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Press Pass | Liam Coen, Trevor Lawrence Recap Day 1 of Jaguars' 2026 Training Camp · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Under you that Parker is sort of were the right
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  Speaker 1: way to be able to separate business and football.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he saw it today. He had a
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  Speaker 2: really nice little option route today and he just the
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: guy knows himself really well. I think like he knows
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  Speaker 2: his strengths and weaknesses and is really intentional about trying
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  Speaker 2: to work on those things. You know, He's the guy
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  Speaker 2: spends a lot of time on his body. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he really puts a lot of time into it, and
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  Speaker 2: I think he's ready to take another step in his
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  Speaker 2: progression of his career. You know, He's a guy that
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  Speaker 2: I know. You know Trevor obviously they have a rapport
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  Speaker 2: of working together for a number of years. If you
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  Speaker 2: look at him as a wide out on our team,
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  Speaker 2: I mean Trevor's probably thrown to him and Strange the
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  Speaker 2: most right and you know of guys that are on
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  Speaker 2: our roster currently, so you know, really confident in him
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  Speaker 2: and really excited to see what he can do for us.
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  Speaker 3: Straight back on the garage, just what did you see
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  Speaker 3: out there? How did it feel to be back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel good to be back. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a little sloppy in terms of drops
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  Speaker 2: and some inaccuracy, you know, just not throwing and probably
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  Speaker 2: catching a ton with each other. I mean they got together.
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  Speaker 2: I know Trevor had a bunch of the guys together
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  Speaker 2: throwing out here or out of high school or something
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  Speaker 2: locally where they were getting some work in. But a
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  Speaker 2: couple of little things. But I was pleased to see
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  Speaker 2: some plays being made on both sides. Like I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: really love to walk out here today and it'd be
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  Speaker 2: one sided. I prefer it, you know, obviously offense to
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of success, and I don't like to
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  Speaker 2: see the ball in the ground as much as it
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  Speaker 2: probably was today, But I was pleased with some of
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  Speaker 2: the back and forth and some of the hits in
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  Speaker 2: the run game as well. We might as well dude.
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  Speaker 4: Travis Hunter pushing out of the way. Just what was
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  Speaker 4: it like seeing him counts around had the white penny?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good. I mean, obviously would have liked
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  Speaker 2: to see us complete that one to him on the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: but I was pleased to see him go up with
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  Speaker 2: no fear and just go up and try to make
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  Speaker 2: a great play. And Jabbar ended up making a really
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  Speaker 2: nice play at the end to finish it. But I
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  Speaker 2: thought he had a couple of good reps on defense
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  Speaker 2: in one on one situations and press, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that we'll connect on that route and be able to
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  Speaker 2: get him some of those touches as we going through. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they build more of a connection and chemistry here today
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  Speaker 2: for you know, the first time yea individual drills.
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  Speaker 3: What are you saying?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Chris is always you know kind of Chris.
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  Speaker 2: It's I'm not saying he looks the same as he
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  Speaker 2: did at Kentucky. That's not him. But he's got the
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  Speaker 2: same demeanor, the same way that he approaches it. Knowing
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  Speaker 2: that we're trying to ease him back into this thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a long training camp, it's a long season.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to get him back without any sort of
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  Speaker 2: hiccups or bumps. And it was great to just see
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  Speaker 2: him back out like taking handoffs, right. I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: in a small sample size, but I was pleased to
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  Speaker 2: see him out here with us. How much easier is.
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  Speaker 3: Travis this year? And though it was supposed to last year,
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  Speaker 3: must have won.
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  Speaker 2: A ton we deal with we did now, I'll say
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  Speaker 2: this when we put in if not, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot more even time I got to give a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credit to Shane Walder and Jay Kaiser and Chris
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  Speaker 2: Bach our sports science. Those guys put in countless hours
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  Speaker 2: and time really looking at the reps where where he
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  Speaker 2: needs to be? Now right, how do we balance his
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  Speaker 2: reps here? Knowing that we're trying to ease him in,
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  Speaker 2: but he also at some point needs to get double
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  Speaker 2: the amount that a normal player gets. And so what
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  Speaker 2: does that ramp up look like? And we've had we
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  Speaker 2: have it all kind of mapped out till the mock
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  Speaker 2: game is really where we have it. I mean on
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  Speaker 2: every single practice schedule, I mean, he's his reps are
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  Speaker 2: highlighted and here I mean like where he's in, what
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  Speaker 2: plays he's in, where he's at on the field. I
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  Speaker 2: mean we've been extremely intentional about it. Just so excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: so there's no hiccups, miscommunication or everybody's got confidence knowing
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  Speaker 2: exactly where he's at, what plays he is he in
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  Speaker 2: on being intentional about getting him the exact reps that
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  Speaker 2: he really needs from a learning progression standpoint. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's been a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Say Johnson for a visit earlier this week, is that
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  Speaker 5: a check with them and get a physical is That's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what it was. Get him in, see what
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  Speaker 2: he looks like. Just meet him. You know, I never
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  Speaker 2: met Zay, you know, really seems like a guy that's
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  Speaker 2: got his head on in terms of like being a
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  Speaker 2: pros pro knows the league knows, Trevor right knows this place,
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  Speaker 2: and I think has a lot of appreciation for this place.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we'll see how things progress. But it
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  Speaker 2: was really good to get to meet him.
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  Speaker 5: Every time this team has had something going, like, of
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  Speaker 5: course last year they've taken a step back the following year,
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  Speaker 5: what kind of things are you looking at this try
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  Speaker 5: to avoid that because it's been since the nineties they've gotten.
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  Speaker 2: Back to back to the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: haven't done anything to rest on our you know, loyals here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just it's just not We're not in
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  Speaker 2: a place to hang out and just kind of chill, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's everything we're doing is trying to attack an edge.
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  Speaker 2: Last year was about finding an edge and creating an edge,
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  Speaker 2: and now we are attacking these edges with a relentless pursuit.
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  Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, we know we
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  Speaker 2: want to go play anywhere anytime anybody doesn't matter, and
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  Speaker 2: our mindset is we got to go prove it and
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  Speaker 2: go earn it because consistency is the truest measure of
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  Speaker 2: performance at the end of the day. And I got
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys in this locker room that
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  Speaker 2: when I took this job of said, man, you know
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  Speaker 2: they brought that up, and how do we become a consistent,
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  Speaker 2: respected organization. That's what this is all about.
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  Speaker 6: Cords practice obviously, so I can't take a whole lot
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  Speaker 6: from it, but a lot of run for both Nate
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  Speaker 6: and Tanner with Trevor. What does that say about what
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  Speaker 6: they've proven to you since they've arrived.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's also trying to put them
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  Speaker 2: in some positions that maybe are a little uncomfortable early on,
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  Speaker 2: like putting them in some positions that we got to
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  Speaker 2: go see what they can do in terms of that
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  Speaker 2: and kind of not that we know what Hunter and
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  Speaker 2: know what Quinton can do. I think both those guys
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  Speaker 2: had good days as well, Hunter and q We got
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  Speaker 2: to see what these guys can do right against NFL competition,
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  Speaker 2: against a good defensive line, whether it's with the first
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  Speaker 2: group or the second group. So you know it's something
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  Speaker 2: that I know the whole league. You know it's going
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  Speaker 2: to big personnel and all that. I mean, we're just
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  Speaker 2: kind of experimenting and seeing what where can we You
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  Speaker 2: got two personnels eleven and twelve, right, Well, you're always
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  Speaker 2: hunting up that third personnel? What is it? Well, in
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  Speaker 2: Tampa in twenty four from us, it was twenty one
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  Speaker 2: pony because we had two backs that we really like
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  Speaker 2: to use. And so what is that next personnel going
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  Speaker 2: to be that we can use as a change up
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  Speaker 2: as something that man, if we're seeing a defensive structure
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  Speaker 2: in whether it's thirteen or whatever it is, can we
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of it and use it more within that
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  Speaker 2: game plan that's more along the lines of what we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get accomplished. Went down. Yeah, many updates, no
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  Speaker 2: update yet. I think he's getting looked, getting at uh
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  Speaker 2: picture tonight, getting MRI tonight. We'll have better idea. He didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't like screaming or you know, freaking out in
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  Speaker 2: pain and so very hopeful that it'll be shorter than longer.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, really don't know exactly what it is
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  Speaker 2: at this time. Will Spot I think first and foremost
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  Speaker 2: his his athleticism, his ability to defend the past. If
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  Speaker 2: you think about like how much teams are trying to
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  Speaker 2: expose linebackers and coverage. Obviously we saw what Devin was
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  Speaker 2: able to do for us in coverage a lot last
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  Speaker 2: year in terms of zone and vision and be able
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  Speaker 2: to create some turnovers with vision on the quarterback. I
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  Speaker 2: think Branson innately does that. You know, he played I
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  Speaker 2: think wide out grown you know, and has played a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different positions safety, He's come down and so
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  Speaker 2: I think athletically he gives us something there. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's tough, he's smart, he understands football, I think, and
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  Speaker 2: it's more so him just being able to get a
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  Speaker 2: ton of reps. Like every single rep that Branson gets,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's what the first group the second group, doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 2: those reps are important and they're very beneficial to him. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he gives himself a chance I think with some of those.
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  Speaker 6: Things called a team winner.
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  Speaker 2: But did he end up winning Iron Jaguar the individual?
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  Speaker 6: Did he? I know you had said back in the
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  Speaker 6: spring he was a pleete.
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  Speaker 2: No, he ended up by I got to confirm that.
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  Speaker 2: That's we had like four winners. We had like four
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  Speaker 2: different deals and I think he did. You're right, I'll
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  Speaker 2: find out exactly that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, twix four hours.
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  Speaker 3: You see that, You go what.
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Yeah, that he's definitely got some of that
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  Speaker 2: freaky traits right where you're like, man, he just came
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  Speaker 2: off a leg injury and he's running. I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe faster than he hit at times last year. Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you ever hit twenty three last year,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. But when you put on ten
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  Speaker 2: pounds of muscle, I mean, he made the comment to
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  Speaker 2: me on the grass the other day that he feels
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  Speaker 2: when he's running, he feels lighter. So you put on
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  Speaker 2: ten pounds of muscle, he feels lighter. I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. Right. So I feel like he's confident
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  Speaker 2: in him in his physicality right now. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: going to go into the season feeling more confident in
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  Speaker 2: what he's been able to put on his body for
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  Speaker 2: armor purposes and physicality. And you know, he's got to
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  Speaker 2: get in football shape, that's for sure. But it's exciting
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  Speaker 2: to see it. Seems like CJ. Williams had already earned
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  Speaker 2: a lot of trust wasn't saying that he's been able
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  Speaker 2: to do that so forth to win. Yeah, he's just
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  Speaker 2: he's extremely intelligent as a football player. He is. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's he gets it. You don't have to tell him much, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's not a ton of coaching points for CJ
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  Speaker 2: on a day to day basis. It's just about getting
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  Speaker 2: him some of those opportunities and physically being able to
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  Speaker 2: do everything right. I think the quarterbacks innately trust him
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  Speaker 2: being at the right time, you know, at the right
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  Speaker 2: spot at the right time, and he's going to typically
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  Speaker 2: catch the football right. So you know, he's another guy
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  Speaker 2: that he's been able to pick up the offense very
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  Speaker 2: quickly and excited to see if he can help us
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  Speaker 2: out this year.
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  Speaker 6: See Chris Rodriguez on the field with you guys, Just
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  Speaker 6: what did.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of see from him out there?
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  Speaker 6: I know it's only one practice, and what does he
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  Speaker 6: bring to this team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that Chris, what he brings to this team,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any of us are going to see
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  Speaker 2: throughout the entire training camp, honestly. I mean, until we
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  Speaker 2: play tackle football, it's going to be very difficult for
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  Speaker 2: all of us here to gain a true appreciation for
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  Speaker 2: who he is and what he does. I've seen it,
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  Speaker 2: so I do appreciate his skill set and what he brings,
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  Speaker 2: but just as a pro. I mean, he's a good dude.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't say a ton, but he's tough. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's one of those glass eaters, you know he is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's gonna run through a wall for his teammates,
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  Speaker 2: for his coaches, for this organization when the time comes,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, just pleased to see him. Mean, he
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: was so down. I mean, it was a frustrating time
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  Speaker 2: when you get here and get hurt on the first day.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he was just pleased to be able
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  Speaker 2: to get out here, be with his teammates, take some
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  Speaker 2: coaching points, and knowing that the best the sea rod
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  Speaker 2: will not be seen until the pads come on and
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: we play tackle mentality a little bit ago that. How
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: does that translate to your message to these guys every
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  Speaker 2: day throughout these next few weeks. Yeah, that was the
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  Speaker 2: entire message to the players last night was let's let's
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  Speaker 2: go earn something. You know, nothing in this league is given.
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  Speaker 2: Every year is a brand new year. Yes, we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of returning a lot of coaches returning, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of staff members returning, a lot of players returning.
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  Speaker 2: But we have to treat it new right in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways. We have to to reconnect our relationships
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  Speaker 2: and be intentional about the way that we communicate and
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  Speaker 2: practice and meet with each other. And so these guys know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what is it, thirty something out of the
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  Speaker 2: next forty games in the next two years, they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be played here in Jacksonville. So we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to use it as an excuse. You're not going
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  Speaker 2: to use it as a butt. It's just it is
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  Speaker 2: what it is, and our mindset of mentality is going
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  Speaker 2: to be drop us off in a playing anywhere and
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  Speaker 2: we'll go play you.
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  Speaker 4: With the recent growing sessions in mind and also the
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  Speaker 4: additional reps after practice. What has it been like working
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: with Travis Hunter again and seeing him first hand?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously today it was the first time in a
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  Speaker 1: while we've gotten a live team rep you know, throwing,
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  Speaker 1: and we got some work in this summer, so I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the chemistry is still therea just gotta keep
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  Speaker 1: working it more and more. Kind of miss the throw
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  Speaker 1: behind him a little today, but just go to see
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  Speaker 1: him back out there, and he looks good.
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  Speaker 3: He's flying around.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing him play both sides is just it's always pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: So he looks great. So just excited that he's back
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  Speaker 3: on the field.
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  Speaker 6: Saying immediate state from again at the game.
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  Speaker 1: He that att Yeah, I think just for any team,
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  Speaker 1: any year, that's always that's that's always what you have.
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  Speaker 3: To do, no matter how you know, good or bad you.
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  Speaker 1: Were the year before. It's a fresh start. It's a
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  Speaker 1: new year. You can't carry anything over. And I think
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  Speaker 1: for our team to start really from scratch, that mindset
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  Speaker 1: of we got to earn it, you know, the way
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  Speaker 1: we prepare now until the season starts, and it's already
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  Speaker 1: started in April, honestly, but until from now until the
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  Speaker 1: season starts, that's what's gonna earn us the right to
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  Speaker 1: win these games in the fall.
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  Speaker 6: As is lem about the ripple tight ends, getting them
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more run here on day one, and
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  Speaker 6: he went into a nice little soliloquiy just about experimenting
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  Speaker 6: with thirteen, looking into what personnel could be that third
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  Speaker 6: for you guys, obviously it's a trend across the league,
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  Speaker 6: but what do you see obviously having more Titans in
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  Speaker 6: general at your disposal Comparatively the last year wrote that
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  Speaker 6: one game you only had two health is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's obviously important. It's it's such a
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  Speaker 1: it's such an important position in any offense, especially in
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  Speaker 1: offense like hours. So I think you're seeing that commitment
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  Speaker 1: to that position on our team, and I think all
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  Speaker 1: of our guys can play, and if we can get
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  Speaker 1: those guys on the field more often than maybe we
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  Speaker 1: have in the past, I think that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we have it's only one football, so there's some
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  Speaker 1: balance of like, Okay, we have some really good receivers
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I think those are all things that
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  Speaker 1: you think about and you work on through training camp
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  Speaker 1: and you just experiment with and the more we can
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  Speaker 1: do personnel wise, the better we're going to be just
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: to keep the defense guessing and not knowing really what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: So less experimentation that with the passing game this camp,
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  Speaker 2: because you've had a whole season in it and you're
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  Speaker 2: sort of really pointing in on the stuff that works.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's definitely honing in on stuff that
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  Speaker 1: that works, but it's also a lot of I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say experimenting, but working on things that we know we
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  Speaker 1: need to get better at to have a better offense.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Whether it's explosive plays down the field, some of the
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  Speaker 1: deep shots that we talked about in the spring, to
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  Speaker 1: just some of the run game stuff that might be
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  Speaker 1: plays that we've done in the past, but maybe we're
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  Speaker 1: doing more of because we think we're better at you know,
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  Speaker 1: those concepts.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 1: Going on, and then you're always trying to add little
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  Speaker 1: wrinkles here and there. So I'd say it's a mixture
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  Speaker 1: of all that.
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  Speaker 6: How do you feel comparatively two years past day on
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  Speaker 6: a training camp.
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  Speaker 3: I feel really good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't think I had the best day
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  Speaker 1: to day necessarily, but I feel like this whole offseason
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  Speaker 1: and even today I threw it well and just just
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  Speaker 1: missed a couple. But I feel really healthy. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm in great shape. I think I'm throwing it
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  Speaker 1: as good as ever. I think the chemistry with the
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  Speaker 1: guys is really really good. I like where our team's at, So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited, really excited for this training camp.
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  Speaker 5: For time in eight years that you don't have Travis
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  Speaker 5: in the backfield, as a teammate coming out here to day,
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: what any weird feelings about that or what how'd you feel?
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean not something that I thought about right
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: away this morning when I woke up, just because he's
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: been gone for the spring too, So as a guy
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: that I obviously I miss and we have a great relationship,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: always rooting for him, and we'll see him, you know,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: this preseason, which will be fun to catch up with
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: him and see him a little bit.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: In New Orleans.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's different, and you know, it's an opportunity
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: for these guys to step up and get a great
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: opportunity to to make some plays and to play more.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: And I think our running back room is really talented
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and diverse, and he can do a lot of good things.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: So obviously we're gonna miss Travis, but you know, the
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: show goes on and we got to figure it out.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: And I was going to ask you about the running
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: backs that you have, you know, other than by Soul
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: who comes back and a couple of others.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: What are your assessment of what you see just a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: really well rounded room. I think baseial obviously that you
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: saw a little bit of what he can do last
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: year when he got some carries, really explosive, great vision inside.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Obviously has the speed as well to you know, to
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: hit these home run runs. And I think his the
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: steps that he's taking in protection this offseason have been
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: great and he's gotten a lot better, so I think
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: he can do more and more. And then obviously lea Quin,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I think catching the ball in the backfield, he's he's
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: much improved.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: He was already he was.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Good at it, but I think he looks even better
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: this year. And protection stuff, he's always on it. One
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: of the best pass protectors, maybe the best in the league.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'd like to see one that's better. Just
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: always knows what to do. He's a hard runner, he's physical. Obviously,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: getting c Rod back in uh DJ Dallas, we got
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys. Getting Sea Rode back and healthy
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: is exciting, and he's a big, physical runner. So I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: think we got a well rounded room.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: You're coming off of one of your best seasons.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: What's been the focus for you this offseason to continue
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: elevating your game. I think just the mental side and
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: staying sharp on everything so I can play fast like
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I was at the end of the season. And the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: chemistry and just the rapport with me and the skill
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: guys is so important, and just really tapping into that
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: all throughout training camp and making sure that we're on
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the same page. Because you saw when we started clicking
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: at the end of the last season, you know, how
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: efficient and how sharp we were in some of the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: players were able to make. So just starting that now
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and trying to practice like that every day, you know,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: so we can start the season that way and not
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: take a few weeks to get there.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Receptions. Last year Apple playing seventeen games, a lot of
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: critics were on you about turn turning the ball over.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Do you think you have silence those critics and how
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: do you keep them silence this year?
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think twelve's a little more than
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I like still, but yeah, I mean I think that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that's something that has been a huge talking point in
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: my career, and rightfully, so, you got to take care
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: of the ball. So I think that's something I've worked
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: really hard on my entire career, and I think the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: last few years a big one is especially fumbles and
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: taking care of the ball in the pocket and when
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I'm running, because that's one that you can control every
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: time you have it. You control how you protect the ball,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: you secure it, how you tuck it, and then obviously
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the interceptions. Playing quarterback, it's going to happen. I think,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: what type of interceptions are they? You know, are you
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: getting fooled or is the dB making a good play.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you're just gonna miss a throw a little bit,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: dB makes a play. But limiting those bad decisions, limiting
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the ones where that I feel like the defense fools me,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and limiting the ones that are just unnecessary red zone
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: ones or something like that. So I think there's different
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: categories for all those. But taking care of the ball
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is super important.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: You see it is. Are you that this offense really
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: can function high level right from the start the way
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: it did at the end of last year? Very optimistic,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's expectation for us.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, to be honest, we should be able to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: do that, and we should do that day one so
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and not every day is gonna be perfect. We're gonna
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: have some days. We got a good defense too, so
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: have some days like today. The guys on defense made
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: some great plays and had some adjustments and made some
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: really good plays in the ball.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: That's going to happen. But for us to operate.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Smoothly, get in and out of the huddle, to know
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: all the checks, to know all the changes that we're
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: making the line of scrimmage, get the ball snapped, to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: play clean football. I mean that should be automatic, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: then I know the plays will come. And we just
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: got to keep working, keep working at that and building
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the chemistry.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Feeling to have that right, Yeah, I mean it's been
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: sometimes not like that.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: For sure, it's a good feeling.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And even to start last year, we were still swimming
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit trying to get the system down, and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to start the season we were a little sloppy, a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: lot of penalties. So I think that's definitely an area
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of improvement for our offenses. Is play cleaner, be a
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: smart team, be really good situationally.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: You've been to Parker a couple of years now, you
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: got to continue to get reps together.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: That chemistry is.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Just out of place now where he's hired than it's
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: been before. Yeah, it is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I mean every year it's gotten better and better, but
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: especially after last season with all the reps that we
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: accumulated over the last nine to ten games. I mean,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and the guy, the way the guy works, I mean
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: he's always he's always down to get extra reps after practice.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: He wants to talk after every rep that isn't right
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: on the field. I mean, just the way he communicates
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: with me. He's just a professional. So I think it
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was only a matter of time before that started to show.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: That chemistry and the way we work together started to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: pay off. So just proud of that guy and I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: love working with him.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: C J.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Williams have this sliding catch today.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: It seems like he's made a play just about every
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: day that we've been out here.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: What have you seen?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Come on, man, he's just a He's a good example
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: of a guy that's just knows what to do, always
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: in the right spot because he studies so hard. I've
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: been really impressed as a rookie how he's come in
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and really got the playbook down pretty quickly. You know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen him make too many mistakes and running
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the wrong route or blocking the wrong guy. And he
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: knows what he's doing and he studies, so then I
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: think that's letting his talent show because he's in the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: right spot and he has the opportunity to make the place.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: So he's just gotta keep getting better every day. I
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: like what I see from him. I mean, he's a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: really good player and he can definitely help us.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: What's kind of the biggest thing that you're gonna look
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: for over the next couple of weeks before the season starts.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's just trying to be that consistent group
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and then starting with me, even just individual in our
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: position room, just trying to be so consistent every day
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and do all the little things right, and then as
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: an offense, holding ourselves to that standard as well of
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you know, the splits, the motions when we're getting the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: ball snapped, being in the right play all the time,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the progressions, all that stuff, just being super super sharp.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: While it is more of a controlled setting because you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: don't get this time back before you know what, we're
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: gonna be game planning for Cleveland, and this time to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: really work on our offense and our system. Without the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: game plan element's gonna be gone. So just taking advantage
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: of that first time for three years.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: That you're coming back without having the nurse an injury,
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: back to health again.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: So how are you feeling?
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Are you ahead of this?
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Feel great? It's you know, grateful that I'm healthy.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I feel really good to get an off season to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: train and to not have to just rehab and try
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to get back healthy, but to be healthy and just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: get stronger and you know, work on my game and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: my fundamentals. I mean, it's a good feeling. So just
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: excited to feel good.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: You resus that you're the highest top one hundred selection
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: of your career thus far. Is it rewarding knowing that
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: your peers view you in such a high regard.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's It's always a cool thing when
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: when the peers think highly of you and sorry, you know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's uh, yeah, I think it is what
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it is. Definitely, it's definitely a respect thing that is
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: appreciated and if it does feel good, But at the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: end of the day, I gotta go prepare for this season.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, I appreciate it.