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Press Pass | Taylor: "Definitely a different intensity to yesterday's practice" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, you know, there's there's some good and
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  Speaker 1: bad that comes with obviously your first time out there
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  Speaker 1: running the offense. Um, you know, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: where we're at. He continue to we continue to want
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  Speaker 1: to see what we see in practice and all that
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  Speaker 1: out on the field when you know there's less controlled
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  Speaker 1: variables all that. Obviously he's live in those types of situations.
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  Speaker 1: So there's good, there's bad. There's a lot to learn
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  Speaker 1: from and we're excited for the next opportunity out look
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  Speaker 1: forward and Walker little play and I have last game.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see from them and what do you
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  Speaker 1: like from them moving forward? Yeah? I thought they did it.
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  Speaker 1: Both did a good job of you know, first things,
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  Speaker 1: they look like they belong. You know, they won two
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  Speaker 1: big for him and one to a moment that they
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  Speaker 1: weren't ready for. Um. You know, I thought Luke Luke
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  Speaker 1: specifically played really fast. He identified things well. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: are some things that you don't spend as much time
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  Speaker 1: scheming and game planning the in the preseason games as
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  Speaker 1: you do obviously in the regular season. So there were
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that maybe a front presented itself. There one something
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  Speaker 1: we had gone over before. They played a different personnel grouping,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe you don't know the personnel as well as
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  Speaker 1: you would in a normal week, So there's a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things that we may be misidentified. But in terms
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  Speaker 1: of just communication, recognition, uh, play speed, he did a
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  Speaker 1: good job. And now there's things that we're obviously looking
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  Speaker 1: for him to improve upon as he goes forward, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we'd expect out a young player. But he did.
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  Speaker 1: He did nothing to diminish, you know, our excitement for
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  Speaker 1: his ability. And then I thought Walker was really calm
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  Speaker 1: in his pass sets. He did a really good job
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  Speaker 1: communicating with the guys next to him, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: being on the same page and not getting over eager
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  Speaker 1: on some things, and it was a good showing for him.
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  Speaker 1: Say that again, we'll see that still stuff we're getting into. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but there's there's a chance, but we'll continue to have
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  Speaker 1: those conversations. The game plan as intentionally, Vanilla, what's the
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  Speaker 1: next step now to build off of that going into
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  Speaker 1: this next preseason game. Yeah, there's always the fine line
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  Speaker 1: of you know, we want to put our guys in
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  Speaker 1: situations to see them execute things they know really well.
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  Speaker 1: So when you're playing the young guys, you're gonna keep
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  Speaker 1: it vanilla and see. Okay to you on him, Let's
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  Speaker 1: line up and play. See how you run the route
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  Speaker 1: we put in day one? Can you execute it with
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  Speaker 1: the technique we've asked you to do us Does it
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  Speaker 1: all fall apart when all of a sudden there's a
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  Speaker 1: guy standing across from you. Um. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you want guys to run the offense the way you
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  Speaker 1: believe it could be to see, you know, evaluate can
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  Speaker 1: this guy do this when we ask them to? But
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe there's not all the bells and whistles.
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  Speaker 1: We're not scheming it up. We're not putting a ton
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  Speaker 1: of wordy calls in there to make sure we have
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  Speaker 1: the right play all the time. Sometimes it's let's go,
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  Speaker 1: let's figure out some problems here. Um, but let's see
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  Speaker 1: your technique play against another opponent. So there's always the
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  Speaker 1: fine line, and I would say early on, there's there's
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  Speaker 1: portions where it probably is pretty vanilla and you just
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  Speaker 1: want to see guys go out and execute. But that's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of something will continue to work through as
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  Speaker 1: the preseason goes on. Wide receiver run, what's your evaluation
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  Speaker 1: of some of the young players guys like Tim Jones,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Cotton that are really bad. When to make this roster? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those guys, they definitely are there battle and they're in
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  Speaker 1: the conversation for it. Um, there's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of factors involved. You know, you kind of want to
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  Speaker 1: see as you as you get through to the fourth, fifth,
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  Speaker 1: six receiver what their versatility can be. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you come in, you assume you have this started, that
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  Speaker 1: started that starter. If somebody goes down, who can fill in?
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  Speaker 1: Do you fill in one spot? Can you fill in
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  Speaker 1: multiple spots? Do we have to move three guys to
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  Speaker 1: get you where you're comfortable? And then at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if all things go well and you have
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  Speaker 1: three four really established receivers that are playing well, that
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  Speaker 1: fifth guy sometimes his value becomes more special teams. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of reps from a receiver standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: So who steps up? What what is heath in Luke's
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  Speaker 1: opinion of that guy and his ability and special teams
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  Speaker 1: and how can he contribute to the team if he
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  Speaker 1: is to get that jersey On a Sunday, you have
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  Speaker 1: the idea of how do you want to employ and
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  Speaker 1: it's a match Trevor or not the Travis I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: and James Romson or is that something that you wait
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  Speaker 1: till you get you know, an idea how much you
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  Speaker 1: can Yeah, I mean it's definitely that we we have
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  Speaker 1: a vision for what we hope it is. You kind
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  Speaker 1: of always envisioned what you're gonna do when everybody's healthy.
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  Speaker 1: But until we get to that point and we see
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  Speaker 1: everybody in there and everybody is available on game him day,
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  Speaker 1: then you kind of just have to go with what
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  Speaker 1: you have and that particular availability for that game. So
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  Speaker 1: until James gets fully cleared that something will continue to
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  Speaker 1: um do the best to work through the process. We
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  Speaker 1: believe it's going to be, but you kind of have
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  Speaker 1: to work through the pieces to get to that point
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  Speaker 1: as well. Barrel, I mean in college he didn't catch
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of passes. He led the team and
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  Speaker 1: receiving in the last preseason game and throw him a
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  Speaker 1: handful of passes here. What what kind of tight end
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  Speaker 1: or what kind of player do you see when you
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  Speaker 1: look at Luke Barrel. Luke's uh, Lukes not somebody I
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  Speaker 1: knew a ton about honestly before I got here. But
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  Speaker 1: he's somebody that's a very versatile peace for us. We
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  Speaker 1: feel like he can be that that in line blocking
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  Speaker 1: tight end, but also has some ability to get out
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  Speaker 1: in the open field and run and catch and do
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  Speaker 1: some things with it. You you know, you saw that
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  Speaker 1: the other day and a big play down the sideline
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  Speaker 1: and then I know you guys will skip practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But he had a couple of big plays out here
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  Speaker 1: as well, catching the ball and running with it and
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  Speaker 1: doing some good things. But so we're excited about where
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  Speaker 1: he is. He's still a young player, got a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go in this league to prove himself, but
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  Speaker 1: we're excited about where he isn't in grand scheme of that. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: how much comfort did bring me the other day just
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  Speaker 1: to just to see Travis, you know, take take the
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  Speaker 1: big hit and it didn't seem like any big deal. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he welcomed it. There were a couple of hits that
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  Speaker 1: he took on the sideline. I probably didn't want him
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  Speaker 1: to take, but he was. You know, we all kind
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  Speaker 1: of said you're allowed to step out right there. That's
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  Speaker 1: a tough situation. He said he wanted to take a
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  Speaker 1: hit and see what it felt like and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So somebody described it as it's the kind of hits
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  Speaker 1: you take in the ear you see in the football movies.
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  Speaker 1: So he got smoked one of those times on the sideline,
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  Speaker 1: but he bounced up. He was perfectly fine. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a there's definitely a different intensity to yesterday's practice
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  Speaker 1: and guys enjoyed it and responded well. Connor on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night on offense, Yes, Snoop did a good job carrying
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  Speaker 1: the football. We uh, one of the things you don't
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  Speaker 1: control a lot of situations, but you want to see
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  Speaker 1: him in pass protection. There weren't a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: opportunities for him are for us to see him in
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  Speaker 1: those situations, and again that's part of the we're vanilla there.
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  Speaker 1: Vanilla there's not a lot of blitz schemes Um, So
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  Speaker 1: that's something we didn't get to see from him. But
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job and again a
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  Speaker 1: guy that it wasn't too big for him, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, And his first time out there looked
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  Speaker 1: like he belonged. Um carried the ball well at times,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they're they're getting kind of their feet
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  Speaker 1: wet in terms of the speed of the game. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pretend like preseason one is gonna feel
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  Speaker 1: like week one and how the speed of things and
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  Speaker 1: the intensity is. But for those guys, it's definitely a
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  Speaker 1: step up from what you can create and practice. So
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  Speaker 1: it was good to see that carry over. We're starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback practice reps and the preseason just because you know
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  Speaker 1: they might see more exotic looks and different types of
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  Speaker 1: situations in practice than they might in a preseason game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can, I think just controlling the environment. Obviously, they're
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  Speaker 1: not live, and nothing replaces the quarterback being live. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: can be hit and feeling that pass rush. But we
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  Speaker 1: can put them in a million situations and control it.
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  Speaker 1: We will do third and eleven, third and twelve, back
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  Speaker 1: to back to back, and long yard and situations. Talk
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  Speaker 1: through everything. You get a chance to put the situations
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  Speaker 1: you want to coach off out here on the field.
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  Speaker 1: See how are your responds, Go back to the room,
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. Um. So they're invaluable from that standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: from a learning standpoint, and they learned from everybody. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we put whoever it is, whether it's c J, Jake, Uh, Kyle,
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  Speaker 1: trevor any of those guys, they're learning from the situation
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  Speaker 1: the other one was in and that in that particular one,
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  Speaker 1: or we could just be watching a film of an
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  Speaker 1: old game something like that and talking through certain things.
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  Speaker 1: So when you get those opportunities to put those situations
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  Speaker 1: in front of the guys, that's a great, great learning
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  Speaker 1: opportunity that we can't take for granted that they take
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  Speaker 1: some reps at pump return in terms of your scheme,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the wide receiver room, where do you
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  Speaker 1: see him fitting in right now? Yeah, that's that's something
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  Speaker 1: you know. We gotta continue to make sure Laviska is
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  Speaker 1: healthy and available for us UM at all times so
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  Speaker 1: we can continue to see exactly what we think his
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  Speaker 1: skill set is. We have a vision certainly, like we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, for what the role could be for him UM,
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  Speaker 1: but that's something we got to continue to work through
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully that comes up in game situations, competitive practice
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  Speaker 1: situations and we can really see if that's what we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be. Challenge when you've got two guys like
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  Speaker 1: Lasa Jamala I knew, two guys who are somewhat specialty
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  Speaker 1: players like you can do a lot of different thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a challenge to get them on the field
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  Speaker 1: and not tip your hand because they're not you're starting three, certainly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something you've gotta be a great uh self
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  Speaker 1: scout type of team operations. So that's something we got
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  Speaker 1: to know who's on the field, how we utilize them,
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  Speaker 1: what we're showing to the defense, what they're seeing when
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  Speaker 1: they watch us, to make sure you're not tipping your
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  Speaker 1: hand like you're saying. But as long as they're good
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  Speaker 1: players and being productive, then that's a good problem to have.
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  Speaker 1: You start now trying to figure out if we haven't
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  Speaker 1: had you yet, you start now trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 1: how where is this guy really fit? How do I
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  Speaker 1: utilizing best? Certainly? Yeah. I mean Heath mentioned that he's
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  Speaker 1: one of the more elite returners in the league, So
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  Speaker 1: there's definitely a skill set. You want to get a
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  Speaker 1: guy like that to football, and you want to get
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  Speaker 1: it in space and kind of turn these offensive players
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  Speaker 1: into punt returns for him whenever you can. But same deal,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta make sure you're doing right by
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  Speaker 1: your offense and not giving anything away to the defense
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  Speaker 1: because that's kind of one of the advantages we have
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  Speaker 1: as we know what the ball is going so we
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  Speaker 1: gotta do everything we can to not give that advantage
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  Speaker 1: away to the defense. So far, Ben's done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Ben played pretty well the other day in terms of
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  Speaker 1: just communication, and there weren't a lot of flash plays,
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  Speaker 1: good or bad, you know what I mean. He was
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  Speaker 1: just steady, he was consistent, He did a good job
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  Speaker 1: with the guys next to him, and again it won
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  Speaker 1: an exotic blitz scheme from those guys there. It was
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  Speaker 1: their day one install probably in terms of pressures and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, so you expect your guys to identify
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  Speaker 1: things respond well. Um, you still got to manage games
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  Speaker 1: and stunts and it's still physical. It's still a three
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  Speaker 1: pound man trying to get the quarterback, So you gotta
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  Speaker 1: do a good job in that or you gotta get
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  Speaker 1: to the second level and fit some fit up some runs. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But those guys did a good job, and its first
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  Speaker 1: time out. It was encouraging to see. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of growth that's going to come from those guys
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  Speaker 1: that were excited about Thanks guys,