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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Walker Little, Injuries, Facing Eagles · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: All right, so we be get what seven walked a
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  Speaker 1: little last week, and how do you feel about it
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  Speaker 1: moving forward? You know, feel great about him. Obviously, he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's been here, he's he's here. Weren't a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hats for us. You know, he's played inside,
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  Speaker 1: he's played outside, he's played both tackle spots. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think after the first uh a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: the game, he's really settled into some nice things and
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence moving forward. Was an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to possibly finish the season and the starting line of
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  Speaker 1: the kind of mean for him and maybe his future. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's a there's a lot of season left,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's a it's a great opportunity for him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to embrace. I think it'd be a great
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  Speaker 1: question to ask him and see how he feels. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: for me, it'd be just a great opportunity, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and see where it goes from there. You
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  Speaker 1: know what he is about six six? I think he
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a tackle. I think he's a tackle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he you know, I think he's I think
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  Speaker 1: he's a tackle. Let's just let's just say that tackle
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  Speaker 1: than dart one I think he's more comfortable out there.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the the space element a plane tackle
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  Speaker 1: is one thing, you know, guards or you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to necessarily move as far, and there's a lot more
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  Speaker 1: bodies around you, uh, you know, and too. Honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his size, his size is is I mean, it's good
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  Speaker 1: for guard, but I think it's I think it better
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  Speaker 1: suits him, you know, personally as a tackle Thomas Darby,
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  Speaker 1: those guys all got hurt. Derby's good. Darby would be
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  Speaker 1: out there, you know, b t We just gotta we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta wait and see. You know, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: day to day. You know, Gabe's gonna be day to day. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: day to day, Ezra day to day. But ain'kle you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll we'll see how he is at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week. Try. Yeah, I should get him back. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to to getting him, you know, out there
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  Speaker 1: and getting some some reps, see how he feels. I
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  Speaker 1: know you always say next man up when injuries hit,
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  Speaker 1: but kind of a banged up team that's still trying
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  Speaker 1: to find it's foot in the season, how you get
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  Speaker 1: him ready to go for building? Next man up? I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: It's easy as that, you know. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the the games are still gonna come. League is
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  Speaker 1: still gonna you know, continue on, and we're gonna continue on.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, we got to coach. That's why we develop
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  Speaker 1: guys in the off season, you know, for for opportunities
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  Speaker 1: like this, right so, whether he's a whether it's a
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  Speaker 1: young player, a rookie or a vet. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: a practice squad elevation. You know, we're gonna continue to
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  Speaker 1: coach everybody and and and get him prepared for for
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  Speaker 1: each week. You mentioned the training camp Saint Parker. More explosive,
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  Speaker 1: quicker stuff like that. Does that carry you over into
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  Speaker 1: the regular season or practice and all that it does? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: m what did you see from Trying Prince when he
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  Speaker 1: came in for Gardy? I thought I thought he moved,
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  Speaker 1: he moved. Well, he did some good things. I know,
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  Speaker 1: you know the one deep pass, I mean that was
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  Speaker 1: just a great, great throw, great catch. I mean he
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  Speaker 1: was in right position. You'd love to see him make
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  Speaker 1: make that play. But that was just a great play
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  Speaker 1: by them, you know. And and he continues to grow
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  Speaker 1: and develop and and it's good that he's getting you know,
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  Speaker 1: some time you know out there in getting some meaningful snaps.
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  Speaker 1: It just continues to you know, develop his growth as
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  Speaker 1: a as a player. Expectation would be if Darby can't
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  Speaker 1: go continued rotation of those guys of the three, or
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  Speaker 1: would you maybe even see jar and a little more outside. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's the and I don't want to move
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  Speaker 1: too many people, you know. I think Jarian is good
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  Speaker 1: at Nickel and I think that's a good spot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for him, But you can't go outside. Sure, he can
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  Speaker 1: definitely do that. But having Trey and what he's done,
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  Speaker 1: what Buster, you know, Buster had to kind of go
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  Speaker 1: over to play the other spot, the left corner position,
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  Speaker 1: you know, last week and in a little bit unique.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, if we had to, we could do that.
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  Speaker 1: Love to keep jarring at one spot though, you know,
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  Speaker 1: moving forward, Nick, he said earlier this week that when
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  Speaker 1: Peter over, you went out of your way to kind
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  Speaker 1: of help them transition into that job, went over the
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  Speaker 1: roster with him, I think a little bit. I went
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  Speaker 1: over the media with him. I went over the media
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  Speaker 1: with it. Well why do that? And you know, did
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of feel like an obligation to help
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  Speaker 1: him out or just I I mean, look it, it's
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  Speaker 1: a tough business. And and I I can appreciate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a new head coach going in there and what to expect,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and I you know it it just
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  Speaker 1: to to be a resource, you know, to be somebody
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  Speaker 1: there that's been it. You know, I did it for
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  Speaker 1: five years and I was assistant coach there for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. And and really just to you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you had any questions, to just ask me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's just a respect thing. It's hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard enough to be a head coach in this league.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, any any advice I could give, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a new time or a first time head coach, I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna do it. So he's kind of gone through
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  Speaker 1: over the last year or whatever, some highs and those.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so you know what it's like to deal
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  Speaker 1: with all that wire and Philly, I mean, how do
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  Speaker 1: you think he's handled that? And you know, more adviceful
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  Speaker 1: than for that. I mean, I think from the outside
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  Speaker 1: looking in, I think he's I think he's handled it well.
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  Speaker 1: My advice is just you just got to keep going
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Man, You just got to keep you know,
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  Speaker 1: head down, plowing forward. Just do your job, get your
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  Speaker 1: team ready to go for for another game. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't control anything other than that, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a head coach. So you know that that's that's my
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  Speaker 1: advice to myself and and that's my advice to to
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  Speaker 1: him is just continue to continue to keep keep doing
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  Speaker 1: the job. You don't you got to be convicted, right.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta trust your ability, You gotta trust what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: what you're teaching, how you're you know, preparing your football team.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to stick to that. And and I
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  Speaker 1: think he's done a good job with that. I do
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  Speaker 1: why fans are great. You know. Obviously we won a
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  Speaker 1: championship there, you know, and and we still got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of close close friends, family friends.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always a you know, that place is always
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  Speaker 1: going to be, you know, one of the spots for me.
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  Speaker 1: You know that enjoy going back to did you go
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  Speaker 1: to the statue two years ago? Because it's on the
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  Speaker 1: other on the other side of the stadium. It's true.
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  Speaker 1: You want me to tailgate too, and you just say
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  Speaker 1: hi to people? Yeah, exactly, No, I actually I have
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  Speaker 1: not even seen the statue in person. Okay, anyone in
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  Speaker 1: your family. Yeah. Actually, my my brother who passed away
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  Speaker 1: a couple years ago, he actually when he was up there,
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  Speaker 1: both of my brothers actually have been there and taking pictures. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is it now do you're however many years into this,
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  Speaker 1: is it easier s to trade or cut guys in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the Season's never It's never easy. I've
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  Speaker 1: been one of those guys, so I know it's never easy.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're on this side of it, and and
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  Speaker 1: it's tough and and y y, you know. The biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing for me too, I think, is just how much
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate, you know, what the players have put in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and the hard work, and whether you know
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  Speaker 1: whether they were drafted here or or not. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's it's never easy. Okay, Doug Uh Cam
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  Speaker 1: didn't play at all on Sunday, and I'm curious what
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  Speaker 1: what went into that decision. Cam Robinson, Well, if you remember,
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  Speaker 1: he was in the protocol you know, all week and
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  Speaker 1: and then and then you know, Walker took all the plays,
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  Speaker 1: all the apps during the week, and and so we
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  Speaker 1: felt uh best for you know, the five offensive linemen
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  Speaker 1: and really the eight who were gonna address that that
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  Speaker 1: you know, for that game. It once Cam got cleared that,
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  Speaker 1: uh he would go in as the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: backup tackle. And then for special teams as well, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't play on field gold block or or correct. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh was that planned as well, the same sort of situation. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was all part of the part of the plan
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  Speaker 1: when you made it the season move, no matter who
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  Speaker 1: it is, but especially got started. Do you have to
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  Speaker 1: manage the locker room on that or sure? Sure? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know this time of year, guys getting nervous, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trade deadlines next Tuesday, right, and and we've already seen
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  Speaker 1: it around the league, you know, some some top guys.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you look at Devanta Adams and Mary Cooper
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  Speaker 1: and you know d Hop guys like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's the way the the way the league is, the
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  Speaker 1: way our business is, and and you know, teams are
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  Speaker 1: always making those types of decisions. So I I do
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  Speaker 1: feel an obligation to kind of ease the mind of
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  Speaker 1: the players and and just say, guys, just let's just
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  Speaker 1: continue to work and build. Don't control, only control what
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  Speaker 1: you can control, and that's your job. And and don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about don't worry about the other what's sayings about defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've I've got against vignaw for for a while,
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  Speaker 1: whether he was in Miami, Chicago, Denver, places like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's a it's a multiple front.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna give you, you know, four D linemen, three
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  Speaker 1: D tackles at times, I will give you a you
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  Speaker 1: know base nickel. There's multiple right, and and then the
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  Speaker 1: back end. It's a it's a it's a discipline group,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a physical group. It's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a scheme that they don't necessarily do a
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  Speaker 1: ton or a lot. Uh, but they play it well.
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  Speaker 1: And and I think I think ab seeing with Philly
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  Speaker 1: right now is they're catching their stride a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they're they're playing well together. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see where where Darius is obviously, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: the week goes. But they're gaining more confidence each week
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  Speaker 1: in in Uh. That's that's obviously a credit to what
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  Speaker 1: what coach Vando has done up there. Foster van Landon
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  Speaker 1: is your swim tackle holy well, Cole, you know, uh
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  Speaker 1: van Landon right now and will continue to work with
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  Speaker 1: Yavanya Jalen Hurts just what have you sort of seen
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  Speaker 1: from him as the season's progressed, and what's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the challenge on Sunday? I think the the the challenge
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  Speaker 1: obviously is his you know, the ability to to create plays,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the ones that aren't there and he makes them.
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  Speaker 1: He he's really good outside the pocket. He's he's tough
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  Speaker 1: to bring down. He's he's strong, powerful, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: he's improved so much in the passing game too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got obviously got some weapons around him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just again another player that that is is
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  Speaker 1: playing with confidence. You know. Again they're they're kind of
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  Speaker 1: catching their stride from early in the season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they had a couple couple of losses there. But
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  Speaker 1: he makes it go, you know, offensively, and and the
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  Speaker 1: challenge is to you know, contain him if you can. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a big you know, it's his zone run scheme
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  Speaker 1: with the RPO stuff and the ability to run the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So just got to stay disciplined and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: trust your you know, trust your eyes. Robinson having describe
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  Speaker 1: as window, But what can he kind of provide you
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  Speaker 1: guys once he get I mean, we'll see right, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see excited to get him back out there because it's
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: been gosh, I think all the way back to rookie
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  Speaker 1: training camp, you know, way back in July. So it'll
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  Speaker 1: be good to get him back out there and with
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  Speaker 1: his teammates and and really you know, just see kind
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  Speaker 1: of what what he remembers, you know, of the playbook
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, and how he can help us, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's on offense or special teams. Is Parker Washington do
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  Speaker 1: double duty or was the Vilas Jones signing an nticipation
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  Speaker 1: of DLS be and your return guy. N No, right now,
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  Speaker 1: I think Parker can do both. I think he's very
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing both. I think you know, vlis, we're
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  Speaker 1: excited to get him and get him back out there,
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  Speaker 1: get him out there with our guys and and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, get him sort of uh, we gotta get
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  Speaker 1: him caught up, you know, and and see where see
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  Speaker 1: where that one goes. Anybody else, Are you guys planning
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  Speaker 1: on leaving for Philly Friday or do you think Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning? Yeah, we'll do Saturday morning and then it's
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  Speaker 1: on Parker. I and obviously we know Christian done for
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  Speaker 1: the year. But then depending on Gate and Brian's status,
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  Speaker 1: who would be next man up at the WI receiver. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean if you look at the I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you have to go into your under your practice roster.
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  Speaker 1: See Elijah Cooks, you know, Austin Travel and drop Sifha.
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  Speaker 1: So any one of those three, we'll get them all
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  Speaker 1: reps this week and we'll make a decision based on
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  Speaker 1: how those other guys feel. You know, Friday Saturday, did
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  Speaker 1: you guys sign bay Knes to the act of Rosser
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  Speaker 1: to prevent another team from acquiring them from practice squad? Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, you know, it's that kind of stuff happens, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and you wanna, you wanna keep as many
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  Speaker 1: good players as you can. You know, can't keep them all,
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  Speaker 1: but you want to keep the ones that that you
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  Speaker 1: that that they can help you move them forward. And
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we decided to to move them up
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  Speaker 1: to the fifty three