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Press Pass | Head Coach Doug Pederson Reflects on the 2023 Season · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You had, contrast to last year where you got really
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  Speaker 1: fortunate and do NFL coaches just kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: you do what you can to get them in shape
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  Speaker 1: and get them ready, and outside of that, it's hooked
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  Speaker 1: up to whatever happens on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, gosh, you never know, you know, each
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  Speaker 2: year is different, right, Some years you have very few,
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  Speaker 2: some years you have quite a few, and and for
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  Speaker 2: us this year it was quite a few, but it
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  Speaker 2: was it was the it was the ones that you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys were missing four games, right, the ir missing four games,
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  Speaker 2: and it disrupts a lot of a lot of things,
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  Speaker 2: disrupts them individually. We could disrupt you know, a unit,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in our case potentially, or particularly the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the amount of injury there, especially on
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  Speaker 2: the left side, guys that missed cam situation. You know,
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  Speaker 2: so it all, it all can impact you know, your
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  Speaker 2: football team. But we we never want to use injury
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  Speaker 2: as a as an excuse to why we win or
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  Speaker 2: lose games. It's it's our job to make sure that we,
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  Speaker 2: you know, prepare everybody to play, and the players who
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  Speaker 2: are elevated, it's their job to get themselves ready to play.
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  Speaker 3: What way making any changes to your staff at this time.
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  Speaker 4: At this time, I haven't. I'm still processing everything. You know. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: we just finished the season.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take the next a little bit here
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, think about everything, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: with the way we finished, and and it's it's not
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  Speaker 2: where we want to be, obviously, And I got to
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  Speaker 2: take all this into consideration. Where is cutting out all
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  Speaker 2: of this turnovers rank for Trevor in his priority list
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  Speaker 2: that you gave him to.
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  Speaker 5: Work on this off season.
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  Speaker 4: I think it is number one.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the biggest thing, you know, that that he.
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  Speaker 4: Has to.
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  Speaker 2: Focus on, you know, moving forward. We just we just
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  Speaker 2: can't have you know, this amount of turnovers. How we
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  Speaker 2: turn the ball over, where we turn the ball, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. We just we gotta you know, we gotta
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  Speaker 2: protect the football.
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  Speaker 4: It's the number one thing, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna probably end up twenty nine thirty
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  Speaker 2: thirty one somewhere down there, you know, in in in giveaways,
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  Speaker 2: and and you know that also doesn't take into consideration
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  Speaker 2: that turnover on downs too, you know, those are giveaways
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  Speaker 2: as well. So but yeah, you know, for the quarterback obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the person that touches the ball every snap.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta make sure that that the emphasis is taking
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  Speaker 2: care of the ball.
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  Speaker 5: Because of all the turnovers. How the season sort of ended.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel at all that this season was a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of a a step back from where you
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  Speaker 6: guys were last year where it seems like you guys
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  Speaker 6: were growing up and.
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  Speaker 5: At the end here it seems like it just trickled
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  Speaker 5: down just a bit.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like it's a step back or how
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  Speaker 6: are you feeling about moving forward?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I feel fine moving forward. I just think how we
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  Speaker 2: finished the last six games the year. How we did it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we had we had opportunities to win
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  Speaker 2: these games. It wasn't like we were out of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of games, you know, down the stretch here it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's we lost the game more than them
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  Speaker 2: winning the game, you know. And that's really that's really
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  Speaker 2: kind of been our season. When you take a look
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  Speaker 2: at the whole thing, and I tried to communicate this
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  Speaker 2: with the team, it's like everything is connected, right, everything
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  Speaker 2: is connected.
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  Speaker 4: Go back to week one, Week two.
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  Speaker 2: We play the Chiefs in Week two and I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: to the team how this could have playoff implications even
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  Speaker 2: in week two, and then week three you play the Texans,
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  Speaker 2: This could have playoff implications right for the AFC South.
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  Speaker 4: And then you show up here.
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  Speaker 2: Today and it's like, oh, okay, that's what he's talking. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we can't get to that point. It's it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be that sense of urgency where everything matters and and
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  Speaker 2: this is all part of teaching the team how to
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  Speaker 2: win and preparing to win and and you know, focusing
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  Speaker 2: in on preparation and doing all those little things that
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  Speaker 2: that as coaches we talk a lot to our players about.
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  Speaker 2: And we can't just push it aside and say, oh, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we got twelve more games or fifteen more games, or
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  Speaker 2: were we still got a three game lead in the
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  Speaker 2: division and it's okay, It's it's really not, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because you can't. You can't let things slide. You can't
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  Speaker 2: let things slip. And and you know that that sense
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  Speaker 2: of urgency is important to the success we have, especially
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  Speaker 2: down the stretch here when you know when everything began
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  Speaker 2: to matter.
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  Speaker 7: When several players today said this is now part of
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  Speaker 7: our story. I assume that came from some of your messages.
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  Speaker 7: How much do you think that this can feed through
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  Speaker 7: the offseason and in the next year. This feeling of disappointment.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I think it's I think it is fuel and
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  Speaker 2: motivation for how we move forward.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you know you're you're only as good
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  Speaker 4: as your last.
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  Speaker 2: Game, and we weren't very good yesterday, and it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a Yesterday's three hours was kind of that
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  Speaker 2: snapshot of how our season has gone, especially the last
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  Speaker 2: six games, and and you know it, it has to
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  Speaker 2: fuel it has to fuel everybody's desire to want to
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  Speaker 2: win and to be great and just can't let things.
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  Speaker 2: You can't let your preparations slip. As we talked about,
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  Speaker 2: you can't let you know, a rep in practice go
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  Speaker 2: by without making sure it's it's done properly and and
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  Speaker 2: all of that.
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  Speaker 4: And that's every but that's me.
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  Speaker 2: It's all the coaches all to play, everybody together making
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  Speaker 2: sure that that doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 6: Did you feel like there was a lack of that
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  Speaker 6: with the in terms of coaching, making sure that everybody's prepared,
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  Speaker 6: doing the extra rep if it's not there. Did you
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  Speaker 6: feel like at times you got slipped in that area.
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  Speaker 2: I think you get you get down the road during
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  Speaker 2: the season, and and sometimes you do as coaches sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we say, you know what, we'll get that in the meeting. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll fix that in the meeting, and you do, you
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  Speaker 2: fix it, But I want to fix it on the field.
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  Speaker 2: If if Trevor makes a poor decision on the field
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  Speaker 2: with a throw, let's let's let's positive reinforcement. Let's let
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  Speaker 2: him get it again even though he knows exactly where
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  Speaker 2: to go with the ball. Let's make let him make
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  Speaker 2: that decision differently.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, but I think sometimes we get we get caught
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  Speaker 2: up too much and you know, let's fix it in
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  Speaker 2: the meeting and we'll fix it tomorrow, when when in reality,
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  Speaker 2: we need.
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  Speaker 4: To fix it right then. And and.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's just ownership by everybody involved and making
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  Speaker 2: sure that that we we stay on top of those
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  Speaker 2: situations and and.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we don't let him happen.
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  Speaker 5: Speaks to the sense of urgency you were talking about, right, Doug.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any point in the season in which you
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  Speaker 3: thought about taking like calling back that you maybe which
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  Speaker 3: you which you had or looking that.
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  Speaker 4: No, not at all, you got.
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  Speaker 5: Your way presses first year is full time play call?
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  Speaker 5: How you thought that went?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it went I thought it went good. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: can it be better? Yeah, it can be better, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I I think at times it's you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: when you struggle, when you struggle offensively like like we
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  Speaker 2: did at times. You know, I don't care who's calling
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  Speaker 2: plays you're looking at. You might as well look at
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  Speaker 2: that thing with your eyes closed and just pick a play,
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  Speaker 2: quite honestly, because it's hard.
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  Speaker 4: It's difficult. I've been there, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, you're trying to find that one play or a
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  Speaker 2: spark that gets your offense rolling. And and and with
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  Speaker 2: the struggles that we had at times, that's that's a
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  Speaker 2: difficult thing to do to try it, whether it's in
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  Speaker 2: the run game or the past game, whatever it might be,
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  Speaker 2: and and so and then and then you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: the amount of the amount of turnovers. Right, you go
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  Speaker 2: up and down the field, you turn the ball over
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  Speaker 2: in the red zone. Right, you just can't do this,
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  Speaker 2: not play calling. It's not the scheme or the design
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  Speaker 2: of plays. It's just having the urgency of we got
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  Speaker 2: to protect the football better.
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  Speaker 4: Things of that nature. You jump off sides. Now you're
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  Speaker 4: first in fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now you're looking at first and fifteen and anticipating
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  Speaker 2: maybe being second eight, second and seven, so all that
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  Speaker 2: everything we do matters, right, And so as a play caller,
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  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, you want to be as efficient as
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  Speaker 2: you can, especially on early downs. But but at times
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  Speaker 2: you get you get you get handcuffed just a little
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  Speaker 2: bit by by trying to find the right the right play,
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  Speaker 2: especially when you're struggling as an offense. But I thought overall,
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  Speaker 2: Pressed did a nice job of organizing the offense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the game planning that we did, and even even calling.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think I'd have to go
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  Speaker 2: back and look at all the numbers, but I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, points and different things like that, we were
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  Speaker 2: better and and you know, you know we can still
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  Speaker 2: get better on third down, the red zone, all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, he did, he did a nice job. You
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  Speaker 2: need to make significant changes on that offensive line along
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  Speaker 2: the interiors.
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  Speaker 5: Could the run games be better?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I just think we need to stay stay healthy. I again,
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  Speaker 2: it's when when guys are playing, when guys are playing
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  Speaker 2: together for three games, it's not long enough because then
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  Speaker 2: we're making another switch, right, another gig gets hurt and
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  Speaker 2: we got to make another and then they're playing together
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  Speaker 2: for three or four more games, and then Cam's out
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  Speaker 2: for four games with an injury or something. And then
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  Speaker 2: you know, so the consistency and the continuity that that's
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  Speaker 2: what that's what really drives the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: And and then and.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about it in here too, is you know,
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  Speaker 2: as a staff, we got to get back to what
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  Speaker 2: we feel are the best plays for for us as
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  Speaker 2: an offense in our backs and and and sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: get away, you know, we get away from that and
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  Speaker 2: and we uh, you know, we start searching for things
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  Speaker 2: that that uh to try to generate that you know,
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  Speaker 2: that run game a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Just just go back to the basics sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: things that we've we've been good at in the past,
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  Speaker 2: because that's the that's the one thing that we have
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  Speaker 2: the most reps on typically.
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  Speaker 6: So, did you guys put too much on Trevor when
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  Speaker 6: the running game's not working?
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  Speaker 5: This year's as as a whole? And then a bang
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  Speaker 5: of Trevor at that too, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, Uh, Trevor, I mean you ask, did we put
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  Speaker 2: too much on him? No, No, we didn't, we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He's very capable of handling you know what we gave
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  Speaker 2: him obviously. Now there might be times where we might
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  Speaker 2: have a little more in a game plan, you know,
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  Speaker 2: than than than one week, uh, that that might bog
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  Speaker 2: him down.
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  Speaker 4: And that's that's that's on us as as a staff
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that we don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Even the times where we felt he was coming off
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  Speaker 2: an injury, we we tried to scale it back just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. You you but listen, you got you
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  Speaker 2: still have to go into a game. You never want
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  Speaker 2: to handcuff your team right and not give them the
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  Speaker 2: right stuff, right, the right information or put us into
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  Speaker 2: a better into a better play. But I didn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like at any time we we uh, we overloaded him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's very capable of handling all the all
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  Speaker 2: the information.
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  Speaker 4: Smart guy.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, in fact to the point of, you know, hey, Trevor,
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  Speaker 2: you know when you sit down and talk to him,
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  Speaker 2: like tell me what you think, and he goes, I
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  Speaker 2: want these three plays out. Fine, let's take him out.
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  Speaker 2: And we did, you know, and and you know that's
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  Speaker 2: all that's all healthy, healthy for your team.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe rely might.
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  Speaker 6: Have been a better word to kind of get the
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  Speaker 6: offense going instead of maybe put too much on him the.
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  Speaker 5: Way I was.
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  Speaker 4: Rely on him, your quarterback. I mean, but.
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  Speaker 5: He had to be. I mean, you couldn't rely on
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  Speaker 5: the run games, so you kind of had to put
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  Speaker 5: it on.
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  Speaker 2: You got to put it on somebody, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: and and and the quarterback is you know, obviously the
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  Speaker 2: person to do that with. But I listen, I Trevor
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  Speaker 2: is very capable, and and we're very confident in that
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  Speaker 2: and with him, and and so I didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: it was too much at ever any one point.
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  Speaker 8: And you spent a lot of time on the tape
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  Speaker 8: and the scheme that plays and all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: But how much of your next couple of weeks is
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  Speaker 5: going to be consumed with why? Why?
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  Speaker 8: With everything on the line in Nashville yesterday and your
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  Speaker 8: team didn't play well?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 5: It just how much of that?
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  Speaker 8: It wasn't the first time this year with a big
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  Speaker 8: game that they didn't play their best?
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  Speaker 5: How do you evaluate that? How do you put your
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  Speaker 5: finger on what that might be?
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  Speaker 4: I think it start it started today.
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  Speaker 2: Listening to players and in the private conversations that I
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  Speaker 2: have with guys, and just to kind of feel them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and get a gauge. I think I think
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  Speaker 2: that's gives you a pretty good insight, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: one of the things I feel like is the strength
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  Speaker 2: of mind is gauging our players. And I felt the
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  Speaker 2: same way with some of the conversations I've had already.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think I know the whyse right, which
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  Speaker 2: are my wives? They're not going to be your wise
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  Speaker 2: And it's all it's all correctable and fixable moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: and and and it's good information obviously for me as
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  Speaker 2: I lead the team in the future, you know, into
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  Speaker 2: the off season, in the in the in the off
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  Speaker 2: season program and and how I can begin to construct
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  Speaker 2: messaging and leadership and all that kind of stuff to
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  Speaker 2: help us not be in this situation again.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have to do things dramatically different than you've
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  Speaker 6: done or of course in your career to change these.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not. It's not those types of changes.
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  Speaker 2: And it could be as easy as just the communication, right,
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  Speaker 2: the messaging with the team, and how.
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  Speaker 4: How I approach that come.
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  Speaker 9: To you assess Calvin's year obviously coming back from everything,
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  Speaker 9: and just how much interest from your perspective with it
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  Speaker 9: being him coming back, just knowing that a second year
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  Speaker 9: just for Trevored, everything would probably yield maybe different results.
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  Speaker 2: Calvin was was a right spot for us offensively. We
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  Speaker 2: were excited to have him, uh here. He was definitely
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  Speaker 2: someone here down the stretch that we relied a lot on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously with Zay and Christian and in the
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  Speaker 2: situation there at receiver and and you know, obviously a
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  Speaker 2: player that we've all liked on offense, and and he's
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of talent and and you know, he
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  Speaker 2: made us better, you know, as a team, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you hope that that things potentially work out. You never
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  Speaker 2: know how you know, how things go. It's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a crazy business. But Calvin was definitely a bright spot
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  Speaker 2: for us offensively.
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  Speaker 5: How challenging will it be to evaluate Travis's season?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he did pretty well, not going the boy
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  Speaker 6: at zero pumbles a thousand yards, but like you said,
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  Speaker 6: the Abbits of Wine had issues maybe the basic play
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  Speaker 6: calling and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: What how challenging is it to evaluate what he was
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  Speaker 5: able to do? And how or how do you evaluate it?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: You just go back and just watch the film, sure,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean you just gotta you just gotta
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  Speaker 2: break it down and and and see if you know
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  Speaker 2: what he's doing matches up with what the blocking scheme
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  Speaker 2: is and all of that, and can we can we
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  Speaker 2: help him get even better. You know, he played several
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  Speaker 2: games kind of in the middle of the year banged
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  Speaker 2: up too, and and that affected him. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't himself a couple of a couple of games in there,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I thought he was healthy at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year. You know, he ran hard, he
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  Speaker 2: played faster, you know, at the end. But it's just
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  Speaker 2: a matter of going back through, you know, the season
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  Speaker 2: as we as we will you know, in the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks, and and just evaluating everybody. And this
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  Speaker 2: is a big week because you know, we'll evaluate all
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  Speaker 2: the players that way, you know, and evaluate our roster
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  Speaker 2: as we move forward.
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  Speaker 7: What was more alarming for you this season? The offensive
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  Speaker 7: struggles or the defensive breakdowns?
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  Speaker 2: Offensive struggles defensive breakdowns. I listen, you're yes, and yes,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the offensive struggles kept us from scoring, kept
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  Speaker 2: us from winning games, and the defensive structule struggles and
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  Speaker 2: breakdowns kept them. You know, if we if we if
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  Speaker 2: we communicate better, if we execute better, if we're if
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: we're disciplined, in the in the in the gaps, ski,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: you know, the run integrity, you know, we're we're better.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Right on the defensive side, miss tackles, tackle better. You know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: we're we're a better team.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And so this is the complementary part of football that
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: that I don't think we were very good in. You know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: this year, offense turned the ball over. Defense we expect.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: To stop defense, you give up a touchdown.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Offense, we expect you to go down and score, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: So that was a big part of it too, you know,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: but but I think those are equal equal, you know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: to both sides.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: What about the rookies that played Anton and tang brand.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Later, Yeah, I really I really liked our rookie class.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I liked last year's rookie class. I mean, these guys
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: really stepped up this year. They were they were asked
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: to do a lot. I thought Tank really improved as
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: the season went on. And and he you know you
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: saw yesterday with the kickoff returns and some of the runs.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: He's a bright spot. And and excited about that. Brent
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: in the same way, I think we can we can
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: do more to get him involved offensively. That's something we'll
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: look at this spring. You know, Anton, heck of a
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: season you know, he played hurt and banged up, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you know we've talked about it in here.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: I mean he had you know, he had an edge
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: rusher every week, you know, just about and uh, he
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: held up really well.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: He in in just I know, our guys talking about
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: him know that he's gonna be a great player and
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: you know, and that's that's one that we're excited about obviously. Uh,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Antonio Johnson, you know, we liked him obviously coming out
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: of training camp. He had to set back with the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: hamstring obviously, so it'd have been interesting to see how
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a full season would have been with him and his growth.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: But you know he's on the right track, you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: on the right track as well.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: So it's been a.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It's been a good, good class, a lot of contributors
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: there and and you know, looking forward to them helping
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: us in the future and just.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Obviously going into the spring as a coach, what do
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: you think is what you guys need.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: To make you well, I listen, I I think those
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: conversations are to be had. You know, we're not there
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: yet obviously, you know, but but uh yeah, it's you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: we'll take a look at everything as we as we
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: move forward second.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Year picked two years ago, Trayvon Walker, Devin Lloyd before
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: what kind of steps did they take in here too?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Well, Trayvon, you know ten with ten sacks, I think
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: coming out of yesterday just you saw the improvement there
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and and he's on the right track and and really
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: excited about him. And he's he's a you know, he's
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: somebody that that teams have to account for, you know.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: And I thought Devin took a step in the right direction.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Still can continue to clean up some things and work
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: on some things this spring, but I thought things kind
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: of slowed down for him this year, you know, And
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and uh, it can continue, it can continue to get
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: better for him, you know. And Luke, we you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you talk about Trevor. We asked a lot of Luke.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: You know, he handles things extremely well. You know, he's
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: had to go against some some pretty good tackles interior
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: alignment as well, and he's held up. He's held up
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: pretty well. Continue to work on strength and you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: and and different things like that. But it's it's a
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: good group. It's a good group of guys and and
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: we're excited. It's uh, it's it's the foundation you want
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: as you build your team.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: To challenged you guys, what was your meeting with him
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: like today?
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: If you met with him and he gave him high five,
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: told him great job.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: How important is to getting him back?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, obviously something will evaluate. But but yeah,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I mean the type of year he had and and
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: obviously that's what we expect, you know, out of him.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: He expects the same, and so yeah, if we can,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: if we can work it out, I gosh, you'd love
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: to keep him, you know, and and you want him,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you want him to be a Jaguar for forever. And
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: so these are all the tough decisions and conversations we
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: got to have in the in the coming weeks. And
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: and you know, obviously he did he did his part
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and and put himself in a good position to to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: make it uh, to make it interesting and tough, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and you know, I'm excited for the for the future obviously,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and and you know, hopefully we can get something done.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And see trying to instill that in the players themselves,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: especially as crunch time December. That's do you sense that
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: in your conversations with the Trent shot that they also
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: expressed that that there is there is a sense of.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Urgency that the window is now.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we all feel that, we do.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: We all feel that, you know, conversations I've had with Shad,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: you know, over the last several weeks, really since.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Week one, you know, I mean, you only get so
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: many windows in this.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: League, and and we feel like with the personnel that
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: we have and will continue to add, you know, our
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: window our windows now, you know, we we've got to
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: make the most of our opportunities. And and you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: trans trends the same way, you know, and we continue
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: to to build the roster that way and continue to
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: add pieces.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: And and we just we just can't have we just
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: can't have the collapse like we did this year.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Because you feel like now the season sort of wasted,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: right because you had a great opportunity, you know, to
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to win the division and we didn't.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: So we have to live with that, you know, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: and and we have to own it, and we got
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: to learn from it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: But you know, I still feel like, you know, we
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: still have the best football ahead of us, you know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: moving forward.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: The delicate balance though of being looking at yourself in
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: the mirror and being honest and then not trying to
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: return last year you turned twenty one or twenty two,
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: starters go nine and eight. Again, it wasn't the improvement
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: that you were looking for. Is that a tough balance
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: to figure out? How many guys do we move on from?
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: How many how where can we get better? How how
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: much better can we be with the guys we have?
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: You see, Yeah, no, I see what you're saying.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is it's uh, you know, every year,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: much like your football season. You know, games are week
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: to week, and now we're year to year, and you
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: learn from last year, and we're gonna learn from this year.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You know, names and faces are going to change, right,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: that's just the nature of our of our business and
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the way it is, and and and we just got
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: to make sure that we continue to learn from, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the previous year. Now, I think one of the things
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: we can do better is not live in the past. Right,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you can learn from it, but don't live there if
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: you're If you're living there, you're.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Not moving forward.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: So we got to constantly keep moving forward with everything
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: we do, all the decisions we make, and they got
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: to be in the best interest of the Jacksonville Jagwarks.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: Players said yesterday, even today, they lacked the spark or
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: lack the fire, lacked that use, something kind of like that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Josh elaborated on that a little bit more today, since
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: felt like in December we were spending a lot more
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: time on fundamental football, whereas last year we were focusing
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: on riding that wave of momentum just winning football games.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: And he says, that kind of felt like where.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: Things were where things lost this year. What's your perspective
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: on kind of where things went bad in that December?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I see it both ways.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're not working on fundamentals, you're not
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: getting better and and so yeah, we've got to continue
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to work on the details.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Right. The fundamentals are what are going to win if
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: you if you're working on.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Something consistently, then it's going to be consistent in a game.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: And that's when your fundamentals take over.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And you know, I mean, yeah, we we caught fire
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: last year, maybe because everything was new and and you know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: much like you know some of the teams we played
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: here at the end, you weren't playing safe for a
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: whole lot. Maybe some pride and you catch a little
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: fire and next thing you know, you find yourself in
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the postseason.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: So yeah, you can. You can ride that way.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I think of emotion, I don't think that's necessarily sustainable
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: over just execution, taking care of the football, preaching at penalties,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: staying in your gap, tackling offensive players.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So, and those are fundamentals, and and sometimes the lack
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: of fundamentals showed up even though we worked on him.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: As he said, some of those lacked down the stretch here.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Okay, thanks question