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Press Pass | Coach Pederson on Preseason, Roster Evaluation · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Hey, Doug, I'm curious, from your time in Philadelphia to now,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: how much time do you devote, let's say, on a
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: weekly regular season for preparation to attention to the defensive
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: side of the ball.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously I don't log my hours on that side of
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: the ball, but I do spend time looking at the personnel.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: I do spend time, you know, visiting with Mike obviously
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: the defensive staff, you know, during the week, not so
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: much just understanding the game plan, but sometimes sometimes yeah,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes understanding how we want to attack an opponent or
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: what their thoughts aren't attacking an opponent, you know. And mainly,
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: though mainly it's been more about the personnel side, just
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: making sure that the right guys are in the right
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: spots and we're you know. It's a great example of
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: that would be last year with with Darius Williams. You know,
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: he started out playing nickel, and then we felt like
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  Speaker 3: his best position, which he always has played an outside corner,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and moving him back to corner and things
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  Speaker 3: like that and just making those type of observations and
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  Speaker 3: suggestions are all things that you know that I try
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  Speaker 3: to I try to try to do.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: How much do you think that you're on the league,
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  Speaker 1: particularly as a backup who's observing things from the sideline.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: You're seeing how coaches are interacting on the sidelines with players.
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  Speaker 4: And all that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you almost think that being in the backup for
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  Speaker 1: all that time and being in a position of observing
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to being on the field on a full
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  Speaker 1: time basis, prepares you for where you are now better.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: I've been, you know, a five time Pro Bowl quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and played for eighteen years.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, wouldn't be a head coach if I had that.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely wouldn't be standing here.
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  Speaker 3: No, But I do believe that that being a backup,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being in the quarterback position. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like one of my strengths is just the awareness
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  Speaker 3: right the surroundings, what what's around me, and watching watching people,
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  Speaker 3: watching players, the interaction of things, I think is part
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  Speaker 3: of what a head coach goes through, you know. But
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  Speaker 3: I think that preparation of being a backup quarterback, you know,
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: I think about those days in Green Bay and you're
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  Speaker 3: assisting the starter, and yet you're you're also preparing it
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  Speaker 3: as a starter, and so you're having to know everything
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  Speaker 3: and you're just you're just watching and observing.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that really has prepared you know me.
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  Speaker 3: I think as the years go on, I get I
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  Speaker 3: get better at it obviously, and but yeah, those those
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  Speaker 3: those years is uh, you know, playing quarterback in this
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  Speaker 3: league have definitely prepared me for this, for this opportunity.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: Updates on Josh Wells, Folly, Beentre Miller, and Devon.
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  Speaker 3: Devon's in the building now, he's he's here just you know,
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  Speaker 3: as we mentioned last week, you'd be back in the
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  Speaker 3: building and I haven't seen him yet, but I had
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  Speaker 3: a message from Ferg that he was in the building.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to you know, seeing him and
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  Speaker 3: and I believe his wife is with him, so be
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  Speaker 3: great to see him.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: Ventreil is unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's an achilles, so that's a that's a
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  Speaker 3: season season ending uh injury there with the achilles, so
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: it's you know, he'll be he'll be missed. Fully is
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  Speaker 3: progressing nicely. I would anticipate him on the field this
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  Speaker 3: week with the with the group, So looking looking forward
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: to getting him out there. Josh is still you know,
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  Speaker 3: still nursing the injury and still you know kind of
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  Speaker 3: weak to week, you know with that, So who else
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  Speaker 3: did you have on there? Yeah, I mean Cooper's Cooper's
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: not close yet, so he's he's still gonna he's still
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  Speaker 3: gonna miss some time.
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  Speaker 1: Not sure what you do with those two yet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those are all the conversations we'll have. We started
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  Speaker 3: him this morning. Obviously, we're in the process of you know,
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  Speaker 3: Trim and the roster now and throughout the day obviously,
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  Speaker 3: and those would be conversations that we get to eventually. Caleb,
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  Speaker 3: he's not dinged up, you know, he just uh, he's
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  Speaker 3: got the knee. He's got some like Chad Muma, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So I just didn't want to didn't want to put
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  Speaker 3: both those guys out there, you know, the other night
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  Speaker 3: and risk you know, anything further any setbacks going into
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  Speaker 3: the season shot.
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  Speaker 5: They needs three weeks off the Blood Dinners.
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  Speaker 4: Is that correct before you can have contact.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're asking a question I don't really have the
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  Speaker 3: answer to. Yeah, on that one, I know he's off
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  Speaker 3: of him and I know he's been clear to to
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  Speaker 3: get back out there and and you know, be a
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  Speaker 3: full participant.
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  Speaker 5: So he could be ready for week on that Yes, Okay, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: Derek Perris got some defensive snaps the other night.
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  Speaker 3: Anything to that, well, no, I mean, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: obviously a former delignment in college, and you know, we
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  Speaker 3: were we were a little thin at the d line
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  Speaker 3: spot with with the guys we had up in the
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  Speaker 3: game and and obviously, uh, with some of the injuries there,
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  Speaker 3: and so we just we just had him prepared, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to go in the game and and give us some
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  Speaker 3: give us some snap.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he did a did a pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Job under the circumstances, and you know, it was it
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  Speaker 3: was good to see him out there doing that.
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  Speaker 5: Is that part of the evaluation process, I guess moving
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  Speaker 5: forward with him, if it would.
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  Speaker 3: Be a conversation, yeah, you know, if if obviously he uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we see how these next couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 3: If if he's a if he's a practice squad player,
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  Speaker 3: he's obviously a you know, he's talented and and he's
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  Speaker 3: kind of that that Swiss army knife. You can kind
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  Speaker 3: of put him anywhere, you know, whether it be on
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  Speaker 3: special teams, offense, defense, So you know, definitely a guy
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  Speaker 3: you uh, you know, have some intriguing and redeeming qualities
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  Speaker 3: that you can use I tell.
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  Speaker 5: Him you talked about the death semuch during the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Are you finding that that feels real as you go
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  Speaker 2: through this process today?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, we are, We're finding that that is real. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we also know that the there's you know,
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: there's gonna be some good football players that are gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to be released. And it's a it's a tough,
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  Speaker 3: tough twenty four hours or so here and around the league,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, it's just a it's a credit to
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  Speaker 3: obviously Trent and his staff and and the quality of
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  Speaker 3: athletes that and players that we've brought onto this roster
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  Speaker 3: and the depth that we've brought to this team. And
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: you know, it's uh, it's it's it's kind of that
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  Speaker 3: bittersweet you know, you'd love to keep 'em all, but
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  Speaker 3: you can't, and uh, you gotta make the You gotta
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  Speaker 3: make the best decisions moving forward. I was a barbecue yesterday,
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: and was that just your way of trying to bank players, staff, coaches?
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  Speaker 5: Everyone?
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  Speaker 2: Just work of the hard work.
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  Speaker 3: I mean training camp A grin, yeah, and no, the
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  Speaker 3: it went well, you know, and it I it is
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  Speaker 3: it it really is a y. You're you're winding camp down.
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  Speaker 3: It's really the last last preseason game. It's kind of
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  Speaker 3: the last week. You know, you're going into this this week,
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: and you know you're down to your roster sizes and
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: all that, and just a way for you know, the
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: players to have their families and and uh, just to
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  Speaker 3: kind of relax and you know, appreciation for for all
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  Speaker 3: the hard work and you know, the time spent you know,
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  Speaker 3: out on the field for everybody, and just a good
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  Speaker 3: way to relax and wind down the end of the
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  Speaker 3: end of training camp.
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  Speaker 5: How do you look at this week? Is this a
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  Speaker 5: recharge the battery before the real I guess grind of
• 7:27
  Speaker 5: the season starts, or do you look at this as
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  Speaker 5: all right, we immediately go full bore into week one?
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  Speaker 2: How do you look at this week a little of both.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's obviously it's twofold, right, You're you're cutting
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  Speaker 3: your roster down. You're getting to the the fifty three
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  Speaker 3: and then the sixteen or a r K seventeen with
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  Speaker 3: with io you know, practice s club players, and you
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  Speaker 3: don't want.
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  Speaker 2: To you don't want to go backwards.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to like, you know, not push right
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  Speaker 3: from a from a practice standpoint and all that yes,
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  Speaker 3: it is a way to kind of recharge and you
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  Speaker 3: don't have the intensity of practicing and getting ready for
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  Speaker 3: a game this week. But at the same time, I
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  Speaker 3: want to maintain, you know, the sense of urgency. You know,
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  Speaker 3: as we head into the first week of the regular season, is.
• 8:16
  Speaker 4: Going to just the one cut change the mechanics of
• 8:18
  Speaker 4: how you guys do your cuts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's long, it's a longer day obviously, and and
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  Speaker 3: you know you're doing a lot more guys. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's challenging for the personnel staff to do this
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  Speaker 3: many guys. But I like the fact that we can
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  Speaker 3: keep everybody you know to the end because really, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you let a guy go maybe too soon, when
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: when you haven't really given him a chance to you know,
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  Speaker 3: play in the last preseason game or or take another
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  Speaker 3: look at him in practice or something like that. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a challenge that way. But but I
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  Speaker 3: think it's good that we, you know, can can keep
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  Speaker 3: them and it just makes it a little more challenging for
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  Speaker 3: the for the personnel side in.
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  Speaker 4: The room to tell the guys or how does that
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  Speaker 4: I mean for us, it's it's you know, we you know,
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  Speaker 4: we meet as a staff meet offensively and defensively with Trent,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, his his team, and you know, we
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  Speaker 4: go back through the roster one more time and put
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  Speaker 4: a plan together and then we just, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we kind of turn it over to the personnel department
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  Speaker 4: and and let them begin the process of calling players
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  Speaker 4: and getting them in here, and then coaches get to
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  Speaker 4: spend time with the player and and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, do what we can to help them moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: If he's a practice squad candidate, obviously, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: try to let him know that we'd love to have
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  Speaker 3: him back, you know, on.
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  Speaker 2: Practice squad if possible.
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  Speaker 3: But but it's a you know, it's a difficult day
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  Speaker 3: for everybody with your being here if you have to.
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  Speaker 4: Cut in.
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  Speaker 2: And to spank him at one point the same thing, No,
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  Speaker 2: would you do the would you wanna be the.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: One that told him?
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  Speaker 2: I would.
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  Speaker 3: I'd wanna you know, I'd wanna tell him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously he'd he'd Trent would want to visit with him
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  Speaker 3: as well, and and I definitely wanna talk to him
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  Speaker 3: and just.
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  Speaker 2: Just let him know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's been through this process before, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with with a couple of other teams, last year, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's I'm very familiar with it obviously as
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: a former player, and and just you know, just walk
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  Speaker 3: him through the process and and let him know that
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: everything's gonna be okay. How did you feel sort of
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: about how this preseason went for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about the team? How do you've
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: gone through it?
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  Speaker 3: I felt, you know, y, obviously the wins and losses
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  Speaker 3: are are a big part of it, but it's not.
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  Speaker 3: That's not everything. You know, there's some of that can
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  Speaker 3: be a little misleading, you know. I think I think
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  Speaker 3: if you look at the first unit offensively and start there,
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  Speaker 3: I think there were five possessions this preseason, two of
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  Speaker 3: them in turnovers, you know, a couple of touchdowns, uh,
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  Speaker 3: things like that, So it wasn't as clean is maybe
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: you would like those are some things we got to
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  Speaker 3: clean up, you know, as we as we go this
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: week and obviously prepare you know, defensively, I think you
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: see just how they kind of picked up where they
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: left off a year ago, you know, being being being
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: dominant in the run run game, being able to stop
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  Speaker 3: the run, and and and yet still you know, we
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  Speaker 3: have some you know, work to do with the past
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  Speaker 3: game and just making sure guys are on the same
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  Speaker 3: page there with coverage and but they're but there, everybody's
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  Speaker 3: a year in the system, so it's much better to
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  Speaker 3: be able to teach and correct because everybody understands.
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  Speaker 2: Where we are.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then I think the third element that
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  Speaker 3: is you look at special teams and the the depth
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  Speaker 3: that we were able to provide, you know there you know,
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  Speaker 3: special teams units. A lot of guys got opportunities to
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: play on special teams and it was a great way
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  Speaker 3: to evaluate. So, you know, but overall, preseason was was
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  Speaker 3: a success. We didn't get or didn't have many guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in or that that we won't get back.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously Ventrail being the you know, probably being the only
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  Speaker 3: one really you know in this situation. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it's over now, and uh we're onto the
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  Speaker 3: regular season.
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  Speaker 5: Such a large rookie class, it feels like a lot
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  Speaker 5: of these guys were able to kind of make an
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  Speaker 5: impact or the receipts are good. How pleased are you
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  Speaker 5: with what you sing from from all these guys that
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  Speaker 5: we bring in so many of them at one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was a great group. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they were eager to get on the field. They're eager
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  Speaker 3: eager to learn. Go all the way back to that
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  Speaker 3: rookie mini camp when when we had them in here
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  Speaker 3: for the first time and and been very impressed with
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  Speaker 3: with the group you know as a whole, and they're
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  Speaker 3: they're up in the coach's offices, they're wanting to learn,
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  Speaker 3: get better, you know, each day, and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and that's that's a good sign, good sign that we're
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  Speaker 3: bringing in the right guys you know, as a as
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  Speaker 3: a staff and the right guys onto the team.
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  Speaker 2: So excited for.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of these guys because they're gonna you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna play and they're gonna have to play.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know, around the league, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think you you're gonna see more and more teams you know,
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  Speaker 3: with with rookie rookie starters out there. You know, and
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  Speaker 3: look at Kansas City, you know, last year with the
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  Speaker 3: amount of rookies they had in the back end and
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  Speaker 3: of their defense. So it's just kind of where you are.
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  Speaker 3: But but very pleased with our rookie class.
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  Speaker 1: This year to you talk to them in the off
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  Speaker 1: season about thinking that the running game was gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a set in terms of cohesion.
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: Have you seen that during the preseason a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: I have, I have, and I think it really and
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  Speaker 3: uh we know it starts with the bat uh, the
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  Speaker 3: the O line and and tight ends right in the
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  Speaker 3: run game.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really the backs too.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know how how impressive TJ has been
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  Speaker 3: and the improvement we've seen with TJ, and then the
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  Speaker 3: addition of Tank, you know, uh, a bigger back, kind
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  Speaker 3: of a downhill guy, you know. And then and then
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  Speaker 3: there was this great competition throughout with with the Earnest
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  Speaker 3: and Jamichael and Snoop and and you know, uh, Quadri
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  Speaker 3: you know, all of a sudd mean, there's the guys
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  Speaker 3: there that they can they can play and have played
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  Speaker 3: in in this league before. And you know, we pride
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  Speaker 3: ourselves on running the football. We're going to have to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I think it just helps It helps
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  Speaker 3: the past game, you know when you can do that,
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  Speaker 3: and and uh helps your quarterback obviously you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to put everything on him and and uh, but uh,
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  Speaker 3: the improvement has has been gradual, but it's but it
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  Speaker 3: is definitely in the right direction.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: You're still the central I think of Saint pretty broke
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  Speaker 1: in college right that he Murky Achilles with do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's related?
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  Speaker 5: Related?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's again, that's that's something I don't really medically, I
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: don't really know I have the answers to on all that.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: You know, I just kind of coach football and I
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  Speaker 2: just report the news.
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  Speaker 5: You have.
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  Speaker 1: You've said for that you wanted to see about what
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: you had on the on the back end with the
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  Speaker 1: pass rusher rather than you know, going out and getting something.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Do you do you.
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  Speaker 1: Still feel that same way now now that we're closer
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  Speaker 1: to the preseason, as opposed to let's say, the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of you having I don't know, a surplus of guys
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  Speaker 1: at one position that you can maybe use to leverage
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: the trade for something that you may need in the
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  Speaker 1: past rush or do you kind of just feel like, hey,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: let's let's just let it go and see what we got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think. I think when you really look around the.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: League, you know, it might be a short of shortage
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  Speaker 3: of pass rushers that are that are out there right
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  Speaker 3: that if they are, they're on somebody's team and they're
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: they're locked up for a few years. It's just I
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: with that being said, we are pleased with where we are.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: I think Yazier's development young player did some nice things
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: in the preseason, but still has some some work to
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: do and some growth as as he continues to you know,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: to get better. You know, Josh and Trayvon now going
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: into the regular season, you know understand I think where
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: where where they need to be and how they need
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: to affect the pass rush, you know it Obviously where
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Folly was beginning of camp, I mean he was, he
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  Speaker 3: was dominant, he was, you know, aggressive this foot, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of setting back a little bit, but we're expecting
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: him back this week and and really get him back
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: to that that full potential that he had, you know
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: early in camp. You know, I guess the one for us,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: you know, Devon was the one that was kind of
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: the shocker, you know, with everything, and we're just we're
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: just happy that he's he's healthy and heading in the
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: right direction. But that's a that's a big one, you
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: know from a pass rush standpoint, But big bodies are
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: and and pass rushers are hard to come by, you know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: and and you just got to continue to develop your guys.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: What you see from Caleb and I mean that. You know,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: he's another one.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: You know, I liked where he was at at the
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: end of last year, how he came into training camp.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: He's another one that's gonna get a lot of snaps.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: This year he's going to be in a you know,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: as a number three, you know, outside Russier. He's gonna play,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: and he's gonna have to play, and he's gonna have to.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Play at a high level.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: He understands that, so been pleased where he's you know,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: where he's at with the storm.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, how much does that disrupt you guys?
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I know you're not in the building too much this
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: this week as players. We'll keep an eye on it,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: you know, obviously late tomorrow into Wednesday, you know, and
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I think all day Wednesday, we'll just monitor that and
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: and see see where it's where it's going.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Uh. You know, we we went through this last year,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you know, obviously.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: With a couple of storms that came through, and and
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: this one might come a little bit closer than those
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: two did. So we'll just we'll just keep an eye
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: on it, you know, and and make decisions as we
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: as we go. But you know, we got this place
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: and indoor facility if we need to use it. So
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: we're we're looking forward to them.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Started against
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm