Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Travis Hunter and Liam Coen Recap First Week of Training Camp
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Came together as a team.
- 0:01Speaker 2: We've been working during the all seasons, so it's just
- 0:03Speaker 2: like it's just flowing together and were putting the pieces together.
- 0:06Speaker 3: You know, the team said they had a plan for you,
- 0:08Speaker 3: but to see the plan and action giving you tom today,
- 0:11Speaker 3: you were getting an extra time on offense yesterday. It
- 0:13Speaker 3: goes with the defense coaches.
- 0:14Speaker 4: Just what does that like for you?
- 0:16Speaker 1: It's just a blessing.
- 0:16Speaker 5: You know.
- 0:17Speaker 2: They actually trust me and they put in a lot
- 0:18Speaker 2: on my plate. But I just gotta go out there
- 0:20Speaker 2: and continue to attack the work that they give me.
- 0:22Speaker 6: So does your day end later than everybody else's day
- 0:25Speaker 6: because you got extra meetings and stuff like? Are you
- 0:27Speaker 6: the last guy out of the building just because you
- 0:29Speaker 6: got the extra stuff to do?
- 0:30Speaker 1: Nah?
- 0:31Speaker 2: No, it's the same as everybody else. But I just
- 0:33Speaker 2: got a little bit of actually work on my plate
- 0:34Speaker 2: and I just continue to switch between the meetings.
- 0:38Speaker 1: How organized is your.
- 0:39Speaker 6: Schedule minute to minute from you knowing where you need
- 0:41Speaker 6: to be helping make it out part of easier for you.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I super organized.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Me and coach go over there pretty much every week
- 0:47Speaker 2: and they send me a picture and I get a
- 0:49Speaker 2: piece of paper to keep it my locker, so I
- 0:50Speaker 2: know exactly where I gotta be and when I need
- 0:52Speaker 2: to be there.
- 0:53Speaker 7: Is it more complicated?
- 0:54Speaker 1: Less complicated than doing the same thing in college? H No,
- 0:57Speaker 1: I was about to say.
- 0:59Speaker 6: Did you enjoying first day on defense?
- 1:01Speaker 4: Stay?
- 1:01Speaker 3: I'm sure you were like eager to.
- 1:03Speaker 6: Get over there.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:05Speaker 2: I enjoyed it, But I just need to be be
- 1:07Speaker 2: on the field a lot more so I can continue
- 1:09Speaker 2: to learn the defense and continue to do what I
- 1:10Speaker 2: need to do with your.
- 1:12Speaker 6: Offense that you know they put you on offense firstly,
- 1:14Speaker 6: that you can kind of pick that up first. How
- 1:16Speaker 6: confident are you that you've got most of that off.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Lord, I'm super confident.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I'm super confident is what I'm doing in the progress
- 1:23Speaker 2: that I'm making.
- 1:24Speaker 4: How was the vacation?
- 1:25Speaker 1: I saw the video from the Bahamas.
- 1:27Speaker 3: Look like you guys had a lot of fun out there.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great, And like I said, we were
- 1:30Speaker 2: just gonna out there, getting to work in and just
- 1:32Speaker 2: chilling with the guys.
- 1:33Speaker 7: How much of a connection were you able to get
- 1:35Speaker 7: with Trevor over those last few weeks just in the
- 1:37Speaker 7: Bahamas here in Jacksonville working.
- 1:39Speaker 2: Out a lot a lot of stuff that y'all don't see.
- 1:41Speaker 2: We put in the work behind the scenes and we
- 1:43Speaker 2: continue to work every day.
- 1:44Speaker 4: How did they come about the.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Now? We had a shoot together, so we just made
- 1:50Speaker 1: up someone on the slot.
- 1:51Speaker 4: How important is you know?
- 1:53Speaker 7: Those team bonding off the field type of things just
- 1:55Speaker 7: when you go into a.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Season, super important.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Like I said, it's a lot of people that you
- 1:59Speaker 2: can you can't talk any type of way too, So
- 2:01Speaker 2: you just.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Gotta fill each other out.
- 2:02Speaker 2: They gotta understand who you talking to and who you're
- 2:04Speaker 2: speaking to so they understand you and where you're coming from.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Or a teammate Jimmy Warren Junior, what.
- 2:08Speaker 6: Makes him so special?
- 2:10Speaker 4: Uh?
- 2:10Speaker 2: He he's a he's a ball player. He loved the
- 2:12Speaker 2: game and he he's fast.
- 2:14Speaker 1: He's fast. It's he's faster than you know.
- 2:16Speaker 3: He's ever kind.
- 2:16Speaker 1: We never race. So I'm.
- 2:19Speaker 4: Do you know Coroy or have you heard.
- 2:21Speaker 6: Of Koy Parrish?
- 2:22Speaker 1: Kid it? Uh?
- 2:23Speaker 3: I think it's Minnesota.
- 2:24Speaker 6: He's a safety. He's gonna now be a two way
- 2:26Speaker 6: guy like you. You kind of like the groundbreaker for that.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Have you heard of him at all?
- 2:29Speaker 4: And at all?
- 2:30Speaker 3: No?
- 2:30Speaker 1: Nah, I haven't.
- 2:32Speaker 6: What do you think about being the guy that now
- 2:33Speaker 6: everyone's gonna look at and be like, that's the example.
- 2:35Speaker 6: It can be done at the big college level. So
- 2:38Speaker 6: you know, let's give other guys a shot.
- 2:40Speaker 2: I mean, I just hope they go out there and
- 2:42Speaker 2: just continue to uh do what they need to do.
- 2:44Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm not gonna say I'm the groundbreaker
- 2:46Speaker 2: because it's a lot of people before me that have
- 2:48Speaker 2: done it. I just did it to a certain extent
- 2:49Speaker 2: that nobody else did it.
- 2:51Speaker 6: What's the hardest part of doing that that people don't
- 2:53Speaker 6: know about.
- 2:54Speaker 2: The uh just the work that you put in and
- 2:55Speaker 2: when they try to criticize, it's like, I'm already doing
- 2:58Speaker 2: all this extra work. You're gonna keep telling me I
- 2:59Speaker 2: can't do the same thing that I've been doing and
- 3:01Speaker 2: showing you. So it's just that a lot of people
- 3:03Speaker 2: just keep down playing us. But I'm gonna just be quiet,
- 3:05Speaker 2: just go to work.
- 3:06Speaker 6: If that doesn't annoy you.
- 3:07Speaker 2: When you're gonna keep hearing all the doubters at all,
- 3:09Speaker 2: no actually make me smile because I they just they
- 3:12Speaker 2: don't know what to say, so they just gonna keep
- 3:13Speaker 2: haying for you.
- 3:15Speaker 4: For the juggling between those sides. Is it harder right now?
- 3:17Speaker 4: Physically or mentally.
- 3:19Speaker 5: Uh.
- 3:19Speaker 2: I probably say mentally because you gotta got two playbooks
- 3:22Speaker 2: and you gotta do different terms each and every day,
- 3:24Speaker 2: so that I say the playbook.
- 3:27Speaker 6: Who you have turned to for advice defensively?
- 3:29Speaker 4: Player wise?
- 3:31Speaker 1: Uh? Player wise? I mean all the guys are there
- 3:33Speaker 1: to help me.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Either, it don't matter when I come out a sign
- 3:36Speaker 2: or if I'm in the meeting rooms, They're there to
- 3:38Speaker 2: help me. So all the guys in each room, they
- 3:40Speaker 2: they come and try to help me as much as
- 3:41Speaker 2: they can.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Said a lot of.
- 3:43Speaker 7: Positive things to say about you. What's it been like
- 3:44Speaker 7: just his veteran leadership and being around him?
- 3:47Speaker 2: Uh, Jay, little hill old head. So it's it's pretty fun.
- 3:50Speaker 2: And like, just learn from the guys that's been here,
- 3:52Speaker 2: been doing it for a long time, so I called him.
- 3:54Speaker 1: He's like an uncle of me. So they've been here
- 3:56Speaker 1: for a long time.
- 3:57Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna follow their footstuff and listen to
- 3:59Speaker 2: the advice they to give me.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Did you feel in the frustration from the rest of
- 4:03Speaker 1: yours today? Did I feel any frustration? I mean, I don't.
- 4:08Speaker 1: I don't know what they feeling.
- 4:09Speaker 2: I just hope they over there just continue to work
- 4:10Speaker 2: and making progress every day, and when you're from up
- 4:13Speaker 2: for practice on defense and all, well, when you get
- 4:16Speaker 2: different compare for practice mentality wise or there or nah,
- 4:21Speaker 2: I just go in there, be ready to work and
- 4:23Speaker 2: be ready to make progress and continue to work.
- 4:26Speaker 1: So you have to you know, over experia checks.
- 4:29Speaker 2: So like, would you like to go to flift and switch.
- 4:31Speaker 7: In your brain when you're gone that you may.
- 4:33Speaker 6: Offenses you done?
- 4:35Speaker 2: Uh in the meeting rooms, Yes, it's definitely a flip.
- 4:37Speaker 2: It's a it's a switch that you got a flip
- 4:39Speaker 2: because the terms are different and it's different plays, but
- 4:42Speaker 2: you know it's different formations that the defense called it
- 4:44Speaker 2: a different thing from what the offense call it. So
- 4:46Speaker 2: in the meeting room, yes, but when I hit the field,
- 4:48Speaker 2: it's all the same to me.
- 4:48Speaker 1: I just go to work.
- 4:49Speaker 6: Would you at the beginning, did I give you.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Kind of a a go to Nah, I no headache,
- 4:53Speaker 2: it just got I just know I had to get
- 4:55Speaker 2: in my books.
- 4:56Speaker 3: Where you have practices eventually where you're doing both in
- 4:59Speaker 3: the same practice.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Well, yeah, well we will.
- 5:01Speaker 2: I just have to get to that point to where
- 5:03Speaker 2: I understand both sides immediately.
- 5:06Speaker 6: When you were at Colorado, did you do practice on
- 5:09Speaker 6: both sides of the ball every day, or where there
- 5:11Speaker 6: were offense day's defense.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Ve Nah, I practice on both sides every day every day.
- 5:14Speaker 4: So yeah, do you like this approach this way a
- 5:17Speaker 4: little bit better?
- 5:17Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, so I can.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to be able to progress everything fast quick.
- 5:21Speaker 2: If the offense changed on it on the defensive. When
- 5:24Speaker 2: I'm on the defense, as far as the offense change
- 5:25Speaker 2: the strength, I gotta know what I'm doing right away.
- 5:27Speaker 2: And if the offensive we change the play, I gotta
- 5:30Speaker 2: know what I'm doing right away. So I like that
- 5:31Speaker 2: we starting off slow, getting me adjusted, making sure I
- 5:33Speaker 2: know where I need to be on one side of
- 5:35Speaker 2: the ball each day, and then it all come together.
- 5:37Speaker 3: I bet you needed to see the field more. What
- 5:40Speaker 3: would you say is the biggest area where you want
- 5:42Speaker 3: to see growth out of yourself over these next few weeks.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Uh, just technique on defense side of the ball as
- 5:47Speaker 2: well as the office side of the bar. And make
- 5:49Speaker 2: sure that I'm my technique is up the park so
- 5:51Speaker 2: the coaches can trust me more and make sure I
- 5:53Speaker 2: know my place all right?
- 5:54Speaker 4: Thank you?
- 5:56Speaker 7: Is that Brian Thomas You're was for a little bit.
- 6:01Speaker 4: Yeah, he's had a little back spasm. Yeah, just a
- 6:03Speaker 4: little tight back.
- 6:04Speaker 3: He'll be all right with with Brian, and then kind
- 6:07Speaker 3: of the offense overall. When you have a day like today,
- 6:09Speaker 3: how do you kind of talk to them and get
- 6:11Speaker 3: them back on track.
- 6:12Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't know necessarily think it was
- 6:13Speaker 5: a bad day. It's just we didn't make any plays.
- 6:16Speaker 5: You know, like, we got a ton of opportunities to
- 6:17Speaker 5: make plays. When the ball's in the air, we got
- 6:19Speaker 5: to make those plays. And whether it's ball placement, whether
- 6:22Speaker 5: it's you know, making a play when the ball's in
- 6:25Speaker 5: the air, it's got to be ours. So, you know,
- 6:26Speaker 5: I thought we ran it pretty well at times today
- 6:28Speaker 5: in terms of just getting on the right targets and
- 6:31Speaker 5: hitting the runs the right way. So it was a balance.
- 6:33Speaker 5: But more so I think they understand that we got
- 6:35Speaker 5: to go make those plays.
- 6:36Speaker 7: Would have been your question.
- 6:37Speaker 5: To thanks, Yeah, I think he last you know, a
- 6:40Speaker 5: few days, he's you know, just continuing to get used
- 6:42Speaker 5: to the runs. Right, there's mid zone, wide zone gap, right,
- 6:46Speaker 5: just getting used to the flow of those runs.
- 6:49Speaker 4: What's the intent of those runs?
- 6:51Speaker 5: I thought he did a nice job over the last
- 6:52Speaker 5: few days to kind of, hey, making good second level
- 6:55Speaker 5: cuts and getting vertical.
- 6:56Speaker 4: So I've been pleased with him so far.
- 6:58Speaker 6: Are you guys limiting in Armston a little bit?
- 7:00Speaker 5: Yeah, just a little bit, you know, just trying to
- 7:03Speaker 5: get him into the swing of it with you know,
- 7:04Speaker 5: individual and stuff like that. No, just you know, you know,
- 7:09Speaker 5: just kind of giving him a little bit of a
- 7:10Speaker 5: veteran start.
- 7:13Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just going.
- 7:14Speaker 5: To be out for a few days, you know, day
- 7:17Speaker 5: to day right now, we're just kind of figuring it
- 7:18Speaker 5: out for how would you how.
- 7:22Speaker 7: Do you think he's handled having offensive dates, having defensive dates,
- 7:25Speaker 7: just the rhythm of that.
- 7:26Speaker 4: So I think he's it's uh, it's weird.
- 7:28Speaker 5: It's probably harder I mentioned this before, like logistically for
- 7:31Speaker 5: us as coaches to navigate it and make sure that
- 7:34Speaker 5: we're making use of all this time. It's I think
- 7:37Speaker 5: he doesn't bother him as much, you know. I mean,
- 7:39Speaker 5: he's he's pretty unfazed by some of some of this stuff.
- 7:42Speaker 4: So, you know, these next few.
- 7:44Speaker 5: Days will be very important though, because he was on
- 7:47Speaker 5: defense today, we will have been off day tomorrow, you know,
- 7:50Speaker 5: making sure that he's ready to go for for the
- 7:52Speaker 5: next few days. So, uh, he'll have to use this
- 7:54Speaker 5: weekend off day tomorrow as well to make sure that
- 7:56Speaker 5: he's studying offensive stuff. So he's been great in terms
- 7:59Speaker 5: of his attitude and and just kind of the way
- 8:01Speaker 5: he approaches it for the.
- 8:03Speaker 3: Defense to not have buster and you see a couple
- 8:05Speaker 3: of those young guys Jarring technificih and yesterday to make
- 8:08Speaker 3: plays like that. Just what does that mean?
- 8:10Speaker 5: Yeah, it's huge. I mean we need depth, right, we
- 8:12Speaker 5: need competition. You know, I thought Tyson had a really
- 8:16Speaker 5: nice day again today. Jordan Lewis had another good day today,
- 8:19Speaker 5: so you know, and I love you know, Jarring's got
- 8:21Speaker 5: the right energy, the way, the way that he approaches it,
- 8:24Speaker 5: I really have appreciated. So it's great to get those guys,
- 8:28Speaker 5: you know, quality reps.
- 8:30Speaker 6: Travis hesitant today, first thing on the defense a little
- 8:32Speaker 6: bit out there or did you have a chance to
- 8:33Speaker 6: really I didn't really notice.
- 8:35Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't really notice. You know, it's like so
- 8:38Speaker 5: often in.
- 8:39Speaker 4: Defense, especially in scripted stuff.
- 8:42Speaker 5: You know, you know, you're not always sure where the
- 8:43Speaker 5: ball is going to go, and you know some so
- 8:45Speaker 5: often as a DV, the ball may not come your
- 8:47Speaker 5: way for numerous plays. So you're just kind of working
- 8:51Speaker 5: your own technique and fundamentals. But I'll ask the defensive
- 8:54Speaker 5: guys and be able to watch the tape and have
- 8:56Speaker 5: a better idea.
- 8:57Speaker 3: What was your first reaction and checking my picture.
- 8:59Speaker 5: Of Lord talk, Yeah, I mean with one hand as well,
- 9:02Speaker 5: that was I mean, thank god it hit him in
- 9:04Speaker 5: the chest.
- 9:06Speaker 4: You know, it got tipped like we were, he was
- 9:08Speaker 4: throwing the ball down the field.
- 9:09Speaker 5: The parker gets tipped right in the right in the
- 9:12Speaker 5: Chad's hands. So you know, those are the moments where
- 9:15Speaker 5: you're you're pissed at first, and then hey, good job chat.
- 9:19Speaker 5: So you know, I think we've just had too many
- 9:22Speaker 5: tip balls in general over the last few days. Whether
- 9:24Speaker 5: it's the old lion's got to get their hands down, quarterbacks,
- 9:27Speaker 5: eyes have to be better because you know that's happened
- 9:31Speaker 5: a few times now.
- 9:32Speaker 6: You mentioned that a bunch, you know, like when you
- 9:34Speaker 6: office does something you get, you're good.
- 9:35Speaker 4: You're side, the.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Defense does something good, you're mad.
- 9:38Speaker 6: Yeah, Like, do you think you're ever going to get
- 9:40Speaker 6: after that?
- 9:41Speaker 4: Yeah? Who knows, man, I don't know.
- 9:43Speaker 5: I it's it has to be that way though, right
- 9:46Speaker 5: Like at the end of the day, I am calling
- 9:48Speaker 5: the plays on offense. I am responsible for all sides,
- 9:51Speaker 5: but specifically that's something that I'm you know, a little
- 9:53Speaker 5: bit more invested in that way. So there's definitely a
- 9:56Speaker 5: little bit more personal on the ice script the plays,
- 9:59Speaker 5: so I get a litt bit more pissed when they
- 10:00Speaker 5: don't work.
- 10:02Speaker 1: You were kind of stars.
- 10:02Speaker 4: Parker had a really good start. I've been pleased with
- 10:05Speaker 4: Parker man.
- 10:06Speaker 5: I think he's if you're talking about guys that's gone
- 10:08Speaker 5: up and made plays when the ball's been in the air,
- 10:10Speaker 5: he's done it, and you know, he's got the right mindset.
- 10:14Speaker 4: He approaches work the right way every day. He's strong.
- 10:17Speaker 5: You know, he can kind of work second level releases
- 10:20Speaker 5: on people when they try to get hands on him.
- 10:22Speaker 4: I've been very pleased with Parker the last few days.
- 10:25Speaker 1: It's only been three days.
- 10:26Speaker 7: Can you appreciate a different vibe when Travis has an
- 10:28Speaker 7: offensive day versus a defensive day?
- 10:30Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, you definitely feel it a
- 10:33Speaker 5: little bit just because we're offensively just by nature, maybe
- 10:37Speaker 5: a little bit more of a quieter group just in general,
- 10:40Speaker 5: and so when he is over there, there's just a
- 10:43Speaker 5: little bit more you know. I don't want to call
- 10:45Speaker 5: it life because they I thought they were focused today,
- 10:47Speaker 5: wasn't that. It's just you know, he does have a
- 10:50Speaker 5: little bit of a vibe around him, and so it
- 10:52Speaker 5: does help kind of create that on offense and.
- 10:55Speaker 4: Brings a little bit of juice for sure.
- 10:58Speaker 3: Hankle had a couple of good catches today. Just what
- 11:00Speaker 3: have you seen out of him so far?
- 11:02Speaker 4: Yeah, Eli has worked his tail off.
- 11:03Speaker 5: He's strong, he's physical, He's got to continue to work
- 11:06Speaker 5: on flexibility and just kind of being able to be
- 11:09Speaker 5: loose as an as an athlete playing the receiver position.
- 11:12Speaker 5: He's worked his tails off, his tail off on special
- 11:15Speaker 5: teams as well.
- 11:16Speaker 4: So he wants to do right.
- 11:18Speaker 5: He looks you in the eye when you're coaching him.
- 11:20Speaker 4: He's a good kid.
- 11:21Speaker 3: And kind of the same thing with Joshua. See as
- 11:23Speaker 3: he had to catch us right, we think he fully
- 11:25Speaker 3: extended for it in seven.
- 11:26Speaker 4: Yeah, josh has made a few plays.
- 11:28Speaker 5: You know, he's got to get get in shape right now.
- 11:30Speaker 5: You know, he's got he's got to get himself into
- 11:32Speaker 5: shape and make sure that he's not you know, the
- 11:35Speaker 5: next guy up in those instances where we have to
- 11:38Speaker 5: sub you know, he's got to be the one ready
- 11:40Speaker 5: to go right now. So, you know, been pleased with
- 11:43Speaker 5: some of the plays though that he has made.
- 11:45Speaker 7: You talked about this during the offseason, but what do
- 11:47Speaker 7: you really look for from the offensive line during this
- 11:50Speaker 7: kind of setting before pats come off?
- 11:52Speaker 5: So much is about communication, Like all we really want
- 11:55Speaker 5: to make sure is we break in the huddle the
- 11:58Speaker 5: right way, which we started to elapse as the practice went.
- 12:02Speaker 5: Are we attacking the line of scrimmas the right way?
- 12:04Speaker 5: Are we getting up there and communicating all five and
- 12:08Speaker 5: more to the tight ends, quarterback back, all those things
- 12:11Speaker 5: at a high level, right And just making sure that
- 12:14Speaker 5: we're targeting the run game properly, which I thought we
- 12:17Speaker 5: did a better job of today in general, just not
- 12:20Speaker 5: having a you know, unblocked player because of a mistargeting issue.
- 12:24Speaker 5: I thought we targeted our runs better today. And also
- 12:27Speaker 5: they're responsible for the protections in a lot of ways
- 12:29Speaker 5: with Trevor, So just the communication playing as a group,
- 12:34Speaker 5: because you can't ultimately see the full physicality scale right now.
- 12:37Speaker 3: It's a fall up to that because he's almost the
- 12:39Speaker 3: most frustrating part of camp.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Would all the off season work and that just wanting
- 12:44Speaker 1: to get those.
- 12:44Speaker 4: Paths that's right.
- 12:45Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of the guys you could tell, you
- 12:47Speaker 5: know what the pads on. They just kind of want
- 12:49Speaker 5: to get to that point. It feels like we've been
- 12:51Speaker 5: in T shirt shorts for.
- 12:53Speaker 4: A long time now, and they're right, they are. It's
- 12:57Speaker 4: not quite football. It's still not.
- 12:59Speaker 5: I mean, football is, as we all know, a very
- 13:02Speaker 5: physical game and it's meant to be played that way,
- 13:04Speaker 5: and ultimately you can't really do it until you get
- 13:07Speaker 5: the pads on.
- 13:08Speaker 4: More guys, all good. Oh, my wife's finger is good.
- 13:14Speaker 4: She yeah.
- 13:16Speaker 5: We had a cooking class and sliced it open and
- 13:20Speaker 5: went to a hospital and emergency room in Capri, which
- 13:24Speaker 5: was quite an experience. Twenty five euro and you're on
- 13:27Speaker 5: your way, so we're all good. I appreciate it though,
- 13:31Speaker 5: Thanks guys,