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Press Pass | Pederson: "This is going to be a big week." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. How are doing generals? Good? Good? What's the planet? Kicker?
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  Speaker 1: You all right? I'm ready now. Um, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: again thank Ryan for what he did. And and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's unfortunate, but uh, you know it's the
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  Speaker 1: downside of the business. And and we put a we
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  Speaker 1: put a claim in for um uh McCourt who Illinois
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  Speaker 1: kicker and um we're trying to get him to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Um as we speak, he had I think eight kicks
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  Speaker 1: of them over fifty yards in college. How impressive is it?
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  Speaker 1: Like stre It's it's impressive, you know that part of
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  Speaker 1: it you like, Um, you know, and and and obviously
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  Speaker 1: the consistency is what you look for, uh in in
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  Speaker 1: kickers and and uh you know it'll be a good
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for him, you know. And then and then for
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  Speaker 1: us just to keep keep going through the process. We
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  Speaker 1: get still got a little bit of time here before before.
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  Speaker 1: You know, kicks mean something, but they had to be
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  Speaker 1: a good opportunity for and then what went into the
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  Speaker 1: decision to looten back? Yeah, that one, you know. Um
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  Speaker 1: right now too with with having c J and and
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  Speaker 1: I just want to get healthy, you know. Um, it
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  Speaker 1: just looked and appeared on film and during the game
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  Speaker 1: the other night that he wasn't necessarily percent coming off
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  Speaker 1: his injury from the spring, and this gives him a
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  Speaker 1: time to time to get healthy. And then again it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a great opportunity for Jake, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: to get some more time and to be seen in
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  Speaker 1: some valuable reps. So, um, you know, hopefully he can
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of that. Is not playing as of right now. No,
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  Speaker 1: as right now, I know we're probably gonna limit him
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  Speaker 1: through practice this week. But but then we'll make you
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  Speaker 1: know as far as the game goes, because we're we're
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  Speaker 1: shuffling some things around right now. Any other guys that
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  Speaker 1: won't practice this week with um let me think, Uh, well,
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  Speaker 1: will Richardson will be out. Um, who else did you
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  Speaker 1: have in mind? I could probably clear James. He's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily full clear, but he's clear to practice. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: increase his reps. You'll see an orange jersey on him.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke with Arthur you know Smith um this morning
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  Speaker 1: about that, you know, so they'll be aware of him
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  Speaker 1: and just try to limit the amount of touches. Darius
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  Speaker 1: Williams is full go. He's been cleared you know, for
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  Speaker 1: for everything. So I would be exciting to get him
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  Speaker 1: out there. BT, but oars another one that's that's good
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  Speaker 1: to go. We'll try to ramp up his reps throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of the week, uh, Devin. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: the week progresses, you know, obviously in his favor and
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  Speaker 1: our favor, then then he'll see some time in this game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and which is what we need to see.
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  Speaker 1: Jack's good. Jack's good. Um. Obviously he's the one that
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  Speaker 1: probably won't play in the game, but but definitely get
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  Speaker 1: some practice time, you know, these next couple of days. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if Paki because he oh, he's another one that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: gonna miss. He'll miss practice and then he'll miss he'll
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  Speaker 1: be more kind of healing that that calf and then
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  Speaker 1: um won't play in the game. Talk about Rayshawn Jenkins,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of been like in and out the last
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  Speaker 1: week or so. Yeah, okay, yeah, you know, he's fine. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're also seeing some looks from different different guys,
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  Speaker 1: some younger players there too, But yeah, he's he's good
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  Speaker 1: performance rather than it's about about some of the young guys.
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  Speaker 1: The ankle has been fine. Um, he hasn't had any
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  Speaker 1: issues with that. You know, we've been smart with him obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's just it's a matter of just seeing
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  Speaker 1: some of these young guys behind him and um, seeing
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  Speaker 1: what they can do. You don't playing any starters. The
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  Speaker 1: plan is not to if we don't have to. But
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  Speaker 1: I always know going into these games that that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta have some guys in some emergency roles,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just in case there's you know, something happened. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: some of the starters will probably be in uniform. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So tomorrow is the big physical practice with Tomorrow is
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  Speaker 1: the pad a day, um, you know, to be be
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  Speaker 1: a physical day. Nothing live obviously again talking with with
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  Speaker 1: coach Smith up there, and and we just both of
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  Speaker 1: us want to get good work done, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and and compete and and you know see our teams
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  Speaker 1: against other opponents and um, you know, I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that. And then we're just helmets and shells on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and separate on Friday. There could a guy who
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  Speaker 1: shows out pretty going. The practices change your mind. Is
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  Speaker 1: there a dead enough time to change your mind? Like
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  Speaker 1: a roster roster bubble? Yeah, you know, I think We've
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  Speaker 1: got a pretty good idea right now. But you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: I told the team this morning, this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a big week for for a lot of guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they also too, they gotta understand that not just
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  Speaker 1: our team, but thirty one other teams are are are watching,
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  Speaker 1: you know, our roster as well and and seeing who
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  Speaker 1: who's gonna make the fifty three who's not because there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of a lot of our players
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  Speaker 1: and they get picked up if if they're not here,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But you know, it's it's a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for for many players, you know, especially the young guys
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  Speaker 1: to practice well and obviously play well in this football game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, because they could end up end up
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  Speaker 1: on a roster. It may not be here, but it
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  Speaker 1: could be somewhere. Concerning it for you two and a
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  Speaker 1: half weeks out from the season over there that you
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  Speaker 1: not settled kickers as well, Um, two thousand seventeen, we
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  Speaker 1: tried out six guys week one and settled on Jake
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  Speaker 1: Elliott and he kicked all the way through to the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So I had some experience there, mccarth. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see this week is is still you know, continuation
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  Speaker 1: of that battle, and you kind of want to have
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  Speaker 1: that settled. You're not going into the week and getting
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  Speaker 1: ready what we want. Yeah, I think there's still some
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  Speaker 1: competition there. Um, But as we get into more game
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  Speaker 1: weeks at Washington, UM, you know it'll be it'll be
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  Speaker 1: solidified and you know, whoever that is, we'll be taking
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  Speaker 1: all the reps at that spot. So these are these
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  Speaker 1: next two days the game. Um. You know, as much time,
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  Speaker 1: if they get any, is important, you know, for for
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  Speaker 1: you know, sort of seeing who those five guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hand the camp that you wanted and needed him.
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  Speaker 1: He did, he did. Um. You know, one thing I
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  Speaker 1: like about Trevor's where he's at two is he's still
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  Speaker 1: he's still growing, he's still learning. You know. The hardest
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  Speaker 1: thing is, you know, he's three head coaches, three coordinators,
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  Speaker 1: three position coaches in three years and and so there's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of turnover and change and he's really
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  Speaker 1: handled it extremely well, very mature, um, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just still a work in progress. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we go slow. He understands, you know, even when we
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  Speaker 1: show him on tape what he's doing and or what
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  Speaker 1: he's not doing and um, he makes the corrections and
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  Speaker 1: and and moves on. So yeah, I'm I'm encouraged by
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  Speaker 1: where he's at right now. Do people not understand how
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  Speaker 1: much of a stut you with that is when you're
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  Speaker 1: changing offenses and changing coaches and coordinators. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: I think some people don't understand the magnitude of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not just about you know, everybody's going
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  Speaker 1: to have the same past concepts, right, the same routes
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  Speaker 1: and you know, lines on the page and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but it's how teams call them, what the terminology, the verbiage,
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  Speaker 1: and and learning that and then on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're putting a bunch of situational stuff on
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  Speaker 1: top of that. Plus he's hearing it from for me
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  Speaker 1: or you know, Press Taylor, Mike McCoy, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then and then we're playing these games and he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to study defense and it just it's not an overnight
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  Speaker 1: fix or a process, you know, and it takes some time,
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  Speaker 1: and he's handled it well, you know, and um, he
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  Speaker 1: grows every day, you know, And that's the encouraging part.
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  Speaker 1: I know, sometimes people don't want to hear that it
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  Speaker 1: takes time, but it does, you know. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: was two years you know in Philly before things really
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  Speaker 1: took off for us, you know, so I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be two years, but just knowing that we're
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  Speaker 1: hitting in the right direction. What's art and key like
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  Speaker 1: is a first thing is that he made is a
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  Speaker 1: He's unbelievable. He's he's just got a great personality. Um.
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  Speaker 1: He's excitable. Um comes in the building every day just
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  Speaker 1: in a good mood all the time. And he's just
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  Speaker 1: it's just hard to explain, but he UM great teammate.
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  Speaker 1: Um works hard, it's a good leader. Um does everything
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  Speaker 1: you ask him to do. And and uh, um, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's fun to have guys like that at your roster,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to kind of kind of keep things lighting
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  Speaker 1: and energetic. I know it's looking ahead a bit, but
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  Speaker 1: do you take an easy on the next week once
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  Speaker 1: the hunch are done? Now now, Um, we'll have three
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  Speaker 1: really good days next week to still evaluate. It's one
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  Speaker 1: more week of training camp. But but we also want to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe focus on our first one to three opponents,
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  Speaker 1: you know, something like that. But you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a little more of an in season schedule for the
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  Speaker 1: guys now that we've kind of broke camp and but
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, we still want to push him
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know it may come down to next week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for for a couple of these battles. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's still an important week. How far behind this
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  Speaker 1: he how hard a pint is a rookie win an
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  Speaker 1: injury like that kind of lingers, It's hard to say
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  Speaker 1: until we see him in live action. You know. That's
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  Speaker 1: why this week can be important for him to get
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  Speaker 1: out there and and just try to increase his reps
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  Speaker 1: each day and then hopefully get some time in the
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  Speaker 1: game and just see where he's at. I know he
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  Speaker 1: takes all the mental reps and he he's in there
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  Speaker 1: during the walkthroughs in the afternoon with the defense and
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  Speaker 1: making calls and and all that. But you know, when
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  Speaker 1: things get sped up is where you know, where things
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  Speaker 1: can kind of get sideways. So we just need to
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  Speaker 1: see him out there this week and hopefully in the game.
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  Speaker 1: After seeing Christian Kirk's performance, reviewing it as you feel
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  Speaker 1: like he did he did well. You know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be one of the things that Trevor can I
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  Speaker 1: think count on with him and he's gonna be in
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  Speaker 1: the right place, you know, on the field, and he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna do the right thing. And that's that's a confidence
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  Speaker 1: level for your quarterback. And he's a pro at it.
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  Speaker 1: He works hard at it. Um. You know, hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: a game week the week before, he would have he
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  Speaker 1: would have played, you know, my decision to keep him
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  Speaker 1: out of that that game. But yeah, he's uh, um,
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  Speaker 1: he's in a good spot too, and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to keep him in Trevor on the
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  Speaker 1: same page and and just find more ways to get
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  Speaker 1: them open. You feel like with with the tight ends
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  Speaker 1: you have in the room, particularly with with with Evan
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  Speaker 1: and Dan, that you've got a sort of a committee
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  Speaker 1: thing going and being as productive as anybody else. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like our tight end room. Um mix of kind
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  Speaker 1: of youth and some old guys in there. And um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you take Devin, Dan and Evan, uh, two
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  Speaker 1: more athletic you know, route runner type tight ends that
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  Speaker 1: you know could possibly create a match up here and there,
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  Speaker 1: mixed with you know Chris and his his ability to
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  Speaker 1: to block and Luke's doing the same thing, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a good room, and it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a versatile room, you know. And and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: keep you sort of locked into two certain things offensively
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  Speaker 1: that you want to get done. Um and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with with using tight ends, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: my career having played with a bunch of tight ends
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  Speaker 1: and the coaching him and uh, this is a good
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  Speaker 1: it's a good group. As a follow up, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like this receiver group you would have, seems that seems
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  Speaker 1: to do a pretty good job when it comes to blocking,
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  Speaker 1: because this franchise in the last four or five years
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  Speaker 1: on wide receiver screens as it just hasn't the yard.
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  Speaker 1: It just hasn't been there. Yeah, part of it is that.
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  Speaker 1: And how you feel about that, Well, look, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it takes eleven uh players, and we we pride ourselves
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  Speaker 1: on blocking, you know, with the with the receivers and
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  Speaker 1: on the on the perimeter, whether they have to dig
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  Speaker 1: dig out of safety sometimes a linebacker corners, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and we make it a point of emphasis
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  Speaker 1: with them because we know that too. They reward is
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  Speaker 1: what they can they can score a touchdown in the
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  Speaker 1: past game, but sometimes it's rewarding to make that key
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  Speaker 1: block down the field to to spring your running back
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. So we're going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: you know, educate our players on that, um, letting them
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  Speaker 1: to understand that, you know, part of part of playing foot,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get in there and get get
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  Speaker 1: kind of dirty, you know, with with some of the
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  Speaker 1: blocking schemes. Are you looking forward to seeing defensively how
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  Speaker 1: you guys handle kile Pits and the kind of challenge
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  Speaker 1: that he presented, Yeah, you know, I mean those are
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  Speaker 1: things you'd look for, you know, in in these these
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  Speaker 1: practices you know, coming up and and uh, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to just for me the first time to really
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  Speaker 1: kind of see him in person run routes and the
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  Speaker 1: type of athlete he is and and I've heard some
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  Speaker 1: great things about him, and it'll be it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: challenge for our defense too, you know. And again not
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  Speaker 1: not scheming necessarily, but just watching, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: seeing seeing how they they use him, you know, offensively,
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  Speaker 1: but how we try to defend and how we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: you know, who we're gonna put over there, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: might be. Uh, Yeah, it's gonna be fun this week.
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  Speaker 1: How important has it been to see that kind of
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  Speaker 1: production you guys have seen from the pastor sofore, even
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: it's just pre season. Once it's good, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: again you know you're you're you're still not game planning anything,
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  Speaker 1: but you're you just want to see athletics is him
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  Speaker 1: and see get off you know, and all that and
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  Speaker 1: and pushing the pocket, particularly on third down. And it's
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  Speaker 1: been good to see the production that we've had there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, anytime you can just even disrupt the timing
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  Speaker 1: of a quarterback or at least put somebody back in
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  Speaker 1: his lap, you know, just throw the timing off, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and rhythm off. And our guy has been able to
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  Speaker 1: do that, you know, um, you know these first three games,
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  Speaker 1: and and something that uh as we get going, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and scheme up a little bit more, I think utilizing
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  Speaker 1: our versatility at some positions better, maybe