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Press Pass | Jarrian Jones Opens Up About His Camp so Far · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Uh, like I told you I had. When I put
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  Speaker 1: my jersey on, I kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Went in the mirror, kind of makes sure I went
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  Speaker 2: and dreamed like next year.
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  Speaker 1: I was serious. And so I went and looked at
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  Speaker 1: the mirror. I seen the twenty two, looked on.
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  Speaker 2: The back Saint Jones, and it was like, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually in the NFL. And then when I ran out
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  Speaker 2: seeing out the fairs, it was kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: surreal moment, you know, so like you know, I was
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  Speaker 2: like that first player you go out there, You're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, I real didn't league.
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  Speaker 1: And after the first it was just to just your
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  Speaker 1: first NFL training camp, you know, you just play your
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  Speaker 1: first game. How was this school experience for the thing?
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  Speaker 1: And how felt you've gotten better since the person?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I'm having a lot of fun. That's one thing
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  Speaker 2: I can say. I'm having a lot of fun. I
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  Speaker 2: makeing a relationship with some guys that I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have for the rest of my life. I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: real close with some of the guys. And I learned
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  Speaker 2: a lot about myself about you know, some of the
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  Speaker 2: bad habits I had in college coming back to the league,
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  Speaker 2: as far as like you know, the quarterbacks in league
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  Speaker 2: a little different than they were in college, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So on the ball looking back at the quarterback, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there was some bad habits at the quarterback actually putting
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  Speaker 2: the ball on the money now, so I think those
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  Speaker 2: are some habits, know that, trying to break now, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, just being true to myself, sticking to what
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  Speaker 2: I've always known to be, like what I've always what
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  Speaker 2: I've put the work in to be, you know, So
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  Speaker 2: just staying tue to that, trusting myself in order I'll
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  Speaker 2: put the work in for it.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think it's all just coming too. Four.
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  Speaker 1: So all you're working with Brian after practice today, just
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  Speaker 1: you know, how important is it for you guys to
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  Speaker 1: sort of you know, get those extra practice reps in
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  Speaker 1: And how have you seen sort of him from the
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  Speaker 1: other side?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, bt Like he has a skill set
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  Speaker 2: you can't really teach for real, Like you can't teach
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  Speaker 2: someone to be long, fast, smooth, to get in out
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  Speaker 2: of his breaks and got crazy ball scared, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So you know I had that battle, that match up
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  Speaker 2: with him in college, you know, so just being able
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  Speaker 2: to go against him every day and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: put in work together. We came in together, you know,
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  Speaker 2: learn from each other. You know, I tell him what
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  Speaker 2: I saw, He'll tell me what he saw, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So just the growth that he's having through camp. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like first when we came into camp, he was kind
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  Speaker 2: of quiet. You know, he's definitely breaking that share now
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  Speaker 2: because he'll look at you and say something.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, okay, okay, Like he really does talk,
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  Speaker 1: you know, So just you know, just been in bonds
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  Speaker 1: for real. A lot of guys fighting me for not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of spots on this defense. So tell us
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  Speaker 1: about this competition in the defensive back room. And there's
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  Speaker 1: some veteran guys who's been around, and then a lot
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  Speaker 1: of young guys like yourself. Yeah, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: events in the room. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I don't think you can, like from
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  Speaker 2: our interaction with each other.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you can ever.
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  Speaker 2: Tell that there's any competition, you know, because each one
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  Speaker 2: teach one. You know, I definitely think that teaching me
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  Speaker 2: a lot. You know, they definitely embraced me healthily, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I don't think I could ask for a
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  Speaker 2: better situation for really, you know, but the competition obviously
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  Speaker 2: is there this is a job.
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  Speaker 1: This is you know, it is what it is, is
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  Speaker 1: a business. Uh. But you know, we definitely feed off
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  Speaker 1: each other and kind of teach each other to work
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  Speaker 1: with so many veteran guys like Darnell Ronald, all those
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  Speaker 1: players that have been around and done that.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely emphasis on the veteran and old guys because Darby
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  Speaker 2: is on your tea. And when he told me, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, man, like he was talking to me about
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  Speaker 2: when he was at Florida State back at twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, bro at.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty thirteen, Like I can't even tell you what I
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  Speaker 2: was doing, Like I don't even know what I was
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  Speaker 2: doing back then. But those are some great guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's savage Darby. Like they teach me a lot, like
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  Speaker 2: day to day, like right now, like I just say,
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  Speaker 2: they'll harping on me a boy my eyes right now.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I think they like, we have some
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  Speaker 2: great leaders in the room, and uh, I think we're
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  Speaker 2: only gonna go as far as they leaders.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're leaders on the team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, me being the rookie, I just come in
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  Speaker 2: and kind of follow suit, you know, understand the standard
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  Speaker 2: uphill on the standard and it was just kind of
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  Speaker 2: push it, you know. So I think they do a
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  Speaker 2: great job of upholding the standard and holding us to
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  Speaker 2: a standard every day, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So they do a great job with that in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, and you belonged. Have you shown yourself
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  Speaker 1: you belong at it? I definitely think I have.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can see with my confidence every day
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  Speaker 2: that I do believe that I'm supposed.
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  Speaker 1: To be here, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And it's gonna come with growing pains, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: you come to a new situation. Uh, you know, someone
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  Speaker 2: like you play dB some probably somebody probably gonna it's
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  Speaker 2: the ball on you here and there. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: as long as you continue to come back and learn
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  Speaker 2: from it, grow from it, come back and make your place.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think my future is definitely trending up.
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  Speaker 2: As long as I just keep the work going in
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  Speaker 2: every day, there's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you been planning the MJD Jersey as
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  Speaker 1: your walk up to your first game? It's so crazy
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  Speaker 1: because it actually wasn't planned. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I went to a store down here just looking for
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  Speaker 2: I don't have many Jaguar shirts, I mean, other than
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  Speaker 2: the one they gave us when I first got here.
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  Speaker 2: But and I was looking for something to wear to
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  Speaker 2: the game, I didn't really have anything, so I went
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  Speaker 2: to the store down here called the Gallery Jacks, and
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  Speaker 2: I went in there and I seen the jersey.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's it. Like it was hanging up
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't even have to walk all the way
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  Speaker 1: in the store. I seen it. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'm going. Big shout out to Maris for
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  Speaker 1: self from when you were little. Yeah, that's like an.
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  Speaker 2: Extra small I don't think you can fit on my
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  Speaker 2: arm now.
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  Speaker 1: You watch when he was here last time.
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  Speaker 2: I actually didn't, but I watched him when he was
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  Speaker 2: with the forty nine ers. One of my best friends
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  Speaker 2: just got drafted to the forty nine ers. So after
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  Speaker 2: he got drafted, he watched a lot of tape and
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  Speaker 2: I kept noticing him on film and it was like
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  Speaker 2: when they said that he was coming here, I seen
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  Speaker 2: him on Twitter and they said that he was coming here.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that's a guy that I'm definitely want
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  Speaker 2: to learn from thirteen years Like, yeah, on time one
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  Speaker 2: of your friends got drafted Ronaldo Green, Okay, gotcha