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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Week 18 vs. Titans, Division Title Opportunity · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You're right again, quarantined yourself from the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've I feel like I've had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of things just throughout the season, so hopefully I
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  Speaker 2: had my fair share so part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Though. It made it a point to not talk about
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  Speaker 1: playoffs or home you know, division, all that stuff. Do
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  Speaker 1: you change that this week when it's right in front
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  Speaker 1: of you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about winning the division because it's
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  Speaker 2: what that's what. We got an opportunity to do this
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  Speaker 2: and it's one game. I mean, that's we're here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: leading up to this point, we weren't here yet. We
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  Speaker 2: had to win. I mean, obviously, look at what Houston
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  Speaker 2: did and they've won a bunch of games too, So
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  Speaker 2: we had to win all those games to get this point,
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  Speaker 2: to have the opportunity to continue to control the division
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  Speaker 2: and keep it in our hands. And that's all we did,
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  Speaker 2: and none bigger than this one. We're here to win
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  Speaker 2: the division this week. It's a Titans team that's going
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  Speaker 2: to come in here and obviously presented some challenges for
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  Speaker 2: us last time we played them up there, and there's
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  Speaker 2: some things when need to get better at. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: put together a good plan your preparation has continually evolved
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  Speaker 2: throughout the season, just kind of what does that.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, what does that look like for a year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's uh, you know, with a with
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  Speaker 2: a new staff, a new system, and a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a new schedule, and the preparation is you try
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  Speaker 2: to keep it as similar as possible to what you're
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  Speaker 2: used to and what my routine has been in the past,
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  Speaker 2: but it has evolved and changed over time. I think
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  Speaker 2: just getting a better feel one for the schedule and
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  Speaker 2: the game planning and my own process there, but also
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  Speaker 2: my time that I spend with you know, Grant and
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  Speaker 2: Spence and and Liam throughout the week. Is that was
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  Speaker 2: something that obviously we had to figure out how the
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  Speaker 2: season's gone on and what's best. And I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we're in a really good, you know, routine and flow
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  Speaker 2: now and we spend a lot of good time together
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  Speaker 2: especially I mean really throughout the week, we spent a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time together, but at the end of the week,
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  Speaker 2: me and Liam spent a lot of time just going
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  Speaker 2: back through everything. So I feel like come Sunday, where
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're really on the same page and it
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  Speaker 2: never goes perfect, you know, there's always it's football and
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  Speaker 2: there's gray and you play and you you know, you
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  Speaker 2: make some mistakes. But I feel like our alignment and
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  Speaker 2: how we see the game and kind of what we're
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  Speaker 2: expecting to get out of certain plays, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just how I'm seeing that we're very aligned, which I
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  Speaker 2: think is really helpful. So that's gotten better and better
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  Speaker 2: as the season's gone on, and I think just that
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  Speaker 2: preparation continues to elevate and get better as we find
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  Speaker 2: too in our offense and we get more comfortable. You've
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  Speaker 2: been running more this year, But what's going into the
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  Speaker 2: thought process of I mean, you've had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: success running the football using legs this year. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's there's a lot of factors, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: I think, really I'll start with the group up fronts
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  Speaker 2: on an awesome job. And I think that's something where
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  Speaker 2: it seems a little bit counterintuitive, like scrambling. You see
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  Speaker 2: guys running A lot of times people think like it's
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  Speaker 2: because there's not protection, But a lot of times the
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  Speaker 2: reason you're able to scramble and make these plays is
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  Speaker 2: because the protection is great and sometimes coverage covers guys
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  Speaker 2: up downfield. And you find lanes and they've done an
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  Speaker 2: awesome job up front of really being sticky in their blocks,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been able to have escape routes, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: outside inside, and there's been a lot of lane for
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  Speaker 2: me to be able to run and extend plays. So
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  Speaker 2: that's a big part of it. And then I think
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  Speaker 2: just as I've gotten more and more comfortable in the system,
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  Speaker 2: progressing saying no to certain things, I'm able to get
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  Speaker 2: through my progressions and when there isn't something there, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sitting back there in the pocket waiting forever on
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  Speaker 2: something that's not coming open. You know, and that happens
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  Speaker 2: obviously a few times a game. You know, you don't
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  Speaker 2: always have perfect play on against the perfect defense. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's football, so you got to figure it out. So
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  Speaker 2: I think the combination of those two things, and then
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  Speaker 2: just you know, defenses are getting better and better in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion of taking things away, especially on third down,
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  Speaker 2: red zone. It's just hard and hard to get guys
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  Speaker 2: open sometimes when they start doubling people, and then that's
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  Speaker 2: when the legs really come alive because they don't have
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  Speaker 2: the defenders for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, sure, yeah, I'll take I'll take another one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that'd be that'd be great. I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: not something I that I that's like a goal I
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  Speaker 2: set for myself. But if it helps us win, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if we need that to win on Sunday, it'd be
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  Speaker 2: that'd be cool.
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  Speaker 1: Journey to becoming an elite rushroom. You start to come
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  Speaker 1: in the league, Urban Meyer wants you to run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Oc says you can't have him running the ball, and
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  Speaker 1: you get hurt act back years with the injuries not
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  Speaker 1: running lab you know, last year, and did give him
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  Speaker 1: a thought of like a little bit of a roller
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  Speaker 1: coaster there to to get in for where you look
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  Speaker 1: like this is the guy I think most people thought
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  Speaker 1: you were coming in the league and don't guy you know,
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  Speaker 1: scrambling and running the wall. Good question?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I mean yeah, I think that there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of factors that you know, playing as long as I
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  Speaker 2: have now at this point, and a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: situations like you mentioned that have come up. And I
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  Speaker 2: do think there are at times you can get kind
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  Speaker 2: of set in as a quarterback. You can get boxed
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit like you want the play to
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  Speaker 2: work so bad and you want to you want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, go through your progression and get it to
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  Speaker 2: the open guy and and make it happen through the air.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, you know, sometimes you can get a
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  Speaker 2: little boxed into that, if that answers your question. So
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  Speaker 2: I do feel I've gotten some more freedom of being
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  Speaker 2: able to be creative. And you know, Liam and stepped
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  Speaker 2: done a great job of encouraging that. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about a lot of different things of just
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  Speaker 2: ball security and how I move in the pocket, getting out, escaping,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that stuff's improved as well for me.
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  Speaker 2: But really just feeling the freedom to create when I
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  Speaker 2: need to, but not overdo it. So I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a balance in that and I feel pretty comfortable right now.
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  Speaker 1: The interception at the end of the first half the side.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been very efficient and two minute offense
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what has gone in today both in the media
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  Speaker 2: room and also in practice field to make sure you
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  Speaker 2: guys are ready.
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  Speaker 1: For those situations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've you know, it's a bummer that ended that
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  Speaker 2: way with a turnover that you know, just not a
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  Speaker 2: great throw by me, But we've been really good in
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  Speaker 2: those situations. I think just you know, sometimes to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: getting on the ball and tempo has been some of
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  Speaker 2: our best possessions, especially early in the season. I think
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  Speaker 2: now we've settled into more of a rhythm offensively and
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  Speaker 2: we've been just better overall, but earlier in the season
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  Speaker 2: I remember that was something that we did. Really one
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  Speaker 2: of the best things we did was to get on
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  Speaker 2: the ball and go. And I think guys just going
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  Speaker 2: out playing not thinking gets the passing game clicking a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and we've just been really efficient. You know,
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  Speaker 2: something I pride myself in is being able to get
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  Speaker 2: points in all those situations, and our offense takes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pride in that. So that's taking care of
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  Speaker 2: the ball, but also staying ef fishing. I think as
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback is you want to take the big places
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  Speaker 2: when they're there, but if you can get the drive
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  Speaker 2: started a lot of times, that helps. Especially with the
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  Speaker 2: better field position. Now you get a couple first downs,
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  Speaker 2: and with Cam as our kicker, I mean, you can
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  Speaker 2: kick it from just about anywhere. So I think having
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  Speaker 2: that confidence, you play pretty free too, because you know
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  Speaker 2: you've got a guy that can make it from anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of pressure last week and you guys had
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  Speaker 2: some success. Why do you think you guys have been
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  Speaker 2: so effective against the Bliss last few weeks. I think
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  Speaker 2: we've had a really good plan for it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we put in I mean, I don't want to bore
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  Speaker 2: you guys, and I don't have enough time, gonna go
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  Speaker 2: get some lunch. But it's we put in so much
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  Speaker 2: time into our protection and our plan for it really is.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot that goes into it, and that's myself obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the whole staff, the O line, you know, Joanah Hainsey
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  Speaker 2: up front kind of you know, we're communicating with each
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  Speaker 2: other and run on the show, and then everyone involved.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of checks. There's a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: things that can happen when you're going into a game
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  Speaker 2: and you don't know what all you're gonna use because
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  Speaker 2: you just you don't have the script. You don't know
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  Speaker 2: what they're gonna do, but you know what you can
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  Speaker 2: what you can check to, what you can get to.
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  Speaker 2: And you practiced so many things, and there's still things
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  Speaker 2: that come up in the game that you get to
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  Speaker 2: that you might not have practiced. So it's just an
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  Speaker 2: emphasis on everyone knowing the plan. Like the back of
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  Speaker 2: their hand and then also knowing the system like the
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  Speaker 2: back of their hand to where as a quarterback, I
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  Speaker 2: feel comfortable checking to really anything, and I know guys
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  Speaker 2: know what to do, because that's that's a big part
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  Speaker 2: of it is as a quarterback, you can know all
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  Speaker 2: the checks in the world, but if you haven't communicated
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  Speaker 2: it right to the guys and they're playing hesitant or slow,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't it doesn't work. And those guys have done
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  Speaker 2: a great job with it. I asked you about Parker
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  Speaker 2: Washington before, but back to the back of the undred
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  Speaker 2: plus yrd games for him, and is there any way
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  Speaker 2: you could have more confidence in him than you do
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, not really. I mean he's he's played great, I
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  Speaker 2: think all season. He's just done an awesome job with
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  Speaker 2: every opportunity he's gotten. And now you look at his
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  Speaker 2: his role and really's been doing for our offense. It's
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  Speaker 2: been huge. And just his ability to run every route,
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  Speaker 2: to run after the catch, all those hidden yards that
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  Speaker 2: he's that he's finding after the catch has been really
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  Speaker 2: big for us. So we got to continue to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: find ways to get him the ball and let him
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  Speaker 2: make plays. And you know, the whole group's done a
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  Speaker 2: good job. Thank you gopiation