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Press Pass | Travon Walker & Robert Hainsey on Jaguars' Focus at Bye Week · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We can start with Denitriz they tray.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously the first five weeks of the season
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  Speaker 2: went pretty well. Just in terms of the last two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: how do you sort of prevent yourselves from panicking just
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  Speaker 2: just the losses from the two good teams.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say. I wouldn't even say prevent ourselves from panikins.
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  Speaker 3: Just like everybody in this building knows what we have
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  Speaker 3: to go into this by week, work on the fix
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  Speaker 3: and the things that kept us from winning those games
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  Speaker 3: the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to stay positive, stay.
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  Speaker 3: Together and potentially build on what we've been building ever
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  Speaker 3: since we started in OTAs.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think, you know, as far as the
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  Speaker 2: defense is concerned, what do you guys have to do
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  Speaker 2: coming out of the bye week to sort of improve
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  Speaker 2: what's the biggest things that you think need to improve
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  Speaker 2: in order to have success personally?
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  Speaker 3: Like I say, just continuously stick together and buy into
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  Speaker 3: the plan as far as what the coaches give us
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  Speaker 3: throughout the game, throughout the week and just go out
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  Speaker 3: there and execute do our job.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has to look deep.
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  Speaker 3: Down inside and just potentially improve on ourself individually and
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  Speaker 3: then come together collectively as a defense to execute the
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  Speaker 3: play calls and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Trey your.
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  Speaker 4: Mom followed back e Rock, how's the risk in club
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  Speaker 4: treating you?
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  Speaker 1: It's treating me lovely. I'm still living and breathing. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I can ask for the bye week? This week?
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  Speaker 4: Is this almost like a bad timing for the bye week?
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  Speaker 4: Because I mean, the back to back losses, you got
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  Speaker 4: to kind of wait a little bit longer till you
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  Speaker 4: can get out there and kind of get back on
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  Speaker 4: the right foot, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't say it's a bad time, but
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  Speaker 3: obviously no one wants to go into a bye week
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  Speaker 3: coming off two losses like we have. But I think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to I think it can be used in
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  Speaker 3: a positive way just for the simple fact that we
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  Speaker 3: guys get healthy things of that nature, and obviously we
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  Speaker 3: want to just continially row throughout this bye week and
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  Speaker 3: probably get away for a little bit, refresh the minds,
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  Speaker 3: and come back with a healthier mindset focused on leading
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  Speaker 3: into these last ten weeks of the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: Checherr bro do you rock?
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  Speaker 5: Followed by Shipley Trade on how much is that club
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  Speaker 5: limiting you? You know, especially since it's covering all your fingers,
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  Speaker 5: you know, can't grab at all?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean it's a club, so like you said,
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  Speaker 3: I can't really grab. That's the only thing that's really
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  Speaker 3: limiting limiting me from doing. But other than that, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not complaining as long as I can go out there.
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  Speaker 3: I got one hand, so I feel like that one
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  Speaker 3: hand does me enough, but I know I could be
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  Speaker 3: a lot better with both of my hands.
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  Speaker 1: I will say that.
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  Speaker 5: How important is it for the pass rush to get
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  Speaker 5: home more in the second part of the season here.
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  Speaker 3: That's very important. Obviously we haven't been we haven't been
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  Speaker 3: doing up to our standard, and that's something that we
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  Speaker 3: want to potentially continuously improve on. So that's just something
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  Speaker 3: that we got to hone in on and like I
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  Speaker 3: said earlier, long we executed play calls and things of
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  Speaker 3: that nature. Know what we're doing, be in the right
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  Speaker 3: spots at the right time. Then I feel like on
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  Speaker 3: the back half of the regular season that'll take care
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  Speaker 3: of itself.
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  Speaker 5: And not able to get turnovers, I don't think the
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  Speaker 5: last two games there, how much does that make it
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  Speaker 5: harder when you're unable to really kind of give the
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  Speaker 5: offense some short fields to work.
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  Speaker 1: That's very hard.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, we want to put the offense in a good
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  Speaker 3: position to go down and score a good field position.
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  Speaker 3: But obviously the main thing is if you don't get
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  Speaker 3: takeaways and don't win to take away margin the nine
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  Speaker 3: times out of ten you're going to have, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to struggle.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming out with the win.
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  Speaker 5: The one more thing for me the continual mistakes that
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  Speaker 5: you guys make, the little mistakes, you know, as coach
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  Speaker 5: Cohen says, beating yourselves. How frustrating is it that this
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  Speaker 5: team can't seem to get past that at this point.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's frustrating obviously, because the way I
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  Speaker 3: look at it is still early in the season. Like
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  Speaker 3: I said, we're going into a bye week now, so
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  Speaker 3: it's time for us to just take a little step
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  Speaker 3: back and as we go into this by we can
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  Speaker 3: observe all the things that we potentially made those same
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  Speaker 3: mistakes on just try our best not to make those
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  Speaker 3: same mistakes over again.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Bob Sidply, Hey Trevond, thanks for doing this. Just
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  Speaker 6: Liam's message that's kind of yes say it was just
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  Speaker 6: that you guys still have, you know, the whole season
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  Speaker 6: obviously ahead of you doesn't want to make any wholesale changes.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, is that just kind of the way you
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  Speaker 6: guys are seeing it as well? You just still have
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  Speaker 6: a lot of football front of you and everything you
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  Speaker 6: guys want to do, it's still kind of there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not always about how you start, but it's
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  Speaker 3: about how you finish. Like, we got ten weeks left
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  Speaker 3: of the regular season, and we're going to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and make the best of all ten of these games.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks Trevon, we can start with Demetrios followed by Rhan o'holleran.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Robert, when you look at this team, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think is sort of holding you guys back from
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  Speaker 2: being more consistent?
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  Speaker 8: I mean the things that show up, obviously are the
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  Speaker 8: the penalties, Uh, just those operational errors, operation penalties, miss assignments.
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  Speaker 8: Those are all things that are super controllable as a
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  Speaker 8: group and as individuals, and penalties, mental ayers, they're gonna
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  Speaker 8: show up.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the nature of the game.
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  Speaker 8: But when you compound those with having to play really
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  Speaker 8: good teams and really.
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  Speaker 1: What's this list? What's this still? I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: When you compound that with having to play really good
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  Speaker 8: teams and really good players where you're battling technique wise
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  Speaker 8: all the time, like everyone's gonna get beat at some point.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how this game works.
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  Speaker 8: Everyone's good and you're you're competing and you're battling. So
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  Speaker 8: but when you add all those up, it just it
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  Speaker 8: becomes way too many and you just negatives. The negatives
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  Speaker 8: just decrease your chances of continue drives and scoring on
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  Speaker 8: drives by astronomical numbers every time you get one. So
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  Speaker 8: every time you have a negative player, you're just you're
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  Speaker 8: really fighting an uphill battle.
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  Speaker 1: Even if it just is one.
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  Speaker 8: It might not see it's only one play, but it
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  Speaker 8: almost kills that drive statistically.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And just in saying that, how do you sort
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  Speaker 2: of prevent yourselves from panicking just given over the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks and sort of how it's turned out.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's not panicking. That's definitely not the feeling.
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  Speaker 8: Because if you look at where we're at four and
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  Speaker 8: three going into the bye week, ten games left and
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  Speaker 8: haven't even sniffed our best football, we have so much
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  Speaker 8: to look forward to and so so much improvement to make,
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  Speaker 8: and us making that improvement and as individuals, as an
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  Speaker 8: offensive group, as a defensive group and as a team
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  Speaker 8: as a whole is what's going to dictate how the
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  Speaker 8: rest of the season goes. But the nothing. You're not
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  Speaker 8: trying to reinvent the wheel, You're not trying to do
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  Speaker 8: anything crazy. It's just where can you find those advantages
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  Speaker 8: on a daily basis, in practice, in the meetings, in
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  Speaker 8: the film. That is going to elevate your play as
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  Speaker 8: an individual, which in turn elevates the play as a group.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, m oh Alaran, followed by Jamal.
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  Speaker 7: Robert Ryan o'hillerin from the Times Union and I got
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  Speaker 7: two for you on the pass protection issues the last
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  Speaker 7: two games.
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  Speaker 1: Granted you weren't in the first game. Is it guys
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  Speaker 1: losing their matchup on the.
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  Speaker 7: Play or does the communication need to be honed in on.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's just it's technique, it's getting on the
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  Speaker 8: same level playing together. I mean, it's first of all
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  Speaker 8: unacceptable and it's something that we need to address and
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  Speaker 8: improve upon. So as a group, that's it's up to
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  Speaker 8: us in our room to make sure that we are
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  Speaker 8: doing everything we can to can prevent those things from happening.
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  Speaker 8: We know we're gonna get games, we know they're gonna
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  Speaker 8: line up in their giant fronts and their heavy fronts
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  Speaker 8: and give us twists and games, especially on third down.
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  Speaker 8: So when you're in that situation a lot, they get that,
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  Speaker 8: they get the opportunity to tee off.
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  Speaker 1: So making the run.
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  Speaker 8: Game go early on from an offensive libeffect of doing
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  Speaker 8: everything we can executing there so we can stay out
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  Speaker 8: of those third and longs, those obvious past situations where
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  Speaker 8: you know that stuff's coming because it's not the easiest
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  Speaker 8: thing to pass off, but being extremely prepared for when
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  Speaker 8: they do come up, because at some point in the
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  Speaker 8: game it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 7: Last for me is in times of adversity, like the
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  Speaker 7: last couple of weeks. How does Liam come across the
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  Speaker 7: team as being honest but not sounding overly negative?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think, I mean, I think his
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  Speaker 8: honesty is not overly negative, because there is negative that
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  Speaker 8: shows up, but there's a hell of a lot of
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  Speaker 8: positive too. So when you're being honest and honestly evaluating
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  Speaker 8: and he looks at it, he can look at us
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  Speaker 8: and honestly say, hey, we need to clean this shit up,
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  Speaker 8: but we've done some really good things. And when we're
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  Speaker 8: playing at our best, we're very hard team to be,
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  Speaker 8: that's the honest truth. How we clean them up like
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  Speaker 8: that's like I was saying, that's us individuals improving to
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  Speaker 8: elevate the level.
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  Speaker 1: Of the team.
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  Speaker 7: Robert Jim mal.
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  Speaker 4: Robert the time end of the bye week, I know
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  Speaker 4: you guys probably had two games in a row that
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  Speaker 4: you wanted to get back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you feel like this.
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  Speaker 4: Is a good time because it gives you a little
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  Speaker 4: time to clean it up, or is it a long
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  Speaker 4: bye week because now you're kind of chomping at the bit,
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  Speaker 4: you got to wait another week before you can go
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  Speaker 4: out there and do it.
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  Speaker 8: I think in general, like the bye week when it
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  Speaker 8: comes is one of those things that's out of your control,
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  Speaker 8: so you gotta roll with it. I've had later bye weeks,
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  Speaker 8: I've had super early bye weeks, and sometimes it almost
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  Speaker 8: never feels like it's a good time because there's always
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  Speaker 8: something you want to be working on. But nonetheless, regardless
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  Speaker 8: of whether where you're at, like where we're at coming
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  Speaker 8: off those last two games, for sure, we want to
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  Speaker 8: improve upon how can we make this the most productive
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  Speaker 8: week possible As players and coaches take our time reflect
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  Speaker 8: figure out what we're going to really want to do
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  Speaker 8: when we get back in here next week and be
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  Speaker 8: ready to hit it hard because we got a long
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  Speaker 8: stretch coming up of good games that our improvement is
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  Speaker 8: going to make a huge difference.
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  Speaker 4: In You were in Tampa with Liam last year. You
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  Speaker 4: learned this offense last year. Are there any similarities to
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  Speaker 4: like the growing pains you're seeing in Jacksonville to maybe
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  Speaker 4: some of the stuff you saw last year with Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: I'd have to maybe think about it more, but it's
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  Speaker 8: always every season. You could you could play the same
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  Speaker 8: with the same group for five seasons in a row
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  Speaker 8: and you have growing pains quote unquote every year, and
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  Speaker 8: maybe they could. They're always gonna be slightly different since
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  Speaker 8: you're always trying to we're always we're all going back
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  Speaker 8: to the same basics to fundamentals. Fundamentally sound, situational masters,
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  Speaker 8: attacking and tough like those are the things we gotta
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  Speaker 8: be when it comes to the scheme and how things
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  Speaker 8: are rolling. There's throughout the playoffs, throughout the rest of
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  Speaker 8: the season, throughout the playoffs, the postseason, you're always constantly improving,
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  Speaker 8: So there's a constantly trying to improve.
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  Speaker 1: So it's supers.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's very individualized as what those what things
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  Speaker 8: are going to come up for every team in the
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  Speaker 8: league because there's not a single team who's not trying
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  Speaker 8: to fix something today.
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  Speaker 1: Does that makes sense? That's perfect? Appreciate you, Robert.
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  Speaker 7: This will be our.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, d rog.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, I got booted off, so apologies if Jamal
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  Speaker 5: asked this question already, But I'm just wondering, did you
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  Speaker 5: guys in Tampa last year have the same kind of
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  Speaker 5: issues early in the season in terms of the mistakes?
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  Speaker 5: Is that what he just asked you?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what you just asked. Did you hear my answer?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you want experience?
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  Speaker 5: I just heard a short part of it. But if
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  Speaker 5: you asked answered already, that's not a problem. I'll just
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  Speaker 5: get it off the transcript later. But I do have
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  Speaker 5: another question.
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  Speaker 2: Would you call this group, this.
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  Speaker 5: Team a physically tough team still after the last two weeks?
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  Speaker 5: That was your identity the first five weeks. Has it changed?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 8: I think I mean if you if you really watch
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  Speaker 8: the film, when you watch how we play like, we
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  Speaker 8: play hard, we play tough, we play physically tough, and
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  Speaker 8: what you're seeing is what I'm thinking that you're seeing
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  Speaker 8: is the last two games, how much obvious pass we've
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  Speaker 8: been in and how many times you can throw the
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  Speaker 8: ball and it's good kind of it's you still have
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  Speaker 8: to play physical in the past game, but from outside
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  Speaker 8: looking in, when you think physicality, you think moving the
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  Speaker 8: last scrim image, running the ball, and we don't get
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  Speaker 8: the run game.
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  Speaker 1: Going and you cannot.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we were excellent at early in the year that
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  Speaker 8: we have not not regrets, we just haven't continued that standard,
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  Speaker 8: I think, and so getting back to that is important
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  Speaker 8: because that is all right. Then when you're playing like that,
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  Speaker 8: it's felt on the sideline, it's felt on the field.
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  Speaker 8: The other team feels it and you you can tell
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  Speaker 8: that they feel it, and that's how you wear your
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  Speaker 8: opponents down.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks both, Actually be our last one. We can
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  Speaker 7: do one more quick one.
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  Speaker 1: John Shipley, Hey, Robert.
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  Speaker 6: Just you know, talking about starting fast, how important on
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  Speaker 6: his first downs, especially early in the game, kind of
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  Speaker 6: setting the tone and putting you guys in those run situations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, very definitely.
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  Speaker 8: It's you really want to be able to establish the
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  Speaker 8: get those first downs, established the run and make everyone
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  Speaker 8: feel confident in getting back to it. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 8: going out three and out to start twice is not
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  Speaker 8: great because then you're all then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 8: you're down fourteen points a bunch of times off the clock,
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  Speaker 8: and it's like, all right, now, now we got established runs,
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  Speaker 8: but we're already in the place where you have to
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  Speaker 8: play catch up. So starting fast, finishing strong. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: there's no point in the game where it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 8: we can chill here. That doesn't exist. But that's that's
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  Speaker 8: again something in our first few weeks we came off,
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  Speaker 8: we'd start with the ball, go down, score and getting everyone.
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  Speaker 8: You get in that rhythm, it just gives you a
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  Speaker 8: lot of confidence going out, going out to the next drives.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,