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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "They just get better & better as they go." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something we've emphasized since the day we got
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  Speaker 1: here and continue to emphasize him with him in the
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  Speaker 1: pocket of you know, always always being ball aware in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket, having two hands, on being secure in your grip. Um,
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  Speaker 1: And you know that that's one of the danger zones
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  Speaker 1: we talked about is in the pocket and the way
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  Speaker 1: he holds football. We continue to emphasize that an individual,
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  Speaker 1: continue show him examples of good bad. Um. You know
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  Speaker 1: what happens quarterbacks, you get hit in the pocket, you're extended,
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  Speaker 1: you're ready to throw the football. Something happens from time
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  Speaker 1: to time. You know, we want to do everything we
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  Speaker 1: can in our power with a drill work with just
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  Speaker 1: emphasizing showing him good, showing him bad. He understands that,
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  Speaker 1: and and that's something he's he's working too, uh correct
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  Speaker 1: for himself as well. Um, But yeah, it happens. It
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  Speaker 1: was very unfortunately. The unfortunate part in that game at
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  Speaker 1: least was there were two completely unforced you know, we
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  Speaker 1: had a we had a quarterback center exchange, and then
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  Speaker 1: we had one that just slipped out of our hand. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a really the disappointing onents when when it
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  Speaker 1: happens in the pocket. It's gonna happen from time to time.
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  Speaker 1: You you want to do everything you can and not
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  Speaker 1: let that happen. But we understand that. But the two
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  Speaker 1: unforced were the ones that really really hurt us. All
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  Speaker 1: this guys, changing your rain playing with him for the
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  Speaker 1: next possible weather game like that, I mean, gloves possibly
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  Speaker 1: anything like yeah, well we'll talk about anything that'll help us. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, we'll present the idea of possibly wearing
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  Speaker 1: gloves if that's something he wants. But again that you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be the quarterback's gotta be comfortable or
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  Speaker 1: really the players in general have to be comfortable going
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  Speaker 1: into the game. And if that's something he feels comfortable with,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something we'll do if he feels like that
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  Speaker 1: gives him the best ability to hold on the football
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  Speaker 1: in situations like that. Now, I haven't been in many
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  Speaker 1: games that were like that in terms of just the
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  Speaker 1: amount of rain and all that. But um, yeah, well
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  Speaker 1: we'll explore all avenues to give us the best possible situation.
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  Speaker 1: If that comes up. Again, how don't just throw the
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  Speaker 1: game playing play? Have that major or you don't hear
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  Speaker 1: and you get planes right less certainly. Yeah, it definitely changes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta look a lot of good plays
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  Speaker 1: on the call sheet that you want to get to
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  Speaker 1: and you're just not able to. When you get four
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  Speaker 1: seven plays, um, you know you you you don't get
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball as many times as you want.
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  Speaker 1: You end up in different situations where it's a two
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  Speaker 1: minute and you're forced to throw the football, and so
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  Speaker 1: it definitely excuse your numbers. UM. Over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the game. Big was Jamal agnew before you on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and do you think he's earned a role moving forward? Certainly,
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  Speaker 1: he definitely stepped up. You know, we Zay kind of
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  Speaker 1: battled through the week to see if we get them
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. Um. Ultimately, we just made the decision
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  Speaker 1: that it was best for for Za and for the
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  Speaker 1: team to get let's say, get healthy a little bit longer, um.
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  Speaker 1: And part of that comes from we know what Jamal
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  Speaker 1: is and what he's capable of, so we had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of confidence that he and Tim Jones could step
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  Speaker 1: up and fulfill that role. And uh, you know that
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  Speaker 1: kind of parts with a lot of different people. We
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  Speaker 1: have the backs, we have some versetile running backs, we
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  Speaker 1: have Verstil tight ends that we feel like we can
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  Speaker 1: plug and play and kind of move things around if
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  Speaker 1: we need to. If a situation like that comes up
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  Speaker 1: where we have a guy that's kind of a gay
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  Speaker 1: day to day decision and ends up not making it,
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  Speaker 1: we have the pieces UM within our fence to be
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  Speaker 1: able to move around like that. But Jamal is certainly
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  Speaker 1: one of those pieces. The greatest thing about Jamal is
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  Speaker 1: his mental flexibility. We could tell Jamal the day of
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  Speaker 1: the game, hey, I need you to play X and
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  Speaker 1: on this point need to play F and that play
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  Speaker 1: needs to play that he can handle it. He's one
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  Speaker 1: of the smartest guys we have, communicates really really well
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  Speaker 1: in the huddle, UM, and he's going in the huddle
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  Speaker 1: with other smart guys, so he's able to talk with
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Christian, Tim Jones, and they're kind of there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times where you probably don't notice it,
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  Speaker 1: but they're switching positions and you would never know that
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  Speaker 1: unless you knew exactly what our formation was called. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have a lot of smart guys that
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  Speaker 1: give us the ability to do that, and Jamal's just
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys. What is the flushing the game
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  Speaker 1: would like to you. I hear that term a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I asked Christian and he said, for him, it's
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  Speaker 1: been in Topham family, is you know, getting his mind away,
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  Speaker 1: maybe playing golf. So from a coach's perspective, what is
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  Speaker 1: flushing the game for us? Um? You know it's really
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  Speaker 1: you're you're flushing game, but you're really just moving on
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  Speaker 1: to the next one. So, no matter what we tell
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  Speaker 1: our guys all the time, when when our meetings in
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  Speaker 1: at whatever time twelve thirty or two o'clock on a Monday,
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  Speaker 1: that game is over and we're all about moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Whether that was the best game we've ever played, the
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  Speaker 1: worst game we've ever played, We're gonna spend Monday morning
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  Speaker 1: to learn our lessons from that. Which wouldn't you win?
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  Speaker 1: You still have a lot of lessons to learn, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a little more fun to learn those lessons from
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  Speaker 1: that standpoint where you're watching a tape where you won
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  Speaker 1: the game. Um, But either way, you win and you
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  Speaker 1: move forward. Because Monday at one o'clock and or Monday
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  Speaker 1: at whatever time it is that the film ends, we
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  Speaker 1: are moving on and we gotta put together a plant.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta study our opponent, put together the plan of
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  Speaker 1: attack and be able to learn that plan. And so
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  Speaker 1: so all our guys win, lose Monday, at whatever time
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  Speaker 1: that is, we all move forward. So everybody, that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of that twenty four hour rold that everybody talks about.
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  Speaker 1: But um, personally, I think when I get home at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game, I'm still kind of processing.
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  Speaker 1: Probably when I lay in bed, I'm still kind of processing.
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  Speaker 1: But I got little kids, I got family at home.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's pretty easy when you're home to be home,
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  Speaker 1: and um, your mind's kind of there's probably always football
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  Speaker 1: in there at some point in time, especially in season.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't really have a lot of problem
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  Speaker 1: being there with my family when I am when I
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  Speaker 1: do get the ability to be home. In terms of
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  Speaker 1: running the ball, would you like to see you guy
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  Speaker 1: dud just more efficient when you guys are running out. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think that's everything that's putting ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: good situation to be able to run the ball. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to be in second and ten have
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  Speaker 1: to run the football. Um, you may average four yards
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  Speaker 1: to carry there, but you're not getting what you need
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  Speaker 1: out of the runs there. So it's a matter of
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  Speaker 1: first intent of staying on schedule. That's a big part
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  Speaker 1: of it. We want to run the ball when it's
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  Speaker 1: second three. That would be perfect. We'd be in second
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  Speaker 1: three all day long. We'd call any play in our playbook,
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  Speaker 1: and we'd feel good about the results of the play. UM.
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  Speaker 1: So it kind of goes with everything. It's everybody finishing block,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's um maybe the quarterback getting us into the
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  Speaker 1: right run at the right time, us calling it in
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  Speaker 1: the right situation. So I think with anything with execution, UM,
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  Speaker 1: it's really kind of all goes together at all points
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  Speaker 1: in time of us understanding what we're trying to attack
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  Speaker 1: in that situation. The way they play first and ten
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  Speaker 1: defense out of base is different than the way they
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  Speaker 1: play first ten defense out of nickel is the different
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  Speaker 1: than the way that they defend second and ten. So
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of all those situations. It's it's just our
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  Speaker 1: ability to put our guys in the best possible position,
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  Speaker 1: them understand why we're trying to do it, what we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to attack, and then everybody executing their job to
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  Speaker 1: the highest Leveling training camp, we talked about you know
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  Speaker 1: moren't the running game, the cohesiveness of really all these
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  Speaker 1: new pieces been together, but are you seeing that as
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  Speaker 1: the season goes on, then you know, getting a little
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  Speaker 1: more jell together. Yeah, I think so. And then as
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  Speaker 1: kind of game plans tend to get carried over and
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  Speaker 1: runs get carried over, and we've got a little more
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  Speaker 1: time on task running this particular scheme or that particular
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  Speaker 1: scheme or maybe it's the exact same play we've been
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  Speaker 1: rapping for three weeks. You just see guys get better
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  Speaker 1: and better and better. Um, they kind of building that
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  Speaker 1: contingency plan of all right, we worked it against this,
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  Speaker 1: Now this is happening and how do we do this?
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  Speaker 1: And they just get better and better as they go.
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  Speaker 1: And again we talked about a way back when, but
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  Speaker 1: it's week five, it needs to be better than it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't week four. So that's just kind of as we
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  Speaker 1: go in all aspects of our offense. Little player, there's
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  Speaker 1: just when on what kind of playing you see for
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  Speaker 1: is here this season? Well, he's he's got a skill
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  Speaker 1: set that we really want to be able to utilize.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like a lot of our guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: now there's only so many snaps that you can get
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  Speaker 1: so many guys on the field. But uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: guys that do the right thing or produce when they
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  Speaker 1: have the football. We're gonna continue to find opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: those guys. And with him, you know, he was a
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  Speaker 1: late ad for us right before the season. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of been piece mailing. He's learning game plans. He hasn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily learned the offense, so he continues to learn game
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  Speaker 1: But as you learn, and now you're on your fifth
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  Speaker 1: game plan, things start to make a little more sense
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  Speaker 1: to him. So he's getting a little bit more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: where he's kind of earning that trust if he can
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  Speaker 1: handle this now to put him on the field and
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  Speaker 1: hand him the football. You're maybe not handing that one
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  Speaker 1: to t J. You're not handing that one to James
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  Speaker 1: or you know, any of other guys. So there's kind
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  Speaker 1: of always a give and take. But you know, a
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  Speaker 1: guy that gets his opportunity and produces with it, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to continue trying to find opportunities for uses a
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  Speaker 1: lot of motions, games and everything like that, and just
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  Speaker 1: what kind of stress does that put on a defense
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  Speaker 1: and how does it make it sort of maybe easier
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  Speaker 1: poor quarterback. Yeah, there's a number of different reasons you're
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  Speaker 1: using motion. Sometimes it is just purely to disguise the
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  Speaker 1: formation that we've been in a number of times to
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  Speaker 1: run one of our top concepts. UM. There's a number
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  Speaker 1: of times where it's giving the quarterback information or the
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  Speaker 1: receiver's information. There could be times where it doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: apply to the quarterback, but it's letting the receivers know
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  Speaker 1: potentially man's own potentially who's covering me, who's covering him,
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  Speaker 1: how they're gonna adjust. So then I kind of have
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  Speaker 1: this accelerated vision of how I'm going to run my
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  Speaker 1: route now, um. And then there are times where it
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  Speaker 1: tells the quarterback all he needs to know. I know
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  Speaker 1: I have man, I know I have zone. When we
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  Speaker 1: we pour over the film through the week, we try
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  Speaker 1: to find all these indicators we can, and so you
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  Speaker 1: try to utilize that any way, shape or form. But
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  Speaker 1: the more we feel like we can force communication, whether
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  Speaker 1: that's just minimal communication or wholesale changes out of the defense,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna try to do that. And then we also
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  Speaker 1: just want to protect our core stuff and make it
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  Speaker 1: look like something. Maybe it's just a matching a tendency,
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  Speaker 1: Like we have a couple of runs where we this
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  Speaker 1: is the motion we've done on this run, well, can
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  Speaker 1: we just add it to this past just to break
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  Speaker 1: in tendency. So it's kind of a wholesale self scout
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  Speaker 1: type thing, and it's really a play by play basis,
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  Speaker 1: I think. And then just with with Houston, uh, the
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  Speaker 1: defense isn't necessarily anything crazy or or or complicated, but
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  Speaker 1: just what did they present as far as a challenge
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  Speaker 1: for your all boots? I think I think it's really
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  Speaker 1: probably I mean, I don't know how it's rated, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's an underrated defensive line. I think those
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  Speaker 1: guys having been in the division last year, playing against
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  Speaker 1: them twice and coming out of those games feeling like
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  Speaker 1: it's a talented young pass rush group. Um. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have Jerry Hughes who has had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: production this league for a long long time. Uh. He
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  Speaker 1: does a great job. And I think they kind of
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  Speaker 1: as they roll through guys that the edge players are
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. Grenard does a good job, Lopez is a
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  Speaker 1: great player. Malik called all those guys, and then you
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  Speaker 1: had Mario Addison potentially back into the mix. I think
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  Speaker 1: it is a talented front that does a good job.
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  Speaker 1: You can present a lot of problems questionable for this week,
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  Speaker 1: But what is the cornerback name? What does he present?
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  Speaker 1: What type of challenges does he present? He's a really
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  Speaker 1: good player. You know, have you the number three overall
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  Speaker 1: pick um? Obviously you have a lot of talent, and
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  Speaker 1: then you can see that they have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: confidence in him. He he's shadowed premier players in this league,
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  Speaker 1: or he shoul followed Mike Williams around Um. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know he's a guy that can make plays on
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  Speaker 1: the ball. He's a guy that can be sticky in coverage.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big, physical, long player, which just presents issues
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  Speaker 1: anytime the balls throwing his way. He had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of nice pass breakups uh in the red zone against
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis early on that you just see his length, you
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  Speaker 1: see his confidence away he plays, and so adding him
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  Speaker 1: and then Petrie the safety in the back end, they've
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  Speaker 1: done a good job to add some young players that
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  Speaker 1: that really and then going at Jerry Hughes like I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, they've they've done a great job of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of trying to build that defense up. Yep, thanks guys,