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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Accountability & Making Progress Ahead of Week 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nay, out there all right, what we got? How
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  Speaker 1: how do you guys? I try to maximize the time? Yeah, day, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think just getting healthy for one. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's not the same for everyone. People are dealing
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  Speaker 1: different things, but everyone's dealing with something. At this point
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  Speaker 1: in the season. You played seven games and uh so
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  Speaker 1: just getting the body back feeling good, it's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. I think mentally resetting knowing what's ahead
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  Speaker 1: of us. You know, we got a ten game stretch
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  Speaker 1: now ahead of us to put us in position at
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  Speaker 1: the end of this thing. So we need we need,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everyone in the right mental headspace, everyone healthy.
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  Speaker 1: So I think just using that time for that. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: you kind of think about it's hard to not think
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  Speaker 1: about you know, who you're playing next and the opponent
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  Speaker 1: and kind of start getting into that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But try to push some of that off, just to
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  Speaker 1: give yourself some time to resec You've been going at
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  Speaker 1: it since training camp started, really all the way through
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  Speaker 1: and whole week seven and then you finally get a
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  Speaker 1: little little time to just breathe a little bit. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good reset mentally more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: So like Scout or that is what you see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that just the the things that we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about that we knew that we've known, or problems I
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  Speaker 1: guess that we haven't done well are are evident that
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  Speaker 1: we need to improve on. I think when you take
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  Speaker 1: a step back from it, though, and really look at
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  Speaker 1: it for what it is, Yes, we need to improve,
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  Speaker 1: we need to get better, and we haven't and we
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  Speaker 1: haven't played our standard, but it's very you know, correctible
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  Speaker 1: things and things that I know that we can execute
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  Speaker 1: and can do well and we can be a really
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  Speaker 1: good offense. So we haven't done that to this point.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't played a complete game, but feel very optimistic
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  Speaker 1: about where we're heading, the direction we're going. Everyone being
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. I think that's a big thing,
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  Speaker 1: which was good for the open week to go on
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  Speaker 1: the same page, to talk about some stuff, what we
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  Speaker 1: need to get better at, what we need to correct
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  Speaker 1: and I really feel confident, optimistic moving forward and like
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  Speaker 1: this unit is gonna, you know, really make the improvements
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  Speaker 1: and obviously starts with me, and I'm excited for another opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I think Max Rodney with each other and just players
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  Speaker 1: and really good player, very good. He's just he's one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys. You know, there's a there's a handful
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  Speaker 1: of them in this I mean a lot of great
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  Speaker 1: players in this league. But as far as just those
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  Speaker 1: defensive edge you know, defensive end, pass rusher guys that
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  Speaker 1: are he's just constant, NonStop. I think that's what you
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  Speaker 1: know is admirable about his play is that it is
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  Speaker 1: just such a high motor. Obviously he's athletic, and he's
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  Speaker 1: skilled and strong and good instincts, but he plays really hard,
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  Speaker 1: so and that's something where he makes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: plays because of that. You know, it's not always, it's
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  Speaker 1: not always he's just winning right away. He has plenty
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  Speaker 1: of those on tape too. But it's the the effort
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  Speaker 1: to chase the ball, to go after it, to call
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  Speaker 1: us fumbles, you know, to tip balls in the air.
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  Speaker 1: It's all those things I think make him a great player.
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  Speaker 1: And as you can tell, you know, we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect for him, and you know, obviously have
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  Speaker 1: to think of him when you're game planning. Oh, Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Liam said on under the apports of getting the screen
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  Speaker 1: game going, what has been missing when you've tried to
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  Speaker 1: run a couple of those. I think it's been different
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  Speaker 1: things at different times. You know, a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: defenses they sniff out some screens. That's happened just a
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  Speaker 1: few times to us, and so it's either throwaway or
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  Speaker 1: you know, tackle line scrimmage that that just happens when
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  Speaker 1: you're on screens occasionally. And then some other ones execution
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  Speaker 1: things maybe you know, maybe it's not the right landmark
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  Speaker 1: by whoever's catching it. Maybe it's the throws a little
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  Speaker 1: bit on the wrong shoulder so we don't hit it,
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  Speaker 1: increase it right right on time to set up the blocks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe a offensive lineman got hung up inside.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many different things that can happen. But saying
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  Speaker 1: all that is, it's just on us to execute cleaner,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the time on those screens, because there's
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  Speaker 1: some big opportunities for us, and it's something that we
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  Speaker 1: got to be better at. And I think we know
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  Speaker 1: how we need to improve and the different factors that
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  Speaker 1: have kind of come up in the past few weeks
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  Speaker 1: when we have maybe had some plays left out there,
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  Speaker 1: I said, Brian is going to get things wrong with again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very confident, you know, I've had some really good
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  Speaker 1: conversations with Brian. I think we've gotten closer really the
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  Speaker 1: last obviously over the last couple of years as this
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  Speaker 1: has gone, and I have a lot of confidence in him,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's such a young player. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's in his second year, and I think that's part
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  Speaker 1: of developing as a player in this league. And I've
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  Speaker 1: gone through a lot of my own challenges as well,
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  Speaker 1: and in times where you know, maybe I didn't play
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  Speaker 1: my best and felt like I was leaving some stuff
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  Speaker 1: out there. And so I think us just having that relationship,
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  Speaker 1: being able to talk to him, he's been He's been
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  Speaker 1: awesome with me and very receptive, and I think the
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  Speaker 1: communication has been great, and I got all the confidence
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  Speaker 1: that he's gonna play really well and be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not concerned with that obviously, excited for for
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  Speaker 1: these opportunities that are coming up and the ones especially
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  Speaker 1: that he's gonna have, which I keep plugging away, keep working,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep building our chemistry, because that's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it too. You know, it's not he's not out
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  Speaker 1: there by himself trying to do it. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: got me throwing the ball. There's some things I can
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  Speaker 1: do better. He's got ten other guys that are that
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  Speaker 1: are out there with him that also need to do
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  Speaker 1: a better job. So it's it's not just not just
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  Speaker 1: him in terms of travis Is involvement in the offense. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it was a career high for him the last time
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  Speaker 1: you guys play a football game. But in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the call and gro forward, in terms of his growth
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  Speaker 1: and his knowledge and playbook, howage assessed on all the
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  Speaker 1: buy there, he is. He's in a good spot. I
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  Speaker 1: think every week he keeps getting better and better as
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  Speaker 1: far as just knowledge and understanding and things are clicking
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  Speaker 1: more and more. Just got to continue to work. Just
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  Speaker 1: because we're making progress, doesn't mean we stop. And we
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  Speaker 1: got to keep, you know, helping him every way we can,
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  Speaker 1: just because I know being that in that spot, he's
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  Speaker 1: a young player, and I think just the more I
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  Speaker 1: can do for him to help him, the better we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be. And he's done a great job of
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  Speaker 1: just grasping everything on both sides of the ball. It's
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  Speaker 1: a challenge obviously to do that. He's done a great
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  Speaker 1: job of it. So continue to help him. Just talking
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  Speaker 1: communicating about different looks. I think you're seeing that to
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  Speaker 1: start to evolve into knowing what he's seeing and him
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  Speaker 1: knowing what I'm thinking with certain looks, what to do,
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  Speaker 1: the right spot to be, and how he's going to
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  Speaker 1: run routes. I'm getting more of a feel for how
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  Speaker 1: he plays, and I think that's just going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to grow and grow as we go on. Get okay
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  Speaker 1: you be a more balance, kind of help the passing.
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  Speaker 1: It It just all helps each other. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: big circle, like if you I mean, he says that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's great because you know, as a coach and
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  Speaker 1: a play caller, to hear him take accountability to the
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  Speaker 1: team is pretty cool because obviously, as players were the
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  Speaker 1: ones playing and we know there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: we need to do better execution wise, and at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, it comes down to us on
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  Speaker 1: the field making it happen. But to hear your coach
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  Speaker 1: take accountability is great. And but on the flip side
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  Speaker 1: of that, if we can stay out of some second
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  Speaker 1: and long so we can help him stay more balanced
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  Speaker 1: and call him plays, you know, so that's better having
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  Speaker 1: better plays on first down, whether that's more completions. We've
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of incompletions, had some second and lungs,
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  Speaker 1: or better first down runs, executing runs better. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different things where we can help him
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  Speaker 1: call the game how he wants to by just executing
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  Speaker 1: better some of the simple things. And I know as
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, I've had some plays here and there to
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  Speaker 1: start games where I feel like I could get us
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  Speaker 1: on track earlier so that we can settle in and
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  Speaker 1: not be playing behind the chains. How rare is that
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  Speaker 1: from your experience to have the head coach called I
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  Speaker 1: mean it, it happens. I think that it's definitely happened
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  Speaker 1: in the past. I think the way everyone does it
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  Speaker 1: is unique, and I think the way coach has done
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  Speaker 1: it has been awesome. It's been very i'd say, genuine,
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  Speaker 1: very honest, and he shows examples of like, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is cause it's one thing to say, hey, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: be better here, and but then not to have any
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  Speaker 1: early examples of what you can do better and for
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  Speaker 1: him to like he'll put stuff up there and say
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  Speaker 1: it in front of the team of hey, this was
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  Speaker 1: not my best call here, and like this is what
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  Speaker 1: I you know, and how he's going to fix it
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. And I think just stuff like that is
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  Speaker 1: as players, you know that he's not just faking it.
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  Speaker 1: He actually believes that there's things that he needs to
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  Speaker 1: better to help us, and we know as players there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff we need to better help him.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that it accountability is really cool when
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  Speaker 1: everyone is taking their share of it, because you all
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  Speaker 1: want to take more accountability when you see people around
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  Speaker 1: you doing it. It's nice, all right, Thank you all.