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Speaker 1: Soon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Osher.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast, and we're

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Speaker 2: joined by I guess still a relatively new player, although

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Speaker 2: he specified the other day that he now knows he's

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Speaker 2: a veteran, which is a good step. Jaguars cornerback Greg Newsom,

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Speaker 2: thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I appreciate you guys having me.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about the mood of this team right now

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Speaker 2: is an interesting time for it nine and four four

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Speaker 2: game winning streak and feels like a team that is

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Speaker 2: really figuring itself out and figuring out what it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, the mood is amazing. Everyone's excited.

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Speaker 3: I think with the world still doubting us, like it

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Speaker 3: still gives us that hunger every single week to go

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Speaker 3: out there and just prove ourselves right, Like we don't

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Speaker 3: care what anybody has to think anymore. Is just about

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Speaker 3: proving ourselves right and knowing what we're capable of. And

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Speaker 3: I mean it also helps that this is the healthy

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Speaker 3: at this team has been since pretty much like Week one. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: Brian coming back was huge for us. He's an elite

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Speaker 3: number one receiver, so getting him back in the fold,

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Speaker 3: just getting guys back healthy. I think we have a

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Speaker 3: great mindset right now.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the respect thing can be overdone. I've been around

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Speaker 2: teams where they talked about not getting respect and you're like,

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Speaker 2: but you guys are getting respect. But it's a real

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Speaker 2: thing for this team, isn't it that? Hey, people don't

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Speaker 2: quite get yet what's going on here?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: No, for sure, I don't think people understand. But like

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Speaker 3: we said, at the end of the day, as long

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Speaker 3: as we believe in each other and we know what

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Speaker 3: we're capable of, so as long as we continue to

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Speaker 3: do that. And like I said, I've been on a

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Speaker 3: team where it was the same type of way, no respect,

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Speaker 3: and when you're when you're able to just sit under

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Speaker 3: there and just keep stacking wins, stacking wins like that,

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Speaker 3: that's a you always want something to go in and

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Speaker 3: game mad at, Like I always trying to find something

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Speaker 3: that I'm mad at before I get in every game.

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Speaker 3: And with people not respecting us, like that's perfect for us.

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Speaker 3: We're okay with it.

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Speaker 2: And it seems to be a feeling of hey, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not just that you're winning, but a feeling in

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Speaker 2: the locker room. Hey, we're I don't want to say

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Speaker 2: you've got it, because that's not what it is. But

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Speaker 2: we're pretty good and it's time for people to realize it.

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Speaker 2: And as a guy who's been around this league for

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Speaker 2: a while, and I get the sense that you follow

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Speaker 2: football and that you're into it. What is it about

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Speaker 2: this team? Why has it been able to win four

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Speaker 2: in a row? Why is it nine and four? What's

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Speaker 2: special about it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it always starts when when you look

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Speaker 3: at good football teams, it always starts at the top

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Speaker 3: he's a guy that never playing a finger, whether some

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Speaker 1: Like he's the guy that always.

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Speaker 3: Takes accountability and you can see that within the group,

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Speaker 3: Like we all take accountability for you know, bad plays,

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Speaker 3: that accountability piece that we all you know, go with

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Speaker 3: make plays Like that's that's his mindset, Like we don't

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Speaker 3: want to change you into something that you're not. Like

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Speaker 2: And talking to some players who've been around, I'm curious

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Speaker 2: that it's fun to be a part of it and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand, Yeah, I understand that for sure. You

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Speaker 3: this team here is like we're both sides of all

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Speaker 3: three phases are like elite.

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Speaker 1: So it's really fun to be a part of.

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Speaker 3: When you got a guy like Trevor is playing amazing

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Speaker 3: like he's been at this time. Our coach always says

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Speaker 3: the end of the day, your quarterback is your leader.

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Speaker 3: And with him playing like that and bringing that confidence

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Speaker 3: You can see the sideline when we're making plays, like

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Speaker 1: Doing a great job of just supporting each other.

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Speaker 2: What did you expect to walk into when you got

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Speaker 2: traded versus what was the reality? Meaning? You know, it's different.

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Speaker 2: We actually get to a place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the craziest part. Like when I got traded,

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Speaker 3: I really didn't know really what to expect. I mean

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Speaker 3: I'm really curious to see what the culture is like here,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So when I.

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Speaker 3: Did get here, one thing that I could say is

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Speaker 2: How difficult is it to transition scheme in mid flight

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Speaker 2: if you will? I mean, so much of this game

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing that people don't understand.

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Speaker 3: Like that's all we did. So getting here with a

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Speaker 3: That's something that these guys have been doing since training

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Speaker 3: pretty much in a sense. It was very tough, but

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Speaker 3: I think now in the last few games, I feel

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Speaker 3: I'ven't played a lot of the techniques in a very

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Speaker 3: really since my rookie year when I had with Joe Woods.

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Speaker 2: Got you. Now, not every game since you've been here,

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Speaker 3: obviously everyone on the team would love to be on

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Speaker 3: So my thing is like, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: Never really played special teams.

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Speaker 3: If that's if that's what it takes for us to

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Speaker 3: that's just been the selfless mindset is just what I've

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Speaker 2: What was Heath's reaction when you went him intad head

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Speaker 2: What was that like?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously from day one he told me, you know,

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Speaker 3: And I was like, hey, coach brass is on this,

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Speaker 3: let me take the gun rep. Oh yeah, myn Eric

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Speaker 3: He was like, all right, cool, And I just went

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Speaker 1: Sure, So it was.

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Speaker 3: He's never got up tight. He always just stayed calm,

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Speaker 2: You've run around to DC quite like camp.

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Speaker 2: For everywhere on this team. Secondary room has been able to, uh,

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Speaker 2: When people ask me about this team, it's it's hard

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Speaker 3: Don't allow that. We don't allow it, Like we understand

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Speaker 2: Perfect. The last thing we do, Grace called the ozone

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Speaker 3: It's a power. It's called Power is a It's a force.

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Speaker 3: Nothing much. I just eat breakfast, eat the same thing

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Speaker 3: Like I actually so, I had like lower division on basketballer.

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Speaker 1: Go to show what I probab just SpongeBob.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, probably just SpongeBob all right, Trevor said, drinking Josh.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Greg, I can't thank you enough for doing this.

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Speaker 2: I know it's tough to do this during the season

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Speaker 2: when you guys are busy. Thank you for joining those

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Speaker 2: own podcast of course, I appreciate you having