July 22, 2025 • 16 mins
Jaguars Quarterback Trevor Lawrence joins Senior Writer John Oehser for the O-Zone Podcast as he reports for 2025 Training Camp. Trevor gives an update on his rehabilitation process, talks chemistry with the Brian Thomas Jr./Travis Hunter tandem and shares insight on working under the new Liam Coen regime. All this and more on The O-Zone Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Soon.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Osher.
All Right, welcome into this preseason twenty twenty five training camp,
whatever you want to call it, that Ozone podcast. We
have a fantastic guest. I appreciate him doing this because
it's time to get ready for the season. Jaguars quarterback
(00:29):
Trevor Lawrence. Thanks for joining the Ozone Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Thanks for having me, John, It's good to be back.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's uh and I guess that's the first question. How
excited are you about this and what's your mindset going
into this camp.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm really excited, you know, just to be healthy. You know,
this is the healthiest I've been in a while. So
it feels good, you know, doing a whole off season
of just therapy and rehab and trying to you know,
feel good and get back to where you know, I
can just go play and feel healthy, and finally I
have gotten to that point. So it feels really good.
You know, had a great off season of training and
(01:04):
feel like I'm in really really great shape and throwing
the ball well.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And you know, we've had a couple.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Of days quarterbacks and the rookies days early just to
get you know, shake some of the rust off, kind
of get back in the flow, and I feel really good.
I'm excited to get the rest of the crew here tomorrow.
It's gonna be awesome, you know. Just excited to be back.
And I mean this is that's what I love to do,
is to play. So I'm excited to be back on
the field.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So, just to clarify, shoulder surgery ended last season, but
you've been one hundred going for a little while now.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, so through I mean shoulder surgery in December,
so it's about a roughly like a six month recovery
for what I had. So you know, OTA's was a
little limited at first, not much, just more so like
some of the handoffs and stuff with the left arm
and a couple of.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Things a little limited.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But ever since that first you know month of springball,
I mean I've been pretty wide open. And then now
taking that into once we broke like the off season workouts,
like really been working strength and pushing that left side
more in the weight room. Like that's kind of the
and so yeah, I feel great now. I feel like
I've gotten all my strength back and feeling good.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm gonna say something crazy here you're five.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You're five.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's crazy, it's crazy. Yeah, it's flown by. I mean
it's it is hard to believe you're five already.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Does it feel like that? And I guess the second
part of the question would be how different are you
as a quarterback in terms of how you prepare in
terms of how you approach this with four years under
your belt? How much more prepared do you feel going
into this?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I mean, obviously it's a new system, so that that
changes kind of your scope of just what you're got,
you know, where you're at as far as in the scheme.
But I feel really good. You know, We've I've put
a lot of time in this off season to master
in the system. You know it started OTA's really like
a little bit before OTAs and just trying to master
our stuff, learn a new system, terminology, you know, formations, motions,
(02:56):
different plays, all that stuff that's just you got to
learn and take the time to do it. And I
feel really good about that, not Tias, and even through
this break, I feel like I've really been able to
master it. And even coming back the last two days
and having you know, a run a couple of plays
with the young guys and just calling stuff in the
huddle like it's nice that it feels so much more
second nature than it did in the spring. So I
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feel great physically. I feel really good. I feel like
I'm throwing it as good as I ever have. Like
I said, being back healthy is such a good feeling.
Just grateful for that. You know, I don't take I
don't take being healthy for granted anymore. I think I
did early on in my career because I you know,
it was pretty fortunate early on, and the last couple
of years have been kind of tough, you know, banged
up a little bit, and just grateful for that. And
I feel like I'm in a really good, good place.
(03:39):
And there's still a lot more work to put in,
and we got to prepare ourselves for the season, and
that's what training camps for. And I'm excited to see
how we come together as a team.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In terms of health. Do you think about, uh, protecting
yourself differently, playing any differently? Can you think that way
or is there any factor that ever comes up for you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I mean I think it's you can't play afraid to
get hit or a friend contact, Yeah, you have to
play free and you have to trust yourself. And you know,
something I've done in my career, whether it's college or
when I when I've played really well in the NFL
is use my legs and move. And it's not always
using your legs to run, but it's using your legs
to go the pocket and create plays off schedule. So
(04:22):
there's an element of that that I always want to,
you know, keep in my back pocket and be able
to do because I think the way the game is now,
that's such a huge part of playing quarterback. You know,
there's not a ton of guys that just sit back
there and and don't move at all. You know, defenses
are really good, defensive lines, the pass rush is really good,
so you have to be able to move. So there's
that part, But I think it's being smart too, you know,
not taking unnecessary hits if I.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Can throw the ball away.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Like throughout my career, there's been times where it's like
I could have thrown the ball away and I throw
it away late and still take a hit, and it's
just some of those it's like I still ended up
throwing it away, Like just throw it away a second earlier.
Some of those, And I think scrambling and being smart
of you know, it's either a three yard gain or
a six yard gain on first down, but if a
three yard game without getting hit by a linebacker, it's
might be the smarter move.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So I think there's things that.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You learned through playing and through experience and through getting
hit and getting hurt and doing different things that you
get smarter as you get older.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Weirdest offseason you've had or the fullest.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, fullest for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I mean surgery, fatherhood, Yeah, new offense, new coach.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I mean, this is a lot of change. Yeah, a
lot of change, A lot of good things, a lot
of great things. Obviously, surgery was disappointment. Just missing the
rest of the season and having to get back from
that and having a little bit of adversity with that
is was tough. But besides that, I mean, great changes,
great things. Obviously, it's adjustments, but being a dad is incredible.
Having our daughters six months old now, it's crazy how
(05:43):
fast that's gone by. But it's been amazing, you know,
change my perspective a lot, just you know, at home
and with her, and it's just incredible having her. And then,
like I said, the new staff here and everything here.
It's been it's been awesome. The staff here is really smart,
really sharp. The system is great. I love it, you
know now that I really feel more settled into it
(06:04):
right and I can understand kind of the big picture
and what we're doing. I have a lot of confidence
in it. Obviously, we still got a whole season to
play this year and put it to the test. But
I'm really excited. And the staff here has been working
so hard to give us every opportunity to be prepared
in the off season, you know, to study, just giving
us all the tools. I've been really impressed with how
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they've helped us prepare for this training camp and prepare
to really have a great season.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know, so much goes into it, And.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I don't think a lot of people don't know
the amount of work it goes into in the off
season and in order to have a successful season and
to prepare yourself. You don't just start over when you
come to training camp and pick it back up. It's
a really it's really almost a year round process. So
it's been awesome working with the staff.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You talked about it. Some of OTAs and people are
so fascinated by it. But the footwork element of this offense,
and maybe you mentioned footwear. People talk about people try
to analyze it. How what's so important about what you
were trying to learn and get better at in the
off season to fit into this offense if you follow the.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Question, Yeah, no, I do. There's a couple of little
things that a lot of people wouldn't know. You know,
I switched my feet. My starting point in the stance
I staggered. I used to be right foot forward, Now
I'm left foot forward. So that's something that I've gone
back and forth on in my career a lot, and
I've always ended up and all my other systems been
right foot forward because that was the preferred you know,
every system is different, but this one was left foot forward,
and I think it's great for quick game. It really
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times up, balances you up, and get you in a
position to throw easier and quick game drop back stuff.
It's it's just different. It's not necessarily easier better, but
it's just different. So working that was an adjustment for
the first month or so, and then it's just like
banked reps of that through tas through the off season.
When I'm throwing the past five weeks, getting ready for
training camp. It's working all those different footworks and then
(07:50):
tying all of my the biggest thing with footwork is
tying everything to your progression.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
About timing right, and it helps you through the read
right more automatic.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It helps you you're always playing on time you have.
It helps with your time clock. You're like, I'm hanging
in front side on this concept, but I've already hitched.
I should probably move on. There's everything's thrown on a
specific time rhythm. Yeah, so you feel if you're hanging
on something too long and the coach has done a
great job in the spring, like hey, let's let's eliminate
(08:21):
this this hitch here. You don't like it, just keep moving.
Different things like that, where everything is so tied to
the footwork, where it's very specific because the game is,
like our staff says, it's you know, they try to
give us black and white rules and a structure and
footwork and all these coaching points.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But it's a great game. So when you go out there,
you be able to get.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, you can play fast, you can you can make
decisions quickly. It's never going to be perfect, you know,
footwork and games is never perfect. Sure, pockets moving around.
You guys are gonna, you know, get beat occasionally up front,
you're gonna have to make some plays. You're gonna have
to throw some things, not on the correct footwork, but
to have that to fall back on to where I
know when things are clean, when I'm thrown in rhythm,
(09:04):
this is my progression. This is why how my feet
tied to it, and it keeps me locked in.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And over time you're working toward that being muscle memory, right,
that's the whole gotcha, that's very cool stuff tell me about.
First of all, Travis hunder your impressions.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I mean just the the shape he's in, the conditioning.
I mean, he can run all day. I think that's
the first thing I noticed is just he'll run our
out come right back. If it's not how we want it,
he'll just run it again. Usually guys will take a
break kind of get it, get it after a few reps,
take a second and catch their breath.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Thing go a couple of times, he just goes, goes, goes.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I talked about press, How are you feeling good? He's like, oh,
I'm great. He's like not tired at all, you know,
and it's he just can go. His motor is super high,
just the energy, very just positive.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Guy has a lot of confidence in himself in a
good way. You know, he's not arrogant, but he has that.
You need that confidence to go play at high level
in this soleet, especially that position.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know, you have to have some that and he's
got it.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And you know, the biggest thing in the spring was
trying to get him up to speed with the offense
because it's not an easy offense to learn. There's it
puts a lot on the players because it gives us answers.
In order to have all the answers, you got to
know all the problems, You got to know what your
job is, your responsibility. And I've been proud of how
he's just taking steps through OTAs even through this break
like a thrown with him a few times this offseason,
(10:22):
and you know, I can tell that he's put the
work in and he knows more of the system and
it's starting to become more second nature. So I've been
really impressed by him and his work ethic and I
mean then on defense, he's also really really good corner too,
so it's, uh, he can do a lot for us.
You know, we'll see how that unfolds during the season,
but glad he's on our team.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's almost like with Brian Thomas junior. He was developing
as a rookie, accelerating very quickly, and now when you
come back, I would think you've got to have an
excitement level about what this guy has become and is
becoming one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean him coming in as a rookie, like you
never know. You never know how good some one's going
to be until they're here and you get to play
with them and work with them a little bit. And
you know, I knew pretty early he's super talented and
special in his speed and ball skills and all those things,
but it still hadn't clicked completely because he's trying to
learn a new system. He's trying he's got new teammates,
living in a new city, right, you know, thinking about
(11:17):
a lot in the field as far as just what
to do, Like it is tough learning a new system,
especially coming from college. It's usually a lot more complex
the NFL scheme, So you know, I think it took
him a little bit just to kind of get that,
get settled in with that system and then start playing fast,
you know, through training camp, and then he really started
(11:38):
to to flash and make some splash plays in training camp.
And then I remember in the preseason game against the Chiefs,
he caught that ball on the sideline and that was
I knew how Yeah, I knew how talent he was,
but when he made that play and I saw that
that dog, that fire come out of him, and just
how juiced he was on the sideline because he's more
of a quiet guy, but you saw the competitor come
(11:58):
out of him and You're like, Wow, this has another gear.
And then you know, I got to play with him
for what eight games, only played eight games last year,
so I felt like we really started to kind of
we were just starting to catch our stride a little bit,
like in that Green Bay game.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And he got hurt in that game, missed some of
that towards the end, and then you know, I felt
like then I got hurt the next week against the Eagles,
So we never really got to take off and have
a complete year. But being able to watch him with
even though it was Mac in there not me like
being able to watch him play and to see how
he dictated coverage, how he you know, changed the game
from an offensive perspective, having that matchup one on one, the.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Stuff that he was.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He's going to draw doubles and make things easier. Forget
people talk about receivers who do that. He really doesn't.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He does it and it's and it changes the defenses
whole game plan how you play him because he's that good.
You know, he's he's a guy that you can't you
really can't play him one on one. You can, you
can try, and you know you might win a couple,
but he's going to win most of them. And that
is you know, as a quarterback and as an offense,
to have a guy like that, there's not you look
around the league. There is there's a few of them,
but there's not a ton of them. Those guys aren't
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just everywhere.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
There's not as many as people think there are.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
No and and you know, he can do so much
for us. We can move him around and then bringing
in you know Diami, and we already have Parker who's
a great player. We got Britain at tight end. We
got Travis Hunter in the draft. We got some great
running backs. We have a lot of depth everywhere and
guys that can play and that's just gonna help. You
know that we get you gotta spread the rock round.
I mean, bt he's gonna get his and he's gonna
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he's gonna have a great season. But when defenses do
want to try to take him away, you gotta have
other guys that can make plays.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And we got plenty of that.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, we run along. We got a couple more
impressions so far. Liam.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I love him. Yeah, Yeah, he's he's great.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Just the communication for you know, obviously he's a first
time head coach and seeing his leadership is a different style.
But he's very open, honest, clear communication with his players
and you know exactly where he stands. You know, I've
had a lot of conversations with him and just building
(14:03):
that personal relationship and you know, me calling him about
something or him calling me about something and.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Just keeping me in the loop.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And you know, I've really appreciated the way he's handled
building our relationship this far, and I'm just excited to
get to the season and uh, get in training camp
and get to work with him. And it's it's been
awesome seeing the way he leads and the way he
you know, treats his players and his coaches and how
much he loves football. I think that's the I mean,
you would hope everyone loves football that's coaching, but seeing
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him is just, yeah, it's it's impressive that he he
really loves it and he puts so much into it,
and he's so smart and seeing how he you know,
prepares and this offensive sit like he could coach.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I think he could coach every position on offense.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He's he has that much knowledge and detail and he
knows the why behind everything, and you know he's calling
the place, so you would hope so. But still, I mean,
it's still impressive to to see him operate and how
sharp he is.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Got you.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We're going to roll over the ozone five really fast.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh favorite TV show when you were six? When I
was six, I was a big Drake and Josh guy.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Okay, yeah, so was my son. I watched a little bit.
I watched more.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Than It's good. It's funny. I watched more.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Drake and Josh than I probably want to admit.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, that's a good show.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Favorite movie growing up.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I have a couple of my all time favorites. The
original Karate Kid Okay, yeah, not the newer one. The
original is good your.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Last binge watch watching?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's been watching, well, we just started one. It's only
we got like one episode of Night when She Goes Down.
But Waterfront one, it's a new one. There's only one season,
but it's on Netflix. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Good deal. Your go to artist singer.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Oh, that's another tough one. I get this from my mom.
She loved Lionel Richie, So that's one of my favorites.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but I really like
Lionel Richie.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Your mom and I same generation. The app on your
phone use the.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Most, probably text messages again, that's realistically, it's probably probably
that one.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, Trevor Lawrence, I'll get out of your way. Thank
you for joining the ozone podcast. As always, fantastic stuff
and be luck to see thanks.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah,
Soon.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Osher.
All Right, welcome into this preseason twenty twenty five training camp,
whatever you want to call it, that Ozone podcast. We
have a fantastic guest. I appreciate him doing this because
it's time to get ready for the season. Jaguars quarterback
(00:29):
Trevor Lawrence. Thanks for joining the Ozone Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Thanks for having me, John, It's good to be back.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's uh and I guess that's the first question. How
excited are you about this and what's your mindset going
into this camp.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm really excited, you know, just to be healthy. You know,
this is the healthiest I've been in a while. So
it feels good, you know, doing a whole off season
of just therapy and rehab and trying to you know,
feel good and get back to where you know, I
can just go play and feel healthy, and finally I
have gotten to that point. So it feels really good.
You know, had a great off season of training and
(01:04):
feel like I'm in really really great shape and throwing
the ball well.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And you know, we've had a couple.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Of days quarterbacks and the rookies days early just to
get you know, shake some of the rust off, kind
of get back in the flow, and I feel really good.
I'm excited to get the rest of the crew here tomorrow.
It's gonna be awesome, you know. Just excited to be back.
And I mean this is that's what I love to do,
is to play. So I'm excited to be back on
the field.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So, just to clarify, shoulder surgery ended last season, but
you've been one hundred going for a little while now.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, so through I mean shoulder surgery in December,
so it's about a roughly like a six month recovery
for what I had. So you know, OTA's was a
little limited at first, not much, just more so like
some of the handoffs and stuff with the left arm
and a couple of.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Things a little limited.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But ever since that first you know month of springball,
I mean I've been pretty wide open. And then now
taking that into once we broke like the off season workouts,
like really been working strength and pushing that left side
more in the weight room. Like that's kind of the
and so yeah, I feel great now. I feel like
I've gotten all my strength back and feeling good.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm gonna say something crazy here you're five.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You're five.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's crazy, it's crazy. Yeah, it's flown by. I mean
it's it is hard to believe you're five already.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Does it feel like that? And I guess the second
part of the question would be how different are you
as a quarterback in terms of how you prepare in
terms of how you approach this with four years under
your belt? How much more prepared do you feel going
into this?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I mean, obviously it's a new system, so that that
changes kind of your scope of just what you're got,
you know, where you're at as far as in the scheme.
But I feel really good. You know, We've I've put
a lot of time in this off season to master
in the system. You know it started OTA's really like
a little bit before OTAs and just trying to master
our stuff, learn a new system, terminology, you know, formations, motions,
(02:56):
different plays, all that stuff that's just you got to
learn and take the time to do it. And I
feel really good about that, not Tias, and even through
this break, I feel like I've really been able to
master it. And even coming back the last two days
and having you know, a run a couple of plays
with the young guys and just calling stuff in the
huddle like it's nice that it feels so much more
second nature than it did in the spring. So I
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feel great physically. I feel really good. I feel like
I'm throwing it as good as I ever have. Like
I said, being back healthy is such a good feeling.
Just grateful for that. You know, I don't take I
don't take being healthy for granted anymore. I think I
did early on in my career because I you know,
it was pretty fortunate early on, and the last couple
of years have been kind of tough, you know, banged
up a little bit, and just grateful for that. And
I feel like I'm in a really good, good place.
(03:39):
And there's still a lot more work to put in,
and we got to prepare ourselves for the season, and
that's what training camps for. And I'm excited to see
how we come together as a team.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In terms of health. Do you think about, uh, protecting
yourself differently, playing any differently? Can you think that way
or is there any factor that ever comes up for you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I mean I think it's you can't play afraid to
get hit or a friend contact, Yeah, you have to
play free and you have to trust yourself. And you know,
something I've done in my career, whether it's college or
when I when I've played really well in the NFL
is use my legs and move. And it's not always
using your legs to run, but it's using your legs
to go the pocket and create plays off schedule. So
(04:22):
there's an element of that that I always want to,
you know, keep in my back pocket and be able
to do because I think the way the game is now,
that's such a huge part of playing quarterback. You know,
there's not a ton of guys that just sit back
there and and don't move at all. You know, defenses
are really good, defensive lines, the pass rush is really good,
so you have to be able to move. So there's
that part, But I think it's being smart too, you know,
not taking unnecessary hits if I.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Can throw the ball away.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Like throughout my career, there's been times where it's like
I could have thrown the ball away and I throw
it away late and still take a hit, and it's
just some of those it's like I still ended up
throwing it away, Like just throw it away a second earlier.
Some of those, And I think scrambling and being smart
of you know, it's either a three yard gain or
a six yard gain on first down, but if a
three yard game without getting hit by a linebacker, it's
might be the smarter move.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So I think there's things that.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You learned through playing and through experience and through getting
hit and getting hurt and doing different things that you
get smarter as you get older.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Weirdest offseason you've had or the fullest.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, fullest for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I mean surgery, fatherhood, Yeah, new offense, new coach.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I mean, this is a lot of change. Yeah, a
lot of change, A lot of good things, a lot
of great things. Obviously, surgery was disappointment. Just missing the
rest of the season and having to get back from
that and having a little bit of adversity with that
is was tough. But besides that, I mean, great changes,
great things. Obviously, it's adjustments, but being a dad is incredible.
Having our daughters six months old now, it's crazy how
(05:43):
fast that's gone by. But it's been amazing, you know,
change my perspective a lot, just you know, at home
and with her, and it's just incredible having her. And then,
like I said, the new staff here and everything here.
It's been it's been awesome. The staff here is really smart,
really sharp. The system is great. I love it, you
know now that I really feel more settled into it
(06:04):
right and I can understand kind of the big picture
and what we're doing. I have a lot of confidence
in it. Obviously, we still got a whole season to
play this year and put it to the test. But
I'm really excited. And the staff here has been working
so hard to give us every opportunity to be prepared
in the off season, you know, to study, just giving
us all the tools. I've been really impressed with how
(06:25):
they've helped us prepare for this training camp and prepare
to really have a great season.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know, so much goes into it, And.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I don't think a lot of people don't know
the amount of work it goes into in the off
season and in order to have a successful season and
to prepare yourself. You don't just start over when you
come to training camp and pick it back up. It's
a really it's really almost a year round process. So
it's been awesome working with the staff.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You talked about it. Some of OTAs and people are
so fascinated by it. But the footwork element of this offense,
and maybe you mentioned footwear. People talk about people try
to analyze it. How what's so important about what you
were trying to learn and get better at in the
off season to fit into this offense if you follow the.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Question, Yeah, no, I do. There's a couple of little
things that a lot of people wouldn't know. You know,
I switched my feet. My starting point in the stance
I staggered. I used to be right foot forward, Now
I'm left foot forward. So that's something that I've gone
back and forth on in my career a lot, and
I've always ended up and all my other systems been
right foot forward because that was the preferred you know,
every system is different, but this one was left foot forward,
and I think it's great for quick game. It really
(07:30):
times up, balances you up, and get you in a
position to throw easier and quick game drop back stuff.
It's it's just different. It's not necessarily easier better, but
it's just different. So working that was an adjustment for
the first month or so, and then it's just like
banked reps of that through tas through the off season.
When I'm throwing the past five weeks, getting ready for
training camp. It's working all those different footworks and then
(07:50):
tying all of my the biggest thing with footwork is
tying everything to your progression.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
About timing right, and it helps you through the read
right more automatic.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It helps you you're always playing on time you have.
It helps with your time clock. You're like, I'm hanging
in front side on this concept, but I've already hitched.
I should probably move on. There's everything's thrown on a
specific time rhythm. Yeah, so you feel if you're hanging
on something too long and the coach has done a
great job in the spring, like hey, let's let's eliminate
(08:21):
this this hitch here. You don't like it, just keep moving.
Different things like that, where everything is so tied to
the footwork, where it's very specific because the game is,
like our staff says, it's you know, they try to
give us black and white rules and a structure and
footwork and all these coaching points.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But it's a great game. So when you go out there,
you be able to get.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, you can play fast, you can you can make
decisions quickly. It's never going to be perfect, you know,
footwork and games is never perfect. Sure, pockets moving around.
You guys are gonna, you know, get beat occasionally up front,
you're gonna have to make some plays. You're gonna have
to throw some things, not on the correct footwork, but
to have that to fall back on to where I
know when things are clean, when I'm thrown in rhythm,
(09:04):
this is my progression. This is why how my feet
tied to it, and it keeps me locked in.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And over time you're working toward that being muscle memory, right,
that's the whole gotcha, that's very cool stuff tell me about.
First of all, Travis hunder your impressions.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I mean just the the shape he's in, the conditioning.
I mean, he can run all day. I think that's
the first thing I noticed is just he'll run our
out come right back. If it's not how we want it,
he'll just run it again. Usually guys will take a
break kind of get it, get it after a few reps,
take a second and catch their breath.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Thing go a couple of times, he just goes, goes, goes.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I talked about press, How are you feeling good? He's like, oh,
I'm great. He's like not tired at all, you know,
and it's he just can go. His motor is super high,
just the energy, very just positive.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Guy has a lot of confidence in himself in a
good way. You know, he's not arrogant, but he has that.
You need that confidence to go play at high level
in this soleet, especially that position.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know, you have to have some that and he's
got it.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And you know, the biggest thing in the spring was
trying to get him up to speed with the offense
because it's not an easy offense to learn. There's it
puts a lot on the players because it gives us answers.
In order to have all the answers, you got to
know all the problems, You got to know what your
job is, your responsibility. And I've been proud of how
he's just taking steps through OTAs even through this break
like a thrown with him a few times this offseason,
(10:22):
and you know, I can tell that he's put the
work in and he knows more of the system and
it's starting to become more second nature. So I've been
really impressed by him and his work ethic and I
mean then on defense, he's also really really good corner too,
so it's, uh, he can do a lot for us.
You know, we'll see how that unfolds during the season,
but glad he's on our team.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's almost like with Brian Thomas junior. He was developing
as a rookie, accelerating very quickly, and now when you
come back, I would think you've got to have an
excitement level about what this guy has become and is
becoming one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean him coming in as a rookie, like you
never know. You never know how good some one's going
to be until they're here and you get to play
with them and work with them a little bit. And
you know, I knew pretty early he's super talented and
special in his speed and ball skills and all those things,
but it still hadn't clicked completely because he's trying to
learn a new system. He's trying he's got new teammates,
living in a new city, right, you know, thinking about
(11:17):
a lot in the field as far as just what
to do, Like it is tough learning a new system,
especially coming from college. It's usually a lot more complex
the NFL scheme, So you know, I think it took
him a little bit just to kind of get that,
get settled in with that system and then start playing fast,
you know, through training camp, and then he really started
(11:38):
to to flash and make some splash plays in training camp.
And then I remember in the preseason game against the Chiefs,
he caught that ball on the sideline and that was
I knew how Yeah, I knew how talent he was,
but when he made that play and I saw that
that dog, that fire come out of him, and just
how juiced he was on the sideline because he's more
of a quiet guy, but you saw the competitor come
(11:58):
out of him and You're like, Wow, this has another gear.
And then you know, I got to play with him
for what eight games, only played eight games last year,
so I felt like we really started to kind of
we were just starting to catch our stride a little bit,
like in that Green Bay game.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And he got hurt in that game, missed some of
that towards the end, and then you know, I felt
like then I got hurt the next week against the Eagles,
So we never really got to take off and have
a complete year. But being able to watch him with
even though it was Mac in there not me like
being able to watch him play and to see how
he dictated coverage, how he you know, changed the game
from an offensive perspective, having that matchup one on one, the.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Stuff that he was.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He's going to draw doubles and make things easier. Forget
people talk about receivers who do that. He really doesn't.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He does it and it's and it changes the defenses
whole game plan how you play him because he's that good.
You know, he's he's a guy that you can't you
really can't play him one on one. You can, you
can try, and you know you might win a couple,
but he's going to win most of them. And that
is you know, as a quarterback and as an offense,
to have a guy like that, there's not you look
around the league. There is there's a few of them,
but there's not a ton of them. Those guys aren't
(13:04):
just everywhere.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
There's not as many as people think there are.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
No and and you know, he can do so much
for us. We can move him around and then bringing
in you know Diami, and we already have Parker who's
a great player. We got Britain at tight end. We
got Travis Hunter in the draft. We got some great
running backs. We have a lot of depth everywhere and
guys that can play and that's just gonna help. You
know that we get you gotta spread the rock round.
I mean, bt he's gonna get his and he's gonna
(13:28):
he's gonna have a great season. But when defenses do
want to try to take him away, you gotta have
other guys that can make plays.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And we got plenty of that.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, we run along. We got a couple more
impressions so far. Liam.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I love him. Yeah, Yeah, he's he's great.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Just the communication for you know, obviously he's a first
time head coach and seeing his leadership is a different style.
But he's very open, honest, clear communication with his players
and you know exactly where he stands. You know, I've
had a lot of conversations with him and just building
(14:03):
that personal relationship and you know, me calling him about
something or him calling me about something and.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Just keeping me in the loop.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And you know, I've really appreciated the way he's handled
building our relationship this far, and I'm just excited to
get to the season and uh, get in training camp
and get to work with him. And it's it's been
awesome seeing the way he leads and the way he
you know, treats his players and his coaches and how
much he loves football. I think that's the I mean,
you would hope everyone loves football that's coaching, but seeing
(14:30):
him is just, yeah, it's it's impressive that he he
really loves it and he puts so much into it,
and he's so smart and seeing how he you know,
prepares and this offensive sit like he could coach.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I think he could coach every position on offense.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He's he has that much knowledge and detail and he
knows the why behind everything, and you know he's calling
the place, so you would hope so. But still, I mean,
it's still impressive to to see him operate and how
sharp he is.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Got you.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We're going to roll over the ozone five really fast.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh favorite TV show when you were six? When I
was six, I was a big Drake and Josh guy.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Okay, yeah, so was my son. I watched a little bit.
I watched more.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Than It's good. It's funny. I watched more.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Drake and Josh than I probably want to admit.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, that's a good show.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Favorite movie growing up.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I have a couple of my all time favorites. The
original Karate Kid Okay, yeah, not the newer one. The
original is good your.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Last binge watch watching?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's been watching, well, we just started one. It's only
we got like one episode of Night when She Goes Down.
But Waterfront one, it's a new one. There's only one season,
but it's on Netflix. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Good deal. Your go to artist singer.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Oh, that's another tough one. I get this from my mom.
She loved Lionel Richie, So that's one of my favorites.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but I really like
Lionel Richie.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Your mom and I same generation. The app on your
phone use the.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Most, probably text messages again, that's realistically, it's probably probably
that one.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, Trevor Lawrence, I'll get out of your way. Thank
you for joining the ozone podcast. As always, fantastic stuff
and be luck to see thanks.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah,
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