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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "Everything Kind of Builds off the Run Game." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What did you see from him in the Titans game
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  Speaker 1: and just how much did did he improve from the
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  Speaker 1: previous leak.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I thought he played well.
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  Speaker 1: He was in control the whole game, knew where he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go with the football, was able to move
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  Speaker 1: in the pocket and do some good things, and then
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  Speaker 1: just really kind of ran the offense, distribute to the
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  Speaker 1: ball with the guy was supposed to go to, protected
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  Speaker 1: the ball first of all, protected himself. I think we
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  Speaker 1: come out of the game with one sack where he
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  Speaker 1: actually scrambled and lost the yard. We wish he would
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  Speaker 1: flipped out of bounds for that, but he played well,
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  Speaker 1: did a good job run the show.
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  Speaker 2: How much did have in him on the run and
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  Speaker 2: play action a little under center work.
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  Speaker 1: How much did that sort of influence how you guys
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  Speaker 1: play it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think all of it marries together.
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  Speaker 1: You know, of being able to run the ball, being
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  Speaker 1: able to run wide zone concepts and then movements off
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  Speaker 1: wide zone concepts, are off tosses and then play actions
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  Speaker 1: off wide zones and play action screens and staying in
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  Speaker 1: first and second down, normal down distance situations like we
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  Speaker 1: want to be in. We're able to kind of get
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  Speaker 1: into all the things that we planned to get into
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  Speaker 1: it in a game, so you were able to kind
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  Speaker 1: of control the dynamics of the game, stay ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the chain, and stay efficient, and that allows you to
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  Speaker 1: get into some of the stuff that allows you to
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  Speaker 1: be explosive.
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  Speaker 2: And we were able to do a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 3: What did the Texans defense do the first matchup that
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  Speaker 3: kind of threw the Jags offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did a good job of mixing looks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: traditionally when you played this type of unit, you kind
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  Speaker 1: of knew what the zone coverages you're gonna get. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we fell behind, they scored. They rode to play a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more of the shell coverage things and do
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  Speaker 1: a good job. You know, as you look at it.
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  Speaker 1: They took the football away twice from us. We fumbled
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  Speaker 1: once on a third and ten conversion, and then we
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  Speaker 1: threw an interception there late in the game as well.
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  Speaker 1: But they did a good job of just keeping things
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  Speaker 1: in front, which is one of the big core commandments
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  Speaker 1: for their defenses. The women explosives, I think they do
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  Speaker 1: that well. They play, you know, a lot of zone coverage,
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  Speaker 1: zone eyes. They were able to see everything in front
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  Speaker 1: and rally and tackle and they play with great energy.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, they gave us a lot of fits the
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  Speaker 1: first time through.
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  Speaker 2: What do you What are you seeing in CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud that has allowed him to elevate at a pretty
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  Speaker 3: quick rate for rookie of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know he had the picks last week.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 2: I seem to be playing pretty much. Yeah. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: spent a ton of time watching c J. Stroud so far.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we spend more of our time just watching
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  Speaker 1: their defense to begin with, So I see a little
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  Speaker 1: bit here and there.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, when you're watching, when you're watching the Texans,
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  Speaker 3: do you see I mean, I know you, I know
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  Speaker 3: you you're only watching the offense, but I mean the defense.
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  Speaker 3: But could you just talk about just what he's done
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  Speaker 3: so far just for games?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'm aware of the numbers and things
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  Speaker 1: he's put out there, so that's certainly impressive for a
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  Speaker 1: young player. They've done a good job in their system
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  Speaker 1: from what I understand, But I can't say I've sat
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  Speaker 1: and watched all his games and how he's performed things
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  Speaker 1: like that. I know he played well when he was
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  Speaker 1: here the first time, and in the crossover film, you
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  Speaker 1: see they do a really good job with their offense scheme,
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  Speaker 1: and he seems to be running the show really well.
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  Speaker 3: What do you take from from week three? I mean
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  Speaker 3: from you know, I mean a lot of things you
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  Speaker 3: did wrong, whether it's turnovers or whatever. But I mean
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  Speaker 3: what what what stands out to you about what went
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  Speaker 3: wrong that particular week.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were a lot of self inflicted wounds
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  Speaker 1: in that game, you know, you watch. We had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of drops. I think we had three pre snap penalties.
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  Speaker 1: We had two post snap penalties in the first half
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  Speaker 1: of the game. We give the ball away twice, we
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  Speaker 1: trip our own back on third and two, when we
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  Speaker 1: convert a fourth and one, we get a legal hands
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  Speaker 1: of the face. You know, just a number of things
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  Speaker 1: that we couldn't get our own way, and they did
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  Speaker 1: a good job. They made it hard on us. They're
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  Speaker 1: really good defense, young defense that I feel like they've
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  Speaker 1: grown a ton in the two months since that game.
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  Speaker 2: But we feel like we've grown a lot as well.
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  Speaker 1: So fortunately the scored on carryover and we get to
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  Speaker 1: start over at Zeros and see how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: Satisfying is it to even when you're not breaking free
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  Speaker 3: in the run game, to stick with it?
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  Speaker 2: In and stay patient with it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you mentioned you did it against Atlanta as well.
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  Speaker 1: Were able to operate a lot of things in the
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  Speaker 1: past game on right, even if the numbers aren't there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big part of what we want to do,
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  Speaker 1: and it's more so being efficient. You know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: always look pretty to get three four yards a run
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  Speaker 1: here and there, and then I think we kind of
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  Speaker 1: change some tendencies potentially and hit some run. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we started two minute drive with a run the game nine,
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  Speaker 1: ten to eleven, something like that. We had a couple
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  Speaker 1: second long runs that hit for us. We were able
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  Speaker 1: to stick with it in the red zone and move
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  Speaker 1: forward and then be able to convert third downs. So
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be times where if you run the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you end up in these third downs that are third
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  Speaker 1: and manageable. You got to make plays, and that's something
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  Speaker 1: we hadn't done early in the year.
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  Speaker 2: We were able to do on.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the third and twos, threes fours this week.
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  Speaker 1: To just continue to get snaps. The more we get snaps,
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  Speaker 1: the more we can dive into kind of the ways
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  Speaker 1: we want to attack people and everything. Marys off one another.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like he did some slight tweaks to try
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  Speaker 2: and make sure that Calvin Ridley was involved.
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  Speaker 3: Are those things that you kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Just wanted to do to try and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: he is able to play it as best for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, We're always trying to feature guys in different ways,
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  Speaker 1: and again, I think the more you can stay on
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  Speaker 1: schedule with that stuff, you can utilize those things. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that there was necessarily anything we did with
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  Speaker 1: him that we had not done at some point in
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  Speaker 1: the year. You know, we handed the around to him,
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  Speaker 1: We hit him on the over, which was the same
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  Speaker 1: play as we hit against Pittsburgh in.
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  Speaker 2: The rain out there. He made a good play the
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  Speaker 2: red zone concept.
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  Speaker 1: We had a third down red zone concept in there
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  Speaker 1: that he was really just running a corner and he's
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  Speaker 1: done a great job of that. We've carried that in
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  Speaker 1: our game plan for a long time, hadn't had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to call it. It's looked like that in practice,
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  Speaker 1: it looked exactly like that was a great throw. So
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  Speaker 1: there's certainly things we've done throughout the course of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I think just managing the situations and the dynamics of
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  Speaker 1: the game allows you to stay on script a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more and get to everything you have and then
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, for him to have
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  Speaker 1: a big game, other people don't have as much, so
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  Speaker 1: it's there's always gonna be this give and take and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a great thing to have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good players and be able to feature that. But you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: certainly Sunday was his day, so it was nice to see.
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  Speaker 1: Can you feel when Trevor's kind of getting into rhythm
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: From Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you have a good feel for when he's
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  Speaker 1: seeing it and when he has a lot of ideas.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of communication a lot of times through
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  Speaker 1: the sideline through coach McCoy and Doug and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: of he's they're saying this, they're seeing this, and we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of where are we going next with certain calls
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  Speaker 1: and we get into that. So yeah, I think just
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  Speaker 1: even watching him deliver the ball, you kind of have
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  Speaker 1: a feel for he's in rhythm right here, He's seeing
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  Speaker 1: it really well, he's throwing it where he wants to,
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  Speaker 1: so that it felt like one of those games on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So when he's in that, how hard is it for
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  Speaker 3: you to you know, like you're Brent to still say.
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  Speaker 1: With the one game, well, again, I think everything kind
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  Speaker 1: of builds off the run game, So you trust a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more that when we get around to this,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to set up that or it's gonna you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna put the ball on the right spot. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes there's play that they're not dynamic plays down the field,
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  Speaker 1: it's he's seeing it well and he's checking the ball
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  Speaker 1: down because they're getting out underneath and he's putting the
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  Speaker 1: ball in play. And you know, that's a big part
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  Speaker 1: of it that maybe the stats don't reflect, but we
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  Speaker 1: can feel when he's in control and seeing things really well.
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  Speaker 1: And it again, it worked out the other day where
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  Speaker 1: they happen to be down the field throws. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's been games where he probably has you know, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety yards and we felt like he was
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  Speaker 1: in complete control, doing the right thing with the football
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  Speaker 1: every time.
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  Speaker 3: He's seen a lot of quarterbacks playing all that other stuff,
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  Speaker 3: watch a lot of football. Do you still ever get
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  Speaker 3: impressed by rosary guys? Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I get really impressed with guys on the sideline,
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  Speaker 1: just the towdrags that Christian had one, Calvin had the
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  Speaker 1: one in the back of the end zone. Some of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff to be moving at the speed they move
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  Speaker 1: and get their feet down and the quarterback to put
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  Speaker 1: it in a position where only his guys getting it
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline is pretty impressive. And so yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: certainly as you're watching tape, you see a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: I have folders that are just called wow. And it
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  Speaker 1: might be a quarterback and it's somebody running around, spinning
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  Speaker 1: around making a play that you're just like, how does
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  Speaker 1: this happen? When you're being chased by the best of
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  Speaker 1: the best and trying to fit in a tight window.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's sometimes you take for granted how amazing
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  Speaker 1: these guys are at what they do. You guys have
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  Speaker 1: stuck with Tank throughout some of the lows this season,
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  Speaker 1: Howard rewarding.
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  Speaker 3: Was it to see him do what you guys drafted
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  Speaker 3: and do in the fourth quarter of the other night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And again Tank, Tank's going to be a really, really
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  Speaker 1: good player in this league. I think he's had a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of some unfortunate circumstances. You know, two balls
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  Speaker 1: bounced off his hands that were hot from a couple
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  Speaker 1: of feet away. He had scooped up a ball that
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  Speaker 1: got punched out when he didn't realize it was over. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of it is unlucky, but
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  Speaker 1: we believe in Tank. We believe in you know, what
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  Speaker 1: he brings every single day. And that's why we believe
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  Speaker 1: in Tank because we see it. We see the work
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  Speaker 1: he puts into studying the game plan, to walk throughs
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  Speaker 1: of understanding blocking schemes and protection schemes and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and he just continues to grow as a player. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've talked to him a number of times
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  Speaker 1: that whether it's this week, this game, next week, there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a point in the season where Tank Biggs
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  Speaker 1: is gonna make a huge play for our offense and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna stick with him because we believe in him
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  Speaker 1: and we know what he's capable of, and he's starting
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  Speaker 1: to show that and so that's exciting for all of us.