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Mike McCoy on QB Leadership and Specific Standouts | 1on1 Interview · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguars quarterbacks coach Mike McCoy going into preseason week three.
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  Speaker 1: You've been in this league for a long time. Preseason
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  Speaker 1: now a couple of years into changing to three weeks
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  Speaker 1: with that by week before the regular season. Has it
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  Speaker 1: settled in now, this this preseason training camp schedule for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really has, you know, having actually last year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting back into it. We had actually the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame game also, so we had an extra one.
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  Speaker 2: So I was the old school, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a great way to do it now, and it's the
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  Speaker 2: kind of the final tune up for us to get
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  Speaker 2: ready and the players go out there and just get
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  Speaker 2: some more work together and then move on.
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  Speaker 1: What does Trevor need to show you, if anything on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's not just Trevor, but it's the
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  Speaker 2: entire offense just going out there and you know, cleaning
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  Speaker 2: up all the little things that we do during camp,
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  Speaker 2: and that that's what the preseason's for. It is cleaning
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  Speaker 2: up all the little details. And you know, with new teammates,
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  Speaker 2: you have kind of get used to how they're going
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  Speaker 2: to run rounte. You know, you practice all all camp long,
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  Speaker 2: you play against the same guys all the time in
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  Speaker 2: training camp, the off season program. Now you go play
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  Speaker 2: another team and there might be a little different technique
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  Speaker 2: or you got to attack a guy or you you know,
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  Speaker 2: someone like Calvin. You know, now all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: he sees a dB a little off and insight, so
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  Speaker 2: he adjusted his route this way. So that's really the
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  Speaker 2: big thing is really get to know the new teammates
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  Speaker 2: and a couple of wrinkles that we've put in and
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  Speaker 2: moving guys around to figure out who does what best
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  Speaker 2: come the opener.
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  Speaker 1: Technically for Trevor, what has he improved upon the most
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  Speaker 1: this entire offseason and now into training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think really if you look at his footwork
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  Speaker 2: and the way you know, he's playing with his feet
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  Speaker 2: underneath him this year, you know last year. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen a couple of snaps. Just a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days ago, we were talking about, you know, how wide
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  Speaker 2: his bases. You know, whether he's when he was dropping back,
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  Speaker 2: setting up or throwing with a big long stride, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, now he's playing with his fet unerneath them.
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  Speaker 2: And then it really is target line setting up to
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  Speaker 2: the target where he's rolling the ball and He's done
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  Speaker 2: a really nice job of kind of you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year, you kind of talk about
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things, and last year, number one, he
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  Speaker 2: had to understand the system. So there's so much focus
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  Speaker 2: for you know, day to day on just hey, learning
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing, and you know, sometimes you forget about
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  Speaker 2: those little things and so we really honed it in
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  Speaker 2: that this offseason. He's done a great job with that.
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  Speaker 1: CJ. Bethard, number two quarterback on this roster. He's a veteran,
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  Speaker 1: he's been in this league for a while. What what
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  Speaker 1: is his role? What what does he need to show
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  Speaker 1: you to maintain that and what does he do to
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  Speaker 1: help Trevor on a day to day basis?
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  Speaker 2: Was CJ?
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  Speaker 1: CJ?
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  Speaker 2: You know that you always say that about him. He
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  Speaker 2: goes in there, he runs the show when he's in
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  Speaker 2: the huddle. You know, whether it's the off season program,
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  Speaker 2: training camp, preseason games. You know, you don't you don't
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of the things that he does sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, watching the game and just you know, directing traffic,
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  Speaker 2: making sure you guys are lining up the right way,
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  Speaker 2: the communication with the guys. You see him in the
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  Speaker 2: meeting rooms, you know, he's never gonna be he's never
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  Speaker 2: gonna be shy. He's always gonna speak up. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Actually this morning in a meeting, he said made a
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  Speaker 2: comment to Press about something and then you know he
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  Speaker 2: was dead on, And that's that's the great thing. And
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  Speaker 2: you know just how he's helped Trevor the past couple
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  Speaker 2: of years. You know, all the time they spend in
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  Speaker 2: the film room on their own and just really teaching
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  Speaker 2: Trevor how to be a pro, you know, from his
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  Speaker 2: rookie year Tourrius today because there's so much time not
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  Speaker 2: just with the coaches but that they spending there and
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  Speaker 2: he's just really helped him and you know, talk to
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  Speaker 2: about little the tricks of the trade game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: game days, about defense, is about coordinators, all those things.
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  Speaker 2: So he's really another coach out there. So he's really
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  Speaker 2: we're very fortunate to have him in the role that
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  Speaker 2: he's in.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing to hear it from Doug or Press
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  Speaker 1: or you, but when another player is telling you that
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  Speaker 1: it maybe it registers in a different.
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  Speaker 2: Way, right, Yeah, definitely, you know they and you know
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  Speaker 2: the great thing about it is, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: we've all played the position and then having someone like
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  Speaker 2: Cig that that Trevor has so much trust in. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you come to the sideline, you know, because cjn
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  Speaker 2: are always talking during the game, how things come up.
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  Speaker 2: And at times you know whether I'm you know, talking
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  Speaker 2: to Phil about something and CJ sits down and hey,
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  Speaker 2: here's what we said. So you know, he's great to
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  Speaker 2: have on this team.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, Nathan Rourke, CFL player. The last couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: he's had some flashy plays in this preseason. What has
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  Speaker 1: stood out about him in this training camp so far?
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  Speaker 1: What does he do well? What has he been working
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  Speaker 1: on the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, the great thing is that you know
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  Speaker 2: the improvements he's made from the offseason. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: just like we were talking earlier about Trevor learning the
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  Speaker 2: system last year when Nathan came in. He's fortunate enough
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  Speaker 2: he could be here early, but the rules he did so,
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  Speaker 2: he watched so much film on his own, spent endless
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  Speaker 2: hours here, you know, just getting a just did everything
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  Speaker 2: living here and everything and learning the system and taking
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  Speaker 2: care of his body and getting ready back in football shape.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, we left this summer and he
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  Speaker 2: came back. We talked about working on a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: He came back and it was obvious that he worked
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  Speaker 2: on those things. And he's he's made the most of
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  Speaker 2: every opportunity. And that's what you always tell the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Come preest and don't worry about how many reps you get,
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  Speaker 2: just when you get in there, and make the most
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  Speaker 2: of every opportunity and go go do your thing. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what he's done. And you know, he's very fortunate
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  Speaker 2: for the room that he's in. You know, you talk
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  Speaker 2: about CJ. You know CJ and Trevor both they go
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  Speaker 2: out there and they do whatever they can to help him,
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  Speaker 2: and that was they did the same thing last year
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  Speaker 2: with EJ. And so you know, I'm very fortunate that
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  Speaker 2: I've got the three of them in the room and
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  Speaker 2: they work so well together. But he's just he's learned
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  Speaker 2: from those two guys and he's made the most of
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  Speaker 2: the opportunities