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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, so stand ram only crowd at the bank
- 0:03Speaker 1: for Monday night.
- 0:04Speaker 2: I mean, how big can that be for the team?
- 0:06Speaker 3: Huge?
- 0:07Speaker 1: You know, like I said, the guys have worked their
- 0:10Speaker 1: tails off, you know since really we got here, right,
- 0:14Speaker 1: these guys have done everything we've asked them to do
- 0:16Speaker 1: from that standpoint, and to have the support of the
- 0:19Speaker 1: community at the game making it as loud as humanly
- 0:23Speaker 1: possible will be awesome. I mean it's just a great
- 0:25Speaker 1: op for our city, for for our organization for sure.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Two days of practice.
- 0:30Speaker 3: What have you seen from the guys in the position
- 0:32Speaker 3: group without a yeah, I think those guys know they
- 0:34Speaker 3: may have to step up.
- 0:35Speaker 1: You know, there's multiple guys that have played in those
- 0:39Speaker 1: opportunities within the flow of games, a guy like you know,
- 0:43Speaker 1: Dennis Gard that continues to play better as well, AGBA Smooth.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Those guys have all done a nice job. Bj Green
- 0:50Speaker 1: got going a little bit last week. So it'll be
- 0:53Speaker 1: a little bit by committee, But I have a lot
- 0:55Speaker 1: of faith in those guys up front. You guys, Yeah,
- 1:00Speaker 1: a ton he's getting I think he's getting more and
- 1:03Speaker 1: more comfortable each week, and within obviously himself and within
- 1:07Speaker 1: the system and playing with those guys playing the style
- 1:11Speaker 1: of football that that ultimately would like to be able
- 1:13Speaker 1: to play and making making some plays. I mean his
- 1:16Speaker 1: energy and all that we've all been appreciative of of.
- 1:19Speaker 1: But he's also made some plays for us, and you.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Know, I think the guys really like him most likely
- 1:26Speaker 3: trade two days.
- 1:29Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna go right down to the wire
- 1:31Speaker 1: with it.
- 1:31Speaker 3: We will, you know.
- 1:32Speaker 1: I mean, it's just as much as he can, you know,
- 1:36Speaker 1: keep getting the swell and all that stuff. It's just
- 1:38Speaker 1: a matter of that. So I trust that if he's
- 1:42Speaker 1: if he says he can go, then you know, we'll go.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Really good for us.
- 1:47Speaker 3: So far as you're how you playing for a guy
- 1:49Speaker 3: at Chris.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Jones, Yeah, you've really got to be cognizant of him
- 1:53Speaker 1: with the slide first and foremost, and then you know,
- 1:57Speaker 1: helping each other out right, like if you have no
- 2:00Speaker 1: nobody to block him your moment. Let's maybe take a
- 2:02Speaker 1: look at where ninety five is tight ends running backs.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Everybody has to be involved and not that the quarterback
- 2:09Speaker 1: needs to think about that. That's more so just the
- 2:12Speaker 1: way we try to get the ball spit. It's a
- 2:15Speaker 1: little different with the way that they play on the
- 2:18Speaker 1: back end is very sticky, like there's not a hitch
- 2:22Speaker 1: on the field to throw, there's no free access, there's
- 2:25Speaker 1: no get out of jail man. Let me just go
- 2:28Speaker 1: get a completion, take a deep breath, and throw a omaha.
- 2:32Speaker 1: That those don't exist on the field. So we've got
- 2:36Speaker 1: to be great with our DTA decision timing, accuracy, receivers,
- 2:41Speaker 1: getting off press. That also helps impact and effect ninety five.
- 2:46Speaker 3: Always important, But is it more important in the game
- 2:48Speaker 3: like this. Maybe Jesus off that's off the field too.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:52Speaker 1: They want every opportunity they can get to get a possession, right,
- 2:57Speaker 1: especially end a half. You really look at how aggressive
- 3:00Speaker 1: they are using time outs and trying to get the
- 3:03Speaker 1: ball back to their offense, regardless of how much time's left.
- 3:06Speaker 1: So definitely want to be able to control it if
- 3:10Speaker 1: we can, that's the goal. More ops we can have offensively,
- 3:15Speaker 1: to keep the ground game going, to keep the balance going.
- 3:19Speaker 1: That will definitely help us out in a game.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Like this, doing a good job walking a lot, or
- 3:24Speaker 2: taking shots whether they're and then checking down when they
- 3:28Speaker 2: or not, or there's some shots that he's missed, and
- 3:30Speaker 2: then you know you want to take more.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Yeah, there's that fine line of making sure that we're
- 3:36Speaker 1: being obviously smart with the football, but you know, taking
- 3:40Speaker 1: advantage of some of the ops down the field that
- 3:42Speaker 1: maybe we've you know, we've missed right now, and that's
- 3:45Speaker 1: just seeing some of the concepts and being a little
- 3:48Speaker 1: bit more aggressive with some of the mentality, which I
- 3:52Speaker 1: think he's done a nice job of taking the underneath
- 3:55Speaker 1: and we've converted a lot. Now it's like, okay, let's
- 3:58Speaker 1: go take some of those opportunities. Let's let our guys
- 4:01Speaker 1: go make, you know, potentially make some plays down the field,
- 4:05Speaker 1: especially because we're gonna have to beat them. Like I said,
- 4:08Speaker 1: there's no hitches, so there's very little that can exist
- 4:13Speaker 1: outside the numbers within five yards, so it's got you.
- 4:18Speaker 1: We got to get it in the holes back here
- 4:21Speaker 1: the middle and a little bit further down the field.
- 4:24Speaker 3: They do play a lot of too high cover two.
- 4:28Speaker 1: So but they mix it with man so you can
- 4:30Speaker 1: get some runaways and try to push the ball a
- 4:33Speaker 1: little bit more towards that twenty twenty five thirty yard range.
- 4:37Speaker 1: We're going to need to do that to be able
- 4:39Speaker 1: to say like our guys can go by you. You
- 4:42Speaker 1: you have to be threatened by this and not just
- 4:44Speaker 1: load up and say everything is going to be caught
- 4:47Speaker 1: twenty yards within.
- 4:49Speaker 3: So yeah, big week for that.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Well question, but you're you're not a quarterback arm band guy.
- 4:55Speaker 1: No, I mean we talked to them about it, you know,
- 4:59Speaker 1: we've we've asked him if he's wanted to use it,
- 5:02Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to use it right now. He
- 5:04Speaker 1: just feels like it's helping him, even though there's been
- 5:07Speaker 1: some issues with motion personnel. Whatever it is, it's a
- 5:12Speaker 1: process and we have to clean that process up as coaches.
- 5:15Speaker 3: For sure.
- 5:15Speaker 1: The players have an accountability to it, but it's on
- 5:18Speaker 1: us as coaches to make sure we're not putting too
- 5:20Speaker 1: much on their plate. And he feels like when he
- 5:22Speaker 1: hears it, he starts to visualize it better than hearing
- 5:27Speaker 1: wristband fifteen. You have no idea what that play is,
- 5:30Speaker 1: and the first time you're starting to visualize it is
- 5:33Speaker 1: when you're reading it off the wristband of the players.
- 5:36Speaker 3: So now you're going, all.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Right, is hemota south right, close deft shore seventeen tiffins
- 5:40Speaker 1: or can't sixteen six? And then you got to go
- 5:43Speaker 1: break the huddle and process that as opposed to hearing
- 5:46Speaker 1: it while he's outside the huddle. Now he can start
- 5:49Speaker 1: to visualize it. He says it one more time, he's
- 5:52Speaker 1: then again visualizing what he has to do. That's kind
- 5:55Speaker 1: of been the process, and hopefully we can clean a
- 5:57Speaker 1: lot of that up because that has been something we
- 6:00Speaker 1: struggled with.
- 6:01Speaker 3: And no, no, not against at all.
- 6:05Speaker 1: I did it all at Kentucky. That was how we
- 6:08Speaker 1: called plays. It was all off ristpan, So I'm not
- 6:10Speaker 1: against it by any means. Yeah, it's that's been more
- 6:13Speaker 1: of a collaboration decision between all of us. A couple
- 6:18Speaker 1: of weeks played about as physical as we've seen around
- 6:20Speaker 1: here in a while. Is there another level to that
- 6:23Speaker 1: for you guys, or do you think it's more about
- 6:26Speaker 1: sustaining the way you played in the last couple of weeks
- 6:29Speaker 1: in that department.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I think that's you know, likely to be the case.
- 6:33Speaker 1: I mean, they are playing very violent, like the strain
- 6:36Speaker 1: and finish is not really something we're pointing out on
- 6:40Speaker 1: our film on a weekly basis.
- 6:42Speaker 3: That isn't showing up right.
- 6:44Speaker 1: We don't have a ton of guys being graded for
- 6:47Speaker 1: loafs on the field, So it's this part that we
- 6:50Speaker 1: need to continue to take the next step. And I'm
- 6:53Speaker 1: not saying we can take a dip in terms of
- 6:56Speaker 1: the way that we play the game the violence to finish,
- 6:58Speaker 1: the strain, but I think you clean up some of
- 7:02Speaker 1: the pre snap stuff, you clean up some of the
- 7:05Speaker 1: communication in all three phases, and now we can just
- 7:08Speaker 1: go and not hurt ourselves and try to really go
- 7:11Speaker 1: focus on beating the opponent with that violence, physicality, toughness,
- 7:16Speaker 1: strain and finish that we've been playing with.
- 7:19Speaker 2: He's kind of in a new role on the older
- 7:21Speaker 2: guy's U room.
- 7:22Speaker 3: Have you kind of seen him embrace just setting him
- 7:24Speaker 3: as a leader, then, yeah, I think it was.
- 7:27Speaker 1: It was obviously missing missed having him this past weekend,
- 7:30Speaker 1: but I thought he was great on the sidelines with
- 7:33Speaker 1: the guys, communicating what was being seen out there, talking.
- 7:37Speaker 3: Them through it. You know.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Obviously when we did hit some negative stretches there, I
- 7:42Speaker 1: know he was on the sidelines with those guys, trying
- 7:44Speaker 1: to just be as present as he could be. You know,
- 7:49Speaker 1: Deanmi has in so many ways I think impacted the
- 7:52Speaker 1: room where you know he's he's always been since we
- 7:55Speaker 1: got here at six am. Get in do his weights, rehab,
- 8:01Speaker 1: prehab treatment, like he's you know, all last week getting
- 8:05Speaker 1: ready to go play with that shoulder. I mean, Ferg
- 8:07Speaker 1: was saying he did everything in his power.
- 8:09Speaker 3: He wanted to.
- 8:10Speaker 1: Play it so so badly, he did everything he lived here.
- 8:13Speaker 1: So that's a great thing for those guys to be
- 8:16Speaker 1: able to continue to feed off each other with.
- 8:19Speaker 3: So, yeah, he's been great. A lot of this guy
- 8:22Speaker 3: kind of played with a chip on the shoulder. Feels
- 8:25Speaker 3: like that. It's kind of the mentality that seems taking
- 8:27Speaker 3: off group. Everybody on throw the helots for the game
- 8:29Speaker 3: like this, You're going against the Chiefs Sunday night football.
- 8:32Speaker 1: A lot of people outside of Jacksonville probably don lean
- 8:35Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, yeah, I think that's definitely become a
- 8:38Speaker 1: little bit part of of who we are.
- 8:41Speaker 3: Look to gain and earn respect. You have to go
- 8:45Speaker 3: take it and we can do.
- 8:47Speaker 1: You know, there's just not much you can say besides
- 8:50Speaker 1: your tape being your resume and you know, earning respect
- 8:54Speaker 1: obviously in the way that we play, in the style
- 8:57Speaker 1: in which we want to play the game with. But
- 8:59Speaker 1: all you know, win winning, right, winning going and taking
- 9:02Speaker 1: wins is also really important. So you know, I think
- 9:08Speaker 1: that these guys are are confident but also understand that
- 9:13Speaker 1: you know we have a great opponent coming in, but
- 9:15Speaker 1: this is truly about us. Let's go take the next
- 9:17Speaker 1: step as a team and see what happens.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Coach, thank you great