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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "That's the Type of Football That We're Capable of Playing." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Doug, can you give us your impressions on how Trevor
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  Speaker 1: played and was it important today to get him moving more.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was important to get him moving.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was part of our game plan. I
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  Speaker 1: thought Trevor played, played extremely well obviously, you know, bounced
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  Speaker 1: back from last week and put together a good performance.
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  Speaker 1: Ran the ball, you know, two rushing touch I think
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  Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns right today, did a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: saw the field extremely well. I thought offensive line you know,
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  Speaker 1: protected him well. And it was good to get Day
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  Speaker 1: back as well. But overall, Trevor, Trevor played really well today, Doug.
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  Speaker 2: You're up seven nothing three minutes ago, first quarter, Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: goes on a thirteen play drive. They take nine minutes
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  Speaker 2: off the clock, final play, you get the sack. What
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  Speaker 2: did that mean to not allow any points during that juncture.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that's that's really that's really big. It's huge,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a lyft for our team. It was
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  Speaker 1: great to see our defense do that, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: get off the field.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously. It was a lot of plays and they just
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  Speaker 3: hung in there, you know, and those things really.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of lift and energize your football team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in moments like that. And I thought again, defense today
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  Speaker 1: again played out standing.
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  Speaker 4: We've talked a lot about Ridley.
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  Speaker 2: Those two passes to him were almost perfect, But how
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  Speaker 2: good was it to.
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  Speaker 5: Get him involved beyond maybe p I s and maybe
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  Speaker 5: creating for other people?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was good to get get Calvin
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  Speaker 1: back in there, you know, and get him going again.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I have to look at the film, but
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  Speaker 1: I think also the addition of Zay possibly could help
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  Speaker 1: that out a little bit. And those are the things
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  Speaker 1: we talked about, and but yeah, it was good. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Calvin played played extremely well today. He kind of let
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  Speaker 1: the game just kind of unfold before his eyes and
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  Speaker 1: and really you know, just just ran the routes that
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  Speaker 1: that that you know, Press called and and Trevor did
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  Speaker 1: the rest. But but it was really good to you know,
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  Speaker 1: get Calvin, you know, the type of game today that
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  Speaker 1: that he's capable of playing.
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  Speaker 3: What does it say.
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  Speaker 6: About your team to day they did that?
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  Speaker 7: What was such an humiliating game last week to dominate
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  Speaker 7: the way you What.
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  Speaker 3: Did you learn about your team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for reminding me about last week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just it just goes to show the
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  Speaker 1: resiliency of our football team. Uh, you know, we've we've
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  Speaker 1: we've only been together a short while, but but you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is a resilient group. You know, they always seem
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  Speaker 1: to work themselves back and and and fight their way back.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when they have a.
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  Speaker 1: Setback and and they've done it, they did it again
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  Speaker 1: today and and you know, hats off to the leadership
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  Speaker 1: of the football team. And really, you know, each man
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  Speaker 1: doing his job and and that's that's the type of
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  Speaker 1: football that we're capable of play.
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  Speaker 2: I know you said that you last week that you
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  Speaker 2: were looking forward to coaching this team after that loss
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  Speaker 2: last week, how do you feel that you and your
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  Speaker 2: staff responded.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: It's easier after a loss than it is a win.
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  Speaker 1: And and and really we all had to kind of
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  Speaker 1: soul search a little bit. We all had to kind
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  Speaker 1: of look in the mirrors if there were things that
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  Speaker 1: we could we could do differently, or I could help
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  Speaker 1: the team differently. And you know how I messaged the
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  Speaker 1: football team and and really just wanted to keep things simple.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to clutter their mind. I you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you get you get blown out in a game A
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  Speaker 1: week ago. But when you really boil it down, it
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  Speaker 1: came down to the four giveaways, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, in in the critical situations that we
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  Speaker 1: did last week, we didn't do that today, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And when you do that, you have better success.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then just you know, finding moments to
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  Speaker 1: just uh, I think, just relate to the team, kind
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  Speaker 1: of bring them, bring them full circle, you know, put
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  Speaker 1: it back on the leadership of the team, and and
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  Speaker 1: and let them kind of drive the team a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: Doug, can you talk about the decision to go forward
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  Speaker 8: on fourth down at their forty on the opening drive
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  Speaker 8: of the third and then Trevor's touchdown run two plays later.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it seemed like you two were just willing
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  Speaker 8: the offense to get into gear, that you'd had enough
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  Speaker 8: of the stuttering and the stopping and the starting and
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  Speaker 8: the field goals, and you weren't going to have any
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  Speaker 8: more of it. Is that an accurate way to describe it?
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  Speaker 1: A little bit? And I felt like it that moment too.
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  Speaker 1: We were gaining a little a little momentum, are you
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  Speaker 1: referring to it?
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  Speaker 3: Right after they scored the third? Yeah, to keep that
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  Speaker 3: drive alive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was just a that was just
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  Speaker 1: something I felt at that.
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  Speaker 3: Time, just to kind of keep because we we were
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  Speaker 3: moving the ball. Felt good about it.
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  Speaker 6: Again.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's when when I showed confidence in the
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  Speaker 1: team and they respawn like that. It it just it
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  Speaker 1: just breeds confidence in them.
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  Speaker 3: And and we were.
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  Speaker 1: Able to kind of do that a little bit today
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  Speaker 1: on some of the fourth downs and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: sustain some of those drives. But that was that was
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  Speaker 1: a big one, Uh, to really kind of keep you know,
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  Speaker 1: the foot on the gas a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: offensively and and you know, just help our team with confidence.
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  Speaker 7: Doug, did you get a sense in all your conversation
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  Speaker 7: with Trevor that when he was hurt with the knee
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  Speaker 7: and he wasn't one hundred percent that it kind of
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  Speaker 7: bothered him that he couldn't be out there playing at
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  Speaker 7: one hundred percent and doing a lot of the things
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  Speaker 7: that he did before.
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  Speaker 3: You know it.
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  Speaker 1: Just take the name off the injury. It's anybody anybody
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  Speaker 1: that's injured. You know, it bothers people, it bothers you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the that's the thing I appreciate about
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  Speaker 1: this sport, I mean, and about our team. I mean, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are going to play a little sore, guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna play a little beat up, But they do it
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  Speaker 1: because the one they love their teammates, right, they love
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  Speaker 1: the game and they're gonna do everything they can to perform.
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if it's a quarterback or you know,
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  Speaker 1: an outside backer.
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  Speaker 3: It's just.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the willingness, the mental toughness, the physicality that
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  Speaker 1: the players have and and and they do it to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for the teammates.
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  Speaker 6: Doug, could you just talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 6: performance of your offensive line, because there's about three or
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  Speaker 6: four passes today where Trevor kind of needed extra second
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  Speaker 6: and a half to get to other reads so that
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  Speaker 6: you could complete some passes. So it just like the
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  Speaker 6: offensive line from a past pro standpoint, had a good day.
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  Speaker 3: They did, They really did.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it too, stem from the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we stuck with the run game, so it
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  Speaker 1: helped a little bit in the past past protection world.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, again, it's a prideful group and and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Walker getting back in there and and
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  Speaker 1: kind of settling down in his you know, and having
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  Speaker 1: more reps. He you know, it appeared like he played
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  Speaker 1: played better today, but as a group against a really
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  Speaker 1: good defensive front. They played so many five man fronts today,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're creating all those one on one matchups.
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  Speaker 1: And our guys did a nice job of hanging in
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  Speaker 1: there and battling. And you know, Trevor doesn't make some
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  Speaker 1: of those down the field throws if if they don't
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  Speaker 1: give him that extra time.
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  Speaker 3: They played well.
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  Speaker 6: Game plan moving forward to try to get Ezra or.
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  Speaker 1: There you did that, it's possible, you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how he did and and and keep him coming. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's important that we continue to develop him and
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  Speaker 1: in our offense because you never know when you know,
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  Speaker 1: we might need him, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Full time.
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  Speaker 1: So it's possible that we could continue to to work
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Doug, congrats on the victory. Uh with the usage of
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  Speaker 5: Zay Jones, did you were you just trying to like
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  Speaker 5: bring him back in slowly or were you wanting to
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  Speaker 5: use them a little more that you just couldn't?
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the thing that I've learned in this
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  Speaker 1: league that when when players come back from injury, that
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  Speaker 1: you don't you don't bring them back slowly, they're in
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  Speaker 1: for a reason and you go full steam ahead. And
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  Speaker 1: and Jay was ready to go, and he was a
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  Speaker 1: big part of this today. And you know, he played tough,
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  Speaker 1: he played physical, he made some made some catches today
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  Speaker 1: and and just really I think it just having his
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  Speaker 1: presence out there opened up some other things for us,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But but I was proud of Zay for
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  Speaker 1: you know, again one of the players that has been
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  Speaker 1: has been injured, but but got himself in a position
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  Speaker 1: he was healthy to go and did a nice job today.
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  Speaker 4: Doug devon Hamilton's scratch today. Is it a healthy scratch
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  Speaker 4: or did he have a setback?
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  Speaker 3: What was the No, it was a healthy scratch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Listen, I'm not going to get into all
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  Speaker 1: of it with him because he and I and we've
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  Speaker 1: had some conversations with him and and all of that,
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  Speaker 1: but it was it was healthy. I'm I just want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that he's that he is mentally and physically.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as you guys know, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: put somebody out there to risk anything further. And and
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  Speaker 1: it was a decision by me to just you know,
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  Speaker 1: to just hold him one week, see where he's at,
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  Speaker 1: and get him more practice. Time, get him more reps,
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  Speaker 1: get him, get him, get him back to where where
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  Speaker 1: he was a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: He's missed a lot of time. You understand, he's missed
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: And and and I think it's definitely taken Obviously it
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  Speaker 1: took a taking a toll a little bit. But but
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  Speaker 1: he's he's busted his tail to be in a position
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  Speaker 1: to help us. And I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a week to week decision. But you know, just he
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  Speaker 1: he he understands, you know where we are, and and
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  Speaker 1: he appreciated that.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll see where he's at again this week.
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  Speaker 4: And then just just lastly, real quick, can you talk
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  Speaker 4: about the defense's performance and you know, obviously them getting
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  Speaker 4: that fumble, how how big was that to sort of
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  Speaker 4: get the ball rolling?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the defense, you know, they created the takeaway early
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  Speaker 1: in the football game. Of course we got the special
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  Speaker 1: teams take away late, you know, the second half. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we talk enough about the defense. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're the ones that have kept us in the majority
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  Speaker 1: of our football games this season, you know, and they
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job today. Is one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that we knew going in we'd have to you know,
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  Speaker 1: slow down this run game, you know, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: for the most part did a nice job control the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And and they played fast. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they played fast today and that was good to see.
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  Speaker 1: Our secondary was was on point, They were in the
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  Speaker 1: right positions. We had a chance to grab a couple
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  Speaker 1: of balls, you know, and and you know they'll make those.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Mike Caldwell had a good plan for
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  Speaker 1: the guys. The coaches did a nice job preparing the
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  Speaker 1: players and they they're a big, big part of this today.