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Trevor on having an edge & the team's growing confidence | Press Conference | Jacksonville Jaguars · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Um no, I mean I think it just just shows
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  Speaker 1: you know, for me to do that takes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other people too, And you know, the guys up
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  Speaker 1: front and didn't get sacked at all, receivers, tight ends,
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  Speaker 1: making plays. Um, it was a great day for all
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  Speaker 1: of us. So I think kind of reflects that more
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  Speaker 1: than anything. But yeah, definitely, I mean it's it's exciting,
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  Speaker 1: and um, we're on the next week now, I won't
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  Speaker 1: I won't carry over. Sadly, those stats won't carry over
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  Speaker 1: this week. So how much did you practice today versus
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  Speaker 1: the last ring day? About the same? Yep, ye, balls
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  Speaker 1: out there, Um, you know, doing the team stuff and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of get some mental reps, throwing a little bit, um,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, try to try to work it up as
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  Speaker 1: we go throughout the week. What happened at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game whatever, we're oh, yeah, the last play. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's just just football. You know, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: in their situation. You know, I'm not too happy with
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  Speaker 1: the way the game's gone, and then last play kind
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  Speaker 1: of jacked up Luke, right, I mean it's everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: we're taking a knee, you know, it's just like, let's
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  Speaker 1: take an ege on the locker room and he did that,
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  Speaker 1: so I was just trying to have his back to
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  Speaker 1: the same way you would do if someone did that
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  Speaker 1: to me, you know, the same way you would do
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  Speaker 1: for me. So Um, But now, I mean it's just
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  Speaker 1: football that happens. I think probably every week team does
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  Speaker 1: that at the end on a victory. Uh neil at
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  Speaker 1: the end, you know. So, I don't know, it might
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  Speaker 1: be my first first. So we were excited for sure
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  Speaker 1: of your growth and development that you're taking on a
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say more of a leadership role
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  Speaker 1: because that's kind of pig but like waiting by visiting bands,
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  Speaker 1: sticking up for Warner, you know what you've done in
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  Speaker 1: terms of talking trash on a little bit? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean is this are we are? You? Are you maybe
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  Speaker 1: just feeling much more comfortable in your role as as
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  Speaker 1: the guy? I don't know, Yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know. I think that's that's something you
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  Speaker 1: throughout my career, there's times where that happens and that
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  Speaker 1: comes out that competitive spirit. Um. And I think it's
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely come out more this season than then last year.
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  Speaker 1: UM And I'd say, yeah, comfort level just the guys,
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  Speaker 1: like the guys that I'm playing with, I mean, just
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  Speaker 1: have a blast out there. I love playing with those guys,
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  Speaker 1: especially the group up front. We just have a great relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we take care of each other. So that's
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  Speaker 1: where some of that comes in. And then just I
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  Speaker 1: think there's been times, you know, where we've needed a
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  Speaker 1: spark and things like that, and um, myself along with
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  Speaker 1: other guys have been able to give us that, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's on defense, on offense, whatever, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot of guys that are able to
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  Speaker 1: find that, and I think guys kind of get behind
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  Speaker 1: that as well, you know, are you able to do it?
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  Speaker 1: I made a topic chest ou a little bit. When
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  Speaker 1: you're playing at the level when you're playing I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's not that's not really about that for me. I
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  Speaker 1: think just I mean, yeah, you don't want to. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to look like an idiot when you're not
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  Speaker 1: playing well, and you don't want to. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: some things you gotta be smart about. You gotta be
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  Speaker 1: smart about how you how you act. And um, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say it's you know, because I'm playing well, but
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  Speaker 1: I think just at this point where we're at in
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  Speaker 1: the season. Um, I mean these games are are huge
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  Speaker 1: for us, and just having that edge, that intensity, being
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  Speaker 1: passionate about what we're doing. I think we're all getting
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  Speaker 1: more and more of that as the season goes. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not necessarily just about me playing well and
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  Speaker 1: that's why it's happening. I think it's just where we're
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  Speaker 1: at kind of what we need. We need a lot
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  Speaker 1: of juice, and um, I know everybody's excited. We're at
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  Speaker 1: a spot in our season where I think we're getting
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  Speaker 1: better every week. So yeah, how much do you think
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  Speaker 1: the video that Doug put together about the history of
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  Speaker 1: the rivalry? How much did that give you guys juice
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  Speaker 1: this weekend? You know, I think it's I think it's
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  Speaker 1: good for a team that's there's there's some a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys that have been here for a while, but um,
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  Speaker 1: we also have a lot of guys that are new
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  Speaker 1: this year. So and even including myself, it's only my
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  Speaker 1: second year. So I think just to kind of see
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  Speaker 1: that throughout the years and what even just what fans feel,
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  Speaker 1: you know how I mean, that's where a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it starts, is like the fans kind of hatred towards
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  Speaker 1: one another, Tennessee and Jacksonville, And I think just to
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  Speaker 1: see that and like kind of what's happened through the years, um,
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  Speaker 1: paints of brighter picture kind of for the guys who
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  Speaker 1: haven't been here, maybe only a year or so. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't you haven't been around that rivalry for years,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it I just helped paint that picture
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  Speaker 1: of what it is and you know, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: the mentality of both teams. So it was good. How
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  Speaker 1: did you know, did that may be incentivize you to
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  Speaker 1: give the way I mean maybe a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Like it just kind of happened heat to
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  Speaker 1: the moment, you know, Um, it's just kind of the
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  Speaker 1: perfect opportunity, you know, the way we were playing, just
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  Speaker 1: we were all fired up, and I mean you think
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  Speaker 1: about just how long it's been since Jacksonvill's won there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: So I just know that that you know, our fans
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  Speaker 1: and people that have been Jacks fans for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was a big day. And like I
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  Speaker 1: said that, you can't can't take it into this week,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was a great day. Now
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  Speaker 1: that you've had about ten months to process what Doug
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  Speaker 1: has done in all aspects of his job, and if
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  Speaker 1: you can, just for you, I'm not asking you to
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  Speaker 1: speak for anybody else on the team, but just for you.
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  Speaker 1: Putting aside the fact that this is a former NFL quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: what is it about him? What characteristic whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: game planning, temperament, approach, I think, is it that you
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  Speaker 1: think makes him a quality head coach? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think just not even talking about football. There's obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: a really really smart offensive mind, and he played the position,
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  Speaker 1: and great play caller, all those things, but just the
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  Speaker 1: way he carries himself. I've said that since, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ever since he's been here. That's something that I've noticed,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just proven itself more and more, especially the
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  Speaker 1: way our season is gone. It's been up and down.
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  Speaker 1: You know, We've had great movement moments, we've had really
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  Speaker 1: bad moments. And I think that's the one thing that
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  Speaker 1: we really needed was someone that's stable and just comes
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  Speaker 1: in every day. He's always the same, no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: We could have just won by eight or just lost
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  Speaker 1: by whatever. We lost two lions, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the same Monday morning. Obviously, people are piste off and
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  Speaker 1: it's not we're not as happy around here after we
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  Speaker 1: after we get beat like that. But he doesn't change,
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  Speaker 1: the plan, doesn't change. He never panics, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that just shows the confidence he has in us, and
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  Speaker 1: that's reciprocated in the way that we practice, the way
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  Speaker 1: that we prepare all that, so just the way he
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  Speaker 1: carries himself. Um, I really have enjoyed just being around
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  Speaker 1: him every day, and obviously I'm around him a lot
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  Speaker 1: more because we have a lot of meetings. But he's
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  Speaker 1: been he's been great. That's kind of what people say
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  Speaker 1: about you too, that no matter how that's how Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's how I try to be. I think you have
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  Speaker 1: to be, especially this position and his position being the
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  Speaker 1: head coach in the quarterback I mean, that's I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a really important characteristic. You gotta know, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: know who you're gonna get every day. You can't it
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  Speaker 1: can't be a different person, you know when things are
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  Speaker 1: going good or bad. So yeah, that that you change. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Did are you getting to have a rhythm with Doug
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  Speaker 1: as a play caller to the point where you are
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  Speaker 1: you starting to anticipate what he calls? And you know,
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  Speaker 1: is he calling what you were thinking maybe, yeah, I mean, situationally,
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  Speaker 1: we talked a lot about obviously a third down, red zone, um,
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  Speaker 1: different stuff like that, and then you have a plan,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to start each game kind of what what
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  Speaker 1: which direction you're gonna head the first few plays, so
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  Speaker 1: obviously you know that, but then third down red zone.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the same page. We have our ideas of
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  Speaker 1: what we like, and we talk about, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of the order we want. Obviously that can change based
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  Speaker 1: on the situation, so I can anticipate those, but as
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  Speaker 1: the game goes, I think more so we have I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have a huge menu of plays to run, so
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  Speaker 1: it's not like I always know what he's calling, but
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  Speaker 1: we're always in the same page in the situation and
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  Speaker 1: just the way we communicate whatever situation is, Hey, this
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to take a shot, or let's let's be smart,
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  Speaker 1: let's take a completion, keep like, keep the chains moving,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. He does a good job of kind
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  Speaker 1: of reminded me of some of those things. And now
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  Speaker 1: as it's gone more and more, he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: as much because we're on the same page and I
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  Speaker 1: kind of know, like I've talked about with you' all
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  Speaker 1: just feel position where we're at. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times the Tennessee game we ended up settling
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  Speaker 1: for field goals, but I think we were really smart
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  Speaker 1: about you know what we called. And then just my
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  Speaker 1: mindset of Okay, can I extend the play. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need to get out of my hands, take a completion,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throw it away. We got the field goal already,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. I think the more you've played together
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  Speaker 1: and played for someone, that kind of flows more naturally,
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  Speaker 1: and you can know what to expect call wise, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what they're expecting me to do, and there's
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  Speaker 1: just that trust of because there's I mean, there's situations
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  Speaker 1: you see around the league and then especially like college
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  Speaker 1: or wherever, where different situations are called differently based on
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  Speaker 1: who the quarterback is and the trust that they have
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  Speaker 1: in that guy, Like do we trust them to make
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  Speaker 1: the right decision? Or is are gonna hold onto it
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  Speaker 1: and take a sack in this critical moment where we
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  Speaker 1: don't have any time outs or we're in field goal
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  Speaker 1: range and we could get knocked out of field goal range.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, you know, they're showing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: trust in me and I think that's where I've grown
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  Speaker 1: a lot as a player, is just understanding those situations.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's been a cool thing for us
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  Speaker 1: to go through and interview this week. He thinks the
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  Speaker 1: London game, particularly that red Zine turnover, is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a wake up call for you, kind of you're turning point?
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  Speaker 1: Is that kind of kind of how do you see it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think There's been a few of those moments, um,
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  Speaker 1: really in my career so far, but I think at
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  Speaker 1: that point, I'll never forget how I felt in that
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  Speaker 1: locker room after the game. You know, obviously it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a good day for me, and I really just felt
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  Speaker 1: like really it felt like that a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: but none more than after that game. Really felt like
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  Speaker 1: I let the team down, you know, should have won
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  Speaker 1: that game. Um, I think we had lost four and
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  Speaker 1: that was our fifth one in a row. So I
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  Speaker 1: was just remember, I never forgot how I felt in
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  Speaker 1: that locker rooms. I don't want to feel like this anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna one start taking care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, but too, I just want to be
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  Speaker 1: the player that I know I can be, And I
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  Speaker 1: think that kind of flipped the switching me. And obviously
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  Speaker 1: and and honestly too, I think I have a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more of a chip on my shoulder now just
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  Speaker 1: because you know, last year and a half, I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't really forget what what's been said and um,
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  Speaker 1: what people have written, and now you know, you see
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  Speaker 1: people change their mind after a couple of weeks. And
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: but I but I, but I remember everything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't use that necessarily is my only fuel,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely use that. And I think that's something this
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  Speaker 1: team has done. You know, we kind of remember how
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  Speaker 1: what people were saying we lost five in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Then we've won some big games now and um, people
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  Speaker 1: kind of change their mind quick. So we just have
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  Speaker 1: that same mentality that we just we want to prove,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how good we can be every week. And
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's been the cool thing about this team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just how big has he been for you
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  Speaker 1: guys in the last couple of weeks. He's been awesome
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  Speaker 1: the whole season, honestly. I mean, that's what we we've
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  Speaker 1: talked a lot about. He's one of my one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite teammates, just the way he prepares the way
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  Speaker 1: he works. I mean, I don't think there's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that practices harder than Evan. You know, he'll take all
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  Speaker 1: the reps in practice, then he'll run ten twelve routes
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  Speaker 1: after practice almost every day. UM, and it does some
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  Speaker 1: blocking drills too, So he works super hard and just
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  Speaker 1: to see that payoff finally in the in the stats,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously there's a lot that he does that
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  Speaker 1: kind of goes unnoticed. And I think he's had a
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  Speaker 1: great year and he's been he's filled a role that
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  Speaker 1: we really needed, UM and just the matchups he's been
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: able to create. And then even in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great blocker and that hasn't necessarily showed up
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  Speaker 1: in the step sheet every week, but for it to
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  Speaker 1: pay off, I know that feels good for him because
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: he's a team guy, and I know he doesn't that's
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  Speaker 1: not really what he cares about, but I know that
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  Speaker 1: feels good to have a game like that, and he's
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  Speaker 1: one of the only tight ends to have. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the stats were, but something crazy. So it's
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  Speaker 1: one of the best games by a tight end and
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  Speaker 1: in a long time. So I'm happy for him and
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  Speaker 1: he deserves it. So it was really cool in metingful
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  Speaker 1: game in December. You have a sense of the bigness
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  Speaker 1: at this moment. Yeah, I mean, just like I said,
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  Speaker 1: where we're at in our season, I think it's we
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: all understand how how important this game is. And um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's every game is important, but especially with
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  Speaker 1: where we're at, and like we talked about a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, kind of situation we put ourselves in with
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: some of those losses early, that's just where we're at.
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  Speaker 1: You know, backs up against the wall and we gotta
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: we gotta fight our way out, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we got the perfect group to do it. So
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: we understand how big this game is and every game
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  Speaker 1: moving forward this stretches is huge. So we had a
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: great opportunity football question. Um, you know, with the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: you guys haven't been able to do as much community
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  Speaker 1: service maybe as you would like. But you know a
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: ton of you guys did the shopping with the Jaguar
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  Speaker 1: last night. What what did that mean to you to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of that. Yeah, it was really cool. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know we've gotten me and Marissa especially
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: got more settled in. We've tried to do more in
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: the community. And um, yeah, we basically a bunch of
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: guys on the team donate money and you go and
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: go shopping with kids for Smith and they take they
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: have a bunch of busses, drop the kids off, You
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: hang out with them for you know, an hour or
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  Speaker 1: two and shop with them. And it was great just
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: to see some of those kids, you know, how appreciative
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  Speaker 1: they were of that. Even kids like getting stuff for
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  Speaker 1: their family members and stuff like that is really cool
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  Speaker 1: and that's kind of what it's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: So it was cool to be able to not just obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, donate for kids to buy presents, but just
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  Speaker 1: to hang out with them and you know, be around
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  Speaker 1: him and you know, do something that we don't really
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  Speaker 1: get to do a lot of. So it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Since I've had a couple of people tweet and ask
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  Speaker 1: the sweater you had on is that like sweater? H Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was giving that one specially. Yeah, they gave out
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  Speaker 1: our Our crew did a good job. They gave out
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of sweaters for that event. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: guys that we're gonna go Christmas shopping with the kids.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: They put a bunch of our lockers and that was
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: a special Jags one. So yeah, we're just Michael Parsons
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  Speaker 1: rank in terms of a guy, you need to know
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: where he's at. Where's the top at the top of
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: the list, He's up there. So, um, he's a great
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: play or you know, you just see his athleticism. Um,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best pass rushers in
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  Speaker 1: the league, just you know, weekend and week out, the
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: place he makes his pursuit, chasing down from the backside,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: all those things. He's a guy you always gotta know
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  Speaker 1: where he's at. You gotta have a plan for him. Um,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: because he's a guy that definitely can can wreck a
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: game if you don't plan for him. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even if you do, he's gonna make plays. That's just
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: you know, that's the nature of it. He's a great player. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you do everything you can to stop him, but he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make a few plays. And you know, we've played
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  Speaker 1: good pass rushers this year, but he's up there with
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  Speaker 1: with the best of who who we've played. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know him going back to high school,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: so I'm excited to see him out there. Yeah, all right,
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: ye know, he was were