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Can the Jaguars Stop Lamar Jackson? + Fred Taylor on Seamless Communication | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues. The Jaguars entertaining the Baltimore Ravens
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football in week fifteen, and that's our
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  Speaker 1: weekly conversation now with Pride of the Jaguars running back
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  Speaker 1: Bred Taylor. Big time football game, battle of division leaders
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  Speaker 1: fred on Sunday Night Football. You can't ask for much
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  Speaker 1: more than.
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  Speaker 2: This, JP. That's a good setup, man, certainly a big
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  Speaker 2: time game, two teams leading their divisions. In the case
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  Speaker 2: of Jacksonville, who's going to show up? That's my question
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  Speaker 2: to you. We'll find out in just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who is going to show up, Who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be healthy enough to show up? And who of
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  Speaker 1: those guys that aren't out there replacing them will show up?
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  Speaker 1: And that's been a question the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: for the Jags.
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  Speaker 2: Right the curiosity. Man, I do know who is going
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  Speaker 2: to show up. I will be there. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be an amazing atmosphere. I'm pretty sure all of Duvall
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  Speaker 2: will be in a house. It's been a while since
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  Speaker 2: we've entertained a Sunday night game. But I also think
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  Speaker 2: that Lamar Jackson, I think he's gonna show up you know,
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  Speaker 2: we in the past two weeks, we saw a Jake
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  Speaker 2: Browning a backup, not Joe Burrow. You know, we saw
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  Speaker 2: Joe Flacco a backup who is just on his mother's
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  Speaker 2: couch from a lot of reports, and no Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 2: So facing two teams with backups, and now we have
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  Speaker 2: a former league MVP and Lamar Jackson. Not only that
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  Speaker 2: he has more weapons with him this time around, he
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  Speaker 2: has a defense or who's playing lights out. But yet
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  Speaker 2: they're still, in my opinion, a team who is one
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  Speaker 2: lead in the AFC, but they don't always play like it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they tend to at times play down to
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  Speaker 2: their competition. They've had big leads where they've lost those leads.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a team who I believe doesn't have the
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  Speaker 2: greatest discipline. Uh, they're beatable, and maybe Jacksonville need an
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  Speaker 2: opponent like this at this particular time so they can
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  Speaker 2: try to hop off that two game skid.
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  Speaker 1: Brad. The buzzword this week around here has been communication,
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  Speaker 1: and there were moments in that game last week where
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  Speaker 1: there was lack of communication on defense and they gave
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  Speaker 1: up some explosive plays in that game and get on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive side. You know, not necessarily the wrong routes,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe just not on the same page or the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in certain instances. And you know it's week fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: that's concerning enough. In week four right now, it's December
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  Speaker 1: and at some point they've got to figure that out
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  Speaker 1: before they can move forward.
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  Speaker 2: As in life, I think we're more productive in life
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  Speaker 2: outside of sports is when we communicate relationships. They talk
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  Speaker 2: about communication business. It's about communicating with your partners, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the number one thing, like that's what leads to success.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately bringing it back to football and being on a trill,
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  Speaker 2: we spoke to it in post game. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: broken coverages, people being out of place, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: miss tackles, being antsy, even some of the play calls,
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  Speaker 2: feeling that you're not getting enough pressure. You're putting these
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  Speaker 2: guys in position where now you have to blitz and
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  Speaker 2: they're not ready to handle it. On the back end,
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  Speaker 2: then you give up explosives, play action game, lack of communication,
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  Speaker 2: who's up, who's down, biting a run, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff out of place. So we could go the mixed
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  Speaker 2: on the skinny post eight route, skinny eight bangate, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want to call it, Trevor to Ridley, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was not a great throw or not a great route,
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  Speaker 2: just out of sync. And we've seen that it is
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  Speaker 2: quite it is alarming. Here, what is it week fourteen?
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned JP so got to get fifteen. You got
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  Speaker 2: to get back on track. It does start with the classroom, guys, studying, guys,
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  Speaker 2: not being complacent, thinking, look, we're a good team. You
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  Speaker 2: know you are a marginal team. You can be a
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  Speaker 2: better team. The offense still hadn't performed up to its
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  Speaker 2: preseason expectation based on the additions and the growth and
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  Speaker 2: the players that were returning. The defense had been that
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  Speaker 2: bright spot. But when the defense is given up thirty
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  Speaker 2: plus in all four and four losses. They've given up
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  Speaker 2: thirty thirty plus points two back to back. And when
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  Speaker 2: that happens and the offense is underperforming, that's the disaster
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  Speaker 2: for or that's spells loss. So communication is going to
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  Speaker 2: always be the key. Then you throw in discipline, you
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  Speaker 2: throw in playing with a sense of urgency, and you
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  Speaker 2: give yourself an opportunity to win.
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  Speaker 1: Brett Taylor with a spride of the Jaguars running back
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  Speaker 1: and hey, the Jags run game, you know, there's some
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  Speaker 1: guys banged up in the in the running back room
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  Speaker 1: right now. Travestn rib issue, Jarons Johnson's got a knee issue.
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  Speaker 1: They're out there though still right they're still playing. And
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  Speaker 1: I know Etn is pretty high up there in terms
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  Speaker 1: of total yardage in rushing yards this year in the league,
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  Speaker 1: but he's way down the list of the yards per carry.
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  Speaker 1: And as a whole, that's got to improve for the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars down the stretch to it feels like they were
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  Speaker 1: playing their best football when they would run effectively and
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  Speaker 1: balance this thing out. But how do they get back
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  Speaker 1: to that now with some of the guys that are
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  Speaker 1: on the injury.
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  Speaker 2: List JP It goes back to what we spoke to
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  Speaker 2: a second ago, and that's communication. With chuffling the line,
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  Speaker 2: you have injuries, guys in and out of the starting lineup,
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  Speaker 2: guy backups coming in. You know, that's number one. On
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  Speaker 2: the offensive front. Communication is the biggest thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think is the most important with the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and then getting that those protections that run
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  Speaker 2: blocking schemes to each other. So if they don't have
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  Speaker 2: good seamless communication up front, they're going to struggle. And
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  Speaker 2: then now they have to do their assignment, proper foot
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  Speaker 2: and hat placements and trying to open up and create
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  Speaker 2: lanes for Travis Etn. Going back to that Texans game,
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  Speaker 2: I felt that Travis wasn't as explosive as he had
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  Speaker 2: been in earlier games. Then he heard his ribs and
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  Speaker 2: then that first and goal from the one with one
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  Speaker 2: second before the half. He would usually explode through a
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  Speaker 2: dB and attack the dB. He sort of did a
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  Speaker 2: spin move and I was like, something's not right with
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  Speaker 2: Travis here. And it's sort of been a lingering things.
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  Speaker 2: But you get paid to go out there and perform.
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  Speaker 2: You fight through injuries and you want to be there
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  Speaker 2: and support your team. If you believe you can go,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go. And that's what you have to
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  Speaker 2: admire about pro athletes. They can go, they go. I
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  Speaker 2: had my share of injury JP. If I could go,
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  Speaker 2: I would certainly show up. Taking a page out of
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  Speaker 2: Trevor's book. I think it could be Tank Bigsby's coming
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  Speaker 2: out party. They lost some confidence in him because of
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  Speaker 2: him putting the ball on the ground. But if you
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  Speaker 2: have guys that are banged up, you have to get
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  Speaker 2: a fresh set of legs out there big back, who
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  Speaker 2: can get downhill, who has jump cut ability. The one
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  Speaker 2: issue had been ball handled. But he has to believe
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  Speaker 2: in himself, have to create that confidence in himself and
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  Speaker 2: then have that trickle down to the coaches where they
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  Speaker 2: can understand and depend on him, and then maybe allow
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  Speaker 2: those other guys to kind of steal a few reps
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  Speaker 2: and rest up a bit. Those are just my thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the game plan is or what
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  Speaker 2: the coach is gonna enter the game with as from
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  Speaker 2: a personnel standpoint, but I think this could potentially be
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  Speaker 2: tanks coming out party.
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  Speaker 1: Right of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor with us. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we continue the conversation in the ground game. Flip it
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  Speaker 1: around now and the Ravens leave the NFL one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty seven rush yards per game and not a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, these guys can do it all over the field,
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  Speaker 1: and they've done it for a long time. They have
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  Speaker 1: one hundred or more rushing yards in twenty nine straight games.
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  Speaker 1: They don't take a week off. They run the football,
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  Speaker 1: come hell or high water. They're running it with a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: running back. Whatever they're gonna have to do.
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  Speaker 2: And let's not forget the receivers. You know, end of rounds,
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  Speaker 2: you know they are calling everything to get the ball
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  Speaker 2: in their playmakers' hands. And it all starts with Lamar
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  Speaker 2: Jackson and the threat that he brings to the defense.
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  Speaker 2: They could do so much zone reads. What is it
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  Speaker 2: not PPOs but run assumptions the RP. I'm thinking of
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  Speaker 2: insurance when I say PPO, it's RPOs. Got to go
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  Speaker 2: and check with my insurance carrier, make sure everything's good
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  Speaker 2: over there. It might be some recks on the field tonight. JP.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're tough, they're tough offense to defend. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when they get it going, they got it going. So
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  Speaker 2: defending the run, which the Jaguars have been really solid
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  Speaker 2: and sound that this year. It's been the strength of
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  Speaker 2: the defense. But again, they can run the ball well
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  Speaker 2: and they also have some receivers that can get it done.
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  Speaker 2: Odell Beckham he has shown some glimpses of old form,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not as much, but he's still very much capable
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  Speaker 2: and they paid for him to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: make plays and he's made some play So it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a tough matchup, maybe the toughest matchup for our defense.
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  Speaker 2: The entire year.
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  Speaker 1: Brad final thought with you here. I mean this is
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  Speaker 1: especially if the Jaguars get it done in this game
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  Speaker 1: against the Ravens, then all of a sudden, the AFC
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  Speaker 1: playoff race is wide open. Certainly, the number one seed
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  Speaker 1: is back in play for every body. Miami's right behind Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City's reeling right now. You saw their reaction to
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  Speaker 1: how that game ended last week. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pressure on Kansas City right now because here come
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos. In their division. There's only teams that are
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  Speaker 1: seven and six that are right there on the doorstep.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, if the Jaguars can get this done,
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  Speaker 1: it not only does them a favor, but everybody else
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  Speaker 1: in the AFC is back in play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, JP, I agree with you on all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Those assessments. When you look at it though, and you look,
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  Speaker 2: you go back and you sort of replay the season
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  Speaker 2: in your mind. The Jaguars have not shown up for
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  Speaker 2: a game that mattered, a big game. They have not
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  Speaker 2: shown up, you know, looking at the KC game, which
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  Speaker 2: was the game, the San fran game, which was the
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  Speaker 2: game the Monday night matchup. It was a Monday night game,
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  Speaker 2: It was the game you go to Cleveland, you know
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  Speaker 2: last week. This was a game where you said, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get back on track, We're gonna regain who we were.
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  Speaker 2: That was the game. I think the only game they
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  Speaker 2: really stood up for was that Texans game. That game
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  Speaker 2: really mattered. It was divisional opponent, had high stakes, and
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  Speaker 2: they stood up for that game. This game reminds me
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  Speaker 2: of it a year ago, how they went out surprisingly
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  Speaker 2: handled the Ravens. They need that team to show up
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  Speaker 2: and perform here tonight, and if they can get that,
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  Speaker 2: it opens up that playoff race, as you mentioned, and
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  Speaker 2: the sky is still the limit for him. Opportunities are
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  Speaker 2: all around him. But it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: Bred well done. As always, Sunday night lights are bright.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if the Jaguars can respond, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you in the postgame. You know, I'll be here, JP.
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware, you're always.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I said I was gonna call it,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna call it. I'm gonna let the
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  Speaker 2: guys do their play on the field, but I'll be
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  Speaker 2: rooting them on.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you later, Fred, alrighty