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Fred Taylor On Jaguars Keeping the Momentum Going in Week 6 | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for a weekly conversation with Pride to the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. Coming off a Jaguars win, Fred
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  Speaker 1: against the Colts. It wasn't easy at the end, but
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  Speaker 1: they got the job done.
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  Speaker 2: Jp A.
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  Speaker 3: They got the job done and and that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 3: We understand the storylines this season. It's just win. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if it's one point two, it does not matter. You
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  Speaker 3: want to be able to win those ball games that
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  Speaker 3: you're supposed to win. It did get a little scary,
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  Speaker 3: but they found found the way to close it out,
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  Speaker 3: and I hope that's the thing going forward. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I believe they should approach each week as a one
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  Speaker 3: season playoff game or or one one game playoff game
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  Speaker 3: mindset with extreme sense of urgency.
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  Speaker 2: Starting with the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: She'll see me yelling at the TV and the pub
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  Speaker 1: over here when that fourth quarter was going on.
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  Speaker 4: It was spite as I was the only one yelling.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Everybody's look at me like I'm nuts, But hey,
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  Speaker 4: they gotta they got the job done.
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  Speaker 2: You were nuts?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I am all right? So they got the win.
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  Speaker 1: They're one and four. They're going this week though, to
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  Speaker 1: London of course for the two week stretch the Bears
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  Speaker 1: this week and the next week against the Patriots. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start off with the matchup against the Bears and Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams playing better football the last two weeks, certainly last
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  Speaker 1: week put together over another three hundred yard game and
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  Speaker 1: starting to come into his own little bit. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like they have a really good defense in Chicago to
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  Speaker 1: go with that. So this is a three and two
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  Speaker 1: Bears team that we'll see if they're legit, but so far,
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  Speaker 1: so good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have the players, they have the person there,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, it seems that the coaching, the players,
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  Speaker 3: that camera, that chemistry is starting to mix.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Caleb, they took them number one for a reason.
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  Speaker 3: We had him on the Pivot on our podcast, and
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  Speaker 3: just a brilliant young man he was. He was built
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  Speaker 3: for this, you know, like you can go in a
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  Speaker 3: lab and create certain things. He was actually built for
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  Speaker 3: this moment and this is a dream come true for him.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, he's gonna prepare and he's always been
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  Speaker 3: a pro. He's always had the pro mindset, so we're
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  Speaker 3: starting to see his ability come around. You know, he's
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  Speaker 3: making throwing for three hundred yards look easy, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but he has some really good targets Roman Dunzie. You
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  Speaker 3: have also have Dj Moore who's a big big piece
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  Speaker 3: to that. You know, they have Swift in the backfield.
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  Speaker 3: So they have a really talented offense. And Chicago's always
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  Speaker 3: tried to pride itself on defense over as long as
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  Speaker 3: I've known that team, going back to the eighty five
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  Speaker 3: Bears and Mike Singletary and Carrier and all of those
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  Speaker 3: guys sort of made me fall in love with the
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  Speaker 3: game along with sweetness. But you know, it's it's a
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  Speaker 3: matchup I look forward to. Trevor's gonna have to be
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  Speaker 3: lights out as he was, you know a week ago,
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  Speaker 3: and everyone else is going to have to rally and
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  Speaker 3: make plays. But more importantly, you know, we're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to see another huge performance from Trey Von Walker. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just just the way he went out there and his tenacity,
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  Speaker 3: and I saw him just going into his bag man,
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  Speaker 3: showing a lot of different moves, big combinations, overpowering to
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  Speaker 3: let that tackle and then making the play and being
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  Speaker 3: able to cap the game off when it was getting
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  Speaker 3: scary so to finish the game, and that sort of
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  Speaker 3: fashion for him has to be a confidence booster, Trevor,
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  Speaker 3: confidence booster and everybody all around.
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  Speaker 4: Tank.
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  Speaker 3: Can't forget Tank. Amazing effort by Tank. Just I texted
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  Speaker 3: him yesterday and told him, just keep it going. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: you're doing, keep it going, and you know, bring the
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  Speaker 3: best out of Travis, you know, And that's what Maurice
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  Speaker 3: and myself did, and now I challenged him to do
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  Speaker 3: the same with how he's running and just keep it
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  Speaker 3: competitive and let the coaches make the decision on who
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  Speaker 3: should get the reps.
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  Speaker 1: Pretent Taylor, I have a specific question about the two
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  Speaker 1: headed backfield right it seems like that's kind of settled
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  Speaker 1: in now for the Jaguars. Is that easy for players
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  Speaker 1: to be able to manage that mentally because you always
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  Speaker 1: want the carries right, especially around the goal line, but
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  Speaker 1: it might help the team if both guys get work right.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy, I can say mentally it's not easy.
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  Speaker 2: Physically it's not easy.
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  Speaker 3: You would say there's some physical benefits, you would like
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  Speaker 3: to think that way, but we all know in football
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  Speaker 3: it just takes one play and a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: we've seen where guys don't have to even be in
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  Speaker 3: contact or tackled or hit or doing the tackling. Injuries happen.
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  Speaker 3: Things happen, you know, so it's not necessarily the physical
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  Speaker 3: part is just the stuff, because you have to find
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  Speaker 3: a way to stay warm and ready, and that's where
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  Speaker 3: the mental stuff come in. And not only that, you're
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  Speaker 3: fighting in your brain that said, you know, I gotta,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta be ready, I gotta be ready, I gotta
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  Speaker 3: The coaches tell you to be ready, and sometimes you're
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  Speaker 3: just there. You find yourself watching the game as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to warming up, and then they call your number and
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  Speaker 3: then you go out there your cold, and all these
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  Speaker 3: things are going through your mind. You're like, man, this
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  Speaker 3: could be a tough situation, but I have some struggles
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  Speaker 3: with it, you know, because you're a star. You want
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  Speaker 3: to play, everybody wants to play. You practice hard, you
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  Speaker 3: want to go out there and play. But you have
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  Speaker 3: to turn into this team player in order to manage
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  Speaker 3: those those frustrations and everything that's going on upstairs and
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  Speaker 3: the brain.
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  Speaker 2: So it can be challenging, especially if the rotation.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of falls out of wag Travis say he was
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  Speaker 3: healthy last week there at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 2: I understand they have their philosophy and rotation.
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  Speaker 3: We had a conversation on Monday morning tail back with
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  Speaker 3: Dan and Jeff and I talked about Denis Johnson being
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  Speaker 3: there to end the game off. Well, those for me
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  Speaker 3: seem like they should have been four minute situations. Someone
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  Speaker 3: who's bigger, stronger, can run with more authority, who's gonna
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  Speaker 3: take care of the ball. But it wasn't Tank, it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't Travis, it was Deaners Johnson, and that sort of
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  Speaker 3: was a bit mind boggling. Also, like the past, past past,
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  Speaker 3: pad run past past, It's like, we're gonna do this again.
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  Speaker 3: We just did it in Texas versus the Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna do it again. But I digressed, right, we
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  Speaker 3: got to win, you know, like the other fans, I
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  Speaker 3: gotta be happy for it. But I'm a player, former player,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm like, this ain't This is tricky, But hey,
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  Speaker 3: I don't coach.
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  Speaker 1: Front of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Trevor Lawrence coming off career high passing yardage day.
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  Speaker 1: It helps from Brian Thomas Junior goes for eighty five
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  Speaker 1: on one of them, and then Christian Kirk for sixty
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  Speaker 1: one on another. That's just how it goes sometimes. But
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  Speaker 1: he's facing off against of course, Caleb Williams. They don't
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  Speaker 1: face each other. But Trevor is zero to five in
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  Speaker 1: games against number one overall pick quarterbacks in his career.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to change that this week, so him, Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a building block for Trevor? Can he get
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  Speaker 1: back on track after a rough stretch run last year
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  Speaker 1: start to this season? Is this is this what gets
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  Speaker 1: him on track?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 4: I think And he wasn't hit by the way either,
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  Speaker 4: but he had yeah he one time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the line played brilliantly up front. You know, he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't hit. We always you know, uh chart stats, but
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  Speaker 3: you know you throw the stat line out because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: throw the sack line out because he wasn't hit at all.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I just think I've never seen a
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  Speaker 3: line play that way ever, you know, and that that
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  Speaker 3: certainly will increase heighten your confidence as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I like to see more of it this week, you know, Trevor.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you take away the miscuws, well he's
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  Speaker 3: had I guess a miskull in every game, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what it was. You know, it could have
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  Speaker 3: been the fact that he wasn't being pressured and he
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  Speaker 3: made all of his throws last week.
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  Speaker 2: That's something, and it's.
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  Speaker 3: Something that the coaches can take back to the offensive
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  Speaker 3: line and say, this is what we can do. If
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  Speaker 3: this is what you guys do, If you guys protect it,
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  Speaker 3: we can hit it. We can hit it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, then you also go back to the
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  Speaker 3: reason they took you number one. Overall, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 3: make throws, throws under that sort of pressure if guys
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  Speaker 3: are in your face.
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  Speaker 2: The great Steward all the time.
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  Speaker 3: But Treford Trevor definitely needs to get on a hot streak.
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  Speaker 3: It starts with one. You have to win one in
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  Speaker 3: order to make it a hot streak. Not the other way,
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  Speaker 3: but the hot streak. So this will be an interesting matchup.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it for everybody in the States
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  Speaker 3: that will Bill nine thirty start. So grab your your eggs,
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  Speaker 3: your your chicken sausage or whatever it is, your oatmeal,
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  Speaker 3: get your butts up, man, and send that positive energy
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  Speaker 3: through the television over across the pond and let's rout
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  Speaker 3: these guys on.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they get this.
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  Speaker 1: W Brad, We've done this London trip must will be
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  Speaker 1: the eleventh time. I suppose that the Jaguars have come
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  Speaker 1: the tenth at least I've covered it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think you've been to most every one of them
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  Speaker 1: as well, most other than the COVID year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean when yeah, so coming off that I sort
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  Speaker 1: of missed out on that one. Yeah, So what do
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  Speaker 1: you think about the whole idea of two games? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it worked last year they won both games. They settled
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  Speaker 1: in for that Bills game in the second week and
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  Speaker 1: knock those guys off. This time it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's week one against Chicago and then we two.
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  Speaker 4: New England's trying to figure it out too. Can is this?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it feels like it's not going on too.
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  Speaker 3: I think the great thing about having done it for
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  Speaker 3: more than a decade is the for most people question
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  Speaker 3: the logistics of being in London and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: But the Jags are used to it. You know, George
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  Speaker 3: and the equipment staff. You know, a lot of those
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  Speaker 3: guys make a lot of the planning and and the
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  Speaker 3: bigger decisions. You know that that part that that we
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  Speaker 3: don't see, the unsexy part. It's a lot that goes
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  Speaker 3: into it, and I think they've done a great job
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  Speaker 3: over the years of making sure the players have everything
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  Speaker 3: they need, because what you want to do is make sure.
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  Speaker 2: The players are comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: If the players are comfortable, then they don't have to
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  Speaker 3: worry about all these outside distractions. They get to focus
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  Speaker 3: on the game and they don't they don't want to
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  Speaker 3: miss a beat, you know, and practice goes smooth, the coaches,
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  Speaker 3: everything goes smooth. I like that part of it, uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think the part that I don't always agree with
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  Speaker 3: is that you take a game away from the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: the local fan base in Jacksonville unfortately. But I do
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  Speaker 3: understand branding the team and popularizing the team and the
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  Speaker 3: NFL's effort to try to help grow and build the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars a local market by taking the game out. So
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  Speaker 3: there are some challenges there, But again, it seems like
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  Speaker 3: the guys haven't been in Jacksonville a whole lot this year.
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  Speaker 3: Granted they've only had two games there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: you win one and then you have to go away,
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  Speaker 3: but hopefully they can win there h and also do
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  Speaker 3: the same when they return back in front of their
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  Speaker 3: hometown fans. Because these the people work hard, they get
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  Speaker 3: in those they fill those stands. They want to see
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  Speaker 3: a good product. Last year wasn't that great at home?
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  Speaker 3: Or they want more on the road than they did
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  Speaker 3: at home, I believe. And then this year they're one
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  Speaker 3: and one in in ever Bank. So I'm a man
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  Speaker 3: of the fans of the people, and I do want
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  Speaker 3: to see the team win while they're away. But all so,
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  Speaker 3: I hope that they can find a way to win
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  Speaker 3: in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: You know, schedule backlogged with a lot of games in
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville at the end of the season, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars are in contention then to make a run
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Fred, that would help, It would certainly help. We'll do
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  Speaker 4: this in person next week. Fred, you're coming over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoy your fish and chips, Mate, your lovely cigars.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can't put the accent on my voice
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  Speaker 3: too deep, I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'll see you in a few sounds.
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  Speaker 4: Good cheers, Fred, Mate,