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“He’s making us better; he’s making us kind of be
on our—excuse my language—he’s making us be
on our (expletive) a little bit sooner than we had
previously had to, and that’s good,” cornerback
Jalen Ramsey said. “We’re out there. We’re
getting in the mindset. We’re getting locked in.”
Cornerback A.J. Bouye noticed a major difference
back in May.
“I was even talking to my coaches, frustrated
because you have a really good quarterback and
there were certain plays that you were making
in the past years … you are there and even when
you make the right breaks and everything, but
the ball is where only the receiver can catch it,”
Bouye said.
“You can see that he is a leader out there, the way
he carries his offense. The tempo of the offense is
different, they’re more upbeat, they’re attacking
us. They are going to give us looks. For example,
there was a deep ball that I broke up, but you
could tell the way he was pump [faking] the post
safety to get him off the fi eld and then to come
back and read his reads … We weren’t seeing that
a lot.
“That’s only going to make us better going into
the season.”
For the fi rst time in a long time Foles enters a
training camp as the starting quarterback. When
asked about it last week, Foles quickly turned the
conversation back to the team.
“I think whenever you get to run an offense that
you really enjoy, and that you get to have a lot
of say in, what quarterback wouldn’t love that?”
Foles said last week after a practice against
the Baltimore Ravens. “It’s really just about the
people that you get to do it with, and this team
has really been bonding every single day.
“I feel like [I’m] trying to get a little bit better
every day, trying to get closer with the guys and
develop those relationships to where when we
come on the fi eld, and we play against someone,
when we need to make checks or a route
adjustment or different line calls, everything is
smooth.
“I feel good where we’re at. We just have to keep
progressing. We’re heading the right direction; we
still have a ways to go. That’s the plan, just a little
bit better every single day.”
Tonight’s game
Tonight the Jaguars host the Philadelphia Eagles
in Preseason Week 2. At the start of 2019 Training
Camp, Foles was asked what it felt like to deliver
the city of Philadelphia their fi rst Super Bowl title
two seasons ago.
As we are learning from each Foles media
availability, the answer was vintage Foles – giving
a nod to his past, but also looking forward to the
future.
“I will always love Philadelphia, I will always
admire the Eagles organization, and they know
that,” Foles said.
“But what’s so exciting is there’s not many players
that are blessed to play with an organization like
that, that have never won one, and then they’re
blessed to go to another organization that has
always strived for that. I’m blessed to be here and
be a part of the Jaguars organization. I get to see
a lot of different steps I took in Philly, continuing
to build this camaraderie to build this team for
that ultimate goal that we achieved there. And
obviously this is a different situation, different
people, different city, everything, but I still see the
passion.
“I know everyone was out here today (fi rst day of
training camp) supporting us, and it’s special to
be a part of, and that’s why I’m so excited every
single day to come out here and just compete
and have fun. Because I know how much this city
wants it.”