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Press Pass | Greg Newsome II Discusses Trade, First Days in Jacksonville · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I can trying to start with that. What do you
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  Speaker 1: What did you know about Jacksonville and how were you
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: getting the news?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, I played here my rookie year and my
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  Speaker 2: second year of preseason, so I've been to Jacksonville a
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  Speaker 2: few times. Obviously, I'm not too familiar with the Florida area. Besides, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I went to IMG Academy and Braden's in Florida, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm used to that. But I found a new that
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  Speaker 2: I was just on the game. My agent called me.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, Jacksonville wants to trade for you, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, let's do it. So yeah, I end
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  Speaker 2: up finding out at maybe like eleven PM, and I
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  Speaker 2: had to get everything back. I was playing two K. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a two K player, So you're just.
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  Speaker 1: Were you respecting to be traded? Was there a potential
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  Speaker 1: for that? No, I wasn't expecting it at all. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it's pretty world.
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  Speaker 3: We're in twenty four hours, got to jump on the plane,
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  Speaker 3: get here, crash course.
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  Speaker 1: So head still spinning a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but now I mean the goals to be Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: so I gotta do whatever I can to.
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  Speaker 1: Get the playbook down as fast as I can. So
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  Speaker 1: we can get a win. How tough is it to
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  Speaker 1: get up to speed that quickly a couple of days. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's definitely tough.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know, I'm a Northwestern man, so I
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  Speaker 2: I pride myself on my my brains, so I'll be alright.
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  Speaker 1: Liam said, there's some crossover that's sort of crossover is
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  Speaker 1: there between Schwartz's defense.
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  Speaker 2: And this one? Yeah, just just some of the way
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  Speaker 2: we play quarters things like that. Obviously with shorts defense,
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  Speaker 2: I played a lot of press man. So on this defense,
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  Speaker 2: I'll definitely be able to get my eyes to the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback a little bit more and hopefully, uh get to
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  Speaker 2: see some interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: Is what did you guys running Northwestern? Uh? A lot
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  Speaker 1: of quarters? Yup? How's that been? Getting to know some
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  Speaker 1: of your teammates? I think one of 'em is spying
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  Speaker 1: on right now now. It's been great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh, he trains in Xos at Xos, Arizona, so
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  Speaker 2: I I knew a few of the guys already, just
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  Speaker 2: prior Khalif we were in Cleveland together.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been great. They're definitely welcome with me, so
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  Speaker 1: super excited we've been Your impressions of coach Cohen and
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  Speaker 1: Campanella so far, Nah, I love him.
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  Speaker 2: He told me what I what he's looking for for
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  Speaker 2: me to be here, like trading for me, Like what
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  Speaker 2: does he want me to bring to this team?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm super excited for that opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: When you found out you were coming here, did you
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  Speaker 2: go and look at any of the clips from the
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  Speaker 2: defense early.
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  Speaker 1: In the season at all or anything like that? Nah,
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I got my daughter, she was crying, so I had
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  Speaker 2: to get her. Then I had to pack my bag.
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  Speaker 1: Then I had to.
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  Speaker 2: Figure out, like what are we gonna do with my
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  Speaker 2: apartment in Cleveland. So it was just a lot of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that I had to deal with.
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  Speaker 3: Has when you're like trying to pick up the new defense,
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  Speaker 3: do you rely more on like assistant coaches or some
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  Speaker 3: of the like the guys in the locker room to kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of help you out over Yeah, so obviously doing extra
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  Speaker 2: meetings with the coaches, but I think just like the safeties,
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  Speaker 2: the Nickels, the corners, like they even today, like it's
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I'm out there, they're letting me know like what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: So they're definitely been super super helpful, Like I.
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  Speaker 2: Really appreciate them because I'm a needed sometimes, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: things go fast sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm definitely super excited to play with these guys.
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  Speaker 3: So you expect to play a lot on Sunday or
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  Speaker 3: are you just gonna kind of take whatever you can
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  Speaker 3: get at this point?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely take whatever I can get. Well, whatever coach
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  Speaker 1: the size, I'll be down for. Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying to play as much as I can.
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  Speaker 2: I love playing a game of football. But whatever I
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  Speaker 2: can pick up and retain and whatever coach's decision is, contractus.
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  Speaker 3: See you looking forward to another trip to London?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was literally.
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  Speaker 2: I was literally after that they were like, yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: letting you know we're leaving from London on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, write it back again, but nah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was super fun.
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  Speaker 2: My sister's husband is from London, so I got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of a lot of family out there, so it'll
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  Speaker 2: be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Though. What it is a contract year for you?
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  Speaker 2: Is it exciting when the team wants to add you
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  Speaker 2: to their defense and kind of get you in the
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  Speaker 2: building to see what you can bring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, super excited.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like to feel wanted, like they they told me,
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  Speaker 2: my agent told me like they wanted you. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like Cleveland didn't reach out, they wanted you.
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  Speaker 2: So my goal is to do whatever I can to
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  Speaker 2: make their decision right, to get this fan based super excited,
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  Speaker 2: and that's that is my my goal. With how quick
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  Speaker 2: everything happened, have you even had a chance to kind
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  Speaker 2: of sit and maybe not mourn, but just realize, like
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  Speaker 2: everything that.
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  Speaker 1: You had in que winning out of you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: build in Jacksonville. Yeah, I definitely sat for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Like the biggest thing is just the guys, Like I've
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  Speaker 2: been with some of these guys my entire career, especially
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  Speaker 2: a guy like Denzel war Like that's my brother, uh
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  Speaker 2: for life, So not to be out there on the
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  Speaker 2: field with him, it's definitely gonna be hard, but you
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  Speaker 2: know it's just like this is what God had for me.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm super excited to be here.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be with this defense number one and takeaways right now,
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  Speaker 2: so looking at and continue that as well.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about us a little bit, but the team
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  Speaker 1: has said they think you're a really good you know,
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  Speaker 1: fit for their scheme.
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  Speaker 3: I mean from what you've seen from the scheme shiit
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  Speaker 3: for on men how do you like about how many
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  Speaker 3: years ago set.
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  Speaker 1: Fits in them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like my my rookie year with coach
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  Speaker 2: Joe Woods, we had a similar scheme and I think
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  Speaker 2: that was one of my best years of football. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm super excited to be able to, you know, show
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  Speaker 2: my versatility. Pl play some zone play, some man do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different things. So I'm super excited for
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll I'll fit great with this game.
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  Speaker 1: Feel good breaking up as a on a four win team. Yeah, nah,
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  Speaker 1: that was the biggest difference.
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  Speaker 2: Like obviously, like in Cleveland, you you're sitting there mad,
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  Speaker 2: like we gotta find a way.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta find a way. Then when I get here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, like we just want, Like obviously I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play, but we just wanted. So yeah, now I
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  Speaker 1: feel it's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: We're just I'm just gonna try to do my best
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  Speaker 2: to help them, uh keep this upper trend up.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we'd be remiss if we didn't ask
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  Speaker 3: you early impressional trucks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, great, Like I I've just seen him. It's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I see him go out of their offense, catch a
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  Speaker 2: post and come back and then play defen like it's
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  Speaker 2: crazy to see, like, I wish I could do that,
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  Speaker 2: but but uh nah, he's he's a he's a unicorn.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a guy you call a unicorn.
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  Speaker 2: He's been he's been great, just helping me out there
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  Speaker 2: as well, so he's been amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, thanks bragd