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Press Pass | GM Trent Baalke and HC Doug Pederson Discuss Initial 53-Man Roster · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Talk about what your biggest objective was when you were going, uh,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: going to the roster, particular with regards to not so
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: much to which one you would select, but areas we
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  Speaker 1: know what, particularly in with regard to both lines out
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  Speaker 1: of twenty.
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  Speaker 2: One there, Well, I think you can never have enough
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  Speaker 2: bigs number one, you know, guys that can play. And
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  Speaker 2: we felt really good about the those twenty one guys
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  Speaker 2: obviously well enough to keep all of 'em. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're just trying to put the best fifty
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  Speaker 2: three together.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you go heavy in certain areas.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes injuries play apart, sometimes availability plays a part. So
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  Speaker 2: we just felt those were the best fifty three for
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  Speaker 2: the for the time being. You know, the roster's never done.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna keep looking. We're gonna keep you know,
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  Speaker 2: competing and putting the guys in a position where they
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  Speaker 2: have to compete to keep their spots.
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  Speaker 4: Just how difficult was it making those final couple of decisions.
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  Speaker 4: It's never easy, you know, this is a tough day
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  Speaker 4: for all thirty two clubs, you know, and because you've
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  Speaker 4: you've invested so much time in these guys, right and
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  Speaker 4: in the development process, and and uh.
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  Speaker 5: Like to Trent said, it's it's not done.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, we get a chance to you know, hopefully get
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  Speaker 4: some guys back, you know, on our practice roster, and and.
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  Speaker 5: You know, keep uh you know, keep improving the roster.
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  Speaker 6: You think that there's difficult decisions didn't wind up being
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  Speaker 6: really hard when it came to the secondary and decisions
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  Speaker 6: you guys made.
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  Speaker 4: There the secondary. Yeah, yeah, I think I think every
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  Speaker 4: position is tough. It It just goes without without saying
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, there's there's obviously some some veteran
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  Speaker 4: players that were there competing in the secondary that that
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  Speaker 4: we also felt, you know, comfortable with some of our
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  Speaker 4: young players in the development we had, and it's just
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  Speaker 4: you know, again it's just you find the best fifty
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  Speaker 4: three and and we're not done obviously, and and we've
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  Speaker 4: got to continue to uh improve and and and but
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  Speaker 4: you know, the guys we have, we're confident in and
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  Speaker 4: you know, we uh, let we go play. That's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be the next question to say more about how Jerry
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  Speaker 4: and and DeAndre players like that played and drank.
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  Speaker 5: Can't the preseason games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that that's that's that's a lot of it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And and I think I think it's a
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  Speaker 4: credit to the coaches too. And it goes back to
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  Speaker 4: what I've been saying all spring is in summer is
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  Speaker 4: the development, you know of our entire roster and and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what showed up and in these games,
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  Speaker 4: and and you know, these guys, these guys have earned
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  Speaker 4: earned these spots.
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  Speaker 7: And Sean talked in the spring about no more.
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  Speaker 1: Reliance on of free agency like eighteen and the twenty
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  Speaker 1: three guys from the last two draft classes made throwing
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  Speaker 1: the roster.
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  Speaker 7: Is that kind of speak to that priority as well?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Again, you know, Mike, you keep the best fifty
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  Speaker 2: three guys, you know, in regardless of age.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're does that play a factor?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when when things are equal or close to equal
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  Speaker 2: and you're looking at upside potential where they're at currently,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's there's so many things that go into it.
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  Speaker 2: But like coach said, everybody that's in those rooms earned it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and now it's their job to keep it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as we as we progress through and they
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  Speaker 2: know what we and that's just the business.
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  Speaker 3: We're all in it. It's it's what have you done
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  Speaker 3: for me lately?
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  Speaker 8: Where have you guys kind of loved it with cig
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  Speaker 8: I know it was way or released with the injury designation.
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  Speaker 8: Is that kind of you're going to let him explore
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  Speaker 8: the market or is that maybe a down the line regiion.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the way that works when when you have a
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  Speaker 2: guy that gets injured and you do an injury settlement
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  Speaker 2: with them, it's the length of the injury plus three
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  Speaker 2: weeks before you you know, we can get them back.
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  Speaker 3: Other teams could make a.
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  Speaker 2: Move earlier in that, but we you know, we got
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  Speaker 2: to wait at least seven weeks before that becomes an
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  Speaker 2: option for us.
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  Speaker 8: You have an injury that just felt like that was
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  Speaker 8: the right mover.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was this significant injury and it's going to
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  Speaker 2: keep him away from ball for a while. You know
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  Speaker 2: that at least four weeks of the season, could be longer,
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  Speaker 2: could be shorter. You know, it depends on how quickly
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  Speaker 2: he heels and how the rehab goes. But that's the
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  Speaker 2: timeline right now.
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  Speaker 6: Are are there any concerns that just stress in the
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  Speaker 6: past rush situation at all with Eric hasn't played yet
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  Speaker 6: obviously come back from injury, and Miles in that group
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  Speaker 6: obviously very top heavy and comfortable with Trayvon and Josh,
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  Speaker 6: but it don't look like there's a lot of bodies there.
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  Speaker 3: We feel good about the group again.
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  Speaker 2: We've got three guys that have played a lot of
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  Speaker 2: football at Eric. Eric's in good shape, he's ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: He's been We've been smart. He's been smart and how
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  Speaker 2: we're bringing him along. He's a pro. He knows his
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  Speaker 2: body well. You can see him out there moving around.
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  Speaker 2: He's moving really well. There's always a chance for injury
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  Speaker 2: and I don't care how many guys you have.
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  Speaker 3: Guys go down, the next man's got to come up.
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  Speaker 2: But we feel good about that rotation. We've got some
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  Speaker 2: guys on the inside. It can flex outside, so there's
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  Speaker 2: some flexibility with what with the way the roster was constructed,
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  Speaker 2: that group, how what does it.
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  Speaker 6: Say about Cole and what he was able to do
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  Speaker 6: in a pretty short order to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 4: It's a credit to to Miles to to really come
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  Speaker 4: in and and learn the system, learn the defense, you know,
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  Speaker 4: show us his his skill set and and earn at spot.
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  Speaker 7: What'd you like about it? Says he what?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 7: What did you see from him? During Dragon?
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  Speaker 8: Him?
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  Speaker 5: To keep him for me too?
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  Speaker 4: It goes back to last year, you know, having him,
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  Speaker 4: having him here last year and what we saw every
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  Speaker 4: day going against you know, our offensive line. And he's
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  Speaker 4: a he's a big, powerful, you know, lengthy guy with
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  Speaker 4: with some athleticism, and then that showed up in camp,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and and just his skill set fits you know,
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  Speaker 4: fits the scheme and and he's he's done a nice job.
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  Speaker 4: How important guys are on that bright and squat because
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  Speaker 4: they to be kind of the next wave. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: it's like Trent said, I mean, you know it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of the next man up if there's an injury, next
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  Speaker 4: guy up. And and you know we didn't have that
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  Speaker 4: last year, but he was he was ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, you know those guys, you know, a guy
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  Speaker 4: like himself that was on our roster, you know, competing
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  Speaker 4: every day last year, came in, came in this year
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  Speaker 4: ready to go, eager to to you know, make the
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  Speaker 4: make the team.
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  Speaker 7: What's the next whatevers twelve or so hours life for
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  Speaker 7: you guys to start waking. You guys got people you
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  Speaker 7: know you want.
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  Speaker 2: Back on the right and.
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  Speaker 7: Squad, but they're available out there just sort of waiting
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  Speaker 7: kind of hoping that gets those guys get through the
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  Speaker 7: waiver claim and stuff. What's that like for you guys?
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  Speaker 7: Is nerve wracking? He's you know, draft day or something
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  Speaker 7: too or.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, you you you sit here today and
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  Speaker 4: you let you know a number of players go and
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, you know, you want to communicate
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  Speaker 4: with them and the guys that you want back. And
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  Speaker 4: but you know, you got thirty on other teams that
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  Speaker 4: you know, we say all along that are looking at
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  Speaker 4: our roster too as we're looking at others, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously there's a plan in place that if we don't
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  Speaker 4: get the guys we you know, we get the next
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  Speaker 4: guy and and you know, we'll fill out the practice
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  Speaker 4: roster with the best sixteen.
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  Speaker 8: As much as you're able to share, I guess kind
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  Speaker 8: of the situation with Shotley, knowing the longest tenured jab War,
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  Speaker 8: knowing he said that this was probably his last year,
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  Speaker 8: I was curious if there's anything you're able to share
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  Speaker 8: on that front.
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  Speaker 2: Not at this time. You know, he had a really
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  Speaker 2: good run here is that run over? You know that
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  Speaker 2: remains to be seen, but its just applause. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to stay in this league a year, much less ten,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so hats off to him and what he's accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: And you never say never jells.
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  Speaker 7: Killed Johnson's special teams aces.
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  Speaker 9: But they have institutional knowledge is why they've been around
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  Speaker 9: here for a number of years.
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  Speaker 7: How valuable is that for your coach to have guys
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  Speaker 7: who have been through.
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  Speaker 3: Some flyers here before.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, very valuable. Both guys have been staples, you know,
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  Speaker 4: on special teams, and that's I think it's just it's
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  Speaker 4: a credit to them, But I think it's a it's
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  Speaker 4: a message to the young players on our roster that
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  Speaker 4: if you want to if you want to play in
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  Speaker 4: this league and you want to play on the club,
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  Speaker 4: is is you you bust your tail on special teams.
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  Speaker 4: And both of those guys have kind of come up
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  Speaker 4: through that and have done a nice job, and they've
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  Speaker 4: earned their spots to.
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  Speaker 7: Overtake those guys too, right if they're that for a long.
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  Speaker 4: Time, Yeah, it is, I mean, you know, and it
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  Speaker 4: seems like every year you try to you try to
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  Speaker 4: find that that the next guy. And and these guys
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  Speaker 4: they're prosy. They know how to come in every day
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  Speaker 4: and work hard, and they're diligent about you know, their craft.
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  Speaker 5: And and I've earned the spot.
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  Speaker 2: The new rule being able to designate guys that return
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  Speaker 2: from high art without having to put them.
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  Speaker 7: On FI through roster more flexibility.
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  Speaker 8: Is that give you?
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  Speaker 7: How welcome other change is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a very positive change for the league.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you get you get two, you get a
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  Speaker 2: too of eight throughout the course of the year that
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  Speaker 2: you can designate for return.
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  Speaker 3: So it's definitely an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to play the roster gymnastics like you
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  Speaker 2: used to with veteran guys, cutting them and bringing them back,
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  Speaker 2: so it just made sense to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad the league went to that.
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  Speaker 7: You spoke to this yesterday. But trying to as good
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  Speaker 7: as you feel about the overall debts.
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  Speaker 3: As you've been in, is that for me?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: You know, coach, and I will tell you, we feel
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  Speaker 2: good about the fifty three guys. You know, you're only
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  Speaker 2: as good as what the records you put out there is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so that remains to be seen. But this
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  Speaker 2: group of guys, they work hard, they're great teammates, they
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  Speaker 2: love coming to work every day. So from that standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: we feel really good about the locker room. How good
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  Speaker 2: it ends up being we're gonna find out eighteen weeks
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  Speaker 2: from now.
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  Speaker 7: Want a little bit more on Shadley. You've been one
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  Speaker 7: of those guys been in the league for a while.
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  Speaker 6: And a much more called him the patriarch in that
• 10:01
  Speaker 6: room yesterday to us?
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  Speaker 7: Was that a heart?
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  Speaker 6: Is that a little bit more difficult of a conversation
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  Speaker 6: than maybe even some of the other ones.
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  Speaker 7: Like how do you feel about it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is, you know, because of of his tenure
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  Speaker 4: and and his commitment, and his the longevity that he's had,
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  Speaker 4: you know, here in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 5: And and it's it's.
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  Speaker 4: Always hard, you know, it's tough when when they've been
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  Speaker 4: a staple in the community and and on your team
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  Speaker 4: and in your organization for for as many.
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  Speaker 5: Years as he has. And and I.
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  Speaker 4: Just appreciate the his his hard work.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he's another one of those guys that he
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  Speaker 5: he kept working his tail off.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and then there was he would get an injury
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  Speaker 4: in the offensive line and he would go in and
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  Speaker 4: he he's just mister reliable and and it's it's tough
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  Speaker 4: to make make those make those decisions.
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  Speaker 8: Speaking of the offensive line, Cole as well as Javon,
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  Speaker 8: how did they earn a roster saw.
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  Speaker 7: Here on the Social three.
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  Speaker 5: I just think Cole has had.
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  Speaker 4: A really good training camp and he's again he's he's earned,
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  Speaker 4: he's earned a spot, right and and Javon has really
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  Speaker 4: proven to that that over over the course of when
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  Speaker 4: we when we got him to to now the improvement
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  Speaker 4: right and just a young offensive lineman that you still
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  Speaker 4: want to invest some time and and continue to.
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  Speaker 5: Work because there's a skill set there that is very.
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  Speaker 4: Usable and we feel comfortable with that.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. How how good you think you guys have
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  Speaker 7: built special teams?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously drafted the kick or Logan has been one of
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  Speaker 1: the best, but all the other core guys that that
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  Speaker 1: were just mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: I think we feel good about a nucleus of guys,
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  Speaker 2: a core group of guys. There's never enough depth, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And obviously when you go with this man any Biggs,
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: as we went with it, it thins out that core
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. So we're gonna continue to look at
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  Speaker 2: that and what we need to do to potentially beef
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  Speaker 2: that up. But again, the roster's never completely set, you know,
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  Speaker 2: You're you're constantly looking. I think Heath and Luke do
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  Speaker 2: an outstanding job of coaching those guys and getting them
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  Speaker 2: ready to play. Sometimes you gotta have guys that are starters,
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  Speaker 2: step up and step in and pill rolls.
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna look at all our options. But again
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna that's what you do. You just keep looking.
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  Speaker 7: Just a clarification that the two guys you put on
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  Speaker 7: that are today, does that count against the eight that
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  Speaker 7: you can bring back, or that neat addition.
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  Speaker 3: To it, does it counts against the eight?
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  Speaker 2: So you total of eight those two counts that were
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  Speaker 2: down to six.
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  Speaker 7: Do you have any update on.
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  Speaker 8: Keeling in particular, dowgits four weeks minimum a find as
• 12:49
  Speaker 8: they sense of that injury that you held up right now.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's still dealing with the toe, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: how long that takes. You know, we're gonna bring them
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  Speaker 2: back as quickly as we can, but those things can
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: be tricky, especially for that position when it's a big toe.
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  Speaker 2: So you know we're gonna be smart with it, but
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  Speaker 2: we got to get him rolling at some point here, Doug, how.
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  Speaker 6: Much of a transition for Trevor, Uh, not having CJ
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  Speaker 6: in the room is is that different?
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  Speaker 5: You know? CJ has been He's been really good with Trevor.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and and and obviously it'll it'll take some
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: some getting used to, some adjustments. But mac Is is
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  Speaker 4: definitely you know, his veteran I think presence. Uh, he's
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  Speaker 4: played a lot of games, just like CJ has and
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  Speaker 4: those two have a really good relationship as well.
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  Speaker 5: And we've seen it. I've seen it. I've been I've
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  Speaker 5: spent time.
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  Speaker 4: In that room, and I see the dialogue that goes
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: on not only in there but on the field, and
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it'll take a it'll take an adjustment period.
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  Speaker 4: But but they're pros, you know, and they Max supports Trevor,
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: you know, and and and we.
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  Speaker 7: Just roll how much does when you went through it
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  Speaker 7: from the players. So when you're sitting there talking these guys,
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  Speaker 7: do you flash back on your own experiences? When you know?
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  Speaker 5: I do?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I think I was released six times, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: six six times in this league as a player early on?
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  Speaker 5: It does?
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  Speaker 4: I mean it still bothers you, you know, I can.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: I had my own son, I had to cut him twice.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, so it it it bothers you,
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: you know, And and you do flash back to you know,
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: those times, and you just feel for the player. But
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: at the same time, I also encourage them too that
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  Speaker 4: it's not the end, right because again there's there's other
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: clubs that are looking and the needing to fill fill
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  Speaker 4: out their rosters and practice squads and all that kind
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So it's not the end. It could be the start
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  Speaker 5: for many of them. Forgiving no comment.
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: One other White clarification, Trent, I know you guys, wait,
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: Patrick Barton injured, would he revert back to the Pathway
• 15:12
  Speaker 8: program or how do you go?
• 15:13
  Speaker 9: Like, what's the rules there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he goes back to it reverts back to the
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  Speaker 2: counts against.
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  Speaker 3: The the ninety right.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's on IR for the season, seasoning ending injury. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll rehab him and try to get him ready
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: for next year.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: The Pathway program.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: That opens up a spot. We can now have another one. Yes,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: you think you.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: Were getting when you traded for mac and and what
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: do you think you've gotten out that he's been here?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: You know, we we all felt, you know, it was
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: it was a obviously the staff was heavily involved in it.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: The coaching staff.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: You know, we felt we were getting a guy that's
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: played at high level football in this league. You know,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: sometimes things turn a different way, Uh, Uh, they go
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: through a bad stretch. But you know, Max in a
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: real good place. He's a good football player. He loves football,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: he loves being in the building. He's an energizer. You know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: we got exactly what we thought we were gonna get.
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: Did you not get the past rush help that you
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: thought you would get out of Gift Center?
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: Or was a compensation that they offered Just let's let's.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Just go ahead, And you know, I think, Gee, I
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: think a lot of things factored in there. I think,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: you know, Travis did a nice job for us. He
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: had a nice preseason, he had a nice offseason. Training
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: camp obviously did well enough that multiple teams were interested
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: in him. You know, we just felt really good about
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: where Miles was at and where we think we can
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: get him. And the compensation factored into it. So there
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: were a lot of things at play. But Travis did
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: a nice job and I think he'll do a nice
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: job for Seattle.
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: How Naigel was Savage's ability of playing bigle safety two
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: That can use a lot of Plaxville when you guys
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: would making decisions on the back end.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the more guys can do, the more
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: flexible your roster is. The more things you can do
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: and numbers wise and where you count guys and stuff
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: like that. So it does give you flexibility. So you're
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: always looking for guys that can o line, D line,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: multiple position guys, linebackers, they can play, you know, two
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: positions and special teams. The more they can do, the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: better off it is for us in terms of the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: roster building.
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: Back to Miles, was there a moment where maybe compare
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: to where he was when he got here in May
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: to where he is today that for either of you
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: that you were like, okay, like he could be on
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: the fifty three mins roster, he could contribute year one.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I think if you look at just the first game
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: he played in as a young guy against Kansas City, Yeah,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: there's gonna be some growing pains there always is what
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: rookies and especially you get into the regular season games
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and they heat up a little bit and the you
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: know you're going against the ones, and you know things
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: change and he's gonna have to be a.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: To adjust to that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: But I think you saw early on and it's hard
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: to find six six two dred and eighty pounds that
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: runs four six and is thirty six and seven eighth
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: arm length.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: They don't. They're not just dropping off of trucks every day.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Yere So.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: Head coach is worrying all the time on everything. But
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: like as having a rookie kicker, is that ad any
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: additional anxiety for you? She'll know how that idea.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Let me think back, I think I had a rookie
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: kicker in seventeen. So, No, Camp's done a great job.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: He's done a great job. He's earned it, strong leg accurate.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: He's done a nice job on the with the with
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: the new kickoff you know, rule and keeping things in
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: the you know, in that in that landing zone and
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: just uh, we're you know, we're excited of his growth
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: and development.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: You practice what you've.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Preached in terms of the development stuff, the entire offseason,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: district camp and what the roster looks like.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: The league's not very patient.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Well, you guys have to practice a little bit of
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: patience kind of what Drake was saying.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: Some of this Rowan pays at.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Times, yes, But at the same time, when you when
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: you look at the I think when you look at
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: the you know, starting eleven offensively, starting eleven defensively, you
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: know these are there's some veteran guys that have played
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: a lot of football, and you know, okay, Brian Thomas
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: on offense, he might be the only really the only one,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: right that's that's young back there.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Defensively, you know, you're you're you're rolling, you're.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Rolling some veteran guys, you know in that defensive line,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: and and you've got you know, some veteran linebackers that
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: that that have been here.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: And then and then then there's those those those one
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: offs like the Ventrel Millers right who have really developed
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: and can can give you some time, not only defensively,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: but in the special teams.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: The secondary he is is another place.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: You know, Antonio Johnson, the steps that that he's made,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: where Tyson Campbell is, you know, the addition of of Darnell.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's some there's enough pieces that are you
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: going to have a few pains here and there, probably,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: But but I think these guys have played enough football
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: and feel comfortable in the scheme that it's gonna it's
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: gonna be, you know, better than than than not.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: The versatility of some of the interior defensive linemen and
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: maybe even linebackers have an impact on how the bedroom
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: was shaved.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said earlier, there's there's guys on the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: inside and that inside seven they can move, especially in
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: rundown situations that can flex out, So that that.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Ability, that versatility does help us certainly.
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: Speaking of that group, you see her from where he
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: was the role he played this time a year ago,
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: where he has now dug How would you describe.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: That he is proved tremendously, you know, from a on
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: the ball outside backer, off the edge rusher, which he's
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: proven to do in camp this year, to a stack
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: backer to special teams too. Again, one of the young
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: players that you know when you talk about development and growth,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: he's really he's really taking that to heart and and
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: he's put himself in a really good position to help us,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: you know, special teams and and also on defense.
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: Attle World good Cole bang Landin's camp and traded here
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: a couple of years ago. But how do you stand
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: out and what can he do for you on this
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: offensive line?
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: If right now you look at it, and yeah, as
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: well as he's played, I mean, he's your fourth tackle, right,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, and and that's a that's a good thing
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: to to to have, right to have that depth, try
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: trying alluded to it earlier. I mean, you know, to
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: have that kind of up in your offensive line, it's
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: find another team that has, you know, four tackles, you know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: and and can play either side. So we're very blessed
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: obviously to be in this position, and he is. He
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: has definitely had a tremendous camp and and has done
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: a nice job.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: Get any work at cons at all.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: And did he work into the hole.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: If he did, I don't think.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I don't think he did. He kept him outside, He
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: stayed outside.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, thank you, Thank you guys.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Thanks appreciate time.