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Interview: Wide receivers coach Keenan McCardell · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jack Wards Wide Receivers coach Kingdom of Cardinal with a
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  Speaker 1: stay number seven of practice in the books. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: start with who we started talking about your guys. This
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  Speaker 1: all twentive list has become a thing. Number one came
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  Speaker 1: out today. Tony was seller your number seven. I know
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor has some issues with number two. How are
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  Speaker 1: you at number seven? Oh? I got big time issues
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  Speaker 1: for number seven. I guess they were saying eighty seven
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  Speaker 1: for number seven, and uh I got issues with that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But you know, I have to check the voters,
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  Speaker 1: who who was voting, the media that was voting that
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  Speaker 1: said I was number seven. But you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: proud to be on the list. I mean, I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: that I'm on the list. Um, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: this has been I'm a I'm a Jaguar at heart
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  Speaker 1: until I die. So, I mean, I understand, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got we had some great guys in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I am a really competitive guy. So
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like Fred, it's kind of you know, number seven.
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  Speaker 1: He was number two, so you know, and I know
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy has something to say about it too, but he
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  Speaker 1: was just being quiet. He didn't let's start talking about
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  Speaker 1: some of your guys here. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talk about D. D. Westbrook this camp, third season
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  Speaker 1: around here. Now he's making some place here in this
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  Speaker 1: practice field. But it seems like he has a little
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  Speaker 1: extra extra gear and extra motivation. I want to about him.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't he had that before, but maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: starting to really come out now in your three You know,
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  Speaker 1: what I think is things are slowing down. People are
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  Speaker 1: He's starting to understand the game a little bit, how
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  Speaker 1: it works. The speed of the game. As I said,
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  Speaker 1: it slows down for him. Now he can play fast
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  Speaker 1: and be faster than what what what people are are
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  Speaker 1: are seeing what they saw the first two years, because
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  Speaker 1: the first two years he was probably just kind of
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  Speaker 1: feeling his way through it. Now he he knows, he's
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  Speaker 1: feels he feels good about what's what's out there. So
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  Speaker 1: he's like, Okay, I can just be myself and my
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  Speaker 1: athletic ability to take over. And I'm happy to see
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  Speaker 1: that too. So um, he's he's actually doing the things
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  Speaker 1: that I want him to do. He's listening like he
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  Speaker 1: always listens, but he's listening even more. He's paying attention
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  Speaker 1: to the fine details of things, and that that's what
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  Speaker 1: happens as you get older as a vet, you start
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  Speaker 1: to listen to the fine details and not just let
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  Speaker 1: your athletic ability to take over your two for DJ
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  Speaker 1: chart the same kind of idea here. I think with
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  Speaker 1: him right that the details are starting to come around
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. He's got so much athletic ability, unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: vertical you can get down the field, the whole deal.
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  Speaker 1: How does he put that together in eleven and eleven
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  Speaker 1: stuff consistently? You know what? I just tell him to
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  Speaker 1: take it one play at a time. You can't make
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  Speaker 1: You can't make the next play until you make the
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  Speaker 1: first play. You know, you gotta you gotta make their
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  Speaker 1: first play first before you can make the next play.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I'll tell him, just zone in on the
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  Speaker 1: one play, focusing on the one play that that's called.
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  Speaker 1: And if it's to you go make your play now.
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  Speaker 1: Every time your numbers called, you do what you have
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  Speaker 1: to do to make that play. Uh. If it's if
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  Speaker 1: it's blocking, you go in and block. Give it you
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  Speaker 1: all and the best. Like I told him, your first
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  Speaker 1: year as a rookie, you wide eye. Things were just
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  Speaker 1: flying around you. Now things are slowing down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've played a lot of special teams. You see the
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  Speaker 1: speed of the game. Now when you come to the offense,
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  Speaker 1: the speed really slows down for you. And now you're
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  Speaker 1: you're ready to go. I mean, this is the year
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  Speaker 1: that we expect you to make a big, big step.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he is And he's having a really
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  Speaker 1: good camp. He's enjoying himself. Um, you know, and I
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  Speaker 1: tell him all the time, if you're not having fun,
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  Speaker 1: you're not doing well out here. Man. You gotta have fun.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta love to play the game. Kingdom card with
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  Speaker 1: a Jaguars wide receivers coach. We had Chris Connelly on
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  Speaker 1: a show yesterday, our first real true conversation with him
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  Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes or so, and you right away
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  Speaker 1: get the idea of this guy has it together and
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  Speaker 1: knows exactly what he needs to do to be a
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  Speaker 1: big time receiver in this league. How has he stepped
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  Speaker 1: into this room, a new environment and made the teammates
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  Speaker 1: around him trust him as a wide receiver? How's he done?
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  Speaker 1: You know what? You know how how Chris has done it?
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  Speaker 1: He's come out every day and worked hard and he's
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  Speaker 1: a leader. In the room. He understands every day he
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  Speaker 1: steps out on the field, it's his time to go
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  Speaker 1: out and show folks that he competes, he can, he
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  Speaker 1: works harder than the next guy, and he wants to
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  Speaker 1: outwork everybody in And you earn a lot of respect
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  Speaker 1: when you go out and work hard like that every day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not a day that he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's not out here. He's busting his butt doing the
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  Speaker 1: things that he's supposed to do and extra So I
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  Speaker 1: think those guys understand that. They see it. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times you just out work the next
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  Speaker 1: the guy in front of you. And if you worked
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  Speaker 1: the guy in the more times, y'all work the guy
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  Speaker 1: in front of you. Most of the time, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: win when when on those routes, and that's what he does.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Foles quarterback now working with the receivers. You see
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  Speaker 1: them after practice some talking about Nick Foles wants things
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  Speaker 1: a certain way, I'm sure, and receiver's gotta give it
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  Speaker 1: to him a certain way for things to really work here.
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  Speaker 1: How has that bond looked over the first week, week
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  Speaker 1: and a half of Camper That bud has been great
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  Speaker 1: because I mean Nick's Nick's a leader. He he talks
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  Speaker 1: to those guys. He gives them his input on what
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  Speaker 1: he's what he sees if they see it to see
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  Speaker 1: it the same way what he likes, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's been very good because we've been on
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  Speaker 1: the same page, we see the same coverages. And like
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  Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, if you're in the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback on the same page as a wide receiver quarterback combination,
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  Speaker 1: probably about nine of the time it's going to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: And if we can get that kind of success rate outside,
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  Speaker 1: we should have a we should have a really big,
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  Speaker 1: big year in the passing game. I think those guys
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  Speaker 1: understand that they understand that he's gonna put the ball
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  Speaker 1: where it needs to be. It's our job to go
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  Speaker 1: catch it. And you know he's gonna he's gonna put
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  Speaker 1: us in the right situation to catch the ball. So
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta trust him and go out and do it.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a couple of names of guys that maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're under the radars that you like so far. The
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  Speaker 1: first we can camp some younger players in your wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver room that that have stood out for you on tap. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know if Tyree Braids stood out very very much. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's he's come out and made plays each
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  Speaker 1: and every day training camp what he needs to do.
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  Speaker 1: I want him to continue to learn. He has expand
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  Speaker 1: his his mental aspect of the game. I think he
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  Speaker 1: has the ability to play at this level. Um I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at um Mike Walker. He's playing well. Uh Randall
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  Speaker 1: or Ralph Leonard, he's playing well. All my young guys
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  Speaker 1: are starting to understand how this game has played, how
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be played, how you have to play
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  Speaker 1: the game, you know. And I think they understand that
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  Speaker 1: every day you step out, you gotta go out and win.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta go out and win you're down, And I
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  Speaker 1: think they understand that. I love it because they love
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  Speaker 1: to compete. So those three guys, they really love to compete.
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  Speaker 1: So it'd be fun. It'd be fun to see him
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  Speaker 1: against like Baltimore and see him in the preseason games too.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for sure, Thank you,