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Another important week for run defense | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's our weekly visit with Pride of the Jaguars running
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  Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor. And here we go. It's week number five. Fred.
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  Speaker 1: The Houston Texans are coming to town. And not only that,
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  Speaker 1: it is alumni weekend, a lot of former Jaguars. I
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  Speaker 1: almost said old Jaguars. I won't go there. Former Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: will come. But Sully received his proof Football Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame Ring Good. Good afternoon, Fred, Good afternoon. J p A.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you paused and didn't say old, because I
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  Speaker 1: like to think of it as seasoned. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a firm believer that old stuff you toss out. We're
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  Speaker 1: not ready to be tossed out. We're seasoned vets. We're
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  Speaker 1: the good guys now on the other side of life.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, J Pete, man, is so good
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  Speaker 1: to see the guys. Man. You know, this is always
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  Speaker 1: a great time, you know, having the alumni Legends weekend
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  Speaker 1: is what they call it now, Uh, in recognition of
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  Speaker 1: all the guys that put in the hard work and sacrifice, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to provide entertainment. Right. Uh. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a great reunion. You know. It's always a blessing to
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  Speaker 1: see the guys, and thankfully, um, you know, the majority
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that show up there in pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 1: They're in good shape mentally, you know, physically. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have any guys that have ballooned up to four hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 1: thank god. Oh but you know it's always a good moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's even special more so this time around because you
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  Speaker 1: know the honoring Tony today. You know that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: I'm certainly it's gonna be huge. I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh what else, Houston Texans. That's the reason we're here, right,
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  Speaker 1: divisional opponent. You know, when I was speaking to the
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  Speaker 1: guys yesterday, uh, some of the alumni, I might look, man,
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  Speaker 1: what how how sweeter can it be to come back
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  Speaker 1: to kick it with your old teammates, you know, break
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  Speaker 1: bread and then have an opportunity to watch your team,
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  Speaker 1: your former team, go out there. Now that they're playing better,
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  Speaker 1: they're leading the division, they have an opportunity to win
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  Speaker 1: this game. So you know, it's a lot to look
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  Speaker 1: forward to today. We'll get to this game coming up,
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  Speaker 1: but let's rewind to last week. First, some nasty weather
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, a really good football team and the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars, though, felt like in the locker room this week,
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  Speaker 1: talking to a couple of guys, they felt like they
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  Speaker 1: were the better team than the Eagles. Five turnovers will
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  Speaker 1: give the Eagles more opportunities. Four of those fumbles from
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. That's an NFL record for a single game
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  Speaker 1: from one player. Four fumbles loss origunally right, That's that's
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  Speaker 1: a tough one to take. And they still had the
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  Speaker 1: ball in their hand down eight inside two minutes with
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  Speaker 1: a chance to go tie after the first four giveaways.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta protect that football, though, you certainly got to
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  Speaker 1: protect the football. JP. Wow, I didn't know he broke
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  Speaker 1: a record. That's that's not something you want to be
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  Speaker 1: associated with, but hey, it happened. They got to move
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  Speaker 1: past it, and it sounds like the guys have moved
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  Speaker 1: past it. Uh. You know, to to turn the ball
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  Speaker 1: over five times, uh and still be down to lose
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  Speaker 1: the game by touchdown, it's encouraging. You know, no moral victories.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta win the games. Uh. As the season goes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those close, those sort of games, you'll look
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  Speaker 1: back and say, well, if we didn't fumble the ball
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  Speaker 1: x amount of times maybe we win this game. We've
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  Speaker 1: been the playoffs or et cetera, et cetera. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the vieuty of the NFL. The era for margin is
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  Speaker 1: so narrow, and certainly miss mismanaging or mishandling the football
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  Speaker 1: is one of those huge errors, you know, increases the
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  Speaker 1: margin for losing for losses. So I just think that, um,
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  Speaker 1: the guys can bounce back. It's good that they're confident
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  Speaker 1: knowing that they had an opportunity they were in the
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  Speaker 1: game versus one of the elite teams to start this season.
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  Speaker 1: And it's funny JP you mentioned week five man times fine,
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  Speaker 1: it just seems they kicked off a week ago to
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  Speaker 1: open this season. But jack Jacksonville is certainly a better team. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they have to finish those games. They gotta protect the
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  Speaker 1: ball and end up with a debut. I mean a
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  Speaker 1: win in the win column. And that's really what it
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  Speaker 1: boils down to at the end of the day. Jaguar's
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  Speaker 1: defense gave up two rushing yards last week to the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. That won't win you many games. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: after full we found a cossi left the game. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of those yards came later, but that line for
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  Speaker 1: Philly is really good. Kelsey of the center was all
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  Speaker 1: over the field making play Philadelphia. So it doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: any easier in this division. Houston likes to run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: We know what Tennessee and Indy like to do, so
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  Speaker 1: they had buttoned it up the first three weeks. It
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  Speaker 1: felt like what happened last week you mentioned it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you lose, you lose some guys. You you played against
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  Speaker 1: a very solid veteran offensive front out of Philly led
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  Speaker 1: by Kelsey, and uh, you know, just the circumstances of
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  Speaker 1: the game. Philly had a great game plan going in.
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  Speaker 1: You know they were gonna stretch him out a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and have a box count. If Jacksonville had six
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  Speaker 1: in the box versus their self personnel. It was run
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't shy away from a lot of zone reads.
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  Speaker 1: You got to account for Jalen Hurts. He's so dynamic
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  Speaker 1: and his approach from being able to throw it out
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  Speaker 1: of the pocket not even looking to run, also being
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  Speaker 1: able to throw it on the run as well as
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  Speaker 1: being able to run the ball. One of the bigger
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  Speaker 1: plays for me was when they went down to tie
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  Speaker 1: it up. I think it was third and goal uh,
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  Speaker 1: from like twenty yards out, uh, and they converted you know,
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  Speaker 1: to get down to the two and then they punched
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  Speaker 1: it in you know, the next place. So we had
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  Speaker 1: those plays back to back. But it just shows how
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  Speaker 1: dynamic there their approaches and the conviction they have and
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  Speaker 1: sticking with the run, especially when the team isn't stopping it.
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  Speaker 1: So Jacksonville just has to go back to the drawing
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  Speaker 1: board and hopefully they did it. You know this past week.
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  Speaker 1: Where play your assignment. It's all about gap integrity. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in the gap, stay in that gap. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: overly excited to try to rush and make a play.
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  Speaker 1: You do your job, do your assignment. The linebackers on
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  Speaker 1: the next level, they have to be disciplined for the
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  Speaker 1: cutback and those zone reads. The defensive ends are more
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  Speaker 1: important versus the zone read because they have to determine
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  Speaker 1: if they're going to attack the carrier or the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and whatever their key is, they have to read it,
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  Speaker 1: stick with it and let everybody else uh do their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's one thing about defenses versus offense.
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  Speaker 1: JP you have on the offense, we have to trust
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  Speaker 1: that the guy is gonna do their job. But we
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  Speaker 1: can get away with some stuff. Defense isn't isn't quite
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  Speaker 1: like that. Uh, if you have two guys that are
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  Speaker 1: getting anxious and overly excited, you know, one guy is
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  Speaker 1: out of position, that can lead to an eight yard
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  Speaker 1: you know, So defense really have to dial it in
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  Speaker 1: and be more disciplining trying to stop the run. Because
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  Speaker 1: Pierce Houston, Texans, with Pierce one of my old Gator guy,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna try to stuff it and run it down
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  Speaker 1: and throw because he's been bawling. So that's the that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest bright spot. So we know what they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to do today. I just gotta get out there,
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  Speaker 1: line up and stop it right of the Jaguars running
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  Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor with us. It seems like a season
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  Speaker 1: at least so far to break some streaks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Jags and not one on the road and forever
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  Speaker 1: until they went to l A and beat the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: without Houston's won eight straight against the Jaguars and fourteen
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  Speaker 1: of the last sixteen meetings. The only wins in that
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  Speaker 1: spanned for the Jags seventeen when the Jags swept the
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  Speaker 1: season series. So that's all in the past. So the
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  Speaker 1: way Doug Peterson talks about it, All those guys are
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  Speaker 1: pretty much gone. I mean this is a new team,
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  Speaker 1: new personnel. So this is a team. Though. If you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're better than the Eagles, then in theory,
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  Speaker 1: you're better than the Texans without a doubt. The Jags
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  Speaker 1: haven't been in a scenario where hey, we need to
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  Speaker 1: go win this game because we're better than this team.
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  Speaker 1: Just go take care of business. How do you get
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  Speaker 1: that mindset? They should certainly have to embrace that mindset,
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  Speaker 1: but you gotta go out there and do it. You
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  Speaker 1: know you mentioned coach Peterson saying, you know, uh, that
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  Speaker 1: stuff is old news. Well, they dismantled that team well
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  Speaker 1: over a year ago, and a lot of those players
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  Speaker 1: that they had back in the day, you know that
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  Speaker 1: contributed to that, uh, that eight game winning street versus Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those guys are gone a year ago and
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  Speaker 1: Houston still got busy and beat the Jags, uh a
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  Speaker 1: year last year without the Shaun Watson, you know, their
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  Speaker 1: star quarterback. So uh, you know, here is a team
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  Speaker 1: that you look at their roster, I don't know many
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  Speaker 1: guys on that roster, Like they don't have any star
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  Speaker 1: players they have a emerging running back in Piers and
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  Speaker 1: after that it's a toss up for me j P.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I kind of peek around the league, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the a team, even bad teams, you will
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  Speaker 1: have a few solid, good players that you can name
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  Speaker 1: me your sleep. But the Texans isn't that team. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a reason why, uh, Jackson Bville should
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  Speaker 1: win the day other than turning the ball over five times,
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  Speaker 1: possibly even missing tackles versus a solid runner and peers
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  Speaker 1: and not playing gap integrity lane assignment. Uh. So they
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  Speaker 1: have to be disciplined, they have to minimize the penalties.
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  Speaker 1: Offense did a good job a week ago and not
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  Speaker 1: being penalized. The penalties were on the defensive side. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a collective, both all sections, all phases
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  Speaker 1: of the game has to be played equally so that
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  Speaker 1: they can come away with a W. What's your level
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  Speaker 1: of respect for Lovey Smith's what kind of organization can
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  Speaker 1: he put together? And you know, love is um you
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  Speaker 1: know you look at Lovey Smith and uh his demeanor
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  Speaker 1: is like Melotone. It's just real steady. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: just smooth and you know, charismatic. He's just a coach
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  Speaker 1: that the guys that I know, his former guys when
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  Speaker 1: Chicago had their big run, the Super Bowl run. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of those guys from that defense, they absolutely love him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and um, you know, just a guy that
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  Speaker 1: coaches respect. Obviously, he found his way back to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL when there were other candidates out there, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: Houston thought highly of him and they brought him back
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  Speaker 1: in because there's a no nonsense guy. Although he carries
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  Speaker 1: himself with a different demeanor in the press. You know,
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  Speaker 1: on television, you rarely see him getting too high, getting
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  Speaker 1: too low. I don't know if I've even ever seen
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  Speaker 1: him yell on the sideline. Maybe I'm missing something, but
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  Speaker 1: I just don't recall. But I certainly respect him as
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  Speaker 1: a man first, uh, and as a coach. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he has a pretty solid body of work. Um and
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  Speaker 1: thankfully he has a bad roster. Hopefully that will contribute
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  Speaker 1: to Jacksonville win the day. It's all about the w's
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  Speaker 1: no matter, Yeah, I worry about Love you later right now.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get this bread well done as always, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you in the post game. Have a good will,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy legends weekend. You better believe it man, see you soon.