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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hey leah parker started off with that diving touchdown what
- 0:05Speaker 1: was your view of that play and also just his
- 0:06Speaker 1: effort the whole day.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Yeah a heck of a play uh had man coverage
- 0:10Speaker 2: he had outside leverage i think he dove down um
- 0:14Speaker 2: ran a really good route got the nickel kind of
- 0:16Speaker 2: dived down uh and and undercut him and ended up
- 0:19Speaker 2: being pretty open made a you know great catch had
- 0:22Speaker 2: really good protection i thought uh and for the most
- 0:25Speaker 2: part of the day but was pleased with the way
- 0:28Speaker 2: that we started fast, especially getting Parker going early.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Trevor obviously had an outstanding game.
- 0:34Speaker 3: What did you like about his performance?
- 0:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he spread the ball around, trusted the
- 0:39Speaker 2: guys that were in to make plays. Again, I thought
- 0:43Speaker 2: we protected him really well. I thought we mixed it
- 0:46Speaker 2: up from the run game and some different things to
- 0:49Speaker 2: keep them off balance to allow him, you know, Trevor
- 0:51Speaker 2: to continue to do what he does. He did some
- 0:54Speaker 2: really good stuff off schedule again today, especially the touchdown
- 0:58Speaker 2: to Jacoby I thought was a phenomenal throw and play
- 1:01Speaker 2: in the back of the end zone. So was definitely
- 1:04Speaker 2: pleased with the way that Trevor ran the offense today.
- 1:06Speaker 3: Liam, it feels like you.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Never really know what you have until you go out
- 1:09Speaker 1: and actually play in week one. How proud are you
- 1:11Speaker 1: of the way your team played all four quarters?
- 1:14Speaker 2: Yeah, I was pleased with the way, you know, in
- 1:15Speaker 2: general of starting fast and something that we've been really emphasizing,
- 1:20Speaker 2: talking about, working on in different ways. I thought we
- 1:23Speaker 2: were definitely a more physical unit. I thought our defense
- 1:26Speaker 2: played phenomenal, really had the short field on the kickoff
- 1:31Speaker 2: return that they busted out past the 50 and held
- 1:34Speaker 2: them to three points, and then they get the big
- 1:36Speaker 2: one at the end there. But I really thought our
- 1:38Speaker 2: defense came to play and made our kicks. We've got
- 1:41Speaker 2: to clean up some things on kickoff.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Liam, it's been a while since you've been in the
- 1:45Speaker 3: same place two years in a row.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Is there comfort in that continuity, or do you feel
- 1:49Speaker 1: like you're building something here?
- 1:51Speaker 3: This is the first step. Yeah, I think there were
- 1:53Speaker 3: some good things to continue to build on. I definitely
- 1:56Speaker 3: felt like.
- 1:58Speaker 2: When you go back, as I did this week, and
- 2:00Speaker 2: watch Carolina week one versus what we were able to
- 2:04Speaker 2: come out here and do in terms of, you know,
- 2:07Speaker 2: putting it away and making it our brand of football
- 2:11Speaker 2: and not playing somebody else's game, playing our game. I
- 2:14Speaker 2: think that's something that as we grow together and as
- 2:17Speaker 2: we continue to know about each other more and more
- 2:19Speaker 2: and trust each other more and more as coaches and
- 2:21Speaker 2: players alike, that you can try to play your brand
- 2:26Speaker 2: and play your style of football game as much as possible.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Coach, along the same lines of that, sort of big
- 2:32Speaker 1: buzzword in pro sports right now is the standard. I
- 2:34Speaker 1: know you've used it a lot here as well. You
- 2:37Speaker 1: get a performance like this on tape. What is that
- 2:39Speaker 1: going to do for your team's confidence that you can, hey,
- 2:41Speaker 1: point to this game, that's our standard?
- 2:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a lot of good things that
- 2:45Speaker 2: we can point to from this game in terms of
- 2:49Speaker 2: being more physical. We play at our best as a
- 2:52Speaker 2: team here in Jacksonville when we're playing grimy. physical, nasty,
- 2:57Speaker 2: and we're flying around with relentless pursuit. And that's in
- 3:00Speaker 2: all three phases. That's setting the tone up front on
- 3:03Speaker 2: the offensive line and playing nasty and getting after it.
- 3:06Speaker 2: Our backs, I thought, did a great job after contact today. Obviously,
- 3:11Speaker 2: I think we tackled.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Pretty well, fairly well. I thought we got after the quarterback.
- 3:15Speaker 2: And look, when you have a group of guys that
- 3:18Speaker 2: are hungry, wanting to get a bad taste out of
- 3:21Speaker 2: their mouth with the first time them playing a game since, obviously, Buffalo, Yeah,
- 3:25Speaker 2: you're trying to elevate the standard every single week.
- 3:28Speaker 4: Liam, you've turned the page from a year ago. The
- 3:30Speaker 4: carryover would be nine straight regular season wins. How different
- 3:35Speaker 4: is it for you, knowing that your team knows how
- 3:38Speaker 4: to win? Again, you had a lead last year. You
- 3:40Speaker 4: were third in the NFL in most offensive snaps with
- 3:43Speaker 4: the lead. How different in a year?
- 3:45Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point in terms of, like, I
- 3:48Speaker 2: told the guys last night, I know I'm going to
- 3:51Speaker 2: sleep really good on Saturday night knowing that every single Sunday,
- 3:54Speaker 2: I'm not really too concerned if our team's going to
- 3:56Speaker 2: show up or not.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Is it going to always be perfect? I can't say that.
- 4:02Speaker 2: But I do know that our team's going to show
- 4:03Speaker 2: up on any given Sunday and play their tails off
- 4:07Speaker 2: and hopefully play our brand of football. Yeah, it's good
- 4:12Speaker 2: to know that you've got guys that are bought in.
- 4:16Speaker 3: They're all together.
- 4:17Speaker 2: I think our locker room is extremely tight right now, And, look,
- 4:22Speaker 2: it was a spread-around game.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Like, it was a true team win.
- 4:25Speaker 2: And I think that that's where you can point to
- 4:27Speaker 2: the standard and point to having confidence in each other
- 4:31Speaker 2: to be able to go out and spread the ball
- 4:33Speaker 2: around like we did. Josh Cameron catches a touchdown. And
- 4:36Speaker 2: then it's like on the next drive, I'm like, all right,
- 4:38Speaker 2: I want to get Brenton involved. And then on that drive,
- 4:40Speaker 2: he catches a touchdown. So I have confidence in them.
- 4:44Speaker 2: They have confidence, I think, in what they're doing. And
- 4:47Speaker 2: hopefully it continues to carry over.
- 4:49Speaker 3: You mentioned earlier in the week just the trust you
- 4:51Speaker 3: have in the rookies. I mean, Josh kept making that play,
- 4:54Speaker 3: one of his first snaps on the field. What did
- 4:55Speaker 3: that say to you?
- 4:56Speaker 2: Man, that was a heck of a throw by Trevor
- 4:58Speaker 2: as well, threading the needle. But, man, Josh has continued
- 5:01Speaker 2: to put that on tape. He's done it for us
- 5:04Speaker 2: all throughout training camp, really, making contested, tough catches. Even
- 5:09Speaker 2: when he's covered, the quarterbacks do trust him to put
- 5:12Speaker 2: it in his vicinity, and he's going to make a play.
- 5:14Speaker 2: I thought BT had some contested catches as well today
- 5:17Speaker 2: that I was pleased to see. But yeah, for Josh
- 5:20Speaker 2: to be able to come out here in his first
- 5:22Speaker 2: NFL real action, minus the preseason, and catch a touchdown
- 5:26Speaker 2: on a contested catch. Then he had the comeback on
- 5:29Speaker 2: our sideline that I thought he ran a really good
- 5:30Speaker 2: route on Ward on.
- 5:32Speaker 3: And that's got to give him a ton of confidence
- 5:34Speaker 3: moving forward.
- 5:35Speaker 4: Can you expand on what you liked from Basial?
- 5:38Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Like I mentioned, the yards after contact, I was very
- 5:42Speaker 2: pleased with. I thought he trusted the reads. He was
- 5:46Speaker 2: getting outside on some of the outside zones. Probably could
- 5:49Speaker 2: have got to some more of that as the game went,
- 5:51Speaker 2: but I thought he ran nasty. I thought he ran violent.
- 5:55Speaker 2: He took some shots and kept his contact balance going
- 5:58Speaker 2: and was falling forward a lot.
- 6:00Speaker 3: I was very pleased with him. We executed a screen
- 6:03Speaker 3: to him as well, which, whew.
- 6:07Speaker 2: But yeah, like, yeah, I thought I thought Basial really
- 6:10Speaker 2: showed up today. I thought the confidence and the momentum
- 6:13Speaker 2: that he had from Carolina to Tampa to this showed up.
- 6:18Speaker 2: It showed up in the week of practice. It showed
- 6:20Speaker 2: up in his preparation. And then again, showed up today.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Real quick on Trevor.
- 6:24Speaker 4: He's kind of notoriously started slow.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 6:27Speaker 4: What did you do today to make sure that that
- 6:29Speaker 4: didn't happen?
- 6:30Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean, shoot, we've been pressing it so
- 6:34Speaker 2: much in practice. It it really started to kind of
- 6:37Speaker 2: show itself from an improvement standpoint, I think, in the
- 6:40Speaker 2: Tampa joint, really, when we got the first play and
- 6:43Speaker 2: had the touchdown in that joint. But really, I think
- 6:46Speaker 2: we communicated to him and to the players our opening
- 6:51Speaker 2: script earlier in the week. Like, we got more to
- 6:54Speaker 2: some of the, you know, being ahead in game one,
- 6:57Speaker 2: it allowed us to jump ahead a little bit in
- 7:00Speaker 2: terms of, all right, Friday we were practicing more of
- 7:04Speaker 2: the openers and what are the things that we wanted
- 7:06Speaker 2: to get to early on. He had a great grasp
- 7:09Speaker 2: of the plan on Friday when we did our meeting
- 7:11Speaker 2: and our call sheet meeting on Friday and Saturday.
- 7:14Speaker 3: So I think we were just a little bit more intentional.
- 7:16Speaker 2: The time helped, so that's something we need to make
- 7:18Speaker 2: sure carries over, that we can continue to get ahead
- 7:21Speaker 2: of as a staff within the normal work prep weeks.
- 7:25Speaker 2: But I think he just had a really good grasp
- 7:28Speaker 2: of how to attack this defensive structure early on the
- 7:31Speaker 2: things that we wanted to get to early on. And
- 7:34Speaker 2: it was nice to see him starting to move around
- 7:36Speaker 2: early on too. I think that's a huge part of
- 7:38Speaker 2: his game that he can lean into, especially early on
- 7:42Speaker 2: in a game. All right, you're not exactly sure what
- 7:44Speaker 2: you're going to see, what you're getting.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Hey, man, go be you and go run around. That
- 7:49Speaker 3: typically helps. Coach, thank you.
- 7:52Speaker 2: Great.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.