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Andre Cisco on Getting Stronger, Battling WR Group at Practice | 1on1 Interview · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguars safety Andre Cisco with us. We're leading into the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys preseason Week one game. So camp so far
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  Speaker 1: looks like you've been in the weight room in the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: How different is it playing with that kind of weight
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  Speaker 1: and how much do you have to learn how to
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  Speaker 1: use it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it adds a little bit of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Just know that you know you got the armor to
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  Speaker 2: go in and get with the big guys and get
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  Speaker 2: dirty like that. That's that's been the biggest thing I think,
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  Speaker 2: adding from last year that I want to get more
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  Speaker 2: physical on the field. Just play to play. So yeah, it.
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  Speaker 1: Feels good this defense as a whole. What is the
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  Speaker 1: what is the next step for the screw? It was
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  Speaker 1: an opportunistic group last year, takeaways and key moments, especially
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. But where where can you guys make
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  Speaker 1: hay this year? Overall?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we can get better. I'm gonna start with
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  Speaker 2: the back end. We can get better just expecting passes
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  Speaker 2: and understand what's coming on a certain down and distance
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  Speaker 2: to certain situations. And then take away a few plays
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  Speaker 2: a game and you you jumped from last to first
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  Speaker 2: very easily in this league, when when you just kind
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  Speaker 2: of get on your details and take away the ones
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  Speaker 2: that that you should know come in, make the routine
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  Speaker 2: plays routinely.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of new faces around here, at
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  Speaker 1: least in the first team defense. Continuity can build a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that too, right when you have the same
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  Speaker 1: group of guys in growing together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that's the biggest thing because
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  Speaker 2: I know for me, me and Ray, we try to
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  Speaker 2: get more creative. Now you know understand the defense and
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  Speaker 2: certain things that have to happen on each player. You
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  Speaker 2: could move guys around and still make it happen. So
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  Speaker 2: just you know, they put in our hands and allow
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  Speaker 2: us to have a little bit more freedom with that,
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  Speaker 2: and so it makes the defense more complex and harder
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  Speaker 2: to read.
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  Speaker 1: How challenging is this wide receiver group to cover each
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  Speaker 1: day and see running routes against you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Man, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like it's really the best thing for you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean when you look at all the highlights from
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  Speaker 2: other camps and them showing receivers, I'm like, it's not
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  Speaker 2: the same, Like we got something different and going into
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  Speaker 2: games like it's just gonna make me that more patient,
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  Speaker 2: that more is confident, that much more confident that much
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: How different I mean, what's so different about this group
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  Speaker 1: just technically the way they run.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got a bunch of fast guys, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the fast guys everywhere. But these guys they know who
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  Speaker 2: their quarterback is, they know what spots to get to,
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  Speaker 2: they understand defense, and they work hard at their craft.
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  Speaker 2: You don't got a bunch of lazy guys that pick
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  Speaker 2: plays and and only go hard when to get in
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  Speaker 2: the ball. I mean, they all go hard every play,
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  Speaker 2: so it keeps me on my toes in and make
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  Speaker 2: sure I'm down on the balls over my head.
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  Speaker 1: Another you mentioned the quarterback seeing him from the back end,
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  Speaker 1: how has he changed over the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: just reading and looking and his comfortability in the offense.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can see that from the back end.
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  Speaker 1: And the challenge of you know, him trying to look
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  Speaker 1: you off all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very decisive, but like also doesn't make a lot
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  Speaker 2: of bad decisions, so it's pretty hard to pick him off.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, but it makes it it's a
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  Speaker 2: good challenge because I mean, you could be perfect gonna
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  Speaker 2: play and in terms of maybe if he tried to
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  Speaker 2: look you off, He's still in position, and he knows
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  Speaker 2: not to throw it, you know, he knows uh when
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  Speaker 2: to make those when to take those chances at the
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  Speaker 2: right time. So I mean, to have a guy like
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  Speaker 2: that to practice against and then to have him as
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback on game day is a blessing for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Andre. We've seen you before practice working on punt returns.
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time you actually returned a punt?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you did in college, right, nah, high
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  Speaker 1: high school a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, I mean, honestly, it's mostly about just
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  Speaker 2: making myself comfortable being uncomfortable again in those positions of
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  Speaker 2: you know, per terms, one of the hardest things to
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  Speaker 2: do in the game. And so I'm just making myself
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with tracking the ball in that aspect. But but
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  Speaker 2: coach knows that I'm reliable, so if it ever comes
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  Speaker 2: to it, I could get back there fair catch some
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  Speaker 2: from how.
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  Speaker 1: Much time do you need in Saturday's game? Just how
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  Speaker 1: much would you like to have?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, like, these opportunities are are few and
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  Speaker 2: far far betweens that the right word, yeah, they I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: NFL Game Day is NFL game Day So for me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out there with the right mindset and
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  Speaker 2: approach it like a game because you can't take it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't take it for granted. I mean, I've had
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  Speaker 2: this two years now, I still understand, like how delicate
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  Speaker 2: these situations are. You still want to approach it and
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  Speaker 2: be grateful for the opportunity. So I'm gonna get there.
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  Speaker 2: If I get in, I'm gonna work