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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Player Status Ahead of Week 15 vs. Jets · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: How has a Foy been playing for you? And how
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  Speaker 1: big a part is he to be having the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: best run defense.
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  Speaker 2: I've mentioned this a few times. Pros pro off the
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  Speaker 2: field in terms of the way he handles his business,
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  Speaker 2: but playing at a high level and the energy that
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  Speaker 2: he brings every Sunday, you know, running around the feel
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  Speaker 2: like a mad man, you know, yelling, screaming and great
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  Speaker 2: just great energy, but also making plays defending the past
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  Speaker 2: as well. I think that's the one thing about his game.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's been pretty impressive this see is taking
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  Speaker 2: that accountability at that second level of the defense, whether
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  Speaker 2: it be in zone or man match coverage, getting his
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  Speaker 2: hands on balls, playing with anticipation and understanding of the scheme,
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  Speaker 2: but not only you know, the preparation of maybe what's
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  Speaker 2: coming in these down and distances, and just tackling, getting
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  Speaker 2: guys to the ground. I mean, that's so much of
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  Speaker 2: this game as you go back to youth football, it's running, tackling,
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  Speaker 2: and hitting, and he's done it all at a high
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  Speaker 2: level for us this year.
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  Speaker 3: We have a couple of.
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  Speaker 4: Guys said after the game that it starts with the preparation.
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  Speaker 4: It's been heightened in the last month or two. Is
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  Speaker 4: that player driven or is that a position coach driven?
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  Speaker 4: And do you agree that it's been on point?
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  Speaker 2: I think it all starts with our players, right. It's
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  Speaker 2: a collaborative effort that you continue to try to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: put your players in a position to be most successful
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week, but while challenging them as well during
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  Speaker 2: the week to give them certain difficult situations that could
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  Speaker 2: come up so that maybe Sundays are easier. Is that's
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  Speaker 2: the goal, is what you'd like to do as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: But I think our players and some of the leadership
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  Speaker 2: the way that they've gone out on Wednesdays, when you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've taken some of the speed off of practice, their intentionality,
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  Speaker 2: the discipline of how they've approached Wednesdays specifically because that's
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  Speaker 2: their first day of the work week, and these guys
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  Speaker 2: have handled it the right way. And then you go
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  Speaker 2: out on Thursdays and we're able to go faster and
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  Speaker 2: they've practiced hard, like it's not like our guys are
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  Speaker 2: out there throughout the week trying to take plays off
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  Speaker 2: and looking for vet days and guys to take reps
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  Speaker 2: off at all. I mean, our guys have practiced hard,
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  Speaker 2: and it starts with the leadership. Trevor popped up on
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  Speaker 2: there on Wednesday yesterday, just what happened? Yeah, nothing really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's fine. Has been the lasts of practice.
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  Speaker 2: Having everybody out there at least it's not fascinating, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to get your you know, as much of
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  Speaker 2: your full team out there as we can have. Makes
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  Speaker 2: Mamba a little bit more you know, exciting as well,
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  Speaker 2: just because it's you're able to get more guys reps
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  Speaker 2: and you know, get the tempo of practice going a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. So it's been great to have a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more of a fuller unit, I guess you could say.
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  Speaker 2: And it's continuously creating competition within our own building. Right
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  Speaker 2: you're competing each week against your opponent, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got to continue to compete for a jersey and
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  Speaker 2: a helmet on Sundays, and that's what you're ultimately looking
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  Speaker 2: for within your team.
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  Speaker 5: It's an adverten that you're bringing it up. Reminded me
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  Speaker 5: what is the momb of period? As much as you
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  Speaker 5: can share. I know some listeners and some fans have
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  Speaker 5: asked a little bit more as to what that is.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a good on good period that we've been
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  Speaker 2: doing ultimately really throughout all of training camp. Really is
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  Speaker 2: when we kind of started doing it. I guess maybe
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  Speaker 2: we did some in the off season program as much
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  Speaker 2: as you can without pads, but it's all based on
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  Speaker 2: competition and it's all graded out. I guess you could
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  Speaker 2: call it scored. It's usually racks of three best the
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  Speaker 2: three wins the day, and you know, I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's something we did a lot of in training camp,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was third down, Mamba's red zone, Mamba two minute,
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  Speaker 2: four minute, and you're just trying to heighten the sense
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  Speaker 2: of competition throughout the season. It's usually a faster period,
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  Speaker 2: which I like, it's three plays and then it's over,
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  Speaker 2: but it's you're getting a little bit more full speed competition.
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  Speaker 2: We're not trying to necessarily scheme up each other. It's
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  Speaker 2: five man rush cover one on defense, and it's playing
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  Speaker 2: football on offense. Like we're not trying to run runaways
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  Speaker 2: and picks and meshes. It's really just, hey, you guys
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  Speaker 2: beat each other in a lot of ways, and so
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  Speaker 2: we've been doing that for quite some time. All the
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  Speaker 2: way throughout the whole season, we do it on every
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  Speaker 2: We were doing it on every Wednesday and every Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: a period each day, but now because we're not doing
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  Speaker 2: much on Wednesdays, it's become more of a third down
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  Speaker 2: emphasis man coverage, go play and go win on offense
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  Speaker 2: and block one on one up front. So it's scored.
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  Speaker 2: It's competition, but it's kind of rooted in.
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  Speaker 5: Previously Tampa in LA.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where it is rooted from.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are eighth in the league in time of possession.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a stat that some coaches
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to. Some coaches it's not as big a
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  Speaker 1: priority for them, But what does it speak in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the complimentary piece in all phases sort of working
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  Speaker 1: together to get these wins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think anytime you can control the football in
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  Speaker 2: a game, I think that that's something that you look
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  Speaker 2: to try to do in most games. Now, look, there's
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to be more explosive and have those four or
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  Speaker 2: five play drives or you know, sudden change where we
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  Speaker 2: get a turnover and we score on the first play, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you want to have those. Those are very necessary and
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  Speaker 2: important to our explosiveness as an offense, but also momentum
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  Speaker 2: in a game, but the sustained drives, the executing better
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  Speaker 2: on third downs, moving the chains, keeping the clock moving
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  Speaker 2: while it all really helps your defense out as well,
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  Speaker 2: and just keeping those guys off the grass, limiting the
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  Speaker 2: amount of snaps that they can play offensively, and just
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  Speaker 2: ultimately controlling the game.
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  Speaker 3: When you first got here as a coach, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: there were a couple of players that stood out as
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  Speaker 3: leaders right away. Josh Linz, Allen, Trevor Lawrence, guys like that.
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  Speaker 3: But as the season has progressed, what players have sort
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  Speaker 3: of stood out to you as you know, rising to
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  Speaker 3: the occasion as leaders.
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  Speaker 2: I think the whole group of captains has done a
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  Speaker 2: great job of keeping the team, you know, the hindsight,
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  Speaker 2: just understanding what the goals are. Non captains, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Devin Lloyd's one guy that comes to mind for me
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  Speaker 2: in my mind on defense where you know, he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a cet on his chest, but he brings energy.
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  Speaker 2: You can hear him talk to the players on some
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  Speaker 2: of his micd up stuff and then making plays and
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  Speaker 2: rising to some of those occasions. TJ on offense is
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  Speaker 2: a guy that got a number of votes to be
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  Speaker 2: a captain year and has let ultimately his play speak
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  Speaker 2: for itself and brings it every day that he comes
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  Speaker 2: to work. So those are guys that you know come
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  Speaker 2: to mind right off the top of your head, without
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  Speaker 2: getting too much into the weeds.
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  Speaker 6: How important is it to not be stubborn as a
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  Speaker 6: head coach in terms of whether it's what you're calling,
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  Speaker 6: he's on the field and trying to fit this guy
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  Speaker 6: into maybe he's not supposed to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, been stubborn must? You know many a time, And
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  Speaker 2: you do typically look back at some of those decisions,
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  Speaker 2: whether you mention it as a play caller, a situation,
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  Speaker 2: a personnel grouping, a personnel decision on game day, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is. And usually when you kind of go totally
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  Speaker 2: against the grant or you're you're being so stubborn that
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  Speaker 2: you kind of know in the moment that it may
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  Speaker 2: not be right, but you're trying to whether it's a value,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's something that you value as a play caller
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  Speaker 2: or as a system or as a coach. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you have to make those decisions, and I think when
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  Speaker 2: you are able to get other people's opinions as well
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  Speaker 2: to make some of your decisions, I do believe that
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  Speaker 2: that's important because when you're left to your own devices
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  Speaker 2: and your own thoughts and you don't listen to anybody else,
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  Speaker 2: or you're not able to take some hard truths. I
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  Speaker 2: think that that's kind of where stubbornness can come into play.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's definitely a constant battle that you're fighting
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  Speaker 2: as a coach, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Is it generally sort of accepted that most coaches are stubborn.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I mean it's probably because you have
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  Speaker 2: to also stick to your guns too, right. It's the
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  Speaker 2: balance is whether it's culturally, whether it's the message that
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  Speaker 2: you're sending to your players on a week to week basis,
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  Speaker 2: change of schedules, right, things like that, and having the
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  Speaker 2: flexibility to to do what you think is best versus
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  Speaker 2: we need this, right, we need this, And so you
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  Speaker 2: know when you have a good group of guys around you,
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  Speaker 2: people around you that you're able to bounce ideas off
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  Speaker 2: of and and take some things in to be able
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  Speaker 2: to ultimately make the best decision that you think at
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  Speaker 2: the time. That is the balance, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: How do you think the players respond to that when
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  Speaker 6: you would make Okay, maybe I was stubborn to this
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  Speaker 6: or hey, he's not being stubborn about this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I think that if you're constantly
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  Speaker 2: put in the you know, the program and the organization first,
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  Speaker 2: like from our team roles of protecting the team and
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  Speaker 2: doing at the end of the day, if the players,
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  Speaker 2: I think, feel that you're doing what is in the
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  Speaker 2: best interest of the Jacksonville Jahuars to go win, I
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  Speaker 2: think that those decisions typically get okay. As a player
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  Speaker 2: if you're if you're in the building and you believe
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  Speaker 2: that and the visions that you make not maybe not
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  Speaker 2: all work out, and maybe not all or exactly what's best,
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  Speaker 2: but for maybe an individual, for the staff, whatever it
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  Speaker 2: is right for a side of ball. It might affect
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  Speaker 2: in a negative or positive way differently, but at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, if they believe that you are
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  Speaker 2: truly doing what's in the best interest of this organization
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  Speaker 2: to go win games on Sunday, I think I think
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  Speaker 2: it usually plays out all right.
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  Speaker 3: When you hire a camp of grant this offseason obviously
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  Speaker 3: had an idea of what they would bring.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of seen them grill in their first year
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  Speaker 2: with in these re sakes bots. Yeah, I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: part of the profession that it's exciting is giving people
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to grow within new roles and what that looks like.
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  Speaker 2: And the only way you can truly grow is with
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  Speaker 2: those opportunities. And so you're going to fail, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to succeed, You're going to have good and bad moments throughout.
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  Speaker 2: But I do believe that, you know, really all three
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  Speaker 2: of our coordinators have done a really nice job this
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  Speaker 2: year adjusting to personnel, put in the players first, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to make it the game as fast
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  Speaker 2: as possible for these guys, you know, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play as fast as possible on Sundays, and you
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  Speaker 2: know you can see camp be you know, obviously the personality,
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  Speaker 2: the the way that you want those guys to run
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  Speaker 2: and hit and show up on tape is something that
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  Speaker 2: obviously I was really excited about when I hired Campy.
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  Speaker 2: And and then the detail of Grant if you really
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  Speaker 2: look at the amount of time that he obviously puts
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  Speaker 2: into this thing, but also the amount of extra that
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  Speaker 2: we're constantly trying to push our players to do. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that that shows up in some of the
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  Speaker 2: level of detailed execution and UH situational football you look
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  Speaker 2: at the game.
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  Speaker 4: This weekend, Jets have pretty productive pass rushers. What type
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  Speaker 4: of different challenge do they do they bring this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Paying the butt you know, seriously, it's it's almost every
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  Speaker 2: week that you're talking about darn good pass rushers that
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  Speaker 2: were constantly you know, seeing and preparing for. And our
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  Speaker 2: players have had the opportunities to rise to those challenges.
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  Speaker 2: For you know, McDonald's slippery, fast, I mean, he's got
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  Speaker 2: one of the better spin moves out there. Speed, the
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  Speaker 2: power rush, you know, really has some ability there. And
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  Speaker 2: then Jermaine Johnson Briggs has played at a high level
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  Speaker 2: this year. For these guys, and then their linebackers, they
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  Speaker 2: do a nice job of activating them in some of
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  Speaker 2: the rush and being able to get them on linebackers,
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  Speaker 2: and they're fast and explosives, so you know, I know
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  Speaker 2: they're top five and third down for a reason. It's
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  Speaker 2: usually if you can rush and cover connected wise in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ways, you can be a good third
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  Speaker 2: down defense. And so that's something that they've done a
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  Speaker 2: nice job of. And their front is a huge reason.
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  Speaker 5: To the point about coaching. When you were in Tampa,
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  Speaker 5: you obvious you got to pick a lot of your
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  Speaker 5: offensive staff members and then obviously you pick your whole
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  Speaker 5: staff here, what is it for you when you're developing
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  Speaker 5: a staff that you identify this is someone who I
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  Speaker 5: want to give that opportunity to.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, you know how important is teaching to them.
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  Speaker 2: Coaching and teaching go hand in hand. But it's guys
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  Speaker 2: that I think can take what they know and be
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  Speaker 2: able to get it to these players. But not every
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  Speaker 2: single way is going to be the same. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to be flexible in your approach to teaching, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: because they're all different. Every player is different. They receive, gather,
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  Speaker 2: and execute information all differently. And so I think being
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  Speaker 2: a great coach is being a great teacher and the
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  Speaker 2: ability to have a relationship and be able to impact
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  Speaker 2: and affect these guys on more than that of a
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  Speaker 2: professional level, like having you know, the connection with players,
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  Speaker 2: to be able to have an honest and open conversation,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's about their player or whether it's about their
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  Speaker 2: personal life and how to reach them is the goal.
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  Speaker 2: And if they typically think you care about them a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more than just the x's and o's and
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  Speaker 2: the results, I think they they'll they'll play hard for
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  Speaker 2: you and I, you know, looking at the group of
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  Speaker 2: guys that we are with as a staff, hunger is
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  Speaker 2: another part that you know, fat and happy usually doesn't
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  Speaker 2: typically get it done in my you know, just guys
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  Speaker 2: that maybe want to prove something, you know, have an
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  Speaker 2: edge that first time response responsibilities, or hey, coming off
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  Speaker 2: of a different unique experience that they want to go
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  Speaker 2: and provide this insight into this new role and responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: I think that those are typically some qualities that we
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  Speaker 2: look for