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Fred Taylor looking for consistency against Steelers | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time down for our weekly conversation with Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. Preseason Week two, Jaguars Game
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  Speaker 1: number three, the Pittsburgh Steelers come to town, and that's
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  Speaker 1: always music to Fred Taylor's ears. I'm sure when the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers come in jap you better believe it. Man, gotta
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  Speaker 1: love this, still gotta love playing against the Steelers, no
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  Speaker 1: matter the capacity. Preseason offseason that day said we had
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  Speaker 1: to shoot up and in February, uh, mid February, Lake,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm ready to play those guys, man um.
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  Speaker 1: But realistically, you know, I'm sure these guys are ready
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  Speaker 1: to play too, because they're gonna treat this game, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: as close to a regular season game as they can
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  Speaker 1: with the amount of reps such and such that the
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  Speaker 1: Stars are able to take. So I'm looking forward to it. Fred,
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  Speaker 1: you were just up in Pittsburgh or around that area
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  Speaker 1: training camp a couple of weeks ago to visit with
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  Speaker 1: some of the Steelers on your podcast, The Pivot. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Jaguars are trying to find that organizational stability, right.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a new head coach, they've got a GM
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  Speaker 1: now in year two, they feel like they're on the
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  Speaker 1: verge of something. They gotta go prove it though, obviously
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  Speaker 1: with wins on the field. But the Steelers organization is
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  Speaker 1: the pretty much the the standard for consistency around the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They've had three head coaches over the last what fifty years.
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  Speaker 1: They don't make a lot of changes. They go win
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways over the years, and
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  Speaker 1: Mike tomlin Is is the latest example of that. When
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  Speaker 1: you were there and you saw that in person last week,
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  Speaker 1: Why is that? Why are they so consistent and so successful? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: JP man, that's I mean, the question was amazing obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and you're you hit it right on the head. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always spoke to that and I've always wanted
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  Speaker 1: that from my team, my organization, which is the jag Wars.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you know, on the flip side of of
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. You know, I think we've had multiple
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  Speaker 1: coaches and last five years, i mean ten years, we've
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  Speaker 1: had almost twice as many coaches as they had. But
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  Speaker 1: a consistency is the key, you know, It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those secret sauces and ingredients and um, you know, having
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  Speaker 1: a great organization and being successful and winning over all
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  Speaker 1: those years and their track record follows that. It also
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  Speaker 1: feels good as a former player to be able to
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  Speaker 1: when you do go back, you know, was there with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Clark, former safety for Pittsburgh. When you do go back,
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  Speaker 1: everybody embraces you. It's like just this huge reunion. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that would be different for me, you know if
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  Speaker 1: I attend the Jaguars camp or practice, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know anybody. You know, they might know me based on
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  Speaker 1: my history and what I've done and what they hear
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  Speaker 1: about me. You know, as a former player that there,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know anyone is to be you know,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you get through that part and going
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  Speaker 1: forward though, I would hope that it's the case that
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  Speaker 1: we're able to create that consistency and winning does that.
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  Speaker 1: Winning does a whole lot um. But it starts now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it starts now. You know they're planning these seeds. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully Coach Peterson's the guy that it changed that trajectory
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  Speaker 1: and the outlook of the Jaguars organization. Uh, and making
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  Speaker 1: sure that everyone that's there now will be intact many
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  Speaker 1: years to come. Fred Taylor with as Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back the Jaguars offense this week. I had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty decent outing, I would say for the starters
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  Speaker 1: last week against the Browns, and then Monday night they
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  Speaker 1: had a practice in the stadium. Look pretty good. Wednesday though,
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  Speaker 1: things didn't go so well for the offense. Interceptions, miscommunication
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  Speaker 1: in the running game, in the backfield, guys going off
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  Speaker 1: with heat related issues. It was just a rough day
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  Speaker 1: at the office. You know, as an offense, when when
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks off and just things aren't right, how do
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  Speaker 1: you bounce back out of that in training camp and
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  Speaker 1: get your feetbacks underneath you again. You just gotta go recalibrate.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta understand that it's practice. That's what it's for.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's for you to you know, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to make a ton of mistakes, but mistakes are
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. You know, sloppy player is gonna happen. But
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  Speaker 1: that's why you're there. You have film, you're able to
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  Speaker 1: go back and clean it up. You know, you gotta recalibrate.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get that stuff all clean and freshen up
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  Speaker 1: before you go out there and do the real thing.
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  Speaker 1: Even here, we're still in training camp, so those things
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  Speaker 1: are still gonna happen. I think if it were all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all perfect, you know, it wouldn't look perfect.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Maybe you can get optimistic and say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna go win every game. But that's
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  Speaker 1: just not the case. You know. I've been a part
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  Speaker 1: of some some teams in training camp where you can
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  Speaker 1: look across the fielding like, oh man, here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: But you're still optimistic because you don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: out there. You don't put the product out there that's
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  Speaker 1: not satisfactory. Uh, toil your fight through through it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather have those mistakes now and be able to
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  Speaker 1: notice them so I can clean them up. Uh. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that will give us something to learn from how
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  Speaker 1: to create a certain experience situationally, so when you when
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  Speaker 1: it happens in the game, you're able to go and
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  Speaker 1: bounce back because it's gonna happen at some point. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want it to happen where it's gonna determine the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of the game. You know, in the player too.
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  Speaker 1: So go ahead and get these young guys in the
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  Speaker 1: in the in the sense of mind, have them develop,
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  Speaker 1: help them develop the mindset that. Uh, we're gonna have setback, setbacks,
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  Speaker 1: but we got to set ourselves up, you know for
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  Speaker 1: the comeback. Uh. And that's what's going to lead to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that consistent success that they're trying to create in that environment.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US Christian Kirk should make his preseason
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  Speaker 1: debut for the Jaguars against the Steelers. Say Jones has
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  Speaker 1: had a pretty good week of work. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: two big price pre agent editions, at least a wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver and our first chance to see them together on
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  Speaker 1: the field. And I guess what do you want to
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  Speaker 1: see from the offense tonight? After week one? Last week
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  Speaker 1: against the Browns, I wanted to see where the money went.
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  Speaker 1: We need to see it. I know the fans want
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  Speaker 1: to see it. I want to see it. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad they're back. You know, you gotta get out there,
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  Speaker 1: gotta play, you know, got to create that chemistry, Gotta
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  Speaker 1: do it in game mode. You know. Hopefully these guys
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  Speaker 1: can play as a unit, is what I mean when
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  Speaker 1: I say these guys they can play multiple quarters. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just the whole communication part, JP I think is it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be vital for them, uh, for the quarterback more
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  Speaker 1: than anything, being able to make sure that they're able
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  Speaker 1: to get that from the huddle to alignment, snacking the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hearing each other's voice and command and uh
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  Speaker 1: that timing. So that's all necessary. And this is gonna be,
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  Speaker 1: as I said at the beginning, more of a game
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  Speaker 1: like like a regular season like environment to start at
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  Speaker 1: this game, because it still is just to go back
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  Speaker 1: really quickly. Still is a playing fast. Just looking at
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  Speaker 1: their practice, they're flying around, they're doing Oklahoma drill, They're
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  Speaker 1: they they are ready for this season, I believe because
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  Speaker 1: they hear the noise about their quarterback position. So their
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  Speaker 1: defenses say, no, we're gonna be all right. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure the team is okay until the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position comes along. And so it has Nigi Harris.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's like, I'm give me the ball. You
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  Speaker 1: know we're gonna be okay. So that's the mindset you have.
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  Speaker 1: They're ready to play football. They're ready for this test,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's a preseason game. They're ready. So the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars have to have that same mindset. So being able
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  Speaker 1: to get out there with all of their guys, all
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  Speaker 1: their weapons. I'm excited to see that. And from a
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  Speaker 1: defensive standpoint a week ago versus Cleveland, they started fast.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they started fast, They disrupted Cleveland's offensive front,
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  Speaker 1: was able to create some pressure early, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we need to see. The secondary played with some energy
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  Speaker 1: left by you know, Tyson Campbell. We need to see
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  Speaker 1: those guys flying around and hopefully they can continue to
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  Speaker 1: be opportunistic and creating turnovers as they did last week,
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  Speaker 1: and in recovering those turnovers and then going down from
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  Speaker 1: offensive standpoint to capitalize off those turnovers, because that's key
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  Speaker 1: to victories here in the NFL. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: see all of that. PREDI mention the defense, Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: played well, but Trayvon Walker had nine snaps in the
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  Speaker 1: game last week, and Doug Peterson said, hey, we need
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  Speaker 1: to see a little bit more of the defense. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they played well, but it's the same idea on communication
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  Speaker 1: and being out there with that starting group. You just
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  Speaker 1: need to have a little more time on task this week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they will get that. They're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: their fair share uh here in this matchup, um and one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to see what the young man can
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  Speaker 1: do for an extended period of time. And I speaking,
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking about Trayvon Walker when I say the young man.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to that. Uh, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he's looking forward to it. You know, all of those
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  Speaker 1: guys are they want to fly around. They do realize that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the prese, but it's still it's gonna be smashed mouth
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  Speaker 1: because it's the still is so I think the defense
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  Speaker 1: it's important for them to be out there so from
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  Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint too, that they're able to communicate for
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  Speaker 1: the duration while those number ones are out there, or
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  Speaker 1: the guys that they're gonna depend on the most to
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  Speaker 1: carry this season while they're out there. So um to
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  Speaker 1: be interesting to see how it goes. But I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: everybody is excited about it, and so am I