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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Jaguars Mindset, "Killer Instinct", Heading into Week 18 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We can start with Gary, then go to Mark Long.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Hey, coach, A you doing good?
• 0:08
  Speaker 3: Hey, Liam? This week may not be the time for
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  Speaker 3: it because you got a game that you know obviously
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: still has some implications. But do you have or have
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: you talked to the younger guys about how playoff football
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: is different or do you think that the preparation for
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: the playoffs is going to be significantly different than than
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: during the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we haven't had any of those conversations. I agree
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  Speaker 4: with what you're saying. I've felt that twenty eighteen, we've
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  Speaker 4: played the Dallas Cowboys in a playoff game, which was
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  Speaker 4: my first ever playoff game experience in the National Football League,
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  Speaker 4: and I felt from the box a different speed, physicality,
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  Speaker 4: all of that in a playoff game versus a regular
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: season game in a lot of ways. Now, I think
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: that the last x amount of games have been in
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  Speaker 4: a lot of ways around the league, you watch playoff
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  Speaker 4: caliber type games not quite there. I mean, you watch
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  Speaker 4: that rams Seahawks game, a couple of what is it
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  Speaker 4: last week or whatever it was that was a playoff
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  Speaker 4: football game, and you watch a lot of these games
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  Speaker 4: around the league, and so I think it's trending that
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  Speaker 4: way towards the end of the season as you're playing
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  Speaker 4: meaningful games in December and January, and.
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  Speaker 2: This week for us will be no different.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we're playing for a division, We're obviously playing
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  Speaker 4: for a number of things, and for us to go
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  Speaker 4: and execute at the level we need to, it needs
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  Speaker 4: to be trending towards playoff football. And I think a
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  Speaker 4: lot of these guys will understand that this week.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you failing about I know, you know it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to win in the league, but how big was that
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  Speaker 1: win in terms of road game? After a game you're
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: down a starting cornerback, down to a starting offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: guys sick. You know, that kind of situation is just
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  Speaker 1: really hard, and how how basically proud of your team
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  Speaker 1: are you with that kind of adversity?
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  Speaker 2: Very much?
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, that's the warrior mentality we've been talking
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  Speaker 4: about for quite some time since Houston was getting the
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  Speaker 4: job done, regardless of the circumstances and regardless of you know,
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  Speaker 4: guys being at one hundred percent or you know, the
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  Speaker 4: amount of people we had sick during the week, or
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  Speaker 4: the amount of guys playing in different spots they hadn't
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  Speaker 4: played or whatever it is and getting the job done regardless.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm proud of is no excuses, no flinch,
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  Speaker 4: no blink, just keep competing, especially down ten on the road.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that was a Super Bowl contending team right
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  Speaker 4: a few weeks back with what a different quarterback. So
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  Speaker 4: that's still a pretty good, damn good football team, a
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  Speaker 4: well coached football team. And you know, I thought they
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  Speaker 4: actually had a pretty good crowd for being the circumstances there,
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  Speaker 4: and so you know, that's a good win.
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  Speaker 2: That's any of these are good. But you know, to
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  Speaker 2: not play great in the red.
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  Speaker 4: Zone offensively, and they have a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: slow start as a team.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, uh, it was a gritty win for our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Miah, followed by Justin.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Liam, now that you've watched the tape back, knowing
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  Speaker 5: you had those two offensive linemen starting offensive lineman out,
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  Speaker 5: obviously Walker has started a bunch this year, how would
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  Speaker 5: you evaluate the play of that front five.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they actually did some really good things, you know,
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  Speaker 4: through it thirty six times I think, and he got
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  Speaker 4: hit some, but they were they were pressuring, they were
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  Speaker 4: dial they were mixing it up with three four man
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  Speaker 4: five man, six man pressures, they did a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Scuse me.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Trevor and the guys up front handled a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the things. They were doing well. We beat
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  Speaker 4: the blitz a lot, and then he just they just
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  Speaker 4: kept bringing it. So you're going to get some hits
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  Speaker 4: on the quarterback and that's the way it is. So
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  Speaker 4: I thought those guys played well. I thought we run
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  Speaker 4: We ran it better, like we blocked better in the
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  Speaker 4: run game. Still some hidden yards that were missing that
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  Speaker 4: we need to take advantage of, whether it's at the
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  Speaker 4: running back position, tight end, whatever it is. We can
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  Speaker 4: clean up some of that, but with multiple players playing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, without a ton of reps.
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  Speaker 2: I was. I was proud of that group.
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  Speaker 5: So you can let Grant know that I do have
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  Speaker 5: the stat, thanks to Action Sports jacks from Dan Griffiths,
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  Speaker 5: forty three percent of Trevor's block dropbacks. Excuse me, he's
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  Speaker 5: been blitzed over the last month and he's had a
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  Speaker 5: sixty five percent completion percentage, five touchdown, zero picks during
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  Speaker 5: that time. So do let Grant know we have the stat.
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  Speaker 5: My question for you because I last week I asked
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  Speaker 5: him if he had it and he didn't. My question
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  Speaker 5: for you is why do you think teams continue to
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  Speaker 5: blitz him even though he's had success against it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't excuse me, I don't really know.
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  Speaker 4: I really appreciate Grant and Spence and Shane, all these
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  Speaker 4: guys their attention to detail when it comes to our
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  Speaker 4: blitz plan and the amount of different ways that we
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  Speaker 4: were able to kind of beat the blitz yesterday. I
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  Speaker 4: thought was you look at the second play of the game.
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  Speaker 4: That was a check to TJ on that drive, the
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  Speaker 4: outcut to Parker that was a check, the run the
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  Speaker 4: DJ Dallas that was a check. Those were all what
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  Speaker 4: we call toolbox plays, and those aren't in the play call.
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  Speaker 4: Like those were not in the play call. That is
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  Speaker 4: Trevor using the toolbox that he has at his disposal
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  Speaker 4: each week based on the look that he's being presented
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  Speaker 4: and getting us into those plays.
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  Speaker 2: So that's preparation.
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  Speaker 4: It's you know, obviously those guys schematically having that plan
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  Speaker 4: and coming up with that plan and then giving him
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  Speaker 4: those looks throughout the week so that he's prepared for
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  Speaker 4: those looks in those moments and going out and executing
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  Speaker 4: it at a high level. So I was very proud
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  Speaker 4: of the way that Trevor handled the blitz, the way
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  Speaker 4: that we were prepared for the pressure.
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  Speaker 2: We knew they were going to jump it up more.
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  Speaker 4: But as a play caller, it gets hard because you're like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 4: we just beat the blitz three four times.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking it's going to stop, but then it.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't, and so you're like, well, all right, we guess
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought they handled it really well.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome, Thanks Liam.
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  Speaker 1: Justin followed by d Rock.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Liam, how's it going good? You mentioned Houston today.
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  Speaker 6: You talked about it last week about the kind of
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  Speaker 6: postgame locker room scene. What was it about that loss
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  Speaker 6: and after the lass and what transpired in the locker
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  Speaker 6: room that has kind of helped you guys win seven
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  Speaker 6: games after that?
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  Speaker 4: Honesty, you know, real conversations.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think credit.
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  Speaker 4: All of us, you know, players, coaches, everybody in here
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  Speaker 4: looking ourselves in the mirror and having some honest evaluations
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  Speaker 4: and conversations and taking that information, coaching points, reflection, whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is, and doing something with it and doing something
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  Speaker 4: about it. So I won't get into too many of
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  Speaker 4: the actual conversations and details that occurred, but it was
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  Speaker 4: at multiple different positions, multiple different sides of ball. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we just needed to have some honest converse about what
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  Speaker 4: we really wanted this thing to look like at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day. And credit this team for being
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  Speaker 4: honest with themselves, with each other and coming together because
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  Speaker 4: of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so many times we.
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  Speaker 4: Learn and grow in life through hard stuff, hard things,
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  Speaker 4: hard times, and football is no different. That's why this sport,
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  Speaker 4: that's why you want kids to play this sport.
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  Speaker 2: It's not for the glory.
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  Speaker 4: It's because of the life lessons that you learn throughout
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  Speaker 4: this process that helps you become a better person, player,
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  Speaker 4: all those things. And I think that's maybe an example
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  Speaker 4: of what occurred there.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you you Rock, followed by Shipley.
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  Speaker 8: Hayley and you talked last night about trying to teach
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  Speaker 8: this team to close out games offensively. How close do
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  Speaker 8: you think you guys are to being able to do
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  Speaker 8: that on a consistent basis? And is that basically just
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  Speaker 8: another way of developing a killer instinct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's what you're trying to develop.
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  Speaker 4: Look, there's a play there, a block, a technique, a
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  Speaker 4: call like, there's a number of different ways that you
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  Speaker 4: can execute better at the end of the game when
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  Speaker 4: a team knows you're running the football right like you're
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  Speaker 4: not going to throw it. You've got three runs essentially
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  Speaker 4: to get them to end the you know, to end
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  Speaker 4: the football game. And so it is usually the most challenging.
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  Speaker 4: That was the most stressful time when I coached for
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  Speaker 4: the Rams. Being on the headset with Sean was in
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  Speaker 4: for a minute, you know, just because you know you've
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  Speaker 4: got an opportunity to win the game. You want to
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  Speaker 4: close it out on the offense's terms. And you know, look,
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  Speaker 4: there's a couple of things here and there that you
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  Speaker 4: can fix.
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  Speaker 2: A play call, a detail, a block.
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  Speaker 4: It's sometimes just one block that can get made and
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  Speaker 4: you end up picking up that first down. So that's
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  Speaker 4: why you want to consistently try to do that because
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  Speaker 4: that builds confidence, It builds that killer instinct you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, to be able to go forward as
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  Speaker 4: an offense, as a team, you want to be able
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  Speaker 4: to do those things and that's what that's what winning
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  Speaker 4: teams do.
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  Speaker 8: And just building a little bit more on Trevor against
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  Speaker 8: the Blitz recently, when did you kind of feel like, Okay,
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  Speaker 8: he's really rolling with this at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Man I'm trying to think back to any specific time.
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  Speaker 2: I just I think, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, his preparation has I think just consistently evolved and
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  Speaker 4: gotten better and better each week. How on it he's
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  Speaker 4: been with the looks He's seeing the amount of time
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  Speaker 4: that he and Spence and Grant these guys spend extra
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  Speaker 4: just looking at these looks and presenting them these looks,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's in the walkthrough meetings practice, giving those guys,
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  Speaker 4: giving Trevor as many different scenarios as possible, but honing
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  Speaker 4: in those scenarios and really detailing when they could show
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  Speaker 4: up and giving them a toolbox. That is, he's got options.
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  Speaker 4: But maybe it's not like, Okay, the whole menu is
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  Speaker 4: up every week, right Like, these are the specific things
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  Speaker 4: that we may want to get to versus this team
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  Speaker 4: specific blitz package. And he's done a nice job executing it.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not just him, right Like, he has to
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  Speaker 4: ultimately get us in the right call, but the other
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  Speaker 4: ten have to go and execute it as well. It's
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  Speaker 4: not like he's just making one check and it just
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  Speaker 4: affects him. It may affect the entire play. All other
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  Speaker 4: ten players have to execute and credit those guys for
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  Speaker 4: being able to to do that on a weekend, week
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  Speaker 4: out basis.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, John Shipley, Hey, thanks for doing this.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about going into the game Jena Manheim, just
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  Speaker 4: not really seeing him in that road setting before. How
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  Speaker 4: do you think he did and what does it do
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  Speaker 4: for you as a coach just now knowing what he
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  Speaker 4: kind of looks.
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  Speaker 2: Like in that setting. Yeah, I thought he did a
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  Speaker 2: great job. The operation was clean.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't feel like there was any you know, real issues
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  Speaker 4: from that standpoint or handling, the silent handling multiple different
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  Speaker 4: cadences throughout the game. His snaps were all really good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I didn't feel any any sort of difference.
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  Speaker 4: So credit a guy that has prepared the right way
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  Speaker 4: all season long every week. You really can tell Jonahs
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  Speaker 4: locked into the plan. He takes so much from Hainsey.
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  Speaker 4: They communicate so much. That group is communicated at a
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  Speaker 4: high level. And credit the coaching staff for continuous working
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  Speaker 4: with him to get him prepared.
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  Speaker 2: And I was. I was proud of Jonah. Thankscellent.
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  Speaker 1: We can finish it out with Travis followed by t Wig.
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  Speaker 2: We can take one question a piece.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for doing this, Liam, I just wanted to get
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  Speaker 6: your thoughts on the overall special teams game. I know
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  Speaker 6: the Colts had a few disposed to returns in the
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  Speaker 6: kick return game. Uh, just wanted your overall thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, look, the Colts, that's a good special
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  Speaker 4: teams group.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they're slot I knew when doing was activated.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little concern going into the game.
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  Speaker 4: He's a really good special teams player, not just in
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  Speaker 4: the return game, but he's one of the best gunners
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL. So you know, you knew that they
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  Speaker 4: would have a spark there with him. We played a
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  Speaker 4: little bit outside of our jobs on a few of
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  Speaker 4: those returns that we need we needed to clean up,
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  Speaker 4: and then we had the silly the block in the
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  Speaker 4: back on the return that we get out to the
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  Speaker 4: fifty and instead we're backed up to the eighteen. That's
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  Speaker 4: a thirty yard penalty there. So that was critical. But
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  Speaker 4: that being said, I thought our specialists played special Ross Cam, Logan,
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  Speaker 4: Cam making two critical huge kicks, Logan flipping the field
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  Speaker 4: on a big time punt where Ray makes the great
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  Speaker 4: play as the gunner. Ross was automatic with his snaps,
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  Speaker 4: and Leaquinn Allen did a great job on teams as well,
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  Speaker 4: so a couple of things to clean up, but I
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  Speaker 4: know that that group will continue to respond and they're
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  Speaker 4: doing a great job for us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, Tony Wiggins, coach.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for your time. How have you gotten these guys
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  Speaker 7: to focus on the next play when a play doesn't
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  Speaker 7: go the way like the lateral or the throw by Trevor.
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  Speaker 7: How have you been able to get them Okay, that's
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  Speaker 7: over with, Let's move on and get to the next play.
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  Speaker 7: It seems like it's seamless, but we're used to something else.
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  Speaker 7: We're used to live being in that funp for a
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  Speaker 7: long time. But under your leadership, they're able to move
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  Speaker 7: from a negative play to a positive play really, really quickly.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 4: That's something that we've stressed a lot here is playing
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  Speaker 4: the next play like that.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about that so often and how good, bad or.
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  Speaker 4: Ugly what just happened does not matter. The most important
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  Speaker 4: thing is the next play. And we've talked a lot
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  Speaker 4: as coaches that we've got to be caddies in these
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  Speaker 4: games in a lot of ways, where caddy it's like man,
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  Speaker 4: next shot. It doesn't matter what just happened, right, It's
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  Speaker 4: a next shot. Mentality, give them the next club and
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  Speaker 4: let them go hit the next shot with confidence. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's really what it comes down to. You go back
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  Speaker 4: to Tin Cup and remember in that clip where he
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  Speaker 4: hits seven balls in the water and he just keeps
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  Speaker 4: yeh and keep giving you the club. And that's our jobs.
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  Speaker 4: Our jobs specifically on game day is it does not
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  Speaker 4: matter what just occurred. Let's live in the moment. Let's
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  Speaker 4: stay where our feed are. Like our whole culture of cleats, commitment, love, energy, authentic, tough, smart.
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  Speaker 4: What that means.
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  Speaker 2: Is to be where your feet are, cleats in.
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  Speaker 4: The ground, be where your feet are. The next play
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  Speaker 4: is the most important play, and that's got to be
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  Speaker 4: the way that we live living in the moment. For
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  Speaker 4: us as a team, it's the same reason why we
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: haven't talked about the playoffs. We haven't talked about the division,
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  Speaker 4: we haven't talked about the conference, we haven't talked about
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  Speaker 4: the super Bowl. We're talking about going want to know
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  Speaker 4: each week and this week's no different, and so trying
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  Speaker 4: to keep that focus singular there in terms of next shot,
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  Speaker 4: next play, next op That's what this is about. Tony
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  Speaker 4: Boselli says it all the time. This is the most
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  Speaker 4: important game in the history of the franchise because it's
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  Speaker 4: the next one. That's all it really matters. It's the
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  Speaker 4: next one. And so winning in this league's hard. Executing
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: in this league is hard, and so you've got to
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  Speaker 4: give each other and give yourself a little grace, especially
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: in game where yeah, you might have an awesome play,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: well great, let's feed off that. But the next play
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: is completely its own entity, right, Anything can happen on
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: the next play. Okay, you just screwed up, you had
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: a missed assignment, or you got beat.
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  Speaker 2: One on one, Well, okay, got beat his ass the
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  Speaker 2: next play.
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  Speaker 4: Like, that's what this is. That's the opportunity that we have.
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  Speaker 4: That's the beauty of playing the game. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we've talked a lot about responding and how to respond,
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  Speaker 4: and it's it's a lot easier said than done.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate you, coach like you