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Press Pass | Mitch Morse: "You Have to Have the Locker Room Behind You" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Image. Congratulations and welcome to Jacksonville. Just why why Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: What sort of led you to this opportunity?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's kind of a slew of deals, right,
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  Speaker 2: so not only familiarity with Doug in the past that
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  Speaker 2: I've always had a keen sense of trying to get
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  Speaker 2: back to him ever since he became a head coutch.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it'd be kind of a fun deal, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the culture. I mean, we got absolutely smacked last year
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  Speaker 2: in London and then and you know, been a big
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  Speaker 2: fan of that defense for a very long time, as
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  Speaker 2: well as the offense. Of course. You know, I think
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  Speaker 2: this league is a quarterback driven league, and to win
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  Speaker 2: in this league you have to have a quarterback with
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  Speaker 2: the tangibles and the intangibles, and I think Trevor kind
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  Speaker 2: of embodies both of those things. So that and I
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  Speaker 2: mean the sunshine doesn't hurt, right, like being able to
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  Speaker 2: to get the joint sleupe up a little bit and
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  Speaker 2: feel my fingers in the November of December. But that's
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  Speaker 2: not to say that I didn't enjoyed my time in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was it was home for so many years.
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  Speaker 2: But the only thing I have to say is that
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  Speaker 2: it's a little warmer here that we're looking forward.
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  Speaker 1: To that awesome And just last thing for me, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you worked with a with a couple of very young quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes in his second year, really first first year starting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen his his his second year.
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  Speaker 2: Just what did you.
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  Speaker 1: Learn from working with those young guys and what can
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  Speaker 1: you sort of take from that and sort of use
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  Speaker 1: it to work with Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to sit here and say like
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  Speaker 2: I coached these dudes up. They were on a trajectory
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  Speaker 2: to be fantastic without me. The one thing I pride
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  Speaker 2: myself on it facilitating facilitating football for them anyway that
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  Speaker 2: I can, right like so, and that's for the team
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  Speaker 2: in general, offensive line round, whatever is required of me,
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  Speaker 2: we do. But I think what I did learn in
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  Speaker 2: those rooms is you have to have the locker room
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  Speaker 2: behind you, right and from all intents and purposes, what
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  Speaker 2: I've heard is that Trevor is the got you figure
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  Speaker 2: on the pulse and the locker round. The guy's jam on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, him being the quarterback. And it was a
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  Speaker 2: long one and answered, but it's it's a tough one
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  Speaker 2: because I feel like I really didn't play much of
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  Speaker 2: a role any of those guys development. I was just
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  Speaker 2: here to help the sole table was already gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Mitch, congratulations, What are this shocked you or blindside
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  Speaker 3: you a little bit? The Bill's decision given you know
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  Speaker 3: you coming off two years ago pro Bowler played all
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  Speaker 3: set started all seventeen games last year.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I understood where they were in the
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  Speaker 2: cap and we had a you know, I had a
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  Speaker 2: very candid conversation with Brandon being GM at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season. So you know, you're always hopeful that
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  Speaker 2: you're you're still a part of you know, where he'd
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  Speaker 2: been for so many years. You feel like you're you
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  Speaker 2: got something going on. So like the whenever you get
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  Speaker 2: the personal and the business mixed up is when you
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  Speaker 2: get in trouble. And the best teams, I truly do believe,
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  Speaker 2: are the ones they get toke the line perfectly on
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  Speaker 2: like football, trying to build a family environment that you
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  Speaker 2: have to but also understand that inherently this is a business,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, the personal side of it definitely hurt.
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  Speaker 2: The business side makes sense, you know, it'll be home
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  Speaker 2: for me and my family. We spent five great years there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, sign marches on and it happened quickly,
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  Speaker 2: like you see, and we're so excited to be not
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  Speaker 2: only a part of this organization but to kind of
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  Speaker 2: immerse ourselves into the Jackson Larry.
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  Speaker 3: When one team says, you know, we don't no longer
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  Speaker 3: want your services, is it nice to have? I think
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  Speaker 3: two other teams lined up immediately to sign, and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, jacksonvill doesn't let you leave the building.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, yeah, I mean it's it's definitely better than the alternative,
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  Speaker 2: which is your way to run out and you figure
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  Speaker 2: out no one wants you. Yes. To answer your question,
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  Speaker 2: it happened quickly. It was a hailstorm, to say the least,
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  Speaker 2: but it was a blessing and a privilege. And my
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  Speaker 2: wife and I feel the same way. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: great question. And absolutely we're glad we wrap this up
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  Speaker 2: within a week.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna go to Hayes and then Jamal.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mitch, congratulations and welcome to Jacksonville. In regards to
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  Speaker 5: Doug Peterson, how well do you think you fit within
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  Speaker 5: his scheme and why do you think you fit so
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  Speaker 5: well within Doug's offensive structure.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, I mean just dug me in my OSC
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  Speaker 2: my rookie year. More than anything, it was just I
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  Speaker 2: knew that style of football. It's familiar with me. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great question. It definitely played a role in kind
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  Speaker 2: of here, but I don't know how much its evolved
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  Speaker 2: since it's been nine years, right, So we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: I think for me whatevers. And I know this is
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  Speaker 2: a cliche answer and you're trying to get some like
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  Speaker 2: some real scoop and I understand that, but the truth matters.
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  Speaker 2: I don't totally know, and I'm really looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: kind of figuring that out. I don't fly, but as
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  Speaker 2: we go, and hopefully I'll have an answer for you
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  Speaker 2: by any of the dots.
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  Speaker 4: Cool, thanks Mitch.
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  Speaker 6: Any guys, and it's congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, what do you consider like the strength of your game?
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  Speaker 6: How do you think you can fit into that Jaguars
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  Speaker 6: offensive line?
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  Speaker 2: How are you driving? M sweet looking in the ride
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  Speaker 2: here in now? I appreciate it. Well, how do I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I could fit into the run game you said?
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  Speaker 4: And just the offensive line room in general?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that I could probably answer that better, you know, you.
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  Speaker 2: You try to immerse yourself fully within the group, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: the last thing you want in any team or any
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  Speaker 2: fast of the life you've been around is someone coming
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  Speaker 2: in and talking like they've been there for years and
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  Speaker 2: having some raw rod deal and immediately it's for the birds, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: you're not into it for me. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 2: have a relationship with with these guys, and inherently there's
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  Speaker 2: what fourteen or fifteen dudes in there right now, and
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  Speaker 2: the oca's and such. You just try to have a
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  Speaker 2: certain relationship that aligns with their personality, and sometimes you gotta.
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  Speaker 2: It just takes time, and I'm looking forward to taking
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  Speaker 2: that time, getting out of these guys and hopefully helping
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  Speaker 2: them any way I can. Sorry, sman, Oh.
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  Speaker 4: No, that works. That's perfect appreciated.
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  Speaker 7: Man.
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  Speaker 4: All right, We're going to go to John Shipley and
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  Speaker 4: then d Rock.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Mitch, congratulations, welcome to Jacksonville. I know you and
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  Speaker 6: Brandon Sheriff came out the same year. Gonna be your
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  Speaker 6: first time playing next to them, you have any kind
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  Speaker 6: of relationship with him, and if so, just how excited
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  Speaker 6: are you to kind of be playing next to him
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  Speaker 6: for the first time?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yes, we do have a relationship. Super excited right, like,
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  Speaker 2: so he was the pinnacle of that class in the
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  Speaker 2: office line in twenty fifteen. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you've seen his college highlights, but they're about as
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  Speaker 2: gnarly as I've ever seen. We're all come out seeing
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  Speaker 2: this dude, and he's just a country dude that likes
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  Speaker 2: to play football, hang out, spend time with his family
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  Speaker 2: and friends and like, and I get behind that. So
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  Speaker 2: I've been a fan of this for a very long time.
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  Speaker 2: He's been playing at a very high level. I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to be in the same office line and as him
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  Speaker 2: that shoot the fat and just you know, hopefully be
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  Speaker 2: friends and then see where that takes his football.
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  Speaker 6: Bas great mentioned and just one more for me, you know,
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  Speaker 6: being there starting your contract and everything, what are your
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  Speaker 6: impressions of just the facilities and everything in Jacksville, just
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  Speaker 6: considering it's new and you're one of like the first
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  Speaker 6: outside free agentsies kind of come inside and see it.
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  Speaker 2: It was sweet. I mean, it's I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: some labory thing. It is awesome. It is just it
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  Speaker 2: is everything you want as a player to facilitate your
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  Speaker 2: best football and I think that's what they played. They
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  Speaker 2: designed it for helping you be the best version of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate Mitch.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Mitch, Welcome to Jacks. You mentioned Doug Peterson a
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  Speaker 8: couple of times. What was it about that first year
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  Speaker 8: you had with him that sort of, you know, impressed
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  Speaker 8: you so much and why you wanted to kind of
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  Speaker 8: get back with him? What if you just expand on that, please, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. Why as a rookie, you're just
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep your head above water, right, So part
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  Speaker 2: of that is just trying not you're trying to survive.
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  Speaker 2: You and you know you you learn to play football
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  Speaker 2: through trial by fire, so they're throwing you into the
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  Speaker 2: ring with the big guys for the first time, and
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  Speaker 2: then you're trying to develop. The one thing I do
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  Speaker 2: remember about Doug were was actually less best coaching, more
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  Speaker 2: about his personality. Like he's a he's not only as
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  Speaker 2: you're not afraid of cannon conversation. He's easy to talk,
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  Speaker 2: so he's the same person on and off the field.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a good man. And I think what that
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  Speaker 2: usually does is good dudes are good people usually lead
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  Speaker 2: to good football players. And Oh's not exclusively, right, but
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  Speaker 2: good football payers and coaches and what you want to coach, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like you have good xces to those, but what's going
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  Speaker 2: to be like on game day. I've been very fortunate
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  Speaker 2: to these last few teams and beyond half good coaches
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  Speaker 2: that are steady presences don't really ride the waves, the
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  Speaker 2: edge and flows, which is the NFL. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: do in such an emotionally charged business. So I just
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  Speaker 2: remember him more as a person than as like an
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  Speaker 2: excess and those kind of people. So I'm really looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to get it back and working with them.
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  Speaker 8: Can you talk about the delicate balance of being someone
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  Speaker 8: coming in to replace sort of a two year starter
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  Speaker 8: in Luke Fortner and how that you know, the awkwardness
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  Speaker 8: that can sometimes create.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen for me when it comes to the little
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  Speaker 2: We're April fifteenth and thirteenth, Like, I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 2: be a good teammate in this offensive line room. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Luke and I chatted, and I'm just looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: competing and growing with him. Like I think that's that's
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  Speaker 2: what football is all about, right, Like It's about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: no matter where you are in your career, growing and
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  Speaker 2: being a better professional and learning how to take your
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  Speaker 2: game to the next level. So you know, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what happens, how that works out. Like for me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to be a resource for him. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a resource for me, and we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: see how it plays out. But hopefully, first and foremost,
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  Speaker 2: just make a good relationship in this offensive line room.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing I want to do is polarize anything. Thanks,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it now, you bet.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we have time for one more. We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: go ahead and end with Mia.
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  Speaker 7: And it's nice to meet you. Welcome to Jack's, hopefully
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  Speaker 7: you can hear me. Welcome to the Players Championship media.
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  Speaker 4: Room as well.
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  Speaker 7: So we're we're throwing you right, We're throwing you right
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  Speaker 7: into the mix, building off of d Rocks question, your
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  Speaker 7: conversations with Luke on Saturday, other people you may have
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  Speaker 7: met with, as well as your conversations with Doug regarding
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  Speaker 7: where the offense may have gone wrong last year and
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  Speaker 7: how he may be more hands on this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to be honest, it's so much has happened in
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  Speaker 2: ninety six hours. A lot has been not discussed yet, right,
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  Speaker 2: So I just know the bones that this team has
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  Speaker 2: the players, it has the offensive lineery I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: to kind of allude earlier, Brandon and I do have
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  Speaker 2: sure and I do have a very good relationship. It's
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  Speaker 2: been more in passing over the years, but we share
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  Speaker 2: a lot of mutual, very good friends, so we've been
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  Speaker 2: in finus. So that's a great question, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like i'd be more apt to answer it much like
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  Speaker 2: any other ones later in OTAs to answer the first
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  Speaker 2: part of that question, I've talked to a few guys
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  Speaker 2: in the team, Luke being one of them, and it
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  Speaker 2: was all it was all positive, it was all great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Luke was the first one to reach out
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  Speaker 2: to me, and I thought that was really cool. And
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  Speaker 2: it's something that I don't take lightly because I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: it is them hard, right.
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  Speaker 8: So.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, Like I said before them, we're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: be the best versions of ourselves and trying to put
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  Speaker 2: the best product out here on Sunday, no matter who's
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  Speaker 2: out there. So the great thing is we don't play
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  Speaker 2: next week and look forward to just building relationships and
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  Speaker 2: being good guys to push ourselves to This is all
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  Speaker 2: cliche coach talk, but it's a truery, right, Like, we
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  Speaker 2: just try to be the best versions of ourselves and
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  Speaker 2: put something out there.