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Press Pass | Taylor: "We expect to execute no matter the situation." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: With a game. Historically a lot of younger guys playing
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Speaker 1: that type of game, playing a game playing. Do you
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Speaker 1: do for those guys or do you hold the ball
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Speaker 1: out and play? How do you approach that? Yeah? Um,
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Speaker 1: you know we're still getting into the conversations who's gonna play,
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Speaker 1: how much everybody's gonna play, what we want to do
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Speaker 1: From that same point, and then kind of like we
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Speaker 1: talked about the other day, there's still we kind of
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Speaker 1: have our list of questions we want we want to
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Speaker 1: see how these guys do in certain situations. So you're
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Speaker 1: kind of walking the fine line of obviously we want
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Speaker 1: to give our guys enough chances to make plays and
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Speaker 1: do things well, but you know, maybe there's some things
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Speaker 1: you want to see this guy in this situation, can
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Speaker 1: you do it? Um against somebody doesn't know you know,
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Speaker 1: things like that. Um, So you're kind of massaging every
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Speaker 1: little situation you can to get as many answers as
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Speaker 1: you can. And all these guys, as well as given
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Speaker 1: the best chance to play well, continues playing the way
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Speaker 1: he is and the James, we need his recovery. But
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Speaker 1: for that because well, and how those guys are doing
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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, those guys doing a great job obviously.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's it's not a good thing that James
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Speaker 1: is not here doing it, but it gives those guys
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Speaker 1: another chance to get more live reps. Essentially without being
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Speaker 1: live in the game. They'll get a great opportunity to
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Speaker 1: get carries, protect, catch the ball, all the situations you
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Speaker 1: want to see. So those guys are doing a great job.
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Speaker 1: They're all competing, Um, you know, they all have a
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Speaker 1: little different skill set that we're trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: what fits best. And assuming James and Travis are full speed,
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Speaker 1: ready to roll, how does that work in what's the
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Speaker 1: big picture of that room look like? With those guys
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Speaker 1: contributing to special teams, you know, having a role um
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Speaker 1: as a certain type of backforce as we go to've
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Speaker 1: been able to protection, They've done a great job bloos protection.
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Speaker 1: They're identifying things really well. Um, And then you know
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Speaker 1: that's that's the aspect where you're not full speed, you're
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Speaker 1: not live, so there's a lot of times where necessarily
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Speaker 1: you don't get to finish a pass rush or a
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Speaker 1: pass block because everything is not live. Now we just
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Speaker 1: put on pads, so that amps things up a litt
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Speaker 1: little bit, but you know that's something you want to
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Speaker 1: see in a game, giving about playing time or for
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Speaker 1: Trevor or any of the fun line guys. Yeah, or
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Speaker 1: you kind of just kind of wait to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: what do you know? I feel very comfortable giving my
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Speaker 1: opinion on that stuff, but I will forever and always
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Speaker 1: defer to Doug and Doug's opinion on it. But you know,
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Speaker 1: as far as um us having those conversations and stuff,
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Speaker 1: I think that's been fluid. That's obviously goes back to
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Speaker 1: having a great relationship with each other prior to coming
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Speaker 1: down here. So yeah, I feel completely confident in giving
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Speaker 1: my opinion on how we should do things. Um I
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Speaker 1: have an opinion on that, but yeah, yeah, if you
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Speaker 1: decided where you'll beak on game time and the box
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Speaker 1: are down on the field. Yet yeah, I'm actually you know,
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Speaker 1: through this preseason I'd like to try a couple of
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Speaker 1: different things. So on Thursday night I'll be down on
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Speaker 1: the sideline, but then there's a good chance the next
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Speaker 1: week I'll go up. We'll try to make a match
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Speaker 1: and figure out, you know, who's responsible for what down
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Speaker 1: on the field up in the box, how we communicate
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Speaker 1: well together. You know, that's kind of the benefit of
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Speaker 1: having this extra preseason game compared to everybody else, it's
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Speaker 1: one more opportunity to figure out what works best for
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Speaker 1: us come week one. All right, I got the bugs
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Speaker 1: flying around. Uh, Kevin Alston the one winning. What have
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Speaker 1: you seen from those young guys that are battling for
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Speaker 1: a chance here early on a camp. Yeah, those guys
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Speaker 1: have done a good job. You know. Obviously it takes
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Speaker 1: some time. You just strap the pads onto everything changes
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Speaker 1: a little bit more. You're going to a game situation
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Speaker 1: and it gets it gets a little tougher there as well.
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Speaker 1: You know. The biggest thing for them too, has been
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Speaker 1: a lot of these kind of quote unquote call it
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Speaker 1: periods for us where it's unscripted, so they're not able
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Speaker 1: to sit there on the sideline with their coach go
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Speaker 1: through it. The coach tells them, how you stand here,
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Speaker 1: you do this, they do this, you do that. So
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Speaker 1: now it's getting the huddle, which is coming up on
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Speaker 1: the game Thursday. As you get in the huddle, plays
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Speaker 1: called you break the huddle, you've got twenty seconds to
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Speaker 1: figure out what you've got the adjustments to come with that.
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Speaker 1: So that's been good for him. But those guys have
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Speaker 1: done a great job attacking it, working hall um, you know,
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Speaker 1: top to bottom. Really, we're pleased with all those young
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Speaker 1: guys and excited to see their development. Talking about get
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Speaker 1: Gerald andre better for young guys, kind to find his
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Speaker 1: way into being what he was, to play with three
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Speaker 1: guys from life in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean obviously, Um, there's things like that that are great experiences.
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Speaker 1: You see great players and how they handle things, which
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Speaker 1: is a huge benefit. But I think one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest things is I think it goes without saying that
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Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald is one of the most unquestioned professionals in
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Speaker 1: our business. Now, everybody's a pro, but not everybody acts professionally,
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Speaker 1: and he does. So to see somebody that does it
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Speaker 1: like that, and I can't speak to the other guys,
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard much about all that, but um, the
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Speaker 1: way he goes about his business and works, that's always
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Speaker 1: kind of the best thing for young guys. You want
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Speaker 1: them to find veterans to look up to. You want
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Speaker 1: them to ideally find the best professional veterans to look
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Speaker 1: up to. You know, going back to our time in Philadelphia, guys,
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Speaker 1: I've been around and stuff like that, like Darren's sprowls.
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Speaker 1: If you had a running back, come in and just
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Speaker 1: watch darren sproles or a tight end, come in and
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Speaker 1: just watch Brent Sellick. That was invaluable for guys anything.
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Speaker 1: It's it's the same thing as you know, Luke Fort
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Speaker 1: and or Nick Ford, these young offensive line and getting
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Speaker 1: a chance to watch Brandon Schurf and you know, just
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Speaker 1: see what it's supposed to look like. Guys that handle
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Speaker 1: their business the right way. Comfort back when you know
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Speaker 1: that you're top guys or confecter guys better around you
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Speaker 1: don't really have to worry about how the young guys
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Speaker 1: gonna Yeah, it's definitely comforting. And then being able to
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Speaker 1: have conversations we've had with those guys. How smart they are,
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Speaker 1: um kind of the mental flexibility, the things they can handle.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that come up on the
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Speaker 1: practice field that we'll get over on the sideline talk about.
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Speaker 1: They've already been talking about it as we say, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I liked what you did here, here's blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: They can handle that, they can adjust like that. They're
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Speaker 1: great communicators with Trevor, so I think it just helps
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Speaker 1: you try to get on the same page a little
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Speaker 1: bit quicker with guys like that bummer a little and
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Speaker 1: what is kind of science table at this time? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't give you a timetable on Juwe you know,
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Speaker 1: we're just gonna let Fergie and the in the training
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Speaker 1: staff tell us when they're ready to go, and whenever
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Speaker 1: somebody's ready to go, will throw them out there. Um,
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Speaker 1: with whatever parameters they give us, you know. But Walker's
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Speaker 1: done a great job. He's stepped up as things got
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Speaker 1: even more physical the other day. He's done a great job,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the in the battles he's had, but
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Speaker 1: also playing next to the guys he's been able to
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Speaker 1: play with. And again that's the benefit of being able
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Speaker 1: to shuffle our offensive lines. You see how guys work
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Speaker 1: next to one another, especially you know, if you're an
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Speaker 1: edge player, you're working next to one guy as opposed
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Speaker 1: to your interior. You've got guys on either side of you.
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Speaker 1: What if you thought about za Jones and is it
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Speaker 1: fair to like call his game quarterback friendly? Yeah? Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've really enjoyed working with Zay. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting to watch his skill set and stuff. I
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Speaker 1: remember Zay coming out in the scouting process. Knew some
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Speaker 1: people that coached him in college and had always kind
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Speaker 1: of followed him. His work ethic and stuff like that
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Speaker 1: was always talked about with him, and then you know,
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Speaker 1: just being able to have conversations with him. He sees
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Speaker 1: the game, and that's probably what makes him quarterback friendly,
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Speaker 1: I think is he kind of anticipates what the quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: are seeing. Um, I think at least he's able to
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Speaker 1: communicate like that. So yeah, and then he's you know,
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Speaker 1: he's got length, he's got speed, he's got a skill set.
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Speaker 1: He obviously has has good hands and has ability to work.
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Speaker 1: Quarterbacks I think would trust him. So I guess that's
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Speaker 1: quarterback friendly. Yes, I was kind of seeing you guys
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Speaker 1: get Evan able the ball in a bunch of different
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Speaker 1: creative ways. Clearly a dynamic play nick maker. But are
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Speaker 1: the drops that all the concern that he's had over
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Speaker 1: the days of the camp. No, I wouldn't say that
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Speaker 1: right now. You know, it's better that a guy has
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Speaker 1: a has a drop now than in season, obviously, but
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Speaker 1: we just continue to work and put him in different
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Speaker 1: situations and see what he does best with. But he's
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Speaker 1: been able to handle a lot of things we put
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Speaker 1: on him right now, struggles in the red zone like
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Speaker 1: he did the other day. How much stock do you
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Speaker 1: put into that and what's sort of your message the
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Speaker 1: offense after that session. Yeah, I mean, obviously, anytime we
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Speaker 1: get a chance to compete with the defense, we want
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Speaker 1: to go out and well and then compete and play well. Um.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, that was our
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Speaker 1: first red zone day. It's just like the defense is doing.
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Speaker 1: We put in the same place we put in the spring,
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Speaker 1: put in the same coverage as they put in the spring.
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Speaker 1: So we've seen each other a million times running the
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Speaker 1: same stuff and they had our number that day. You know,
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Speaker 1: we expect to execute no matter the situation, and we're
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Speaker 1: just continuing to work on that and get better at that.
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Speaker 1: But I think everybody had a pretty good perspective of
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Speaker 1: this is early in camp. You know, there's kind of
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Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows of camp of the offense has
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Speaker 1: a day, the defense has a day. You kind of
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Speaker 1: I mean a big picture. You like seeing that in
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Speaker 1: the competitive and that up and down. That means both
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Speaker 1: sides are having having some success. Now, as the offensive coordinator,
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Speaker 1: we want to win every single day, every play every
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Speaker 1: period all that. So so it gets you a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but you have the right perspective of all right, we're
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Speaker 1: putting in our first resident install. They've seen this since,
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Speaker 1: you know, five or six different times since the spring.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, so the adjustments that you talked about her
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Speaker 1: and they're Trevor and the receivers already making op the plays.
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Speaker 1: How encouraging is it see that already have that kind
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Speaker 1: of lot of communication this early. Yeah, that's great. You know,
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Speaker 1: obviously he has a relationship with Morvin going to last season,
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Speaker 1: Lavisca tread some of those guys. But Christian and Zay
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Speaker 1: I think part of it is the way they see
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Speaker 1: the game, know the way they're able to kind of
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Speaker 1: keep their wits about them and communicate what they saw
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Speaker 1: out there. That helps, you know, Trevor can go, hey,
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Speaker 1: what do you see? Maybe he was working the other
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Speaker 1: side of the concept, but what you have back here,
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Speaker 1: they can explain it pretty much verbatim. Then we'll go out,
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Speaker 1: you know, especially out here, we're able to grab the
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Speaker 1: video right after period kind of all sit there together. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it looked exactly like you said. So for Trevor, you're
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Speaker 1: able to trust what they say in a game, the
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Speaker 1: way they communicate and things like that, so that just
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Speaker 1: the way they all see the game together obviously helps
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Speaker 1: the communication. Is that new or is that something you
9:31
Speaker 1: guys did That's something we didn't Filly as well. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if they've done it here or not, but
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Speaker 1: that's something that you kind of just get that immediate
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Speaker 1: feedback as you go, rather than having to wait till
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Speaker 1: you get back over there, and it's not something you
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Speaker 1: do all the time or spend a ton of time.
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Speaker 1: Can be especially out here, you're able to get extra
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Speaker 1: reps where the defense is going, but you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: we can get some answers right away as guys go.
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Speaker 1: There's when a couple of times at heel back back
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Speaker 1: because they're so exciting, you can you love to see
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Speaker 1: the excitement balance not that that intensive, but they almost
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Speaker 1: settled down. Well part of it is, and we talked
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Speaker 1: about it. Coach talks about it to the team a
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Speaker 1: lot of you know, we're still playing against the Jags,
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Speaker 1: so we always want to protect each other. There are
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Speaker 1: times where a guy probably has an opportunity to be
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Speaker 1: more physical than we really want them to be with
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Speaker 1: their own teammates. Whether that's offense or defense. And I
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Speaker 1: think so far in camp everybody's done a pretty good
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Speaker 1: job of that. Now, it doesn't always lead to a
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Speaker 1: wildly successful play, and there were times where guys would say, well,
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Speaker 1: I would have done this, but that's my guy. I
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Speaker 1: can't do that, and so it. But guys have done
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Speaker 1: a good job of protecting one another from that standpoint.
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Speaker 1: So obviously guys are excited to go out and try
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Speaker 1: to have the opportunity to make plays. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, we're trying to get a lot done here.
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Speaker 1: We're trying to get a lot of productive work done
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Speaker 1: in this camp. Cool. Thank you, guys,