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Calvin Ridley on Excitement, Strength of WR Group and Work Ethic | 1on1 Interview · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguars wide receiver Calvin Ridley with US. It is rest
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  Speaker 1: rehearsal week, Week three of the preseason starters are going.
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  Speaker 1: What else do you need personally to be ready for week.
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  Speaker 2: One game reps?
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  Speaker 3: I would say just to get past not the just
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  Speaker 3: to get past the excitement part, just getting those games
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  Speaker 3: and I'm so ready to go. I just gotta calm down.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not nervous, just amped. And I felt like in
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  Speaker 3: that Dallas game, I was just too emped. So I
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  Speaker 3: gotta chill and just get those reps. And then you know,
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  Speaker 3: just it feels like you need to condition it because
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  Speaker 3: you're so amped, but you don't. You just need to relax,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I just need to just relax. I'm so
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  Speaker 3: excited to play. That's what I feel like for me.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, just being in the game, feeling football again,
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  Speaker 3: getting hit and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have that, like the anticipation of being too
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  Speaker 1: emped before. Is that just a byproduct of being out
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  Speaker 1: of it for so long.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just been out of it so long.
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  Speaker 3: It just been It's just so happy to be past
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  Speaker 3: the part of playing again, just like being in that
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  Speaker 3: Dallas game, like I was amped in the warm ups
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  Speaker 3: and then when I put on my equipment first couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of plays, it was just like I got to chill.
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  Speaker 3: I was just telling myself relax, like it's not like
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  Speaker 3: it was just so much excitement for me and just
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  Speaker 3: so awesome to be in that game.
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, I gotta relax so I could
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  Speaker 2: play better.
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  Speaker 1: Govin When it comes down to the actual football part
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  Speaker 1: of it, once you're in the game, is there anything
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  Speaker 1: else you need to see route, certain ideas that you want.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just obviously want to work on my game,
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  Speaker 3: my overall game, And like I said, it comes down
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  Speaker 3: and just relaxing and remembering what you know, Coach Chat
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  Speaker 3: is teaching me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my release is, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, how to you know, get off the ball, how
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  Speaker 3: to be more efficient, you know, just you know, seeing
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  Speaker 3: the game and slowing it down, just being more calmer
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  Speaker 3: for me and just you know, bringing my practice tools
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  Speaker 3: to the game.
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  Speaker 1: Rovin Ridley with us this wide receiver group, You've had
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  Speaker 1: an all off season with him now and now the
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  Speaker 1: training camp, a couple of preseason games. Is there pound
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  Speaker 1: for pound a better room in the NFL. There's so
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  Speaker 1: many very types of receivers on this team. It feels like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you guys feel about?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously we're very confident in the room and in ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: I talk to the guys all the time, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: we want to come off as humble first. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we definitely believe that we wanted the top groups. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: we got to show first. So give us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: give us some time, you know what I'm saying, And
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  Speaker 3: I definitely think we'll be coming around the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year. It would be one of the top groups
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  Speaker 3: for sure, no doubt, because we put in the work.
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  Speaker 3: We are really good players, and I think, no doubt
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  Speaker 3: we have what it tasts to be one of the
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  Speaker 3: best groups on the field all the time.
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  Speaker 1: What does it take to in this offense the ability
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  Speaker 1: to move pieces around? You gotta know more than just
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  Speaker 1: one spot in this.
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  Speaker 2: Offense, right, no doubt. I mean, this offense is so versatile.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if the better the more you know, the
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  Speaker 3: better you know you can be used. Right now, I
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  Speaker 3: think you know, we're especially with adding me. Obviously they
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  Speaker 3: already know it, but I've gotten caught up so much
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  Speaker 3: with them and now I think the things that we're
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  Speaker 3: doing is gonna be so cool because Trevor has so
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  Speaker 3: much room to just do whatever he kind of wants,
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  Speaker 3: and he can just give us this and that and
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  Speaker 3: that and that, and we all know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I really think.
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  Speaker 3: I mean with me, Kurt z agg Evan, E T. Tank,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, bro, I mean, we just gotta.
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  Speaker 2: Play good, practice good, play good, bring it to the game.
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  Speaker 2: And I got I have. I'm a believer. I have
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  Speaker 2: all the faith I practiced with these guys for this long.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a believer.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: It's Jaggs and nothing, So I believe we can. We
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  Speaker 2: can do it.
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  Speaker 1: Final thought with you, the guy triggering all that as
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  Speaker 1: number sixteen, So you from day one when you walked
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  Speaker 1: on a field with him to now, what have you
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  Speaker 1: found out about your quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously knew.
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  Speaker 3: I knew personal I'm gonna be real with you. I
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  Speaker 3: obviously knew he was good. And that's why I came
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  Speaker 3: here because I knew that sixteen would help me be
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  Speaker 3: good and get me back what I wanted to get
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  Speaker 3: back to. And I thought the team was on the
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  Speaker 3: rise of being super Bowl type team. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying. So I chose that, But honestly, it's his personality.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't I thought he was more like he's just
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  Speaker 3: so fun. Like I don't know if you guys know,
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  Speaker 3: but I looked at him as like, all right, he's
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback, you know, godly, you know, just good, great person.
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  Speaker 3: He's more chill, he's more relaxed, serious about the work.
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  Speaker 2: But he's just a good fun kid.
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  Speaker 3: Someone you can you know, have fun in and be
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  Speaker 3: around and enjoys the game with him.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. We work and we have fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy to talk to him, fun to talk to him,
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  Speaker 3: he laughs, he jokes. I thought that part was more,
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  Speaker 3: you know, cooler than anything that I've seen him do.
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  Speaker 2: For real, just made me feel a little bit more like,
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  Speaker 2: oh I had to tell Church cool? Is Church cool? Y'all?
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  Speaker 3: I thought that part was really cool because just it
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  Speaker 3: just blew me for real. I had it and I
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  Speaker 3: was just seeing it from Afar, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, this is what I think of him. Then
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  Speaker 3: got with him, went to his house, you know, went
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  Speaker 3: over things like that, and just was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I like trail god man, it's so cool.