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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "You’ve just got to go play." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's good and it isn't. I mean, I don't you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily want to be behind in football games,
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  Speaker 1: as you know. Um, but it's it's good in a
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  Speaker 1: way that you know, the guys never never quit and
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  Speaker 1: they're just kind of I guess, storing things up as
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  Speaker 1: the game goes and and um, you know, finally the
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  Speaker 1: switch goes on and you start playing football. But it's
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  Speaker 1: obviously not the way we want to draw it up.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Um, we'd love to start fast and finish faster.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it is a credit to the guys though,
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  Speaker 1: for for hanging in there and some of these some
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  Speaker 1: of these um, it's some of these games, aren't you
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  Speaker 1: do for a good start? What we're doing? I mean
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  Speaker 1: I think we're Yeah, I mean we are. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you always try to go into every game and try
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  Speaker 1: to start fast. Um hasn't been that way, probably going
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  Speaker 1: back to the Houston game, probably the when we got
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  Speaker 1: off to a quick start there. But yeah, you want
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  Speaker 1: to do that, and um, games like this, uh, everything
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  Speaker 1: is on the line. You want to you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get behind, especially against you know, good teams. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's just not a recipe for success. How is the
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  Speaker 1: teaming weather or affected you. You're at least fought over
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  Speaker 1: the game, It really doesn't you just you still gotta
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  Speaker 1: go play. I mean you might switch a few things
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  Speaker 1: here and there, and maybe some players you've got in
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  Speaker 1: your game plan, but other than that, you can't let
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  Speaker 1: the weather you know, affect you. Um it's the same
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  Speaker 1: for them as it is for us. And um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just gotta go play. I guess the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: would be the ball security issue, making sure you take
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  Speaker 1: care of the football. I know how much you enjoy
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  Speaker 1: our stats that we give you. I think the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: have not beat in Kansas City behind uh, you guys
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  Speaker 1: have broken a lot of streaks. Just any thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: that one. It's a tough place to play. They're good
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  Speaker 1: football team. Crowd is uh, you know, a great crowd.
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  Speaker 1: It's loud. Um. You know, they keep you, you know
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  Speaker 1: they keep you um uh you know, kind of pressing
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  Speaker 1: the envelope, trying to get the snap off from time
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  Speaker 1: to time, and you know you're trying to stay out
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  Speaker 1: of penalties and things of that nature. But tough place
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  Speaker 1: to go in there and play, and and we understand that.
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  Speaker 1: So we've we've prepared that way and and we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Quarterbacks really kind of make the reputations. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think quarterbacks coaches were you know, we're measured on championships,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially in our league, and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's want to oh in the postseason. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a start not where he obviously or or myself
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  Speaker 1: where we need to be or want to be, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a start in the right direction, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: much like this season has been for us, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you just want to be at the end of it
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  Speaker 1: each year. You want to be in the conversation, you
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  Speaker 1: want to have those meaningful games. You want to be
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  Speaker 1: playing for the a f C South, giving yourself an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity getting the postseason, and then you gotta win postseason
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  Speaker 1: games and that is a measure of you know, quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: I think in the league. But ultimately, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have to win the you have to win the championship
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  Speaker 1: to to really you know, take that next step. Days
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  Speaker 1: and my homes made for straight two people are fully
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  Speaker 1: he asking how hard that is. I don't think people
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  Speaker 1: understand how quite how hard that is, um, and for
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  Speaker 1: us that are in it. How appreciative we are of
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  Speaker 1: of that feat of of what you know, Tom has done,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what the Chiefs have done and some
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  Speaker 1: of these teams that are there every year. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a difficult thing, you know. And and the
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  Speaker 1: amount of playoff games that that Tom Brady has been
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  Speaker 1: in and played in and won, I mean it's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a couple of seasons worth the games.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know, that's what we're striving to do
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  Speaker 1: here and and you know, and that's what Trevor wants
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  Speaker 1: to do. Is you want to win postseason games and
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  Speaker 1: and give yourself an opportunity to play in the final game.
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  Speaker 1: But um, you know, we gotta we got a good
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  Speaker 1: one this weekend of ruins it for everybody, right because
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  Speaker 1: everyone looks as like, what do you mad? Like eight
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  Speaker 1: or olds and all that, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's what people think. Um, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a narrative that's out there. But those of
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  Speaker 1: us that are in it, it's not that easy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not that easy. And uh, but that's the thing that
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  Speaker 1: you love about the postseason, you know, is is uh,
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  Speaker 1: you give yourself an opportunity to go compete and see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. They haven't been on the field obviously, but
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  Speaker 1: how if Cam Robinson into Wan Smooth sort of helped
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  Speaker 1: this team during this year the last few weeks. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're bouncing it and out getting their treatment there
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  Speaker 1: in the you know, in the training room, in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, talking to players. I'm sure I know guys
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  Speaker 1: are talking to them during the week and just their
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  Speaker 1: their leadership on you know, anything that they can provide, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of the young guys and at their positions.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good to see him, you know, these last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weekends, uh, you know, with the games that
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  Speaker 1: we've had here to see them after the game and
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  Speaker 1: the excitement, the joy, I just I just wish those
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  Speaker 1: guys were out there with their teammates, you know, competing.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell how much this run kind of means
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  Speaker 1: to some of those guys like that A while, it
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  Speaker 1: means a lot, you know, it means that again we're
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  Speaker 1: heading in the right direction. You can see the um
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  Speaker 1: kind of the joy in their faces, you know again
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  Speaker 1: for kind of where they've been and where we're headed.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I think that's I think that's exciting for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and especially for those guys that have been
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  Speaker 1: here and kind of suffered through some lean years and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we're just hoping to you know,
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  Speaker 1: build off of this one and and try to continue,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the success we've had this year. Won four
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  Speaker 1: games in the road this year. Um, this team had
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  Speaker 1: won four games on the road since seven. Team, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if they won four games in the last
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  Speaker 1: five years, would you do? Well? How did you what
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  Speaker 1: you set up? How did these teams grow on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Anything's to be adopt you. You know, the road can
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  Speaker 1: can pose a lot of distractions for your football team. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the travel, you know, family, friends in the in the
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  Speaker 1: visiting city. Um, you're in a hotel, meeting schedule, all
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  Speaker 1: that thing, all those things. It's just you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of just locking in and understanding that
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  Speaker 1: we treat it as a business trip. We treat it
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  Speaker 1: we're going there for business, right and it's not a vacation.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, as a coach, you try to keep
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  Speaker 1: kind of preaching that message to your team that we've
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  Speaker 1: got to go. You know, you gotta take your your
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  Speaker 1: lunch pill in your briefcase and and we're going on
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  Speaker 1: a business trip and and um, you know, uh, the
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  Speaker 1: teams that handle the road the best have success later
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  Speaker 1: in the season because you know, again this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have to go on the road
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  Speaker 1: and win, win tough, meaningful games. So um again, it
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  Speaker 1: was you know, something that you just kind of as
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  Speaker 1: a code, you just kind of keep reiterating a lot
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  Speaker 1: of points that way, you know, and you just it's
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  Speaker 1: up to the guys to kind of focus in and
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  Speaker 1: eliminate what they can eliminate and just focus on their job.
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  Speaker 1: It's get more difficult to another road of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the teams are better, but there's more
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  Speaker 1: attention for the media games, so there's more people, there's
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  Speaker 1: more things that pull you away from your job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and what you're what you're focused on, And um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it can be a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: a distraction specs you going on the road. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's about keeping everybody together, you know, at
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  Speaker 1: the hotel and the meetings and how we do things
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  Speaker 1: and handle things. But I also want the guys to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy these times too. These are they don't come around
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  Speaker 1: very often, and anytime you get a chance to play
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason, Um, it's a great accomplishment for your
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  Speaker 1: for your guys, So I do want them to to
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  Speaker 1: also enjoy, uh these opportunities. Concerned about how much juice
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  Speaker 1: these guys have left. You guys started at the Pro
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  Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame game, the emotional roller coaster of
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  Speaker 1: these last six weeks, and you're gonna play what your
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  Speaker 1: nineteen football game for a young team, I mean, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's the reason why they're still going as they're young,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Uh, I think we're with the sixth youngest
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  Speaker 1: now when you're when you look at all the metrics
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  Speaker 1: and everything, we're kind of right there with with the
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  Speaker 1: chiefs as far as youth goes. And um. But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you know that that's a good thing, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of energy with these guys. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look that's also part of winning, you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: each year, you know you're you're you want to be
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  Speaker 1: here again next year, right and and be talking about
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  Speaker 1: the same things. And you have to condition yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: have to condition your mind, your body, everything to be
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  Speaker 1: playing football. In January and February that's just that starts
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  Speaker 1: in the off season, you know, and builds through training camp,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, if you're conditioned that way, you don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about it as much. It's going to be initially
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a quick fix. Looking back on what
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  Speaker 1: did you fix the quickest? What what Jill earliest? With
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  Speaker 1: these guys. You know, I think it all comes back
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  Speaker 1: to trust. Just trusting me, you know as the head coach. Um.
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  Speaker 1: It's not so much the scheme and the plays and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff that was gonna come. But
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  Speaker 1: I think they had to trust me, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a new head coach, and and the faster we could
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  Speaker 1: accomplish that goal, then then these guys would would do
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  Speaker 1: anything for you. And so that was to me the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing and the fastest, the quickest thing that I
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  Speaker 1: had to accomplish, and they also had to accomplish that.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, what do they do? Uh ear
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  Speaker 1: that made you unhappy? You know? They played hard? They
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  Speaker 1: played hard. Yeah, they played hard for four quarters, never quit.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I heard multiple times, you know from fans
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  Speaker 1: and people outside the building that a year ago some
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  Speaker 1: of our games the team would have shut down. The team.
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  Speaker 1: It might have gone in a different direction and now
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  Speaker 1: you lose. Instead of you losing by three, you might
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  Speaker 1: lose by seventeen. Um. And you never saw that with
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  Speaker 1: our group, you know, outside of the one Detroit game. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you never saw that. And that was the biggest, biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing that I saw from our team that said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: these guys get it. They understand. Um, they're playing together
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna work through and
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  Speaker 1: figure out a way to win more games than then
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  Speaker 1: lose these games. What's your process for adding you play
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  Speaker 1: lady season press? They added that that four downplaying from
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  Speaker 1: the rose Bold Washington State Flight and eighty Andy Builders
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  Speaker 1: a twitter uh said you have approved every day and
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  Speaker 1: the splintered roll in there and you wrap it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, press presses the offensive coordinator and he bounces
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  Speaker 1: things off of me and they talk and you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much information out there. We can we can
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  Speaker 1: get plays from anywhere, not just not just off our system.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, um, we're always we're always looking. We
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  Speaker 1: see things. You know, my brother will send me stuff,
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  Speaker 1: cousin will send your stuff, you know, and uncle will
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  Speaker 1: send your stuff. Your mom will send your stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just amazing what comes through. But um, do you
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  Speaker 1: ever use one of Mom's plays. No, it's a little
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  Speaker 1: a little crazy, a little crazy, but no. But I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's just like that. And then you have to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that it works for you right before you
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  Speaker 1: before you put it in your game plan. You want
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  Speaker 1: to just ta something different. I think you can be
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  Speaker 1: I think you can still be creative this time of year. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Guys like having creativity. They don't want the same sort
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  Speaker 1: of mundane things, which are good, you gotta have them,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, you still want something fresh
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  Speaker 1: and unique and different because this again, we're playing a
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  Speaker 1: team that we played, you know, two months ago, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so we want to we want to have
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  Speaker 1: some things that are that are fresh and new, and
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna have stuff that's that's new and and some
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  Speaker 1: wrinkles in there as well. You you do get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff off of Twitter. Um, people send you
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  Speaker 1: those videos and stuff off of Twitter and YouTube and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, and a lot of it's just like
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  Speaker 1: fan video that might have saw something in a training
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  Speaker 1: camp practice, you know, or all that stuff gets posted nowadays,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people people are that's the thing about it.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has a microphone and a camera, so but that's
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  Speaker 1: usually the most creative place that we find stuff. Saying
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  Speaker 1: that was like, oh, well, you gotta be careful because
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: the high school and college rules are different formationally than
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  Speaker 1: than ours, and so you gotta be you know, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be a little bit you know, careful there because
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  Speaker 1: you can't just put a play in and go wait
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  Speaker 1: a second, the tackles gotta be covered up them how
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be able to run something. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you look at them and there's a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good ones out there, a lot of creative minds,
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  Speaker 1: which is good