: came in early, and you know, he's one of those
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  Speaker 1: guys that wanted to be in the building and just
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  Speaker 1: learn and you know, just another another good piece to add,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to our roster and especially to that room.
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  Speaker 1: And and he's he's done a nice job. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: obviously the only quarterback this week that we have and
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  Speaker 1: it's good for him so he can get all the
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  Speaker 1: get all the reps that that he can and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, put himself in a position to you know,
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  Speaker 1: really compete during camp a lot.
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  Speaker 2: More report that's Keen Butler. That'll work out with you
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  Speaker 2: guys this week.
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  Speaker 3: Is that accurate? You know about that? We've talked about it,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're down obviously a couple of receivers with
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  Speaker 1: David going down last week, so we're definitely looking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to fill a couple of spots before we head into camp.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks Doug,