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- 0:00Speaker 1: Is the talent of the Anthony Richardson got a little
- 0:03Speaker 1: bang up last week, trying to prepare for him, but
- 0:05Speaker 1: also prepare for Joe Blacko.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Guys that have different kind of games.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, almost two extremes kind of know both guys.
- 0:13Speaker 1: You know, we saw we saw Anthony Richardson, you know,
- 0:16Speaker 1: last year obviously first game, and we know how talented
- 0:20Speaker 1: he is. We've seen already his ability to throw the football,
- 0:24Speaker 1: you know, uh this year. You know Flacco, we know
- 0:27Speaker 1: from from last year being in Cleveland what he can do,
- 0:29Speaker 1: you know, as well throwing the football. I mean it's
- 0:31Speaker 1: it's a challenge either way, you know, and you just
- 0:34Speaker 1: gotta you just gotta trust your game plan, stayed disciplined
- 0:38Speaker 1: in what you're doing, and you know, no matter who's
- 0:41Speaker 1: out there, Uh, just just execute that throw back gameless
- 0:45Speaker 1: week and Coach Coughlin going into the Pride do you
- 0:47Speaker 1: talk to the team about all of that this week?
- 0:49Speaker 1: I did this morning. Just wanted to bring it to
- 0:52Speaker 1: their attention. I think it's uh, you know, in in
- 0:54Speaker 1: in the history of the Jaguars. I think it's important
- 0:56Speaker 1: that they know that and and that we get to
- 0:59Speaker 1: we get to say great coach Coughlin, you know, and
- 1:01Speaker 1: and and also getting some you know, some former players,
- 1:04Speaker 1: some legends back this weekend. It will be be exciting
- 1:06Speaker 1: for the guys to see and and visit. So yeah,
- 1:09Speaker 1: definitely want that uh out in front of the team.
- 1:12Speaker 1: And you know, it's important they see that.
- 1:14Speaker 3: You guys played Richard Senatives first ever start last season,
- 1:17Speaker 3: because what have you seen from.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Him kind of that natural growth and progression till now.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, obviously he's making making strides.
- 1:26Speaker 1: You know, I think he's just running the offense. But
- 1:28Speaker 1: but it has the ability to go off schedule to
- 1:30Speaker 1: make some make some great plays, you know, And and
- 1:32Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a characteristic of of of really
- 1:35Speaker 1: good quarterbacks and his ability to run. We know that
- 1:38Speaker 1: he he's a big physical guy that that uh uh
- 1:41Speaker 1: can can break out of an arm tackle. But you know,
- 1:44Speaker 1: he's he's working the system, he's working the offense. He's
- 1:46Speaker 1: letting the guys around him work and and that's that's
- 1:48Speaker 1: what they ask him to do. What do you see
- 1:51Speaker 1: from the weapons that he has.
- 1:52Speaker 4: The wide receiver group.
- 1:53Speaker 3: Item downs has kind of emerged after a slow start
- 1:56Speaker 3: with the injury and.
- 1:58Speaker 2: All those other guys they have.
- 1:59Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's a it's a good solid group,
- 2:03Speaker 4: you know.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I It's one of the things you see too, is
- 2:07Speaker 1: is you know, he he trusts those guys to to
- 2:09Speaker 1: make plays for him, you know. And and uh again,
- 2:12Speaker 1: I think he understands too. And I think this is
- 2:14Speaker 1: part of how he's being coached, is he doesn't have
- 2:16Speaker 1: to do it all right and just rely on these
- 2:17Speaker 1: guys to.
- 2:18Speaker 4: To make plays. And and.
- 2:21Speaker 1: You know, it's it's I know, I know injuries are
- 2:24Speaker 1: part of the part of the game. And and you
- 2:26Speaker 1: know they're they're banged up a little bit, you know too,
- 2:28Speaker 1: like we are. But you know, at the same time
- 2:30Speaker 1: that we got to make sure that that you know,
- 2:35Speaker 1: with this team too, you eliminate the explosive plays which
- 2:38Speaker 1: which they can they can do.
- 2:41Speaker 2: There's some injuries on it. That's the front for them
- 2:44Speaker 2: with those injuries.
- 2:46Speaker 1: And what stands out about Augus Bradley defense, What are
- 2:48Speaker 1: they doing well in the defense? I mean it's there's
- 2:53Speaker 1: no surprises, you know, and schemes like this are tough
- 2:58Speaker 1: to They're gonna make you go the long haul. They're
- 3:01Speaker 1: gonna make you go, you know, eighty eighty five yards,
- 3:04Speaker 1: you know, and and and score if you can. And
- 3:07Speaker 1: it's always been that way, you know wherever he's been,
- 3:10Speaker 1: and you know there's there's just no it just it
- 3:16Speaker 1: just comes down to execution, right And you know his
- 3:19Speaker 1: guy's now been in the system over there for three years.
- 3:24Speaker 1: And you know they yes, they have guys you know,
- 3:28Speaker 1: beat up, you know and injured in the in the
- 3:30Speaker 1: D line, but the next guy steps in and does
- 3:35Speaker 1: the exact same thing. I mean, that's just it's a
- 3:36Speaker 1: plug and play, you know, and and and they do
- 3:39Speaker 1: it well. And they got they got you know, leaders
- 3:41Speaker 1: over there, and you know, we know Grover is a
- 3:43Speaker 1: is a he's a load as a D lineman and
- 3:46Speaker 1: he's i think him and those two linebackers twenty three
- 3:50Speaker 1: if he plays, I mean, those are the this kind
- 3:53Speaker 1: of life blood of that team, you know, the heart
- 3:54Speaker 1: and soul. So that's some good players over there, and
- 3:59Speaker 1: you know they run the scheme well.
- 4:01Speaker 4: In terms of health for you guys, obviously you haven't
- 4:03Speaker 4: been on the field. The expectations for.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Devin, for darn out this week, Devin, we'll see today.
- 4:12Speaker 1: He'll be out there, but he'll also be with our
- 4:14Speaker 1: medical team. You know, doctors and trainers and working a
- 4:17Speaker 1: little bit on the side.
- 4:18Speaker 4: Darnaille's won.
- 4:19Speaker 1: We got to get back into practice, you know, this
- 4:21Speaker 1: week again, trying to see see if he can really
- 4:23Speaker 1: push through you know some of the things that are
- 4:27Speaker 1: that are holding him back right now, and just it's
- 4:29Speaker 1: just a trust factor with him, I think just going
- 4:30Speaker 1: out and do it.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Uh, you know Josh obviously that we know is still
- 4:34Speaker 4: in the protocol.
- 4:36Speaker 1: So you know, that's that's a day to day thing,
- 4:38Speaker 1: and and I want to make sure he's he's one
- 4:40Speaker 1: hundred percent.
- 4:41Speaker 4: But those are the two guys, will.
- 4:43Speaker 1: You know, it'll take the week, and so yeah, Evan's
- 4:47Speaker 1: day to day. He'll get out and he'll do some
- 4:50Speaker 1: of our individual stuff today and then and then we'll
- 4:53Speaker 1: see as each day progress to see how he feels.
- 4:55Speaker 2: There's out there that you've lost the locker room.
- 4:58Speaker 4: You have any response to that.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Would you even know you've lost the locker room?
- 5:02Speaker 4: Yeah? I would know.
- 5:04Speaker 1: I talk to these guys every day, I see them
- 5:06Speaker 1: every day, and and no, I have not lost.
- 5:08Speaker 4: The locker room.
- 5:10Speaker 1: I think these guys have have have done everything I've asked.
- 5:14Speaker 1: They continue to play and practice hard and battle and
- 5:17Speaker 1: and you know.
- 5:19Speaker 4: It's a good group.
- 5:19Speaker 1: It's a good group, the right leaders in there, and
- 5:22Speaker 1: that they know, they know what we need to do,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and you know, they're not making excuses for it, and
- 5:29Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make excuses, and uh, we just gotta
- 5:32Speaker 1: go do it.
- 5:32Speaker 2: And then on Sunday you called it a questions about
- 5:34Speaker 2: your job scurty, A strange question. Why did you find
- 5:37Speaker 2: that strange?
- 5:38Speaker 4: You own four nine of ten A quarterbacks are grassed
- 5:41Speaker 4: and there's a lot of yeah, issues, I mean, that's
- 5:44Speaker 4: a that's a good question, you know.
- 5:45Speaker 1: But I think I think, uh, you know, obviously you're
- 5:48Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna go through some setbacks, you know, in
- 5:50Speaker 1: this league, and and there's gonna be some some times
- 5:53Speaker 1: where you know you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna come
- 5:57Speaker 1: out some hard times. I mean, that's just that's just
- 5:59Speaker 1: part of this game. I've been there before, I've done
- 6:01Speaker 1: that before, and we've always you know, battled back. I mean,
- 6:05Speaker 1: you know, even you know, even when we were three
- 6:07Speaker 1: and seven, you know, twenty two, we found a way
- 6:09Speaker 1: to win a game and win win multiple games, and
- 6:12Speaker 1: and that's all it takes, you know, And I think
- 6:16Speaker 1: I think too when you look at it, and if
- 6:18Speaker 1: you really look at these games, you know, like with
- 6:22Speaker 1: a call Mai and study the tape and see, I
- 6:25Speaker 1: mean it's there's mistakes, Yeah, there's mistakes.
- 6:28Speaker 4: Are they critical at times? Yeah? Yeah, they're critical at times, But.
- 6:31Speaker 1: There's a lot of good as we talked about the
- 6:33Speaker 1: other day, and you.
- 6:35Speaker 4: Know that's what we have to lean on. And we
- 6:36Speaker 4: just got to continue to work.
- 6:39Speaker 2: You start, you needed fast start where you going to
- 6:41Speaker 2: the offense, get on, go fast start and I know,
- 6:44Speaker 2: you know in the muff time getting touched on by
- 6:46Speaker 2: the way, you count that as that fast starkey you
- 6:48Speaker 2: build on that you know.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Earlier or yeah, I mean that's that's part of a
- 6:53Speaker 1: fast start. It could be it could be just the defense,
- 6:57Speaker 1: you know, three and out, you know, getting back to
- 7:00Speaker 1: the offense.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Whatever it might be.
- 7:01Speaker 1: But scoring points on your opening drive three seven, whatever
- 7:04Speaker 1: it is, however, you get it done. And and as
- 7:08Speaker 1: you know right now, it's that's a good time to
- 7:10Speaker 1: get that done, you know. And and uh, and it's
- 7:14Speaker 1: something to build on, you know, something to go back
- 7:16Speaker 1: and look at. And you know, we had an opportunity
- 7:19Speaker 1: on third down. We didn't capitalize on that third down
- 7:22Speaker 1: drive either, you know, in that first that first drive.
- 7:24Speaker 1: So those are all things that we can improve. We
- 7:27Speaker 1: know that, and we do that. We stay on the
- 7:30Speaker 1: field and potentially score even without the punt.
- 7:34Speaker 4: How close with you guys.
- 7:35Speaker 2: To I guess getting to the point where there's the
- 7:37Speaker 2: full trust in Tank, you know, especially in pass procu
- 7:40Speaker 2: Is he getting.
- 7:40Speaker 4: Close to that?
- 7:41Speaker 1: Or yeah, Yeah, he's he's been doing He's been doing
- 7:44Speaker 1: a good job, continues to improve, you know.
- 7:50Speaker 4: You know, it's one of those things too where.
- 7:53Speaker 1: It's not that we don't have trust and Tank, you know, TJ,
- 7:56Speaker 1: the earnest guys like that just uh have done it longer,
- 8:00Speaker 1: I've done it more and and Tank just continues to
- 8:03Speaker 1: see everything and process everything.
- 8:06Speaker 4: But he's done. He's done a great job for you
- 8:08Speaker 4: mentioned the.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Twenty two season, you guys had that lose the street
- 8:10Speaker 1: kind of in the middle and then caught fire towards
- 8:12Speaker 1: the end. Are there any similarity between kind of the
- 8:14Speaker 1: struggles you're going through now to that.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Like lessons that can play both ways.
- 8:22Speaker 4: I mean obviously you can.
- 8:23Speaker 1: You can go back and look and and and you know,
- 8:28Speaker 1: dive into into that. I think you know, nobody wants
- 8:34Speaker 1: to be zero and four. Nobody wants to be where
- 8:36Speaker 1: we are. We feel like, you know, we should be
- 8:40Speaker 1: obviously further along, right.
- 8:44Speaker 4: And I'm just.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Sitting there thinking, you know, thinking back to to that,
- 8:46Speaker 1: to that time where it's just you know, there was
- 8:50Speaker 1: a play kind of kind of very similar. It was
- 8:52Speaker 1: kind of a play here, play there. I missed assignment here,
- 8:54Speaker 1: miss assignment there. That just kept us from either you know,
- 8:58Speaker 1: finishing a drive or finishing game back then. I think
- 9:00Speaker 1: it's kind of the same thing, same thing now, you know,
- 9:03Speaker 1: and and.
- 9:04Speaker 4: It just takes one.
- 9:06Speaker 1: It takes one takeaway, it takes one touchdown, drive, it
- 9:09Speaker 1: takes one stop, it's.
- 9:10Speaker 4: Whatever whatever, you know, whatever it is, it just takes one.
- 9:14Speaker 1: And then when you get one, one win that can
- 9:17Speaker 1: turn into into multiple wins, which it did.
- 9:20Speaker 4: You know back then. What's you're feeling about how the
- 9:23Speaker 4: pass rush has been doing it?
- 9:24Speaker 5: You know, obviously losing job you know a quarter and
- 9:27Speaker 5: a half, you know, curricles guys in general, h are
- 9:32Speaker 5: you getting it enough out of the pass rush right now?
- 9:36Speaker 1: I think that's an area that we can continue to improve, right,
- 9:39Speaker 1: I think I think we're close. When you were again
- 9:41Speaker 1: when you really put on the on the film and look,
- 9:44Speaker 1: we're we're when I say we're close, we're inches away
- 9:47Speaker 1: from hitting the quarterback, hitting his arm, knocking the ball loose.
- 9:52Speaker 1: You know, we've we've played some mobile guys here too
- 9:55Speaker 1: in these first first few weeks, you know, And and
- 9:57Speaker 1: so that that comes into play. But you know, it's
- 10:00Speaker 1: not for for lack of effort. We got to continue
- 10:03Speaker 1: to to push pockets. You know, this is another another
- 10:06Speaker 1: week depending on who plays, you know, the the the
- 10:09Speaker 1: pass rush could be a little bit different, you.
- 10:11Speaker 4: Know, but but we're we're close.
- 10:14Speaker 1: We we know internally that that we can improve and
- 10:18Speaker 1: and it needs to improve, and and uh, we got
- 10:20Speaker 1: to just continue to work.
- 10:22Speaker 5: A different subject you mentioned the other day, talked about
- 10:24Speaker 5: how you played at Coffland coach team. You would expect
- 10:29Speaker 5: it to be a very physical type game. When when
- 10:31Speaker 5: you look at at Tom's style being the old fashioned
- 10:34Speaker 5: hard ass coach, how hard is that style to try
- 10:39Speaker 5: to coach today's NFL that, well, you think you'll get
- 10:42Speaker 5: a little a little bit harder, a little bit tougher.
- 10:44Speaker 5: Just it just seems that there's less of those guys now.
- 10:49Speaker 4: I think it's the way he coached.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Was the way I was coached right from from my
- 10:58Speaker 1: my coaches hard, you know, kind of in your face, screaming, yelling,
- 11:03Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. I mean, that's that's that's
- 11:06Speaker 1: probably I just don't I just don't know if that works.
- 11:09Speaker 4: Now.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Look, you can you can still I think you can
- 11:14Speaker 1: still be upset, you can still be you know, frustrated,
- 11:17Speaker 1: all of that with with the guys. But but I
- 11:22Speaker 1: don't I don't think they necessarily, not all of them.
- 11:24Speaker 1: I don't think they all respond to that.
- 11:27Speaker 4: You know.
- 11:30Speaker 1: I think just coming to him as a man and
- 11:32Speaker 1: just having a conversation, you know, and and and sometimes too,
- 11:37Speaker 1: you know, maybe not calling a guy out in a meeting,
- 11:41Speaker 1: you know, in front of their teammates, in front of
- 11:43Speaker 1: their peers, you know, just go to them one on
- 11:44Speaker 1: one and have those conversations. And I think that's more
- 11:48Speaker 1: and more what's happening, you know, with I think teams overall,
- 11:55Speaker 1: you know, But there's still part of me that wants
- 11:59Speaker 1: to wants to old school it every now and then,
- 12:02Speaker 1: you know, and uh, and sometimes it comes out, you know,
- 12:08Speaker 1: But uh, I just I just don't think everybody responds
- 12:10Speaker 1: the same way.
- 12:12Speaker 3: The obviously Sean mentioned, you know earlier in the season
- 12:15Speaker 3: of talent this team be the best team. Is it
- 12:17Speaker 3: your trans assessment that this team talent wise is better
- 12:19Speaker 3: than the record to form what they produce.
- 12:21Speaker 4: So for I feel that way, I feel, I feel
- 12:25Speaker 4: that way. I feel I just feel like we're right now.
- 12:30Speaker 1: You know, yes, we're we're a better for we're better
- 12:32Speaker 1: football team on paper obviously than then what's on the field.
- 12:37Speaker 4: And it's something that we get.
- 12:38Speaker 1: We we even as coaches, we have to we have
- 12:41Speaker 1: to find a way to tap into that and and
- 12:42Speaker 1: get the most out of it. Leak talent like good
- 12:45Speaker 1: and great is kind of a pine lined Everybody has
- 12:49Speaker 1: good players.
- 12:50Speaker 2: It's like those elite guys.
- 12:51Speaker 4: League League's full of good players.
- 12:53Speaker 2: You know, those elite players make diff do you guys
- 12:55Speaker 2: haven't have elite players to make a different?
- 12:57Speaker 4: I think we do.
- 13:00Speaker 1: I and we need our elite players to play elite.
- 13:02Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's it. I mean, that's that's that's
- 13:05Speaker 1: sometimes it's what it comes down to. Are they gonna
- 13:06Speaker 1: be e lead every week? Probably not. That means the
- 13:09Speaker 1: good players have to, you know, step up and play too.
- 13:13Speaker 1: So but if we get if we get enough of
- 13:17Speaker 1: that and get get enough enough guys you know, playing
- 13:21Speaker 1: that way, uh, we'll be better off.
- 13:23Speaker 2: And I didn't mean and ask this for a few weeks.
- 13:25Speaker 1: I don't want it to get confused at the locker
- 13:27Speaker 1: room report.
- 13:28Speaker 2: But why did you rearrange the locker room?
- 13:30Speaker 3: Why'd you move some of the younger guys.
- 13:32Speaker 5: Move their staws before we won?
- 13:36Speaker 4: What was the process there?
- 13:39Speaker 1: I knew you were gonna ask me one day. I
- 13:43Speaker 1: didn't mean to ask before we Honestly, you've talked about
- 13:45Speaker 1: it and we all just keep forget.
- 13:48Speaker 4: Really just slipped your mind.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Because I don't think it's a big deal. But I
- 13:53Speaker 2: do think.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I think I think when you get to uh a
- 13:58Speaker 1: locker room downstairs, I think it goes to Jean's question
- 14:01Speaker 1: earlier about being able to coach players and being hard
- 14:04Speaker 1: on them. I think I think it's good that you
- 14:06Speaker 1: mix your team up. I think it's good that they
- 14:09Speaker 1: don't just pot up your old lines in this corner,
- 14:11Speaker 1: your d lines in that corner. Your linebackers are. If
- 14:14Speaker 1: you mix your team up, they're gonna bond. You talk
- 14:16Speaker 1: about having a strong locker room. That's where the strong
- 14:18Speaker 1: locker room comes in. Now, now, position groups can't you know,
- 14:24Speaker 1: position themselves against each other.
- 14:26Speaker 4: You know, it's not O line versus D line. When
- 14:27Speaker 4: you get the line and D line.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Together, they work together, they talk together, they live together,
- 14:32Speaker 1: you know, they build relationships together. And you can't do
- 14:37Speaker 1: it over here because game day is different. Right, You've
- 14:40Speaker 1: got to be able to be offense, defense and all that,
- 14:42Speaker 1: but on game day. But during the week where we
- 14:45Speaker 1: come to work every single day. I think it's important
- 14:48Speaker 1: that And this wasn't my idea. Don't don't, don't, don't
- 14:53Speaker 1: confuse it. It was not my idea. Some of the
- 14:55Speaker 1: players had brought this to my attention places they had
- 14:57Speaker 1: been colleges things like that, so U I thought it
- 15:00Speaker 1: was a great idea, and I did it right after
- 15:04Speaker 1: you know, right after the off season program heading into camp.
- 15:08Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thanks coach for doing