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Press Pass | Liam Coen's Top Takeaways from Week 12 Win vs. Cardinals · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What was up coach.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday? You said you're not gonna apologize for winning around here?
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  Speaker 2: Is there like a line of getting it done by
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  Speaker 2: any means necessary, but knowing there's still stuff to clean up?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's not easy to win in this league
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  Speaker 3: on the road against the team that is fighting their
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  Speaker 3: tails off to to get on a winning you know,
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  Speaker 3: get back to winning.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we knew that they were going to.
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  Speaker 3: Come out and give us a tough, physical game and
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be four quarters or more. We
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  Speaker 3: understood that even after early success offensively, it wasn't as
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  Speaker 3: if all we're just going to steamroll these guys. I
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  Speaker 3: mean that, you know, there's a lot of good things
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  Speaker 3: to learn from a ton that we can continue to
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  Speaker 3: clean up.
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  Speaker 1: But the resiliency, the support, the.
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  Speaker 3: Belief in the overtime from the guys was extremely strong,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm out of the way that we were able
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  Speaker 3: to finish the game.
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  Speaker 2: For Trevor, probably not the stat line that you or
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  Speaker 2: him had in mind, but I mean, can a game
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  Speaker 2: like that, one where you see how he handles the
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  Speaker 2: adversity and makes the plays in the clutch build as
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  Speaker 2: much confidence as a in you and him as maybe
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  Speaker 2: a perfect game would like I.
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  Speaker 3: Told him, I said, I had a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 3: as a play caller calling past place throughout he really
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  Speaker 3: all throughout the game. Honestly, it was early on we
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  Speaker 3: had some protection issues that got us and why we
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  Speaker 3: weren't able to throw and catch her sustain some drives
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  Speaker 3: in the second quarter, specifically second half, come out bang
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  Speaker 3: bang bang tip pick on a play that's a touchdown
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  Speaker 3: to Jacoby right and then obviously Buddha got him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on Boodham mad a great play on a third down
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  Speaker 3: where we got everybody sending the sticks and you know
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  Speaker 3: Trevor's going to throw it to the slot and Buddham
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  Speaker 3: makes a good play. Like you know, I was extremely
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  Speaker 3: as a play caller is you know, calling it and
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  Speaker 3: working with those guys. I had a lot of trust
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  Speaker 3: and belief that they were going to make plays in
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  Speaker 3: the past.
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  Speaker 1: Game and they did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's eighteen to thirty and but the accuracy
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  Speaker 3: on the you know, a lot of the plays that
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  Speaker 3: we did throw and catch on gave guys opportunities to
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  Speaker 3: run running catch a few times. The throw to Parker
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  Speaker 3: for the touchdown was unbelievable. The play made of Jacoby
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  Speaker 3: against zero blitz on a third down guy to have
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  Speaker 3: it was a great play. And then the throw in
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  Speaker 3: overtime was a huge play between the two of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: So all of my conversations with Trevor and those skilled
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  Speaker 3: players and the guys after the game were guys I
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  Speaker 3: have more and more confidence each week I'm getting more
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  Speaker 3: confident as a play caller with the past game.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks coach, Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: We'll go to Gary then too.
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  Speaker 1: Shipley, Hey, coach, how you doing good?
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  Speaker 5: I know this the NFL is not college in terms
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  Speaker 5: of robberies, but have you been interacted enough with the
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  Speaker 5: fan base around here to realize how much Jaguar fans
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  Speaker 5: really don't like Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's definitely felt a little bit throughout being
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  Speaker 3: here in my short time in Jacksonville. You can the
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  Speaker 3: division means something right the divisional games. You can feel
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  Speaker 3: that there's just a different level, which is what you
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  Speaker 3: want right in divisional games. And felt the same way
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  Speaker 3: in LA right or in Tampa. With with whether it
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  Speaker 3: be Carolina, Atlanta, New Orleans, you feel it. You know
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  Speaker 3: that it's going to be a four quarter football game.
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  Speaker 3: They're coming off of obviously some some loss, but one
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  Speaker 3: score games at home and the quarterbacks playing better, so
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  Speaker 3: we know what this is going to be. This is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a dogfight.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks, thank you to.
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  Speaker 3: Bleed into o'halloranam.
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  Speaker 6: I know Josh and Trayvon both rush on both sides
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  Speaker 6: against both tackles, but assume my Josh had more rushes
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  Speaker 6: against the right tackle yesterday. Is there an advantage maybe
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  Speaker 6: moving him around more and just kind of getting matchups
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  Speaker 6: form the way you guys did yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we obviously affected the quarterback more.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we had six sacks, right, was most since
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, you know, fifteen QB hits.
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  Speaker 1: Five guys had sacks.
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  Speaker 3: So, like I do think that, you know, continuing to
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  Speaker 3: try to be creative about getting our guys matchups. It's
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  Speaker 3: no different than what you're trying to do on offense
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  Speaker 3: or in special teams when it comes to getting trying
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  Speaker 3: to put your best players in positions to be successful
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  Speaker 3: in matchups that are favorable, that you think are favorable
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  Speaker 3: in your in your way. And you know we got
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  Speaker 3: to continue to do that, right, So both schematically and
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  Speaker 3: effort and execution within the rush.
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  Speaker 1: I did think we took a step forward in some ways.
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  Speaker 6: And then Devin Lloyd I think got credited a five
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  Speaker 6: quarterback hits doing that as an off ball linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: How hard is that? It's really hard.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Devin played extremely fast, violent in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had the one obviously sach where ended up.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately we just got to come off them a little
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  Speaker 3: bit there at the end. But for an off the
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  Speaker 3: ball backer to be able to cover some of the
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  Speaker 3: screens and some of the stuff underneath, but also be
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  Speaker 3: effective within the pressures in the games, you know, he's quick,
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  Speaker 3: he's you know how big he is, and athletics, so
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  Speaker 3: he's good when you can get him going on some
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  Speaker 3: of the pressures and matchups on running backs is hard.
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  Speaker 1: So I was pleased with Devin's performance yesterday as well. Thankscellent,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Halleran, followed by d Rock Ayley.
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  Speaker 7: I'm got two for your first. One is when Brian
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  Speaker 7: Thomas is permitted to the begin playing again. How does
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  Speaker 7: what he do does well compliment to what you've learned
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  Speaker 7: about Jakobe Myers and vice versa.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just being able to continue to find
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  Speaker 3: ways to be explosive as an offense and you know,
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  Speaker 3: create one on one matchups for guys that you know
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  Speaker 3: can run and can run and make plays after the catch.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what we're you know, hoping to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get back and and it is a nice compliment
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  Speaker 3: to have uh Parker Cobe those guys continuing.
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  Speaker 1: To work the intermediates and the you know, the choice routes.
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  Speaker 3: The option routes make some contested, tough catches and critical moments.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Looking for you know, when we can get BT out
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  Speaker 3: there for him to add to that.
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  Speaker 7: And lastly for me with the holiday coming up. Growing
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  Speaker 7: up in Rhode Island, how many how many times did
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  Speaker 7: you play on Thanksgiving and how much did that holiday
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  Speaker 7: mean to your family?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question. It was so important Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 3: They I played on Thanksgiving every year in high school.
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  Speaker 3: That was our rival game, as you know, and the
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  Speaker 3: crowds were unbelievable. You had a lot of alumni back family.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're playing at ten am, big game against
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  Speaker 3: your rival, and then you're able to after the game
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  Speaker 3: go and be with your family and friends.
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  Speaker 1: And those were.
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  Speaker 3: Memories that I will always have and treasure. Some of
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  Speaker 3: the best games I've ever been a part of in
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  Speaker 3: fun games playing in high school were on Thanksgiving Day,
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  Speaker 3: and so many of the rivalries on Thanksgiving are so
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  Speaker 3: cool to be a part of. And so yeah, it's football, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's like November, right, Thanksgiving, you just think football, and
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  Speaker 3: I've always loved being a part of that.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Thanks Leill, thank you, see rock Rock Heyleam.
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  Speaker 4: You talked earlier about how you have so much confidence
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  Speaker 4: in the past game when you've had so many guys
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  Speaker 4: in flux at wide receiver. How hard is it to
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  Speaker 4: kind of gain that confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just been building I think or time,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think the guys that have been able
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  Speaker 3: to go out and continue to try to put good
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  Speaker 3: stuff on tape. It's been happening in practice. It's the
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  Speaker 3: intentionality throughout the week and it has shown up in
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  Speaker 3: getting in improving the Iraqi in the past game. Right,
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  Speaker 3: it's a perfect no or we light in the world
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  Speaker 3: on fire every time we throw it. No.
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  Speaker 1: But it has improved. And I as the play color,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, do have confidence.
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  Speaker 3: In calling pass plays that we're going to find a completion.
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  Speaker 1: I thought. Trevor went through his progression as well.
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  Speaker 3: Like the first drive of the second half, you know,
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  Speaker 3: was what four passes in a row whatever it was,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get a little rhythm there, And you're not
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  Speaker 3: doing that unless you believe, right, you believe you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be able to move the football that way. So that
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  Speaker 3: is important for us as an offense, like as as
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  Speaker 3: a team especially to continue to be more explosive, but
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  Speaker 3: to be balanced. Right as you go into November December,
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  Speaker 3: foot we know we've got to be able to continue
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  Speaker 3: to sustain the run and offensively, we've got to have
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  Speaker 3: balance and move the chains better on third downs than
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  Speaker 3: we did the other day. But you know, the guys
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  Speaker 3: are believing, they're trying, they're working their tails off throughout
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  Speaker 3: the week with limited ops because Wednesdays.
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  Speaker 1: We're not throwing it that much, so you only get two.
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  Speaker 3: Days of really full speed pass game and that's that
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  Speaker 3: sometimes takes a hit.
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  Speaker 1: But I do have confidence.
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  Speaker 4: How I don't know if like relief is the right word,
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  Speaker 4: But when you know exactly what you can count on
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  Speaker 4: out of traves etn each and every week, how much
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  Speaker 4: does that take off your mind as a play caller? Two?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just know that if you do, get them
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  Speaker 3: some space and get them to the second and third
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  Speaker 3: level that he can go and create explosives.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And then in the past game, you know as.
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  Speaker 3: The long run, and then early in the game we
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  Speaker 3: had that play, you know, early in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: That week we repped it a few times. It was
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  Speaker 3: meant to go to Strange or TJ. And during the
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  Speaker 3: week of practice it went to TJ as well, and
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  Speaker 3: he scored in practice, so we knew that that was
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  Speaker 3: something that we were hunting up. And when you get
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  Speaker 3: the ball to him in space, he's just been so
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  Speaker 3: consistent about making people miss and getting extra Those hidden
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  Speaker 3: yards are so important in a game, whether it's in
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  Speaker 3: the run or the pass. He also had a couple
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  Speaker 3: of good pass pickups protection pickups as well. On one
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  Speaker 3: of Jacoby's second and eight choice routes, he had a
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  Speaker 3: great pickup on Buddha.
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  Speaker 1: So been really pleased with TJ.
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  Speaker 4: And I know, you know, you kind of limited the
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  Speaker 4: amount of work that Brenton Strange got. At what point
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  Speaker 4: do you or do you feel comfortable enough to kind
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  Speaker 4: of just turn them loose?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think well, week day by day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the goal was, you know what he typically looks like
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  Speaker 3: coming out of games, right, like the wounded Warrior. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's just like this coming out of most games because
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  Speaker 3: of how hard he played, because of what he lays
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  Speaker 3: on the line, And so to get him back involved,
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  Speaker 3: right almost have one hundred yards receiving, but not walk
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  Speaker 3: out of the game like you know, Frankenstein if you will.
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  Speaker 3: It was a huge deal for us because just getting
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  Speaker 3: him the confidence, getting him involved, feeling his presence impacting
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  Speaker 3: the game, but also coming out of it not with
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  Speaker 3: any setbacks. I think that was the goal coming out
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  Speaker 3: of this game.