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Jags Drive Time: Friday, October 18 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars Football picks up the
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Speaker 1: Black Tie, the Jaguars of Fitness Feelers Jaguars, Did you
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Speaker 1: don't Jack? Jack Wars? Did you go? Jaguars Drive Time?
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Speaker 1: Ryan Sex steps th John Oh Jo It actually ja
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now, Happy Friday, Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time always starts on Friday. Here with coffee
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Speaker 1: with the coach. And I have to start the show
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Speaker 1: of giving a shout out to PRS. David Wolf because
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Speaker 1: he came in here running with the coffee for coach
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Speaker 1: because last week he forgot. Not this week, Batman's on
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Speaker 1: his A game today, getting better, getting better. That's awesome.
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Speaker 1: What kind of coffee does he get? Straight black, straight
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Speaker 1: black flavor, guy, you know, no particular roast, dark roast,
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Speaker 1: media roast roast. I get the stuff had gotten turned
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Speaker 1: on by our owner by shod you know, so um,
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Speaker 1: I kind of order that and probably really dark roast.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like it dark and strong, Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Can't get it on the open market. Contraband don't don't
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Speaker 1: start rumors. That's all. We got enough going on coach
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Speaker 1: houses this week, week on with everything going on, with
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Speaker 1: Jalen injuries being better. Yeah, I think I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: I go back to, um, you know, as as the
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Speaker 1: head coach, you're gonna have to deal with a lot
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Speaker 1: of things and that's expected, and what your goal is
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Speaker 1: is to try to make sure that your players and
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Speaker 1: your coaches are really you know, focused on the task
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Speaker 1: in hand, knowing that, you know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that that can potentially pull you away from that,
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Speaker 1: and it's not that they're trying to. They just want
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Speaker 1: information of hey, how do you feel, how's it going,
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Speaker 1: what's you know, what do you feel about this situation?
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Speaker 1: So but I think you know, overall that the coaches
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Speaker 1: and the players have done a very good job, you know,
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Speaker 1: being able to focus and concentrate. Um, you know, obviously
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Speaker 1: with the trade earlier in the week, and then you know,
2:02
Speaker 1: obviously you're working. You know, you always work. We're pretty healthy,
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Speaker 1: but there's a couple of you know, guys that have
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Speaker 1: banged up and you're going you know through that that's
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Speaker 1: a normal situation. So I think that, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm happy with the way everybody's handled it and we're
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Speaker 1: focused and now it comes back to having a great
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Speaker 1: day today. And then making sure that you know it's
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Speaker 1: like everything else in this business. And I keep trying
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Speaker 1: to remind everyone it's a performance based business, which means
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Speaker 1: really during the week you're preparing and you're doing all
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Speaker 1: that stuff, but you you really have to hit on
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Speaker 1: all cylinders when you play that game on Sunday. That's
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Speaker 1: what That's when it really counts. Have you noticed over
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Speaker 1: the course of your career that there are moments where
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Speaker 1: a team sort of galvanizes, you know, gets together on things,
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Speaker 1: And now the question about Jalen goes away. No one
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Speaker 1: has to ask that anymore. In nineties around here, the
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Speaker 1: Andre Rising got cut and the team had been kind
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Speaker 1: of bouncing around, and then all of a sudden, at
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Speaker 1: that moment, it was like, okay, this is performance based business,
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Speaker 1: like you said, and you could just feel everything changed
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Speaker 1: and they went on a winning streak there. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying that Jalen trade is a winning streak, but
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Speaker 1: I kind of saw it as a moment where sort
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Speaker 1: of galvanized the team and brought it together. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think I think you could potentially have those. Um. I
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Speaker 1: think with the way, in my opinion, the way the
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Speaker 1: game has changed, and you know the business side of things. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I think there's a greater I don't know what the
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Speaker 1: right word is, a greater understanding or a greater awareness
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Speaker 1: of of what the business side is in the locker
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Speaker 1: room where I can only go back to my time
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Speaker 1: where it was, you know, there wasn't a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of business, and you were just
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Speaker 1: trying to hang on just to play and the the team.
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Speaker 1: You know, what I'm saying was it was a bigger,
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Speaker 1: a bigger thing. And then not to say that the
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Speaker 1: team is not big now, but you know, I think
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Speaker 1: I think we all understand it's it's there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of money, there's a lot of things going on, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I think you know, the goal is to
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Speaker 1: always try to find something, you know, as the head coach,
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Speaker 1: to to to rally your team around. This situation is
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Speaker 1: not the one that I would um, you know, obviously
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Speaker 1: it was a tough situation for everyone. He was a
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Speaker 1: good teammate, he was a really good player, and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, the business end of it, he's not here.
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Speaker 1: Players for the most part, attend to be able to
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Speaker 1: concentrate through these things because they're working on their own jobs.
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Speaker 1: But the one person who might have been effected by
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Speaker 1: it was Trey Herndon obviously having to wonder if he
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Speaker 1: was getting ready to start that weekend, how is he
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Speaker 1: handled the whole situation and your confidence live on him
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Speaker 1: going forward? Well, I've always had confidence in in Trey.
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Speaker 1: I think you know, anyone that's you know, makes the roster,
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Speaker 1: you have to have confidence and that you know he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to go out there and perform withever
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Speaker 1: role you have for him. That's the reason why he's
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Speaker 1: made the team. And I think you know with Trey Um,
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Speaker 1: he's he's the part that gets you know, underlooked. Was
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Speaker 1: you know, is he going to knocking during the week
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Speaker 1: and that and that comes with with all players not
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Speaker 1: we're not just talking about this, and you know the
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Speaker 1: person that is behind them. Um really has to do
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Speaker 1: a good job preparing himself like he's always going to
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Speaker 1: be able to play. And I think you know, Trey
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Speaker 1: has said a great example Um, you know, and there's
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Speaker 1: been a lot of good examples this year. Um Gardner
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Speaker 1: coming in after ten plays and and playing for Nick
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Speaker 1: and knowing the game plan that I know people say
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Speaker 1: that's his job. He should know it, but but that
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Speaker 1: doesn't always happen, you know. So I think that's a
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Speaker 1: great example for young players. I think with Trey, is
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Speaker 1: he gonna play this week or you're not, and always
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Speaker 1: getting himself mentally ready to play and going out there
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Speaker 1: and giving us everything he hasn't and playing well. You know. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's a great example. So I think things are going
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Speaker 1: on during the season, you know, as we grow and
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Speaker 1: as we need to get better. There's no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: But I think there's some good examples of you know,
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Speaker 1: this team progressing and getting better. There's also different levels
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Speaker 1: of ready. Right in Gardner's case, you could looked at
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Speaker 1: the playbook and sort of know the offense, but to
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Speaker 1: really be ready is a different thing. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: to go out there. It goes back to the same
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Speaker 1: thing and perform. I mean, you know, you can bring
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Speaker 1: anyone in um too, you know, to coach, to to
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Speaker 1: learn a playbook, to teach a playbook. So what's the difference.
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Speaker 1: You know, the difference is, you know it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: that talent. You know, whether a coach is going to
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Speaker 1: be motivating, inspiring a player, getting into player at his best,
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Speaker 1: really trying to make sure that he can understand it,
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Speaker 1: because everyone learns differently. And then for the player, you know,
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Speaker 1: you can take anyone and they can look at a
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Speaker 1: playbook say okay, I have this, I had this, but
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Speaker 1: then actually go out there and do it. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's what separates everyone, which is a talent. So you know,
6:29
Speaker 1: there are a lot of factors that go into it.
6:32
Speaker 1: You were saying on Monday that you felt like Josh
6:34
Speaker 1: Oliver had a good chance to play this week full
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Speaker 1: participant in practice yesterday. If he does end up being
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Speaker 1: able to play on Sunday, what do you think, how
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Speaker 1: do you think he's going to play with not playing
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Speaker 1: it all this season? Yeah, I don't know. I mean
6:46
Speaker 1: it's a good it's a good question. I think that
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, your expectations obviously are to him
6:53
Speaker 1: to go out there and and and you have you know,
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Speaker 1: do everything extremely well, and but you know, you really
7:00
Speaker 1: and you know, so it's kind of like that, Hey,
7:02
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm I'm happy to see that we've got
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Speaker 1: him now to a point where we can put him
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Speaker 1: out on that field, which I think that's that's the
7:09
Speaker 1: first step. And then now I think the next step
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Speaker 1: of saying, okay, let's see where you are. Because for
7:15
Speaker 1: the difference with him and a lot of other players,
7:17
Speaker 1: I've never seen him play like In other words, I've
7:19
Speaker 1: he didn't participate in our scrimmage, he didn't participate in
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Speaker 1: the preseason. So I don't know, but I did. I
7:26
Speaker 1: do know this. I did like what I what, I
7:28
Speaker 1: what I was able to look at when he was
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Speaker 1: in college. I mean, that's why he's here, you know.
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Speaker 1: So he did a great job. So uh again, I
7:36
Speaker 1: don't I go in there and saying, hey, listen, I
7:38
Speaker 1: want to see where he's at. I want to see
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Speaker 1: him do his best, and I want to see you know,
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Speaker 1: where we're on. I think from there that kind of
7:42
Speaker 1: creates a line for you, you you know where all right,
7:45
Speaker 1: this is what we need to improve, honest, what we
7:47
Speaker 1: need to get better because right now we're trying to
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Speaker 1: prove everything. Well, let's go see what he can do
7:51
Speaker 1: when he when he's out there. About your quarterback, you know,
7:53
Speaker 1: we talked week to week, you know, can he do
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Speaker 1: it again? Can he do it again? And then after
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Speaker 1: this week we have to talk about a rebound performance.
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Speaker 1: You know, can he take it back to where it was?
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Speaker 1: What have you seen from him on the practice field
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Speaker 1: this week and what are your thoughts about how he
8:07
Speaker 1: handles adversity. Well, I think we're gonna see I think
8:10
Speaker 1: it goes back to the same thing. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: you you know, he's he's gone through a lot of tests,
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Speaker 1: you know, ten plays being thrown in the game, you know,
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Speaker 1: the following week coming you know, coming back and being
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Speaker 1: a starter, and then you have to go to a
8:22
Speaker 1: short week. You know, then um, all of a sudden,
8:25
Speaker 1: you play a team and they're gonna throw a couple
8:27
Speaker 1: of different things that you maybe haven't prepared for you've seen,
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Speaker 1: you know, in your career, and you know, now you're
8:33
Speaker 1: coming off a game where you know you didn't play
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Speaker 1: as well as you wanted, and you know, how are
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Speaker 1: you going to attack this week? How are you going
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Speaker 1: to do that? You know, And we're a big part
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Speaker 1: of that as the coaches. I mean, we've got to
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Speaker 1: make sure that you know, we're giving him all these
8:44
Speaker 1: things where he does feel comfortable. Um, you know if
8:48
Speaker 1: if if teams play us in a different coverage and
8:50
Speaker 1: situations like that. So we've done a good job of
8:52
Speaker 1: that this week and I watched them, you know, as
8:54
Speaker 1: the week, you know, progresses, Like any player, you know
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Speaker 1: your confidence should you know pro rest meaning that you know, hey,
9:01
Speaker 1: you don't have a good feel, and as the week
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Speaker 1: goes on, you're like, you have a great feel, and
9:05
Speaker 1: then they're whatever things that you're not sure about. We
9:08
Speaker 1: need as coaches, we need to take out of the
9:10
Speaker 1: game plan and that's way we can focus on the
9:12
Speaker 1: things that we have, because as coaches we always have
9:14
Speaker 1: more than enough. That's the one of the problems with
9:17
Speaker 1: all of us. Cincinnati own six team pretty banged up.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to say they're a bad team. And
9:25
Speaker 1: I know it's tough to win in the NFL, but
9:26
Speaker 1: should the Jaguars win this game on Sunday? Are you
9:30
Speaker 1: confident in that? I think it's you know, every coach
9:34
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny you get these questions all the time.
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Speaker 1: You know, what do you think your record is going
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Speaker 1: to be this year? What are you think you're gonna do?
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Speaker 1: You know, I mean every time we take the field,
9:43
Speaker 1: we take out there, we take the field to go
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Speaker 1: win and win a game. Um, you know, we know
9:48
Speaker 1: that it's going to be difficult no matter who you're
9:50
Speaker 1: playing this league, because like I said, when when those
9:52
Speaker 1: teams leave the locker room and the national anthems played,
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Speaker 1: and the coin toss is done and that ball is
10:00
Speaker 1: kicked off, there's not a guy on that field that's
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Speaker 1: thinking about a record. You know, this team's owing this,
10:06
Speaker 1: so this team is this and that, and you know
10:08
Speaker 1: the competition is high. So you know, obviously, you know,
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Speaker 1: we were playing to win, and we play, you know,
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Speaker 1: we practice to win, play to win, and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: go up there and win a game against a team
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Speaker 1: that is a whole lot better than their record says.
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Speaker 1: And you know they've had a lot of injuries and
10:23
Speaker 1: they've gone through it. But you know a lot of
10:25
Speaker 1: times when teams like that, it's just like anything else.
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Speaker 1: You know, I've learned, you know from from actual true experience.
10:32
Speaker 1: If you back back something up into a corner, it
10:34
Speaker 1: will attack you, you know, and and a lot of times,
10:37
Speaker 1: and in this day and age that you know, when
10:39
Speaker 1: you when you're beat up and stuff like that, and
10:41
Speaker 1: you have good players on your team, you're gonna rally
10:43
Speaker 1: and and get get the most out of them. So
10:46
Speaker 1: you know, our expectations is seeing their best and and
10:49
Speaker 1: our expectations to be able to play at our best
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Speaker 1: and you know, try to do whatever we can to
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Speaker 1: win the game. You talked on Monday a little bit
10:55
Speaker 1: about the liking what you're starting to see from the
10:58
Speaker 1: offensive line in terms of running game. I what is
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Speaker 1: it that you're seeing and how confident are you that
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Speaker 1: are you going forward? Yeah? I think you know, I
11:07
Speaker 1: just I just see overall, uh, growth in the group.
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Speaker 1: You know, not you know, it's not it's not going
11:14
Speaker 1: as fast as I would like. But I think that's
11:16
Speaker 1: that's that's why you're called a coach. You know, you're
11:18
Speaker 1: never gonna progress as fast as you'd like. Um, I
11:22
Speaker 1: think some of those younger players, you know, like what
11:24
Speaker 1: you want. And you know, I think he's learned. I
11:27
Speaker 1: mean he's gone through pretty much a murderer's row of
11:30
Speaker 1: of defensive ends and and playing against him, I think
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Speaker 1: that you know, you know, he's he's learned a lot.
11:37
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you play against these guys, you're
11:38
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna learn a lot and then you know,
11:41
Speaker 1: can you apply it? And he's a guy that's been
11:44
Speaker 1: you know, very professional and doesn't seem even though at
11:46
Speaker 1: times you can see and his play that he may
11:49
Speaker 1: play like a young player. His demeanor around the buildings
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Speaker 1: not that way. And and and then with Cam havening't
11:55
Speaker 1: been out for a long period of time, you know,
11:58
Speaker 1: last week you saw at least I did it. I
12:00
Speaker 1: was able to see him better technically, you know, which
12:03
Speaker 1: is one of the things I've always you know, I
12:05
Speaker 1: get concerned about when the players out for a long
12:07
Speaker 1: period of time because, like I said before, it's easy
12:10
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, this is what your footwork should be.
12:12
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, you know, dancing, right, But the
12:15
Speaker 1: only problem is in dancing, no one's trying to rip
12:18
Speaker 1: your head off, you know. You know what I'm saying
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Speaker 1: and get through you. Yeah, so you know that stuff.
12:24
Speaker 1: That's where it causes problems with the techniques. And I
12:27
Speaker 1: thought that Cam is doing a better job and he'll
12:29
Speaker 1: continue to get better. And I think, you know, we've
12:31
Speaker 1: got two guards, you know, with with Will and a
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Speaker 1: J playing right, I think we're getting good production out
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Speaker 1: of them. I think they're both playing, you know, at
12:38
Speaker 1: a good level. Lender and and Andrew are And the
12:41
Speaker 1: only thing that's happening is that, hey, when we do
12:43
Speaker 1: have a breakdown, it's usually one you know, but then
12:47
Speaker 1: that breakdown has really been critical to us, and that's
12:50
Speaker 1: where we need to do a good job where we're
12:52
Speaker 1: in sync all the time, and that's that's always been
12:55
Speaker 1: the goal, and those guys are working hard at it,
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Speaker 1: and um, you know, I feel I feel good about,
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Speaker 1: you know, where we're gonna where we're going to be
13:03
Speaker 1: with that group. Since you talk about the offensive line,
13:05
Speaker 1: just a quick thought on Gina Atkins, who I think
13:07
Speaker 1: because they're owing six, they're not not A lot of
13:10
Speaker 1: attention is paid to the talent on their team, but
13:12
Speaker 1: that guy in particular, for a number of years, he's
13:14
Speaker 1: like Aaron Donald. He's real, he's real, handful in the
13:17
Speaker 1: middle of everything. Yeah, I think, you know, when I
13:19
Speaker 1: think about Cincinnati having competed against him for you know,
13:22
Speaker 1: obviously quite a quite a long time, I always think,
13:24
Speaker 1: you know, both those players came in in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and ten, you know, Gino and Carlos Dunlop, and I
13:30
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if if Dunlop is gonna play,
13:32
Speaker 1: but I think I think when you think of Cincinnati
13:34
Speaker 1: and you're going to Cincinnati, you think of those two
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Speaker 1: guys as the cornerstones, you know, that have really been
13:38
Speaker 1: there for a long period of time, and it's been
13:40
Speaker 1: really good players. Um, you know Dunlop when he's playing,
13:43
Speaker 1: he's probably one of the longest players, meaning you know,
13:46
Speaker 1: long arms, long legs, big. I mean, you walk on
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Speaker 1: the field, he's the first person you're gonna notice. And
13:52
Speaker 1: it is a good football player. I think, Gino, what
13:54
Speaker 1: you see as you see a guy that has you know, quickness,
13:56
Speaker 1: savvy technique and is really just really if a goal
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Speaker 1: to move and you know, a guy that can make
14:03
Speaker 1: some plays if if you don't get you know, your
14:05
Speaker 1: full body on him and doing those things. So, um,
14:09
Speaker 1: you know I I put those guys in the same
14:11
Speaker 1: type of category of of like Calais, you know guys
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Speaker 1: that and I don't know them personally, but they play hard,
14:17
Speaker 1: they work hard, they're they're you know, durable, they're available.
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Speaker 1: You know, they've done all those things and and and
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Speaker 1: and in fact, really good careers. And I'm still playing
14:26
Speaker 1: at a really good level already. Coach best leuct this
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Speaker 1: week where I won't mention the Yankees and put you
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Speaker 1: in a bad mood, all right, he warned me. But
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Speaker 1: I just kind of a little tidbit. We don't have
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Speaker 1: Friday morning. A little chili this morning in Jacksonville. It's
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Speaker 1: not chilli. It's chill Jackets, it's chili. People are cold. Now. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Are you go on one hike during the summer north
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Speaker 1: on your mountain? Man? Yeah, I say, dere is cold.
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Speaker 1: Please you go on one hike and look where we get.
16:59
Speaker 1: I'm sitting next to couple of Native Floridians because are soft. Alright,
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Speaker 1: Let's get into big things, shall we. Big thing one
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Speaker 1: is playoffs. If they are going to win on Sunday,
17:09
Speaker 1: you continue to talk about the playoffs and whether it's
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Speaker 1: a possibility if you lose on Sunday, you kind of
17:14
Speaker 1: have to change the narrative of the season basically, and
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Speaker 1: you can't really be talking about a postseason really at
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Speaker 1: all if you don't get it done on Sunday. Big
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Speaker 1: thing too is will he go? No, no, no, not
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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, not anymore. We're not asking this question anymore
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Speaker 1: on Friday's of whether Jalen will play. We're asking this
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Speaker 1: week if tight end Josh Oliver will play. And you
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Speaker 1: just turn a head coach Maran earlier. It sounds pretty good,
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Speaker 1: a high possibility will see him on the field on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: And big thing three is bad Bangles. Is this team
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Speaker 1: bad or is they really just banged up? Injury bug?
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Speaker 1: You can't really tell because they do have so many injuries.
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Speaker 1: Of what you're gonna stars who are not playing for them,
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Speaker 1: and he mentioned one of them, Carlos Dunlop, both starting corners.
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Speaker 1: You're down the starting safety Shawn Williams can't stay on
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Speaker 1: the field because his knee. Uh. They're left tackle. Corty
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Speaker 1: Glenn got in a fight the other day with a coach,
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Speaker 1: and so John Jerry, a backup, is going to play
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Speaker 1: at left tackle and he was abused last week by
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Speaker 1: the Ravens. You're missing a guard, you're missing a j Green.
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Speaker 1: They are a beat up football team. I don't think
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Speaker 1: they're a bad football team because Andy Dalton has been
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Speaker 1: a good quarterback um, but they have problems on the
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Speaker 1: offensive line and injuries all over the place. So oh,
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Speaker 1: when six says you're bad, they're They're prototypical first year
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Speaker 1: struggling to find an identity with the new coach. They're
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Speaker 1: in the first throes of a rebuild with both offense
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Speaker 1: and defense are new. So every year you sort of
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Speaker 1: get one team that's going through this in the league
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Speaker 1: where it's it's a mass rebuild. They've been close enough
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Speaker 1: in three games that you don't think they're going to
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Speaker 1: be a team that comes in believing they can't win.
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Speaker 1: So to me, the most dangerous time of this game
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Speaker 1: for the Jaguars is the first quarter. If you're not
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Speaker 1: leading after that quarter, if somehow the Bengals have a lead,
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Speaker 1: if they've gotten something flew key a team like this,
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Speaker 1: historically they're all professional football players. If they start believing
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Speaker 1: they can win, they get dangerous in the second half
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Speaker 1: and you get that crowd sort of almost sarcastically cheering
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Speaker 1: for the home team kind of thing, which we've all seen.
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Speaker 1: That's where it's dangerous. There is need to get ahead
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Speaker 1: in this game. By the way, I don't disagree, but
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Speaker 1: I look at I look at the numbers. They are
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Speaker 1: thirty second running the ball with Joe Mixon, they're running
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Speaker 1: for fifty six yards then hold on. On the other side,
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Speaker 1: they're giving up add eighty five yards rushing a game.
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Speaker 1: So when you want to talk about you know what
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Speaker 1: this team should be able to go do. They should
19:37
Speaker 1: be able to help the rookie quarterback by running the
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Speaker 1: ball with Leonard for Nette, who has had a couple
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Speaker 1: of strong performances in a row. I don't know about
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Speaker 1: what the score has gotta be. I think because it's
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Speaker 1: an NFL game, and because you've got um, it should
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Speaker 1: be close into the first half, and then the second
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Speaker 1: half the Jaguars should pull away. You think it worries
19:56
Speaker 1: about this game, Brian, It's not Cincinnati. It's how the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars have played so far this year, meaning they're two
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Speaker 1: and four and they've got themselves in position. The thing
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Speaker 1: that's worries about this team is they've only with the
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Speaker 1: exception of the Tennessee game, if it feels like they've
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Speaker 1: led for about thirty seconds other than that game, and
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Speaker 1: I know that's not the right stat, but that's what
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Speaker 1: it feels like. Except for that game, you have been
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Speaker 1: down every game. So it's sort of until you break
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Speaker 1: that habit, you wonder if they're going to get a lead,
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Speaker 1: and it gains a team like this if you don't
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Speaker 1: have the lead earlier of a sudden starts believing. I
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Speaker 1: guess that's what I want to see out of this team.
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Speaker 1: And and and sort of the basis of our discussion.
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Speaker 1: Can they get a lead even against a team that
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Speaker 1: they should be able to and just say, Okay, we're
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Speaker 1: better today? They haven't really shown that except for one
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Speaker 1: game this year. And I get it, it's on paper
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Speaker 1: and the number wise, but when I watched them, I
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Speaker 1: just don't see any way that the Bengals team should
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Speaker 1: be able to hang with Jacksonville. Just don't see it.
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Speaker 1: Oh and on on our big thing too, when you
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Speaker 1: mentioned Josh Oliver and now we're not gonna about jo
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Speaker 1: and Ramsey plan, Uh, I guess is Jalen's gonna play?
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Speaker 1: And thank goodness that the back is okay. Worried and
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Speaker 1: what doctors they must have in Los Angeles because you
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Speaker 1: were worried that good things happen it's worth it's worth
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Speaker 1: asking what you can expect from Josh Oliver. Yes, hasn't played, um,
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Speaker 1: hasn't been in pads on the field on a consistent
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Speaker 1: basis since training camp began. Talented kid. We saw a
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Speaker 1: lot out of him watching him in limited practice, but
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Speaker 1: you could see the athletic of you were excited about
21:37
Speaker 1: the length. You could he's understanding of the passing game
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Speaker 1: because he was the number one option at San Jose
21:43
Speaker 1: State last year. Again, it's San Jose State, not the NFL. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: may be when he had fifty five or six catches
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Speaker 1: and five or six touchdowns. I mean, so he understands
21:52
Speaker 1: what it means to be a part of it. Last week,
21:54
Speaker 1: if anything on this offense didn't work, it was there
21:57
Speaker 1: was no target in the middle of the field. There
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Speaker 1: was no one to bring a safety to the middle
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Speaker 1: of the field and change the Saints ability to play
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Speaker 1: double high safeties. Right. They were so desperate for it,
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Speaker 1: they actually for something. They've got to have something in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the field so the teams can't go
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Speaker 1: and play cover too all day long. Doesn't it feel
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Speaker 1: Brian like Josh Oliver this week coming off the hamstring game,
22:21
Speaker 1: fitness obviously has to be an issue. It feels like
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Speaker 1: if you can get one big play down the same
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Speaker 1: a half, I had this image of him probably catching
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Speaker 1: that and being over in the sidelines gas coming back,
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Speaker 1: you know, because it's just tough to play every play
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Speaker 1: when you haven't. If they could get three catches a
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Speaker 1: couple of down the same and just established something, they'd
22:43
Speaker 1: be ecstatic. The tight end is supposed to be able
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Speaker 1: to create a mismatch with the linebacker, bring the safety
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Speaker 1: into the middle field, but most importantly convert move the
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Speaker 1: chains on third down. That's what they need him for.
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Speaker 1: I could see three catches for forty seven yards out
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Speaker 1: of the kid and it being a tremendous performances. All
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Speaker 1: three are first downs. All right, when we come back,
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Speaker 1: Jags Drive time Friday morning. Always has he will, he won't.
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Speaker 1: He might for the upcoming matchup Jaguars versus Bengals. In John,
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Speaker 1: you have Josh Oliver. I have Josh Oliver, and I
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Speaker 1: think he's very important. Uh this week he will play. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He practiced full yesterday, which has been the trigger point
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Speaker 1: they've been waiting for this guy. Once he practiced full,
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Speaker 1: you felt like he was gonna play. Um, he won't
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Speaker 1: play every play you know, and he's going to have
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Speaker 1: I'm sure a fitness issue throughout the game. It takes
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Speaker 1: time to get to game speed, especially for a rookie.
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Speaker 1: The fascinating thing, as Doug pointed out, I suppose he
25:35
Speaker 1: may have been in pads once or twice since he's
25:38
Speaker 1: been in the NFL, but I'm not sure when that
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Speaker 1: would have been. It had been not the last couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks because he was out by the third day
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Speaker 1: of training camp, so he's never had even pads on
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Speaker 1: in that unless he had one or two that time.
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Speaker 1: So point being never played anything, but he might start
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Speaker 1: because they need him that desperately and he night going
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Speaker 1: forward be he's got a chance to be that surprise
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Speaker 1: guy who by December you're looking at saying, okay, now
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Speaker 1: they've got something offensively, They've got a guy that they
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Speaker 1: can move around at tight end, they can play. He
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Speaker 1: might be really important to this team by season's end.
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Speaker 1: They sure hope he will be. If this coaching staff
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Speaker 1: has aspirations for the postseason and Josh Oliver is not,
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Speaker 1: then Dave Caldwell better get on the phone and start
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Speaker 1: finding a tight end before the trade deadline. This is
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Speaker 1: their last hope in the middle of the field. Shaughnessy
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Speaker 1: is not coming back. Jeff Swain isn't the guy anyway.
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Speaker 1: We know what Ben Quayak is. A guy you found
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Speaker 1: on the street, and if you cut him tomorrow, you
26:38
Speaker 1: get him on the street on Sunday. That's just who
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Speaker 1: he is. You've got to have something in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the field. Josh Oliver was supposed to be that
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Speaker 1: this year. They didn't even think James O'Shaughnessy was going
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Speaker 1: to emerge like he did. He hasn't been on the field.
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Speaker 1: You've got to have someone in the middle field, especially
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Speaker 1: with this rookie quarterback, he better become what they and
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Speaker 1: then you really want. I mean, there's the history ly
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Speaker 1: young guy coming back from this injury. They've sure taken
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Speaker 1: their time with it or which is good because historically
27:08
Speaker 1: you worry about ability to stay healthy after coming back.
27:12
Speaker 1: It's just a lot to put together quickly. So you
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Speaker 1: hope this works. Two or three first downs a game,
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Speaker 1: maybe a touchdown or two in the red zone before
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Speaker 1: the season's over, and you could call it a productive season. Absolutely, right, Brian,
27:22
Speaker 1: you have Unique goy Uh yeah, So I think Junique
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Speaker 1: and got Way will have a huge game on Sunday.
27:28
Speaker 1: The Bengals offensive line is a mess right now. Uh,
27:32
Speaker 1: they're starting again. I've been through this. But John Jerry
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Speaker 1: at left tackle, who gave up three sacks I think
27:37
Speaker 1: last week. I don't care where you put Unique and
27:39
Speaker 1: Dockway right tackle, left tackle, it doesn't matter. I think
27:42
Speaker 1: he will abuse whoever he is in front of because
27:45
Speaker 1: Calais Campbell is gonna draw the attention to the tight end. Uh,
27:49
Speaker 1: Unique and Josh Allen should both have big days. But
27:52
Speaker 1: I just get the censer over the last couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks that it's building with Guinea and he is calmed
27:56
Speaker 1: down a little bit. I think early on he was
27:58
Speaker 1: forcing things. And I don't just expect Zack. I expect sack, strip,
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Speaker 1: defensive touchdown. I think he can absolutely do that. Um
28:07
Speaker 1: I don't know what he won't do. I don't have
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Speaker 1: anything that he won't do. But he might be the
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Speaker 1: guy to score this week. It might bounce the right
28:15
Speaker 1: way and have him go. Defense has been looking for
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Speaker 1: one of those. I just this is a guy who
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Speaker 1: is a he's in. I don't know. I don't know
28:27
Speaker 1: how to say it. I just think he's he's right
28:29
Speaker 1: for one of those days where everyone looks at him
28:32
Speaker 1: and says pay him now. And he won't. But here's
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Speaker 1: what he won't do. He won't be the one in
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Speaker 1: the locker room after the game to say pay me now.
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Speaker 1: But if he has that kind of game and it
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Speaker 1: sparks this team, they might pay him. And you would
28:45
Speaker 1: love for it to be the week after Jalen gets traded,
28:48
Speaker 1: because we've talked about for so long how Unique has
28:50
Speaker 1: handled this the right way. Wouldn't it be great for
28:52
Speaker 1: Sunday be his game? Yeah? No, and you need he
28:55
Speaker 1: won't say it publicly. They'll say it to somebody, which
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Speaker 1: I didn't. Yeah, I didn't say it's good for him
29:01
Speaker 1: because he get paid a couple of things. And unique
29:05
Speaker 1: you mentioned he was he was forcing it early. I
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Speaker 1: also think he was hurt early. He missed one game
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Speaker 1: for the first time his career. I think it was hamstring.
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Speaker 1: It looked like he was half speed for a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks trying to fight through it, which is legal,
29:20
Speaker 1: by the way, you're allowed in the NFL to play
29:23
Speaker 1: through an injury. I just wanted to clarify I got
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Speaker 1: a back injury. Well, I'm just putting it out there.
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Speaker 1: It's been done. Um in this that's fine, And that's
29:37
Speaker 1: really all I had to say. Okay, he just wanted
29:40
Speaker 1: to deliver a point. My he will, he won't. He
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Speaker 1: might is Trey Herndon. He will take a step forward
29:47
Speaker 1: in the right direction. That's because he's been improving every
29:50
Speaker 1: single week and we've seen the reports that teams are
29:53
Speaker 1: picking on him. But with the position he plays, he's
29:56
Speaker 1: gonna get burned on someplace. I mean, Jalen Ramsey and
29:58
Speaker 1: a j Boy do too. He's in roving every week.
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Speaker 1: He won't have this be too much of a challenge
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Speaker 1: for him. He's not going against a J. Green or
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Speaker 1: a big time number one receiver. This is a good
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Speaker 1: game for him to show what he's got and not
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Speaker 1: be too challenged. I think this game and he might
30:14
Speaker 1: be just fine at quarterback cornerback. Heard Doug Marron just
30:17
Speaker 1: say he's pretty confident in his play. I think he's
30:20
Speaker 1: gonna be all right. The Bengals do have a receiver
30:22
Speaker 1: who is capable of giving a problem, though, and that's
30:24
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd. Uh A J. Green gets all the attention,
30:28
Speaker 1: but Boyd has stepped into that rule. And John Ross,
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Speaker 1: who they drafted first overall and a couple of years
30:32
Speaker 1: ago out of Washington, is on the sidelines with an
30:34
Speaker 1: injury as well. And Boyd is I think he's fifth
30:37
Speaker 1: or sixth in the a f C in terms of
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Speaker 1: receiving yards. So there is a guy that can give
30:41
Speaker 1: them some problems. Um. I'll be interested to see that
30:44
Speaker 1: matchup because Boyd is a smooth receiver. Here's a Trey Herndon.
30:48
Speaker 1: Trey Herndon's fine, He's not going to be in the
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, but any team in the league would be
30:55
Speaker 1: fine with Trey Herndon as the guy who comes in
30:58
Speaker 1: when one of your starters is hurt and has to
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Speaker 1: start for seven or eight games. This is not a
31:01
Speaker 1: scenario where you're putting a weakness on the field for
31:05
Speaker 1: twelve games at all. Can you be Aaron Beasley? It
31:08
Speaker 1: was a good corner, but never a star here. He
31:11
Speaker 1: wasn't a Pro Bowl corner. His name is never gonna
31:13
Speaker 1: go in the Ring of honor, you know, talk about
31:14
Speaker 1: him as one of the great defenders. But he had
31:17
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons where he was a really nice player. Yeah,
31:20
Speaker 1: maybe not. It's not a knock on Trey. I thought
31:24
Speaker 1: Aaron was really good and just below that Pro Bowl
31:28
Speaker 1: level at a p you know. Um, I don't know
31:31
Speaker 1: that he's as physical as Bees in terms of being
31:35
Speaker 1: able to be a five six year really frontline start.
31:39
Speaker 1: I thought they were really always felt great about beas
31:42
Speaker 1: when they liked him a lot. Herndon I would I
31:46
Speaker 1: would think has a long career as your emergency guy
31:51
Speaker 1: like that where you feel good about it. I don't
31:53
Speaker 1: know that he's a long term Beasley could be a
31:55
Speaker 1: one in a pinch and not hurt you. I don't
31:57
Speaker 1: know that that's remember you're always trying to replaced him.
32:00
Speaker 1: You know, they signed Dion Figures, draft fernando'briyan. I mean
32:03
Speaker 1: they were all in Washington, you know, they're always looking
32:07
Speaker 1: for a guy to take his spot. Yeah, yeah, he could.
32:11
Speaker 1: I don't see why he couldn't. May I don't think
32:13
Speaker 1: he's there yet, but certain potential is there. That all right?
32:17
Speaker 1: That was a nice little conversation you guys had about that.
32:19
Speaker 1: We do it on a basis is a good kid
32:21
Speaker 1: and this is not a it's not a knock on.
32:23
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a good play I wasn't flying when
32:26
Speaker 1: you talk about when you talk about those Drag Wars defenses,
32:28
Speaker 1: you talk about um, Tony Brackens and Kevin Hardy and
32:33
Speaker 1: and Beasley kind of comes in around the way you're saying. Question.
32:37
Speaker 1: Everybody thought that two thousands see get somebody to watch
32:42
Speaker 1: his ringing. Um, that area was talked about that two
32:46
Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen draft class was gonna be the best ever.
32:48
Speaker 1: I wonder now at the ninety six draft class that
32:50
Speaker 1: had Beasley, Brackens, and Hardy all contributing for Reggie Barlow
32:53
Speaker 1: made a lot of plays on still stays and number one.
32:55
Speaker 1: Now that Ramsey is no longer here. We'll say, don't
32:58
Speaker 1: forget Reggie Barlow. All right. Next on Jaguars Drive Time,
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Speaker 1: you want a Jaguars tie in and there's really just
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Speaker 1: not a lot on the A f C side. Um,
35:07
Speaker 1: So this is that the Texans and Colts was Well,
35:11
Speaker 1: I figure when you guys would take the low hanging fruit. Okay, Well,
35:15
Speaker 1: I guess when we're talking texts. Uh. So this is
35:21
Speaker 1: an interesting game because you thought early on that the
35:24
Speaker 1: Cowboys are one of the best teams in the NFC,
35:26
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, it feels like it's
35:29
Speaker 1: a half two for the Eagles. It feels like they
35:33
Speaker 1: feel like it's sliding. I think the Eagles win this
35:35
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Big d is an absolute
35:37
Speaker 1: turmoil this week. They've lost four straight and you wonder
35:39
Speaker 1: about the future of Jason Garrett, You wonder about you know,
35:42
Speaker 1: they were gonna pay Dak Prescott for the season. You
35:45
Speaker 1: know what happens, They're huge game for Dallas. Uh. If
35:49
Speaker 1: they don't win, you wonder what goes on? You know. Um.
35:51
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Eagles, there's been a lot of criticism
35:53
Speaker 1: of how we roseman in Philly for not getting the
35:55
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey deal done because they are banged up in
35:57
Speaker 1: the secondary and they're young and uh and injured and
36:02
Speaker 1: for a team that expects to contend, I mean, you
36:05
Speaker 1: you have Carson Wentz, who is the guy who hasn't
36:07
Speaker 1: been able to stay on the field, but he's in
36:09
Speaker 1: the prime years of his career now, both on the
36:11
Speaker 1: field and in terms of how he impacts your cap.
36:13
Speaker 1: That means every year you have to maximize your opportunities.
36:17
Speaker 1: You can't be thinking incredibly long term. Um Boy Roseman
36:21
Speaker 1: has been roasted for this one. I think this is
36:23
Speaker 1: a really important game for the Eagles too. Yeah, they'll
36:25
Speaker 1: have a chance of Jaalen and a couple of months,
36:30
Speaker 1: and I think Dalas seems to be in turmoil right now.
36:33
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're watching NFL Network, it's you know,
36:36
Speaker 1: kind of fired Jason Garrett right now. That's kind of
36:38
Speaker 1: the way they always are though. I mean, Jerry Jones
36:40
Speaker 1: embraces that he's the old As long as you're saying
36:43
Speaker 1: our name, then will accept that and we don't mind
36:46
Speaker 1: it at all. I never feel like the Cowboys are
36:50
Speaker 1: circling the drain because I always feel like they know
36:52
Speaker 1: how to handle the situation, right Yeah, and you know,
36:58
Speaker 1: to their credit, if if they turn and things around
37:00
Speaker 1: and win this ball game, then they'll be able to
37:03
Speaker 1: plant their flag once again at the top of the
37:04
Speaker 1: NFC East. Yeah, both these teams are struggling, but it's
37:07
Speaker 1: a game for first place in the NFC East, and
37:09
Speaker 1: you feel like right now the East in that conference
37:11
Speaker 1: is gonna be a nine and seven winner. All right, Brian,
37:14
Speaker 1: you got the drama game, go for it. Well, look,
37:17
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna play john here and embrace the petty. Um.
37:20
Speaker 1: That's Julio Jones. He's the best receiver in the league.
37:24
Speaker 1: And I believe that the Falcons. I'm stunned that the
37:29
Speaker 1: Falcons with Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Devanta Freeman, Calvin Ridley
37:34
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper have lost as consistently over the last month
37:37
Speaker 1: as they have. Um, I'm picking them, I'm pulling for him,
37:41
Speaker 1: and I want Julio Jones to have seven catches, a
37:44
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine yards and seven touchdowns. But I'll
37:49
Speaker 1: take one, right, I mean, I like it. Oh, because
37:52
Speaker 1: of jailing. It's a look, it's it's It's an interesting game.
37:57
Speaker 1: It's an interesting game for Jaguars fans because I there
38:00
Speaker 1: are Jaguars fans all over who are saying, right right now,
38:03
Speaker 1: stay with the seven touchdown, Sexton, go with seven. Um.
38:06
Speaker 1: They all want to see Jalen out there, and they
38:07
Speaker 1: want to see him get torched. Well, and for emotional
38:11
Speaker 1: reasons and also for very logical you want them to lose.
38:14
Speaker 1: You want the Rams to lose every game. You want
38:16
Speaker 1: them to continue to lose and lose and lose, because yeah, obviously,
38:20
Speaker 1: but they haven't. I think they have a legitimate chance
38:22
Speaker 1: to lose in Atlanta this week because I keep waiting
38:24
Speaker 1: for the Falcons to break out, by the way Dan
38:27
Speaker 1: Quinn is on the firing line, and if they don't
38:29
Speaker 1: get things turned around, even though Arthur Blank keeps saying
38:31
Speaker 1: I'm not changing, I'm not changing. I'm not changing. If
38:34
Speaker 1: they go one and six, hey, there's a change coming
38:37
Speaker 1: when they get to their bye week. Um, John's right.
38:39
Speaker 1: You want to see them lose, lose, lose, So I
38:42
Speaker 1: think they could lose this week, but they're gonna win
38:43
Speaker 1: the next week. Uti playing the Bengals in London, right,
38:46
Speaker 1: and we just established that the Bengals are bereft of
38:48
Speaker 1: injuries and they just don't have healthy players at all.
38:52
Speaker 1: So so are pulling for your Falcons, pulling for the
38:55
Speaker 1: Falcons to win? They're not my Falcons. I don't know them.
38:58
Speaker 1: If I did, I wouldn't be sitting here with you.
39:00
Speaker 1: Fair enough, alright, My pick one in pick it is
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Speaker 1: Baltimore and Seattle Russell Wilson versus Lamar Jackson. That's exciting
39:09
Speaker 1: and itself. Ravens are four and two, Seahawks are five
39:12
Speaker 1: and one. Seattle is at home. I'm sure there's a
39:15
Speaker 1: mutual admiration between these two quarterbacks, but Seattle at home,
39:19
Speaker 1: it's tough to pick them well. I think the other
39:21
Speaker 1: interesting storyline here is Earl Thomas just going home. And
39:23
Speaker 1: remember how dramatic it was when he left. Uh he
39:27
Speaker 1: lands in Baltimore and Pete Carroll's taking the high road
39:30
Speaker 1: this week. We love our former players and we love
39:33
Speaker 1: beating them. I like that about Pete that he doesn't
39:35
Speaker 1: mind that we love to beat the guys we love.
39:38
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, I think this is the marquee game
39:42
Speaker 1: of the weekend. I know that the Philly Dallas thing
39:44
Speaker 1: will draw the ratings game, but I think this is
39:45
Speaker 1: gonna be the most fun game to watch. And as
39:47
Speaker 1: we didn't go over Texans Colts, um, let's do it.
39:49
Speaker 1: I think I feel like right now the Texans are
39:55
Speaker 1: moving towards being the class of the division. I would
39:57
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars in two weeks to be able to
40:00
Speaker 1: talk me out of that in London, but I think
40:02
Speaker 1: right now the Texans go win that game. I just
40:05
Speaker 1: feel like at some point, as as good as the
40:08
Speaker 1: Colts are, and they're proving they're pretty good at some point.
40:11
Speaker 1: Not having luck. It feels like it's going to cost
40:14
Speaker 1: them those two magic games at a quarterback of that
40:17
Speaker 1: caliber gives. Yet. I think this is probably one of
40:19
Speaker 1: the thing that stands out the most about Houston is
40:21
Speaker 1: it's all their quarterback. It's Deshaun Watson. You don't hear
40:24
Speaker 1: about Whitney Merciless is making some nice place, but you
40:27
Speaker 1: don't hear about j J. Watt devastating offensive lines. Uh,
40:30
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins has fallen off? Where's he been? It's not
40:33
Speaker 1: that Jalen Ramsey's lined up against him every single week.
40:36
Speaker 1: Will Fuller had a big game and then had a
40:38
Speaker 1: really poor game. It's all Deshaun Watson. He's either running
40:41
Speaker 1: it or throwing. I mean, he's the guy is just
40:44
Speaker 1: all over the field. Um My guess is is that
40:48
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson has a big day and the Texans keep
40:51
Speaker 1: it moving. Texans keep rolling, which makes it an even
40:53
Speaker 1: more difficult matchup in London with all that momentum on
40:56
Speaker 1: their side. Well, London's great equalizer in terms of momentum.
41:00
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