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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "A credit to how hard these guys worked." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Just overall very proud of this group. Um, just how
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  Speaker 1: resilient they are, you know, um to bounce back from
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  Speaker 1: a you know, from a lost last weekend to putting
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  Speaker 1: things together this weekend against the division opponent who I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for obviously, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: Frank and his team, and UM, just very proud of
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  Speaker 1: our guys the way they worked in practice this week
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  Speaker 1: and and how they how they came out and really, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to charge of this game from the from
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  Speaker 1: the opening opening drive film during weekend leading off this
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  Speaker 1: game that really allowed you to kin and totally shut
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  Speaker 1: down the run game and the coals and therefore take
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  Speaker 1: them out of so much of what they wanted. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you a lot of respect for their run
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  Speaker 1: game and and and Stewart and the guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they do a great job. It's nothing that you see
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  Speaker 1: on tape, right, It's just about It's about us. It's
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  Speaker 1: about being being physical, right and and just understanding to
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  Speaker 1: stay discipline in the in your run fits and your
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  Speaker 1: your eye discipline on things. And um, uh just our
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  Speaker 1: guys did a great job, you know, just rallying to
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  Speaker 1: the ball, getting him on the ground. It was a
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  Speaker 1: focus for us this week in practice, and um, just
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  Speaker 1: a credit to how how hard our guys worked up
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  Speaker 1: to to you know, um understand and then and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, eliminate the run. What were you? What were you?
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  Speaker 1: What did you have in your game plan that kind
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  Speaker 1: of maybe they do from taking the shots down? Feel
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  Speaker 1: this whole lot undernea of media type stuff. Was that
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  Speaker 1: game or was that more? It's it was a little both,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and and and Gus Bradley's uh, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's great at what he does. Um. And what
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate about you know, Gus and his scheme is
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  Speaker 1: is they they kind of just show you one thing.
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  Speaker 1: He'll mix it, but he'll show you one thing, and
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  Speaker 1: you gotta stay completely disciplined with going against a guy
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  Speaker 1: like like Coach Bradley. And um, I thought our guys
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  Speaker 1: did that. You know, Trevor was efficient, got the ball
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  Speaker 1: out of his hand. Some of it was by play
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  Speaker 1: call and designed to to help him a little bit. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we we had moments where we had
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  Speaker 1: some shots dialed it just you know, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: we also had them you know, alerted to some runs
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  Speaker 1: and they took it away. So we had to run
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  Speaker 1: the football in no situations. So it's hard to you know,
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  Speaker 1: express that and explain that when you you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: when you're not in a game plan meeting and and
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  Speaker 1: understand that koun of what we're trying to get done. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball right out of the gate,
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  Speaker 1: really clicking for you today, dog is a coach. Can
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  Speaker 1: you feel it, especially offensively early in the game, that
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  Speaker 1: that you know it's gonna work on this particular day,
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  Speaker 1: you hope? Uh, you know, I mean, you got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of football left and and it's a sixty minute game,
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  Speaker 1: and you just gotta take him one play at a time.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, one thing I learned a long long
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  Speaker 1: time ago is you never get too high and you
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  Speaker 1: never get too low. You know, it's a sixty minute
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  Speaker 1: football game. Listen, they were they were down I think
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  Speaker 1: twenty to three last weekend and came back and tied
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  Speaker 1: that football game. So anything is possible. Um, we just
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  Speaker 1: have to stick to our process and stick to what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. And I know it's an old adage, but
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if it's true. Always been told the coach
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most about their team between game
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  Speaker 1: one and game two. Did you learn anything about your
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  Speaker 1: football team today? I just learned that that this this
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  Speaker 1: group is eager to win. They want to win, and
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  Speaker 1: and and they put in the hard work during the week.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something I've been very proud of this group
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  Speaker 1: and and really appreciate what they've done and how they've
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  Speaker 1: been able to take the mistakes from a week ago
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, sort of minimize them going into
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  Speaker 1: this week and really attacking the game plan, um, and
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  Speaker 1: really just attacking their job coach over here. Fourth first
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  Speaker 1: drive at the game, you had a fourth down and situation,
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  Speaker 1: it was a fourth and four and you went for
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  Speaker 1: it at that point. Was that more of the to
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  Speaker 1: push them to that confidence level that you need them
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  Speaker 1: to be because you dominated the time of possession today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's just a credit to the guys execution there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a great, great throw and catch
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  Speaker 1: to do Esa Jones to get the first down. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and yeah, and it's it's we're in one
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  Speaker 1: of those areas of the field where it's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit a little bit great, too long for a field
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  Speaker 1: goal and maybe too short for a punt, and you
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  Speaker 1: know you're okay if you don't make it, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna try to be as aggressive as possible,
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  Speaker 1: you know, give our guys opportunities. I think I think
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  Speaker 1: once we got that one and another one after that,
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of felt comfortable for them. And we
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  Speaker 1: just got to continue to work those scenarios and and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, prepare our football team that way, and and
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  Speaker 1: it does it does help the confidence of the team,
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  Speaker 1: you know when you do go for one on fourth
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  Speaker 1: down and you get it, uh, and stay on the
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  Speaker 1: field and we we we ended up with points there. Doug.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little chatter last week, some of them by
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  Speaker 1: people like us, about Trevor's accuracy issues. But today, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure this is his best completion percentage of his career.
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  Speaker 1: But did you guys work on anything in a ticular
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  Speaker 1: rhythm timing stuff you talked about the pitch and runs,
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  Speaker 1: did you and and in practice? So did he really
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  Speaker 1: get diligent about trying to improve his accurate see? Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every every week we work on that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, you know, and and try to be as
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  Speaker 1: efficient as possible. And you know, my hat's off to
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  Speaker 1: you know, press Taylor the coordinator and Jim Bob, Mike McCoy,
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  Speaker 1: the guys and for really you know, putting together a
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  Speaker 1: great plan and and really helping Trevor. You know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's something that we kind as a coaching staff kind
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  Speaker 1: of take away, you know, even from the week before,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And we gotta help our guys, right we
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  Speaker 1: we just can't just you know, throw a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: players out there and expect him to execute. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to help him, right, So that's why we practice, That's
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  Speaker 1: why we go out and do the things we do.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought Trevor really did an outstanding job today
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  Speaker 1: getting the ball out of his hand. Uh, he saw
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  Speaker 1: things really well. Uh there were a lot of catch
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  Speaker 1: you know, catch break tackles, get first downs, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: He threw hot a couple of times. So let's those
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  Speaker 1: are all the things that he's capable of doing. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we continue to work on that stuff, you know, every week. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about whether this is how good this
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  Speaker 1: Stevens could be for a while now. Was this maybe
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  Speaker 1: more of what you thought it could be? And last week, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they played they played extremely well. We know,
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  Speaker 1: we know Indy was down a couple of their you know,
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  Speaker 1: pass catchers and good pass catchers, so you know who knows.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. My hats off to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Caldwell. Great defensive plan the guys were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they executed it during the week in practice, and again
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  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of to me. That's where that's where
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  Speaker 1: you win football games is during the week and then
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  Speaker 1: you just go out and execute the plan. And for
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  Speaker 1: them to fly around today and do the things they did,
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  Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, create turnovers, all the things we
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  Speaker 1: talked about. We saw it and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things are starting to kind of I think click for guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and still a lot of football ahead of us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've got to play this team again, and
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  Speaker 1: and we just got another another great opponent next week. Coach.
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  Speaker 1: We know that this is a passing league now, but
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  Speaker 1: we saw what seemed to be a concerted effort to
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  Speaker 1: really maintain balance today. I think thirty pass attempts, thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven run attempts. Was that in the back of your
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  Speaker 1: mind or were you just calling the game in the flow?
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  Speaker 1: You know, again, I seem to learn from experience, but
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  Speaker 1: you do it. It It takes to win. Bottom line, you
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  Speaker 1: do what it takes to win. If that means running
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  Speaker 1: it thirty seven times or forty seven times, fifty times
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  Speaker 1: or ten times, you know it. Just you do what
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  Speaker 1: it takes to win the football game, right and and um,
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  Speaker 1: it was just a great opportunity. And um, you know
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  Speaker 1: again credit the offensive line. Phil Ralsher had those guys
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  Speaker 1: prepared and and uh good. It was good balance overall.
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  Speaker 1: It was great balance for US coach Will Brown w
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  Speaker 1: j c T News. When you were hired, you talked
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  Speaker 1: about the process and you said it would take a
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  Speaker 1: while to to kind of you get to where you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go, and you needed some patients from the fans.
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  Speaker 1: But to be able to have your performance like this
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  Speaker 1: in the home opener, how much do you think that
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  Speaker 1: this will will keep fans engaged and keep that that
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  Speaker 1: bond between the team and the fans stronger than it
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  Speaker 1: might have been in previous years. Yeah, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we had a really good crowd today. They
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  Speaker 1: got they got loud on a couple of those defensive
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  Speaker 1: fourth down plays, you know, in the second half, and
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  Speaker 1: that was good to see the guys out there. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think you know you listen, do you get
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  Speaker 1: paid to win games? Right? You win fans? The fans
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  Speaker 1: show up, right, I'm a fan. I want to go
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  Speaker 1: watch a winner. So you know I'll pay money to
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  Speaker 1: go see a winner. Right. So we have to we
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  Speaker 1: have to just win games. This is a great start today.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of football left and and uh. But
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  Speaker 1: the crowd was excellent today. Um, hats off to them.
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  Speaker 1: They showed up even after the rainstorm there in the
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  Speaker 1: first half. But um, you know, credit to them, and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully we can we can keep the momentum. Apologize
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  Speaker 1: if you've already been asked. Except for the deep ball
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  Speaker 1: that almost got intercepted early on the game, it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like Trevor was just on point with just about everything,
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  Speaker 1: his decision making, where he went with the ball, things
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  Speaker 1: like that, could you talk a little bit about that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you always bring up the negative first? You know
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  Speaker 1: that holding call on second and ten and but the
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  Speaker 1: third Um, what was your question with the exception of
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  Speaker 1: I won't mention it. Uh. It seemed like Trevor was
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  Speaker 1: pretty much on point with everything today, with where he
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  Speaker 1: not just his throws, but where he went with the ball,
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  Speaker 1: where he decided to go with it. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it was by design, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: play design to play call at the time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we worked on that stuff in practice this week. We
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  Speaker 1: we knew, you know, we knew going into this game. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is a Gust Bradley defense. They're gonna be sound
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  Speaker 1: at what they do. They're gonna be in the right spots.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to be in the right spots. And
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  Speaker 1: we have to be disciplined in the passing game. And
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  Speaker 1: and there are some areas of the field that you
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  Speaker 1: can you can try to you know, get after and
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  Speaker 1: and but yet the ball has to come out on
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  Speaker 1: time because they rally and tackle. So I thought Trevor
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  Speaker 1: did a did a great job in that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: aspect of just getting the ball out of his hand,
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  Speaker 1: getting it to the right spot. Guys stayed disciplined in
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  Speaker 1: the game plan like we are in the in the game,
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  Speaker 1: like we talked about, and and Um executed that well.
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  Speaker 1: As a follow up in terms of all three phases.
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  Speaker 1: Is close to the kind of game that goes just
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  Speaker 1: the way you draw it up, I would have to say, so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, you know, maybe shy the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, you know. But but um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the guys listening, they they took full advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the week of practice and and uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh understood the game plan. I challenged them to stay
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  Speaker 1: in their playbooks and know the know the game plan
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  Speaker 1: inside out all three phases. They did that and when
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  Speaker 1: they do that, you can you can kind of see
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  Speaker 1: the execution on the field. No negativity that last question. Yeah, um, coach, Um,
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  Speaker 1: we saw two touchdown passes from uh Trevor Lawrence and
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  Speaker 1: Christen Kirk. Is that a connection that you've seen growing
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  Speaker 1: in practice or was it just the right place, right time? Um,
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  Speaker 1: great play execution today. Yeah, No, it's it's been. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that we started back in the spring, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with those two kind of building that relationship and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, Christians a great player. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we went out and got him in free agency. And
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  Speaker 1: you can see it now, you know, two weeks in
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  Speaker 1: a row, some of the plays that he's made and
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  Speaker 1: he's made an impact for our offense. But um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just a matter of them just continuing
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  Speaker 1: to work, stay on the same page. And um, you
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  Speaker 1: know again, you know, coming up with game plans that
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  Speaker 1: that that helped Christian you know, get open and Trevor
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  Speaker 1: to find him. Did you get a game ball in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room? I did? You did? How meaningful was that?
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  Speaker 1: And and did you almost run out of game balls
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  Speaker 1: because so many other guys had so many big performance?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's special, it's special. You know, it's my
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  Speaker 1: first win obviously is head coach here. But it's a
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  Speaker 1: team win, you know, and we celebrate as the team
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, I appreciate that and it will definitely
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  Speaker 1: go on the on the mantel at the house. But um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my hats off to those guys in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room. They're the ones that did it. You know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get hit. I didn't have to throw any
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  Speaker 1: passes or run the ball. So um, credit to the
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  Speaker 1: credit to the team. In all seriousness, you do you
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  Speaker 1: only have six division games, so starting out one and
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  Speaker 1: oh how important is that in the race to win
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  Speaker 1: this thing? And you know it's it's something we talked
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  Speaker 1: about this week. Um. You know, the a f C South,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great division. It's only gonna get better and stronger. Um,
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  Speaker 1: this is a great football team today. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a different, you know, a different game next
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  Speaker 1: time we play them. And um, you know, in order
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  Speaker 1: in order for any team, you know, to get to
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  Speaker 1: the postseason, you gotta be able to win your division, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so this was a great step in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks guys,