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Press Pass | Mac Jones on BTJ Connection, Challenges of Jets Defense · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Win. You guys gotta win under your belt last week.
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  Speaker 1: How do you kind of build off of that to
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: kind of keep that moment and pushing forward. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's a great win.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good team win, and as as you know,
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  Speaker 2: once Wednesday comes, you kind of just move on to
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  Speaker 2: the next week.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely want to carry that with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in this league, it's hard to win, and
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  Speaker 2: you want to try and stack some wins if you can.
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  Speaker 2: Which doesn't win like that, maybe your confidence just moving
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  Speaker 2: forward to the rest of the season. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: you always you win or you lose, and you learn
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  Speaker 2: either way. So that's what my goal is. To learn
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  Speaker 2: how to get better, how to try and get some
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  Speaker 2: more points early and put our defense in a better
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  Speaker 2: position throughout the game. And you know, we got a
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  Speaker 2: good plan this week and we're gonna have some good practices.
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  Speaker 1: Are you feeling more comfortable the more we you kind
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  Speaker 1: of get a chance to lead out there, Yeah for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think as you know, I like to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep it loose and have fun, and I'm also very
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  Speaker 2: furious when I'm out there, But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to go out there and have fun
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  Speaker 2: and put up points and keep everybody loose. That's in
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  Speaker 2: the huddle, that's with my play. That starts in practice.
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  Speaker 2: So really just continue to do that and see where
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  Speaker 2: it goes. So you were able to watching the sideline
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the year and a field of seeing it
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  Speaker 2: first half most starts, for sure, do you have what?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything you can put your finger on? You
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  Speaker 1: have a theory?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm not a football scientist, but I
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  Speaker 2: mean there's definitely things you learn, not only from experiences
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  Speaker 2: this year but in the past and watching other teams
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  Speaker 2: and how they start fast.
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  Speaker 1: Really just starts with good quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Play and going out there and taking the completions and
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  Speaker 2: moving the chains and honestly just getting rid of the
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  Speaker 2: ball because we're not going to get in the yards
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  Speaker 2: until I get rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not very fast.
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  Speaker 2: So the best way to do that is just give
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  Speaker 2: it to the running backs, tight ends, receivers, let them
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  Speaker 2: make plays, and really not focus on Sometimes when you
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  Speaker 2: put such a focus on, hey, we haven't scored it all,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that backfire. So really just the process of each play,
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  Speaker 2: one play at a time, six seconds per play, that's
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  Speaker 2: all you can really do and hopefully that stacks into
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  Speaker 2: a really good drive and then you either get you know,
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  Speaker 2: field goal or touchdown, and then you reset and do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing on the next drive. So that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of how I see it. Do you feel pressure though,
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  Speaker 2: because it hasn't happened, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: When you're going out there, it's like, gods, you got
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  Speaker 1: to stop.
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  Speaker 2: Fast this week? Not really, honestly, I mean you it
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  Speaker 2: sounds crazy, but you don't have control over some things
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  Speaker 2: that happen each play, you know, Like I always say,
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  Speaker 2: you have a job to do, whether if it's a
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  Speaker 2: run play for me, it's handed off or checked to
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  Speaker 2: a different run and then throw it to the open
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  Speaker 2: guy as best as I can. So that's how I
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  Speaker 2: look at it, and I hope that's how everybody else
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  Speaker 2: looks at it, because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: if you're constantly thinking about the result, then you're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be focused on all, right, what am I supposed
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  Speaker 2: to do on this play to create that result? So
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  Speaker 2: I think that is that is part of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: finger on the on the issue, but really just take
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  Speaker 2: it one play at a time.
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  Speaker 1: The offense does the offense had that different deal when
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  Speaker 1: Brian kind of gets going and when it gets a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit, yeah, yeah, Brian's a really good player. He's
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  Speaker 2: obviously young, but he wants the ball. I love that
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  Speaker 2: about him. He like kind of like demands it, which
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  Speaker 2: is awesome for a quarterback. I've I haven't had much
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  Speaker 2: of that in my career, where guys like, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: really want this ball right here, throw it up on
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  Speaker 2: make a play. So I really appreciate that about him,
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  Speaker 2: and for a rookie, he has a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 2: and just for me just trying to keep him loosing
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  Speaker 2: the huddle and having fun out there. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: he plays really good when he's having fun and just
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  Speaker 2: focusing on his job and and running and making places.
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  Speaker 1: The If any whether it's halftime or whatever, did you
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  Speaker 1: either initiate conversation or here that hey, we need to
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  Speaker 1: start getting the ball to Brian more. It was definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was definitely our plan to get him
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  Speaker 2: the ball because he's are one of our best players.
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  Speaker 1: It just did you for sure? For sure? Press or.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think it was just understood, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I think to get some things going. Really, it was
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  Speaker 2: just me taking the completions, whether that was Brian or
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  Speaker 2: anybody else. And in this often it's very spread the
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  Speaker 2: wealth offense where you're trying to get it to the
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  Speaker 2: open guy, and obviously the NFL defenses can take it away,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's you know, rolling down into a coverage or
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  Speaker 2: double team in somebody. So BT is definitely getting some
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  Speaker 2: of that, which is great, that's a respect thing, but
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  Speaker 2: there's also ways where we could get him incorporated earlier.
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  Speaker 2: And really with me, like we call players to get
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  Speaker 2: get him the ball early, it was just maybe I
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  Speaker 2: dropped my eyes or something happened. So each play is different,
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  Speaker 2: but you also have to be careful when you're like
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  Speaker 2: force feeding someone where they're trying to they're your best
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  Speaker 2: player and you know they're trying to take some things
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  Speaker 2: away too, So you just have to read it out
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  Speaker 2: and obviously trust the play call and trust you know,
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  Speaker 2: what Press has taught us, and he's done a great
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  Speaker 2: job in the meetings, especially recently, just explaining all right,
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  Speaker 2: this is the purpose of the play, this is why
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  Speaker 2: we're running it, here's a video, and then how can
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  Speaker 2: we apply that into our own offense. Yeah, definitely, I
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  Speaker 2: mean he's he's a great player, and as a rookie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everyone one has been there, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: has been a rookie before it, that's a veteran, and
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  Speaker 2: it's tough. There's a lot of things coming at you
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  Speaker 2: different looks, and we have a lot of other good
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  Speaker 2: players too, so it's not obviously just him, but he
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  Speaker 2: definitely brings out electrifying playmaking ability, and he's very smart
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  Speaker 2: and he works very hard, so he's all ball for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to get him to loosen up a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: have a little bit more fun and enjoy it because
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  Speaker 2: it's it's fun out there when especially when he's making place.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think have an experience, you know, playing against
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  Speaker 2: the Jets and yeah, players, do you think.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of helps you this week? Yeah, I hope.
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  Speaker 2: So it's definitely the NFL's top defense in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: you know, over my career so far, they're the best
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  Speaker 2: defense I've gone against each year. Uh, not only players,
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  Speaker 2: but scheme and coaching. Obviously they're familiar with me and
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  Speaker 2: I have some former teammates over there and you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys that played against six five six times, So definitely
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to it. They've done a good job this year.
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  Speaker 2: I know, the records the same, but really their defenses
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  Speaker 2: is one of a kind and I got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of respect for those guys over there.
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  Speaker 1: Cool, thank you,