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- 0:00Speaker 1: The interception on the goal line there, the fact that
- 0:03Speaker 1: it was sort of the same mistake that he made
- 0:06Speaker 1: back in I guess a couple of weeks ago against
- 0:08Speaker 1: the Texans. Do is that the most concerning part about
- 0:10Speaker 1: what you're seeing out of Trevor right now? You know,
- 0:14Speaker 1: I think it's something that obviously it is disappointing. You know,
- 0:17Speaker 1: you're down there your first and goal after getting the
- 0:21Speaker 1: you know, the defensive interference call there on on on
- 0:24Speaker 1: Marv the play before that gave us that first and goal,
- 0:27Speaker 1: you know, and and and you just we just gotta
- 0:29Speaker 1: keep continue to to teach I just think that, um,
- 0:34Speaker 1: you know, with with Trevor and and just understanding football
- 0:37Speaker 1: and understanding the situation and where we are and you know,
- 0:41Speaker 1: all that stuff comes into play and you don't have
- 0:43Speaker 1: to force things, you don't have to chase plays, you
- 0:46Speaker 1: don't have to try to, you know, make something that's
- 0:48Speaker 1: not there, and and um, you know, in reality, you've
- 0:52Speaker 1: got all four downs to really score the touchdown in
- 0:55Speaker 1: that situation. UM, And and something we can learn from.
- 1:00Speaker 1: And we gotta continue to teach it and coach it,
- 1:02Speaker 1: and we gotta we just gotta you know, make sure
- 1:05Speaker 1: that as as a staff that that uh you know, uh,
- 1:08Speaker 1: Trevor understands number one and then number two, we don't
- 1:11Speaker 1: make the mistake again moving forward, the fact that he
- 1:16Speaker 1: said that the throw was there, I think he said
- 1:19Speaker 1: it that in the post game that the throw is there.
- 1:21Speaker 1: He just made a bad throw. I get to play
- 1:23Speaker 1: with the opening made a bad throw. That the problem
- 1:25Speaker 1: that he thought that he could squeeze it in, well, uh,
- 1:31Speaker 1: you know, obviously he saw something you know that that
- 1:34Speaker 1: he thought was there. Um, you know, and again we
- 1:38Speaker 1: just gotta continue to teach it and coach it and
- 1:41Speaker 1: um you know, listen, I'm not gonna take the aggressiveness
- 1:44Speaker 1: away from from Trevor. I love that part about him.
- 1:46Speaker 1: But at the same time, we've got to be smart
- 1:49Speaker 1: and we just gotta understand that, you know, it's first
- 1:51Speaker 1: and goal at the one and and there's a lot
- 1:54Speaker 1: of options, um, you know, available to you as an
- 1:57Speaker 1: offense in those situations and just knowing that we can't
- 2:01Speaker 1: take points off the board. And one more real quick,
- 2:05Speaker 1: do you anticipate um losing any guys to trades to
- 2:10Speaker 1: today or tomorrow or or you kind of feel like
- 2:12Speaker 1: this roster is what you're gonna have I mean, listen,
- 2:16Speaker 1: you know, anything is possible. I you know, you know
- 2:20Speaker 1: we're always gonna do us best for Jacksonville. We're always
- 2:23Speaker 1: gonna do as best for the team. UM. If if
- 2:26Speaker 1: teams call, you know, you're obviously gonna listen and be
- 2:29Speaker 1: open to what they have to say or what they're
- 2:31Speaker 1: what they're interested in. But UM, you know, as of
- 2:34Speaker 1: right now, the roster is is is what it is. UM.
- 2:38Speaker 1: I like the roster. You know, we've got to continue
- 2:41Speaker 1: to work and build it. But at the same time,
- 2:43Speaker 1: if if you know teams are gonna call, then you know,
- 2:46Speaker 1: obviously you're gonna take a listen, thank you, thank you.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Well we'll go to Haze and then Demetrius. Okay, I
- 2:58Speaker 1: wanted to bring you back to to for a second.
- 3:01Speaker 1: You guys lost five straight in but then you won
- 3:05Speaker 1: your final two and went on to win the Super
- 3:08Speaker 1: Bowl the next year. I'm curious what did you learn
- 3:11Speaker 1: maybe going through that that five game skid in how
- 3:15Speaker 1: did that make you a better coach? And and is
- 3:18Speaker 1: there anything that you can apply going through a similar
- 3:20Speaker 1: situation here with the Jaguars. Yeah, you know I think
- 3:24Speaker 1: about that. UM. Obviously in our in our current situation here. Um,
- 3:31Speaker 1: you know, the number one thing I think that you
- 3:33Speaker 1: find out is is uh, the men in the locker
- 3:35Speaker 1: room and you find out the type of character that
- 3:38Speaker 1: they have and and how how strong your culture is. Um.
- 3:43Speaker 1: And I say that to say this, and really, the
- 3:48Speaker 1: the thing that you're gonna see now is you know,
- 3:49Speaker 1: you don't want guys to start pointing fingers. You don't
- 3:52Speaker 1: want guys to start making excuses. You don't want guys
- 3:54Speaker 1: to start taking you know, practices off for you know,
- 3:59Speaker 1: finding short to to do things. UM, I think now
- 4:03Speaker 1: is the time that we just have to continue to
- 4:04Speaker 1: rally around each other, support each other, pick each other up.
- 4:09Speaker 1: You know, I I look back on the sixteen during
- 4:11Speaker 1: that time, and you know I didn't change as a coach.
- 4:13Speaker 1: You know, I stayed the course. I trusted our process
- 4:16Speaker 1: back then, and we gotta do the same thing, you
- 4:18Speaker 1: know now. We just got to continue to trust each
- 4:20Speaker 1: other and continue to work because I know that. Obviously,
- 4:24Speaker 1: we went on to win our last two and and
- 4:26Speaker 1: and the sort of catapulted us into the into the
- 4:28Speaker 1: off season. Obviously the next year won the Super Bowl.
- 4:31Speaker 1: But you know, look, we've got nine games left our
- 4:34Speaker 1: season is not even half over yet, and um, you
- 4:37Speaker 1: know we got a lot of football ahead of us. Um,
- 4:40Speaker 1: and you know, we just gotta take care of business
- 4:42Speaker 1: and and uh and keep focused on that great stuff.
- 4:46Speaker 1: And then I was curious, just coming back from London,
- 4:49Speaker 1: is there anything that changes for the routine this week
- 4:52Speaker 1: for practice or anything. Not a whole lot, um, And
- 4:57Speaker 1: given gave the players off today just to it get rest.
- 5:00Speaker 1: They'll come in and get a get a lift in
- 5:03Speaker 1: on Tuesday and then and then I'll back the schedule
- 5:07Speaker 1: off a little bit on Wednesday. We won't go in pads,
- 5:09Speaker 1: you know Wednesday. Just again the severity of the the travel,
- 5:15Speaker 1: you know, the length of travel, the time change, all that,
- 5:19Speaker 1: and and just kind of keep them fresh these these
- 5:21Speaker 1: next couple of days. And then Thursday Friday will stay
- 5:23Speaker 1: the same. So not a not a big big hole,
- 5:27Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of changes, but just enough to
- 5:29Speaker 1: to try to keep these guys fresh for Sunday. Cool.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Thank the thanks you, thanks. Hey. Um, we'll go to
- 5:37Speaker 1: Demetrius Harvey and then we'll finish up with John Shipley
- 5:42Speaker 1: the Doug. I I hope you're doing well. Um. I
- 5:45Speaker 1: just wanted to follow up with what the Rock said
- 5:47Speaker 1: about the trade deadline. You said that there's players that
- 5:51Speaker 1: or if teams are gonna call, you're going to take
- 5:53Speaker 1: a Listen specifically though about Josh Allen, if he's a
- 5:57Speaker 1: guy that you can foresee, um except the call about
- 6:01Speaker 1: or taking a call about O R I P. The
- 6:03Speaker 1: guy you want to remain on the team. Yeah, you know, listen, Um,
- 6:08Speaker 1: I appreciate the question, but I'm not gonna get into
- 6:11Speaker 1: a lot of details about about the roster right now
- 6:13Speaker 1: and things like that. Listen, we know that that you know,
- 6:16Speaker 1: there's a lot of moving parts in the NFL, and
- 6:19Speaker 1: everybody's you know, everybody's trying to you know, make moves,
- 6:22Speaker 1: especially those teams that are that are having success and
- 6:25Speaker 1: and all of that, and you know, and and even
- 6:28Speaker 1: for us, I mean, you know, uh, there there may
- 6:30Speaker 1: be an opportunity for us to add some talent somewhere,
- 6:33Speaker 1: you know, So we obviously are gonna take a look
- 6:35Speaker 1: at everything. And um, you know, I'm with I'm with Trent.
- 6:39Speaker 1: You know, he and I united on on on all
- 6:41Speaker 1: of this and how we handle the roster and and uh,
- 6:44Speaker 1: you know, uh really really like the guys and how
- 6:47Speaker 1: they're working right now, and like I said earlier, we
- 6:49Speaker 1: just gotta keep keep working with them, and then just
- 6:54Speaker 1: offensively the passing game in terms of the deep ball, Um,
- 6:59Speaker 1: what have you seen in that area this year? And
- 7:01Speaker 1: how can you guys sort of improved on that? Well,
- 7:05Speaker 1: you know, we've we've got to keep working there. Um.
- 7:08Speaker 1: You know, we had an opportunity, a couple of opportunities
- 7:10Speaker 1: yesterday actually too shoot the ball down the field and
- 7:13Speaker 1: we either either you know, gave up a sack or
- 7:15Speaker 1: we didn't pull the trigger. And those are just things
- 7:17Speaker 1: that we've got to continue to work on, you know, honestly,
- 7:20Speaker 1: And um, it's it's something that uh are we we
- 7:25Speaker 1: understand as a staff and and you know, our passing
- 7:28Speaker 1: game has to get has to get better. We gotta
- 7:29Speaker 1: get more out of it. That comes with starts with
- 7:32Speaker 1: us as coaches as we game plan and making sure
- 7:35Speaker 1: that our players understand that game plan and then and
- 7:37Speaker 1: then using the strengths of our receivers you know and
- 7:41Speaker 1: tight ends uh to to push the ball down the field.
- 7:44Speaker 1: So uh, we understand that, we know that and we
- 7:48Speaker 1: gotta we gotta improve there. Thank you, you bet, thanks
- 7:53Speaker 1: to And we'll wrap up here if you're doing well.
- 8:01Speaker 1: Just you know, when when it comes to a young
- 8:02Speaker 1: guy like Trevor, necessarily in his career, how do you
- 8:05Speaker 1: keep him from, you know, maybe mentally kind of shouldering
- 8:08Speaker 1: some of these losses and maybe getting two down on
- 8:10Speaker 1: his own abilities. Well, the number one thing is, you know,
- 8:14Speaker 1: he understands, and I gotta make sure that he understands
- 8:17Speaker 1: that he's not you know, he doesn't have to do
- 8:19Speaker 1: this by himself. You know, it takes takes eleven guys
- 8:21Speaker 1: on offense, and you know, obviously the quarterback and I
- 8:25Speaker 1: think the head coach get all the all the blame
- 8:28Speaker 1: and all the praise and and right now, I know
- 8:30Speaker 1: there's there's probably a lot on on on his shoulders.
- 8:33Speaker 1: But he he understands two and I'll make sure that
- 8:35Speaker 1: he does that that he's not in this alone, and
- 8:37Speaker 1: that we're going to continue to work and build. And
- 8:40Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of football left. There's nine games,
- 8:42Speaker 1: and we got a great opportunity this week. Um, you know,
- 8:46Speaker 1: we just gotta we just gotta continue to to build
- 8:49Speaker 1: these players up. You know, they're they're young guys that
- 8:52Speaker 1: that haven't played a ton of football in this league
- 8:54Speaker 1: and and we're continuing to to teach them each and
- 8:58Speaker 1: every day. And then the last one. Doug, I know
- 9:01Speaker 1: you mentioned it a little bit yesterday, but after going
- 9:04Speaker 1: back and watching the tape, how impressed were you just
- 9:06Speaker 1: with the defensive line performance and the overall pass rus yesterday?
- 9:11Speaker 1: You know, I thought the d line really stepped up yesterday.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Um got back to what they did earlier in the season. Um.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I know we lost contained there at the end and
- 9:19Speaker 1: let's let's rustle out, you know on that late in
- 9:22Speaker 1: a late in the game that got him the first
- 9:24Speaker 1: down there. But you know that for the most part,
- 9:26Speaker 1: they were aggressive, really really pushed the pocket, had some
- 9:31Speaker 1: had some good great games in there. Arden Arden was
- 9:35Speaker 1: was was explosive, smooth, Trayvon was. You saw his length
- 9:39Speaker 1: and an explosiveness in there, you know. So it was
- 9:43Speaker 1: good to see. Good to see him get back to
- 9:45Speaker 1: that and and uh, you know again something to build
- 9:48Speaker 1: on as we uh as we moved to to this week. Thanks.
- 9:53Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Betman. Awesome, thank you coach. All right
- 10:00Speaker 1: it guys, wh