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Fred Taylor On Walker Little Starting, Tank Bigsby Hot Hand & More | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's time for our weekly conversation with Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor, and here we go. The Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: now two and six, headed to Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: There's no room for air from here on, Fred, how
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, JP. No room for air at all. Man.
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  Speaker 4: We've been saying this for a few weeks now, but
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  Speaker 4: still nine games remain in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: You're right there at the halfway mark. Still a lot
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  Speaker 3: of football. All you need to do is get hot.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta win one, got to win one, and then
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  Speaker 4: you take that into perspective and try and get the
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  Speaker 4: next one. But each week is it one season or
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  Speaker 4: one week playoff approach type season for those guys, and
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  Speaker 4: they let that one last week slip away from them.
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  Speaker 4: They gotta throw that one out and just look forward
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  Speaker 4: to this game. The Eagles are a really good team,
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  Speaker 4: having won three in a row, so it'll be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Big news around the Jaguars. Of course, this week, Cam
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  Speaker 1: Robinson traded to the Minnesota Vikings. He's been here's the
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  Speaker 1: last guy on the twenty seventeen playoff team still around
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  Speaker 1: for the Jaguars, so no longer he's out of here.
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  Speaker 1: This will be Walker little chance the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: way to play left tackle in the final what nine
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  Speaker 1: games of his rookie contract.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you make of the trade?
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  Speaker 4: Look, you know some sometimes change is good. You know
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  Speaker 4: they're going to see what they have. I believe with
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  Speaker 4: where Cam was and where Walker is now in terms
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  Speaker 4: of dollar for dollar, and I think when you look
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  Speaker 4: at it across the board, where you have a Cam Robbinson,
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  Speaker 4: someone who's operating under the new contract, and you have
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  Speaker 4: a rookie, a young guy coming off his rookie deal
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  Speaker 4: who hadn't played a lot, you have more leverage, you know,
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  Speaker 4: with with the Walker little little and potential. So you
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  Speaker 4: look at leverage and potential when you look at players
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  Speaker 4: and all that stuff. So I believe it was a
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  Speaker 4: good deal. Especially if Cam goes over and does well.
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  Speaker 4: It can turn into a higher round pick, an earlier
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  Speaker 4: round pick, I'll say, from that angle, So it could
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  Speaker 4: pan out. You know, you can find a lot of
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  Speaker 4: good players in that fourth, fifth round, even the sixth
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  Speaker 4: round slot sometime, especially at the lineman position. But it
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  Speaker 4: is Walker Lodle's term right now. He's the next man up.
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  Speaker 4: That's what you play for. You play for opportunity, and
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  Speaker 4: when it's your opportunity, you don't look back. So I
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  Speaker 4: hope he does well for all of you know, the
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  Speaker 4: Jaguars faith for around the globe. He has two hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty million reasons to play well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens next week when Cam comes back
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  Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings to play the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 2: We'll discuss that of course next week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be interesting. We'll see if travese
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  Speaker 1: etn Jr. Is back in the mix this week coming
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  Speaker 1: off the hamstring injury. If he is, how do you
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  Speaker 1: balance the carries this week?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think you go with with with with
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  Speaker 4: how the guys are feeling. You know, understand that Tank
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  Speaker 4: has had a hot hand even a week ago. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he got some carries in there, had a great yardish
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  Speaker 4: per average carry. We all thought that we should have
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  Speaker 4: seen him touch it a few more times.
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  Speaker 3: But he has a hot hand, and you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: running very effectively. He's quickie sharp, he's.
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  Speaker 4: Downhill running with power, and the ham strings are tricky,
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  Speaker 4: you know, So even though there's a potential chance that
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  Speaker 4: Travis can shut up. The ham strings are one of
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  Speaker 4: those tricky It's one of the trickier injuries you can have.
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  Speaker 4: As soon as you think you're ready from practice, you
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  Speaker 4: get in the game and try to burst and explode
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  Speaker 4: and it lets you downs, like having a flat tire
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  Speaker 4: doing sixty.
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  Speaker 3: Five or nine ninety five or JTB.
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  Speaker 4: Park Well he or something you just pull over frustrated
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  Speaker 4: and the P word it's off.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So, and that's what we'll see if he has any setbacks.
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  Speaker 4: But we're gonna hope that he doesn't have set backs
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  Speaker 4: and they'll get back to being that one to two punch.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think it's good, and I've said this
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  Speaker 4: that it's better to have a really solid one two
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  Speaker 4: punch where you can, in theory, minimize the potential for
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  Speaker 4: injury or even give another or spell another guy when
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  Speaker 4: he's you know, sort of banged up like the travest
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  Speaker 4: n So we'll.
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  Speaker 3: See, keep our fingers crossing hope he's one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Fred Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 1: This Jaguars defense this week has its hands full against
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  Speaker 1: an Eagles offense that can run the football, physical offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: a dual threck quarterback certainly but Saquon Barkley is there now,
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  Speaker 1: second in the league in rushing yards. Give us the
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  Speaker 1: scattering report on Saque from your perspective.
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  Speaker 4: Don't flinch. You can't flinch, I mean, but it's it is.
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  Speaker 4: Saque one of my top backs. I've said that since
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  Speaker 4: he's he entered the league six years ago. One of
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  Speaker 4: my favorite people, you know, on the entire planet. Just
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  Speaker 4: the amazing person more so than a talented football player
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  Speaker 4: that he is. Uh, he's the complete package. He could
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  Speaker 4: do at all. He has the best jump cut ability
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  Speaker 4: of all the running backs in the entire NFL. He's explosive,
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  Speaker 4: he's fast, he runs with power, and if you flinch,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, he's gonna let you know. So the
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  Speaker 4: best way to attack Saquon is to just just just
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  Speaker 4: go at him. You can't hesitate. You have to just
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  Speaker 4: run through tackle and wait for the calvary to hope
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  Speaker 4: that they're there to rally behind you. But you got
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  Speaker 4: to shoot your shoot your shot, you know, and just
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  Speaker 4: just go through them. De Troy pot Malu, you know
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  Speaker 4: that sort of approach. Don't break down, just go And
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  Speaker 4: I hope that's the coaching thing for this week, because
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  Speaker 4: if you break your feet down to set your hips.
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  Speaker 3: He's you're gonna give him too many the options.
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  Speaker 4: And then you gotta deal with those other guys in
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  Speaker 4: the passing game, which makes this game easier. Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 4: zone readability. His mobility as a QB is accuracy. You
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  Speaker 4: got Brown aj Brown out there, who's a monster, big, strong, fast,
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  Speaker 4: He does it all intermediate, short, deep routes. DeVante Slim Smith,
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  Speaker 4: he can get deep behind you. Amazing prospect. Alabama just
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  Speaker 4: recently got him a brand new bag. So they're all
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  Speaker 4: paid up there, they're all excited. They're all on a
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  Speaker 4: roll now after starting two and two.
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  Speaker 3: So Philly's a team.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're they're finding their mojo and they can
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  Speaker 4: be tough to reckon with if you're not prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Finals at about this Eagles defense that the Jaguars will
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  Speaker 1: have to face this week, I MA think Georgia players.
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  Speaker 2: Can you have on one defense? First of all, I
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  Speaker 2: mean they're illegal.
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  Speaker 3: It should be illegal of some sort.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is why Georgia has been as good
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  Speaker 4: as they've been the past several years. In college. They
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  Speaker 4: have tremendous athletes coming out of Georgia the past several years.
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  Speaker 4: And not only that, the guys that come from those defenses,
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  Speaker 4: you know, at all levels, you know, linemen, linebackers, secondary,
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  Speaker 4: they've been absolutely great. And I don't know the real
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  Speaker 4: answer jp to that question, but they should make you
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  Speaker 4: cap you know, cap at like half or fifty of
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  Speaker 4: your players. But there's very good defense and they're only
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  Speaker 4: getting better.
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  Speaker 2: They're all getting better. It's a good group.
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  Speaker 1: They don't take the ball away a lot, but they
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  Speaker 1: play good, solid defense all the way.
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  Speaker 4: They keep themselves in the game. They keep themselves in
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  Speaker 4: the game. You don't see them break down a lot.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the secondary leader leader in big play, sligh
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  Speaker 4: on the back in. Like I said, they got players
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  Speaker 4: on all levels. They give up some plays, but they
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  Speaker 4: bend and don't break. A lot of times those turn
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  Speaker 4: into field goals and they do just enough to stay
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  Speaker 4: in the game on a three game win streak.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see how goes.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to find out and we'll catch up with
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  Speaker 1: you after the game.
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  Speaker 3: Fred, appreciate it. I'll be right here, be ready to go.