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Press Pass | Press Taylor on What He Wants To See From Offense in Week One · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What's going on so good? Week one is always a
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  Speaker 1: long unknown. How much is that when there's a new
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  Speaker 1: important on the episode. Yeah, certainly there's a lot of unknown.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't seen a lot of their guys
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  Speaker 1: play together through the preseason. You know, coach Weaver's probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna have his stamp on it now. We're gonna certainly
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  Speaker 1: study his past and not just him. There's a number
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  Speaker 1: of coaches on their staff that have been involved in
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  Speaker 1: other systems that you're kind of keeping an eye on.
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  Speaker 1: You may check a little bit, and the benefit is
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  Speaker 1: you get some time to do that through the summer.
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  Speaker 1: But then the the tough part about it is you
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  Speaker 1: don't know. So it's kind of one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that let's carry things we're really good at enough to
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  Speaker 1: where we can adjust that the game goes and try
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out as things are planning to put
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  Speaker 1: our guys in best position.
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  Speaker 2: For week one of the seasons always bigger than you
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  Speaker 2: would be for a home game four five weeks in.
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  Speaker 1: Or not necessarily, but there's there's just enough variety of
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  Speaker 1: things that we do well that have good versus all answers.
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  Speaker 1: There may be sometimes where you're very specific because we
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  Speaker 1: know these are the coverages, these are the pressures we're
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  Speaker 1: getting things like that, and we pair some things down
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  Speaker 1: that or maybe we have kills that just give us
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  Speaker 1: the right play at the right time we're here. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of we may have to pivot in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the first quarter, whatever that may be, based on
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  Speaker 1: where people are ligned, what they're playing, how it goes
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  Speaker 1: From that same point, what's your sense.
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  Speaker 3: Right now at about the offensive line as a group,
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  Speaker 3: they really haven't had a whole lot of time together,
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  Speaker 3: but yet you know, the offense is probably only going
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  Speaker 3: to be as good as whatever that puts to get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're very confident in the work they've put in,
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  Speaker 1: and that that's really all we can go off right now,
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  Speaker 1: from April through training camp, through all of it, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's the meetings, spending time together getting on the same
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  Speaker 1: page communication wise, to the reps we see on the
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  Speaker 1: field and the reps we spend time getting in the
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  Speaker 1: walkthroughs that we've We've put a lot of time into
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  Speaker 1: that and we're very confident in the way they'll play.
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  Speaker 1: But again, that's that's the part of it. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Camus as one of the captains and yet
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  Speaker 3: more or is the veteran guy. I mean, from what
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  Speaker 3: time do you do get to spend in the offensive
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  Speaker 3: line room who looks like they are sort of the
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  Speaker 3: enforcer in the room, if there is such a term
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  Speaker 3: that can be applied to any of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think there's a lot of veteran
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  Speaker 1: presence in that room. Cam, Mitch, Brandon. Those three guys
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  Speaker 1: are probably the guys kind of spearhead the leadership of
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  Speaker 1: that room itself, Mitch being a center and Luke being
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  Speaker 1: a center. You hear those guys a lot because they're
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  Speaker 1: involved in a lot of communication process. So those are
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  Speaker 1: guys that are probably the most vocal. But then Brandon
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  Speaker 1: and Cam and some of the guys they'll they'll speak
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  Speaker 1: up as Well's.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so I know you haven't had them a long.
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  Speaker 2: Yat Lewis the guy from Wales you got for cancer.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't him long and I though he's a practice
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  Speaker 2: squad player, but the time you've had and to be
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  Speaker 2: able to pick up on whether he's got some some
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  Speaker 2: skills that I don't know to may come in to
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  Speaker 2: play down the road.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a great accent so it's fun to talk to.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: I think with him, it's just it's a new beginning
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  Speaker 1: and even playing football's new, but playing receivers new. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he played running back in Kansas City and so transitioning
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  Speaker 1: to the receiver room kind of learning a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more space to play in right there, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's just him kind of trying to get
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  Speaker 1: some sort of understanding of what we call things so
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  Speaker 1: he can play fast and work his way through. But
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  Speaker 1: as far as the individual drills, he's done a good
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  Speaker 1: job so far. Scout team, He's had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: plays here and there, so it's good. You know, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be fun just to watch him continue to grow.
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  Speaker 3: You talked at the start.
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  Speaker 1: Of camp about sort of paring down the run game.
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  Speaker 1: Just what did you see from the offensive line, how
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  Speaker 1: they bought into doing that and the progress.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have made there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the biggest things we've been able to
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  Speaker 1: communicate pretty well, and our goal is just always have
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  Speaker 1: eleven guys seeing it the exact same way every time out,
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  Speaker 1: because we could have one run play, but it could
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  Speaker 1: be you could block it ten different ways based on
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  Speaker 1: the presentation of the defense. And so we want to
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  Speaker 1: be really good about this is what we do. This
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  Speaker 1: is all the looks you could get exposed to throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of the game. So then when you go
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  Speaker 1: into a Week one with a lot of unknowns, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of just lean back on what we've been doing
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  Speaker 1: since April and we get everybody on the same page,
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  Speaker 1: and we execute the down and then we get to
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  Speaker 1: the sideline and we communicate and talk through what's the
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  Speaker 1: best way to do this moving forward. But we're excited
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  Speaker 1: about the work we've put into that and we want
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  Speaker 1: to see what happens on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think is the biggest area of growth
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  Speaker 3: for BT.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think, just kind of understanding
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  Speaker 1: I don't know going into week one, especially when the
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  Speaker 1: game plan hones in of being able to see, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is where they're going to use me, this is
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  Speaker 1: what this looks like at this certain time. I think,
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  Speaker 1: even going back to the Atlanta preseason game, he caught
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  Speaker 1: the crosser. You know, if you just watch the tape,
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  Speaker 1: it's yeah, he's open, he gets up, he runs it
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. We spent a lot of time as
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  Speaker 1: a group just detailing that specific route and what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like and all the different looks for it. So
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  Speaker 1: then to see the way he ran it. He dove inside,
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  Speaker 1: got vertical, stuck, his foot separated. That was exactly what
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  Speaker 1: we talked about. So just to see him grow on
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  Speaker 1: the little details, the little nuances of one simple little
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  Speaker 1: route to where it carried over to game and then
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of you've seen the confidence grow from him,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's a big thing of just I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he was ever not confident himself, but you
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  Speaker 1: just see confident in his ability to play, understanding the offense,
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  Speaker 1: how they're using me, what they want me to do.
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  Speaker 1: That type of Stuff's just been fun to watch and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just going to continue to grow with him.
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  Speaker 3: If continues to demonstrate in the regular season what he's
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  Speaker 3: shown so far in the preseason. Can you emision in
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  Speaker 3: an offense that has recently close to a fifty to
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  Speaker 3: fifty balance, as hard as that is to do in
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  Speaker 3: his NFL age with so much emphasis on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Game, you're talking about fifty to fifty run pass or yeah,
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  Speaker 1: back to the balance of it. Yeah, Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's always the goal. I think a lot of it's
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  Speaker 1: dictated by circumstances in a game. So obviously, games that
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  Speaker 1: you're behind two scores, it may be a throw game.
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  Speaker 1: At the end your numbers change, third and longer situations, again,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to throw the ball a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: just an attempt to convert. So but as long as
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  Speaker 1: you're managing the game and you're efficient in what it is,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, the ideal game at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: day would be a fifty to fifty split. Now, at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, if we're having success throwing the ball
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  Speaker 1: and that's the way we move the ball, I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if we throw it one hundred times and run
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  Speaker 1: at zero times. If we win the game that way, awesome.
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  Speaker 1: If we have to run it one hundred times and
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  Speaker 1: never throw it, as long as we win, awesome. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do whatever. So at the end of the year, when
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  Speaker 1: you look back and you're holding the Lombardi and you
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  Speaker 1: let you we were fifty to fifty, that's awesome. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: got so many touches as we spread the wealth. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll do whatever it takes to win a game. I
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  Speaker 1: don't we don't care who gets at how we do it.
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  Speaker 1: But we're just trying to score one more point than
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  Speaker 1: they do. At the end of the day, you expecting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of simulated pressure from Miami's defense, and if so,
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  Speaker 1: how do you prepare your guys for that? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean again, we're looking into the Baltimore family, and so
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  Speaker 1: if you look at that, that's certainly been a trend
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  Speaker 1: of theirs recently, and I think that's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: trend across the league, and that's been in college football
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  Speaker 1: as well, working its way up, and so it's certainly
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  Speaker 1: tough to deal with. That's something we'll prepare our guys for.
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  Speaker 1: That's something we've been preparing guys for since April. We'll
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in the off season training
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  Speaker 1: camp walk throughs of picking one flavor pressure package of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and we just will ten reps of that
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over so that when you get
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  Speaker 1: into a game like this, we try to wrap everything
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  Speaker 1: we could possibly we think we could see based on film.
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  Speaker 1: But we also have our kind of we call them SOPs,
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  Speaker 1: our standard operating procedure to fall back onto when it
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  Speaker 1: comes out that, hey, we didn't practice this this week
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, but we did in April, we did in August,
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  Speaker 1: and camp and things like that. So the simulated pressures
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  Speaker 1: are certainly thing that they've been very good at in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: We expect to carry over into Miami. But again we'll
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  Speaker 1: adjust as the game goes along. It's communication a big
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  Speaker 1: part of that process. It's a huge part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's similar to the run game of just making
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're all on the same page. We have
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  Speaker 1: eleven guys see it the exact same way, or we're
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  Speaker 1: in the protection world that we have seven eight guys
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  Speaker 1: seeing it the exact same way, identifying who's the mic,
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  Speaker 1: who are we going to, who's in the slide, who's not.
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  Speaker 1: All these different things that come up, and that's a
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  Speaker 1: big thing that you know, having a veteran center and
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  Speaker 1: having a quarterback now in his fourth year and our
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  Speaker 1: protection third year in our protection system, we feel pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about being able to get on the same page quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Thank thank