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Fred Taylor: Jaguars need to control what they can control vs. Ravens & beyond | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for a weekly conversation with pride of the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. Coming off the bye week, the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars rested, refreshed, and ready for the stretch run. Fred,
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  Speaker 1: are you all three of those things? I am JP,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready. Man. I wish I could get out there
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  Speaker 1: and make some magic for him. But I see they
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  Speaker 1: just picked up a nice back. I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: a good find in Anderson, but the red because he's
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  Speaker 1: not playing. I think the rest of the team is
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  Speaker 1: ready to focus and hopefully they can get a double.
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  Speaker 1: It would be nice, for sure. The Jaguars have the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens this week coming into town and one of the
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  Speaker 1: strong teams in the a f C. The Southern three
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  Speaker 1: record for Baltimore and their running game is fantastic. It
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  Speaker 1: starts with a quarterback. Of course, Lamar Jackson leads away there. Fred,
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  Speaker 1: and this defense has had some issues with running style
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks earlier in the season. How do you contain Lamar Jackson?
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no way, ain't no way. Listen, if they had
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  Speaker 1: issue with the or the backs that they faced thus
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  Speaker 1: far up until Lamar, It's gonna be trouble. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be trouble. Because Lamar is such a dynamic these an
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  Speaker 1: amazing back I mean, they're gonna have the spy guys,
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  Speaker 1: but then that leads the middle of the field gulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: I think the one way though, JP to contain them
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  Speaker 1: without having to change up so much on the back
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  Speaker 1: end is you have to be able to get pressured
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  Speaker 1: what you're down for. You have to do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games, a lot of stunts, some straight rushes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to push the pocket, and then you have
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  Speaker 1: to pray. You know that. I think that's the formula,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully they can, you know, create them a nice
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  Speaker 1: little pot of gumbo with all of those fixings and
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  Speaker 1: find the way they slow Lamar down. Pray Huh, that's uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what you want to see. The start report. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I remember shaqu Harris used to say
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  Speaker 1: something like, uh, the other A team had to pray
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  Speaker 1: when he showed up. So it's okay, praying. Praying is good,
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  Speaker 1: It's natural, right, That's the truth. Fred Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 1: Now on the other side of things, Travis ct and
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  Speaker 1: didn't run especially well in the week before the bye
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  Speaker 1: week in Kansas City. Trevor had a pretty decent efficient
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  Speaker 1: day offensively, So that was good to see. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: if they're gonna get something done, they're gonna probably have
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  Speaker 1: to run the football. That's when they've been at their
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  Speaker 1: best this season when they've run the ball. But this
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  Speaker 1: Ravens defense is really stout against the run. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good veteran group in the front seven for for Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: I guess who. They're led by a former Jaguar in
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  Speaker 1: kells Kempbell. Listen, JP, you ask how do you contain Lamar?
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  Speaker 1: A second ago? You keep them off the field. You
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  Speaker 1: find your best way to keep them off the field.
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  Speaker 1: How do you do that? You gotta run the football,
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  Speaker 1: and Travis et and is certainly capable, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: we know the running game it doesn't always look sexy
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  Speaker 1: each and every week. Some weeks you gotta just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get in there and grind it out and find a way.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned against Casey that wasn't it the week.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully this is the bounce back week because all as
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  Speaker 1: good as the Ravens defense is, they also at times
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  Speaker 1: that's shown to be on disciplined. They are vulnerable to
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  Speaker 1: the big play. And one way to get the running
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  Speaker 1: game going is to create some offensive plays in the
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  Speaker 1: past game. If you have some big plays, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to figure out and change that coverage, hopefully go
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  Speaker 1: too high. And then after that then they're able to
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  Speaker 1: call some run plays. But it does start with the
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  Speaker 1: run game. It starts with executing the short passes, allowing
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  Speaker 1: them to change their coverage and get impatient, and then
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  Speaker 1: from there then you can hit them with the big
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  Speaker 1: ball behind. And then if you create that formula altogether,
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  Speaker 1: you should be victorious. Claris Campbells in your fift team, Fred,
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  Speaker 1: how's he playing? He is playing amazing. You know. The
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  Speaker 1: question was he is a big six eight guy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Kenn he bend his knees still when he was let
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  Speaker 1: go from Jacksonville, Kenny been his knees and uh, the
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  Speaker 1: answer is yes, he's been getting it in ever since
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  Speaker 1: he left. And he's a guy who who he takes
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  Speaker 1: care of his body, you know. And the previous collective
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  Speaker 1: bargaining agreement from years ago they allowed for these guys
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  Speaker 1: to if you just take care of yourself, you can
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  Speaker 1: play a lot longer. I mean, the game has changes
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  Speaker 1: evolved so much. It really comes down to how uh
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  Speaker 1: locked in the player is and He's certainly a guy
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  Speaker 1: who has always been a great leader. We know what
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  Speaker 1: he did with the Jaguards when he was in town,
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  Speaker 1: which he's still had a few years left in him
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  Speaker 1: before they decided to let him go. But that's neither
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  Speaker 1: here nor there. I think the guys up front have
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  Speaker 1: to do an amazing job with him up front. They
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  Speaker 1: gotta find a way to get his hands down, because
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  Speaker 1: if he stands up, he can still he's still swatting
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  Speaker 1: down a lot of passes. But just a great person,
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  Speaker 1: also a great player. Prior of the Jaguars, running back
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us, you know, Trevor Lawrence and a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys in the locker room this week actually
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  Speaker 1: on Monday and again on Wednesday, we're talking about everything
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  Speaker 1: still out in front for this team. From the outside
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  Speaker 1: looking in there three and seven Fred, and they're in
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  Speaker 1: third place in the division. But as a competitor inside
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  Speaker 1: that locker room, I guess you have to think like that,
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  Speaker 1: right If you go on a run here and some
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  Speaker 1: things happen and you knock off some teams and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden the Titans on the schedule twice, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you have to play for. Right, and and I
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  Speaker 1: think from the outside it might have surprised a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that the Jaguars are still thinking that way.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is still in front for this team is ugly
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  Speaker 1: as the record is. Yeah, I mean, but if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the record is ugly, that's no doubt it's ugly.
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  Speaker 1: And we've all said the entire season no moral victories.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look at the way the games have,
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  Speaker 1: the results of the games in which they've lost, they
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  Speaker 1: lost by a score and it was maybe two players
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  Speaker 1: that determine the outcome of those games. I saw an
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  Speaker 1: article that said, they're not so lucky Jaguars, but it
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  Speaker 1: also had a lot of other teams that have been
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to to be a lot luckier than the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: have been. The Giants. You know, they're they're not a
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  Speaker 1: great team, but their record shows that they're a good team. Right,
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  Speaker 1: They're finding a way to win. The ball is bouncing
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  Speaker 1: their way, and hopefully in the second half of the season,
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  Speaker 1: the ball can bounce the Jaguars way. Last year was
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  Speaker 1: the first seven team game season in the NFL here
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL. When you look at that,
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  Speaker 1: you had teams that nine, eight making the playoffs. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you have multiple teams from multiple multiple divisions making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So I think the Jaguars just have to focus on themselves,
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  Speaker 1: just keep turning it out if they can, if they
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  Speaker 1: can squeeze out six of seven, they I think they
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  Speaker 1: can find a way possibly now to get in that playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows. But they have to handle what they can handle,
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  Speaker 1: control what they can control, and that's inside that locker room,
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  Speaker 1: you know, believing in each other, going out there trying
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  Speaker 1: to execute the plays. Uh, not worried about the distractions
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  Speaker 1: and the noise from the media. The media has a
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  Speaker 1: job to do, and that's the critique, criticize, give credit
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  Speaker 1: when credits due. The team just have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: the guys have to worry about themselves. They can do that.
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  Speaker 1: They can find a way to a strange a few together.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows what can happen. But by all means, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they don't go out there to play to lose. That's
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  Speaker 1: not happening. Uh. So they're gonna go and compete. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see the end product at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: And Fred, we mentioned Trevor there would help if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't throw the goal on interceptions that happened a little
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season, Like he's clean that up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the last couple of weeks, he's been pretty
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  Speaker 1: efficient holding on to the football and that's cost the
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  Speaker 1: Jags a couple of games earlier in the season. But
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  Speaker 1: now moving ahead, that's in the rear view. If he
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  Speaker 1: handles his business like he did the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and then they finish a couple more drives in, they're
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  Speaker 1: right there. What else do you want to see from
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  Speaker 1: Tripor Lawrence down the strap? You know, JP, you hit
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good points there. I want to see
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  Speaker 1: all those things and improvement in all those categories. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the decision making is number one. He's shown some good size,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good signs, he's accurate at times, the velocity is there,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's a good player. He's a young player.
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  Speaker 1: He has to continue to grow and get better. We're
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  Speaker 1: still waiting on that three year mark right where most
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  Speaker 1: of these guys really ascend and show what they're made of.
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  Speaker 1: You go back look at Peyton's career. I posted something
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  Speaker 1: the other day from Rookie of the Year stats. I
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  Speaker 1: think he had twenty six touchdown, twenty eight interceptions. He's
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer now, So the maturation process tends
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  Speaker 1: to take some time. From the quarterback position. Those guys
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  Speaker 1: don't always come in there and just hit it out
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  Speaker 1: the park. But I also like to see to j
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  Speaker 1: p at this mid season point, hopefully the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they went and took a look at themselves too.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to decision making, you know that fourth
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  Speaker 1: down stuff. You gotta be careful because you can put
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  Speaker 1: yourself from critical, hurtful, harmful situations. When football still is
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  Speaker 1: to this day and I will to this day. What's
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  Speaker 1: my boxer name? I can't think Deonte five. I can't
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  Speaker 1: think of his name right now to this day. These
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  Speaker 1: coaches they the game of football is still a chess match.
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  Speaker 1: You have to put yourself in position and think that
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  Speaker 1: this is a four quarter opportunity and not hurt the players.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and and hopefully together the players and the coaches
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  Speaker 1: can marry up where they're successful at the very end
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Wilder, So you're talking about de Wilder.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why why I'm thinking about Dante Fowler,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm thinking of I'm thinking about the Gators I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why, but yeah, Deante Wilder his famous line
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  Speaker 1: is kid his day to his day. Baby, football is
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  Speaker 1: still a game of chess. I love it. Fred Taylor
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  Speaker 1: with his final thought with you here, Chad move is
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  Speaker 1: going to get some more time at linebacker in place
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  Speaker 1: of another rookie and Devin Lloyd, who was the first
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  Speaker 1: round picked. They're gonna rotate and most likely see time
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  Speaker 1: on the field together at some point. I mean, this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not ideal for Devin Lloyd, right, It's a
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  Speaker 1: first round pick. He was the starter to begin the season.
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  Speaker 1: The last month or so, just the places deteriorated a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But if you're Devin Lloyd, how do you
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  Speaker 1: handle this mentally? I mean, you gotta compete at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, it starts, It always goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the route of it all, Baby, it's competing. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The coaches wanna get the best player out there, or
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  Speaker 1: at the very least they want to get the smartest
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  Speaker 1: player out there, because that player is isn't gonna hurt you.
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  Speaker 1: And Devin, he's a real He's made rookie mistakes and
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  Speaker 1: uh he sees things that aren't always there, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the trick with the NFL defense, you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: to trust that. Uh you know, you're playing within the
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  Speaker 1: confines of the game plan and you really can't go
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  Speaker 1: outside of that because ten other guys on defense, they're
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  Speaker 1: depending on you to do your job. So if you're undisciplined,
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  Speaker 1: it hurts the entire concept. Uh So he has to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just buckle down. He's competitive, he's athletic. The
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  Speaker 1: one thing he has to always be twenty four seven
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  Speaker 1: is discipline, especially when you want to play on a
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  Speaker 1: high you know, performing defense as an NFL player. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully he'll figure that part out. But until then, he
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  Speaker 1: got to go out there and contribute the best way
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  Speaker 1: he can. Friend, thanks for the time has always lad.
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  Speaker 1: You're rested and refreshed. Let's get the stretch run going
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  Speaker 1: and get a dumb against the rap of this today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rested up just enough to talk a lot of
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  Speaker 1: trash after we get this win. Baby,