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Jaguars First Monday Night Football Appearance Since 2011 | Jaguars Reporters · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of the Jaguars Reporters podcast JP
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  Speaker 1: Shadwick with Brian Sexton and the Jaguars. Heading into Week thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals come to town for Monday Night football
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get to that matchup coming up. But one
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  Speaker 1: final bow on the Jaguars Texans game.
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  Speaker 2: Brian and big bow another out of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was huge because all three phases
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  Speaker 1: contributed in a big way in this game. The quarterback
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  Speaker 1: played big, the wide receiver in the third quarter, Calvin
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  Speaker 1: Ridley played big, got all his numbers in that quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen had sacks and key moments on defense special teams. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they missed a fifty five yard field goal, but McManus
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  Speaker 1: was big. I mean it took all of that to
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  Speaker 1: have the field goal hit the crossbar at the end.
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  Speaker 1: So what a win.
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  Speaker 3: You know what stands out to me is the Monday
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  Speaker 3: morning after the Jaguars were blown out by the San
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  Speaker 3: Francisco forty nine ers, it it was pretty clear that
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  Speaker 3: if they just got these next two wins at home
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  Speaker 3: against the Titans and on the road against the Texans,
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  Speaker 3: they'd be eight and three. You know, with their arms
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  Speaker 3: around the division title, right and right where they wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be. And they went to Houston to take on
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  Speaker 3: a hot team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud is a media darling and a team that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people picked to beat the Jaguars. They just thought, well,
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  Speaker 3: even though the roster isn't as good, because you can't
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  Speaker 3: look at that roster objectively and say that the Texans
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  Speaker 3: roster matches the Jaguars, but they had been playing well.
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  Speaker 3: They're very well coached team, and everyone's like, yeah, here's
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  Speaker 3: the upset, and the Texans are going to take the
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  Speaker 3: division lead. And so the Jaguars went into a game
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  Speaker 3: that kind of had a feel to me as big as,
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  Speaker 3: if not bigger than the Niners. They needed to win
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  Speaker 3: this one. There was legitimate pressure on them, and they won.
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  Speaker 3: They fell down fourteen to thirteen, went right down the
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  Speaker 3: field and scored a touchdown, went right back down the
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  Speaker 3: field and scored a field goal, and said, okay, we
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  Speaker 3: got a ten point lead. Now you kind of have
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  Speaker 3: the hand on their forehead like the big brother to
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  Speaker 3: the little brother, and you can't hit me right, you
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  Speaker 3: can't get me. And then of course Josh Allen stepped up,
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  Speaker 3: so it felt like a big game. It was a
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  Speaker 3: big game, and for a team that needed to prove
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  Speaker 3: it could win one of these kinds of games, especially
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  Speaker 3: on the road JP, it stood out to me as
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  Speaker 3: being a game that the Jaguars won that was must
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  Speaker 3: win and it really sets them up well for the
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  Speaker 3: next six games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's get into that a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: right at the end of the game, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of that one o'clock window, the graphic pops up on
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  Speaker 1: the screen Jaguars number one seed in the AFC at
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  Speaker 1: that moment, which is a little eye opening. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, Okay, if these other teams do play
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  Speaker 1: later today, the Ravens are playing later, the Chiefs were
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  Speaker 1: playing later, but at that particular moment, for three hours
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  Speaker 1: at least, the Jaguars were the number one seed. That's
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  Speaker 1: how final line it is. Well, you're playing one of
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  Speaker 1: those teams had the head coming up in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks in Baltimore, already lost to Kansas City, but
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  Speaker 1: they've got the Packers this week and in Lambeau and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens in their schedule ahead. So it's
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  Speaker 1: within reach. And my thought is, how does this team
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  Speaker 1: handle that can they go get that? Are they motivated
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  Speaker 1: by that? And I'm curious to get in the locker
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  Speaker 1: room this week to see if it's even on their mind.
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  Speaker 3: I think it is, just in talking to Josh Allen
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  Speaker 3: a little bit and kind of getting the sense that
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  Speaker 3: he was really stung by what they did out here
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  Speaker 3: against the Niners. He more than any other player that
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  Speaker 3: I talked to, because he's been here through the bad
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  Speaker 3: times and he knows these are not those times. And
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  Speaker 3: yet if you watch that game from the stands are
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  Speaker 3: on TV or listen to on the radio, you thought,
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  Speaker 3: same old Jaguars in that game against San Francisco, and
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  Speaker 3: he wants to prove that they're not here. Here's what
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  Speaker 3: it stands out to me. This thing is setting up
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  Speaker 3: for the Jaguars to be able to take a swing.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll go all the way back to nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 3: You had injuries that kind of set the Jaguars up
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  Speaker 3: on that run. Right, Everything kind of fell into place
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  Speaker 3: for them and then they took care of business. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: this is supposed to be Marquee game on Monday, and
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  Speaker 3: Joe Burrow's not playing, and okay, you should get that
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  Speaker 3: one right then you go to Cleveland. I mean Cleveland's
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  Speaker 3: on there what fourth and fifth offensive tackles, backup court,
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  Speaker 3: back up to the backup quarterback, now backup running back,
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  Speaker 3: and the best defensive player in the league, Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 3: is going to be day to.
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  Speaker 2: Day with a shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you mayby go get that one too. Right then
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  Speaker 3: you come home against the Ravens. All right, that's the
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  Speaker 3: big boy one right there. Line up and play. Put
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  Speaker 3: your hand in the dirt. Let's go because then, right
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  Speaker 3: you get the Panthers, the Bucks, the Panthers and the Titans.
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  Speaker 3: We should get those. This is setting up for the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars to prove it they can. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: say they should yet, but man, they could, and what
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  Speaker 3: fun that would be. Can you imagine this team with
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  Speaker 3: the home playoff game after a bye week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm dreaming too big at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's not too big. It's right there in
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  Speaker 1: front of them, you know it is. They do have
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  Speaker 1: to have a little bit of help in the Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City thing. They can go beat Baltimore and when the
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  Speaker 1: rest of these things and stay ahead of them, they
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  Speaker 1: can go get it. And it is within reach. It's
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  Speaker 1: not an impossible dream.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Week to week.
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  Speaker 3: You're in control of your destiny, but you're also interested
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  Speaker 3: in the scoreboard. Remember last year you were looking to
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  Speaker 3: see that the Titans lose. How's this thing setting up? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: if we win this week this year, it's just win
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  Speaker 3: and then what are they doing? I mean, it could
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  Speaker 3: be a ton of fun around here. And this is
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  Speaker 3: a real growth curve. You remember last year the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: were winning at the end and they had figured it
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  Speaker 3: out and they were having to win every week and
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  Speaker 3: their back was against the wall. Well, this is the
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty degree opposite of it. So you're
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  Speaker 3: learning how to be a front runner, which I think
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  Speaker 3: Doug has kind of alluded to. We talked about can
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  Speaker 3: this team make that transition this year? Well we're about
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  Speaker 3: to find out.
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  Speaker 1: We are about to find out. Putting ahead, We're back
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  Speaker 1: in a moment and some Monday night football history, some trivia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll have some answers to a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Reporters. Welcome back to the Jaguars Reporters podcast.
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  Speaker 1: JP Shadwick and Brian Sexton the Jaguars coming off a
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  Speaker 1: win in Houston. They've won seven of the last eight,
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  Speaker 1: but now at eight and three record, first place, two
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  Speaker 1: games clear of Indy and Houston in the AFC South.
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  Speaker 2: Keep talking, it sounds great currently the number.
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  Speaker 1: Three seed in the AFC. Well, this week it's Monday
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  Speaker 1: Night Football and the Jaguars last appearance on MNF was
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven. And think about this, Brian, the transition time
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  Speaker 1: from then to now for the Jaguars organization.
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  Speaker 2: I thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: The week before that game, mister Weaver announced that he
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  Speaker 1: was firing Jack del Rio and selling the team. The
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars lost that game on Monday Night. The next week,
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  Speaker 1: the league approved the ownership sale to Shod Khan. His
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  Speaker 1: first appearance at a game was in Atlanta the next week,
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  Speaker 1: and then he took over certainly at the start of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twelve season. I looked it up again the
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  Speaker 1: other day. I couldn't even believe how many of these
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  Speaker 1: changes had happened. Four gms or vps of football ops
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  Speaker 1: in that timeframe, six head coaches, including an interim seven
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  Speaker 1: if you want to count Mel Tucker in the last
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  Speaker 1: part of that season twenty eleven, nine different starting quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're back on Monday Night football.
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  Speaker 2: We've climbed. It's unbelievable. Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 3: And I said that to a rotary group last week.
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  Speaker 3: You realize that the last time that the Jaguars played
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  Speaker 3: on Monday Night football, Mel Tucker was the head coach, right,
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  Speaker 3: and Wayne Weaver was still the owner, and Blaine Gabbert
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  Speaker 3: was your starter, and you got blown out thirty eight
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  Speaker 3: to fourteen by the San Diego Chargers. So a lot
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  Speaker 3: has changed. That year they went one and one on
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  Speaker 3: Monday Night Football. They beat the Ravens here twelve seven
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  Speaker 3: behind four Josh Kobe field goals. That was the infamous
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  Speaker 3: game where John Gruden called out Gabert, recognized, well, this
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  Speaker 3: guy's not comfortable in the pocket, and from that moment
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  Speaker 3: on everything spiraled downhill. So I'd like to go back
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  Speaker 3: to the very first Monday Night game right here against
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  Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steelers Week three of nineteen ninety seven. Mark
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  Speaker 3: Brunell had been injured in New York. Jesse Arms dead
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  Speaker 3: put his helmet into his knee, ended up tearing his
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  Speaker 3: ACL but he didn't have surgery, and all week long
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  Speaker 3: leading up he had missed the rest of the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: He had missed the game in Baltimore, the game against
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  Speaker 3: the Giants, and the anticipation was would Mark Brunell play,
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  Speaker 3: And nobody knew. I was walking down the hallway and
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  Speaker 3: I saw him walking with his Bible in his hand,
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  Speaker 3: and I go, it looks like you're gonna play. He
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  Speaker 3: just kind of smiled at me, and he walked into
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  Speaker 3: his pregame Bible study routine and I went, he's gonna play,
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  Speaker 3: and he stuck his head.
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  Speaker 2: Out and he goes ssh.
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  Speaker 3: The crowd didn't find out until introductions that he was
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  Speaker 3: going to actually start the game. And I'll never forget
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  Speaker 3: the roar. And of course the way that that game ended,
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  Speaker 3: Jaggar was went eleven and five that year that got
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  Speaker 3: beating the playoffs. But that was That's one of those moments.
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  Speaker 3: And then I know you were here for a big
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  Speaker 3: game against the Steelers. You were in the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: You showed me a big.
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  Speaker 3: Six, right, that was a nine to nothing game.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a magnificent night. They had the thundersticks. It
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  Speaker 3: was like the foam white stick thing. Yeah yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: when you hit them together, they made a noise and
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  Speaker 3: it was. It's crazy. The Jaguars have played fifteen Monday
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  Speaker 3: night football games, not one since twenty eleven. So it's
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  Speaker 3: been a long time. Eight and seven all time on
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  Speaker 3: Monday Night football. I just get used to it. The
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars are going to be an attractive draw. They're a
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  Speaker 3: good team with a hot young quarterback. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: make a prediction right now the next year the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: Texans game in Jacksonville will be a Monday night football game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're calling it, I call it right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's a double lock.
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  Speaker 1: It's a double lock. My gosh, Tony do right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had a triple lock last night. That's another story altogether.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the theme song this year on Monday Night
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  Speaker 1: Football is I can feel it coming in the air
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  Speaker 1: tonight for Stable. But that's an awe job. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of leaned towards Grateful Dead. What a long, strange trip
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  Speaker 1: it's been.
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  Speaker 2: It has, I mean it really has. And to all
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  Speaker 2: those people who are long.
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  Speaker 3: Suffering Aaguars fans who felt like after twenty ten, because
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  Speaker 3: you know, people forget then twenty ten they went eight
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  Speaker 3: to eight and at one point they were eight and
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  Speaker 3: five and they went to Indy that year with a
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  Speaker 3: chance to win the division, and both David Garrard and
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  Speaker 3: Maurice Jones Drew had knee injuries and the Jaguars lost
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  Speaker 3: that one, and then they lost the remaining three and
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  Speaker 3: from that point it just spiraled away.
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  Speaker 2: Winning is so hard in this league. Consider this.
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  Speaker 3: The Jaguars took over last Sunday with nine to fifteen
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  Speaker 3: to play at the forty six yard line with a
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  Speaker 3: ten point lead. Okay, they killed two minutes and gave
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  Speaker 3: the ball back at the forty five yard line. The
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  Speaker 3: Texan scored a touchdown, forced a punt, and drove for
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  Speaker 3: a game winning field goal. It's so hard to win.
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  Speaker 3: Ten eleven years of just ugh. Right for fans who've
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  Speaker 3: suffered through all of that, I hope they enjoy every second,
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  Speaker 3: from the first moment of their tailgate to the lighting.
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  Speaker 3: The lighting thing that they're doing here, I wish you
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  Speaker 3: could describe it better. It's gonna be at what it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be until I see it's a QR code and
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  Speaker 3: a phone. I mean, I remember the days when they
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  Speaker 3: had laser light shows. It's it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: celebration of the start of this era of Jaguars football
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  Speaker 3: where you're on primetime and it's tough. Primetime is tough
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  Speaker 3: for everybody because the next morning comes a lot quicker
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  Speaker 3: than a one o'clock start on the Sunday afternoon. But
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  Speaker 3: I think people are gonna enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I think so. And the Cincinnati Bengals come in without
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  Speaker 1: their quarterback. They've got some questions there. They're kind of
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  Speaker 1: on the bubble and trying to figure things out down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch, So go take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 3: I know that Trevor said that he'd rather have other
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  Speaker 3: teams not be as good, but I was really looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to this because I love Joe Burrow. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I love to watch him play when he's not playing
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  Speaker 3: the Jaguars, because I think he's got this Tom Brady
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  Speaker 3: quality to him. This this just you know, cold heart,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and could just just slice you up.
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  Speaker 2: I sat in the end zone and watched him do
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  Speaker 2: it in the AFC title game a.
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  Speaker 3: Few years ago in Kansas City, and I was just
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  Speaker 3: amazed at how good he is. And I think he
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  Speaker 3: and Trevor are tremendous, and I was looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now you gotta go win it. But it could
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  Speaker 2: be fun depliable.
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  Speaker 1: I guess what. We're gonna have this history conversation again
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  Speaker 1: in two weeks for Sunday Night Football. It's been even
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  Speaker 1: longer for the Jaguars. Uh great stuff. Fries join it,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Section, J. P. Shaddwick to Fortunato. This is Jaguars
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