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Press Pass | Travis Etienne Jr. on 1-2 Punch with Tank, Offensive Line Play · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 2: Travis. You you've kind of dealt with the shoulder injury
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of weeks. I'm just curious how you
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  Speaker 2: feel from that and if it's limiting you in any way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm feeling good. I feel like I just
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  Speaker 1: got to just find ways to continue to push through
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  Speaker 1: the game, you know, just continue like be a spark
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  Speaker 1: for the team, and I just go out there and
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  Speaker 1: make players and get the opportunity to and not really
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  Speaker 1: worry about it. Just understand that I got a job
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  Speaker 1: to dude. I'm trying to go out there and get
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  Speaker 1: get a win for the team, So just continue to
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  Speaker 1: push through.
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  Speaker 2: For real, do you feel like it's it's it's taken
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  Speaker 2: away your plays or or anything like that. You sat
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  Speaker 2: out a few in the last game.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I feel it's like a play by
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  Speaker 1: play type situation. You know, It's just like it comes
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  Speaker 1: and goes. So I feel like I just gotta just
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  Speaker 1: find a way to just continue to get healthy. And
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that just uh do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: my preparations throughout the week to give my body in
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  Speaker 1: the best position that I can be for Sunday so
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  Speaker 1: I can go out there and be on the field
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  Speaker 1: for the team.
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  Speaker 2: And last thing for me, just how has it been
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  Speaker 2: just having you and Tank as sort of like a
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  Speaker 2: one to two punt tract. How important has that been
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  Speaker 2: to the offense?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, have been very important. I feel like that that's
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  Speaker 1: been a bright spot for the team. Just a weekend
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  Speaker 1: and week out, just to go out there and have
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  Speaker 1: two guys. Whenever the second guy come in, there's no
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  Speaker 1: drop off, and I feel like that's is going to help.
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  Speaker 1: You can see the elevate our of offense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I kind of put pressure on the defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: because now you got to worry about both of us.
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  Speaker 1: It's no drop off and it gets the other guys
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  Speaker 1: around us open. And I feel like we kind of
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  Speaker 1: have that. We're both great, so we both have different
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  Speaker 1: styles of running, so we coming with each other. And
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  Speaker 1: I really love what team's been doing out there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, We're gonna go to John Shipley
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  Speaker 2: and then mia Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Tank, thanks for doing That's just what have you really
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  Speaker 1: seen from the Chicago Bears defense?
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  Speaker 2: Really on tape? It seems like since the point last
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  Speaker 2: year they've kind of been on top of step.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean I feel like you
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  Speaker 1: got you got a mindsett sweat out there. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we've got to be dialaging for him. We can't
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  Speaker 1: let him break the game. And they got a great
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  Speaker 1: corner out there, you know, just really just just be
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  Speaker 1: on a high alert for what he is at all times.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that the backers are are Loan physical guys,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to kind of just run through and
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  Speaker 1: finish with our pass and just put pressure on enough
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  Speaker 1: for four quarters and make them may toples the whole game.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks v hey s, Trev. I appreciate you doing this.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we've asked the offensive line about you
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  Speaker 3: and Tank, but we haven't asked you guys as much
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  Speaker 3: about the offensive line. What have you seen from them
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  Speaker 3: over the last two weeks that, at least from I
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  Speaker 3: think outside perspective, has looked like their two best games
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  Speaker 3: so far this year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just the brotherhood, just the camaraderie that they have.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we all playing for the love of
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  Speaker 1: each other. We all plan for the guy next to us,
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  Speaker 1: and now I feel like, as long as we just
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  Speaker 1: continue to go out there and just play for each other,
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  Speaker 1: we want to be great. And you just kind of
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  Speaker 1: see the con neuter that got going on, and just
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  Speaker 1: the camaraderie they have, and I feel like des propelling
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  Speaker 1: us to have great games.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, for you, you know you're gonna do what the
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  Speaker 3: team asks you to do. But where would you compare
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  Speaker 3: the commitment to running the ball, the emphasis on running
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  Speaker 3: the ball so far through these last few weeks comparatively
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  Speaker 3: to your previous years in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, honestly about the same. I feel like, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the numbers we it depends on how the
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  Speaker 1: game goes, honestly, and I feel like we have to
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  Speaker 1: kind of just put that in perspective. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we haven't ran as much as we like to, but
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we have been running a little more,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like as long as we keep staying
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  Speaker 1: above the change and keep keep moving the ball, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that's what we be able to get more
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  Speaker 1: runs called