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Press Pass | Liam Coen Discusses Team Performance in Blowout Week 3 Victory · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What were you guys able to do so effectively on
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: third down in your opinion?
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  Speaker 2: I thought we had a good plan.
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  Speaker 1: We tightened the game plan on third down, just had
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  Speaker 1: a little bit less inventory, had some runs in there
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  Speaker 1: that I think we did some good things on, and
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  Speaker 1: then when we needed to drop back and make a
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  Speaker 1: couple plays, we had some good protection. Trevor stood in
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  Speaker 1: there on the one to Jacoby later in the game
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  Speaker 1: on the third down where they had a free rusher.
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  Speaker 2: Coming down the middle.
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  Speaker 1: The guys just executed so well in critical moments, and
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  Speaker 1: You look at situational football with the red zone and
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  Speaker 1: third down, obviously with some of those statistics is where
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  Speaker 1: I kind of think, you know, we probably won the
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  Speaker 1: game in some ways.
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  Speaker 3: William, do you describe this as one of those methodical victories?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was a good response. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the response we were looking for.
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  Speaker 1: It was a response we talked about all week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: winning the game in all three phases.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, it was fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about, you know, you get what you emphasize
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  Speaker 1: so much with this team and, We emphasized the special
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  Speaker 1: teams with the coverage and obviously with the return and
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  Speaker 1: a pop in one. We emphasized getting our hands on
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  Speaker 1: some more balls in the secondary, and obviously we were
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  Speaker 1: able to do that, getting after the quarterback and affecting
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  Speaker 1: him in different ways.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And then running the football more effectively and more efficiently,
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  Speaker 1: which kind of showed.
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  Speaker 2: Up today as well.
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  Speaker 3: Can you, I don't know, offer a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: an explanation on Trevor's knee?
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to give a touchdown to somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: So it wasn't in order to do that then?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Liam, you sort of just mentioned it, but three
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  Speaker 4: turnovers by the defense.
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  Speaker 2: What did you like about their response today?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, it starts during the week
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  Speaker 1: of prep. It started, you know, Wednesday, Thursday in practice.
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  Speaker 1: They were super intentional about, you know, just playing better
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  Speaker 1: coverage throughout the week. Like, it does correlate. Practice, performance
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  Speaker 1: equal in game reality. We got our hands on a
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  Speaker 1: ton of balls in practice this week. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: talked about when you've improved as a team and you've
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  Speaker 1: raised the floor, practice should be more competitive. And it
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  Speaker 1: has been. But we should still dominate the show team.
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  Speaker 1: That should still happen. And we showed up and did
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  Speaker 1: that this week in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Made it very.
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  Speaker 1: Challenging on our show teams during the week of practice.
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  Speaker 1: We're stickier. We're tighter in coverage. Had better rush lanes
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  Speaker 1: and plans.
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  Speaker 2: And so those guys had confidence going into this week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they really did. I think the whole secondary
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  Speaker 1: was ready to respond. We played what we do well,
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  Speaker 1: what we do best. We continue to, you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: continue to do that, which I thought Campy mixed it
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  Speaker 1: really good and made it challenging on Drake at times.
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  Speaker 2: And then just Travis Hunter coming down with the interception.
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  Speaker 2: How exciting is that for you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, huge play, critical moment, critical situation. down low red
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  Speaker 1: zone right before the half. That's a huge momentum swing play.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we would have been able to get some
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  Speaker 1: points off of it. Felt good about getting points at
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  Speaker 1: the end of half there. We kind of tricked it off,
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  Speaker 1: but Travis to make the play, get the little bit
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  Speaker 1: of the monkey off his back a little bit in
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  Speaker 1: some ways to go out there and make a huge play.
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  Speaker 4: Liam, I missed your first two questions. I apologize if
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  Speaker 4: you've been asked, but New England are only about four
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  Speaker 4: Third down conversions all year. You guys both on the ground,
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  Speaker 4: in the air.
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  Speaker 3: 8-12 today.
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  Speaker 2: How does that feel? It started with the plan.
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  Speaker 1: I think we really tightened our third down menu going.
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  Speaker 2: Into the week.
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  Speaker 1: Typically, you carry roughly about four to five passes in
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  Speaker 1: each window and two runs per window. We actually trimmed
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  Speaker 1: down some of the inventory, looked at what plays within
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  Speaker 1: the normal D & D game plan could also slide
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  Speaker 1: into some of those third down windows.
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  Speaker 2: We really focused on what What do we do best?
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  Speaker 2: What do we execute best? What are our guys go
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  Speaker 2: out and play fast doing best?
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  Speaker 1: And I thought Trevor did some really good things of
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  Speaker 1: either throwing off schedule, making a play with a guy
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  Speaker 1: in his face. We made some contested catches as well
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  Speaker 1: in some critical moments today. So very proud of the
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  Speaker 1: situational awareness.
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  Speaker 4: And with Josh Cameron, have you ever been around a
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  Speaker 4: situation where a guy catches a touchdown pass that makes
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  Speaker 4: the special teams tackle on the very next play?
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  Speaker 1: I know. We were– I mean, that's– That's that guy, though,
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  Speaker 1: and that is him. It's the definition of who he is, right?
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  Speaker 1: He's the personal protector on punt. He catches a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone on a critical down. Then he
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  Speaker 1: runs down on kickoff and makes the tackle. Then he
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  Speaker 1: gets a kickoff return out past the 50.
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  Speaker 2: On an explosive. So, you know, the more you can
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  Speaker 2: do in this league, right?
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  Speaker 1: And he's such an example of that, where he comes in,
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  Speaker 1: six-round pick, and he's got strong hands. Everything that he does,
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  Speaker 1: he does like a pro. He understands how to prepare.
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  Speaker 1: He's super smart. And he's selfless in really so many
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  Speaker 1: ways of what we're looking for in a Jacksonville Jaguar.
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  Speaker 1: Added onus at all this week on the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you've only got two home games in the next eight weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Was that discussed? And then also, Chris Rodriguez, if you could.
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  Speaker 1: Looked like he got more involved today, got some critical
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  Speaker 1: yards for you.
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  Speaker 4: He did.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, some of those critical downs, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: on the short yardage situation, some of those tough yards
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  Speaker 1: in between the tackles, down in the low red zone.
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  Speaker 1: Chris has been a little frustrated with himself in some ways,
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  Speaker 1: with some of his misreads and maybe some of the
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  Speaker 1: things over the last two games that he wasn't as
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  Speaker 1: jacked up about. I think he had a phenomenal week
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  Speaker 1: of practice. We were intentional about what runs we really
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  Speaker 1: wanted C-Rod on, and When he's in the game and
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  Speaker 1: when those backs are in the game, just being intentional
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  Speaker 1: about what we're calling in some of those situations. But
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't necessarily talk about the home field thing,
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  Speaker 1: but I do feel it was a sense of urgency
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  Speaker 1: for our guys to take advantage of this op.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's a little bit warmer out there coming down
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  Speaker 1: from a nor'easter and being able to to to take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of the limited ops that we do have at home.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the crowd did a great job. The whole
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  Speaker 1: fan base was really involved in the game. It affected
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  Speaker 1: them on a delay. They had to take a timeout
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I was very proud of the entire
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  Speaker 1: community and fan base.
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  Speaker 3: Liam, the pass rush answering the challenge this week and
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  Speaker 3: the game that Devon had.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, Dehan was again just, I thought he might
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  Speaker 1: have played last week one of the best games I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen from a nose tackle personally. And then this
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  Speaker 1: week to follow it up, the way he played, how
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  Speaker 1: selfless he is, but also how difficult he is to
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  Speaker 1: game plan for and to be able to if you
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  Speaker 1: want to run at our edges it's it's a challenge
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  Speaker 1: right with with josh and trayvon and eric and those
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  Speaker 1: guys on the edge but then you try to run
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  Speaker 1: up the middle on us and you got d ham
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  Speaker 1: and dickerson and i thought rook did some really good
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  Speaker 1: things today as well and so it's a challenge you
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  Speaker 1: know when you can stop the run effectively you earn.
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  Speaker 2: Your ops to go rush the passer.
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  Speaker 1: You earn your ops to go disrupt and affect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we were able to do that today.
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  Speaker 2: You've talked about to just, you know, trusting what he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: It was today as explosive as you seen him look,
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  Speaker 1: it just looked like he saw everything. He was just
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  Speaker 1: going to, and yeah, yeah. I think, um, it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of building. It's been building a little bit. Um,
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to continue to get them more ops. And
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  Speaker 1: it's always that balance of trying to keep the guys
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  Speaker 1: fresh and understand that it's a long year and you
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  Speaker 1: want to keep these guys fresh and feeling good. But
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  Speaker 1: also so much about playing the running back position is
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  Speaker 1: about attrition. It's about getting in the flow of the
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  Speaker 1: game and being able to understand how they're playing some
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  Speaker 1: of the schemes and how our O-line's blocking.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the schemes.
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  Speaker 1: So I was very pleased with his run after contact
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  Speaker 1: this week again.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he had some runs, especially.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like the first run of a
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  Speaker 1: quasi four minute. We had a toss on their sideline
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  Speaker 1: where it kind of got strung out and he stuck
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  Speaker 1: his foot in the ground and not run out of
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  Speaker 1: bounds to make somebody mitts and to get vertical. And so, man,
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  Speaker 1: if we can run the ball effectively like that, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it just makes everybody's job so much easier. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he had some space early on, on the screen that
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  Speaker 1: we threw too. We just didn't sustain.
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  Speaker 2: The blocks longer.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was going to have a shot to go, but,
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  Speaker 1: Very proud of too, and he's been a pro's pro.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's really growing up before our eyes. Coach,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you guys, man.