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Press Pass | Pederson: "Both teams got what they wanted out of the practice." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Uh, yesterday was really good. I think
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  Speaker 1: both teams got what they wanted out of the practice,
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  Speaker 1: which is good work. Um and um. You know you
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  Speaker 1: want the same thing today. You know, the pads are off,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean you can't practice fast and and
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  Speaker 1: um and still get some still get some good work in.
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  Speaker 1: So that's uh, that's the goal, you know obviously these
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  Speaker 1: two days. And and really I think too for the guys,
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  Speaker 1: get him out of get him out of our place
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  Speaker 1: and get him somewhere somewhere else, somewhere new, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: practice against some different looks, you know, offensively, defensively and
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  Speaker 1: and um, our guys have handled it well. Finally on
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  Speaker 1: the field, And what did you think about his first
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  Speaker 1: training camp practice? Yeah, it was good to see him
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  Speaker 1: out there, you know, And as we've talked, we we
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  Speaker 1: try to increase his reps each day and hopefully he'll
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  Speaker 1: get a few more today. And you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: say this, it's uh, you can see the nerves and
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  Speaker 1: the jitter the jitterbugs, you know, floating around in him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit out there, but he settled in. I
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  Speaker 1: had a nice practice. Uh, you know, good to see him. Good,
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  Speaker 1: see him back out there Les yesterday and where do
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  Speaker 1: you stand there? Yeah, you know, I think another big
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  Speaker 1: day for him today. You know, Juwan is really um
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  Speaker 1: I think he's played consistent, played well. You know, Walker's
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  Speaker 1: right there with him. I mean it's a it's still
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  Speaker 1: it's still a little bit of a competition and they
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  Speaker 1: both of them have done done some really good things.
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  Speaker 1: Um uh this game, you know, we'll see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how much time each one plays. But um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta make a decision soon because we're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for you know, for week one some time probably that's possible.
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  Speaker 1: It's possible. It's good to be getting time on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: You should you know, if there's barring any setbacks, we'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see him possibly the first quarters. H I
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  Speaker 1: love Garden BArch, Tyler Shatley. How's that competition going in
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  Speaker 1: its BArch gonna play on Saturday too? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: haven't made that decision yet as far as playtime, but um,
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  Speaker 1: you know Bart has done well there. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: settled in over at left guard if shot at least
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  Speaker 1: done a nice job as well. But one thing with
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  Speaker 1: Shott as he can he can move back to center
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  Speaker 1: if we need to gives us a little versatility there.
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  Speaker 1: Robinson very involved yesterday and he still has been kind
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  Speaker 1: of non contact jersey, but there was some contact there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like what you saw from him out on
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  Speaker 1: the field, and is he getting closer to where you
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable with rolling him out there in week one? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: He was. He was impressive from the standpoint of hitting
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  Speaker 1: his landmarks, you know, from the backfield. Um, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I get to stand behind the offense, so
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  Speaker 1: I get to see kind of the vision of the
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  Speaker 1: running back a little bit. And and I thought he
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  Speaker 1: thought he did a good job of being patient. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when the hole opened up, he was able
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  Speaker 1: to burst through it and and and accelerate and and
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  Speaker 1: it really looks like he's been out there several weeks now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, quite honestly. Um. And he's another one that's
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  Speaker 1: been excited to get back out on the field himself.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully the yellow jersey will come off soon. Get
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  Speaker 1: the tree on today. What impressions have he has he
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  Speaker 1: made on you at amp? And have you told him
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  Speaker 1: anything about having so much pressure on him being the
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  Speaker 1: number one overall pick and dealing with that as far
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  Speaker 1: as the pressure goes, I just tell him to just
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  Speaker 1: be himself. You know, it's gonna come with the territory.
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  Speaker 1: He understands it. Just embrace it. Um, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: part of being being the overall pick right and and
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  Speaker 1: um he's just you know, other than a quarterback, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So uh he's handled that extremely well. But he you know,
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  Speaker 1: the thing is, he loves ball. He just wants to
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  Speaker 1: be on the field and he wants to practice. He
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  Speaker 1: loves practicing, He loves being around teammates, you know, love
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  Speaker 1: his athleticism, who he is as a person, hard worker,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and those are the things that we felt like,
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  Speaker 1: you know when when we uh in the pre draft
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  Speaker 1: process that we were you know, kind of spot on
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  Speaker 1: with with him. But the people we talked to and
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  Speaker 1: and we've just been excited with him, you know, um
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  Speaker 1: and looking forward to the regular season with him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this whole training camp on offense is kind of been
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  Speaker 1: a struggle on and all throughout camp. The first period
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  Speaker 1: yesterday they started strong, kind of filtered off towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of the second period much better though that You
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  Speaker 1: like what you saw from the guys yesterday in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone and where they're in changes or tweaks you
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  Speaker 1: kind of made between the first go and the second go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and again with Atlanta too, it's you see
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  Speaker 1: a little different style of defense than our own down there.
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  Speaker 1: So that was good to see, you know, and good
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  Speaker 1: to make corrections. In fact, Uh, in our seven on
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  Speaker 1: seven portion of practice, we were inside the five yard
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  Speaker 1: line and they had nine guys on defense over there.
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  Speaker 1: So it just tells you it's a different style. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys in coverage, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just good looks for us. But you know it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be that way. We're gonna get some, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get some. It's good work. Uh, you know, get our
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  Speaker 1: stuff on films. We can make corrections. I imagine you
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  Speaker 1: were inization for the final preseason game matter very much
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  Speaker 1: as a player, you talk to these guys at all
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  Speaker 1: about that, you know it. It made a lot for
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  Speaker 1: me when I played, you know, because I was the
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  Speaker 1: guy playing in it, and um, you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: my message to to the guys that are gonna play,
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  Speaker 1: you know, honestly, the guys who get opportunities, because it's
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  Speaker 1: really it's I don't want to say it's the end
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  Speaker 1: of the road, because there's thirty one teams looking at
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  Speaker 1: at these at these rosters, and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it can be put your best foot forward. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it may not be with the Jaguars, it may be
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else. And and that's the encouraging part for me
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  Speaker 1: is just you know, the motivating factor, I guess is
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  Speaker 1: it's just allowing them to go out and play and
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  Speaker 1: and just relax and have fun, do their job and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know they're trying to make our team,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But but other teams are looking as well.
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  Speaker 1: There's making those find look cuts on you as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard. It's the hardest part of our business, you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to get down from eighty to fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of guys, you know, and you're you're
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  Speaker 1: affecting a lot of a lot of lives. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I was one of those guys you know, six different
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  Speaker 1: times released in this league. And and um, but again,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not that you know their hopes and
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  Speaker 1: dreams are over. It's just just maybe they have to
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere else. And then you know, you got practice
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  Speaker 1: squad with the increased practice squad rosters now and and
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  Speaker 1: the ability to keep some veteran players they're um really
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  Speaker 1: helps you know, keep more more athletes, more football players.
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  Speaker 1: Does that increased practice school I kind of play into
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  Speaker 1: as you're kind of deciding those last like tin roster
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  Speaker 1: spots and you look at the guys that, well, you
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  Speaker 1: might be able to kind of put him over here.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's hard to put him over there because you
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  Speaker 1: got to release him for you know a period of time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna do that, and you just
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  Speaker 1: hope they clear you know, the waivers you can bring
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  Speaker 1: them back. I mean, that's the that's the nature of
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  Speaker 1: the beast. Every every team is gonna go. Man, we
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  Speaker 1: got these last five to eight guys that we definitely
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  Speaker 1: like want to keep, but there's a bunch of teams
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  Speaker 1: looking at them too, so, um, you know it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: But but you know, listen, Um, you know, I hope
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  Speaker 1: they get picked up. Quite honestly, we'd love to keep them,
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  Speaker 1: but I hope they get you know, to an active
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  Speaker 1: roster somewhere or or even to a practice squad somewhere. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it means that they did enough to to warn a
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  Speaker 1: job boy Lucan been playing for you all. He's coming
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  Speaker 1: over from the land. Great, oh you know, help you
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  Speaker 1: all out over there. Um, I'll tell you this. His
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  Speaker 1: leadership number one. Um, by the way he by the
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  Speaker 1: way he handles his business on and off the field.
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  Speaker 1: He's a tremendous leader off the field. In the locker
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  Speaker 1: room with the guys, and fit in right away, hard worker.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those are the things that the guys see
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  Speaker 1: and they want out of your middle linebacker, the guy
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  Speaker 1: that's making all the calls, and and he's just been
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  Speaker 1: a great addition to us. I was there for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of those six cuts in Green Bay. Uh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was a few up there, a few of South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been around a while in Atlanta. Boat that
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  Speaker 1: are doing two of these joint practices. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: the value of them? PostScript? I mean, did you change
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  Speaker 1: your identity or your priority from Joint one to Joint two?
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  Speaker 1: This is our first. We only did one. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've done one. Um, I'll tell you this, I've done
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  Speaker 1: them before in my past. I really like him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I really like him, and and and it's a matter
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  Speaker 1: of just I think the head coach is getting together
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  Speaker 1: communicating a little bit of philosophy and what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get done. And that's what Coach Smith and I did,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh and how we communicate with our football
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  Speaker 1: team and what we're trying to get accomplished in in
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of days. And and I think you
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  Speaker 1: saw it yesterday. There was some there was some really
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  Speaker 1: good work being done. There was some you know, there
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  Speaker 1: were some collisions, there were there were all the things
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  Speaker 1: you want from a practice, but just we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: all the extracurricular And that's again it's a credit to
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  Speaker 1: the players, you know, for for owning that. And and UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've learned from the first two that I've
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  Speaker 1: been a part of, you know, UM, and and you
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  Speaker 1: you learned, you learned from that. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons learned from last week, you know with the Jets
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  Speaker 1: and and UM they've been really good for us conversations.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you say, okay, hey, blitz, pick off
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  Speaker 1: the showing certain folks and things like that. Are you
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  Speaker 1: just kind of let team scheme on each side of
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  Speaker 1: what they do. We you know, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I stay away from blitz team blitz periods, UM because
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  Speaker 1: it just it. It tends to get ramp up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. And it's a non I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say it's realistic, but it's if if ten plays are
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  Speaker 1: all blitz, I mean, everybody kind of knows what's happening, right,
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  Speaker 1: I would rather than blitz during the course of a
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  Speaker 1: team period. Yeah, and the eleven on eleven drills, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, but we know that we got to stay
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  Speaker 1: off the quarterbacks. There's no cutting, there's you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: protecting both teams. But at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to get that work done. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see a running back pick up a linebacker in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coming through the a gap or um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Luke Fortner drive back on a on a on a
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  Speaker 1: looping end or something like that. You want to see
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff on tape. And and uh and
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  Speaker 1: still get that good working he started out, you know
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  Speaker 1: the word camp as a starter. How much of a
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  Speaker 1: clime does he sort of have to make to get
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  Speaker 1: back into that position. Well, I mean that's why these
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  Speaker 1: practices here next week are going to be important to him,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and um, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: lost time, you know, um reps on the field that
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  Speaker 1: Chad got and and Chad's better for it, which is
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  Speaker 1: good for us too, you know, but listen, we're we're
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to have both of those guys here with us,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we just got to do our job,
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  Speaker 1: just coaches, to make sure that that Devon's caught up
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  Speaker 1: to speed and and and he's prepared mentally and physically,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for for what he's about to face. What
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  Speaker 1: have you see from Chad to make you confident and
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  Speaker 1: if he has to go in there week one as
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  Speaker 1: a starter, you know, Chad's really uh really kind of slowed.
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  Speaker 1: The game has kind of slowed down for Chad. He's
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  Speaker 1: starting to see things quicker, you know, make uh more
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  Speaker 1: of those instinctive linebacker type moves um and and that's
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  Speaker 1: what you gotta see. And that just comes from playing
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  Speaker 1: and being out there. And that's what he's done. And
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we now have to get Devon caught
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  Speaker 1: up and doing under his melt with you guys that
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  Speaker 1: you like what you saw from him now that you've
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  Speaker 1: seen him on the field firsthand. And does he have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to kind of make a late pushing that
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  Speaker 1: left guard battle, maybe he uh yeah, he did some
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  Speaker 1: nice things. I mean basically got him here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: uh what when do we fly up here Tuesday? You know,
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  Speaker 1: he got here late Tuesday night, a cool Yesterday morning,
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  Speaker 1: he got a cram cram session with the offense, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and we throw him out there. So here you go,
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  Speaker 1: good luck, welcome to Jacksonville. Now, I'll tell you this
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  Speaker 1: though he's handled it extremely well. Um, smart guy, he's sharp.
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  Speaker 1: He was able to pick up a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: And listen he you know, when Tyler Shatley's playing next
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  Speaker 1: to him at center, there's a lot of great communication.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler's a veteran, he's a pro. He understands what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and you know that's what you need
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  Speaker 1: right out of those guys, and and they just help
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  Speaker 1: each other. And yeah, I think I think he'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to compete, you know, possibly for a spot. And
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, we'll see today and next week
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  Speaker 1: and we're unfold and we're looking a guy for we're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna make a position switch. Whether it's like Conna
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  Speaker 1: with Rumla you did or other guys, what do you
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  Speaker 1: look for as a coach and say, all right, I
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  Speaker 1: want to go down this road that might take a
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  Speaker 1: longer than a thirty second answer. Um not Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think you have to look at the
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  Speaker 1: best interests of the player number one, the position that
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  Speaker 1: he might be currently in and and as he his
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  Speaker 1: skill set, his his ability to do certain things. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I think about Jamal, you know, as a as a
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  Speaker 1: former defensive back and transferring over to be in a
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  Speaker 1: you know, receiver kind of that hybrid type runner. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, the player obviously has to embrace any kind
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  Speaker 1: of switch. You gotta have great conversation with them, be
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: open with them, and have that dialogue. I think. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a skill set that that somebody possesses
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  Speaker 1: that you know, you go, hey, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: this will be a better spot for you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is how you can help our football team and
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: then for him to special teams right returning. Um. But
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: it it's it's it's a little bit of a process,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And if you're gonna do those moves, you
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: don't do them, you know, week two or three the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, and you do them in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: right when you give give these guys a chance to
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  Speaker 1: make that switch. And I thought and have thought that
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  Speaker 1: m especially in Jamal's case, that he's he's handled that
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  Speaker 1: really well and he's embraced it and he's having fun
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  Speaker 1: with it all right, thank you. Yeah,