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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "There's great leadership on this team." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Juan Taylor, Devin Lloyd starting something. Uh yeah as of
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Speaker 1: right now, what did you want? We got like four days?
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Speaker 1: But yes that's right now. An official came from Alex
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Speaker 1: so it's you know, the last one of us then yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: it's it is official. Um yeah, what did you want
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Speaker 1: to do? That's such a big topic to sort of
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Speaker 1: show you why he should be the starting right tackle. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean it was a great uh battle competition throughout
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Speaker 1: camp really and I thought both guys did an outstanding job.
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Speaker 1: You know, Walker did a nice job when he was
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Speaker 1: in there, and of course Jwan you know, had been
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Speaker 1: there before and it was really really his job to lose,
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Speaker 1: so to speak. But he he came back and and
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Speaker 1: and showed us some great things and um deserving on
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Speaker 1: the spot. What do you like about Marvin Jones Leaders Shop?
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Speaker 1: And you know Marvin just a just a class act. Um,
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Speaker 1: a great vet in the room. Young there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of young guys in that room. Um, you know when
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Speaker 1: you're thinking about you know that Tim Jones is in
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Speaker 1: there and and now some of the young practice squad
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Speaker 1: players and just he can be such an impact on
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Speaker 1: on those players on how he how he handles his business,
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Speaker 1: UM and and just a UM great leader with the
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Speaker 1: with the entire team. You know, it's a reason why um,
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Speaker 1: you know, the players respect him and look up to
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Speaker 1: him and um because of what he's what he's done
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Speaker 1: in this league. Pretty much across the board otherwise pretty good.
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Speaker 1: And obviously Devin is still working his way back. James
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Speaker 1: obviously still working his way back the boat and down
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Speaker 1: start and all other injuries. Fully, is the only one
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Speaker 1: that we're working back into the into the mix. We
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Speaker 1: should see him at practice today. Concerns knowing death, they're
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Speaker 1: knowing that it's only one or two other guys that
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Speaker 1: can really play that three technique position of mine. Now
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Speaker 1: you know, we're comfortable, um with with the guys we
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Speaker 1: have in the different you know rotations that that you know,
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Speaker 1: Mike and and Buck can can present. So we're comfortable there.
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Speaker 1: It feel different than the coach versus a player leading
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Speaker 1: up to the game, you know, especially say morning, U,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know opening days, opening day, it's a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun. You know you're playing uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: one o'clock game. It's it's sunny out and as opposed
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Speaker 1: to a preseason night game. But um, you know the
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Speaker 1: emotions are gonna run run high obviously. Uh, there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be butterflies, you know, and and jitters just to start
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Speaker 1: the game. And that's just that's just natural, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: and it just just shows you that, you know, the
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Speaker 1: football is here, and football's back and we're ready for
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Speaker 1: another season. You can tell the rookies to prepare them
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Speaker 1: for the emotions. They're gonna have it, and you know
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Speaker 1: it's hard. You can talk to them and and kind
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Speaker 1: of express you know, your experiences there. Um. Of course
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Speaker 1: these guys have been through you know, their own opening days,
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Speaker 1: but you know these are a little bit different um
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Speaker 1: at this level. And uh, um, you know they'll they'll
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Speaker 1: handle it. They'll the vets on the team can can
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Speaker 1: also sort of shed their experiences, you know, sort of
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Speaker 1: cast a light and um. But it's how we control
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Speaker 1: our emotions too early in the football game, you know,
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Speaker 1: because you don't want to expend a lot of energy early.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you can control that and play for sixty minutes.
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Speaker 1: You need any valiation team win early. Everything they're doing well.
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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, you want to win every football game,
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Speaker 1: There's there's no question about that. Um. And you want
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Speaker 1: you want to do the things we've talked about, right.
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Speaker 1: You want to take care of the football, you want
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Speaker 1: to create turnovers, you want the ability to run the ball,
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Speaker 1: stop the run. I mean, it's all those things we've
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Speaker 1: talked about from from day one, and I think if
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Speaker 1: you do enough of that in any game, your your
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Speaker 1: chances of winning are you know, increase. But we just
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Speaker 1: have to focus on us and make sure we're doing
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Speaker 1: everything we can to uh you know, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: give our players the best opper you need to be
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Speaker 1: successful on game day. Obviously gets a lot of the
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Speaker 1: newspaper clip things, the headlines, and he obviously is expected
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Speaker 1: to still be out because of the A. C. L. Tare.
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Speaker 1: What do you see from those other four guys that
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Speaker 1: they are going to be starting along the prop four? Um? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I mean, Chase there was a great player.
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Speaker 1: I've I've seen him, you know when I was in
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Speaker 1: my former former life and played against him. And they're
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Speaker 1: not me personally playing against him, a coach against him.
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Speaker 1: A good player, and he's gonna be missed, you know
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Speaker 1: by that team and by that Fridays A leader there.
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Speaker 1: But the other guys are just as good. I mean
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Speaker 1: they've they've you know, Washington has spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: resources in that defensive line and over the years, and
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Speaker 1: these are really good players and it really doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: who they plug in. You know, there's some um, there's
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Speaker 1: some game records there and um, you know it'll be
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Speaker 1: it'll be you know, a guy like Luke Partner, you know, um,
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Speaker 1: first time in there with with these two. You know,
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Speaker 1: big guys, physical guys will be can be fun to watch,
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Speaker 1: you know, watch that the entire game. But um, they
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Speaker 1: give you a bunch of different looks, multiple looks and
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Speaker 1: things that we have to be prepared for. You are
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Speaker 1: preparing that that is an X factor as we look
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Speaker 1: at what they can present, having that defensive front. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's one of them, you know, And you
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Speaker 1: always go into games trying to, you know, control the
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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. I think every coach in the league
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Speaker 1: is saying, hey, let's control the line of scrimmage. And
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Speaker 1: easier said than done, obviously, especially when you go against
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Speaker 1: you know, front like this. You watched the growth of
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz at the about the same point that that
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Speaker 1: Trevor is starting to get to. Now any anything about
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Speaker 1: these these quarterbacks compare at all for you in terms
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Speaker 1: of the growth at the kind of the year two point. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's similar. But in our case it's different
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Speaker 1: because year two for Trevor is a different staff, right,
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Speaker 1: different different head coach, different coordinator, different position coach. Where
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Speaker 1: Carson year two it was the same same guys, and
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Speaker 1: there was consistent and see there, you know. And and
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Speaker 1: although we've seen tremendous growth in Trevor um year two
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Speaker 1: for for Carson, with us, there was another there was
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Speaker 1: another step. There's another leap there, and and um, you
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Speaker 1: know those are things that we're trying to get Trevor
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Speaker 1: to right that level that with Trevor in our system
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Speaker 1: and and um, you're gonna see it probably throughout the
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Speaker 1: course of the season. Um you know, but I think
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Speaker 1: time will tell, you know, with with him, as I mean,
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Speaker 1: you've implied all spring and summer about Trevor's growth and
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Speaker 1: how all the implications are and he's going to take
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Speaker 1: this significant step whatever that looks like in year two.
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Speaker 1: What what is it that that that makes you feel
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Speaker 1: that way that he's going to take that leap whatever? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's just down to the player who the
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Speaker 1: player is, and how willing he is to take the coaching,
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Speaker 1: you know, take the criticism, take the good the bad,
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Speaker 1: and and you know, work on his craft. That's that's
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Speaker 1: with any player. But but in this case with Trevor,
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Speaker 1: that's what we've seen from you know, all the way back,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the spring, and um, just the the
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Speaker 1: improvements he's made from you say, o t A s
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Speaker 1: in May and June two now are are tremendous and
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Speaker 1: sometimes they're even just subtle changes, but their changes to us,
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Speaker 1: you know, and those are those are the things that
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Speaker 1: you build on, you know, and and just kind of
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Speaker 1: keep keep him headed in the right direction obviously no setbacks,
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Speaker 1: and and uh, just keep keep plugging away and working hard.
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Speaker 1: Sunday Will be Mike called Will's first game calling plays
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Speaker 1: in the regular season at defense point, do you think
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Speaker 1: back to your first game calling plays and give him
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Speaker 1: any advice from your experience in that first like real game? Well,
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Speaker 1: you talk about opening day jitters, you know for a
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Speaker 1: play caller, I remember my first in sixteen against the Browns,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and uh, it's it thing is with
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Speaker 1: you think you got to call the perfect play. You know,
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Speaker 1: in your mind you think you're trying to scheme the
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Speaker 1: defense and trying to call the perfect lay offensively and
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Speaker 1: probably the same way on defense. But my advice to
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Speaker 1: him will just be to relax, have fun with it,
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Speaker 1: you know, use his eyes, believe in what he's you know,
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Speaker 1: what he's been talking about all week in the plan
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Speaker 1: and and and ultimately you have just trust your players right,
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Speaker 1: put them in situations. That's what you you go out
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Speaker 1: and you practice all week for and just trust those
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Speaker 1: guys to make the place for you. When you look
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Speaker 1: back over the summer and maybe even before, is there
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Speaker 1: anything that stands out about the team, like just how
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Speaker 1: they have bought in or maybe the dedication that some
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Speaker 1: guys have shown leading up to this point. M I think, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know it's I look at this team and how
8:42
Speaker 1: well they've sort of come together, you know, as a
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Speaker 1: group over you know of course of the summer training
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Speaker 1: camp now and um, this is as a close group um,
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Speaker 1: and and that it's rare, you know, especially with with
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Speaker 1: a new staff and new coach. Sometimes it's takes a
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Speaker 1: little more time than the next expected. But this group
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Speaker 1: um came together rather quickly. You know. Uh, there's great
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Speaker 1: leadership on this team within the within the locker room,
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Speaker 1: you know, um, and and that's what the players lean on,
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Speaker 1: that's what I lean on, you know, during these times.
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Speaker 1: And and uh, that to me has been sort of
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Speaker 1: what is brought this team, you know through training camp
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Speaker 1: and here we are into the regular season and they're healthy,
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Speaker 1: they're excited and just looking forward to the opportunity is
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Speaker 1: it to prepare for this week one game where you
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Speaker 1: have preseason tape. But as as you've admitted about you guys,
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Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to even know what most teams
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Speaker 1: aren't trying to show a lot, so you're trying to
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Speaker 1: prepare to counter what they present, but maybe you don't
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Speaker 1: know what they present. It's it's the hardest thing, um,
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Speaker 1: because you don't know what they've been working on in
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Speaker 1: the off season through training camp, and those are things
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Speaker 1: you don't show during the during you know, during the
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Speaker 1: preseason games. But you know there's obviously history, uh no
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Speaker 1: one coached o Rio and and just studying his past
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Speaker 1: and having coached against him the past and coach Rivera,
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Speaker 1: and you know they've got a great staff over there.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, there's always the unknown and
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Speaker 1: those unscouted looks as we call them. You know that
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Speaker 1: you don't you don't see on tape, and you know
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Speaker 1: it's just, um, if it happens, it happens. We just
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Speaker 1: make the corrections on the sideline and and move on.
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Speaker 1: And UM. But yeah, these first uh, you know, game
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Speaker 1: or two into the season, you're always gonna something's gonna
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Speaker 1: surprise you a little bit. Another interview, you said, Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence reminds you a little bit of Brett Farve. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Comparisons like that aren't things that you probably throw around
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Speaker 1: real lightly. So that's some heavy praise for a young quarterback.
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Speaker 1: I just what I meant by that, too, is just
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Speaker 1: how how he leads a team. You know, Trevor is
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Speaker 1: not a he's not the cheerleader, the raw rock guy
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Speaker 1: that you know standing on the table. Brett was never
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Speaker 1: that way. He always led by example and he was
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Speaker 1: a hard worker. He was dedicated to his craft. He
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Speaker 1: wanted to learn and get better. And that's what I
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Speaker 1: saw in Brett, and that's what I see in Trevor.
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Speaker 1: And so there's some similarities that way. UM, two different
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Speaker 1: types of quarterbacks obviously, but UM, that leadership style, UM
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Speaker 1: is very similar. Obviously you're you're familiar with this Washington team,
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Speaker 1: but are there unique challenges when you go out of conference,
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Speaker 1: especially early in the season, just playing a team that
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Speaker 1: you might not normally face. Yeah, it's it's kind of
11:15
Speaker 1: crazy because you know, a few of us know this
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Speaker 1: team and they kind of know some of us you
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Speaker 1: know here, so it's a little different that way. You know. Um,
11:23
Speaker 1: having spent five years in that division, you know, this
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Speaker 1: is always going to be one of those tough, physical, um,
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Speaker 1: you know games anytime you play Washington, you know. But
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Speaker 1: it's just a matter both teams are going to prepare
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Speaker 1: this week and and obviously both staffs are going to
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Speaker 1: prepare their players and and um, you know, for a
11:42
Speaker 1: for a great football game on Sunday. But I don't
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Speaker 1: think you count. Do you think James Robinson will be
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Speaker 1: on im so it wouldn't won't just be like it's
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Speaker 1: normal work. Yeah, that's it's I think I think we
11:53
Speaker 1: gotta get into the football game. You know. I've been
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Speaker 1: in situations like this to where you want to go
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Speaker 1: in and you want to control the pace of play
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Speaker 1: with a guy like James, but at the same time,
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Speaker 1: if he's feeling good, and you know there hasn't been
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Speaker 1: any setbacks or anything. Then you just you just go,
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Speaker 1: you know, you just roll with it. And you know
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Speaker 1: you've got forty eight guys on on game day and
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Speaker 1: you got to use the mall. You can a feel
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Speaker 1: yet for where he's at. I mean, I think he's
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Speaker 1: I think he's there. I think he's you know, back,
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Speaker 1: he's he's practiced. You know, these last few weeks, he's
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Speaker 1: looked really good. Um, I'm excited to watch him play.
12:26
Speaker 1: Killers tendons injury used tony career enders usually, but modern medicine, technology, rehab,
12:33
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things now at these players disposal.
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Speaker 1: They get him back on the field a lot sooner
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Speaker 1: than then before. Um, I've been around you know, players
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Speaker 1: even offense and defensive lineman, same injury and they come
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Speaker 1: back right away and and play. So it's not out
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Speaker 1: of the question for him. And it's a credit to
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Speaker 1: the player too for for his dedication to get him
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Speaker 1: back on the field. Well, what is it about James
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Speaker 1: that you know he could really be a big booso
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Speaker 1: on Is it more that he's kind of a known
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Speaker 1: commodity and he's kind of proving it. Yeah, that and
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Speaker 1: he just you know, he's a you know, he's a
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Speaker 1: little different runner than than t J obviously, and and um,
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Speaker 1: um he fits you know, a certain style a run
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Speaker 1: game that that we like and TJ fits another style
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Speaker 1: that we like. And you know, you try to use
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Speaker 1: the both both of them together, and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: be smart, put him in, put him in situations where
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Speaker 1: they can be successful, obviously, and and and that's on
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Speaker 1: that's on us his coaches to do that. But you know,
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Speaker 1: he he brings, he brings a little different different style.
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Speaker 1: He you know, he runs a little bit lower behind
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Speaker 1: his pads, a little bit more of a downhill one
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Speaker 1: cut guy. And um, you know that's what he's done
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Speaker 1: in the past, and we just keep that going flexibility
13:42
Speaker 1: as a play callers that give you just having two
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Speaker 1: backs or maybe you know, so different stylistically. Um, I
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Speaker 1: mean it opens things up if you're running the ball successfully,
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Speaker 1: you know. Uh, and it starts there. But yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: it's nice to have two different type of runners, you know,
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Speaker 1: because you're you can you can do different things, you know,
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Speaker 1: during a game. But again, it's it's it's more to
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Speaker 1: about what works and what's going to work, you know,
14:05
Speaker 1: as you get into the into the game, and and
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Speaker 1: you know, as you make adjustments, do you expect to
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Speaker 1: have four linebacks active on game days or I don't know, Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm just curious if your Michael or any of the
14:15
Speaker 1: other guys that you guys played golf waivers, if they'll email, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Michael is doing well. We'll see where he's at the
14:21
Speaker 1: end of the week. You know, as we as we
14:22
Speaker 1: work towards the forty eight, Um, you know, snoops in
14:25
Speaker 1: the same same boat right there, kind of competing together. Um,
14:29
Speaker 1: and we'll make those decisions later in the week. Do
14:31
Speaker 1: you know do you know what you do? Do you
14:33
Speaker 1: think you know what we're gonna get on? What do
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Speaker 1: you mean get your team? Like? Do you think you
14:38
Speaker 1: know what you're going a little likely and how you're
14:41
Speaker 1: really playing, who you're going to eat? I think in
14:45
Speaker 1: your mind, yeah, And I think that's why you practice
14:47
Speaker 1: and you put in the game plan this week and
14:48
Speaker 1: you go out and you you execute it. You know,
14:50
Speaker 1: and um, you you have a vision of what what
14:55
Speaker 1: what you hope it is. You know what you think
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Speaker 1: you can be and and you know it's my job
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Speaker 1: as the the head coaches to just to keep keep
15:02
Speaker 1: the team focused on that, right, dude. We've got to
15:04
Speaker 1: have an identity. We've got to you know, we've got
15:07
Speaker 1: to do the things that we've talked about all offseason
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Speaker 1: and training camp, and um, I have a vision in
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Speaker 1: my head and and you know, I try to relate
15:15
Speaker 1: that and communicate that to the team, and now they
15:18
Speaker 1: have to go out and try to try to be that.
15:20
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's it's a fun part of now.
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Speaker 1: It's a fun part of it. He just panics, by
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Speaker 1: the way, when you called Travis t J, He's like,
15:33
Speaker 1: who's that? Well, remember the last year. I don't know,
15:41
Speaker 1: that's actually what you guys. I know that's a nickname
15:43
Speaker 1: that you guys have. Yeah, I kept hearing, you know,
15:46
Speaker 1: Bernie Parmaly keep calling him t J. And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: who's t J? Who is this guy? Do we have
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Speaker 1: t J on the roster? And uh, he's no, that's
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Speaker 1: just what we've called him. Yeah, fine, moltiple times you
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Speaker 1: mentioned yeah, fun, having fun, enjoying. This is no fun.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what is fun. And it seems like
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Speaker 1: even to the players, like, uh, somebody who mentioned it
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Speaker 1: on Monday, it feels like a lot of the team
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Speaker 1: is loosing there ready to go into a game. You
16:18
Speaker 1: don't normally see you don't sometimes see that going into
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Speaker 1: a week one. Just how does that come about? Is
16:23
Speaker 1: that something that you and the staff did, Is that
16:25
Speaker 1: something that the players that that's just their energy or
16:28
Speaker 1: I think that goes all the way back to the
16:29
Speaker 1: off season. I think it goes back to me having
16:32
Speaker 1: a year off, you know, and thinking about my next
16:36
Speaker 1: opportunity and where that might be. And then and then
16:38
Speaker 1: when given that opportunity, how that's gonna look. And and
16:41
Speaker 1: you know, ultimately I get to set the tone you know,
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Speaker 1: for the day, for the week, for the month, for
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Speaker 1: the year. And and I want these guys to have fun.
16:48
Speaker 1: This is a this is a short lived business for
16:50
Speaker 1: players and coaches, and and uh, if we don't enjoy
16:54
Speaker 1: coming to work every day and having fun doing what
16:56
Speaker 1: we're doing, then we need to honestly go do something else.
16:59
Speaker 1: And um, and I want to I want to create
17:02
Speaker 1: that environment for these guys, you know, and and but
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Speaker 1: yet still holding accountable and and make sure they're doing
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Speaker 1: their job and and all of that, but at the
17:10
Speaker 1: same time, you know, let's have fun. Let's have fun
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Speaker 1: doing it. All right, guess thanks, thank you great