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Amanda Renner on How Jaguars Offense Can Succeed in Week 11 | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues. The Tennessee Titans and the Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars coming up in Week eleven at EverBank Stadium. CBS
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  Speaker 1: Sports has the game on television. This week's bureau Adidas
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  Speaker 1: Adam Marcalletta and on the sidelines it's Amanda Renter. And
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  Speaker 1: it's our first opportunity to visit with you, Amanda on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast and program and pregame show. And it's nice
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  Speaker 1: to have you back in Jacksonville. Are you ready for
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars football again?
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  Speaker 2: I am. You know, I lived here for five years.
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  Speaker 2: It always feels like I'm coming home a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: so I think the weather's going to be perfect and
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  Speaker 2: excited for an AFC South showdown.
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  Speaker 1: What five years were you? I know you were with
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  Speaker 1: PGA Tour Entertainment, right. How long were you in Jacksonville?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, started out in twenty eleven, so I was there
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  Speaker 2: for five years and then moved out to San Diego
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  Speaker 2: and have been there ever since.
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  Speaker 1: So you're well aware of what a good Jaguars team
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  Speaker 1: does for the city of Jacksonville and Duvall County, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean when the Jags are good and hot, this
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  Speaker 1: place is on fire.
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  Speaker 2: It is so fun and I tell people that all
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  Speaker 2: the time. I think the tailgating is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most underrated things about Jacksonville Jaguarirs football games. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's this weird perception that the city doesn't necessarily come
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  Speaker 2: out in support, and I think if you've ever come
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  Speaker 2: to a game, you know that could really be farther
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  Speaker 2: from the truth, right, especially as you said, when they're playing, well,
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  Speaker 2: they've something to be excited about. Yeah, I think the
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  Speaker 2: city of Jacksonville shows up in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Renner with a CBS Sports Let's get into the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars team six and three. They lost the game to
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  Speaker 1: Houston where they just didn't show up. They played terrible
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  Speaker 1: on all sides of the ball. Then hey, let's take
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  Speaker 1: the show International. They went to London and won both
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  Speaker 1: of those games and then won five straight somehow after
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  Speaker 1: losing that. And that's been Doug Peterson's mo. When they
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  Speaker 1: lose big, they bounce back and win. They're three and
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  Speaker 1: oh under Doug Peterson. When they lose by ten points
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  Speaker 1: or more the next game, they're three and oh. In
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  Speaker 1: the last two times they've won five straight. You visited
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  Speaker 1: with Doug again this week. What is it about his
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  Speaker 1: personality his coaching style that just has that bounce back
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  Speaker 1: ability for his team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know him as well as I do.
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  Speaker 2: He is just he's a guy you want to play
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  Speaker 2: hard for. He gets it as a former player himself.
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  Speaker 2: He strikes me as one of those coaches that he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't get too high, doesn't get too low, and as
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  Speaker 2: a former quarterback, understands how to read a room and
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  Speaker 2: knows how to get guys fired up when they need
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  Speaker 2: to be fired up. Right, So I don't think he's
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  Speaker 2: the type of coach that you have to kind of
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  Speaker 2: pick and choose what words you're going to believe from him.
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  Speaker 2: I think when he speaks, every single guy listens. And
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  Speaker 2: I also think he really empowers his locker room, right.
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  Speaker 2: I think he empowers his players to take ownership and
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  Speaker 2: really allows them to do that. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: is the culture that he's created that we've seen this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this unbelievable turnaround in such a short period
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  Speaker 2: of time since he's been here, but also absolutely speaks
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  Speaker 2: of that bounce back effect where guys aren't wallowing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for too long, they kind of they I think the
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  Speaker 2: notion that I've gotten this week is hey, guys, let's
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  Speaker 2: flush the game. But before we do that, let's hold
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  Speaker 2: on to that little motivation we need from it. So
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  Speaker 2: keep that motivation and the rest is flushed and we
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  Speaker 2: never think about it again. And I think they're very
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  Speaker 2: capable of doing.
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  Speaker 1: That, you know, And it's a different feel. I think
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  Speaker 1: for Doug, I think that San Francisco game, he won't
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  Speaker 1: show it visibly, but I think that got to him.
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  Speaker 1: Just the performance they put out there last week just
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  Speaker 1: frustrated the heck out of him. And you know, he
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  Speaker 1: might have said that internally, but he's got to teach
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  Speaker 1: this team how to do that process. Right. This is
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  Speaker 1: a younger team and Philly he had a more of
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  Speaker 1: a veteran team, and now he's having to really walk
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  Speaker 1: some of these guys through it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, listen, everyone has to learn at some point.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think they have a pretty solid mix
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  Speaker 2: of veterans who have been through some things and then
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  Speaker 2: some of the younger guys, and I think that's almost
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  Speaker 2: what you need, right. Like when I think of younger
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  Speaker 2: players in any sport, I think sometimes the lack of
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  Speaker 2: scar tissue can be an advantage, like not knowing what
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  Speaker 2: you don't know, and especially if you have those veteran
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  Speaker 2: guys who have been through it all to kind of
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  Speaker 2: remind you that, listen, we've been here before. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen again, but you can't let it be the
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  Speaker 2: thing that defined you. I was actually trying to find
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  Speaker 2: in my notes. I can't remember who said this. I
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  Speaker 2: think it might have been Christian Kirk. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but someone on the offense said, you know, this would
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  Speaker 2: have been worse if we had played our best and
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  Speaker 2: then got beat the way we were beat We did
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  Speaker 2: not play our best, right, You're never gonna win when
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  Speaker 2: you have the turnovers you have. It was kind of
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  Speaker 2: just this perfect storm. So it's almost like, listen, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't do anything that we're used to doing, and it
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  Speaker 2: almost makes it easier to just say that was a
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  Speaker 2: one time deal. Let's throw that out and now let's
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  Speaker 2: get back to Jaguar football.
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  Speaker 1: A band of Renner CBS Sports with Us, and part
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  Speaker 1: of that obviously is quarterback play, and Trevor Lawrence said
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  Speaker 1: might have been the worst game of his career last week.
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  Speaker 1: A couple interceptions lost to fumble, just nothing clicking well
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive side in those bounce back games, though
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback usually has a big game. What do you
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  Speaker 1: like about Trevor in the times you've spent with him.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor, you know, it's interesting he and Doug Peterson are
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  Speaker 2: I guess I would describe them in very similar ways, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like they're very calm, cool and collected guys. It feels
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  Speaker 2: like Trevor, for as young as he is, has a
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  Speaker 2: pretty great perspective in terms of not letting things become
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  Speaker 2: bigger than they need to be. He's just an innate leader, right.
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  Speaker 2: I think you get that from him the moment you're
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  Speaker 2: around him. And he has no quit in him, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's I don't think I've ever seen
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  Speaker 2: him blame anyone. He always takes accountability. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: he puts, you know, he feels like he needs to
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  Speaker 2: put this offense on his shoulders. And I think when
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  Speaker 2: you have a leader like that, it pushes everybody right
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  Speaker 2: there along with you. Right, there's no point fingers, there's
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  Speaker 2: no egos. Trevor's told us that in the past that
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  Speaker 2: one of the great things about this team is it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter who gets the ball as long as you
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  Speaker 2: know they're doing the right things. There's no one coming
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  Speaker 2: up to him on the sidelines or you know, during
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  Speaker 2: practice saying I'm open, why aren't you getting the ball
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  Speaker 2: to me? More that that's not happening, So it almost
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  Speaker 2: allows Trevor to want to, you know, push even harder
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  Speaker 2: to get the ball out to as many weapons as possible.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think in general, he's a really good leader.
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  Speaker 2: And if you remember last season, he struggled with interceptions,
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  Speaker 2: right with turnovers, and he he really took that on
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  Speaker 2: and that's when they caught fire. Right. We've seen him
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  Speaker 2: be able to fix these problems. And it's not that
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  Speaker 2: those problems ever go away, but the older you get,
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  Speaker 2: you hope that it becomes less and less. And so
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  Speaker 2: I think this is something that Trevor Lawrence has dealt
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  Speaker 2: with before and found a solution too. So I would
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  Speaker 2: expect for him to kind of go back to maybe
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  Speaker 2: what was going wrong last season Brian, figure out how
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  Speaker 2: he fixed that, you know, then, and see how he
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  Speaker 2: can do that now, Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: He might have one of those weapons back is at
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  Speaker 1: the time of this recording, Jay Jones wide receiver is
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  Speaker 1: questionable for the game, but it was trending the right
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  Speaker 1: way forward. Him to play. He's missed the bulk of
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  Speaker 1: the season with a knee injury, and it's been a
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  Speaker 1: full week for day I mean Monday, he's arrested, Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: he's and handcuffs in front of a judge. Wednesdays on
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  Speaker 1: the practice field again, and that's a lot in one week.
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  Speaker 1: But Jay on the field changes a whole lot about
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  Speaker 1: this offense. If he's right, it opens up Calvin, Ridley
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  Speaker 1: and Kirk and Ingram, and then the full arsenal was back.
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  Speaker 1: If Jay Jones is right.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. I think it would probably be irresponsible to
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  Speaker 2: talk about what's happening off the field, knowing that the
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  Speaker 2: legal process still has to play itself out. And I
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  Speaker 2: am not a lawyer, so you know, taking that kind
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  Speaker 2: of putting that in its own bucket, right, and just
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  Speaker 2: dealing with the football side of it. If they plays
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  Speaker 2: or not. I think if he does play, what he's
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  Speaker 2: able to contribute is kind of what this offense has
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  Speaker 2: been lacking in, right, in terms of third down conversions,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Redstone execution, those are the things ja Z
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  Speaker 2: Jones really brings to this offense, and Trevor Lawrence feels
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  Speaker 2: super comfortable with, say, right, so like, let's not forget
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  Speaker 2: about that either. Adding another weapon is one thing. Adding
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  Speaker 2: another weapon that your guy has a ton of confidence
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  Speaker 2: in is a you know, added benefit. So I think
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  Speaker 2: as this offense looks for ways to become more efficient
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  Speaker 2: and looking for that spark, you have to think adding
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  Speaker 2: back in one of your starters who can do some
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  Speaker 2: good things in the places where you've been struggling might
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  Speaker 2: be that exact spark that you're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Man a Runners, CBS Sports with us on countdown to kickoff.
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  Speaker 1: Let's flip it now to the Tennessee Titans. And this
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  Speaker 1: is an obviously a division rival that dominated the head
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  Speaker 1: to head series until last year. The Jaguars finally swept
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  Speaker 1: the Titans two epic games really up in Nashville. The
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars heading won the air forever, and they finally got
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  Speaker 1: it done in an up and down, back and forth game.
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  Speaker 1: And then the last week of the regular season. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like an organization and transition, a new GM.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback thing has changed now with Will Levis the
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  Speaker 1: running backs not getting many younger. So who are the
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  Speaker 1: Titans right now? How do you describe them? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think that is man you take a
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  Speaker 2: look at their at their injuries, right, the injuries always
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  Speaker 2: seem to be a thing with the Tennessee Titans kind
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  Speaker 2: of no matter what their offensive line is, something that
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  Speaker 2: has been in flux and kind of will continue to
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  Speaker 2: probably be the story. And as you said, we have
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  Speaker 2: a new guy under center, right, Will Levis, and I
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  Speaker 2: think he's bringing some interesting energy as well some young
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  Speaker 2: optimism to this team. He's only gonna be making his
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  Speaker 2: fourth start this week. I'm excited to see what he's
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  Speaker 2: able to do. I mean, he came out just guns
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  Speaker 2: blazing right in his first start during four TD passes.
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  Speaker 2: It was just an incredible workI performance. And then since then,
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  Speaker 2: I think now that there's a little bit of film
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  Speaker 2: on him, teams start to wisen up a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and it's kind of welcome to the one of those
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the NFL, you know, moments for him and
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  Speaker 2: learning how to adjust. But yeah, listen, you never count
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  Speaker 2: out the Titans, right. I don't care how old Derrick
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  Speaker 2: Henry is, I am never counting him out. I'm certainly
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  Speaker 2: never counting him out as he comes back home to
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  Speaker 2: the Jacksonville area where he has just been absolutely dominant right, So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what do I expect from that? I expect for them
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  Speaker 2: to fight no matter what. I expect for this young
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  Speaker 2: quarterback to have absolutely zero quitting him. I expect for
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  Speaker 2: him to be maybe a little bit more mobile this week.
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  Speaker 2: I know that we saw him use his feet a
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  Speaker 2: lot more in college. He's been really trying to stay
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  Speaker 2: back there and go through his progressions in these first
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  Speaker 2: three weeks, and I think he's talked about this week
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  Speaker 2: wanting to use a little bit more of his athleticism.
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  Speaker 2: So I think if he can be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more mobile back there and start to get a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more comfortable, and you have Derek Henry who comes
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  Speaker 2: to Jacksonville and just turns into an absolute monster, even
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  Speaker 2: more than he already is. Listen, you know this rivalry,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's not going to be It's not gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a blowout game either way.
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  Speaker 1: Derek Henry is the all time leading rusher against the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars ever and the most rushing touchdowns thirteen career games,
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  Speaker 1: and he is most more often than not, done well
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  Speaker 1: against the Jags. Amanda Renner was I.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't gonna say that. I was gonna let you say that,
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  Speaker 2: So that your viewers didn't just say, man, she's not
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  Speaker 2: even giving us a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Stats don't lie a man, right. We've seen the highlights
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over and heard Mike Keith yell
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine yards at it okay that happens. AFC South
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  Speaker 1: race is getting tight all the sudden. The Jaguars had
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  Speaker 1: this thing seemingly in the bag. It's never in the
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  Speaker 1: bag this early in the season. So the Texans are
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  Speaker 1: moving forward, the Jags are still in first place. It's
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  Speaker 1: a one game split the week before Thanksgiving, So give
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  Speaker 1: us your I don't know if you're into power rankings, Amanda,
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  Speaker 1: but where do you stand in the AFC South?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, but I the AFC South is always so
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  Speaker 2: interesting to me because, like you said, it seems like
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  Speaker 2: halfway through the season, we kind of know, we know,
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote, who's going to just take this thing and
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  Speaker 2: run away with it, and then of course something insane
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  Speaker 2: happens on the back half, and that never seems to
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  Speaker 2: be the case. It's just a division that stays tight,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, they all obviously know each other so
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  Speaker 2: well that I feel like it's really never over until
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  Speaker 2: that last week of the regular season. Exactly like we
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  Speaker 2: saw last season. But I'll tell you what, it's been
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  Speaker 2: fun to watch the Houston Texans start to turn things around.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they deserve it, man, it's been it's been
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  Speaker 2: a rough it's been a rough go at it the
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  Speaker 2: last few years. And to come in and see the
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  Speaker 2: optimism and to see the potential now that this offense
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  Speaker 2: has down in Houston, it's it's very fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: So I think as the years go on, the S
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  Speaker 2: South is becoming more and more of a mustwash division,
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  Speaker 2: which is great for us because we do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be quite a head to head matchup next
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  Speaker 1: week too, Jaguars in Houston, and they got to get
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  Speaker 1: him back from early in the season back in week three, Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: Great stuff. Great to visit with you, Thank for this,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the time, and we'll look forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing you on the sideline Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, see Sunday. Thank you