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Interview: Wide receiver Chris Conley · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguar's wide receiver Chris Connolly with us after Monday's practice.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start though, Chris with Sunday's practice, first day back
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  Speaker 1: outside after the game last Thursday night. I know you
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  Speaker 1: stayed late with Nick after practice, probably what thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: after practice? Why was that decision made? It? Would you
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  Speaker 1: guys work on and how did it roll into Monday's practice?
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we had a lot of talk about, UM,
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  Speaker 1: we had a lot uh things to go through, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just about dynamics in the huddle and and about how
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  Speaker 1: the offense as a team responded to some adversity. We
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  Speaker 1: had some things that we needed to talk about, some
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  Speaker 1: things that we felt like we needed to clean up
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  Speaker 1: personally between us, UH, some ways that we we needed
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  Speaker 1: to approach it, and just really just talk about how
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  Speaker 1: we could make our unit better, UM and how we
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  Speaker 1: could grow and really fight through those those tough days.
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  Speaker 1: Did the rest of the receiver stay as well? Or
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  Speaker 1: is that just you and Nick was a combination of
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  Speaker 1: guys and how did that bleed over into the entire
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver room and then the offense as a whole.
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  Speaker 1: It was just you know, Nick and I and we
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  Speaker 1: were just talking about you know, what we were going
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  Speaker 1: to talk to our groups about, Mike what he was
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  Speaker 1: going to talk to the quarterbacks, the tight ends about,
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  Speaker 1: and what I was gonna bring to the receivers and
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  Speaker 1: and talk about in our meeting about how that we
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  Speaker 1: were how we were going to approach it and watch
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  Speaker 1: the film today. Um, I think that we responded. We
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  Speaker 1: responded well to it today. You know, there's another hot day,
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  Speaker 1: another day with a lot of reps um, but there's
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  Speaker 1: still thinks that we gotta we gotta clean up. There's
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  Speaker 1: still a lot of competition that's going on out there,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't let the heat blind you to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you're competing. You have to be able to
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  Speaker 1: fight through that heat, and you have to be able
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  Speaker 1: to line up each snap when you don't feel right
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  Speaker 1: and make it happen and make it work. And so
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  Speaker 1: we got we still got some steps to take Chris
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  Speaker 1: Connelly with a Jaguars wide receiver. You mentioned the reps
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  Speaker 1: It seems like the first team is getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: of reps in these practices during the week, because at
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  Speaker 1: least last week, there wasn't any time in the game
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of the first team offense. Here how
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  Speaker 1: how different is that compared to other camps you've been in,
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, that has to be has to
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  Speaker 1: take a little bit of a mental tool for guys
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  Speaker 1: who maybe not being used to that many reps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. You know, I'm used to
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  Speaker 1: playing in the preseason. Um, you know, I'm not questioning
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  Speaker 1: the decisions that the coaches have made. Um. When you
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  Speaker 1: when you don't play in those games and they elevate
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  Speaker 1: them out of reps in practice, it's it's tough because
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  Speaker 1: you know, in in a game, you at least have timeouts,
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  Speaker 1: you have television, you have these breaks, and in practice
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  Speaker 1: you're taking these racks of plays and there's not really
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  Speaker 1: a break, and so you have to learn to push
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  Speaker 1: through some things. You got to learn how to think
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  Speaker 1: when you're tired and just recover even even more quickly. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these practices have been tough, but it's been
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  Speaker 1: good for us. A lot of reps going in, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of film for us to look at, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things to learn from. How does the defense
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  Speaker 1: help you, guys, it's a good, prideful group over there.
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  Speaker 1: We know that. Yeah, we know they talk a good bit.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like they were as chirpy today, but
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  Speaker 1: they're still there and they're still very good on that
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. How does that adjustment go and
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  Speaker 1: do you guys kind of flip side? Do you talk
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  Speaker 1: to those guys some about what you'all are doing and
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  Speaker 1: what the DBS can do better and how does that
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  Speaker 1: work in the camps? I think yesterday, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: it was a little chirpy. We had some of the
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  Speaker 1: receivers going back and forth with the DBS a little,
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  Speaker 1: you know, talking fast making plays and talking to each other.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the things that Nick and I talked
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  Speaker 1: about after practice was letting them do all the talking
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  Speaker 1: and us just coming out and playing. So today there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of back and forth going on. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the defense was chirping, but offense really wasn't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: They were just getting back to the hell of getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to run the next play. Uh. Whether or not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coaches or people like the fact that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything today, you know, that's that's up to them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the choice that we made today that
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  Speaker 1: we were just gonna line up and we were gonna
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  Speaker 1: focus on the things that we had to focus on
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  Speaker 1: um and and compete, and we gotta get better at that.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta continue to get better at that. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: let our play speak for us and not just not
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  Speaker 1: just our mouths. All right, what's left for you this
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  Speaker 1: week and uh in the next week or so of
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  Speaker 1: camp after this step coming pre season game personally for
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  Speaker 1: you to get done here personally, Uh, just continue to
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  Speaker 1: hone in on what my part is in the in
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  Speaker 1: this offense, being able to affect the defense from the
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  Speaker 1: short side, really keeping my conditioning at a peak level
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  Speaker 1: to where I can be a factor in these games.
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  Speaker 1: And be ready for that first snap that we have
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  Speaker 1: against Kansas City, you know, acclimating to this heat, um
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  Speaker 1: and just being ready, being ready for anything uh any
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  Speaker 1: looks that we can get on the outside and uh,
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  Speaker 1: keeping keeping our offense focused and trained on the mission
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  Speaker 1: of the day to day grind what we have to practice,
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  Speaker 1: what we have to get better at daily. That's gonna
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  Speaker 1: make us better in the long run. Good to see
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate your time. Thank you