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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, I mean, it's a different role, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: than like filling in mid-game or, yeah, for a short stint,
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  Speaker 1: knowing it's going to be a little, you know, long-term here.
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  Speaker 1: But luckily, I've been able to, you know, do this
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  Speaker 1: in the past, play long stretches of games, so I
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  Speaker 1: can kind of fall on that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's something that I'm uncomfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, to answer your question, it's a little different
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  Speaker 1: than filling in just for, you know, a game or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coming in mid-game.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Walker.
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  Speaker 4: We've asked you this only 10,000 times, and I know
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  Speaker 4: the answer, but how much more comfortable are you on
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  Speaker 4: the left side than the right side? It just seems like,
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  Speaker 4: and I think you've even acknowledged it, that that is
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  Speaker 4: your more maybe comfortable spot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I definitely, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a product of taking a lot
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  Speaker 1: of reps there throughout all my life. I mean, here
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  Speaker 1: as a Jaguar through college days, I've played a lot
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  Speaker 1: of snaps on the left side. So yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's always been a more natural thing. I've
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  Speaker 1: definitely worked throughout my career to be more comfortable on
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  Speaker 1: the right side, but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a lot more reps up on the left.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go John and then Ryan.
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  Speaker 5: Hey Walker, you know, you've taken some snaps next to
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  Speaker 5: him obviously in camp and so far this year, but
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  Speaker 5: Just what's that like kind of learning to get that
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  Speaker 5: chemistry down with, you know, a manual rookie at left guard,
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  Speaker 5: somebody you haven't had like a lot of games with before.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's a really good player, so it's always
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  Speaker 1: nice playing against a guy like him playing against a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's really good.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a fast learner.
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  Speaker 1: I think one thing I've tried to do is just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, over communicate with him and he's super receptive
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 2: And just getting on the same page with him.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really fast learner and yeah, he, he, he did,
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  Speaker 1: has done and is doing a really good job. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure to play next to him for
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  Speaker 1: this short stint so far, and I'm excited for the
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  Speaker 1: games ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Walker, I have two questions for you.
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  Speaker 6: First one is, how much did you lean, during the
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  Speaker 6: last year or so, how much did you lean on
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  Speaker 6: early part of your career in terms of knowing.
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  Speaker 3: What to do in practice to stay sharp?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I would say A lot of it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've learned a lot over my career and
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  Speaker 1: watched guys that have kind of been in my position
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  Speaker 1: as that sixth O-lineman and how they've done it, how.
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  Speaker 2: They stay ready for the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I also think, yeah, knowing, you know, getting that
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  Speaker 1: game experience, having played in a lot of games, you know,
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  Speaker 1: lets you refine, you know, what you need to do
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  Speaker 1: during practice. And just honestly, more than anything, it's just
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  Speaker 1: staying locked in, not letting things slip through the cracks,
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  Speaker 1: even though you may not get the opportunity to play.
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  Speaker 1: So when your number is called, you can just jump
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  Speaker 1: in and flow with the offense.
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  Speaker 6: And then for me, you've been here with Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 6: since the very beginning. What is it like watching him
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  Speaker 6: play at this level, be in the huddle with him
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  Speaker 6: when he has such a command of what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's really awesome for me.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, being from the beginning, seeing him this
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  Speaker 1: whole time, knowing how good he is, And maybe him
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  Speaker 1: not earning the respect from the rest of the league
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  Speaker 1: or the rest of the country. Or maybe people always
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  Speaker 1: being like, oh, you know, he was good, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anymore. And me seeing him every day, knowing
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  Speaker 1: how great he is and it really showing even more
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  Speaker 1: now than ever. And people understanding that he is one
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  Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks and best football players in this league.
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  Speaker 2: It's really cool for me and it's really great for
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  Speaker 2: this team.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: We'll go to Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Walker, what does a bye week do for an
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  Speaker 3: NFL team? How refreshing is that for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think every team's different.
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  Speaker 1: When it falls is always different for us, and this
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  Speaker 1: year particularly. Coming in after London, we were obviously there
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  Speaker 1: for a long stretch, and then a tough loss in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: but allowing us to, or against you, Sean, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: allowing us to just regroup, you know, get guys healthy.
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  Speaker 1: But the biggest thing is just mentally resetting and kind
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  Speaker 1: of reframing our mindset for this next, you know, 11-game stretch.
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  Speaker 2: To finish the season. And, you know, it's one game
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  Speaker 2: at a time, but, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we're going to try to go on a run
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  Speaker 1: here and string a lot of games together so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can hopefully get a chance to play in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: And speaking of going on a run, 11 in a
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  Speaker 4: row against the Colts at home. Is that, like, almost
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  Speaker 4: unfathomable in this league that one team could beat another
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  Speaker 4: that many straight in the same venue? Or is it
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  Speaker 4: not that head-scratching?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, no.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of those just, like, weird, quirky
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  Speaker 1: stats that you see, and you're like, whoa, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But, again, every year is a new year, and you
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  Speaker 2: got to come into it.
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  Speaker 1: With a mindset of trying to just go 1-0 this week.
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  Speaker 1: Any team can lose on any given Sunday, so no
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  Speaker 1: matter how many times we've beaten them at home in
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  Speaker 1: the past, it's not going to help us come Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Does it come up this week? Do you think Liam
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  Speaker 3: will bring it up?
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  Speaker 2: No, I can guarantee you he won't bring that up.
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  Speaker 3: If it was the other way around, would he?
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  Speaker 1: Potentially, maybe, but I think he's done a great job,
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  Speaker 1: better than any coach I've really ever had. about not
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  Speaker 1: making it about, you know, outside noise and making it
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  Speaker 1: about us, about the X's and O's and about just execution.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's, you know, been a big part
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  Speaker 1: of what's made us really good the past, you know,
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  Speaker 1: year and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, by the way, one more thing, where have you
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  Speaker 4: shown the most, where do you feel like you've shown
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  Speaker 4: the most growth from, you know, rookie year getting thrown
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  Speaker 4: in the mix to now six years in?
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  Speaker 3: Is it six or five, five, six?
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  Speaker 2: I guess my sixties.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as a player, I mean, I think I've
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  Speaker 1: gotten better kind of across the board past pro and
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  Speaker 1: run game, but more than anything, I think just trying
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  Speaker 1: to be a leader on the team and a good
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  Speaker 1: teammate and just so one of the coaches can rely
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  Speaker 1: on some of my teammates can rely on. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's probably the thing I'm most proud of, of my
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  Speaker 1: career so far and like where I've, grown from year
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  Speaker 1: one to year six.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Walker. Hey, Jordan.
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  Speaker 8: Liam was on here a little bit ago talking about
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  Speaker 8: one of the things that was a priority over the
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  Speaker 8: bye week was kind of figuring out how to eliminate
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  Speaker 8: some of the explosives in the past game. What were
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  Speaker 8: one or two or three things that you guys kind
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  Speaker 8: of came up with that would be the priority there?
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  Speaker 9: Um, staying on top, staying on top of receivers, uh,
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  Speaker 9: making sure that, uh, we understand, you know, why we
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  Speaker 9: are calling things and things that we have to take away.
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  Speaker 9: Just understanding our job responsibilities and that, you know, cleaning
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  Speaker 9: that detail up, you know, what can hurt us the
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  Speaker 9: most on each play.
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  Speaker 7: So, you know, eliminating that.
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  Speaker 9: And Coach Kemp talked about it too, talking about making
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  Speaker 9: the offense's play left-handed. Just take away, you know, those
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  Speaker 9: deep shots and that'll help, you know, clean up some
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  Speaker 9: of those big plays.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, go Gary and then Ryan.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, Jordan, I wonder, during a bye week, do you
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  Speaker 10: guys become fans like anybody else and watch a lot
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  Speaker 10: of the games yesterday? And what did you make of
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  Speaker 10: the losses by the AFC South opponents, especially, you know,
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  Speaker 10: all three of them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It helps.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely helps.
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  Speaker 9: I did keep an eye on, you know, some of
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  Speaker 9: the opponents that we will be seeing in the future. And,
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  Speaker 9: you know, so just see the type of game style
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  Speaker 9: that they play and, you know, how they doing. And, shoot, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: the AFC soft helped us. So we're still number one
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  Speaker 9: in the division. And, you know, just trying to make
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  Speaker 9: sure that we don't have any skids to where we
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  Speaker 9: let anybody get any opportunity to take that from us.
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  Speaker 10: And when you, I'm sure when you get to this
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  Speaker 10: point in the season, there's a whole lot of tape
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  Speaker 10: available on everybody you play. But does it help when
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  Speaker 10: you can look at a Houston Giants game like yesterday
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  Speaker 10: and you have both of those teams coming up? Is
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  Speaker 10: that real valuable to see them playing each other?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it helps. But at the same time, we
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  Speaker 7: have a play style that, you know, is unique to us.
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  Speaker 9: So they attack us differently than they attack any other opponent.
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  Speaker 7: So.
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  Speaker 9: You know, seeing like defenses, that's what I look at
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  Speaker 9: when an opponent plays a defense that plays like us
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  Speaker 9: or like a scheme like us.
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  Speaker 7: And then, you know, to see how they attack their defense,
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  Speaker 7: I think that's more.
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  Speaker 9: Beneficial than, you know, just seeing opponents, you know, going
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  Speaker 9: up against each other. But one thing we do see
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  Speaker 9: is their play style when they go up against different people.
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  Speaker 7: You get an opportunity to go watch some games.
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  Speaker 9: And just to see, you know, like the tempo in
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  Speaker 9: which they play and run and block and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 7: So that's one thing I do think is beneficial, looking
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  Speaker 7: at the opponents.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Jordan, two for you.
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  Speaker 6: First one is, compared to when you came in the
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  Speaker 6: league to play corner in this league, has it become
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  Speaker 6: more difficult the way the position has been officiated?
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  Speaker 2: Not really. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It was kind of like that when I was coming
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  Speaker 7: into the league. It was, well, actually, yeah, it wasn't,
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  Speaker 7: it's not really a big difference, but.
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  Speaker 9: It is, it has, I don't want, you know, I
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  Speaker 9: got to answer this politically correct, but it has gotten
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  Speaker 9: more difficult to just go out there and go and attack.
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  Speaker 9: So we got to be strategic. We got to build
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  Speaker 9: our P's and Q's and that just makes us better
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  Speaker 9: football players. And I think that's what kept me in
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  Speaker 9: the league a long time is just understanding how to
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  Speaker 9: adapt to the different styles of, you know, how the
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  Speaker 9: game is being played and, you know, call and, you know,
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  Speaker 9: just understanding the rules.
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  Speaker 7: Because at the end of the day, we got to
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  Speaker 7: go out there and play.
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  Speaker 9: So regardless of how it's being officiated or things are
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  Speaker 9: being called, we got to be out there and give
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  Speaker 9: it our all and play our best.
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  Speaker 6: Second one for me, Jarion Jones after the Texans game said,
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  Speaker 6: I got to go back to the drawing board. He
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  Speaker 6: admitted that it had been some tough sledding. As a veteran,
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  Speaker 6: what kind of words of wisdom can you give a
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  Speaker 6: third-year player to say, hey, here's some pointers, but also
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  Speaker 6: don't change what you're doing totally?
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  Speaker 7: It just starts with the basics. You know, you get
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  Speaker 7: in your mind, you want to have.
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  Speaker 9: A great season and things like that. Things happen in
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  Speaker 9: the season where things get mixed up and, you know,
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  Speaker 9: you got to come in and different things and, be
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  Speaker 9: put in different situations, but I know who he is
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  Speaker 9: as a football player, regardless of what's being said or what,
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  Speaker 9: you know, what he feels right now. I know exactly what,
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  Speaker 9: you know, position he's in and I know exactly the
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  Speaker 9: type of player he is. So just getting back to
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  Speaker 9: the basics, understanding that, you know, at the end of
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  Speaker 9: the day, at this core, it's a simple game and
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  Speaker 9: don't make it.
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  Speaker 7: As hard as, you know, you trying to make it
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  Speaker 7: in your head. It's not that hard, man.
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  Speaker 9: Just, just be, be where you need to be, be
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  Speaker 9: violent and use your technique and, you'll be fine. You know, sometimes,
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  Speaker 9: you know, you can get in your own head and
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  Speaker 9: that can cause different things to, you know, affect your performance.
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  Speaker 9: But I just, you know, just keep getting on it
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  Speaker 9: about just being who he is and playing with technique
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  Speaker 9: and making everything simple.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: No problem. We'll go to John. Hey, Jordan. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: doing this.
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  Speaker 5: Travis, you know, his first six games of really honing
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  Speaker 5: in specifically at cornerback, you know, above all else, just what,
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  Speaker 5: what'd you kind of see that growth? What'd you kind
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  Speaker 5: of see the most growth from him over these first
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  Speaker 5: six games? And just how exciting is it to see him,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like in the Houston game where he's just
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  Speaker 5: making those plays on both sides of the ball, like
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  Speaker 5: a few of the guys can do.
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  Speaker 9: Just understanding the tech, like the techniques that he's, that
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  Speaker 9: he's being asked to play and being more detailed in that.
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  Speaker 7: And I think that's for everybody. I think he's done
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  Speaker 7: an amazing job at it.
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  Speaker 9: And you can see, His playmaking ability has just, you know,
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  Speaker 9: come to life, especially, you know, in the past game.
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  Speaker 9: He's doing the best, I think, the best I've seen
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  Speaker 9: him do as a Jaguar man, especially, you know, just
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  Speaker 9: being technically sound and understanding, you know, what the defense
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  Speaker 9: is asking us to do and being attacking.
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  Speaker 7: He doesn't care what happens. He just goes out there
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  Speaker 7: and attack.
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  Speaker 9: And I love that about, you know, the football player
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  Speaker 9: he is and the person he is. He goes out
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  Speaker 9: and attacks every day, very enthused. And just having fun, man.
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  Speaker 9: That energy helps us, too, when he's making plays, when
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  Speaker 9: he's doing what he needs to do. That helps our
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  Speaker 9: defense and even our offense, gives us the juice that
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  Speaker 9: we need.