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Press Pass | James Gladstone on 53-Man Roster · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: As the man in charge in terms of the challenges,
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  Speaker 1: what did you sort of see, you know, how challenging
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  Speaker 1: was to sort of get down to fifty three.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. You know, there were some pretty deep and thoughtful
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  Speaker 2: conversations over the course of the off season training camp
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  Speaker 2: and then the lead up to ultimately the conversations that
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  Speaker 2: we had to have with players that led to this,
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  Speaker 2: and they carried a lot of weight. They weren't conversations
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  Speaker 2: in the lead up that were taken lightly. They weren't
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  Speaker 2: conversations that in the moment of informing players of our
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  Speaker 2: decision that were light. They came with some weight. And
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  Speaker 2: we certainly value transparency and being thoughtful and not only
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  Speaker 2: the decisions, but also how that's relayed to each and
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  Speaker 2: every player, knowing that they put in a ton of
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  Speaker 2: effort and energy into giving their best to this organization,
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  Speaker 2: to their teammates, to the coaching staff who is attempting
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  Speaker 2: to get the best.
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  Speaker 3: Version out of themselves.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that for the first time actually being
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  Speaker 2: the person to have to walk through that with guys,
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  Speaker 2: it it was certainly eye opening in a way that
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  Speaker 2: I just didn't have the experience to point back to.
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  Speaker 2: So certainly some lessons that I can be able to
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  Speaker 2: apply moving forward to continue to level up in that
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  Speaker 2: space that I look forward to doing when that time
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  Speaker 2: comes again. But very much appreciate anybody who stepped into
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  Speaker 2: this building and participated over the course of the last
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  Speaker 2: few weeks in training camp to give ourselves a really
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  Speaker 2: good position here moving into the regular season where we
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  Speaker 2: feel like we're becoming the best version of the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five Jaguars at the right time. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that the physicality is something I want to point to
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  Speaker 2: right because it's what we talked about in the off
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  Speaker 2: season before our players and coaches ever got on the grass.
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  Speaker 2: And the mental portion of that, the toughness on both
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  Speaker 2: physical and mental elements, is something that shined bright I
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  Speaker 2: think throughout the preseason in a couple different different ways,
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  Speaker 2: and I point to the moment just like we saw
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  Speaker 2: in preseason Game three, obviously playing some of the reserves,
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  Speaker 2: some of the backups against Miami's top tier crew, when
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  Speaker 2: our offense had two negative plays to start the game
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  Speaker 2: and then converted the third down for a first time.
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  Speaker 2: That bounce back is an inspiring moment at the end
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  Speaker 2: of a preseason, even when it's not your starters or
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  Speaker 2: primary contributors. So I think the fact that that bled
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  Speaker 2: through in a real way in the performance aspect is
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  Speaker 2: something that I think shines a light on really what
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to do. And that involved a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys that we had conversations with this week, and certainly
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  Speaker 2: appreciate all that they had done in order to bring
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  Speaker 2: that to life as much as you share your evaluation
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  Speaker 2: of the landscape the last forty eight hours or so.
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  Speaker 4: That led to A the trade for TIF this morning
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  Speaker 4: and B did you make any claims on the way
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  Speaker 4: to war?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, I'm sure it would have been fun for
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  Speaker 2: our fan base to see some claims come through. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: a little different than the draft, you don't have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to move up in the claiming order, But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: we're really happy with the way that the fifty three
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  Speaker 2: man roster currently stands really excited about the addition of
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  Speaker 2: Tim Patrick. He is somebody that from AFAR, both Liam myself,
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  Speaker 2: the coaching staff, the scouting staff has really appreciated his game.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about the idea of being mentally and physically tough.
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  Speaker 2: Like I just pointed to, and I use the phrase
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  Speaker 2: intangibly rich a lot. I think anybody that does their
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  Speaker 2: homework on Tim Patrick understands that he's never had an
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  Speaker 2: easy path. He's always had to overcome obstacles. And the
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  Speaker 2: only thing that he communicated us after this decision was
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  Speaker 2: made that he's ready to earn every op that lies
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  Speaker 2: in front and when he's got that hunger that he
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  Speaker 2: can provide obviously from a veteran presence to a room
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  Speaker 2: who definitely has up until Diami, a lot of youth, right,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of inexperience in comparison, and the idea of
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  Speaker 2: building out a basketball team with not only the wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver room, but multiple position groups that can be very helpful, right,
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  Speaker 2: not the same exact genre across the group that can
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  Speaker 2: that can be something that when you talk with Liam
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  Speaker 2: being able to artfully design plays to tap into those
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  Speaker 2: skill sets. It's something that he gets creative juices from.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, and so that was something that was really
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  Speaker 2: excited about the addition of of Tim knowing that he
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  Speaker 2: brings something that we don't currently have in the space.
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  Speaker 3: To rookies.
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  Speaker 1: What did they start really taking steps forward during this
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  Speaker 1: camp to say, hey, that.
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  Speaker 5: Gets spot on one.
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  Speaker 2: That's a cool question and I'm glad you highlighted that
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  Speaker 2: portion of it because, as I point back to my
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  Speaker 2: time with UH with the Rams, the undrafted college free
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  Speaker 2: agent process was something that we took a lot of
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  Speaker 2: pride in and UH and we deployed a very similar
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  Speaker 2: operation to what what we did there. Liam participated in
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  Speaker 2: that operation when he was just a position coach and UH,
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  Speaker 2: and so we know it well. And I got to
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  Speaker 2: give a lot of credit to our position coach and
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  Speaker 2: and also our scouting staff who were paired together h
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  Speaker 2: to sign those two guys after the draft identify those
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  Speaker 2: two guys as the highest priority of the position because
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  Speaker 2: we didn't draft anybody at the position group, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: at the time that was something that in the recruitment
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  Speaker 2: efforts was intriguing to both of those guys and they
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  Speaker 2: saw a path to potentially find a spot.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously that's been earned.
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  Speaker 2: And in addition, right you talk about the basketball team
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  Speaker 2: of the wide receiver group being different genres, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool to look at how a position is constructed
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  Speaker 2: in that at the defensive end position, we have two
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  Speaker 2: guys that were top ten picks, we didn't draft anybody.
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  Speaker 2: We end up signing a few guys as undrafted college
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  Speaker 2: free agents, two of which end up making the fifty
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  Speaker 2: three man roster as rookies. And then you got two
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  Speaker 2: veteran presents in Emmanuel Agba and Dwayne Smoot who we signed.
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  Speaker 3: After the draft.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a makeup over room that is coming from
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  Speaker 2: all different forms of acquisition, and it is pretty cool
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  Speaker 2: to see that take shape and people earn their ops
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  Speaker 2: and earn their place because I think as you guys
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  Speaker 2: follow us throughout the preseason, it became abundantly clear that
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  Speaker 2: those two guys were making a dent in real, live
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  Speaker 2: performances and that was the case in our practice settings
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  Speaker 2: and both showing up not only on the phase of
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  Speaker 2: defense but also special teams right, and to find players
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  Speaker 2: at that position who can contribute on special teams isn't
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  Speaker 2: always easy, and so they're made of the right stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They committed themselves to the process, accepted the coaching, and
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  Speaker 2: it's panned out. And really excited for both those guys,
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  Speaker 2: Excited for that room and really the outlook there, and
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  Speaker 2: really happy with how it unfolded. Pointing back to our
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  Speaker 2: coaches and scouts working in tandem to really get those
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  Speaker 2: deals down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this rosters being a.
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  Speaker 4: What another team last year? That about the kind of
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  Speaker 4: roster turnover you were expecting and you kind of have
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  Speaker 4: to have when you're taking over, you know what I
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  Speaker 4: mean as someone else's players.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that's a cool question.
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  Speaker 2: I think it wasn't something that you intentionally set out
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  Speaker 2: on saying, hey, we're going to turn over this percentage
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  Speaker 2: or this number of the roster. It was an organic approach,
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  Speaker 2: and I think when you have high demands for players
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  Speaker 2: and expectations of standards, it can become easier to sift
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  Speaker 2: through who makes the most sense moving forward and who
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  Speaker 2: makes the most sense for being here. Certainly excited about
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  Speaker 2: the group that we got in the moment, but can't
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  Speaker 2: say that it was with any intent to get to
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  Speaker 2: a certain number of percentage of roster turnover.
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  Speaker 1: Hey we're Branshaw placed on ir not be able to
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  Speaker 1: return out. It's under the impression that you were really
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  Speaker 1: counting on him this year. So this setback and it's
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  Speaker 1: basically a red shirt year. What came to that decision?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unfortunately he had a non contact injury on
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  Speaker 2: his foot that ultimately we put him in a boot
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  Speaker 2: with the hope that it wouldn't result in surgery. Checked
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  Speaker 2: after the boot came off and it was clear that
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  Speaker 2: it was going to have to we were going to
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  Speaker 2: have to go in, and so he ended up having
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  Speaker 2: the surgery. Still had optimism that there was a chance
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  Speaker 2: towards the back half of the year that he would
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  Speaker 2: be able to return and do a designation for a return. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: it ended up being that that it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be too close to the Buzzer show to speak, and
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  Speaker 2: it would have been some version of trying to rush
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  Speaker 2: him back. Looking at the long game, it makes the
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  Speaker 2: most sense to make sure his recovery timeline isn't rushed
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  Speaker 2: and we can go about it the right way for him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh And yeah, it's it's disappointing because he is somebody
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  Speaker 2: that we certainly had a very vivid vision for and
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  Speaker 2: he was progressing at an extremely high rate.
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  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, we got a good.
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  Speaker 2: Group that is ready to to bring it to life
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  Speaker 2: on the grass and and play together playing tandem and
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing that here against the Carolina Panthers.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what are the.
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  Speaker 4: Chances that the trash isn't healthy enough to play?
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  Speaker 1: We want?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's that's not the taste he's on the grass
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  Speaker 2: today and rolling full speed.
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  Speaker 5: So, as it said, at the beginning of the process,
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  Speaker 5: and don't really know what it's going to look like,
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  Speaker 5: and you'll let.
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  Speaker 3: It shape itself.
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  Speaker 5: Uh. Has that take a shape to the point where
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  Speaker 5: you're satisfactory that it's kind of what you assumed.
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  Speaker 3: It would be. Yeah, I'd like to think so.
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  Speaker 2: And and also there's a competitive advantage to not knowing
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  Speaker 2: what side of ball he's going to be deployed on. Fully,
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  Speaker 2: what if that's half, if that's a mixture, All those
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  Speaker 2: sorts of things can vary from one week to the next.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the fact that that exists is certainly
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  Speaker 2: a hand that will keep close. And it seems like
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  Speaker 2: there is a clear effort when fillery the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: guys who play more positions.
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  Speaker 3: How that factor is that some decisions you guys made
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  Speaker 3: to the fifty three of those guys. Yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 3: great question.
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  Speaker 2: I think, just like I've pointed to a wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: the defensive end group. As i just work through, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: what does it look like at each of these position
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  Speaker 2: groups and how they're constructed. The thing that jumps out
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  Speaker 2: across the offensive line is the versatility obviously with the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you got guys who can swing from left
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  Speaker 2: to right, guard to tackle guard to center, it's a
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  Speaker 2: great group and nobody's pigeonholed to a singular spot with
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  Speaker 2: that in mind, and so that obviously gives you the
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  Speaker 2: luxury on game day to feel like you're not pigeonholed,
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  Speaker 2: that you're not going to be tight. And so the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we ended up addressing that position group so
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  Speaker 2: heavily throughout the offseason gave us a lot of confidence,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of competition, and that obviously led to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of growth. And we're really jacked about the progression
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  Speaker 2: that we saw from a number of the guys returning,
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  Speaker 2: a number of the guys that we added, and then
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  Speaker 2: obviously we were able to make some moves and leverage
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  Speaker 2: that depth through some of the recent trades.
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  Speaker 3: What Trevor Lawrence's camp and his place.
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  Speaker 2: As a play Yeah, absolutely jacked at the progression that
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  Speaker 2: we saw from the off season program to now where
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  Speaker 2: we're at through three preseason games and on the horizon
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  Speaker 2: of the regular season. Because obviously going through so many
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  Speaker 2: different schemes throughout the early portion of his career, finding stability,
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  Speaker 2: finding confidence in understanding the intent of one play to
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  Speaker 2: the next. The operation takes some time, and so Trevor
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  Speaker 2: was doing a phenomenal job operationally throughout the course of
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  Speaker 2: the off season program and really inconsistent in doing what
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  Speaker 2: was explicitly asked. Throughout the course of training camp. He
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  Speaker 2: began to test everything and began to push the limits,
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  Speaker 2: not just to do what was asked, but go beyond that.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the exciting thing that you began to
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  Speaker 2: see sort of take shape and taking riskier throws and
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  Speaker 2: actually threaten the needle in a way that was jaw dropping, right.
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  Speaker 2: And so that was the exciting progression from let's call
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  Speaker 2: it the off season program to now where we are
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  Speaker 2: at the end of training camp.
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  Speaker 1: That is better in depth throughout every step of the
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  Speaker 1: off season so far, it seems like in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different positions, what is the value and having so many.
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  Speaker 5: Veterans that have experienced throughout the depth of.
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  Speaker 2: The roster, gosh, I wish I knew maybe what the
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  Speaker 2: averages were across the league, like where we would maybe fall.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 2: It probably depends on the position. I bet some positions
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  Speaker 2: we would stack towards the younger end. Some are some
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  Speaker 2: positions we stacked towards the older end, so it's probably
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  Speaker 2: a fair mix, but none of the less, it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to deny the helpfulness of veteran presence, especially when trying
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  Speaker 2: to do some version of a regime change right and
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  Speaker 2: make it so that now we got a couple folks
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  Speaker 2: that can be relied on outside just the coaching staff
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  Speaker 2: to sort of tilt the scales of how we'd like
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  Speaker 2: to operate in things of that nature. So it definitely
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  Speaker 2: plays a big part it has in our decision making process,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly like that about guys who are coming from
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  Speaker 2: experience and winning programs right and be able to tap
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  Speaker 2: into the idea that it's not always perfect in order
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  Speaker 2: to get a win. But there's certainly a mindset attached
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  Speaker 2: to those types of individuals, especially when you go through
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  Speaker 2: adverse moments as well, and being able to come out
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  Speaker 2: on the right side.
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  Speaker 4: If we're going through can I guess the one preseason
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  Speaker 4: game play? Have you adjusted expectations more Travis in terms
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  Speaker 4: of playtime on either side starting on either side? Has
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  Speaker 4: anything changed in your mind about what you think you're
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  Speaker 4: going to get out? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: There hadn't been any shift on that front. We expect
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  Speaker 2: him to be who we know him to be, and
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  Speaker 2: that's somebody who impacts both sides of the football and
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to see that on Sundays and one Monday
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  Speaker 2: night here this season.
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  Speaker 3: Go back to the Souldiers trade, not that all come together?
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  Speaker 3: I mean right after the game. Did you go into
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  Speaker 3: that week.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing he was a guy you wanted to look at,
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  Speaker 1: or did you see him during the game and.
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  Speaker 2: Say they So, they actually had lost a backup center
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  Speaker 2: in the week earlier and had reached out knowing that
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  Speaker 2: we had some depth as to whether or not there
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  Speaker 2: was something that could could be done, and so through
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  Speaker 2: that started looking at some of the options that they
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  Speaker 2: would be considering, and Colin came up and so obviously
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  Speaker 2: then in the lead up to the to the deal,
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  Speaker 2: we had the luxury of thinking through that at depth
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  Speaker 2: and then seeing him live in our game setting before
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  Speaker 2: finally executing that once we returned to Jack. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was a about a week's time, uh, when it
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  Speaker 2: first got brought up to when it it was actually executed.
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  Speaker 1: Would would you watch the.
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  Speaker 3: Sea play at the press? Give it to your stamp
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  Speaker 3: on this Rostel album. How cool is Uh?
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  Speaker 2: That's certainly a a neat thing. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, I think, uh, from my vantage point,
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  Speaker 2: it's time to win some football games, and uh that's
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  Speaker 2: really where my focus is falling, and that's where the
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  Speaker 2: fulfillment will actually will actually come.
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  Speaker 3: What's like, what's your practice for Tony? Oh it's an
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  Speaker 3: absolute blast.
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  Speaker 2: There's very few things that aren't an absolute blast. When
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  Speaker 2: working with both Liam and Tony. Uh, we have uh
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  Speaker 2: certainly developed a more intimate, deeper, uh relationship through these
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  Speaker 2: last six months. Uh certainly one that uh I know
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  Speaker 2: that uh we'll bring with it a lot of uh
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  Speaker 2: fulfillment like I just talked about, and hopefully with it
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  Speaker 2: also some successful results. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You tell you where you thought you would be when
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  Speaker 5: this process started. You got to the point yesterday, did
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  Speaker 5: you feel like, Okay, this is what we set out
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  Speaker 5: to do to land here, even though it's fluid and.
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  Speaker 1: You could change day to day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think, Look, good teams can be built throughout the
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  Speaker 2: course of an offseason, right, I think the great teams
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  Speaker 2: continue to evolve throughout the course of a season. So
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  Speaker 2: to say, whether or not we're at the spot where
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  Speaker 2: I think I thought we'd be.
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  Speaker 3: I can't point to it right now.
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  Speaker 2: What I can say is we won't stop and stagnition
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  Speaker 2: is never going to be something that that you see
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  Speaker 2: from us. So I look forward to still what lies
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  Speaker 2: in front of us, and and know the job is
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  Speaker 2: not even close to done.
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  Speaker 5: Evaluation of the running back room feeling is probably gonna
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  Speaker 5: do a basketball analogy as well.
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of maybe where you've seen.
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  Speaker 5: Some surprises during the during the preseason offseason program.
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  Speaker 2: For many of those four guys, Yeah, I think pretty
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  Speaker 2: juiced up about the fact that we have four running
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  Speaker 2: backs who we feel very confident in. Obviously, as you
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  Speaker 2: think about what Liam depoyd in Tampa Bay, it was
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  Speaker 2: a committee approach and UH, and we look forward to
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  Speaker 2: bringing that to life here in Jacksonville and UH and
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  Speaker 2: make it sure that everybody gets the opposite they deserve
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  Speaker 2: in a way that contributes to a successful outcome for us.
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  Speaker 2: But each of those guys has a role right here
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  Speaker 2: and now, and that'll continue to shape itself over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the season. And obviously, knowing we're going to
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  Speaker 2: run the ball, UH, you know, the idea of attrition
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  Speaker 2: isn't a stretch to think shows itself and the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we have four guys that we feel confident.
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  Speaker 3: In trust in is a really good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So, excited about where it's at, Excited to see
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  Speaker 2: where it goes from.
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  Speaker 5: A numbers From a numbers standpoint, Did have Ben Travis
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  Speaker 5: maybe change the way you might view the ross? You
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: know you're able to have five.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Receivers, six TV six winners. How did you sort of
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: a factor in?
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Travis?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that it goes a long way. It Obviously it's
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: interesting in the fifty three. It's probably less impactful in
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: comparison to the forty eight forty seven on game day
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: because now you got you got an extra active right
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: essentially somebody who's going both ways.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a weapon in that regard.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: It's actually a math changer, right, It literally is a
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: math changer when it comes to the active game day count.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: So that's where I would probably apply that as being
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: a really a really cool dynamic.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: High for like the two or three more you guys
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: have passed me with takes some Trevor figuring out how
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: to use the guy on both sides the ball, something
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: has been done in the league regularly for a while
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: playing games all at the same time, learning how to
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: be a hand coaching. How is the handle all.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Of that so far? And that's a.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Pretty big ass right Well, when there's an opportunity to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: be bold, he don't flinch either, you know. So no,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: he's jacked about that op And I won't speak for him.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: But look, we're not We're not gonna just do it
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: cookie cutter approach.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: We're looking.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: We're looking to gain an edge and I think we'll
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: try and apply that in every way that we operate.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, some of the dynamics that you just surfaced, Uh,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: they're real, but at the same time they can provide
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: us with a real edge and uh, and we look
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: forward to trying to bring that to life.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: At this point. How do you view the roof of
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: the class you got to see from training camp.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Looks like outside of ransaw, most of them will have
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: a chance to interview this season.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: That's right now.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Extremely excited obviously with the rookie class, it's it's always
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: an interesting part here in the early portion of the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: season to see how how they're going to be involved
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: on the grass. And I think the fact that we
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: got guys who were built of the right stuff, obviously,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: feeling it out for the first time. They've they've made
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: their dent, and they've all earned earned roles that are
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: going to be meaningful to us over the course of
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: this season. And obviously I think that that allowed us
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to move on from some of the guys that I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: have been here for some years and to those who
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: who many are saying goodbye to right now. You know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: we think we thank him for all the energy that
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: they put into getting us to this point, because their
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: presence here was felt, but really excited about the future,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: explicitly when thinking about the rookie class in particular, expectations.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: For our stead we'll get in cyber and feel we're
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: coming back.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, excited about that being the case. Excited for him
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to be back on the grass.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Obviously, through the first portion.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Of training camp he wasn't wasn't out on the grass
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: all the time and was still doing some rehab. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: now the fact that he actually is inserted back there
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: really provided a real presence to us over the course
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: of the last handful of practices that he was able
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: to participate in. And he's feeling fresh, he's feeling great,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: So looking forward to being in a in an authentic
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: football environment with him come the regular season.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: You look at the.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Turnover of the defensive line into your defensive line over
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the last month or so, pretty.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Comfortable with you know, just how much change has kind
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of happened there pad again into.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Week one, Yeah, I think so.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I think that's a that's a group that if you're
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: going to point to veterans, that's certainly got the bulk
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: of them, Mason going into year two being the exception.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: But that's a group that we're certainly jacked to see perform.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: And the fact that we went heavy at defensive end
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: and lighter at interior defensive line. The fact that we
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: have defensive end body types that actually can reduce inside.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Is a part of that equation.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: So we would sort of group those two together as
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: an entire defensive front. But yeah, certainly happy with the
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: way that it's taking shape last week.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: This is all right there. Thanks change,