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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on WR Growth, Prep for Eagles & Looking Ahead to London · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: So London, you've done this before. Last year you guys
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  Speaker 1: came back and went on a little run from it.
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  Speaker 1: You're going for a longer time this time, but the
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  Speaker 1: bonding you get with the guys off the field, the
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  Speaker 1: together time, how important would that be just kind of
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  Speaker 1: building the locker room for the rest of the year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a cool experience. Like you said,
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  Speaker 2: I've done it a lot now, so you kind of
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  Speaker 2: know what to expect. Obviously the travel can be a challenge,
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  Speaker 2: but I feel like As much as we've done it,
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  Speaker 2: we at least know what we're getting into and kind
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  Speaker 2: of the routine and how it goes and how to
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  Speaker 2: best take care of all the stuff so you're good
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  Speaker 2: to play Sunday. But, yeah, just the time that you get.
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  Speaker 2: You're together in the hotel the whole time and stay
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  Speaker 2: at a great place out there. And just the time
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  Speaker 2: you get with your teammates, you're all hanging out, don't
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  Speaker 2: really have much else to do. Obviously, some people have
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  Speaker 2: families that come in, get some time with them as well.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's good for the team. Obviously, cool
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  Speaker 2: experience playing over there. And some of those stadiums are
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  Speaker 2: pretty sweet. So it's always a good time.
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  Speaker 1: You've given some of the young guys who maybe haven't
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  Speaker 1: gone to London or haven't done the two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, obviously by the time you
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  Speaker 2: get to the second week, you're adjusted pretty good. It's
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  Speaker 2: really the first couple days where you try to, as
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  Speaker 2: quick as you can, get in a rhythm and a routine.
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  Speaker 2: I think trying to stay up that first day is
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  Speaker 2: important so you can get some good sleep. Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: because we land Friday morning, so you slept... on the
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  Speaker 2: plane overnight, but it obviously doesn't feel like you got
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  Speaker 2: a great night's rest, you know, cause it's hard to sleep,
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  Speaker 2: hard to get a good, great night's rest on the plane.
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  Speaker 2: So just Friday, I think our, our, our staff will
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  Speaker 2: have a good plan for us and physically what we
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  Speaker 2: do and what we don't do, you know, be up
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  Speaker 2: to them, but I think they'll take care of us.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think guys just trying to get as
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  Speaker 2: much sleep as you can Friday night, Saturday, you feel
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  Speaker 2: a lot better. And then same thing, Sunday morning, you
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  Speaker 2: feel better than you did Saturday. So I think that's,
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  Speaker 2: it's just part of it. And, you know, we're kind
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  Speaker 2: of used to it at this point. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of challenges. He's been doing it a long time. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's a great coach. His resume speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 2: I think how tight-end the whole group is. They do
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  Speaker 2: a really good job with disguises in the back end.
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  Speaker 2: They make everything look the same. I think up front,
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  Speaker 2: they're always really good up front. Whether that's pass rush,
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  Speaker 2: just physical, as far as playing the run, all those
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  Speaker 2: different things. They usually have Backers are flying around sideline
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  Speaker 2: to sideline. And then you look in their back end,
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  Speaker 2: those guys, they got some guys that can play. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a mix of really good coaching and
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  Speaker 2: also good personnel. I think that's everything. You got to
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  Speaker 2: have good players too. But I think that he's a
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  Speaker 2: great coach. His scheme is always really sound. I think
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  Speaker 2: they do a good job for the most part of
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  Speaker 2: limiting big plays. Like that's something that if you look
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  Speaker 2: at this defense has done a good job of historically
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  Speaker 2: is limiting that, keeping everything in front of them. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think they're always a really good defense.
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  Speaker 1: That's so different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's something I mean, yeah, I know that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just because, yeah, you think about when you're
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  Speaker 2: playing an opponent, you immediately, you naturally just think about
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  Speaker 2: the prior games you've played against them. So, yeah, I've
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  Speaker 2: thought about having beat these guys and they've had some
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  Speaker 2: really good teams and we've had some close ones that
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  Speaker 2: we've lost. So just excited for another opportunity just because
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  Speaker 2: it's the next game though, not because of all that. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I said last week, I'm like a
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  Speaker 2: broken record with you guys. So, you know, you prepare
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  Speaker 2: every week to go win the game, regardless of who
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  Speaker 2: it is. You don't want to win it more because
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  Speaker 2: it's someone in particular. But, yeah, we've got to put
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  Speaker 2: together a good plan.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like you guys are progressing with the
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  Speaker 1: screen game a little bit? Is it getting closer, in
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  Speaker 1: your opinion, to maybe, you know, being where you want
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  Speaker 1: it to be?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is. It's definitely always an emphasis
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  Speaker 2: for us. But, yeah, it's kind of hard to answer
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  Speaker 2: the question because I think we're doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other things really well, and there hasn't been maybe as
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  Speaker 2: many opportunities for some of those as maybe we originally
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  Speaker 2: have thought going into the season. But I think we're
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot of other things really well. So not
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  Speaker 2: to say that's a huge disappointment. But I think just
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  Speaker 2: for our offense, to be able to do everything well
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  Speaker 2: and mix it up and change the look for the defense,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be important. So definitely something we want
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  Speaker 2: to keep improving on, and I know we will. Josh
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  Speaker 2: Cameron has the first-hour touchdown on all of his catches
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 1: How impressed have you been by him just in what
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  Speaker 1: he's done in his role so far? He's been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he's really stood out since training
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  Speaker 2: camp when we got really competitive. Got a chance to
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  Speaker 2: see him, you know, go up and make some crazy
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  Speaker 2: catches and win some one-on-ones. And I think it's more,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously the physical ability is there, but the
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  Speaker 2: way he plays, if you watch the tape, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he attacks. Whether it's run game, pass game, every route,
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  Speaker 2: he's running it to win. Every time he has a
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  Speaker 2: chance to block someone, he's trying to put them in
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  Speaker 2: the ground. I mean, there's so many examples where you
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  Speaker 2: just watch him play, and that's kind of what, that's
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  Speaker 2: how you want our guys to play. And I think
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  Speaker 2: our guys do play that way, but he's just another
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  Speaker 2: great example of that. So I'm just happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's always in the right spot, knows what to do.
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  Speaker 2: He works extremely hard, has earned every opportunity, and just
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  Speaker 2: taking it and run with it. He's been awesome for us.
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  Speaker 2: Were you surprised by how fiery he seems to be
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  Speaker 2: on the field? Yeah, his personality is not like that
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  Speaker 2: off the field. So it's cool to see guys' competitive
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  Speaker 2: side come out. When you're in games and even practice
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  Speaker 2: and you're competing, you see a different side of guys
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  Speaker 2: because he's pretty soft-spoken, chill, relaxed guy. But he gets
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  Speaker 2: fired up out there, and I'm glad he's on our team.
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  Speaker 1: Career names in London over.
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  Speaker 2: The course of your career for you personally what do
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  Speaker 2: you look forward to most both on the field and
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  Speaker 2: off the field about playing in London I think it's
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  Speaker 2: always I think it's always a good reset you know
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  Speaker 2: um you can look at it either way obviously there's
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  Speaker 2: some challenges to it but I think knowing that it's
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  Speaker 2: something that we do consistently you look at the positives
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good reset for our team good
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  Speaker 2: time together like we talked about um Sometimes when it's
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  Speaker 2: super hot here, the weather change is kind of nice.
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  Speaker 2: You get that fall weather, so that's nice. I think
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  Speaker 2: just the time together, get to go away. Whether things
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  Speaker 2: are going great here or maybe you're in a rough
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  Speaker 2: part of your season and you need a little pick-me-up
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  Speaker 2: just to kind of get away from all the noise,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's good for either one of those. There's
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  Speaker 2: good things about it. Obviously, London's a cool place, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of history. The stadiums, like I said, Wembley and
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  Speaker 2: Tottenham that we play in are pretty incredible venues to play.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a cool part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Game last year was Travis' best game as a pro.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously a different situation now, but just kind of what
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  Speaker 1: do you remember about that game with him specifically?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was unfortunately I remember some other things, not
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  Speaker 2: the best memories, but as far as Travis, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he really came alive that game. He made some plays
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  Speaker 2: all season, but I think just the consistency as far
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  Speaker 2: as how I was able to find him and just
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  Speaker 2: some of our chemistry really coming along and some of
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  Speaker 2: the routes that I hit him on and just the
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  Speaker 2: timing and all those things where it felt like we
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  Speaker 2: were starting to really click which was unfortunate right before
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  Speaker 2: he got hurt so definitely remember that and that was
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  Speaker 2: like one of the that's one of the bright spots
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  Speaker 2: of the game where you look at after and you're
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  Speaker 2: like not a lot went right but at least that
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  Speaker 2: part of it is is going well and felt really
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  Speaker 2: good about where he was at so that was definitely
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  Speaker 2: an exciting part of that.
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  Speaker 1: The connection you have with Grant is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: part of that because you guys are essentially the same age,
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  Speaker 1: kind of essentially grew up, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, we're, we're pretty close. We're three, a
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  Speaker 2: little more than three, somewhere in there. Yeah. Between three
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  Speaker 2: and four. Yeah. But I don't know. I mean, Grant,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I think Grant's like double my age, honestly, not
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  Speaker 2: three years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, Just the way he's about his business. If you
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  Speaker 2: guys didn't know him, I guess, you know, don't know
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  Speaker 2: him as good as I do, but you spend a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of time with him. But, no, we're really close.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've gotten closer and closer personally over the last,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, year and a half, the more time we've
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  Speaker 2: spent together. I've gotten a little bit of his sense
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  Speaker 2: of humor and some other things where we can talk
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  Speaker 2: about where it's not all ball. I try to get him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, try to crack a few jokes to get
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  Speaker 2: him to take maybe like two seconds off from the
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  Speaker 2: install just so we can, you know, lighten the room
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit, but I usually don't get them
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  Speaker 2: for more than three or four seconds. So he's great, though.
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  Speaker 2: I've learned a ton from him. He's a great coach. Seriously,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best coaches I've had. He's really sharp,
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  Speaker 2: so smart, works extremely hard. And I think he's so reliable.
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  Speaker 2: When you ask him something, you know how much time
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  Speaker 2: he's put into it. So the answer you get, you
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  Speaker 2: trust it because you just know he's put the time
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  Speaker 2: in and he's awesome. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You guys go over there and miss your families all
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  Speaker 1: the time, but is this one the harder, the older
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  Speaker 1: your daughter gets? I assume she's not going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are going actually. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll get to see him definitely, you know, he said,
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  Speaker 2: especially for the 10 days that can be tough with
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  Speaker 2: the family. And, um, so I'm glad they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be out there and I'll get to see him a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. They're not going to go the whole time,
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  Speaker 2: but they'll be out there for a little bit. And, um, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that is definitely a caveat to it is the family stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you're there for ten days, it's a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like 10.8% of your drives this year
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  Speaker 1: have not three and outs.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like 90% of them are not three and outs.
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  Speaker 1: What has resulted or what has kind of been the
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  Speaker 1: reason for the success of third down?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're– I guess we've had a couple games
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  Speaker 2: where we've been in some bad situations. But I think
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  Speaker 2: overall we've just been a lot better on first and
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  Speaker 2: second down this season There's always going to be a
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  Speaker 2: drive or two here and there where you get behind
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  Speaker 2: the chains and you've got to figure it out. But
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  Speaker 2: I'd say that's probably the biggest reason is staying. ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the chains and being more consistent first, second down,
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  Speaker 2: less penalties, less negative runs, sacks, all those things I
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  Speaker 2: think play a part in it. And then I also
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  Speaker 2: just feel like we've been a lot better on third
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  Speaker 2: down to start the season. Towards the end of the
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  Speaker 2: year last year I thought we were better on third
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  Speaker 2: down in the back half, but starting the year definitely
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  Speaker 2: much better on third down. So we should keep that going,
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  Speaker 2: keep converting on third down. Some of the, like the
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  Speaker 2: one last week, third and super long, we still were
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  Speaker 2: able to convert. Those things are huge.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's both.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's both. I think our coaches do a
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  Speaker 2: great job of having a plan and us executing it.
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  Speaker 2: And we know what we're looking for. And I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we've been really dialed into what the defense is doing.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's times where you just make a play
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  Speaker 2: and it's not exactly how you draw it up. And
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  Speaker 2: that's where, you know, we got to do what we
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  Speaker 2: do and go make a play. So I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 1: About not having to kind of dig as deep to
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  Speaker 1: find things to motivate the team. You guys are pretty self-motivated.
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  Speaker 1: You feel that in the locker room and you see
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  Speaker 1: the standards there and everybody knows what you're going after.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely feel like we are a pretty mature team. One,
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  Speaker 2: we know we're a good team, what we're capable of,
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  Speaker 2: but we also know what it takes to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and perform and win on Sundays. It takes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of work during the week and you have to
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  Speaker 2: start over every single week. And that's the reality that
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  Speaker 2: you just have to do. And so if you get
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  Speaker 2: caught up in the last one or what's coming down
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  Speaker 2: the line, you just get, you get distracted and get
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  Speaker 2: out of the moment. And I think our team's done
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  Speaker 2: a good job of keeping it really tight. We know
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  Speaker 2: we have to do, and also not really riding the
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  Speaker 2: roller coaster of, you know, week one, we won week two,
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  Speaker 2: we lost. And it never felt like, Oh, we're freaking
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  Speaker 2: out trying to figure out what to do. It was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we just didn't play our best and we got to
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  Speaker 2: go back to work. And I think that's just been
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  Speaker 2: the mindset and the same way for when we, when
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  Speaker 2: we've won some of these games. So, We've got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to do that, and it's a long season, and
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  Speaker 2: we're still really early in it, and we've just got
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  Speaker 2: to take it one week at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.