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Press Pass | Lawrence: “Personally I wanna prove I belong here” · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Us through the orchestrated that one. It was great. We
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  Speaker 1: had ten or twelve guys out there, planned it with
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  Speaker 1: some people you know from from my team helping me.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really do all the logistics, but just threw
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  Speaker 1: that together. And uh, it's good at just having all
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  Speaker 1: the guys together. And but I mean, obviously the field
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  Speaker 1: work is great and that's important, but I think just
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  Speaker 1: more bonding, get to know each other, hanging out, building
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  Speaker 1: that camaraderie before you start the season is really important. Golf,
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  Speaker 1: it's a couple of you guys golf. Who we shot
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  Speaker 1: the best score? Um, Christian shot the best score. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't scramble, but the other team wins. It was me,
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  Speaker 1: Christian and Evan versus c. J. L. Kwan Um one
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  Speaker 1: of our strength coaches and Dan Arnold. They got us
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  Speaker 1: on that. So but Christian shot the best score. You
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  Speaker 1: guys did a lot of throwing that you went out.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the Valmas trip different from that? Is
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  Speaker 1: it you guys are away or you don't also to
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  Speaker 1: kind of have a little bit of it's both. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of and a lot of guys don't live
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  Speaker 1: here full time. You know, you and off I'd say
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  Speaker 1: it was more for guys that are here most of
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  Speaker 1: off season. You know a lot of guys live in
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  Speaker 1: different states and they're they're only here for O T
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  Speaker 1: A S and a couple of couple of weeks throughout
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  Speaker 1: the off season. So um, Bahamas is more to try
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  Speaker 1: to get all those guys together that I haven't really seen. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and then also the guys that are here too, just
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  Speaker 1: to try to get as many skill guys together as
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  Speaker 1: we could, just to you know, bond a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of new faces and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of old faces still from last year, but just gelling
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  Speaker 1: everybody together. It's curious expenses to breakdown like air fairs.
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  Speaker 1: How does that work? I mean, I guess it's different
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. You know. I set up the rooms and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Guys just kind of get themselves out
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  Speaker 1: there and then we you know, just go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge part of the week like this from Rampop. Guys
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  Speaker 1: might want to go a little harder, but there's no pads,
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  Speaker 1: so spiders for the guys in the line, what are
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  Speaker 1: some goals in week one? Yeah? Week one is just
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  Speaker 1: to see the progress that we made in O T
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  Speaker 1: A S. And you know, we're like, we're installing last night.
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  Speaker 1: We're not starting over, should be picking back up where
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  Speaker 1: we left off. Everything that we're talking about, we're flying
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  Speaker 1: through because we've already installed it a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: So having that knowledge and everyone can just pick up
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  Speaker 1: quick when we install, that's nice. And we can add
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  Speaker 1: new rinkools faster because we've already done it. Um. But
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  Speaker 1: also realizing it's it's a long season and day one,
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  Speaker 1: UM doesn't have to be your best day, UM, just
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  Speaker 1: to keep ability and getting better every day. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a lot of maturity on the team,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is good. People know that, and we're
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  Speaker 1: still getting our bodies ready as far as to go
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  Speaker 1: the long haul for the season. So I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a great day to day. Coach did a great
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  Speaker 1: job laying out practice. There's a lot of work, enough
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  Speaker 1: work to get us ready, but not too much to
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  Speaker 1: where we can build and add some more tomorrow and
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  Speaker 1: the next day and then you know, by next week
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  Speaker 1: we'll be full speed. So I thought it was really
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  Speaker 1: good opening practice. Guys look sharp, look ready, UM, So
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting. We've never gone from the season unless you
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  Speaker 1: get last year. How much does that mean about your motivation?
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  Speaker 1: There's coming season. There's a lot of motivation. I mean
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  Speaker 1: besides last year obviously, UM, individually, you know, personally, I
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  Speaker 1: want to, Um, you prove that I belong here and
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  Speaker 1: that I'm the player that I believe I am, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and this organization organization believes I am. And then as
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  Speaker 1: a team, I think we have a lot to prove.
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  Speaker 1: Just didn't have a great year last year, UM, and
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  Speaker 1: I know the guys in this locker room, UM, are
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  Speaker 1: ready to to prove some stuff this year. So having
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  Speaker 1: that motivation and then just just having this new opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get a clean slate. Everybody starts at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: and having a chance to work your way up. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's a special opportunity that we got this year,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got a good enough group to win as
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  Speaker 1: many games as we want to. We just gotta make
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  Speaker 1: that decision and and be prepared and uh, we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a good year. When you represented a good guy last year,
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  Speaker 1: you said if you appreciative that sort of when you're
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  Speaker 1: we're taking it easy, I mean, you do expect the
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  Speaker 1: expectations and the focusing the spotlight. Probably you'd probably be
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  Speaker 1: less forgiveness this year, hear if you don't have yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really care. I'm not plan on
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  Speaker 1: having a bad year, so it doesn't really matter to me.
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  Speaker 1: You guys can you guys can say what you want.
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  Speaker 1: I always treat you guys with respect, So um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really worried about it. James, did you doing whatever? Equally, dude.
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  Speaker 1: But just the fact that he used out there, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's great, you know, seeing him come along more and
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  Speaker 1: more now he's running around. Saw some videos this summer
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  Speaker 1: of him running and cutting and he looks great. Just
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  Speaker 1: seeing how fast he's progressing is definitely encouraging. I know
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  Speaker 1: we need him. You know, he's a great player. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna help us a lot. So it's fast you can
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  Speaker 1: get back. We'll take him. But also I think they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it, doing it the right way, taking their time,
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  Speaker 1: making sure he's healthy for the whole season, um, and
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  Speaker 1: not trying to rush him back. So you know, all
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  Speaker 1: the other guys are stepping up and doing great. But
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  Speaker 1: it'll be nice to have him back in a few months.
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  Speaker 1: What happens on a ten minute bus ride and when
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  Speaker 1: you once you get at it didn't feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: somewhere completely different. What do you mean sorry, like ten
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  Speaker 1: minute bus rides, Like can you really do any bonding
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  Speaker 1: on that? Is there? Right? And then once you get
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  Speaker 1: at it, is it really just feel like a normal
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  Speaker 1: practice field because everything. Yeah, I mean it's it's nice
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  Speaker 1: out here. It's it's different, you know, change of scenery. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the fields are great. The guys did a great job
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  Speaker 1: setting these up, and they got a little time on
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  Speaker 1: the transport over here to get your mind or I
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  Speaker 1: get ready for practice. I think that's great. Um, most
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  Speaker 1: of the guys are kind of just we're covering a
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  Speaker 1: little bit on the bus ride back, but we got
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  Speaker 1: a whole day. We'll be there until about seven or
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  Speaker 1: seven three, so we got plenty of time to bond
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  Speaker 1: at the facility, stamping and nicely to know kind of
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  Speaker 1: what it's back going in the ship were last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think just you know, have an understanding of even
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  Speaker 1: just a schedule kind of how the off season is
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  Speaker 1: laid out, and then now camp going into the season,
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  Speaker 1: and really I think from just being able to monitor
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  Speaker 1: my body and um, take care of myself and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that I'm prepared and having that timeline from last
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  Speaker 1: year helps a lot. You know, last year I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any idea and I was coming off surgery,
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  Speaker 1: so it was just a weird year. Um so I
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  Speaker 1: feel great. My body feels really good, shoulder feels great.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm throwing it the best I have
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  Speaker 1: in a long time. So I feel good. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of quarter rights making you think where you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: there finding Billings factor that, Yeah, I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot that goes into you know, you have that experience here,
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  Speaker 1: that year under your belt, Um, adds a little confidence.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how you know well or poorly you played
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  Speaker 1: in the previous year in some games it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 1: You still have that experience to draw from. So you
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  Speaker 1: got a little more confidence. Um. I think leadership too,
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  Speaker 1: that helps because you've been here for a year and UM, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's probably a big part of it. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: situation is different, but I know I feel definitely more
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  Speaker 1: confident and comfortable this year that I did last year.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't make it easier to arrange the offseason, like
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  Speaker 1: the Bahamas trip for you and because it is your
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  Speaker 1: team and you are the start, and like who you
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  Speaker 1: need to start a quarterback? Technically. Yeah, for sure. That
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  Speaker 1: definitely that makes it a little more seamless when you
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  Speaker 1: know that's just understood and there's that mutual respect and
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  Speaker 1: the leadership of you know, being the quarterback of the team,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I feel a lot more comfortable in that position.
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  Speaker 1: How Doug watch things, I guess work a problem us.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing I've learned on how he runs things. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot and learned. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a about learned, but just it's cool seeing the way
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  Speaker 1: he approaches things. You know, he's definitely a player's coach
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  Speaker 1: in the sense of, you know, he takes care of us,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a certain expectation and he knows what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to win and to win a championship. So there's
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  Speaker 1: that expectation which you need from your head coach and
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  Speaker 1: the standard that you have to uphold. But he also
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  Speaker 1: knows how to take care of players. He knows what
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  Speaker 1: players are feeling like in the spring, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: guys are tight. He might take a period off practice
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  Speaker 1: or you know day when you get some extra work,
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  Speaker 1: he'll throw in a you know, an extra period or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. So just having a coach that's been
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  Speaker 1: there and done that, coached a lot of teams. Um
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of success. He kind of just knows
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  Speaker 1: how to read the team. And I think that's really
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  Speaker 1: important quarterback, that how hugely your development. How he sees things.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. You know, it's just another it's just another
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  Speaker 1: voice back there. You know, he sees It's nice having
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  Speaker 1: a head coach and he sees the play and he
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  Speaker 1: can jump in and you know, give me a tip,
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  Speaker 1: correct something I did, you know, tell me something I
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  Speaker 1: could do a little bit better. Whatever it is, just
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  Speaker 1: because he totally understands his offense, you know, so it's
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  Speaker 1: all the coach's offense, but he knows it like the
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  Speaker 1: back of his hand. So it's nice having that UM
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  Speaker 1: and then knowing that he played the position and he's
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  Speaker 1: been in my shoes, so when he says something, you're
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  Speaker 1: definitely definitely listening. Still technically a competition at the center.
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  Speaker 1: What have you've seen out of Tyler? All the different
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  Speaker 1: guys rotating through there, and what does that do for
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  Speaker 1: you being with different centers? Yeah, it's UM. Obviously a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of adjustin with Luke. He just got here,
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  Speaker 1: didn't get a ton of reps in the spring. But
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a great job just picking up
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  Speaker 1: the offense. For one, is really smart guy. And then
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  Speaker 1: physically he looks great, he's moving great. Um, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reps today, so it's nice to get
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  Speaker 1: him in there get more comfortable there. Um. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna do a great job. And then Tyler played
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  Speaker 1: with him a lot last year when Brandon was out,
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  Speaker 1: and he's kind of he kind of moves all over
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  Speaker 1: the place and really just a team guy, does whatever
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  Speaker 1: needs to be done, never complains, always prepared, and so
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get with Tyler every day.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something I definitely appreciate. And he does a
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  Speaker 1: great job whether he's at center, guard whatever, so here
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  Speaker 1: what what can you believe? You get me here or
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  Speaker 1: whatever that he brings to that offensive line because he's
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  Speaker 1: certainly the motional, comperished player. Yeah, just that he's just
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  Speaker 1: got a certain level of grit I think that all
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  Speaker 1: great offensive linemen have. Um, he's a little nasty, uh,
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  Speaker 1: not afraid to get dirty. That's something that I think
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  Speaker 1: really just brings up the whole level of our old
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  Speaker 1: line's We've got some great players up there. And just
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  Speaker 1: kind of bringing them all together. I think he's done
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  Speaker 1: a great job of that, having that experience, having success, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, played well his whole career. Um that I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it just brings it elevates the whole the play of
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  Speaker 1: our WOLO line and the guys have done a good job.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a really tight group, um, and we
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of depth too, So it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see how this plays out. I know we've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of guys that can play, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: just excited. Try What would you say is number one
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  Speaker 1: on the list of what you wanted from on that
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're working on today. Yeah, I mean there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of there's a lot of things. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do it all on one day, but just
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  Speaker 1: are we talking about our QB room working on trying
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  Speaker 1: to get better one thing specifically each day? Obviously you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna work on a lot of things, but have one focus.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, um a broad focus, just not
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  Speaker 1: getting too much detail. It's just turnovers. Obviously had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of turnovers last year, So you know, finding that
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  Speaker 1: balance of being myself and making plays but also being
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  Speaker 1: smart and putting our team in the in the best
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  Speaker 1: UM situation to win. I think that's important, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: limiting those but also not letting it change my game.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's something I've worked this offseason and
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  Speaker 1: I've seen improvements on it. Just continuing to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And how's the field happen, John John bus which probably
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  Speaker 1: give I didn't miss that. I'm gonna have to wear
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  Speaker 1: an extra towel. He's always taking my towel. But no,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to have my guy back. Been together for
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  Speaker 1: a while, missed him last year. I'm just excited to
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  Speaker 1: have him back. He's going to add a very explosive
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  Speaker 1: elements are our offense. He's gonna help us a lot
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  Speaker 1: and just get getting back to some winning around here.
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  Speaker 1: So we're excited. All right, I'll get you a towel tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You had a nice past Christian Um. Obviously he was
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  Speaker 1: on the Homa script. Just talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: him and your relationship so far and because only got
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  Speaker 1: a pretty but a little bit of time. Yeah, Christians great.
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  Speaker 1: I think just Um kind of his approach to everything, practice,
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  Speaker 1: UM training, all that, the way he takes care of
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  Speaker 1: his body. I think he's just a pro Um, it's
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  Speaker 1: been fun to be around him just to see how
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  Speaker 1: he prepares. Really mature guy. I think we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: on the same level of personality and um temperament. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's really even keel um smart guy like I
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  Speaker 1: said in the spring, really quarterback friendly, all those things.
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  Speaker 1: But um, just fun to be around. And we got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of eyes like that. As far as just
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  Speaker 1: that personality, guys that really our team guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have really any egos, which is makes things
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  Speaker 1: a lot easier. So he's been great. I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: to continue to build that rapport and that chemistry and
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  Speaker 1: just get better and better thro the offseason or through
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  Speaker 1: the training camp. Thank you, awesome, Thank you guys. Ye