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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "We’re just taking it one day at a time" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Good pass for us. But you've got a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: line who's they've taken good care of you the last
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. So, um, the Eagles are a little similar
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  Speaker 1: to the Reds games the Commanders in any way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's funny how how that works. Every week
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna play a good pass for us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's interior, exterior, or on the edges or both.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So I think this team presents some challenges
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  Speaker 1: really both, you know, on on the outside and on
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  Speaker 1: the inside. They got a couple of really good players,
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  Speaker 1: so the same challenge. You know, it's just game planning
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  Speaker 1: certain things and uh, putting us in the best in
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  Speaker 1: the best position. But yeah, for sure, the way our
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  Speaker 1: our groups played up for I got all the confidence
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  Speaker 1: in them. Um. I think just the way we've executed
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of game plans has been great. And
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  Speaker 1: today it was a good day, good step in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. No, we asked you this last week. You
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  Speaker 1: look at the offense you guys ran against the Pols,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously that was to counter with had knowing that
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  Speaker 1: they gave you guys a lot of stuff underneath. Then
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  Speaker 1: you look at the offense you ran last week. Is
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  Speaker 1: it a happy medium that is the identity of this
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  Speaker 1: offense or is that still evolving. I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we have we have things that we know, we're
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  Speaker 1: good at, things that we like to do, but it's
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  Speaker 1: always evolving. I think that's what good teams have to do,
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  Speaker 1: is each week, you know your game plan is not
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  Speaker 1: going to be the same, and it's it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: based on who you're playing. And obviously you've got to
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  Speaker 1: figure out ways to still uh if it, find ways
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  Speaker 1: to do what you do and to do the things
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  Speaker 1: that you do well. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you really got a scheme to your opponent, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that our staff has done a great job of that,
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  Speaker 1: and then as players, we've done a really good job
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  Speaker 1: executing it and really just stand on schedule, especially the
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  Speaker 1: last two weeks. And that's the biggest difference between week
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  Speaker 1: one and then week two and three. So many years
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  Speaker 1: this franchise was an afterthought. The fans here used to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get down to the fact that there was
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  Speaker 1: never any national attention for the franchise. Well, now after
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  Speaker 1: obviously after the last two weeks, getting a little some
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  Speaker 1: of that, uh, you're you're you're used to being in
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  Speaker 1: that throughout all your college days. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like this team will handle, you know, kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of the spotlight for a change. I
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  Speaker 1: think we'll handle it great. I mean for us, we
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  Speaker 1: don't really I don't really on any that We'd rather
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  Speaker 1: just be on the on the back burner and just
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  Speaker 1: let us let us do our thing, and um, that's
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  Speaker 1: really that's our mindset. You know, we're not really worried
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  Speaker 1: about any of the attention that we get. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: goal is to play really well every week when a
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  Speaker 1: lot of games, so you're gonna get some attention. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're we're doing a good job of doing that.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we gotta keep
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  Speaker 1: the same mindset that got us here, the work that
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  Speaker 1: we put in through camp, through O t A. S
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  Speaker 1: playing with that edge, you know, just playing with something
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  Speaker 1: to prove, and we're just gonna keep carrying that every week.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't that that But that's also part of the
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  Speaker 1: growth process, right, I Mean, you start winning, you put
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  Speaker 1: together wins, you're gonna you're gonna get attention, and and
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  Speaker 1: then you're and then you you've got to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to handle that and not get caught up in it. Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's just the ebbs and flows, ups and
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  Speaker 1: downs of the season. You know, whether you're playing great,
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  Speaker 1: you're not playing great. It's a long season. You've gotta
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  Speaker 1: find your way and you gotta figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to get better and better to where the last bit
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  Speaker 1: of the season you're playing your best fotball and you
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  Speaker 1: give yourself a chance to to make the playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: to go far in the playoffs. So that's the that's
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  Speaker 1: the key to it. You know, we know it's still
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  Speaker 1: really early this week four. It's a long season, but
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  Speaker 1: we love where we're at right now. When an offensive
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  Speaker 1: player of the week this week, how big of an
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  Speaker 1: honor is that for you? And just what does it
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  Speaker 1: say about the offense as a whole? I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: just says a lot about I think it says more
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  Speaker 1: about just this organization, uh, this team specifically, Uh, the staff,
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  Speaker 1: the players that are around me. Uh. Obviously I've you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to play well last few weeks, but
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  Speaker 1: most of that is is the guys around me and
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  Speaker 1: the coaches around me. We're all putting each other in
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  Speaker 1: in positions to be successful, and that's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: the way it works when um, everyone just does their job.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been it's been a lot of fun, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously I'm you know, I'm happy with the way I've played,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a lot of growth that still needs to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And I know there's there's things I can do better.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's things that this offense can do better. So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna focus on the things that we need to
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  Speaker 1: improve on. Obviously, Monday morning comes, you look at the
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  Speaker 1: things you did well, and uh, there's certain goals that
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  Speaker 1: we've been hit in the last few weeks that we're
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  Speaker 1: proud of. But as far as just an offense, we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of looking at all the things that we can
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  Speaker 1: do better. Did they tell you about what the last
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  Speaker 1: time a jag Bar was named offensive planner of the league?
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  Speaker 1: And no, who was it? Wow, it's been a while,
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  Speaker 1: a hopefully hopefully a lot of more, a lot more
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  Speaker 1: in store. So yeah, I mean, just I think, just
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  Speaker 1: like I said, go it speaks volumes really to everyone.
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  Speaker 1: That's the defense too. I mean, when you we have
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  Speaker 1: a defense plane as well as ours is right now,
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  Speaker 1: gives you a lot of confidence and um, doesn't put
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on you. So I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm thankful for those guys, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the staff, that the guys up front, I mean there
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  Speaker 1: they're playing, uh there's they're playing amazing. So I'm sitting
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  Speaker 1: back there having time. They're doing a great job and
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  Speaker 1: taking care of me. So it's it's been great this
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  Speaker 1: week at all. Well, if if I was, we're not
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  Speaker 1: now you know, I'm just kidding, Um, I mean we
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  Speaker 1: we always. I think that's how everybody is. You have
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  Speaker 1: certain tricks, you know, half the time, more than half time,
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  Speaker 1: you don't even use them. So, um, we'll see, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. Yeah, so I'm not gonna use one
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  Speaker 1: this week. But when look at the touchdown pass to
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  Speaker 1: day in this last game, a lot of times when
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  Speaker 1: when I'm the short part of the field like that,
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  Speaker 1: when a quarterback gets flushed to this right because there's
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  Speaker 1: pressure coming up the middle, a lot of times you'll
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  Speaker 1: see the quarterback he just has to end up throwing
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  Speaker 1: it away because there's just there's it's really hard sometimes
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  Speaker 1: to hit somebody in a tight window. How satisfying was
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  Speaker 1: it that you were able and say was able to
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  Speaker 1: make the adjustment to be able to make that connection. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh. I mean a big part of this game,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the red zone, is scramble plays. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you look at I don't know what the percentages of
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in the red zone, high percentage of them are scrambled.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something that we, you know, we always talk about,
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  Speaker 1: and especially I feel like I'm good outside the pocket,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something that we work and it's really about
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  Speaker 1: how quick the receiver reacts and his feel for whether
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  Speaker 1: it's zone or man getting open back there. And they
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  Speaker 1: did a good job reacting immediately found a little soft
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  Speaker 1: pocket and then I was able to locate them quick
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  Speaker 1: and put it on them. But really, that's that's a
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  Speaker 1: huge part of this game, and that's something that hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we can keep doing more and more of because I
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  Speaker 1: think that's something that's really important to be six us. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you remember about Jalen Hurts from college? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting, actually, we so I met him when I
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  Speaker 1: was in high squad. I believe one of my tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know the name Miller forrest All. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we went high school together. And he went to
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  Speaker 1: Alabama and him and Jalen came in together and he
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  Speaker 1: brought him home for some type of like Christmas party
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  Speaker 1: or something. So I met him back in when he
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  Speaker 1: had the dreads and everything, back when he was a
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  Speaker 1: freshman at Alabama, and that the first time I met him,
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  Speaker 1: and then kind of saw him throughout the years, and
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  Speaker 1: then when I first went to Clempson, I saw him
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  Speaker 1: when he had just gone to Oklahoma all that, and
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for him, the way
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  Speaker 1: he carries himself. Obviously he's a great player, playing really
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  Speaker 1: really well this year, so um, just respect the way
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  Speaker 1: he plays the game. Are you guys aware that Doug
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  Speaker 1: has his statue outside the statum? No, it wasn't. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah, next to each other, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but would you do you just says not that he's
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  Speaker 1: this look at me kind of guy, you guess since
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  Speaker 1: this might mean a little bit to him going home,
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  Speaker 1: going back to where you know you want to Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think it's would be hard for it
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  Speaker 1: not to mean something to you. You You know, all the
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  Speaker 1: history he's had there and obviously the success in the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and I'm sure there's a lot of emotions
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  Speaker 1: going back to that place for him, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good I don't know, maybe some bad. Who knows. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know all of his experiences there, but I know
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  Speaker 1: that's got to mean something to you. No matter who
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  Speaker 1: we're playing, going on the road, big game, um, in
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  Speaker 1: a hostile environment, it's it means something to you, but
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  Speaker 1: especially going somewhere where you know you coached for was
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  Speaker 1: it five years or something like that, So I know
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  Speaker 1: it means a lot to him, it means a lot
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  Speaker 1: to us, and we're just taking it one day at
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  Speaker 1: a time. Really, I want to see you Instagram, you
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  Speaker 1: would picture all right trying to make that happen eventually,
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  Speaker 1: defense earlier and how well they're playing Lloyd and Walker
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  Speaker 1: to where he said, Well, was there a point or
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  Speaker 1: at what point did you realize he's kind of pretty special?
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  Speaker 1: And the guys are different? Yeah? Yeah, I mean obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's only my second year, but I think just since
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  Speaker 1: they came in, I think just there their work ethic
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  Speaker 1: one is the is the first thing you notice, and
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  Speaker 1: those two guys are just super hard workers. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Devin is one of the first people in last people
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  Speaker 1: to leave almost every day, so that's how he's been
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  Speaker 1: even since the spring. I mean this is going on
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  Speaker 1: whatever five months now. So to see him come in
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  Speaker 1: and just really have that maturity from day one has
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  Speaker 1: been cool. Same thing with Traybon. Him and Josh have
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  Speaker 1: been like hip to hip since since he came in.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's been great for him. Josh is obviously, um,
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  Speaker 1: a guy that you can learn from, does things the
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  Speaker 1: right way. So I think they've done a good job
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  Speaker 1: stround themselves with the right people and then just really
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  Speaker 1: putting their head down and going to work. And just
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  Speaker 1: the plays they made in the spring. I mean, Devon
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  Speaker 1: is so rangey. I knew since our first goal. I
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  Speaker 1: think he picked me off twice and just a handful
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  Speaker 1: of practices early in springball just so much range great
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  Speaker 1: and Zonne can fly. Um, just that type of athlete
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  Speaker 1: with ball skills is special. So I then Traybon obviously
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  Speaker 1: is just grown man and he can run and great instincts.
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  Speaker 1: You saw the play made in Washington, I mean all,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, both those guys are really really good players.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know anything about Trayvon coming up through Georgia
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  Speaker 1: high school ranks? Yeah, I mean I had seen him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit um. I think as we got a
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  Speaker 1: little older, maybe my last year at Clemson or the
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  Speaker 1: year before, and when he was a freshman and sophomore
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  Speaker 1: and junior in college, that's kind of when I saw
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  Speaker 1: more about him. And then obviously that when he was
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  Speaker 1: on George's team. I went to the first game of
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  Speaker 1: the year when when we played him in Charlotte and
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  Speaker 1: they kind of erect our party up there. So I
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  Speaker 1: knew about him since then. And um, yeah, do you
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  Speaker 1: find yourself when you see what James has done in
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  Speaker 1: the first three weeks having a hard time, Remember he
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  Speaker 1: had an achilles tear to sound and he looks so good.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's impressive. I mean, that goes just I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's just goes to show the staff. We have one
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  Speaker 1: medical staff, I mean, and we've look at how healthy
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  Speaker 1: we've been this season. Obviously it's the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 1: but that's huge. Like I said, you gotta be healthy
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  Speaker 1: if you want to go a long way, especially in
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  Speaker 1: this league. Is you gotta keep you guys healthy, and
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  Speaker 1: we've done a great job of that. And then also
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  Speaker 1: us as players and James specifically, the amount of work
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  Speaker 1: he's put in to be ready to go a week one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people didn't think he was
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  Speaker 1: in a play till probably now, or maybe last week
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and he was able to go a week one.
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  Speaker 1: Has been playing well and just obviously when you have
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  Speaker 1: him playing, that makes a huge difference. He's a great player.
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  Speaker 1: Does he look faster to you? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: mean he looks he looks just as good as he
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  Speaker 1: did before. Maybe, I mean he's had shoot, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I mean those are two of the longer runs I've
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  Speaker 1: seen him have and both have scored, and um, so
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  Speaker 1: he looks great. No one's catching him. You've seen corners
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  Speaker 1: chasing him. No one's catching him all. I mean, so
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  Speaker 1: he's he looks great, awesome, Thank you all.