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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, December 20 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Lawrence drive time, Ryan sex Sextius is actually some time
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Speaker 1: Jeguarren's drive time starts right now. You know, your body
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Speaker 1: is a commodity. You know, you've got to make sure
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Speaker 1: that you stay healthy, and you've got to do the
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Speaker 1: things in the off season and during the season to
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Speaker 1: make sure that you can do it, you know, and
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Speaker 1: you've got to be prepared to think that you're gonna
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Speaker 1: come into with the way the c B A is now,
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Speaker 1: to think you're gonna be able to you know, not
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Speaker 1: really do anything for when the season is over until
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Speaker 1: um you report. You know, you're just gonna put yourself
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Speaker 1: in jeopardy. You know, I'm saying for injury risk and
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Speaker 1: the same thing, and that's that's probably the toughest phase
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Speaker 1: what I call phase one, you know, the same because
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Speaker 1: it puts a lot of accountability on the players, you know,
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Speaker 1: during the season when those players are injured. I guess
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Speaker 1: the best way to say is I try I try
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Speaker 1: to look at is how I would talk to my son.
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Speaker 1: My son comes to home, me has bumps and bruises,
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Speaker 1: you know, and trying to know the difference between injury,
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Speaker 1: what to play through, what to not give him as
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Speaker 1: much information as possible, and I'm saying and then just
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Speaker 1: see where that decision process comes. A lot of time
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Speaker 1: in this day and as it's not just you know,
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Speaker 1: between the coach and the player, obviously the trans and doctors,
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Speaker 1: but you know, you have agents, you have a lot
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Speaker 1: of other people that are involved with that. Good morning,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Time, brought to you by our
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Speaker 1: friends at the Fields Auto Group and Cadillac of Jacksonville
1:22
Speaker 1: and Cadillac of Orange part crowd members of the Fields
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Speaker 1: Auto Group, Brian Sexton, actually Sullivan, Joe Fortunato was somewhere
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Speaker 1: on the other side of this cabinist studio and Stone
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Speaker 1: Cold is keeping it real in the other room. Um
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Speaker 1: our desk looks MEXI after seeing it, it's like, wow,
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Speaker 1: we look well we're working at I mean, let's be honest.
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Speaker 1: At this time of the year, with a team that's
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Speaker 1: four in ten, you are working to tell the stories.
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Speaker 1: And that's another concept of this right now is motivation
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Speaker 1: and where this team is at the injury situation. You
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Speaker 1: heard Doug talking right off the top. Um A lot
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Speaker 1: of players in this league are motivated to get healthy
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Speaker 1: and at this point of the year with I say this, Ashland,
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Speaker 1: and you've been around now long enough to understand I
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Speaker 1: say nothing to play for. Everybody in that locker room
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Speaker 1: is playing for something. But you're not playing for the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: You're not hurting your team at this point. If your
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Speaker 1: knee is sore. And the player that we're talking about
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Speaker 1: is Jalen Ramsey, Um, and you shut it down now.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like he's going to shut it down. Um,
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Speaker 1: But that was the overall gist. It's just sort of
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Speaker 1: that funky time of year. Out of the playoffs, no
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Speaker 1: more home games, so people aren't as tuned in. Christmas
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Speaker 1: is right around the corner, and people are focused on
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Speaker 1: that traveling family coming in, getting the last minute shopping done,
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Speaker 1: preparing for the meals. Um kind of take a back seat.
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the trunk in some respects football back on
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Speaker 1: the back burner. Yeah, well at least the Jaguars are
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Speaker 1: right now. And it doesn't feel very good. Um, there's
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Speaker 1: sort of and maybe you felt this a malaise um again,
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Speaker 1: not attached to any one person, but it's just kind
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Speaker 1: of yeah, we're just kind of grinding out here, just
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Speaker 1: got to get it done. Two weeks inside where you
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Speaker 1: expected to be here in December. But it is what
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Speaker 1: it is. In the locker room has to handle it
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Speaker 1: a certain way. It's two weeks. Well, as you started
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Speaker 1: with big things, all right, Big thing one is motivation.
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Speaker 1: Whether regardless of this locker room's message, everyone has a
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Speaker 1: different motivation for the next two weeks. Whether it's putting
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Speaker 1: a good resume tape together, getting healed from injuries, or
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Speaker 1: just playing for the locker room. Everyone has something different.
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Speaker 1: Cody Kessler share with us his motivation for the next
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Speaker 1: two weeks. I mean, these guys in the locker room
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Speaker 1: and and you know, obviously it's my first year here. Um,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time, you know, something you take
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Speaker 1: pride in as a quarterback is is you want your
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Speaker 1: guys to play for you can play you know around
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Speaker 1: you and and and be successful. And now you know,
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Speaker 1: I want everybody in this locker room to be successful.
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Speaker 1: And um, that's something that you take pride in. And
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Speaker 1: at the same time, as you know, go out there
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Speaker 1: and show that you can play in this league and
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Speaker 1: and you know, kind of turn this thing around and
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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully in well these next few games. So
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Speaker 1: that's really what I was interested in. That was my
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Speaker 1: question to a lot of the guys in the locker
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Speaker 1: room yesterday was are you looking forward to the final
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Speaker 1: two games? Or are you looking for the final two
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Speaker 1: games to be over right? Are you looking forward to
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Speaker 1: the off season? A guy like Cody Kessler understands that
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Speaker 1: he is playing for his NFL. And I'm not talking
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Speaker 1: about whether he's starting here or not, because I don't
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Speaker 1: think any of us expect that to be. But is
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Speaker 1: he going to be the backup quarterback here? Is he
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Speaker 1: gonna be the bridge quarterback here? Is he going to
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Speaker 1: go somewhere and be a backup quarterback? And you think
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Speaker 1: that he should have at least a seven or eight
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Speaker 1: year career. I'm looking at how long Chad hen He's
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Speaker 1: been in this game right as a backup quarterback, a
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Speaker 1: guy who can make a check playing football and being
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Speaker 1: around the game. So his time is now. He better
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Speaker 1: be motivated. And you know, everyone who's watching this, you
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Speaker 1: and I we all go through periods where we look
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Speaker 1: at our computer screen during the day We're like, what
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Speaker 1: are we doing? Right? I mean, you really have to
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Speaker 1: be focused. You have to be very purposeful and and
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Speaker 1: internally motivated at times, not just to get through and
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Speaker 1: get the job done. But to be your best, you
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Speaker 1: can't go out on that field on Sunday and just
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Speaker 1: get it done because hey, you might get hurt, be
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Speaker 1: you might get your ticket out of the league. You've
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Speaker 1: got to fight through whatever little cloud malaise, pity, woe
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Speaker 1: is me is going on and really be the math
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Speaker 1: of your own career. Right regarding Cody Kessler, these next
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Speaker 1: two weeks are huge for him with the resume tape,
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Speaker 1: Like we were talking about these next two weeks, he's
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Speaker 1: had this opportunity to talk about what a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: it is to play in this league and be the
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Speaker 1: starter for an NFL team. But these next two weeks
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Speaker 1: he's got to step it up and put better tape
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Speaker 1: on because you said, like wherever, whatever team he goes to,
5:19
Speaker 1: you don't know where he's gonna end up. How about
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Speaker 1: Lee Jackson? Right, a great example if you don't get
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Speaker 1: you if you haven't seen this, he is one of
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Speaker 1: our favorites in the locker room, has been since the
5:27
Speaker 1: day he arrived. At his opening press conference, he said, look,
5:30
Speaker 1: he said they only guaranteed forty two million. Think about that,
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Speaker 1: the only guarantee of the ninety million dollar deal, and
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Speaker 1: he said, I want it all. And at that moment,
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Speaker 1: I said, this is gonna be my favorite guy in
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Speaker 1: the locker room. And what did he say? Yeah, exactly
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Speaker 1: what did he say to you yesterday when you asked
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Speaker 1: him if he had a moment? He said, it's all
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Speaker 1: about the money for me. Well, but he also said
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Speaker 1: get me while you can, because he understands right that
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Speaker 1: and and that's the story that came out in the
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Speaker 1: newspaper last week that he is likely to be playing
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Speaker 1: elsewhere well, so his motivation, he knows, is going on
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Speaker 1: a He said, I'm here because they pay me handsomely,
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Speaker 1: which I loved. But more than that, he understands that
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Speaker 1: he needs to show everyone. He The great thing about
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Speaker 1: Malik is he knows he hasn't had a good season.
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Speaker 1: And he said that he had to go out these
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Speaker 1: last two weeks and and put a bow on his season,
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Speaker 1: turn the narrative of his season around so that when
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Speaker 1: other teams start looking as Malik Jackson lost it, does
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Speaker 1: he no longer have them either the physical or the
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Speaker 1: renovation to get out there and play that he can
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Speaker 1: show them something different. I really like that he gets it.
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Speaker 1: It's a short window in your life that you have
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Speaker 1: to go all out as a professional football player. He's
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Speaker 1: going all out. Malik is very selfware and honest with
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Speaker 1: the media, which I respect because a lot of people
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Speaker 1: would say that they don't want to talk about what's
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Speaker 1: been going on inside internally with the communication. He has
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Speaker 1: laid it all out there and been so honest with everyone.
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Speaker 1: But just so asking you the audience, just to think
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Speaker 1: about your day yesterday and today and you're at work
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Speaker 1: and you're trying to get things done. You have it
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Speaker 1: to do list before you get out, before the holiday.
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Speaker 1: You're thinking about your kids, your husband, the last and
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Speaker 1: a gift right, what you're gonna get your wife when
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Speaker 1: you're what you've gotten something for your wife by now
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Speaker 1: you have? Yeah, I have, I'm not stupid. Um. You
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Speaker 1: know what time you have to leave at the airport,
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Speaker 1: what what the weather is going to be like? Those
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Speaker 1: are all things that these guys have to go through too.
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Speaker 1: They have to think about it. And at the same
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Speaker 1: time they thinking about, Okay, here we go Dolphins this week, right,
7:21
Speaker 1: so you've got to and then of course hanging over
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Speaker 1: and we you know, the unstated thing is this team
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Speaker 1: has played lousy football, at least on the offensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball the last couple of weeks, and so
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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta grind through it all. The motivation
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Speaker 1: is still in the locker room. That was the good
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Speaker 1: news yesterday. I did not sense that a lot of
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Speaker 1: guys had checked out. And now, of course, one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons for that is is you've got a roster.
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Speaker 1: You know, all the starters that are injured and on
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Speaker 1: injured reserve and not playing, You've got a roster and
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Speaker 1: a starting lineup filled with guys who have a lot
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Speaker 1: to prove. That helps the locker room. If there's a
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Speaker 1: positive in it is you're gonna see guys playing hard
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Speaker 1: on Sunday because most of those guys their future is
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Speaker 1: not secure and they're all motivated for different reasons. But
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Speaker 1: that's okay. As long as they're motivated, it can be
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Speaker 1: for different storylines. We'll take that any day of the week,
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Speaker 1: all right. Big thing too is Pro Bowl. Jalen Ramsey's
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl announcement. The lone Jaguar to make it this
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Speaker 1: year after six made it last year, back to back
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Speaker 1: consecutive seasons. For Jalen, we all know he's been dealing
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Speaker 1: with a knee injury for the greater part of the
8:19
Speaker 1: season now, but has not missed a game. He talked
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Speaker 1: about yesterday playing through injuries just because the love of
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Speaker 1: the game. I love football, man, Honestly, I truly love football. Um.
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Speaker 1: I hate not being able to play football. And uh
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Speaker 1: never missed a game my NFL career yet, a regular
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Speaker 1: season game. I don't plan on it now. Um, And
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Speaker 1: sometimes later on in the year I get better stats. Um,
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Speaker 1: a rookie year. I think the last three or four weeks,
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Speaker 1: I played the best ball. Last year, towards the end
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Speaker 1: of the season, I was playing some foodball. Um. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: I can do that again. I can manage my knee.
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Speaker 1: I'll I'll push through it and I'll be all right.
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Speaker 1: You know who was it yesterday? You know Joan Marcus. Uh,
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Speaker 1: that was all bent. And you know how long is
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Speaker 1: it gonna take you to really understand what a selfish
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Speaker 1: kid he is? I'm telling you the last six weeks
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Speaker 1: he has been sensational. And there yesterday in front of
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Speaker 1: his locker, he was talking about his knee, about how
9:16
Speaker 1: much he loved the game. I asked him the same
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Speaker 1: question that I asked Cody and the League, and that
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Speaker 1: is are you looking forward to Sunday or you're looking
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Speaker 1: forward to New Year's Day when this whole thing is
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Speaker 1: past you? Oh no, no, we love football. We've been
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Speaker 1: given these gifts, We've been giving these skills. We love football.
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Speaker 1: I love football. UM was very impressed with the way
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Speaker 1: that he stood there yesterday and dealt with a difficult
9:36
Speaker 1: topic of motivation his knee. Um, Marcus can tell us
9:43
Speaker 1: this when he comes on. You know, you get players.
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Speaker 1: That's the vast minority of players, right, vast minority. If
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Speaker 1: you see what I did with that of players who
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Speaker 1: at the end of a year care enough to keep
9:53
Speaker 1: on playing even though they don't have to. How many
9:56
Speaker 1: people do you know that if they could walk out
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Speaker 1: the door right now? If Ash and Sullivan went to
10:00
Speaker 1: the front and got on the microdes and everybody who
10:02
Speaker 1: wants to leave can leave today, go home and start
10:05
Speaker 1: your Christmas vacation. What do you think I think John
10:07
Speaker 1: O beat first mind? What do you think half the
10:09
Speaker 1: building went empty at least? Right? And that's not just
10:12
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, blue cross and blue shield, you name it.
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Speaker 1: Anywhere you go fields, right, people go out? I can
10:17
Speaker 1: leave now, yeah, right, Hey, Merry Christmas. I'm out that's
10:21
Speaker 1: human nature. Um. The great ones defy human nature with
10:25
Speaker 1: their will to win, and you saw that from him,
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Speaker 1: especially when you know that Jalen Ramsey is in pain
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Speaker 1: and dealing with that knee injury and that hasn't factored
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Speaker 1: into anything. Now, the topic was Pro Bowl and he
10:35
Speaker 1: may or may not play. It sounds like he wants
10:37
Speaker 1: to try to play. Doug talked off the top of
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Speaker 1: our show about getting him to a point where he
10:42
Speaker 1: feels comfortable and is healthy and if he wants to play,
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Speaker 1: he goes and he plays. UM, but taking care of
10:47
Speaker 1: his body is most important and obviously that will come
10:49
Speaker 1: into play as they go around. To me, the Pro
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Speaker 1: Bowl UM one player as opposed to six tells you
10:55
Speaker 1: everything about how it's fallen off on defense this year,
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Speaker 1: storyline of the six to one, and then you look
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Speaker 1: at someone like the Chargers who have I think seven
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and the storyline they're having and all the
11:06
Speaker 1: attention they're getting. It was the Jaguars last season. Some
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Speaker 1: of it is that the offense couldn't help him and
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Speaker 1: so they couldn't make the game changing place. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Telvin Smith last year was a highlight machine this year. No,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't unique and got way last year seven stripped sacks, right,
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Speaker 1: six of them. Lad the touchdowns scores um. This year
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have one. He had one that was taken
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Speaker 1: away in that Colts game by a penalty. But even
11:32
Speaker 1: Klais fourteen and a half sacks now four and a
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Speaker 1: half of those came in, you know, opening day. But
11:37
Speaker 1: he was a monster last year and he might get
11:39
Speaker 1: there and Miles might get there as alternates, but a
11:42
Speaker 1: j boyer, right, he was hurt for part of the season,
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Speaker 1: and he wasn't last These guys they just didn't offense
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Speaker 1: or not. They just didn't produce like they did the
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Speaker 1: year before. And that is absolutely a story inline, right,
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Speaker 1: especially going into the Pro Bowl. It's a performances. Last
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Speaker 1: year the Pro Bowl was fun. You had Unique and
12:00
Speaker 1: Calais and even guys that didn't play but also excited
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Speaker 1: to be there too. Yeah. Well, and that was a
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Speaker 1: moment where okay, here the Jaguars are back on the
12:08
Speaker 1: national stage and it's been a while, and these are
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Speaker 1: young guys and you're going to see them for years
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Speaker 1: to come because you get into that Pro Bowl rhythm, right,
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Speaker 1: and you you generally get votes and you get back
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Speaker 1: there if you have a good year, not a great year,
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Speaker 1: you tend to stay in those Pro Bowl slots. No,
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Speaker 1: they didn't, so top to the bottom in just a year.
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Speaker 1: We'll see if they can go back next year. All right,
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Speaker 1: Big thing three is Miami a good matchup for the Jaguars. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Miami has lost their running back Frank Gore, who has
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Speaker 1: been really productive for them this season. Their offensive line
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Speaker 1: is banged up, similar to the Jaguars. They give up
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Speaker 1: nine sacks last week against the Vikings. Defense give up
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Speaker 1: forty one points in the Minnesota Vikings. But they've drafted
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Speaker 1: well on defense. Make up Fitzpatrick and Jerome Baker break
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Speaker 1: top in their rookie class. For the Dolphins, they've had
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Speaker 1: a good draft the past few years, but they're dealing
12:53
Speaker 1: with a lot of the same things that the Jaguars
12:55
Speaker 1: here are dealing with, with a insufficient offense at times.
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Speaker 1: The Dolphins are this season where they have been seemingly
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Speaker 1: forever and in the middle of the pack. Um there
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Speaker 1: seven and seven, and they got the miracle win over
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Speaker 1: the Patriots and they go to my to Minnesota, and
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Speaker 1: that's this team that had fired their offensive coordinator. You think,
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Speaker 1: if they can win this one, the right and at
13:24
Speaker 1: one point they were down twenty one nothing and they
13:25
Speaker 1: got back to seventeen and then boom, the Vikings just
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Speaker 1: ran away from them exactly. So they are just very
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Speaker 1: very thinly on the edge of being in the playoff put.
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Speaker 1: It's enough that they should have a lot of motivation
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Speaker 1: to come and play. Um. But I went and looked,
13:39
Speaker 1: do you realize that since the Jaguars have been in
13:42
Speaker 1: the NFL, the Dolphins are three and seven in their
13:47
Speaker 1: ten playoff games, three and seven. They they're just there
13:52
Speaker 1: in the middle of the pack. They're kind of stuck.
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Speaker 1: They never seem to get past. Now they're Jaguars fans
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Speaker 1: who are out there who've had enough of you know,
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Speaker 1: four and ten that say I'll take eight Nate, no problem.
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Speaker 1: And you know, eight Nate would feel pretty good right
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Speaker 1: about now. But that Dolphins team has just kind of
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Speaker 1: been hanging on and hanging on. I gotta give Adam
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Speaker 1: Gaze credit and and that group down there, because they
14:11
Speaker 1: shed a lot of top players. They let Jarvis Landry
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Speaker 1: go and he's a big reason why the Browns are
14:17
Speaker 1: in the playoff hunt. This year and why Baker Mayfield
14:20
Speaker 1: has had the kind of season that he's had. They
14:22
Speaker 1: letting Doma con Sugo, and I realized he hadn't produced
14:25
Speaker 1: to the level of his contract, But I mean, who does.
14:27
Speaker 1: He was the staple though of your team at times,
14:29
Speaker 1: a great player that you let walk, and they just
14:32
Speaker 1: they kind of cleaned house and let some guys walk
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Speaker 1: and brought in older players. Uh, Frank Gore, I mean,
14:38
Speaker 1: you're gonna hang on Frank Gore. Nice player for the
14:41
Speaker 1: great player over the course of his career, only a
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Speaker 1: nice player at this stage of his career. But you're saying, Okay, well,
14:47
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with this guy, and he's gonna be
14:48
Speaker 1: our guy. Fourteenth NFL season. It worked. They got to
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Speaker 1: seven and seven. They were pretty productive this year. So
14:55
Speaker 1: congratulations to Adam Gaze and the job that they've done
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Speaker 1: down there in Miami. And you know, they've got a
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Speaker 1: chance to probably finish eight n eight right and be
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Speaker 1: right in the middle again, right in the middle again
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Speaker 1: another year. And I think that if you look at
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Speaker 1: them honestly, their quarterback situation is you know, Tannehill was
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Speaker 1: a first round pick and they had moments where they
15:13
Speaker 1: thought this guy is our guy, and since then, yeah,
15:17
Speaker 1: I mean he's just again, he's almost eight and eight, right,
15:20
Speaker 1: forty two and forty four is a starter. Um, yeah,
15:25
Speaker 1: just just okay. You know, a wise man once told me,
15:29
Speaker 1: be good or stink, but don't be just okay. In
15:32
Speaker 1: the NFL, if you're just okay, you get stuck there.
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Speaker 1: And they've seem been stuck there for years and years
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Speaker 1: and years. So we'll see what they've got on Sunday.
15:42
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see that stadium since they put that
15:44
Speaker 1: roof on it. We've been down there and I know
15:45
Speaker 1: you grew up there and you go out on that
15:47
Speaker 1: field in December and the sun is beating down and
15:49
Speaker 1: you think you're the on the equator, you know, and
15:52
Speaker 1: you think, wow, I'm in the middle of this thing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And hard Rock Stadium has sort of an attractive feel
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Speaker 1: to it now when you see it on TV. Yeah,
15:58
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16:01
Speaker 1: all right. So Jaguars and Dolphins one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Um,
16:07
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16:10
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16:12
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16:14
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16:18
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Speaker 1: Vehicles and the Florida Highway Patrol. He Marcus um if
18:16
Speaker 1: you had a Christmas song that represented you as well
18:20
Speaker 1: as that Kenny Chesney song does, because I think that
18:23
Speaker 1: song just kind of fits. It comes in, it's got
18:25
Speaker 1: this nice fee yeah yeah, friendly, makes you want to
18:30
Speaker 1: hear more of it? Christmas song from me? Would it
18:32
Speaker 1: be this Christmas? In this Christmas? Yeah? Will be yeah.
18:38
Speaker 1: I can say listen which version of it? Uh, Chris
18:43
Speaker 1: Brown version? Oh there you go. I imagine that Joe
18:47
Speaker 1: will have that before we're done. That's just kind of
18:50
Speaker 1: the way that he works. Um, before we do the
18:52
Speaker 1: playoffs stuff. Playoffs, Yeah, playoffs. I don't know why we're
18:56
Speaker 1: talking about that. We've been talking about motivation, and one
19:00
Speaker 1: of the things that this team has going for it
19:01
Speaker 1: is that there's a lot of young players out there
19:04
Speaker 1: who have a lot of motivation. Um, just a sense
19:07
Speaker 1: of how hard it can be when you're not in
19:09
Speaker 1: the postseason conversation with two weeks to play and things
19:12
Speaker 1: not going well, and you know, the locker room can
19:15
Speaker 1: be kind of a unfun not fun. Yeah, that that
19:19
Speaker 1: is very true and very accurate. I think when you
19:22
Speaker 1: have such a young team and you work so hard
19:24
Speaker 1: from April to now and to come up short and
19:28
Speaker 1: not to even be in a playoff conversation, locker room
19:31
Speaker 1: can be a lonely and sad, drewery kind of place.
19:34
Speaker 1: But you don't want to hang out right, Absolutely, But
19:36
Speaker 1: I think i've guys not saying that they they are
19:40
Speaker 1: hating football, but I think they're still enjoying each other's
19:42
Speaker 1: company because you still see the antics that you see.
19:45
Speaker 1: You know, if we were sitting here attending to you
19:48
Speaker 1: still see those same guys, you know, pulling jokes and
19:51
Speaker 1: having a good time in the locker room, sitting by
19:52
Speaker 1: each other's lockers and sharing lunch and having conversations. But
19:55
Speaker 1: I think the biggest part, I think Doug has done
19:57
Speaker 1: a tremendous job of reminding guys that they're are still
20:00
Speaker 1: a lot of steak. You know, you don't want to
20:02
Speaker 1: have a resume that shows up when the season was
20:06
Speaker 1: bleak that you quit. And I think our leadership is
20:09
Speaker 1: taking that same conversation with our guys and say, hey, listen,
20:13
Speaker 1: we still got a lot to fight for. But I
20:14
Speaker 1: don't think you have to remind young guys because they
20:16
Speaker 1: don't know anything else. All they know is to fight
20:18
Speaker 1: and to keep playing. How impressed We always talked about
20:22
Speaker 1: how impressive have you been with Jalen Ramsey during the
20:24
Speaker 1: season cheek for us? It seems like he's come such
20:26
Speaker 1: a long way since the Colts game at Lucas Oil State.
20:29
Speaker 1: And that wasn't his best game. We all know that,
20:31
Speaker 1: but it seems like he's completely changed how he approaches
20:34
Speaker 1: the locker room and just the game. Really. Yeah, to me,
20:37
Speaker 1: Jayal is one of those guys that I think when
20:39
Speaker 1: it's all said and done, he's gonna be one of
20:40
Speaker 1: those great ones. I think we can all agree to that.
20:42
Speaker 1: But I think that his approach lately has been so
20:46
Speaker 1: positive and to me, when you have that kind of
20:49
Speaker 1: energy from a player like him, is contagious, and I
20:52
Speaker 1: think it started spread spread on the locker room and
20:55
Speaker 1: and kudos to him for having such this maturity and
20:58
Speaker 1: growth curve from the Colts game to now. Well, you
21:02
Speaker 1: and I had a conversation in London. We were talking
21:03
Speaker 1: about him. We were waiting for him to sort of emerge,
21:06
Speaker 1: and he has right a couple of weeks later in Indianapolis.
21:10
Speaker 1: How much did you have to do with that? Because
21:11
Speaker 1: that's good of what you do time mentoring. I love
21:16
Speaker 1: I would love to take credit for jay Less majority
21:19
Speaker 1: to this point and the way it's it's it's tangible.
21:21
Speaker 1: You can see it, you can, we can. But to me,
21:23
Speaker 1: it's something that he decided he needed to do. To me,
21:26
Speaker 1: that's the that's the approach you have to have for
21:28
Speaker 1: the entire locker room. It's when those guys in locker
21:30
Speaker 1: room start to take ownership and police one another more
21:33
Speaker 1: so than the coaches even myself could do, because they're
21:36
Speaker 1: in the locker room in the trenches one another. When
21:38
Speaker 1: Jayleen can take it upon himself say this is something
21:40
Speaker 1: I need to do, he can start the effect the
21:43
Speaker 1: entire locker room just the way he approached. You've been
21:44
Speaker 1: around this game along and if you've seen the whole
21:46
Speaker 1: cycle a couple of different times, good teams go bad,
21:48
Speaker 1: bad teams become good. Have you ever seen a team
21:50
Speaker 1: that was bad then went good, then went bad then
21:53
Speaker 1: went good. I mean, can you can you can you
21:56
Speaker 1: see if you follow me, that this thing trends back
21:59
Speaker 1: in that that direction in just one year. It does,
22:03
Speaker 1: It really can. And I was on a team that
22:04
Speaker 1: went three and thirteen Payton's rookie year, than the thirteen
22:07
Speaker 1: and three the following year, but then we were kind
22:10
Speaker 1: of a playoff team after that. But I haven't been
22:12
Speaker 1: a part of a team where you were awful then
22:15
Speaker 1: came good and awful again. But I've been around football
22:17
Speaker 1: long enough to note that it happens. It's the cycle. Uh.
22:21
Speaker 1: I think you just got a quarterback. You have to
22:23
Speaker 1: start with every position. You can't just identify the quarterback.
22:25
Speaker 1: But that is a huge piece and making that consistency
22:30
Speaker 1: with playoff teams and being around good team because you
22:32
Speaker 1: look around the league. You got Aaron Rodgers, you got
22:35
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, you got Tom Brady, Peyton Man when he's playing,
22:37
Speaker 1: so you got all these quarterbacks. It is a common
22:39
Speaker 1: denominating having great teams, but to me, bigger than that,
22:42
Speaker 1: you have to have great people with great character. And
22:44
Speaker 1: when you start to build a program or or or
22:47
Speaker 1: or a team, you start with characters and then you
22:49
Speaker 1: start feeling great players. And then when you add a
22:50
Speaker 1: great quarterback to the equation, you know, it's a great
22:53
Speaker 1: chemistry for for great process. And more to your point,
22:55
Speaker 1: you look, there's some great quarterbacks who are not in
22:58
Speaker 1: the postseason conversation. Aaron Rodgers, you know, at the at
23:00
Speaker 1: the forefront of that, and he's played all season. It's
23:03
Speaker 1: not like he was sitting on the sideline. Cam Newton,
23:05
Speaker 1: you know, he was the NFL MVP. He'll be sitting
23:09
Speaker 1: and watching the playoffs. I mean, and there are others.
23:11
Speaker 1: But you know, so the quarterback is not the only
23:14
Speaker 1: part of the equations. It's a huge part, but not
23:17
Speaker 1: the only part. Character and great players, it's probably the
23:20
Speaker 1: biggest part. Is everybody who's watching knows if you don't
23:23
Speaker 1: have that, you don't give yourself a chance, or you know,
23:25
Speaker 1: one more thought on that. Um, if you have a
23:28
Speaker 1: great quarterback, and Peyton Manning is a great example of that,
23:31
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I thought the
23:33
Speaker 1: Jaggers is gonna go in there and beat them. His
23:35
Speaker 1: offensive line is shambles, right, you know they're playing guys
23:37
Speaker 1: who were seventh round picks at right tackle. How are
23:40
Speaker 1: you going to protect the guy? And that? And yet
23:42
Speaker 1: he always made everyone around him better. And that's what
23:47
Speaker 1: they do. Great quarterbacks cover up your deficiencies. And to me,
23:50
Speaker 1: you can you can say the same thing for a
23:51
Speaker 1: running back position as well. Barrissenter didn't play with the
23:54
Speaker 1: best of lines when he played for all those of
23:56
Speaker 1: us either. So if you've got a great quarterback and
23:58
Speaker 1: the great offensive life, uh, great running back, it can
24:01
Speaker 1: make a lot of people's jobs a lot easier. All right, Well,
24:03
Speaker 1: let's take a look at the playoffs standings where they
24:05
Speaker 1: are today, a couple of weeks left in the regular season. Um,
24:08
Speaker 1: and you can see right here, Oh okay, that's the wrong. Uh,
24:13
Speaker 1: let's the wrong look at it because it doesn't have
24:15
Speaker 1: them listed. But at the top of the standings there
24:21
Speaker 1: you've got the Patriots. The look that I wanted to
24:25
Speaker 1: give was, you know where the um the conference is
24:28
Speaker 1: as a whole. But the Chargers Chiefs one is the
24:32
Speaker 1: one that interests me the most because you've got a
24:35
Speaker 1: Chiefs team that's number one right now, but they go
24:36
Speaker 1: to Seattle this week because Seattle team, well, but they
24:40
Speaker 1: got beat last week, so they're pretty motivated to come
24:42
Speaker 1: back and play. Um. You've got you've got the Chiefs
24:46
Speaker 1: that could be the five right and you've got the
24:51
Speaker 1: Charges it could be the one right out of the gate.
24:54
Speaker 1: And that's an interesting look. But the teams that are
24:57
Speaker 1: are hanging around, the Titans, the Colds, the Dolphins, even
25:00
Speaker 1: the brown kind of hanging around. So I mean, to me,
25:03
Speaker 1: it's it's what football is about this time of the year.
25:05
Speaker 1: Those teams that found a way to play well in
25:07
Speaker 1: November December, there's old teams that found a way to
25:10
Speaker 1: make it in the playoffs. You're not saying the first
25:12
Speaker 1: two months of the season are important, but when you
25:14
Speaker 1: can find a way to put wins together this time
25:16
Speaker 1: of year and then roll that into the playoffs like
25:19
Speaker 1: we did last year, I mean, it's it's great, great, great.
25:22
Speaker 1: I think everyone who watches football would tell you the
25:24
Speaker 1: Chargers are probably the hottest team in football right now.
25:28
Speaker 1: My call is is I think that the Chargers win out.
25:31
Speaker 1: They get the Bear at the Bears, the Ravens at home,
25:33
Speaker 1: and then they go to Denver. To me, that's right.
25:37
Speaker 1: And I think that the Chiefs I could be wrong.
25:39
Speaker 1: I've been wrong about them all season long, but I
25:42
Speaker 1: think they lose in Seattle because that's a tough place
25:44
Speaker 1: to go, no matter where you're going from. And I
25:47
Speaker 1: think the people can't see will pull their hair out
25:49
Speaker 1: because you know how with Patrick Mahomes and you know,
25:51
Speaker 1: in forty points a game, it seems like, how in
25:54
Speaker 1: the world haven't watched it? How well are they doing?
25:56
Speaker 1: Without see I think that you can notice that he's
26:02
Speaker 1: not in the game. The other guy, uh Damian Williams
26:05
Speaker 1: last week had a couple of nice runs. But Hunt
26:07
Speaker 1: is so explosive, and the way that defenses have to
26:10
Speaker 1: play the Chiefs with with him on the field as
26:12
Speaker 1: opposed to without, I think it's gonna be I think
26:15
Speaker 1: it will be exploited this week. I think Seattle has
26:18
Speaker 1: enough talent on defense to exploit that. This week. You'll
26:21
Speaker 1: see the absence you don't take four yards and fourteen
26:24
Speaker 1: touchdowns to Way and say, well, the Chiefs are better
26:26
Speaker 1: without him. You don't even notice, No, you can't know.
26:30
Speaker 1: You can't see that. Um. The Steelers come back win,
26:34
Speaker 1: by the way against the Patriots. Huge, huge, because they
26:38
Speaker 1: were on the verge of falling out of it. Now
26:40
Speaker 1: they're in it. And you've got the Ravens that have
26:42
Speaker 1: to go all the way to San Diego, and you
26:45
Speaker 1: have everyone this week saying what the heck happened to
26:47
Speaker 1: the Patriots? They don't have it anymore. Brady's done for
26:50
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what's going on? My friend? I've done
26:56
Speaker 1: all right, He'll be okay. If you watched any national television,
26:59
Speaker 1: they're like, what the heck happital? Well, I mean with
27:03
Speaker 1: that guy? And Josh Gordon has the explosive threat and
27:06
Speaker 1: Gronkowski over the middle limited they're close to the end.
27:09
Speaker 1: You can see that because he doesn't the throw that
27:11
Speaker 1: he made that was picked um at the end of
27:15
Speaker 1: the ball game there where he just dropped back and
27:16
Speaker 1: just chucked it high into the air for the best.
27:19
Speaker 1: When have you ever seen Tom Brady do that in
27:20
Speaker 1: the red zone trying to make a play at the
27:22
Speaker 1: end of the game, so um charges in the number
27:25
Speaker 1: one seed. They're hot and they're getting healthy. Yeah, that's
27:30
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29:31
Speaker 1: the Christmas and as we trimmed the tree, have fun,
29:40
Speaker 1: good guy. I went through a phrase where I really
29:43
Speaker 1: liked Chris Brown. Yeah. I think a lot of people
29:45
Speaker 1: went through that. I would have moved off from that place.
29:48
Speaker 1: You have not moved though. I love that song though,
29:52
Speaker 1: the way you put it together, and to me, I
29:53
Speaker 1: just enjoy it still big Chris Brown. Guy, Yeah, that's
29:57
Speaker 1: that song anyway, Yeah, you know just that song? Who
30:02
Speaker 1: the guy from the Nationwide commercial. He was in Hamilton's
30:05
Speaker 1: Leslie Odam Jr. Do you know him? Yes? Yeah, you
30:08
Speaker 1: know that he's got that great voice. What's that Marshall? Ah?
30:13
Speaker 1: He does the It's the Nationwide commercial when he's on
30:15
Speaker 1: your side? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. I what if he
30:18
Speaker 1: does any Christmas stuff he does? Does he really has
30:20
Speaker 1: a Christmas album? Because I'm listening to Chris Brown and
30:23
Speaker 1: the harmony and just the range that he's got, while
30:25
Speaker 1: this guy he reminds me of Leslie ode Alright, we're
30:28
Speaker 1: off on music, Well start writing? All right, here we go.
30:33
Speaker 1: Who said it, wor go home? Yeah we said that
30:38
Speaker 1: last week, but now like we really need it this week.
30:41
Speaker 1: Who said this? When lose or draw, I will ride
30:45
Speaker 1: with my squad hashtag My brother's keeper tweeted this this week.
30:52
Speaker 1: Jaguars retweeted it. Who wants to go first? Who's most confident?
31:00
Speaker 1: Come not? Jalen Ramsey Calais's campbell. You told me you studied.
31:09
Speaker 1: I thought I studied. I thought I had that one.
31:11
Speaker 1: Oh I did see that somewhere. Claire's Campbell. When lose
31:15
Speaker 1: our draw, I will ride with my squad his defensive line. Well,
31:23
Speaker 1: come on, well, I'm not tucking till yet, but tell
31:27
Speaker 1: me what you want for this. It sounds like we're
31:32
Speaker 1: just kidding backstage passes. It's not that, all right, next
31:40
Speaker 1: Too said it. This is a retweet to Mayor Lenny
31:46
Speaker 1: Curry tweeting out Travis Scott lyrics. Oho, my dog probably
31:51
Speaker 1: do it for the Louis Belt. Both of you. Well done.
31:55
Speaker 1: I have no idea what that means, but I do
31:57
Speaker 1: a song. It's pretty cool song. It's kind of fun.
32:00
Speaker 1: Are you surprised, yes, yes, pretty surprised that Mayor Currey
32:04
Speaker 1: knew that international man of mystery. He had aside to
32:07
Speaker 1: him that we all don't know. Yeah. They were going
32:09
Speaker 1: back and forth tweeting Travis Scott lyrics to each other.
32:12
Speaker 1: I was like, what is going on? I wonder if
32:14
Speaker 1: his kids told him about that. They're too young. I think,
32:18
Speaker 1: all right, I don't know. I think just Lenny Curry news. Yeah,
32:22
Speaker 1: you have a Scott fan who knew? Who knew? Really,
32:25
Speaker 1: we're just finding out so much about him, all right.
32:27
Speaker 1: I was in with him yesterday too. It was pretty cool,
32:29
Speaker 1: Travis Scott. I wish the mayor he's pretty cool too, though, Uh,
32:34
Speaker 1: kid of city for rains and um, how cool is
32:41
Speaker 1: that that you had to state champions in Florida where
32:43
Speaker 1: you have eight classifications. You've got great programs all over
32:46
Speaker 1: the state. To win the state championship is a much
32:49
Speaker 1: greater achievement than in a lot of states. And you
32:54
Speaker 1: had to in this city and one of the largest classifications.
32:57
Speaker 1: Congrats to both of Yeah, absolutely all right, really cool?
33:01
Speaker 1: Who said at number three never folding period? We have
33:09
Speaker 1: crowd in the back saying this is so easy, MP,
33:12
Speaker 1: you gotta get this. Oh I got it? Yes, Youniken
33:21
Speaker 1: go Way, famous for his short says motivational to the point,
33:25
Speaker 1: never folding. Oh but you don't need a tiebreaker because
33:30
Speaker 1: it's free too. I got three right, you got too? Right?
33:37
Speaker 1: I got three right? Now, you got three right? Three right?
33:40
Speaker 1: Well we can just do a tiebreaker just so you
33:42
Speaker 1: can get a tie. Well, you can't get a taker.
33:46
Speaker 1: You're so afraid of competition, bro, I'm not question question
33:52
Speaker 1: post a question. Come on, let's go one more question,
33:57
Speaker 1: fight until the end. Thank goodness. So I had another one.
34:01
Speaker 1: This is big. We're supposed to say, my shoe game,
34:04
Speaker 1: my shoe game. Crazy already I got the jump man
34:06
Speaker 1: Chico too, But I don't. Let's go, let's go. I
34:14
Speaker 1: don't know. Is it easy. We don't need you talking.
34:21
Speaker 1: You don't help me. Be quiet, Peanut Gallery answering the question.
34:25
Speaker 1: Put it back up? Is it in the question? There's
34:31
Speaker 1: one guy on the team that has this sponsor. I'm
34:37
Speaker 1: getting I don't even know who sponsor is. Okay, let's
34:39
Speaker 1: move on. I'll look how you want to mixing it
34:44
Speaker 1: to you? Right? So now it's tied. Next week, super
34:48
Speaker 1: Bowl next week. I gotta right. You gotta put an answer, Brian,
34:51
Speaker 1: come on, Championship game next week, super Bowl, super bowls.
34:57
Speaker 1: Don't give him, bro, don't give hits. Let's see it, Brian, Oh,
35:03
Speaker 1: I could see why you would say that, but not Leonard,
35:06
Speaker 1: for that is Jalen Ramsey, Jordan's. He's a Jordan's sponsor
35:12
Speaker 1: j game. You realize that just as long as we know,
35:18
Speaker 1: as long as we know, they tilted the field. No,
35:20
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, though we tilted it. But you accepted
35:23
Speaker 1: the challenge, so now it's lost. You're right, I didn lost.
35:27
Speaker 1: I got three right, he got three? Right? It's the
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Speaker 1: type the next week right, next Yes, you accepted you
35:37
Speaker 1: had lost the challenge. You didn't lose the game. So
35:39
Speaker 1: what So when you change the rules all the time, no, listen,
35:42
Speaker 1: what happened today was see what happened was so what?
35:47
Speaker 1: Basically we're saying, we're all in, all chips in all.
35:49
Speaker 1: There's what the record is, right, So next week is
35:52
Speaker 1: a thunderous showdown for the win, as it should be. Fine,
35:57
Speaker 1: the regular season doesn't matter. It's just like the NBA.
35:59
Speaker 1: That's right. Let's go play playoffs. Practice playoffs, in playoffs.
36:04
Speaker 1: Let's go who said it? Playoffs? And well done. Well,
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Speaker 1: thanks to Marcus Pollard. It's always I just want to
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Speaker 1: say that, even though excepted the challenge I've been winning
38:11
Speaker 1: lately on that show, I brought my game to this
38:15
Speaker 1: side of the table. What if I got eleven and
38:18
Speaker 1: fourteen of the last four team right, Yeah, it's wedding percentage.
38:22
Speaker 1: I'd be in the playoffs if there were such a thing. Well,
38:24
Speaker 1: we have playoffs now for who said it? Next week
38:26
Speaker 1: but it's one of those everybody gets to play kind
38:28
Speaker 1: of things. Give everyone a trophy, don't don't post grades. Yeah, okay, alright, Uh,
38:34
Speaker 1: well would come to the end of the show. So
38:36
Speaker 1: let's do this. A couple of quick NFL headlines. I
38:39
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier that Dick cam Newton is out of the playoffs.
38:42
Speaker 1: He's out of the season at this point. Uh. He
38:45
Speaker 1: is going to sit the remaining two games. They're not
38:48
Speaker 1: putting him on the injured reserve list because there's still
38:54
Speaker 1: a chance of the playoffs right less than one percent,
38:57
Speaker 1: which is why they're not going to play him after
38:58
Speaker 1: the loss on Monday Night to the Saints. But they're
39:01
Speaker 1: in the middle of a horrible Ashland six game losing streak.
39:05
Speaker 1: He's thrown interception in every one of those games. They
39:08
Speaker 1: started at six and two, they look like one of
39:10
Speaker 1: the best teams in the NFC, and now there's six
39:13
Speaker 1: and eight. Um, the he probably needs to sit. A
39:17
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, against the Bucks, he said he
39:19
Speaker 1: thought he was playing his best football and he threw
39:21
Speaker 1: four picks. Yeah, I don't. If you saw his postgame
39:23
Speaker 1: press conference, you could tell it was really bothering. Yeah,
39:27
Speaker 1: it was really bothering him and so he's going to sit.
39:30
Speaker 1: The Panthers will put the two thousand NFL m v
39:34
Speaker 1: P on the sideline. Here's a guy who was pretty
39:38
Speaker 1: upset this week. Uh, Darius, Oh sorry, that's Melvin Gordon.
39:41
Speaker 1: Um my bad out of it. He's excited because what
39:44
Speaker 1: you've got is the Chargers, who have played without him
39:48
Speaker 1: for three games, getting him back this week against the
39:55
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. So the best team in football is getting healthy.
39:58
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is in there. And fin finally, Darius Leonard heartbroken.
40:03
Speaker 1: He said that he did not make the Pro Bowl
40:09
Speaker 1: and once forty tackles this week. He has had nine
40:13
Speaker 1: tackles in the two games against the Jaguars. But the
40:15
Speaker 1: rookie linebacker hundred and forty six tackles, which leads in
40:19
Speaker 1: the NFL. Seven sacks, four force fumbles in the interception,
40:22
Speaker 1: the rookie from South Carolina State not even getting to
40:26
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl this year, once forty tackles on Sunday, Uh,
40:30
Speaker 1: we'll take twenty five averages nineteen. He's had quite a year.
40:34
Speaker 1: Quite the year. We now have a special guest that
40:39
Speaker 1: just called in, John Conjemmi from Miami Dolphins and analysts
40:43
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. Thanks so much for joining us, John
40:45
Speaker 1: on such short notice, for sure, but we appreciate you.
40:51
Speaker 1: So this game on Sunday, we've been hearing that a
40:53
Speaker 1: lot of the people in the locker room for the
40:55
Speaker 1: Dolphins are talking about playoffs. That's still in the conversation.
40:58
Speaker 1: Summer is already talking about the off season. What have
41:00
Speaker 1: you seen from the Dolphins this week? Well, I think
41:04
Speaker 1: this week it was a little deflating after going on
41:07
Speaker 1: the road and and losing, and really not having the
41:10
Speaker 1: destiny of the playoffs in your hands. You felt like,
41:12
Speaker 1: if you're a Miami Dolphins fan or player, if you
41:15
Speaker 1: want out, you controlled where you were going to go
41:18
Speaker 1: in the month of January. But now that has taken
41:20
Speaker 1: out of the Dolphins control and all you can do
41:23
Speaker 1: is focusing on the next game at hand, and that's Jacksonville.
41:26
Speaker 1: So I would think the mindset of the organization, from
41:30
Speaker 1: from owner to to myself put it that way, is
41:34
Speaker 1: just focusing in on Jacksonville, trying to win, to keep
41:37
Speaker 1: your playoff hopes alive, slim as they might be. You know,
41:40
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, John, have had some moments this year where
41:42
Speaker 1: you think, okay, here they go, and then obviously they
41:45
Speaker 1: fallen back and had a couple of two game losing streaks.
41:48
Speaker 1: So I guess the question is is this a playoff
41:50
Speaker 1: team as you look at it in in this season
41:52
Speaker 1: where they retooled him, they let some really good players
41:55
Speaker 1: go and replace them with some other guys like Robert
41:58
Speaker 1: Quinn and Frank Gore. Do you see this is being
42:00
Speaker 1: a team that can do something if they make the playoffs? Well,
42:04
Speaker 1: I think when you looked at the roster in the
42:05
Speaker 1: beginning and you mentioned the players that were let go
42:08
Speaker 1: in the off season and the players they acquired, you
42:11
Speaker 1: lose a lot on offense when Albert Wilson goes out
42:14
Speaker 1: of your huddle, when j. Caim Grant goes out of
42:16
Speaker 1: your huddle, and late and the latest guy and Frank Gore,
42:19
Speaker 1: who really he had the running game on his back
42:22
Speaker 1: on first and second down and he really came through
42:26
Speaker 1: much more than anybody anticipated. I thought Frank would be
42:29
Speaker 1: the alternate guy, you know, the guy that came in
42:31
Speaker 1: and relieved Kenyan Drake, but he was really the workhorse
42:35
Speaker 1: on the ground. So you lose guys like that, and
42:37
Speaker 1: then up front you go out and you sign a
42:39
Speaker 1: Daniel Kilgore and a Jaw Sitton and had a William
42:43
Speaker 1: Hayes in his second year that could play defensive end
42:45
Speaker 1: and defensive tackle. You lose those ingredients to your nucleus
42:49
Speaker 1: of your starting group on both sides. You don't think
42:52
Speaker 1: that you're going to be able to be in the
42:53
Speaker 1: conversation for playoffs week fifteen, weeks sixteen, week seventeen. But
42:58
Speaker 1: they found a way to do that. So I would
43:00
Speaker 1: think they overcame a lot of adversity in terms of
43:03
Speaker 1: injuries to find their way into the mix at the end. Now,
43:08
Speaker 1: couldn't they go far in the playoffs with their road
43:11
Speaker 1: record only winning one game this year on the road,
43:13
Speaker 1: That that you don't have a whole lot of confidence
43:16
Speaker 1: in that, But yet you still have to play the
43:18
Speaker 1: game if you get there, So you're hoping that you
43:20
Speaker 1: can win out and and overcome that hurdle if if
43:23
Speaker 1: it were to be so is the story of the
43:25
Speaker 1: season then because they did that, Mike Pouncey goes away
43:28
Speaker 1: and they bring in kill Gore, and they signed Josh Sitton,
43:31
Speaker 1: and they replaced long term Dolphins with guys who had
43:36
Speaker 1: become journeyman in a sense, and they put themselves in
43:40
Speaker 1: a position. So is that really the story that the
43:41
Speaker 1: roster moves that a lot of people questioned turned out
43:45
Speaker 1: to be the right answer, even if the injuries took
43:48
Speaker 1: away the the ending. Well, I think I think you
43:51
Speaker 1: could take that argument. I think you can make that
43:53
Speaker 1: statement and say, okay, of the Dolphin base believe that.
43:58
Speaker 1: But when you had guys a Mike Pouncey that was
44:01
Speaker 1: a fixture on the offensive line who goes to the
44:03
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, and you really probably that wasn't your intention
44:07
Speaker 1: of getting rid of him in the off season. That
44:10
Speaker 1: just kind of happened in the twenty three hour of
44:13
Speaker 1: a day. Uh. I think Dolphin fans that that would
44:18
Speaker 1: be the one you'd circle and go, wow, I wish
44:19
Speaker 1: we really had Mike back on the team because he
44:21
Speaker 1: was a fixture at center and he was you know,
44:25
Speaker 1: he was a guy that played at such a high
44:27
Speaker 1: level and the injury to the hip was the thing
44:30
Speaker 1: that you questioned could he get through a season and
44:32
Speaker 1: he did so this year in l a sou that
44:35
Speaker 1: question was answered by him. So that would be the
44:37
Speaker 1: only one I would say, Well, you have to scratch
44:38
Speaker 1: your head because when you look at Landry and you
44:41
Speaker 1: look at Sue Soos dollars were way out of whack
44:43
Speaker 1: for a guy that doesn't affect the scoreboard and didn't
44:46
Speaker 1: give you a whole lot in terms of being that
44:48
Speaker 1: dominant guy. You felt like you were gonna get now.
44:51
Speaker 1: He was a good player, But was he twenty million
44:54
Speaker 1: dollars good? I don't know if he affected the game
44:56
Speaker 1: not much as a member of the Miami Dolphins. And
44:58
Speaker 1: for Jarvis, he was just the price range was just
45:02
Speaker 1: out of skew what the Dolphins wanted to do offensively.
45:05
Speaker 1: It seems like the Dolphins have drafted really well, especially
45:08
Speaker 1: on defense late, with Mina Fitzpatrick and Jerome Baker. I
45:11
Speaker 1: know their ranked in the top class in the rookie
45:13
Speaker 1: class this year. What have you seen out of them
45:15
Speaker 1: so far this season? Minca Fitzpatrick's one of the better
45:19
Speaker 1: players you'll see in the National Football League to come
45:21
Speaker 1: in as a rookie and have so much on his plate.
45:25
Speaker 1: He's played multiple positions for the Dolphins on defense. It
45:28
Speaker 1: really hasn't batted an eye. Um. He's one of those
45:32
Speaker 1: rookies with seventy plus tackles, multiple interceptions, got his first
45:36
Speaker 1: pick six last week, and I think Fitzpatrick and Baker
45:39
Speaker 1: both have pick six UH this year, and that's the
45:42
Speaker 1: first time it's happened since I believe two thousand and
45:44
Speaker 1: fifteen UH in Green Bay that two different rookies had
45:47
Speaker 1: picked sixes in the same season. So these two guys
45:50
Speaker 1: are dynamic, they're quick twitch players, They're they're very fast,
45:54
Speaker 1: they trigger quickly, and they're guys that can be on
45:58
Speaker 1: your roster for a long time. So I think the
46:00
Speaker 1: Dolphins did really well with with Mika and Jerome in
46:03
Speaker 1: the draft. You know, you've played the position obviously, and
46:06
Speaker 1: you understand how to attack a defense. Are you surprised
46:10
Speaker 1: at the way that some rookie defensive backs have come
46:13
Speaker 1: in in recent years and been able to challenge quarterbacks? Well,
46:17
Speaker 1: I do, you know. I think the dynamic of the
46:20
Speaker 1: way the game is played is changing. You know, you
46:24
Speaker 1: want to go so fast, some teams want to go
46:26
Speaker 1: with tempo. Some teams want to huddle and be methodical
46:29
Speaker 1: for what they do, and I think it it hurts
46:31
Speaker 1: and helps the quarterback. When you're in rhythm as a
46:34
Speaker 1: quarterback and you feel like you've got control of what's
46:36
Speaker 1: going on, you want to manipulate the defensive backs with
46:40
Speaker 1: your eyes. You want to be able to give them formations,
46:42
Speaker 1: give emotions, make them feel uncomfortable. I think sometimes offenses
46:46
Speaker 1: go so fast that maybe they outthink themselves or they
46:50
Speaker 1: try to get to so much on their play sheet
46:52
Speaker 1: that they take away or deter from what the dop
46:55
Speaker 1: the offense does really well, or what's been going well
46:58
Speaker 1: in that game. So I am surprised a little bit
47:01
Speaker 1: about the success of defensive backs. But when I'm covering
47:04
Speaker 1: college football on a weekly basis, I see freshmen all
47:08
Speaker 1: the time or sophomores all the time being pactful, and
47:11
Speaker 1: those guys are only getting better at that level. So
47:14
Speaker 1: the jump or that learning curve may not be as
47:16
Speaker 1: severe as it once was because these players are playing
47:20
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps early in their career, and when
47:24
Speaker 1: they jump to the NFL, depending on where they're coming from,
47:27
Speaker 1: that learning curve isn't as as big as it once was. Well,
47:31
Speaker 1: we we've seen Howard who's obviously going to the Pro Bowl,
47:33
Speaker 1: and and and Jalen Ramsey up here who's only in history,
47:37
Speaker 1: and and to see Minca Fitzpatrick come in and be
47:39
Speaker 1: a big time playmaker. I mean, I have not seen
47:43
Speaker 1: a lot of the Dolphins this year. But whenever I
47:45
Speaker 1: turn on the TV, I'm looking at Fitzpatrick making plays
47:48
Speaker 1: and and the guys in Green Bay. So you can
47:50
Speaker 1: see that there's all these young corners that used to
47:53
Speaker 1: be susceptible to the quarterbacks in this league, but not
47:56
Speaker 1: quite so much. So I appreciate your perspective. John, thanks
47:58
Speaker 1: for taking the time to cause look forward to seeing
48:00
Speaker 1: you this week. Thanks Brian, Thank Ashland. Appreciate it. That'll
48:05
Speaker 1: do it for our show with a little look at
48:06
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Thanks to John for picking up the phone
48:08
Speaker 1: and giving us a shout. Thanks to Marcus for coming
48:10
Speaker 1: in uh and taking advantage of Ashland to get that
48:15
Speaker 1: tie breaking. Okay, that'll do for the show. Thanks to
48:20
Speaker 1: Joe and a stone cold we are signing off. We'll
48:22
Speaker 1: wrap up this broadcast week tomorrow with coffee with head
48:25
Speaker 1: coach Doug Moron. That's tomorrow morning on Drive Time. Have
48:29
Speaker 1: they a great day, everybody,