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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "It's got to be a 'now' mentality." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Calm.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Radley's fine, is gonna be down today and and will
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: monitor him day to day.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Who's the other one, Josh Allen. Josh is gonna be fine.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: He'll be He'll be out there, but a little bit
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: limited today, but he'll be out there in practice.
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: When you look at the Texans, what did you see
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: when you when you reviewed their tape? How are they
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: different from maybe last year?
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: I tell you, these guys, they they they fly around,
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  Speaker 2: They play with a lot of a lot of speed
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  Speaker 2: and enthusiasm and aggression. It's just a it's a tribute to, uh,
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  Speaker 2: what Demico's doing down there. He's he's changing that culture
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, obviously young on offense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the quarterback and everything, but he's a he's a
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  Speaker 2: talented player, obviously dangerous out of the pocket, throws well
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: on the run. Good football team and you know, a
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: scheme that we're familiar with defensively, but they they're they're
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: playing extremely well.
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  Speaker 3: The Texans. The offense kind of had a sluggish day
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: with the offense coming off and another sluggish week against
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs. How do you avoid that sort of performance
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  Speaker 3: this week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? We can't, you know, we can't go backwards. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta focus, you know, on us and and have
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  Speaker 1: a forward mindset, you know. We yeah, we gotta we
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  Speaker 1: gotta clean up some things. We know that.
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  Speaker 2: But but it's uh, you know, have a good week
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  Speaker 2: of preparation and and you know, go play this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Since since the.
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  Speaker 4: Games, someday you repeatedly mentioned, hey it's week two, it's
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  Speaker 4: or early.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a lot of football at me all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: When you when you put that kind of reality of
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  Speaker 3: the reminder of that reality, does that apply as much
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  Speaker 3: probably for the offensive line as any union on the team,
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  Speaker 3: because you've.
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  Speaker 1: Got five working parts that've got to kind of blend together.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't had this massive amount of time together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's it's real. You know, they
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: don't get a ton of work during the preseason. You know,
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: it's why I play the starters really, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: know it's limited in preseason, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's why I do play the starters.
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  Speaker 2: That we try not to have too many setbacks as
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  Speaker 2: the season begins. But there is some you know, there
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  Speaker 2: is some uh you know, some continuity that has to
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  Speaker 2: be worked through with that offensive line. There's communication that
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  Speaker 2: has to be worked through. You know, Ben's working himself
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  Speaker 2: back in as a as a starter again, you know,
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  Speaker 2: missing missing a few games from last season. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Walker's playing tackle for the first time kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: full time over there right now. And and you know
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  Speaker 2: we got a we got a young, young right tackle.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, there's some there's some pieces that you
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  Speaker 2: know still need to work together, but they're coach well
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  Speaker 2: and they practice hard, and we'll work we'll work through those.
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  Speaker 3: In Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to play last year as well, if
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  Speaker 4: you always kind of sense that the offensive.
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  Speaker 3: Line, for a lot of times there is a work
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  Speaker 3: in progress.
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  Speaker 4: You know that what you see really could mushroom into
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  Speaker 4: something really good, or if you get attrition, it could
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  Speaker 4: go south.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I look back to that last season
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  Speaker 2: I was, I was there in Philly. I mean, we
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: lost four of the five starters. And and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's hard in this league. Defensive fronts, front sevens
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  Speaker 2: are too good, they're too strong, they're too fast, things
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  Speaker 2: are moving quickly, and and yeah, it can it can,
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  Speaker 2: it can affect you. But we continue just to work
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  Speaker 2: with these guys. We you know, have good, good practices
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  Speaker 2: every day and and and keep building and heading in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: Issues potentially with the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: Can that contribute to sort of the short yardage issues
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  Speaker 4: you guys have been having a couple of weeks or not.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's part of it, but it's not everything.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can you can you can maybe a point.
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  Speaker 2: A finger at different different facets of it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it could be the tight ends, the run of not
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  Speaker 2: hitting the whole things of that nature. Offensive line obviously
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  Speaker 2: you know as a part of that as well. But
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's it's everybody. It takes eleven, you know,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what the situation is during the game. And
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  Speaker 2: and those are those are the things that we got
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  Speaker 2: to focus on and and and fix.
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  Speaker 3: So far, I mean it's only two weeks, so.
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  Speaker 1: Tweek three, Week three.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so's it's moving forward. How do you sort of
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  Speaker 4: an assess it? I guess for a week to week.
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  Speaker 1: Basis, Well, that's how you assess it's week to week.
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  Speaker 2: We have to improve, you know, we got to look
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  Speaker 2: at it from a coaching standpoint, right, we gotta look
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  Speaker 2: at the scheme are we doing Are we doing the
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  Speaker 2: right things? Is what the defense you know giving us
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  Speaker 2: what we anticipated on tape. You know, are there some
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  Speaker 2: changes there, because sometimes that happens and then and then
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  Speaker 2: we have to adjust in games sometimes. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's early, but but we're running out of
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  Speaker 2: the early excuse a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And you know we've got to get it addressed pretty quick.
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  Speaker 3: Like how do you replace him on the offense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you know, he's a big one. He's a
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  Speaker 1: big part of what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, Tim Jones has had you know, some playing experience
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  Speaker 2: for us and and can can you know, feel feel
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  Speaker 2: that role quite nicely? And and you know Jay's Zay's
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  Speaker 2: a physical receiver who does some of the blocking for
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  Speaker 2: us as well. Tim's done that before and and and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: So Tim will get get some work if they you know,
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  Speaker 2: if they can't can't go.
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  Speaker 3: A little more than when he play a T game.
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  Speaker 1: He does, he really does.
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  Speaker 2: And again, you know, keeping things relatively simple where he
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  Speaker 2: can just play fast and free and he doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to think about a lot of things, and and and
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  Speaker 2: using his skill set, you know, and and getting him
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  Speaker 2: out of the pocket. I mean, he's he's completing about
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  Speaker 2: sixty four percent of his throws right now, which is
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. For a young player and and you know
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  Speaker 2: two touchdowns, no interception, so you know, those are all
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  Speaker 2: things that will keep keep gaining, you know, uh, experience
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  Speaker 2: for him as he as he plays each week, kind
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  Speaker 2: of have.
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  Speaker 3: To know where he's lined up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's uh, he's another one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously they drafted him, you know, for a
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  Speaker 2: reason to come in and add add some pass rush
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  Speaker 2: and you know with with obviously Demico's you know experience
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  Speaker 2: with the San Francisco defense. And then you got Matt
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  Speaker 2: Burke there who was with me and Philly and Jim
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  Speaker 2: Schwartz kind of that wide nine. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a similarity there, and that's why they
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  Speaker 2: they got a guy like Will you know, he can
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  Speaker 2: get him in a nine technique and he can he
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  Speaker 2: can rush, and you know it's green Yard on the
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  Speaker 2: other side is doing the same thing. I mean, these
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  Speaker 2: two guys can get after the passer. You put the
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  Speaker 2: film on and you can't go to sleep on them.
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  Speaker 2: And then you get two veteran guys inside that can
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  Speaker 2: push the pocket.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a good group up front.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of quickly, it seems like every week there's a
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  Speaker 3: guy on the edge you know, he really has.
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  Speaker 2: To bring his Yeah, it's kind of interesting because the
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  Speaker 2: two games Monday night are the four teams that we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna end up playing this season, right and and all
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  Speaker 2: of them have ed rushers and and now this is
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  Speaker 2: this is no different, right And Yeah, you grow up
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  Speaker 2: as a young player, you grow up fast in this league,
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  Speaker 2: and it's unfortunate. There's no time for really development growth.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to go do it. And and it's
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  Speaker 1: our job to help him, you know. And he'll be better.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be a lot better this week.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be a lot more confident, you know, in his
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  Speaker 2: ability and and should be a good.
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  Speaker 3: Matchup early in the season benefit the defense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, you know, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Week one was a rookie quarterback, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be some there's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Be some growing pains obviously with the with a young quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I dealt with that, you know, my first
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  Speaker 2: year in Philly with Carson. And but the thing is,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are gonna by the time we see him
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  Speaker 2: again and in the second week, they're gonna be so
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  Speaker 2: much better.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll be a different team. Right. Uh, But again,
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  Speaker 1: you you can't.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just go into a game saying, oh, he's
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  Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback, he's gonna make mistakes all that, because no,
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  Speaker 2: he's got ten other guys.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the game last year. They
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  Speaker 1: ran the ball pretty effectively, you know, against us last year.
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  Speaker 2: So there's there's other ways of protecting you know, a
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  Speaker 2: young quarterback and and uh and helping him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be successful.
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  Speaker 4: Early running games started, help the offensive line, help the quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: help everyone.
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  Speaker 1: It does. I mean, it just helps every like you said,
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  Speaker 1: just helps everyone.
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  Speaker 2: I think it settles the offensive line kind of getting
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  Speaker 2: that rhythm they get, getting a good lather, you know,
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  Speaker 2: feeling themselves coming off the ball a little bit. Helps
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback. It just you have to have that sense
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  Speaker 2: of feeling that you've got the running game going. And
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  Speaker 2: I think too even you know, even when you struggle
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  Speaker 2: with it, you got to stick with it. I think
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  Speaker 2: that was something we learned even in the indie game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we came back and we kind of stuck
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  Speaker 2: with the run game, you know as the game progressed.
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  Speaker 1: And those are all things that really just help your offense.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, they're they're great for your quarterback, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: get him into a rhythm as well, and then he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like he's constantly dropping back and you know,
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  Speaker 2: having to make a lot of throws that way, getting
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  Speaker 2: going early.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's a running game. Takes some time to
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  Speaker 3: get going. Have you had a feeling that you're close?
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  Speaker 2: It does take time, you know, that's and again that's
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  Speaker 2: part of the part of the equation. You know, one
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  Speaker 2: two three yard runs eventually turned into six, eight, ten
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  Speaker 2: yard runs. You know, as the game or the season
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  Speaker 2: goes and sometimes it gets it gets frustrating, right because
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: you want it to be better but it's not. But again, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I have to understand that you got to be patient
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  Speaker 2: with it and kind of let that part of it unfold.
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  Speaker 3: I guess sometimes a lot more high. Where's the the
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  Speaker 3: breakdown and has that more of a just rushing to.
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  Speaker 1: Throw or is that you know now there's no mechanical issues.
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  Speaker 2: It could be pressure in the pocket, you know, the tackles,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pushing the guards and centers into the lap
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback. Could be a late decision or reset by
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback coming back to something that tends to you know,
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: be a little bit high.
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  Speaker 1: But nothing nothing mechanically, nothing like that that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when when when when throws are high, just
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  Speaker 2: continue and and keep keep working with its well, when
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: he has performance that he doesn't consider really good, right,
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  Speaker 2: he does, Yeah, he does allow to do that. I
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  Speaker 2: just think he's you know, he's a type of type
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  Speaker 2: of guy that you know, it bothers him when when
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: he or the team doesn't play well, it bothers him,
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: and it bothers a lot of guys. And you know
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: they I I I would say that we did. We
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: didn't practice very well last week, you know, and and
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  Speaker 2: it starts there, starts in practice and and being efficient
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, we've we've got to have good
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  Speaker 2: days coming up. But you know, this team has been
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: resilient that way, and and they seem to respond, you know,
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: to each other and the kinds of adversity that we
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: we sort of bring on ourselves last year, you know,
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: this second half and then the rally and all that
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: other stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Do you worry that there's a thinking in the lockerom
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  Speaker 3: that says, Okay, well.
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: It might not be going brave right now, but we'll
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: be able to turn around, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Type of thing now.
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  Speaker 2: And I I can't. I can't rely on that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thinking. It's it's got to be it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be a now mentality. Obviously, we've got to continue to
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  Speaker 2: work to improve. You know, different season, different team, different uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, set of circumstances, and you you just gotta
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  Speaker 2: play it play at one game at a time.
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: You mentioned less, how do you teach the team championship
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: level practice happens?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of it's a lot of it is on
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  Speaker 1: the players too, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I can I can teach them and and
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  Speaker 2: and you know, instruct and the way things are set up.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's how they it's how the look
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  Speaker 2: teams present the look. It's how offensively and defensively they
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: attacked the game plan within the practice. And you know, yeah,
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: there's gonna be y. You want the mistakes we made
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: during the week, right, so you clean those up and
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  Speaker 2: and and you minimize them during the game. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't take away from us having you know, uh,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: energy and and juice and enthusiasm of practice, right and
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  Speaker 2: and those are all things that we can control. And
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: you know there, yeah, there's gonna be there's gonna be mistakes,
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: but but it just you know, each person, uh, each
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  Speaker 2: player just has to have that motivation like, hey, I've
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  Speaker 2: got I've gotta get.
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  Speaker 3: Better todayte going into a game that, I mean it
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  Speaker 3: was against the super Bowl champs, the guy that sent
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  Speaker 3: you home one that you probably didn't need and motivate
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: them that much forward. Does that worry you don't?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, it doesn't. I mean, guys were guys were
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  Speaker 1: in really good by the end of the week. They
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: were in a really good place.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: You know, I thought, I thought, mentally, but we just
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  Speaker 2: we just failed to execute in that game.
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  Speaker 1: That that part's disappointing.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about execution during the games and how it
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: wasn't there necessarily against Kansas City. Have you seen that
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: execution in practices? I mean, just you said last week
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't a great week of practice. Have you seen
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  Speaker 4: it executed practicing just disappeared during the games.
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, I mean I've seen it. You know, it
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: shows up.
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  Speaker 2: It just wasn't enough, It wasn't consistent enough, you know
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  Speaker 2: last week, and again those are things that you know
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be mistakes made, but we've got to get
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  Speaker 2: them fixed. So the next day we take the practice field,
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  Speaker 2: we don't make that same mistake again, and then that way,
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: you get in the game and things become a little
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: more slow down and you're not thinking as much or
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: more reacting. But you know, I think this week the
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: guys are the guys came in today ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: They're excited to get back on the practice field.
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  Speaker 4: Do you adjust maybe what you do during practice to
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  Speaker 4: sort of get that area of the game going.
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  Speaker 2: No, you know, I'm not big on just changing to
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: change quite frankly, you know, we just got to get
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: better with what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: And again it falls on the coaches too.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Schematically, you know, are we putting our players in those
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  Speaker 2: Those are things that we have to we have to address.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: We have to look at and make sure that you know,
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: we have our best players on the field, obviously on
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: offense and defense. And again you go back to the game.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: You know Sunday we had too many second and long
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: eight pluses. There were like thirteen or fourteen just second
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: and eight pluses, and that tends to lead to third
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  Speaker 2: and law and that's that's hard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's really hard. It doesn't matter who you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: So those are all areas you know that we need
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  Speaker 2: to we need to address this week right. Get better
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: on first down so that we stay out of those
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  Speaker 2: second laws.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: Thanks for coving, bitch.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm