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Soundbites from the locker room + players to watch vs. Titans | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, January 5 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Time with John Hosier Herkson and
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sex dated sixty Jangs Drive Time, and it starts
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Speaker 1: right now here we go on a Thursday morning Jags
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Speaker 1: Drive Time from t i A bank Field in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: Brian and John with you for the next half hour
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Speaker 1: or so, getting you set for Saturday nights primetime kick
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Speaker 1: offf between the Jaguars and the Titans. Everywhere I go
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Speaker 1: in the city and John, I'm sure it's the same
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Speaker 1: for you. People want to talk about this game. Standing
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Speaker 1: in line at Publix last night, walking the dog this morning.
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Speaker 1: Everyone is interested in this game. For the first time,
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Speaker 1: probably maybe when the Patriots were here. Have we seen
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Speaker 1: such interest in the Jaguars game. Yeah, I'm I'm not
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Speaker 1: allowed out of my house except to come here, so
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Speaker 1: I don't have that starting this that, but if if
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Speaker 1: I did, I'm sure would be the same thing, because
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Speaker 1: it's it's an un leievable moment that I keep sort
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Speaker 1: of going back to have been a couple of radio shows,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. I think the thing to remember that's really cool. Yes,
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Speaker 1: they're eight and eight, but if you break down the
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Speaker 1: second half the season, they have earned their way here.
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Speaker 1: They beat the Ravens, they beat the Cowboys, who are
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Speaker 1: both contending for the playoffs. If they win Saturday, they
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Speaker 1: will have beaten the Titans twice, who were in first
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Speaker 1: place when this whole thing started. You talk about seeing
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Speaker 1: what's in front of you and going and taking it.
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Speaker 1: If they accomplished it, you know, I think there would
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Speaker 1: be an asteris I'm not saying that, but oh, nine
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Speaker 1: and eight whatever in the last nine games of the season.
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Speaker 1: This team is good, you know it. It bears mentioning.
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Speaker 1: You and I had this conversation when I first mentioned
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Speaker 1: that this team was very similar to the ninety six team,
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Speaker 1: and you caution, hold on um. The difference between the
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Speaker 1: two teams is the schedule that this team faces is
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Speaker 1: with legitimate contenders, and the ninety six team played the
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Speaker 1: Bengals who were not at that moment, the Oilers, the
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Speaker 1: Seas who were not at that moment, and the Falcons,
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Speaker 1: who most decidedly were not at that moment. They finished
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Speaker 1: the season with the easiest part of the schedule, whereas
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Speaker 1: this particular team is finishing with the meat of the schedule.
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Speaker 1: When you looked at that nineties six schedule with five
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Speaker 1: games to go, even though nobody else I remember sending
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Speaker 1: notes to other writers in the league laughing when I
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Speaker 1: was doing playoffs scenarios because you know, the Jacks make
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Speaker 1: play But when you looked at it every game that year,
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Speaker 1: you looked at and said, well that they probably ought
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Speaker 1: to win that if they play well this year. When
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Speaker 1: you had the Ravens, even the Titans of the time
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Speaker 1: this all started, they were three games ahead or two whatever,
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Speaker 1: you did not have this feeling of, well, they ought
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Speaker 1: to win these games. You know. It was the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: are gonna be tough, the Ravens are gonna be tough,
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Speaker 1: the Titans are gonna be tough. And I haven't run
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Speaker 1: the table because the Chiefs and the Lions were also
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Speaker 1: in there. But the two losses were the teams that
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Speaker 1: were playing lights out when they play in the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: still are and on Saturday night, the Jaguars have a
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Speaker 1: tough one with the Titans, despite the fact that the
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Speaker 1: Titans have a league high twenty two players on injured reserve.
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Speaker 1: It's just what happens when you have two teams that
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Speaker 1: know each other so well. So let's get started with
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Speaker 1: big things here. On Thursday morning, it will start with
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Speaker 1: Trevor's time. Look, I mean, this is the moment when
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Speaker 1: a quarterback steps onto the stage. It's not yet the postseason,
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Speaker 1: but it might as well be Prime time Saturday Night winner.
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Speaker 1: Take all everything on the line, and these are the
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Speaker 1: kinds of games that you measure quarterbacks in their careers by.
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Speaker 1: And the Jaguars and offensive coordinator Press Taylor have no
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Speaker 1: doubt he's ready for it. We're very confident and the
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Speaker 1: guy that he has shown us to be so far,
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Speaker 1: and we don't expect anything different from him. Like you said,
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Speaker 1: he's been, he's been in big game atmosphere before, whatever
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Speaker 1: level that was, whatever that meant at the time. But
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Speaker 1: you know, we're we're very excited that he's only in
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Speaker 1: our team. Big thing too, is the other side of
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Speaker 1: the coin. That's the Tennessee Titans, who will bring in
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Speaker 1: Joshua Dobbs, who two weeks ago was on the Detroit
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Speaker 1: Lions practice squad and ten days ago it's actually a
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Speaker 1: week ago and be ten days this weekend made his
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Speaker 1: first NFL start for the Tennessee Titans. Now, before you
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Speaker 1: think well that's a wash, no problem, got this one.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars don't doubt that Dobbs can get it done.
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Speaker 1: Some folks in the locker room remember him from his
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Speaker 1: time here during the two thousand and nineteen season. Mike
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Speaker 1: Caldwell wasn't here. He's watched the tape. He understands who
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Speaker 1: Joshua Dobbs is and he doesn't doubt him. It's really uh.
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Speaker 1: You go back in as coaches, you always want to
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Speaker 1: turn over every stone. And we went back and watched
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Speaker 1: the preseason. We played him in the preseason, and just
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Speaker 1: go back and you talk the you know many people
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Speaker 1: as you can, and you just study the film. You
4:37
Speaker 1: go back with our scouting department. He was here for
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Speaker 1: a while, so we have a good feel of what
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Speaker 1: the type of person is. You know, right off the bat,
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Speaker 1: real smart kid, um handles their system well, athletic can
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Speaker 1: make the throw. So there's a talent for us. You
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Speaker 1: go back to college at all he just could possibly
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Speaker 1: large Well, my wife went to the University of Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: so I to stay away from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I talked yesterday to Josh Allen, who recalled him
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Speaker 1: as a great teammate and thinks he's a very bright guy.
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Speaker 1: Of course, he has a degree in aerospace engineering. So
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Speaker 1: Josh was under selling that just a dad and finally
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Speaker 1: this could be the start of something big, and the
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Speaker 1: quarterback knows it. It feels good knowing, you know, what
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Speaker 1: we had to do to get here. But also job's
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Speaker 1: not finished. You know, we have we have we have
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Speaker 1: to win this game to get in and then moving forward,
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Speaker 1: we kind of we kind of get what we are
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Speaker 1: in every week, so you know, we're embracing that. I
5:32
Speaker 1: think that's kind of how it's been for us. Like
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Speaker 1: I said before, it's been like that for us for
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Speaker 1: the past month really, So the team's responded well to that.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm proud of the situation we put
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Speaker 1: ourselves in. It. It wasn't easy to get in this spot,
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Speaker 1: especially the way we started the season. Um, and here
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Speaker 1: we are with an opportunity to win the division and
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Speaker 1: this is the only game that matters right now, and
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Speaker 1: we were just putting everything we have into just scoring
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Speaker 1: one more point than them. That's all that matters is
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Speaker 1: winning the game. So um, that's what we're that's what
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Speaker 1: we're focusing on. And like you said, I mean, it
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Speaker 1: feels good to be in a big time game like this.
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Speaker 1: You know, the city has a lot of energy and
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Speaker 1: everybody's excited. So you know, we're we're excited for that,
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Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, it's, uh, you
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Speaker 1: can't make it bigger than it is. We still got
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Speaker 1: to go out there and execute and play well, and
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Speaker 1: those are big things. For the final time this week,
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Speaker 1: let's go back to the beginning and the moment for
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Speaker 1: this quarterback. And of course we talked all the time
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Speaker 1: about you arriving in Indianapolis as Peyton Manning made his ascent,
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Speaker 1: So there's a moment where Peyton Manning stepped onto this
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Speaker 1: stage and proved it. Yeah, and much like Peyton had
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Speaker 1: played in big games in college, Terry played in big
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Speaker 1: game Playton big games in college. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: Peyton had played in quite the level of game um
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Speaker 1: that Trevi did it quite so young an age. I
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Speaker 1: was talking to Christian Kirk about this in the locker
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Speaker 1: room and he was saying the same thing, you did,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's he's been in big games, and I
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Speaker 1: kind of laughed and I said, yeah, the difference is
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Speaker 1: he was in one when he was eleven years old.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was so young when he was playing
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Speaker 1: in those first National championship games that I don't know
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Speaker 1: that bigness. This is not going to be bigger than
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Speaker 1: anything Trevor has ever been involved with. UM. But you
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Speaker 1: know what, even if he hadn't already been in those games, UM,
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Speaker 1: there's something about him that just sort of feels like
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Speaker 1: he's meant to play in these. He's got that quality
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Speaker 1: about him. Uh. Now he's got to go win him
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Speaker 1: to back that statement up. But it's sort of it
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Speaker 1: almost feels silly when you're asking players the question about, hey,
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Speaker 1: uh you think the quarterbacks ready for this, and everybody's
7:34
Speaker 1: answer is sort of, well, yeah, he's worn for this. Well,
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Speaker 1: I see it on the practice field every day. And
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Speaker 1: must be honest, last year, when people were asking reporters
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Speaker 1: were asking questions about his confidence level after some disheartening losses,
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Speaker 1: after some runnings with the coaching staff that was here previously,
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Speaker 1: he never let any of that show. If it shook him,
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Speaker 1: if it bothered him, if he even recognized it, he
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Speaker 1: didn't let anyone know. That's what I knew at least. Okay,
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Speaker 1: this kid gets it. He is not phased by this.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing that I have seen from him that has
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Speaker 1: proven to be too big for him and his abilities. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't think. You know, again, you want to separate
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Speaker 1: things sometimes, I don't think handling the moment bigness is
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Speaker 1: gonna be a problem for either Trevor and I keep
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Speaker 1: going back to Doug Peterson has coached teams through big
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Speaker 1: moments before, not only the Super Bowl, but end of
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Speaker 1: season pressurized runs, which sometimes you know, when you're fighting
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Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs and you know you're eight
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Speaker 1: and seven and it's week to week in the grind,
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Speaker 1: that can be harder, not harder than winning the super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, there can be as
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Speaker 1: much pressure on that because once you're in the super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, let's go, let's go play. We made
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Speaker 1: it um. So I don't think pressure is going to
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Speaker 1: be a problem. That doesn't mean they're gonna win the game.
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Speaker 1: And if they don't win the game, it's not because
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Speaker 1: they you know, I choked under the pressure. It's because
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Speaker 1: it's the NFL and you can lose games. So I
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Speaker 1: just don't think handling a moment for this, for the
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Speaker 1: leader of this team, the quarterback of the head coach
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Speaker 1: of players, I don't see it being a big factor.
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Speaker 1: All right. So Josh Dobbs comes in here, and he
9:10
Speaker 1: is a very calm collected guy. If you saw any
9:14
Speaker 1: of the video of him talking to reporters yesterday in Nashville,
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Speaker 1: this doesn't appear to be too big for him. Of course,
9:20
Speaker 1: he's been through life, so he understands this. Um. I
9:24
Speaker 1: just I had the sense you see the look in
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Speaker 1: his eye right there, right. I just have this feeling
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Speaker 1: about this Tennessee team that they have a harder mountain
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Speaker 1: to climb this week. Um, They've got to get themselves
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Speaker 1: right mentally through all the circumstances. When we talked about
9:40
Speaker 1: the Jaguars the last couple of years, they've been this team,
9:43
Speaker 1: they had to kind of get to the game and
9:45
Speaker 1: get through all the stories and all the trash that
9:48
Speaker 1: was at their feet. The Titans, if they come and
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Speaker 1: play well, will have had to work through a whole
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Speaker 1: lot more. Yeah. And I think it goes back to
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Speaker 1: what I said before that if the Jaguars lose this,
10:02
Speaker 1: um again, it's not a joke. It's the NFL teams
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Speaker 1: are good, uh. And Josh Dobbs is good and capable.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he'll melt under the pressure. I think
10:17
Speaker 1: the intriguing thing about this game is you're dealing with
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Speaker 1: a game for everything, a playoff game essentially as good
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Speaker 1: as Josh Dobbs maybe, and as good as Mike Rabel
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Speaker 1: and that coaching staff is, and I think it's a
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Speaker 1: very good team in terms of knowing what it wants
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Speaker 1: to do. He's only been there three weeks. There has
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Speaker 1: to be a limit to what he can do offensively
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Speaker 1: in that system, just by time. So the Jaguars by
10:46
Speaker 1: definition should have an advantage with Josh Dobbs at quarterback.
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Speaker 1: You have to stop Derrick Henry and force Josh Dobbs
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Speaker 1: into situations. Say he's been coached to do twenty things
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Speaker 1: well in that offense, you have to put pressure on
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Speaker 1: him to make him do other things that they haven't
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Speaker 1: coached and done well, so that it's confusion, so that
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Speaker 1: it's chaos. Uh. That's the matchup that they should have
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Speaker 1: that they need to play well enough to get to
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Speaker 1: if that makes anything. And I think that's what the
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Speaker 1: excitement level in this town is because the Jaguars know
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Speaker 1: and their fans know that they have a surging team,
11:20
Speaker 1: a good team with a hot quarterback and a coach
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Speaker 1: that everybody's got confidence in and it's entirely different. The
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Speaker 1: storylines are entirely different in Nashville. And Mike Keith was
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Speaker 1: on with A yesterday and he talked about being excited
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Speaker 1: for the game, But I don't know that you get
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Speaker 1: the sense of the Titans and their fan base really
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Speaker 1: have the energy level for this game that the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: and there. Well, it's why in in games like this
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Speaker 1: and you re you reverenced the Falcons game. In games
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Speaker 1: like this, I think we saw what the Jaguars need
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Speaker 1: to do. We saw it last week in Houston. Different
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Speaker 1: level of intensity. Maybe remember as soon as they got
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Speaker 1: that really stop, Peterson went no huddle, went really fast,
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Speaker 1: no huddle. I thought, trying to get a lead. Let's
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Speaker 1: put pressure on this team. Let's get a lead, Let's
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Speaker 1: make that. You know, as soon as you get a
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Speaker 1: lead against a team like this, then they start thinking,
12:15
Speaker 1: well they lost six and right sevener like that starts
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Speaker 1: becoming a thing. So you don't want to let them
12:21
Speaker 1: have hope or let them think, hey, we are the
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Speaker 1: two time defending champions. You know, if they get a lead,
12:28
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they start thinking we're Gonn. Put
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Speaker 1: another banner up, get a lead on them and make
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Speaker 1: them think about the six in a row they just lost.
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Speaker 1: All right, those are big things in what we think.
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Speaker 1: When we return here on Jack's Drive Time, we'll go
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Speaker 1: on a Thursday morning. We'll hear from the coach. Players
13:29
Speaker 1: have a little practice this afternoon, because remember this is Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Friday sometime with the media, and then Tomorrow becomes Saturday
13:35
Speaker 1: and Saturday becomes Sunday and don't where you don't follow.
13:38
Speaker 1: It's just the compression of an NFL schedule, which has
13:41
Speaker 1: been a bit of a storyline this week. Though talking
13:43
Speaker 1: to the players in the locker room yesterday, they weren't
13:45
Speaker 1: worried about it. Um, let's go to Shack Quarterman, the
13:48
Speaker 1: Oak Leaf High product who had the huge hit on
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry that some believed I might be one of
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Speaker 1: them that kind of turned things around. It certainly did
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Speaker 1: in that game. It got the Jaguars the win, got
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Speaker 1: them rolling. Here's Shaq Corterman on that hit on fellow
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville area native Derrick Henry. Well, I'll just explain that
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Speaker 1: players competitive excellence. You know, you never know when your
14:10
Speaker 1: opportunities are gonna come, but when they do, you just
14:12
Speaker 1: gotta make the most of them. So on that player
14:14
Speaker 1: started out as a simple lives on action to the
14:16
Speaker 1: left turn out to be a play action. So you know,
14:18
Speaker 1: from there you gotta punch out to your drops they
14:20
Speaker 1: dump it off into flats and then from there that's
14:22
Speaker 1: all about team defense. So all that is is just
14:24
Speaker 1: running to the ball. And it's always been a football
14:27
Speaker 1: um football law that good things happen when you run
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Speaker 1: to the ball, So I would just run into the
14:32
Speaker 1: ball to misture that the ball carry didn't get any
14:33
Speaker 1: more yards. Then then we wanted them to. And when
14:36
Speaker 1: you run to the ball, I had an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: make a play, and me just doing what the defense
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Speaker 1: is designed to do, good things happened. I left my
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Speaker 1: conversation with him here, said, I think that's a football player. Yeah,
14:47
Speaker 1: it's Remember in in August when we had depth Gate.
14:53
Speaker 1: Oh there's no depth on this team, you know? And Uh,
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Speaker 1: it was because they kept getting beat bad in the
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Speaker 1: third in fourth quarter preseason games when guys who weren't
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Speaker 1: gonna be on the roster were playing. I thought, all
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Speaker 1: on they had pretty decent death quarter minute played. Uh
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Speaker 1: at the time e t n and James Robinson were
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Speaker 1: both in the backfield. I thought that was deeper that
15:12
Speaker 1: the offensive line was was deep because you had Shatley
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Speaker 1: and uh uh Bart and Walker Little. Yet guys who
15:21
Speaker 1: come in, Uh, Marvin Jones gives this team. Yeah, I
15:26
Speaker 1: mean would be fair to Marvin to call him depth.
15:28
Speaker 1: But he's not one of the top two receivers and
15:31
Speaker 1: he's got five yards and he's their third or fourth
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Speaker 1: leading receiver. Shaq corm is another example. This team is
15:36
Speaker 1: a little deeper than people thought. All right, let's go
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Speaker 1: to Christian Kirk, who added depth with his big contract
15:41
Speaker 1: and he certainly has earned. And we talked to him
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Speaker 1: about Saturday Saturday, what keeps saying Sunday Saturday Night's game
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Speaker 1: and what it means just to play for all the marbles.
15:51
Speaker 1: You know, there's a problem that you can't get up
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Speaker 1: for this one. Um, you know I said it today.
15:55
Speaker 1: You know, there's a there's a difference between intensity and
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Speaker 1: such urgency, uh, you know, and and being uptight impressive.
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Speaker 1: You know, nobody needs to press talked about it a
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Speaker 1: little bit earlier, you know, just being the same you know, team,
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Speaker 1: same guys, same approach, what we've been doing, you know,
16:11
Speaker 1: especially these past couple of weeks. Um, you guy's been
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Speaker 1: working for us, So there's no need to change it.
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Speaker 1: You know, just be the same guy that you are
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Speaker 1: and your best is enough and uh, you know that'll
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Speaker 1: be enough for us on Saturday night. I know he
16:21
Speaker 1: plays with a lot of fire, but in the locker
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Speaker 1: room is so staddy. You can't see him getting upset
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Speaker 1: about anything. Yeah, and I talked to him a little bit. Uh,
16:31
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in quick thoughts today. A theme I've
16:34
Speaker 1: been hitting all week is the free agent class that
16:37
Speaker 1: came in and they're all sort of like that if
16:40
Speaker 1: you think about it, Za Jones, Brandon Sheriff, uh Foy
16:46
Speaker 1: Aluka and all these guys have come in and strikingly
16:52
Speaker 1: have been leaders, quickly character guys who are all on
16:55
Speaker 1: the field late in the season. They're all contributing. They
16:58
Speaker 1: all like being a part of this. Evan and him
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Speaker 1: same deal. Um, I didn't. I didn't even want to
17:03
Speaker 1: call Christian Kirk the leader of that because it's not
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Speaker 1: fair to the other guys. But he's part of this
17:08
Speaker 1: group that has really come in. And you know, again,
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Speaker 1: I keep going back, Brian, twenty seven years of doing this,
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen very many free agent classes who come
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Speaker 1: in and by the end of the season you're not
17:19
Speaker 1: sort of picking out one or two where you're like,
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Speaker 1: not really, Uh, it's another way to make it. Compares
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Speaker 1: to a lot of guys in that ninety six team
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Speaker 1: who came in immediately and we're part of it, and
17:32
Speaker 1: they were you know, maybe it's timing, maybe it's whatever. Serious. Yeah,
17:36
Speaker 1: McCardel Robbins and even Dana Hall that year. I mean
17:39
Speaker 1: there were guys who contributed in a big way who
17:41
Speaker 1: hadn't been here the year before. That's not easy to do,
17:44
Speaker 1: to fit in and become part of the in inertia
17:47
Speaker 1: of a culture, if you will. These guys are doing
17:50
Speaker 1: a great job of that, all right. So we move
17:51
Speaker 1: along through the locker room yesterday, and you know, when
17:54
Speaker 1: you look at this Drag Wars offensive line what they're
17:56
Speaker 1: doing with a backup left guard, a backup left tackle, uh,
18:00
Speaker 1: and a rookie at center, it says a lot about
18:04
Speaker 1: the job that Phil Rauscher has done getting this group
18:07
Speaker 1: to play at a higher level and play no matter
18:09
Speaker 1: who's in the lineup. Luke Fortner talked about his rookie
18:12
Speaker 1: season yesterday, miles and miles away from that player. You've
18:17
Speaker 1: just been able to learn so much from these older guys,
18:19
Speaker 1: and his coaching staff has been able to help me
18:22
Speaker 1: along and show me where I, you know, need to
18:24
Speaker 1: improve and things like that. The Titans bring in an
18:28
Speaker 1: aerospace engineer at quarterback and the Jaguars counter with an
18:32
Speaker 1: aerospace engineer at center. Yeah, I think Luke's got like
18:35
Speaker 1: thirteen other degrees as well. I mean he uh his
18:39
Speaker 1: master's by the way, as an aerospace engineering, not his
18:42
Speaker 1: bachelor's degree that's in mechanical right. I mean it's me
18:47
Speaker 1: he's a very interesting kid. But beyond that, for this team,
18:51
Speaker 1: it is striking when you think about the fact that
18:55
Speaker 1: you have a rookie center and it has very rarely
18:59
Speaker 1: been a top and that's all you need to know
19:01
Speaker 1: about it. Let's finish again with Shack Quarterman with what
19:05
Speaker 1: he does for this football team. He's a young player
19:08
Speaker 1: still and he's worked his way into a special team's role,
19:12
Speaker 1: into a sub package role on the defensive side. Here
19:16
Speaker 1: are his thoughts competitive excellence. You gotta know your role,
19:20
Speaker 1: and it's really about knowing your job, really about studying
19:23
Speaker 1: your opponent. You know, you gotta do the things you
19:25
Speaker 1: gotta earn the right to win, you know, and to
19:28
Speaker 1: know that you gotta take time to know that. So
19:30
Speaker 1: in preparation, whereas your die or your body, your study,
19:34
Speaker 1: your film sessions, you know what, just what you study
19:36
Speaker 1: on any given day. You really gotta buy in competitive excellence.
19:42
Speaker 1: I think he used that phrase about four different times yesterday. Well,
19:46
Speaker 1: and you need if if you're gonna have a postseason run,
19:51
Speaker 1: which will call that this because they've run their way
19:54
Speaker 1: to the edge of the postseason. You need guys like
19:57
Speaker 1: Shaq quarterman out the course of the season and eight plays.
20:00
Speaker 1: You need guys who aren't starters to make plays. And
20:04
Speaker 1: as you said, he may have made the biggest one.
20:06
Speaker 1: And uh, somebody you know, obviously, somebody on Sunday or
20:10
Speaker 1: on Saturday night will make one of those plays. And
20:13
Speaker 1: you have us for the Jacks. All right, that's our
20:14
Speaker 1: trip around the locker room when we return. He will
20:17
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Speaker 1: John back with you here, and it's time for If
20:49
Speaker 1: he will, he won't? He might? Our analysis of a
20:53
Speaker 1: particular players possibilities on Saturday night against the Titans. And
20:58
Speaker 1: you went with Foyer Lewis well I did and uh,
21:01
Speaker 1: he will make a lot of tackles because he always
21:04
Speaker 1: makes a lot of tackles. I mean he uh. I
21:06
Speaker 1: think he starts the game with ten and then works
21:10
Speaker 1: up from there. Based on his stats, I think he's
21:12
Speaker 1: gonna lead the league and tackles again this season remarkably productive.
21:16
Speaker 1: He won't uh be unprepared or out of position, it seems.
21:21
Speaker 1: I don't know that he is necessarily the absolute most
21:26
Speaker 1: talented middle linebacker I've ever seen, but he's always it's
21:33
Speaker 1: not always, but in the right spot in an ordinate
21:37
Speaker 1: amount of the time and always seems to have this
21:41
Speaker 1: defense in very good position. I think he has done
21:44
Speaker 1: Yeoman's work on a young defense coming together, making sure
21:48
Speaker 1: that everybody around him knows what to do. And to me,
21:51
Speaker 1: he might be the key of the game. You know,
21:54
Speaker 1: maybe not necessarily him, but the concept of that front
21:59
Speaker 1: being in the right position and being uh, I hate
22:03
Speaker 1: to say man enough, but somebody's gotta go hit Derek Hendry.
22:06
Speaker 1: It's big boyfriend. So so he's the guy with that responsibility.
22:12
Speaker 1: Somebody has to lay hats on him early and make
22:14
Speaker 1: sure he doesn't get going. That concept the interior run
22:18
Speaker 1: defense is incredibly important and again I've been saying all week.
22:24
Speaker 1: Usually you look for different matchups in a game. Well,
22:26
Speaker 1: maybe this will be it. Stop Derrick Henry and make
22:30
Speaker 1: this team play offense in a way it doesn't like
22:34
Speaker 1: to play. And I think you win the game. Well,
22:35
Speaker 1: and it's my Keith set to us yesterday. If you
22:38
Speaker 1: get a lead on the Titans right and you have
22:40
Speaker 1: to stop Derrick Henry to do that, then all of
22:43
Speaker 1: a sudden he can't be a factor in the second half.
22:44
Speaker 1: And we saw that a couple of weeks ago in Nashville.
22:47
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about Lucan that I love, Um. And
22:49
Speaker 1: when you watch the the end zone vision on the
22:52
Speaker 1: All twenty two tape the NFL dot Com posts, Um,
22:56
Speaker 1: you see the wiggle that he has. He's got this
22:57
Speaker 1: ability to kind of side shuffle without giving up his
23:01
Speaker 1: leverage and get behind or in front or beneath somebody
23:04
Speaker 1: to be able to make a play. He could torts
23:07
Speaker 1: his body in a way that doesn't seem possible for
23:10
Speaker 1: a guy who's moving at full speed. UM, talented guy
23:13
Speaker 1: and smart, smart yale educated. That's all you need to say.
23:16
Speaker 1: And again one of these guys we talked about free
23:20
Speaker 1: agents who have come in and then what they were
23:23
Speaker 1: expected to be. Uh. You know, it's a remarkable thing
23:28
Speaker 1: because you don't see it all the time. All Right,
23:29
Speaker 1: for my he will, he won't mind. I'm going with
23:32
Speaker 1: Travis each again, and I say he will make a
23:34
Speaker 1: big play. He'll have one of those signature runs against
23:37
Speaker 1: the Titans on Sunday. Now. The reason why, obviously, is
23:41
Speaker 1: that we saw him get on track last week, but
23:43
Speaker 1: they bottled him up the last time the Jaguars played
23:46
Speaker 1: the Titans and he didn't quite get there. But I
23:48
Speaker 1: saw the confidence with which he was running, the way
23:51
Speaker 1: that he hit the whole He just he's got it.
23:54
Speaker 1: He's ready for this, and on Sunday he will hit
23:56
Speaker 1: a big play. He won't average five yards of carrying.
23:59
Speaker 1: You don't do that against the Titans, who are one
24:01
Speaker 1: of the NFL's best run defenses. But they're banged up
24:05
Speaker 1: up front. Jeffrey Simmons, the most dominant player is gutting
24:08
Speaker 1: it out on an ankle. As we heard from Mike
24:10
Speaker 1: Keith yesterday, there's gonna be opportunities there. But to suggest
24:13
Speaker 1: that he'll be able to do what he did against
24:16
Speaker 1: the Texans, I don't know. So I don't say he
24:20
Speaker 1: won't get to five yards to carry, but he might
24:22
Speaker 1: be the X factor on Sunday with the Titans trying
24:25
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to take Evan Ingram away
24:27
Speaker 1: to keep Christian Kirker's A Jones from doing what they've
24:30
Speaker 1: done so consistently over the last six weeks. John, I
24:33
Speaker 1: think that Travis E. T N might be that guy.
24:34
Speaker 1: It might not be as a running back, it might
24:37
Speaker 1: be as a receiver. But this is where I think
24:39
Speaker 1: that Doug Peterson and Press Taylor and Jim Bob Cooterer,
24:42
Speaker 1: I think this is where that offensive brain trust says,
24:44
Speaker 1: we've got a guy that can be that X factor,
24:47
Speaker 1: explosion guy that you can't account for because we're making
24:50
Speaker 1: you take in all the other weapons we've got on
24:53
Speaker 1: the field. And I think it might be Travis on
24:56
Speaker 1: Saturday night. And you know, I needs to hold the ball.
25:01
Speaker 1: That's a big factor right now. When he's got the
25:03
Speaker 1: ball in. It needed to be said just to make
25:08
Speaker 1: sure that people understood that we're aware of it. But
25:12
Speaker 1: he has to be in the game. I like your
25:16
Speaker 1: he will hem you might for this reason. If he
25:19
Speaker 1: gains five yards on on Saturday, he'll be important because
25:25
Speaker 1: every fiber of me believes that the Titans are up
25:28
Speaker 1: there game planning. You have to account for him. They
25:32
Speaker 1: know that you have to account for him. I believe
25:35
Speaker 1: that's why the Jaguars the Titans will beat up in
25:38
Speaker 1: the secondary of that day too. But they passed so
25:42
Speaker 1: well against that team up there. A big reason for
25:47
Speaker 1: that is they were worried about Travis c E. T
25:49
Speaker 1: N worried about trying to stop him. He has to
25:51
Speaker 1: be in the game. You have to give him, even
25:54
Speaker 1: if he gains forty yards, give him the opportunities to
25:57
Speaker 1: for the Titans to know that you believe in him,
26:00
Speaker 1: and it will open things up for everybody else. All right,
26:02
Speaker 1: there's he will he won't he might. When we returned
26:04
Speaker 1: the final segment of Jags Drive Time presented by the
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26:20
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back Jack's Drive Time. John Osian and
26:23
Speaker 1: Brian Sexton with you from t I A Bank Field
26:25
Speaker 1: in Jackson. Gvillman has always we end the Thursday show
26:28
Speaker 1: with a preview of what we think the headlines are
26:30
Speaker 1: going to be. Normally we call it Monday's Headlines Today,
26:32
Speaker 1: but since it's a Saturday night primetime game. Here's what
26:36
Speaker 1: we think you might be reading on Sunday morning. John,
26:41
Speaker 1: I went with it was always the South, you know,
26:45
Speaker 1: And I would say it's a play on on on
26:48
Speaker 1: on duties. It was always the Jags and apparently, I mean,
26:52
Speaker 1: I guess I from what I've read, Doug can read
26:55
Speaker 1: the future, but he knows what's gonna happen. Maybe he
26:58
Speaker 1: can tell me what the headline is gonna be. Maybe
26:59
Speaker 1: he should be on this segment, on this segment and
27:03
Speaker 1: just kill all the all the anticipation and nervousness for
27:07
Speaker 1: the fans. But they've been talking about this since week
27:12
Speaker 1: seven or eight, about this game, about winning the division.
27:15
Speaker 1: This way, I would think that you will hear this
27:19
Speaker 1: from players on Saturday night if they win this game.
27:22
Speaker 1: It was always this out. Uh yeah, you might see
27:26
Speaker 1: that t shirt showing up in the next couple of
27:28
Speaker 1: days to uh, you might see people wearing it. Mine
27:32
Speaker 1: is turned the page, right. I could just I envision
27:37
Speaker 1: a picture somewhere of the game and turn the page,
27:40
Speaker 1: and you turn the page of the newspaper and there
27:43
Speaker 1: is Jaguars logo with a f C South champions. Because
27:46
Speaker 1: the Titans have been the a f C South champions
27:49
Speaker 1: for the last two years, and they've really been the
27:51
Speaker 1: class of this division. I know Houston had a little
27:53
Speaker 1: run there, but since Andrew Luck left in Indianapolis, this
27:58
Speaker 1: has been the team to beat. And now that I
28:01
Speaker 1: believe has changed and the Jaguars are the team to beat.
28:04
Speaker 1: And so turn the page on the regular season to
28:07
Speaker 1: the postseason. Turned the page from the Titans to the Jaguars.
28:11
Speaker 1: Turned the page from suffering and losing Jaguars fans to
28:15
Speaker 1: winning and enjoying your football team. So, yeah, you in
28:20
Speaker 1: this game not to look too far ahead, but then
28:23
Speaker 1: you enter next season, like we talked about as the hunted.
28:27
Speaker 1: You know, you're four and two in the division. I
28:29
Speaker 1: think that would be my no. No, you went on Sunday,
28:31
Speaker 1: you finished four and two, which well, I mean they
28:34
Speaker 1: did it in seventeen, but as we've talked about, didn't
28:36
Speaker 1: beat all the teams that year. It would be the
28:38
Speaker 1: first year, I guess ever, that you felt like you
28:43
Speaker 1: were truly the class of the division, because even in
28:45
Speaker 1: seventeen there was that little Titans had swept your thing. Uh,
28:51
Speaker 1: you know, you would walk into the office, I mean
28:54
Speaker 1: I walked into the postseason for the first time, knowing
28:57
Speaker 1: you were kings of this out and the Jaguars hope
28:59
Speaker 1: to be able to claim that on Saturday night here
29:02
Speaker 1: at t I A a bank field that'll do it
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Speaker 1: for us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you
29:06
Speaker 1: on Saturday evening as the Jaguars get set to try
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Speaker 1: to claim the South. Have a great day, everybody,