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Press Pass | Walker, Miller & Coen Recap Season Opener Performance vs. Browns · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go downstairs. Bucky Brooks has Trayvon Walker.
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  Speaker 2: You see who he pulled it out on, though.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, here we're with Trayvon. Trayvon, great effort today being
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  Speaker 1: able to knock out the Cleveland Browns. What went into
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  Speaker 1: you guys playing so well?
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  Speaker 3: Man, it was just obviously the first game. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: play our preseason, so it was just something that we
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  Speaker 3: was all ready to get to playing with each other again.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that was really all it was. We've
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  Speaker 3: been working hard throughout the OTAs and then to camp,
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  Speaker 3: and now we're finally in the season, so everything's starting
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  Speaker 3: to come to fruition.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny because you won a lot of games
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  Speaker 1: in college. Today, being on the sideline, it was like
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  Speaker 1: the expectation was to do what exactly took place. Have
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  Speaker 1: you felt the team kind of transform into a team
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  Speaker 1: that not only believes they can win but expects to win?
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  Speaker 3: Definitely. Like you said, the key word you just said
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  Speaker 3: was expect. We definitely expect to win every game. That's
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  Speaker 3: our main goal. So that's something we kind of set
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  Speaker 3: a high standard for ourselves, even though everybody else, no
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  Speaker 3: matter what the expectations that everybody else have for us,
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  Speaker 3: that's the expectation that we set for ourselves. Last year,
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  Speaker 3: we don't like to talk about last year a lot,
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  Speaker 3: but that was a building block for us last year.
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  Speaker 3: We just want to continuously grow from last year, obviously
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  Speaker 3: this game, and now we just want to keep going 1%
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  Speaker 3: every week.
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  Speaker 1: Watching the defense from the sideline, the physicality, I could
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  Speaker 1: feel it. You know, and I know Coach Campanelli talks
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  Speaker 1: about the human element to the game and knocking people
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  Speaker 1: out and being violent and those things. Is it contagious
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  Speaker 1: when you can feel the big hits begin to come?
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  Speaker 3: 100%. It brings energy not only to the defense, but
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  Speaker 3: that brings energy to the offensive side of the ball
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  Speaker 3: and that brings energy to the special teams. So, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you want to get those hats and hands. You hear
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  Speaker 3: little things like that, hats and hands. You want to
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  Speaker 3: celebrate with your teammates. Obviously, that brings everybody else along
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  Speaker 3: with you. You might be the one making the play,
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  Speaker 3: but everybody else is excited for you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one of the things that has been a theme
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  Speaker 1: recently for the team is turning the ball over, being
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  Speaker 1: able to get takeaways, and it's collective effort. It's the
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  Speaker 1: pass rush. It's stopping the run. It's getting plays. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about how you guys have continued to pick up where
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  Speaker 1: you left off last year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, that's just one of those things. We always
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  Speaker 3: talk about takeaways. Everybody just has to do that 1-11.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like if everybody's doing that 1-11, running to
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  Speaker 3: the ball, I always say that if you're running to
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  Speaker 3: the ball, God wants that run to the ball. And
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  Speaker 3: it definitely shows up on tape, and we just got
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  Speaker 3: to continuously keep doing that. Everybody keep doing that 111 thing.
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  Speaker 3: We'll keep getting takeaways, and we'll keep doing what we're
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  Speaker 3: supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man. We got a big one next week.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are going to talk about going
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  Speaker 1: to Denver. How do you guys build off of this
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  Speaker 1: to get ready for a big week, too?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, we'll go in tomorrow, and we'll go, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: clean up the little small things that we need to
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  Speaker 3: get corrected from this game, and then we just want
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  Speaker 3: to continuously grow on our plan. We're not really, like,
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  Speaker 3: That's the opponent that we're going to play, but we're
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  Speaker 3: more so focused on ourselves, the areas that we can
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  Speaker 3: improve going into this game next week.
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  Speaker 1: Look, man, we're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And let's head to the Everbank vault. Bucky Brooks has
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  Speaker 1: Ventrell Miller. Bucky Brooks, take it away. Ventrell, great game
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  Speaker 1: by this team, by this defense. Talk about the effort today.
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  Speaker 4: Like we say, just the defensive philosophy, just coming out
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  Speaker 4: trying to start the run, limit big plays and create takeaways.
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  Speaker 4: And we did a good job with that, but we
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  Speaker 4: continue to build each and every week. So I think
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  Speaker 4: it was a good.
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  Speaker 1: Start, good debut. But one thing I know about playing
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  Speaker 1: on great defense, there's always someone that's the tone setter.
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  Speaker 1: Someone has to deliver that first big hit. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: like early in the game, you guys were knocking them off.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the physicality of this defense.
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  Speaker 4: Most definitely. That's the mentality that we have on defense.
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  Speaker 4: Out physically, everybody we play, whether that's up front, secondaries,
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  Speaker 4: cornerbacks coming to tackle, linebackers hitting, attacking blocks. So that's
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  Speaker 4: just the mentality of the whole defense.
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  Speaker 1: It's not only the mentality of the defense to be
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  Speaker 1: more physical, but you guys take the ball away at
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  Speaker 1: a great rate. Stop the run. Force from the past,
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  Speaker 1: get after the thing. Just talk about what was working today.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a lot easier when you got some
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  Speaker 4: dogs up front working, taking care of those guys up
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  Speaker 4: front so the linebackers can flow around a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know. Like you said, just out competing
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  Speaker 4: to everybody. That's the mindset. Competing, trying to not stand blocked,
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  Speaker 4: getting off blocks. And, yeah, that's still the result.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Cam says good things happen when you
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  Speaker 1: guys run to the ball. You certainly would run into
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  Speaker 1: the ball. But let's go on the other side because
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to play defense when it's a tough game,
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  Speaker 1: but when you're watching the offense go up and down
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  Speaker 1: the field, what kind of energy does that bring to
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  Speaker 1: the defense to go out and know the offense can
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  Speaker 1: put points up?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely helps the defense. It brings that motivation to
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  Speaker 4: the defense to go back out there and get the
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  Speaker 4: offense the ball back.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, they've been doing good.
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  Speaker 4: So just try to keep feeding the offense the ball because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they do good things with it when they
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  Speaker 4: have it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got the Broncos coming up. Next week,
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  Speaker 1: got to go on the road. How do we build
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  Speaker 1: on this for next week? I think it just starts
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  Speaker 1: at practice.
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  Speaker 4: Coming out, having the right mindset at practice, seeing the
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  Speaker 4: looks that we're going to get and continue to get better,
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  Speaker 4: correct the things that we made mistakes on and continue
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  Speaker 4: to grow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, man, we're looking forward to next week. Good
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  Speaker 1: luck next week. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go back downstairs to the Everbank vault.
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  Speaker 1: The head coach is with Bucky Brooks. Coach, comments on
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  Speaker 1: a great win, solid win week one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good team win.
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  Speaker 5: I think when you see the amount of guys that
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  Speaker 5: caught balls today, caught touchdowns today, were involved in the win,
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  Speaker 5: specifically on the offensive side of the ball, and then
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  Speaker 5: on defense, I thought we really played well. You know,
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  Speaker 5: only really gave up the three points when they had
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  Speaker 5: the short field on the kickoff return, and then the
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  Speaker 5: garbage time touchdown that we obviously don't want to have.
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  Speaker 5: It's something we would love to clean up, but I
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  Speaker 5: thought our defense flew around. They were banging. They were
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  Speaker 5: hitting hard. We were getting off blocks. We were attacking
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  Speaker 5: the football. And then I think we were solid in
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  Speaker 5: the kicking game. Some things, obviously, on kickoff that we
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  Speaker 5: need to continue to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: Offensively, there's a saying, look, the ball will find the
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  Speaker 1: open man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And solid systems. And today, it seemed like there's a
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  Speaker 1: moment where Parker had his thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Bronson Jr.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: All the guys doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So just talk about the evolution of the offense and
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  Speaker 1: the growth and development of wide receivers.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think when– You know, Trevor is spitting the ball.
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  Speaker 5: It's coming out of his hand. You know, then he's
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  Speaker 5: also scrambling and getting some opportunities. But what was cool
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  Speaker 5: to see was, okay, Josh Cameron goes in very early
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  Speaker 5: on on a play call that was designed for him
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  Speaker 5: and Jacoby. And he has Jacoby on one side and
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  Speaker 5: Josh on the other. The safety kind of leaned to Jacoby.
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  Speaker 5: And he goes, Josh on Denzel.
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  Speaker 2: Ward, one-on-one. Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Makes an unbelievable throw, and Josh makes a dang good catch,
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  Speaker 5: strong-handed in traffic.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and then we had.
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  Speaker 5: Another drive where I think, you know, Strange hadn't really
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  Speaker 5: gotten as involved yet where I'm like, okay, I want
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  Speaker 5: to get Brenton involved here. Then he ends up catching
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  Speaker 5: the touchdown on that drive. And so that's pretty cool
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  Speaker 5: to have that confidence in them that I have as
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  Speaker 5: a play caller, but also in those guys to go
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  Speaker 5: out and trust each other and go execute.
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  Speaker 2: So that is pretty fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things you talked about, the importance of
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  Speaker 1: the running game. Not only to control it, but how
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  Speaker 1: it sets up other things in a passing game. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed like they were working together. Thoughts on the running
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  Speaker 1: game today? I thought it was some good stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what exactly we ended up per, but
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  Speaker 5: I think it was more efficient than maybe we were
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  Speaker 5: at times towards the end of last year. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck.
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  Speaker 2: 32 for 126. Some of those are probably some quarterback
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  Speaker 2: stuff as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the goal we're trying to do is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: not having so much volume that it kind of muddies
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  Speaker 5: up for efficiency, if you will. And so I thought
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  Speaker 5: the run game was pretty solid during the course of
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  Speaker 5: the day. I think I probably could have ran a
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  Speaker 5: little bit more in times, but it was balanced. I
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  Speaker 5: thought that, you know, we handled Verse the way that
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  Speaker 5: we wanted to, and we kind of ran at him
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  Speaker 5: at times. That was something we wanted to do, and
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  Speaker 5: try to run at them and run at these guys.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 5: We mixed our schemes up with inside and outside runs.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought all three backs ran hard. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Amir came in and popped some runs later on. Tootin,
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  Speaker 5: I think, ran really hard. Chris gave us some good
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  Speaker 5: hard runs. So it's still a work in progress, but
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  Speaker 5: it was definitely a good start.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing, halftime, you were talking about the physicality, the violence,
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  Speaker 1: like taking it up a notch. Defensively, good things happen
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  Speaker 1: when they kind of start Being physical is contagious. So
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the identity of the team and how
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  Speaker 1: physical it is. Why is it so important for you
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you convey that message to the team
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  Speaker 1: each and every week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's our style of play. That's our best chance
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  Speaker 2: at success.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how often we're going to walk into
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  Speaker 5: a stadium and out finesse you or out just surgical
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  Speaker 5: you in a lot of different ways. We have to
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  Speaker 5: lean into who we are every single time we hit
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  Speaker 5: the grass. It started against Carolina. Tampa, both joints, the
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  Speaker 5: reason for the success in those joints wasn't all execution.
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  Speaker 2: It was violence. It was physicality. It was effort.
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  Speaker 5: It was strain playing together. These guys, when they bring
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  Speaker 5: the energy and they're celebrating together, that's infectious. It's momentum
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  Speaker 5: and everybody feels it, you know? And so that's gotta
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  Speaker 5: be our brand. That has to be our identity. I
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  Speaker 5: think the guys know and understand that it is their
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  Speaker 5: identity and, I wanted to tick him off a little
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  Speaker 5: bit and showed him a little Buffalo last night. I
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  Speaker 5: showed him the scoreboard of the Buffalo game at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the game last night, so I wanted to
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  Speaker 5: piss him off.
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  Speaker 2: I think it worked.
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  Speaker 1: It absolutely works now.
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  Speaker 2: Got a big week next week.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to week two.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is obviously going on the road and playing
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  Speaker 5: a high-quality opponent. that we have a lot of respect
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  Speaker 5: for and understand what we're walking into. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: definitely everything is going to be taken up a notch.
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  Speaker 5: I would imagine going out there and playing against those
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  Speaker 5: guys in that environment. So, yeah, you know, with them,
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  Speaker 5: they got a Monday night game, I believe. So we
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  Speaker 5: have to wait a little bit to get their tape
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  Speaker 5: and to see what they're going to be doing with
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  Speaker 5: a new offensive coordinator calling plays. But, you know, Sean
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  Speaker 5: Payton and the team is going to be well coached,
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  Speaker 5: and that's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 2: So we know what we're walking into.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking forward to it next week.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Appreciate it, Bucky.