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Interview: Defensive tackle Marcell Dareus · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We're walking off to practice field day two with Mark
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  Speaker 1: sol Darius Jaguars defensive tackle. Here we are into training
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  Speaker 1: camp again, number nine for you in the NFL. How
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  Speaker 1: are you feel? Look like you're running pretty good, in
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  Speaker 1: good shape. How are you feeling so far? I'm feeling. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. I feel pretty good. I mean
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  Speaker 1: good headspace. I mean, I'm here with my family. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just overly joyous emotions right now because
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm back into a natural state of mind.
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  Speaker 1: You said the head space, man, And how important is
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  Speaker 1: that for a player coming into camp getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: a season. You gotta get things right above the shoulders, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the U. It was a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine. He's in an army. He told his friends
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  Speaker 1: they're from to go off to how to do something,
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  Speaker 1: and he was like, this is one of the trips.
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  Speaker 1: You'all need to go home, take care all your major responsibilities.
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  Speaker 1: Makes sure everybody's good because when we get ready to leave,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to leave it all here, and you
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure your responsibility is dootking care of.
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  Speaker 1: So there's there's one of those trips. So I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: packing my bags. I'm ready to be up with my fellows,
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  Speaker 1: Marcel Darius with us. Do you have daily checklist two
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  Speaker 1: things you want to get done in a camp day?
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  Speaker 1: What are some of your personal goals day to day
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  Speaker 1: here in camp and what did you get accomplished today
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  Speaker 1: and day two? I only how one goal has been
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  Speaker 1: a saying go since time I'm playing football. Every day,
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  Speaker 1: I try to get my best. Anything listening anything listening
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  Speaker 1: my best is a sacrifice of guift. I just I
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  Speaker 1: have to give everything I have. I'll be cheating myself
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pride on this defense. You guys want
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  Speaker 1: to get back I know, to the level where a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago you're making big splash plays and
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  Speaker 1: scoreing touchdowns and really affecting the quarterback a lot and
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  Speaker 1: doing all that. How do you guys get back to that?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a group that is poised and ready to
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  Speaker 1: do that? I know we're early in camp, but is
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  Speaker 1: that that's that's the goal. That's got to be the
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  Speaker 1: goal for this defense here this season? What are y'all seeing?
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was? I mean, don't I don't like to I'm
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  Speaker 1: not that guy. I'm not a stat guy. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a boasting bragging I'm just gonna You're gonna guarantee get
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  Speaker 1: everything I got. And I know these guys, we all
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  Speaker 1: are roithering around each other, and I know they feel
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  Speaker 1: the same way because I'm behind them and they're saying
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  Speaker 1: the same thing is just as loud. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: and there's no telling we're gonna go. I see you
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  Speaker 1: working a lot with some of the younger guys in
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  Speaker 1: this group, trying to make this team, and you're working
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  Speaker 1: on the side of individual drill where you kind of
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  Speaker 1: work on hand placement in certain drills. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: important for guys like that to hear it from a
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  Speaker 1: guy like you has been in the league for a
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  Speaker 1: long time when you were that age, first second year
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  Speaker 1: in the league. I know you were a first round pick,
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  Speaker 1: but was there somebody a vet that you kind of
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  Speaker 1: leaned on for extra stuff and and how much did
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  Speaker 1: that help you earlier in your career. I mean the
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  Speaker 1: great Cal Williams, my man ninety five Buffalo Bills. I
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  Speaker 1: mean multiple pro bowler, great family man, great great guys,
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  Speaker 1: just a good person. Um. We learned a lot playing
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  Speaker 1: with each other for seven years, seven a half years.
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  Speaker 1: We've been with a lot of us in downs, and
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  Speaker 1: he taught me a lot. He was in a year
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  Speaker 1: he was in the league six years before I was,
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  Speaker 1: and and I was with just special Johnson Dewan that
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  Speaker 1: was I had a had a great group of guys,
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  Speaker 1: Mario Williams. We all are kind of traded notes for
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  Speaker 1: all of those guys for over the years, and we're
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  Speaker 1: a lot better. I'm a lot better, and I just
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  Speaker 1: want to pass it along because I know that's how
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  Speaker 1: the game goes. It evolves. We don't get to see
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  Speaker 1: man is all. Thanks for having me, Bro, You take
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  Speaker 1: it easy.