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Press Pass | Lawrence: "I feel really comfortable, I feel really confident." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: I've been, you know, super happy with obviously the group
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  Speaker 1: that we have from the talent standpoint, but even just
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  Speaker 1: the communication and the work ethic and the way those
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  Speaker 1: guys practice, it's really awesome. You know, those guys want
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  Speaker 1: to want to prize every day, they want every rep,
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  Speaker 1: they want to run every play, they want to be
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  Speaker 1: out there like that's that mindset is gonna help us
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  Speaker 1: a lot, especially come late in the season.
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  Speaker 2: The dynamic between Chad Paul and those guys, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I think Chad does an awesome job. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's definitely unique and the way he coaches a position,
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  Speaker 1: and I've it's been cool to see his perspective and
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  Speaker 1: the way he does it. I think he has an
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  Speaker 1: amazing relationships with all the with all the guys. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's why he's able to, you know, have those
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  Speaker 1: great relationships, is because he gets deep, gets to know
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  Speaker 1: him and I've I've seen that firsthand, and just the
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  Speaker 1: way he coaches him. I think he's really passionate about it.
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  Speaker 1: The guys can see that he played the position, he
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  Speaker 1: has experience, he's been doing it for a while and
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  Speaker 1: he's coached some great ones. So I think those guys
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for him. I do as well,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Wide receiver has surprised you, pleasantly.
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  Speaker 4: Surprised you the most.
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  Speaker 1: Surprise. I don't know if i'd say some prize. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think Kevin's having a great camp. Kevin Austin obviously,
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  Speaker 1: all of our all of our our guys right now
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  Speaker 1: is a Christian. Calvin and Evan ag all those guys
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  Speaker 1: that have been doing a great job. I think tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: You look at Garrett Prince has looked great. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's had an awesome camp so far, so I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: for him. Just to see him getting better and better,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. He's gonna help us a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think Elijah Cooks and Jacob have looked have looked great.
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  Speaker 1: All of our guys really from top to bottom, we
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  Speaker 1: have a really good group, really smart. They know the system,
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  Speaker 1: they know what they're doing, and you know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: always like that. You know, I've been on teams where
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys that might not be starters or
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  Speaker 1: second string guys, they don't necessarily know all the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. They're not making the plays.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems like every time you turn around, someone's
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  Speaker 1: making a play, no matter which group's in there. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's encouraging for us to see and just
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  Speaker 1: to have so many guys that are that are playing well.
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  Speaker 4: I'm much if this is kind of figuring out some
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  Speaker 4: of your guys catch radius, put the ball in different
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  Speaker 4: places to figure out if a guy can go make
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  Speaker 4: that play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely getting to know you know, my guys.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously I know Christian and Zay and and ag you know,
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  Speaker 1: we played played together last year or two years, some
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  Speaker 1: of those guys, but I know them, but still learning
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  Speaker 1: more and more, putting them in different positions. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: didn't run some of these routes last year. Maybe we
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, formation things a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. And now we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: give them some new plays, some new routes, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously Calvin, like every day is a learning
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  Speaker 1: you know, just a learning experience of you know, how
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  Speaker 1: to throw a certain ball, when to trust him on
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  Speaker 1: this route? When does I mean with him it's like
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  Speaker 1: sometimes he looks covered and he's not. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: just got that ability to go up and make a
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  Speaker 1: play and really great route runner. When do I trust
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  Speaker 1: him to win on certain routes? Like I think we're
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  Speaker 1: still learning all that. It's still early, but I love
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  Speaker 1: how our relationships coming along and our chemistry is growing
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  Speaker 1: every day. I think today we had some some nice plays.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like you have of the offense at
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  Speaker 4: this point than maybe a year ago? Is this something
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  Speaker 4: like you're fully have the whole thing under your belt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel really comfortable, feel really confident. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that's me, But that's also the other guys. We've
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  Speaker 1: We've had so much experience together and so many different
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  Speaker 1: situations we've seen. It's nice to be able to lean
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  Speaker 1: on those when you come out, you know, for your
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  Speaker 1: second camp in this system, to lean on some You
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  Speaker 1: can go back to week whatever fourteen last year and
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  Speaker 1: I remember checking this play against this team and this coverage,
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  Speaker 1: and so the call comes up again and you see
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  Speaker 1: the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, all right, remember when we did this, and
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  Speaker 2: you can just get to it quick.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that is that's so valuable when you
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  Speaker 1: think about an offense and just being able to do
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  Speaker 1: that and get yourself in the play that you want
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  Speaker 1: and as a quarterback that I feel confident and I
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  Speaker 1: can just go play free because I know what I want,
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  Speaker 1: I know what I like, and I know what my
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  Speaker 1: guys are good at.
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  Speaker 4: Play in a certain amount of preseason coming up these
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  Speaker 4: next couple of games.
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  Speaker 2: And what do you need to see here and in
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  Speaker 2: there to feel good? You asked, Do I do I
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  Speaker 2: need to play?
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  Speaker 4: You feel like you've got to get out there in
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  Speaker 4: these game situations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's something we're going to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's kind of whatever whatever coach wants
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  Speaker 1: to do. And obviously I think it's valuable to get
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  Speaker 1: some reps, and especially you got a few new pieces,
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  Speaker 1: get some get some live game reps where it is
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  Speaker 1: full speed, it's full contact.
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  Speaker 2: You know there's something on the line. You know. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's definitely valuable.
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  Speaker 1: You know, who knows how much that'll be, whatever it'll
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, I'll be ready. And uh what, you
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  Speaker 1: just want to be clean. You want to execute, you
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  Speaker 1: want your offense to look sharp, you want to you
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  Speaker 1: want to make the plays, you want to be smart,
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  Speaker 1: do all that stuff, and just be clean. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the main objective obviously, to play well too. But
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  Speaker 1: that's the same thing for whether it's a starters or
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  Speaker 1: whoever's in there, to play well and execute our offense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just like we're doing out here. Just carry
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  Speaker 1: that over to a different opponent and go win the game.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, however much that is, we don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the details in that yet, but we'll be ready,
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  Speaker 1: I need.
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  Speaker 3: Twitter has been asking have you even approached about the
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback series on Netflix?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I was approached.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I didn't decided to not do it
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  Speaker 1: this year, but you know, that was just something where
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, but just not the right time for me.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe in the future, but you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a really I watched the show though. The
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  Speaker 1: show was great. I think they did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: So but yeah, that's pretty much it there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certain questions for you to hear about guys on
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  Speaker 2: the white Coaches. We got good handwritings, bad handwriting, thanks Gyda.
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  Speaker 2: Question like who offensive coaches? It's kind of your right,
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  Speaker 2: well now, I mean, yeah, yes and no.
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  Speaker 1: When now we have so many different everything's printed off,
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  Speaker 1: it's done in a program like it's on.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing a computer.
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  Speaker 1: So everything's straight lines, it's type, so it's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: the handwritten stuff isn't as big now obviously, like you
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  Speaker 1: talk about notes and just drawing stuff up on the
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  Speaker 1: board real quick to you know, kind of brainstorm stuff
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  Speaker 1: is different. But now I got you got everything that's
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  Speaker 1: done on a computer.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's nice.
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  Speaker 1: But so I've had good and bad handwriting, or coaches
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  Speaker 1: with good and bad handwriting.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right. It's it's not the best, but it's
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  Speaker 2: it's legible. Somebody you came in with. Just what kind
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  Speaker 2: of growth have you've seen from him, especially having the
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  Speaker 2: last year. Yeah, he's he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: You know last year and our rookie year, he's he
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  Speaker 1: was kind of thrown into a spot where maybe not
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  Speaker 1: expected necessarily, but had to go in and start and
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  Speaker 1: play with And that's a I mean every position is
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  Speaker 1: tough to just to not expect it and have to
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  Speaker 1: go in there and play the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 1: but especially left tackle. I mean that's that's probably one
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  Speaker 1: of the harder ones. So he's done a great job
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  Speaker 1: and he's always been ready. That's something that I think
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  Speaker 1: we has been cool to see as a guy that's
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  Speaker 1: not a starter, wasn't a starter, but has been ready
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  Speaker 1: every week like he is, and then when he gets
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity, there's there's no drop off. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what you look for and guys in our team,
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  Speaker 1: and he's been a perfect example of that. And I
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  Speaker 1: saw he's ready for this opportunity. I think he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do great. Got a lot of confidence in him. He's
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  Speaker 1: worked really hard. I think you've seen him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get more and more confidence over the last two years
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  Speaker 1: as he's played more and proven himself.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he's not amate, but Justin Ross has made a
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  Speaker 3: few plays over in Chiefs camp.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen that?
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  Speaker 3: Just How does that make you feel knowing that that's
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  Speaker 3: a guy who you know he's had to fight for
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  Speaker 3: a spot in the winter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes me.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me feel happy for him. Just uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I played with him, I know him really well. We
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  Speaker 1: can't been together at Clemson. I mean, a great player,
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  Speaker 1: a great player and just the person he is. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a great work ethic and to see obviously the
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  Speaker 1: battles he's had to go through, some of the adversity,
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  Speaker 1: it's cool to see him kind of getting his opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope he, you know, just continues to play
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  Speaker 1: well and takes it and runs and the Chiefs use
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  Speaker 1: him well.
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  Speaker 2: I think they will. So, you know, it's been awesome
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  Speaker 2: to see from him.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I've seen that a million times in practice, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised at all, but see him get that opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: it makes me happy and I'm just excited for him.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned the knowledge of the oppers. Do you see
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  Speaker 3: that any speed unique decisions in speed and teams?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely? I think.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we still gotta this is the part of
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  Speaker 1: camp where we start, you know, starts becoming full speed
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  Speaker 1: contact longer days. We gotta do better of getting in
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  Speaker 1: now the huddle, you know, playing a little faster from
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  Speaker 1: that standpoint. But once we get into what we want
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  Speaker 1: and we get the checks or whatever whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: we get the changes done. We're playing really fast at
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  Speaker 1: the snap and so that's good to see. We need
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  Speaker 1: to get a little bit better pre snap, but that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna come. You know, you're playing with a couple of
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  Speaker 1: new guys. You gotta get all the kinks worked out.
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  Speaker 1: But I think we're playing really fast. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: my decision making has been, you know, much quicker than
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  Speaker 1: a year's past, especially at this point in training camp.
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  Speaker 1: And that's, like I said, just the confidence and my
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  Speaker 1: guys knowing what they're going to do versus different looks,
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  Speaker 1: and also being able to get to really the right
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  Speaker 1: play for for me, for us, for what we want
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys,