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Press Pass | Press Taylor on Tank Bigsby, Trevor Lawrence under Center · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Now that all the preseasons a trading Hampson Bark, could
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  Speaker 1: you talk about Tank Bigsby's play, especially his ball security,
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  Speaker 1: which from what we saw in every instance, which perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done a good job. And Tank's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that even last year, it's very very important to him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's not a lot of guys that care
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  Speaker 2: more than Tank cares. And like we mentioned before, there
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  Speaker 2: were kind of some unfortunate things that happened to him
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  Speaker 2: early last year when he just got started as a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, to watch him throughout the course of
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  Speaker 2: last season as well, and then attack the off season program,
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  Speaker 2: attack training camp. He's just continues to take the steps
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  Speaker 2: that you hope to see from a young player, especially
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  Speaker 2: somebody that we do believe we'll be able to count on.
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  Speaker 2: And he's he's shown that he's earned that and we're
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  Speaker 2: excited about what's ahead for Tank.
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  Speaker 1: Has he got quicker or is he that much more
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  Speaker 1: steeped in the offense that he's making decisive decisions?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's part of it. I think just
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  Speaker 2: understanding what we're asking within each concept, understand just time
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  Speaker 2: on task. You know, two years of running a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these concepts, seeing what the what the blocks look like,
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  Speaker 2: what the timing looks like. He's done a good job
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  Speaker 2: just taking coaching, you know, Coach Mack has done a
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  Speaker 2: great job just being very detailed, very thorough with those
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  Speaker 2: guys or what we're looking for, what the expectation is,
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  Speaker 2: what your footwork is, and then holding them accountable with
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  Speaker 2: ball security as well. Going back a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: to the campus double whatever you want to call it
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  Speaker 2: with a.
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  Speaker 3: Buster person going way back where he's surprised at Christian's
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  Speaker 3: reaction and how he's kind of stepped up immediately.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. Well, I think just that's
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  Speaker 2: who Christian is. I mean, and it was more I
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't think that was the level of physicality
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  Speaker 2: we're looking for in that instance, with just jags on
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  Speaker 2: jags basically is how it's going. I think Christian as
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  Speaker 2: a veteran understand that. Honestly. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people didn't see it, so they wouldn't know. But that
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  Speaker 2: was as good of a camp scuffle as you can have.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was Christian came up push somebody in
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  Speaker 2: the back, and from there it was more just people
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  Speaker 2: pulling people out of a pile. There was no there
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  Speaker 2: were no cheap shots, there was nothing out of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 2: From that standpoint, nobody did anything dirty. It was more
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  Speaker 2: I think a message was kind of sent of that's
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  Speaker 2: not what we do. And then from there it was
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  Speaker 2: a very clean scuffle, as you put it. So I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I applauded Christian for Christian's leadership in that
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  Speaker 2: moment and the coolest thing. And I told the offenses
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  Speaker 2: the very next day when we met was I stayed
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  Speaker 2: in there after practice, you know, kind of watching guys
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  Speaker 2: finished pressure. I watched Christian go grab Buster Brown, talk
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  Speaker 2: to Buster Brown, man to man, have a conversation. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's not the expectations. Nothing spilled into the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: So I think from that standpoint, that part of the
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  Speaker 2: leadership is what makes it even better, you know, more
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  Speaker 2: than he was there for his guy. He was the
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  Speaker 2: first one to respond that type of thing, but then
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  Speaker 2: handles it the right way with maturity, leadership, a conversation
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  Speaker 2: with Buster, and it never spilled in anything beyond that.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that was just a leadership of
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  Speaker 2: a great move of leadership by Christian Kirk. Basically, I
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  Speaker 2: don't watch baseball, but I assume most baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Fight three games on the sideline. Did you like it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? You think you're back upstairs.
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  Speaker 3: Or what do you want to do?
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  Speaker 2: I will do whatever coach wants me to do as
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  Speaker 2: far as it goes moving forward. I did enjoy being
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  Speaker 2: on the sideline. It's fun to just interact with the
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  Speaker 2: guys and players from drive to drive, be right there
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  Speaker 2: with coaches, Coach Rausher and I go stand off to
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  Speaker 2: the side, hit the next runs for the next thing,
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  Speaker 2: which has always happened through the headset, but it is
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  Speaker 2: a little different to just go stand side by side
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  Speaker 2: with somebody, talk through it, look everybody in the eye
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  Speaker 2: as they come off, things like that. Now, obviously preseason
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  Speaker 2: is a different level of intensity within a game. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it down there, and it's good. It's good
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  Speaker 2: just working through communication on the headset for coaches of
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  Speaker 2: who's going to do down and distance. We switched that
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  Speaker 2: up as games went along. We switched it up within
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  Speaker 2: a game of who's identifying defense personnel things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought it was a smooth operation through the headset.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed last week like Trevor had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: success under center, just you know, playing a position. What
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  Speaker 1: are the advantages for a quarterback going under center more so?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think just in terms of an offensive approach,
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  Speaker 2: it limits your tendencies. It limits the tells that you're
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  Speaker 2: giving to a defense. But a lot of that comes
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  Speaker 2: from being able to stay in those first and second
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  Speaker 2: down situations. You know, being under center on second and
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and some empty set possibly that's not going to
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  Speaker 2: do as much for you. So it's not we're just
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  Speaker 2: not going under to go under, We're going under to
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  Speaker 2: eliminate any tails tendencies. It allows you to get from
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  Speaker 2: play to play without moving people around. And I think
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you're great with the ball handling aspect
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  Speaker 2: of it, you can hide the ball for the defense
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  Speaker 2: a little bit longer, which I think helps manipulate eyes
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  Speaker 2: a second level players, third level players even slows the
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  Speaker 2: pass rush a little bit as they're trying to decipher
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  Speaker 2: runner pass before they transition into a pass rush on
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  Speaker 2: play actions movements. And I think that's something he's very good,
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  Speaker 2: a really good athlete, so it just kind of helps
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  Speaker 2: him the second he snaps around and faces the defense
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  Speaker 2: be able to see and dictate and determine what's going
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  Speaker 2: on to see him grow there. Considering, Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he ever went under centered. We were talking about
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  Speaker 2: that the other day of just kind of all of
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  Speaker 2: us sharing our experiences as quarterbacks, and I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he'd ever really played under center. He's never really dropped
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  Speaker 2: back under center. I think we've probably had less than
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  Speaker 2: ten since we've been here in our time. But that's
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  Speaker 2: that's something Again, just because he hasn't done much of
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean he's not really good at it, and
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  Speaker 2: he wants to continue to work it, and we'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to introduce that and utilize it when we think it's
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  Speaker 2: it's an advantage for our offense. I didn't play much.
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  Speaker 2: I was telling those guys. I didn't take a shotgun.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I did play. I didn't play in shotgun.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't play in the shotgun ntil my junior year
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  Speaker 2: of college probably, So, I mean, I'm not much older
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  Speaker 2: than the guys, but I'm old enough to where you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the gun and air raid and the seven
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  Speaker 2: on seven summer stuff wasn't really a thing when I
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  Speaker 2: was growing up, So I just I mean we were
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  Speaker 2: in high school, I ran this same offense that they
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  Speaker 2: won state championship with nineteen ninety two, and we did
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. The little kid would run in and
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  Speaker 2: bring the play and third and eight, we're gonna boot
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  Speaker 2: and roll half the field because it was easier to
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  Speaker 2: see half the field, as that was explained to me,
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  Speaker 2: So it was easier to cover half the field. We
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  Speaker 2: had good players.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor fight it through and playing through all those injuries
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  Speaker 3: last year. Obviously that shows the toughness. But what does
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  Speaker 3: that also tell the other guys, you know, the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the offense, right of the team when he does that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think anybody questions Trevor's toughness at all
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  Speaker 2: of being able to take hits respond. I mean there
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  Speaker 2: were plenty of times. There were probably two or three
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  Speaker 2: instances last year. We probably didn't know until twenty four
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  Speaker 2: hours before the game if he would play, and guys
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  Speaker 2: knew that, and so then to see him continue to
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  Speaker 2: step up and rise of the challenge, play hurt, play
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  Speaker 2: banged up, that says a lot. And it's different for quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of guys are dealing with a lot of things,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously his is a little bit more public right there,
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  Speaker 2: But missing practice and then us not really knowing if
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  Speaker 2: he was going to go or not, or guys not
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  Speaker 2: really knowing if he was going to go or not.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it says a lot for the
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  Speaker 2: way he stepped up. I mean, I think back to
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  Speaker 2: the New Orleans game. It was truly a pregame decision
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  Speaker 2: of how he felt, how he looked, and then to
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  Speaker 2: go out and play the way he did early in
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  Speaker 2: that game was impressive for a number of different reasons.
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  Speaker 2: But I think I don't think anybody questions Trevor's toughness,
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  Speaker 2: at least in that locker room.
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  Speaker 3: So when you get to the point where you're in
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  Speaker 3: the year three or four of the offense as the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: it's easier to miss a week of practice, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, because you have a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit more of a sense of Yeah, I think from
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  Speaker 2: an understanding, but I don't think there's any I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can never duplicate the time on task with guys
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  Speaker 2: of even throwing a certain route that's in the game
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  Speaker 2: plan that week of just here's what it's going to
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  Speaker 2: look like, feel like as you go, and if you
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  Speaker 2: miss those live practice opportunities, I mean, even days that
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  Speaker 2: we have walked through Wednesdays later in the year, we're
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  Speaker 2: getting those throws. On a Thursday, we may come back
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  Speaker 2: and get full speed throws with some of the guys
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  Speaker 2: that highlight some different areas or different timing type throws
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  Speaker 2: that we need to get. So nothing will ever take
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  Speaker 2: the place of those on field live reps, even if
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  Speaker 2: it's just a receiver and a quarterback throwing together. But
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  Speaker 2: you can never really duplicate that.
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  Speaker 3: I think Doug talked earlier this spring about you know,
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  Speaker 3: year three sometimes takes three or four years, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: once you get to that point, you can have that
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  Speaker 3: jump here. Do you get a sense Trevor's headed for
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  Speaker 3: that jump? Yep?
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think he was on track for
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  Speaker 2: that last year. I think the first half the season
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  Speaker 2: he was playing as good as anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he was getting.
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  Speaker 2: Credit for that outside the building, I have no clue,
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  Speaker 2: but we were very happy with how he was playing,
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  Speaker 2: how he was running the offense, managing games, winning games
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  Speaker 2: for us. So yeah, I think Trevor just continues to
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  Speaker 2: grow every single year within the offense, just within playing quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: leading this team, being the face of the franchise. It's
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  Speaker 2: been super impressive since the day I got here. Just
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  Speaker 2: working with him and to see him grow and step
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  Speaker 2: into I mean, what I think he feels naturally ahead
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  Speaker 2: for him has been really cool to see and I
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  Speaker 2: think he's just going to continue to get better every
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  Speaker 2: single day.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks