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O-Zone Podcast: Brian Schottenheimer · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone podcast presented by by Star Credit
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  Speaker 1: Junior with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to this week's Ozone podcast was in by by Star
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  Speaker 1: and this week's guests. I've been looking forward to talking
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  Speaker 1: to for a while. I was just joking with him
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  Speaker 1: that we go back twenty seven years for reasons that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't remember. Uh. This week's guest is Jaguar's passing
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  Speaker 1: game coordinator Brian Schottenheimer. And to fill in that story,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven years ago, I was a young reporter for
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  Speaker 1: the University of Florida for the Times Union here in town.
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  Speaker 1: You were a younger quarterback getting your starts, So good
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  Speaker 1: to see you again, although you have no memory of
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  Speaker 1: that interaction. Well, if i'm if my math is correct,
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  Speaker 1: then if you're a reporter and I was a student athlete,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit younger than you, so I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's probably where we should start
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  Speaker 1: this conversation. I was a really young re order. Really
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. You're in high school or college yourself,
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  Speaker 1: but some of the guys who were unfortunately it was
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  Speaker 1: about twenty five, so I am older than you. Um,
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  Speaker 1: tell me about this offseason. Uh, so far you've been
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  Speaker 1: in this I guess four months now. I how's it going.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we've gotten so much covered. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just been a whirlwind, for sure. Anytime you're on
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  Speaker 1: a new staff, it's a whirlwind. You come in and uh,
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  Speaker 1: not only you know, evaluating talent and players in the
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  Speaker 1: current roster and then getting into free agency and the draft,
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  Speaker 1: you're also putting together a playbook and you're learning your staff,
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  Speaker 1: and you're learning Urban and those guys, and UM, it's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of hard work. But boy, now that
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of winding down the off season program, you
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  Speaker 1: see all the things that we've done and that we
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  Speaker 1: we've accomplished, and we've upgraded the roster, and we feel
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  Speaker 1: great about the playbook that's coming together and how we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be able to use those pieces too to attack defenses.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, the relationships and the connection that we
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  Speaker 1: have as a staff in the in the bond um.
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  Speaker 1: Now that we've been through practice is and meetings and
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  Speaker 1: installs together, Uh, we're beginning to be able to read
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  Speaker 1: and anticipate each other's movements and sayings and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been um, really a eventful but awesome, awesome
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months. It's been probably seven in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways for four months as you sort of
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  Speaker 1: give yourself a chance to breathe. Now, UH, what's maybe
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing accomplished? Or is that too general question?
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  Speaker 1: You accomplished so much in four months. I where do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you've made the most progress? Well, I
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  Speaker 1: think when you look at what we've tried to do,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the talent acquisition piece has been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we had a plan for what
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to do. We wanted to upgrade, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: some of the skill positions and developed some of the
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  Speaker 1: younger skill position players that we have, you know, uh
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  Speaker 1: Lavishka and DJ and those guys, and James Robinson as
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  Speaker 1: a young player, and uh to be able to add
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  Speaker 1: some pieces of course, Trevor, but uh A Luke ferrell A,
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  Speaker 1: Travis E t N keeping the line intact. But I
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  Speaker 1: would say you start with talent acquisition because UH, coaching
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  Speaker 1: is overrated when you have great players, right or at
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  Speaker 1: least players that can take the information that you give
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  Speaker 1: them and and they can do it. Uh. With with
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  Speaker 1: little or no sometimes effort, it just comes natural to them.
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  Speaker 1: That certainly helps. So we put a huge piece of
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  Speaker 1: our time into the talent acquisition and I think we've
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  Speaker 1: certainly done a great job of that. And then it
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  Speaker 1: goes to the stuff on the field, the development of
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  Speaker 1: of the fundamentals. I know, with where we are with
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  Speaker 1: the four quarterbacks, we've been able to make some big
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  Speaker 1: games with just their footwork and some of the fundamentals
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  Speaker 1: and things that we believe in, and that's because of
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  Speaker 1: their effort the way they work on the practice field.
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  Speaker 1: But without having great solid fundamentals, at some point, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to struggle as a professional athlete. And we believe that.
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  Speaker 1: And so, um, we're not done, but we feel great
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  Speaker 1: about those two pieces. Uh, those were probably the first
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  Speaker 1: two things would be the talent acquisition piece and then
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  Speaker 1: the ability to develop the fundamentals of our players on
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  Speaker 1: the roster to have success once they're asked of going
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  Speaker 1: out on the field and playing a competitive game. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds like you're pretty locked down on the fundamental part,
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  Speaker 1: especially with quarterbacks. How important is that in your role
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  Speaker 1: right now to making sure that they hold onto those
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  Speaker 1: during the season they can be tough with the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 1: To hold on to fundamentals through the season. Is that
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  Speaker 1: a big priority for you? Without a doubt. It's something
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we're a little bit fortunate because we
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  Speaker 1: get more individual time as the season goes longer and
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  Speaker 1: practice get shorter and the grind of the season starts
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  Speaker 1: to play out, the practices get shorter. So normally what
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  Speaker 1: gets cut is not a lot of team reps, but
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  Speaker 1: it's the individual time. So we're fortunate because we do
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  Speaker 1: get the special teams period to work on those. But
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  Speaker 1: that is something that we will it's non negotiable in
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  Speaker 1: our room. We will always emphasize fundamentals. We will always
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  Speaker 1: watch the video of the fundamentals from practice. We t
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  Speaker 1: tape almost everything that they do. We have running lockers
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of cool because you can kind of
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  Speaker 1: look at uh, you know, Gardener and then you can
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  Speaker 1: watch Russell Wilson, or you can look at Trevor, watch
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and just so it's cool to have these
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  Speaker 1: guys and you build these folders guys. But just to
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  Speaker 1: try drive home the point of how important it is
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  Speaker 1: because it allows you to go out in a position
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  Speaker 1: that's extremely chaotic, and if your fundamentals are right, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to function at a much higher level than if
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  Speaker 1: they're not. I mean wanted to ask you this. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: since you got the job, I would assume there were
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  Speaker 1: options for you. Why the Jaguars? Why did this make sense?
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  Speaker 1: Why did this combination make sense? Anybody listens gonna say, well,
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, there's got to be more than that. What
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  Speaker 1: appealed to you about this setup? Well, it was a
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  Speaker 1: long process. If I'm being honest, Um, when things played
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  Speaker 1: out and see how the way it did, I wasn't sure,
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  Speaker 1: um what I was going to do. I certainly had options. UM,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna be very selective that my father was
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  Speaker 1: put into hospice. Um. You know, as he was in
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  Speaker 1: hospice and I was spending a lot of time with him. UM,
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  Speaker 1: I had had some conversations with a number of coaches,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, if I'm being honest, urban was probably the
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  Speaker 1: most thoughtful, um, most understanding. Uh, Hey, coach, I can't
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can't get down there right now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: dealing with this. Hey, no problem, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 1: just uh, you know, he lost his father two weeks
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  Speaker 1: I believe before he took the Ohio stage job, so
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  Speaker 1: he had been through something similar. So I didn't know Urban. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Of course i'd met him, which met, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really know him. Um. But just how thoughtful and how
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  Speaker 1: concerned he was not just about me, but about my
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  Speaker 1: mom and my family as we were going through this
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  Speaker 1: and hey, we can wait. You know that that showed
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  Speaker 1: me that if I did take this job, that was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be working for a good man. So there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really Italian even with Urban and your dad that they
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  Speaker 1: had the Ohio ties. But again that was a long
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  Speaker 1: time ago. Urban was telling me the other day that
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  Speaker 1: I think he was just at Bowling Green we first
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  Speaker 1: met my dad, maybe Notre Dame and um, so that
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  Speaker 1: was a big piece of it. Um. I actually interviewed
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  Speaker 1: two different times with Shot for the head coaching job,
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  Speaker 1: and I've always loved him. Um. I've always thought uh
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  Speaker 1: Shod was one of those owners that whatever it takes,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna give you. Um just a fascinating story, a
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  Speaker 1: terrific man. I've I've really enjoyed getting to know him better.
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  Speaker 1: So I was drawn to that. Um. Trent Balky's track
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  Speaker 1: record of finding and building rosters and building them the
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  Speaker 1: right way with great offensive and defensive lines, and um,
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  Speaker 1: of course you know, uh coach Bevil. I followed him
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  Speaker 1: to uh uh Seattle. So he and I saw things
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  Speaker 1: very similarly, speak the same language, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: probably we probably kept i'd say, se bev system when
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  Speaker 1: I took over in Seattle for him. Uh So there
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  Speaker 1: as the process went and I was dealing with some
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  Speaker 1: incredible tough decisions and things going on in my family,
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of became very clear when you lined
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  Speaker 1: up all the different options that I had, this one
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  Speaker 1: just kind of kept checking the boxes, and um, I
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  Speaker 1: would they probably, I'd say a couple of days before
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  Speaker 1: my father passed, I actually that this is the place
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  Speaker 1: that that I wanted to be, and I was excited
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  Speaker 1: to come down here and help turning this around. And
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  Speaker 1: I remember my wife saying to me, and I still remember,
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  Speaker 1: we're literally sitting in hospice in my dad's room, and
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  Speaker 1: she said, we're bouncing ideas off each other. And she
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  Speaker 1: said to me, she said, you know, Brian said, this
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  Speaker 1: is the exact type of job that your father would
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  Speaker 1: have taken. A team that was one in fifteen, team
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  Speaker 1: that has really good players, but just did not able
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  Speaker 1: to find the you know, whether it was him going
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas City or him going to Cleveland. She goes,
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  Speaker 1: this is the exact that your father would take in
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  Speaker 1: the challenge that he would want to be tasked with.
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  Speaker 1: And it does feel right. And of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I love coaching quarterbacks, uh, and I love the room. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But but Trevor was not even in my mind at
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  Speaker 1: that point. It was more of the culture and the
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  Speaker 1: pieces in place. And then of course when you watch
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  Speaker 1: him and you get to watch Gardener and then bringing
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  Speaker 1: C JN and Jake, you know, you just truly blessed
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  Speaker 1: to be in a great situation with a great room,
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  Speaker 1: great group of guys. People listening to this will get
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  Speaker 1: on me because I haven't already asked you about Trevor specifically.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously people want to know about um impressions. So far,
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen on the field in terms of
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  Speaker 1: just talent? It's there, Yeah, the talents there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you've they've everybody's watched him from the time music Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: The number one thing I would say that jumps out
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  Speaker 1: of me is his ability to process information reminds me
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  Speaker 1: so much of Philip Rivers when we had him as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie in San Diego. Just some guys are able
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  Speaker 1: to process a lot of information, and that's what Philip was.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Philip was. Philip was not, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you listened to make me a laugh about it, but
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  Speaker 1: he admits, Philip, if you're listening to admit, not nearly
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  Speaker 1: the athlete that Trevor is. But Philip was so quick
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  Speaker 1: with his ability to process and read and gather information.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the first thing that's jumped out at me
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  Speaker 1: with Trevor is he's able to see coverages and process
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  Speaker 1: movement keys and things that tell him where the ball
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to go. And when you can process that quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have the athletic frame that he has,
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  Speaker 1: it's a really good combination. You know, Philip didn't have.
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  Speaker 1: He was quick, but didn't have the athleticism that that
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  Speaker 1: Trevor has. And so those are probably the first two
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  Speaker 1: things that jumped out at me on the field was
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  Speaker 1: his ability to process. And then for a six ft
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  Speaker 1: six plus pound guy, the quickness, suddenness of his body
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  Speaker 1: and athleticism is is pretty uncanny. And from listening to
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  Speaker 1: Darrel Ann Irvin, I in terms of professional approach. I
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  Speaker 1: don't stay beyond his years, but so far it seems
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  Speaker 1: like everything you could ask for. Incredibly mature. Uh. You know. Married,
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  Speaker 1: Marissa's awesome. She's great for him. They've got a great relationship.
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  Speaker 1: He's all ball when he's here, he leaves, he studies,
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  Speaker 1: he loves it. He really wants to be a great player.
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  Speaker 1: Um and uh. And it's hard to be the best
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  Speaker 1: at that position without that, without that, and he and
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  Speaker 1: he has that. And sometimes I think, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: look at him and they say, well, he doesn't play
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  Speaker 1: with a fire and brimstone at you know, attitude. But
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  Speaker 1: I was around one of the best of all time,
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  Speaker 1: and Andrew Luck and Andrew was very much like Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of fact, I'm gonna do my job.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do to the highest level. Uh. And so um,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, he's so professional, so mature. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to ask him twice to do things.
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  Speaker 1: He's just he's truly, uh, an awesome guy to coach
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  Speaker 1: and develop. It's gonna be a fair question a kid
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  Speaker 1: like him, with everything you're talking about, you don't get
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  Speaker 1: that many opportunities in your career to have that kid
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  Speaker 1: as a rookie. Yeah, I mean that doesn't come along, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's he. He is a unique guy. And I
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  Speaker 1: say that because I don't want to short change some
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  Speaker 1: of the great players sitting around. I was around Breeze
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  Speaker 1: here to Sam Bradford, who I think is one of
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  Speaker 1: the best pure passers to ever play the game. The
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  Speaker 1: injuries were there, Uh had Andrew and he was older.
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  Speaker 1: Philip was a dynamic. I mean truly, Philip and Drew's
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  Speaker 1: attle was an epic battle in training camp, like and
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  Speaker 1: it could have gone either direction. But Um, Trevor is
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  Speaker 1: a terrific, terrific young man, extremely talented. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: be great, so he truly does check almost all the box.
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  Speaker 1: One final question along those lines. Urban's talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: So you worked and had success with Sanchez as a rookie. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you have a touch with with young quarterbacks. Is there
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  Speaker 1: any key to helping them succeed in that first year? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's so many things beyond the field, beyond
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  Speaker 1: the XS and ose and Um. I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: balance away from football. I think there's a routine that
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  Speaker 1: they need to learn when they're in the building. But
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  Speaker 1: Also when they leave the building, there's so many demands
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  Speaker 1: that come across their desk, whether it's autographs or pictures
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  Speaker 1: or people trying to come in for games. But if
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  Speaker 1: I'm being honest, you know, Trevor is more probably ready
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  Speaker 1: for all of this. And either Eve and Mark was
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  Speaker 1: now Mark was coming into New York City market only
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  Speaker 1: had seventeen starts, um, whereas Trevor's played a ton of football. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a big part of it. You have to
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  Speaker 1: fill in the gaps. Most of these young men, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna call him young men because when you get them
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  Speaker 1: as rookies, they are young men. The football makes sense
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  Speaker 1: to him, But it's the things away from football that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Where you living, where you're doing your rehab,
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  Speaker 1: where you where are you studying? Okay, who's controlling the
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  Speaker 1: tickets for games? How you saying no to this? What? What? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: When's your market? I mean things that these guys don't
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  Speaker 1: think about. That's the stress. The playing the game is
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  Speaker 1: not the stress for you guys. It's the outside influences
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  Speaker 1: that you don't want those guys to allow in. And
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  Speaker 1: so you need to kind of build up their understanding
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  Speaker 1: of that, but also build a team and I think
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  Speaker 1: you know we're aware of that. For Trevor uh with
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  Speaker 1: Amy poulsic Urban Trent from shot Down. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want to protect all of our young players, but
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  Speaker 1: certainly Trevor's a a high level, highly recognizable player that
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  Speaker 1: people will all want a piece of. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned a few questions to go to the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: ram take me through that. Beyond Trevor, what are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 1: So I'll start with just the number one objective when
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  Speaker 1: I got here was to build the best quarterback room
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  Speaker 1: in the league. That's what we're trying to do, and
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  Speaker 1: and coming out of O t a S I feel
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  Speaker 1: that we're extremely close to that. Um Gardner Minshew has
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  Speaker 1: truly blown me away. Um. He's an alpha. He's a
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  Speaker 1: great leader. He is maybe one of the most intelligent
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks I've ever been around. His instincts and ability to
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  Speaker 1: process and see what's getting ready to happen from the
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  Speaker 1: opposition and the defense is amazing. Um. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a gun slinger there. You know
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  Speaker 1: that that you see and you know there's things we
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  Speaker 1: want to tighten up, but we're never gonna tell a gardener,
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  Speaker 1: you have to play in a box. That's that our job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have to play to protect the team,
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  Speaker 1: but also go out there and make plays. And um,
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  Speaker 1: I love his competitive spirit. C J. Beath there's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that we really were thrilled and excited to get. Um,
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  Speaker 1: a guy with a little bit more experience. He's actually
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  Speaker 1: the old guy in the room. Um. But he's been
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  Speaker 1: in a in a really good sound system out in
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco with with Kyle. He understands football, has a
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  Speaker 1: really strong arm. He's able to make a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different throws off platform without his feet up underneath him. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been he's been awesome. And UM, he's just
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  Speaker 1: he's just he's a tough I mean, he's gonna, he's gonna,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna compete and he's gonna hang in there. And
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  Speaker 1: he's really athletic. That's the thing that you go back.
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  Speaker 1: He watched the San Francisco film. They did some QB
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  Speaker 1: run stuff with him where he was able to run
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  Speaker 1: and make plays and that was great. And then Jake
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  Speaker 1: Luton is a guy that we really liked in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: We were actually disappointed that Jake got selected um. At
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  Speaker 1: some point later in the draft, we were trying to,
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  Speaker 1: uh see if we can make a play for him. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw him last year his first performance against Houston,
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  Speaker 1: he played really well and then he has to go
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  Speaker 1: up and again, Andy, A lot of guys have gone
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  Speaker 1: into Pittsburgh and struggle. Um, you know you kind of
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  Speaker 1: even for that. Yeah, but we've all been there, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So you play those that defense and uh, that scheme,
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  Speaker 1: and it causes problems for a lot of people. But
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  Speaker 1: he's another guy that we're really excited about. But most
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  Speaker 1: importantly for me is the the room itself is all
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  Speaker 1: great guys. They're all hungry, they're all competitive, but the
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  Speaker 1: way they compete and push each other is the right way.
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  Speaker 1: There's no talking behind people's back, there's no selfishness, it's all.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a fun place to to go and work
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  Speaker 1: and meet and be with those guys and watch him
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  Speaker 1: develop and watch him compete, and uh, the competition is
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  Speaker 1: truly just beginning. Can to Alpha's work in one quarterbackground,
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  Speaker 1: I think. So I've been around rooms like that. They
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: always find their way, they always figure it out, and um,
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  Speaker 1: there's I have no question that. However, this thing plays
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: out the room will be a great one. Take me
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  Speaker 1: through the process the offseason quickly of installing this offense
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  Speaker 1: getting um, you know, Urban said it public and multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: He knows how he wants it to look, but he
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: also has to experienced NFL offensive minds to help him
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  Speaker 1: get there in the league. Uh. Has that been a
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  Speaker 1: process messing those uh thoughts, of course, but it's been
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  Speaker 1: a fun process. Uh. Urban is a great communicator. He truly,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: like I said, he he knows what he wants. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: BEV and I speak a lot of the same language. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Urban's quick to say, hey, now, why do you want
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: to do this? Like that's what I respect about. He's like,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: you want to do that? Fine, But if I ask why,
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  Speaker 1: it can't be Well that's just the way we've always done,
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  Speaker 1: which I respect and love as a coach. There's got
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to be the wise tell me why we do that. Um.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: But it's really been great having George Warhop here. That
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: was a big, big thing, I know, for BEV and
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: for the staff. Because the line was in place, a
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: lot of the calls we were able to keep. There's continuity.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: So now you come in and you adjust some of
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the protection calls, and it truly was a work in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: progress of us sharing information and um and and sharing ideas.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's come together beautifully and I'm really
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: excited about where we can go. Of course, we have
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: an idea of where we want to go and what
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: we want to look like, but the personnel ultimately will
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: dictate how it looks. And um, we're we're we're excited
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: coming out of the off season with where we are
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: ready to make big strides in the in the training
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: camp and in the start of fall camp. If if
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: the average fans sit in the stands ask you, how
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: do you want it to look? Without giving away the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: farm of scheme, how do you want it to look?
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  Speaker 1: I would say that we want it to be an
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: explosive unit. And that covers a lot of things that
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: could be explosive in running the football, the way we
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: run the football, and the explosiveness of our blocks up front, uh,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: some of the big play potential that we have. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: think that's a really a really good term. It's an
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: explosive group. Um. And again that's not just so big
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: plays deep down the field. That's just that's a mindset
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of how physical we can play and yet, how we
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: can keep the defense on their heels with the different
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: types of sets and formations and per snow groupings that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: we can use. With the understanding that nobody's been named
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: starter yet. One more Trevor Lawrence question, how do you
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: measure as a young quarterback? How will you measure progress?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, it can't all be wins and losses. There
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: has to be something there in terms of how you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: see him developing there. I think there's only one way
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to do it. I think it's day by day. You're
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: either winning that day or you're losing that day, and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that's practice, that's meetings. UM. Of course, you know quarterbacks,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: they get a lot of the praise when you win.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: They get a lot of the blame when you lose,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and you have to and that's where the experience, I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: think comes in, where you have to be able to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: appeel that emotion of a loss away. Hey, he played
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: pretty well. We need to clean this up and move forward.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But I would say the number one thing for that
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: is just again us staying the course. We have it planned,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: we know where we need to get to. UM, but
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the competition is far from done and UM all those
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: guys are gonna be evaluated that way on a day
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to day basis seem excited about this? Is that real?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I am. Yeah. I love coaching, um, I really do.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I love coaching quarterbacks. But this room is special. It's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a special group of young men, uh that I love
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: coming to work and uh it's a it's a cool
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: place to be right now. I love being here in
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville with this organization, and I can't wait to get started.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let Brian Schottenheimer get out of here. He's
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: been busy, He's been nice enough to join us. Brian,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I look forward to working with you. I appreciate you
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: doing this today. Thank you. I appreciate We'll do it
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: against soon.