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Press Pass | Jalen Huskey Media Zoom Call | 2026 NFL Draft · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, Jalen, how are we doing buddy?
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  Speaker 2: Amazing man? How you doing good?
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Thanks? Hey? Were you at Top Golf last night?
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  Speaker 2: I was at Top Golf last night?
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Okay? What was that a party like for you? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: It was?
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  Speaker 2: It was good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I have my closest friends and family there
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  Speaker 3: and you know, just to be able to share the
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  Speaker 3: moment with them with something that was really special to
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  Speaker 3: me and that I'm sure everybody could see the motion
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  Speaker 3: that that go that went through me last night. That's
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  Speaker 3: not something that is usually me. I'm more of a chill,
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  Speaker 3: laid back guy. But you know, when you get that
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  Speaker 3: life changing your phone call, it's it's a different different story.
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  Speaker 1: What making that transition from corner to safety?
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  Speaker 2: Why was that?
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  Speaker 1: Why were you to do that so seamlessly at Maryland?
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  Speaker 2: I think it came down to preparation.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I have an amazing, amazing coaching staff at
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  Speaker 3: Maryland and uh, you know, they helped ease that transition
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  Speaker 3: very very smoothly for me, and I put in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of a lot of work, which I continue to
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  Speaker 3: I will continue to do when I'm in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing for me, up being from Frederick, did not
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  Speaker 1: getting offer for Maryland, but then coming back as a transfer.
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  Speaker 1: How much pride are you take in sort of that
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  Speaker 1: journey that you had to go to Bowling Green to
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  Speaker 1: get back to the big ten.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of prodon that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my story is I have a hell of
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  Speaker 3: a story if you going and you do your research
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  Speaker 3: on me and what I've been through in my life.
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  Speaker 3: And I carried a tip on my shoulder everywhere I went,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, I plan on keeping it keeping it there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, real quick, where are you and where are
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  Speaker 1: you in line of the thirteen kids age wise?
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, I'm the oldest boy and I'm.
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  Speaker 3: The fifth oldest kid.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha, thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to Gary then too, d Rock Jalen, how
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  Speaker 3: you doing amazing? Man?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing pretty good? Hey? Where was the top golf? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: To golf in Germantown, Maryland? Okay, all right? Do you
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: do you play golf anyway? Or have you ever?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: I'm horrible and that was horrible when I was swinging yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, I had to try to integrate some
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  Speaker 3: type of activity, you know, last night.
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  Speaker 4: So all right, Well we got plenty of golf courses here.
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  Speaker 4: You can work on your game. And my advice is
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  Speaker 4: to look up the kickers and the long snapper. If
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  Speaker 4: you want to get somebody to help you with your game.
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  Speaker 2: That was good.
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  Speaker 3: If anybody out out there wants to help me, I
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  Speaker 3: need that help.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Jalen, do you have a preference on which defensive
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  Speaker 4: back you know? You corner safety?
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  Speaker 2: Nicol?
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  Speaker 4: Is there someplace you feel more comfortable?
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  Speaker 2: No, there's nowhere I prefer, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I just wherever I can get on the field and
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  Speaker 3: wherever I can help the team win is all that
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  Speaker 3: matters to me.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to win, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And what did you play any special teams at all Maryland?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, played a punt kickoff and a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of kick return my junior.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And so you know, the jagguerars probably going to have
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  Speaker 4: an expectation of you playing special teams. Is that something
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  Speaker 4: you also view is whatever gets you on the field, you'll.
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  Speaker 2: Do one hundred percent. You know, special teams is the
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  Speaker 2: extremely important part of the.
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  Speaker 3: Game, and I plan to try to start on all
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  Speaker 3: four special teams. I want to be I'm team first,
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  Speaker 3: through and through, So whatever the team needs me to do,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do it the best.
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  Speaker 2: Of my ability. Okay, all right, thanks Jillen, thank you, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Jalen congrass than.
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  Speaker 3: How does a defensive pack in twenty twenty five go
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  Speaker 3: an entire season without a penalty and coverage?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, it's all about It's all about preparation,
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  Speaker 3: being a little slick with your hands and staying calm
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  Speaker 3: when the ball's in the air. And you know, I
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  Speaker 3: pride myself on when the ball's in the air that
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  Speaker 3: I believe the ball's mind and uh that nobody else
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  Speaker 3: should have.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody else would catch the ball less it's me.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is that a sort of pride for you
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  Speaker 3: that you went the entire year last year without a penalty?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't even I didn't even know that,
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  Speaker 3: to be honest with you. But you know, just being
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  Speaker 3: able to play clean football is really important, and it's
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  Speaker 3: especially important in the NFL because you know, uh, those
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  Speaker 3: DPIs and the holding and the holding penalties are game
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  Speaker 3: changing penalties because they can take you all the way
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  Speaker 3: down the field.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully I'm able to continue that in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: That one more for me. Obviously.
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  Speaker 3: You you've got an amazing ability to get the football.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, is that the thing you're most proud of too?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what I think? With eleven interceptions in the
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  Speaker 2: last three years.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, uh, it's it's I would say it's second.
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  Speaker 3: I would also say my ability to be put anywhere
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  Speaker 3: and to be able to produce and play at at
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  Speaker 3: a high level is is something I really proud myself on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if if they want to kick me out
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  Speaker 3: the outside corner, I'm I'm gonna go out there and
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go compete. If if they want to put
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  Speaker 3: me in the nickel, in the slot, that's something I'm
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  Speaker 3: comfortable doing.
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  Speaker 2: And if they want to put me in the box.
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  Speaker 3: Or at of high safety, I mean, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing that I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Do at a high level. Thank you, boy, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: This will be our last two Shipley.
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  Speaker 3: Then back to o'haleran, Thank you, Jalen, congrats, thanks for
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  Speaker 3: doing this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying the kirschen staff talks about here is
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  Speaker 2: just guys who play with that edge and guys who
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  Speaker 2: play really physical.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it seems like that's a major part of
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  Speaker 4: your game, right Just you kind of thrive on that
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  Speaker 4: as well one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you don't have the edge, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how you play football.
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  Speaker 2: Man. You gotta you gotta be mean, nasty and talk
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  Speaker 2: a little bit on the field, you know. So I play, I.
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  Speaker 3: Play with a with a with a big chip on
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  Speaker 3: my shoulder, and uh, you know, anytime I want to
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  Speaker 3: feel it's super serious with me and you're gonna get
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  Speaker 3: the best out of me every single time.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Challeen. Congrats to you and your family. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much.
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  Speaker 1: Jaalen. Back to Ryan from The Times Union, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: some of the adversity. What kind of inspiration does your
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  Speaker 1: sister remain as you play football?
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  Speaker 2: A huge inspiration? You know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping that I can get on I can connect
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  Speaker 3: with Jarian so I could get figure something out with
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  Speaker 3: that number. But you know, just being able to have
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  Speaker 3: her with me on the field and wearing that twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: it is something that's extremely important to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: My family is is my rock, uh, and it means
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  Speaker 3: a lot to them to see me on the on
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  Speaker 3: the field wearing twenty two and just being able to
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  Speaker 3: go through whatever with my with my chin up, knowing
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  Speaker 3: that my family's looking at me and uh, they're depending
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  Speaker 3: on me.
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  Speaker 2: Is something that I really I really care about.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha. And last thing for me, you had that interception
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  Speaker 1: against Illinois Q walking through what the call was and
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  Speaker 1: and what your read was to close on the ball
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were in a week a week pressure fire
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  Speaker 3: zone and they had they were in a trade formation,
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  Speaker 3: so they had a nub tight end to one side
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  Speaker 3: and to the boundary, and then they had three receivers
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  Speaker 3: to the field. We had the first receiver go back
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  Speaker 3: to our third corner. I knew that if he went back,
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  Speaker 3: I could pass that back to the third corner. So
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  Speaker 3: then there were only two remaining verticals. I only have
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  Speaker 3: to hang hang on the inside most vertical, and the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback was still that that way the whole time, so
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  Speaker 3: I was able to make a play on the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha. All Right, Thanks, we'll see it a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.