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- 0:00Speaker 1: S easier that way. Uh, how he's done moving around
- 0:05Speaker 1: from I used to play. I mean, I guess this
- 0:07Speaker 1: week ability two weeks in the same position in a row.
- 0:11Speaker 1: At how hard is what he's doing.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I've never done it personally, and I
- 0:16Speaker 2: don't think a lot of alignment have actually done it.
- 0:19Speaker 2: But to play at the level he's playing, you know
- 0:21Speaker 2: what is it for different positions? Now?
- 0:24Speaker 3: Uh?
- 0:24Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just I'm pretty sure it's unheard of. Pat
- 0:28Speaker 2: McCarey has a little bit of experience doing that too,
- 0:31Speaker 2: so like he could answer it a little better. But
- 0:33Speaker 2: I mean, besides those two, I don't think I've ever
- 0:35Speaker 2: seen anyone do that. So it's really cool what he's doing.
- 0:37Speaker 2: And it's fun to be like fun to be a
- 0:40Speaker 2: part of it and play next to him and just
- 0:41Speaker 2: you know, see what he see what he's doing to
- 0:44Speaker 2: prepare in the offensive line room and just be a
- 0:47Speaker 2: part of it.
- 0:50Speaker 1: You can't Sam and get all.
- 0:53Speaker 2: I mean, we've definitely joked about it in the room,
- 0:55Speaker 2: but you don't want to joke about it too much,
- 0:58Speaker 2: and then that kind of puts like a cloud over
- 1:00Speaker 2: over Hainesy and you don't want any bad juju going around.
- 1:02Speaker 3: So what has been able to do this season?
- 1:06Speaker 4: Just the versatility yesterday let the team in receiving yards.
- 1:10Speaker 4: Could you see that early in camp like he was
- 1:13Speaker 4: locked in this season, kind of like wonder duns.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Back from last year.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean TJ.
- 1:18Speaker 2: He's always locked in, even last year. Like I never
- 1:21Speaker 2: like thought he didn't work hard or anything. He's always
- 1:24Speaker 2: you know, head down, doesn't talk very much, just works
- 1:26Speaker 2: as hard as possible. And it's cool to see like
- 1:29Speaker 2: all his hard work coming coming forward and him just
- 1:32Speaker 2: balling out and when he gets the ball in space,
- 1:34Speaker 2: he does some special stuff. So it's fun to watch
- 1:36Speaker 2: the screen game and alive yesterday.
- 1:38Speaker 4: Just what are you guys a lot like about those
- 1:40Speaker 4: players and Lams scheme and how it gets.
- 1:42Speaker 3: You guys out there in space?
- 1:43Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the screen game is you know, it
- 1:44Speaker 2: normally comes on like third down, so it's it's a
- 1:47Speaker 2: refresher for us, even though we run a lot. Makes
- 1:49Speaker 2: it really nice not having the pass pro all the time.
- 1:52Speaker 2: So block the guy, throw him and then go try
- 1:54Speaker 2: to get downfield and.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Make it go.
- 1:56Speaker 2: And uh, the more the more it's successful, the more
- 1:59Speaker 2: he'll call it. So having that big screen pop yesterday
- 2:01Speaker 2: was a lot of fun and hopefully he calls more
- 2:04Speaker 2: of those.
- 2:04Speaker 4: And just what have been your impressions of Lay as
- 2:07Speaker 4: he's gone through the season with you guys.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Maybe what if you wanted about him since you know,
- 2:10Speaker 3: when you first got there. Yeah, I've been.
- 2:12Speaker 2: I've been impressed with the way he carries himself. His
- 2:15Speaker 2: offense is really fun to be a part of the
- 2:17Speaker 2: way he calls it is great, and just the juice
- 2:20Speaker 2: he brings around the building. I think a lot of
- 2:22Speaker 2: people can feel that along with like Grant and all
- 2:26Speaker 2: those guys, all the new coaches, all the young guys.
- 2:29Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun being playing for them because
- 2:34Speaker 2: they just bring their good juice and you just want
- 2:36Speaker 2: to play for those guys. And it's it's really fun.
- 2:39Speaker 3: About the offense that is different. And you said it's
- 2:43Speaker 3: fun to kind of be a part of what is
- 2:45Speaker 3: it about? If it does that, why is it so successful?
- 2:48Speaker 3: Just like the marriage of the run in the past.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Uh, you know, we're not just like always dropping back
- 2:52Speaker 2: on second, along and third and long throw some runs
- 2:55Speaker 2: in there and stuff. So we're pretty unpredictable, I feel
- 2:57Speaker 2: like for defenses, which makes it fun for us because
- 3:00Speaker 2: you never know if we're past setting or run blocking,
- 3:03Speaker 2: so it makes it a little easier for a long now.
- 3:06Speaker 1: I mean, do you feel the confidence that he's playing
- 3:09Speaker 1: with right now and you uddle with him.
- 3:12Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest, I mean it feels pretty close
- 3:14Speaker 2: to the same. He's always pretty poised and confident in
- 3:16Speaker 2: the huddle at all times, even if stuff's going bad,
- 3:19Speaker 2: And uh, I think that is just being a pro.
- 3:22Speaker 2: No matter what happens, you just got to, you know,
- 3:23Speaker 2: play the next play. And I think we're all doing
- 3:25Speaker 2: a really good job of that, even with like the
- 3:27Speaker 2: throw he made yesterday, he was hype, but we came
- 3:29Speaker 2: back in the huddle and it's time for the next play.
- 3:31Speaker 3: So as a like kind of blocking from the quarterbacks,
- 3:35Speaker 3: he's like, can always.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Keep the playing live.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, realistically, you'd like to stay in front
- 3:40Speaker 2: of your guy at all times and you know, not
- 3:42Speaker 2: have to have him run out of the pocket, but
- 3:44Speaker 2: when he has to do that, you just try to
- 3:46Speaker 2: stay in front of your guy as much as possible
- 3:48Speaker 2: and just make it to where he is a lane.
- 3:50Speaker 2: And uh, it makes it a little easier knowing that
- 3:54Speaker 2: he can, you know, use his lacy to play live
- 3:56Speaker 2: and see him run for first downs and stuff. Is
- 4:00Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
- 4:00Speaker 1: So games without giving up a sack the offensive line
- 4:04Speaker 1: with different guys in here and there.
- 4:06Speaker 3: How impressive, is that what you guys?
- 4:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we just kind of treat every game like, uh,
- 4:13Speaker 2: we kind of treat every game like it's super important. So,
- 4:17Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I didn't even know that was
- 4:19Speaker 2: a stat honestly. I know we didn't give up on
- 4:21Speaker 2: last week. But I think we just look forward to
- 4:24Speaker 2: to each game and just trying to, you know, pass
- 4:26Speaker 2: per the best we can. And a lot of it
- 4:28Speaker 2: has to do with Trevor too like like like he said, uh,
- 4:31Speaker 2: extending plays and getting out of the pocket and stuff.
- 4:33Speaker 3: So that's a cool set. Giving up a sack and.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Four games line.
- 4:40Speaker 3: That's been a pretty big topic of conversation in the
- 4:44Speaker 3: offensive line room at some point or not or no, no, I.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Mean no, we don't really bring that up. Kind of
- 4:50Speaker 2: watch the film and you know, you don't really bring
- 4:54Speaker 2: up the bad plays. You watch them, but you kind
- 4:56Speaker 2: of just move on. So that's that is cool. I
- 4:58Speaker 2: didn't know that.
- 5:04Speaker 4: Hey, Eric, this is for the beginning of the season.
- 5:07Speaker 4: The tur Rivers have been an emphasis of this defense
- 5:10Speaker 4: and is it something that really is contagious wants it starts,
- 5:15Speaker 4: it just builds and builds and and you got so
- 5:19Speaker 4: many different.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Guys you who have gotten theirs in so to speak.
- 5:23Speaker 4: But uh, does ermers become an end team competition?
- 5:26Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, I would say so. But most importantly, it's
- 5:29Speaker 3: the biggest, uh indicator of wins. I think when you
- 5:32Speaker 3: have a team that's uh, I don't know where we
- 5:34Speaker 3: are in turnovers, right, I think we're you know, we're
- 5:36Speaker 3: pretty up there. But it directly correlates to winning. I
- 5:40Speaker 3: think that's what you're seeing. So that's why it's so
- 5:41Speaker 3: much of an emphasis.
- 5:44Speaker 2: With with how the uh defense is playing, how part
- 5:47Speaker 2: of the offensive playing.
- 5:48Speaker 4: They've been getting a lot of credit. Uh yeah, Trump's
- 5:50Speaker 4: six touchdowns just herey, But you guys have really stetched
- 5:53Speaker 4: up the way you've been able to keep teams number
- 5:56Speaker 4: one run defense?
- 5:57Speaker 3: Just how has that been?
- 5:58Speaker 1: Uh?
- 5:59Speaker 3: Just going out there, just everybody practicing the right technique
- 6:02Speaker 3: run game. It takes all eleven people out there to
- 6:04Speaker 3: stop the run. And when you see like one person
- 6:07Speaker 3: get out of a gap or one person you know,
- 6:08Speaker 3: not execute the right technique, you start to see big
- 6:11Speaker 3: players in the run game. So everybody's you know, been
- 6:14Speaker 3: really dialed in into the technique and we're all bought
- 6:16Speaker 3: in on how to stop the run. And we know
- 6:18Speaker 3: how to stop the run. So I think that's the
- 6:19Speaker 3: most important part. Just what was that like? I mean,
- 6:24Speaker 3: it's it's exciting anytime you can get back there and
- 6:26Speaker 3: sack the quarterback. I wish we would have held the
- 6:28Speaker 3: ball out so I can gotta get a sack, fumble
- 6:30Speaker 3: or something, but you know, you gotta take what you
- 6:31Speaker 3: can get.
- 6:33Speaker 4: All you guys set up a whole year quarnering and
- 6:35Speaker 4: said you just what was that say about your guys?
- 6:37Speaker 3: Screw just that we're a close knit group. We spent
- 6:40Speaker 3: a lot of time together, you know, outside of football,
- 6:43Speaker 3: and uh, we actually care about each other. We actually
- 6:45Speaker 3: love each other. So I think, you know, when you
- 6:48Speaker 3: have different people roll in and and do different jobs,
- 6:51Speaker 3: everybody fits seamlessly because we you know, we're together. What
- 6:55Speaker 3: we've seen kind of from a county or how much
- 6:57Speaker 3: growth you said, Chunks since you got here met him,
- 7:00Speaker 3: just you know, doing this his process more refined, doing
- 7:05Speaker 3: the work before the game. I think that's where the
- 7:07Speaker 3: game is one and you start to see the results
- 7:10Speaker 3: that he's having on Sunday and you know the players
- 7:12Speaker 3: that he's making. He's a big talented kid. He's already
- 7:15Speaker 3: very smart, very fast, you know, lengthy and rangey. So
- 7:19Speaker 3: you know, once you know what to do, you know
- 7:20Speaker 3: he can make plays.
- 7:23Speaker 4: Hope people put his name out of there, Kush and
- 7:25Speaker 4: watch for interviews and what about.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Him do you think would make him like a good name?
- 7:29Speaker 3: Cause what what is it despied that you like playing for?
- 7:32Speaker 3: He's very personal in terms of like how he coaches
- 7:35Speaker 3: the game and how he feels about people. He's not
- 7:37Speaker 3: afraid to have like positive words of affirmation, which I
- 7:40Speaker 3: feel is is rare in his business. You know, people
- 7:44Speaker 3: always judging the player based on what they do, but
- 7:47Speaker 3: he judges you based on the person you are and
- 7:50Speaker 3: uh and how you grew up and taking that and
- 7:54Speaker 3: expressing that on the field. A lot of us have.
- 7:57Speaker 3: Some of us have tough backgrounds, some of us don't.
- 7:59Speaker 3: But if you do, you know, you've been tough all
- 8:01Speaker 3: your life. So just exercise that on the field and uh,
- 8:04Speaker 3: and just do it to the best of your ability.
- 8:05Speaker 3: So I think that's what you know, what put him
- 8:08Speaker 3: in that conversation. It's an energy being.
- 8:10Speaker 2: The same every day, whether it's on the building. Is
- 8:13Speaker 2: a unique for a coach.
- 8:14Speaker 3: In yourstrant, Not necessarily. I think the transparency is unique,
- 8:21Speaker 3: and it just it just feels like a like a family.
- 8:24Speaker 3: I think that's as a defender and as a defense,
- 8:27Speaker 3: that's what That's what you want to feel for your coach.
- 8:29Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like he's just our coaching. He's coaching us.
- 8:32Speaker 3: It feels like, you know, he's a you know, a
- 8:34Speaker 3: big uncle or something. He just trying to tell us
- 8:37Speaker 3: and direct us in the right path. I don't know
- 8:40Speaker 3: if that's the Italian part of him, but yeah, it's
- 8:42Speaker 3: that's what it feels like, and that's what he brings.
- 8:45Speaker 3: So like, as you sat up here, it's like, fout
- 8:48Speaker 3: how close everybody is and all that stuff. And I
- 8:51Speaker 3: did family?
- 8:53Speaker 1: Is that unusual that whatever you've been.
- 8:57Speaker 4: Right?
- 8:57Speaker 3: Yeah, place, so I think usual in the NFL, for sure.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Everybody got their own lives, everybody got different things. I
- 9:05Speaker 3: think the unique part about Jacksonville is it's not too
- 9:10Speaker 3: much to do, you know, so we all get together,
- 9:14Speaker 3: you know, we all get together and stuff isn't too far.
- 9:17Speaker 3: You don't have to most most of you'll have to drive.
- 9:19Speaker 3: It's probably like twenty minutes or something to like link
- 9:21Speaker 3: up with somebody. So I think, uh, that's the unique
- 9:23Speaker 3: part about Jacksonville.
- 9:25Speaker 1: I mean, does it sound corny or feel corny or
- 9:29Speaker 1: when you talk about that too, like other guys around
- 9:31Speaker 1: the league, did they go maybe?
- 9:33Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, if you if you having a bad
- 9:35Speaker 3: season and your team not good, yeah, you'll feel that way.
- 9:38Speaker 3: So yeah, I get that.
- 9:40Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fund of the season is still having major
- 9:43Speaker 4: games to to play and playoff implications.
- 9:45Speaker 1: That's kind of what you wanted when you got here,
- 9:48Speaker 1: such as.
- 9:48Speaker 3: How it's happish very I mean, we all came here
- 9:52Speaker 3: with a job to do and so we're just executing
- 9:54Speaker 3: that to the best of our ability, and you know,
- 9:56Speaker 3: that's why we're in the position we're in. So it's
- 9:58Speaker 3: definitely encouraging to see the pieces that we brought in
- 10:01Speaker 3: and the people that we brought into uh jail like this.
- 10:05Speaker 2: How much does me and partner that creating a family
- 10:07Speaker 2: take too.
- 10:09Speaker 3: He puts together events on Saturday where our families can
- 10:11Speaker 3: come and everybody can you know, experience other people's family,
- 10:14Speaker 3: So it definitely he puts stuff in the schedule to
- 10:18Speaker 3: help facilitate that feeling, and that's as proof. Yeah, yeah,
- 10:23Speaker 3: I had a little bit in the last uh location
- 10:25Speaker 3: I was at, and you know, it helps for sure
- 10:29Speaker 3: cause you spend so much time away from your family.
- 10:31Speaker 3: So does that just what does that do when you
- 10:34Speaker 3: guys are around me? Like what was like? Is there
- 10:37Speaker 3: like gratitude and like ardor for him, I guess kind
- 10:40Speaker 3: of to be a bit like, uh, it just helps
- 10:43Speaker 3: everybody know each other. Like it's just so many people
- 10:45Speaker 3: on the team, it's hard to get to know everybody.
- 10:47Speaker 3: So if I see him with his family or he
- 10:49Speaker 3: sees me with my family, just a little bit more
- 10:54Speaker 3: interaction that you normally wouldn't have. So yeah, it definitely
- 10:58Speaker 3: reads a comfortable standpoint, I guess. Alright, thanks say thanks,
- 11:04Speaker 3: thanks