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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Playing With Confidence, Prep for Jets · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Uh William RHNG has been flowered for her causally year talk.
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  Speaker 2: Is that something that's on.
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  Speaker 3: Your mind right now? And you now and I mean
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  Speaker 3: that's the furthest thing from your brain at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: You're look, You're you're so focused on the day to
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  Speaker 3: day in terms of just trying to keep getting better
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  Speaker 3: as a group. We're learning so much every day that
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's that's not even close.
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  Speaker 1: Just have to take aways to your adaiter sceptions.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see on tape? Are they are they
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  Speaker 2: breaking up pass and just haven't had some luck.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they definitely have their hands on you know. I
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  Speaker 3: mean they're they're playing sticky match coverage and you can
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  Speaker 3: definitely see their ability to attack the football when it
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  Speaker 3: is in the air. I just haven't gotten one down yet.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Aaron Glenn and Steve Wilkes like do
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  Speaker 3: a really good job in terms of the back end
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  Speaker 3: and they want to be aggressive and play sticky match
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  Speaker 3: coverage at times.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a good blend of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a matter of kind of getting their hands on
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  Speaker 3: one and taking it down.
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  Speaker 2: Is a team overall?
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  Speaker 1: The Jets are three and three in their last six,
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  Speaker 1: So what areas of improvement are you seeing from the Jets?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the specials.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, the special teams unit can score right
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  Speaker 3: in both the return games and punt and kickoff return
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  Speaker 3: at any time. Has definitely provided a sparkman one of
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  Speaker 3: one of the best special teams units in the National
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  Speaker 3: Football League right now, and they can score from anywhere
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  Speaker 3: with those backs and with some of those skill players
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  Speaker 3: they've had, So you can just see that they're they've
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  Speaker 3: definitely taken steps in terms of improven as a team.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a process, right and usually they're you got
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  Speaker 3: good leadership and discipline within your organization and your team,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to see some sort of improvements which they have,
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  Speaker 3: and they're playing fast in all three phases.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit at the quarterback position, especially if it
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  Speaker 1: has cooked the undrafted cre agent Rooky. How do you
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  Speaker 1: prepare for somebody limited action last week and otherwise I mean,
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  Speaker 1: do you go back wops the deserted.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's definitely things you take a look
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  Speaker 3: at from from the past and with all three of
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  Speaker 3: those quarterbacks that you have to be kind of prepared for.
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  Speaker 3: So all three of them a little bit different in
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  Speaker 3: their own way, but also from a what they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to do offensively coming from Detroit. You know, they want
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  Speaker 3: to be able to run the football, be physical. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's where it really starts for those
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  Speaker 3: guys and whoever's playing quarterback. You know, we just got
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that we're prepared for.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like clicks Maybe for Trevor over
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  Speaker 1: the last four weeks, but particularly the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Too, I think just you know, definitely has a great
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  Speaker 3: understanding throughout the week of the plan. He's worked very
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  Speaker 3: hard at going through I think some of the reads
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  Speaker 3: versus maybe different looks or what we are expecting versus
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  Speaker 3: maybe what could occur, and going through that with Spence
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  Speaker 3: and Grant a lot, and just throwing he's been throwing
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  Speaker 3: it well, Like he threw it really well in practice.
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  Speaker 3: I know, practice doesn't always carry over for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: You try not to.
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  Speaker 3: Over analyze it that much, but like when we were
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  Speaker 3: soaking the ball up pretty good on Thursday, he was
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  Speaker 3: spinning it really good, and he has been. He's been
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  Speaker 3: throwing it good, I think for especially the last four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: As you mentioned, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't it's not anything necessarily that's changed, like about anything
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  Speaker 3: that we've done with him or he's you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think he's just starting to feel more and more comfortable
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  Speaker 3: within the system and within the guys that he's playing with.
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  Speaker 2: Quarterback can play comfortable and be that confident. What does
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  Speaker 2: it do for the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's huge, especially to be able to, like I
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  Speaker 3: said the other day, attack every blade of grass offensively.
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  Speaker 3: That's something that not just the offense feels right, but
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  Speaker 3: the defense and special teams as well because of being
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  Speaker 3: all this sustained drives.
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  Speaker 2: And be able to create some explosives.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's definitely something that gets momentum, I think for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the team, and anytime your leaders are
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  Speaker 3: playing at your best and playing at their best, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a good sign for your team. Run home back
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  Speaker 3: that week's like two months.
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  Speaker 2: Is that something that's exciting, something to help you guys, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think so, I hope so.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think that from a schedule standpoint, especially
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  Speaker 3: for us as players and coaches and staff, it's been
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  Speaker 3: It's definitely a little helpful when you're knowing that you're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna head out west again soon.
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  Speaker 3: So it's one of those things that You're able to
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  Speaker 3: get into a little bit different routine being at home
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  Speaker 3: for two weeks, and the guys just their schedule, their
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  Speaker 3: travel and all that is definitely helpful. It impressed you
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  Speaker 3: have guys have been able to kind of stay focused
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  Speaker 3: on just the next game and I'm looking too far ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I'm making anything more than what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's our jobs together. It's so any
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  Speaker 3: given Sunday in this league, as we know, and so
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  Speaker 3: we're not in a position to be thinking about anything
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  Speaker 3: else but today and having a great day of preparation
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  Speaker 3: and work and practice and get ready for third downs tonight.
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  Speaker 3: So that's got to be the focus about brace Hall
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  Speaker 3: in both the run in the past is where you
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  Speaker 3: know he's a he's a weapon to score at any time.
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  Speaker 3: He's been doing that since Iowa State. You know, the creative, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the creativity when he does get the ball in his
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  Speaker 3: hands and he's bigger, strong, athletic. I mean, he's got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of tools. And I just remember always thinking
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  Speaker 3: he's just a darn good, damn good football player. He's
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  Speaker 3: just somebody want to try to get the ball to
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  Speaker 3: in so many different ways.
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  Speaker 2: So very a lot of respect for him.
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  Speaker 1: Week.
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  Speaker 3: Was that injury related or are related or just more.
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  Speaker 2: More more out.
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  Speaker 3: It was just kind of the way the game was
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  Speaker 3: was going a little bit, and you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of weird. We just never got into a great rhythm
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  Speaker 3: running it at times. So it's just we go forward
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. I have a couple of successful runs
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  Speaker 3: when backward a little bit, and just never got into
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  Speaker 3: a great flow. So we're gonna need to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to continue to ascend and when he gets the ball
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  Speaker 3: out in space, you know, being able to make some
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  Speaker 3: of those guys miss at the in the secondary so
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  Speaker 3: that he can go use that elite trait that he has,
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  Speaker 3: which is you know, role and so that's something that
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  Speaker 3: we need from him to continue to move forward as
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  Speaker 3: an offense.
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  Speaker 1: You guys hit on the deep ball pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about how the precedent was even in the ring.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awesome to see some you know, hard
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  Speaker 3: work payoff throughout the course of the season practice mamba periods,
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  Speaker 3: and to see it payoff on Sunday was definitely beneficial
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  Speaker 3: for us, you know, just getting BT going, but not
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  Speaker 3: just him, but you know, Tim getting a couple of
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  Speaker 3: down the field shots too, so that was great to
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  Speaker 3: be able to get a little bit more explosive in
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  Speaker 3: the past game, for sure, and some of those balls
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  Speaker 3: were dimes.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of great patience from TJ in the run
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  Speaker 1: game setting up those blocks, and they just talked about
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  Speaker 1: his rod from which week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, TJ's I mean, he's been huge for us, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, when he gets going for us, he's
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  Speaker 3: he's definitely a really impactful player and both you know
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  Speaker 3: that we've seen in the screen game.
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  Speaker 2: As well, but not just that, but being able to hit.
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  Speaker 3: I think the good run on the first touchdown was
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  Speaker 3: a really good run because you're center, you're in goal line,
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  Speaker 3: and somebody's gonna be free, and so he ends up
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  Speaker 3: doing a great job of just hitting it and running
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  Speaker 3: through contact and falling forward into the end zone. And
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  Speaker 3: then you see on the second one where he's now
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, you know, behind a few blockers, but
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  Speaker 3: is him in space being able to go make somebody
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  Speaker 3: miss and score as we've seen a few times this season.
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  Speaker 3: So the more we can get him going, the better.
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  Speaker 3: You said on Monday, that's important you guys to let
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  Speaker 3: your gas.
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  Speaker 1: Just how do you go about in stealing that and
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  Speaker 1: making sure the team doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep on the Yeah, that's we just have no room
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  Speaker 3: for it at all. We're just not in a place
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  Speaker 3: where we can, you know, say that when you're when
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to improve as a team and there's still
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  Speaker 3: a lot to continue to correct on tape. It allows
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  Speaker 3: us to keep coaching and to keep trying to improve
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  Speaker 3: as a team. You know, mature football teams don't let
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  Speaker 3: any of that creep into our minds and into our
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  Speaker 3: thought process. And so that's the message right now.
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  Speaker 2: Mainlanden done enough to earn a starting spot. Who's I
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  Speaker 2: think so?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's definitely he's played enough really
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  Speaker 3: good football for us. You know, we've we've got a
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  Speaker 3: great situation right now where you've got depth at multiple
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  Speaker 3: positions of people that have had had.
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  Speaker 2: To play for us a lot.
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  Speaker 3: This shows up in multiple positions all throughout the team,
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  Speaker 3: right You can point to the defensive side of that
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  Speaker 3: for things, receiver position, I mean a lot of different
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  Speaker 3: positions that guys have been fortune and enough to you know,
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  Speaker 3: step up, play well, help lead us, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: get to where we are right now. And the message
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room is, hey, guys, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of guys that are coming back right now, and for
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  Speaker 3: us to continue to go where we want to go,
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  Speaker 3: we got to use that as an edge, and that
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  Speaker 3: depth and experience that we've gotten has to be collective
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  Speaker 3: and having a team first mindset about everything we do this.
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  Speaker 2: Late this season.
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  Speaker 1: How often do you introduce a brand new play based
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  Speaker 1: on opponent, based on what you are what?
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  Speaker 3: It's extremely seldom are there variations as you learn more
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  Speaker 3: about guys that they maybe put them at a different
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  Speaker 3: spot and how much you enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: Part of get back in the lab.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of more. I would say.
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  Speaker 3: What it's about at this time of the year is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just trying to maybe show and run the
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  Speaker 3: things that you do you've done well or you've maybe
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  Speaker 3: done before, and may try to make it make it
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  Speaker 3: look a little bit different than maybe what you've put
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  Speaker 3: on tape. And that's the chess match that continues to
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  Speaker 3: evolve in this league and you see so many great
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  Speaker 3: examples of it when you watch tape on throughout the
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  Speaker 3: week of everybody around this league and how creative people are,
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  Speaker 3: and and then the defenses obviously trying to match and
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  Speaker 3: do different things that are really cool to see as well,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of smart football coaches in this league, So
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  Speaker 3: you just got to make sure that you're finding a
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  Speaker 3: balance between new repetition and just kind of changing the
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  Speaker 3: picture on these guys.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets return game two punts and a kickoff, they've
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  Speaker 1: returned for touchdowns. You guys have had experienced Tennessee obviously
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  Speaker 1: was really accomplished in that. How much does that experience
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  Speaker 1: help preparing for this matchup? And who have been some
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  Speaker 1: of the guys in coverage that have really caught your
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  Speaker 1: eye through off the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think our special teams units have you know,
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  Speaker 3: rose to many occasions and played at a high level.
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  Speaker 3: Heath and Luke do a great job getting those guys
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  Speaker 3: a solid plan each week to go and attack, but
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  Speaker 3: also be prepared. And I think if you really look
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  Speaker 3: at Antonio Johnson's continue to be a really good gunner
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  Speaker 3: for us this year, Jarian Jones done some really good things. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Lane is one of the better ones that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've been around in terms of the way that they
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  Speaker 3: those guys have played, and I just think it's been
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  Speaker 3: a really group affre Quent Morris has been phenomenal on
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  Speaker 3: kickoff at times, you know, Devin Lloyd's played a kickoff
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  Speaker 3: for weeks guys like and it's hard for people to
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  Speaker 3: block him. So it's just great to see the excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: the coverage units with the mindset mentality that they've had
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  Speaker 3: this year, and then Cam and Logan being on it.
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  Speaker 2: They took the defense down to the studs.
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  Speaker 1: I guess a little bit by week. Guys are obviously responded, who's.
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  Speaker 2: That New York? You said, no, oh oh camp? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Why does that mean? Yeah? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I've always just been told, you know, obviously young doing this,
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  Speaker 3: not many years, but like I've just always heard from
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  Speaker 3: you know, college to early on coaching at the IVY
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  Speaker 3: in the IVY League too, the CAA or the SEC
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  Speaker 3: to the NFL was like, when you're struggling, just you
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  Speaker 3: got to go back to fundamentals and basics and technique
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  Speaker 3: and doing the things that they h that you know
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  Speaker 3: are going to be pillars of your you know, fundamental
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  Speaker 3: of your foundation of what you believe in, what you
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  Speaker 3: want it to be. But also look at, okay, what
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  Speaker 3: is too much for these guys to handle and what
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  Speaker 3: allows them to go and just play fast because that's
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  Speaker 3: what it really is about. There's so many plays, there's
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  Speaker 3: so many routes, there's so many coverages and blitzes and
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  Speaker 3: stuff that you can do and you maybe want to do.
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  Speaker 3: And when your players can can do it all, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's great, but.
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  Speaker 2: That sometimes takes time.
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  Speaker 3: And for us to get good at anything, we got
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  Speaker 3: to get good at what we want to be for
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  Speaker 3: the most part, like what do we really want to be,
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that's something that they looked at
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  Speaker 3: doing and I think that's what it comes down to
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  Speaker 3: play calling. Just one more on the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: The third and nine to Tim has gone or sorry
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  Speaker 1: not to the Jets. So the last week against the
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  Speaker 1: third and nine to Tim has gotten a lot of
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  Speaker 1: love nationally.
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  Speaker 3: When you look back on.
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  Speaker 2: That play, is it the play design?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Tim?
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  Speaker 3: Is it Trevor?
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  Speaker 2: What did you take was that the zero blitz that
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  Speaker 2: he spun out of there? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean that was you know, we'd like to
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  Speaker 3: have been in a different protection there, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: we've something that we obviously would have not had a
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  Speaker 3: free runner on there. But what I'm proud, what I'm
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  Speaker 3: proud about that that play is that's two guys making
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  Speaker 3: a play like, that's what that is, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we had good runaways versus Man, but that's Trevor. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't win the cycle of snap pre snap right
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  Speaker 3: because we didn't get the right protection, but he makes
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  Speaker 3: a play and made an unbelievable throw and that's just
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  Speaker 3: two guys like playing football and making a play and
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  Speaker 3: being at their best when their best is required. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what really makes you pumped about watching
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  Speaker 3: those kind of plays is because that's guys doing it
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  Speaker 3: and that's within yeah, within the scheme, but man, they're
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  Speaker 3: helping us. They're getting us out of a bad situation.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's kind of the cool give and
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  Speaker 3: take with playing and coaching is when they can have
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  Speaker 3: our backs too, I mean, and we have each others
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  Speaker 3: like that. I think that's pretty cool to see