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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Offense Prep for Week 1 vs. Panthers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks, I'm doing even better. That was more of the
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  Speaker 1: first time we.
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  Speaker 2: Got to spend some time with Travis, so we shot
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  Speaker 2: up back in the off season, so it was it
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. He's got a lot more
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  Speaker 2: I guess personality than I do, so he kind of
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  Speaker 2: carried he kind of carried.
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  Speaker 1: The team in that one. No, I would, honestly, but
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  Speaker 1: I just can't.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all your dances. You gave us all getting
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  Speaker 2: on that. I left it all out there. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: was more than I wanted to give. But that was
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  Speaker 2: good to that.
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  Speaker 1: Actually just said you that was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: I think into your relationship with looking out just how
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  Speaker 2: much of you guys kind of back closer and wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've you know, we've built a great relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's still the beginning of hopefully, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: long time playing together, but it's been awesome. He's a
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  Speaker 2: guy that's you know, it's easy to to talk to,
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  Speaker 2: to work with. You know, he wants to be great,
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  Speaker 2: wants to get better, running routes after practice, doing all
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  Speaker 2: the little things like he wants to do all this thing.
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  Speaker 2: So when I grab him, it's always like yes, like
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  Speaker 2: what can I do? To to help you and and
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  Speaker 2: vice versa, and I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: So that's been easy. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think just getting to know him a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more personally has been fun. And going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: do that, you know, throughout the season and moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: that's important, you know, to know your teammates and be
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  Speaker 2: able to you know, relate to him in different ways.
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  Speaker 1: You've been around trying to see for a long time
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  Speaker 1: how well does he fit into this.
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  Speaker 2: Offense he's been It's been great, you know, seeing everything
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  Speaker 2: he could he can do with the ball. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen it for a long time and I think
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  Speaker 2: people around the league have seen it, and at times
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  Speaker 2: it's been used in different ways. But I think this
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  Speaker 2: is a great opportunity to really maximize what he's good at.
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  Speaker 2: And he's good at a few different things, but just
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  Speaker 2: getting the ball in his hands and that can be run, game,
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  Speaker 2: pass game, whatever it is. You know, he's a dynamic playmaker,
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  Speaker 2: hard to tackle once he gets the ball, great in space,
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  Speaker 2: and those.
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  Speaker 1: Are just things he's really good at.
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  Speaker 2: So to see him continue to build on those is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be fun for a week once so of course, yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's nothing like it first game of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, even the preseason games, you know, I still get
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  Speaker 2: the little butterflies before you go out because it's still
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  Speaker 2: means something. But the first one that counts, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it does have a different feel to it. And you
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  Speaker 2: obviously have a whole game plan. You put in all
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  Speaker 2: the work the week before, but really kind of all
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  Speaker 2: off season builds up to that because you always.
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  Speaker 1: You know who that first opponent is.
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  Speaker 2: So not that you're game planning four months ago, you
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  Speaker 2: don't start that early, but you still are thinking about
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  Speaker 2: that first opponent and what's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot that's built to this moment.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got to just go play, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: the first games there's a little bit of who's gonna
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  Speaker 2: do what.
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  Speaker 1: There could be some changes you.
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  Speaker 2: Got to adjust in game, and that's gonna be important
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  Speaker 2: for us, but it'll be fun. You prepare for defense
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  Speaker 2: that has the same scheme that they don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have a lot of news players to find him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, you trust what you see as far
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  Speaker 2: as scheme go. I mean, but they can always do
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  Speaker 2: something different. I mean, it's like every defense now can
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  Speaker 2: do anything. It's like people do so many different things.
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  Speaker 2: It's you're and you don't want to think that way
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  Speaker 2: because you do have your plan and you want to
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  Speaker 2: play fast and let it rip. But you are aware
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  Speaker 2: that week one, we've all we all had the same tape.
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  Speaker 2: You know this, you know defense corner. He knows what
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  Speaker 2: he what he does, what he's good at, what he
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  Speaker 2: wants to do.
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  Speaker 1: He knows that. We know that.
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  Speaker 2: And there's just mind games, I guess, going back and
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  Speaker 2: forth of what they could possibly do. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you trust what you see. You put a good plan
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  Speaker 2: in place, which I think we've had a great start
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  Speaker 2: on and we're gonna go go play an a justin game
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  Speaker 2: if we need to. So yeah, I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: always kind of a little bit of that back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: And then especially when they got a lot of new players,
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  Speaker 2: it's not the same guys on tape.
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  Speaker 1: That you're watching.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the scheme, but you start looking at some
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  Speaker 2: different tells from certain players and you're like, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: guy's not even it's not gonna be this guy that
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  Speaker 2: I'm playing again.
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  Speaker 1: So there's certain things that you just have to It's
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  Speaker 1: just part of it. Everyone's doing it with that helpful
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  Speaker 1: latch in Williams two games against Carolina last year, because
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  Speaker 1: Tampa did a lot of great things in both those meetings.
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  Speaker 2: It was great just to see Obviously, you know you
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  Speaker 2: can you can watch the other games and you can
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  Speaker 2: tell what different offenses are doing, but to see our
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  Speaker 2: system and and the things that they were doing and
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  Speaker 2: be able to know exactly what they're running, what they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to run, what the can was, what the
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  Speaker 2: protection change was. To see all those things and know
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  Speaker 2: what they are, it does make watching it pretty valuable.
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  Speaker 2: And having that matchup thatout being a division opponent for
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  Speaker 2: Tampa and liam being there is definitely is a good
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  Speaker 2: thing for us as far as just planning purposes and
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  Speaker 2: getting ready for this week.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this week the easier to see, how do you
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  Speaker 1: handle existing in the great the way he calls it
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  Speaker 1: when he's break it down and it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: go recon plane and stuff like that. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: a better.
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  Speaker 2: Feel for the way you'll react in a new.
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  Speaker 1: Offense that way or is that not ee to somelthing
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  Speaker 1: that you think about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to it's hard to simulate that and practice, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: because it's practice is pretty structured, especially when you're going
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  Speaker 2: through the different scout looks for what you're trying to get.
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  Speaker 2: Typically you just don't have enough time right to get
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  Speaker 2: like all the bad looks to all your plays, like
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  Speaker 2: you want to see the ones that are that it's
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  Speaker 2: put in for. And then we talk about every different
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  Speaker 2: thing that could come up coverage wise and what I
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  Speaker 2: what I need to be thinking and what I need
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  Speaker 2: to get to. But it's hard to simulate that in practice.
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  Speaker 2: So I think just training my brain to move through
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  Speaker 2: progressions quickly. Obviously, you know, trust my guys up front,
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  Speaker 2: but protection is not going to be perfect every play.
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  Speaker 2: It's NFL. There's really good pass rushers on every team,
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  Speaker 2: So being able to move make plays off schedule, that's
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  Speaker 2: important and it'll be fun to get out there and
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  Speaker 2: do it and just go play. That's the fun, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the you know, kind of eagerness leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the game, and then once the ball snapped, you feel
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  Speaker 2: like yourself settled down and just go play free and
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  Speaker 2: let the plays come to You. Have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: conversations with Baker Mayfield this offseason and if so, did
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  Speaker 2: anything settle you down to this offense that he said, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've talked to him a few times and he's, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: gave me a lot of confidence. I've heard great things
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  Speaker 2: from other people as well coming into whether it's about
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  Speaker 2: Liam or the system or whatever, but here in his
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  Speaker 2: experience and obviously what they were able to do last
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  Speaker 2: year as an offense was super impressive, and especially as
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  Speaker 2: an individual, Baker played really well.
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  Speaker 1: So just talking to him, and you know, he's told.
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  Speaker 2: Me just how much I'm gonna love the offense, how
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  Speaker 2: much it's gonna help me and help our offense really
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  Speaker 2: just you know, go to the next level, all those things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's been a huge help for me
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  Speaker 2: and give me a lot of confidence all of.
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  Speaker 1: Those last week that you know, maybe he needs some
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  Speaker 1: extra time with Tim Patrick to make sure he got
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  Speaker 1: the Playbookal swear Away.
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  Speaker 2: What is your expectation in terms of how he'll be
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  Speaker 2: used versus the rest of the wide receivers and the
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  Speaker 2: scale players at your disposal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll be used.
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  Speaker 2: It's I don't want to get into all the details necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to bore you guys, but it's he'll
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  Speaker 2: be he'll be used, He'll be ready to play, and
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  Speaker 2: I've been impressed already with how he's picked it up. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna say get out there and play, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sixty plays and throw stuff at him that he hasn't
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  Speaker 2: really repped. But he's a guy that can go out
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  Speaker 2: and make plays. He's shown it, he's been in some
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  Speaker 2: different complex offenses. I think he's definitely definitely has the
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  Speaker 2: bandwidth to learn everything quickly and be ready to play,
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  Speaker 2: especially now that we have a game plan. You have
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  Speaker 2: something you can study and it's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: like sometimes in practice call it periods, you're you're pulling
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  Speaker 2: stuff that's that you haven't done in two weeks. This
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  Speaker 2: is we know what we're doing. You got a plan
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  Speaker 2: for it, so he can get himself ready.
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  Speaker 1: What's your comments level look in the front five for
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  Speaker 1: you after everything of the preseason, guy's changing roles because
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  Speaker 1: you've been down to five, what's your level confidence? A
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  Speaker 1: lot of confidence. That group has done a great job
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  Speaker 1: just buying in.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we have some new guys. I think what they've
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  Speaker 2: brought to the room has been really big. Just as
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  Speaker 2: far as seeing the guys come together, it's been cool
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  Speaker 2: and getting to know some of those new guys better.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think in the in training camp, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the guys having to rotate in it gives me even
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  Speaker 2: more confident because you know something could happen. You never know,
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  Speaker 2: God forbid anything happens to anyone. But I think seeing seven,
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  Speaker 2: eight nine guys play and play together and play pretty well,
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  Speaker 2: it gives you a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure the staff, offensive staff as well, but the
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  Speaker 2: five that are gonna run out there on Sunday, I
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  Speaker 2: got all the faith in and I know they got
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  Speaker 2: my back. I got their back, and that's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the biggest things. But they're great players too,
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  Speaker 2: and I know they're they're gonna get it done. Kind
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  Speaker 2: of eager to see Travis on both sides of the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing, or just more worried about offense. I'm more
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  Speaker 2: worried about on offense, not as in like I don't
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  Speaker 2: want him to play defense, you know, I just he's
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  Speaker 2: in a you know, I'm worried about what we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do on offense and just staying focused on that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it will be cool to see him. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be cool to see him doing both. I haven't seen that,
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  Speaker 2: so it'd.
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  Speaker 1: Be pretty cool fast starts in the season.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, every game matters so much. Everyone says that
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  Speaker 2: you take it one week at a time, but it
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  Speaker 2: does matter. I mean, starting to want to know is
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  Speaker 2: a lot better and starting knowing one. So it just
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  Speaker 2: gets you, gets you going, gets a win under your belt,
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  Speaker 2: kicks the season off the right way. Then you get
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  Speaker 2: down later in the season and trying to make the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs wherever you're at in your season, and you always
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  Speaker 2: think about, well, what if we just won that one
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the year, you know, close one week one
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  Speaker 2: or week two or whatever it was. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: you gotta win those games. So I'm excited to get
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  Speaker 2: out there and go do it someday. The last two
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  Speaker 2: years and you feel like you guys know who you
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  Speaker 2: are or have.
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  Speaker 1: A good idea you want to see anyone, Yeah I do.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everyone is on the same page and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who we want to be, and I think who
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  Speaker 2: we're becoming, right, But I mean, you know, you're not
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  Speaker 2: really tested till the season and adversity hits, and I
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  Speaker 2: have a I have a good feeling about how we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna respond, But you got to see it, and there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be you know, as good of a year as
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  Speaker 2: we could have, there's still gonna be some adversity and
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  Speaker 2: some ups and downs, and it's about just staying together.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what's been We've been preaching that, and the
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  Speaker 2: guys have into it. That's what's important, not that it's said,
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  Speaker 2: but that people actually believe in and do it. And
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of confidence in it. Uncertainty, yeah
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  Speaker 2: for week one, you mean yeah, I mean, of course,
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  Speaker 2: that's just excited to get back out there and play.
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  Speaker 2: There's always uncertainty in football, you know. That's especially playing quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You want every play to go the way you have
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  Speaker 2: it planned, but it never does. So it's about playing
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  Speaker 2: in that like we've talked about playing in that gray
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  Speaker 2: and making smart decisions and just playing fast, trust on
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  Speaker 2: what you see. And I'm just excited to get out there.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a long time, you know, I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: get out there.
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  Speaker 1: You want a good idea, you guys might I mean, we're.
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  Speaker 2: A tough, physical team and something we're going to pride
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  Speaker 2: ourselves on. I think being situationally really smart. That's such
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  Speaker 2: a big part of this game, and in this league,
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  Speaker 2: games come down to one score. All that more often
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  Speaker 2: than they don't. So the situations are huge that that
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  Speaker 2: will win and lose you a lot of games. And
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  Speaker 2: then just detail oriented group. That's really the small things.
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  Speaker 2: Matt so much, and I think that's something that this
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  Speaker 2: staff has done an awesome job of preaching to us,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been coached really hard every day, how important
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  Speaker 2: those details are, the communication. It's something we've gotten a
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  Speaker 2: lot better at. But like I said, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: want to see it all come together on Sunday when
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  Speaker 2: the bullets are flying and see us do that for
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  Speaker 2: a full game.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you all. I appreciate it.