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Speaker 1: Joined now by linebacker Bobby O Kara k Hey, you

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Speaker 1: guys have done a hell of a job with this defense,

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Speaker 1: losing one of the top twenty defenders in the league

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Speaker 1: for the majority of the year was Shack obviously, but

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Speaker 1: the defense has stuck around, led by you. What has

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Speaker 1: it been about this Gus Bradley system that started in

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Speaker 1: training camp that's brought you through there and kept you

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Speaker 1: guys in this season. Yeah, the simplicity of it, the

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Speaker 1: way he calls it. You know, we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of veterans on the defense, so the communication has been excellent,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we try to keep it basically with

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Speaker 1: the fundamentals, you know, tackling played with great effort and physicality. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know with Shack out, we're missing those turnovers and

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Speaker 1: that's an area of improvement and emphasis for us going forward.

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Speaker 1: But uh yeah, we're we're going and growing. You're a

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Speaker 1: unique cat elite in this league at what you do,

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Speaker 1: and the rest of the league notices that. Bobby, what

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Speaker 1: is Gus Bradley's defense done for you? Specifically as far

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Speaker 1: as being a better player, you know, moving to the

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Speaker 1: will position allowed me to kind of show my coveragability

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Speaker 1: and now that I'm backside, show my island a silent ability,

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Speaker 1: get to place, make tackles in space. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: see myself as a multiple versatile player. I can play

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Speaker 1: in different schemes, on different positions, So I just take

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Speaker 1: every opportunity I can. Bobby, what is the mentality of

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Speaker 1: this team right now? This week? Going into this game,

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Speaker 1: everybody remembers what happened in week eighteen, what happened in

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Speaker 1: week two. How excited is the locker room to right

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Speaker 1: some wrongs if you will, this week against Jacksonville. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: hundred percent. We feel like the ships going in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. We just got to emphasize, you know, playing

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Speaker 1: with the killer instinct and keeping things simple, keeping things simple,

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Speaker 1: you know, Decker talk to us about it. Keep things

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Speaker 1: simple for your mind, so you know, you can play

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Speaker 1: fast and play violently. So that's what we're focusing on,

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Speaker 1: you know, back to the basics and just playing good

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Speaker 1: fundhimental football. In week two, down there, Trevor Lawrence got

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Speaker 1: into a groove early, right, he settled in, completed about

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Speaker 1: eighty three percent of his pass is how important is

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Speaker 1: that to disrupt him from the get go? Don't let

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Speaker 1: him settle in and get after him early in this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think just that awareness of how they're trying to

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Speaker 1: attack us. He's gone a quarterback, but he likes get

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Speaker 1: on the move, rollouts, boots, they like quick game, so

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Speaker 1: just knowing that taking away their strengths. So they got

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Speaker 1: a playfs man on man turnovers Last year we're huge,

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Speaker 1: obviously one of the league leaders. This year not so much.

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Speaker 1: Did that lose an interest point in this shift to

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Speaker 1: a Gosh Bradley defense or the takeaways from last year

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Speaker 1: to this year a big difference? Uh? Yeah, obviously takeaways

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Speaker 1: a big difference, and you know that, like I said,

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Speaker 1: that's a big emphasis for us trying to get better.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we're missing Darius Shock in that aspect, but we

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Speaker 1: talk about it, you know, get greedy about taking the

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Speaker 1: ball away. So I think we're gonna see some splash

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Speaker 1: plays and we always talk about the coming bunches, so

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Speaker 1: expect some big takeaways coming. And listen, you said a

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Speaker 1: word Bobby earlier in this interview. Violent, violent, and that's

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Speaker 1: what you do for a living. Yeah, you're a young man,

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Speaker 1: But how is it after game day and then Monday

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Speaker 1: comes around? Tuesday comes around and getting that body ready

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Speaker 1: for another, you know, a bar fight on Sunday. How

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Is that? I mean you better in

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Speaker 1: the league now a few years. Yeah, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: the thing. I'm twenty six now, Saw I'm starting to

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Speaker 1: feel those aches and pains a little bit more. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, we know this is a gladier sport and

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Speaker 1: that's why, you know, so many people feel the stands

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Speaker 1: and pay tickets to play the game to see the

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Speaker 1: game because it is by it is fast, So we

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Speaker 1: embrace that and you know, it's just another great opportunity

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Speaker 1: this week, Bobby, what is it about the defense? The culture?

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Speaker 1: The only team in the NFL that hasn't allowed a

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Speaker 1: point in the fourth quarter? What is it about the

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Speaker 1: second half defense that is so great for this team?

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Speaker 1: From a production standpoint? Yeah, I mean I think that

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Speaker 1: speaks highly the coaching staff, just those second half adjustments

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Speaker 1: that we make. And like I say, we have a

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Speaker 1: veteran group, We have great communications, so we limit the

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Speaker 1: bus and we make teams really earned their plays against us. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Zaire Franklin leading the NFL and tackle so far, and

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Speaker 1: frank Reich this week talked about the chemistry or the

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Speaker 1: synergy that you have with Zaire and vice versa. How

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Speaker 1: does that come about? How hard is that to establish?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it speaks. We've always had a

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Speaker 1: tight linebacker group, and you know it's been those same

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Speaker 1: similar guys, were all similar ages, similar groups. We've been

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Speaker 1: together three four years and it's just that approach. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna build each other up, but we're gonna compete

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Speaker 1: every day. I'm gonna push that here to be his best.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna pushed me to be his best. Same with EJ,

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Speaker 1: Same with Grant, same with everybody in our linebacking groups.

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Speaker 1: So it's an intense group and we feed off each

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Speaker 1: other's energy. DeForrest Buckner your unique and guy Quoise to

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Speaker 1: find Gilm We're some veterans, are Shack Leonard? We talked

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Speaker 1: about yourself. Yeah, who's got the voice from that defensive hotel?

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Speaker 1: So you're Franklin. He's that emotional leader for us UM

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Speaker 1: and he backs it up with his play. How about

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Speaker 1: home games, the importance of a home game. I just

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Speaker 1: want to give you you have a chance to give

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Speaker 1: a message to the fans because we need him obviously.

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Speaker 1: The division game and where we're at right now, hosting

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Speaker 1: a home game, like we are huge advantage. Yeah no,

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Speaker 1: and that that you know, our home atmosphere, that is

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Speaker 1: our advantage. The way the fans get routy for us

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Speaker 1: and make it loud for that offense. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: having to go on silent cadence whatever. But we're just excited,

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Speaker 1: you know, bring another win to our fans here, Lucas Oil.

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Speaker 1: You know, Bobby outside of a quarter and a half,

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Speaker 1: you know, you haven't had Shack Leonard this season. How

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Speaker 1: has he stayed engaged? How has he remained part of

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Speaker 1: this team and helpful to the defense. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: he's at practice, he's at meetings. Like you see videos

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Speaker 1: of him on the siline of games. He's just as

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Speaker 1: amped up and just as and tune to the game

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Speaker 1: as if he was playing. So you know, we appreciate,

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Speaker 1: we respect his leadership, and you know, we just can't

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Speaker 1: wait till him back the last one for me. You know,

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Speaker 1: on the Jacksonville side on offense, they've got a guy

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Speaker 1: sort of like Nae Hinds, a guy that can do

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Speaker 1: it all. He can catch it, he can run it,

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Speaker 1: he can block. That's Travis et In. How difficult of

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Speaker 1: a matchup is he on on a guy like you

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Speaker 1: playing linebacker. Yeah, you know, he's fast, and I think

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Speaker 1: what stands out about him is physically he lets the

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Speaker 1: finish runs. Um, he's not the biggest guy, but it's tough.

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Speaker 1: That's a unique challenge like we have every week in

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Speaker 1: the NFL keeping a float in this division. What's the

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Speaker 1: coach's message to this week a division game? Obviously everybody

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Speaker 1: counted us out a couple of weeks ago. You can't

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Speaker 1: believe the start, et cetera, et cetera. Hey, it's a

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Speaker 1: long season. But what is Frank's message? Do you guys

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Speaker 1: just you know, keep the ship afloat, worry about the

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Speaker 1: division that's in front of you. I mean we always

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Speaker 1: talk about, you know, and the next game is the

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Speaker 1: biggest game because it's the next game. Never get too high,

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Speaker 1: never get too low. But where we want to go

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Speaker 1: obviously make a playoff run and eventually get to that

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We gotta win division games. So there's an

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Speaker 1: extra emphasis this week. One of the best in the league,

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Speaker 1: that's Bobbio Kaka