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Press Pass | Ryan Nielsen on Defense Playing Hard and Tough · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, how do you fix it really?
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  Speaker 2: Right now? You guys are in a tough stretch these
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  Speaker 2: last four games.
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  Speaker 1: Can you play hard and play together? That's the message.
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  Speaker 1: Play hard every play and play together.
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  Speaker 3: Do our job on every snap, play as hard as
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  Speaker 3: we can possibly play.
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  Speaker 1: Is there? Do you stick with what you're preaching and
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  Speaker 1: practicing for?
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  Speaker 4: Can you do you actually have to change something fundamentally?
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  Speaker 3: No, the fund most technique will all still be the same.
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  Speaker 3: We'll mix some stuff up, mix different calls, pressure when
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  Speaker 3: we've been playing coverage, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, do some things like that. But ultimately we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna stay the course. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing we have to because I think
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  Speaker 3: when you start changing, then the players start going, well,
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  Speaker 3: it didn't work in the first place, and they start
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  Speaker 3: set second guessing. So we're gonna stay the course. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna play together, We're gonna play hard. When we turn
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  Speaker 3: on the tape, the most important thing that happens, regardless
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  Speaker 3: of the outcome of the game, is when we see
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  Speaker 3: eleven guys do their job and play as hard as
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  Speaker 3: they can possibly play from the snap to the whistle.
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  Speaker 3: What do you lose in Roy getting traded away, and
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  Speaker 3: what did the guys like Mason Smith and Jordan Jefferson,
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  Speaker 3: some of those young guys potentially a game, a great opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: more snaps, I mean, more opportunities to go make plays.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys have done a good job. You'll see Jordan
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  Speaker 3: again out there. I mean, he played pretty decent his
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  Speaker 3: first you know, your first NFL game, motions are running high,
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  Speaker 3: and you know it wasn't perfect by any mean, but
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  Speaker 3: but he did play hard and he did some really
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  Speaker 3: good things. And so we're encouraged the same thing with Mason.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he'd been playing, you know, all year, and
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  Speaker 3: but you know, we appreciate everything that Roy did. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, next guy up mentality, and we've got.
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  Speaker 1: A deep room there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've we've kept a lot of guys, so
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  Speaker 3: we feel like we're really good.
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  Speaker 1: And at that position, you.
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  Speaker 4: Prepare when and maybe it's not just this weekend thing,
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  Speaker 4: but generally if it's you're facing the quarterback that you
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  Speaker 4: haven't seen much yet at the NFL level, or do
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  Speaker 4: you go back to what you said, make it about you.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be about us. I mean that's where
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  Speaker 1: we're at right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it really doesn't matter the opponent, whoever, any
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  Speaker 3: of the other thirty one team. This this week is
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  Speaker 3: just gonna be about Jacksonville and our defense and how
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  Speaker 3: we play like that's that's been all the message.
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  Speaker 1: We've Obviously we do watch a little tape.
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  Speaker 3: On them, and we know, you know, kind of their
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  Speaker 3: their tendencies and who they are and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But look at the end of the day, you know.
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  Speaker 3: We're out there interception drill yesterday, tackling circuit today, like
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  Speaker 3: you know, fundamentals technique. You know, we're gonna play our
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  Speaker 3: defense and we're gonna play hard and tough and fast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, every every week it's about us, Like that's the
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  Speaker 3: most important thing. Worry about yourself then that's the only
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  Speaker 3: thing that matters. And you know we talk about execution.
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  Speaker 3: Execution is being a good teammate to do your job
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  Speaker 3: so the guy left and right can do his job,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And that's been our focus this week.
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  Speaker 4: Anything that Andre talked about after the game show up
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  Speaker 4: on tape.
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  Speaker 3: When looking back on it, you know, there's there's some
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  Speaker 3: plays that we just got to play hard, like that's you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know, we've had a conversation, Andre and
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  Speaker 3: where your thoughts are?
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  Speaker 1: You know, where did that come from?
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  Speaker 3: And you never want to hear that, like that's not
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  Speaker 3: anything as a coach, you know, but you know we've
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  Speaker 3: talked about it and I think, uh, we'll go out
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  Speaker 3: there and we'll play hard, like that's that's the message.
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  Speaker 3: You know, You're going to continue to hear that and
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  Speaker 3: just play hard every snap, you know, so that never
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  Speaker 3: happens again. Get it's a huge, great player. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to lose any good players, you know,
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  Speaker 3: any of our players getting him back. You know, he's
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal talent, athlete, he's a great teammate. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: excited about getting him back into the fold. You'll see
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  Speaker 3: some different combinations now that we have him back, and
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  Speaker 3: kind of how we started the year.
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  Speaker 1: So very excited. Killer on the defense last week, what's
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  Speaker 1: been done?
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  Speaker 3: Cleaned that up this week, staying, staying the course, staying fundamentals, technique,
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  Speaker 3: you know some of those tech technique the penalties were
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  Speaker 3: technique errors, you know, so we just got to stay
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  Speaker 3: with that, you know, take our hands off of and
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  Speaker 3: move our feet a little bit better. Twelve guys on
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  Speaker 3: the field is unacceptable like that can never happen.
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  Speaker 1: So that's on me. The punneties are on me, and
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  Speaker 1: we're working on it this week. So you know, words,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard when you're woning five. Not too many positives
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  Speaker 1: come out.
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  Speaker 3: But are there some small victories on your defense, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's individual players, things coming together the way you want
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  Speaker 3: to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure that that's not jumping out.
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  Speaker 3: You know in wins Love how we started last week,
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  Speaker 3: you know, two three and ouskous we're playing fast, but
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, you know, some of the
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  Speaker 3: things started showing up that you don't want to show up.
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  Speaker 3: And you know that the third drive in the game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's some plays that happen that you're you know,
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  Speaker 3: if we we just would have been you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the right place and executed our job and maybe a
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  Speaker 3: little bit different outcome, you know. So that's where we're
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  Speaker 3: just staying the course with the guys. And then you know,
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  Speaker 3: throughout the season, you've seen games that we've had stretches
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  Speaker 3: and you know, we've got off the field in six
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  Speaker 3: straight drives in some games and things like.
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  Speaker 1: That, and so that's what we're focusing on. Guys.
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  Speaker 3: We can do this we've done this before. Now let's
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  Speaker 3: just put a whole full football game together.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And have you talked to your players a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about kind of maintaining their role, not trying to
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  Speaker 2: do too much. I think sometimes you pressed when obviously
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  Speaker 2: things are not going the way you want to, and
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  Speaker 2: kind of staying within that role in the end.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great point because we have it's it was
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  Speaker 3: the meeting on Tuesday. It's it's play hard and then
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  Speaker 3: play together. And the play together part is the execution.
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  Speaker 3: And and just like you say, do your job, and
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  Speaker 3: that's execution to us, doing your job. Executing your job
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  Speaker 3: is being a great teammate. So if I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be in the B gap, the guy in the in
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  Speaker 3: the C gap and the A gap can do his job.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's being a great team and not jumping
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  Speaker 3: out of my gap to do his job.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to stay in my gap to do
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  Speaker 1: my job.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing and coverage and in all aspects of the game.
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  Speaker 3: And and so that's our focus on playing hard and
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  Speaker 3: playing together, and part of that is the execution part
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  Speaker 3: and just doing our job.
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  Speaker 1: Just staying the course.
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  Speaker 4: And from the outside media will look at the record
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  Speaker 4: and things like that. As a coach, generally weeks week
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL, do you almost set that aside?
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  Speaker 1: And there's a process absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: You know, every Monday is every Monday, Every Tuesday is
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  Speaker 3: every Tuesday, every one day, because when you start treating
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  Speaker 3: some games and some days that are greater than other,
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  Speaker 3: then you start riding the roller coaster. And so you
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  Speaker 3: got to treat it all the same and one day
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  Speaker 3: at a time, one game at a time. A long
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  Speaker 3: time ago when first you know, you have these seventeen
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  Speaker 3: games and each game is a unit, and all we
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  Speaker 3: have to do is just start stacking.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who the opponent is.
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  Speaker 3: One unit at a time and just stack the units
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  Speaker 3: and next thing you know, we can turn this thing around.
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  Speaker 1: But we got to start with one. And that's this week.
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  Speaker 1: Second year and you've got back to back games here
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  Speaker 1: in London.
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  Speaker 2: What have you learned from last year to help prepare
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  Speaker 2: for this week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's first of all, this is awesome. We love it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is this set up here and being
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  Speaker 3: at the grove and uh, it's fantastic. And so you fly,
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  Speaker 3: how we how we travel the flight over here, I
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  Speaker 3: mean everything's been awesome and so makes it very easy
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  Speaker 3: to come over here and play two games. And so
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  Speaker 3: so part of that is is just staying in the
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  Speaker 3: routine of hey, this is Monday and this is Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Because sometimes you can get lost here you go to
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  Speaker 3: a new place, and but if you keep everything the same,
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  Speaker 3: then the guys know the routine and and there's not
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  Speaker 3: much a lot of change, and so you just stay
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  Speaker 3: you know, fundamentals, technique or defense things.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where we're at.
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  Speaker 3: Uh by that. By the way, the atmosphere was unbelievable
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  Speaker 3: the other day. I like Tattenham was fantastic, been to
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  Speaker 3: win wimingly before the awesome place, and so really excited
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  Speaker 3: about the game on Sundays. The atmosphere and the energy
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  Speaker 3: and the stadium and when they sing those national anthems,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's live in there now, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So really excited. Are you are you?
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting enough up front or do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like at some point you're going to have to dial
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  Speaker 2: some more stuff up?
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  Speaker 1: What's that balance from your always want more?
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  Speaker 3: Right, you want you want more interceptions, you want more takeaway,
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  Speaker 3: you want more punch outs, tackles. I mean at every
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  Speaker 3: position you always want more. So uh maybe maybe not
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  Speaker 3: Like I think the guy has done a good job.
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  Speaker 3: Josh and Trayvon. You know, last couple of games been
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  Speaker 3: rolling now, like the pressure in the quarterback and they've
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  Speaker 3: been doing some really good things in eric inside and
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  Speaker 3: you know some of those young defense ave limb have
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  Speaker 3: been showing up.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll just stay the core and maybe a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Well we always have.
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  Speaker 3: A different wrinkle, you know, there's a wrinkle third down typically,
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  Speaker 3: but some of the same.
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  Speaker 1: But not getting it or when do you turn that switch?
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  Speaker 1: Or but I want to be who we are.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if we pressure too much, then they get a
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  Speaker 3: tendency and a tip and then if you don't pressure,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like man in zone coverage.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just got to keep mixing it. And
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  Speaker 1: so we'll do the same thing. Awesome. I appreciate you guys,