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Evan Engram on returning to MetLife & getting the win | Postgame Press Conference | Week 16 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I've ever had a hunder yard game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously, Yeah, yeah, I'm thankful, uh at all
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  Speaker 1: my glory to God. Honestly, Um, this week was a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: um and uh the challenge, the most challenge of the
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  Speaker 1: week fell on my coming back here, and uh, tonight
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  Speaker 1: means everything, and I just I want to give him
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  Speaker 1: all the glory. I'm really thankful. Even though it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: against the Giants, just being in the building, it's just
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  Speaker 1: being just being here. Um. It definitely wasn't as emotional
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  Speaker 1: as it was playing the Giants and uh in Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: early on in the season, but um, just landing, It
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  Speaker 1: didn't really hit me till I landed until we landed
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  Speaker 1: last night. Um, and uh it's a better sweet night
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  Speaker 1: for sure. How tough is it, you know, playing in
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  Speaker 1: those conditions? Obviously you guys knew that going in, but
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  Speaker 1: just how tople was it when you actually got out there? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It honestly, it was a lot easier than we probably
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  Speaker 1: were expecting. Um. Philly earlier on the season called soft
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  Speaker 1: guard for sure, and U we kind of knew all
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  Speaker 1: we what we were kind of headed into this time,
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  Speaker 1: and that we were all ready for it. We're all
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  Speaker 1: physically prepared, mentally prepared. Um. We did wet ball drills
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  Speaker 1: during the week. UM, just you know, just prepared for it.
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  Speaker 1: We were prepared and um, you know, took care of
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  Speaker 1: the football, um and move the ball, score the points
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  Speaker 1: that we needed, and we wanted to definitely score more points,
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  Speaker 1: but we handled it probably really I say, really, well,
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  Speaker 1: how how hard is it to do what you guys
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  Speaker 1: just did? Uh? Three games and twelve days and a
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  Speaker 1: couple on the road. Uh, It's it's definitely tough. It's
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  Speaker 1: definitely tough. Yeah, you know, Doug did it. Doug does
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  Speaker 1: a great job of preparing us and um, really talking
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  Speaker 1: to us and really kind of laying out letting us know,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, what we're going into is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be easy. And that was a big that was a
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  Speaker 1: big focal point, you know, the three games in twelve days. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we started we started talking about that at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of it. When it hit that window. UM, and UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coach got us ready, Coach kept you know,
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  Speaker 1: challenging us, kept working. Um and we all responded. The defenses,
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  Speaker 1: defenses playing lights out, um and uh, and we're feeding
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  Speaker 1: off them and they're feeding off us, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just we're just playing really really good, complimentary football.
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  Speaker 1: And we were all really together there in the stretch,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, this weekend is going to be
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  Speaker 1: really nice. I thought it was supposed to be one
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  Speaker 1: game at a time. Though it's one game at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's one game at the time, but there was we
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  Speaker 1: had a little calendar, a little mini three week calendar.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. Havn't apologize if you've been asked us, but
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  Speaker 1: obviously now he faced the Giants earlier this year. Now
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  Speaker 1: you need to come back to that light. This will
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  Speaker 1: mean a little something actually, even if it was against
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  Speaker 1: the Jets. Yeah, definitely, definitely, Yeah, just the lights. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know that that locker room that we were we
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  Speaker 1: stayed in was you know, a game day locker room
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  Speaker 1: for us. We were we had to stay out there
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  Speaker 1: in COVID. That was my locker was in there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was green, but you know it's it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool to be back out there, and um,
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  Speaker 1: some of the New York fans were pretty vocal. Uh
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  Speaker 1: and somewhere you know, saying some meat things, somewhere saying
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  Speaker 1: some nice things. So um, it was awesome. It was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I gave you know, I give all the glory to
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  Speaker 1: God just bringing it kind of full circle for me
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  Speaker 1: and in a win. That was the biggest part coming
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  Speaker 1: here and you know, doing my job and getting to win.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels amazing that we did that yard drive
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  Speaker 1: against that defense. I mean, how much of my lift
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  Speaker 1: was that for you guys? Um, it was huge. It
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  Speaker 1: was huge. Like we we came into this game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: challenge physically, you know, our bodies, Um, we're filling it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, we knew they were probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: most physical defenses we're gonna see we've seen all year. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know you you cut on their tape and they're
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  Speaker 1: they're playing hard every single snap and they did that
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  Speaker 1: tonight and so um, just for us to put that
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  Speaker 1: one together and um and and go get it done,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was really important. It was it was
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  Speaker 1: you know a big part of the game, big reason
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  Speaker 1: why we want so it was huge. Thank you all.