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Speaker 1: A lot of injuries in the class.
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Speaker 2: How hard does that make it to kind of evaluate the.
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Speaker 1: Group of young players you brought in.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a really fair question to ask.
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Speaker 3: The idea of the rookie contributions, it's a fun one
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Speaker 3: to talk through, and obviously, as we think back to
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Speaker 3: sort of our priorities heading into the draft and really
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Speaker 3: where we wanted to place our points at emphasis, it's
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Speaker 3: certainly a clear sign when you wrap up a season
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Speaker 3: and have double digit rookies take either an offense or
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Speaker 3: defensive snap throughout the course of a season, that you
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Speaker 3: can feel good about a sort of the experience heading
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Speaker 3: into year two. Beyond that, obviously, injuries are something that
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Speaker 3: take place over the course of a natural season, right,
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Speaker 3: and for it to happen to a few of our
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Speaker 3: rookies over the course of this first year is on
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Speaker 3: a level disappointing.
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Speaker 4: Would have loved to see more.
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Speaker 3: And obviously, with Travis having gotten to a place mid
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Speaker 3: season where you felt like he was starting to peak
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Speaker 3: and really make a real dent, and the plan for
1:02
Speaker 3: post buy was to continue to enhance that tough not
1:06
Speaker 3: to be able to see that come to life down
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Speaker 3: the backstretch. With Caleb, obviously, the fact that he never
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Speaker 3: got a chance to even step on the grass for
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Speaker 3: a regular season game was not ideal. But both of
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Speaker 3: those guys are attacking their rehab process and the way
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Speaker 3: that you would expect and really looking forward to what
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Speaker 3: their future holds for us and really their place on
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Speaker 3: the football team into twenty twenty six and beyond. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: with Wyatt having experienced an injury in preseason Game three
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Speaker 3: that impacted the first half of his season and by
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Speaker 3: the end of it being able to see levels of
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Speaker 3: his game take steps was really a positive sign. And
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Speaker 3: beyond that, obviously got some contributions from Day three players,
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Speaker 3: which is always a helpful piece to the puzzle in
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Speaker 3: you know, in particular with Jaylen McLeod not unlike Caleb
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Speaker 3: not getting a chance to step on the grass was
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Speaker 3: but nonetheless getting experience and.
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Speaker 4: Taking steps throughout his recovery process.
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Speaker 3: In a way that makes you feel optimistic about what
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Speaker 3: the future holds for him. And then beyond just the
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Speaker 3: draft selections themselves, to get contributions from undrafted college free
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Speaker 3: agents like we did in two defensive ends, it was
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Speaker 3: certainly cause for optimism, especially knowing that that was not
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Speaker 3: just through special teams, but also on the defensive side
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Speaker 3: of the ball.
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Speaker 4: It's not easy to find.
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Speaker 3: People at that position in particular and undrafted college free agencies.
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Speaker 3: So to walk away with two got to give a
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Speaker 3: lot of credit to our coaching staff and our scouting
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Speaker 3: staff who work through the undrafted college free agent committee
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Speaker 3: process to identify those players and be able to walk
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Speaker 3: away with signing them. And you know, that's a collaborative
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Speaker 3: effort that brings that to life. And obviously our coaches
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Speaker 3: and supports staff to be able to get those guys
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Speaker 3: in a place to be able to play, and those
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Speaker 3: two individually to be able to prepare in the right ways.
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Speaker 3: Is rookies by end of season to really have real roles.
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Speaker 3: And obviously beyond that, a couple different guys who started
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Speaker 3: our practice squad and were either elevated at different points
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Speaker 3: or ultimately brought to the fifty three man roster through
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Speaker 3: an undrafted college free agency is a really good sign
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Speaker 3: for the future and really our process as a whole.
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Speaker 3: But obviously when it involves a few different players with injuries,
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Speaker 3: it's something that has to be thought through a little
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Speaker 3: bit differently. But nonetheless at this point, there's plenty of
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Speaker 3: room for optimism.
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Speaker 4: James.
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Speaker 5: If you guys were seventh and quarterback pressures as a
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Speaker 5: power show up to twenty seventh, that sacks, what kind
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Speaker 5: of offseason priority is it?
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Speaker 2: Ticket that crank up and particulated a point up getting like.
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Speaker 3: That's a cool question, because you know, sacks in particular
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Speaker 3: are never a true indicator. Pressures are probably a better
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Speaker 3: indicator of whether or not you're impact in the QB.
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Speaker 4: I think the.
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Speaker 3: Way in which our scheme will evolve, we'll have a
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Speaker 3: role in how we address it from a personnel standpoint,
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Speaker 3: But clearly, I think we saw by season's end that
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Speaker 3: there was an uptick. What may have not necessarily been
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Speaker 3: a superpower of our defense on the front end of
4:01
Speaker 3: the season became more impactful by season's end. And I
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Speaker 3: think we saw evolution of usage. And I do expect
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Speaker 3: that our scheme itself will evolve and not necessarily be
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Speaker 3: the exact same. But yeah, there's going to be some
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Speaker 3: preliminary discussions that take place over the course of the
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Speaker 3: latter weeks in January. Our coaching staff won't return until
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Speaker 3: mid February, at which point we'll dive into that stuff
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Speaker 3: in greater detail back to Hunter.
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Speaker 2: For both of you guys, how is his rehab doing
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Speaker 2: and what is the plan for him moving forward?
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Speaker 6: All?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think very fair to say that his rehead
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Speaker 3: process is going as expected and he's hitting it hard,
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Speaker 3: and you know, obviously the joy that he brings to
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Speaker 3: just the everyday operation is still something that permeates throughout
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Speaker 3: the space that he enters. And beyond that and the
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Speaker 3: role that he'll play, we still expect him to play
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Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball. Obviously, you can take
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Speaker 3: a peek at, you know, expiring contracts on our roster
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Speaker 3: and which side of the ball has more Obviously at
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Speaker 3: this point walking into the off season, corner position that
5:01
Speaker 3: we have a few guys who are on expiring contracts,
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Speaker 3: so by default you can expect there to be a
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Speaker 3: higher emphasis on his placement.
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Speaker 4: I think from Liam's perspective he can share it.
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Speaker 3: But the steps that he was taken by the midpoint
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Speaker 3: of the season really made us feel good about what
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Speaker 3: the back half of the year was going to be
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Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball and what that impact
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Speaker 3: was going to look like. Being a feature point on
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Speaker 3: offense and an impact player on defense. It was just
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Speaker 3: disappointing timing, but nonetheless feel good about where we are
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Speaker 3: heading into this offseason and what next year should hold.
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Speaker 7: Will you said before you try not to put like
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Speaker 7: a number in mind for the team when one.
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Speaker 1: Thirteen wins this season? Is there a moment early.
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Speaker 2: In the season, training camp or something where you start
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Speaker 2: kind of looking and saying, I kind of like this
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Speaker 2: group you got.
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Speaker 1: A chance to maybe do something.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you can point to a number of
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Speaker 2: different time straw training camp that you felt like the
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Speaker 2: team was responding to the message, they were responding to challenges,
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Speaker 2: they wereicing their asses off. You know every day that
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Speaker 2: we kind of went out on the grass and competed.
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Speaker 2: These guys continue to elevate and set new standards, and
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Speaker 2: so you feel good about the way that they're responding,
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Speaker 2: and you know, you kind of always look to our
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Speaker 2: when is the drop off going to happen throughout training
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Speaker 2: camp and early in the season, and you didn't really
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Speaker 2: sense that. You didn't feel that too often, And so
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Speaker 2: you feel like you've got a group that is at
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Speaker 2: least on the right path and what that equals and
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Speaker 2: what that comes out to be from a win loss standpoint,
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Speaker 2: You never know, but you're excited. You're excited about working
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Speaker 2: with the group and how they're going to continue to
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Speaker 2: respond and play on Sundays.
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Speaker 1: And so you did feel it at an early part of.
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Speaker 2: The season in terms of all right, we're not afraid
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Speaker 2: to go compete with the best. We're going to go
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Speaker 2: play any place, anytime, anywhere and see what.
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Speaker 1: Those results are. So I was proud about.
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Speaker 2: The group early on, and you just kind of see
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Speaker 2: what it looks like throughout the midway through this season
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Speaker 2: and keep evaluating.
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Speaker 8: Do you look at Travis going into next year as
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Speaker 8: wide receiver one or number one wide receiver and how
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Speaker 8: do you think your guys plan for him and getting
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Speaker 8: him ready helped or where does that need work or
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Speaker 8: who do you please with it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's part all part of
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Speaker 2: this evaluation process.
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Speaker 8: You know.
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Speaker 2: I never really look at anybody as like one or
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Speaker 2: two or three. It's just like, who do we have
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Speaker 2: on the roster that's going to be active and that
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Speaker 2: we can continue to work with and prepare through the
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Speaker 2: off season program with. Obviously, you know, for him right now,
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Speaker 2: it's about getting his rehab right and diving in mentally
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Speaker 2: because of some of the limitations we'll have throughout the
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Speaker 2: off season program. But I'm really excited about getting back
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Speaker 2: to work with Travis and continue that evolution and see
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Speaker 2: what that looks like. And I'm going to take a
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Speaker 2: few of these weeks here to look at that schedule
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Speaker 2: and see what that any of those changes or adaptations
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Speaker 2: we may need to make, just in terms of.
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Speaker 9: This season, sort of reflecting on obviously this this thing
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Speaker 9: of the loss, but but also the success that you
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Speaker 9: guys had thirteen wins.
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Speaker 1: You know, how did that.
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Speaker 9: Sort of align with your overall long term vision for
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Speaker 9: what Jaguars football should look like.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's a fun one.
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Speaker 3: The uh desired result obviously it wasn't there, but there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of pride in the process.
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Speaker 4: I think.
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Speaker 3: Uh, you talk about reflection, and that's an ongoing piece
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Speaker 3: to the puzzle. It's never ending. And uh, obviously we
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Speaker 3: were doing that along the way. We're doing it moving forward.
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Speaker 3: But as I think back to where we wore this
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Speaker 3: time last year, Shoot, Liam was probably just embarking on
8:41
Speaker 3: the interview process.
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Speaker 4: I wasn't even considering it as an option.
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Speaker 3: There were plenty of people in Jacksonville that had never
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Speaker 3: heard my name, and I think the fact that we
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Speaker 3: got a longer runway right here is is gonna be
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Speaker 3: a luxury, right And as we think about what myself,
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Speaker 3: Liam Tony were able to do with a vision and
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Speaker 3: be able to execute that raising the floor the football team,
9:05
Speaker 3: knowing that when you think back to two thousand and
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Speaker 3: twenty four, there was plenty of talent to keep you know,
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Speaker 3: close games, but we needed to raise the floor and
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Speaker 3: inject in tangibles into the football team so that we
9:16
Speaker 3: could close games and to be able to see that
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Speaker 3: come to fruition, it's certainly something that we can take
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Speaker 3: some pride in. And being able to talk through an
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Speaker 3: engineer what this football team looks like moving forward and
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Speaker 3: where our points of emphasis need to be is uh
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Speaker 3: certainly something we're having those early discussions around and UH
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Speaker 3: need to continue to dive deeper into what that actually
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Speaker 3: looks like.
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Speaker 4: But UH looking forward.
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Speaker 3: Through that seeing proof of concept as a version of fulfillment, UH,
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Speaker 3: knowing that you know, our whole message and really what
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Speaker 3: was so great is Liam's message was absorbed by our players.
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Speaker 4: It was believed by our players, but it.
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Speaker 3: Was going one and oh and uh, you know, to
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Speaker 3: be able to say, hey, looking right here, we need
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Speaker 3: to we need to pour in simply to our process,
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Speaker 3: not worth so much about the results, and find fulfillment
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Speaker 3: there knowing that regardless of if we win a Super
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Speaker 3: Bowl or if we don't, that ball is rolling back
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Speaker 3: down to the bottom of the hill and we got
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Speaker 3: to start all the way over games.
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Speaker 7: How much uh, Brian Thomas Junior, how much do you
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Speaker 7: view him as a part of this thing in the
10:18
Speaker 7: long term?
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Speaker 4: And also how much more can.
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Speaker 7: You get out of him with this skill set than
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Speaker 7: as a twenty three year old whatever?
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Speaker 4: Grad Ye ask that?
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Speaker 3: And I think I can point back to d Rock's
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Speaker 3: question about wide receiver one. The cool thing about our
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Speaker 3: offensive system, and this is my observation Liam can dive
10:37
Speaker 3: into the details, is uh, each and every game presents
10:42
Speaker 3: a different problem for an opponent. You never know who
10:44
Speaker 3: it is that's gonna pop off you.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 4: You look back at sort of output of the collective.
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Speaker 3: We have three receivers go over seven hundred, seven hundred yards.
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Speaker 3: That's abnormal, that's not typical. To be able to spread
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Speaker 3: the wealth, so to speak, is a really posit and
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Speaker 3: with Jacoby's arrival, it certainly allowed BT to continue to
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Speaker 3: level up in areas that fit within the system itself,
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Speaker 3: that were fit for his skill set and allowed him
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Speaker 3: to be the best version of himself down that back
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Speaker 3: stretch of the season. I think beyond that, you saw
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Speaker 3: even in Parker Washington. You know, his play be able
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Speaker 3: to take steps with opportunities, and you know that was
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Speaker 3: showing itself throughout the course of the off season program
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Speaker 3: and training camp. Training camp didn't lie to us this
11:27
Speaker 3: time around. Sometimes those are things that you question, hey,
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Speaker 3: is this a real reflection of what we'll see come
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Speaker 3: regular season? And with Parker Washington, that was no fraudulent exposure.
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Speaker 3: That was an accurate interpretation. And when his presented itself,
11:41
Speaker 3: he certainly stepped up and helped our cause. But I
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Speaker 3: think to your point BT, in particular, when you were
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Speaker 3: talking a little bit about Travis being wide receiver one,
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Speaker 3: the wide receiver one doesn't necessarily exist in the system
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Speaker 3: in the way that you would typically feel like it might.
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Speaker 3: And Liam can obviously dive into the nuances as needed.
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Speaker 4: You is it you see a lot of growth in him?
12:05
Speaker 1: You guys said, oh, so many guys you saw that
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Speaker 1: great play.
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Speaker 7: He was one that we saw a drop off from
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Speaker 7: the outside.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you point to wins and losses as
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Speaker 2: really what comes down to and when you're a part
12:18
Speaker 2: of a team that wins, typically that wealth is shared
12:22
Speaker 2: and so it's never truly gonna be about one player.
12:25
Speaker 2: I continue to pour into every single one of these guys,
12:29
Speaker 2: as will Edgar Bennett, and as will Grant, and as
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Speaker 2: will our entire staff, to continue to pour into guys
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Speaker 2: to try to get the most out of them, to
12:35
Speaker 2: help our team win as many games as humanly possible,
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Speaker 2: and be till one hundred percent be a part of that.
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Speaker 6: Cool.
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Speaker 4: How important is it like for this year?
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Speaker 6: I heard you say you got to go on to
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Speaker 6: the next play, whether it's good or bad. And there's
12:48
Speaker 6: a lot about this this year that was foundational.
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Speaker 4: Is it a challenge to you to carry.
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Speaker 6: That over, but to let the team know not one
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Speaker 6: first down, the touchdown or thirteen wins is gonna we
12:58
Speaker 6: gotta start this thing all over here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is very fair.
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Speaker 2: That was the message to the team on Monday. Was
13:05
Speaker 2: extremely proud of a lot of the things that we
13:08
Speaker 2: were able to accomplish, very proud of their response to
13:12
Speaker 2: adversity into that one or no message and that next
13:14
Speaker 2: play mentality. And now that the real work is here
13:19
Speaker 2: to where we have to go and reload it. We're
13:23
Speaker 2: not going to just stand here and say, man, we're
13:25
Speaker 2: just gonna redo it all with all the same, same,
13:27
Speaker 2: same same, Because I got us thirteen wins and knocked
13:29
Speaker 2: out of the playoffs in the first round, so clearly
13:33
Speaker 2: was not good enough for the full end of the
13:36
Speaker 2: season standard. But thirty one other teams we're having a
13:40
Speaker 2: similar conversation and they will have a similar conversation. And
13:43
Speaker 2: so that's the beautiful part about this profession and the
13:46
Speaker 2: challenge that it brings is that you know, every year
13:49
Speaker 2: is a new year, every team's a new team, and
13:53
Speaker 2: that's what this off season will be able to provide.
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Speaker 1: And so that's what the off season will.
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Speaker 2: Be for, is getting to know this new team, what
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Speaker 2: it looks like, with the message being, hey, we've got
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Speaker 2: to continue to go one and oh each week and
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Speaker 2: play the next play.
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Speaker 6: And how encouraged were you with Trevor Lawns's growth this
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Speaker 6: season and what was.
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Speaker 7: Your message to him in terms of what you'd like
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Speaker 7: to see him emphasize this offseason.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't had any of those conversations.
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Speaker 2: Yet you know, it's been about a little bit of appreciation.
14:23
Speaker 2: Just talk to him briefly about how much I appreciated
14:27
Speaker 2: his work this season, his trust, the growth that he
14:31
Speaker 2: did make, his openness to be coached and coach hard,
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Speaker 2: and I think he'd be one of the first ones
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Speaker 2: to tell you there's a lot of work to continue
14:40
Speaker 2: to do and to be done. And so that's what
14:43
Speaker 2: we'll look at for these next few weeks, is our
14:46
Speaker 2: coaching staff will when we get back into the building,
14:50
Speaker 2: all right, what's the three better, three best that we
14:52
Speaker 2: want to end up providing for each player specifically, and
14:55
Speaker 2: have some of those conversations when we get back in
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Speaker 2: the building.
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Speaker 4: With Lawrence over the last after the season. Yeah, I
15:03
Speaker 4: was really impressed.
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Speaker 3: I think, you know, back to the off season program,
15:08
Speaker 3: there was a learning curve, obviously, and the one thing
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Speaker 3: that was very clear throughout that sort of window of
15:15
Speaker 3: the cycle was his interest in making sure the operation
15:19
Speaker 3: was clean and he was going through step by step
15:22
Speaker 3: to make sure that he was learning the right way
15:25
Speaker 3: and pouring in the right way. And you could see
15:28
Speaker 3: a turn in the second week of training camp where
15:30
Speaker 3: he began not just learning but testing right testing what
15:34
Speaker 3: could work, what could fit all those.
15:37
Speaker 4: Sorts of things.
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Speaker 3: So that was kind of a cool evolution over the
15:39
Speaker 3: course of the off season and then into the regular season,
15:42
Speaker 3: like just generally zooming out away from this, Trevor. It's
15:46
Speaker 3: the idea that you know, teams can be built over
15:50
Speaker 3: the course of an off season is true. But the
15:52
Speaker 3: good ones, the great ones, they evolve over the course
15:55
Speaker 3: of the regular season. And you saw that evolution in
15:58
Speaker 3: Trevor over the course of the regular seas in as
16:00
Speaker 3: you compare the first quarter to the second quarter, to
16:05
Speaker 3: first half to second half, there was a clear uptick
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Speaker 3: and command, control, comfort, playmaking, all that stuff jumped.
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Speaker 4: Out in a real way.
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Speaker 3: And look forward to being able to have him carry
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Speaker 3: that momentum into the off season here and continue to
16:20
Speaker 3: dive into what you know, Liam and our coaching staff
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Speaker 3: would call three better, three best, which is very pointed
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Speaker 3: off season attack.
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Speaker 10: James Dennlloyd was a player who maybe had found his
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Speaker 10: role too previous defensive seams here, second team All Pro
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Speaker 10: this year, contract year, what is the evaluation of him
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Speaker 10: really well?
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Speaker 3: And how cool was that? Right such an impactful season.
16:41
Speaker 3: What he meant to our end result was certainly notable.
16:47
Speaker 3: The way in which he operated on a daily, weekly
16:50
Speaker 3: basis was really cool to watch and observe. He committed
16:54
Speaker 3: himself to be in the best version. The connection between
16:58
Speaker 3: him the coaching staff was real. He was being deployed
17:02
Speaker 3: in the right ways. He felt confident in the ways
17:04
Speaker 3: that he was doing it from both defense and special teams.
17:06
Speaker 3: Like if you're talking about a guy that is playing
17:09
Speaker 3: at an all pro level on defense but is running
17:11
Speaker 3: down on kickoff every time we score and make him
17:14
Speaker 3: plays for us. So extremely happy for Devin and his
17:19
Speaker 3: his production this season and finding real footing in a
17:22
Speaker 3: way that aligned with what he knew he could be.
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Speaker 3: Look forward to working through the off season process with
17:29
Speaker 3: our coaching staff and everyone else to determine what's best
17:32
Speaker 3: for everybody and seeing if there's something to be done.
17:34
Speaker 4: But nonetheless, hit the role that he.
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Speaker 3: Had and what we did this season was real, and
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Speaker 3: I think it was very vivid for all to see.
17:41
Speaker 5: Play around the defensive side of all kind of falls
17:43
Speaker 5: in a similar category. And obviously, once the trade was
17:46
Speaker 5: made for Tyson, Tyson forbe Gray was Monserra Brown. What
17:50
Speaker 5: did you see from Buster that validated making that move
17:54
Speaker 5: to get him more disposures contract here on the outside
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Speaker 5: and what's.
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Speaker 3: His future lovel Yeah, that was another one that's in
18:00
Speaker 3: alignment with Parker Washington. What you saw in the off
18:03
Speaker 3: season program and in training camp was authentic.
18:05
Speaker 4: It was real.
18:06
Speaker 3: He was getting his hand on the ball endlessly. His
18:09
Speaker 3: skill set aligned with the scheme in a true form,
18:14
Speaker 3: and I think that that probably from last season to
18:16
Speaker 3: this season was something that meant he could understand on
18:19
Speaker 3: their own. But he's very comfortable operating in it. He's
18:23
Speaker 3: very effective in it. I think that that certainly gave
18:26
Speaker 3: us the confidence. His mode of operation is one of trust,
18:30
Speaker 3: and I think that that gives a coaching staff certainly
18:34
Speaker 3: a willingness to give it an attempt, even if walking
18:38
Speaker 3: into the season or looking outward in you may not
18:41
Speaker 3: have identified Buster as being a starting quarterback, a cornerback,
18:45
Speaker 3: or not certainly proud, just like with Devin to see
18:48
Speaker 3: his output continue to climb over the course of the
18:50
Speaker 3: season and make a real dent and raw result.
18:53
Speaker 9: James, you obviously have a with Dragon that just really
18:56
Speaker 9: guy like him who had injuries this year. How do
18:58
Speaker 9: you evaluate this and the path kind of going forward
19:01
Speaker 9: with them?
19:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's fair to ask.
19:03
Speaker 3: The thing that I really appreciate in watching Trayvon move
19:07
Speaker 3: is how much he loves his place, how much he
19:09
Speaker 3: loves his teammates. That just seeps out of his soul.
19:12
Speaker 3: And those are the types of people that you want
19:14
Speaker 3: to align yourself with. It's the type of players and
19:18
Speaker 3: that we want to make sure that are still in
19:19
Speaker 3: our building moving forward. And I know, obviously dealing with injury,
19:24
Speaker 3: that's never easy for a player to tough through those
19:28
Speaker 3: types of things, especially when it's coming with a risk
19:31
Speaker 3: and a knee simultaneously.
19:33
Speaker 4: It's not something.
19:34
Speaker 3: That's easy or many would be willing to put themselves
19:38
Speaker 3: at potentially risk for looking worse. And you wouldn't hold
19:41
Speaker 3: that against him. It's not something that's ever considered his
19:44
Speaker 3: long term concern or anything of that nature. In fact,
19:47
Speaker 3: it's something that you would prop him up for.
19:49
Speaker 4: Right.
19:50
Speaker 3: The willingness to step into that despite being sort of
19:53
Speaker 3: adverse situation or your body's not feeling its best.
19:57
Speaker 4: That stuff that he should take real pride in.
20:00
Speaker 3: And Uh, he's certainly somebody that we wanna make sure
20:02
Speaker 3: we align ourselves with moving forward.
20:05
Speaker 4: Uh.
20:05
Speaker 6: Playing with Jake Dallas at the last minute making contributions. Yeah,
20:09
Speaker 6: and of course, uh, the move for the wide receiver
20:12
Speaker 6: in the middle of the year and so many guys
20:14
Speaker 6: being out still having success, does it make it easy
20:16
Speaker 6: for you to sell guys not only with the fifty three,
20:18
Speaker 6: but the practice squad to prepare themselves to be the
20:21
Speaker 6: next man.
20:21
Speaker 3: Of You know, that's a that's a good question. I
20:24
Speaker 3: don't know that it comes down to a sale job
20:26
Speaker 3: as much as it is. Like I think back to
20:29
Speaker 3: a lot of our conversations last spring into the summer,
20:31
Speaker 3: and it's it's gonna be really important. I think for
20:35
Speaker 3: us as a leadership group to make sure our words
20:38
Speaker 3: align with action and you know, when we say something,
20:42
Speaker 3: we stand on it. And uh, when it comes to
20:46
Speaker 3: injuries over the course of the season, I think that
20:49
Speaker 3: provides opportunities, opportunities to showcase depth and agility and development.
20:55
Speaker 3: And I think you mentioned a few guys, but there's
20:57
Speaker 3: a long list of folks that, uh sort of shine
21:01
Speaker 3: when those opportunities present itself. There's a long list of
21:04
Speaker 3: examples of our coaching staff adjusting in real time and
21:08
Speaker 3: you know that stuff. They all deserve a ton of
21:11
Speaker 3: credit for that. And you know the attrition that takes
21:13
Speaker 3: place over the natural course of a season is real,
21:16
Speaker 3: and you've got to prepare for it. And you don't
21:18
Speaker 3: get to thirteen wins unless you have chemistry. You have
21:23
Speaker 3: folks that can step in when voids are created, and
21:26
Speaker 3: you don't feel a massive drop off. And I think
21:29
Speaker 3: that showed a self time and time again in a
21:30
Speaker 3: number of different ways. And you know, having guys who
21:33
Speaker 3: start the season on a practice squad and end up
21:35
Speaker 3: starting for you by end a season, that's another sign
21:38
Speaker 3: of some really high quality opportunities that will present a
21:42
Speaker 3: selfie want. An injury isn't what triggers it. So I
21:45
Speaker 3: think those actions speak louder than any sale job that
21:48
Speaker 3: I could do for anybody, and will certainly let players
21:53
Speaker 3: and representation point to those as examples of why they
21:56
Speaker 3: should be here.
21:57
Speaker 6: What culture really is though everyone buying.
21:59
Speaker 3: It undoubtedly, Undoubtedly the words on the wall, the words
22:03
Speaker 3: that you speak, that's one thing. But being able to
22:05
Speaker 3: live and breathe all that is a totally different dynamic.
22:08
Speaker 4: And you know, I got to give a ton of
22:11
Speaker 4: gratitude and appreciation for Shad.
22:15
Speaker 3: And his family for intrusting Tony, myself and Liam to
22:19
Speaker 3: step into these Roles. I got to give a ton
22:21
Speaker 3: of gratitude and appreciation to the players for embracing us
22:26
Speaker 3: and buying in. Obviously Liam setting the message, setting the tone,
22:32
Speaker 3: holding the standard firm them embracing that and putting it
22:35
Speaker 3: into action as players is something that isn't easy to garner,
22:39
Speaker 3: isn't easy to produce, and that takes time. It takes
22:43
Speaker 3: time to build that trust, it takes time to showcase
22:46
Speaker 3: what you're saying is actually what you're living. And yeah,
22:49
Speaker 3: that's a real part of it for sure, But certainly
22:53
Speaker 3: look forward to pressing that restart button because you got
22:56
Speaker 3: to recreate, you got to iterate. It's never going to
22:59
Speaker 3: be the exact same that it was. And we look
23:01
Speaker 3: forward to that challenge.
23:02
Speaker 8: And what's the hardest thing about getting the boulder back
23:05
Speaker 8: of the hill and maybe even further than you got
23:07
Speaker 8: an issue?
23:10
Speaker 2: I don't you know, I gotta look look at what
23:12
Speaker 2: those exact I guess you could call it bullet points
23:16
Speaker 2: would be to.
23:17
Speaker 1: Get that over the hump.
23:20
Speaker 2: I think that we had a lot of great energy
23:23
Speaker 2: towards the end of the season in terms of like
23:26
Speaker 2: I don't know if a lot of guys were just like,
23:27
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, let's get this season over with type
23:30
Speaker 2: thing to where the schedule, the routine, the support staff,
23:34
Speaker 2: the operation, the.
23:36
Speaker 1: Routine, that's the practices. It was.
23:39
Speaker 2: It felt like it was going in the right direction
23:41
Speaker 2: in terms of sustainability throughout maybe a few more weeks.
23:44
Speaker 2: So looking at that, I think that it was on
23:49
Speaker 2: par with being able to continue moving forward. It was
23:52
Speaker 2: just some some critical moments, obviously, and plays in a
23:56
Speaker 2: game that you got to be able to make.
23:57
Speaker 1: And you know, those are things that you end up
24:00
Speaker 1: having to.
24:01
Speaker 2: Build upon and try to recreate in the off season, right,
24:04
Speaker 2: So like when we do Situational Masters and we go
24:07
Speaker 2: through our off season plan and recreating maybe some of
24:12
Speaker 2: those moments that we ended up.
24:14
Speaker 1: Losing in right the.
24:17
Speaker 2: Obviously the end half, like we great execution and get
24:21
Speaker 2: us into a position and make hey we just didn't
24:23
Speaker 2: make the kick. Like it it is what it is, right,
24:25
Speaker 2: So all right, let's go put them back in that
24:28
Speaker 2: situation in the spring and continue to recreate moments to
24:32
Speaker 2: create positivity to have that muscle memory to go and
24:36
Speaker 2: make those plays when the time comes.
24:38
Speaker 7: James, how would you describe the growth and production of
24:41
Speaker 7: Britain Stranger this year?
24:45
Speaker 3: I'd chow I point back to really our intent with
24:49
Speaker 3: what we did in the off season program, which was
24:52
Speaker 3: when we first arrived, there were players that were long
24:55
Speaker 3: standing starters in the wide receiver room, in the tight
24:58
Speaker 3: end room. Our belief that in Brenton and others in
25:03
Speaker 3: the wide receiver room that they, with opportunity, could take
25:06
Speaker 3: a step.
25:07
Speaker 6: Uh.
25:08
Speaker 3: Certainly excited now where we're seated to be able to
25:11
Speaker 3: say that that was a a sound decision now. At
25:14
Speaker 3: the same time, Brenton did his part to bring that
25:17
Speaker 3: to life. Rich in conjunction with our offensive staff, helped
25:21
Speaker 3: bring that to life. And Uh, obviously at this point
25:23
Speaker 3: in time, feel like he's someone that we can really
25:26
Speaker 3: rely on moving forward, some version of a security blanket
25:29
Speaker 3: in the passing game and can make things happen when
25:32
Speaker 3: the ball is in his hands. But as a run
25:33
Speaker 3: blocker is certainly somebody that can dent the line of
25:36
Speaker 3: scrimmage and set the tone. And so at this point
25:39
Speaker 3: in time, certainly feel like that vision being brought to
25:42
Speaker 3: life through him through others UH that's around him is
25:45
Speaker 3: really cool to have seen unfold.
25:47
Speaker 7: The expect to have contract negotiations.
25:52
Speaker 8: With Britain and Parker it could now, I mean, you know,
25:56
Speaker 8: early and make him.
25:57
Speaker 4: Cheaper over you know what, I think we'll take the
26:00
Speaker 4: time here.
26:01
Speaker 3: Obviously, it's all preliminary discussions at this point in time
26:05
Speaker 3: and probably premature to truly dive in. Gotta wait until
26:08
Speaker 3: we hit that full three year mark with a new
26:11
Speaker 3: league year. But nonetheless, I think both Brenton and Parker
26:15
Speaker 3: are people that we feel like align strongly with how
26:18
Speaker 3: we want to move forward.
26:20
Speaker 7: You part of the success is potentially losing some guys.
26:25
Speaker 4: Do you anticipate that you may have to replace it?
26:29
Speaker 7: It sounds like brent as an opportunity in Cleveland, and
26:31
Speaker 7: I think Camp nearly we're in maybe down in Miami.
26:37
Speaker 7: What's your view on that? How do you approach that
26:40
Speaker 7: m and do you expect some changes?
26:43
Speaker 2: I guess, I mean, you know, they both those guys
26:46
Speaker 2: did a great job this year, and we're in their
26:49
Speaker 2: first years doing those roles and responsibilities. And so anytime
26:53
Speaker 2: you have uh success, you're you're gonna have people come
26:57
Speaker 2: and call and knock on the door, and those guys
26:59
Speaker 2: are burned some of those interviews and opportunities, whether those
27:03
Speaker 2: happen this year down the line, I think both those
27:06
Speaker 2: guys are you know, future head coaches at some point,
27:10
Speaker 2: and so that just comes along the territory.
27:13
Speaker 1: It just it comes with it.
27:14
Speaker 2: It's the bitter sweetness of our profession.
27:19
Speaker 1: You want to continue to give people opportunities.
27:22
Speaker 2: To grow while also protecting your product and what you
27:26
Speaker 2: do here and how you operate. So it's definitely a
27:31
Speaker 2: fine line that you walk, and but it's it's opportunity
27:34
Speaker 2: and they've earned those opportunities to to interview for those
27:38
Speaker 2: positions and you try to help them along that process
27:40
Speaker 2: as much as possible. So do I anticipate losing those
27:44
Speaker 2: guys or many players many coaches excuse me from the staff,
27:48
Speaker 2: not sure? You know, I'm not sure what that looks like.
27:50
Speaker 2: That ultimately isn't my decision. And you know what, we
27:54
Speaker 2: have to be prepared. We have to think about what
27:56
Speaker 2: are the next steps if those things were to happen.
27:59
Speaker 2: And those are conversations that you know we're having right now.
28:02
Speaker 4: What a lot of dreams and.
28:05
Speaker 1: Land and that left tackle.
28:07
Speaker 7: Would you see a man to say you're comfortable extending.
28:10
Speaker 1: Him for them?
28:12
Speaker 3: Yeah?
28:12
Speaker 4: I think uh, I'll zoom out for a quick second.
28:16
Speaker 3: Right now, we are in a position where everybody that
28:19
Speaker 3: played for us on the offensive line this season is
28:21
Speaker 3: coming back next season, and that was a big part.
28:24
Speaker 3: The continuity at that position group in particular is one
28:27
Speaker 3: that makes more sense than any other.
28:29
Speaker 4: Uh, it's a necessity.
28:31
Speaker 8: You know.
28:31
Speaker 3: It's never one individual that that tilts the scales there
28:34
Speaker 3: as much as it is UH, just the collective effort
28:37
Speaker 3: as a whole, and being able to insert guys throughout
28:40
Speaker 3: the course for a season and not feel some significant
28:44
Speaker 3: drop off in the collective output, UH is.
28:47
Speaker 4: A really important piece, you know.
28:48
Speaker 3: In Los Angeles that was if there was ever a
28:51
Speaker 3: thing offensively that could stand in our way or be
28:54
Speaker 3: a debilitator, it was when we had injuries at offensive line,
28:58
Speaker 3: and UH, to ensure that the quality of depth existed.
29:01
Speaker 3: There is something that we prioritize that we're always going
29:04
Speaker 3: to make sure we protect. So that knowing the natural
29:09
Speaker 3: course of a season in particular across the offensive line,
29:12
Speaker 3: which tends to get more injuries than most other positions,
29:15
Speaker 3: has got to be something that we ensure we guard against.
29:19
Speaker 3: And Cole obviously getting the opportunity to step in at
29:22
Speaker 3: multiple spots obviously four out of the five, but then
29:25
Speaker 3: settle in at left tackle and really face some of
29:28
Speaker 3: the best rushers in the NFL, and doing his part
29:31
Speaker 3: in particular and past protection was a real piece to
29:34
Speaker 3: that puzzle and the reasoning, as well as projecting into
29:37
Speaker 3: what the free agent landscape looked like and where he
29:40
Speaker 3: might fall in the crop that was upcoming and the
29:43
Speaker 3: depth of that group as a whole, and trying to
29:46
Speaker 3: map out what that could look like.
29:49
Speaker 1: Two back injuries in last four days helping the concern
29:52
Speaker 1: is that moving core.
29:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a notable concern based off of our
29:56
Speaker 3: initial understanding. It's something that can be addressed act long
30:00
Speaker 3: term standing or anything of that nature.
30:02
Speaker 4: But thanks for asking that. It's either being in a.
30:05
Speaker 10: Couple of days, but first year in this role, what's
30:08
Speaker 10: the biggest thing that you've learned you'll take away from
30:10
Speaker 10: the season?
30:11
Speaker 4: You wanted it good?
30:13
Speaker 6: You know.
30:13
Speaker 3: I think communication remains to be something that is an
30:16
Speaker 3: area I feel like needs to be improved upon.
30:19
Speaker 4: Personally.
30:20
Speaker 3: It's always a point of emphasis, but it's never a
30:22
Speaker 3: place where I feel like I've done my part and
30:26
Speaker 3: I continue to seek feedback in that regard internally obviously
30:29
Speaker 3: from different departments, as well as as I think about
30:32
Speaker 3: how Tony and Liam and I operate in conjunction with each.
30:35
Speaker 4: Other where it's where it lacks. It's very straightforward.
30:39
Speaker 3: Negativity tends to fill that void, and I got to
30:41
Speaker 3: protect against that and do my part to ensure it's
30:44
Speaker 3: an area that I continue to assess and improve upon.
30:47
Speaker 3: And that stuff's never easy, But just like I mentioned
30:51
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the press conference, it's always ongoing,
30:54
Speaker 3: and I certainly want to put a lot of emphasis
30:57
Speaker 3: in that as we approach this offseason.
31:01
Speaker 6: How different do you feel this off season, this coming
31:03
Speaker 6: off season will be procedurally, time wise, scouting wise, as
31:06
Speaker 6: far as all of that's concerned, versus this last off
31:08
Speaker 6: seasons coming in kind of trying.
31:10
Speaker 4: To figure everything out of that.
31:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a fun question because, again, like I said,
31:13
Speaker 3: this time last year, was still focused on my roles
31:17
Speaker 3: and responsibilities in Los Angeles. Wasn't considering what an opportunity
31:21
Speaker 3: in Jacksonville was gonna look like. So to be able
31:25
Speaker 3: to have some version of a head start in that
31:26
Speaker 3: process and understand our team at a really deep level
31:30
Speaker 3: is extremely helpful and extremely beneficial. The fact that the
31:35
Speaker 3: timeline of just the scouting cycle remaining consistent up to
31:40
Speaker 3: this point, I'm in a very similar place that I
31:43
Speaker 3: was this time last year with the draft, with pro
31:46
Speaker 3: free agency, the piece that is obviously sped up is
31:50
Speaker 3: now the understanding of our current roster and not being
31:53
Speaker 3: forced to sort of dive into that with very little
31:58
Speaker 3: nuances and.
31:59
Speaker 4: Depth to it.
32:00
Speaker 3: I think that's a really helpful piece in order to
32:01
Speaker 3: make some decisions now. Procedurally, we incorporated new functions and
32:08
Speaker 3: mechanisms that our scouting staff and our coaching staff didn't
32:11
Speaker 3: necessarily have experience with in the past.
32:15
Speaker 4: So obviously those.
32:15
Speaker 3: Will be new wrinkles that will work in and looking
32:19
Speaker 3: forward to seeing those unfold in real time. But as
32:23
Speaker 3: far as my personal operation, it's very similar in terms
32:26
Speaker 3: of the draft and free agency. It's just an accelerated
32:28
Speaker 3: understanding of who we are as the Jacksonville Jaguars that
32:31
Speaker 3: is now in play.
32:32
Speaker 9: James, you mentioned the experience of yourself in the rookie
32:35
Speaker 9: how you kind of reject roles and expanded roles or
32:38
Speaker 9: there's only words you kind of look at the make
32:40
Speaker 9: of the.
32:41
Speaker 4: Loss and issue.
32:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I think naturally you anticipate that you can
32:46
Speaker 3: point for it in some ways by you know, making
32:49
Speaker 3: sure that those runways are available to them. I think
32:53
Speaker 3: it may be a misconception that there was endlessly that
32:59
Speaker 3: the players we drafted in Los Angeles were immediate contributors
33:02
Speaker 3: as rookie rookies, where that wasn't truly the case now
33:06
Speaker 3: at the end, when you think back to you know,
33:09
Speaker 3: Pukinakua obviously having a significant role as a rookie, and
33:12
Speaker 3: then Jared Vers and Braden Fisk having significant roles as rookies,
33:17
Speaker 3: that can maybe overshadow what the sort of year over
33:20
Speaker 3: year outlook was. Like Kiren Williams and Quintin Lake, who
33:24
Speaker 3: both received contract extensions this year, did not play as rookies.
33:29
Speaker 3: They were both injured that season. So I think that
33:32
Speaker 3: that's probably a fair representation of what now is the
33:37
Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars. And having seen multiple rookies have injuries surface
33:42
Speaker 3: that you can think back to like oh wait, and
33:45
Speaker 3: also as I consider who took jumps in their third
33:47
Speaker 3: year or now fourth year with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and
33:50
Speaker 3: we're quick to rush to an assumption around whether or
33:53
Speaker 3: not that was some version of a hit or miss it.
33:57
Speaker 3: You know, everybody's on different timelines, and certainly they have
34:00
Speaker 3: a ton of optimism around what the roles look like
34:02
Speaker 3: moving forward and look forward to seeing that come to life.
34:05
Speaker 3: And obviously, uh we get a whole off season before
34:08
Speaker 3: that that'll show itself. But feel like we're in a
34:10
Speaker 3: good place, James.
34:12
Speaker 2: Last off season there was a goal of realise and
34:14
Speaker 2: more of the roster.
34:16
Speaker 1: Is there a tangible goal yet for what this off
34:18
Speaker 1: season needs to be?
34:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, And uh, you know, at the
34:21
Speaker 3: end of the day, we're still in preliminary discussions around
34:25
Speaker 3: what our approach, our process, uh, our decisions could look
34:30
Speaker 3: like heading into the the real parts of this offseason.
34:33
Speaker 6: Uh.
34:34
Speaker 3: We'll take the time and Liam, Tony, myself uh being
34:38
Speaker 3: able to break away just three of us, we'll invest
34:40
Speaker 3: energy with our coaching staff, our support staff, our scouting
34:43
Speaker 3: staff uh mid to late February and really have a
34:47
Speaker 3: firm grip on that.
34:48
Speaker 8: Uh.
34:49
Speaker 3: But at this point we're all uh sort of bringing
34:51
Speaker 3: those thoughts to the surface and then beginning to map
34:53
Speaker 3: that out in a more strategic and formalized manner.
34:57
Speaker 4: Coach James, thank you, Servant he too. Thank you all
35:00
Speaker 4: for the coverage.
35:01
Speaker 1: Guys,