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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "We focus on one day at a time." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: And it has it's just improved each week. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: these guys, they do a great job. First of fall,
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  Speaker 1: it's communication, right, It starts with the center inside with Luke,
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  Speaker 1: and then it spreads spreads from there. They do a
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  Speaker 1: great job with that. Um. Phil Ralsher does a great
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  Speaker 1: job preparing these guys. We you know, we even get
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  Speaker 1: to the point to where we just kind of scale
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  Speaker 1: back to and we do we do less and and
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  Speaker 1: that way, these guys get more reps and more time
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  Speaker 1: on task with things and we're able to clean things up.
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  Speaker 1: And um, I think that's what you're seeing now with
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  Speaker 1: with the way they're they're playing, you know, and keeping
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  Speaker 1: keeping the quarterback clean and and um and still being
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  Speaker 1: effective in the right game. You know this job. But
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a trip back to Philly this year
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  Speaker 1: at some point, So, uh, how do you look at
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  Speaker 1: this trip? I mean, you you gave them the most
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  Speaker 1: Eufork moment they had in the history of the of
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  Speaker 1: the city in terms of football, and then and then
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  Speaker 1: it didn't end well. So I mean, what are your
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  Speaker 1: feelings going back? Appreciate creation a little a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of sweetest with no I mean, listen, I've I've my
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  Speaker 1: wife and I are family. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great memories, you know, back there. Um, I've spent you know,
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  Speaker 1: eight or nine years there, Um, once with coach Reid
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  Speaker 1: and once obviously as the head coach. And I brought
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  Speaker 1: that city of championship and and something to be proud
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  Speaker 1: of obviously, and and um, you know, I'm really looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to getting back there. And and just I understand
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  Speaker 1: that city. I understand the passion for for football. But
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  Speaker 1: but now I'm on the other side, right and and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's it's still a long way away. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, seven days away or six days away. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've we've got to prepare, um, you know
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  Speaker 1: this week, Um, like we have these last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to it, you know, getting back
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  Speaker 1: up there. It's been a great place. Um. We did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of good things there and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, looking forward to the hopefully the
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  Speaker 1: the welcome. Certainly one of the good things you did
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  Speaker 1: there was it was the Philly Special play. And I
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  Speaker 1: was the Philly Special. I mean when you get that
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  Speaker 1: play as just as a coach and as someone who
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  Speaker 1: just has an appreciation for the history of the game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of football observers are calling that
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  Speaker 1: play like the GUTSI is playing Super Bowl history. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you look back on it, what makes you feel
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  Speaker 1: good about it other than the fact that it worked?
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  Speaker 1: I think, and I kind of alluded to this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit even with our team here, is that if
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  Speaker 1: I don't prepare the team for those situations, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to it's hard to call those types of plays, right.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got to be able to work those things
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  Speaker 1: in practice. We gotta work him in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: O t a S, training camp, whatever it can, so
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  Speaker 1: that when those moments come, you just pull the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's honestly, it's like another play. You don't
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  Speaker 1: think about where you are the time, none of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's about executing that particular play. And and for us,
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  Speaker 1: it just happened to be in that game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it helped us win that football game. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that magnifies it more than just the play itself,
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  Speaker 1: um and the guys who are executing it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's no different than you know here in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: If we're gonna put plays like that in I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: make sure the guys understand that. You know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be aggressive on fourth down, and we're gonna take our
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and take some chances from time to time and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, but yet we're gonna work We're gonna work
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  Speaker 1: those in camp and you know, in the off season
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  Speaker 1: and prepare the guys that way. What kind of reception
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  Speaker 1: do you think you're going to get the fans? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it could be mixed. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's listen, it's you know, I gotta get this team
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  Speaker 1: here ready to go. And and I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be concerned with that. You know. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you hope it's a good one obviously for the things
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  Speaker 1: you did there, but you know, I also know that
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  Speaker 1: crowd and they could be a little hostile and and
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  Speaker 1: uh you know looking forward to that too, yeah several
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah no, it's uh yeah no, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it listen, it's understanding that and haven't been there
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  Speaker 1: and worked there, and um, you just you just understand
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, hey, even when even when I was
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  Speaker 1: there and we were winning games or losing games, you
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  Speaker 1: were still getting boots. So it's you know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really matter. It's not just you actually see what they
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  Speaker 1: do and how have you been able to actually get
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  Speaker 1: all the field of sunny and tradition what you've done practice.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just that it's just how
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  Speaker 1: we practice, how the guys to take the information the classroom.
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  Speaker 1: It starts with the coordinators obviously putting plans together and
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  Speaker 1: and then how we we you know, educate our players
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  Speaker 1: in the classroom and then taking that to the field
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And that's what we've
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  Speaker 1: seen here in these these first three weeks is just
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  Speaker 1: how well the guys have prepared themselves. The coaches have
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  Speaker 1: really done a nice job in preparation. And you can't
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  Speaker 1: get to the end process until you know, you get
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  Speaker 1: through a Wednesday, right, Um, And that's just what we
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  Speaker 1: focus on. We just focus on one day at a
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  Speaker 1: time and and uh, you know, understand the base game
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  Speaker 1: plan then and then and then we worked throughout the week.
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  Speaker 1: You have any contingencies for return of preparation with the
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  Speaker 1: web industreets, I mean, those are all things we've got
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  Speaker 1: to take into consideration. Um, you know, we've got We've
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  Speaker 1: got people in the house that are that are monitoring
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  Speaker 1: that that situation for us, and and we'll be prepared
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  Speaker 1: either way if we if we stay, we'll be be
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  Speaker 1: prepared if we have to move out of here for
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, if it's you know, obviously the weather related,
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  Speaker 1: then we'll be prepared for that too. So you know, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing should change that. Three weeks into the season. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta feel pretty good about where this team is right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we are, you know, obviously, the way we've won, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the way the guys have come together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to win. We're healthy, you know, relatively healthy as a
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  Speaker 1: football team. A lot of them still, I mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot of football ahead of us, you know. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: never looked past the current week you're in, the current
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  Speaker 1: situation you're in. But yeah, I've been I've been pleased
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  Speaker 1: with the direction, the leadership of the team and where
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  Speaker 1: we are as a football team right now. Um, still
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  Speaker 1: have room for improvement, obviously, And UM, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the exciting thing that everybody embraces their role and and
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  Speaker 1: their opportunities when they get them, and when it's a
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  Speaker 1: young football team. You've kind of talked about you know,
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  Speaker 1: you expect them to get better from week to week
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  Speaker 1: because it's players getting more experienced under the under their builds.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, to get off to a relatively fast start
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  Speaker 1: to the season, that confidence building in the room. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta feel like, okay, well, the balls rolling in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. Yeah, you know, obviously it is heading in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction because these these last two victories. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not so much how you begin the season, it's
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  Speaker 1: how you finish right. And and so we've got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you know, there's there's gonna be dips
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  Speaker 1: in the year. That's again there's a lot of ball
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  Speaker 1: ahead of you, and then there's gonna be dips. But
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  Speaker 1: that's how you how you manage those. And and again
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  Speaker 1: you want to be playing your best football, not necessarily now,
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  Speaker 1: but you know in in December and January. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you know through the post, he's going back one
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  Speaker 1: more time to the Philly play. Um, would you have
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  Speaker 1: run that play? Did did Nick sort of coming up
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  Speaker 1: and just say you want Philly? Did that sort of
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  Speaker 1: nut you a little bit and think you think to yourself, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it. Yeah, you know, I wasn't really thinking
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  Speaker 1: of that play. As a you know, fourth and one
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  Speaker 1: on the goal line. You know, that to me was
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  Speaker 1: a potential maybe first second down, third down call, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the game somewhere um and so I wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: prepared and really thinking about that in that situation where
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  Speaker 1: we were at the you know, the one one and
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  Speaker 1: a half yard line, and obviously when he, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: brought it up, it just it triggered, you know, my thinking,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just I think it was just a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity that that you know, he made the suggestion
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, I agreed to it. The thing
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting is that one of your assistants, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was one of your quality control guys
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  Speaker 1: or whether it was suppressed or somebody somebody found that
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  Speaker 1: play from the from the Bearers Vikings game the year before,
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  Speaker 1: two years ago, two years before. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. Okay, might have been fifteen or sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: But the point was when that play was run, it
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  Speaker 1: was virtually the identical down and distance for where you
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  Speaker 1: except there's was third down. I think there's from the
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  Speaker 1: two point right or third down from the two something
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  Speaker 1: like that. And that listen that that play that we
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  Speaker 1: ran is not the first time that play has been run.
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  Speaker 1: That thing has been run fifty sixty times for high
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  Speaker 1: school teams have run that play, you know before. It
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  Speaker 1: just happened to be on the biggest stage, you know,
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  Speaker 1: um to run that play. But yeah, press press Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: who is obviously now my coordinator, was kind of in
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  Speaker 1: charge of finding unique plays and special plays and trick
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  Speaker 1: plays and things college pro um and yeah, put a
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  Speaker 1: put a little tape together. I looked at the tape
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  Speaker 1: and I saw that one, and I wanted to put
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  Speaker 1: that one in. And and in fact Alshan Jeffrey was
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  Speaker 1: was on that team the Bears who executed that play
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  Speaker 1: then was on our team, and uh he obviously had
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  Speaker 1: some insight to it, and and uh he uh he
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  Speaker 1: was part of that play as well. You don't Joe back,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get Evan ing Rooms catching me into it
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  Speaker 1: was that kind of a hard one for them to
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  Speaker 1: overturn it. Now, I mean it appeared that his foot
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  Speaker 1: was off the ground or at least on top of
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  Speaker 1: his other foot, left foot. Um, so I think that
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  Speaker 1: one was relatively easy to see. Yeah. Two, three, the
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  Speaker 1: laste games four or six and fourth game would you
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  Speaker 1: take that the rest of the season. Yeah, does that
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  Speaker 1: make it worth it to you? I mean, is your
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  Speaker 1: kind of I don't want Is there a percentage you
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  Speaker 1: kind of a signed internally to to what constitutes success
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  Speaker 1: in that half at the time, Yeah, I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have a percentage in mind. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: more situationally and where we are in the game. I
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  Speaker 1: think the week before it was a fourth and five
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  Speaker 1: or six, and then well it was a fourth and
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  Speaker 1: five at the end of the game, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it was a fourth and five in this game, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: the other day. So but yeah, if you're are out
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  Speaker 1: of six and you're in that range at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year, you've done it means you've done your job.
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  Speaker 1: You stayed on the field and and most of the
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  Speaker 1: time those drives ending in points right for us. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I keep talking to the team about that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to maintain aggressiveness both offensively and defensively, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, our guys are excited about it, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe they'd be told, but it Lastly, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: defensive guys said that that to them, that is the
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  Speaker 1: highest form of confidence that you could put in them
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  Speaker 1: is to take those chances because you knew that it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. They got the offensive back, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, do you have to have that much as
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  Speaker 1: much confidence in your defense is your offense on that
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  Speaker 1: exactly right? And you look at the one yesterday we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get it. Fourth and five, I think we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get it, but the defense went three and out and
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  Speaker 1: caused a punt and then we got the ball back,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, and we're up around midfield. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's a confidence booster, you know for the team. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the fourth and one that sprung for the
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  Speaker 1: touchdown was it was a beautiful thing, and um, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get you know, opportunities like that. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, I think it does show uh confidence
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the team that you know, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter what's gonna happen, you know, the next the
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  Speaker 1: next unit's gonna step up. Just seemed in the ast
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  Speaker 1: for the best point phone the time you got here
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  Speaker 1: to now with that kind of ship that instle Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know you I think a little bit in the
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  Speaker 1: off season, how the guys really embraced it as far
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  Speaker 1: as being here Um. It showed that they they want
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  Speaker 1: to win and they want to they want to flip it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've had guys during games come up and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna finish this game. We're gonna, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do what's right, and we're gonna we're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: this football game, whatever it might be. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you're starting to see that. And I think with them,
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  Speaker 1: you know it, listen it it just takes a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of success for them to believe. Um, But I
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  Speaker 1: want them to believe first before we have success. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's more important than than seeing it and
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  Speaker 1: then believing it, right. Um. And that's what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that that started back a little bit
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  Speaker 1: in the offseason obviously carried through training camp and and
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  Speaker 1: and here in the first you know, three weeks of
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  Speaker 1: the season. That's what we're seeing. That's what I'm seeing.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's encouraging is that they've bought into that.
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  Speaker 1: So it was the belief after the loss in Week
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  Speaker 1: one more important than anything you've seen after the two wins. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because that you know, we you learned so much from losses,
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  Speaker 1: you know, failures not only in a game of football
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  Speaker 1: but life, and uh, you learn from them, you move on,
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  Speaker 1: and we've we've fixed, you know, we've we've we've minimize penalties,
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  Speaker 1: we've created more turnovers. We we've done something a little
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  Speaker 1: better on third down. Still got to fix the red
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  Speaker 1: zone a little bit. Um, But I think overall you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing the things that showed up in week one. You
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  Speaker 1: know we've been able to correct. When you know that
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  Speaker 1: the locker room knows you have a history with this
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  Speaker 1: Philly team in this game might mean a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more to you. Do you talk to them about that
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  Speaker 1: or just let them talk about that amongst themselves. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's amongst them. You know, my job is to
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  Speaker 1: prepare the team to go play, uh, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: a great environment against a really good football team that's
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  Speaker 1: that's playing extremely well right now. And you know, for us,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's the next one on the schedule, right and
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  Speaker 1: and um it just so happens to be Philly. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time as my job prepare the guys
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  Speaker 1: this week and and uh and go play. Do you
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  Speaker 1: do you in watching James robson the first three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: do you sometimes have a hard time remembering it towards
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  Speaker 1: a complete in December. You do, you do, and the
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  Speaker 1: same with Travis, you know, both those guys, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's, Um, it's pretty special and remarkable what
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  Speaker 1: what both of those guys with James you know in particular,
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  Speaker 1: has done, you know, and gotten himself back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in a position to help this football team in two
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  Speaker 1: weeks in a row too, long runs and touchdowns and um,
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  Speaker 1: that's a special to see. They're a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: underestimating what he might be able to do just because
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know, you know, with the injury and how
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  Speaker 1: he'd come back. Yeah, you don't know. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: some of that. But but I think for us too,
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  Speaker 1: we saw what he when we got him in there
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  Speaker 1: in training camp towards the end, and what he was
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing. I think it's sort of opened our
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  Speaker 1: eyes as the staff, you know that that this is
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  Speaker 1: the guy that we saw on tape a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and watching him and evaluating him and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and just seeing how I think it's not
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  Speaker 1: only explosive but tough of a runner, you know that
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  Speaker 1: he is. How much does it boost your confidence in
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  Speaker 1: the future to go for it on fourth down, knowing
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: that every time you've made that conversion you've got a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown out of every each to it. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: the goal, you know, Um, I think it. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, it's it's it's it's good and
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  Speaker 1: and and I think it gives confidence to the football
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  Speaker 1: team that that we can were capable of doing that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and to end up in points. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we of course every drive you want to end in points, right,
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  Speaker 1: either a field goal, touchdown. But you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: if you get one of those fourth downs and convert it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your success rate goes up and your chance
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  Speaker 1: of scoring also goes up. And that's you know, analytical
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  Speaker 1: numbers there, um, and you have a little more success
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  Speaker 1: do on that. Okay, that