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Interview: Defensive tackle Marcell Dareus · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguar's defensive tackle Marcel Darius with us the third week
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  Speaker 1: of O t A s underway in the Florida Heat.
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  Speaker 1: How are you holding up? Um? Not too bad. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a little justice to the weather a
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  Speaker 1: lot better this year and I did last year. Um,
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  Speaker 1: having a better understanding of what's what's the common expecting
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  Speaker 1: a lot? So, I mean it's not bad. The team
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  Speaker 1: is coming together, guys are looking good. I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what what what can I say? You said they're expecting
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  Speaker 1: a lot. We'll still go into that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: What who are they and what are they expecting? My teammates, myself, Um,
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  Speaker 1: we we're all expecting a lot from each other. Um.
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  Speaker 1: We just we want to do it all right. We
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  Speaker 1: want to do it the right way. UM. And you
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  Speaker 1: can tell a lot of guys are putting their best
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  Speaker 1: foot for these are voluntary days. Everybody misses a day
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  Speaker 1: here there and you have It's fine, But why is
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  Speaker 1: it important your ninth year in the NFL. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be here if you don't want. You know
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  Speaker 1: what it takes to be for a season. Why is
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  Speaker 1: it important for you, Marshall to be here for these
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  Speaker 1: voluntary workouts. I mean, it's it means the world I
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  Speaker 1: have that that good understanding is a relationship. You're having
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  Speaker 1: a good understanding of a relationship that you're building for
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  Speaker 1: the long haul, for the season. So it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to have good you wanna have great communication.
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  Speaker 1: You want to have a good understanding of what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it and what I mean I'm like, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to figure this out and kind of see if
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'm going. Um, just having that understanding of
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  Speaker 1: knowing who's gonna be where and trusting that that person
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  Speaker 1: is gonna do exactly what they say they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: So we're just building that And I know that's so important.
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  Speaker 1: So I know I have to be here for Marcel
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  Speaker 1: Darius with us. Does that change every year or can
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  Speaker 1: that carry over from year to year? Do you have
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  Speaker 1: to start really almost from scratch when all season workouts?
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  Speaker 1: We get it's something that you have to build in
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  Speaker 1: every year. Um, but it all depends on a group
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  Speaker 1: of guys that you have. If you have a system
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  Speaker 1: that's been in it and you don't change it, you
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  Speaker 1: just kind of let us continue to work on our relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Things should still be the same. But when you have
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  Speaker 1: moving pieces, this piece is gonna bringing in something else.
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  Speaker 1: And now you have half a conversation. The other half
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on because they're not speaking the
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  Speaker 1: same language. It throws off what you're actually trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: So UM, it's something that you work out, something that
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  Speaker 1: you work every year. So I want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: I'm a part of it. And then I'm missing my conversation.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned guys coming, guys leaving, you know, the leaks
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  Speaker 1: out of here. You've got another first round pick this
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  Speaker 1: year coming into this room. So there has been a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of change in the defensive line room of
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  Speaker 1: the new guys here. Really the last two first round picks.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about those guys, Tavin, Brian and Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen a lot of Josh in the field yet,
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  Speaker 1: but of those guys, UM take us through their development.
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  Speaker 1: I know Tavan over the last year or so and
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  Speaker 1: now Josh just the short time he's been around the
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  Speaker 1: building here. Um, they're all still growing, still have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to learn, the young d Lina and Um and
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  Speaker 1: they just have they're in doing the process and they're
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  Speaker 1: they're understanding that the conversation, their understanding that the conversations
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  Speaker 1: and the relationships that need to be had and then
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  Speaker 1: you need to be you need to be around in
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  Speaker 1: order for you to become a good player a great
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  Speaker 1: player understanding that now and it's still a process for them.
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  Speaker 1: So after camp it would be a better understandable one
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  Speaker 1: because this is just introducing us to each other. And
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  Speaker 1: when we get the camp here to be live bullets,
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  Speaker 1: we can understand like, now I need you because I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting hit and I need you to have my back.
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  Speaker 1: So the conversation is getting more embedded in them, and
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  Speaker 1: they're not. They're just kind of understanding it all. Big
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  Speaker 1: picture question on defense here. You know, it was still
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  Speaker 1: a highly ready group last year in terms of yardage
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  Speaker 1: and all that, but it didn't have that impact of
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  Speaker 1: two seasons ago, the takeaways and the sacks. When you
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  Speaker 1: join the team in the trade, of course that that changed,
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  Speaker 1: but that that defense was unbelievable and it's still strong
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  Speaker 1: last year. What does it take to get back to
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  Speaker 1: that gay and wrecking, turnover making sacking defense from two
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I mean, the big difference is we had
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  Speaker 1: to play it safe. We had to play the game
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  Speaker 1: at a level where we know we can stay in it.
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  Speaker 1: So we had a lot of injuries last year, so
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  Speaker 1: and you can't, you can't be well, you know, everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows our defensive coordinator, they know our head coach, they
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  Speaker 1: know they like to let us go. They like to
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  Speaker 1: let us play balls to the wall, go have fun.
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  Speaker 1: Just today we take the call off. You'll go, dude,
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  Speaker 1: you'll want to do. But the last year it was
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  Speaker 1: more of a Okay, we have a lot of injuries
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  Speaker 1: and we want you all to play your ass off,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, we need we need to.
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  Speaker 1: We can't. We can we your chain and go as
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  Speaker 1: far as we let it. So it's like we want
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  Speaker 1: you to do that, but we can't take their chance
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  Speaker 1: right now. So it was just those. It was just
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  Speaker 1: those knowing that we have injuries and playing the game
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  Speaker 1: inside the game. Didn't play with many leagues either. That
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  Speaker 1: helps when you're trying to rush the pastor that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of how that works on I'm not saying that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just telling you one thing that we have to focus
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  Speaker 1: on on defense as we have to play within the game.
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  Speaker 1: Or so Darius, with us a final thought here about
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  Speaker 1: a month ago on your Instagram account, which is a
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  Speaker 1: great follow up. By the way, if folks aren't following it,
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  Speaker 1: you should. Um. You had a ride along with the
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Sheriff's office here in town, and you had a
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  Speaker 1: photograph out on that. What prompted you to call him
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  Speaker 1: up and try to go do that and what did
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  Speaker 1: you get out of that day? UM? I really want
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  Speaker 1: to get understanding of the layout of Jacksonville, kind of
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  Speaker 1: get a better understanding of what's actually going on around us. UM,
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  Speaker 1: what the stadium is, what's going on around the stadium exactly?
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  Speaker 1: So UM, I wrote with UM A great guy. He
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  Speaker 1: told me his name, but we're still communicating his name.
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  Speaker 1: We call him Pop. His nickname is Pop. I called
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  Speaker 1: him Pop and he's a good dude, great guy. I
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  Speaker 1: made his family. UM. We rolled around for at least
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  Speaker 1: five six hours, UM. And he told me about the
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  Speaker 1: food desert in Jacksonville. He told me about the areas
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  Speaker 1: that's having the problems in troubles. UM. He tell me
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  Speaker 1: what they do to try to help. He tell me
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  Speaker 1: what they do in the community to get guys out
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  Speaker 1: to let them know there's no harm. We just were
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  Speaker 1: just here to keep it every one safe. So it
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  Speaker 1: was a It was a It was a much more
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  Speaker 1: enlightenment conversation and right alone than I thought I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna get. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. Man, it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty fun. There was there anything that surprised you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard of a food desert before in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a city of a food desert.
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  Speaker 1: There's no stories within the block of five miles that
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense to me. Um that alone, and
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  Speaker 1: the different distresss District five and three and four, and
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  Speaker 1: all the hot spots, um that just that alone, just
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  Speaker 1: kind of over miles up to what's actually going on
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  Speaker 1: and going on in Jacksonville. The guy always good to
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  Speaker 1: see you. I appreciate your time. Man, it feels good
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  Speaker 1: to be seen.