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Press Pass | Jaguars Players Evaluate Week 1 Victory Over Panthers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Trevor, some big time third down conversions today with
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  Speaker 1: your legs, but also finding Brenton early Diami. I Why
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: were you guys able to have such success on third
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: down today in your opinion?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's obviously something that I know we've
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  Speaker 2: needed to improve on. You know, talking about last year
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  Speaker 2: weren't great on third downs, so I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: emphasizing that in the offseason, but also just I felt
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  Speaker 2: like we were really prepared. Our plan was good going in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we ran some good stuff against Carolina's defense,
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  Speaker 2: and guys were in the right spot at the right time,
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  Speaker 2: and I was able to get it to him. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: still left some out there, but it felt good to
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  Speaker 2: hit those third downs and be able to keep the
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  Speaker 2: drives going.
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  Speaker 3: Would it feel like being back on just being back
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  Speaker 3: on the field for you, It's been a.
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  Speaker 2: While, it's been a while. Yeah, it felt great. It's
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  Speaker 2: fun being back out there. Yeah, I guess that's all
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  Speaker 2: I got, but it was it was great.
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  Speaker 4: It was fun. Fun to get a win, man, that
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  Speaker 4: was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel you operated the offense and the
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  Speaker 3: offense operated in general?
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot to clean up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll go back and and look at it. I think
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  Speaker 2: operationally wasn't terrible, but some of the penalties, obviously, we
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  Speaker 2: have to clean up. I thought a couple of times
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  Speaker 2: we're getting to the line a little slow and getting
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  Speaker 2: a little bit behind the play clock, and we got
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  Speaker 2: to just improve that. And that starts with me just
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting the call in quick and getting the
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  Speaker 2: guys up the line of scrimmage and going and playing
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  Speaker 2: and having that sense of urgency. So I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of those, and then yeah, just too many
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  Speaker 2: penalties in general. But hey, we found a way to
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  Speaker 2: get a win, you know, found the end zone a
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  Speaker 2: couple of times and were able to score points, and
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  Speaker 2: our defense played grade and ran the ball grade did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good things today and we won most importantly,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll go back and correct it. We got to
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  Speaker 2: keep getting better, but there's definitely some stuff that we can.
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  Speaker 5: Learn from any Trevor, congrats on the win. Every You know,
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  Speaker 5: this is like we've said before, this is your third
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  Speaker 5: different offense that you've had to work with, and each
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  Speaker 5: offense takes a while to get used to. So how
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  Speaker 5: long has it been, is it still a work in progress?
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  Speaker 5: And or are you feeling much comfortable now with what
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  Speaker 5: wich Cohen is calling.
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  Speaker 2: I feel very comfortable. Every week is new, though. The
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  Speaker 2: way you game plan during the season is just so
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  Speaker 2: much different, So it is like learning I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: like learning something new, but you're putting together a whole
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  Speaker 2: new plan for each opponent. So it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: work that goes in during the week of not only
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  Speaker 2: film study of your opponent, but also studying your game
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  Speaker 2: plan and what we're doing while we're running this run
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  Speaker 2: against this look, and you know, while we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get this concept versus this coverage. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that go into it. So it's just a lot
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  Speaker 2: of study each week to get ready so you feel
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  Speaker 2: great and can play fast on Sunday. And I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, myself and the guys did an awesome job
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  Speaker 2: this week of preparing and we were ready to go,
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  Speaker 2: and we were ready for what Carolina was going to do.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought, we played fast two for you on
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  Speaker 4: the scrabbles.
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  Speaker 5: How important was it to get those first two out
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  Speaker 5: of the way, knowing that's how last season ended.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not really something I thought about, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: But I think just using your legs as a weapon
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  Speaker 2: in this league, and you see the way the league,
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  Speaker 2: especially now, a lot of that's what you have to do.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Defenses are good, they're covering people up. It's gonna happen sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't have that extra defender for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: So just finding a way to use my legs and
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  Speaker 2: be able to keep the drives alive.
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  Speaker 4: And then you guys have been working toward week one
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  Speaker 4: since March?
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  Speaker 6: Is it? Is it a relief to get through it.
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  Speaker 4: We just move on and get into the season now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it feels.
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  Speaker 2: It feels really good to get a win to start
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  Speaker 2: your season that way. Want to Oh and obviously we're
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna enjoy it tonight and it's hard to win
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  Speaker 2: in this league, so you can't take any of them
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  Speaker 2: for granted. But we got to move on quickly and
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  Speaker 2: get ready for good team since the night next week.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it feels great though, especially.
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  Speaker 2: With all the new going on and the amount of
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  Speaker 2: work we put in this offseason and to be rewarded
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  Speaker 2: for you know, this first week and getting that win
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  Speaker 2: feels good. But it's just this week and we got
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  Speaker 2: to move on to next week.
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  Speaker 7: Does it feel any different as a new regime. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: you didn't win your opener in the first regime, you
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  Speaker 7: didn't win your opener in the second regime. Does this
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  Speaker 7: one feel maybe different or heading in a different direction?
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  Speaker 2: I think yeah, there's a lot of Yes, it feels
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  Speaker 2: great where the direction we're heading. Like I said, you
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  Speaker 2: can you can take it for what it is. We
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  Speaker 2: won in week one. We want to know to start
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  Speaker 2: the season, and we're all pumped about that. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of work went into it, and we're not any no
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  Speaker 2: one takes for granted. You know how hard it is
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  Speaker 2: to win in this league, so we're all really proud
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  Speaker 2: of that. But it's one game, so you know, we
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  Speaker 2: got to keep doing it. That's what consistency is what
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  Speaker 2: will be the difference, and we have to continue to
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  Speaker 2: prepare and play well.
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  Speaker 1: Over two hundred yards on the ground. How pleasing was
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  Speaker 1: that and why was the ground game able to be
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  Speaker 1: so effective.
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  Speaker 2: To Yeah, the guys, I mean starts with the guys
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  Speaker 2: up front. Obviously, guys up front and the wide outs
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  Speaker 2: too in the run game have really bought into to
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  Speaker 2: blocking downfield. You see the Amnie on Travis's long run
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  Speaker 2: covering up the guy fifty yards down the field got
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  Speaker 2: Travis an extra.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, thirty yards.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that stuff matters, and I think just for
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  Speaker 2: those guys to buy in and do that on the
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  Speaker 2: perimeter and then to see it pay off in a
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  Speaker 2: game where it's like, hey, you got thirty more yards
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  Speaker 2: because you ran down the field and covered up your guy,
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  Speaker 2: that's cool to see the buy in from the whole team. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the guys up front, most selfless guys.
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  Speaker 4: We got just you know, are grinding it out. We
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  Speaker 4: ran it a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot and they wanted to keep doing it and they
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  Speaker 2: did a great job moving people, and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: were ready.
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  Speaker 4: We had a good plan.
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  Speaker 8: When a defense has a day like today, three turnovers,
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  Speaker 8: two turner run downs, what does that do for the offense?
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  Speaker 4: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't you know, we had some drives
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  Speaker 2: where we didn't do a great job, where we got
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  Speaker 2: behind the chains and had a couple three and outs,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or missed the throw, drop a ball, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it may be, just a couple mishaps on offense. And
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  Speaker 2: then when your defense is able to go get a
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  Speaker 2: stop and kind of erase that, it's huge. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: as an offense when you feel like, all right, we
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  Speaker 2: got a three and out and then they go score immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously this football, that's gonna happen sometimes, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: good feeling when you know the defense goes out there
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  Speaker 2: and gets another three out and you get the ball
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  Speaker 2: right back.
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  Speaker 4: It's huge for a team.
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  Speaker 8: And then with how much routine as the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 8: you're in a rhythm in the game. What was that
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  Speaker 8: weather delay kind of like like, what were you really
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  Speaker 8: doing during it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was weird obviously having that delay when we
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  Speaker 2: already started and it was middle of the second quarter,
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  Speaker 2: so you know you're about to come back in for
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  Speaker 2: halftime too, But just keeping everyone focused. We had some
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  Speaker 2: good conversations inside in the locker room of you know,
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  Speaker 2: what they were doing, you know, if anything was different
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  Speaker 2: that they were doing that we didn't plan for, kind
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  Speaker 2: of what calls we're looking to get to next, all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff, and then from there on you just kind
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  Speaker 2: of relax and trying to cool off and hydrate, get
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  Speaker 2: the body back.
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  Speaker 4: It's hot out there today.
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  Speaker 3: I'll Dravis Hunter do today.
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  Speaker 2: He was great, had some big catches obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a weapon for us. And he's continued.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to continue to get better and better. It's
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  Speaker 2: a matchup in space great with the ball in his hands.
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  Speaker 2: You know, could have had more out there. I felt
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  Speaker 2: like I could have gave him a few more opportunities
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  Speaker 2: and some of the ones I missed. But he had
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  Speaker 2: a good day today and we just keep building off it.
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  Speaker 3: No mistakes from him on the routes or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Liam said pretty perfect.
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  Speaker 4: He was great. He was great.
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  Speaker 2: He was prepared, did a good job knowing the plan,
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  Speaker 2: the position he plays.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of kind of know.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta know a lot because he's involved in a
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  Speaker 2: lot in the run game. He's involved obviously in the
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  Speaker 2: passing game. And he did a good job prepared.
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  Speaker 3: Were you trying to give Liam a game?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I had one saved for him. Uh, mister Kan
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  Speaker 4: gave them once. It was perfect.
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  Speaker 9: It's good.
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  Speaker 10: I guess on like the footwork and the growth of it,
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  Speaker 10: and how would you how you would evaluate it today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have to watch the tape. There
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  Speaker 2: was a few times where I'm sure there's some stuff
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  Speaker 2: to clean up. And in the game it's never as
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  Speaker 2: perfect as practice because there's live bullets flying and you're
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  Speaker 2: moving and getting moved off the spot, and you know
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  Speaker 2: there's there's always some stuff to correct. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: something that's been a big focus obviously that you guys
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  Speaker 2: have known about. It asked me a lot since the spring,
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  Speaker 2: and I put a lot of time into working on it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's really helped me. And I got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to just get better at it and refine it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been a change that's been good. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's anything major, but when you're messing
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  Speaker 2: with your footwork as a quarterback and you've gotten thousands
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  Speaker 2: of reps a certain way, you know it takes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time to really master the new way. And
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm on my way there and got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to work. Yeah, I got a lighter left forearm,
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  Speaker 2: so no sweaty wristband on there.
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  Speaker 11: You win the toss and you take the ball, So
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  Speaker 11: you know how cool was that to incided defer come
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  Speaker 11: out and be on offense and then I'm sure you
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  Speaker 11: wanted seven settled for three, but thirteen plays and taking
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  Speaker 11: six and a half minutes off the clock after the
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  Speaker 11: struggles on the first drive a year ago to put
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  Speaker 11: up points on your initial drive today felt great.
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  Speaker 4: Just being aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know that speaks a lot to Liam's
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  Speaker 2: mindset and what he wants to do and what he
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  Speaker 2: feels about our offense and the way we can attack
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  Speaker 2: and go get points and not afraid to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So I think as an offense, feeling that trust that
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  Speaker 2: he has in us and the aggressiveness, it's great.
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  Speaker 4: It was awesome be able to get points.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, like you said, you want to get seven there,
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  Speaker 2: and we got behind the chains a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: But besides that, able to put together a long drive,
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  Speaker 2: I keep their offense off the field, settle into the game,
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  Speaker 2: kind of getting the flow.
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  Speaker 4: It was good.
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  Speaker 6: Dravis.
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  Speaker 3: Can you just describe your emotions today? Finally hear the
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  Speaker 3: games here, playing both sides of the ball. After the game, you're,
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  Speaker 3: you know, going do a little lap around the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Was it everything you hoped thought it would be?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I was just excited, ready to go out there
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  Speaker 12: and win with my team and just be and bring
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  Speaker 12: that energy. Like like I say every day every time
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  Speaker 12: y'all interviewed me, I'm trying to bring the energy to
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  Speaker 12: bring the guys up and make sure we stay true
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  Speaker 12: to ourselves and just be the team we know we
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  Speaker 12: can be.
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  Speaker 3: How do you think you did offensively today? Coach Cohen
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  Speaker 3: just was in said you didn't. You ran all the
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  Speaker 3: right routes and all that other stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Couple of catches.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel like you played today?
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  Speaker 12: I did my job. That was the main focus of
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  Speaker 12: me doing my job. I did what they asked me
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  Speaker 12: to do, and I know I can do more and
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  Speaker 12: I know I could do better.
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  Speaker 1: Travis, you guys ran for over two hundred yards. How
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  Speaker 1: pleasing was that for the offensive performance on the ground.
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  Speaker 9: That's great.
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  Speaker 12: You can run the ball and then they had to
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  Speaker 12: come up and play man and press us, so then
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  Speaker 12: we get to throw the ball. So it was great
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  Speaker 12: that we was able to run the ball right through him.
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  Speaker 1: And how cool was it seeing BTJ get the reverse
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  Speaker 1: touchdown run?
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  Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I was on the sideline happy because I
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  Speaker 12: knew it was his play and I knew he was
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  Speaker 12: going to get the ball and score, So I was
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  Speaker 12: definitely excited for him.
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  Speaker 9: But he forgot to do the dance. But it's all good.
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  Speaker 7: How hard is it to or is it easy for
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  Speaker 7: you to be so involved on every play and so
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  Speaker 7: brings so much energy even when you're not on the
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  Speaker 7: field because you're like the first one out there to
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  Speaker 7: celebrate with everybody.
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  Speaker 9: It's not hard. You just got to go out there
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  Speaker 9: and just be myself.
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  Speaker 12: I've been doing this for a long time, and my
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  Speaker 12: job is to go out there and bring the energy
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  Speaker 12: and do my job.
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  Speaker 4: And j C.
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  Speaker 7: Horn made a great one handed catch on that ball
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  Speaker 7: that was the deep ball, but was out a touchdown
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  Speaker 7: If he doesn't, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 12: If you don't get up and make a great play
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  Speaker 12: like he did, yeah, I think that was a touchdown.
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  Speaker 11: Trappa says, you reflect back on you on your first
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  Speaker 11: game in the NFL, Are there any particular memories or
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  Speaker 11: highlights that really stand out in your mind?
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  Speaker 6: From time we went, I.
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  Speaker 9: Didn't want we won the game.
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  Speaker 12: We was able to take the you know, my first
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  Speaker 12: game it was a dub, so that's exciting for me.
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  Speaker 3: The haircut wasn't like a rookie hazing thing, was it.
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  Speaker 12: Now, h I chose to do this myself. Why I
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  Speaker 12: was just time time to let it go. You know,
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  Speaker 12: knew me new person walking to a new chop there
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  Speaker 12: in my life, so was able to just chop it.
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  Speaker 9: On Travis before the game.
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  Speaker 1: You came over and you had a little moment with
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  Speaker 1: your with your grandmother.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I know there were other members of your family uh
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  Speaker 1: in the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: W Just what what did that mean seeing them here
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  Speaker 3: and being able to play your first professional game in
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  Speaker 3: front of in.
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  Speaker 9: Front of her, in front of family members.
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  Speaker 13: Uh?
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  Speaker 12: I just I grew up here in South Florida, so
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  Speaker 12: it was it was great for me to be able
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  Speaker 12: to show my grandma. You know, she was the first
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  Speaker 12: person to sign me up for football, so her seeing
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  Speaker 12: me on the big stage was an exciting moment for me.
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  Speaker 9: Travis.
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  Speaker 8: Three turns by defense, seemed like guys were flying around.
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  Speaker 8: Just what are your thoughts on what defense show today?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, that's what we were doing in practice. We do
• 11:51
  Speaker 12: it every day and practice just flying around, you know,
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  Speaker 12: our big inmphasis, everybody get to the ball. Eleven got
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  Speaker 12: to the ball, so tips and open those, we gotta
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  Speaker 12: get those, and that's what we been doing.
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  Speaker 11: Travis, How abnormal was this with just a few defensive snaps.
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  Speaker 11: I think he may have had sex. I mean, usually
• 12:07
  Speaker 11: you're playing almost every play, so we understand what your
• 12:10
  Speaker 11: new role is gonna be like. But what was it like?
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  Speaker 11: You know, over the last four hours.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, I just lead that up to the coaches. I
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  Speaker 9: just go out there when they call my name and
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  Speaker 9: call my name, I just go out there and do
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  Speaker 9: my job.
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  Speaker 1: So, hey boy, can you uh describe what happened on
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  Speaker 1: the two turnovers for us? The interception you had and
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  Speaker 1: then punching out the ball on Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. The first one interception was a boot.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 13: I saw the safety overtook the over so I was
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  Speaker 13: just kind of be an opportunist.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: I thought he was gonna run it. He didn't through
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  Speaker 6: a contented throw.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 13: Murray made a great play breaking it up, and I
• 12:42
  Speaker 13: saw the ball in the air, and it's like the
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  Speaker 13: tips and overthrow.
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  Speaker 6: We said I gotta get those.
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  Speaker 13: So I saw it in the airted and make sure
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  Speaker 13: I caught the ball. Yeah, and then I came down
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  Speaker 13: with it. But it was just a good, good play
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  Speaker 13: all around for the whole defense. Oh yeah, punch out
• 12:57
  Speaker 13: dropped in my zone. And then this time he did
• 13:02
  Speaker 13: run it. He crossed the line of scrimmage. So I
• 13:05
  Speaker 13: hate when quarterbacks kind of do that, but it's it's cool,
• 13:08
  Speaker 13: you know, he's trying to get his extra yard and stuff.
• 13:09
  Speaker 13: So we decided to go ahead first, and uh, you know,
• 13:12
  Speaker 13: you don't want to dive on the guy and maybe
• 13:14
  Speaker 13: get the penalty. So you know, we put the ball
• 13:16
  Speaker 13: out as he was stumbling forward, so, uh, he's already
• 13:19
  Speaker 13: going to the ground, might as well take my shot
• 13:21
  Speaker 13: at it. Got the ball there and I felt it
• 13:23
  Speaker 13: the air come out the side there, so I knew
• 13:26
  Speaker 13: the ball was on the ground and saw a whole
• 13:27
  Speaker 13: bunch of our guys hustled after the ball, so I
• 13:29
  Speaker 13: assume we got it started running.
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: Over here. Have you ever experienced anything quite like an
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: hour and six minute delay in a game before and
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: any level of football? And what do you do in
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: those hours that hour time?
• 13:47
  Speaker 13: Yeah, actually my first ever game, I guess I wanted
• 13:49
  Speaker 13: to delay. It was just a we hadn't started kind
• 13:52
  Speaker 13: of Thursday night game, I guess, kind of similar how
• 13:54
  Speaker 13: this year started off Eagles game and it was raining
• 13:58
  Speaker 13: and stuff. So uh, I understood, you know, you gotta
• 14:01
  Speaker 13: wait for them to say you can go back on
• 14:03
  Speaker 13: the field the warm up and stuff. But it was
• 14:05
  Speaker 13: great how we handled it, really. I like how the
• 14:06
  Speaker 13: straight strength staff had everything kind of organized for us.
• 14:09
  Speaker 13: We went over some adjustments and kind of like a
• 14:12
  Speaker 13: little mini halftime and then we're already stretching inside, came
• 14:15
  Speaker 13: back outside, had a good organized warm up period, and
• 14:18
  Speaker 13: then we took the confidence that we had had going
• 14:20
  Speaker 13: into that break, came back out with some adjustments and
• 14:23
  Speaker 13: it's kept it flowing. So I think we handled it
• 14:25
  Speaker 13: very good and nobody was really surprised by it at all.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Boy getting was it three turnovers or whatever it is today,
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: that was something the defense wasn't able to really do
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: a ton of last year. How good does it field
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: to get off to a start like that.
• 14:40
  Speaker 13: I just you know, I talked to the guys already
• 14:43
  Speaker 13: that you put a lot of work in this whole
• 14:44
  Speaker 13: off season, new faces in here, and we gained a
• 14:47
  Speaker 13: lot of trust and a lot of good camaraderie.
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: It feels like on that side of the ball, really with.
• 14:51
  Speaker 13: The team, and then it's coming out here. Put a
• 14:53
  Speaker 13: good product on field on film feels good. You know,
• 14:57
  Speaker 13: you come out, you know, putting in all that work,
• 14:59
  Speaker 13: and if it doesn't go well, now you're starting to
• 15:01
  Speaker 13: second guests a little bit, just naturally. So just come
• 15:03
  Speaker 13: out here and feel like we have we played well.
• 15:05
  Speaker 13: Obviously there's stuff that we should improve on. We need
• 15:07
  Speaker 13: to improve on. But coming out here and then everybody
• 15:11
  Speaker 13: flying around, everybody, you know, keeping that camaraderie that we
• 15:13
  Speaker 13: had from off season to this first game.
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: I mean they just felt great.
• 15:16
  Speaker 13: So getting the turnovers, like, we're doing stuff right, Let's
• 15:19
  Speaker 13: keep doing that, U's keep improving on it.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: And Murray and Lewis both had you know, big plays
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: on defense with you guys, the two new guys coming in.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: How much of an impact do they make? And when
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: you see the veterans doing that, how does that help
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: like maybe some of the younger guys.
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I love it because they when they play well, you.
• 15:34
  Speaker 13: Know, they're good examples in the locker room already, how
• 15:37
  Speaker 13: they go about their business, talking about meeting whenever I
• 15:41
  Speaker 13: want to call the meeting, they're ready to meet, doing
• 15:44
  Speaker 13: extra being, having a routine and stuff. So they see
• 15:47
  Speaker 13: success at that level. Now in the dB room as well.
• 15:50
  Speaker 13: You know they're gonna fall I say in line, but
• 15:52
  Speaker 13: they're gonna maybe implement what gets them success. And you know,
• 15:56
  Speaker 13: having them carry from camp and practice to the game.
• 15:59
  Speaker 13: You know who wouldn't have that same success. How they play,
• 16:02
  Speaker 13: They play well, communicate well, play hard, tackle hard. I
• 16:04
  Speaker 13: love playing with them right now. So everybody, you know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 13: getting on that same page. You know, we can be
• 16:10
  Speaker 13: very dangerous defense.
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: You told us that you feel like in this defense
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: that can let you be more of a playmaker. What
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: was it like just seeing that kind of be vindicated
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: first game, ra.
• 16:19
  Speaker 13: Alligate, Yeah, I feel like I had good years being
• 16:23
  Speaker 13: a playmaker and I felt that kind of same energy,
• 16:25
  Speaker 13: just how they stressed about talking about the ball, the ball,
• 16:27
  Speaker 13: the ball. So getting back to that, I put it
• 16:31
  Speaker 13: on myself, really could I put it out to y'all?
• 16:34
  Speaker 13: I wanted to be a playmaker, so you know, they
• 16:36
  Speaker 13: gave me the opportunity to have my eyes back more
• 16:38
  Speaker 13: on the ball, maybe breaking up, not having a run
• 16:41
  Speaker 13: all over the.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Place where weel rouse and stuff.
• 16:43
  Speaker 13: So it's really trusting the rush, making the bright break
• 16:46
  Speaker 13: angles and then when the ball does present itself, kind
• 16:48
  Speaker 13: of how the coaching staff harps on getting the ball,
• 16:50
  Speaker 13: let's all go attack the ball.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: So it's a good start for us.
• 16:52
  Speaker 13: You have to keep it going through the year, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 13: you know they come in bunches, so they start. Now,
• 16:57
  Speaker 13: let's keep it going and see where this takes us.
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: And you guys have four new guys up front, A
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: couple of new guys in the secondary.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: What was it say?
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: Just to see you guys gel together so quickly.
• 17:05
  Speaker 13: I guess it's really the hours in the off season. Uh,
• 17:08
  Speaker 13: you know, spending time together, trusting one another, trusting that
• 17:12
  Speaker 13: we're all gonna be in the same spot. But really
• 17:14
  Speaker 13: seeing them make plays, it's like, all right, that's what
• 17:16
  Speaker 13: he's capable of. I trust him to do that now.
• 17:19
  Speaker 13: And then you know, coming to this game, they see
• 17:21
  Speaker 13: me make plays, see the defensive line make plays. You know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 13: the run game, everybody attacking their gaps hard. You know,
• 17:28
  Speaker 13: keep building off of that. But it's definitely solid to see.
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: Jordan already tweeted that you should have been an All
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: Pro the last three years. So what does it mean
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: to have hype men like those guys? Like I said
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: it to a couple of guys in the locker room.
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: I don't want to call it subdued, but it felt
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: like a business like approach after this win. Maybe not
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: as you four it was, hey, all right, good win,
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: or we checked the box and now we're moving on right.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 17:51
  Speaker 13: To be a dominant defense, it takes the whole season.
• 17:53
  Speaker 13: You know, you can't go ups and downs, so you
• 17:55
  Speaker 13: gotta really stack games. You gotta stack streaks and stuff.
• 17:58
  Speaker 13: So to come out is definite the good tone setting
• 18:01
  Speaker 13: game about. Like I said earlier, we got a lot
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: of stuff to clean up, and I like also I
• 18:05
  Speaker 13: said early, we got good bets. You were going to
• 18:07
  Speaker 13: come in kind of go through these meetings, understand what
• 18:09
  Speaker 13: we have to do better. And I love, you know,
• 18:11
  Speaker 13: working with them so far. So then we're all each
• 18:13
  Speaker 13: other's hypening. I sold everybody we got to celebrate our wins,
• 18:16
  Speaker 13: the little ones, the big ones. I appreciate jaylu shout
• 18:19
  Speaker 13: me out like that because he knows, he kind of
• 18:22
  Speaker 13: you know, we're close, so he knows kind of the
• 18:24
  Speaker 13: little stuff that I think about as my career has
• 18:27
  Speaker 13: been gone on and it is what it is. But
• 18:30
  Speaker 13: I just want to keep producing how I know I'm
• 18:32
  Speaker 13: capable of producing. And then all that stuff, you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 13: it comes as it comes, but that I can't control that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: But I can play well for my boys for sure.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: And then one other thing that you've talked to us
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: about is because you can play a little more free,
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: but also because as opposed to being the eraser, you
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: feel like everybody around you knows their assignment. Did that
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: shine through today.
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: Uh yeah, we definitely played with a lot of trust today.
• 18:56
  Speaker 13: I think we played with a lot of trust. And there'
• 18:57
  Speaker 13: stuff that we should clean up to make sure we're
• 18:59
  Speaker 13: execuhuoting our calls and stuff.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: But we played with a lot of trust.
• 19:02
  Speaker 13: And that's just a lot of bank threats through the
• 19:04
  Speaker 13: preseason playing it the same way each and every day.
• 19:07
  Speaker 13: So uh appreciate coach camp really, you know, putting those
• 19:10
  Speaker 13: installs in and hammering details of communication. But we get
• 19:14
  Speaker 13: it's just the first game, so we got to see
• 19:16
  Speaker 13: how that keeps going all the way through the season.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: But it was cool, it was fun, uh foy yeah, foy.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: As John mentioned, there are a lot of guys on
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: defense that were kind of new, but there was one
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: guy who returned to this team and Dwayne Smooth. How
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: big an impact has he had in his return to
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: the Jags and how got much did you guys miss
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: him last year?
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: It's cool to see how the guys really rally around him.
• 19:41
  Speaker 13: Kind of comrider. As I keep mentioning, he came in
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: and you know he had to get acclimated and the stuff,
• 19:46
  Speaker 13: but once he did, like you know, the guy's got
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: a lot of trust in him, and he's kind of
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: versatile up there on the deepensive line, plays inside, can't
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: go outside, runs the stunts and all that. So I
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: just saw them working and communicating. You I don't really
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: knowing you know, what they've been doing up there. They
• 19:58
  Speaker 13: just h I know what they're doing. But you know, uh,
• 20:03
  Speaker 13: I saw the how how how much they clicked very
• 20:06
  Speaker 13: early and like him coming back.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: You know, they know what he does well.
• 20:10
  Speaker 13: They they're really playing off of each other and stuff,
• 20:12
  Speaker 13: and everybody is having a communicated rush plan and that's
• 20:15
  Speaker 13: very important for d linemen to make sure that you
• 20:17
  Speaker 13: know the rush lanes are gonna be closed or when
• 20:19
  Speaker 13: they can rush up the field versus come under and stuff. So, uh,
• 20:23
  Speaker 13: you know, them embracing him again was really cool to see.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: But I already know like an established bedroom. We've seen
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: a lot of football.
• 20:28
  Speaker 13: I like how they communicate with them all right, Fresh
• 20:32
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