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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "My Best Ball Is Definitely Ahead of Me." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's going on. It's been good. It's been really good.
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  Speaker 1: It's been nice, uh, you know, physically, being able to
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  Speaker 1: get healthy and kind of get back in the swing
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  Speaker 1: of things, being able to travel a little bit, do
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  Speaker 1: some stuff, and now we're back rolling. It comes quick,
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  Speaker 1: but just excited to be back, obviously with the guys
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  Speaker 1: that were here and some of the new guys in here,
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  Speaker 1: so it's exciting to get everybody back together.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like.
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  Speaker 1: It took a while. I mean, i'd probably say March.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when March hit, I felt really good, like
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  Speaker 1: lifting and doing everything like totally normal. You know, I'd
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  Speaker 1: been so used to the back half of the season
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  Speaker 1: adjusting everything, whether it was a workout or throwing or
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  Speaker 1: practice or whatever it was. You know, I gave myself
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  Speaker 1: I would work out but still modified. But until March,
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  Speaker 1: i'd say, I that's when I started to feel like
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent do the stuff that I normally do
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  Speaker 1: and can kind of get back in the kind of
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  Speaker 1: shape I want to be and train the way I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to. So, yeah, it took a took a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Must have been like in the note gave and Mitch,
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  Speaker 2: I know it hasn't been a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: But with your ear questions of most of together, they
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  Speaker 1: seem great. You know, Gabe seems just like a super
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  Speaker 1: hard worker from when I've heard about him. He's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that likes to work, wants to work, really competitive,
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  Speaker 1: goes about his business the right way. Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't got a chance really to work together much yet,
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  Speaker 1: but that that's starting now, so it'll be it'll be
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  Speaker 1: great to see him move around and I know he's
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  Speaker 1: he's getting back healthy too, so Mitch, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: similar deal. I mean, I've heard nothing but good things
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  Speaker 1: from either people in Buffalo or whether it's Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 1: You know that's one of my friends. Obviously, that quarterback
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  Speaker 1: over there. They played with the last five years and
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  Speaker 1: they have a good relationship, and you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: exciting to hear about their relationship and how they did
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  Speaker 1: things there, and to have two guys from Buffalo that
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  Speaker 1: really were their reputations speak really highly of them and
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  Speaker 1: how they carry themselves. So I think it's it's great
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  Speaker 1: additions for our team and it's going to raise the
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  Speaker 1: level of everybody's play around him too.
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  Speaker 3: You look forward to these workouts getting back in the
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  Speaker 3: building as.
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  Speaker 1: A team definitely, you know, I think it's probably a
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  Speaker 1: different perspective for I can't say I speak for everyone necessarily,
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  Speaker 1: but in general, I think our team has a really
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  Speaker 1: good feel for the off season and how to approach
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  Speaker 1: and how to attack it. And we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that are here. Almost everybody's here unless
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  Speaker 1: they can't be for whatever reason. Guys try to be here,
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  Speaker 1: so that's something I appreciate. And then for me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we live here year round, so I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: training anyway, so it's nice to have all the guys
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  Speaker 1: back into town. One just just friends with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them, so it's nice having my buddies back. And
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  Speaker 1: then too, you get to actually work out together and
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  Speaker 1: do stuff and train and start to get your chemistry
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  Speaker 1: before training camp happens. So there's a lot of benefits
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  Speaker 1: to it. Like I said, I'm here anyway, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad everybody's back and we get to all kind of
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  Speaker 1: do it together and train and work out and move
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  Speaker 1: towards where we want to be. So I think it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always excited when we start back up the help.
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  Speaker 4: This is the first meeting back of the off season
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  Speaker 4: ahead than some priorities for the team between now.
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  Speaker 1: And June, you know, just kind of recapping obviously last year,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you got to move on pretty quickly
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  Speaker 1: because it's a new year. You know, now it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter who won the Super Bowl last year. Now everyone's
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  Speaker 1: kind of turning the page and going on to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. So you move on. But you have to
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  Speaker 1: kind of recap, all right, because we only had that
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  Speaker 1: one team meeting right before we left to end our
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  Speaker 1: season last year, and you talk about it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to digest that in one night before that meeting.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we talked about and dressed address some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that happened, you know, maybe some things
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  Speaker 1: that we didn't do well, some things that we might
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  Speaker 1: have done okay and need to improve on. Just really everything.
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  Speaker 1: We've done that the last two days and from coach
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  Speaker 1: Peterson's perspective, from press's perspective, and then players you know,
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  Speaker 1: some stuff too. So it's been really good. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're we're heading the right direction and we know what
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  Speaker 1: we need to do, and we got to attack this
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  Speaker 1: offseason and be really intentional. There's there's very tangible things
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  Speaker 1: that we need to get better at. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to go into all the details right now, but there's
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  Speaker 1: things when you get better out, you know, for myself,
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  Speaker 1: for us as an offense, as a team, and we
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  Speaker 1: kind of just put all those out there and now
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  Speaker 1: we're all on the same page of where we're heading,
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  Speaker 1: where we're going, what we need to work on. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's necessary to do that at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the off season so you're not just the
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  Speaker 1: worst thing you want to do is you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to waste time. You don't want to just come here
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  Speaker 1: and work out and go home and really not know
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  Speaker 1: where you're heading and what you want to work on.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it was good to get everybody centered
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  Speaker 1: and know where we're going.
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  Speaker 4: Now there's been time. How did you digest it the
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  Speaker 4: last six weeks, especially of just everything that transpire.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was obviously disappointing season. I mean some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that I said after the year, but I
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  Speaker 1: think just being removed from it, it's a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: to see the good after the fact, not necessarily the
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  Speaker 1: good things that happened, but use the bad things as
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  Speaker 1: good and to make yourself better moving forward. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's just so many things that I learned last season,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, trying to stay healthy and dealing
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  Speaker 1: with some things that I haven't had to deal with
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  Speaker 1: in my career, or not playing as consistent as I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to play and to finish the year to whatever
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  Speaker 1: it may be, maybe not meeting some expectations that we
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  Speaker 1: had for ourselves as a team, not playing well in
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  Speaker 1: big games, all these things that have gone through my head.
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  Speaker 1: I think you being removed from it, you can you
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  Speaker 1: can take stuff from that and use it to make
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  Speaker 1: you better. In the moment, it's hard to see the
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  Speaker 1: big picture. So I'm thankful for that. I mean, all
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  Speaker 1: the difficult times in my career, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: back to my rookie season has made me a lot
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  Speaker 1: better for it. You just have to use it. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I plan to do for from last season,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's our approach as a team too.
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  Speaker 1: It's a waste if you don't use it. You went
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  Speaker 1: through that experience and then you don't use it, It's
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's double bad because it was it sucked
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  Speaker 1: going through it, and then you didn't get better from it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's our that's my mindset, that's our
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  Speaker 1: mindset moving forward, and so many things to learn from.
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  Speaker 3: You think when you heard about Josh Allen's new contract,
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  Speaker 3: it's excited for him, super excited obviously won the season
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  Speaker 3: he had, but just the guy that he's been, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's been here for he was here two years before
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  Speaker 3: I got here, in the three years that I've been here,
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  Speaker 3: just consistent, one of the hardest workers in the team, Dependable,
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  Speaker 3: you know as a person in the locker room, the
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  Speaker 3: right type of guy you want.
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  Speaker 1: So he checks all the boxes that you want as
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  Speaker 1: a leader on your team, and obviously a great player too.
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  Speaker 1: So I was just excited to get him back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of teams that I'm sure would
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  Speaker 1: love to have Josh Allen on their team. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited that we got that done and he's he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a Jag for a long time. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that was a that was a big box check for us,
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  Speaker 1: and excited that he's that he's here, and obviously really
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  Speaker 1: happy for him on just the personal and life side
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  Speaker 1: of that's that's a big deal, and can take care
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  Speaker 1: of his family for for forever, for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm excited for him and he definitely earned it.
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  Speaker 2: Tiny year four. So you start thinking about your contractor
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  Speaker 2: potential extension, You have had any talks with Jags.
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  Speaker 1: At all by any of it or yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's there's definitely been some conversations, you know, as far
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  Speaker 1: as we're that's at now. It's not really my focus.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to love to obviously be a Jag so
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  Speaker 1: for as long as possible. We love it here and
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  Speaker 1: I love where We're headed as an organization and feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm just getting better every year and my best
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  Speaker 1: ball is definitely ahead of me. So from that standpoint, obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would be great. But like I said, it's going
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  Speaker 1: into my fourth year. It's not like this is necessarily
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  Speaker 1: gonna be my last season. You know, There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: that could happen, So not really my focus right now.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, my job isn't going
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  Speaker 1: to change whether I get extended or not before this season.
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  Speaker 1: My job is to go win games and to be
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  Speaker 1: the best I can be for this team so we
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  Speaker 1: can have a chance to win a Super Bowl. So
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  Speaker 1: even if I get the contract extension, that's still my
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  Speaker 1: job even more so you know, he's even more expectation
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  Speaker 1: and pressure on that. So for me, I have the
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  Speaker 1: same focus in the same mindset. I can't lie. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it would be nice to have to have that done
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  Speaker 1: and you know, feel good about it, but no, it's
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  Speaker 1: not really the focus right now. I know where we're at,
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  Speaker 1: I know where we're heading, and I know what I
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  Speaker 1: have to do, and you know, there's some improvements that
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  Speaker 1: I have to make going forward.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about not wanting to waste time, but what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing I guess as a player for this
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  Speaker 2: time of the year, what are you trying to work on? Particularly?
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  Speaker 1: I think the big thing in this this portion of
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  Speaker 1: the year is a lot of it is physical. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a little bit mental. In meetings, you have
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  Speaker 1: some set time to meet and kind of intro some
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  Speaker 1: of the playbook and just scheme and all those things
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  Speaker 1: for some of the new guys and old guys, because
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  Speaker 1: there's things that change every year that you adjust in
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  Speaker 1: your scheme. Like, there's a lot a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that we're that we're adjusting and trying to make better
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. So that's gonna be it's gonna be good
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  Speaker 1: for us. So we got to learn that and get
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with it. But really, physically, this is the time
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  Speaker 1: of year where I feel like you can devote most
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  Speaker 1: of your time to physically training, getting stronger, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting your body ready for what's what's gonna come. And
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  Speaker 1: it takes a lot of time. You know, you don't
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  Speaker 1: you can't just start doing that in training camp. It's
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  Speaker 1: too late. You know you're gonna break down. So really
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what I focus on this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: is getting my body where I want it to become
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  Speaker 1: training camp. And then obviously you start building the chemistry
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  Speaker 1: with guys too that are new, especially you know there's
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  Speaker 1: guys that have now played with two or three years
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  Speaker 1: that you know we obviously you still work and you
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  Speaker 1: build that, but the guys that are new, you got
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and and and get the reps,
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  Speaker 1: get the throws, get the timing, get the work with
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  Speaker 1: the guys up front, you know all.
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  Speaker 3: That stuff that chemistry guy gave Davis. How important getting
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  Speaker 3: this be it to kind of start getting on the
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  Speaker 3: same page.
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  Speaker 1: With him really important. Yeah, I mean we have let's
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  Speaker 1: say it's April and we got intel shoot into into
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  Speaker 1: July or whatever for until training camp starts. So you
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  Speaker 1: have all this time to to get ready for training camp.
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  Speaker 1: So when training camp comes, you feel pretty good. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be trying to figure out timing when
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  Speaker 1: training camp comes, really you want to you want to
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  Speaker 1: feel sharp and Chris, so you can use that time
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  Speaker 1: to just really get better at what we do, our concepts,
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  Speaker 1: our schemes, advancing all the stuff that we do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's checks and communicating all those things. That's really
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  Speaker 1: what that's more for, not trying to just time up
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  Speaker 1: routes with guys like you're kind of behind the eight ball.
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  Speaker 1: If you're at that point, you're.
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  Speaker 4: Watching the rest of the league, rest of the division
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  Speaker 4: really load up on offense and playmakers. Are you watching that?
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  Speaker 4: And also do you feel like you have enough here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I do. Stuff happens every off season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's you gotta you gotta still play the season.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta play seventeen games, and a lot can happen,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone makes wants to make a huge deal in
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  Speaker 1: the off season of different moves that happen. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we have a really good division. There's no
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  Speaker 1: denying that. You know, we got good quarterbacks, good offenses,
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  Speaker 1: good defenses. It's a really competitive division. But for us,
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  Speaker 1: it's done changing thing. You're gonna have to go through
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  Speaker 1: all these teams anyways, if you want to go win
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, so you're not gonna you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: dodge and get to play teams that aren't very good.
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  Speaker 1: There's really not that many in the league anyways, so
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  Speaker 1: it always changes by the time the season comes. Some
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  Speaker 1: teams that you think might be great maybe don't have
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  Speaker 1: a great year. Some teams that you didn't think were
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  Speaker 1: gonna be really any good have a great year. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of work that has to be done
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  Speaker 1: from now until training camp and through training camp to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for the year. I like the guys that
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  Speaker 1: we have, and obviously the drafts coming up to I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure we'll get some some more pieces there and just
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  Speaker 1: continue to get some some good younger guys. But I
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  Speaker 1: love the guys that we have and what we've started
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  Speaker 1: to build here, and we got some new pieces this
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  Speaker 1: offseason on the defense side of the ball. What they're
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  Speaker 1: doing over there looks great, looks awesome. And and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: I love him and his scheme and what he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to do so excited about that too. Obviously that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really have anything to do with me, but that's gonna help.
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  Speaker 1: And Yeah, I like where we're at. I like obviously
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  Speaker 1: Gabe was huge, Mitchell was a great pick up. All
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  Speaker 1: the guys that we got back that we re signed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited Ryan got hired.
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  Speaker 3: He mentioned what stood out about you and the offense
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  Speaker 3: when you guys played, what stood out about his scheme
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  Speaker 3: and talkings defense when you know you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys go in London. I would say, uh, and who
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  Speaker 1: knows you know this. I haven't talked to him really
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  Speaker 1: in depth about what he's gonna do here necessarily, but
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  Speaker 1: he's very He's just he's really good at disrupting. There's
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  Speaker 1: players scheme is. Defense is really good at disrupting timing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they press, they're really physical on the outside,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of free access, letting guys get off
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  Speaker 1: the ball. They mix in the shell, coverages a lot,
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  Speaker 1: even with some pressures. They're really good up front. Run
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  Speaker 1: discipline is really good. Yeah, I mean, those are just
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  Speaker 1: the main things I'd say, Especially in coverage. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: tough when they they press and they play man. They press,
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  Speaker 1: they play zone. They disguise stuff really well. They're really physical,
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  Speaker 1: and when you can't, when guys don't get out and
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  Speaker 1: aren't on time and you have a good pass rush,
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  Speaker 1: it's really hard as a quarterback because then you're you're
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  Speaker 1: moving around, your timing's thrown off, You're trying to find
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  Speaker 1: a spot to throw. Your receiver isn't there yet because
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  Speaker 1: they got pressed. You know, I think they do, or
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  Speaker 1: he does now us he does a great job of that.
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  Speaker 4: Non committal so far about calling plays, So far as
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  Speaker 4: you expect Press to be the guy calling plays, doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 4: do you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, whatever whichever way that goes, we're gonna we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the most of it and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be great. I don't know. I haven't had any conversations about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, anything necessarily changing or staying the same, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know. I'm with you guys, but no,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we've had success with with both
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  Speaker 1: guys called the plays in the past, and even even
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  Speaker 1: last year. Obviously we could have been better offensively, but
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  Speaker 1: we did have some success. And I do like the continuity,
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  Speaker 1: the consistency that I that I have with the Press.
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  Speaker 1: I know them really well. You know. I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a good thing that we're keeping that
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  Speaker 1: intact because it's hard as a quarterback to change, to
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  Speaker 1: change around, to change systems, to change play callers all
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  Speaker 1: the time. That that can be difficult. So I like
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  Speaker 1: where we're at, and I think that we've made some
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  Speaker 1: really necessary changes this off season already and now we
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  Speaker 1: just got to implement them and get great at it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I think it's about creating, creating an identity
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  Speaker 1: and being really good at what we do. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a clear vision and picture of what
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  Speaker 1: that is. And I'm excited, you know, and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm expecting it to be pressed at this point because
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  Speaker 1: that's it's kind of the direction we've been heading and
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  Speaker 1: what I what I expect and not hearing anything. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that's where we're going, and I'm excited for it.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you view this as your offense now?
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  Speaker 4: Three years continuities stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You're just talking about a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's it's it's our offense. You know,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm the one out
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: there pulling the trigger. But it is our offense, and
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: they do a really good job of including me in
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: things that we might maybe we want to change, or
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: something that we did last year that maybe didn't work
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: too well or that doesn't make a lot of sense
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: in our scheme. So there's been a lot of changes
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: that we've made, so I'm excited to really see those
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: on the field with the guys. That's obviously what gives
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: you your answer. You know, you gotta do what works
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: and what our guys do well, so we got to
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: check that box. But I'm really excited to see how
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: the offense looks, and I do viewed as my offense.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I'm the one out there,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: you know, pulling the trigger, run the plays, running the show,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: and you know, I got to be able to perform
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: and and like what we're doing. So I feel like
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I've taken a lot of ownership of speaking up when
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: I maybe don't like something or or saying I really
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: love this, like let's do more of that or whatever
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: it is. And they've done a good job of communicating
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: with me and talking me through things and listening to
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: my feedback.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you never went through an injury stretch like
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: that in your career at any level, Where did you
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: learn about you during that whole stretch that you find
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: out some do you regret maybe trying to play through
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: some of those things, or you know, what's your takeaway
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: from all that.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I don't really regret. I don't regret necessarily the decisions
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: I made. I think the thing to learn about it
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: is maybe the way I play, and maybe there's some
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: times where I can avoid some hits. You just got
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: to stay healthy. You know, the teams that get better
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: every week and that stay healthy are usually the teams
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: that go pretty far into the playoffs and win the
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So especially at quarterback, you gotta stay healthy.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: So that's that's something I've learned. Is also too, if
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: you're not healthy and you can't practice, it's it's hard
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: to it's hard to play well. And that's something that
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I want to take more ownership of of making sure
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: whatever it is I have to do, maybe it's taking
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: less hits, maybe it's doing you know, throwing the ball away,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: doing certain things, or whatever I can do to stay healthy.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Is just being able to continue to practice and prepare
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: during the week so I feel like I can put
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: my best performance out there on Sunday. And give us
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: a chance to win. I feel like late in the
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: year I didn't I didn't do that enough. You know.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I had some I had a handful of games where
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I played well and you know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: missed some throws and did some stuff that I thought
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: was uncharacteristic. And so I I regret how it turned out.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: But I always have said, if I can play and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not hurting the team, and maybe
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: some weeks I did, you know, but I feel like
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I did the best I could and went out there,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and I would expect I would expect the same with
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: my teammates. So if I expect that from guys and
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: late in the season to play and to really play
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: through some stuff, it's football, you're gonna have to, then
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I have to do the same. And I felt like
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: that's what I was doing. And so no, I think
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: it's the biggest thing is just getting my body to
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: a point where I can withstand a lot of these
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: hits or whatever it is, but also limiting some of
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: them as much as I can. So it's it's a
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: balance of all that. Awesome, Thank you, good to see y'all.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Gonna be bad