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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "It's fun when it comes together." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it's I think it's both.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at it. Obviously, we all have our part.
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  Speaker 1: This is a it's the ultimate team game, coaches included.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at everything, and we all could have
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  Speaker 1: played better last week, for sure, UM, coaches could have
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  Speaker 1: coach better. It's all, we're all in it together. So
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  Speaker 1: I think when you look at that, our coaches did
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  Speaker 1: a great job of, you know, being honest with us
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  Speaker 1: with things we can do better, but also things they
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  Speaker 1: can do better. And we just had a great week
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  Speaker 1: of prep, felt really confident about it, UM, and I
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  Speaker 1: think they put us in great positions all game. I
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  Speaker 1: think we just controlled the game, you know you, Like
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  Speaker 1: I said after the game, that's kind of ideal way
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  Speaker 1: to play it. You have the time of possession like
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  Speaker 1: we did, long drives, hold the ball for a while,
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  Speaker 1: you're ending with touchdowns besides the one field goal. UM,
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  Speaker 1: so it's awesome. Then our defense come out there and
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  Speaker 1: just just I mean stopped everything, especially at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game when you know we're trying to run
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  Speaker 1: some clock off and they're getting the ball back pretty quick,
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  Speaker 1: and defense just with Stone and them, So it was
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  Speaker 1: it was awesome. Um, there's a lot of fun today,
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  Speaker 1: I think, UM, a lot of stuff underneath intermediate. Um,
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  Speaker 1: was there a reason that you weren't taking more shots
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  Speaker 1: downfield where you're just taking what the defense gave you?
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  Speaker 1: Was that the game plan? Yeah? It was, Yeah, definitely
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was our plan. Just the way the
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  Speaker 1: defense they run the structure, they try to take away shots,
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  Speaker 1: they play soft or give you things underneath. They just
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  Speaker 1: make you be patient for the whole game. And UM,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of teams get impatient trying to start forcing
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  Speaker 1: throws downfield. And really, we did a good job of
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  Speaker 1: sticking to our plan. That was, that was what we
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  Speaker 1: planned on doing, and we execute it really well. The
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  Speaker 1: guys did a great job after the catch, um when
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  Speaker 1: Christian was awesome and some of the other guys too,
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  Speaker 1: Evan had some some great plays. Um. So really that
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  Speaker 1: was a plan. And it's cool being able to just
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  Speaker 1: execute the plan that you have all week and to
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  Speaker 1: do it to a t. So it was great, right
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  Speaker 1: And one more, were you and your teammates aware that, um,
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  Speaker 1: the Colts have not won here since and that your
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  Speaker 1: last shutout was against them in Uh the second part
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  Speaker 1: Now I didn't know, um, but yeah, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody knows about them not winning here in a while,
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  Speaker 1: and for us, it's just trying to keep that street going,
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  Speaker 1: which did extend it to another to another year, so
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  Speaker 1: to next year. So um. But we still got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of division games left. We still got a full
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  Speaker 1: season ahead of us. You know, that's the twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hour where we talked about after the game. To enjoy
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  Speaker 1: it tonight because this is a big one, it's a
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  Speaker 1: division win. Really played well, dominated the game. We should celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: But when we come in tomorrow, we gotta flip the
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  Speaker 1: script and get ready to roll. Trevor, Uh, Listen, after
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  Speaker 1: every game, you kind of know how you play. You
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  Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have to watch films and to know
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  Speaker 1: inside how you played. Did you feel like today you
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  Speaker 1: were about as on point as you could be in
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  Speaker 1: terms of where you went with the ball and put
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  Speaker 1: in ball placement, in terms of giving your guys a
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  Speaker 1: chance to get the acts. Yeah, I mean I was
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  Speaker 1: really I'm happy with the way I played. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, left a couple of plays out there, but honestly,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, I think I'm maximized what was
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  Speaker 1: in front of me and our guy eyes did as
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  Speaker 1: well though. Line did a great job in protection. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we did a nice job I think coach and press
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  Speaker 1: with the play calling, just mixing it up, keeping them
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  Speaker 1: on their heels, um everything. Like I said, everything works together.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm happy with I'm happy with how I played.
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  Speaker 1: It was an efficient day. That was the plan, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the most satisfying thing is when you have
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  Speaker 1: the plan and you know this is gonna work if
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  Speaker 1: you can execute it for four quarters. And we did
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  Speaker 1: it and got out here with the wind. So it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of building off some of the offensive questions, Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: how difficult is it? And Christian echoed this in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room when you have to play within the offense.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you know, he wants to have a forty
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  Speaker 1: or touchdown pass and you want to probably throw it.
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  Speaker 1: But how difficult is that to say, all right, like
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  Speaker 1: that's what we want to do, but this is what
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  Speaker 1: the situation is, and we have to play within the offense. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I just think that we were really prepared
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  Speaker 1: to do what we did today. Just be patient, and
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  Speaker 1: that was what was preached to us all week, so
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  Speaker 1: I think that made it easier but yeah, it's sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to be patient, but that's what they want.
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  Speaker 1: They want you to get impatient, to start forcing the
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  Speaker 1: ball down field. They want to you to just try
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  Speaker 1: to do too much and not take what's right there
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  Speaker 1: in front of you. And um, we didn't do that today.
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  Speaker 1: So it was awesome. And then what would you say
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  Speaker 1: to the folks who during the off season we're saying
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  Speaker 1: Christian Kirk is getting too much money from the Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: jav Bars. I mean, two games in and uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's been great so far. So you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really I don't really care about that stuff. I know
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't either. We've talked about just blocking all that out.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I started after
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  Speaker 1: the game. The group we got, we're confident we can
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  Speaker 1: beat anybody we play. UM in a matter of whether
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  Speaker 1: we prepare the right way and we execute it, that's
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  Speaker 1: another story. But we got the talent, so I'm not worried.
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  Speaker 1: He's I mean, he's awesome just from a quarterback's perspective.
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  Speaker 1: The way he plays, the way he sees the game,
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  Speaker 1: the way he gets open, just everything is a great feel. UM.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been great that that relationship and just keep
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  Speaker 1: building that with all the guys. We've got a great group, Drevor.
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  Speaker 1: When this stuff works. How fun is the design of
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  Speaker 1: some of the things you guys are doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth down play down, or the goal line and
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  Speaker 1: obaly several other examples. It's awesome. I mean, just like
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  Speaker 1: I said, when you when you have a when you
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  Speaker 1: have a plan, you have a scheme, and you're planning
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  Speaker 1: on seeing this look and this is why you're doing
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  Speaker 1: in a certain way, and and it works out. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's why I like, that's that's the best part, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure for the coaches, but also for us players is
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  Speaker 1: this is how you practice it. This is the look
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  Speaker 1: you think you're gonna get, you get it, you execute it,
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  Speaker 1: make the play. It was awesome, especially in those big moments.
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  Speaker 1: You had a couple of fourth downs, Um, just a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of drives. We kept alive and marched it down
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  Speaker 1: the field. It was great. You've been going uphill in
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  Speaker 1: your career so far. You're for the first time, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: does it feel like a good place to be and
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe you know, try to build off that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's all you can do is just
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  Speaker 1: take a week by week. You know, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the week. Last week, really I felt like
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  Speaker 1: we should have had that one, but you gotta move
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  Speaker 1: on the same thing Monday. You gotta flip the page
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  Speaker 1: and you gotta move on to the next week. And
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  Speaker 1: we did a great job of that. I thought we
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  Speaker 1: prepared really well. And same challenge this week after a
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  Speaker 1: win and playing really well all around offense, defense, special teams.
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  Speaker 1: But you gotta all right, now it's time to you know,
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  Speaker 1: prepare for the charges that we gotta go play. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the challenge, and you gotta do it every week,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we got the guys that do it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, building on that same milk this time last year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously struggle is compared to this year. But
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  Speaker 1: now you've got a lot more going on. You're using
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  Speaker 1: the term maximize for your performance in the past game.
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  Speaker 1: How much more excitement do you feel getting prepared going
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  Speaker 1: into uh, the charge of the game. I know there's
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  Speaker 1: still the twenty four hour rule going on and says,
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  Speaker 1: but how much more excitement is it to to get
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  Speaker 1: back out there and prepare? I mean, it's it works,
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  Speaker 1: You're you're excited every week obviously a little bit for
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  Speaker 1: different reasons. And you lose the game, you're ready to
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  Speaker 1: get back and let's go get the next one. When
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  Speaker 1: you win a game, just keep this momentum. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's that's a big thing in this league, is
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  Speaker 1: you have to forget the game, but you also use
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  Speaker 1: that momentum. Let it carry you throughout the season. Build
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  Speaker 1: some confidence, and I think it has with this crew,
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  Speaker 1: and we have a lot of confidence already. But now
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  Speaker 1: to put that together and go dominate a game and
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  Speaker 1: put on and show it on the field, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's huge for us. So just carry that into this week.
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  Speaker 1: Hey try Can you talk about the matchup problem that
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  Speaker 1: Christian kind of creates, especially when you put him in
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  Speaker 1: the backfield, motion them ount and stuff like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just I mean his versatility of being able to put
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  Speaker 1: him outside, inside, in the backfield wherever you want them,
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  Speaker 1: and then mixed with all the other threats we have
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  Speaker 1: the guys that running back, the other wide outs are
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  Speaker 1: tight ends. Um. I mean, it's just creates problems for defenses.
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  Speaker 1: And as as much as we can keep using that
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  Speaker 1: to our advantage, we will, And I think we've done
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  Speaker 1: a good job of that so far. And you saw
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those we should we should have had
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  Speaker 1: last week didn't execute quite right, but those hit today.
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  Speaker 1: So being able to just like I said, carry that
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  Speaker 1: and keep the execution level like it was today and um,
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  Speaker 1: we should be should be fun. He talked before. I
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  Speaker 1: guess about how he prepares and how he's good for
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  Speaker 1: the other receivers. What's one thing about his preparation or
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  Speaker 1: anything that makes maybe stands out for you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things. Just he's very professional, the
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  Speaker 1: way he approaches the game, the conversations we have, he
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  Speaker 1: just sees he sees things really well. Um, after a play,
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  Speaker 1: it might whatever the concept wasn't getting all that, but
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  Speaker 1: he'll see something to come to me and ask you
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  Speaker 1: know what I saw, And it's just constant conversation. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the biggest thing between a quarterback and receiver
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  Speaker 1: is just having that dialogue all the time, whether that's
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  Speaker 1: in practice in the game both um and he does
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  Speaker 1: a great job that our other guys do too, and
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  Speaker 1: Darren practice, we always go after and if something wasn't
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  Speaker 1: right that day, we go fix it and make sure
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. And I think you're seeing some
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff start to pay off and click. Trevor, uh,
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  Speaker 1: second year, second staff. Obviously, every coordinator is gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to put you in a position to be successful, but
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  Speaker 1: this early on to go out have a performance like
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  Speaker 1: this where it does work to a team and you
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  Speaker 1: talk about that level of execution, what does that do
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  Speaker 1: for that relationship between you coordinated, the head coach, everything involved.
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  Speaker 1: I think it just confirms, you know, what we're doing here,
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  Speaker 1: what we're building, um, the people we have, coaches and
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  Speaker 1: players included, and I think that's really that's really it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it confirms that we're on the right track
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  Speaker 1: where where we want to be. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you just got to take a week by week and
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  Speaker 1: keep getting better. I mean, if we win this game
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  Speaker 1: and go and lay an egg, the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: season doesn't really matter. So we gotta keep getting better
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  Speaker 1: and I'm confident we will. But it really does just
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  Speaker 1: confirm what we're doing. And I got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: faith in the coaches and and our players and just
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  Speaker 1: proud of, like I said, the way we execute, and
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  Speaker 1: it's fun when it comes together, and it was it
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  Speaker 1: was awesome Trevor. The touchdown passed it to Christian. Was it, uh,
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  Speaker 1: exactly like the play last week to Jay Rob or
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  Speaker 1: just like a little different the second one second? Yeah, similar,
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  Speaker 1: a little different. I mean it's it's a little different.
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  Speaker 1: You guys can go back and watch them and look
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  Speaker 1: at the difference in them. But not the same. Not
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  Speaker 1: the same Yeah, not the same play. Um, just like
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  Speaker 1: I said, same thing. Coach is doing a great job
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  Speaker 1: of knowing the situation, getting us in the right play,
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  Speaker 1: surprising the defense. It's just I think they did a
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  Speaker 1: great job as a follow up. I know, nothing is
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  Speaker 1: more important than getting getting the deput no matter how
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  Speaker 1: you get it. But when you have this upcoming matchup
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  Speaker 1: with a guy like Justin Herbert, just do matchups like
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  Speaker 1: that stoke you. Does it provide any extra motivation at all?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it just another opponent who happens to have
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  Speaker 1: a great quarterback? Yeah, I mean I don't. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: really change anything for me. At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: We're there to win the game and I'm not playing
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  Speaker 1: against him necessarily, he's not playing defense, so I gotta
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  Speaker 1: gotta study with what they were doing on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. And you know, it's a It's
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  Speaker 1: always a fun matchup though, when you have two young quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: and um, he's obviously playing great and he's a great player,
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  Speaker 1: and have a lot of respect for him, so it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fun matchup. But no, that doesn't really add
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  Speaker 1: anything to me. It's still a game that we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to win. I don't think we've actually asked you this specifically, Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to Doug's aggressiveness on fourth downs, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think? What do you make of it? What
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  Speaker 1: do you think of how aggressive he is? Love it?
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  Speaker 1: I love it. It's awesome. I mean, I think it
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  Speaker 1: just builds confidence in the whole team. When he's will
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  Speaker 1: and you know we're on the what was it today,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know, around the fifty and have a
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  Speaker 1: fourth and two and early in the game he's willing
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  Speaker 1: to go for it. It It just shows want to trust
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  Speaker 1: our offense too. We trust our defense and for some
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  Speaker 1: reason we don't get it. You trust our defense to
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  Speaker 1: to hold up. So I think all the way around,
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  Speaker 1: that's the mindset is. Now, you're not gonna go for
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  Speaker 1: every fourth down, but we're we're not scared to go
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  Speaker 1: for it. We we know we've got the players to
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  Speaker 1: do it, um, and just being aggressive and instilling that
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  Speaker 1: confidence in the whole team. Were you surprised a couple
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  Speaker 1: of the times that he has gone for it through
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  Speaker 1: two games. Not really. I mean that's stuff we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about through O T A S, through camp, and every
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  Speaker 1: situation is different, so you never know really what he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. Just just depend on the situation. But I
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  Speaker 1: think most of the time I have a pretty good idea,
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  Speaker 1: so I staying on the field, kind of keeping all
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  Speaker 1: the guys right there, and sometimes they'll call us off.
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  Speaker 1: But um, we did ad job executing today. I think
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  Speaker 1: we were like two for three or the last one
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like a four minute one. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not don't account but that's that's fine, So all right,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate y'all. Thank you,