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Jaguars Postgame: Jaguars 31, Patriots 20 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We you know, with a win. What I think really
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  Speaker 1: was important for us is, you know, talking to the
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  Speaker 1: players about how we um you know, I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when people talk about last year, I think the one
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  Speaker 1: thing I try to remind the players of is is
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  Speaker 1: you know, how we've We've gotten our fans and everyone
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  Speaker 1: back into it, and we were we were really excited
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  Speaker 1: to open up here at home. That was a big
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  Speaker 1: thing for us. And obviously the crowd played a big
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  Speaker 1: part in it, and our players feed off that. And um,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to thank our fans for showing up,
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  Speaker 1: Thank our fans for their enthusiasm. And I thought the
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  Speaker 1: assistant coaches did a great job. We felt real comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with the plan. We're real focused all week and I
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  Speaker 1: thought that the players did a nice job executing the plan.
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  Speaker 1: And um, I thought the quarterback played well. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're able to win. And like I told the players,
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, the second game of the season, and
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot of work in front of us,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we got a division opponent next week.
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  Speaker 1: We'll enjoy this win and we'll make the corrections and
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  Speaker 1: we'll move on. You guys are so aggressive, what you
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  Speaker 1: please be sad to see that executed so well. We
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  Speaker 1: felt comfortable during the week. We had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good signs and tells that you know what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we we felt good about what we
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  Speaker 1: were trying to do. And then when you know you
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  Speaker 1: feel that way, they just got to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and execute, and they were able to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and do it. So it's a credit to you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I said before, the assistant coaches did a good
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  Speaker 1: job and you know, the players did a good job
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  Speaker 1: executing because everybody what was your evaluation of Blakely? I
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  Speaker 1: think I think everyone will see all the good things.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the things that you know, probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna get missed is that first series they had a
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  Speaker 1: free hitter coming blitzing. You know, he's able to step
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  Speaker 1: to the side, make a miss, make the play down
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  Speaker 1: the field, and get the third down. And I've said
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  Speaker 1: it before probably too many times that you know, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of loose sight of what he can do with
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  Speaker 1: his feet. You know, I think that he made some
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  Speaker 1: really good throws today though. He played with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence, and you know, he knows and understands that
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  Speaker 1: he has to do that every week, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he catches a lot of ship and you know, today
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be okay. You know, everyone's gonna be happy.
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  Speaker 1: And tomorrow is gonna have to come back and start
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  Speaker 1: working because it'll be evaluated each Sunday, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: he understands that. And uh, but again he did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job today. When it was the decision made about
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  Speaker 1: Leonard keeping him out, well, he had a good week. Now.
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  Speaker 1: We put a lot of work into it. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a point of Lennon wanted to go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then upset risk reward and you try to get
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  Speaker 1: not get caught up in the game, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you know, rather than take a chance
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  Speaker 1: and where he can be out. Um, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: it was minor. It was a little thing pulling at it.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't get that little thing out, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So um, you know, we woke up today,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about today, We came over here about twelve
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  Speaker 1: worked on it. Uh. We worked on a pretty aggressively
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  Speaker 1: during the week. I thought I thought it was really
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  Speaker 1: optimistic about it. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: with my decision, I just didn't want to take a
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  Speaker 1: chance next week then with him I'm ready, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna enjoy this win and not I'm not. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to come on, you can't do that to me.
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  Speaker 1: You can't don't ruin, don't ruin my next three hours game,
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  Speaker 1: playing all week to be without for that. Um No,
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  Speaker 1: Now we didn't. We felt comfortable with t J. I think, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got kind of got a little nervous
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  Speaker 1: when when Jane asked me, you know, on Friday, Gene
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  Speaker 1: asked me, you know, hey, would you feel comfortable going
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  Speaker 1: into the game with just two running backs? And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, And then I started thinking about I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: holy ship, maybe not, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 1: and I kind of went back and we brought Brandon
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  Speaker 1: up just in case. You know, I really thought it
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  Speaker 1: was going that way. But we didn't. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we we planned like he would be there, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that t J and Corey would be able to do
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  Speaker 1: some of the same things. We felt passed it at
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  Speaker 1: all that with that as you did today. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, we didn't know about four that until later,
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  Speaker 1: until until Saturday on you throw on the red flag
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  Speaker 1: on the that they had the first down, but then
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  Speaker 1: you threw the red flack. Did you see that or
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  Speaker 1: did it's one of the assistants see that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: We've we've got a system set up, Like I said before,
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about it before and people have asked me,
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  Speaker 1: who are those people up there? What it is? And
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  Speaker 1: I just said, I really don't want to do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because when they make a mistake, will kill him.
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  Speaker 1: And when they do something good, we'll do it. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll just take all the credit all the time. It
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  Speaker 1: is the other victories you've had. I know it's week too,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the Patriots and Camlet is going crazy. How
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  Speaker 1: does it compare? No, it's a it's a home opener
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  Speaker 1: and it's a win, and you know it's one of
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  Speaker 1: our team came and we we we felt comfortable going
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  Speaker 1: into the game. I can't I can't explain it any
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  Speaker 1: other way. I mean, we felt good about the plan,
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  Speaker 1: we felt good about where we were. We had our
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  Speaker 1: players at a heck of a job during a week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes as a coach you can tell you
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  Speaker 1: know you never know how they're gonna play. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've made that mistake millions of times, Like we probably
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  Speaker 1: all have, um you know, but I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's certain times situationally during the week that you know,
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  Speaker 1: they were focused, and I think that they learned that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've got to be that way to be
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  Speaker 1: good football teams. And we'd be a good football team.
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  Speaker 1: And we're gonna have you know, a couple of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the schedules, a tough schedule, one more question of Cam
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  Speaker 1: going out of this game and having to just somebody
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  Speaker 1: else into there. Right, how important was it just to
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  Speaker 1: keep the continuity going would out and you know, continuity
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  Speaker 1: gets a little bit overblown at times in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: As an offensive line coach, I think that's the one
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  Speaker 1: thing we always look to. I mean, it isn't important,
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  Speaker 1: it is, but we try to do a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said before, you know, coach Priority does a
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  Speaker 1: good job in Tony Speranto Jr. Where you know, when
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  Speaker 1: we're doing like the one on one stuff with games
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  Speaker 1: things that are that really you need that continuity will
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  Speaker 1: mix it up in there. You know. Josh Wells as
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  Speaker 1: as a guy that you know, has really worked his
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  Speaker 1: his ass off, you know, to really get up there,
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  Speaker 1: and you know he came in and did a heck
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  Speaker 1: of a job, you know today obviously, and the guys
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  Speaker 1: up fronted a nice job today. Feller approached the week
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  Speaker 1: and what did you see on his stretch? He was good,
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  Speaker 1: you know last week, you know when he was suspended,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I talked to him and he was just
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  Speaker 1: you know, working out and training, getting ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And he was excited obviously to come back and play.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, probably not not as much as you know,
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and play, but more importantly being
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  Speaker 1: around his teammates. That that's the worst part about suspensions.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not necessarily you know, the game or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. It's just you're not part of your
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  Speaker 1: family and your team. You know, when he came in
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  Speaker 1: and he had a good week, he was ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he made a big play in
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  Speaker 1: the game, and as are the players you have to
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  Speaker 1: make and take the ball away from my times. You
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  Speaker 1: got d d Westbrook and healing cold to a year
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  Speaker 1: young receivers really did some outstanding thing And say what
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  Speaker 1: what did you see out of those year? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was you know, part of the plan, you know,
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  Speaker 1: catching run. We knew that was gonna be big. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, catching and killing me. The unbelievable play, you
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  Speaker 1: know on the sideline. You know everybody, everybody saw that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know he's he's a guy who's been real
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  Speaker 1: steady for us. UM really's worked his butt off. I
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  Speaker 1: think d DS probably, I would say, you know, from
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  Speaker 1: last year to this year, if you're looking at the
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  Speaker 1: lad of really stepped up, you know, as far as
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  Speaker 1: being a professional. Um, I think d D has made
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  Speaker 1: the best change or the biggest change of that which
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously has helped his football team and has
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  Speaker 1: helped him as a player. I know, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that first year is tough, you're trying to find
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  Speaker 1: your way, and then you know that second year you
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  Speaker 1: kind of get you kind of get set in a
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  Speaker 1: way and everything. And he's been good right from the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: very focused and um, you know, and and it is
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  Speaker 1: doing a nice job for us. Did you see enough
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  Speaker 1: of Forrey Grant today that he'll probably be more involved
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  Speaker 1: in the future. We'll see what fits us best, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we always felt when you say
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  Speaker 1: see more of Corey Grant, it sounds like we don't
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  Speaker 1: have enough, you know, like we don't maybe not like
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  Speaker 1: him or heaven part of it. But you know that's
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  Speaker 1: never been the case with Corey. We know we have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a guy that has some special talent and skills.
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  Speaker 1: So UM, we've always felt very comfortable with him. He's
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  Speaker 1: on a roster and we look each week and you know,
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  Speaker 1: to the players on a roster that I give us
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  Speaker 1: the best opportunity. You know, though Corey did a great
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  Speaker 1: job today, what we're probably a larger load, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying that normally he had all thanks, all right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys. I appreciate it than anything. Then continuing
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  Speaker 1: the company, H what does this one feel? Good? Good? UM?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's yeah. I think everybody kind of hyped
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  Speaker 1: the game up a little bit more than we felt. Um.
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  Speaker 1: The importance of it was insider, I guess made more
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  Speaker 1: of it than you know, I think it actually was.
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  Speaker 1: It was our home opener week two, and UM to us,
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  Speaker 1: besides that, it wasn't really anything else. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: expected to come out and play good. Um and when
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  Speaker 1: the football game, you know, we didn't think we thought that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we played the way um that that
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  Speaker 1: we practiced all week and executed the game plan and
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  Speaker 1: didn't hurt ourselves or do anything stupid that, Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'd be doing what we're doing now. You guys had
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  Speaker 1: an aggressive game plan. How cool is that executed? It
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  Speaker 1: really home based the game. I thought Nathaniel did a
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  Speaker 1: really good job calling plays, obviously, did a good job
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  Speaker 1: during the week putting the plan together with all the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, I thought it was called, uh,
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  Speaker 1: incredibly well and executed at a high level. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're a penalty here there. Um. But besides that, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we played within ourselves and did a good
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  Speaker 1: job just moving to change and making place. Have you
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  Speaker 1: played a better game? Yeah, I don't know. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I think anytime you win, it's a good game. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's a good football team obviously, so to
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  Speaker 1: beat them is uh is a good win. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just try to do whatever I can to you know,
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  Speaker 1: make sure we can win. If it's stowing for three yards,
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  Speaker 1: or if it's getting us in the right run game
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  Speaker 1: checks or whatever it might be. Um, it was definitely,
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  Speaker 1: you know good for the most part. Today. You've never
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  Speaker 1: really had a whole lot of verbal jabs back at
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  Speaker 1: anybody who's ever criticized you. I'm guessing you're probably not
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  Speaker 1: gonna start now, or or you if you want to. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: I leave that to Jamie. Uh. If you leave, you,
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  Speaker 1: you're