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Press Pass | Pederson: "The young guys are going to learn." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Doug, how do you feel about your starting defense tonight
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  Speaker 1: and their play other than the two minute drive at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the half? I thought they played well. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the staff book in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: but I think someone told me it was maybe one
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  Speaker 1: point two yards for attempt. I think the running game
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I really felt like they got
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  Speaker 1: after them. Um, you know early and often. UM. Two
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  Speaker 1: minute drive though, is something that, uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta get better at. You guys had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: really good looks on third down. Offensively, Trevor missed a
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  Speaker 1: couple throws early on, but you still were like, think
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  Speaker 1: four of your first six. How did you feel like
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  Speaker 1: it went for you on third down? Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: something we talked about this week and wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: better in as the third down scenarios. And I felt
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  Speaker 1: like the first unit was able to do that tonight. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we still missed, you know, we still
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  Speaker 1: missed some opportunities, which again we got a little time
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  Speaker 1: here to learn from and correct and and uh as
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  Speaker 1: we as we finish up camp here in a week
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  Speaker 1: or so. Those are obviously long kicks. But how do
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  Speaker 1: you evaluate santos So tonight. Yeah, I mean, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously not good enough. You know, we had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to to win the game, had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to to start the game, you know, three nothing and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's disappointing, but I know he'll he'll,
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  Speaker 1: he'll battle back this week and and try to correct it.
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  Speaker 1: Is everything alright with Shaq Griffin? Yeah, he had just
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  Speaker 1: had a little, uh I think some back tightness this
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  Speaker 1: morning when he woke up, and so we tried to
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  Speaker 1: get him loose, and you know, again the nature of
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  Speaker 1: where we are in camp and stuff, but you just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, push guys like that and
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  Speaker 1: risk further injury. Doug. For a second consecutive week, your
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  Speaker 1: starters come out with a lead. How hard is it
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  Speaker 1: to separate that from you know, the reserves and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys who aren't going to make the team,
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  Speaker 1: But you end up losing. Considering where this club was
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, you talked so much about healing, I
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  Speaker 1: imagine winning a game would have met something, even though
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  Speaker 1: it was the preseason. Yeah, you know, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a fine line obviously, you know, And and
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  Speaker 1: there's still a lot of I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good positive takeaways from tonight, you know, with the
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  Speaker 1: with the starters and feel good there and and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the young guys are gonna learn. There were
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  Speaker 1: some good things that they did. Um, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the sort of the obvious things right or are
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  Speaker 1: you know we can't turn the ball over in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone? We got we got points there again potentially
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  Speaker 1: and you know, um, you know, we gotta tackle better
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the things of that nature in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. But I think if you look at where
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  Speaker 1: we are as UM starters, you know, uh, I think
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  Speaker 1: we're right on track to where we where we need
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  Speaker 1: to be and where we want to be, and that
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  Speaker 1: gives us a lot of, um, a lot of hope
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  Speaker 1: as we head into the head into the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly you need to look at the film, but could
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  Speaker 1: you get an idea of Ben Barts tonight at left
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  Speaker 1: guard and was there any separation for either one of
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  Speaker 1: the two right tackles. I think it's gonna be early
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  Speaker 1: until we watched the film and really you know, chop
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  Speaker 1: it up in the morning, um and really see. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought we're all pretty good, you know
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  Speaker 1: it was a good test to you. You know, TJ's
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  Speaker 1: out there, t J. Watt's out there playing in the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of series, and you know it was good
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  Speaker 1: for our tackles to play against him, and and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get some work in that way. So well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll evaluate the film in the morning and probably have
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  Speaker 1: a better um, you know, determination on that. Doug. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't finish with touchdowns offensively, but drove in the first
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  Speaker 1: half with the starting unit. How do you assess that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not good enough, you know, not good enough. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: finish drives with with scores, you know, And and um,
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  Speaker 1: there's something we talked about and work on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit, with the red zone. And we just
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  Speaker 1: gotta keep working. You know, the offense understands that one.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta run the football in the red zone, you know,
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  Speaker 1: number one. And we tried to do that tonight and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know that wasn't good enough. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta keep keep plugging away, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and and look at it, and um, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: better and and make sure we get the right guys
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  Speaker 1: in there, and and uh, you know, get ready here
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, Doug, the chat Booma starting
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  Speaker 1: the night and almost making that interception on the sideline
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  Speaker 1: um and then not making being able to make the
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  Speaker 1: tackle on the touchdown pass. How do you evaluate your
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  Speaker 1: inside linebacking room, especially with Devin missing most of training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Are you comfortable right now with Shaq Quorterman and Chad
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  Speaker 1: movement in that kind of that interior rotating role, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right now? Obviously it it with with Devon
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  Speaker 1: not being out there. It definitely kind of weakens the core,
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  Speaker 1: um because both Chad and Shack are also special teams
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  Speaker 1: players and they're getting a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: double work out there. And and it can it can
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  Speaker 1: play um, you know a little bit of the fatigue factor,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the second half of football games. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: these guys have done done well, They've played well and
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  Speaker 1: and um, um you know they they the more time
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  Speaker 1: they get on the field, the better they're gonna become.
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  Speaker 1: And these are these are valuable reps for them, even
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  Speaker 1: in you know, Devon's absence right now and and um,
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  Speaker 1: but at some point we gotta get Devon back on
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  Speaker 1: the field too and really help that room out. Coach Um.
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  Speaker 1: This month is the league's play initiative, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of prep athletes were able to come to games through
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  Speaker 1: the first two preseason games. Obviously, you guys are out
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  Speaker 1: of Piscopool. Just what does it mean to be able
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  Speaker 1: to see some of those younger guys, see you guys
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  Speaker 1: up close and have that experience. Yeah, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: hats off to Episcopal for allowing us to come out
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  Speaker 1: there for camp and and be a part of their
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  Speaker 1: um you know, their school, you know, for the last
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  Speaker 1: four weeks or so, and and then to have you know,
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  Speaker 1: their team came out to practice one day, and then
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  Speaker 1: to see all the you know, all the youth that
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  Speaker 1: are that are involved. I just think it's it's encouraging
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  Speaker 1: to see you know, that at the youth level, um
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  Speaker 1: and and really for them to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: you know, our guys, and and for us to kind
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  Speaker 1: of rub shoulders with them and and see what it's
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  Speaker 1: all about, you know. And and some of these young
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  Speaker 1: kids have hopes and dreams to one day be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on this stage, and and um, you know, to to
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  Speaker 1: to see our guys do it and and what they
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  Speaker 1: go through I think can be motivating to them to
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  Speaker 1: work hard at it. Doug, what are you seeing at
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  Speaker 1: a the one Smoot and arden Key really good things? Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: UM to to play airs that are UM, I think
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  Speaker 1: dynamic pass rushers. You know, Smooths a little different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's more of a bull type. Guy's physical and strong, ardents,
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  Speaker 1: quick and slithery and and can bend. And I think
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  Speaker 1: both of them have unique skills that obviously we can
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  Speaker 1: you know, we can exploit defensively for us. And Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're both having a really good camp right now. Doug,
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  Speaker 1: apologize if you've already been asked this, Uh, could you
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  Speaker 1: just talk a little bit about not being able to
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  Speaker 1: finish some of those first half score and drive first
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  Speaker 1: and first and ten of twelve. Trevor had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of third down throws to Christian were it was there
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  Speaker 1: he just one instance he learned too much. Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I made a conscious effort, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a play caller when we did get the red zone tonight,
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  Speaker 1: that we were going to focus a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: the run game. And you know, we kind of pride
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  Speaker 1: ourselves on that being able to run the football, and
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  Speaker 1: you know in the red zone, and we've got to
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  Speaker 1: do a little bit better there. And and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in Trevor's case, we we just gotta give him to
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  Speaker 1: kind of calm down early in the football game and
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  Speaker 1: settled in. There were some there were some throws that
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  Speaker 1: were missed that I know he would want back and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we've seen him make those throws in practice,
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  Speaker 1: so we know he's capable of doing it. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of just kind of taking a deep breath
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  Speaker 1: as he as he starts the game and and and
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  Speaker 1: settle in. But those are those are all things that
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  Speaker 1: we continue to work on. You know, we got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks left here in camp and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll try to get better. Doug Um, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the play calling in the road zone, was it a
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  Speaker 1: little more I guess less vanilla vanilla than it was
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  Speaker 1: last week against Cleveland? Or was it more just the
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  Speaker 1: lack of execution this week from your guys. It's a
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  Speaker 1: little both. And again, you know, when you're in when
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  Speaker 1: you're in preseason mode, you don't necessarily scheme your opponent,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because they're playing some guys and we're playing
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  Speaker 1: some guys and you just want to see execution. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know where we missed was on that part of
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  Speaker 1: it just just execution. I give give credit to to Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they made some plays down there and and
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  Speaker 1: and got some stops that um, you know, um led
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  Speaker 1: to one field goal for us. Obviously should have had
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  Speaker 1: the second one or the first and I guess, but
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  Speaker 1: those are all areas that we're gonna take a look
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  Speaker 1: at this tape and and make the corrections. Okay, thank
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  Speaker 1: you sir. Yeah, another one, last last question. Funny went
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  Speaker 1: down early in the game. Is there any update on him.
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  Speaker 1: Not at this time. I'm gonna wait till the guys
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  Speaker 1: coming in the morning, you know, get a full medical.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see where he's at. Last word I got was
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  Speaker 1: he was okay, he wanted to go back in the
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  Speaker 1: football game. But we just said, you know, pump the
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  Speaker 1: brakes and and and we'll get him. We'll get him healthy.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll have a better answer for you either tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: the next day. All right. Thanks,