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Fred Taylor on The Pivot With Trevor Lawrence, Lions Preseason Week 2 Preview | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's time for our weekly conversation with Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor, and it's preseason week two. Fred,
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  Speaker 1: and you've been all over the place of course this
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  Speaker 1: week on Jaguars social media with the pivot and the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Well done, first of all, and it's
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  Speaker 1: great to finally see it out. We know it's been
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  Speaker 1: a long time coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has been a long time coming, JP man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it goes back to a year ago. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we were in at this place last July. We had
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to sit down, but a few things came up.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor respectfully acted us and he promised us as well
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  Speaker 2: prior to the season start. He say, look, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get this done. I just want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: it's done at the right time. You know, he went
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  Speaker 2: through had a magnificent sophomore year. I still like to
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  Speaker 2: call it his freshman year, but I digress. But his
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  Speaker 2: second season he played lights out. So it actually gave
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  Speaker 2: us an opportunity to really, you know, learn more of
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  Speaker 2: who he is as a player on the NFL level
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  Speaker 2: as well as who we thought he was as a person.
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  Speaker 2: And he didn't let us down. It was an amazing
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  Speaker 2: sit down. He didn't shy away from Anything's fully transparent
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  Speaker 2: and he's he's the type of guy that you want
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  Speaker 2: leading your organization right. Uh. He's the guy who can
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  Speaker 2: bring the locker room together. What he stands on is
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  Speaker 2: what we saw him do against the Chargers last year.
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  Speaker 2: You know he does he doesn't flinch, you know, great
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  Speaker 2: character person and I think if you haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whoever's out there listening, go check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Is a great piece.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And it'll give you an opportunity to see Trevor, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in a long format, more so than a sound bite
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  Speaker 2: from a short media interview perspective. But I thought he
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  Speaker 2: did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with a say, and George Pellis here got
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  Speaker 1: a nice little bump there, equipment manager. Man, you got
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  Speaker 1: to get him in there showing you the house that
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  Speaker 1: Fred Bille is that what you called it?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? I think they were trying to run
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  Speaker 2: with that. But I will never take all of that credit.
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  Speaker 2: But to be able to go see the new facility,
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  Speaker 2: certainly jealous born twenty five years too soon or whatever
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  Speaker 2: that number looks like. But me and George we go
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  Speaker 2: way back. You know, George was running around as an
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  Speaker 2: assistant when I came to Jacksonville and we sort of
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  Speaker 2: grew up together, and now he's the head man. Certainly
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  Speaker 2: more than deserving for George. But to be able to
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  Speaker 2: go behind the scenes and get a snippet of the
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  Speaker 2: new facility, Miller Electric Center, everything. They have a walk
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  Speaker 2: through room, a walk through room. They're just spoiled. JP.
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  Speaker 2: The lockers look better than the game. They locker room,
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  Speaker 2: the equipment room is massive. The golf simulator, I'm jealous.
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  Speaker 2: If the kickers miss a kick, we're gonna know why.
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  Speaker 2: But I digress. They better have their butts where they're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be at and golf you know, whenever. But
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  Speaker 2: I trust that they'll get it done. But it was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It was all amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Check it out on the Pivot the YouTube channel. Where
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  Speaker 1: else could you find the Pivot Fred everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: For audio which for Jaguars fans, I know you want
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  Speaker 2: to see Trevor's amazing hair, so I would suggest our
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  Speaker 2: YouTube channel. But if you don't, if you don't have
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  Speaker 2: time to sit down and watch it, you can catch
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  Speaker 2: us on Spotify or Apple for the audio pieces.
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  Speaker 1: That's Fred Taylor, proud of the Jaguars running back Trevor's
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  Speaker 1: hair is almost as good as mine. It's a work
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  Speaker 1: in progress.
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  Speaker 2: For it mine too. Look at this thing, man.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's a struggle for us.
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  Speaker 2: Fred. Yeah, I just I just felt sexy and I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to cut it off and see what I looked
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  Speaker 2: like in a suit. So I just chopped it off.
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  Speaker 2: No rhyme or reason, I just changed. I did it myself.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Fred, if I do that, it might not.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't gotten not on me. He ain't got no
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  Speaker 2: on me.
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  Speaker 1: It might not come back if I go that way.
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  Speaker 2: So me too, I don't. I don't care at this
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  Speaker 2: At this point, I don't really care either. I'm forty
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  Speaker 2: seven and beautiful. Look at this facely smile. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. The Harris at least of my concern Bred.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars practiced against the Lions this week. That's really
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  Speaker 1: become the trend around the league. I think it's the
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  Speaker 1: second week in a row the Lions have hosted a
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  Speaker 1: team to do joint practices. The Jaguars are the second
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  Speaker 1: of those. So Wednesday, Thursday, Wednesday and Pads Thursday and
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  Speaker 1: spider pads and helmets, but work against a different group,
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  Speaker 1: and because of that work, it feels like the starters
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  Speaker 1: won't get a lot of time in the game. They
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of their reps in practice this week.
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  Speaker 1: Does that is that enough? Is the different look against
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  Speaker 1: a team in practice enough to be to get enough
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  Speaker 1: work in for these starters.
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  Speaker 2: It is first and foremost I think it is here.
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  Speaker 2: You have a competitive group in the and it run.
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  Speaker 2: It funnels down from their head coach Dan Campbell. I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty sure he got with coach Peterson and say, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have these live periods. We want them to
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  Speaker 2: be extremely competitive, so we can potentially get an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to look at the bubble guys, you know, the guys
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  Speaker 2: that aren't going to be the starters for the season,
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  Speaker 2: because now we can take great practice reps, rest these
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  Speaker 2: guys for the game, give them opportunity to get fresh legs. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when you have your third preseason game, which is now
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  Speaker 2: the true dress rehearsal, and an opportunity for it's the
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  Speaker 2: last preseason game, which is still kind of odd to
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  Speaker 2: me consider where I came from. It gives you an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to play your starters a little longer in this
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  Speaker 2: last preseason game, and then you see what they look like.
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  Speaker 2: You see if they're going to go in, come out
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  Speaker 2: of the locker room fast to start the game, go
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room for halftime, make adjustments, and being
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  Speaker 2: able to come out of the locker room so you
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  Speaker 2: get an opportunity to see more. So I was always
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  Speaker 2: a fan of joint practices with other teams because you
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  Speaker 2: want to show them your best competition is competition. You
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  Speaker 2: get tired of hitting on your own teammates and frustrated
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  Speaker 2: by how someone's attacking you'll what have you? So to
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  Speaker 2: get an opportunities get another look, a fresh look from
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  Speaker 2: someone else. It reinvigorates you that tired camp body. You
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  Speaker 2: get your second win, you're able to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and compete and show them what you got. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty sure our guys really was looking forward to this
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  Speaker 2: because after the Lions beat us that bad a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they wanted to go out there and say, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're not the same team. We got better and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be better to start this season. So it
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  Speaker 2: starts here today.
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  Speaker 1: May not be a Super Bowl preview this year, but
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  Speaker 1: in the years down the line, you never know, and
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  Speaker 1: you could look back at some of that stuff. Did
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  Speaker 1: you guys ever practice against other teams?
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  Speaker 2: We did. We did, but I think only once in
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  Speaker 2: my career we actually went to another team and we
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  Speaker 2: practiced against the Falcon what is it, Flowery Branch. It
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  Speaker 2: was years ago. It was so long ago. But mostly
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  Speaker 2: we had interscrimmage practices against the Saints. I remember specifically
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  Speaker 2: the Saints and Ricky Williams coming to town. I think
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  Speaker 2: it was the Saints multiple times. I don't really remember
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  Speaker 2: having too many over my career. When I was with
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  Speaker 2: the Pats, we did it once with the Falcons they
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  Speaker 2: came up to Foxborough. Logistically, I think they're getting a
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  Speaker 2: bit more creative in how they're doing it. If you're
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  Speaker 2: going to play that team, you go there, get a
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  Speaker 2: few looks with each other, and then you make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: I know the Dolphins are in Houston. They had some
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  Speaker 2: stuff with the Texans earlier in the week, and a
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  Speaker 2: few other teams around the league. A few fights around
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  Speaker 2: the league too, But that's just competition that you bring
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  Speaker 2: out and I enjoyed that going against other teams more
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  Speaker 2: than going against my own guys.
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  Speaker 1: It was such a fight. The Jets and the Bucks
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  Speaker 1: decided not to go the second day and the Jets said,
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  Speaker 1: see you get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Bucks use the Giants facility to practice
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  Speaker 2: crazy NFL we have it really is.
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  Speaker 1: That's Fred Taylor all right. Jaguars running backs last week,
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  Speaker 1: Travis etn just a few snaps, not much for the
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  Speaker 1: starters last week. But here comes Tank Bigsby and they,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they wanted to see what he had to offer,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a short yarded situation they had, I think
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  Speaker 1: a third and one. They didn't convert on it, but
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  Speaker 1: there was another runway broke loose out of the right side,
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  Speaker 1: really well blocked by the tight ends there, Fred first
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  Speaker 1: of all, which is a great, great thing to see
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  Speaker 1: the physicality from two very young tight ends in this league.
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  Speaker 1: But Bigsby's ability to break it open and go okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a little something there and that's a good
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  Speaker 1: thing to see.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he's an sec boy. Yeah, I mean you gotta
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  Speaker 2: gotta make that, you know, I gotta highlight that. But
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  Speaker 2: he has ability, He has a great center gravity, He explosive,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he has some good later abilities and shakes
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to be dynamic. I think they will
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  Speaker 2: be a good change up. They have two young guys
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  Speaker 2: dynamic and again going back, usually the hardest transition for
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  Speaker 2: these young guys is past protection. You know, if he can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get that down pat, you know, he'll get
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  Speaker 2: get an opportunity to be the guy next in line
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  Speaker 2: to be able to spell give Travis a couple of
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  Speaker 2: breathers here and there, and whether it be as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: short yardage situations or what have you. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: a guy who can get smaller than he actually is
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  Speaker 2: in demeanor and get behind those big guys and be
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  Speaker 2: able to convert on those short yarded situations at a
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  Speaker 2: higher clip. Had a higher percentage. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: see that running back group. I really am pushing for
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  Speaker 2: Travis to push up somewhere between the thirteen and fifteen
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  Speaker 2: hundred yard mark. I think that will be great for
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  Speaker 2: him as well as the entire team. And I think
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  Speaker 2: bringing in Calvin Riley, you know, having the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the receiving cord back, by having Trevor in a year
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  Speaker 2: three more awareness, I think they'll be able to communicate better.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive line. That group, I think it'll create more
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  Speaker 2: production from the running back position. As long as they
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  Speaker 2: stay healthy at the end of the day, that's always
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  Speaker 2: the key.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta stay healthy. Couple of players on the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: dinged up this week. Anton Harrison's got a shoulder, but
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of fighting through it. Yeah, and Josh Wells
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  Speaker 1: could be a little bit longer. Another two tackles and
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  Speaker 1: then you know on the defensive side of Antonio Johnson
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  Speaker 1: is down for a little bit with a hamstring issue.
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  Speaker 1: The rookie out of Texas A and M. It's really
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  Speaker 1: the first big significant things. It's that time of camp
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  Speaker 1: sometimes these things pop up.
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  Speaker 2: Dog days, Yeah, those dog days of camp. And I
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  Speaker 2: think you know what we saw a year ago with
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars, you know, when they made their run that
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  Speaker 2: push at the end of the season, they were healthy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the most part, they were healthy and
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  Speaker 2: and that's what you want to see. But it is
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. Things happen. Two guys just walking and you
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  Speaker 2: pray for the best and you hope guys are taking
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  Speaker 2: care of their bodies and getting necessary treatment and the
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  Speaker 2: maintenance that they need, or there stretching, eating properly to
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  Speaker 2: help them recover, getting rest at home. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: need to do to make sure they hold themselves accountable
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  Speaker 2: to the rest of the guys. And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hope that they don't have as many injuries, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or they have less injuries than they had a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: which spell, you know, good things around the corner for
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: Bred always a pleasure. It's a highlight of the week
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  Speaker 1: to visit with pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Will do it again next week and before the home game,
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins are coming to town, and so are you.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm looking forward to it as always. But just
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  Speaker 2: going back real quick, JP on that cliff when they
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  Speaker 2: were talking about the squirrels falling through the ceiling at
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  Speaker 2: Trevor's High School. I thought that was hilarious. I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was crazy. It's pretty good. That's pretty good. Whoever's
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  Speaker 2: out there, go check it out, man, you enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: The squirrels didn't fall through in Bell.
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  Speaker 2: Blade, Nah, we didn't have squirrels. We probably had nothing
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  Speaker 2: ever fell through the ceiling. If we had something, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't gonna be squirreled. Probably we were in the sugarcane field.
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  Speaker 1: Bang there rabbits, rabbits, rabbits everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: If we have rabbits down there too, could have been
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  Speaker 2: rabbits or rats. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk to you next week, Fred, all right, both
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you.