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What Fred Taylor Wants to See in Week 1 vs. Panthers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for weekly Conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running
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  Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor, And it is kickoff weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Fred.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers are in town to face the Jaguars. And
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  Speaker 1: this is as exciting as it gets. Well, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: exciting when the playoff actually start over again, Fred, because
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  Speaker 1: I saw.
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  Speaker 2: Your screen froze there for a second. So here we go.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it again.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go three two and one time par weekly
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  Speaker 1: Conversation with Pride to the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: It is Kickoff weekend, the Panthers and the Jaguars. At
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  Speaker 1: long last, Fred, real football is here.
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  Speaker 2: What's up? Hey? Is this thing even on? And actually
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  Speaker 2: I know it's on, but that was a test. The
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  Speaker 2: tests are done, right, It's the real show right now,
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  Speaker 2: and he is football season. I'm excited finishing up my
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  Speaker 2: fantasy leagues and what have you. We're going to do
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  Speaker 2: our first annual Pivot fantasy league, so I'm excited about
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  Speaker 2: that as much as I am about, you know, my
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars this year. We dropped the episode actually earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the week, just talking about you know, interests and things
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  Speaker 2: to be excited about this year. And yes, I am
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  Speaker 2: a Homer. I'm gonna always say the Jags first because
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  Speaker 2: it's always the Jags, right, But realistically, I am excited
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  Speaker 2: about the Jags. New coach, new front office, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of big moves this offseason. Trevor's back, he's healthy. Want
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  Speaker 2: to see what that looks like. We got a few
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  Speaker 2: new running backs in the running backs room, the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: you know, are they up for the task? And the defense,
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  Speaker 2: we got one of the best picks in the history
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  Speaker 2: of the league, I believe in Travis Hunter. Excited about
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  Speaker 2: that as well. In the new additions to the team.
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  Speaker 2: You got Dammie Brown on the offense. On the flip side,
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  Speaker 2: we just got guys on the defense. Some password but
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  Speaker 2: I believe the defense is gonna surprise the NFL this year.
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  Speaker 2: So got a lot of big sight for it. That's
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  Speaker 2: a long list of things.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stick into a couple of those key things, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start off with the back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is his third offense now in five seasons,
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  Speaker 1: will be his fifth season in the NFL. Rubbers got
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  Speaker 1: to hit the road here. How much pressure is on
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  Speaker 1: him going into Week one?
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  Speaker 2: How much pressure can you put on him? Put all
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  Speaker 2: the pressure on him, and I'm sure Trevor welcomes that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's cut from that sort of fabric.
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  Speaker 2: You go back to college, he put those Clemson teams
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  Speaker 2: on his shoulder, win and one national championship. Now he's
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  Speaker 2: the first pick, being the first pick, I do not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily believe that he's played to first pick standard. And
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  Speaker 2: that's because if you look at the win lost columns,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are going to always be judged by how
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  Speaker 2: many games they win, how many playoff games you win,
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  Speaker 2: how far you take your team in the playoffs, and
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  Speaker 2: again in all flatterns, given Trevor grace, it's not Trevor alone.
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  Speaker 2: You know, three different offenses. This is his third head coach,
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  Speaker 2: So those things matter. What he has around him, the
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  Speaker 2: weapons that they're able to put around him, those things matter. Defensively,
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  Speaker 2: how well the defense is plan those things matter as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I'm not just going to throw the
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  Speaker 2: baby out with the bath water and say no, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to give up on Trevor. Collectively as a unit,
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  Speaker 2: football is the greatest sport, and it takes a unit
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  Speaker 2: to go out there and be successful. An he needs
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  Speaker 2: guys around him. So minus the quarterback. Other positions have
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  Speaker 2: to step up, but he's going to get all the attention.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's going to be magnified. How well will the Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: do this season is going to be based on Trevor
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  Speaker 2: under new offense, new head coach. If Liam Cohen can
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  Speaker 2: turn Baker mayfield career around and have Baker go out
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  Speaker 2: and finish one of the top guys in the entire NFL,
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  Speaker 2: They're going to expect the same thing out of Trevor Lawrence,
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  Speaker 2: who is supposed to do it. He's supposed to do it.
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  Speaker 2: So the jury's out, we have what is it, two
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  Speaker 2: weeks or we have a long time because I'm counting
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  Speaker 2: playoffs and all that different stuff. But for regular seasons,
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  Speaker 2: regular season standard, it starts here with the Panthers. He
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  Speaker 2: has to go out and light this first week up
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  Speaker 2: in order to get on track.
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  Speaker 1: Brent Taylor with US Travis Hunter, and we mentioned him earlier,
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  Speaker 1: the big offseason acquisition, number two overall pick. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: it all training camp, working on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: What is your expectation as a former player for what
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  Speaker 1: he is able to do and from a fan perspective,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to see out of Travis Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we technically didn't see it all preseason because he
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  Speaker 2: was out for a few games. But it's true, true,
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  Speaker 2: I know what you meant. We did get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to see the hype, and we saw the unicorn. We
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  Speaker 2: did see that. My expectations are you know, the same.
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  Speaker 2: You gave away future picks for this guy, and you
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  Speaker 2: know we're gonna see him on the field doing his thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think he is going to live up to the
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  Speaker 2: preseason expectation and all of the hype. You know, God
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  Speaker 2: forbid any injury, any injury setbacks because granted it's part
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  Speaker 2: of the game. We talked about it before. JP injuries
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  Speaker 2: are basically one hundred percent guaranteed to happen throughout the
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  Speaker 2: course of the season. But are you going to be available?
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  Speaker 2: And going both ways is going to increase those odds
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  Speaker 2: for him, But again, he's a guy who did it
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  Speaker 2: in college. He was able to play through it and
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  Speaker 2: he was able to play well. So with that, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to see him come in do what
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  Speaker 2: they expected him to do, contribute on the highest of levels.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't slide, you know, we don't give away
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  Speaker 2: a top five pick a game you know, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one thing we will hope to avoid. So
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  Speaker 2: that means we have to win way more games than
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  Speaker 2: they won last year. Maybe drafting the later parts of
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  Speaker 2: the twenties, which means they're going to go deep into
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. I know I'm projecting them way down the road.
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  Speaker 2: But Travis, he's part of that. The draft pick is
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  Speaker 2: part of that, so he's gonna be tied to that
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion when we evaluate at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the season.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us, Let's touch quickly on running backs,
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  Speaker 1: your expectations if they rotate around. I mean, all these guys,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like they're all going to have a role.
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  Speaker 1: They may not all get a jersey on game day,
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  Speaker 1: just the numbers, But what's your feel.
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  Speaker 2: Coming out of the training camp. Well, you got your
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  Speaker 2: two guys who are veteran guys that are returning, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and Travis etn as well as Tank and uh then
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  Speaker 2: you got but sure. And my pronouncing is round. I
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  Speaker 2: think name baseial to. I know how to say two
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  Speaker 2: BT is what I'm calling him the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 2: And I ain't talking about Brian Towns. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: Base too, and people and la Quin Allen Jr. I
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  Speaker 2: know his name, and that's tougher than base shual, which
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  Speaker 2: is crazy, right, but uh, you know, we're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to find, you know, how well BT plays special team,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because the first two guys are gonna be
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  Speaker 2: available to be the guys, and based on how they're doing,
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  Speaker 2: BT is probably gonna get some spot duty on certain
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  Speaker 2: plays that the coaches believe that he's great at. The
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  Speaker 2: glimpses that we saw in the preseason, he ran reminded
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  Speaker 2: me a lot of Jones Drew. He's not that tall,
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  Speaker 2: he has a low center of gravity. He runs with
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  Speaker 2: so much power and quickness, and he does have that
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  Speaker 2: home run threat and speed and I believe if he
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  Speaker 2: gets those opportunities, uh, he's gonna be able to show
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  Speaker 2: the coaches that hey, I could go, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't bode well necessarily for the veteran guys because
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna cut into their reps. But it just makes
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  Speaker 2: it tough for the running back tad in the running
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  Speaker 2: backs room to kind of figure out who and when
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be able to get those carries, because the
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  Speaker 2: one thing you don't want to do is miss you know,
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  Speaker 2: opportunity with a guy who specializes in something that the
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  Speaker 2: other player doesn't. In all fairness, Maurice was better at
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  Speaker 2: certain things than myself. And you know, unselfishly, I said, Yo,
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  Speaker 2: Mojo deserves this because he has the juice and he's
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  Speaker 2: good at that. I don't want to miss an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: and that running back room. They're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: understand that this is about winning and it's not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: about us. But that's tough. All of those guys are
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  Speaker 2: still young. You know me, I was kind of close
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  Speaker 2: to you know, on my way out year ten, eleven,
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  Speaker 2: twelve and all that stuff. So it's gonna bill tossed
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  Speaker 2: up man. But you know, it starts with the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line and giving those guys increase and those guys they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to do their job at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day.
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  Speaker 1: Frit Chader, this final thought here, anything scarier about the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers in Week one? What do you know about him? Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young, former number one pick quarterback. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: were the worst defense in the league last year, one
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  Speaker 1: worse than Jacksonville. So there's a lot of building to
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  Speaker 1: be done in Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Carolina one game better than the Jackson year ago.
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  Speaker 2: Bryce was streaky, but he showed some signs that he
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  Speaker 2: could go. But I think the scariest thing about the
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  Speaker 2: Panthers might be Hunter Renfro's daughter, who takes his phone
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't answer calls. She puts it on Do not
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  Speaker 2: Disturb so she can watch her cartoon shows. That might
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  Speaker 2: be the scariest thing coming out of Carolina, because that
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  Speaker 2: almost was out of a job because of baby Girl.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, you know, I got the Jags winning
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  Speaker 2: this thing at home to open up the season down
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  Speaker 2: and I'm all, then, baby ask for the win. Let's go,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, Fred will talk to you in the postgame and
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  Speaker 1: again next week.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick, JP trivia. Who was my first preseason game
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  Speaker 2: to start my career.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna get I'm gonna guess Carolina, that was.
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  Speaker 2: A nugget too easy catch in preseason catch in the
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  Speaker 2: pre game, pre game and postgame and postgame. See you some. Thanks, friend,