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Press Pass | Doug Pederson Meets With Media in the UK to Preview Week 6 vs. Bears in London · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: 's just for coach coach out with lost a few
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  Speaker 1: days they did with U see what happened in Florida
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  Speaker 1: and then you'll traveled being delayed that the you getting over.
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  Speaker 2: Games with Yeah, you know we were obviously had Hurricane
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  Speaker 2: Milton barreling down on us there in the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, our uh, our team of people that that.
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  Speaker 3: Prepare this trip.
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  Speaker 2: And and I thought did an outstanding job for us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, made the transition really easy. We just you know,
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  Speaker 2: we just backed the time up, you know, and and
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  Speaker 2: waited for the weather to kind of clear and get
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  Speaker 2: a little bit easier.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, it's been good, good transition coming over. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We had a good day yesterday again today, So guys
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  Speaker 2: are uh, guys are in a good spotful.
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  Speaker 1: There was some place in time for a lady back
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  Speaker 1: that wage they anything you know, in in in your posession.
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  Speaker 2: I in in our area and no, we we kind
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  Speaker 2: of we kind of uh escaped that just a little
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  Speaker 2: bit went south of us. We just got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of wind, some rain, things that nature. But I know
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  Speaker 2: the Buccaneers had to move and a lot of folks
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  Speaker 2: out of Tampa had to move and and hopefully you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully for them.
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  Speaker 3: Everything's okay in terms of the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: And did you stick to the original schedule and do
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  Speaker 1: some things in Jacksonville that you wouldwise would have done
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  Speaker 1: here or if you had to change the schedule quite
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  Speaker 1: a lot to everything in here.
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  Speaker 3: No, pretty much stayed on schedule quite quite frankly.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, yesterday was a little different obviously because
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  Speaker 2: we didn't get a chance to practice here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we did some meetings and things once we got got
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  Speaker 2: into town, but today was back on schedule kind of normal,
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  Speaker 2: and and it just allowed for us to get a
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  Speaker 2: few more things done on Thursday in Jacksonville before we travel.
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  Speaker 4: Coach, what time do you normally arrive on on Friday
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  Speaker 4: morning and did you have to did you counsel practice
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  Speaker 4: yesterday because.
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  Speaker 3: Of the later on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we normally would land call it six am,
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  Speaker 2: six thirty and get over here and we'd have a
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  Speaker 2: normal Friday you know, meetings, full practice, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: But because the late nature of us leaving at ten pm,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Thursday night, that put us in here you know,
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  Speaker 2: around one thirty or so here, Uh, yesterday afternoon and
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  Speaker 2: with it being dark sooner, just wanted to get some
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  Speaker 2: meeting time and then and then just get the guys
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  Speaker 2: off their feet a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, coach, the FC South is still all to play
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  Speaker 5: for despite the record. You got there here for two weeks,
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  Speaker 5: second straight.
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  Speaker 4: You've done that.
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  Speaker 5: Could you expand on why it's important to find different
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  Speaker 5: ways to win, because it seems like you guys have
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  Speaker 5: cracked the coach whenever you come over here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think I think coming over here
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  Speaker 2: is good for us from the standpoint of it. Just
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  Speaker 2: it's just us, right, I mean, it's just the team
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  Speaker 2: and we're here for you know, the two weeks, two
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  Speaker 2: games and and uh kind of kind of away from everything,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether you know whether that's the key to
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  Speaker 2: the kingdom or not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's you know, it's it's worked and guys.
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  Speaker 2: But the good thing is too, the guys that really
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  Speaker 2: handled they've handled the travel well, they've handled their business well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I do give them time, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: to experience London, you know, after the game Monday, before
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  Speaker 2: we get ready for the next game. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: but but the guys, the guys doing a really good
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  Speaker 2: job of focusing in and I think to just the
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  Speaker 2: excitement of coming over for the guys makes a difference
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  Speaker 2: win against.
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  Speaker 1: The coach saw play us on both sides and stuff
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  Speaker 1: the both putting in great performances.
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  Speaker 3: How much that the boost has not giving you coming
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  Speaker 3: over here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a huge boost. And we needed that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we needed that for for our quarterback, for our team
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  Speaker 2: to figure out a way to win a football game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've we've kind of self inflicted wounds, I
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  Speaker 2: guess early in the season, but we we played a
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  Speaker 2: played a pretty good game last week and and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, held on to the end. It was a
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  Speaker 2: great kick cam you know, for his first game winning
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  Speaker 2: kick like that was was huge and and just lifted
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  Speaker 2: the you know, lifted the team. And obviously a division opponent,
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  Speaker 2: you know against the cold to who played it played
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  Speaker 2: a good, good.
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  Speaker 3: Game as well. So just overall the game that we needed.
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  Speaker 5: Coach you'll notice saying very well, big time players made
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  Speaker 5: big time plays in big time games, and I'm referring
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  Speaker 5: to Tank bigs be here. How do you have assessed
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  Speaker 5: the impact on the team given his explosiveness.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Tank's been doing a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he went into this year and and still
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  Speaker 2: really isn't that, you know, in that backup role. You know,
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  Speaker 2: TJ's TJ is the guy. And but you know, Tank
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  Speaker 2: is listen, He's he's learned, he's he's learning to play
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  Speaker 2: this game and learning to play and run hard and
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  Speaker 2: run tough, and and he's been the beneficiary of some
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  Speaker 2: some explosive runs and we just you never know when
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna come, and you know, he's always prepared. It's
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  Speaker 2: one thing I appreciate about Tank. He's the way he
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  Speaker 2: practices and the way he plays the way he prepares. Really,
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  Speaker 2: it's no surprise that he's he's had the success earlier.
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  Speaker 3: So far this year, your.
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  Speaker 4: Offense has often had multiple backs, Excel.
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  Speaker 3: Do you see that with Travis and Tank?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I get back to that.
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  Speaker 2: I do, you know, and you know Tra, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Travis is dealing, you know, still working through his injury
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  Speaker 2: and and all of that. And but uh, y, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think you got to have the two guys
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  Speaker 2: and in two different styles.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, obviously, Uh, it's a long season. Uh we're still
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  Speaker 2: you know, in week six right here. But both guys
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  Speaker 2: have done a great job, and you know, TJ's TJ's
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  Speaker 2: doing a nice job as well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, does you had, coach, you have any concern about
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  Speaker 4: uh slow start on Sunday? Give him the travel changes
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  Speaker 4: and can you give us an update on uh Evan?
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  Speaker 4: Do you expect him to play?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there's there's that concern. I guess you know,
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  Speaker 2: slow start, you know, slowgish things that nature. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: these guys, guys have been here before. They they know
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  Speaker 2: what it's like, and and you know they're they're prepared
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  Speaker 2: and ready to oh and they're excited for this opportunity
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  Speaker 2: against the good football team. So and then in Evans's case,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like he's been trending good. He had a
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  Speaker 2: good week of practice, so we'd lean lean towards him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing in this game.
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  Speaker 6: Coach, I want to ask that blind Thomas g he's
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  Speaker 6: you know, first and a leave. When it comes to
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  Speaker 6: the yards per catch amongst all rookie second in terms
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  Speaker 6: of receiving yards tied second and for touchdowns as well,
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  Speaker 6: he'll be able to go decatching traffic. How cans have
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  Speaker 6: you been with him in his rookie year, in his
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  Speaker 6: first five games in the league.
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  Speaker 3: It's the the reason we drafted him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been explosive for us, and and and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, the more ways we can find opportunities, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we need to do that.
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  Speaker 3: As a staff.
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  Speaker 2: Offensively, I think Press has done a great job of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, dialing up the shots when when we needed them.
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  Speaker 3: And it just his speed is real.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about that. It shows, you know, on tape.
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  Speaker 2: And and he's he's a he's a great learner. He
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  Speaker 2: practiced as well. He's a tough kid and and excited
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  Speaker 2: that we have him. And we got to continue to
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  Speaker 2: find ways to get him the ball job.
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  Speaker 4: So the records no way expected to be at this
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  Speaker 4: point of the season.
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  Speaker 1: What postage can you take from the results you have
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  Speaker 1: the season and the games you're played.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we've you know, one score games.
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  Speaker 2: We've we've been in every football game. You know, every
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  Speaker 2: coach would tell you that it's you know, it's about us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and you just got to focus on
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  Speaker 2: getting better, you know, each week, and and and we've
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  Speaker 2: done that, and and you know, the guys really I
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  Speaker 2: think have they've they've kind of embraced a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of I guess it's its ownership or responsibility. Obviously, and
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  Speaker 2: they know, you know, they they know, and and you
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  Speaker 2: know we made the corrections last week. We got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to improve.
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  Speaker 1: Did you experience any disruption the flight delay? And Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: and Thursday in Jacksonville? Were able to get normal?
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  Speaker 3: We did. Yeah, we were able to get through everything
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  Speaker 3: normally for those two I know you guys ruled him out.
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  Speaker 5: But working his way back in this.
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  Speaker 3: Week, Tyson is doing good.
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  Speaker 2: We opened up his window this week, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: was he was able to work on the on the
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  Speaker 2: look teams, you know, this week in practice and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see, we see where he's at next week.
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  Speaker 1: It's being the second year in the road where you've
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  Speaker 1: been back to back here in the UK. While what
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  Speaker 1: can you take from last year obvious the experience you
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  Speaker 1: had and how we've learned for this season.
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  Speaker 3: One of the big things is we don't have to move.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We get to stay right here at the Grove, which
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  Speaker 2: is a beautiful place and and uh, you know it's
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  Speaker 2: our home away from home, as we say, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just think, I just think we know we know
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  Speaker 2: going into the season that we're going to spend time here.
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  Speaker 2: Our owner spends a lot of time here in London
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  Speaker 2: and the UK, and and a lot of fans you
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  Speaker 2: know here Jacksonville fans and a lot of NFL fans,
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  Speaker 2: and so h we understand that we're going to spend
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  Speaker 2: you know, these these ten eleven days over here, and
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  Speaker 2: so uh, it's it's just a great opportunity. It's a
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity for our team, for players, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: for our fans over here to to see that that
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna come over here and make that commitment every year.
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  Speaker 1: Course, would you be over to spending more time over
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  Speaker 1: here to say stadium renovations, you need somewhere else to players,
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  Speaker 1: you have to play.
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  Speaker 2: More than two games, you know, I think that's something
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  Speaker 2: that obviously in the next couple of years with our
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  Speaker 2: stadium renovation, it's probably gonna be something that's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: in the conversation. At least, you know, we may have
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  Speaker 2: to play you know, three games or something over here,
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  Speaker 2: which is which would be okay?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Just to stay in one spot has been good, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know those conversations are coming.
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  Speaker 6: Your defense in terms of last week saw against the
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  Speaker 6: Cult be a fumble covery from you know, treatmon Walker
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  Speaker 6: and Covey from Hines Allen and no callbacks being sacked
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  Speaker 6: more apart.
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  Speaker 5: From two than Cater Williams this season.
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  Speaker 6: It's happening on your mind in terms of getting to
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  Speaker 6: him that you know that so far a season the
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  Speaker 6: Bears have allowed a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of sacks to you know, it's surprising.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, that's one of the things
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  Speaker 2: you appreciate about Caleb is his athleticism and and he's
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  Speaker 2: escaped a lot of a lot of pressures as well.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he he's been able to convert some
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  Speaker 2: some needy third downs with his legs and and outside
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  Speaker 2: the pocket, he's the ability to throw the ball.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of it's kind of twofold.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you get a chance to sack him,
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  Speaker 2: you obviously you got to get him on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, and then and then when you're outside the pocket,
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  Speaker 2: you got to make sure you cover downfield. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a challenge. It's a challenge for our for
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  Speaker 2: our front, and we got to stay disciplined.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks coach, thanks everybody for me.
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  Speaker 1: Lord