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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence, Liam Coen & Grant Udinski Recap Day 1 of OTAs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It feels good just to be I guess we've been
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: on the grass, but to compete a little bit. You know,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: last few weeks has been trying to get everything in,
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  Speaker 1: get the offense of the defense, in working separate, and
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  Speaker 1: now get to compete a little bit. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: so we all love to do. That's that's fun to
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  Speaker 1: get the competitive you know, juice is flowing, and to
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  Speaker 1: kind of see our offense come together and then also
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: see our defense which we haven't gone against yet. Is
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  Speaker 1: it's always it's always good.
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  Speaker 2: What are your early thoughts on Travis Hunter? I mean
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  Speaker 2: you haven't seen a ton of them.
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  Speaker 1: Just yeah, I got a lot of juice. Like he
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  Speaker 1: can he can run all day, a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Good energy, always dapping guys up, just
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  Speaker 1: bringing juice every day. And like I said, high motor
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  Speaker 1: can just go. It's like a kid just runs around
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  Speaker 1: all day. He doesn't get tired. It seems like so
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  Speaker 1: you can't have enough of that. And then as far
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  Speaker 1: as just talent, I mean kind of speaks for his self,
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  Speaker 1: ball skills, run after the catch, he's very explosive. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize how exposive he was in and out of cuts.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's impressive to watch, and we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: to connect a couple of times. It's not only gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep getting better and better. You know, we've only worked
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  Speaker 1: together for a couple of days now, so we got
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  Speaker 1: some time to really dial in on the details.
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  Speaker 3: Ship with the receivers. How difficult is that done with
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  Speaker 3: him split in time corner wide receiver? That a challenge?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you work around all that. You get
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  Speaker 1: as many reps as you can, you talk as much
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  Speaker 1: as possible, you know, not just out here, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: out here after reps, after seven on seven team reps.
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  Speaker 1: If I see how he did something and I think
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  Speaker 1: he can do it a little different, or if he
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  Speaker 1: likes to do things a certain way, he can kind
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  Speaker 1: of voicet to me, you know, both of those things.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the building, you know, in the meeting room,
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  Speaker 1: watching tape, installing talking about kind of what I'm looking for,
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  Speaker 1: what coaches are looking for on certain concepts. Just to
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  Speaker 1: get him up to speed, because obviously he's learning a
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  Speaker 1: new system and he's super talented, really smartened, but it
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  Speaker 1: takes some time to learn the system. So we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to just get him up to speed and so he
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  Speaker 1: can go and play fast and free and not have
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  Speaker 1: to think about it today versus.
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  Speaker 4: B two a year ago to now.
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  Speaker 5: How would you evaluate?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just I think, you know, obviously the talent's always
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  Speaker 1: been there, but I mean the confidence obviously, the off
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  Speaker 1: the year he had and what he's done now he
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  Speaker 1: has a full year on his belt where you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the top receivers in the league. I
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  Speaker 1: think my confidence in him seeing him do his thing
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  Speaker 1: for a year now and just you get that one
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  Speaker 1: on one you feel really confident about about our guy.
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  Speaker 1: So just a lot of confidence in im. He's smart,
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  Speaker 1: he's picking up it's another system he's learning. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's two years in two systems, and just been impressed
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  Speaker 1: by how he carries himself. You know, the work he
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  Speaker 1: puts in. You can tell your studies because he comes
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  Speaker 1: in here, he knows this stuff. It's not an easy
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  Speaker 1: system to learn, and he's done a really, really nice job.
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  Speaker 3: You missed the last six games, seven games, whatever it
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  Speaker 3: was the chemistry between you and b T Is it
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  Speaker 3: taken a second to kind of readjust to that chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think not a ton obviously, just
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  Speaker 1: getting back into throwing. You know, I went for a
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: solid three and a half plus months without throwing, just
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  Speaker 1: with the shoulder deal and so starting to throw a
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  Speaker 1: little bit for OTA's and then working into I feel
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  Speaker 1: real good now. I feel like my arm's back in shape,
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  Speaker 1: feel like i'm i'm I'm getting sharper and sharper every day.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it was more that than necessarily getting
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  Speaker 1: the chemistry back with BT. I felt like we were
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  Speaker 1: just starting to get that last season and obviously went
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  Speaker 1: down and we weren't able to finish the year together.
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  Speaker 1: But just being able to even though I wasn't playing,
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  Speaker 1: be able to watch his one on one reps, the
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  Speaker 1: stuff we were doing with him last year and the
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  Speaker 1: situation she was put in, and how he was able
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  Speaker 1: to adapt and play the slot and move outside and
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  Speaker 1: really take advantage of every matchup. I think that also
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  Speaker 1: gave me a ton of confidence and seeing like, this
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  Speaker 1: is a guy where you can move him anywhere, you
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  Speaker 1: can do anything, and he's gonna just find a way
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball because he's act good.
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  Speaker 2: You make the system. Where are you at with that?
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  Speaker 5: What are you like that?
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  Speaker 1: I really like it? You know, it has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of answers. You know, it's it's it's great. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it puts a lot of the players you have to
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  Speaker 1: know your stuff, but it gives you all the answers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're not you don't feel like you're stuck
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  Speaker 1: in a play that's uh not set up for success.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It gives us a lot of answers, and
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  Speaker 1: uh we change the presentation a lot and make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things look the same. You know, there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of without going in too much detail,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of things that I like
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  Speaker 1: about it. And it's definitely unlike any system that I've
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  Speaker 1: learned before. So it's been cool to learn and and
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  Speaker 1: just pick the coach's brain and and try to get
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  Speaker 1: it down as fast as possible.
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  Speaker 2: You have it, you have to take the test up
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  Speaker 2: to the passive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we don't have we don't have everything
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  Speaker 1: in yet. You know, we build up to that. But
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  Speaker 1: from what we have in so far, yeah, i'd hope. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what I've been working to try to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get it all, get it all down. I
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  Speaker 1: feel good about it, you know, just got to now
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  Speaker 1: take it from knowing it to second nature, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to where you don't think about it. You hear the
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  Speaker 1: play call, you split it out, you go play, and
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  Speaker 1: you play fast and you're not thinking about it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's always kind of a transition when you learn a system,
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  Speaker 1: you got to get it down to where you can
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  Speaker 1: just react.
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  Speaker 6: Mentioned a few things that you knew you wanted to
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  Speaker 6: work on as far as your footwork and things of
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  Speaker 6: that nature early in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling with that progress.
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  Speaker 3: I'm believing.
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  Speaker 2: I feel really good.
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  Speaker 1: It was something I was able to work coming into
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  Speaker 1: OTAs is just on my own when I first started
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  Speaker 1: throwing for a couple of weeks before we started. It's
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  Speaker 1: able to work the footwork and it was foreign to
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit then, but now it feels more comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: And then just having a ton of banked reps through
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  Speaker 1: all the weeks that we've done of ot or Phase one,
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  Speaker 1: Phase two and now into the OTA practices, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling more and more comfortable, and yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: really gonna help me. I feel very confident and my
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  Speaker 1: feet aligned where I want to go, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: progressions and tying my feet to my progression and being
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  Speaker 1: balanced and being able to get across the field quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's been really good and just gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep working it does It doesn't come overnight, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: come in four months either. It's gonna take a while,
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  Speaker 1: so just keep working at this whole offseason.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of those you wish you could have back
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  Speaker 4: out there today. I mean, what can you learn from
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  Speaker 4: I mean passes like that at this time of years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I really just sailed one at Travis over the middle.
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  Speaker 1: He did a nice job. We had a cross route,
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  Speaker 1: had him open and just sailed a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: sav So I picked that one off he was behind him.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other one just me and Parker being
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  Speaker 1: on the same page at a curl route and trying
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  Speaker 1: to throw it away from the zone defender underneath, and
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  Speaker 1: we were just a little bit off on what each
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  Speaker 1: other was thinking. So that's the time of year where
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  Speaker 1: you worked that stuff out. Obviously, you never want you
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  Speaker 1: never want to have interceptions. You don't want to have
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  Speaker 1: balls on the ground. You want to be clean. But
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, it's stuff you want to see,
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  Speaker 1: the miscommunication or some of that, so you can fix
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  Speaker 1: it now and not carry that over you know, later on,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll fix that stuff and we'll get cleaned up
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  Speaker 1: as we got.
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  Speaker 5: Time for two More, is the footwork stuff, stuff that
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  Speaker 5: you had not worked on before.
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  Speaker 6: Is a specific to what Liam wants to do offensively
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  Speaker 6: or was it just.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, famental.
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  Speaker 1: It's more of a both. I'd say there's some fundamental
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I agree with that we've watched kind of
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  Speaker 1: throughout the off season and say that this is some
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you know, I can work on to maybe better,
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  Speaker 1: more accurate, a little bit more on time, and all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff transfer my way a little bit better. Then
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  Speaker 1: there's stuff that's just kind of system based that's different,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as far as this the starting point of
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  Speaker 1: my stance flipping that which changes how you drop, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so that was a big change. But that's more of
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  Speaker 1: the system and kind of what the system prefers. And
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  Speaker 1: I agree with a lot of that or all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's helped me. But so it's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of both, if that answers your question. And
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  Speaker 1: it's really specific as far as the concepts go without
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  Speaker 1: work and the details and all that stuff is just
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  Speaker 1: kind of knowing and drilling my feet. So when I
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  Speaker 1: when I hear the call and I and I do it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not thinking, all right, what's my drop? It's just
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  Speaker 1: you've done it so many times you don't think about it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you wish you had more consistency and continuity than
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  Speaker 5: you've had here conjackually? I mean, you're working on your
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  Speaker 5: third center in three years, third offense, third o feed,
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  Speaker 5: new receivers, new line.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a situation we're in. I really
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  Speaker 1: like what I really like the people we have here now.
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  Speaker 1: I love the system. I love the staff, the players
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  Speaker 1: that we brought in along with the guys that we're
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  Speaker 1: already here. I feel very confident in where we're going
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  Speaker 1: and the trajectory we're heading. Can't change the past. You know,
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  Speaker 1: of course I would have loved to have a little
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  Speaker 1: more success up until this point. To answer your question, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: of course, But you know the reality is, this is
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  Speaker 1: where we're at, and I and I love where we're at,
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  Speaker 1: and I got a lot of confidence in it, and
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  Speaker 1: we just got to keep putting the work in out
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  Speaker 1: here every day to prepare ourselves for the fall.
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  Speaker 5: You said they needed you needed juice here. You needed
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  Speaker 5: more juice here. Do you feel like you guys have it.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely there's an energy on the practice field. I think
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  Speaker 1: that starts with obviously Liam. He's he's a very energetic guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's passionate, loves football, loves to be out here. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's one thing I've noticed about him from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning is a lot of energy, and that trickles down
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  Speaker 1: through the staff, right, So I mean it's that and
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  Speaker 1: then also the players that we have a big variety
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that they brought in and free agency,
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  Speaker 1: they all fit what we're trying to do in the
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  Speaker 1: in the I guess the culture and the energy, and
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  Speaker 1: then even a guy like Travis bringing in who's just
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  Speaker 1: full of energy and positive and you know, a playmaker,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. It's cool seeing it all come together
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  Speaker 1: and it seems like everything's well thought out about the
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  Speaker 1: type of people that are here, not just the talent.
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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not really as much judging that at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's definitely we got to get used to
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  Speaker 4: practicing in these elements. We've definitely uh been working them
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  Speaker 4: in terms of the conditioning piece, so I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Not exactly worried about that at all.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you know, day one off of a
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  Speaker 4: you know, longer weekend and a little bit of energy
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  Speaker 4: probably you know, up and trying to do all the
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  Speaker 4: right things and do it at a high level, probably
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  Speaker 4: lose some legs and a little bit of focus. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that's kind of what happened today a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: but good opportunity to turn it around tomorrow, Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the.
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  Speaker 3: Offense and coming back from the shoulder.
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  Speaker 4: And not good, you know, not good. We're trying to
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  Speaker 4: get better, right, I mean, we're not even close, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're working towards you know, playing in September obviously, and
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  Speaker 4: so at this point it is strictly how much can
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  Speaker 4: we actually learn from every day. We're not evaluating, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe some of the things that you would normally evaluate
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  Speaker 4: in a game right or in the season. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: how many mental errors do we have? How much can
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  Speaker 4: we continue to be disciplined with our communication formations, alignment
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  Speaker 4: assignment A we're going to catch every ball and throw
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  Speaker 4: every ball out here in the first day at phase three,
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  Speaker 4: I would assume not. But more in terms of the
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  Speaker 4: operation the communication, are we understanding what we're trying to
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  Speaker 4: get accomplished out of the calls. It's a learning phase,
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  Speaker 4: not necessarily a competitive phase. And do you want to
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  Speaker 4: be cleaner?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Do you want it to look perfect?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we all do. That's just not the reality at
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  Speaker 4: this phase, this time, in this phase. That's kind of no, No,
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  Speaker 4: not at all, not at all. No. He's mentally that
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  Speaker 4: he's done a phenomenal job, this guy in terms of
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  Speaker 4: his work ethic, the what he's put into this thing,
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  Speaker 4: and his own and his own time while he's here
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  Speaker 4: the play calls, handling, the load and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I've been very impressed with you said that.
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  Speaker 3: You were going to do this around having seen to
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  Speaker 3: get all for the first time on the field, going
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  Speaker 3: up against defense.
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  Speaker 4: Just what did it look like to me young? You know,
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  Speaker 4: in terms of just hey we got it first day,
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  Speaker 4: putting it all together. You know, it's not going to
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  Speaker 4: be as clean as you'd like it to be, as
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  Speaker 4: as I kind of already alluded to. But what's cool
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: is you do feel a little bit of an energy.
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  Speaker 4: Saw Travis make a couple of plays when the ball
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  Speaker 4: went his way. You see the hands that he does present.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Deanmi Brown had a really nice day prior
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  Speaker 4: to kind of getting a little bit. I mean he
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: was feeling it. I mean these guys you could tell
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: talking to him. Yeah, they were feeling the heat. They
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: were feeling their legs a little bit. And ultimately, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's what this is all about, is trying to get
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  Speaker 4: those back underneath ourselves, getting better into football shape. You
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: can run, you can do all these things all you want,
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: but until you start going out there in football and
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  Speaker 4: doing it, it's a different feel.
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  Speaker 2: What's your question at Tyson Gambell with the players.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he's done a nice job so far I have.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he has those fluid movements, long rangey. I
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  Speaker 4: thought he had a nice day specifically today, but also
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: leading up into today. I just think he's done a
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: nice job stacking blocks. He's got good vision on the
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: quarterback right now, playing a little bit of a different
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: scheme than he's been playing over the last year and
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: being a little bit more vision on the quarterback, patience,
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  Speaker 4: playing a little bit of off man.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I just think that that's kind of where he's going
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  Speaker 4: to be able to excel. He's got confidence right now,
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  Speaker 4: which is always good from a corner. I've been really
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  Speaker 4: pleased with Tyson thus far.
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  Speaker 5: What is your approach for handling ones like the starters?
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  Speaker 5: Do you do you rotate that day to day, week
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  Speaker 5: to week. It's day.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's rep to rep honestly, I mean it's
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: rack to rack. Is really kind of what we talk
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  Speaker 4: about is Hey, getting guys in with the ones in
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  Speaker 4: the first rack and then slide in with the twos
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  Speaker 4: with the next rack, and trying to give guys opportunities
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  Speaker 4: without like I said, knowing they're not truly getting judged
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  Speaker 4: and graded on the you know, competition right now it is.
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  Speaker 4: We will always want to compete in everything that we're doing,
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  Speaker 4: but ultimately it's about trying to create that continuity at
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  Speaker 4: times within the system, within the offense and defense and
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  Speaker 4: the calls. So there's really no like, hey, these are
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  Speaker 4: the starters that are going to be out there first
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  Speaker 4: game against Carolina. Do you have some ideas? Sure, But
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  Speaker 4: ultimately there is a lot of competition that will occur,
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: especially throughout this offseason and as we get in the
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking with Carolina, the schedule get drop just plug your
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  Speaker 3: initial take on that and any obviously, every game is
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: important to any game that they look forward to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think ultimately you look at the
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  Speaker 4: first one, right, and it's against a team that we
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: played twice last year, had you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 4: good games against obviously Indivision opponent in Tampa, and obviously
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  Speaker 4: a team that's you know, continuing to grow. Right, They're
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  Speaker 4: a team that you know, new head coach last year
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  Speaker 4: trying to get into it showed some really good signs
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  Speaker 4: I thought at times last year's Dave's doing a great
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  Speaker 4: job with that team and that organization. So that's the
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  Speaker 4: one that's obviously circled at the moment. And like you said,
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  Speaker 4: they're all hard, right, they're all tough. Any given Sunday,
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: anything can happen, and we just have to kind of
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: take care of ourselves at the moment and get better
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: each day.
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: You see groups running between drills, is that one of
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: your philosophies to really be keep moving and moving.
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not out here all that long at the
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: end of the day, and so you know, the whole
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: thought process is just, hey, keep moving. You know, from
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: a conditioning standpoint, if we're going from the drill to
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: drill and we're buzzing around and we're not walking on
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: the field. Well, we don't have to sit here and
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: do extra conditioning after. They have to go with the
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: weight room staff and go do extra conditioning. You know,
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: that is a philosophy thing for us as a team
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: and just keeping guys moving, keeping it going. Ultimately, do
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: we do need some breaks, We need to let them
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: kind of cool off and give give their thoughts a minute.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: But I thought they you know, handled it for the
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: most part, well.
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: Today all that young guys.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, developmental, Yeah, that's kind of a developmental period that
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: we use towards the end of practice to kind of
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: get those young guys, the rookies specifically in those reps, right,
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: just getting them true full play calls in a jog
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: through setting where man, it's more about again the alignment,
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: assignment technique, fundamentals, and just trying to give those guys
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: some more reps that maybe they're not getting in the
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: course of the normal practice.
• 14:29
  Speaker 7: We through one or two joint.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: Practices, one as of right now, one as of right now. Yeah, Miami, Miami.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot about the progress of the offense so far.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: Just what are your thoughts that were things stand with
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: the defense So now they're taking them from.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: The classroom to the field.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: I actually thought they they did some really good things today.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: I thought, just from a communications standpoint, punching the ball out,
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: doing it in the right way though, right, we had
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: a couple guys just trying to be intentional about getting
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: the ball out and getting their hands on the football,
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: something that we're you know, actively trying to be intentional
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: about this whole offseason. And I thought the defensive staff
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: has done a great job of communicating that in the
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: meeting settings. Bringing it out to the practice field, I
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: thought that they did a nice job kind of setting
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage, playing with length on the D line,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: and you know, the ball was out. I mean, the
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: ball was on the ground too many times for us offensively,
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: but hey, on the flip side of it, that's the
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: first time as a head coach you actually kind of
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: have to be very neutral in those moments where I'm
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: kind of ticked off that the ball is on the
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: ground from an offensive standpoint. But ultimately, man defense did
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: a nice job of getting the ball out there today.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: For us, defense is ahead of the offense at this stage.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: At this I mean, I think always, you know, the
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: defense is typically always ahead you know, it's just it's
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: a it's a little bit more of a go line up,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: reactionary kind of phase, if you will. Uh, there's a
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: lot I'm not you know, diminishing what they have to learn. Defensively,
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of calls, a lot of different fundamentals
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: communication that has to occur. I think naturally you would
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: say offensively, there's a lot more that ends up maybe
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: slowing you down pre snap and post snap. But yeah,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: I mean I would, I would hope that the defense
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: would be a little bit further ahead.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I think typically that's the
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: case as you go all the way through training camp
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: and as you go into the season.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: That's Travis under handling all the information, taking it from
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: classroom to field.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, so far, so good. I mean, he
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: had a couple missed assignments today that you know, he
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: knew right away. He came off the grass and took
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: accountability for him. The one thing he noticed is a
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: guy that hasn't played a ton of football or you know,
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: been out conditioning maybe for the last two months because
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: he was on a little bit of a tour. The
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: guy can run forever. I mean he just kind of
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: goes runs are out runs, back runs. I mean, he's
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: you could tell he's in he's in football shape, and
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: he was you know, he's done a nice job. You know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Edgar Barrett, the coaches, Ron Milis, those guys have done
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: a great job of meeting with him when they've had
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: time to do so. And Travis's worked all getting this
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: stuff right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Quickly and down day.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Princeland here so you can please to see you know
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: what that ultimately gets if it's voluntary, right, and you
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: have to all we ask is ultimately, if you're not
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: going to be here, can you communicate to us in
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: a timely manner. And that's been consistently getting better as
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: we've gone, and it really has over the last few
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: weeks gotten so much better just from a clear communication
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: on you know, what are the expectations if you're going
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: to be here. We're setting schedules, we're setting up individual
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: work that we want to be individualized for some of
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: those players and anybody. So I've been pleased with the
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: guys that have obviously been here and working. They've done
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: nothing but uh, you know, do what we ask and
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: that they've been doing it from day one, they've they've
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: worked their tails off. They seem to have good energy
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: at all times, and it's not always easy to come
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: out and be buzzing around. Ultimately, these guys are it's
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: their jobs, but they've done their jobs to a high
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: level thus far.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Host looking.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you put the ball on the ground today.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: It kind of stands out. But I thought last week
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: as we were kind of getting more into the scheme
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: and he was getting a little bit more comfortable, I
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: thought he started to get a little bit more into it,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: had a couple better runs of feeling the zone and
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: being able to stick his foot in the ground and accelerate. So,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: you know, good learning experience. You know, first time in
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: a live setting in the National Football League and your
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: first carry. Hopefully you learn something from that moment. But
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I think all all together, that room, that running back
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: room has done a nice job in terms of the competition,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: the acceleration, and the teaching for some of those young guys,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: and also the veterans doing a nice job of trying
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: to help those guys out as well. Yeah, thanks guys.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: A lot of work has gone into it. So still
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: long ways ago, but it's awesome to get out.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Here that speed of receiver with Thomas Brown and Hunter,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and how special.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: It can that be for you guys.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: It tried too early to say right now how special
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: it can be or where that you know, metric is
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: to measure that. But I know that that'll be a
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: weapon for those guys individually and for us as a
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: unit to do the things that we want to implement
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: from a scheme standpoint or from an individual attacking routes,
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: building round trees, those types of aspects.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: For those guys are getting the work where crowd is
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: getting on them a little bit.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Of the news last week. It's been a lot of fun.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It's been a lot of fun.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: I'm sure you guys see it him out here, the
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: dancing at the practice, the fun, the love of the game.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: That's one of the cool things about not just him,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: but all the guys we brought in. They're guys that
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: love football, and I think that's a parent the way
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: they practice. So it makes our job a lot of
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: fun to get out here on the grass with those guys.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: Whether it's on the grass or it's in the meeting room,
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: it's that same energy and passion for the game or
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: passion for being around their teammates that they bring every day.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Oh tough. It's a guy who's trun ale on the
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: offense and the defense at the same time. You have
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: to kind of utilize every second you have with them.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you're definitely going for maximum efficiency. You're trying to
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: optimize the time. So it's different. It's a unique challenge,
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: but it's a fun challenge. It's an exciting challenge, and
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: he's the type of guy because of the that passion
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: and the love of the game who's up for the
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: challenge and can do it. So it is definitely different
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: compared to the rest of the guys in his schedule.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: But it's a unique skill set. It's a unique person
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: and a neat player. So that's been fun as well.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Where Trevor Ettel and theaybe learning the playbook so far,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: he said he probably could pass a test right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Now if he had to.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: He said he could pass the test. Well, I don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: know if the I don't know what these counts as
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: tests will necessarily qualify as tests.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: But he's done a hell sorry, heck of.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: A job studying and preparing for practices and meetings.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of work.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: It's a lot of work to learn the system and
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: to get to the point where it's second nature, where
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: he's out there playing and not thinking and he can
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: process things at that speed that he'll play at. So
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: it's still a work in progress. We have a way
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: to go and we have time to build that. But
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: he's done a great job putting in the effort, putting
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: in the time to get to where he is right now, do.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: You find crossover terminology for him? Where's that on him?
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: To learn the all the new terminology.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: It's a team effort and everything we do, so there
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: certainly is a meeting in the middle in terms of
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: trying to make things accessible for him and the easiest
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: way for him to consolidate information.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: We try to deliver it that way.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: But there is an element of learning a new language
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: because it is a new system.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Now there are similar things that he's done.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Before that will apply to what we do, but it's
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: a new way of doing it or a new way
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: of communicating that that is still going to bring some
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: element of new, regardless of it if it's the same
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: route or same scheme or concept that he's run before.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Some of the industros, there's a lot of involved with
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: the quarterbacks. Just how intentional is that to kind of
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: simulate what they might see in.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Their Yeah, I would say that I would hope that
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: all of our drills have some intentional element of it
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: in terms of practicing a specific skill or fundamental that
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: whether it's an individual guy wants to work on or
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: we want to work on and develop as a group.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Every day we step out on the grass, there's something
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: specific that guys are trying to work on, and everything
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: we do there's something deliberate that we're trying to practice.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: What do you learn that are first time or New
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: year communism? A lot, a lot.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: We probably spend the all day here if I listed
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: it all, but I think I've learn first and foremost
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: about the people that I'm doing it with, because a
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: lot of these guys I had interacted with but not
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: spend a ton of time working with. And it is
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: such a human element to it where there are different personalities,
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: there are different people, not just the players, but the
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: coaching staff. So kind of learning that workflow and the
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: dynamic and trying to find a groove between strengths weaknesses
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: how to optimize that workflow. That's probably been the biggest
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: thing I know.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: It's what are your impressions of the OMNI so far?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, helmets and short so we'll see.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: But he's been another guy where you look at Travis,
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: you look at BT, you look at the speed of
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: that group running off the ball. It's exciting to watch
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: those guys run off the ball, but more than anything,
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: the way they work. I think you see how intentional
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: and deliberate he is, not just in the individual periods
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: like you talked.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: About the receivers, but even in the team periods.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: His attention to detail, trying to do everything in a
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: way that expresses that everything matters for us, whether it's schematic,
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: his footwork, his hands, the way he's dropping his weight,
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: the way he's running routes. He's really deliberate with the
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: way he practices, and that attention to detail is kind
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: of contagious, not just in the receiver room, but hopefully
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: across the whole offense.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Coach going touched on with that that this is the
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: learning phase. It's less about the competition and aspects. From
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: your point of view, how do you feel about any
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: mental errors or just getting in and out of the
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: huddle From that vantage.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Point, yeah, I would echo his sentiment. We want our
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: guys to come out here with a growth mindset. We're
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: out here to improve, So of course we're trying to
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: win games come the fall, but the number one priority
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: right now is just to improve. And in order to
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: do that, you have to be willing to fail and
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: have that growth mindset.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: On plays that are going to be challenging, things.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: That guys haven't had a lot of time practicing or
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: walking through different looks that stress the guys mentally and physically.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: So not only coaches, players, everybody is hopefully out here
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: with the growth mindset and focused on that improvement on
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: a daily basis.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: You got your feet last night in the community with
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Tom Coughlin Day Fund. How was it seeing the community
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: come out to that in your first day fun event?
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: That was really special? That was really special. First of all,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: I was incredibly grateful that they even invited me. I
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: sat down at the table, and I think that people
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: thought I was at the wrong table because they put
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: a little a celebrity folded. He's a paper there and
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: they're like, A, so, somebody tell this guy, this is
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: reserved for a celebrity.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: But I was like, ah yeah, So I sat down.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Everyone was super nice, super friendly, and everyone really across
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: the community, like the people I've run into haven't been
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: out of the facility too much, but when I bump
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: into people, super positive and I'm extremely thankful.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: To be here with the people of Jacksonville. Been amazing,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: absolutely amazing.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: It's been asked yet, but have you made your mountain
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: hiking determination for the summer.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: No, I'm still trying to figure it out.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: I'm a little more impromptu than I probably should be
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: with some of these strips, so I'm thinking I'm kind
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: of going back and forth between South America and New Zealand,
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: but I kind of probably should get some stuff planned
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: right now. Any recommendations, I'm all ears in New Zealand. Yeah,
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: I'm all ears for any recommendations.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: In Minnesota.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: During practice really kind of in a similar setting the
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: way we did here when we do two spots or
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: the one offense, excuse me, the one defense is up
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: against the two offense and you split, so you go
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: over to a second field and have the opportunity to
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: call it and run the drill. So that was really
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: my opportunity to do that there, so mirrored pretty similarly
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: to what I was able to do here.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys, Thank you guys.