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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, December 27 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Warris, did you do Jack Morris? Did you Jenck Warris?
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  Speaker 1: Drive Time? Ryan Sextextra John Actually, Jeff Warris, Drive Time
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  Speaker 1: starts right now. We're gonna start Blake this week. I
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  Speaker 1: talked to both those guys. We just feel like his mobility,
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  Speaker 1: we'll give us um a better chance, you know, against
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  Speaker 1: obviously a very tough team, a team that's you know
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go into and it's a playoff atmosphere for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they win the game, they get the ANFC
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  Speaker 1: South title and you know, home field playoff game and
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  Speaker 1: they still can you know, get to buy you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it'll be it'll be a tough atmosphere. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: hate coach Doug Morone. May be announcement yesterday Blake Borders
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  Speaker 1: will be the starting quarterback. You heard his reasons there, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes a lot of sense. And we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot about that over the course of the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the week. Just your thoughts. Not a dog
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  Speaker 1: because Doug is always so matter of fact when he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about big decisions like that. Um, but Blake, because
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  Speaker 1: even though he tried to be kind of matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: there was a little swagger back to him. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool to see yeah, in the practice field.
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  Speaker 1: He just seemed excited to be back. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the right decision, just based on the game plan. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday with Texas defensive line and how
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  Speaker 1: dominant and powerful they are, that you gotta put a
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  Speaker 1: guy in there that can run, especially with the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line that the Jaguars are dealing with. We know that
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  Speaker 1: Cody Kesler at times holds onto the ball too long.
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  Speaker 1: Blake is good about escaping the pocket game plan right,
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  Speaker 1: Why does it just makes sense this week? We have
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about today. We've got big things
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  Speaker 1: dbs DP to do from the I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 1: Will join us, Marcus Pollard will come in. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: there with our Twitter poll and that's the Jags drivetime
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  Speaker 1: poll on Twitter. We're asking you, all right, we understand
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  Speaker 1: what the circumstances are, the Jaguars are playing at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season playoffs, not on board, but what
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  Speaker 1: player could have a big game on Sunday at n
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  Speaker 1: RG Stadium in Houston and get you excited about Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: it's the fourth overall pick from last year Leonard for
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  Speaker 1: net DJ Chark looks like he's gonna be ready to
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  Speaker 1: go for the first time in more than a month.
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  Speaker 1: Tavin Brian got a lot of time. If you didn't
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  Speaker 1: see Taven's miked up, it's on the website. You'll want
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  Speaker 1: to see that. Or maybe someone else is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on the field on Sunday who could have a
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  Speaker 1: big game and get you jacked up for the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: nineteen season. Let us know in this poll obviously will
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  Speaker 1: be available all day to you and believe the guys
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  Speaker 1: on Happy Hour this afternoon, we'll update it for you.
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  Speaker 1: Which player that will play on Sunday in Houston could
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  Speaker 1: give you a little boost as you head into the
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  Speaker 1: new year. Let us know, and with that we'll roll
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  Speaker 1: right into big things. Big thing one is they want
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  Speaker 1: to win. That's obvious. After the Miami Dolphins game, they
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  Speaker 1: silenced the doubters that said that they had no motivation
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  Speaker 1: left this season. Quarterback Blake Orioles spoke to the media
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  Speaker 1: for the first time in a while yesterday and said
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  Speaker 1: that they can win with the guys in this locker
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  Speaker 1: room right now, I think everything you need to be
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  Speaker 1: a successful team and win a super Bowl. UH in
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  Speaker 1: this league is in that locker room. So UM, obviously
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  Speaker 1: with the UH coaching changes made, there's some stuff there
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  Speaker 1: to figure out, which you know is up to them,
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  Speaker 1: and UM, you know, I think everything you need to
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  Speaker 1: be successful in this leagues in the locker room. So
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  Speaker 1: it feels like we're a lot closer to being good
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  Speaker 1: than we are than having to rebuild, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: and proof of that, obviously is how close they got
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  Speaker 1: last year. UH. And they improved the roster, although guys
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  Speaker 1: like Andrew Norwell and Austin Severian Jenkins didn't finish the season,
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't obviously feel that way. I was wondering
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  Speaker 1: if he was saying that, do you include yourself? In
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  Speaker 1: other words, are you telling us quietly with his egos
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  Speaker 1: possible that, yeah, that I can be the guy to
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  Speaker 1: get it done too. He's a confident guy. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: bet he was. I bet he wasn't gonna come out
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  Speaker 1: and say that and beat his chest. I mean, why
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  Speaker 1: starts right now, right? But you could tell that he
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  Speaker 1: was there. The other thing that showed me that they
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  Speaker 1: want to win, as they put Blake in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's nothing against Cody Caster, it's not personal
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  Speaker 1: at all. Uh. He looks low to react and indecisive.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have the escapability like Blake does. Um and
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  Speaker 1: since the David Blake showed up here, the arm strength
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  Speaker 1: has never been there. He's not that cannon armed guy,
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  Speaker 1: but he's always had this ability. There was a spin
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  Speaker 1: his first start was in San Diego his rookie year,
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  Speaker 1: and he throws a linebacker with a little spin move
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  Speaker 1: and went up the sylum. We went WHOA. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: what this guy is about. It's what he does. If
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  Speaker 1: the line, if everything else was in place, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this ad nauseum, then the Jaguars can
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  Speaker 1: get things done. If you want to win. Blake Bortles
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  Speaker 1: is clearly the guy. Cody Kessler isn't right, especially with
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  Speaker 1: the lack of weapons the Jaguars have right now receiver
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  Speaker 1: and tight end. You don't need a gun slinging pounded
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  Speaker 1: down the field type of quarterback. You need a guy
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  Speaker 1: that can escape the pocket. With the offensive line troubles
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  Speaker 1: that they're having, and the Texans have a top defense
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  Speaker 1: right in terms of talent. Now, the numbers don't all
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  Speaker 1: stack up, and numbers in this league go up and
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  Speaker 1: down based on the help you get from offense, field position,
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  Speaker 1: on special teams who you're playing. I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 1: apples and orangines all the time on that one ash.
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  Speaker 1: But what you do have is you have top performers
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  Speaker 1: both upfront with your David Clowney and J. J. Watton,
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  Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless and the corners. And we know about these
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  Speaker 1: guys and what they've been able and now they haven't
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  Speaker 1: at Aaron Coleman all year long, but they you know,
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  Speaker 1: you put a guy out there like Kareem Jackson, a
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  Speaker 1: former first round pick, Jonathan Joseph, a former first round pick,
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  Speaker 1: uh Tyron Matthew in the safety position back there, they
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  Speaker 1: are an excellent secondary. So let's just deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: This offense is they need to be functional, right. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying they can't score or they won't score, but
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  Speaker 1: they haven't done a lot of that recently. What you
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  Speaker 1: need is for the offense to be able to control
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  Speaker 1: the ball a bit and get a couple of first
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  Speaker 1: downs and put the defense in a better position to play,
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  Speaker 1: get a field goal or two. What What did I say, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of field goals? What did I say to
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  Speaker 1: you yesterday, if I had told you before the season began,
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  Speaker 1: your entire offensive line is either going to be injured
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  Speaker 1: or an injured reserve, and only a j can is
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  Speaker 1: left to finish the season. What chance would you have
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  Speaker 1: given the Jaguars of finishing with a winning record, let
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  Speaker 1: alone making the playoffs. None? Because we knew that the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of this team was going to be pound the
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  Speaker 1: ball and run the ball. And you can't run the
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  Speaker 1: ball without an offensive line. You can't. And the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line has taken away all opportunity for this offense to
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  Speaker 1: be functional. That in the injury to Leonard, in the
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  Speaker 1: absence of Corey Grant for most of the season. In
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  Speaker 1: the two backs set, so Blake Bortles gives you the
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  Speaker 1: mobility to convert to get some first downs in third
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  Speaker 1: and long. Uh. He made the throw to Donte Moncreef
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  Speaker 1: on second and nineteen, I'm sorry on second and eighteen
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  Speaker 1: for nineteen yards on the scoring drive with the field goal. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that was the play that kept the drive move right.
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  Speaker 1: And so he'll give you that kind and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you get a touchdown from the offense. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy to think I can't believe we're saying that right,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you'll get a touchdown from the offense, but but
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  Speaker 1: maybe you will. Just being completely frank with you, if
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars are gonna beat the Texans who are playing
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  Speaker 1: for the division title and perhaps a first round by okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to score on defense. They may just score
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  Speaker 1: on special teams and on defense because you just don't
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  Speaker 1: have the weapons. But if you put Moncrief and DD
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  Speaker 1: Westbrook and I don't know healing Cole emerged from his
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  Speaker 1: season long slump. But if you're gonna put those guys
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  Speaker 1: out there, Bortles is the best guy to be able
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  Speaker 1: to give you a chance to win. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that's not saying a lot because the offense has not
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  Speaker 1: been very good even with Blake Um, but it's got
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  Speaker 1: a chance this week. And they understand the massive challenge
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  Speaker 1: in front of him because you know, you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: Josh well Josh Wilson practice concussion, which means Patrick A
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  Speaker 1: Mommy's gonna probably have to step out and play right tackle,
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  Speaker 1: he said, more of a guard. He's gonna block j. J.
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  Speaker 1: Watt Um on your fourth left tackle, your fourth right
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  Speaker 1: tackle to Davian Clowney is just the most disruptive in
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  Speaker 1: terms of he doesn't have the sacks that Khalil mac has.
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  Speaker 1: Um it wow. I mean he's so long and you
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  Speaker 1: guys remember him in South Carolina seeing him in the
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  Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference. So long and so strong, you can just
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  Speaker 1: do things that other guys can't. That he forces you
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  Speaker 1: to take your game plan and and take it away
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  Speaker 1: from him. But when you go away from him, not
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  Speaker 1: what And then there's Whitney merciless. So it is a
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  Speaker 1: massive challenge for this offense is injured as it is,
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  Speaker 1: as ineffective as it's been. But I have maintained since
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  Speaker 1: they pulled Blake and fired Nate Hackett, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like that move either. Um, right, tweak what you've got
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  Speaker 1: if you can. But they're in a position where nothing
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  Speaker 1: was really going to work all that well, Um, if
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  Speaker 1: anyone's gonna get it done, it's gonna be Blake in
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  Speaker 1: this offense, and it's going to take a lot, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's really obvious now that they want
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  Speaker 1: to win because a point that John brought up yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that they were injured or worried. Maybe if they put
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  Speaker 1: Blake Bortles and he got injured. What would that mean
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  Speaker 1: for the cap hid and everything like that. And they
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  Speaker 1: don't see me worried about that at all. They just
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  Speaker 1: started doing the best thing they can. Absolutely, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: takes to win, you'll deal with that. Remember, and Blake
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  Speaker 1: said it yesterday. Also, he's not in control of what
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  Speaker 1: happens with him. He is at the mercy of what
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  Speaker 1: they want to do because he signed a contract and
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  Speaker 1: he took the money and it's for three more years. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars don't have to cut Blake Bortles. I know
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  Speaker 1: everyone's got that as being the optimal solution. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we talked about yesterday, you don't have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: You could make him the bridge quarterback and keep him
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  Speaker 1: at his number. You could restructure and make him you know,
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  Speaker 1: the path to your future. You know, whatever you do
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback in the draft next year. Um, this team
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  Speaker 1: does not have a lot of salary cap room. I
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  Speaker 1: understand you can get to a position you're minus twelve. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you've got about six million that you carry over. Bury
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  Speaker 1: Church has gone, so essentially you're you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: at about zero before Malik Jackson goes, before anyone else goes.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you can get there. But if you want
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  Speaker 1: Nick Foles, and I know where's that Nick Foles, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna cost you twenty million a year. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: do you do that? Right? You're saying, we can't afford
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  Speaker 1: seventeen Malie Jackson, but we can pay twenty here, right,
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  Speaker 1: and you're you're still hoping that you can upgrade the roster.
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  Speaker 1: You need help on the offensive line, you need to
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  Speaker 1: help a wide receiver. You see what I mean. If
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  Speaker 1: you're paying Blake not to be here and then you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to pay someone else to be here, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: as if it's gonna be a rookie because quarterbacks working
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  Speaker 1: on their rookie deals and performing on their rookie deals
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  Speaker 1: are gold. Frantically, I'm not so sure it makes sense
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  Speaker 1: to let Blake go. In fact, I don't think it does.
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  Speaker 1: I think you bring it back and he's your bridge quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I understand I'm in the minority on that one um,
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  Speaker 1: but he seemed to be open to the idea of restruction.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked, you know, how long do you want
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  Speaker 1: to stay in Jackson? Is this where you want to be? Said,
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  Speaker 1: I signed a deal to be here three years I
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  Speaker 1: want to be here three years now. I didn't say
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  Speaker 1: that that meant being the starting quarterback or bridge, but
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  Speaker 1: he seemed open to the idea of doing everything he
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  Speaker 1: could to stay here. One final thing on this, and
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  Speaker 1: that is is that there are a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: who wouldn't want to be the bridge quarterback. And if
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  Speaker 1: they draft a quarterback, you understand that's what you are, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Flack of clearly not happy with that
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  Speaker 1: role in Baltimore and wants to go somewhere else, but
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  Speaker 1: he understood that's what it was. Well, he was realist.
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  Speaker 1: Well he didn't understand. Flacco didn't, but Blake does, right, Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just thought we were on the same page in
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  Speaker 1: that one. So but if there was any guy that
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  Speaker 1: I know of they could do it, it would be
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  Speaker 1: Blake because he doesn't let any of the news, any
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  Speaker 1: of it bother him at all. So, um, we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about this story four weeks seems like months actually years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's more of it to come. We'll move on. Big
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  Speaker 1: thing too. Big thing too is do it on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Like we mentioned briefly before, the Jaguars are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to score on defense in order to be the
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  Speaker 1: Texans because we have not seen a lot of offensive
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  Speaker 1: production from the Jaguars with the lack of weapons. It's
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  Speaker 1: the state the Jaguars in right now. We're going as
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  Speaker 1: far to say they might even have to score on
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  Speaker 1: special teams. I really yeah, I really believe there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be an opportunity. Um. The Jaguars were not playing
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  Speaker 1: well the last time they faced these Texans. UM not
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  Speaker 1: well at all. The Texans really only had one drive
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  Speaker 1: in that bowl game. Now you've got Watson coming off
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  Speaker 1: his best game as a pro. He threw two touchdown
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  Speaker 1: passes and three forty yards last week, and he ran
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  Speaker 1: for two touchdown passes are part of the two touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: against the Eagles. So four touchdowns to passing and to rushing.
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  Speaker 1: But he's the most sacked quarterback in football. You saw
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  Speaker 1: Telvin with his pick six last week. We have seen
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  Speaker 1: more takeaways, more opportunistic kind of plays from a defense
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  Speaker 1: that put its reputation together on doing that. Um calaius
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  Speaker 1: and unique from the edge. I just I think this
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  Speaker 1: defense can take advantage of and injured Lamar Miller. A
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback in Watson who is playing well but behind
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  Speaker 1: a band line and it's because you have Jalen Ramsay
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  Speaker 1: that you can take on DeAndre Hopkins. Only have three catches,
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  Speaker 1: now one of them was for a touchdown, but three
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  Speaker 1: catches for fifty one yards, and you just the way
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  Speaker 1: that that Jalen is playing right now, you just give
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  Speaker 1: a strong sense that he's a guy that can take
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins and shut him down or hold him to seven
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  Speaker 1: catches for sixty yards and scores. And we know that
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins isn't playing either. He's dealing injured as well,
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  Speaker 1: and all the receivers are dealing with injuries. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of similar to the Jaguars that they're dealing with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of injuries on the offensive front. So it's not
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  Speaker 1: an easy task for Ramsey, but no easier. Ramsey has
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  Speaker 1: shown flashes of brilliance this year. Right there was, I
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  Speaker 1: mean as good a play as he has made all
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  Speaker 1: season long. Uh, this is the swan song for his
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  Speaker 1: third NFL season. It's against the player that he respects
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  Speaker 1: the most, at least from my ears and my perspective,
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy that Jalen talks about the most. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if Ramsey doesn't have a huge game in him,
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  Speaker 1: But a defensive score would seem to be a must.
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  Speaker 1: Special teams we had a seventy four yard return for
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown against the Redskins and a forty four yard
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  Speaker 1: returned that was very close to going the distance and
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  Speaker 1: set up a field goal opportunity. Long as it may
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  Speaker 1: have been obviously it was, it was careened off of
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  Speaker 1: a players behind success unsuccessful, but special teams are showing
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks the ability to create game
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  Speaker 1: changing plays. If you're going to beat the Texans, you
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  Speaker 1: have to have those from those teams. Yeah. D D
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  Speaker 1: Westbrook against the Dolphins, that first move for the part return,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was touchdown. Yeah, no one was stopping him. Well, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: he showed us something in both of those returns where
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  Speaker 1: he used his feet against the eyes of a defender. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he caught a guy looking at his feet and shuffled
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  Speaker 1: and went the other direction. He's got such great acceleration,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. His great calling guard is his ability
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, in the open field,
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  Speaker 1: to make guys miss. He's taken a huge step in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction recently. I think he looks like he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a long term player. Right maybe not
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  Speaker 1: the one receiver. But if d J. Chark emerges six
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  Speaker 1: ft four pounds, a guy who can run fast. I
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  Speaker 1: mean he has the body of an NFL receiver. If
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  Speaker 1: he emerges and d D and you bring someone else
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  Speaker 1: in Canke, yeah, you could be in pretty good check.
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  Speaker 1: Special teams in defense have to get it done Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: If the Aguarys want to have a fighting chance against
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  Speaker 1: the Texans, and it brings us to Big Thing. Big
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  Speaker 1: Thing three is spoiling the South. The Jaguars had the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to take away the a f C South in
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. If they beat the Texans, the FC
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  Speaker 1: South will go to the winner of the Colts and
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  Speaker 1: the Titans on Sunday Night Football. Clay's Campbell says he
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  Speaker 1: would like nothing more to ruin those chances. The biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing is just being consistent and finish a strong you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a great opponent, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: they're playing to win a division and I don't I
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: don't like that, you know, none of my watch. You know,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: if we can do anything about it, we will. So
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the mentality is just finning strong, you know. And the
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Texans last year were very injured, they didn't have Merciless,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: they didn't have J. J. Watt, they were injured on
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the offensive line. And in December last year, they were
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: talking about having an impact in the South because they
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: had the Titans and the Jaguars both vying for the
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: division title, and that was what jadav and Clowney talked
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: about about ruining someone's Christmas. Well, you know, the Jaguars
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: beat seven out here and really threw the ball all
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: and then Blake and one of his best games of
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the season. So you know you're going to do a
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: buzz star because the Jaguars are flipped. The script is
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: flipped for them this year, and now they're talking about
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: playing the spoiler against a Texans team, even though they've
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: lost a couple of games recently and have it sewn
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: up the South or the second seed. Overall, they're very
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: talented and if they put it all together, yeah, they're
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: capable of doing that to this team. Yeah. Absolutely, And
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: it's crazy to think that how much has changed in
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: the year that the storyline has flipped. But Sean Gibson
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: said the exact same thing about wanting to play spoiler
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: this holiday season. Playing a spoiler me obviously you have
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: no chance, but it's always good to play a grinch
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and ruin somebody else's Christmas. Uh. So, you know, being
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: being able to kind of shake up the division. You know,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: we not knowing what's gonna happen, but you know, obviously
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: just uh continue to play off all style of football
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and hopefully we can continue to finish the year on
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the hot. No. So going to win in Houston be huge.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And obviously we have messed up a lot of stuff
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: that they got going on over there, and that's how
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: always be. When he said granch, all I could think
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: it was, you know, uh, they show the in the
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: cartoon that the heart that's you know, three sizes too
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: small and then all of a sudden it's bursting out
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: of his chest. At the end, you go from having
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: a really rotten season in that long losing streak and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: losing nine of ten. Uh, if you're being if you're
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: playing the grinch, it means that you're leaving the field
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: with that great big smile on your face, which means
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you you finished strong night. I mean, it's a monumental,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: herculean kind of task for a team that's this beat
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: up going into Houston, to take on a team that's
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: playing for everything. Um oh Man would take that any
• 17:36
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• 20:02
  Speaker 1: big news in the college football world shakes things up
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: big time for the NFL Draft in April. Justin Herbert
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: is staying at Oregon for his senior season. Yeah, I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: saw that. I was surprised by that was supposed to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: be the number one quarterback in the draft. And the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: way that the quarterback position is there, you knew that
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Arizona was going to auction off the number one pick
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: for whoever wanted the top quarterback. Like I mentioned yesterday,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was thought to be a borderline first round
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: pick a couple of years ago, coming from North Dakota State,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and he what is he went through his interviews and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: went through his workouts, shot up. I mean, clearly he's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a guy who belonged in the top ten and he
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: went number two overall. So you look at this guy
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: six ft sixty pounds, big arm. There's some accuracy issues there,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: but not the first quarterback they've talked about. Um decided
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: to stay. Now, my youngest son is a huge Duck fan,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and he was elated that he was staying, as the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: people in Eugene, Oregon would seem to be. I find
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: it a questionable decision on his part, because when you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: have a chance to be a top five pick, maybe
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the number one overall pick, and certainly the first quarterback
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: taken off the board, you go. You go to college
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: so that you can get the means to make a living.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Right man, he would have made a living, and instead
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: he decided that he was going to stay. A knee injury, Uh,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: bad season. What if his entire offensive line goes down
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: right and all of a sudden, now people are questioning him. Well,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you are in that position, that rare position,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you go. Although you know his brother is going to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: be an incoming freshman, that's going to be a tight end.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Obviously that's a factor. Um. Only time will tell whether
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: or not it was a good decision on his part,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: But the upside seems to be small. The downside seems
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to be significant. We'll see and we'll talk about how
• 21:52
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• 21:55
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• 21:56
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• 21:59
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• 22:02
  Speaker 1: TV and Radio. Thanks so much for joining us this morning.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Hi guys, how's it going good? How are you doing
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: doing well? Getting ready for this Sunday game against the Jaguars.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: A lot on the lines, Yeah, there's a whole lot
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: on There's a whole lot on the line, in all honesty,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: in all candor dep you know, Um, on paper, this
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: looks like a mismatch. You've got a powerful defensive front
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that is disruptive as it gets against four backup offensive lineman.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: You've got a quarterback change again in Jacksonville. Um, how
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: are the Texans focusing um on a game that seems
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: like it should be a no brainer for a team
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that's playing for so much at home in the final
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: game of the season. Yeah. I don't think the Texans
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: are taking this pridance of team Jaguars team for granted.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: No one in the building is taking the Jaguars for granted.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Because any matchup in the a f C South is
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: just always such a battle. And the Texans, I mean,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: they've won a lot more games, but they've all been
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: very close to the margin between winning and losing is
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: very very close. And we all saw that Jacksonville game
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: against UH Andrew Luck and the Colts where they shut
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: them out six to nothing. So we know that they're
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: very very capable of doing the same to any team
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: in this division. Because UH that that that Jaguars defensive
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: front is as good as any And the last time
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: we played the Jaguars, there was no Leonard Forrnette, there
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: was no Carlos Hide. Um, it was a little bit
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of a different team that made some changes obviously at OC.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But the Jaguars, um, you know, and the Texans, that's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: always a good table. No one has taken this game
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: for gonna. No one's even talking about playoffs. To Shawn
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Watson was asked about making his NFL debut in the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: post season because the Texans have clinched a playoff spot,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: they just don't know where they're going to be seated.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And even he was like, I am not even focusing
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: on the postings and right now because this is gonna
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: be a big challenge on sending against Jaguars. You know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and I have no reason to doubt you and everything
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: you've said. If that's all true, it sounds as if
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: you have well course. Like I said, I have no
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: reason to doubt you, And I've read some things where J. J.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Watt in particular was talking about character and the character
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in the locker room being the difference in that team
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: than in a lot of teams around the league. Um,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: if that's the case, that is a remarkable focus for
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a Texans team to be able to look past that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've been around this game long enough. Focus
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: is something that can go away really really quickly. You
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: can easily see what this Jacksonville team has not had
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a good year. They're injured on the offensive front. J H.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: You can stop J. J. Watton, G. Dave mcclowney and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Whitney merciless. If they have that kind of focus, dB,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: it seems to me that they have what it takes
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to be able to make a run through the playoffs.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: You when you walk in that locker room, is that
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: what your sense that this is a high character team
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and a group of guys that really have something yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and you know it's it's it's high character, but it's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: also the fact that a lot of these guys have
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: battled some major adversity in their life and how they've
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: come out the other end. Tyring Matthew and his father's
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: incarcerated for murder. He's you know, we know what his
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: struggles were at l s U and how he worked
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: his way back to various time. That's you're just one
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: on I R. You know, it's it's well known that
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: his mother and his grandmother, Um, you know, we're in
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: jail for drugs growing up and and and he was
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: sort of bounced around from home to home. U J. J.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Watsoning on back to back season ending injuries, Deshaun Watson, uh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you know, he got a home from work done and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the Habitat for Humanity. His mother battled cancer. DeAndre Hopkins
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: mother has been through so much. I mean, this team
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: has been through and stuff. And I'm not and I'm
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: not saying that players across the league don't have this,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: but I think there's something about this locker room. Bill
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: O'Brien has the players stad up and sort of tell
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: their story to the rest of the team, and it
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: builds this camaraderie and it's there. It's something very palpable
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of that locker room because when you start off o
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: EN's three, I mean, the team was obviously disappointed, but
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: they knew that they could do better. They never lost focus,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: nobody pointed fingers, and even through the winning streets they
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: won nine games in a oh, but there was not
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the sort of celebration that you see across the league. Um,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you know, we do. We They would definitely celebrate after
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the win, but immediately turn their focus to the next game.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because some of us even thought, well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: we have not lost a game since September. This is
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: sometime in November. We were saying this, But you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it just felt like we were a week to week
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: because everyone felt like the winning could end at any time.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: You could lose any game at any given moment. The
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: wins were very close, the losses were very close. We
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: just had a few games that were more than two
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: score wins, but most of them were very close. We
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: had obviously the back to back overtime games to sort
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of kick start the win streak, so they didn't take
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: anything for granted. I feel like these this group of guys.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a really good chemistry. I mean, even
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the guys that joined in the off season, like life
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Hire and Matthew, they just blended right in. And then
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you've got Kaarem Jackson, Jonathan Joseph, sort of the veterans
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: on the team. DeAndre Hopkins was playing on a bad ankle,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: still put up a hundred yards of receiving last week
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: against the Eagles. Uh. You know, it's it's a very
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: tough team. It's a very gritty team, and I think
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: depth toward Bili Bryan's stamp on it. He doesn't want
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: them to get too high or too low in a
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: win or a loss. I mean, they're very focused and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: they're very consistent. I don't expect that to change heading
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: into Jacksonville, but there's certainly a lot on the line.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, they could go from hosting home playoff games
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to playing on the road, you know, in the division
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: or anywhere else across the country. So they really have
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to take care of their business and win this game first.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And I think it all comes down to that focus
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: that we've seen throughout this season. Similar to the Jags,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the Texans are dealing with a lot of injuries on
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the offensive side the ball. How much pressure has that
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: put on DeShawn Watson and DeAndre Hopkins to perform at
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a higher level even when they're dealing with injuries. Yeah,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: you know, let's put pressure on the entire team. I
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: think the offensive line is young. The guards Sneil Kilomette
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and back, they're more experience that they've been banged deaf,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: so there's been a lot of shuffling of the old line.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: They haven't been able to get their run game going
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Uh. They struggled that early on
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and they were able to get some really nice over
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: their yard performances out of their backs, But in the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: last two weeks, the run game has just come to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a standstill. So what they do is they just put
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the ball in Deshaun Watson's vans and he makes plays.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And he is such a playmaker. He's had five game
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: winning drives either in the fourth quarter or overtime, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: nearly had one last week against the Eagles if they
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: didn't come back and and kicked the field goal to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: win it. But you know, DeAndre Hopkins was banged up. Obviously,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: we saw what happened with Wilfuller went on i R
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: after that Miami game and then down to Mary's commas.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Uh Is headed to i R. So the very thin
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and wide receiver, the run game can't get going. And
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the other problem is when your run game can't get going,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: your defenses on the team a lot longer, So your
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: defense is banged up at you know, they're exhausted a
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: lot of times. On the field of secondary, we saw
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: we've had so many injuries at cornerback and with the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: defensive backs. That's definitely a point of contention. Kareem Jackson
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: went out last week, Jonathan Joseph went out last week.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Um Cavon Webster was on ir R, came off of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: ir with back when I R again. Uh. Kevin Johnson
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: has not made it back from the in cushion that
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: he had early on this season. Really, the only healthy
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: guys are J. J. Watton, Javian Kinni. They're definitely playing
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: for stuff. But I think the injuries on offense sort
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of have a domino effect across the board for everybody.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: But you know, with Deshaun Watson on the field, it
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: seems like all things are possible, So you definitely don't
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: want to put the entire pressure of a team on him.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: But guys have definitely stepped up. We've got a lot
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: of younger players. Vincent Smith, an undrafted rookie out of Limestone,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: he caught a touchdown pass last week. And you know,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Kiki q t If if he can deal with his
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: get his hamstring right, he's been a spark on the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: offense as well as far as spot receiver. But you know,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: it's it's like every team across the league right now.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Everyone's banged up. But certainly we did not see anything
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: as bad as with the Texans experience in seventeen, where
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: it seemed like all the starters were, you know, getting
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: getting treatment in a Yeah, we got that one for you.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: We covered that this year. I think we've traded places
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: this year because I remember looking at that Jack team
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: last year thinking, wow, they're very healthy heading into December.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: It happens. That is the game. If you're around this
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: league long enough, you experience at all. Hey, by the way,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: if you're around this league long enough, you see places
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: show up under players names that you've never heard of.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Where is Limestone College? And what's their mascot? South Carolina?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: And it's Division two. Surprisingly, so it's not a very
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: big school. And um, you know Vincent Smith. We saw
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: him in camp. He he was pretty impressive. I mean
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the Texans cut Boxton Miller and opted to keep Vincent
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Smith because they liked what he's able to do make
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: some big plays. Now, he didn't really have a lot
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of naps throughout the season. I think he was Uh,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: he started one game, he was active in a few.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: You only have two catches for the season. The second
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: catch was then a two yard touchedop catch though. Uh.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: They may be leaning on him a lot more for
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game. Final thought. Uh, deep you and then
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: we'll see you on Sunday, looking forward to coming to Houston.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Is there a player that you can identify that we
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: may not know but is They're always in these December surges.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Last year for the Jaguars, it was Keelan Cole, the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: undrafted kid from Kentucky Wesleyan. Is there someone on the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: roster that is rising or that you think could turn
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: out to be an X factor for the Texans as
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: they get ready to make a playoff Chase Well, I
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: think Vincent Smith is certainly one of them. The other
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: one is Deonta Foreman. He just came off of pop.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: He had his first game back last week. They weren't
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: able to get the run game going, but he did
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: catch his first touchdown receptions in the NFL. Last year,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: he suffered an achilles injury in a game against Arizona
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: where he had two rushing touchdowns. So everyone's kind of
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: hoping that maybe a different back might have a different look,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: might be able to do something differently. But he's coming
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: off the achilles. That's not an easy injury to come
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: back from. He took his first game action last week,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: but he's been practicing for the last month or so.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Everyone sort of hoping that he may be able to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: bring something to the offense for the running game. Even
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: in a receding game. He makes these nice, um you know,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: big plays, explosive play. So I don't know really what
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: we have in Deontay form, and I think everyone's sort
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: of watching and way and hoping to see what they
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: have in them. But right now I would I would
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: sort of put it on somebody on offense really needs
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to step up because it's so banged up right now.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Do you know, Ashley will tell you, I don't know
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: everything even though I pretend that I do, but I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: knew you were. I knew you were gonna say Deonta Foreman,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: because if you if you have a big power back,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: boy is Deshaun Watson is that much more effective if
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Deonta Foreman gets right. And it may not be this
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: year that he's right, since he just came off of pub,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: but I remember him in Texas and if he becomes
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a player, boy, do is Deshaun Watson get better? So hey, yeah,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I don't want her award winner. I mean this crap.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: This fan base has been clamoring to see Deontay Foreman
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: back in the lineup. And you know, I remember at
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the combine there were there was talk that he'd be
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: back for a week one. It's just been a lot
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: slower recovery than anyone anticipated. It's just one of those
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: things with an achilles, especially for a running back, it's
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: a very tough injury to come back from. But certainly
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: everyone's keeping their fingers crossed that even if you know
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: he's got fresh legs, even if he can come back
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and Spultim really from the ar Miller and Alfred might
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: be able to get some things going in the front game.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Hey DP, thanks for the update and we'll look forward
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to seeing you on Sunday at Energy Stadium. It sounds good.
• 33:08
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• 33:10
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  Speaker 1: to us. The first top tweet we talked about Justin
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Herbert staying at the University of Oregon. Now he talked
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: during the break, Brian, we both saw the same thing.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: This means a lot for the rest of the quarterbacks
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in the draft class. Someone like Oaklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden shoots up. Will Greer shoots up.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Not even free agents like Nick Foles shoot up. Supplying
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: a man. So the Murray thing is interesting because you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: know people had him as a uh second round pick.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: You didn't hear much about him first round talent, but
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: because of the baseball thing, and because he's he's five
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: ft nine, right, you would think that he might slide
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a bit. Teams would be hesitant on that one. All
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: of a sudden though, because of as you mentioned, supplying demand,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: teams that need quarterbacks say, well, look what he did
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: at Oklahoma. You all of a sudden see the positives.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: The number one overall pick in the draft didn't do
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: as well as this guy did at Oklahoma, and look
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: at what he's done with the Brown So it just
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: it lifts everyone's stock. Drew Lock at Missouri, um Will Greer,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: as you mentioned at West Virginia, even the kid at
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: um at North Carolina State, who will see here in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the tax Layer Gator Bowl, Ryan Finley, I mean, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: then if you're Joe Flacco, if you're Nick Foles, if
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the Lions, right, there's been talked that they might move
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: on from Matthew Stafford, who's entering his thirtieth year. You know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: maybe they maybe they figured they can get more because
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: there's less available in the draft. So there is a
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: domino effect to this decision, and a lot of quarterbacks
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: are going to see their stock rise. It means more
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: work for Dave Caldwell and Tom Coughlin as they evaluate,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: both from a talent and a salaries perspective, exactly what
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: they're going to do. Um, it was gonna be fascinating
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: anyway to kind of watch how they went through the process.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: This just makes it more interesting and every other guy.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Next year, we'll all watch Justin Herbert to see did
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: he make the right decision or not. You know, if
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the Ducks have a great season and he stays healthy,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: then he made the right decision. They also got the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: number one recruit this year in the top three hundred.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Did IM not sure what position, but I guess I
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: know why he stayed, but I know that they recruited well,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: so maybe that was a factor. You know, have you
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: ever seen their facilities. I've heard it's unreal. There's no
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: other There is no other program in college football that
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: has better facilities. I mean, you may have an Alabama
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and I haven't seen Alabama or l s U that rivals.
• 37:27
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• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Phil Knight, the long time founder, chairman CEO of Nike,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: is a an alum a former track athlete at the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: University of Oregon with him bank rolling in. Well, you
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: see the uniforms every week and how they change and
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: how um, what's the right word bold? Amazing? Right. That's,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: by the way, why my youngest son is such a
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: fan of the Ducks every week. It's what they got him.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: It's six years old. They got him. He wanted to
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: watch the Ducks because they were looking were not from Morgan.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Go figure. Okay, rolling right along? What else you got
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: top sweet? Every week is the draft update as you
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: see it. The Jaguars are sitting at ninth after a
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: win against the Miami Dolphins. They wore at five. Now
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the Lions are at five. So the Cardinals drafted the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Cardinals raft drafted Josh Rosen, and the Niners have Jimmy
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Garoppolo and the Jets took Sam Donald. The Raiders appear
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: that now they can get out from underneath Derek cars
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: contract after this year with about eight million dollars in
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: dead money. But the way he's playing, I don't know
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: why you would. The Lions could move Stafford and grab one.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: The Bucks might need a quarterback, the Giants might take
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. And see what I mean, that's where the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: winning is losing and losing his winning thing comes Yeah,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Because the Jaguars were sitting at five. Now they've slid
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: down to nine. Now I have two more teams that
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: want to If they don't win this week, they could
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: slide back up a little bit. It's gonna cost you
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a little bit more to get your quarterback in in
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: many respects, but you can't ask players and coaches not
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to work hard and try to win. They don't want
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: to hear that right now, that's obvious. But sitting at No.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: There could be a quarterback there. The name we've forgotten.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: The last little conversation between Haskins, the third year sophomore
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: at Ohio State who many believe will be the first
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: quarterback off the draft board. Now because of Herbert's decision,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: he may be the big winner in this thing. There'll
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: be someone there. Uh. The question is do they belong there?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: And are they the right quarterback? But all those things
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: will be answered in time. Believe it at that anything
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: else from the top tweets last top our good friend
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Michael Rocco with the Calais Campbell's sack up, nating just
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: one more sack to become the first player in franchise
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: history to record back to back seasons of double digit sacking.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I think he does too, because he seems unstoppable. And
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: when you look at this Texans offensive line, I mean
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: they're they're playing with it's it's an average group. I
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: mean it really is. Um they're best players. Nick Martin,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: their center, all those Zack Fulton's had a pretty decent year.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I say, he gets it, and and we all celebrate
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: one of the great guys in the locker room. What
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: a season it would be, back to back. Every time
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: you talked to the guy, every time you see him
• 40:01
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• 40:04
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• 40:06
  Speaker 1: a player who is worth every penny this franchise has
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: ever played him, paid him, it's him. It's him. You
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: can just choose one. Yeah, there's a couple of guys. Yeah,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor comes to mind, Tony Basally, all those guys.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: But right, guy, Now, this guy is the front center
• 40:22
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  Speaker 1: all right? Uh and stone cold in the other room.
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  Speaker 1: Who's ignoring Joe? Otherwise you would have been on camera.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I should have said it earlier. But you know,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: we're just we're being trouble. We're no, no, no, We're
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: just causing trouble here. Uh. And I am going to
• 42:34
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• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Marcus Paullar to no show. I know he's a busy man,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: he's probably got other things to do. But because he
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: did not show up today, for who said it now,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Brian wins the whole season. He wins. Trophy goes to you, Brian,
• 42:53
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• 42:56
  Speaker 1: It should have gone to me last week. But we
• 42:57
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• 43:02
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• 43:07
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• 43:09
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• 43:11
  Speaker 1: ear right now what he thinks Joe should step in
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: from Marcus and we should still battle it. But would
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: happen if just Joe just wanted for the first time?
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: But why don't you ask me the questions anyway? And
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I don't. I won, right? I won? Um, And you
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: can't say that I won. You can't take the questions.
• 43:30
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• 43:33
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• 43:34
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• 43:38
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• 43:41
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• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks very much? I got one right there? He is?
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Did he? Westbrook? All right? Who said a number two
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: documentary this summer? Hope everyone ready about my life, family,
• 43:58
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• 44:04
  Speaker 1: this summer? Look out? All right? Well, I got one
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: of one, so Marcus would have gotten who knows you
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: have to get this last one? Writer, I don't believe
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: in you as a champion. I've been here every week
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: and got him right. What is it? This last one
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: is a curveball? So this is a fan tweet that says,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: can we have a discussion about blank and the Jalen Smith,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: who is a linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, having a
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: race after the season. The Jaguars player says, l O
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: l not a race? Who said that? He quote tweeted
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: that tweet saying he's not racing Jalen Smith, Miles Jack
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Telvin Smith. Wrong. I don't know if I can give
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: it to him. No, No, you have to give it
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: to me. I'm here. I got one right because I'm
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the only option. Right. Well, now, I got enough, right,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I did well at the end of the year. You
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: gotta give it to me. Fine, winner, winner, chicken dinner, Marcus.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: You disappointed me a chicken dinner, Marcus? All right, Well,
• 45:00
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• 45:03
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• 45:05
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• 45:10
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• 45:13
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• 45:16
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• 45:20
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