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Press Pass | Pederson: "You have to be efficient out here on the field" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. How's everybody wonderful? Wonderful? What day is it
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: that feels like Wednesday Thursday night, whether like try or
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: beat name Stamps at all or other other first teams. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be exciting just to get the
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  Speaker 1: team on the field, you know, against another opponent obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and then for the first time for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the coaches and new players and and
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  Speaker 1: uh really the whole team. So we're looking we're looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to that. I haven't said any parameters yet on
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  Speaker 1: how much plenty time people are gonna get. Try to
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  Speaker 1: get you know, um, be as fair, especially for the
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  Speaker 1: young guys. Try to get as many of the young
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  Speaker 1: guys in the game as I can. Um. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: I'll make those, you know, determinations. We still got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days here left to practice what you need
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  Speaker 1: to see from the guys out there on the field. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yesterday we went I went with uppers. Actually I went
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  Speaker 1: with the shoulder pads, um and you know, full pass.
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  Speaker 1: Today it's you know, for the first time in pads.
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  Speaker 1: It's just again, you know, the number one thing is
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  Speaker 1: player safety and protecting each other. Uh, practicing hard, practicing, fast,
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  Speaker 1: being smart about it. You know, nobody's going to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we try to stay off the ground, no life
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  Speaker 1: tackling things like that. But you're kind of getting used
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  Speaker 1: to wearing the extra gear now. Um, we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: getting into that part of training camp where things things
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  Speaker 1: get ramped up. Physicality, sting the team yesterday, I did,
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  Speaker 1: I did. That's that's encouraging, you know, and you know
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  Speaker 1: it kind of happens throughout training camp. There's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: those those warm, hot days where where you know, tension
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  Speaker 1: sort of builds and and you start seeing it back
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  Speaker 1: and forth offensively and defensively. And it was good to
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  Speaker 1: see and and but at the same time, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that we play smart play heads and
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  Speaker 1: control that rookies do. You learn more about them when
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  Speaker 1: they put the beds on than you have in the
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  Speaker 1: days previous. I think not only them, but I think everybody. Um,
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  Speaker 1: really you get to learn a little bit about your
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  Speaker 1: football team and the physicality that you know we talked
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  Speaker 1: about and um, but for the rookies too. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's sometimes sometimes the eyes can be a little a
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  Speaker 1: little more wide open, you know, in situations like this
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  Speaker 1: because it is the first time. But um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are these guys are pros and and they've
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  Speaker 1: they've you know, they've been doing it a long time
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  Speaker 1: and and uh going back to college in high school,
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  Speaker 1: so they should be Okay, it's been good. It's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been good. Um, you know, I really like where
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  Speaker 1: he's at mentally and how he's picking things up. You know. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think his you know, his connection with Trevor, and
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  Speaker 1: I see the communication with those two and and where
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  Speaker 1: where he's at and and he's gonna be uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a big part of the offense for us.
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  Speaker 1: The same thing. I like where Dan is veteran guy obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, kind of a sneaky, sneaky athlete,
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit sneaky tight end who I really like.
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  Speaker 1: And and I think he's in a in a good
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  Speaker 1: place as well. He was he was pretty solid during
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  Speaker 1: the Yeah, you know, it's unfortunate sometimes with young guys,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you hate to see it. Sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: put a little bit too much pressure on themselves and
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  Speaker 1: and just to try to do things right and compete
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  Speaker 1: and and I just gotta learn to relax and play
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I know things are gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: and and um, you know it's unfortunate, but I wish
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  Speaker 1: him well and hopefully we'll see him, see him again
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  Speaker 1: down the road to drop the place us on the
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  Speaker 1: two yard line during that two minute drill yesterday. It
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  Speaker 1: plays like that not concerning no, No, that would have
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  Speaker 1: been a tough catch to make anyway. Um, obviously you
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  Speaker 1: know game time and he knows it, and um, you
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  Speaker 1: know he'll make that next time, you know. And it
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  Speaker 1: was good to see because it was a chance for
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  Speaker 1: us in that situation too. You know, if you make
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  Speaker 1: that play, you score, you win the game, because that
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  Speaker 1: was the scenario yesterday. So um, now than week one,
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  Speaker 1: what is the status urge on? And yeah, again kind
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  Speaker 1: of day to day with both those guys. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna ramp them up a little bit more today,
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  Speaker 1: but still keep him out of the contact stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: uh just again just want to make sure that they're
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the with the injuries they have, they
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  Speaker 1: can be nagging and lingering and we if we don't
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  Speaker 1: protect him now, um, but but we're gonna continue to
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  Speaker 1: ramp him up. Are Uh foliage is a calf and um,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh just drew a blank on oh on Juan, Juan,
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  Speaker 1: where yet Juwan? I just drew a blank on Juan's No,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, no, no, it isn't it is a hamstring.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't hammy. Yeah, it isn't hammy. Sorry, No, I
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  Speaker 1: drew a blank because yeah, no kidding, no, But both
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  Speaker 1: those guys are doing really well. And what would you
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  Speaker 1: like to see him, you know, get better at and
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  Speaker 1: moving forward? Well, I mean, you know, I think just
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  Speaker 1: as he gets more comfortable with the defense, right, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I know, Coach Caldwell is really throwing a lot at
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  Speaker 1: the defensive guy, as you know, with information and volume.
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  Speaker 1: And again that's what that's what we need to see
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  Speaker 1: as we as we keep progressing here in camp. It's
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  Speaker 1: just how how these young guys handle the volume. Trayvon
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  Speaker 1: being being one of those guys, and so far has
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  Speaker 1: been it's been good. He's a you know, he studies well,
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  Speaker 1: student of the game. Um, he's hard on himself. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if he makes a mistake, he usually doesn't make the
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  Speaker 1: same mistake again. And that's good to see from young guys.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking that I did see that. Yeah, I mean, it's fun,
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  Speaker 1: it's fun. You know, it happens from time to time
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  Speaker 1: in camp with young players, and the veterans kind of
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of that. It's you know, it's just um.
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  Speaker 1: As long as it stays in good fun and humor,
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  Speaker 1: then then everybody's okay, A very serious. I didn't nest
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  Speaker 1: to see his reaction on it, but I'm assuming everything
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  Speaker 1: was okay. And and uh, you know, we're we've been
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  Speaker 1: We've been good since open competition at three year five
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  Speaker 1: spots on the line. I just wanted it does seem
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  Speaker 1: like you guys really wanted to work under the side
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  Speaker 1: of job getting the rest. That's certain pally that how
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  Speaker 1: do you how do you can do it? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's obviously we're early in camp, but but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we want to see Luke in there. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: want to see him with with the starters and and
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  Speaker 1: obviously Shatley and Ben Barton there you know, at the
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  Speaker 1: guard positions, and then and then of course with JT
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  Speaker 1: and and and walk a little at the tackle spots.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's just, you know, it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: these these days right here you put the pads on
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  Speaker 1: and this is this is where really the evaluation process
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  Speaker 1: comes in and then of course when you get into
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  Speaker 1: these preseason games playing against good competition, right and starters
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  Speaker 1: playing against starters, and and and you can make a
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  Speaker 1: a better determination, you know, obviously with some of these battles.
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  Speaker 1: But with Luke, you know, um, he's done really well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's not only going in as a potential
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  Speaker 1: starter at center, but then know Shatley can be the
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  Speaker 1: guard or you can move back to center. You just
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  Speaker 1: gotta have some combination of guys that that if something
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  Speaker 1: happens during the regular season, you can move guys around.
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  Speaker 1: When you see em got long runs, but he did. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to be able to see him in a real game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Sarah, Yeah, it's you know, it's exciting to
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  Speaker 1: to see him and where he's um come from, how
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of battled to get himself back on the
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  Speaker 1: football field, and um, you know, it appears that he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't lost the explosiveness, which is good. And and you
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  Speaker 1: gotta understand too, he's a young player. You know that
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  Speaker 1: that missed everything last year, and so you know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to treat him that way, but at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, we've got to understand that there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: some mistakes, but to see see those types of runs.
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  Speaker 1: Credit to the other ten guys obviously, but good to
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  Speaker 1: see compared to what we've seen here before. He takes
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  Speaker 1: through how you got to where did the guys getting
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  Speaker 1: one day off after a game and then a walk
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  Speaker 1: through the next day, so it's almost almost two days off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's something I've studied and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: in twenty one with my time off and and obviously
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  Speaker 1: went back and evaluated, you know, my training camps in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: and you know there's always that area around like day five, six, seven, eight,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in that second week, beginning that second week where
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of the soft tissue injuries begin to
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  Speaker 1: creep up and guys start missing time, and then at
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  Speaker 1: taxes the rest of the team and a position group
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And I just took a look at
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  Speaker 1: all of that, and I even looked at the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and how we practice during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's typically two days after a game before we're
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  Speaker 1: back on the practice field. So I kind of wanted
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  Speaker 1: to use that model just a little bit. In training camp.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of time together, Um, we still
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  Speaker 1: get the padded practices in that we need um and
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  Speaker 1: and yet try to still maintain enough rest and hydration
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  Speaker 1: and nutrition for the players, you know, within that forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hour window after games getting up. Well, that's the
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  Speaker 1: thing is you've gotta be are efficient out here on
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  Speaker 1: the field and and walk through in the afternoon obviously
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  Speaker 1: or you know a part of that. It's where they
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of the mental reps and then of
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  Speaker 1: course the physical reps are out here. But again you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we play Thursday and then we don't play again,
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  Speaker 1: you know until the next our Friday, So we've got
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  Speaker 1: time in between to get a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff accomplished and worked on. And you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what really what training camps are all about. We
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  Speaker 1: still don't play a game for another five or six weeks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a meaningful game that that allows us to
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  Speaker 1: to really prepare the football team, you know, properly. Now
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  Speaker 1: here we're talking about efficiency. A lot of times when
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  Speaker 1: you blow the more to end of period, it was
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  Speaker 1: like a couple of minutes that left on a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean you're getting that efficiency and you're accomplished
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  Speaker 1: with what you needed and okay, we can move on
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  Speaker 1: that here, yeah, you know, and in my philosophy there
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  Speaker 1: too is is uh, you know, I try to keep
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  Speaker 1: the number of minutes on the clock to about the
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  Speaker 1: number of plays, and then as we go I'll increase
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  Speaker 1: the number of plays to eat up the number of
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  Speaker 1: minutes remaining in that period, if that makes If that
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  Speaker 1: makes sense, And that's all part of the progression of
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  Speaker 1: sort of ramping up, you know, these practices and again
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  Speaker 1: being more efficient, you know, with what we're doing is
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  Speaker 1: being able to increase a period by two or three
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  Speaker 1: or four reps. And um, I'm keeping a track of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm keeping track of that as far as
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  Speaker 1: what what periods have time remaining. I'm not a big
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  Speaker 1: guy that I don't want to repeat a lot of
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  Speaker 1: plays if we don't have to, um, unless there's a
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  Speaker 1: false start offside something like that. Um. And and we
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  Speaker 1: can and we can kind of, you know, we can
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  Speaker 1: fix issues in the classroom, you know, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: that's where we do a lot of this stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: the guys have been doing a really good job and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we just got to clean up clean up
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  Speaker 1: a few areas. But but doing well there maybe an
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  Speaker 1: all size or a a fall start here and there. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you're not wasting a whole lot of time explaining the
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  Speaker 1: signs to guys or somebody missing a sigmon, or you're
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  Speaker 1: not going over and over stuff like that that they
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  Speaker 1: seem to know. That's that's not the issy, right And
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  Speaker 1: and that's the thing now that we've had time together
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  Speaker 1: and the guys are understanding the drills and the tempo
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  Speaker 1: and what we're trying to get done. Um, we are.
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  Speaker 1: We are more efficient that way, you know when we
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  Speaker 1: you know, blow a horn and start the next period
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Um, you know we're moving from drill to
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  Speaker 1: drill and and and getting things done the offense. What
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  Speaker 1: did you make with that? It happens honestly, Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: camp we have a certain so we don't game plan
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  Speaker 1: our defense. Defense doesn't game plan the offense. We're all
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  Speaker 1: in this. We're in this evaluation phase, right. That's what
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  Speaker 1: training camps about, is about evaluating. And and so we
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  Speaker 1: just as as press puts the installations together at night, Um,
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  Speaker 1: we have certain things that we just want to work
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  Speaker 1: on for that particular day. So we were not taking
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  Speaker 1: advantage right now by not game planning our defense certain
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  Speaker 1: coverages and certain looks. So there's gonna be. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be sometimes when it doesn't look very pretty. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. It's all for us right now. It's about assignments,
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  Speaker 1: it's about alignment, executing the play. Obviously, Look, you're get
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  Speaker 1: in the game, I'm gonna call a play that might
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  Speaker 1: not be great against the coverage we see. So the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback has to make us right. Uh, and so we
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  Speaker 1: like to see that as well, you know when we're
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  Speaker 1: in drills like that. The communication within the coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: been within uh, the offense and defensive teams, like every
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  Speaker 1: communication has been great so far, it really has. Um
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  Speaker 1: And again, like the players, you know, we it starts
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  Speaker 1: with me obviously, Um, you know, having having a virtual
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  Speaker 1: staff meeting in the morning, let's just get everybody on
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  Speaker 1: the same page for the day and going through a
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  Speaker 1: little injury medical updates and and and then just planning
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  Speaker 1: from there. And coordinators have done a great job of
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  Speaker 1: communicating with one another and what we're trying to get done.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, um, that's what it's what it takes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be a a cohesive staff and a
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  Speaker 1: successful staff is having having great communication, all right. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys,