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Press Pass | Liam Coen Talks Readiness for Carolina Panthers Matchup in Week 1 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: All right, guy's good.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you talked about him a little bit on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: but just in terms of what you guys saw even
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  Speaker 2: before the draft and everything, you know, what, what does
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  Speaker 2: he bring.
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  Speaker 1: To the table.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was impressed with t Max Tape and and
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  Speaker 3: you know new Jet Fish pretty well that had worked
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  Speaker 3: with him at at Arizona and just said it just
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  Speaker 3: really really good athlete, could be darn good hooper volleyball.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever he kind of wanted to do, he was good at.
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  Speaker 3: You watched him throw a ball was pretty impressive too,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, gotta be ready for any kind of
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  Speaker 3: those trick plays, situations, whatever it is. But he can
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  Speaker 3: go up and make one on one contested plays, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a big, long frame that has a large
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  Speaker 3: catch radius and I think he's gonna be a darn
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  Speaker 3: good player in this league.
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  Speaker 1: You have to think reivers like him make zagger.
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  Speaker 3: Look at what kind of challenges your dvs. That's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we we've got to be able to make it harder
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  Speaker 3: on him with with changing the picture because they are younger,
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  Speaker 3: and try to give them different looks potentially, and so
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  Speaker 3: not everything they're seeing is exactly what they are expecting
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  Speaker 3: to get at times, and also you know, doing a
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  Speaker 3: good job within our zones, getting hands on reroutes things
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  Speaker 3: like that. I mean, when they're bigger dudes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you worry about at the catch point at times, like
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  Speaker 3: because of the size in the in the frame. So
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  Speaker 3: we've got to do a great job playing through their
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  Speaker 3: hands when we are at the point of attack, playing
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  Speaker 3: through our hands, playing with great technique.
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  Speaker 1: But those guys probably have to take that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit personal. In the dB room, that.
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  Speaker 2: You get four running backs active on game day, what
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  Speaker 2: would be the way you would kind of go through
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  Speaker 2: to the side.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can, you can.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they have to contribute on teams, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the big part of it, is the special
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  Speaker 3: teams of availability and dependability in those things.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, obviously what's the role.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, does that mean we're going to rotate four
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  Speaker 3: backs getting carries?
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  Speaker 1: I can't say that.
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  Speaker 3: At but you can if they're productive on teams and
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  Speaker 3: can help us in those areas and then also have
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  Speaker 3: a role within the offense. So that's the kind of
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  Speaker 3: challenge we're working through right now, is getting through some
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  Speaker 3: of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But it's definitely doable. It's just is that is that
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  Speaker 1: the best thing for the team.
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  Speaker 2: I would assume having Travis to kind of take two
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  Speaker 2: spots sort of helps that math a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit, he does.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's just you know, there's a few other
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  Speaker 3: positions that you have some some math issues as well,
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  Speaker 3: but it definitely helps with the ability for Travis to play,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of fill up two spots so that
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  Speaker 3: we can have that flexibility with that other position, you know,
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  Speaker 3: possibly running back transitioning.
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  Speaker 2: From you know the grind of training camp to weep one.
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  Speaker 3: Prep to beat around guys like McVeigh and talk bold
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  Speaker 3: kind of fig you a blueprint for how to.
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  Speaker 1: Do that effectively.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys both led in very different ways but
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  Speaker 3: got very similar responses from their players. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: just keeping in mind the rhythm of the week, in
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  Speaker 3: the monotony of the week, and trying to keep things
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  Speaker 3: fresh for these guys and to not completely crush them
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  Speaker 3: in the meeting room settings so that they're just sitting
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  Speaker 3: there for endless hours watching tape. So trying to create
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  Speaker 3: different scenarios, situationals, walk throughs, different settings to where we
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  Speaker 3: can continue our active learning and get these guys up
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  Speaker 3: on their feet a little bit, get them off their feet.
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  Speaker 3: You know, both guys did it very differently. But I
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  Speaker 3: texted Sean last night and said, you know, so much
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  Speaker 3: of what I learned from you, you know, for that
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  Speaker 3: time gets put into work every day and that was
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool to see any more knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: About this team when the game start. So how much
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  Speaker 2: do you know about this team right now?
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  Speaker 1: Week one?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think they've responded to challenges thus far
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  Speaker 3: that I've been proud of, you know, kind of everything
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  Speaker 3: that we've asked them to do in so many ways
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  Speaker 3: they've really worked their tails off to do, which we've
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  Speaker 3: all appreciated as coaches.
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  Speaker 1: Is it you know, the.
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  Speaker 3: Finished final product that we're all hunting up. No, it's not,
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  Speaker 3: but that's the beauty of it. But I do think
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  Speaker 3: that it's a it's a group that understands that they
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  Speaker 3: have an opportunity to improve, that we all have an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to improve and you know, improve our play style
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  Speaker 3: and the way that we finished, the way that we've
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  Speaker 3: played the game. I've been pleased with their response to that.
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  Speaker 3: How we handle a turnover or a touchdown, you know,
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  Speaker 3: giving up or a fumble like how we're going to respond.
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  Speaker 3: You don't truly truly know, but thus far from everything
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  Speaker 3: I've seen, I've appreciated their response.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, as we get closer figureback on what Johnson you
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  Speaker 2: had opening days before. This is the first one as
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  Speaker 2: the head coach. Is there a word you can use
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  Speaker 2: to kind of describe it. Is it excitement, anxiety or yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think I was talking to a friend of mine
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  Speaker 3: in California last night on the ride home at like
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  Speaker 3: eleven thirty and he was just saying, you got to
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  Speaker 3: take a moment to take that in. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: definitely didn't do that for the first three preseason games,
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  Speaker 3: so I do have to take it in. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a cool moment for me personally and professional, but also
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  Speaker 3: to do it with the guys that I'm able to
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  Speaker 3: do it with here in the building, Tony James, the
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  Speaker 3: coaching staff, the people here have been nothing but extremely
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  Speaker 3: supportive and appreciative of that. And to try to give
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  Speaker 3: the community and the fan base a product that they're
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  Speaker 3: proud of. I think that's kind of what weighs on
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  Speaker 3: you a little bit. Is you're excited to see your
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  Speaker 3: players go out and play.
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  Speaker 1: You're curious to see the.
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  Speaker 3: Responses to adversity and the challenges within a game, but
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  Speaker 3: you're eager to go and try to put a product
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  Speaker 3: on the field that people are proud of.
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  Speaker 1: It's just Britain strange made for you.
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  Speaker 2: Over the last month since camp again.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a pretty natural trust level between him
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  Speaker 3: and the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Him and Trevor have a good feel on some specific
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  Speaker 3: routes that they've had some success with over the course
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  Speaker 3: of you know, the last five months or whatever it's
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  Speaker 3: been six months, and so I think they there And
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  Speaker 3: there's also a trust I know between Trevor that Brenton's
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  Speaker 3: going to be in the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 3: The accountability piece, the play style, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: respect there mutually.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 3: And when he's gotten opportunities, he's made plays and he's
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  Speaker 3: caught the ball, been aggressive with his hands, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to see him with the ball in his hands
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  Speaker 3: in space a little you know, we see how people
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  Speaker 3: have to go and tackle him because he is a
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  Speaker 3: violent runner when he does get the ball in his hands.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited to kind of see how he's able
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  Speaker 3: to help us on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of difference could Traveztam make in terms of
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  Speaker 2: being able to afflex him around, moveing around just just
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  Speaker 2: all the different things that you want to do with
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  Speaker 2: running backs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an evolution, Like so much of what we
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  Speaker 3: were able to do last year in Tampa with those
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  Speaker 3: backs kind of evolved, right, And so week one, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Travis has been able to give us an.
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  Speaker 1: Opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's lined up in multiple different spots and handled
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  Speaker 3: the workload that we've given him that is different than
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  Speaker 3: just lining up either behind the quarterback or next to him.
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  Speaker 3: So I've appreciated that how much he's been able to do.
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  Speaker 3: And it also helps us in the screen game in
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  Speaker 3: the past game because he can catch it and make
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  Speaker 3: people miss in space.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, he's been he's been a good pro
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Like I've actually I've been really appreciative of the
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  Speaker 3: way he's gone about his work and gone about it.
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  Speaker 3: He was here yesterday him man Tank, we're in here
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and getting some extra work in. So we've got
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  Speaker 3: to use him as a guy that can help make
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  Speaker 3: plays because there's only so many players you can like
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  Speaker 3: dial like all right, if they have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do something with the ball to be special, to
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  Speaker 3: continue to take the offense to the next level and
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  Speaker 3: turn those ten play drives into four play five play
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  Speaker 3: drives to where we can create some explosives and not
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  Speaker 3: just get what the run kind of should get or
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  Speaker 3: the past.
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  Speaker 2: How the team will respond to adversity. Everything's kind of unknown,
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  Speaker 2: But is there a couple of things that you're more
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  Speaker 2: maybe concerned or curious about in terms.
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  Speaker 3: Of the unknown? Heading in you're always curious how you'll
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  Speaker 3: be able to run the football physically against another opponent,
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  Speaker 3: because you just you've gone against your own team and
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  Speaker 3: you get used to that, and so you get an
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  Speaker 3: evaluation only kind of based on yourselves in a few
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  Speaker 3: small samples in the preseason, like running the ball for
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  Speaker 3: four quarters effectively staying with it, grinding it out when
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  Speaker 3: you got to get north the thirty carries maybe to
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  Speaker 3: go win the game, and you know, you're just you're
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  Speaker 3: unsure of what that looks. I have confidence and believe,
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  Speaker 3: but you're not sure what that would truly look like.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, making plays on the perimeter, right,
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  Speaker 3: like that's something that you hope will show up.
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  Speaker 1: Right when a.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty to fifty ball opportunity comes or the balls in
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  Speaker 3: the air, like are we coming down with it or
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  Speaker 3: are they making a play on it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something that you're eager to go see
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Unknowns that you have about yourself or questions about yourself,
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  Speaker 2: like how you're going to handle certain things.
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  Speaker 3: No, you know, we've kind of talked about some of
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  Speaker 3: the fourth down stuff a little, and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think some of the preseason we've been able to get
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  Speaker 3: a few reps that if we want to be aggressive
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  Speaker 3: or not, and what that looks like in the game
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  Speaker 3: is always where it kind of changes. You have a
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  Speaker 3: philosophy on a mindset on these things. But like we
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  Speaker 3: talked about, we have cam that can kick it, we
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  Speaker 3: have Logan that can punt it. So the weather, the conditions,
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  Speaker 3: how they're playing defensively, Like, these are the things that
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  Speaker 3: are going through my mind right now when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to some of the situational football that just doesn't leave
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  Speaker 3: your brain. That's continuously thinking about throughout the work week,
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  Speaker 3: and shoot, some of it doesn't even come up, but
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  Speaker 3: you're going through it, going through it. You know, we'll
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  Speaker 3: do a Situational Masters meeting on Friday with the players,
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  Speaker 3: and then I'll get with John Dykma and Shane Waldron
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday and we'll do a whole nother kind of
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  Speaker 3: game management meeting where because that's the unknown for me.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't had to make those decisions in a game
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to the timehouse, the two point conversions,
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  Speaker 3: the fourth downs and all that. So you know that's
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  Speaker 3: a little unknown, but you're trying to get reps of
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  Speaker 3: it throughout the week and as well on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: John Dykeman Aunt Shane kind of you know, John uh
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  Speaker 3: did it in Detroit, you know for those guys, and
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  Speaker 3: he's uh, he's really sharp, very very intelligent. So have
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  Speaker 3: trusted the data and information that we've been providing, they've
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  Speaker 3: been providing for me, and they've had a great collaboration
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  Speaker 3: on that. When it comes to the situational stuff game management.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the descritt to be the last one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: consotlyating to grow and improve.
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  Speaker 3: But is there a confidence that going into week one
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  Speaker 3: that this team could get the job done in a
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  Speaker 3: game that they need to win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's confidence.
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  Speaker 3: I mean when we've executed in three phases the way
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  Speaker 3: that we'd like to execute every play. It can look
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  Speaker 3: darn good, you know it can. And then when we
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  Speaker 3: if we shoot ourselves in the foot or have pre
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  Speaker 3: snaps or you know, don't take care of the football
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it is, you know it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a tough day. Is those things are hard to overcome.
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  Speaker 3: And so we've talked about this from day one. Before
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  Speaker 3: we can really focus on and beat another opponent, we
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  Speaker 3: have got to stop beating ourselves. And that's something that
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  Speaker 3: ultimately you know, can creep in like it can happen,
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  Speaker 3: but we're trying to obviously stay in the positive growth
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  Speaker 3: mindset and okay, how do we handle the next play,
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  Speaker 3: Like as coaches work caddies on game day in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of ways like next shot, next shot, next club,
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  Speaker 3: next play, move on, Like well, we got to move on.
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  Speaker 3: Regardless of what just happened, good, bad, or indifferent, we
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  Speaker 3: got to move on. So, you know, I think those
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  Speaker 3: are some of the things that you're looking for that
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  Speaker 3: you're confident though in terms of you've seen what it
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  Speaker 3: looks like when we execute at a high level. Everybody's
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  Speaker 3: communicating on a high level what it could be. How
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  Speaker 3: do we do that more consistently through four quarters and
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  Speaker 3: then hey, we have a bad quarter, we have a
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  Speaker 3: bad half. Well, the game's not over, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: how do we continue to respond?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,