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  Speaker 1: How you doing. What's it been like these last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days, finding your new home.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 3: It's a crazy week, but I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to call Jacksonville home. Be a Jaguar, get
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  Speaker 3: to work, see the facility, meet the staff. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's been great, grateful.
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  Speaker 4: Did you know much about Liam Collen or his system anything?
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  Speaker 3: And I've heard about him, I've I've seen his success,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen the way his offensive run. I'm just happy
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  Speaker 3: to be here with him, talk with him, meet him
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  Speaker 3: in person, and go win some football games.
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  Speaker 2: What is it that sold you on coming to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of new potential and opportunities here,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I think looking at the roster, looking at
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  Speaker 3: the coaches, hearing what they're trying to do here, that's
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  Speaker 3: something I wanted to be a part of the change,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I hope I could do my part.
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  Speaker 3: I want to do my part. I want to win
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  Speaker 3: football games and get that done.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like you bring to the table here.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously we know you spend talking at all
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  Speaker 5: five positions on.
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  Speaker 1: The offensive line, So what do you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: can contribute.
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  Speaker 6: To jackson Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Some of that just wants to play and win.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I wanna uh, I wanna understand the technique better. I
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  Speaker 3: wanna understand uh coaches ideas of UH technique, assignment's fundamentals,
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  Speaker 3: and and master that so I could show UH. So
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  Speaker 3: I used to be a good leader in the room,
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  Speaker 3: you know, be a good leader to the guys. UH
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  Speaker 3: bring winning football here, and I just like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I wanna compete. I wanna help a team win whatever
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  Speaker 3: fashion that looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Do you view yourself as a guard and a right guard?
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  Speaker 7: Do you feel more most comfortable here.
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  Speaker 3: Or yeah, I'm comforble anywhere. I think I believe they
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  Speaker 3: brought me in here to play guard. But I just wanna.
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  Speaker 3: I wanna win and contribute.
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  Speaker 5: So how much pride do you maybe take in the
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  Speaker 5: versatility of your game just being able to play all five?
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  Speaker 1: It's not it's not very confident.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, uh, a lot of pride.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I I take pride in understanding the game and like
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  Speaker 3: understanding the technique. But when I go out there, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just a football player, and I'm an offensive lineman, whether
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  Speaker 3: at center, guard or tackle.
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  Speaker 6: I just that's what I.
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  Speaker 2: Wanna do Have you talked to any of new teamments yet?
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  Speaker 3: Every downstairs a good guy, excited to meet him, excited
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  Speaker 3: to work with him. But right now just a staff
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  Speaker 3: and then new people coming into at About technique?
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  Speaker 9: Is there something uh dramatically different that you're gonna have
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  Speaker 9: to learn in terms of technique here?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know. I we haven't started talking technique yet,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm sure. I mean playbook wise, I not have
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  Speaker 3: to learn uh calls, tendency, stuff like that. Uh, but
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  Speaker 3: that's all a part of it. I enjoy that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You talked a lot about being more physical upfront. Is
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  Speaker 1: that something you bring?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, you said, I mean, obviously you come from a
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  Speaker 9: program that's knows a lot about winning.
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  Speaker 7: What makes you think that winning's gonna happen here? Based
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  Speaker 7: on your.
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  Speaker 3: Conversations, the belief, the culture, everybody is on the same mindset,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's sending the same message.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And just the energy I know it's a whole new staff.
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  Speaker 3: The energy that uh, everybody's giving off is excited, ready
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  Speaker 3: to go. It doesn't feel like a four and thirteen
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  Speaker 3: team when I come in here. Uh, they seem ready
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  Speaker 3: to go, and I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 9: Youth I mean it's pretty young staff, young, GM young everything.
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  Speaker 7: Is there something about that that like is it exciting
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  Speaker 7: or big reading?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that brings the energy. But then maybe some of
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  Speaker 3: the old guys up there don't like that either, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they could bring the energy to.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe maybe that's it.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned a little bit about leaving beforehand.
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  Speaker 2: What hast have been like getting the note since you
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  Speaker 2: got here?
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  Speaker 3: Great guy, Like I said, it brings the energy, a
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  Speaker 3: great football mind, seems to be a great leader. I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to be part of his team.
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  Speaker 10: All right, appreciate Robert Hansey, nice to meet you all.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you guys for coming out.
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  Speaker 7: Uh Nick Mullins was coming in.
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  Speaker 10: I wish like that guy doesn't look as good as
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  Speaker 10: just this morning.
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  Speaker 4: What's it like in the stay with William and have
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  Speaker 4: that familiarity with what he looks for.
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  Speaker 8: It's super exciting.
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  Speaker 10: I really enjoyed working with Liam last year. I'm really
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  Speaker 10: looking forward to working with him again this year. The
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  Speaker 10: way he kind of uses his offense to his players
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  Speaker 10: strengths is something that I think that he's going to
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  Speaker 10: do a great job with here with the group we
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  Speaker 10: have in the group we're building, so I'm very excited
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  Speaker 10: to be here, very excited to work with him, get
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  Speaker 10: to know everyone else. I've already been a ton of
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  Speaker 10: people today and it's been a lot of fun. So
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  Speaker 10: we'll see kind of how things grow. But I'm looking
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  Speaker 10: forward to getting to meet everyone and get to work
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  Speaker 10: in a couple of weeks here.
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  Speaker 1: You hopefully you have this chance. When you saw that
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  Speaker 1: bitch Morris was.
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  Speaker 11: Retiring, yeah I was.
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  Speaker 10: I was hopeful to work with you know, Liam again,
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  Speaker 10: but as free agency was coming up, I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 10: I was going to. Look, I've never done it before,
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  Speaker 10: it's my first time. So sometimes I think things fall
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  Speaker 10: in the right place, and I think things happened for
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  Speaker 10: a reason. So I think I'm supposed to be here,
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  Speaker 10: and I have an opportunity to help this team, help
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  Speaker 10: this organization, which is always going to be my number
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  Speaker 10: one goal is to help this team win. So that's
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  Speaker 10: exciting for me to have a chance to do that
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  Speaker 10: with someone with some familiar faces and some new faces
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  Speaker 10: as well.
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  Speaker 5: What's it like being able to say Florida just not
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  Speaker 5: having to move too much?
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  Speaker 2: I guess yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I mean I just moved to Arizona, so super super easy.
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  Speaker 10: I do like my off season stuff there. So we're
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  Speaker 10: in the middle of that. But I mean, like me
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  Speaker 10: and my fiance mar like we love Florida, we're excited
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  Speaker 10: to be back and forth, We're excited to be here.
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  Speaker 10: Like there's so much opportunity. It's a new it's a
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  Speaker 10: new deal for us, and anytime that comes up, it's
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  Speaker 10: just looking the ways you can make the most of
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  Speaker 10: it in every situation.
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  Speaker 9: So going from starter to back up back to starter,
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  Speaker 9: is that how much does that you carry?
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  Speaker 7: Or like motivation you madea you didn't hear, you know,
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  Speaker 7: make the most of it the second time.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I'm always motivated to make the mostivated. I'm
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  Speaker 10: always motivated to help the team win in any way
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  Speaker 10: I can. I'm always motivated to be the best player
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  Speaker 10: I can be. None of that's gonna change. None of
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  Speaker 10: that changed last year, none of it's gonna change this year. Ideally,
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  Speaker 10: it's never gonna change because those are the things that
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  Speaker 10: are important to me. So I think being myself, being
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  Speaker 10: who I am, is gonna help this team. Uh So
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  Speaker 10: every day, just try to be the best myself, Try
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  Speaker 10: to lead others, try to bring others along, try to
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  Speaker 10: be led by those who can teach and who I
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  Speaker 10: can follow. Those are the things that are gonna make
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  Speaker 10: us great men and great players and the great organization together.
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  Speaker 10: Those are the things that I want to really really
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  Speaker 10: hang my hat on.
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  Speaker 7: Outsider, Are you work with Trevor and start pulling that relationship.
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  Speaker 10: He seems like an awesome dude. I just met him
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  Speaker 10: for the first time. We talked for a little bit.
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  Speaker 10: It's cool, I think for both of us. Because I've
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  Speaker 10: been in the system a year. I think that'll be
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  Speaker 10: helpful to him. He's got a ton of knowledge and
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  Speaker 10: he's a great player, so that'll be helpful to me.
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  Speaker 10: It's very exciting to get to work with another new quarterback.
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  Speaker 10: He seems like an awesome dude, like an awesome family guy.
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  Speaker 10: So it's gonna be a lot of fun getting to
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  Speaker 10: work together in a couple of weeks throughout offseason, mini camp, camp,
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  Speaker 10: all that stuff. I think we're really going to be
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  Speaker 10: able to grow and bond as a team as a whole,
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  Speaker 10: in a unit, in the offensive line room and offense
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  Speaker 10: defense as a group.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's going to be very very good.
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  Speaker 1: Look it out to you.
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  Speaker 7: Working with Liam last year, his approach.
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  Speaker 8: Strength, Yeah, I kind of allude to it earlier.
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  Speaker 10: I think one thing he does really well is he
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  Speaker 10: focuses on our strengths as players. Uh, he kind of
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  Speaker 10: has a he knows what he wants, but if we're
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  Speaker 10: doing something better, he's not gonna try to fit the
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  Speaker 10: square peg into a round hole.
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  Speaker 8: He's gonna he's gonna lean on what we do. Last year.
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  Speaker 10: You know, in Tampa, we didn't expect to run as
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  Speaker 10: much of gap scheme as we ran. We came out
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  Speaker 10: and like we were running it really well. So we
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  Speaker 10: leaned on that and we kept running it, and we
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  Speaker 10: kept running it well, and that became one of our
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  Speaker 10: calling cards. Even though when he got there around this
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  Speaker 10: time last year, that was not that said, that probably
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  Speaker 10: wasn't his original plan, but you can see how he
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  Speaker 10: adapted to it and used those strengths that we showed
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  Speaker 10: on film as a team and made it our whole strength,
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  Speaker 10: made it our identity.
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  Speaker 12: Is that adaptability part of the reason why you think
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  Speaker 12: he's the guy that can help get things on the
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  Speaker 12: right track here.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I think that's a huge characteristic for a football coach
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  Speaker 10: to have. You want to be able to listen to
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  Speaker 10: your players and do it put them in the best
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  Speaker 10: position to win. I think that's probably that would be
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  Speaker 10: what a lot of coaches will tell you, as their
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  Speaker 10: main job is to put your play.
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  Speaker 8: He was in the best position to win. I think
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  Speaker 8: he does a great job.
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  Speaker 10: Of that, and I'm excited to see, like what nuances
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  Speaker 10: he has to our offense because I loved it last year,
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  Speaker 10: loved being a part of it, Excited to play more
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  Speaker 10: in it because I think it, like I said, does
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  Speaker 10: fit us well. He'll make it fit the players because
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  Speaker 10: that's just how he does it. So I think it'll
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  Speaker 10: work really well.
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  Speaker 4: Robert, did you know Patrick McCarry at all? Have you
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  Speaker 4: ever bumped into him, met him? Or is that brand
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  Speaker 4: new relationship.
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  Speaker 8: That's a new relationship. He was.
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  Speaker 10: He's played with a couple of guys I know pretty
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  Speaker 10: well in college and when he was in Baltimore, So
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  Speaker 10: I'm looking forward to getting to know him, getting to
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  Speaker 10: beat them. By all accounts, he seems like an awesome dude,
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  Speaker 10: and the people I know said that I'm gonna love him,
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  Speaker 10: so I trust those guys' opinions too.
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  Speaker 5: Were going to stress the imbordance of you guys being
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  Speaker 5: physically dominant up front and running the football just from
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  Speaker 5: what you've seen from him from last year.
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  Speaker 1: How does he improve that.
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  Speaker 5: Aspect of the game, just just being able to be
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  Speaker 5: physically dominant running the football.
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  Speaker 1: How does he stress that? How do you guys feel
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  Speaker 1: about it?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: I think you know, again, like using our stranks to
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  Speaker 10: the team's advantage. That's what That's what's important to him,
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  Speaker 10: and that's why. That's how you become good run the football,
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  Speaker 10: not by trying to make your players do things they're
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  Speaker 10: not gonna at. You looked at like look at Tampa,
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  Speaker 10: how they how they improved last year. But it was
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  Speaker 10: you know, we all bought into the scheme. We bought
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  Speaker 10: into them as coaches, and that that's that goes a
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  Speaker 10: long way too. It was easy to buy into because
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  Speaker 10: of the way it's presented, because it's it's simple enough
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  Speaker 10: to understand, but complex enough to confuse others. And it's
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  Speaker 10: exciting to be able to take that next step in
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  Speaker 10: the same system. Some guys get new systems every year.
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  Speaker 10: Some guys stay in the same system or whole career,
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  Speaker 10: even though it's rare. I've had a few now, but
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  Speaker 10: I'm excited to have another consecutive one and grow in it.
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  Speaker 4: Were there other teams that you were kind of weighing
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  Speaker 4: on where to side with.
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  Speaker 11: A little bit.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm here now, and I'm excited to be here.
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  Speaker 8: This is what this is the most.
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  Speaker 10: This is what's the important because, uh, the opportunity I
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  Speaker 10: think we have here as a group, the opportunity I
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  Speaker 10: have as a player to get to know people, to
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  Speaker 10: grow as an organization, to improve all those things that
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  Speaker 10: we care about as football players, as professionals like this,
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  Speaker 10: this is a great place to do it with the
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  Speaker 10: right people in place, and I'm excited to be even
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  Speaker 10: just a small part of that.
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  Speaker 2: What's good as far.
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  Speaker 10: As here just that I know that I've been here before,
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  Speaker 10: we did our joint practice here. They have a great team,
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  Speaker 10: they have a great roster. I honestly, Liam had a
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  Speaker 10: lot to do with it because I know him and
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  Speaker 10: I trust him. I believe in him deeply that he's
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  Speaker 10: going to do everything he can to make this organization
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  Speaker 10: as best as it can be.
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  Speaker 8: So obviously that's the main factor.
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  Speaker 10: I've walked around for like three hours today, I met
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  Speaker 10: twenty people and they've all been unbelievable. So like he
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  Speaker 10: did a great job of whoever was here that he
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  Speaker 10: kept and whoever is new. I don't know who's who yet,
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  Speaker 10: but everyone I met has been awesome. And you know,
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  Speaker 10: as far as building a team, an organization and a culture,
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  Speaker 10: like that's where it starts. So again, like super happy
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  Speaker 10: to be a part of it. Glad they believe in
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  Speaker 10: me and want to give me this opportunity and I
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  Speaker 10: intend to not let them down.
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  Speaker 2: Team makes from those doort practices.
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  Speaker 10: Was just that it was hot, but uh no, it's
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  Speaker 10: like I know we have a strong we have a
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  Speaker 10: super strong group, and that I'm looking forward to getting
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  Speaker 10: to know them personally as well as players, because you know,
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  Speaker 10: the joint practice, you're still camp mode. You're going on
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  Speaker 10: your own stuff. You're in the preseason so playing like
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  Speaker 10: didn't play versus them last regular season. But as far
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  Speaker 10: as on a personal level, it'll be really fun to
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  Speaker 10: get to know new guys and make new friends and
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  Speaker 10: grow grow together. Like I said, and as football players,
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  Speaker 10: like we have a great roster. I think they did
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  Speaker 10: a great job with who they brought in. Like it's
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  Speaker 10: it's exciting. I saw it kind of as the process
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  Speaker 10: was going, it was like, wow, they get some we
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  Speaker 10: got some dudes, and it's gonna be a fun, a
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  Speaker 10: fun group to be around. When we can buy in
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  Speaker 10: to the culture, to the program, to what's important, that's
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  Speaker 10: it's gonna be great in.
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  Speaker 9: Thirty five your thirty six starts player snap is durability
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  Speaker 9: and availability with.
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  Speaker 7: One of your strengths.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's a Yeah, I'd call that like
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  Speaker 10: a that's a standard because the things you can control,
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  Speaker 10: you have to control them. The things are out of
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  Speaker 10: your control are gonna happen and then you have to
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  Speaker 10: respond to them. But as far as like trying to
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  Speaker 10: stay healthy, doing all the little things you can do, like.
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  Speaker 8: Those are just things you have to do as a professional.
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  Speaker 8: Try not to They don't take that stuff lightly.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, what was it like just the process of
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  Speaker 4: you know, what's the legal campering window.
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  Speaker 1: Opens and what was it like?
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  Speaker 9: Uh?
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  Speaker 12: It was it was actually the smoothest free agency that
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  Speaker 12: I I I've been through so last few years it's
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  Speaker 12: been you know, like some days weeks that I you know,
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  Speaker 12: we're you know, going back and forth with teams.
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  Speaker 6: So I think I feel like this is the smoothest
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  Speaker 6: free agency I've I've been through.
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  Speaker 12: What's coming to Jackson We were talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 12: just building the culture you know, and being a cornerstone
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  Speaker 12: of that that that rebuilding. I've always wanted to be
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  Speaker 12: a guy to you know, be known for that, you know,
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  Speaker 12: be known for a culture and be known to you know,
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  Speaker 12: change culture. So I I I I love uh uh
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  Speaker 12: a good competition and I love a good challenge. So
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  Speaker 12: I feel like this was ah the perfect place for
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  Speaker 12: for me to go out there and show that I
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  Speaker 12: belong in the NFL and belonged and to be as one,
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  Speaker 12: you know, known as one of the guys that you know,
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  Speaker 12: changed the culture.
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  Speaker 1: At what at what point did you know if you
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  Speaker 1: were calling ties with dallon space.
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  Speaker 6: It's funny every every every off season, I think I am.
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  Speaker 12: But uh but uh uh this time, w it just
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  Speaker 12: felt a little different because you know, I had the
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  Speaker 12: season I had last year, and people r start to
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  Speaker 12: recognize the type of player I was, so you know,
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  Speaker 12: it couldn't be hidden anymore. Uh, and you couldn't give
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  Speaker 12: me you know, just the the the the team friendly
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  Speaker 12: deals anymore. So uh that's when I recognized when I
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  Speaker 12: had the year and I I felt the buzz. I
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  Speaker 12: knew that, you know, maybe it might be my time
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  Speaker 12: to you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, separate what are you impressions of his energy is
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  Speaker 6: in his unmatched man.
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  Speaker 12: He was excited to meet me, and we talked about
• 14:03
  Speaker 12: you know, just changing the culture and me being you know,
• 14:05
  Speaker 12: in the forefront of that, and that that makes me
• 14:08
  Speaker 12: very excited. So I'm just excited to be a part
• 14:11
  Speaker 12: of something like that and excited to be around like
• 14:13
  Speaker 12: the mighted people that want to go out there and
• 14:15
  Speaker 12: and compete and and and change the culture and change
• 14:18
  Speaker 12: the way people see, you know, the the Jaguars nationwide.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: How do you would.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: You would contribute to that or as a leader or
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: or means as a culture center.
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: Uh, just you know, just being a pl football player.
• 14:29
  Speaker 12: I am just going out there competing, you know, to
• 14:31
  Speaker 12: my best ability of going out there trying to dominate.
• 14:34
  Speaker 12: And you know I am a bit of a trash
• 14:36
  Speaker 12: talker out there, so you know, just giving you know,
• 14:38
  Speaker 12: my opponent and you know, a rough day, so just
• 14:41
  Speaker 12: you know, hopefully that you know that's contagious among the
• 14:44
  Speaker 12: team and and and and just being who I am
• 14:46
  Speaker 12: as a football player.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: A lot is that where you're most comfortable are.
• 14:51
  Speaker 12: I actually started my rookie year, I started outside. I
• 14:53
  Speaker 12: started playing you know, uh, corner outside. So Nichol was
• 14:57
  Speaker 12: an adjustment for me, so I never I really didn't
• 14:59
  Speaker 12: play nickel until I got into the NFL, so.
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: I found the niche here.
• 15:04
  Speaker 12: But I I'm comfortable playing anything, honestly, safety, corner, nickel,
• 15:08
  Speaker 12: d line linebacker.
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: You know, I played a few you know, linebacker snaps
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: and that list.
• 15:14
  Speaker 12: But uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm comfortable doing anything the
• 15:17
  Speaker 12: team needs.
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: And you going out going out there and competing.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: What what what makes a good thing for uh, you.
• 15:23
  Speaker 12: Know, uh high IQ. Understanding what the offenses wanna do. Uh,
• 15:26
  Speaker 12: Understanding what the coordinators wanna do, you know, in the
• 15:29
  Speaker 12: run game and in the past game, and being able
• 15:32
  Speaker 12: to go out there and run with guys, so being
• 15:34
  Speaker 12: able to understand you know, how they how they wanna
• 15:36
  Speaker 12: affect us in.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: The past and run game.
• 15:38
  Speaker 12: It's it's basically you know, uh uh a more you know,
• 15:41
  Speaker 12: agile linebacker, you know what I'm saying. So, uh just
• 15:44
  Speaker 12: understanding those things and and and and being smart and
• 15:47
  Speaker 12: and and finding ways to go out there and make plays. Yeah,
• 15:50
  Speaker 12: that's just That's what I feel like a Nicholas You're
• 15:52
  Speaker 12: living the.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Better last year because you sort of take that.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Jump and that befos.
• 15:58
  Speaker 12: Honestly, it was just I knew that coach Zimmer put
• 16:01
  Speaker 12: an emphasis on a nickel spot, so he he he
• 16:05
  Speaker 12: put me in positions to go out there and make
• 16:06
  Speaker 12: more plays. I know, we were a match defense. We
• 16:10
  Speaker 12: were a match defense for the last you know, four
• 16:12
  Speaker 12: or five years. But he put me in positions to
• 16:14
  Speaker 12: go out there and blitz and and different things like
• 16:16
  Speaker 12: that to you know, you know, really just showcase that
• 16:19
  Speaker 12: I can do more than just just that. So he
• 16:22
  Speaker 12: put me in position to go out there and make
• 16:23
  Speaker 12: plays more so than I've been in you know, late
• 16:26
  Speaker 12: as of you know, those other years. And yeah, it
• 16:29
  Speaker 12: was it was definitely a good fit for me. Yeah,
• 16:33
  Speaker 12: I mean I trained like a maniac. I trained like
• 16:35
  Speaker 12: I just got out of the combine man. So I
• 16:37
  Speaker 12: know that's the basis of everything that I do. So
• 16:40
  Speaker 12: just if I feel like you can get better in
• 16:42
  Speaker 12: this league as you as you become older, and I
• 16:46
  Speaker 12: feel like I'm definitely still in my prime. I feel
• 16:48
  Speaker 12: like I've you know, overcome an injury and I played
• 16:51
  Speaker 12: really well after that. So you know, just taking care
• 16:54
  Speaker 12: of my body, eating the right things and and training
• 16:56
  Speaker 12: and and and keeping the main thing the main thing.
• 16:59
  Speaker 12: That's that's what I wanna do. So I want to
• 17:01
  Speaker 12: be a football player, you know, as long as I can.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Run so m and you can tell us about uh chuma.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, Man, he comes to work. Uh, he comes
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: to work.
• 17:11
  Speaker 12: He does his job, man, with the utmost excu the
• 17:13
  Speaker 12: utmost confidence, and he understands that any situation that he's
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: put in, you know, either he's he's being a rotational
• 17:19
  Speaker 12: piece or a starter. He comes in and he's he's
• 17:22
  Speaker 12: he's ready to lock in and you know, be an
• 17:24
  Speaker 12: integral part of that officeive line. So he's like a
• 17:27
  Speaker 12: spark plug man. He goes out there and do his
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: job at an extremely high level.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Seems like you brought a lot of your family here today.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Just what do they mean to you? What does this
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: transition mean to your family?
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: I mean the they mean everything for me.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 17:41
  Speaker 12: They my wife when I was going through my injury
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: in twenty twenty two, My Liz Frankauh. She's the one
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: that had to put up with me cause I knew
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: I was a I was a little mean back then,
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: but she she's definitely the the main reason that I
• 17:55
  Speaker 12: I came back to you know, full form and uh,
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: you know, just making sure that the house is right
• 17:59
  Speaker 12: and you know, the kids are right, and you know,
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: keeping me right mentally. I kind of joke with her,
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: but I think I might put it on payroll as
• 18:06
  Speaker 12: my pr r uh cause uh yeah, she gets me right,
• 18:09
  Speaker 12: you know, cause I do kind of fly off the
• 18:11
  Speaker 12: hinge on on ig and Twitter stuff like that. But uh,
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: she helps me out a lot. But yeah, she's she's
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: everything to me and my kids are.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: I just want to see my kids, you know, do well.
• 18:20
  Speaker 12: And I want their their their to know their their
• 18:22
  Speaker 12: their dad you know, just goes out there and goes
• 18:25
  Speaker 12: to work every day. And that's what I want. That's
• 18:27
  Speaker 12: what my legacy I w for my That's what I
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: want for my legacy to to show my kids that
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: that daddy went to work regardless of the situation.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: All young defensive backs on this team, how was important
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: is it to you just just become one of.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: The leaders about whatever.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: I I talked to Jarian a lot.
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: Uh we trained together in Dallas, and he he told
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: me even before I signed, before he knew I was
• 18:46
  Speaker 12: gonna be his teammate, he was like, I don't have
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: a vet, you know, I haven't had vets. So I
• 18:50
  Speaker 12: was just and then when I signed, he was just like, Man,
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: I I'm I'm willing to do whatever to be successful.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Man go out there and and and they have my
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: best year.
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: So he's ready there, he's hungry, he's accepting, you know,
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: my you know, uh, I felt whatever you know, type
• 19:04
  Speaker 12: of toolitch that I I had for in me.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: He accepts it. He's listening.
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: You can tell that he's he's actively listening and he
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: he's hungry for it. So I'm I'm pretty sure like
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: like him. Uh, the the the rest of the guys
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: are just like that. And you know, I'm just I'm
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: excited to you know, just give any lot any knowledge
• 19:20
  Speaker 12: that I can for those guys to be better football
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: players and better men. So that's that's a role I'm
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: I'm I'm fully capable of and I'm I'm I'm.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Ready to accept that. I that that res r responsibility.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Or changing culture.
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: You're what sold you that this coaching staff, this group
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: was the right one to kind of flips.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Things here in Jacksonville.
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: Uh you can tell you know the way that they
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: they they did things in the in the off season
• 19:42
  Speaker 12: with uh, what they focused on so I knew that
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: I was one of their first signings, and I knew
• 19:47
  Speaker 12: that they they wanted to change the culture. So I
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: knew that that that was the opportunity for me to
• 19:51
  Speaker 12: go out there and show people that you know, in
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: the NFL, that I'm a serious football player and and
• 19:57
  Speaker 12: show the the the Jaguars that you got the right guy.
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: So it was a challenge for me, and I knew that,
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: you know, we had the right people in the head
• 20:06
  Speaker 12: and they're signing the right people to go out there
• 20:08
  Speaker 12: and make change. So that's what I'm excited about, go
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: out there and make change because I'm I'm real familiar
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: with change in Dallas. It's been a few regime changes
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: while I was there, but and it was always a
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: challenge of you know, can this guy you know, fit
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: this game or with that scheme. So it's it's a
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: new challenge, and I want to show people that I
• 20:26
  Speaker 12: can do whatever, and I can be a really good
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: football player in any situation.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Than you appreciate.
• 20:33
  Speaker 13: I was very excited to stay with Grant.
• 20:35
  Speaker 14: We've worked together for the past three years and it's
• 20:38
  Speaker 14: been really cool to watch his development from starting out
• 20:40
  Speaker 14: as just like the assistant of the head coach, just
• 20:43
  Speaker 14: slow a year by year, just more and more football
• 20:45
  Speaker 14: game planning, and uh, I'm very excited to be here
• 20:48
  Speaker 14: and very excited to work with Grant and the rest of.
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: The staff.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Offensive actlib.
• 20:54
  Speaker 14: Yeah, he's super detailed. Any question, you're gonna get every
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: single detail to that answer. Great explanations, very clear, very
• 21:01
  Speaker 14: great communicator. He's a hungry young coach. I respect his
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: background so much, just starting out as a low level
• 21:08
  Speaker 14: assistant at Baylor and uh, you know, working his way
• 21:11
  Speaker 14: up and he's gotten everything that he's earned so far,
• 21:14
  Speaker 14: and and his skills creating matchups, getting guys open. He
• 21:20
  Speaker 14: did a great job of helping in Minnesota and can't
• 21:23
  Speaker 14: wait to see it come to fruition here in Jacksonville.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: What stood out about Jackson Well, why why pick here?
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 21:30
  Speaker 14: I think just all the opportunity, fresh start, you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: to help build the culture. It was great talking to
• 21:35
  Speaker 14: coach Cohen today, just the energy that he brings, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 14: obviously my relationship with Grant being familiar with the system.
• 21:43
  Speaker 14: I feel like we all come from some sort of
• 21:46
  Speaker 14: umbrella of the West Coast offense. Every team that runs
• 21:51
  Speaker 14: it has little nuances and differences but we're all gonna
• 21:55
  Speaker 14: be speaking the same language.
• 21:57
  Speaker 13: So there was just so much opportunity.
• 22:00
  Speaker 14: All the factors made sense, and I'm glad it worked
• 22:03
  Speaker 14: out the way that it did and fired up to
• 22:05
  Speaker 14: be part of Jacksonville.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: What was exciting about the idea of working with Trevor?
• 22:09
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean I I was telling him earlier actually
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: when I met him. I've had some some of my
• 22:14
  Speaker 14: best friends are actually the receivers coach at Clemson, and
• 22:19
  Speaker 14: uh so I've actually followed Clemson for like a long time,
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: so I got to watch him at Clemson.
• 22:25
  Speaker 13: And he's a great player.
• 22:26
  Speaker 14: He's done a lot of really successful things. He's got
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: every every tool in the bag that you need to
• 22:31
  Speaker 14: be successful. So I told him, like, I'm I'm here
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: to help you as much as as much as you like.
• 22:36
  Speaker 14: I like to think that my familiarity with the system
• 22:40
  Speaker 14: and the concepts that we're gonna run and the way
• 22:41
  Speaker 14: to operate. I feel like that's gonna be beneficial for
• 22:45
  Speaker 14: Trevor in the whole room.
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: And uh, I can't wait to get started.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: Grants approach help young quarterbacks or or developing quarterbacks as
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: you have.
• 22:56
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it just starts with like the foundation
• 23:00
  Speaker 14: when we get here for day one Phase one, I
• 23:03
  Speaker 14: assume that the installs are just gonna be from the
• 23:05
  Speaker 14: ground up.
• 23:08
  Speaker 13: Sorry, that's mine one year old crying out there.
• 23:10
  Speaker 14: Sorry about that, but yeah, man, you start day one,
• 23:14
  Speaker 14: Day one phase one from the ground up. It's formations,
• 23:17
  Speaker 14: it's snap count, it's emotions, and then you start doing
• 23:22
  Speaker 14: day one concepts and all, and all of a sudden
• 23:24
  Speaker 14: you look up and you have an install, and you
• 23:26
  Speaker 14: have a you know plays and at that point you're
• 23:28
  Speaker 14: able to run plays. And so like Grant's detailed philosophy
• 23:32
  Speaker 14: of just clear communication, explaining everything from a foundational level
• 23:36
  Speaker 14: and building it all the way up will be tremendous
• 23:39
  Speaker 14: for the whole room and along with Coach Waldron and
• 23:43
  Speaker 14: Coach Cohen and UH coach Whipple as well, like the
• 23:47
  Speaker 14: entire staff. Like I said, it's gonna be a great
• 23:49
  Speaker 14: foundation and be able to hear that as a younger player,
• 23:53
  Speaker 14: If you were a younger player, it'd be very beneficial
• 23:57
  Speaker 14: just learning the system, how it operates, what makes it go,
• 24:00
  Speaker 14: what makes it good, Why are these playpass concepts you
• 24:04
  Speaker 14: know so beneficial to the run game and how it
• 24:07
  Speaker 14: all marries together and there's so much that goes into it,
• 24:10
  Speaker 14: and they do a great job of teaching it. Is
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: it when you first pick it up by going to
• 24:15
  Speaker 14: be Trevor's first year in it right for a first
• 24:18
  Speaker 14: year seeing it, how difficult is it to get right?
• 24:23
  Speaker 14: I think the biggest things is, I'm sure there's other
• 24:26
  Speaker 14: offenses that are like this. I'm sure out there somewhere,
• 24:28
  Speaker 14: but just the fact of you can put anywhere or
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: any player at any spot on the field and do
• 24:37
  Speaker 14: whatever you want. I mean, really, it's a giant puzzle.
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: You got to put all the pieces in the right
• 24:40
  Speaker 14: puzzle to create the concepts to put the defense out
• 24:43
  Speaker 14: of disadvantage. So it takes a lot of hard work.
• 24:48
  Speaker 14: That's anything in life, you know, Like, it's a lot
• 24:50
  Speaker 14: of hard work. Puts a lot on the quarterback. But
• 24:54
  Speaker 14: previously it's been a lot of fun to play in.
• 24:57
  Speaker 14: And I know once Trevor gets that grasp, he'll fill
• 24:59
  Speaker 14: the same way about it, very.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: Similar age year.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: I think, what what's that like to have somebody like
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: so close to be you know, your.
• 25:10
  Speaker 13: Your coach, right, Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
• 25:13
  Speaker 14: I mean me and Grant and everybody else part of
• 25:18
  Speaker 14: that offensive coaching staff loves football. Like to be in
• 25:20
  Speaker 14: this business, you have to love football. So the commonality
• 25:24
  Speaker 14: of just loving football and it's it's worked, it's working
• 25:29
  Speaker 14: play basically, you know, he worked hard. You appreciate the
• 25:32
  Speaker 14: conversations you get to have about football, about life, about
• 25:35
  Speaker 14: all sorts of different things. You know, a couple of
• 25:37
  Speaker 14: fun jokes and stories along the way, and that's what
• 25:40
  Speaker 14: made that's what makes football so great is you know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: whether you're older or younger, you know, like just guys
• 25:46
  Speaker 14: who love football trying their best to achieve common goal.
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: Off the field, it's still coach the player dynamic. Don't
• 25:54
  Speaker 13: get it twisted. Good cool. You guys appreciate it. Yeahs
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: appreciate you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: What was it like the process of taking jackson.
• 26:06
  Speaker 15: Home free agency is always a whirlwind, and you know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 15: you never just never know what's gonna happen. So luckily
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: Jacksonville stepped up and we got a deal done. And
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: here I am and I'm excited to be here.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: What did you know or or maybe what have you
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: learned about the defense and coach and seven it sort
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: of why.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: You fit with the defense.
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: It's kind of a mix of trees.
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: So I know some of them, you know, have a
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: package background, and we kind of mirror defense from you know,
• 26:32
  Speaker 15: where I was at in Houston, so kind of the
• 26:34
  Speaker 15: terminology is similar, little subtle differences here and there, but
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: s schematically, it's pretty much the same from where I
• 26:42
  Speaker 15: came from.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: What do you feel like like you break to this defense?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: What what can you add?
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 26:46
  Speaker 15: I think just multiplicity At this point, I did a
• 26:49
  Speaker 15: lot of stuff of you know, playing down, playing high,
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: playing in the slot, so.
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: I had a variety.
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: Of places that I played on the field, and so
• 26:58
  Speaker 15: that's I think that's what I bring.
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: To the to the table.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: What's your first impression?
• 27:03
  Speaker 15: My first impressions, I haven't had too many, so they're
• 27:07
  Speaker 15: very limited. But I'm sure I'll have a uh a
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: bigger impression here later on.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Were you happy that you could stay in the division
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and have that familiarity.
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: No, for sure, it's always nicest stay within the division
• 27:18
  Speaker 15: that you've been playing in the last few years. You know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 15: five years I was in Houston and the familiarity between everybody,
• 27:25
  Speaker 15: it's uh, definitely nicest still be in the a FC South.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: What was the dealing from the other side of this team.
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: In terms of what what do you wanna know specifically, yah, h.
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: Wh when you were getting ready for them as a
• 27:38
  Speaker 15: Texan how your new team will Yeah?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: What what did you view the program for.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: What it was at the time as.
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: A divisional divisional opponent? We know they gonna bring it,
• 27:48
  Speaker 15: and uh, we gotta be on top of our game,
• 27:50
  Speaker 15: and whoever comes out and does the right thing every play,
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: that's who wins. So that's how we viewed it, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: that's how we view every game when I was there.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: So playing these guys for for years or however long,
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: you know, did you get time to learn any of
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: the new players or or any other players from the Draguars,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: become friends with.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Any of them?
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: Or I wouldn't say friends.
• 28:10
  Speaker 15: I mean you look at the scouting report every time
• 28:12
  Speaker 15: you play, so it's like, yeah, I've seen his face before,
• 28:15
  Speaker 15: so uh that's kind of where the familiarity it is.
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: But other than that, not really.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Thoughts about Trevor from playing on the other sideline.
• 28:24
  Speaker 15: Uh, real precise quarterback, go through his processes and uh
• 28:28
  Speaker 15: he can he got a big arm, live arm, he
• 28:30
  Speaker 15: can get the ball down the field and stuff like that.
• 28:32
  Speaker 15: So uh, real intelligent guy from you know, scouting him
• 28:35
  Speaker 15: on the other side.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: You switched teams a few times.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: What's the biggest challenge when he kept getting do in
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: your organization?
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: Uh, I think just getting acclimated seeing all these new faces,
• 28:46
  Speaker 15: like seeing new media people doing stuff like that, like
• 28:50
  Speaker 15: I'm bad at names, like I gotta do a better
• 28:53
  Speaker 15: job of remembering names, and you know, and just being
• 28:56
  Speaker 15: comfortable with where you live at and and things of
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: that nature. So I think that's always a hard part.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: There's what your defensive back.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: From this team is stuck into leadership role?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Important for you?
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: Uh, It's definitely important.
• 29:08
  Speaker 15: In the previous DP backfield I was in, I had
• 29:11
  Speaker 15: a lot of young guys there too, and hopefully we
• 29:14
  Speaker 15: can jail together and just work together. And you know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 15: they can lean on me whenever they can, cause you know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 15: I've been in the league for it's next year, it'll
• 29:21
  Speaker 15: be my tenth year, so you know, I'm an open book.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: Ye alright, thank.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: You, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Thank What was the forty eight hours like for you?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Did you have an idea where you might be headed
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and why should you pick the Jaguars?
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: Uh?
• 29:39
  Speaker 16: So, man, I was just working out and uh, just
• 29:43
  Speaker 16: back at home. I let my agent, Uh kind of
• 29:44
  Speaker 16: hindle everything because you know, I j it's a new
• 29:47
  Speaker 16: process for me. So UH, my agent gave me a call,
• 29:51
  Speaker 16: you know, Jacksonville, tell me about the situation. I think
• 29:53
  Speaker 16: it's a wonderful situation that's going on right now. And uh,
• 29:56
  Speaker 16: you know, I take it here.
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: Do you know anything about the coach many of the
• 30:00
  Speaker 12: coaches or players here before him.
• 30:03
  Speaker 16: Uh Brian Uh Brian Thomas Uh kind of new Trevor
• 30:07
  Speaker 16: a little bit already, not not necessarily like knowing, but
• 30:09
  Speaker 16: I knew where where it came from. Uh Clemson. Uh
• 30:12
  Speaker 16: played against him one year, so you know, I I
• 30:15
  Speaker 16: kind of like him what he did at Clemson, So
• 30:17
  Speaker 16: I expect big things.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: What is it about this team that makes it seem
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: like it's a wonderful tr uh transition?
• 30:23
  Speaker 16: Oh man, it's it's it's a change that's going on
• 30:25
  Speaker 16: right now. You know, there's coaching changes and stuff like that,
• 30:28
  Speaker 16: and that's pretty much where I just came from. It
• 30:31
  Speaker 16: was a whole like culture change, so and I c
• 30:33
  Speaker 16: I could see it, see it being here and then
• 30:35
  Speaker 16: making big things happen at the same time. So you know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: any little change k for a progress and for what
• 30:41
  Speaker 16: we want here at this organization for what?
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: How?
• 30:43
  Speaker 16: How they want things at this organization. Everybody wants to win,
• 30:46
  Speaker 16: and I feel like we can make things happen.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: Transition Is this you Worner Orner Raleigh?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: No?
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: How mey for Orneration Charlotte No, no what?
• 30:59
  Speaker 16: So it's time breaking down place out. I was born
• 31:04
  Speaker 16: in Newport News, Virginia.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 31:06
  Speaker 16: Uh Uh I moved to Charlotte when I was around
• 31:08
  Speaker 16: about five years old. Uh So I stayed in Charlotte
• 31:11
  Speaker 16: form most of my life.
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: Uh.
• 31:14
  Speaker 16: I do have some people in ra in Raleigh though, Okay,
• 31:17
  Speaker 16: But uh I went to school in Chapel Hill. Uh
• 31:20
  Speaker 16: and just you know, got drive by the commanders in it.
• 31:23
  Speaker 16: And my my home base is still Charlotte. So I'm
• 31:25
  Speaker 16: a Charlotte natives.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: What do you say? I mean?
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: Has it's all kind of the same region, right yup?
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: What is this for you? How big of transitions to
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: to to move out of that area?
• 31:37
  Speaker 16: Uh it's it's warmer, I can tell you that. Uh
• 31:41
  Speaker 16: it's not not it's not too far from home. But
• 31:44
  Speaker 16: uh you know, ma'am, I'm I'm just excited to be here.
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: Uh.
• 31:47
  Speaker 16: And it's a new opportunity and it's it's a change,
• 31:50
  Speaker 16: and you know we love changing and you know, only
• 31:52
  Speaker 16: be better with change.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: What kind of clicked for you late last season?
• 31:56
  Speaker 12: You explosed in the playoffs, cause the life is going right,
• 31:59
  Speaker 12: so situation right matchups?
• 32:02
  Speaker 16: Uh man f w I just think you know, first,
• 32:06
  Speaker 16: you know, I thank God for everything that that happened
• 32:08
  Speaker 16: throughout this past uh year. But I just I think
• 32:11
  Speaker 16: time and wise and what was going on and what
• 32:13
  Speaker 16: was in the plan at the time.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 32:16
  Speaker 16: You know, you can say things happen for a reason,
• 32:17
  Speaker 16: and I I was just given the opportunity, uh and
• 32:20
  Speaker 16: I had wanted to take advantage of the opportunity that
• 32:22
  Speaker 16: was given to me. And I'm uh grateful for that.
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: You mentioned Bruhan hu hu exhying.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Is it the you know, be in the same room.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: As a now uh man.
• 32:30
  Speaker 16: I I saw what he did this past year, and uh,
• 32:32
  Speaker 16: you know, and he's a dog, and you know, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 16: just being beside him, being two two dolls and being
• 32:37
  Speaker 16: two competitors, I think we can we can do big
• 32:39
  Speaker 16: things on this offense.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: What do you feel like you bring him to the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: table here?
• 32:43
  Speaker 16: Oh man, just just a uh that dog mentality uh
• 32:47
  Speaker 16: uh people can always evaluate. Uh, you you got a speedster,
• 32:50
  Speaker 16: he can go deep and all the other stuff. But man,
• 32:53
  Speaker 16: at the end of the day, i'm'a hold myself to
• 32:55
  Speaker 16: a highest standard and i'm'a holding people around me to
• 32:57
  Speaker 16: a highest standard. So just bring that dog mentality in
• 33:00
  Speaker 16: in order to be great and wanted to be great.
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: That's what I bring on.
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: Your deal is always kind of gambling on yourself.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: You like that?
• 33:06
  Speaker 16: Oh yeah, most definitely you have to gamble on yourself.
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: Who w a Suposta.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Game on somebody else?
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: How?
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Gambling?
• 33:17
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I t I take that bet on me.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Did you watch any.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Uh Tampa last year to get a sense of Liam
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: and what he likes to do offensively is see kind
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: of visualize yourself in there and.
• 33:28
  Speaker 16: You don't under so uh, I mean we played him
• 33:31
  Speaker 16: twice last year. Uh kind of got a good understanding of,
• 33:35
  Speaker 16: you know how how you wanted this office to go.
• 33:37
  Speaker 16: Then he had some some guys over there that that
• 33:39
  Speaker 16: made some big plays as well. Uh, you know, far
• 33:41
  Speaker 16: as the run game in the past game, it seemed
• 33:43
  Speaker 16: pretty balanced to me, And I think I think you
• 33:46
  Speaker 16: have some things to draw up for, you know, for
• 33:48
  Speaker 16: for the guys that's here, so I expect me things.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: You ever had too many opportunities so far in your career,
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: you know, to go out there, catch masses, all all
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: that kind of stuff.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So how is this for you to be able to
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: come in here get.
• 33:59
  Speaker 12: More just how much?
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Some times maybe potential? Do you feel like you have
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: to show to s to the rest of room?
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 34:06
  Speaker 16: Man, I at the end of the day, I I
• 34:07
  Speaker 16: still have to earn it. The opportunity that's given to me. Uh,
• 34:10
  Speaker 16: it's a handout. That's not something that I'm looking for.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 34:14
  Speaker 16: But at the end of the day, you know, uh
• 34:16
  Speaker 16: what the process is going through all of this, you know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 16: I j I just wanna go in there and work.
• 34:20
  Speaker 16: And I feel like there's there's a lot more on
• 34:22
  Speaker 16: the tank that I have that hasn't even been shown yet.
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: So looking forward to it as a.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Team last year, what what what end that playoff room?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Can you describe how it was the wife or whatever?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: We ah, Man, it's just.
• 34:36
  Speaker 16: Man, we w We were so close, you know, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 16: we was always always there for each other. We can
• 34:42
  Speaker 16: communicate like what we saw and and we had some
• 34:45
  Speaker 16: some older guys in there like Bobby and Zach Ertz
• 34:47
  Speaker 16: and you know they they kind of let Jayn Jayden
• 34:51
  Speaker 16: lean on them uh a whole lot more so, and
• 34:53
  Speaker 16: we all needed on each other. And we we had
• 34:55
  Speaker 16: some guys that can that played uh a different type
• 34:59
  Speaker 16: of role and for us, like how they had the
• 35:02
  Speaker 16: standard was it was always clear lit and we kind
• 35:05
  Speaker 16: of understood that. So I think that that run there,
• 35:08
  Speaker 16: we just fail on each other and became like kept
• 35:11
  Speaker 16: that brotherhood going. And that's what got us through the
• 35:14
  Speaker 16: the hard times, the tough times. And and you could
• 35:16
  Speaker 16: see like we were finishing finishing games. You know, like
• 35:19
  Speaker 16: a lot of games were close, but we'll finish because
• 35:22
  Speaker 16: that's what that's what we wanted to do. And we
• 35:25
  Speaker 16: trusted in each other to get things done.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: And that's what happened.
• 35:27
  Speaker 16: Go that fast in the locker room, oh l we
• 35:32
  Speaker 16: did last year.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: What's like is uh is a player going against him.
• 35:40
  Speaker 16: Ah man I and I I like him a lot,
• 35:42
  Speaker 16: you know I I I've been against him for a
• 35:44
  Speaker 16: couple of years and you know, he's he's real fundamentally sound. Uh.
• 35:48
  Speaker 16: He he get chippy a little bit sometimes too, but
• 35:51
  Speaker 16: I mean that's that that's a part of the game.
• 35:53
  Speaker 16: But I think him coming in just being a dog
• 35:56
  Speaker 16: that he is and being high he is. I think
• 35:57
  Speaker 16: he can make a big difference on the defensive side
• 35:59
  Speaker 16: as well.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: What's your special teams background? What's your role? Sorry, what's
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: your special teams background?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Your role for this team?
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Specialism life recording?
• 36:08
  Speaker 16: Uh so, I I didn I did did I played Gunner?
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: I did, Like I mean, the kickoff rules a little
• 36:14
  Speaker 16: bit different now, so I mean I didn't. I did
• 36:16
  Speaker 16: that too, so but for real, it's just man. Special
• 36:20
  Speaker 16: teams a little different. You gotta have a different mentality
• 36:22
  Speaker 16: of playing special teams. You gotta be a real dog
• 36:24
  Speaker 16: for that. So you know, I plan to bring that
• 36:26
  Speaker 16: here as well.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Armcher. Oh yeah, okay, right, th
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: Alright, thank you, thank you.