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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Preparation for Week 15 vs. Jets · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: There are uh going against Aaron Rodgers this week?
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  Speaker 2: Just what have you seen from him this year?
• 0:05
  Speaker 3: Obviously not the season that he would hope for, but.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Just what do you see? Yeah, I mean Aaron is
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: still still Aaron. I mean he can be He can
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  Speaker 1: be highly efficient, highly effective, still still can throw you know,
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  Speaker 1: accurate footballs, quick release. You know, it probably doesn't move
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  Speaker 1: quite as m well as he he wants he once did,
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  Speaker 1: but he listen, he's he's still an elite quarterback. And
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: you know that's something you gotta prepare for.
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  Speaker 2: I think you turn or you were forty one your
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  Speaker 2: first year with the Eagles, and he he just turned
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  Speaker 2: forty one earlier this week. Could you, like, do.
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  Speaker 3: You remember what your body felt like after all those
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  Speaker 3: years in the league at forty one?
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  Speaker 1: And can you imagine playing at forty one? Nah? I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's a credit right to to him and and
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  Speaker 1: and what he does in the off season, what he
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  Speaker 1: does during the regular season, how he takes care of himself,
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: because this game can you know, this game can can
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  Speaker 1: beat you down, you know physically, you know forty one.
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  Speaker 1: I was thirty six when I shut it down, so
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  Speaker 1: I was I think I was back with the Eagles. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, it's quality control. When I was forty one,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, in your mind, you still feel like
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  Speaker 1: you're twenty one and uh, and I know that's probably
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's not, you know, thinking twenty one, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, he's definitely Uh. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I've always appreciated about Aaron is just the way he
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  Speaker 1: approaches the game, you know, and and the fun that
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  Speaker 1: he has and and you know, the excitement you see
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  Speaker 1: around him and what he can create on the field. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it hasn't gone the way they were hoping for either,
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  Speaker 1: but still up some pieces.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who comes to mind when you think Jetstin.
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  Speaker 1: Williams, Javon Kinlaw, Sauce Gardener. I mean, just the list
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  Speaker 1: goes on. I mean this is uh, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a three and ten defense. I'll tell you that this
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  Speaker 1: is a really good defense. And you know that the
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  Speaker 1: pieces have been brought in too to uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do just that, you know, and and look it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're in the same situation we are. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: think they have seven losses as well that are one
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  Speaker 1: score games, you know, and and won this past weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So you know they're they're they're doing and saying the
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  Speaker 1: same things we are and looking to win a game.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, it's it's it's something that we've got to
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  Speaker 1: be prepared for and and uh you know, I know
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  Speaker 1: they will too.
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  Speaker 3: What do you make Uh, you guys were rushing running
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  Speaker 3: the ball reasonably well first six or seven games of
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  Speaker 3: the season, and then for some reason the last six games,
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  Speaker 3: even though you've bet in a lot of these games,
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  Speaker 3: you just have not been able to get running numbers
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  Speaker 3: where you want to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what does it.
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  Speaker 2: Plac a little bit as the white numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Have been sold low? Yeah, some of it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to look at some of the defensive lines
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  Speaker 1: we've played, you know there's some Just take take a
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  Speaker 1: look at last week, you know, with with those two
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  Speaker 1: big de tackles, it's gonna be the same this week.
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  Speaker 1: It's sometimes it's just it's just tough seletting. I think
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  Speaker 1: the thing that we've got to do a better job
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  Speaker 1: is just be more consistent in just sticking with it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I think that's been you know something over
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  Speaker 1: the years when when the run doesn't work early, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of tend to pull back and try to find
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  Speaker 1: something else to do. But I think you just got
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  Speaker 1: to continue to stick with it and and and you've
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  Speaker 1: got to make those adjustments on the sideline too, during
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  Speaker 1: during game halftime and then even during the week of practice.
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  Speaker 1: I think it you can vet some things out in
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  Speaker 1: the run game, as you watch film, as you practice,
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  Speaker 1: and and really try to find tune it just a
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: little bit more. But you know, I'll say this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the the guys we faced the last couple of weeks too,
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  Speaker 1: or are some good some good d line, some good tackles.
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  Speaker 1: We f we face some good ends. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: just sometimes it's a little bit harder when.
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  Speaker 3: You look at the these last four games. You you
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  Speaker 3: these guys that have played some younger players on defense
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  Speaker 3: with a little few more snaps in recent weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Did do you expect that to give That's something that
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  Speaker 2: you're consciously trying to do, just to kind of whether
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  Speaker 2: it's to provide depth or you want to see you
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  Speaker 2: want to give better evaluation of these guys moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expected that trend?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I yeah, there's a fine line. Obviously, this
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  Speaker 1: is not these aren't preseason games where you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: play everybody and get everybody in the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to win the football game, and and you
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  Speaker 1: play with the guys that that that you feel give
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  Speaker 1: you the best chance to do that. So if you
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  Speaker 1: have an opportunity to get a a young player in
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  Speaker 1: the game, uh and see, yes, you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: But but at the same time, you're still you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're still trying to uh win that football game. And
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  Speaker 1: and accomplished a few of your goals, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the last month of the season. Expectations for Evan availability
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  Speaker 1: and then Anton and Devon. Yeah, Anton illness been, he's
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  Speaker 1: feeling better, he'll practice today. You know. Evan's dealing with
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder obviously coming out of the game. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, won't do anything today. We'll rest him today,
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  Speaker 1: uh and get him back, but anticipate him, uh for
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  Speaker 1: the game you know, on on Sunday, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a third one. Yeah, he was fine. He played in
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  Speaker 1: the game, came out, came out okay, Savage, Clay Protocol,
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  Speaker 1: Savage was good. Ross as you saw the roster moves.
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  Speaker 1: Both those guys were good. Tyson came out good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we we came out, we came out relatively healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Win is there some energy you can pull from that
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  Speaker 1: to try and I guess help set building blocks moving
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  Speaker 1: forward the rest of the way. Yeah, I think, just
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  Speaker 1: you know, focus on this week. Just it was good
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  Speaker 1: to get the guys back this morning and and feel
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  Speaker 1: the energy from from a win. You know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter how it looks or how you get it, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you've got one. It's been a while, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you don't know how to react, you know, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: it felt good. The guys were were jazzed, and and
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  Speaker 1: it's something that we can build on and still got
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  Speaker 1: to correct the mistakes, look at that and focus on
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  Speaker 1: those and and improve, uh this week. But it does
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  Speaker 1: give you a little bit of juice going into the week.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Carrett Wilson and Davante Adams on the other offense,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how do you prepare for such.
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  Speaker 1: A talented do a Yeah, I mean two really good receivers. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the history DeVante has with Aaron is is well documented obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and and you're seeing more and more or the connection
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: with Garrett. Yeah, I mean, it's it's a it's a discipline.
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  Speaker 1: You's just got to stick to your job. You got
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  Speaker 1: to stick to what you know, you've been asked to
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  Speaker 1: do this week and how you've been how you've been
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  Speaker 1: taught going in, what the game plan looks like. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think too you can you can affect
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can affect the past with past rush
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  Speaker 1: and and design rushes. And you've got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that too. So work is cut out, you
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  Speaker 1: know for our guys. But you know, look forward to
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  Speaker 1: you know, Sunday and watching them play. Does it feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's been some progress made in the secondary as
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  Speaker 1: of late? Yeah, I think as the season's progressed, guys
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  Speaker 1: have gotten better. You know, I thought we you know,
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  Speaker 1: started the season, you know, we made made some mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the middle of the season, there were some mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've dust just kind of settle a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and guys are understanding and and rotating guys a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more too, right, keeping guys fresher as the
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  Speaker 1: game goes on is has helped us. And just continuing
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  Speaker 1: to coach and teach and uh has you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think has really helped our our secondary. They played a
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  Speaker 1: they played a complete game, you know, this past weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It was good to see what did you see from
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  Speaker 1: the combo of Antonio and Savage together on the field
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. Yeah, you know, I mean one,
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  Speaker 1: it just starts with communication. You know, both those guys
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  Speaker 1: do do a nice job there of just talking back
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  Speaker 1: and forth when they're out when they're out on the
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  Speaker 1: field together, talking with their corners and linebackers. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: sav had would love to have the one play back
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  Speaker 1: on the shortyardists play obviously, you know that he just
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  Speaker 1: he was just anticipating the potential run there. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it just kind of gives you I think
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  Speaker 1: what you're seeing. I think what you're seeing too, is
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: the growth of Antonio as the season has progressed. I
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  Speaker 1: think we know what you know Darnell is and what
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  Speaker 1: he can do and what he brings. But with Antonio,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: I think you're seeing that growth and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of maturity the more he plays, you know, in these games.
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  Speaker 3: How does the.
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  Speaker 2: Process work for Trevor getting cleared on the protocol when
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  Speaker 2: he's on IR Is he still commit every day to
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  Speaker 2: test him every day?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he still has to go through the steps,
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  Speaker 1: still comes in the building every day, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and just goes through it as if he were you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to play a game this weekend, you know,
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  Speaker 1: But I think in this case too, you can. You
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: don't have to. You're not gonna speed anything up, but
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: you don't want to. You know, you're not going to like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, either push him through or rush him through
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  Speaker 1: because you still got to be careful, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: with all of it. But at the same time, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of go at his pace and let him how
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  Speaker 1: he feels and his symptoms and all that kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff and and just go step by step. But he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't cleared a yet. Nah. No, mm mm