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Press Pass | Meet Members of 2024 Free Agent Class: Davis, Duvernay, Darby, Savage and Jones · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: I was at UCF watching my brother and I mean
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: watching the whole team, and Gus actually wanted me to
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: talk to the receivers. He's like, hey, you know twenty minutes,
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: come talk to the receivers real quick. And I'm like,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: I gotta go. I got I got phone calls, I
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: am about to be on. I went home, showered, went
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: to I got a gym down there in Orlando that
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  Speaker 1: that I run. So I was sitting in the conference
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: room there and as soon as twelve o'clock hit, it
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  Speaker 1: all just started going and going. And as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I heard Jacksonville, I was like, thank god they call.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, thank god. I wanted to come back
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  Speaker 1: to Florida. I wanted to be around you know, guys
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  Speaker 1: that I knew, you know, coach that I loved, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the team's great. Shoot. We can never we
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: could never beat them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So came, uh came, came here, and you know, soon
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  Speaker 1: as soon as they sent it in, you know, negotiaans
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  Speaker 1: winning then boom. I was like, yeah, I'm a Jaguar Man.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty easy decision.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about the coaches, just what is it? What
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: does Doug Peterson you know, do you for you? And
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: and I guess chat Hall obviously you've you've already worked
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  Speaker 3: with him. What did those two coaches and you'll mean
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  Speaker 3: for you? And why you chose to come to hock
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  Speaker 3: to go?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean Chad's like family was with him
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  Speaker 1: for three years in Buffalo. Uh again, family first, And
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  Speaker 1: no matter if I was here somewhere else, I still
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  Speaker 1: talked to Chad, you know, on the regular. So he's
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  Speaker 1: definitely a dear, dear friend of mine. And I was
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  Speaker 1: also able to have some friends that's been through here
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  Speaker 1: and also play here, Christian Kirk and I know Jay Jones,
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  Speaker 1: and I've talked to uh Trevor before. But being able
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  Speaker 1: to get some real insight on you know, how this
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  Speaker 1: place is run on Doug and how this is a
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  Speaker 1: great place to be. One of my buddies, Jacoberris, who
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  Speaker 1: I played at UCF with, was here for a short
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  Speaker 1: while and he gave me some real good insight on
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jack Andville is the place to be and
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  Speaker 1: you'll be happy here. So I had some good Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I had some good people to tell me some good things.
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  Speaker 1: So it may made my decision a lot easier.
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  Speaker 2: Was it? Life?
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  Speaker 4: Having Mitch Morris come down here and join the team
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  Speaker 4: with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's as soon as I saw him sign,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, it's destined to be, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Mitch is my guy, a veat guy
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  Speaker 1: who I trust, great player, great leader, great teammate, and
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  Speaker 1: you know he's He's helped me a lot in this league.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so happy to be coming to a new
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  Speaker 1: place but still with a lot of familiar faces. So
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  Speaker 1: it makes makes this process a lot easier.
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  Speaker 4: The idea of playing with Trevor if you see him
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  Speaker 4: from before or what was that kind of mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because I was talking a little bit
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  Speaker 1: ago about how in high school I went to the
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  Speaker 1: Nike Spark camp down in Atlanta and I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: Trevor like, oh, you know, I w I was nobody, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I want nobody, And you know, you got this Clemson
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  Speaker 1: quarterback here who just as soon as you saw him throw,
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  Speaker 1: you knew how talented he was. And now for it
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  Speaker 1: to be, you know, years and years later, and mean
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  Speaker 1: being able to play with him is awesome. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's such a great player from what I heard, He's
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  Speaker 1: a great leader, so I'm just excited to be able
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  Speaker 1: to you know, see it, see it first him.
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  Speaker 4: What do you feel like he brings to the table.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean everyone knows you you're a a a
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  Speaker 3: field stretcher, You're able to get down to feel good.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel like you fit into this drag offense?
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  Speaker 1: You know, if I I I feel like I can
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  Speaker 1: do it all. You know, if I I did so
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  Speaker 1: much when I was at Buffalo, whether if it was
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  Speaker 1: you know, catching the balls or you know, lead blocking
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  Speaker 1: through the c gap. I mean I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm very versatile and can you know, play any type
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  Speaker 1: of game that any of we play, whichever week, any
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  Speaker 1: any other week, you know, so that I feel like
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  Speaker 1: that's what I bring. I was a twenty four year
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  Speaker 1: old captain at Buffalo. I feel like I I I
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  Speaker 1: got good leadership skills and I was voted back to
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  Speaker 1: back hardest worker there as well. Uh That's what I
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  Speaker 1: try to to to prove to my teammates that they
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  Speaker 1: can trust me because they see the sacrifice that I
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  Speaker 1: put in for my team and they see that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I love this game and I don't take it for
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  Speaker 1: granted cause it's brought me so much. So I try
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  Speaker 1: to show the guys that you know, when times are tough,
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  Speaker 1: they can they they can depend on me.
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  Speaker 5: Cross paths with with Zay and Christian.
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  Speaker 4: And how'd you guys become tight?
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  Speaker 1: I cross I crossed pass with say a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: I think two years ago, I think out of the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and then again as well in Vegas. I
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  Speaker 1: I saw him at a restaurant. We were chopping it
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  Speaker 1: up for a little bit. And then Kirk is in
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  Speaker 1: the same kind of circle of friends that I'm in,
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  Speaker 1: so I was able to hang out with him last
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  Speaker 1: year at the Masters and stuff. I got to know
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, who's the common friend in that Trump circle?
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  Speaker 4: Kyle Allen and Josh Allen? When you were in Buffalo,
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  Speaker 4: what was the respect? The first action I should say
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  Speaker 4: of the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: They're a tough team, they play good sound football, and
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna give it to you to to the clock,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hit zero, and we we were especially last year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was a dogfight all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the end, and just you got respect for for teams
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 6: You wanted to get back to border with that because
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  Speaker 6: your Border guy and the Buffalo winners were killing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's just because you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity uh here was good and again and being
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  Speaker 1: able to be around my family. Football is not long,
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  Speaker 1: and to have them be able to come enjoy these
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  Speaker 1: moments with me, because one day it'll be over. Uh
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  Speaker 1: So to be able to come home, to be on
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  Speaker 1: a great team and to be the guy that I
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  Speaker 1: trust is gonna make me better was was big.
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  Speaker 5: When you signed. Did you think were when you agreed?
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  Speaker 5: Did you think Calvin was gonna be back here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Calvin was uh gonna be here, but
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  Speaker 1: I know there was that chance that he wasn't. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I got respect a lot of respect for Calvin.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I was a fan of him, uh back
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  Speaker 1: when he was at Alabama. So whether he he he
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  Speaker 1: was here, you know or not, you know, still happy
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  Speaker 1: for him for what he got over at Tennessee. Would
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  Speaker 1: have loved to have him here. He's a great player
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  Speaker 1: and a and a great person.
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  Speaker 4: What did you think of the facility. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 4: got a chance to see some of the different things
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  Speaker 4: in that Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, top tier facility from where I came from to
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  Speaker 1: that's top tier. But coming here is is you know,
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  Speaker 1: nothing really nothing really different. So I'm happy that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get the uh the f grade that some
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  Speaker 1: of these teams.
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  Speaker 7: Have.
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  Speaker 1: It comes somewhere where you know, all around, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a great place to be.
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  Speaker 4: Did they talk to you about their vision for you
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  Speaker 4: in the offense here?
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  Speaker 1: No, we were about to go talk about that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 8: So.
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  Speaker 4: Good. Uh, the last time you were born in.
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  Speaker 1: I was born in Fernandina Beach. People think I was
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: born in Sanford though, so didn't tell anybody about that. No,
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  Speaker 1: No Sanford guy, sand for guy. But I was born
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  Speaker 1: here though my mom back there. If everyone wants to
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  Speaker 1: look at her shades when people does it, does it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I know she she went to school here, grew up
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  Speaker 1: here a little bit over in Fernita Beach, and so
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a funny that a JAG's game was
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  Speaker 1: her first game, and now she has a son playing
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  Speaker 1: for the jack So it comes full circle. And I
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  Speaker 1: know she's proud and happy and she's free for interviews
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: if you guys want her to come up here.
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  Speaker 2: She's free to come up.
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  Speaker 1: Here and talk about it.
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  Speaker 9: Super excited, uh, and just the love was there, mutual
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  Speaker 9: interest and uh the opportunity and uh just couldn't turn
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  Speaker 9: it down. So yeah, excited and happy to be here.
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  Speaker 4: What did you know about the Jacks before you came here?
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  Speaker 4: What are you excited about offering to them?
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  Speaker 9: Honestly, not much, but I'm as far as what I
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  Speaker 9: have to offer, just explosiveness, you know, just excitement, you know, speed, physicality,
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  Speaker 9: and uh, you know, just excited to you know, play
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  Speaker 9: my game and bring my game to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 4: You've been on the outsieline from CHARLORL. Lawrence a few times.
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  Speaker 4: What did you know about sixteen going in AI?
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  Speaker 1: You can't slink it?
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  Speaker 9: Uh, great arm and uh yeah, definitely wasn't fun going
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  Speaker 9: against him, especially that twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Year You obviously are a great return specialist. But what
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  Speaker 3: did they talk to you about in terms of your
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  Speaker 3: receiving ability?
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  Speaker 4: How do they plan to sort of utilize you?
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  Speaker 9: I guess yeah, I mean, nothing like for sure yet,
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  Speaker 9: but was in the works of y you know, just
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  Speaker 9: having an opportunity get on the field, make plays, get
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  Speaker 9: the ball on my hands, and you know, things of
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  Speaker 9: that nature.
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  Speaker 4: Jamal Agne was I mean, how much did you know
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  Speaker 4: about him?
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  Speaker 3: How much did you sort of reflect on your game
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  Speaker 3: to toward his and uh, have you talked to him.
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  Speaker 4: Before or things like that.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, I haven't really talked to him a lot, talk
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  Speaker 9: to him like b like pre game and stuff when
• 8:25
  Speaker 9: we played Jacksonville. But uh nah, definitely great, great player.
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  Speaker 9: You watched him a lot and uh, you know he
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  Speaker 9: you know, he was great at what he did.
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  Speaker 4: Have you thought it all about the new proposed kicked
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  Speaker 4: off rules that they're gonna.
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  Speaker 9: Be both Nah, not really haven't put too much thought
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  Speaker 9: into it. I've heard about it, but uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 9: haven't put too much thought into it, but I have
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  Speaker 9: heard about it.
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  Speaker 4: Is it important? Do you get a shot at receiver?
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  Speaker 4: Means that a big priority? Or I mean, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's definitely important.
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  Speaker 9: You know, just getting on the field more ways than
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  Speaker 9: you know, touch the ball impact the game is you know,
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  Speaker 9: definitely a vision of mine.
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  Speaker 10: Was there any connection or anybody on the Tea team
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  Speaker 10: or the Kocha staff that you knew previously either from
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  Speaker 10: college or Nah?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, No, it wasn't really any you know, prior connection
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  Speaker 9: that I've had with you know, any staff members, So it.
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  Speaker 4: Was kind of I gave your calls at Jack's interest
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  Speaker 4: in Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Was there ever a chance for you to return to
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  Speaker 4: Baltimore or or wo.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know going in you you probably were We're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna come back.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, uh, I just kind of after the season,
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  Speaker 9: just kind of weighed out all my options, I mean,
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  Speaker 9: you know, and uh, you know, just wanted to seek
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  Speaker 9: out the best opportunity, you know, for myself and for
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  Speaker 9: my future. So I mean, whether that was Baltimore or not,
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  Speaker 9: I you know, I just felt Jacksonville was, you know,
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  Speaker 9: a good shot.
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  Speaker 10: Before you signed, did you did you call anybody and
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  Speaker 10: then do some homework on Doug Peterson and any other
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  Speaker 10: guys here?
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: Uh a little bit?
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  Speaker 9: And then you know I kind of watched from Afar
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  Speaker 9: over the you know, past couple of years. So so yeah,
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  Speaker 9: that's kind of where I was at that standpoint.
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  Speaker 4: Playing in twice the last two years. Just what was
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  Speaker 4: your impression of them from Afar as a whole, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just a team in general.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and all good was a good young squad, good
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  Speaker 9: uh young quarterback and uh you know felt like it
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  Speaker 9: was they could only go up.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh, what what drew you to the Jaguars? Was
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  Speaker 4: it just a phone call and you were like this
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  Speaker 4: is perfect.
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  Speaker 8: Or uh nah, I was just m it was more
• 10:14
  Speaker 8: than a phone call, uh Doug. Of course, you know
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  Speaker 8: I played with him, we had success before. He a
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  Speaker 8: great coach, so I didn't have no problem at all
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  Speaker 8: coming back to play for M. So like it wasn't
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  Speaker 8: like no, like uh, I don't know. Like once my
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  Speaker 8: agent told me, I was like alright, like yeah, I'm down.
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  Speaker 8: And then you know, my agent got it done.
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  Speaker 7: What the Florida States did, the section of Florida had
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  Speaker 7: a little special place.
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  Speaker 4: In your heart.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I was planning on moving back out Florida anyway this year.
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  Speaker 8: So it really was like a blessing. It was like
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  Speaker 8: the Lord answered my prayers, like hey could work out
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  Speaker 8: there too.
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  Speaker 4: So what was their sort of cell to you? I
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  Speaker 4: mean like what how did they see you fitting in
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  Speaker 4: the defense? What what were they talk to you about?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 8: You know, Like I got a background and playing man,
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  Speaker 8: like that's what I came in the league doing. That's
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  Speaker 8: what I did all through college, all through my where
• 11:00
  Speaker 8: you know, s different places I went to. We ran
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  Speaker 8: different schemes and I got better at doing that. But
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  Speaker 8: my number one thing always been playing man. I was
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  Speaker 8: always a bumping wrong corner from the Buffalo days, so
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  Speaker 8: it won't really that much they had to sell to me.
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  Speaker 4: Did you how did did you meet Bryan at all
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  Speaker 4: throughout your ye.
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  Speaker 2: Or uh here yeah not throughout the journey? No?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: Did you know about his defense? So yeah, try to
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: bring your jackson?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah once, uh you know, they reached out.
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  Speaker 8: My agent reached out cause I you know, did my
• 11:30
  Speaker 8: little research and stuff. But like you know, it fits
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  Speaker 8: high play and I like to play too, So.
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  Speaker 5: What do you like about paying just put your personality?
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  Speaker 2: Except you know, I could run. It ain't too much thinking.
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  Speaker 8: It ain't too much our work, like you just I
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  Speaker 8: could run, So like, I ain't worry about nobody running
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  Speaker 8: buying me. It's just like as long as you're tech me,
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  Speaker 8: I feel like, as long as you're tech me good
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  Speaker 8: at the line, you know, you could like stop a
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  Speaker 8: lot of things. And then once you keep practicing it
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  Speaker 8: and through camp and just you know, keep doing it,
• 12:00
  Speaker 8: you started to get the feel for releases, routes, it
• 12:02
  Speaker 8: all start to look the same, and you like, you know,
• 12:05
  Speaker 8: chest to chest with someone, so it'll make the past
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  Speaker 8: even harder to throw and complete you kind.
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  Speaker 6: Of go through a bunch of injuries in your career
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  Speaker 6: and that sort of a source of pride that you
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  Speaker 6: can in with time, I think, what to ACLS and
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  Speaker 6: that you can be able to kind of persevere.
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  Speaker 4: Through all that.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, it ain't no surprise to me, cause I know
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  Speaker 8: my mindset and how my body feel.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: It's like the times that I.
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  Speaker 8: Tore my ACLS, I was playing like great ball, like
• 12:29
  Speaker 8: I felt great, and it was they always like non contact,
• 12:32
  Speaker 8: both of 'em.
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  Speaker 2: It's like me laying in funny and things like that.
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  Speaker 8: So like last year, especially towards the second half, when
• 12:40
  Speaker 8: like I was really getting my last backgunder me, I
• 12:41
  Speaker 8: was feeling great, and like right now, I feel great.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: I still run feel good. So yeah, it wasn't that
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  Speaker 2: much did you problem?
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  Speaker 5: If you that you oh you were coming, Yeah, I
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: would come all through you all that not surplies.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry you said what.
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  Speaker 6: A source of pride that you were able to overcome?
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  Speaker 8: H Yeah, I ain't really feel pride for like That's
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  Speaker 8: why I was saying, like I already knew I was
• 13:01
  Speaker 8: going to bounce back, especially after going through it the
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  Speaker 8: first time. I knew what I had to do for
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  Speaker 8: the second time, so it helped me like a lot.
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  Speaker 8: But like now, as you said, yes, you know I
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  Speaker 8: felt good.
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  Speaker 4: Would you like to.
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  Speaker 5: Settle into ones and not a position, but as a
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: team in a city for well, I mean bounced around
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: so much lately.
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  Speaker 8: Uh yeah, see, of course you don't gotta keep moving
• 13:24
  Speaker 8: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, just the law had a plan for me.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm just gonna make sure wherever I go, I
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: put the best film out there and you know, play hard.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of challenges that to move around?
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: Like you have, uh friends and family.
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  Speaker 2: And not too much my friends and families. Just moving
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: the furniture and stuff. That's the probably the hardest thing moving.
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  Speaker 8: It's so for us, like you just get tired of
• 13:47
  Speaker 8: packing stuff up. Like I didn't have the same little couch,
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: same bed, Like it's just my travel gear.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, so yeah that's how it is.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my second time playing there. I was
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: with Washington during kovid year.
• 14:03
  Speaker 8: It was you know, couldn't nobody come to games and nothing,
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: But it was cool playing out Baltimore. You know, we
• 14:08
  Speaker 8: had we did good last year. So home will always
• 14:12
  Speaker 8: be home. I grew up there. I don't care like
• 14:14
  Speaker 8: I went to school out here a FSU so like
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: I ain't pressed to be back home. Ain't nothing there.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: What kind of.
• 14:21
  Speaker 6: Receivers Gotvin like mashed up with them a little bit
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: at just last year times you'm black and stuff?
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: Uhh yeah yeah yeah he uh he he a hard
• 14:31
  Speaker 8: worker for one, he could run for two and like
• 14:34
  Speaker 8: yeah he here playmakers, especially special teams too, kick a turn,
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: pumer turn, Like yeah, that's my boy playing here against
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: the games.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Wat you just from a distance? What was your kind
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: of impression of them? Uh?
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: A young team and they talented and the atmosphere was
• 14:50
  Speaker 8: crazy at night game and like it's a lot of
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: talent here. That's why I had no problem coming here,
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: cause it's a bunch of guys that wanna win.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: And you know, and coming.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: From like a successful team, was that big?
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Are you coming to a team that wants to be
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: and expects to playing big games?
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: You said, coming from us? Say that again, coming.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: From a successful team is up? When do you come
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: to a team that expects to play?
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't you know, it's I didne did it
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: before going to teams. I didn't really have it all
• 15:15
  Speaker 8: the way together and like ear years and new head
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: coach and stuff.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: You gotta deal with just that every year.
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: But like I know this team, you know it's moving forward,
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: moving up.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: What what what do you like about playing about playing
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: for Doug Peterson?
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 15:30
  Speaker 8: I mean saying it all day here, straight forward coach,
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: Like that's all you asks for in a coach. You know,
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: he gonna make sure you work hard. He gonna make
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: sure you know things get done the way need to
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: get done. And he liked to win just as much
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: as the players, and like I trusted his schemes and
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: like with like he had success, Like he here a
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: great coach.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: What is your expectation in terms of playing on the outside,
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: playing inside, doing a little bit of where.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: You fit in with Uh?
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: Of course, Like I always played outside my whole career.
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: But you know, whatever the team need for me, I'm
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: gonna do. Like alright, I proved that last year. It
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: was games. I didn't start at all in Baltimore and
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: I had to just play kickoff and uh jama or
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: pumper time block. But I went out there cause that's
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: what the team needed from me at that time. So whatever,
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: you know, M I'm just trying to win sons.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: In the room already or kind of younger. Just what
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: have you got a chance to talk to any of
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: them since?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Uh? Nah, not yet? Uh yeah, who significance of that?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Oh nah?
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I just got this.
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: I was out Vegas one time and I went this.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: It's frisky. They don't. I ain't saying I'm frisky.
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: I just like to have it went with the shoes,
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: that's Uh, where do you keep superow ring?
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: It's at my dad house? Okay, yeah, target Uh.
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: Oh no, don't, I got it. It's at the crib right,
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: my dad got it right?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, man, it's at my dad house cause she made
• 16:56
  Speaker 8: a little shrine in the house and stuff with all
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: the little footballs and things. Just yeah, it's at my
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: dad house that I know. It's either on I can't remember.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: Alright.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: How did this? Uh? How does this all come together
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: for you?
• 17:10
  Speaker 10: Uh?
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: How excited are you be just to be here in Jacksonville? Uh,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: I'm really excited.
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: I think it's it's such a long process as far
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: as just like it just feels like dragged like really,
• 17:20
  Speaker 10: it's like it's just dragged out kind of so to finally,
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: you know, figure out where you going and to get
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: here and have all the same feels that you had
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: when you made the decision.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: It it feels good.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: So I'm happy to be here.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: What made Jacksonville so be treating I.
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: Guess yeah, I just think the just the energy, you know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: just the energy from the the the coaches, just everybody here,
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: you know. Uh I kind of had a feel for that,
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: you know, just during the whole process, and it stayed
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: true since I've gotten here.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited a point at all.
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, one rather, of course.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Did you have any connections to anybody on the roster
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: coaches that they have, you know, helped they sales?
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Fish? Uh?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Well, I did.
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: I work with Corey Robertson. I worked with him over
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: when I was in college at Maryland. Uh So, you know,
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: he's He's a good guy. I've been around for a
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: long time. I think he knows me, so, uh. I
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: feel like he put out a pretty good pitch.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: What part of your game do you say was the
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: biggest selling point from Januars?
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: I just think my versatility. Uh I can do a
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: lot of different things. I've been playing pretty much safety
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: these past you know a few years, But I really
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: truly believe I can move around and just just do
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: anything on the on the defensive side of the ball.
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: So uh, I'm excited for that and ready to get
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: to work.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Plan sorry, set the plan be you to move around.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I mean I just got here today. You know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: I just landed a few hours ago. You ain't really
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: talking you know, a ball like that yet. So uh,
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: you know, I'm just excited to just you know, put
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: uh means to faces and just meet everybody and feel
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: a lot of good vibes around here. Because you heard
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: anything about the Peterson or Ryan Nielsen before signing with
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: the team. Oh yeah, well obviously he know Doug Peterson,
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: you know, super Bowl guy, you one one up as
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: a player and as a coach. I'm pretty sure, right
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: you guys in fact check.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: Me on that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: I might be wrong. Yeah yeah, so obviously that. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: then you know coach Nielsen. You know, he's been around,
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: He's coach a lot of great players, and he's he's
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: just his energy, He's he's a get after it kind
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: of guy. You know.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: So I like that.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Was there any how, how difficult of a dis uh
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: of a decision? Was the was this?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Was there a lot of teams coming after you, like,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: did you have your pick of a letter?
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: You know, how did this cut out? Well?
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's it's it's I mean, it's it's always a
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: difficult decision when you basically picking up and moving to
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: a whole y you know, new location.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: But it's it's kind of one of those things you
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: kind of gotta go with.
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: Your gut a little bit, you know. Uh. I was
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: talking to just a couple of my my friends that
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: are you know, in the NFL too, and I feel
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: like our whole lives we just kind of pick up
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: and and go and we we get adjusted. That's kind
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: of what we do, you know what I'm saying, That's
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: what people do in general, as far as rather it
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: be a job or anything. So U I just kind
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: of look at it like that, and then you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: I just gotta trust your gut. You can't go into
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: the thing with anything with bad vibes, not really gonna
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: get too much good out of it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: So can you see yourself as a chest piece of defense?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Is that where you yourself as.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: A safety is? Is that kind of where defenses are
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: at anything? That position us?
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean I feel like I can play anywhere
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: you know, at the end of the day, I gotta
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: do what you know, my coaches asking me and with
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: my teammates, when my teammates asking me. So you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: I'm here to be the best player and the best
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: teamate I can possibly be. I got a question for y'all,
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: know what id alight?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: So look, you gotta get rid of one.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: Okay, So we got bagels, waffles, pancakes, and French toasts.
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: My my, my bagel, guys are.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: But y'all love this place. It's my hometown. Obviously, there's
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: a lot of good things going on around here. And
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: looking forward to learning everybody's names and just getting back
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: into playing good football.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: To play for the Jaguars as a kids at all, yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: a little bit.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: I mean obviously coming to the games and growing up
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: as a fan and seeing all the good times and
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: some of the bad times. It was obviously important for
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: me to just fulfill my dream of playing in the
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: NFL and obviously had a great opportunity in New England
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: and can't thank them enough. But happy to be here,
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: you know, as a kid from Jacksonville, It's it's definitely
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: a dream come true.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: It's been reported that the Patriots went to you and said.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Would you want to go back to Jacksonville Bay Office
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: for kind of that process. Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Like I said, I have all the respect in the
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: world for those guys up there. They're my first team
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: drafted me in the first round. Can thank them enough.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: And obviously we kind of just decided the mutual parting
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: of ways was the best decision for both of us.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: And for me it was just about moving on and
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: getting back home and I can't be more excited. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: for them it's about moving forward and turning the page.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: So really that's that's kind of what we decided, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: I think it's a great decision.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Your time up there.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: A lot of the great learning experiences learned from a
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: great head coach, obviously one of the greatest of all time.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Been fortunate to kind of work with some great head
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: coaches and learned a lot, played a lot of games,
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: started a lot of games, and obviously things went the
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: way they did. And my goal is to kind of
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: get the train back on the track. So I think
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: I can do that here and the coaches here have
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: talked to me about that and just how I can
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: help the room and how I can learn from Trevor
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: and everybody here, and obviously he's playing great football and
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: he's done a great job here in Jacksonville. So I'm
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: excited to get back with him and CJ and just
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: learn from them.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: They played out regrets on do you have any personal
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: regrets or on the way.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Things worked out up there, or the way you handled
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: it or the way to Patriots handler or anything.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: I think what I said earlier, just like the learning
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: part of it is just every experience is a good
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: experience if you learn from it. So you know, the
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: games that we lost, the things that happen. Obviously, you
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: don't ever want to lose. You want to win every
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: game you play in, but I understand that's sometimes really
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: hard to do in the NFL. And I don't have regrets.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: I feel like I put everything out there, gave a
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: lot to that organization, and they gave a lot to me.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: So I'm gonna do the same thing here in a
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: good way and just be myself, be Mac and learning
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: from like I said, Trevor and CJ and the coaches
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: here that have a lot of offensive background. That'll be
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: important for me. And that's a big reason why I
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: feel like this is a good fit.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: You like being home, being back on other than the weather.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I haven't spent as much time back here as
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: I would like, so it's it feels good to be
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: back and just going to Alabama then you know, you
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: get drafted up to the Northeast. It's it's a quick turnaround,
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: you know how it is, and from their life goes fast.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: So it feels good to be back. I mean, obviously
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: my parents live here and win to bowls and all that,
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: so have a lot of you know, friends around the area.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: But obviously my main focus is always going to be football.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: But it just feels good. My grandma's here, you know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: she's she's never been to a game, so maybe we'll
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: get her to a Jacksonville game to watch me, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: I think that'll be awesome. So you never know what happens,
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: so it's kind of full.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: So relaunch for you is that you look at this
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: and I'm gonna become a starter again at some point
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: in the league somewhere.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: I think I always say be where my feet are,
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: and this is a great opportunity for me, like I said,
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: to learn from coach Peterson and the staff that he's
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: assembled here a few years Ago and Trevor and CJ
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: and guys that have played a lot of football and
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: played really well. So I'm gonna do everything I can
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: just to, like I said, get the train back on
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: the tracks and get it moving in the right direction.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Coming into the league. The same yours Trevor. Is there
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: any kind of relationship there the last couple of years. Yeah,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: I've known Trevor really for a little bit of time
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: here since high school and we have a few mutual
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: friends and stuff, so I've always kept up with them.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: I have a lot of respect for his game, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: I'm here to just learn from him, like I said,
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: And he's obviously the captain, and he's a great player,
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: and he's done a lot of good things here and
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: really I just want to win.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Did you know anything about Doug Peterson before the trade?
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, of course, I mean Philadelphia and everything, and heard
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: a lot of good things about him. And once again,
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: there's some mutual connections there, whether it be where he
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: played college foot and things like that. So there's a
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: lot of cool things there. And I think he's a
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: great coach. His track record is great. He understands the
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: game because he's held the ball before you know, he's
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: been back there, he's been on the ground looking up
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: at the sky, right, So I mean he knows right.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: And I think that's something that Trevor probably appreciates, is
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: having a guy like that to be able to tell
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: him see the game how we see the game as quarterbacks,
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: and it sounds like everybody works together here, and that
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: was something that was encouraging to hear, just it's a
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: team effort and everyone's trying to win games.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: League can be a fickle thing.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: How yours and do you still view yourself as a
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: starting quarterback in the NFL?
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Like I said, I think this is that's a
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: great point. It's about confidence. It's about putting in the
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: work and doing everything right that you can. And I
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: felt like I did that and I'm going to continue
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: to do that. You know, the results may have been
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: there some days and may have not been there the others,
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: But I think the important part for me is sticking
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: to that process like I've always done and just trying
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: to get back to that. But at the same time,
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: just knowing my role, knowing where I'm at, excuse me,
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: just understanding that this is a great spot for me
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: in my hometown.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Does that put any more pressure on me too in
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: being in the hometown at all?
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: No, anything, it's less. It feels good, man, It's it's
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: it's all good. And I feel like there's, like I said,
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: they're building a good thing here. So I'm just gonna
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: come in and try and work and improve myself and
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: then obviously be a great teammate, put the team first,
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: all those things.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite memory from when you were
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: playing at balls?
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember when we beat Rains like sixty sixty
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: to twenty maybe in the playoff game. That was great
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: because they kind of had our number for a little bit.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: But I have a lot of respect and still talk
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: to some of those guys that are that were on
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: those teams. And obviously my head coach, Corky Rodgers is
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: a legend around here and rest his soul, but learned
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: a lot from him, and those are just great times
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: high school football. There's nothing better.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: So well, everybody else is the new free agents are
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: looking at houses and apartments.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Probably experience for you right now.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I do know the area is good, and I
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: don't think I'll be saying with my parents, so maybe
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: we'll see, But yeah, my mom's coming to pick me
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: up in about thirty minutes. It's kind of nice when
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: your mom can pick you up from work. So but
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: it'll be good. I think, like I said, I'm just
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: looking forward to meeting the guys and everyone. Like you said,
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: they're all new here. Sounds like gabes obviously not from
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: far down the road and stuff, so that's cool. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: there's some Florida ties here and there. So it's a
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: great state and a great city to be in.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Everything over the last three or four years for you
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: or yeah, do you have time to even do that? Absolutely? Yeah.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: I think, like I said, everything goes pretty quick, and
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: you're in college, then you're getting drafted, then you're playing games,
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: And for me, it's all about the evaluation process after
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: the season. What can I get better at? How can
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: I improve? And I feel like I did that this
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: year already and went to down to Texas and stayed
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: in a sports barn for a month and just focus
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: on football, just all football. What can I do better
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: every day? You know, five days a week, you know,
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: weekends all that. Just how can I watch tape? What
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: can I do better? And that's important to me as
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: it is with any player, they're trying to find what
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: they can do better. So that's what I do every year.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you guys, pet good to see you guys.