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Press Pass | Pederson: "Got to see constant improvement" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It was good. Um, first time for me up there
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  Speaker 1: to see it, see it in person. Very special, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Um obviously the not only see the eight that went in,
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  Speaker 1: but but all the other guys are there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the other Hall of famers, and um, it's a
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  Speaker 1: special it's a special deal. And uh really it really
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  Speaker 1: meant a lot to me because I love the history
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  Speaker 1: of the game, you know, and kind of how how
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  Speaker 1: people kind of come up through this, through this league,
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  Speaker 1: and and um I thought all this, all the speeches
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  Speaker 1: and presentations, we were well done. And and um Tony's
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  Speaker 1: was exceptional. It was good to see you know him
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  Speaker 1: and obviously his family and um, yeah, it's a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Could you deal with the importance it had on the
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  Speaker 1: city of Jacksonville just with all those fans being in there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's a ton of fans there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, organizationally, we had a lot of people there obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the media was there. Um. And really felt
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  Speaker 1: the impact of you know, I think the love the
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  Speaker 1: city has for for this team, for this organization over
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  Speaker 1: the years, and uh yeah, definitely felt yesterday. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: have to putting more time to evaluate forwards now you
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  Speaker 1: do you feel in any way better about what you
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  Speaker 1: saw than right after the game. Um, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's never as never as good as you think.
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  Speaker 1: It's never as bad as you think. There were some
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  Speaker 1: good individual efforts, you know out there during the game.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's still there's a lot of things we've
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  Speaker 1: got to clean up, you know, and it's just it
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  Speaker 1: just comes down to fundamentals and details. You know. We
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  Speaker 1: spent the first two weeks of camp really installing offense
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  Speaker 1: and defense, and so there was a lot of I
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  Speaker 1: think from a from a mental standpoint, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things too that we kind of throw at these guys.
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  Speaker 1: And now that we're kind of into the meat and
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  Speaker 1: potatoes to train to camp, things begin to you know
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  Speaker 1: slow down from an installation standpoint, and we can go
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  Speaker 1: back and and really fine tune in detail, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of the assignments, some of the details that we
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  Speaker 1: we and some of the mistakes we made in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, you know, build towards this next one.
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  Speaker 1: There's the one are they incurred In fact, there's only
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  Speaker 1: one free snap them only in offense that was late
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  Speaker 1: and there were no like panicky timeouts because somebody didn't
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  Speaker 1: get in or lined up for its institution issues. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that part that that that game management stuff, Um, I
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  Speaker 1: thought went smoothly, you know it. It might have looked smooth,
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  Speaker 1: but I know on the sideline there's some there's some
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  Speaker 1: chaos because there's a lot of bodies that we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get in, especially in the second half. But I
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  Speaker 1: was pleased with the pre snap you know, the presnap
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  Speaker 1: stuff there. There probably could have been a couple of more,
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  Speaker 1: but um, overall, you know, the guys, guys really um
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  Speaker 1: you know, took that part of it to heart and
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  Speaker 1: you know we'll be we'll be better for it again
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  Speaker 1: this week. What do you want to see from your
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  Speaker 1: matteran players at this point of camp kind of expect
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  Speaker 1: from them because they're not going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of rents to proofings and so for camp and practice,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to see? Well, I just you
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  Speaker 1: just gotta see constant improvement. Excuse me, constant improvement, you know,
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  Speaker 1: every day every week. You know, as I said that
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  Speaker 1: the installations as far as putting in the information is
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  Speaker 1: tapering off now, so we can continue to go back
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  Speaker 1: and you know, fine tune assignments, alignments, the details of
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  Speaker 1: routes run game, the fits for the offensive line, things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Um, and that's what you gotta see. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's where the that's where the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: constant improvement needs to needs to start start showing up
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  Speaker 1: here in these next uh, you know, several weeks before
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  Speaker 1: before the regular season. What have you seen so far
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  Speaker 1: from some of the young receivers like Tim Jones, Jeff Connon.
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  Speaker 1: I think they've you know, they've they've done well in
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  Speaker 1: these first couple of weeks of camp. You know, they've
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  Speaker 1: put themselves in a position to you know, compete and uh,
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  Speaker 1: making hard on us as a staff at the end
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  Speaker 1: of camp too, you know, to find the five or
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  Speaker 1: six or seven guys whatever it might be. And um,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, they've they've done really well. They've they've you know,
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  Speaker 1: haven't made a ton of mental airs, you know out here. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know they carried over into the game just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But there are some things we can still
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  Speaker 1: clean up. And you know, that's one thing I like
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  Speaker 1: about both those guys is they they really pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to that and take the coaching and then and then
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  Speaker 1: come out here and fix it. There's been a couple
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  Speaker 1: of guys. You guys have been able to pick up
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  Speaker 1: from the USFL some of the other leagues. How much
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  Speaker 1: evident manage has been having you know, more leagues and
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  Speaker 1: given more players opportunities that you know, putting reps on tape.
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  Speaker 1: I was one of those guys, you know, back when
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  Speaker 1: I played, I played in the World League, you know,
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  Speaker 1: two different times. And it just benefits. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: more snaps you can get um against good competition, the
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  Speaker 1: better the better you are as a as a player.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, every team is looking, every team is watching,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you get an opportunity to come to
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  Speaker 1: an NFL camp and and showcase and very very beneficial
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  Speaker 1: that that we can start having some of these spring
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  Speaker 1: leagues pop up and and uh really kind of be
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  Speaker 1: a I want to say a feeder, but at least
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for these young guys to play. Yeah, Devin
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd is still gonna be day today. We're still gonna
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  Speaker 1: monitor his his progress. He's doing well though. Um JT.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna see uh in some more individual work today
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  Speaker 1: in practice. And jamal let's see jamal um who the
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  Speaker 1: other two c J Bethred and J T O went fully, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Fully is going to be more individual, but c J
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  Speaker 1: and Agg knew should be able to get some team
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  Speaker 1: reps today on a limited basis. What did you see
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  Speaker 1: out of Walker Little? He got to play the entire
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  Speaker 1: first half. I thought he thought he played well, you
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  Speaker 1: know he Um, he settled in right away. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his his run blocking past protection. You know, I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was thought he was focused and dialed in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and really had a good first half and and
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  Speaker 1: and really good to see, you know, because you know
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  Speaker 1: he's in that sort of that battle with with JT
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  Speaker 1: over there at the right side, and um, he did uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he did everything he could to put his
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  Speaker 1: best foot forward. You know. The other night did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job. The other night said that you and Josh
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  Speaker 1: McDaniels has had a phone call talking about how you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna approach game one or do you do that? Was
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  Speaker 1: that just because it was game one? Are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: do that with every every preseason game? Not necessarily every game? Um,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, Josh and I just spoke to just
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  Speaker 1: kind of lay out a couple of ground ground rules,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going into this first one, because we knew
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  Speaker 1: we were playing both sides. We're gonna play a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys, and and we wanted to keep it as
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  Speaker 1: kind of vanilla as simple as possible, so you guys
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  Speaker 1: can just go play and execute and and really get
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  Speaker 1: on tape and and then make the necessary corrections. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's common that coaches in preseason we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: like that, and uh, you know, um, I can't say
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  Speaker 1: moving forward that I'll do that, but but it is common.
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  Speaker 1: Was it more about preseason game number one? Wasn't more
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  Speaker 1: about you also play in the regular season? Now, it
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  Speaker 1: was more about preseason one? Yeah, Walker got his first game. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: just what was it like seeing im for that first
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  Speaker 1: contents change where? Yeah, you know, I mean, gosh, he
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  Speaker 1: uh he did some did some nice things. Unfortunate you know,
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  Speaker 1: first play, got the penalty, but after further view, right, um,
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  Speaker 1: uh but no, I thought he played well, played hard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Um, you could probably work on his get
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  Speaker 1: off a little bit more, but um, you know overall overall,
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  Speaker 1: played well, settled in, not too big for him, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: everything you expected out of your first pick. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thanks guys,