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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Team Makeup, Outlook Heading into Week 14 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, coach, are you doing good? How are you coach?
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: This team could have gone to one particular direction after
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: the loss to the Rams and after the loss in Houston?
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Why did it go in the opposite direction?
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: What is it about to make up with this team
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  Speaker 2: and maybe your staff that that enabled them to put
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: that behind them and move forward and do what they've
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  Speaker 2: done to this point.
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  Speaker 3: M You know, I think that as we've gotten closer
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  Speaker 3: as a team and with the staff, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 3: being fairly new, that there's a lot of uh, trying
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  Speaker 3: to prove you know, prove it in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people that are first timers in
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  Speaker 3: some of their roles and responsibilities. And then there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys that are are have been here maybe
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  Speaker 3: on the team in prior years, that are attempting to
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  Speaker 3: change the narrative and to create our own and show
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  Speaker 3: that hey, man, like we do have talent, and it's
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: more about there's a lot of talented teams in this league,
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  Speaker 3: but how you respond through adversity, how you continue to
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  Speaker 3: show up to work every day and get off the mat,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and get off the mat after tough losses
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  Speaker 3: and come back ready to play, and I think it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool to see it's trying to go one and
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  Speaker 3: know every week and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: But I think our process.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout the weeks, our leadership throughout in the in the
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  Speaker 3: building with these guys, the coaches and players to doing
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  Speaker 3: it together, I think has probably been have something to
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  Speaker 3: do with that. Is the collaboration between players and coaches
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  Speaker 3: being on the same page about where we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: go and what our goals are. I think has maybe
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  Speaker 3: led to some of the connection and belief that we've
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  Speaker 3: had throughout some tough times.
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  Speaker 1: And was it also in the tough times?
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  Speaker 2: Was it accountability but not dwelling too much on what
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  Speaker 2: happened in the past and not playing playing games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point.
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  Speaker 3: We talked a lot about that actually, about there's a
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  Speaker 3: fine line between accountability and almost self loath, right, like
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  Speaker 3: you put so much like it's one thing to take accountability,
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  Speaker 3: but when you start to put too much on yourself,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's a player or a coach, that can go
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  Speaker 3: in a wrong direction as well, because then you start
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  Speaker 3: to go down rabbit holes that anybody in life will
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  Speaker 3: go down when you have maybe bad things happen and
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  Speaker 3: the players and coaches of ability. I think to all right, man,
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  Speaker 3: like that was that was on us, that was on me,
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  Speaker 3: whoever it was individually, and then like, let's just get
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  Speaker 3: it fixed and move on, right Like, it's not we
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  Speaker 3: always talk about trying to coach the play and not
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  Speaker 3: always the player, right Like, everybody can learn from a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: It's not You're not going to get benched.
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  Speaker 3: Because you make a mistake, right Like, we also need
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  Speaker 3: to give ourselves grace through a long NFL season that
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  Speaker 3: people can learn from and grow from.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the important message. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. We'll go to d rog then to Jamal.
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  Speaker 4: Haleyum Trevor had a lot of success throwing in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the field yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed to be a.
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  Speaker 4: Little bit more than maybe at at earlier points a season.
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  Speaker 4: Was that just game plan stuff or was that just
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  Speaker 4: him being a little bit more confident in the guys
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  Speaker 4: that he's got in the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you guys said kind of something similar
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  Speaker 3: for the Chargers, right was the over the middle success
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  Speaker 3: kind of two weeks ago, So it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not anything new.
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  Speaker 3: It was just their coverages They played a lot of
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  Speaker 3: cover too, a lot of to Tampa, and coverage typically
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  Speaker 3: dictates where you're trying to attack people. So it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you don't just go into a week saying
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna throw the ball in the middle, or throw
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  Speaker 3: the ball on the outside, or throw the.
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  Speaker 1: Ball deep, or throw the ball short.
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  Speaker 3: You know, coverage typically dictates you know where you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to attack and what zones and areas of the field
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to manipulate.
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  Speaker 1: And it just so happened.
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  Speaker 3: That they were playing a little bit more soft zone
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  Speaker 3: in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Of the field that we were able to take advantage of.
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  Speaker 3: But to your point, I thought he was much more
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  Speaker 3: accurate through the middle of the field, which then allowed
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  Speaker 3: for some catching runs, which you know, we haven't had
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  Speaker 3: a ton of, right, Like a fifty yard pass this
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  Speaker 3: year is right the longest I think on the season.
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  Speaker 3: So that was great to have some catch and run opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: We still have some meat on the bone that we
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  Speaker 3: need to go and take advantage of. But I do
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  Speaker 3: think that you know, some of their just dictated where
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  Speaker 3: ultimately we were trying to go.
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  Speaker 4: With the football, And one of the Titans players, I
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  Speaker 4: guess after the game, said Logan Cook threatened to kill
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  Speaker 4: him in one of those altercations there, and that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of glowing up a little bit. I was just wondering,
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  Speaker 4: you know, your thought about whether that might have been
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  Speaker 4: across the line or anything, or if that's something you
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  Speaker 4: know that just happens during games.
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  Speaker 3: I've probably heard that said, like, I mean a hundred times,
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  Speaker 3: you know, from players in games.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever, thanks, we'll good to Jamal, then.
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  Speaker 5: To Mia, Hey, coach, this has been an interesting journey
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  Speaker 5: for you. I know, the goal coming in obviously was
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  Speaker 5: to be playing these important games in December.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've seen it come to reality. What's this?
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  Speaker 5: I mean this season kind of been like for you
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  Speaker 5: to kind of see how this team has grown and
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  Speaker 5: really be the one leading the charge.
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  Speaker 2: The whole way.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think ultimately you always want to you
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  Speaker 3: do want a team to be essentially player led, right,
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  Speaker 3: and to have leadership within in terms of how you
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  Speaker 3: structure the day to day, the scheduling, the building, the operation,
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  Speaker 3: all that right, and you want the players though at
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  Speaker 3: some point, to kind of take it over. And you're
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  Speaker 3: still in that position but allowing them to have that
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  Speaker 3: freedom to lead and to be themselves and to let
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  Speaker 3: their personalities you know, continue to show as well as
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  Speaker 3: the assistant coaches, Like you don't want it. You want
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  Speaker 3: everybody's edge and superpowers to be a part of why
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  Speaker 3: we have success or what we do on a day
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  Speaker 3: to day basis. And I do think you see some
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  Speaker 3: of the personalities be able to show and the guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, having fun playing with an edge. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can see Campy's personality in that defense and and
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  Speaker 3: that's cool to see. So you know when you have
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  Speaker 3: players that it means a lot to them, there is
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  Speaker 3: something to prove. There's, uh, you know, an edge to
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  Speaker 3: our team that I think that shows up on our
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  Speaker 3: tape when you turn it on in all three phases
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  Speaker 3: and ultimately, like that's what you're you want as a coach,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's the best compliment I think you can get
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  Speaker 3: as a coach is that your players play their tails off.
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  Speaker 3: Like I would rather hear that than man, y'all, y'all
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  Speaker 3: execute and have great scheme.
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  Speaker 5: And do you feel like Trevor, I mean, was that
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  Speaker 5: Trevor's best game of the year in your eyes?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'd have to look at like watching it in an entirety,
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  Speaker 3: you know, compared to other games of the season. I
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  Speaker 3: think what stuck out in stood out obviously was you know,
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  Speaker 3: ball security, taking care of the football. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: obviously got behind the chains and behind this in the
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  Speaker 3: second half a little bit there. That didn't allow us
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  Speaker 3: to maybe open it up from a past game standpoint
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  Speaker 3: as much as we would have liked to in the
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  Speaker 3: second half. But I think when you look at the
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  Speaker 3: explosives and what he was, I think on throws past
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it was, like fifteen yards in
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  Speaker 3: the first half or whatever, you know whatever that ended
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  Speaker 3: up being that he was six to nine for like
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty five or something. That we were
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit more explosive and efficient in the
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  Speaker 3: first half, and I thought he did a nice job
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  Speaker 3: managing the game.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Loam, Yeah, Ben to Shipley, Heyleam. I know, obviously
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  Speaker 6: you can't really comment a on injuries, but especially players
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  Speaker 6: that are in the concussion protocol at this juncture. But
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  Speaker 6: with the offensive line bangs up in the way that
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  Speaker 6: it was going into the game, the injuries that occurred,
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  Speaker 6: what did you make of Wyatt at the right guard position?
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  Speaker 6: Colet left tackle your confidence in that exact lineup potentially
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  Speaker 6: if you need to roll with that moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, we we played We didn't
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  Speaker 3: play great up front.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we played okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they have some good players on their front
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  Speaker 3: that make it very challenging.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we need to play better upfront for us.
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  Speaker 3: To continue to move forward as a team. But again,
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  Speaker 3: like Cole stepping in in multiple different roles, being the
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  Speaker 3: Swiss Army knife that he's been for us has been
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  Speaker 3: really helpful. And then why just continuing to grow. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure he would like to have some plays back
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  Speaker 3: and just like any anybody else, but to get him
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  Speaker 3: meaningful reps in a division game is very important and he.
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  Speaker 1: Needs them as many reps as we can get. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, a.
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  Speaker 6: Little bit off topic, but if you are able to
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  Speaker 6: comment on your friend John Summrall getting the job at
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  Speaker 6: the University of.
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  Speaker 1: Florida, Yeah, I mean, I uh, he'll be introduced today,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a yeah, yeah, I've I've got so much respect.
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  Speaker 3: For John summer All as a as a coach, as
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  Speaker 3: a man, as a leader of people, of men, of
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  Speaker 3: players of a building. He's got so much passion and competitiveness.
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  Speaker 3: He's a guy that's you know, obviously been a defensive
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  Speaker 3: coach for a long time, but he sees the game
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  Speaker 3: through a big picture lens in all three phases. He
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  Speaker 3: understands good football. He can recruit his tail off. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean I bought his house in Lexington in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one and him and his family are just perfect fits.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sec all the way and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: just I can't say enough good things about some of me.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of He's one of the guys I look
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  Speaker 3: up to actually in this profession, have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: respect for. And you know, any chance I get to
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  Speaker 3: talk to some of me, it will be cool to
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  Speaker 3: have here as a as a close by neighbor.
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  Speaker 6: Awesome, Thanks Liam.
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  Speaker 1: This will be our last two. We'll go to Shipley
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  Speaker 1: and then to Sam.
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  Speaker 5: Liam la quin Allen play on the kickoff that have
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  Speaker 5: you ever seen a Ford fumble really like that?
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  Speaker 1: And then has he kind of just summed up everything.
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  Speaker 7: You guys talked about in the offseason, you know, a
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  Speaker 7: Jaguars DNA and Tanka, Billy Rich all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you hit the nail on the head. The
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  Speaker 1: play that he made was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: It was a great challenge from those guys up top
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  Speaker 3: with John Daikema and Shane Waldron being on the screws there.
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  Speaker 3: Because I didn't quite I was in a good spot,
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  Speaker 3: but I didn't quite see the timing of when it
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  Speaker 3: came out.
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  Speaker 1: But the effort that he made that really that.
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  Speaker 3: Group has continued to do on special teams led by
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  Speaker 3: Heath and Luke, but Laquin just yeah, you're right. He
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  Speaker 3: exemplifies so much of what being a Jaguar is and
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  Speaker 3: what it means.
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  Speaker 1: He actually was just.
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  Speaker 3: Pop by our staff meeting just now and was in
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  Speaker 3: there for a few minutes. So he just the guy
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  Speaker 3: loves football, He loves to compete, he loves his teammates.
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  Speaker 3: He'll do anything for these guys, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: shows in the way that he plays his effort. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: everybody sees it, and it helps continue to elevate the
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  Speaker 3: standard of what effort actually means in playing through the
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  Speaker 3: echo of the whistle actually means excellent.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you last one, Sam.
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  Speaker 7: Liam, I want to follow up on what Gary and
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  Speaker 7: Jamal we're talking about in terms of the culture that
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  Speaker 7: you've created there. There are a lot of very talented
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  Speaker 7: bad football teams, but clearly this one, with guys like
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  Speaker 7: Dennis Gardek and Jacoby Myers, has looked for a specific
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  Speaker 7: kind of player. Hey, can you tell us kind of
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  Speaker 7: what that little bit of difference might be? And b
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  Speaker 7: is Ryan Stamper involved in that in terms of do
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  Speaker 7: you send him out and say, see if this guy
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  Speaker 7: fits into what we're trying to do?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think there's definitely a mold of players
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  Speaker 3: that we are you know, ultimately looking for and hunting up.
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  Speaker 3: And we have a lot of those guys in this
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  Speaker 3: building that's helped us get to the point.
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  Speaker 1: Where we're at.
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  Speaker 3: And then when you do need to go look outside
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  Speaker 3: and and and make some of those moves, when those
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  Speaker 3: moves are made within players probably being intangibly rich, I
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  Speaker 3: think that usually is kind of something that we're we're
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  Speaker 3: looking for, right the you know, height, weight, speed, traits
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  Speaker 3: is always nice to have, but you know, for us,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's more so about, you know, how much does
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  Speaker 3: the game make sense to him?
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  Speaker 1: How much does the game mean to him?
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  Speaker 3: And uh, that's something that we've tried to eyeball when it.
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  Speaker 1: Comes to making some of these these decisions.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, to on the personnel side, I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, James has done a great job of taking
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  Speaker 3: that vision and we obviously are very much aligned.
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  Speaker 1: On what we think works in this league.
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  Speaker 3: And I've seen it done in LA obviously for a
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  Speaker 3: number of years, and we're aligned on that. So when
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  Speaker 3: there are opportunities to go and find some players outside
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  Speaker 3: of the building, I think James has done a great.
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  Speaker 1: Job with that.
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  Speaker 7: And there's no question that that's part.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big part of the decision process.
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  Speaker 7: Now, height, weight, speed, vertical, all that, but that that
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  Speaker 7: other little part is a guy, a Jaguar football player.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, that's the ultimate is you know, can
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  Speaker 3: he play ball?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Does he?
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  Speaker 3: Does he understand football? Does the game make sense? Football feel?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, athletic athletic traits are different in my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, this is not a developmental league. It's
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  Speaker 3: not like you got to go win now and you
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: got to go put your best foot forward now. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have time to go and say that. The coaches
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  Speaker 3: are just going to go develop these guys. So that
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  Speaker 3: is part of the process. We do need to continue
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  Speaker 3: to work through and develop as many players as we
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  Speaker 3: can that is our jobs. But when you got players
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  Speaker 3: that make football makes sense to them and they go
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  Speaker 3: out and you can go and rep something one or
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  Speaker 3: two times and they got it and you don't see
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  Speaker 3: repeated mistakes maybe being made, that's something we definitely look for,