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Speaker 1: Let's start with two weeks to go a thirteen game

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Speaker 1: skid and trying to keep guys going down the stretch here,

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Speaker 1: not worry about all the outside noise there's plenty of that,

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Speaker 1: we know, but focusing on the task at hand, and

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Speaker 1: that's going out and performing against the Bears this week.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be tough to say it was easy. I

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Speaker 1: would be lying to you. But you know, the one

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Speaker 1: thing that that you have to lean on is the

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Speaker 1: fact that that that you're professional and you remind your

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Speaker 1: players that they are professionals, and that on the whole,

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Speaker 1: lot of guys wish they would be in the position

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Speaker 1: that they're in. You know, we get paid to do

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Speaker 1: a job. We can't guarantee the outcome, but what you

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Speaker 1: can guarantee is that you're gonna prepare yourself the very

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Speaker 1: best of your ability. You're gonna go out there, You're

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Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna play to the very best of your

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Speaker 1: ability and let the chips fall what they may. If

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Speaker 1: you do that, then you can look at yourself in

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Speaker 1: the mirror, regardless of the outcome, and live with Rod

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Speaker 1: Lton with the Jaguars tight ends. Coach, Let's get into

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Speaker 1: your room and Tyler Eiffort. It feels like the last

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Speaker 1: three four weeks or so, I think he's only missed

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Speaker 1: two targets at that time, and you knew he was

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Speaker 1: going to be productive as this year kind of went along.

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Speaker 1: He's a veteran, he's been around the league for a while.

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Speaker 1: Has there been anything different over the last month with Tyler?

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Speaker 1: Our plan for him? You know, he's his career has

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Speaker 1: been plagued with injuries here and there, and um, whether

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Speaker 1: nagging or season ending. He came in with the right

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Speaker 1: attitude first and foremost, and I think UM coach Marone

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Speaker 1: and the training staff but sat down and they had

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Speaker 1: a plant that got a plan for him as far

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Speaker 1: as we know what his strengths are, we know what

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Speaker 1: his weaknesses are, we know why we got him here,

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Speaker 1: so we're not gonna try to ask him to do

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Speaker 1: things that you know that that that we have other

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Speaker 1: people to do. Therefore we can get the best out

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Speaker 1: of his abilities. So I think that's first and foremost

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Speaker 1: the plan that we have for him, as far as

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Speaker 1: um not asking him to do everything, but to concentrate

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Speaker 1: on the things that he's really good at. And it's

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Speaker 1: worked out, you know, he's cone frotable. He knows his role.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's that's I went the long way of

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Speaker 1: saying that that he plays his role. He's playing his

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Speaker 1: role and he's comfortable with that. If we asked him

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Speaker 1: to do a couple of things here and there that

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Speaker 1: everybody is not expecting him to do, he has over

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Speaker 1: delivered in every phase in my opinion. Yes, Ron Middleton

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Speaker 1: with a Jaguars tight ends. Coach James O'Shaughnessy came into

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Speaker 1: the year with the knee thing, trying to work his

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Speaker 1: way back to productivity. We're seeing him on the field

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Speaker 1: a little bit more as of late. It's been a

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Speaker 1: difficult year for most everybody, but tell us about James

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Speaker 1: and how his progression has gone. Now at this point,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's not he's not healthy yet. He's still working,

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Speaker 1: but he's he's out up busting it. But I think

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Speaker 1: he's done some good things for us this year. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see him completely healthy to see where

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Speaker 1: he can go from there. You've got some young bucks.

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Speaker 1: Eric Sobert's tight end, Uh, he's a third year player.

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Speaker 1: Then Tyler Davis is really a youngster. He was out

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Speaker 1: there holding last week of all things and strangest of circumstances.

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Speaker 1: But will those guys get any time. There's one of

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Speaker 1: those where it's kind of a little late in the

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Speaker 1: season here. Well, you know, Eric, when when we lost

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Speaker 1: we lost Bruce a fullback, Eric stepped up. You know,

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Speaker 1: he came to me and said, hey, coach, I can

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Speaker 1: I can play that fullback spot. Like get out of here.

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Speaker 1: You're narrow your narrow hill. But you know he's like coaching,

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what. He has done extremely well

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Speaker 1: at the fullback position. I told him to day say,

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Speaker 1: hey man, that's that's what separates you from everybody else.

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Speaker 1: So you can, um, you can play that fullback position.

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Speaker 1: And we're not gonna just overdo it with him back there.

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Speaker 1: But to sprinkling in enough, I was six snaps a

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Speaker 1: game with spot. He's done really really well at that

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Speaker 1: at that fullback spot. Tyler is uh, the arrow is

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Speaker 1: still up on Tyler. I think the injury set him

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Speaker 1: back a little bit way back. And uh, we we

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Speaker 1: got to remember he's still learning the position. But as

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Speaker 1: far as size and speed and um strength, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's going to develop into a productive tight end in

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Speaker 1: this league. It's you know, it just hadn't all clicked

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Speaker 1: for him yet. And um, you know, converted quarterback, that's

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Speaker 1: what he did in college. Held, he held the ball

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Speaker 1: and you know, holding for for he was the holder.

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad he was here to be able to

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Speaker 1: do that with U with almost not having cooking out there.

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Speaker 1: So he came through big time for us last week