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Press Pass | Pederson: "I'm going to let the starters play." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: How we're doing today great as whether he's gonna play
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  Speaker 1: or not or pritory, I have made that decision. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: um yeah this week. This week, I'm gonna let the
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  Speaker 1: starters play, um, you know, get their feet wet a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in this football game. A couple of series. Um,
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  Speaker 1: nothing too nothing too crazy, nothing too long, but just
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  Speaker 1: want to get them the feel of the game and
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  Speaker 1: get him in there and uh, get him working you
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  Speaker 1: know in in game game situations for Trevor and sports
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  Speaker 1: is development in the offense to get those game well
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  Speaker 1: for him, it's important, but also for the offense, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a new scheme, got new new faces,
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  Speaker 1: new people out there that he's working with, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: new center. So just just you know, uh seeing all
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  Speaker 1: of it put together, you know, and and you just
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  Speaker 1: want to have some some crisp plays, some good execution
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, try to score. Try to score
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  Speaker 1: a few points and get them out. Does anybody who
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  Speaker 1: I guess you wouldntider beat on the first offense is
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  Speaker 1: still gonna get held out, Like James isn't Robin, He's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna play, right, No, No, James Robinson. Yeah, or
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  Speaker 1: I should saiy Yes, James Robinson, No, he's he's not playing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep Jamal Agnew out of this one as well.
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  Speaker 1: Leavisca is still nursing nursing an injury, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: kind of give him a break this. We get him
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  Speaker 1: through this game and and and to uh to next week.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be able to play everybody an offensive lot
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  Speaker 1: except for maybe one actually jawe um. Um we'll play. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll play and he'll hit him and Walker will rotate,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the offensive line, and it'll be good
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  Speaker 1: to get him back out there well here to see
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  Speaker 1: what he can kind of do. Y am, I am obvious.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen a lot here in practice, but you now
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  Speaker 1: now put the you know, get under the lights and
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  Speaker 1: and uh roar the crowd and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a different feel. And that's that's
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  Speaker 1: why you do it, right, that's you kind of practice
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  Speaker 1: for all those scenarios. And and he's one of the guys.
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  Speaker 1: We want to see a couple of physical practices the
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  Speaker 1: starticle week this week. Did you feel the need to
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  Speaker 1: kind increased that intensity after that Hall of Fame game? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the way the schedule and the way I
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  Speaker 1: set training camp up. I mean, you know, we follow
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  Speaker 1: the plan, we follow the schedule. Um, just the way
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  Speaker 1: it is. Well, well, next week will be the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: We have a couple of hard, long practices next week
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  Speaker 1: as well, you know, because we don't have pads on
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  Speaker 1: that much, and and I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we maximize those days and we're getting the most out
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  Speaker 1: of it. And you know, um, again, the guys are
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  Speaker 1: the guys are doing an excellent job. Those two practices
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  Speaker 1: we were great. We got good work in. Um, not perfect,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we make the corrections, but but it was good.
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  Speaker 1: And what have you thought about Jamal ag knew and
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  Speaker 1: finally getting him on the field for some of those
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  Speaker 1: teams real and we won't play Friday, But what have
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  Speaker 1: you seen from him now that you're kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: to see him participate? Yeah, I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: guess the biggest thing is just seeing where he is
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  Speaker 1: mentally with the system. You know, he he's heard it
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  Speaker 1: a lot. He hasn't had many reps with it obviously, UM,
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  Speaker 1: but it was good to get him back out and
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  Speaker 1: I kind of get his feet wet and get popped
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Him and Travis both last week we
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  Speaker 1: had that one live day and um, tackle him to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. And it's good, too good to get him
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  Speaker 1: out there, you know, and he just another player. We
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  Speaker 1: just gotta keep keep slowly progressing, you know, and uh
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  Speaker 1: and get him get him onto the regular season a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, no, no, because I talked to him during
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  Speaker 1: this time of the day and he was ready for
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  Speaker 1: the contact. He wanted to be hit. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: been a while for him to you know, to be
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  Speaker 1: out there and be hit, and you know, he enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: Once once a week in camp, go live during the
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  Speaker 1: season physical one day. So my philosophy really is is
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  Speaker 1: have two live type days in training camp. Obviously this
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  Speaker 1: past week, UM to do it, and then I'll do
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  Speaker 1: one more next next week. UM. And really that's it
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  Speaker 1: from a live standpoint. The pads are on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about fundamentals and and and working the details
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  Speaker 1: and being in position to make the tackle. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we teach the ball carry, receiver, tight end whoever to
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  Speaker 1: to finish their runs even when you know, tapped off
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  Speaker 1: by by a defender. So you know, um, offensive guys
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  Speaker 1: need to feel the contact as well as the defensive
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  Speaker 1: guys making making proper tackles. I think it's Monday. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's Monday. Um, I think it is Monday. I
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  Speaker 1: think it is. Yeah. Yeah, you know the schedule better
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  Speaker 1: than I do. I'm been worried about today. Can here
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  Speaker 1: Jonas see okay? Uh he's fine? Yeah yeah yeah? Uh
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  Speaker 1: lead better? Um yeah he got he got nicked up
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  Speaker 1: in the practice the other day. He's gonna miss some time.
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  Speaker 1: Um he's the only one. Let me, let me, let
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  Speaker 1: me not rephrased. Let me add to that. Uh bt Badara,
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  Speaker 1: there's another one that's gonna miss, you know, a little
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  Speaker 1: time here due to an injury out of the outfense.
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  Speaker 1: Right now? Do you see it? Wors even you know
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  Speaker 1: the way we see it might not be. How do
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  Speaker 1: you see it? That'll that'll, that'll give me the answer.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you seen? Usually? I mean honestly, usually
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  Speaker 1: the defense is ahead. It should be, it should be right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean offense, there's a lot more timing involved with
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  Speaker 1: the with the five offensive lineman and the running backs
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  Speaker 1: and making sure you know pad levels on the same angle.
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  Speaker 1: You know that the offensive line is in the quarterback's eyes,
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  Speaker 1: the timing, the details of routes. There's there's just more
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  Speaker 1: timing things with the offense. So this time at camp
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  Speaker 1: and really probably early in the season usually, um, the
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  Speaker 1: defenses may have a little little advantage. Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to go forever? Oh? Yes, yeah, you want to get
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good Yeah. You know, again I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to see a lot from c J. But I still
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  Speaker 1: want him again the first time for him to be
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  Speaker 1: under you know, sort of a live scenario, um, other
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  Speaker 1: than the other day. But I just want to see
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  Speaker 1: him out there and see how well he executes the
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  Speaker 1: offense and and uh, you know, don't need to see
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  Speaker 1: a ton, but but still want to see some time
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  Speaker 1: on the field. Definitely about nice and camp. Mind that
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  Speaker 1: is a form. But what have you seen the first
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  Speaker 1: step of weeks. I've seen, Uh, I've seen someone that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of growing into a leadership role, someone who's really
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  Speaker 1: developing his his craft, honing his skill. He's playing with confidence, um,
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  Speaker 1: and those are all things that we need to continue
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  Speaker 1: to to to nurture in him. He's a young player.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a really good camp. Um. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: was really good to see in the in the Raider game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he got nicked up there early in the
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  Speaker 1: game and then wanted to go back and um, so confidently,
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  Speaker 1: you know, put him back in the football game where
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  Speaker 1: he he could kind of work through that. And those
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  Speaker 1: are the things you're starting to see with him and
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  Speaker 1: how he's developing himself and and and turning into a
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  Speaker 1: leader on that defense. Specific time back not a timeline specifically,
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  Speaker 1: but I arrange. I mean, I'm hoping to get him
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  Speaker 1: through um this week and maybe get him back on
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  Speaker 1: the grass next next week. But he's doing he's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeing him in the individual drills now, which is
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  Speaker 1: a good sign that that he'll be back out there
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  Speaker 1: into full contact stuff probably next week. You guys are
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  Speaker 1: guys doctors there, Yeah, I mean yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't specifically deal with them, but we do get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reports from from some sleep doctors, and you know, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I leave a lot of that up to ferg and
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  Speaker 1: and said and the guys and some of our you know,
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  Speaker 1: Mindy Mindy and all the nutritionists and people supports science people.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of push them that way a little bit, um,
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  Speaker 1: but it is something that I'm very aware of, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it affects how you play and and
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  Speaker 1: getting getting the proper rest in camp now and obviously
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  Speaker 1: night before games or if we're traveling at different time zones.
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  Speaker 1: All that kind of stuff can impact you know, how
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  Speaker 1: our player feels and how a player plays coaches as well.
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  Speaker 1: So um, yeah, it's something that we pay pay quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit of attention to. Yeah yeah, I mean it's huge,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Um, and of course you know, the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: have been over there many years and and know how
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  Speaker 1: to handle it. So again I leave that up to
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  Speaker 1: the experts and and let them tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 1: Playing player, I'll tell you he's playing fast, he's playing
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  Speaker 1: he's explosive. Um. I think him and Trevor kind of
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  Speaker 1: built a really good kind of rapport, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: connection there, kind of understand they're they're working through some
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  Speaker 1: some details of some routes and stuff and just getting
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  Speaker 1: to know kind of body language right from a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: to a receiver. But Z has done a great job
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  Speaker 1: in understanding our our system picking it up fast. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing fast. And um again another one that that
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  Speaker 1: I'm as part of one of the offensive pieces looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to, you know, Friday night and plant how hard
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  Speaker 1: is it to achieved consistency for a young defense? For
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  Speaker 1: you said the other day, when they're on, they're on,
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  Speaker 1: but they have to figure out how to get on
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  Speaker 1: and stay on. How hard is it define that consistency
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  Speaker 1: with the young players on the defense? I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: just comes with reps, time on the grass, honestly, and um,
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  Speaker 1: that's the only way you can build build the consistency.
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  Speaker 1: And then playing together, you know. Obviously that's why these
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  Speaker 1: preseason games are so important, even even for a series
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  Speaker 1: or two or three in a game, to to just
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  Speaker 1: start that start that process, you know. And and and
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  Speaker 1: this is that time of camp where for us because
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  Speaker 1: we've we've already had a game to really kind of
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  Speaker 1: I think, find out who our fifty three are going
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  Speaker 1: to be, you know, and and start putting those matchups together,
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  Speaker 1: start building you know, defensive packages or offensive packages where
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  Speaker 1: where we're going to see guys in certain situations. And um,
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  Speaker 1: but it just comes with time on the grass, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the only way you can do it. Even
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  Speaker 1: might find the way to be able to check up
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  Speaker 1: the top and the gun. How do you generally feel
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  Speaker 1: about the front seven you have and the depth you
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  Speaker 1: have behind us of it. It seems like it could
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  Speaker 1: possibly be the strongest suit. Yeah. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on paper, we've got we've got the depth that we
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  Speaker 1: on it on a depth that we need, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that's another thing because you're not game planning right now,
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  Speaker 1: So you're not game planning run schemes and run fits
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  Speaker 1: and formations and all that kind of stuff. You're just
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  Speaker 1: lining up and playing. But at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: here in the next couple of weeks, we got that's
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  Speaker 1: something we'll have to figure out. You know, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: get better at stopping the run. Obviously, they they being
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders rush for almost a hundred and sixty yards
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  Speaker 1: on us, and you know that kind of stuff can't happen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but we've got to flip it, right, We've
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  Speaker 1: got to be the team that rushed rushes for a
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty and you know, but again that comes
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  Speaker 1: with time and development. These guys are learning new techniques
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  Speaker 1: and playing together for the first time, and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just it just takes a little bit of time.
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  Speaker 1: You want to bring back he was with us all spring,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and uh, we had we had time invested
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  Speaker 1: in him. Um. You know, I think Kyle for for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks that he was here, he did
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  Speaker 1: a nice job for us while he was here, and
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  Speaker 1: wish him the best. But in e J, we had
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  Speaker 1: a guy that that we liked coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: draft and UM brought him in here. His sharp kids,
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  Speaker 1: smart kid. He's he's healthy now and ready to go
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. I heard from some of the other my
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  Speaker 1: fellow reporters that were here Sunday he really got after
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  Speaker 1: his guys today on Sunday after a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: physical drills. What have you see from him from both
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  Speaker 1: the leadership and on the field point. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: again he's one of those guys that we brought in
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  Speaker 1: as a as a free agent to really help kind
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  Speaker 1: of bolster our our third down pass rush, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even some second down pass rush. UM getting
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  Speaker 1: after the quarterback. We saw that the other night, you know,
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  Speaker 1: against the Raiders. And and that's what he can bring
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  Speaker 1: in UM. You know, he's he's a passionate player. He's
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  Speaker 1: been on a team that's in his past has been successful.
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  Speaker 1: He's kind of seen how how it's done. Uh and
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  Speaker 1: and he wants to bring that type of leadership here
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  Speaker 1: to to this football team. And and and I love
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  Speaker 1: it when guys like that take, you know, take the
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  Speaker 1: reins kind of in a leadership role that way. You know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: obviously he's doing it by example you on the field,
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  Speaker 1: and and and obviously doing it you know, by words.
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  Speaker 1: So if he continues that path, you know, he'll be
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  Speaker 1: fine and we'll be we'll be a better D line
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  Speaker 1: because of its See, we'll get the team developed. Stand
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  Speaker 1: out it is. Um. You know, obviously it's still a
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  Speaker 1: little bit early in camp, but we're we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: we're settled in now, you know here, and yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: start seeing you know, it's interesting because you start seeing
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  Speaker 1: a little separation right with with some of the guys
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  Speaker 1: and the ones that really kind of take the reins
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  Speaker 1: and lead lead by example, lead lead through grabbing their
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  Speaker 1: position group or grabbing the whole offens or defense. And
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  Speaker 1: you just need more of that, you know, any guys
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  Speaker 1: that just really embrace it. Um. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: about being perfect, you know, because we're not perfect out here. Um,
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  Speaker 1: guys are gonna make mistakes. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we gotta take ownership in it. We learned
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  Speaker 1: from him, and you know this is that time, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys,