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Fred Taylor on Bouncing Back in London vs. Falcons | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues. The Jaguars and the Falcons coming
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  Speaker 1: up from Wimbley Stadium, and it's time for our weekly
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  Speaker 1: conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Back in London again, it's the tenth Jaguars game in
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  Speaker 1: the UK and good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, jpet Man. It always feels great to be
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  Speaker 2: back here. And as I said in postgame last week,
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  Speaker 2: London has been pretty kind to Jacksonville and hopefully we
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  Speaker 2: can get more of that same London magic here today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they need some of it. It's been a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks of some tough football for this team, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get back on track. So let's start with coming
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  Speaker 1: off last week's game. All three phases had some issues
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  Speaker 1: in that game. The focus has to be there moving
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  Speaker 1: ahead just to get back on track. So, as a
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  Speaker 1: football team, when you have a performance like that, and
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  Speaker 1: as a player personally, how do you move forward from
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  Speaker 1: a game like that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know you have to. One thing they tell
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  Speaker 2: you is to have short memory, you know, and you
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  Speaker 2: know the best thing to do is to be able
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  Speaker 2: to get back out there. You know, nothing any race
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  Speaker 2: is a bad loss or a bad performance or even
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  Speaker 2: if you have your own bad individual performance, you want
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  Speaker 2: to get back out there. You know, one convince yourself
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  Speaker 2: that you got it and last week was just a
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  Speaker 2: simple mistake, you know, maybe on your behalf, but that
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  Speaker 2: from the team concept, you want to get back out
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  Speaker 2: there and get on track. You know, it's still early
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  Speaker 2: in the season. They're one and two with fourteen games remaining.
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  Speaker 2: It it starts with the Falcons. The Falcons hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: a great team. They're a young team that has shown
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  Speaker 2: some potential. They got a lot of their young players
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  Speaker 2: and you know what, they know that the Jaguars know
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  Speaker 2: what they have to do. You know, they're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to from a defensive standpoint, they're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: maintain b Jon Robinson, Kyle Pitts, you know, and from
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  Speaker 2: an offensive standpoint, they're going to have to make sure
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  Speaker 2: they're not beating themselves. That's their issue. You know, they've
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  Speaker 2: had some situation where you have drive, you have just
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  Speaker 2: sinceless you know, receivers by the I mean sinceless penalties,
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  Speaker 2: by the receivers not being focused, the false stars, those
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  Speaker 2: different type of things. You can't shoot yourself in the
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  Speaker 2: foot and really for me, the focus is the Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: offense not beating themselves, and from a defensive standpoint of course,
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  Speaker 2: be opportunists to go after those turnovers. But first things
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  Speaker 2: First stop Jon Robinson. The last week's game plan was
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  Speaker 2: to stop CJ. Stroud, get after him with pressure. This
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  Speaker 2: week's totally different. You want to go after Jon Robinson
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  Speaker 2: and then also maintain Kyle Pitts and you give yourself
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity for success.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us. You talked about the penalties last week.
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  Speaker 1: Penalties drops a lot of that going on as a
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  Speaker 1: group overall. Where do you begin? Is it up front
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  Speaker 1: to have time for the quarterback? Is it receivers making plays?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the running game? Etn You can lean on him.
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  Speaker 1: He ran the ball pretty well last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would. I would suggest that you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you continue to just track as you've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's more of a focused thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you have Kelvin Ridley, if he brings
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  Speaker 2: in that catch, the game is totally different. I believe
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  Speaker 2: it's a totally different start. The defense went out there
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  Speaker 2: threwn out boom. They gave your offense the ball. They're
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  Speaker 2: marching down the field five to six plays, they should
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  Speaker 2: have been an end zone. Now with seven zero, defense
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  Speaker 2: gets back out there. The tempo has changed. They're a
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  Speaker 2: bit more excited, maybe they're a bit more focused, and
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  Speaker 2: then the outlook certainly changes. But that's you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: in the past. So what the Jaguars offense has to
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  Speaker 2: do is one extreme focus and discipline. I think it
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  Speaker 2: starts with just them understanding themselves that they are capable.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they do have a good offense. They have
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  Speaker 2: some good players, but everybody just has to commit and
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  Speaker 2: buy in and move with a sense of urgency. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there will be times when the offensive line breaks down,
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  Speaker 2: you know, show effort, Just get after the guys that
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  Speaker 2: are passed rushing against you in the run game. Stay steady,
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  Speaker 2: stay consistent. You know, the coaches, the staff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they have to also understand that they have to be
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  Speaker 2: methodical and move the ball accordingly and not get into
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  Speaker 2: this where I have four downs. This is my mentality.
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  Speaker 2: It works sometimes sometimes it doesn't, So it's more of
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  Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty mindset. When you use that approach,
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  Speaker 2: they have to trust that the defense is going to
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  Speaker 2: get them the ball back and the defenses played well.
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  Speaker 2: I think the defense is played in these three games.
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  Speaker 2: Last week was up. They gave up thirty four, but
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  Speaker 2: realistically a lot of that came from the offense. You know,
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  Speaker 2: special teams. You got mitsfield goal, that's field position. Block
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  Speaker 2: field goal, that's fuel position. Offense, you know, not focus
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  Speaker 2: and giving the ball away, that's also a field position.
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  Speaker 2: And then defense was up again short field for the
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  Speaker 2: majority of the game. So but if you take that away,
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  Speaker 2: they played fairly good. Oh I forget the kickoff from turns, Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's seven points that the defense didn't give up. So
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  Speaker 2: the coaches have to trust that the defense is going
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  Speaker 2: to make those plays. Punt the ball, put it on
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  Speaker 2: the defense, and now you want to see that team unison.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, run Travis et and let Trevor do his thing.
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  Speaker 2: The receivers have to capitalize and stay you know, legers sharp, focused,
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  Speaker 2: make the plays that they're supposed to make. Their pro
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  Speaker 2: receivers you got to make those plays, and the defense
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  Speaker 2: stay steady, you know, realize that you haven't played bad.
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  Speaker 2: You gave up two big plays a week ago, but
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  Speaker 2: that's just two big plays. In the early season. They
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  Speaker 2: can tighten it up.
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  Speaker 1: Pret Taylor with us. You mentioned Vjon Robinson earlier. What
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  Speaker 1: do you like about him?
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  Speaker 2: Everything he is, He reminds me of a few running
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  Speaker 2: backs actually, because he's so dynamic, you know, by stature.
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  Speaker 2: He reminds me a little bit of Jones Drew. He
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  Speaker 2: had Drew by a few injuries. He has Maurice by
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  Speaker 2: a few inches, but you know, just his just this
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  Speaker 2: Bill when Maurice came in early on, not Maurice now
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  Speaker 2: got to shave off with you, but Maurice's back in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and six seven something like that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he has twicks like Barry Sanders, he has amazing feat
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  Speaker 2: he has vision like one Tredy t you know, he
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  Speaker 2: has really good vision. And he has hands like Ladani
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  Speaker 2: and Tumblson coming out of the backfield. So he's sort
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  Speaker 2: of creative player right now. And if Jacksonville's defenders aren't
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  Speaker 2: playing no gap gap assignment and just playing gap integrity,
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  Speaker 2: then they can have a long day. They're without Devin Lloyd,
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  Speaker 2: so it'd be interesting to see how they do versus
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  Speaker 2: Bjean Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Fred, let's finish with this. It's the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: tenth London game. What are your responsibilities in the days
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  Speaker 1: ahead and coming up after this game too. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on with two games here in London.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm just one always excited to be
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  Speaker 2: across the pond, be able to root and root on
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  Speaker 2: the team, you know, being able to have the pub
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  Speaker 2: pep rally visits, you know, interacting with the local fan
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  Speaker 2: base here that's grown tremendously since we came over for
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  Speaker 2: the first game ten years ago or so. So just
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  Speaker 2: to be able to see the growth, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: see that the fans actually understand how to cheer for
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  Speaker 2: an NFL game. Back in the day JP was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they just got excited for the kickoffs and the kill
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  Speaker 2: gos and punts. But now they really understand the back
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  Speaker 2: and forth. I think a lot of fans understand, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the positional responsibilities by the by the guys and the players.
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  Speaker 2: But my responsibility really is to just come here, excite
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  Speaker 2: the fans, you know, support the team, do our game.
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  Speaker 2: They deal as we always do. After the game, I
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  Speaker 2: just try to get it out and get a nice
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  Speaker 2: dinner or something something light, and you know, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of stay put and see what happens if we win.
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  Speaker 2: My dinner's a lot better than if it goes the
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  Speaker 2: other way.
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  Speaker 1: Bred always a pleasure. Thanks for the time and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you at Wembley coming up Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I see JP. Be good.