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Press Pass | Christian Kirk: "Everybody’s still looking forward..." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think especially as a recently, Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of that slump that we've hit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the middle part of the game and
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday happened to us early, um, you know, middle
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  Speaker 1: of the first kind of going into the second quarter,
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to you know, figure out, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: we could do offensively when converting on third downs some missopportunities, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know for us, and so we're able to get
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone, you know, at the end before half,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it takes us a little bit to
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  Speaker 1: get going, and when you're playing a good team like that, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's there's really no margin for that. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think that's for us as you know, really
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of every time you know, we're able to
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  Speaker 1: step on the field and you know, we have to
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  Speaker 1: stay on schedule. You know, I kind of always talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, but it really is you know a flow
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  Speaker 1: you know for us offensively, and I think that's when
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  Speaker 1: we're you know, producing at our best. So you know
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things that you know, we need
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  Speaker 1: it definitely need to you know, hone in on and
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  Speaker 1: you know, really be critical on ourselves. Uh this week,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, try to get better for the back
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  Speaker 1: half of the season when it when you're losing games,
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  Speaker 1: but you may have a good game, Like, personally, is
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  Speaker 1: that hard for you to celebrate for yourself to be
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  Speaker 1: happy that you are getting targeted, you are getting catches,
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  Speaker 1: you are getting touchdowns, but you guys are winning. Is
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  Speaker 1: that hard for you? I mean? And honestly, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like after some days lost, you know, I was, I
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  Speaker 1: was sick to my stomach. You know it hurts just
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  Speaker 1: as bad, um, just because you know me personally, I
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  Speaker 1: do that so we can win the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like if I'm playing that my best and
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  Speaker 1: you know I'm trying to make every um opportunity, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, make the best out of it, then it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna help put us in a position to win a
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  Speaker 1: football game. And I really you know believe that. You know, me,
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  Speaker 1: along with a lot of other guys on this team,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have that kind of impact. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: you play your best, you know, there's there's a higher
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  Speaker 1: chance of us being able to win the game. And
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  Speaker 1: so you know it hurts you when you put all
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  Speaker 1: that into it and then you're not able to come
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  Speaker 1: out on you know, the other side, because at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, Um, you know, I'm sticking tired
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  Speaker 1: of losing, and uh, you know, I know everybody in
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  Speaker 1: this locker room, everyone in this building wants to win
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So you know, that's how we work, that's
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  Speaker 1: how we approach it. So, Um, like I said, we're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna keep working towards that. The last couple of games,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like, you know, Refre's been a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more efficient with the ball of wadding to throw. Could
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  Speaker 1: you talk about the throw on one of your truchdown
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  Speaker 1: passes where it was literally had to throw it like
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  Speaker 1: the cost the field. You're right there at the goal
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  Speaker 1: line and the window is pretty small, but he put it.
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  Speaker 1: He put it in a perfect spot. Is it? Is
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  Speaker 1: it throws like that that gives you, guys confidence that
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  Speaker 1: this guy is going to get where he needs to
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  Speaker 1: go and take this team where it needs to go. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a perfect example of trust and trust in
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  Speaker 1: each other and one another. Um, that's a route and
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  Speaker 1: a play that we've been working on since the day
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  Speaker 1: we've you know, I stepped in the building since you
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  Speaker 1: know the staff is you know, installed the offense to
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  Speaker 1: common red zone play that we love, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been able to call it, you know, many
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  Speaker 1: opportunities this year, and you know we're able to get
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  Speaker 1: it called, and we've wrapped it a thousand times, and
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  Speaker 1: so I know, you know, the ball is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: at the front pylon and so I gotta beat my
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  Speaker 1: guy there. And Trevor did a great job by putting
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  Speaker 1: it there and put it in a spot where only
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  Speaker 1: I can get it. So that's just trusting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trusting that that was gonna be there, him trusting that
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there, that I'm gonna win. And so
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  Speaker 1: those are the type of things that, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you love to see because that that spreads, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in every other asset you know, of his game, not
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  Speaker 1: only his throws, but his checks, protection, you know, communicating
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  Speaker 1: with guys. So um, you know, it's definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 1: progress that you love to see. I know, obviously you'd
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  Speaker 1: rather wins than individual operates or anything like that, but
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  Speaker 1: career high and touchdown cash is just in games. And
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  Speaker 1: as you're fit here in this offense and everything, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of hope they would be most definitely and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it. You know, it's still kind of evolving,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um from where we started in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the season to the middle of the season too.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, a weekend a week out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a Doug and Press do a great job of just
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  Speaker 1: kind of finding different matchups not only for me, but
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of other guys, you know, in our offense,
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  Speaker 1: because we are dynamic and we do have you know,
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  Speaker 1: guys that present that. So um. You know, I just
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  Speaker 1: I really like how it changes weekend and week out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, based off of what the defense gives us
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  Speaker 1: and so um. Like I said, definitely looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: you know, building on that in the back half of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Players have to learn how to handle my
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  Speaker 1: week and how to you know, use it as a
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  Speaker 1: benefit rather other than just resting their bodies. There there's
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  Speaker 1: something about using that week to to improve. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely think that you have to learn, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how to treat it. It also depends on you know,
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  Speaker 1: your situation. You know, the veterans and you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that have been playing all season are
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  Speaker 1: going to treat it a little differently than you know,
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  Speaker 1: guys maybe on practice squarders trying to become active. Um
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know some of those young guys had
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  Speaker 1: you know, great work today and they'll get some great
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  Speaker 1: work tomorrow and you know, be able to just um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get some live reps of some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we've been doing. And you know, for us
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  Speaker 1: veterans and guys who have been out there playing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really important to give your body, in
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  Speaker 1: your mind, you know, rest, get away from the building,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of unplugged from for a little bit. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: keeping our goals you know in the back of your
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  Speaker 1: mind and think about what you can do, um better
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  Speaker 1: for yourself personally to help the team get better in
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  Speaker 1: the back half of the season. But I'm a firm
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  Speaker 1: believer that it's it's really important to just kind of
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  Speaker 1: get away from the building and just unplug because you know,
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  Speaker 1: seven games is you know a lot more games and
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  Speaker 1: you know we have about two months more to go,
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  Speaker 1: so um, just we have we have to be at
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  Speaker 1: our best physically and mentally. Sorry, are you unplugged? Sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm fine to go go try to find
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  Speaker 1: a place to go play some golf and you know,
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  Speaker 1: get away with my fiance and just spend some time
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  Speaker 1: with the family and just you know, unplug, turn my
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  Speaker 1: phone off, and uh, do some things that I enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we we love you know, going down by
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  Speaker 1: the water and you know I love playing golf, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, just doing that. Um. You know, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other guys do would be doing the
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  Speaker 1: same either going home or whatnot. But definitely looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. No, she doesn't, um, but she's she's a
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  Speaker 1: good supporter quarterback. Now there was the season. Sorry. I
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  Speaker 1: think it just comes with maturity and UM, I think
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  Speaker 1: also just the fuel for the system. Uh. In general,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're all kind of getting there really knowing
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  Speaker 1: the ins and outs of this system, what works, what
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. You know, you're you're starting to see a
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  Speaker 1: common occurrence. You know, we're ten games in, so you're
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  Speaker 1: able to see how defensors are are playing us, and
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  Speaker 1: you know some of the tendencies and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: different different blitzes and coverages and whatnot. And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: last week, uh and even Sunday, you know against the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there were some times where Trevors you know,
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  Speaker 1: checking some things concept wise, individual routes, UM, you know,
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  Speaker 1: moving the protection up front to get to some things
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  Speaker 1: that he likes and that's what you'd like to see. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Oftentimes, you know, younger quarterback, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: new system, the first couple of weeks, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: just calling the play. That's that's calling the huddle. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but as you mature, and you know, you
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  Speaker 1: look at some of the guys that are veterans that
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  Speaker 1: have have been in the system for a while. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: if they don't like to play, that's called and based
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  Speaker 1: on the look when you break the huddle, they're able
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  Speaker 1: to to get to a play that they feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with and that they like and uh, you know, more
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  Speaker 1: times than not, that play is going to be executed
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  Speaker 1: at a high level because that's what they're comfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: They can see, they can play fast. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the areas I've seen from him that's been
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  Speaker 1: really encouraging. It is just putting everybody in the right
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  Speaker 1: spots to God and succeed on that play. When it
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  Speaker 1: was a couple of weeks again, but your actually saw
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  Speaker 1: the accounting Ridley News. Oh you know it's Uh, Calvin's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that you know, I've known for a while.
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  Speaker 1: We're the same you know, high school graduation class and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know met along the camp circuit then and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, played against him while he use at Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: and you know he's one of the top guys you know,
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  Speaker 1: drafted and you know that two thousand and eighteen class
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  Speaker 1: and so obviously amazing player, amazing route runner. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: great dude as well. So really excited to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get him in the building. I think he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a big piece for us and you know, this
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  Speaker 1: development of the offense. So, like I said, excited to
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  Speaker 1: get him in here. When you think about your time here,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Jacksonville, since this is your first season, just what's
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  Speaker 1: games out the most seas I think number one? Just uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know the type of people that we have, you
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  Speaker 1: know in this building, you know in this locker room
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  Speaker 1: on our staff. Um, you know, these guys are resilient
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, ducks as the best. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're all hand picked to be here. And you know
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  Speaker 1: you see the commonalities between everybody. High character guys, guys
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  Speaker 1: that go out and they played for one another, tough,
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  Speaker 1: smart football players, and so when you bring it around,
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  Speaker 1: you know that the same kind of guy that you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of looking for. Um. You know, there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're building something special and you know, we know it
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  Speaker 1: right now. The season hasn't really gone the way we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, but you know, you don't really feel anybody
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  Speaker 1: giving up or kind of cashing it in. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's still looking forward to you know, what's in front
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  Speaker 1: of us. And those are the type of people you
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  Speaker 1: want to be around and you want to go to
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  Speaker 1: work with. Because it is a long season. The NFL
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  Speaker 1: is hard. It's hard to win football games. But you
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  Speaker 1: know we're here to to you know, produce championship level football,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's just all about believing, you know that
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  Speaker 1: we can be the best. And so I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's my favorite part, you know, so far about being
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  Speaker 1: here is just being part of you know, a special
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  Speaker 1: group who gives you the most. You guys are are
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  Speaker 1: close to get turned around individually. Yeah, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a as a group, and I can only you know,
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  Speaker 1: necessarily I feel like speak for the offense, but just
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  Speaker 1: our progress and you know, when we meet as a
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  Speaker 1: group and you know, we we go over practice and
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  Speaker 1: we sit there and nights before the games and just
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  Speaker 1: our mentality and you know, just looking back on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we've done earlier in the year to where
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  Speaker 1: we are now. You know, you look how far we
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  Speaker 1: progress and yeah, maybe you know we haven't won as
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  Speaker 1: many games as we have one or two, but we
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  Speaker 1: are getting better. You know, I can, I can confidently
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  Speaker 1: say that we are getting better, and you know it's
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  Speaker 1: so close, and so you know, we just gotta keep working.
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  Speaker 1: But I know, offensively, we're a talented group. We have
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  Speaker 1: the right guys in that room, and so we're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep on getting better and keep on making plays.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. Yeah,