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Press Pass | Jaguars Legends Share Offseason Program Observations · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Jake P.
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  Speaker 2: Shadwick with Maurice Jones Drew organized team activities, winding down.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: A lot of legends are here. You've been around here
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of days. So what's the vibe here
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 3: You know, first of all, I thought the Jags and
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  Speaker 3: Liam and Tony and everyone did an awesome job of
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  Speaker 3: just reaching out to us to get us back, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, give you a reason to come back.
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  Speaker 3: And then the coach and and do all things and
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  Speaker 3: kind of be a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the energy is awesome. The tension of detail
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  Speaker 1: is great.
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  Speaker 3: I've been with the running backs obviously, so with coach Morten,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's done a great job, really good coach, really
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  Speaker 3: focusing on the details, challenging the guys to be better
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  Speaker 3: and just trying to give an input where I can.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's fun, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't know if it's fun waking up
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  Speaker 3: at like six am East Coast time when I'm a
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  Speaker 3: West Coast guy. But you know, for the Jags, I'll
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  Speaker 3: do it. So come out here, be in the heat,
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  Speaker 3: enjoy it. Being meetings, you know, brings back some memories
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  Speaker 3: and they see a bunch of old guys too that
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  Speaker 3: I played with or guys that I've known are against
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  Speaker 3: has been awesome as well.
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  Speaker 2: Are you kind of hanging back in the meetings? Are
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  Speaker 2: you kind of at the front of it? How do
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  Speaker 2: you work in and and how do you do guys
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  Speaker 2: just start asking you stuff on the side.
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  Speaker 1: How does that work?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, yesterday I sat back in the meetings, kind
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  Speaker 3: of watched, tried to learn as much as I can
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  Speaker 3: and see where I can give input, and then at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the meeting, Coach Warren asks me to
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  Speaker 3: talk to the guy.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was easy.
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  Speaker 3: Today's a little bit different, a little bit more comfortable,
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  Speaker 3: so that like they'll come up to you and I
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  Speaker 3: try to give him little tidbits here and there what
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  Speaker 3: I would do and the things that I did when
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  Speaker 3: I was here. But like I said, everyone's different and
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  Speaker 3: everyone coaches different. But it's the tension of detail that
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  Speaker 3: I've noticed on the offensive. So I haven't done any
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  Speaker 3: defensive stuff, but offensively, it's just the tension of detail
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  Speaker 3: that they're challenging guys to be better, and you see
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  Speaker 3: the guys respond. A young team, but I definitely think
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  Speaker 3: that they're ready to take the next step, and it's
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  Speaker 3: good to be.
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  Speaker 1: A part of that.
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  Speaker 2: You like Liam's approach day to day now that you've
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  Speaker 2: seen it in person a few times.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's he He's very animated, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's important right when you have a young team,
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  Speaker 3: to have energy all the time, challenge guys every day,
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  Speaker 3: and the team meeting is always awesome. I love they
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  Speaker 3: have competition built in and everything, which is great. Makes
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  Speaker 3: me want to get up and try to say something.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to answer a question yesterday, had no
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  Speaker 3: idea what it was, but I wanted to get into it.
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  Speaker 3: And so again, it's just keeping these guys engaged and
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  Speaker 3: and the best part about it is they want they
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  Speaker 3: want to be here, right. Guys aren't showing up late.
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  Speaker 3: Guys are here early. Guys are staying later, h doing
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  Speaker 3: whatever that things necessary to be ready for the season.
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  Speaker 2: Marie Jolling's tree with us Travis etis gone now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They brought in Rodriguez in free agency, they brought in
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  Speaker 2: a mere Abdulla, veteran running back. They've got two young
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  Speaker 2: guys that really performed well last year in their first
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  Speaker 2: year in the league.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you make of this? Running back room.
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  Speaker 2: In the situation back there, I think it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a great opportunity for everyone.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny. I was telling the guys when I got
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  Speaker 3: to Jacksonville, there were ten guys. There's an established veteran there, right,
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  Speaker 3: so I knew the highest I could probably go was
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  Speaker 3: like two or three.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like you're battling knowing that you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be the second guy because Freda did everything and earned
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  Speaker 3: the right to be the number one guy here. It's open, right,
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  Speaker 3: and to take advantage of all the opportunities that you
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  Speaker 3: can have. Make sure that you understand the playbook inside
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  Speaker 3: and out, ask questions, talk to coaches, do everything because
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  Speaker 3: it's a unique situation in the running back room. And
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  Speaker 3: I told him, I said, you know, I can't care
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  Speaker 3: less how much they pay the quarterback. I can care
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  Speaker 3: less how much all this you're in Jacksonville. The running
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  Speaker 3: back room runs the team, right, Like how we go
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  Speaker 3: is how the team goes, and so it's always been
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  Speaker 3: that way. I adopted that when fred left, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's the most important part. Like you're you're you're
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  Speaker 3: a Jacksonville Jaguar. The running backs always running so they
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  Speaker 3: seem like they they took to the message and had
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  Speaker 3: a great day today, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Competitive division now AFC South getting better and better. Every
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  Speaker 2: team really is taking steps. We saw this go down
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  Speaker 2: to the wire last year and it might not be
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  Speaker 2: any different moving ahead year to year. And there's some
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  Speaker 2: really good teams in this division.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I thought the Jags had a good
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  Speaker 3: hold on it. I think they allowed a couple of
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  Speaker 3: teams back in it, and that's part of the league.
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  Speaker 3: But seeing this team, kind of seeing what Tennessee's done,
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  Speaker 3: obviously bringing Gus Bradley and Robert Sala and that staff there,
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  Speaker 3: and what they've done in San Francisco. And I work
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  Speaker 3: for the Rams, so I see those guys twice a year.
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  Speaker 3: And then obviously dye with Daniel Jones, how he comes
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  Speaker 3: off his injury.
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  Speaker 1: And then Houston. Houston is always Houston right like they're
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  Speaker 1: They're always in a tough team.
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  Speaker 3: But again it's you only can focus on what you
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  Speaker 3: can focus on. And I and again seeing these guys here,
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  Speaker 3: seeing the smiles, the excitement, it's it's just different. It
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  Speaker 3: just feels different. And then, like I said, I work
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  Speaker 3: with the Rams all the time and you feel the
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  Speaker 3: same type of energy there. So you know I always
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  Speaker 3: you know me if I if I have to, if
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  Speaker 3: I have to pick my bit on my pick on
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  Speaker 3: the AMC South, it's always gonna be the Jaguars, right
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, nless they play the Rams, but
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  Speaker 3: that's neither here nor there. So we're always excited to
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  Speaker 3: see the Jags. And you know what's funny, my son
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  Speaker 3: like cuss me out because I didn't bring him here,
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  Speaker 3: which is crazy, and so like I have to come
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  Speaker 3: back with some great drills and stuff to get him
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  Speaker 3: prepared because he wanted to come back to Jacksonville. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be true Jacksonville Jaguar, Jacksonvillean or whatever like he.
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  Speaker 1: Was from Florida.
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  Speaker 3: So I have to come back with some positive information
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  Speaker 3: for him where I get back.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I've been trying to do. Always a pleasure, Maurice.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, man, Thank you. J P. Shadwick
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 2: OTA's winding down prior to the Jaguars running back Fred
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  Speaker 2: Taylor in town. Bunch of NFL legends are here this week.
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars legends as well. Good to see if freddie what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Always good to see you too.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, we don't usually meet like this.
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  Speaker 5: We're usually in a studio, no camera, you know, so
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  Speaker 5: we can you know, have our sexy conversation about how
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  Speaker 5: sex we are as ball men.
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  Speaker 4: You see, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Life is good man, pivoting, working, maneuvering, and just hanging
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  Speaker 5: out with the guys.
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  Speaker 4: So it feels good to be here.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to grow up and be like Fred
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  Speaker 2: one day. Give us an idea, a sense of culture
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  Speaker 2: and this team and togetherness they have. The last couple
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  Speaker 2: of days that you've been around here, I tried to.
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  Speaker 5: The culture is amazing and I think what they've established
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  Speaker 5: here comes along with identity, which for me some people
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  Speaker 5: can misuse that term culture.
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  Speaker 4: They've developed the.
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  Speaker 5: Standard now and I think they're continue to become more
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  Speaker 5: consistent than that in the way they approach things. So
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  Speaker 5: they're going to come in here, they're gonna work, but
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  Speaker 5: they're also going to give my opportunity to go and
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  Speaker 5: relax and enjoy each other, to enjoy themselves together as
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  Speaker 5: a unit, camaraderie away from the field. For example, they
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  Speaker 5: have optional golf. But it's good to see. This is
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  Speaker 5: how they're connecting. They understand urgency, but they're not in
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  Speaker 5: a rush to do anything. So they got kind of
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  Speaker 5: that chill, relaxed atmosphere, and I think that's gonna benefit them.
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  Speaker 2: We saw Liam Cohen in his first year as a
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  Speaker 2: head coach last year year really bring this team along
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  Speaker 2: mid season to buy after the loss in London.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, where's this team going?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And then they made the run.
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  Speaker 2: They lost to Houston, but then made the run down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch to get it done. Is year two backing
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  Speaker 2: that up more challenging than establishing it in year one?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because there's a lot of expectations now.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: The crazy thing is I wanted to ask him some
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  Speaker 5: similar question. It just sort of jumped in my mind
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  Speaker 5: yesterday as I know we were coming out here this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to ask him about pressure, you know, how
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  Speaker 5: he approaches this year.
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  Speaker 4: But to try my best to answer.
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  Speaker 5: Your question, JP, which is a great question, I think
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  Speaker 5: it's expectations because you come in here the first year,
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  Speaker 5: you want to do well, but you'll get a pass,
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  Speaker 5: like the fans will give you a pass. We can
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  Speaker 5: always go back to well his first year head coach,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the first year on the system. First, this
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  Speaker 5: first that, so you can kind of have the luxury
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  Speaker 5: of the first, but now that you've seen it, want more.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't no going back. It's like we how do
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  Speaker 4: we get better?
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  Speaker 5: And I think as a unit, you know, the entire staff,
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  Speaker 5: they all have that sort of mindset, clearly noting that
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  Speaker 5: the off season is a fresh reset for the entire
• 8:15
  Speaker 5: NFL and it just doesn't happen that way because it
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  Speaker 5: happened previously.
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  Speaker 4: So everything is back to square one.
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  Speaker 5: Injuries helped, you know, injuries are a big part getting
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  Speaker 5: a lucky bounce here and there, making tough catchers versus
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  Speaker 5: you know, the tough drops. All those things got to
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  Speaker 5: kind of shape out for you to get back to
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  Speaker 5: the point where you were previous year ago. But they
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  Speaker 5: got the nucleus here, you know Trevor obviously he showed
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  Speaker 5: those signs of what he could do. You still got
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  Speaker 5: the guys that put this thing together, Tony, James, Liam
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  Speaker 5: and their philosophy and what they believe. So as long
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  Speaker 5: as they have that core, you know, those three plus Trevor,
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  Speaker 5: I think they give themselves a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Last one with you running back rooms changed a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Etn's going. They brought in a couple of veterans
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  Speaker 2: in free agency, They've got a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of second year backs.
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  Speaker 2: This is an opportunity really for maybe somebody to step
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  Speaker 2: out and maybe it's running back by committee anyway, right,
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  Speaker 2: but hey, there's an opportunity out there in this running.
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  Speaker 4: Back, right, that's the only thing you can ask for.
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  Speaker 5: Man. Obviously a year ago you have Baseel who got
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the first down, second down rep. After
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  Speaker 5: ETN would go, he would spell him. And then le Quin,
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  Speaker 5: he is our third down guy, toughest nails. He's gonna
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  Speaker 5: step in there and let you know that I came
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  Speaker 5: to play. And so those two sort of having a
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  Speaker 5: friendly competition. You throw DJ Dallas in there. You got
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  Speaker 5: the undrafted rookie Jamari Taylor and then Rodriguez, Right.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a decent group. I know they're gonna compete.
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  Speaker 5: You don't know who's gonna come to the forefront, but
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  Speaker 5: it's a good room for these guys to compete. And
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  Speaker 5: you know, after talking to Liam today, they have an
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  Speaker 5: extreme emphasis on getting those guys ready. They know that
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  Speaker 5: they're a little younger in that room, so they want
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  Speaker 5: to create plays and opportunities for them to put them
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  Speaker 5: in pressure situations. Now, no Pads. I know we're sort
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  Speaker 5: of like in the versions of the version of the
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  Speaker 5: NFL bubble or the NBA bubble. But the preparation is
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  Speaker 5: there and that the focus is there, and I think
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  Speaker 5: somebody's gonna you know, I don't want to say.
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  Speaker 4: Who I like right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's too early. It's spring. You don't know the training
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  Speaker 1: camps coming to the Mother Held.
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  Speaker 4: It is so early.
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  Speaker 5: But from a field thing like, I feel energy and
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  Speaker 5: I kind of see how things are moving. I see
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  Speaker 5: who has tremendous talent, but I see who also has
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  Speaker 5: a tremendous work ethic, who uplifts everybody and makes everybody
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  Speaker 5: energetic when he passed, And I'm just seeing that, like,
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  Speaker 5: oh okay, I was using for this guy, but all
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  Speaker 5: so this guy brings these qualities. Maybe it can can
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  Speaker 5: find its way to become a really good mix that
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  Speaker 5: can benefit the team as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Cream always rises in training camp. You never know until
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  Speaker 2: you get out here with Pads on Fred, We're looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to it. It's a few weeks away. Always a
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  Speaker 2: pleasure to see. We'll do post game again this year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 5: J P.
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  Speaker 2: Shadwick with the OTA is winding down. Mercedes Lewis is
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  Speaker 2: back of the building.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a minute, gyuys, I'm doing good man.
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  Speaker 6: What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Just OTAs twenty years in the National Football League. Who
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  Speaker 2: knows what's done yet? We'll see. That's for another day.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, you left here, and you were an
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  Speaker 2: older player when you left here.
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  Speaker 1: What has been the secret.
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  Speaker 2: Of your sustainability, your consistency and still being in it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think, for one, you said it's just the consistency,
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  Speaker 6: but also being intentional about that consistency. And I think
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  Speaker 6: that's something that I built early on when I was here,
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  Speaker 6: and like we always talk about it, like I had
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  Speaker 6: guys like Kyle Brady, Fred Taylor, the perfect vets took
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  Speaker 6: me under their wing and just showed me the way.
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  Speaker 6: And it's really up to you. Like you can lead
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  Speaker 6: a horse to water, but you can't make him drinking.
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  Speaker 6: And for me, I just want it to be great
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  Speaker 6: and I want to be my personal best at whatever
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  Speaker 6: it is that I was doing in that day. And
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  Speaker 6: I was serious about that and I'm still serious to
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  Speaker 6: this day about it. Like it's I look at life
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  Speaker 6: in windows, right, and you have the ability to either
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  Speaker 6: minimize it or expand it. And for me, it's just
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  Speaker 6: about what I could do every day to expand that window,
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  Speaker 6: and it's what I've done.
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  Speaker 2: Windows still open for you. Hopefully we'll see how the
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  Speaker 2: A Saw season moves along. A couple of days in
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  Speaker 2: the building now around the Jaguars, Liam Cohen's second year,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Butselli's involved now glad Stones put this roster together.
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  Speaker 2: What's your initial impression being around this team?
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  Speaker 6: The culture, I think, what they've built so far and
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  Speaker 6: where they're gonna go, it's just amazing. It's fun to
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  Speaker 6: be around, and it makes it fun to come to work,
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  Speaker 6: you know, like it's at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 6: that's really what it's all about, is the culture and
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  Speaker 6: the system that you put in so that these guys
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  Speaker 6: can thrive.
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  Speaker 1: And you can tell us all.
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  Speaker 6: About the players and it's just you know, it's been
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  Speaker 6: a little nostalgic walking around here and the new building
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  Speaker 6: for you, Oh come on, man, this is like two
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  Speaker 6: point zero, you know, And yeah, it's just been great
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  Speaker 6: to be around. And you know, however, I can be
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  Speaker 6: here as a resource and help while I'm here you know,
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  Speaker 6: I've let Liam know and you know, we've communicated that
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  Speaker 6: back and forth, and so it's been a great opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to do that.
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  Speaker 2: How about the tight end room here Britain strange kind
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  Speaker 2: of leads away, but there's some young guys. They've drafted
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  Speaker 2: a couple this year. It's an interesting mix of talent.
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  Speaker 1: In this room.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think right now the tight end room is
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  Speaker 6: getting like well rounded.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: They're gonna have, you know, a guy that blocks at
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  Speaker 6: the line the stream is the guy that can get open,
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  Speaker 6: a guy that can do both, and they're gonna push
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  Speaker 6: each other. And being young this is actually a good thing,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's not. Don't look at it. It's like
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  Speaker 6: a bad thing. Being young and having young guys. They're
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  Speaker 6: gonna help each other elevate and do things the right
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  Speaker 6: way and develop the system that we talk about to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: And so again I look.
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  Speaker 6: Forward to it, Like right now, I think we're gonna
• 14:04
  Speaker 6: go to lunch and we're gonna have tight end meetings
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  Speaker 6: after that. I'm gonna talk to the guys in there.
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  Speaker 6: So I just look forward to being around it. This
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  Speaker 6: has been a while since I've been back. I obviously
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  Speaker 6: been playing ball. My departure was not the way I
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  Speaker 6: wanted it to go, and I always have wanted to
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  Speaker 6: come back and just feel it again. So it's a
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  Speaker 6: blessing to be here, Glad to have you, great catch
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  Speaker 6: up with you. Appreciate it, no doubt appreciate you.