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O-Zone Podcast: Quarterbacks coach Mike McCoy · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit
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Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome to
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Speaker 1: this week's Ozone podcast presented by by Star. And I'm
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Speaker 1: excited about this week's guest because it's a guy who
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Speaker 1: has been around the NFL a long time. He has
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Speaker 1: to me a very unique and obviously an important role
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Speaker 1: on this coaching staff. It's Jaguars quarterbacks coach Mike McCoy
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Speaker 1: and Mike, I appreciate you join us today. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: having me. Uh, first question, as I'm preparing for this,
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Speaker 1: I kept going back to why now. You've been out
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Speaker 1: of the league for a couple of years. You obviously
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Speaker 1: have a wealth of experience in the league, probably could
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Speaker 1: have gone in to different places. Why here? Why now?
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Speaker 1: Why the Jaguars. Well, first of all I'd like to
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Speaker 1: say is the last couple of years, Um, I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: trade for anything. And this is kind of a little
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Speaker 1: shot out to my wife and my kids, is that,
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Speaker 1: you know, as a football coach, there's a huge commitment
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Speaker 1: to the organization, to your team, to your players, to
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Speaker 1: the fans, and you miss a lot of things with
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Speaker 1: your family, you know, the weekends being on the road, traveling, UM,
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Speaker 1: you know, getting ready for the draft. There's so many
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Speaker 1: things that happened during the year, especially as a head coach,
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Speaker 1: that I've missed so many things. And the past couple
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Speaker 1: of years of time I've spent with my family. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I've got a Hall of Fame wife and Kelly, she's
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Speaker 1: the best. You know. I've been very successful in this
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Speaker 1: business and I couldn't have done it without her. UM.
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Speaker 1: And then my kids live who's a senior at the
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Speaker 1: University of Arizona, my son's a sophomore in college and
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Speaker 1: living in San Diego. UM. To be able to do
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Speaker 1: the things with them, UM, you know, the Dad's Weekend
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Speaker 1: in Arizona, all the things I've done with Luke. UM,
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Speaker 1: it's just been I've had a time in my life
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Speaker 1: doing that with them. But as each year has gone
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Speaker 1: on and they know this, UM, I've got a little
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Speaker 1: antsie each year. The first year was easy, and then
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Speaker 1: next year it was kind of like, hey, we've got
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Speaker 1: to get back into it. And then you know, an
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Speaker 1: opportunity like this came up. UM. Having known Doug for
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Speaker 1: a long time, UM, and the type of coach he is, UM,
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Speaker 1: the type of leader he is to be able to
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Speaker 1: work for somebody like that, it was a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: to come in and um, you know, to see an
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Speaker 1: organization that has a quarterback like Trevor, the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: work with someone who's so talented as he is, young
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Speaker 1: in his career. It was just a great opportunity to
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Speaker 1: work with good people. UM and Dougs done a great
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Speaker 1: job of putting a great staff together. So we've enjoyed
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Speaker 1: our short amount time we've been together so far. I
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Speaker 1: want to assume that that is a conversation you've had
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Speaker 1: with Doug, who sort of had the same opportunity last
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Speaker 1: year to be away from it for a while. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I've been around a lot of coaches, and there are
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Speaker 1: coaches who get into it at twenty and I retire
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Speaker 1: at sixty five and never have that opportunity. So that's
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Speaker 1: pretty unique. Both of you guys are coming off of that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, you you always want to, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: take the right job when you look at certain things,
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Speaker 1: you look at it to just take any job, to
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Speaker 1: take the right job. And when Doug first called me, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and talk to me about possibly joining
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Speaker 1: him this year, you know, I was so excited to
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Speaker 1: be able to get back to work with someone like
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Speaker 1: Doug Um, someone like I've mentioned before, I've known for
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Speaker 1: a while. Um he's been very successful both you know,
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Speaker 1: one Super Bowls as a player and as a coach.
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Speaker 1: The type of person he is, I knew it was
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Speaker 1: just a great opportunity that it couldn't pass up. How
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Speaker 1: does UH you know I haven't been a head coach.
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Speaker 1: You see things almost from above sometimes that you don't
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Speaker 1: see as an assistant. Um, how that shape you as
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Speaker 1: a coach in general, and how will it help you
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Speaker 1: in the position of quarterback coach? Well, I was very
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Speaker 1: fortunate when I was the head coach in San Diego
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Speaker 1: that I had Ken wasn't Hunt on my staff a
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Speaker 1: former head coach. Um. There's so many things that come
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Speaker 1: across your desk when you are the head coach that
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Speaker 1: you know you always want to run some things by
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Speaker 1: at times. Other people had experience of being a head
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Speaker 1: coach and not everyone's done that, so things come up.
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Speaker 1: So if there's ever anything I could do to help
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Speaker 1: uh anybody in the organization with anything with my experience,
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Speaker 1: I think I'd be a great asset to the organization.
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Speaker 1: And I think throughout all the years that I've coached
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Speaker 1: in different roles, from the quality control days, quarterback days
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Speaker 1: in Carolina, to the coordinator days, the head coaching days,
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Speaker 1: I've done a little bit of everything. So, um, I've
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Speaker 1: seen the good and the bat one a lot. There's
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Speaker 1: been a lot of great season, there's been some tough seasons,
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Speaker 1: and part of you know, some season you kind of
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Speaker 1: start looking around, going you know, what is going on?
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Speaker 1: How do we change these things? And then to the
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Speaker 1: rewards of turning organizations around. Um, So I think you know,
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Speaker 1: I've been very fortunate to be around some great players
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Speaker 1: and some great coaches into learning. I think you take
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Speaker 1: we all kind of look back over your career and
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Speaker 1: you take a little bit from each person you've been around,
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Speaker 1: both players and coaches, and figure out in today's position.
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Speaker 1: You know, how can I be the best coach for
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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars and help this team be great? How
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Speaker 1: did we hunt uh help you the most? Well, there's
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Speaker 1: a certain thing. You know, you've become a head coach
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Speaker 1: for the first time, hime, and you think you have
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Speaker 1: this great plan and then all of a sudden, something
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Speaker 1: comes across your desk and you're like, wait, hold on
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Speaker 1: a second, or then you play a game, right, Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we haven't been playing in games yet, and all these
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Speaker 1: things are coming across. I've got to answer this question.
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Speaker 1: You know, isn't the PR Department's supposed to take care
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Speaker 1: of that. Well, you're the head coach. You need to
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Speaker 1: help us on this or uh, you know you look
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Speaker 1: in um when you're feeding the players, certain issues come
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Speaker 1: up with the food. The players come around and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: can we get this? Can we get that? And you know, okay,
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Speaker 1: well I'm the head football coach and you do. There's
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Speaker 1: so many are things that come up. So it's just
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Speaker 1: great to have somebody on your staff that's been there,
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Speaker 1: done that, um. And because you're always looking, you know,
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Speaker 1: what what is best for the football team. You know,
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Speaker 1: how can we help these players be successful? And that's
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Speaker 1: the number one thing what makes uh Doug such a
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Speaker 1: good head coach. And my theory is everything I've heard
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Speaker 1: about him is that his relationships with people and his
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Speaker 1: ability on that front is really high end. Uh do
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Speaker 1: you agree? And what else do you like about him
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Speaker 1: as head coach? Well, you're exact the right. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's a people person. You know, he's he's the head coach,
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Speaker 1: but he truly cares about each and every one of
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Speaker 1: us in this organization. You know, you see him talking
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Speaker 1: to everyone throughout the organization as you walk walk around here. Um,
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Speaker 1: the relationship he's gonna build with the players. You know,
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Speaker 1: he played for a long time, so I think as
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Speaker 1: the head coach and being a former player, when you've
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Speaker 1: been in their shoes and you understand what it takes
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Speaker 1: to be successful. Like I mentioned earlier about him winning
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl in Green Bay, Um in the career
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Speaker 1: he had in his role, and uh, it's a people business.
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Speaker 1: And I think that the players, you know, you've got
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Speaker 1: to let them know that you truly care about them
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Speaker 1: as a person and not just as a football player.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's what we're going to do here.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna get to know our players. You know,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna work our tails off or we're
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Speaker 1: gonna have a good time doing it. And we and
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Speaker 1: we care about these guys. It's franchise, you know, last
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Speaker 1: couple of years has been through a lot of transition.
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Speaker 1: Uh so there's been a lot of new regimes come in.
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Speaker 1: It struck me a second ago when you were talking
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Speaker 1: about this one that you like the makeup of this staff,
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Speaker 1: you like what's going on, what do you like best
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Speaker 1: about it? And what do you think is going to define? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Maybe you just mentioned it the fact that you're all
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Speaker 1: people people and if you're trying to build a good culture,
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Speaker 1: But what do you like about the environment that you're
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Speaker 1: feeling being built right now? I guess what I'm getting at. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think one of the first messages we had, um
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Speaker 1: we first met the staff is hey, we're all in
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Speaker 1: this together. You know, I want every but you know,
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Speaker 1: we the first offensive meaning we talked about you know,
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Speaker 1: how everybody's gonna have their input. We're we're building our offense.
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Speaker 1: This is you know, it's our football team. It's not
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Speaker 1: just one. This is we all represent the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna put this thing together. Um, we want
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Speaker 1: everyone's opinions. And then you know that you asked me
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Speaker 1: earlier about how my experience the past is going to help,
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Speaker 1: is that I understand that. Hey, listen, you know people
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Speaker 1: have certain roles, um, and when they want to bounce
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Speaker 1: certain things off me, it's it's easy for me to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is this is our role as a position coach.
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Speaker 1: There's coordinators, there's head coaches, there's people in the personnel department.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has a role to do, and but everyone wants
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Speaker 1: to be open and you know, express your opinions on
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Speaker 1: how to do things when questions at the right time,
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Speaker 1: when questions are asked. And I think there's been great
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Speaker 1: communication on what our goals are and how we're gonna
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Speaker 1: work on a daily basis. Here can you be there
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Speaker 1: in the same fashion for Press as well? Press Taylor
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, I assume, so no doubt. You know, Um,
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Speaker 1: I've had great experience as a coordinator and my last
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Speaker 1: couple you know, we struggled as an offense and why
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Speaker 1: and you know, how could you do things differently? What
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Speaker 1: would you do different And there's a lot of good
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Speaker 1: things that I've learned from both the good and the bad,
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Speaker 1: and so there's a number of different ways of Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's done a great job of leading this
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Speaker 1: offense up to this point in time, and uh, he's
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Speaker 1: got a bright future ahead of him. UM as a coordinator.
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Speaker 1: So it's been a lot of fun, um and we
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Speaker 1: had a good time in the meeting so far putting
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Speaker 1: this thing together? Is this? You know? And it's always
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Speaker 1: so tough. You talk about schemes because uh, so much
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Speaker 1: is drawn from everywhere in the NFL these days. But
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Speaker 1: do you is this scheme uh? I mean Doug Peterson scheme.
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Speaker 1: Is this something that you run before, worked with before?
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Speaker 1: Are you coming into it new? How does that work? Well?
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Speaker 1: I think really varying degrees? I get that. Well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when you look at football, I think everybody there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of similarities, you know, to certain systems, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you call things a certain way, you have different protection rules.
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Speaker 1: You know, what what is your philosophy going to be?
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Speaker 1: And how are you going to protect certain plays? Um?
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Speaker 1: And then you know the terminal. You know you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have a curl flout combination. We're gonna call it something
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Speaker 1: you're always gonna teach players how to read it. Um.
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Speaker 1: But then it becomes I think the great thing about
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Speaker 1: the system that Dougs run and what we're trying to
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Speaker 1: implement here is that it's gonna be very player friendly.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be flexible. We're gonna try to take advantage
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Speaker 1: and do what our players do best. And it's gonna
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Speaker 1: change from week to week. Um, you know, but we're
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Speaker 1: still building that. So you know, we're in the early
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Speaker 1: stages of putting this all together. The players have only
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Speaker 1: been in there a couple of days. Um, we haven't
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Speaker 1: been on the field with them at all. So you're
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Speaker 1: gonna learn over time as we get in the off
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Speaker 1: season program, as you when you once you go out
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Speaker 1: there for that voluntary camp, you get in the phase
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Speaker 1: two part of things. We're gonna learn what our players
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Speaker 1: do best. Um, and then you know, come training camp,
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Speaker 1: you start picking it up a little bit. You get
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Speaker 1: in the preseason games and as you go, um, you
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Speaker 1: look at certain things they say that this may not
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Speaker 1: be us. This may be something that we've done somewhere
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Speaker 1: else that was very successful for these guys in Philly,
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Speaker 1: but it's not what we do. And you know, or
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Speaker 1: you look at the quarterback. You always want to look
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Speaker 1: at your quarterback first and say, you know, what are
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Speaker 1: trevor strengths? You know, how do we want to build
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Speaker 1: this thing around Trevor and figure out, Okay, who do
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Speaker 1: we have surrounding them? You know, Um, the guys up front,
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Speaker 1: you know, the run game we're gonna install here what
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Speaker 1: do we do best? And it's all about players. So
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be very flexible and adjust from week to week. Um,
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Speaker 1: not only with our team and our offense, but who
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Speaker 1: are we playing. What are their strengths? You what of
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Speaker 1: their weaknesses? We're gonna attack those things and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: we got a long ways to go. Is the building?
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Speaker 1: The building process is fascinating because it's fancy it on
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Speaker 1: the field, but they never get a chance to see
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Speaker 1: what you guys do in a room. Is the building
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Speaker 1: of an offense just as simple as you get five
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Speaker 1: or six offensive coaches in a room and you start
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Speaker 1: putting stuff on a whiteboard or is that and then
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Speaker 1: taking things off that you don't like. Well, I think, um,
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Speaker 1: it comes down to number one organism or offensively, what
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Speaker 1: is our philosophy gonna be? And I think, um, Doug
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Speaker 1: and Press I probably had a number of conversations over
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Speaker 1: the years, um and having worked together of what this
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Speaker 1: offense was like in Philly. And then I think every year, Um,
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Speaker 1: you look at things at the end of the year,
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Speaker 1: and obviously Doug was out last year, so he had
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Speaker 1: plenty of time to look at what he had done
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Speaker 1: in the past, whether regards to where you've been UM
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Speaker 1: and as you watch the league changed from year to year,
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Speaker 1: you kind of say, Okay, how can I take this
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Speaker 1: for certain organizations and implemented in our system? And it's
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Speaker 1: hard to have time to do that when you're going
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Speaker 1: to the next season. And I think that's one thing
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Speaker 1: when I look back the past couple of years to
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Speaker 1: be able to really look um at a number of
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Speaker 1: teams and study certain teams and follow you know, certain
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Speaker 1: coaches that I've worked with or that worked for me
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Speaker 1: when they've moved on. Something like Frank Reich, what did
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Speaker 1: he do when he went to Indie? How did he
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Speaker 1: kind of change or what additions did he make to
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Speaker 1: our system that we had built over the time we're together.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's what kind of you every teams
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Speaker 1: every year you kind of look at it, Okay, here's
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Speaker 1: the foundation, this is who we want to be. And
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Speaker 1: then you look at okay, through free agency, through the draft, Okay,
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Speaker 1: do you still have that personnel to fit the scheme
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Speaker 1: you want to run? And then you know what type
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Speaker 1: of players do you have and what new wrinkles do
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Speaker 1: you take from other places or some things like hey,
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Speaker 1: you've always had in your system, but maybe you look
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Speaker 1: at it from last year and say, God, we didn't
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Speaker 1: run enough of this. So I think it's always evolving.
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Speaker 1: You're always looking to say, okay, what is best for
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Speaker 1: our team today? And listening to you just now, it
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Speaker 1: struck me that you may have taken and family time,
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Speaker 1: but you took some Sunday time too. Well. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: know you learned that. I mean there was a couple.
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Speaker 1: I mean even when I was still coaching, Um, those
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Speaker 1: car rides home, you know, now it became you know,
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Speaker 1: I thought I was watching Sports Center. You know, my wife,
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Speaker 1: the comment she would make, or my kids a certain thing.
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Speaker 1: You know, my son would say, hey, dad, why did
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Speaker 1: you run this one? That's it's like, oh boy, I'm
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Speaker 1: in trouble now. If my wife, my son, my daughter,
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Speaker 1: and now my daughter was she was hey. She didn't
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Speaker 1: say a whole lot. She was always like, hey, great job.
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Speaker 1: She's very positive about everything, and hey you'll do better
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Speaker 1: next week, or hey great game. You know. But you know,
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Speaker 1: then she had a screen name on Twitter and possibly
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, I don't know anything about that. I'm
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Speaker 1: the one person, uh, you know, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: to do a lot about social media. So good for you.
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Speaker 1: I'm learning though, I'm learning the obviously we'll finish up.
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Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the quarterback. That's very one
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Speaker 1: to know about. You mentioned him early. Just give me
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Speaker 1: your first impressions or maybe what were your impressions about
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence before you started studying him up close. A
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Speaker 1: very talented player who had a ton of success, had
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Speaker 1: a great college career. UM, And I think if you
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Speaker 1: look at his rookie season, UH, typical of a lot
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Speaker 1: of young players, not just quarterbacks, but anyway, there's the
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Speaker 1: ups and downs. But I think, UM, our football team,
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Speaker 1: our organization, UM, Trevor individually, we're all gonna benefit from
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Speaker 1: it moving forward. UM. The experience and what he went
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Speaker 1: through his rookie season, UM is only going to help
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Speaker 1: him for his future, both good and bad. UM. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of good things on film that you watch
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Speaker 1: and the things that he did well last year, and
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Speaker 1: then there's the mistakes that he made. UM. And I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, we've had a lot of great conversations, you know,
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Speaker 1: early on the short amount of time we've been together
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Speaker 1: on you know, learn from it, I mean, learn from
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Speaker 1: all that experiences. There's a lot of great players that
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Speaker 1: struggled earlier in their career and it's a matter of
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Speaker 1: moving forward. How do you take advantage of those things?
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Speaker 1: And um, just learned from it. And you know you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have young players come in the drafts coming up
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Speaker 1: here in a couple of weeks. There's gonna be young
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Speaker 1: players we're gonna bring in. How do you help those guys?
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Speaker 1: As being the leader of this organization of how do
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Speaker 1: you help the young guys there? There's gonna be they're
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Speaker 1: gonna struggle at some point in time. How can you
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Speaker 1: how can they benefit? When you sit down at lunch
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Speaker 1: one day and talk to him about, Hey, you know
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Speaker 1: what you know as a rookie last year, you know
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Speaker 1: I had a rough patch and here's how I got
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Speaker 1: through it, and here's how it's helped me this year.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot to learn from it. What have
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Speaker 1: your first conversations with him been, like, any made his
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Speaker 1: kind of any first impressions, any thing that you said, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is a kid we can clearly build around. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I guess what I'm getting at is last year, Um,
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Speaker 1: he made it through some tough situations with remarkable poise
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Speaker 1: and remarkable leadership didn't seem to break them. And it
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Speaker 1: seems like you're talking to a player that you get
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Speaker 1: that same impression from. I think any time you take
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Speaker 1: a job, you look at the organizational structure, great leadership
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Speaker 1: like we have here, UM with Mr Khan all the
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Speaker 1: way down. You look at the players. You look at obviously,
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Speaker 1: do you have that quarterback that you think is a
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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback that could be special? And we have a
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Speaker 1: quarterback that could be special. Um, he's got a lot
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Speaker 1: of work ahead of him. He understands that, we understand that. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's a reason why he was picked as high as
16:22
Speaker 1: he was last year and where he went. Uh, he's
16:25
Speaker 1: got a very bright future. UM. And I think the
16:27
Speaker 1: thing I do. You asked me about what I like
16:28
Speaker 1: about him. I love his attitude and his approached everything.
16:32
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's learned from last year and I
16:34
Speaker 1: think he's he asked great questions in a couple of
16:37
Speaker 1: meetings we've had so far. H It means something to him. Uh,
16:40
Speaker 1: he understands his role in the organization. So it's an
16:43
Speaker 1: exciting time for everybody, for our fans, for all of
16:47
Speaker 1: us as coaches. You know what Trent and Doug have done, um,
16:51
Speaker 1: the commitment ownership has taken to the free agency and
16:54
Speaker 1: what we've done moving forward. It's an exciting time in
16:57
Speaker 1: the draft coming up and where we're at. So we're
16:59
Speaker 1: all really I had, uh, not just work with Trevor,
17:02
Speaker 1: but to work with this entire football team. You've been
17:04
Speaker 1: a quarterback coach and a coordinator before, and a head
17:07
Speaker 1: coach obviously, Uh in terms of relationship with a quarterback.
17:12
Speaker 1: What's different between a NOC and a quarterback coach? Put
17:16
Speaker 1: that into words a little bit. Well, really, I miss
17:19
Speaker 1: um being in the room. And that's one of the
17:21
Speaker 1: things when I, you know, the last couple of years,
17:24
Speaker 1: when I really think about what do I want to
17:25
Speaker 1: do next, and the opportunity just to get back in
17:27
Speaker 1: the quarterback room. I was very fortunate back in two thousand,
17:31
Speaker 1: uh to be with Steve Berlin and yes, what you
17:36
Speaker 1: know what a great not only a good football player,
17:39
Speaker 1: but a better person. Be able to work with him
17:41
Speaker 1: than I had Rodney Pete and some others, um, you know.
17:44
Speaker 1: And then I was fortunate to work with Jake Delone
17:47
Speaker 1: from two thousand three to two thousand and eight, and
17:50
Speaker 1: to this day, I still vacation with Jake, one of
17:53
Speaker 1: my best friends. UM, him and his wife carry their
17:55
Speaker 1: kids are great people and so we had such a
17:59
Speaker 1: great time and Caroline had just being in the quarterback
18:01
Speaker 1: room every day. And then when I got to Denver,
18:04
Speaker 1: you know, you weren't. I was became a coordinator, and
18:07
Speaker 1: I you know, you were in the room. And but
18:09
Speaker 1: as a coordinator, as a head coach, you have different
18:11
Speaker 1: roles and you you're not. It's not just the quarterbacks.
18:15
Speaker 1: And so being able to get back in that room
18:17
Speaker 1: and saying, you know, I'm coaching the quarterbacks. I'm excited
18:20
Speaker 1: just to be in there every single day, um, you know,
18:24
Speaker 1: organize the meetings and doing all those things. I was
18:26
Speaker 1: very fortunate also though when I was the coordinator of
18:29
Speaker 1: the head coach to have great people underneath me to
18:32
Speaker 1: where they were in that room. They were running that room.
18:35
Speaker 1: But it's just gonna be I'm really looking forward to
18:38
Speaker 1: just getting in the meetings, working with those quarterbacks, UM,
18:41
Speaker 1: getting them better, doing all the drill works with them,
18:43
Speaker 1: you know, getting setting those bags out there and you know,
18:46
Speaker 1: talking through all the progressions with them, and just day
18:49
Speaker 1: to day working with the quarterbacks, UM that are on
18:52
Speaker 1: our roster, really looking forward to get in the meeting
18:54
Speaker 1: room with them and getting to know them and having
18:55
Speaker 1: a good time. You had to come back, didn't you.
18:58
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was just a matter of time and
19:00
Speaker 1: feel it just feels like you're back at the right time. Yeah,
19:04
Speaker 1: And you know you always look at someone alone told
19:06
Speaker 1: me it, don't just take any job, take the right job.
19:09
Speaker 1: And you know, once I got that phone call from
19:12
Speaker 1: Doug a couple months back of just saying, Okay, hey,
19:14
Speaker 1: this is this is an opportunity I might have, would
19:17
Speaker 1: you be willing to possibly join this out? You know
19:19
Speaker 1: you and you know I've been chomping out the bit
19:21
Speaker 1: to get back in. It's just a matter of getting
19:23
Speaker 1: into the right place with the right people. I think
19:26
Speaker 1: it's it's critical to be around good people. This is
19:29
Speaker 1: a people business. You want to work with good people.
19:31
Speaker 1: So I couldn't tell you enough how excited I am
19:36
Speaker 1: and for my family to be here and to work
19:38
Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the people that are in
19:40
Speaker 1: this building. Um, you know, for the short amount of
19:43
Speaker 1: time I've been here, I love it. You know, it's
19:45
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for my family and I to work
19:47
Speaker 1: for a great organization and UH to work with a
19:50
Speaker 1: good football team and some great coaches, and to help
19:54
Speaker 1: Trevor and the rest of the organization do great things here.
19:56
Speaker 1: And I think our fans should be extremely excited for
19:59
Speaker 1: the future of our organization. Mike, I can't thank you
20:02
Speaker 1: enough for taking time. I know you have draft preparation
20:04
Speaker 1: and offense preparation going on, so it means a life
20:07
Speaker 1: for you to join the Others One podcast. Thank you
20:08
Speaker 1: very much. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.