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On to Philly | Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, September 28 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive John with Ashlyn Sullomsells, John Oshans,
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton. Jacks Drive starts right now. Welcome in Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time. It is Wednesday morning, Ashland Sullivan, Brian Sexon
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Speaker 1: and John Osier here with you. A lot going on
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Speaker 1: this week. This will be our only show this week
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Speaker 1: as we get ready for a hurricane to come here
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Speaker 1: to Florida. There's also a football game on Sunday, a
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Speaker 1: big one at that against the Philadelphia Eagles. That the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars will travel like normal to Philly on Saturday. So
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Speaker 1: let's bring in Adam Kaplan, who covers the Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: in Philly and has a multitude of shows all over
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Speaker 1: the NFL and NFL insider Adam. Good morning, Thank you
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Speaker 1: for joining us. You guys could have talked to you
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Speaker 1: looking forward to us Sunday's game. Yes, absolutely, in this
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Speaker 1: game all of a sudden, is way more interesting than
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Speaker 1: it was about a month ago. I see fans clamoring
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Speaker 1: on Twitter that they want this game flex to Sunday
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Speaker 1: Night Football. It is crazy, how all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: how big this game is. I know the Jaguars, this
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Speaker 1: is their true test against a very healthy team. How
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Speaker 1: do the Eagles of view this game? Well, look, it's
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Speaker 1: a non conference game. The first three games are in conference,
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Speaker 1: one in division, the other two in another division, the
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Speaker 1: NFC North. But it's it's the homecome for Doug Peterson.
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Speaker 1: And I know the big debate here in sports radio is,
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Speaker 1: well they boo Doug Peterson and the fans. I'm like, no,
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Speaker 1: they won't. Look, you can't control people. Almost all the
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Speaker 1: fans love Doug. Why in addition to them bringing the
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Speaker 1: Eagles their only Super Bowl when they've ever had, it's
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Speaker 1: just very well liked and as you guys know, they're
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Speaker 1: in that market. Good guy. Everybody likes being around him.
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Speaker 1: He's very very accessible to the media, and the guy's
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Speaker 1: good football coach and he's developed a lot of players
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Speaker 1: over the years. So you know, people are looking forward
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Speaker 1: to the only problem is, you know again it's it's
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Speaker 1: it's not a divisional game. You worry about these trap games.
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Speaker 1: And the other thing, it's the forecast for Sunday. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna start We're getting the residual effects of the hurricane.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get rain starting Saturday, and it looks like
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Speaker 1: it's going to rain all through Tuesday, so that you
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Speaker 1: put the damper on it. It's a one pm Eastern game,
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Speaker 1: but I look forward to seeing it. Just just from
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Speaker 1: a matchup standpoint. You, Brian and I were together, Briant
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Speaker 1: Sex and I were together for training camp and we
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Speaker 1: were talking about this. You know, the Jaguars are so
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Speaker 1: talented and they're so young. I just thought it would
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Speaker 1: take at least two year for them to get where
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Speaker 1: they're at now. And I know it's only three games,
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Speaker 1: but you know what, they're off to phenomenal start. Adam,
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Speaker 1: you just you answered my question. I was gonna say
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Speaker 1: when when you were here? And and for folks who
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Speaker 1: don't who don't recognize this other than Pete Prisco, Adam
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Speaker 1: Kaplan is the guy who is consistently here during training
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Speaker 1: camp to get a good look at this team. Um,
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Speaker 1: and Adam, when you were here? Did you see this team?
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Speaker 1: So let me just ask it kind of in a
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Speaker 1: different way so you can go more in depth. Did
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Speaker 1: you see the makings of something that Doug Peterson, who
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Speaker 1: you know well, could translate into success this year? Well,
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Speaker 1: here's what I did. No, offensively, it's going to be that,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think I told you when I saw you,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be and it was based on what
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Speaker 1: I had been told, on what I saw that day.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna look at the offense in particular, is gonna
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Speaker 1: look much like his sixteen sevent seventeen team, where it's
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Speaker 1: a spread, there's a lot of free receiver sets, not
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Speaker 1: a lot of heavy packages. And for Doug's offensive to
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Speaker 1: be well, they have to be better off on the
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Speaker 1: offensive line, where they obviously been a major disappointment for
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Speaker 1: several years, where they spent a lot of money. They
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Speaker 1: spent money, they spent draft pick capital and interest had
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Speaker 1: not worked out like they thought. But so far, so good.
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Speaker 1: The offensive line is holding up. Is Sheriff is obviously
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Speaker 1: an upgraded right guard, and Christian Kirk has been a story.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if it's funny, Brian, the day that I
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Speaker 1: was there, you know, I do it. Basically I got
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Speaker 1: about eighteen and twenty teams I see and I just
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Speaker 1: remember thinking, Wow, they're really moving. Christian Kirk has as
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Speaker 1: the receiver everywhere. This could be interesting. And Kirk has
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Speaker 1: been a great story. No one's talking about his contract anymore.
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Speaker 1: He's been great and sort of a simplistic question, but
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the Eagles are a team to
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Speaker 1: everybody nationally has followed I people knew they were good
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Speaker 1: late last year, but why is this team good? In
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Speaker 1: a nutshell? What are they doing right? What makes him
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Speaker 1: a threat? John? I think when you look at Philly, Okay,
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Speaker 1: so you you asked the question, what are you doing right?
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Speaker 1: And this has been There are not a lot of
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Speaker 1: teams that do it this way, but it's the right way.
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Speaker 1: From talking to general managers over the years, this is
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Speaker 1: the way you should always do it. It starts up front.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles that believe really since Joe Batten, the former president,
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Speaker 1: got in there in ninety four, Jeffrey Lory, the owner
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Speaker 1: who stolen a team Joe. Joe is retired now mostly
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Speaker 1: though he consults, but they have this philosophy based on
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Speaker 1: the information that they gathered, that it starts up front.
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Speaker 1: You must be great on the offensive defensive lines. I
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Speaker 1: cannot remember John at time of my during my tenure
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Speaker 1: of covering the NFL and now this my twentieth year
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Speaker 1: and covering this team locally in phillips I live in
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Speaker 1: the area, I don't recall a time where they were
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Speaker 1: not very good on the offensive line, so if you
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Speaker 1: get it right on the offensive defensive line, you're fifty
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Speaker 1: of the way there. But they had improved receiver. They
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Speaker 1: were dreadful two years ago. They had one of the
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Speaker 1: worst receiver course in the NFL two years ago. Now
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Speaker 1: they have one of the best. They have a quarterback
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Speaker 1: who's been protected and it's been very accurate. Hurt strong
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Speaker 1: for about sixty percent completion rate, dynamic with his legs,
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Speaker 1: super coachable, high character kid, coach his son. He's doing well.
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Speaker 1: They had nine sacks against ironically first of the two
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Speaker 1: revenge games. They've got Peeves in this week and Wentz
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Speaker 1: last week. They sat Wentz nine times it seemed like
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Speaker 1: to his twenty and Wentz played a bad game overall.
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Speaker 1: He's held on the ball too long. They couldn't protect him.
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Speaker 1: And you know another position where they were not very
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Speaker 1: good for years as a corner. Now they're very good
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Speaker 1: at corner and made the big trade for Chauncey Garter.
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Speaker 1: Johnson before the season started. Is learning that he's learning
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Speaker 1: the defense on on the run here, but he's doing better,
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Speaker 1: and the running the ball fairly well. They've got a
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Speaker 1: tight end. By the way Dallas got it was a
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Speaker 1: I the the in the eight teen draft. I'm told
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars probably would have drafted and certain things worked out.
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Speaker 1: So you look at everything, they don't really have a weakness,
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Speaker 1: which is almost hard to believe, other than special teams.
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Speaker 1: Returns are not very good, the punner is inconsistent, the
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Speaker 1: kickers good. That's it. Special teams have to be better.
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Speaker 1: And I know it's kind of fans here, john are
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Speaker 1: getting on the team for not scoring in the second half,
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Speaker 1: like they they've only scored in one quarter at out
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Speaker 1: of six and the second half. But folks, here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: The point deferential is the best of the national football
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Speaker 1: legue i think, or top two at least in point
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Speaker 1: differential in the first half. That's why that's why they're
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Speaker 1: not scoring, because the second half they have no urgency
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Speaker 1: to score. That's kind of the way it's been. That's
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Speaker 1: a nice problem to have. And you mentioned that offensive
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Speaker 1: and defensive line. The Jaguars like that's their strong suit
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Speaker 1: as well. Right now, So when you look at these
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Speaker 1: matchups on Sunday, what's the one that really stands out
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Speaker 1: with this Jaguars and Eagles game. I'm just you know,
6:58
Speaker 1: when you talk about the Jaguars and the thing you
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Speaker 1: just don't know this because you you have a new
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Speaker 1: you have a new coach with staff, new schemes and
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Speaker 1: offensive defense and Mike call Wells a a new is
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Speaker 1: a new defensive coordinator, but he comes from the Todd
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Speaker 1: Balls coaching tree, so you know they're gonna be aggressive
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Speaker 1: and blitz. But what is shocked me is how quickly.
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Speaker 1: Now I know they're very young, but how they've all
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Speaker 1: come together with this new staff, particularly defensively. You've got
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Speaker 1: a new scheme. They're very young, which is good. They're
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Speaker 1: so talented, Trayvon Walker's well head of schedule. It's just
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Speaker 1: that it's all coming together. It I just didn't see this.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it would happen this soon. And the
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Speaker 1: great thing, folks is said, look, they're in They're in
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Speaker 1: the worst division in football, no question. I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: they're gonna win the division, but they're clearly going to
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Speaker 1: be in it all the way. But for the long term. Now,
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Speaker 1: when you draft this well and you sign an impact
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Speaker 1: of free agents, don't discount Roy Robertson. Harris is a
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Speaker 1: good d lineman for this very forefront is a great
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Speaker 1: run stopper. That's why he's there. A Louis kun who
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Speaker 1: is one of the most amazing stories of the Falcons.
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Speaker 1: Command of Yale. Devin lay The said, a schedule. Walkers
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Speaker 1: had a schedule. They're really good in a secondary right
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Speaker 1: now and hopefully they'll get Griffin back this week. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying they don't have weakness as they do, but
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Speaker 1: they're so far. I had a schedule, folks. This is
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Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch this riot that the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: are gonna be on for a long time. And Adam,
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Speaker 1: let's finish it up with give us a Doug Peterson story.
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Speaker 1: And just as the background is, he's been such a
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Speaker 1: revelation for this building. It was in such disarray. Uh
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Speaker 1: you know, after the whole thing with the former coach, Um,
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Speaker 1: he's calmed it down. He's given it a sense of
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Speaker 1: purpose and confidence. There's got to be some story of
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Speaker 1: of of something similar that he did in Philly that
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Speaker 1: sticks out in your mind when you said, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: guy gets it. This is a great story. I might
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Speaker 1: have told this when you guys have me home and
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Speaker 1: Doug got the job, but and I apologize I'm repeating it,
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Speaker 1: but the reason why I want to talk about this
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Speaker 1: is it goes to your point about calmness. So I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go back to when towards a Cel. I happened
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Speaker 1: to be at that game in l a. For for
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Speaker 1: I was out there for a couple of things, but
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Speaker 1: I went to that game and it was late December
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Speaker 1: of seventeen. They they happened to clinch the division at
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Speaker 1: the Rams that day. It was a great game, by
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Speaker 1: the way, Sunday night game. So he tears as a
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Speaker 1: c l you know, the Eagles fly back. And I
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Speaker 1: talked to someone in the front office that week and
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Speaker 1: I said, hey, you know Folds is the quarterback. What
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Speaker 1: are you thinking? And he goes, I gotta tell you,
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Speaker 1: Doug was so matter of fact that we're gonna win
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Speaker 1: with him with Nick Foles, he goes, I'm a believer.
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Speaker 1: Doug had us believing. He was so calm that it
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Speaker 1: wasn't just coach peak that he's like, we're gonna do this,
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Speaker 1: and as you know, they wind up winning the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: So that tells you to your point, the commness that
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Speaker 1: he brings. He doesn't worry about things he has no
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Speaker 1: control over, and he's got so matter of fact and
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Speaker 1: so such a leader. I don't know if they knew
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Speaker 1: this to answer your question when they hired him, but
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Speaker 1: they sure as that did the next season. So the
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Speaker 1: great thing is you, guys, Brian, you and I talked
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Speaker 1: about in training camp up after the awful urber Meyer experience.
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Speaker 1: He was the perfect guy that literally the one any
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Speaker 1: polar opposite of urber Meyer, and he brought in a
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Speaker 1: commerce and that goodness that they hired him. Yes, it
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Speaker 1: is very calm in this building, in a very happy
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Speaker 1: building as well, especially after a big win against the Chargers.
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Speaker 1: Adam Caplan, thank you so much for your time this morning. Guys,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks Adam, Yes, thank you. We will see
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Speaker 1: you in Philly on Sunday. Coming up on Jaguars Drive Time.
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Speaker 1: Some big things where it's awful art grow good hand all.
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence has to get the credit for that. James
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Speaker 1: Robinson touched on one of the best miked ups yet.
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen miked up against the Chargers. It helps when
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Speaker 1: Have you guys watched miked up yet? Good hand off? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Isn't that awesome? I always like Josh, I really like
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Speaker 1: That's like Zay Jones postgame interview. Everyone's all fired up
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Speaker 1: and one of the first things he says about the
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Speaker 1: game is man C J. Bethard with that knee at
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Speaker 1: the end. Wow, that was awesome. Everybody's happy. If a
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Speaker 1: lot of giddiness going on. I can bring my guinea
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Speaker 1: now after all these years, you really get tired all
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Speaker 1: this happiness at the last two years. Give me more. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is weird. A lot of weirdness going on. Let's
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Speaker 1: get into big things, shall we. Big thing one is
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Speaker 1: going back to Philly head coach Doug Peterson, going back
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Speaker 1: to the place where he spent nine years of his
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Speaker 1: coaching career as a quarterbacks coach and head coach. This
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Speaker 1: team wants nothing more than a get a win for
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Speaker 1: their head coach in his former town. Peterson knows he's
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Speaker 1: bringing a good team to Philadelphia. I've been pleased with
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Speaker 1: the direction, the leadership of the team and where we
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Speaker 1: are as a football team right now. Um still have
12:35
Speaker 1: room for improvement obviously, and I think that's the exciting
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Speaker 1: thing that everybody embraces their role and and their opportunities
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Speaker 1: when they get him. Big thing too is defense, too great.
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Speaker 1: Defense is going against each other this Sunday, the Eagles
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Speaker 1: lead the NFL and sacks and the Jaguars lead the
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Speaker 1: NFL in interceptions. To want Smoots on why this defense
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Speaker 1: is so different this year, Definitely those different. I feel
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Speaker 1: like we're we have a different kind of focusing, like um,
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Speaker 1: I guess, just some motivation each week going and going
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Speaker 1: into each week. Week we're looking forward to each opponent
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Speaker 1: and we're coming in. We're preparing each week just differently.
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Speaker 1: And finally, a big thing three is five reasons for
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Speaker 1: thirty eight points. This Jaguars offensive line is playing the
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Speaker 1: best we've seen in a very long time, especially right
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Speaker 1: shackle Juwan Taylor. This offensive line back to back weeks
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Speaker 1: with zero sacks going into Philly, feeling very confident about themselves.
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Speaker 1: Competition diffinitely hope, but also my dad passed in January,
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Speaker 1: so I've just been trying to dedicate the season from
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Speaker 1: my gas. So um just going. They're just trying to
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Speaker 1: get better every week and help my team win games,
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Speaker 1: and that is big things. A lot of storylines this week,
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Speaker 1: but the dominating one will be one that that's just
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Speaker 1: a very good Jaguars team now coming to Philadelphia. This
13:49
Speaker 1: wasn't as big of a game as it is now
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Speaker 1: this week, but head coach Doug Peterson making his return
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Speaker 1: to Philly, Like Adam Kaplan just said, will he get booed?
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Speaker 1: Will they clap? Will they do both? We're going to
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Speaker 1: find out. You know what I thought was telling was
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Speaker 1: I was listening to an interview with Brandon Graham, their
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Speaker 1: pass rusher, and you know brand of course played on
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Speaker 1: that championship team, and he said that all the guys
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Speaker 1: that new Doug, we're excited to play against Doug. Not
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Speaker 1: because you can imagine that if Urban Meyer was the
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Speaker 1: coach of another team, they'd be excited to play excited.
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Speaker 1: They're excited because they love Doug and and he must
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Speaker 1: have spent five minutes in this interview I was listening
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Speaker 1: to on a serious radio yesterday talking about why and
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Speaker 1: how and in the relationship with Doug. So when you
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Speaker 1: look at when you listen and hear how those Eagles
14:34
Speaker 1: we're fond of Doug and why it's easy to see
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Speaker 1: why this team is rallying around him while they're performing
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Speaker 1: for him, and they already love him. You can you
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Speaker 1: can just hear it when you ask them about him.
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Speaker 1: You know when Doug will get boot Sunday, it's when
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Speaker 1: it's if the jag Wars take the league. Beyond that,
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Speaker 1: I mean if I would be stunned. If I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to people in Philly, they would be stunned as well.
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Speaker 1: During the pregame, there won't be signs with middle fingers
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Speaker 1: up at Dog. I mean, you know, there's nothing like
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Speaker 1: that with Doug because he gave them the greatest thing
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Speaker 1: that a coach can give a team. He gave him
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So I don't think there's gonna be
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Speaker 1: any of that. As Doug said on the podium on Monday, Um,
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Speaker 1: there's going to be some stuff once the game gets
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Speaker 1: started because Philly fans are Philly fans and remember, and
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Speaker 1: that's fine. But what's great about Doug is he's looking
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Speaker 1: forward to that part of it too. He liked that
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Speaker 1: when he was up there. I'm sure he didn't like
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Speaker 1: it in Bood while he was up there, which happens.
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Speaker 1: But overall, the feeling towards Doug Peterson in the city
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Speaker 1: of brotherly love is brother Don't ever forget this is
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Speaker 1: the city, this is the fan base that bood Santa
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Speaker 1: claus at a game. Yeah, but halftime clause against If
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Speaker 1: you're Doug Peterson, you can't be offended. And this doesn't
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Speaker 1: even make it in big things because we have so
15:46
Speaker 1: much to talk about. But when I look at this
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Speaker 1: game and really what everyone is talking about, and it's
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Speaker 1: something that is factual that has to be addressed. As
15:53
Speaker 1: the Jaguars have played back to back two banged up teams,
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Speaker 1: especially against the Los Angeles Chargers. Yes, they're playing great.
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Speaker 1: They are much to prove faster than we thought. But
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Speaker 1: this is really the first true test for the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: I know I said that last week, but it really
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Speaker 1: is this week. Because this is a very healthy Eagles,
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Speaker 1: undefeated team. You're not going to catch them by surprise.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're not going to even think for
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Speaker 1: a moment that these are the Jaguars. They're not very good.
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Speaker 1: They only won three games last year. They're looking at
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Speaker 1: what you did against the Colts in particular and saying
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Speaker 1: we better be ready for those guys. I mean they
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Speaker 1: are not going to be caught off guard. Look, you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna win every game nothing ten, so at some
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Speaker 1: point you're gonna play. The impression thing about the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks is they have played teams that,
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, have had deficiencies because of injuries, and
16:42
Speaker 1: they've taken advantage of it. That's what really good teams do.
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Speaker 1: You think about what really good teams did to this
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Speaker 1: team for a long time, they put them away earli
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Speaker 1: more often than not. Jaguars last couple of weeks put
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Speaker 1: teams away early when they, in retrospect should have. That's
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Speaker 1: impressive stuff we haven't seen around here in a while.
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Speaker 1: At some point, you've got to beat a team at
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Speaker 1: full strength. This is a good chance for this team.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure they win this week, but
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Speaker 1: I feel good that they're going to go up there
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Speaker 1: and play well, and over the course of the last
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Speaker 1: fourteen games, they have chances to win and should be
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Speaker 1: competitive far more often than not. That's how you get good.
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Speaker 1: You can see where there are mismatches with certain teams.
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Speaker 1: I don't see mismatches with this team. I think the
17:21
Speaker 1: Jaguars can line up and there are some spaces where
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Speaker 1: you may go, well, that guy is really good. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to block him. But it's not like you go,
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Speaker 1: how do we stop him? Jaguars have proven on defense
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Speaker 1: that they can do that, so I I, um, well,
17:33
Speaker 1: I'll save it for my Monday headline. Like that's the
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Speaker 1: Eagles right now, our favorite just six and a half points,
17:38
Speaker 1: so vague as at least is expecting this to be
17:40
Speaker 1: a closer. Well, the average NFL game has decided by
17:43
Speaker 1: fewer than eight points, and this looks like it has
17:45
Speaker 1: the makings of an average NFL game. One other storyline
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Speaker 1: that gets the weather and how that impacts. I didn't
17:50
Speaker 1: know it was going to rain in Philly. I had
17:52
Speaker 1: better bring my raincoat. I didn't know. That's about your hair,
17:55
Speaker 1: Yes it really is. Thank you Adam Kaplan for telling
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Speaker 1: me that I was gonna bring no problem, Jack Wars.
18:00
Speaker 1: You're practicing. They've got to keep going. I was a
18:02
Speaker 1: little surprised that they didn't pick up and leave and
18:04
Speaker 1: try to go somewhere where they could have the outdoor practices.
18:08
Speaker 1: They're gonna be indoors and it's a bit limiting. Yes, uh,
18:10
Speaker 1: you know that's not the biggest NFL indoor facility. But
18:13
Speaker 1: they're gonna stay here. Yes, Head coach Tug Peterson decided
18:16
Speaker 1: to keep his team here in Jacksonville all throughout the
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Speaker 1: week and travel like normal to Philadelphia on Saturday. And yeah,
18:23
Speaker 1: just like that, it seems like everything is going according
18:25
Speaker 1: to plan. And I get why you don't want to
18:26
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18:28
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Speaker 1: All right, So um, neither the offensive tackles have reason
19:02
Speaker 1: to be fond of me because I I did not
19:05
Speaker 1: think they should pay Cam Robinson. I didn't think he
19:07
Speaker 1: was an elite player, and they gave him elite money. Uh.
19:10
Speaker 1: And I thought that Juan Taylor would be better served
19:13
Speaker 1: to slide in and play guard. That was back when
19:14
Speaker 1: I thought that Walker Little was your right tackle in future.
19:17
Speaker 1: But the honest truth is both of these guys the
19:19
Speaker 1: last two weeks have played really good football. And I
19:22
Speaker 1: pulled Doug aside and we chatted about it really briefly
19:25
Speaker 1: after the Washington loss, and he said, don't forget that
19:27
Speaker 1: Cam had a pretty good ankle sprain going into that
19:30
Speaker 1: from practice on Friday. Uh and so it was tough
19:33
Speaker 1: for him, and Monte Seat had a great game. So overall,
19:36
Speaker 1: my question to you is which tackle is playing better?
19:39
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson, the guy that you gave the money to
19:41
Speaker 1: and right now he looks like he's worth it. Or
19:45
Speaker 1: Juan Taylor, who said on Monday that his father's passing
19:49
Speaker 1: was a really big reason for him to be dialed
19:52
Speaker 1: in and focused. And you're talking about a guy John
19:54
Speaker 1: who was the most penalized right tackle in football the
19:57
Speaker 1: last three years, who hasn't drawn a penalty in three
19:59
Speaker 1: g I've been waiting for this one. They're not flying
20:02
Speaker 1: solo in terms of not being big fans of you
20:07
Speaker 1: that I think You've got to say Juwan Taylor because
20:13
Speaker 1: it's been clean and so noticeable from the start, and
20:18
Speaker 1: the stats are so overwhelming. But I would say both
20:21
Speaker 1: and and because injury or not. In the first game,
20:27
Speaker 1: there were times late in the game where he really
20:29
Speaker 1: struggled with Montes sweat, so uh, understanding that injury was
20:34
Speaker 1: a factor there. Overall, I think Juan Taylor has played better.
20:38
Speaker 1: Uh you know. I think it's a tie in terms
20:43
Speaker 1: of how well they're playing right now and their benefit
20:46
Speaker 1: to this roster. I think it has to be Juwan
20:48
Speaker 1: is the story because of the penalties. I mean last
20:50
Speaker 1: season that was just the known thing, which ji Wana
20:51
Speaker 1: we always talked about, Okay, cleaning it up, clean it up.
20:54
Speaker 1: I didn't think it would be cleaned up to this
20:56
Speaker 1: sixtent to have no penalties at this point. I think
20:59
Speaker 1: that's the dramatic store if I'm gonna go with Cam,
21:01
Speaker 1: because you don't hear about those pass rushers coming off
21:04
Speaker 1: that edge, and Joey didn't last the whole game, but
21:06
Speaker 1: Cleomac didn't get anything when he was rushing against him.
21:09
Speaker 1: And Matt came into the league or into the game
21:11
Speaker 1: leading the league in sacks. So it's a good problem
21:13
Speaker 1: to have for this football team right now. Um, And
21:15
Speaker 1: it just goes back to what Trent Bulk he did.
21:17
Speaker 1: I mean, he doubled down and gave the big money
21:20
Speaker 1: to Cam and this is a guy they thought was
21:22
Speaker 1: a rising player, and Juwan won the spot and they
21:25
Speaker 1: gave him the spot. Right now, it's all golden. I
21:28
Speaker 1: think a huge storyline on Sunday will be if the
21:33
Speaker 1: Jaguars are not up comfortably um, which they have been
21:37
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. They have been in control
21:40
Speaker 1: and the coaches have done a great job of calling
21:43
Speaker 1: plays that teams that are in control call, which means
21:48
Speaker 1: not exposing the quarterback when they get down or in
21:51
Speaker 1: a close game. How will this offensive line hold up?
21:54
Speaker 1: That's always the true test. They have been great the
21:56
Speaker 1: last two games. There will be tests. I think this
21:59
Speaker 1: Sunday will be one, and so the offensive line will
22:01
Speaker 1: be something to watch. All right, John, what's say this
22:03
Speaker 1: or that? Well, it's be stubborn or learn from experience.
22:07
Speaker 1: And know what I mean by that is the last
22:09
Speaker 1: two games I I have I have not picked the
22:12
Speaker 1: jagg eas um because I just there's been different circumstances
22:17
Speaker 1: where I thought they were gonna be in tough situations. Um,
22:21
Speaker 1: this is also a very tough situation. I don't know
22:24
Speaker 1: that I can pick them going up uh to philadelph
22:27
Speaker 1: against a healthy team with all these circumstances, or do
22:30
Speaker 1: I learn from experience and say that this team is
22:32
Speaker 1: worth picking? Um, that's tough, ye are we are we
22:35
Speaker 1: to determine whether you are or you're going to learn
22:39
Speaker 1: from experience, because that would be more fun. I like
22:41
Speaker 1: that one better. Okay, I'll put up to you guys,
22:44
Speaker 1: do I learn or you're still going to be? Yeah?
22:48
Speaker 1: But I hold that as well because I remember us
22:50
Speaker 1: talking about last week saying, if the Jaguars go beat
22:53
Speaker 1: the Chargers, man, you're on board. I'm on board. We're
22:56
Speaker 1: all on board. But this week still hesitation and that's
23:00
Speaker 1: a good topic. I am on board. I absolutely think
23:04
Speaker 1: after seeing what they've done to the Chargers, after seeing
23:06
Speaker 1: them consolidate, if you will the victory over the Colts
23:09
Speaker 1: and show what they can be. I am all in
23:12
Speaker 1: on this team competing. I had them at six or
23:13
Speaker 1: seven wins. I think they have a chance to win eight, nine, ten,
23:17
Speaker 1: you know, and and compete for this thing I am.
23:20
Speaker 1: I have. They have convinced me on that front. But
23:23
Speaker 1: I will probably pick the Eagles in a close game
23:25
Speaker 1: because of how good I think the Eagles are and
23:27
Speaker 1: because yeah, you don't go sixteen one. Well, no, by
23:31
Speaker 1: the road in this environment, this is a game that
23:34
Speaker 1: a very good, even a Super Bowl contending team could
23:38
Speaker 1: go lose on the right to lose to a team
23:39
Speaker 1: that's playing as well as the Eagles. Absolutely, And what
23:41
Speaker 1: you don't what I don't want to happen is that
23:44
Speaker 1: if the Jaguars go and lose and have people go, well,
23:47
Speaker 1: it's the same old Jaguars. I think people are having
23:49
Speaker 1: a hard time seeing this is a different team. It's
23:51
Speaker 1: a different team. This is not that break your heart
23:54
Speaker 1: Jaguars team that we have seen in the past. Not
23:57
Speaker 1: you don't go to San Diego and score thirty eight points.
24:00
Speaker 1: I don't care more Los Angeles. You don't go to either.
24:02
Speaker 1: Did I say that again? Struggling with that one? We
24:06
Speaker 1: know why you don't go to San Diego and win
24:07
Speaker 1: this year? They're play there, right, you go beat the
24:11
Speaker 1: Chargers in l A on the West Coast. Um, it's
24:14
Speaker 1: a different team. It's a completely different team, right, And
24:17
Speaker 1: that's I think all of us, including fans, have a
24:19
Speaker 1: hard time getting over the heartbreak, getting over that. Don't
24:21
Speaker 1: pay that hard. I think you watch the way that
24:23
Speaker 1: they played last week. I don't think it's that difficult
24:25
Speaker 1: to see, No, especially if they go and play well.
24:27
Speaker 1: This speak as well, it only helps all right, My
24:29
Speaker 1: this or that is when we talk about the success
24:31
Speaker 1: story so far of the Jaguars, Is it Trevor Lawrence
24:35
Speaker 1: or is it James Robinson? If you had to pick one,
24:36
Speaker 1: of course you're gonna say both. But James Robinson and
24:38
Speaker 1: the success story of coming back from that injury and
24:40
Speaker 1: playing so well. Trevor Lawrence dealing with all the criticism
24:44
Speaker 1: leading the NFL and interceptions last year, only having one
24:47
Speaker 1: this year. What's the bigger success story going into almost
24:51
Speaker 1: ending the first quarter of the season. Trevor Lawrence. It's
24:54
Speaker 1: the quarterback. It's always the quarterback. Yeah. What do you think,
24:56
Speaker 1: John Well, I mean they're both good. Yeah, Brian's right.
25:01
Speaker 1: The most important story in the story that matters story
25:04
Speaker 1: that it cares about his Trevor uh, and that Achilles
25:10
Speaker 1: coming off that that's a remarkable change in medicine to me,
25:15
Speaker 1: the fact that that injury is coming back. So I'll
25:18
Speaker 1: give it to Trevor. Uh. But j Yeah, an amazing
25:24
Speaker 1: success story. Well, and it's just to the medical point.
25:26
Speaker 1: And we told the story when we came back from
25:28
Speaker 1: Atlanta when we were up there and we were in
25:29
Speaker 1: the hallway talking to Kevin Kaplan the Jaguars are the
25:32
Speaker 1: pedic surgeon who did not do the surgery and was
25:34
Speaker 1: not commenting on James in particular, but was commenting on
25:37
Speaker 1: how they had figured out how to return the tension
25:40
Speaker 1: to the calf, which was always the key. They couldn't
25:42
Speaker 1: quite match it, so the explosiveness was gone and he
25:45
Speaker 1: was explaining how they did it, which is way too
25:47
Speaker 1: complicated for me to explain. But the medical side of
25:50
Speaker 1: that John is a huge story for athletes. Yes, absolutely,
25:53
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25:55
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25:58
Speaker 1: headlines today, I'm gonna raise you guys. I went on
26:04
Speaker 1: Twitter earlier on the show. All everybody's been saying is
26:08
Speaker 1: where is all the love for my Jacksonville Jaguars doom
26:12
Speaker 1: Ball County? Stand up? I'm going with the Jacks. Could
26:15
Speaker 1: they be this year's team that kind of comes out
26:18
Speaker 1: of nowhere? We weren't talking about them. They are winning
26:21
Speaker 1: football games and getting it done. And Trevor Lawrence looks
26:24
Speaker 1: like the quarterback when he came out of Clemson that
26:27
Speaker 1: everybody thought he could be. Peterson is there now calling
26:31
Speaker 1: the plays, running the show and they're getting it done.
26:33
Speaker 1: They have young guys on the defensive side of the ball,
26:36
Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd, Josh Allen, Tray, Von Walker, Tyson Campbell. These
26:40
Speaker 1: guys are fired up. James Robinson said after the game,
26:43
Speaker 1: he said, we have some dogs in the locker room.
26:45
Speaker 1: How don't you just love when everybody out that dog.
26:48
Speaker 1: That dog. It's a British bill dog here that we
26:53
Speaker 1: speaking of. Good morning football. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence was just
26:56
Speaker 1: nominated as the Offensive Player of the Week for the
26:59
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27:25
Speaker 1: we played in Philly was two thousand six, um, and
27:28
Speaker 1: he sent me to Jim Steaks on South Street and said,
27:32
Speaker 1: get a pizza sub or pizza Pizza Steak, right, So
27:37
Speaker 1: it's win wind whiz right, So you stay in there.
27:41
Speaker 1: You want cheese or you don't. We're saying win with
27:44
Speaker 1: They're going to get the win on Sunday. Whether they
27:46
Speaker 1: want the cheese or not is irrelevant. Did I say
27:49
Speaker 1: it wrong? What I'm gonna say? It's the onions? Uh?
27:56
Speaker 1: Well I got the pizza steak. It didn't have cheese.
27:58
Speaker 1: The headline still stands, they're what do you got? You'll
28:03
Speaker 1: be honest, mine's terrible. I racked my brain last night.
28:06
Speaker 1: I couldn't go so minds don't panic and that's it's
28:10
Speaker 1: terrible headline. No headline writer world write it. But I
28:13
Speaker 1: don't think they will win because of how good Philadelphia is.
28:17
Speaker 1: But I think they're good, and I think they're going
28:19
Speaker 1: to compete all season. I think you're gonna I think
28:21
Speaker 1: you're gonna like what you see from a football standpoint.
28:24
Speaker 1: And guess what if they lose on Sunday, they're two
28:26
Speaker 1: know in the conference, it's two out of its two
28:28
Speaker 1: out of conference losses. This team is good, maybe not
28:32
Speaker 1: quite good Sunday, I should say the reason that I
28:33
Speaker 1: think that they're going to win is that they played
28:36
Speaker 1: and have played what because it fits your headline it's
28:39
Speaker 1: easy thing. They're gonna win. No, I think they're gonna
28:42
Speaker 1: win because they're playing with real momentum. It's been a
28:44
Speaker 1: long time, and my headline is there the story. Even
28:47
Speaker 1: if the Jaguars losed on a close game on Sunday,
28:50
Speaker 1: they're still the story. We're gonna keep seeing them on
28:51
Speaker 1: NFL Network in ESPN. I'm I'm not used to it
28:53
Speaker 1: when I'm walking around my house and I hear about
28:55
Speaker 1: the Jaguars on Sports Center. That's going to continue to
28:57
Speaker 1: happen because, like Brian said, this team is playing with
29:00
Speaker 1: momentum right now. We're not used to it, but I
29:02
Speaker 1: think it's going to keep happening. With with onions, don't
29:06
Speaker 1: you forget it. We'll take one that Pizzas take, by
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Speaker 1: the way, was really good, all right, and that is
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29:18
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