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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "We’ve got to execute better as an offense." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh had a few makes things happen on the
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  Speaker 1: ground running the ball last week. You welcome to the opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: Uh you okay, the best play for that situation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's something that I feel like really most
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  Speaker 1: of my career. Um, I didn't do it as much
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  Speaker 1: last year. Most of my career, I've used my legs
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  Speaker 1: a lot, and uh, that's always something I've been comfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if if it's necessary. Obviously in this league,
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  Speaker 1: you want to take as few hits as possible, especially
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  Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. But um, if it's if it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna help us win, whatever that is, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: design play, a scramble, whatever it may be, just trying
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  Speaker 1: to put in the best situation to win. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of that was kind of necessary last week.
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  Speaker 1: And you know every every game is different, so always
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  Speaker 1: prepared for that, but you just never know which kind
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  Speaker 1: of game it's gonna be. The past game, you not
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  Speaker 1: only did you have the run designed, but you saw
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  Speaker 1: the unbalanced line. We had the two starting tackles next
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  Speaker 1: to each other on the on the HD run. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the the agnew reverse that looked like it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a basic hand off to Travis. Uh, could
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  Speaker 1: you talk a little bit about the offensive creativity that
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  Speaker 1: Doug and the staff have shown this year and how
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  Speaker 1: much you know, how much do you look forward to
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  Speaker 1: just game planning, just kind of wondering what other wrinkle
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  Speaker 1: are they gonna throw in this week? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they do a good job. Our staff is really creative.
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  Speaker 1: UM does a good job scheming things up and at
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  Speaker 1: the right time too. There's a lot of there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that you know, we might have and UM,
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  Speaker 1: we decided not to call it or we decided to
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  Speaker 1: just put it on the back burner for a week
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  Speaker 1: or two just because we don't feel like it's the
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  Speaker 1: right time or that we're ready to do that one yet.
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  Speaker 1: So you know that, I think we're really smart with
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  Speaker 1: how we do things and coach especially, so then they
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  Speaker 1: do a great job with then. Yeah, it's fun seeing
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  Speaker 1: um all those plays as they go in and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's always cool to see the guys they
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  Speaker 1: put in different situations, different positions, UM, And obviously when
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  Speaker 1: they're successful, that's that's great. Obviously, the fourth down play
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  Speaker 1: on the option pitch didn't didn't work, But does that
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  Speaker 1: make it not a good play or was it just
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  Speaker 1: in retrospect when you look at that play, is it
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  Speaker 1: just uh, good play, wrong time, or just hey, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't execute. I mean most of the time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have you have a play, UM put in and
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  Speaker 1: you've worked and you repped it in practice, and um,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much every play that we run, we think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna work. You know, we have we haven't
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  Speaker 1: repped it versus all these different looks, and it usually
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  Speaker 1: always comes down to execution. So that's that's what it
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  Speaker 1: is at the end of the day. Um, we got
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  Speaker 1: to execute better as an offense. And there's times in
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  Speaker 1: that game where we executed really well, and there were
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  Speaker 1: some looks where honestly, they did some things that um,
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  Speaker 1: we're a little bit surprising, and we were able to
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  Speaker 1: adjust and just communicate and make a play. And then
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  Speaker 1: there was times like on that fourth down where we
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  Speaker 1: just didn't we didn't execute well on our end, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean, great play by then, I'm not take anything
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  Speaker 1: away from him, but um, then the day it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to us and what we do, and we should
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  Speaker 1: be really prepared for whatever look they put out there,
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  Speaker 1: and we have smart enough guys to adjust to anything.
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  Speaker 1: So we gotta, you know, we gotta be better on
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  Speaker 1: on that end. And like you needed a bounce back game.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I do? You talk about you all
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  Speaker 1: that sings thank you? Not really, No, not really. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I feel like obviously that the two weeks prior
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  Speaker 1: to that, Philly and Houston were of my best games.
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  Speaker 1: And um, that's just every week you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 1: bounce back, no matter you know, if you played well
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  Speaker 1: or you didn't play well. So that's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: I look at it. And um, so that wasn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: the thought process at all. It's just let's go be
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  Speaker 1: as good as we can be this week. Let's let
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  Speaker 1: let me try to be as good as I can
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  Speaker 1: be just to put us in a position to win.
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  Speaker 1: And um, that was the thought process. But you know
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  Speaker 1: that's not really you gotta eat. That's the one thing
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  Speaker 1: you gotta keep is your confidence in this league. And um,
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  Speaker 1: I think our whole offense has a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: right now, and we just gotta get back on track
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  Speaker 1: to doing what we do well, being efficient, um and
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  Speaker 1: executing Evans. Your next door neighbor there and your lockers
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  Speaker 1: is uh, you get a sense that he's excited about
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  Speaker 1: this game when the chance. Yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 1: he is for sure, you know, And we hadn't talked
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  Speaker 1: a ton about it, just because you know, yesterday we
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  Speaker 1: were off and um, just being back in the building today,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's he's decided to play those guys. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy really honestly. It's been cool to see
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  Speaker 1: his preparation, how hard he works. He's he's one of
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  Speaker 1: our hardest workers. You know, after practice, daring practice, always
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  Speaker 1: get extra reps, and I'm sure there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit more emotion behind that. This week
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  Speaker 1: obviously playing is his old team, and um, you should
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  Speaker 1: it should be that way every week. But I definitely
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  Speaker 1: think that he's excited for this one. We all are
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  Speaker 1: so big opportunity, good team coming in here. You guys
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  Speaker 1: look like you're gonna be a pretty dynamic combination. You
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  Speaker 1: to Evan in the preseason and certainly in camp, are
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  Speaker 1: you surprised that it hasn't quite maybe quite lived up
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  Speaker 1: to what maybe? I mean? You know, it's like I said,
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  Speaker 1: just the games, every game is so different, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have certain plans and some games it goes as
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  Speaker 1: planned and you get you get the guy on certain
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  Speaker 1: plays you have them you think this guy's gonna get
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  Speaker 1: the ball, and it's kind of designed for for him
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  Speaker 1: or Christian or Z or Marv or whoever it is.
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  Speaker 1: And um, just that's just the way the game works.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times they play a different coverage, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got go to your to your different progression
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  Speaker 1: all that, you know. So it's hard to it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to scheme something up to get someone the ball exactly
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  Speaker 1: when you want to. And I mean Evans a guy
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  Speaker 1: that really has done a great job for us. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe stats wise, um he didn't have the craziest stats,
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  Speaker 1: but just as far as what he does in the
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  Speaker 1: run game, what he's been able to do, especially after
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  Speaker 1: the catch. This year, he's had a lot of short
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  Speaker 1: throws come to him, and he's been able to fight
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  Speaker 1: for first downs, he's been great on third down. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: he's done some He's done some really good stuff for us,
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  Speaker 1: and I think our connection is great and obviously we'd
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  Speaker 1: both like to see that get better and better and
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  Speaker 1: for the for the stats and the catches and all
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  Speaker 1: the big plays to come. But I mean, I have
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  Speaker 1: no doubt that's gonna happen. And I know that's something
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  Speaker 1: that neither one of us is concerned about, and we
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  Speaker 1: don't we don't even talk about. So um, it's been
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  Speaker 1: great really playing with him and just his mindset. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember back back in college you're two starting tackles,
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  Speaker 1: lining up next to each other on a play. Do
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  Speaker 1: I remember that ever happening? I don't know. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember. If we have, we probably had something
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  Speaker 1: at some point, I don't know, a good question. I
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  Speaker 1: thought you were going to mention a specific player where
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  Speaker 1: they did or something. It's like, I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 1: You never want to leave commence. But if you go
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  Speaker 1: all the way back and you first started playing, you
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  Speaker 1: never had anything yourself at a point at high school,
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  Speaker 1: middle school or whatever like that. I mean, there's been
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  Speaker 1: times where you know, it's it gets a little shaky
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  Speaker 1: and you really have to work through that. I think
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  Speaker 1: there was, you know, honestly, there's times last year where
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  Speaker 1: you start to question some things, and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: you really have to. This game really tests you mentally,
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  Speaker 1: obviously physically, but mentally especially. You know, really when you're
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  Speaker 1: having not a great year two as a team, it's
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  Speaker 1: a player as an offense, whatever that may be. UM,
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  Speaker 1: you really just have to keep that confidence. And and
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about before, like where do you get your
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  Speaker 1: confidence from? UM, It's it can't just be circumstantial. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing well, So that's that's why I'm confident. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be in something bigger than that. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And I really just believe, you know, I'm here for
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  Speaker 1: a reason, and I've had all these opportunities for a reason,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I feel really confident in that. And
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  Speaker 1: just that's what's That's what's helped me keep pressing forward,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, a great game, really bad game,
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  Speaker 1: great season, bad season, UM, just continuing to be myself
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  Speaker 1: and and just trust that. And I think that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of helped me weather the storm a little bit because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't haven't been challenged too much as far as
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  Speaker 1: my confidence until really get into the NFL. Things have
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  Speaker 1: gone pretty smoothly in my career. I've had some a
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  Speaker 1: little a few bumps in the road, but um, really
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  Speaker 1: last year was was challenging. So I think from that
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  Speaker 1: experience it's helped me a lot. You know, we started.
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  Speaker 1: You know, right now we're two and four. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're a really good team. Um, and we've lost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of games that were that close. We're that close
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  Speaker 1: to being a five and one, even possibly a six
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  Speaker 1: and oh team, and just understanding that and that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really matter to anyone else but for us, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have confidence and who we can be and um,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to go make those plays to finish
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  Speaker 1: those games. But we we have a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess my point was going through the year
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  Speaker 1: like last year, it gives me a great perspective when
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  Speaker 1: how we started this season kind of ups and the downs.
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  Speaker 1: We've had some games where he played great, some games
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  Speaker 1: where we haven't played great, and just being able to
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  Speaker 1: stay locked in laser focused on the next week and
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  Speaker 1: realizing we still have eleven more games and all the
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  Speaker 1: opportunities in front of us to do what we want
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  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, now that you can mention it,
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  Speaker 1: can you share one of those lower ones? Last year?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think there was there was a few
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  Speaker 1: moments obviously, Um, individually I had games right, didn't play well,
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  Speaker 1: and you know when you're getting that in those moments,
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  Speaker 1: where as the quarterback you just try to make something
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  Speaker 1: happen when things aren't going well. And UM, I think
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  Speaker 1: I've learned a lot from that is that's that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: always make things better, usually makes things worse. So I
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  Speaker 1: really just learned how to play within myself, UM and
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  Speaker 1: put us in a That's what we talked about, kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the turnover thing, but just in general playing
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  Speaker 1: within myself, not trying to do too much um. And
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  Speaker 1: last year there were times where I did that and
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  Speaker 1: then you kind of you leave, you leave the field
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  Speaker 1: that after the game and you're feeling like, man, I
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  Speaker 1: was that was awful and I had rough game, and
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of thinking about all the plays and just
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  Speaker 1: being able to channel that in the the right way
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  Speaker 1: and not let it affect your confidence moving forward. But
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  Speaker 1: learning from it is is definitely a skill that I
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  Speaker 1: think you have to learn in this league or it'll
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  Speaker 1: it'll kind of eat you a live because it's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of unique. If if a running back or wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver throws a touchdown pass, it's a trick. Playing probably
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  Speaker 1: isn't very rare and rare, but a quarterbacks intovision you
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  Speaker 1: can throw a touchdown pass or score, but the feelings
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  Speaker 1: on either one different for you scoring or throwing one. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: what do you what's the exactly like running a touchdown?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you know I've always kind of like
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  Speaker 1: running a touchdown to end, Like I don't you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't get to do it as much, but um,
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  Speaker 1: that's always that's always cool. I mean I like both
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  Speaker 1: like scoring, no matter, no matter if it's throwing, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm running in if Travis is running exactly good points
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  Speaker 1: is is fun. So I just like scoring. But um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I enjoy running, especially in the you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the league, you don't get a quarterback. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get quite any opportunities as you might get in college.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can kind of do a little z
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  Speaker 1: own reading out run somebody on the old line in college.
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  Speaker 1: It's not happening quite as much in the in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL with those edge guys. So just be clear. You
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  Speaker 1: had practice quarterback speak this year, right, Yeah. Yeah, we've
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  Speaker 1: had a few, We've had a few reps at it. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: I had a couple in the game that helped us
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  Speaker 1: out that it was good, good, awesome,