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How Coach Pederson is approaching regular season finale | The Doug Pederson Show: Thursday, January 5 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doug Peterson Show, brought you by the
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Speaker 1: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. J. G.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick and former Jaguard Jeff Logoman discussed the latest Jaguars
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Speaker 1: news with the head coach. That Doug Peterson Show starts
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Speaker 1: right now. Welcome in the Week eighteen edition of The
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show. We've made it to the final week
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Speaker 1: of the regular season, but hopefully a lot more football
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Speaker 1: ahead for this team. J. P. Shadrick, Jeff Logoman, head
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Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson getting geared up for the Winter take
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Speaker 1: All Game this Saturday night under the Lights. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to that coming up. But Monday night, the league stop
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Speaker 1: Damore Hamlin collapsed in the field for Buffalo in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter. What was your reaction to that, and then
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Speaker 1: how do you address that situation with the football team
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Speaker 1: still getting prepped for this game. Yeah. I was in
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Speaker 1: my office Monday night, obviously getting ready for Tennessee, and
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Speaker 1: and I had the game on UM and just kind
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Speaker 1: of had it running in the background and just kind
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Speaker 1: of picked my eyes up to watch a few plays,
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Speaker 1: and you know, just just to me, it looked like
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Speaker 1: a routine, just a routine play, routine tackle. But then, uh,
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Speaker 1: DeMar collapsed. And and then for me, it was okay,
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Speaker 1: all attention on the TV, let's see what let's see
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Speaker 1: what happens. And then you start catching the eyes of
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Speaker 1: the players you know that were around. You started seeing
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Speaker 1: the coaches, you started hearing some of the commentating that
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Speaker 1: was going on, and then you realize this thing escalated
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Speaker 1: really fast, and and uh, it became more serious, it
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Speaker 1: became more life and life and death. And so for me,
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Speaker 1: everything sort of just stopped. And and you know, just
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Speaker 1: thinking about the player, thinking about DeMar, thinking about you know,
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Speaker 1: watching the watching the emotions of of both teams. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's something you just don't want to see, right and
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Speaker 1: and um, but then but then you switched to how
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Speaker 1: how these these two teams came together. They were they
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Speaker 1: were battling, and then all of a sudden they were
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Speaker 1: they were brothers in arms, and and they were supporting
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Speaker 1: each other and loving each other and praying for Damar,
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Speaker 1: and um, the two cod just the way they you know,
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Speaker 1: communicated and lead their teams with and look, you know,
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Speaker 1: as as coaches. Yeah, there's no script for this thing
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Speaker 1: that you're you're not prepared, you know, for for stuff
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Speaker 1: like this, and um, you know, I I immediately thought
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Speaker 1: about our team, you know, and and because I knew
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, our guys were coming back in the building,
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Speaker 1: and and I wanted to address it with them and
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Speaker 1: and really just be there for them and kind of
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Speaker 1: support them and give them as much information that I
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Speaker 1: knew about the incident, uh, you know at that time,
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Speaker 1: and and really just let them, you know, if they
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Speaker 1: needed to talk to somebody, have the resources available, um
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Speaker 1: in the building. Uh, if they needed to you know,
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Speaker 1: pray with somebody or just talk to somebody. I just
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Speaker 1: didn't want them to harbor feelings. I didn't want them
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Speaker 1: to keep things in if it was if it was
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Speaker 1: affecting them in some in some way, shape or form,
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Speaker 1: because stuff like this really impacts you know, everyone differently.
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Speaker 1: And um, you know, so for me, and I I
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Speaker 1: flashed back to to my brother, you know, and and
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Speaker 1: kind of going through you know, that situation with him
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Speaker 1: and watching his ordeal and now you know both you know,
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Speaker 1: the Bills and obviously the Hamlin family you know, dealing
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Speaker 1: with with their situation, and um, you know it just uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, you have thoughts and prayers and and and
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Speaker 1: and really it's about life, you know. And and football
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Speaker 1: is just a game that can that can really go away,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and and you focus on on the
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Speaker 1: young man and and hopefully makes a makes the full recovery.
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Speaker 1: And football has always been kind of that gladiator sport
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Speaker 1: and sometimes television can sterilize it a little bit. And uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that's kind of the crazy thing about
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Speaker 1: the game and about TV. The one thing I think
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Speaker 1: that uh really struck me on Monday night, Doug was
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Speaker 1: a lot of times when you bring a team together
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Speaker 1: after a game and you do the breakdown, the words
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Speaker 1: it's always kind of reiterated his family or family and
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Speaker 1: uh boy, I think that board probably applies and out
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Speaker 1: more than ever for those teams and for your team
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Speaker 1: and and teams around the league it does. And and
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Speaker 1: and I thought of the word, you know, just connection
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Speaker 1: and you know relationships and and and you know, building
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Speaker 1: building those strong bonds as you know you've been in
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Speaker 1: the locker room and you understand that you're some of
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Speaker 1: your your lifelong friends or your former teammates and and
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Speaker 1: you know, Damar is a is a he's a son
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Speaker 1: he's a child, he's you know, he's a teammate, he's
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Speaker 1: a brother to those those guys in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: and you know, and and then there's a special bond there.
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Speaker 1: And you see that with you know, with the team
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Speaker 1: on on Monday night and and um, you know, family,
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Speaker 1: family definitely means a lot, and it means something to
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Speaker 1: each to each football team, and you know, and and
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Speaker 1: that was kind of my message to our guys was
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Speaker 1: just that connection piece and and continuing to build relationships
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Speaker 1: with with with your with your teammates, you know, and
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Speaker 1: getting to know your teammates. And and then on top
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Speaker 1: of that, you know, I had to somehow transition into
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Speaker 1: a football game. And and that's the hardest thing to do. Um,
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Speaker 1: how how do you start? Where do you begin? Um?
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Speaker 1: But but our guys handled it, you know, really well. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, we got a practice in yesterday and on
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Speaker 1: Tuesday and and um, you know, we're we're we're we're
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Speaker 1: slowly getting getting geared up and focus for this game
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Speaker 1: on Saturday night. Head coach Doug Peterson with us. All right,
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Speaker 1: So let that leads us to the Microsoft Surface fan
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Speaker 1: question off social media today for your Doug about this
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Speaker 1: game coming up against the Titans from at Kira two
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Speaker 1: thousand Jacks, how do you approach playoff style game prep?
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Speaker 1: Do you watch the tape of the last meeting or
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Speaker 1: is it more about the players they have now? And
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Speaker 1: this is a playoff atmosphere Saturday night. You know, the
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Speaker 1: playoff atmosphere started about six weeks ago for US, UM
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Speaker 1: and our guys have responded extremely well. We understand the
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Speaker 1: magnitude of this game. We talked about this a while back, saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: this season is gonna come down to Week eight team
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Speaker 1: against a great opponent. So the question is twofold, but
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Speaker 1: it's kind of the same. It's it's yes, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: look at last last time we met, you know, Tennessee
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Speaker 1: in Week four. Um. You know, personnel wise, there are
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Speaker 1: some different people playing, you know, this week. They've got
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Speaker 1: a few more guys that went on injured reserve, but
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Speaker 1: they're you know, they're also getting some guys back a
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Speaker 1: little bit, so they're gonna be a little bit different. Um.
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Speaker 1: But you know, you just listen. You just gotta focus
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Speaker 1: on on your job, put a great game plan together,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, put a put a solid week
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Speaker 1: of preparation together and uh um, you know, get ready
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Speaker 1: for an electric game on Saturday. Now you talk about
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Speaker 1: the changes, I mean, it was getting my game board
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Speaker 1: ready for this week, and all of a sudden, I'm going,
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Speaker 1: how can that many changes happen in that short amount
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Speaker 1: of time? And the one that's the most significant is
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Speaker 1: Joshua Dobbs is their quarterback who when you play this
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Speaker 1: game on Saturday night, he will be with the team
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Speaker 1: for seventeen days. That's it. Yeah, you know, and and
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Speaker 1: obviously I can I can feel for josh but you
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Speaker 1: know what he he he did some good things in
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Speaker 1: that Dallas game Thursday night, and um, you know he listened.
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Speaker 1: The more the more practice time that that guys get,
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Speaker 1: the better they become and the more comfortable they get
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Speaker 1: with the offense and the guys around him. So I
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Speaker 1: would expect even a more improved Josh Dobbs, you know,
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Speaker 1: in this game Saturday night. And look he he understands
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Speaker 1: and the team understands it. He doesn't have to do
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Speaker 1: it himself. It's not about the Josh Dobbs, you know,
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Speaker 1: quarterback situation. It's about their team. And obviously you know
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Speaker 1: understanding that, you know, uh, running the football through Derrick Henry.
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Speaker 1: You know, go back a couple of years ago they
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Speaker 1: played the Chiefs and I think they ran the ball
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Speaker 1: close to fifty times in a football game. And you know,
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Speaker 1: and and you know, so there's gonna be there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be that type of mentality, I think, and physicality in
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Speaker 1: this football game that our guys have to be ready
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Speaker 1: for Derrick Henry. Okay, local guy, Julie High School, just
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Speaker 1: a little bit up the way. And uh, of all
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Speaker 1: the years that that I've been with the Jaguars, I've
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Speaker 1: never heard of a running back have a drill specific
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Speaker 1: with the Jaguars football team in years past where teams
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Speaker 1: got ready for a Derrick Henry tackling drill. That's how
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Speaker 1: good he is. Isn't here, That's how good. That's how
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Speaker 1: strong and powerful and big he is. And and um,
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Speaker 1: you know he was that way all the way back
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Speaker 1: into high school and obviously you know at Alabama and
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Speaker 1: um just uh, you know, just a great player. And
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Speaker 1: you know it's it's you. You gotta bring your your
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Speaker 1: big boy pads. You need to go to the equipment
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Speaker 1: guy and and ask for a bigger pair of shoulder
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Speaker 1: pads for this game. And you know, and it and
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Speaker 1: it listen, it's not about one guy. It It takes
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Speaker 1: all eleven on defense, you know, the corners and the
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Speaker 1: safeties and you know, everybody involved are gonna have to
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Speaker 1: you know, make tackles in this football game. And and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, give give him his respect because he's a
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Speaker 1: he's a really good you know, not only a good player,
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Speaker 1: good teammate, but uh, you know, a great running back
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Speaker 1: in this league and can carry a load maybe like
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Speaker 1: nobody else in the National Football League wide receiver Trailing
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Speaker 1: Burks didn't play the last meeting against you guys, what
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Speaker 1: do you see in him? Because he's a rookie player,
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Speaker 1: but he's dangerous. He is dangerous. He's got good speed,
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Speaker 1: you know, good straight line speed. He does a nice
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Speaker 1: job at the top of his routes, you know, creating
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Speaker 1: some separation. There are a couple of times where he'll
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Speaker 1: he'll get stuck on some press coverage things of that nature.
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Speaker 1: And I think that comes with just growing and becoming
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Speaker 1: a veteran in this league. But you know, a dangerous guy.
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Speaker 1: We studied him hard coming out at of Arkansas and
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Speaker 1: you know, really really really had a lot of respect
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Speaker 1: for him in his game, and and uh, you know
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Speaker 1: I liked him, you know, I liked him coming out
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Speaker 1: of college. So you know, he he's somebody that we've
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Speaker 1: got to got to account for. And and um, you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: we know that, you know, running the ball can also
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Speaker 1: set up some play action pass, some QB movements, things
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Speaker 1: of that nature that you know, we gotta just know
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Speaker 1: where these guys are. Head coach Doug Peterson with us
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Titans coming up Saturday night, t
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Speaker 1: I A bank Field. Trevor Lawrence's numbers the last couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks modest and a relation of some of the
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Speaker 1: ones in the second half of the season. So finishing
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Speaker 1: that strong for the quarterback. Last week, the run game
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Speaker 1: was was heavy in Houston. Of course, three different running
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Speaker 1: backs had a touchdown in that game. But how does
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Speaker 1: Trevor finish this thing? He got him to this point,
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Speaker 1: how does he finish it? Last week was was it
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Speaker 1: was unique. Um, there were a lot of distractions I
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Speaker 1: think around the football team looking into this week and
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Speaker 1: and um, you know it affected a lot of guys,
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Speaker 1: I think it. You know it it affected the quarterback
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Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know, listen. He he did
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Speaker 1: what he had to do to win that football game
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Speaker 1: last week. And I was fortunate enough to get several
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Speaker 1: of our players out of that football game and get
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Speaker 1: him some extra rest, you know, in the second half.
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Speaker 1: But look this game, Um, we know what it comes
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Speaker 1: down to, we know what it boils down to. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a must win situation. The sense of
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Speaker 1: urgency Trevor's really risen to the occasion in moments like this. So, um,
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Speaker 1: he'll do it again, you know, and uh, you know
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Speaker 1: again he does. He much like Josh Dobbs. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to do it himself. He needs to rely on
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Speaker 1: the guys in front of him and the guys around him. Um,
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Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hand, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and just run the ship like he's been doing. I
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Speaker 1: thought the impressive thing last week in Houston, uh completely
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Speaker 1: was Trevor saying, hey, look, we need to start fast.
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Speaker 1: He actually talked about it. And if you look at
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Speaker 1: your football team defensively, you gotta stop on downs and
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Speaker 1: then the offense takes it in and scores. Boy, fast
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Speaker 1: start would be nice against Tennessee because they're they're not
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Speaker 1: built to throw the football. You know, in the last
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Speaker 1: meeting against them, they obviously you know, seven nothing seven
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Speaker 1: seven fourteen seven. We're kind of playing catch up there
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Speaker 1: in the first half. But you're right, you know, once
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Speaker 1: you get the once you get the lead, you gotta
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Speaker 1: you gotta maintain the lead, and you gotta keep the lead,
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Speaker 1: and you gotta you gotta keep scoring. You know something
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Speaker 1: we you know, each week you kind of pride yourself on, hey,
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Speaker 1: let's let's try to score touchdowns not field goal, especially
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Speaker 1: when you get in the red zone. You gotta take
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Speaker 1: care of the football. You know. You look at the
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Speaker 1: Dallas game and how many times they turn that ball
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Speaker 1: over and and um, you know Tennessee uh is very
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Speaker 1: capable of scoring off a takeaway. So and their defense
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Speaker 1: is good at getting the ball out. But you know,
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Speaker 1: we just gotta take care of business. Make sure we
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Speaker 1: we keep the football. You know, our defense do what
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Speaker 1: do like we did the last time and and and
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Speaker 1: create takeaways was huge, much like they did in the
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Speaker 1: Houston game. And whether it is a turnover or a
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Speaker 1: stop on downs I think or are huge. It gives
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Speaker 1: your offense another another possession of big games like this alright,
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Speaker 1: final thought, worth the coach. Environment should be at an
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Speaker 1: all time high here at the Bank this Saturday night.
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Speaker 1: Standing room tickets being sold earlier this week, you can
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Speaker 1: expect to sell out under the lights, national audience. Everything
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Speaker 1: on the line in the division. Is your team ready
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Speaker 1: for and what do you want from the crowd Saturday night?
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Speaker 1: I want electric, I want I want a guy. I
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Speaker 1: want the crowd to be as loud as they can
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Speaker 1: and and just you know, that's what guys feed off of,
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Speaker 1: That's what our team feed off off of, you know.
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Speaker 1: And and and it's gonna be a great moment for
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Speaker 1: our team. And and I know we're a young football
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Speaker 1: team and we've battled through a lot of adversity this season.
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Speaker 1: But you know, it's one thing to really, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: get up for this game. But it's another thing to
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Speaker 1: be able to control your emotions, especially early in the
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Speaker 1: first first half. And you know, these are these are
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Speaker 1: playoff type moments. Is it's a it's a it's a win,
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Speaker 1: and you're in scenario for both teams, and UM, our
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Speaker 1: guys will be ready, they're they're they're eager for it.
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Speaker 1: They've had great energy this week in practice and uh
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Speaker 1: looking forward to Saturday night. These games are the one
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Speaker 1: to take you back to when you were a kid
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Speaker 1: playing under the lights Friday night high school football. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of kind of specially. You're absolutely right it see,
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Speaker 1: it's one of those special moments. I remember those Friday
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Speaker 1: night lights pretty well and this is one of those. Doug,
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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Good luck to you, Thank you,
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Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson with us. This is the Doug
13:06
Speaker 1: Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back j P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Flagaman the Doug Peterson Show, rolling along
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Speaker 1: or thanks to the Jaguars head coach joining us in
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Speaker 1: the opening segment each and every Thursday all season long.
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Speaker 1: This is Week eighteen, the Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans
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Speaker 1: coming up winner take off for the a f C South.
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Speaker 1: What a game it should be, packed house, the environment,
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Speaker 1: everything that comes with that. And considering the Jaguars were
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Speaker 1: two and six at one point this season, they've rallied,
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Speaker 1: they they've won six of the last eight. They are
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Speaker 1: eight and eight. They're a game up on the Titans
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Speaker 1: and the division, but it all comes down to Saturday
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Speaker 1: night prime time. Um. Wow, it's an incredible run for
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Speaker 1: this football team, first of all, on the near side
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Speaker 1: of it, to get things right and win some of
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Speaker 1: these games. They were losing some closeness earlier in the
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Speaker 1: season logs. That's one thing which is incredible. But then
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Speaker 1: the Titans faltering like they have had to happen as well,
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Speaker 1: and they've done so in spectacular fashion. In fact, six
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Speaker 1: consecutive losses for Tennessee, and it's all been kind of
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Speaker 1: a perfect storm to get back to this point. Now
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Speaker 1: you got one game to go to go finish this thing. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's been It's been impressive watching this football team all year.
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Speaker 1: I think the thing that I've appreciated most is that
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Speaker 1: during that what five game losing streak that they had
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, that what you just
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Speaker 1: brought up, that there was a lot of one possession
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Speaker 1: games in there, and that it's not like that this
14:41
Speaker 1: team was getting blown out. I mean, there was really
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Speaker 1: what two games that weren't close. It was the Detroit game,
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Speaker 1: in the Kansas City game. Everything else was really close.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of times when you get into kind
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Speaker 1: of uh losing streak, things and go right and guys
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Speaker 1: can pack bags and say, ah, you know, the season's over.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing to play for, but for this team to
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Speaker 1: be able to keep its focus and to be able
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Speaker 1: to turn it around. You know, when you talk about
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Speaker 1: changing culture, that's changing culture. And that's been the most
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Speaker 1: impressive thing to me is that how this team stuck together,
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Speaker 1: continued to work and continue to get better. And obviously
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Speaker 1: the big part of the turnaround was to play the
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Speaker 1: quarterback and that's really where it started. After that game
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Speaker 1: that he had in London, he came back a different player.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't clean at first. Look when he came
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Speaker 1: back from London and played in the Raiders game, they're
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Speaker 1: down by seventeen, and he wasn't playing very well at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of that game. And then all of a sudden, bam,
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Speaker 1: bam bam, he starts hitting things. And you know, and
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Speaker 1: part of the reason is that the performance of Derek
15:57
Speaker 1: Carr was not very good in that game. But look,
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Speaker 1: that's how it is. You know, sometimes you get a
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Speaker 1: little break here and there. When you got it, you
16:03
Speaker 1: gotta be able to take advantage of it. And Trevor
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Speaker 1: did and the team did, and that's been fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: And and I would say that Trevor against Tennessee was
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Speaker 1: arguably Tennessee. The Dallas games somewhat also, but those two
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Speaker 1: games he was unbelievable. Unbelievable. I mean, total control, total command, accurate, decisive, athletic,
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Speaker 1: everything you want a franchise quarterback to be. He was
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Speaker 1: that in those two games. And look, I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: that he hasn't been that in the last two games,
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Speaker 1: but he's been solid, really solid in the last two
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Speaker 1: games against the Jets and also at the Texans. So
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Speaker 1: that's uh, that's that's very encouraging. But I want to
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Speaker 1: see that Dallas and that previous game Tennessee kind of
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Speaker 1: performance this week. Yeah, cap it off the right way,
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Speaker 1: and obviously a win would get the a f C
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Speaker 1: South the title and the number four seed in the
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Speaker 1: a f C playoffs and a wild card home playoff
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Speaker 1: game in week one of the bonus. I mean, he's amazing.
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Speaker 1: You could be nine and eight and you get a
17:02
Speaker 1: home playoff game. How does that work? Well, you win
17:05
Speaker 1: your division, that's how it works. It's outstanding, and it
17:08
Speaker 1: would be another exciting game here at the Bank, and
17:11
Speaker 1: that would be incredible, and hopefully you can have the
17:15
Speaker 1: same amount of excitement that leads into that game, as
17:17
Speaker 1: you're gonna have going into this game and have going
17:20
Speaker 1: into this game. There's a lot right now that would
17:22
Speaker 1: be even higher stratosphere. I believe if that's possible because
17:26
Speaker 1: we're at a fever pitch I think on Thursday going
17:29
Speaker 1: into Saturday right now, and and I don't I don't
17:33
Speaker 1: know if you'd be able to surpass this week's further,
17:36
Speaker 1: but I mean you'd get really close to it now say,
17:39
Speaker 1: I mean, it might all be about the same at
17:41
Speaker 1: that point once you're in the tournament. JP. It's the Titans, man,
17:45
Speaker 1: it's the tightness, you know. The crazy thing is is
17:48
Speaker 1: that Trevor was asked that question in his press conference
17:51
Speaker 1: about and I think it was by Geane for that,
17:56
Speaker 1: and Ivor was like, uh, ge um, I appreciate you.
18:01
Speaker 1: Let me know that. But I was like three months
18:03
Speaker 1: old when that happened. He was born in October of Yes,
18:08
Speaker 1: think about that for a while, right man. I feel old? Yeah,
18:12
Speaker 1: And well there's one thing. You're always gonna be older
18:14
Speaker 1: than me. About that, and I also feel old. I hope,
18:18
Speaker 1: I hope I continue to be way older than you.
18:20
Speaker 1: Let's let's hope that continues as well, we're back in
18:23
Speaker 1: a moment, and we will get into this Jaguars offensive attack.
18:27
Speaker 1: How do they attack the Titans defense and a really
18:30
Speaker 1: stout run defense for Tennessee. We'll come back on The
18:34
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome back. The Doug
18:43
Speaker 1: Peterson Show continues right now. We're back. It's Week eight
18:48
Speaker 1: seen the Doug Peterson Show, presented by the Florida Department
18:50
Speaker 1: of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles JP Shadrick with Jeff
18:54
Speaker 1: Logman Doug Peterson joining us in the opening segment. Each
18:57
Speaker 1: and every week on Thursdays, it's Week eight team the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans at seven and nine and the Jacksonville Jaguars
19:04
Speaker 1: at eight and eight. The winner takes the a f
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Speaker 1: C South for the campaign and they'll get a home
19:10
Speaker 1: playoff game next week. It's a Saturday night, eight fifteen
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Speaker 1: kickoff at t i A Bank Field. Limited tickets available,
19:19
Speaker 1: you better get them now because they won't be around
19:22
Speaker 1: for long standing. Room tickets being sold, we're told as well.
19:26
Speaker 1: So this Titans defense, rank number two in the league
19:29
Speaker 1: against the run, really start up front. So the Jaguars,
19:33
Speaker 1: you know, if they for some reason aren't able to
19:36
Speaker 1: chip away and get the run game going. How do
19:38
Speaker 1: they attack and move the football against this group and
19:41
Speaker 1: what do you expect. Well, I think that's very similar
19:44
Speaker 1: to what you did the last time, and that you
19:45
Speaker 1: have have to have a quarterback who's decisive, who's getting
19:48
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands quickly. Against the Titans
19:50
Speaker 1: defense that can be very aggressive and and they're not
19:53
Speaker 1: as talented i think, in the perimeter as they have
19:57
Speaker 1: been in the past, and so there's some opportunities there.
19:59
Speaker 1: There's also some top opportunities in the core of their
20:02
Speaker 1: defense where the linebackers are at. So you've got to
20:05
Speaker 1: be able to do that, and Nevin Ingram has got
20:06
Speaker 1: to be a big part of that. Maybe even Dan Arnold,
20:09
Speaker 1: maybe man Hurts, you know, maybe Chris can even be
20:12
Speaker 1: a guy that could catch a couple of balls. But
20:14
Speaker 1: you've got to find a way to just be steady
20:17
Speaker 1: and move the chains and protect the football because in
20:20
Speaker 1: my opinion, the only way you can lose a game
20:23
Speaker 1: like this against the Titans is that if you just
20:25
Speaker 1: you start turning the ball over, which anybody can win
20:29
Speaker 1: when they get takeaways. But I think when you have
20:32
Speaker 1: a Titans team that is going to be very reliant
20:35
Speaker 1: on Derrick Henry. It allows them to kind of stay
20:37
Speaker 1: in that groove so much better if they're getting takeaways.
20:40
Speaker 1: Hang on to the football, Travis e t N. That's
20:43
Speaker 1: been a focal point the last few weeks. I guarantee
20:46
Speaker 1: you that Mike Vrabel and their defensive coordinator Shane Bowen
20:51
Speaker 1: have been preaching, preaching attack the ball when E t
20:56
Speaker 1: N has it attacked the ball, because if you look
21:00
Speaker 1: at what's happened over the last couple of weeks, the
21:03
Speaker 1: ball has been loose a couple of times, it's been
21:05
Speaker 1: on the ground, and that's just the way it is
21:08
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. People watch film, they take notes,
21:12
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a scouting report on e t N.
21:15
Speaker 1: And those points will be brought up precision from Trevor Lawrence.
21:19
Speaker 1: And he's got those pass catchers out there to do
21:22
Speaker 1: it as well. And then the receivers that Marvin Jones Jr.
21:26
Speaker 1: Has been reliable for a lot of the year, obviously,
21:30
Speaker 1: and the first to him is his security blanket he
21:32
Speaker 1: is and that's that's high praise. I mean, when you
21:35
Speaker 1: start talking about a quarterback security blanket being a wide
21:39
Speaker 1: receiver and you, and look, the reality is that he's
21:42
Speaker 1: not a top three target for Trevor. But for Trevor
21:45
Speaker 1: to say that Marvin Jones is a security blanket, that's impressive.
21:51
Speaker 1: But the top targets are obviously Evan Angram, Christian Kirkins,
21:54
Speaker 1: a Jones. And I think that all those guys are
21:56
Speaker 1: gonna have opportunities to make plays and the old flaw.
22:00
Speaker 1: So if you, I think always applies and big games,
22:02
Speaker 1: you gotta have your big time players make plays. And
22:04
Speaker 1: so those three, okay, the three Musketeers of Trevor's, they've
22:09
Speaker 1: got to have good games. Did you just coin a
22:10
Speaker 1: new nickname for the group, Trevor's Three Musketeers. Yeah, I mean,
22:15
Speaker 1: if you want to coin it. I hope that doesn't catch.
22:18
Speaker 1: I must say, I don't like that it doesn't really
22:21
Speaker 1: roll off. And I'm not a big fan of the
22:23
Speaker 1: candy bar. Anyway. Okay, we're back in a moment. Plenty
22:27
Speaker 1: more ahead, we'll get into the Jaguars defense, the tackling
22:31
Speaker 1: plan for Derrick Henry, and Joshua Dobbs making his second
22:34
Speaker 1: career start at quarterback for the Tennessee Titans. This is
22:38
Speaker 1: the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back.
22:43
Speaker 1: The Doug Peterson Show continues right now. Welcome back J P.
22:48
Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Lockham in the Doug Peterson Show. Rolling
22:51
Speaker 1: along Week eight teen the Tennessee Titans and the Jacksonville
22:54
Speaker 1: Jaguars for all the marbles in the a f C South.
22:57
Speaker 1: Should be a packed house. Limited tickets of ailable for
23:00
Speaker 1: Saturday night's game eight fifteen. The kickoff time, and you
23:05
Speaker 1: better get here early. Let's let's just say that the traffic,
23:09
Speaker 1: the crowds, there's an event earlier in the day, and
23:12
Speaker 1: thanks to the iceman who moved their game earlier in
23:16
Speaker 1: the day to accommodate some parking situations down in town.
23:19
Speaker 1: That's around the stadium in the sports complex. It's just
23:22
Speaker 1: gonna be busy all day long. So earlier the better,
23:26
Speaker 1: and the earlier you can make your way towards the
23:28
Speaker 1: gate to get in the stadium the better as well.
23:30
Speaker 1: The process of getting in with the tickets and the
23:32
Speaker 1: scanning and everything. So uh, and there's a lot going
23:35
Speaker 1: on in the stadium before kickoff you don't want to
23:38
Speaker 1: miss as well. If it's me, I'm getting here a
23:41
Speaker 1: little early because there's a game on before and I'm
23:43
Speaker 1: sure you'll be able to find it somewhere. Yeah, so
23:48
Speaker 1: I might be bellied up in the bar in South
23:50
Speaker 1: Ends and I might be bellied up in the bar
23:52
Speaker 1: South End zone, bud zone, you know, before the game. Anyway,
23:56
Speaker 1: Really am I allowed to do? I mean, if you
23:59
Speaker 1: call you know, hot tommies or whatever you want to have,
24:03
Speaker 1: I have no official capacity here whatsoever. But I'm gonna
24:06
Speaker 1: say that's probably against the rules, not allowed out, against
24:09
Speaker 1: league rules. I mean, I can't broadcast the game. Havn't
24:12
Speaker 1: had a few beers. It's nice working with the logs.
24:15
Speaker 1: Let's just say that it might be your last the
24:18
Speaker 1: Titans Jaguars game. Who knows? Um? All right, it would
24:22
Speaker 1: be nice, wouldn't it. We have to we probably have
24:25
Speaker 1: to go to x M. Is that Are you allowed
24:28
Speaker 1: to say bad words all? Next time you are? You
24:31
Speaker 1: could have an alternate feed with Loghman after a few
24:34
Speaker 1: cold ones. I might have a few kind words to
24:38
Speaker 1: say about the Titans. Great like them, fine Titans, which
24:43
Speaker 1: to charge extra for? That is what we should the
24:46
Speaker 1: alternate feed with Logoman after about a six pack? Alright, So, uh,
24:51
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry obviously number one priority, and that's the case
24:54
Speaker 1: pretty much every Titans game that you know, they roll
24:57
Speaker 1: up number twenty two is is the one, all right.
25:01
Speaker 1: I was just reading the stat on him, which is
25:03
Speaker 1: which is crazy. And right now he has nine yards
25:08
Speaker 1: on the season, which is impressive because he didn't even
25:10
Speaker 1: play in their game against Dallas, you know, last Thursday night.
25:16
Speaker 1: And if he gets seventy one yards rushing in this
25:19
Speaker 1: game against the Jaguars, was I'm okay with him getting
25:22
Speaker 1: seventy one yards, but I would like to see it
25:24
Speaker 1: on like thirty kerries. Okay, But if he gets seventy
25:27
Speaker 1: one yards, that'll take him to fift hundred yards, which
25:32
Speaker 1: he would be the first person in NFL history to
25:35
Speaker 1: do that three times hundred plush yards because he did
25:39
Speaker 1: it in nineteen and he did it in twenty. And
25:43
Speaker 1: the crazy thing to me is that he is doing
25:47
Speaker 1: this really without a dynamic passing attack, and that's hard
25:53
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, it's hard for running back to
25:57
Speaker 1: have successful without bounces. Let me look at Travis Cyt.
26:00
Speaker 1: He's had a really good passing game to allow him
26:04
Speaker 1: to have over eleven hundred yards rushing. But with Derrick
26:08
Speaker 1: Henry and the Titans I mean, everybody's focusing in on
26:10
Speaker 1: stopping Derrick Henry, especially this year with the absence of
26:15
Speaker 1: Tanny Hill or the injury that he had, and and
26:18
Speaker 1: he's been out a couple of games. It just makes
26:21
Speaker 1: it even more impressive in my mind. I mean, it's
26:26
Speaker 1: it's almost reminiscent of like Maurice Jones drew what like
26:30
Speaker 1: he was he had the rushing title right whatever year
26:33
Speaker 1: that was. Bemojo never had three yards season. The point
26:37
Speaker 1: is like he was the only option that year for
26:39
Speaker 1: the Jags team, right Like, he just kept getting the ball.
26:42
Speaker 1: People knew he was going to get the football and
26:44
Speaker 1: he still had to go and ball of Butcher knis
26:50
Speaker 1: the same way. So all right, if for some reason
26:53
Speaker 1: you can corral Derrick Henry and put it into Joshua
26:56
Speaker 1: Dobbs hands, that's advantaged Jaguars a big, big time. I mean,
27:01
Speaker 1: that's you got a quarterback who has a subpar arm.
27:04
Speaker 1: That's the reason why he's been a journeyman. That's why
27:06
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans found him on a team's practice squad.
27:11
Speaker 1: And look, you can be the smartest guy in the league,
27:16
Speaker 1: but if you don't have the arm talent, it's it's
27:18
Speaker 1: hard to have success. And that's that's kind of been
27:21
Speaker 1: the history of Josh the guy. The guy has had
27:23
Speaker 1: prior to the past game against Dallas, Cowboy's had seventeen
27:26
Speaker 1: passing attempts in his NFL career, seventeen And he's gonna
27:31
Speaker 1: be starting when it is essentially a playoff game for
27:34
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans franchise, the organization. It's just crazy to
27:38
Speaker 1: think of that. But that just goes to show you
27:41
Speaker 1: how the league Doug Peterson always talks about, and he's
27:45
Speaker 1: been preaching it all year about how it's such a
27:47
Speaker 1: week to week league. Is this not the most or
27:50
Speaker 1: the largest illustration about how that this is a week
27:53
Speaker 1: to week league. With all of a sudden, you don't
27:56
Speaker 1: even have a quarterback on your roster, and then in
27:58
Speaker 1: a matter of seven teen days you signed him and
28:01
Speaker 1: then he's starting a game for you on the road
28:04
Speaker 1: for all the marbles? How week to week? Is that
28:08
Speaker 1: as big as it gets? Right? I'm sure Josh Dobbs
28:12
Speaker 1: is excited about the opportunity. You know, he was excellent
28:16
Speaker 1: college quarterback at Tennessee, excellent. He used to enjoy watching him.
28:21
Speaker 1: I thought that he had a chance of being a
28:22
Speaker 1: really good NFL quarterback, But no, it hasn't worked out
28:25
Speaker 1: that way. I wonder how much of the game plan,
28:28
Speaker 1: the game the get you know, of the playbook that
28:32
Speaker 1: the Titans feel comfortable with him operating. It's a it's
28:36
Speaker 1: a fair question, right, I Mean, the guy just came
28:38
Speaker 1: in seventeen days ago, so how much can he really know?
28:41
Speaker 1: How much can Todd infuse into his brain of that
28:47
Speaker 1: game plan, and how much can he actually go execute
28:51
Speaker 1: good enough? I'm sure. I'm sure that one of the
28:55
Speaker 1: reasons why they went after him is because he's a
28:58
Speaker 1: smart guy. He's like an astro. Yeah, he's like yeah,
29:03
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, Internet, NASA and all this stuff.
29:07
Speaker 1: Intelligence rating is far superior to probably me and you combined,
29:12
Speaker 1: just because I've been carrying you for years higher than
29:16
Speaker 1: you are, so I'm carrying you. I mean, that's what
29:19
Speaker 1: happens when you go to the Harvard of the South
29:21
Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa. What happens above you? Yeah? Yeah, Hey, we'll
29:27
Speaker 1: come back in a moment. Plenty more ahead coming up
29:30
Speaker 1: in a little bit. We'll get a social media question
29:32
Speaker 1: for you, logs. Bringing on. It's been a fun place
29:36
Speaker 1: this week. Jaguar's Twitter. Yeah, it's been a little it's
29:39
Speaker 1: been a little boisterous. I like it. Yeah, everybody's excited,
29:43
Speaker 1: amped up for the cooping. This Saturday and the Titans
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30:01
Speaker 1: Jaguars Radio. Welcome Back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
30:14
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Doug Peterson Show, presented by the Florida
30:17
Speaker 1: Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, The Tennessee Titans
30:21
Speaker 1: and the Jacksonville Jaguars, Saturday, eight pm on ABC at
30:25
Speaker 1: ESPN Television. Joe Buck Troy Aikman are in the house.
30:29
Speaker 1: Lisa Assaulters on the sideline. Westwood one Radio will be
30:32
Speaker 1: here as well, and it's gonna be a packed house.
30:37
Speaker 1: All eyes of the NFL. On Week eighteen, the a
30:41
Speaker 1: f C South De Facto Championship Game. The winner takes
30:45
Speaker 1: the crowd. Who's got the earlier Saturday games, The Row,
30:49
Speaker 1: the Raiders and the Chiefs. Raiders, Chief Chiefs Raiders in Vegas,
30:57
Speaker 1: and uh it still matters for Kansas City from a
31:00
Speaker 1: seating standpoint, correct, Yes, okay, but the Raiders are out.
31:04
Speaker 1: I mean it's Raiders are out. Yeah, they're done. They
31:06
Speaker 1: got a backup quarterback plan and cars not even He's
31:10
Speaker 1: not even around the team. No he going, which is yeah,
31:15
Speaker 1: where is he playing next year? That's a great question. Um,
31:20
Speaker 1: if if I'm a personnel guy, I wouldn't be real
31:24
Speaker 1: excited about acquiring him after watching them what I saw
31:28
Speaker 1: out here earlier this year. I thought his performance against
31:32
Speaker 1: the Jaguars bad. I think he was the reason why
31:35
Speaker 1: they lost that game. His performance was, I mean terrible,
31:41
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, terrible, terrible, Charles Barkley terrible. Okay, Chuck, Alright,
31:50
Speaker 1: so it's the best, let's say, really is. Let's take
31:53
Speaker 1: a look at the injury report for the Jaguars. The
31:55
Speaker 1: Jags officially have seven players on the list. All seven
32:00
Speaker 1: game status e's are questionable for the game. Trevor Lawrence
32:05
Speaker 1: to issue, Andrew Ingered's shoulder, Trayvon Walker ankle, Ross Madison back,
32:10
Speaker 1: random Sheriff abdomen slash ankle fully Photokasti defensive lineman ankle,
32:15
Speaker 1: ray Shawn Jenkins shoulder all questionable for the game. We'll
32:19
Speaker 1: find out when they roll the ball out there. I
32:22
Speaker 1: guess an hour and a half before they're all gonnay, okay, um,
32:25
Speaker 1: there you go. No question from logs, Titans have five
32:29
Speaker 1: players questionable stilling coal linebackers, cornerback Christian Fulton, safety of
32:34
Speaker 1: Bonnie Hooker, tackle Nicholas Petite Frere and wide receiver Traylon
32:39
Speaker 1: Burke's with a growing issue that popped up midweek apparently.
32:41
Speaker 1: And Devonte Harris, a cornerback, is out. It's a handful
32:45
Speaker 1: of other guys on the list, but they're they're all
32:47
Speaker 1: gonna play. All those guys are going, except officially out. Yeah,
32:53
Speaker 1: they're all gonna playing. Like I said, when you have
32:56
Speaker 1: a game where there is no no tomorrow, you're willing
32:59
Speaker 1: to risk a lot if if you get hurt. So
33:02
Speaker 1: what right, I mean, it's okay, I get hurt. I
33:05
Speaker 1: got all off season to get better, So let's go.
33:09
Speaker 1: You know, I me. Unless you're you've got a limb
33:12
Speaker 1: that's hanging by a piece of skin or something, then
33:15
Speaker 1: you extreme taping up and go and we'll put a
33:20
Speaker 1: taping aspirin to it. Let's go. It's like, what was
33:23
Speaker 1: the Monty Python guy. It's only a flesh moved, right, Okay,
33:29
Speaker 1: think of the Monty Python guy who's a player for
33:32
Speaker 1: this game. This is merely a flesh moved We're moving forward.
33:37
Speaker 1: One of the greatest scenes ever. All right, So hey,
33:40
Speaker 1: it's it's what it is, right, I mean, this is
33:42
Speaker 1: Jaguars was two and six and losing games in the
33:45
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. But in those games and then a real
33:48
Speaker 1: quick before before you go, I was going there there's
33:51
Speaker 1: a lot of young Jaguar fans that are going, what
33:53
Speaker 1: is he talking about? Okay, if if if they can
33:56
Speaker 1: search Google, what would they search for Joe? Because Joe
34:00
Speaker 1: is a total Monty Python guy, brave sir, Robin Monty Python.
34:09
Speaker 1: So I told you he would know. Doesn't take much
34:12
Speaker 1: for your loves, does it. Alright, So it's all the
34:16
Speaker 1: marvels on the line. Titans Jaguars. I mean, we were
34:19
Speaker 1: talking about this earlier on the show here in Jacksonville today,
34:23
Speaker 1: and it's the biggest game in franchise history, it's right.
34:27
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe in the regular season franchise history. Clarify
34:31
Speaker 1: the Falcons game at the end of nineties six to
34:34
Speaker 1: you know, win or and go in. You guys ended
34:37
Speaker 1: up winning it obviously on the missfield goal and got in,
34:40
Speaker 1: So that was huge. Uh. There have been some other
34:43
Speaker 1: big games and important games, but with everything on the line,
34:46
Speaker 1: last day of the season, division rival for a division title,
34:51
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can ask so much more. No,
34:52
Speaker 1: I think this is this is a pretty impressive moment
34:56
Speaker 1: in in the history of the franchise and and opportunity
35:00
Speaker 1: to win a division title, which you've done what three
35:02
Speaker 1: previous times, and that's that's something to be proud of.
35:06
Speaker 1: And this is an organization that could have gone Now.
35:09
Speaker 1: If you win this game, you go from worst to first,
35:12
Speaker 1: which is another impressive accomplishment. And then you get to
35:16
Speaker 1: do it against your nemesis, the arch rival Tennessee Titans,
35:20
Speaker 1: the team that that took away your destiny in And
35:24
Speaker 1: there's a lot of young Jaguar fans that, like Trevor
35:27
Speaker 1: referred to earlier today, he was three months old when
35:29
Speaker 1: that happened, that don't even remember that. But the long
35:32
Speaker 1: time Jaguar fans, they remember that. And here's the reality.
35:36
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans have been the top dog on the
35:38
Speaker 1: block for the last two years, they've been in the
35:40
Speaker 1: playoffs the last three years. This is the team that
35:44
Speaker 1: you need to establish a little bit of a pecking
35:47
Speaker 1: order within the division. So this is an important game
35:51
Speaker 1: for a lot of different reasons. And if you win
35:53
Speaker 1: this game, you're the champs, You've got a winning record.
35:56
Speaker 1: Then you get a home playoff game the following week
35:59
Speaker 1: because you are the division champs. I mean, yes, all
36:01
Speaker 1: those things make this the biggest game in Jaguars history.
36:06
Speaker 1: So are you gonna be a part of history and
36:08
Speaker 1: be there? I am JP, you are, I'll be here. Okay,
36:11
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of people here. Okay, seventy thousand,
36:15
Speaker 1: probably a little bit over that. And so, folks, if
36:17
Speaker 1: you can find a way to get a ticket to
36:19
Speaker 1: be here, this is one of those moments. This is
36:22
Speaker 1: one of those moments that is gonna be to remember
36:27
Speaker 1: for many years to come. We'll come back in a
36:29
Speaker 1: moment social media question for logs. He loves these. And
36:34
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna tell you how the Titans can win
36:37
Speaker 1: because that let's not just assume the Jaguars are gonna
36:40
Speaker 1: steamroll the Titans. Okay, there is a way that the
36:43
Speaker 1: Titans can win that on the other side. This is
36:47
Speaker 1: the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network JP
36:55
Speaker 1: Shatrick with Jeff Lockman. The Doug Peterson Show continues there
36:58
Speaker 1: thanks to the head coach joining us in the first
37:00
Speaker 1: segment each and every Thursday, Let's go to the Microsoft
37:04
Speaker 1: Surface and a social media question for Jeff Lockerman. This
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Speaker 1: is at Alex Surfer eight two. How will the Jags
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Speaker 1: handle the pressure of the game with everything on the line?
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Speaker 1: I mean, logs, it is a younger group overall. How
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Speaker 1: do you think they respond to this? I think that's
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Speaker 1: a great question, I really do, because to go back
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Speaker 1: in time a little bit, when we were able to
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Speaker 1: string some wins together at the end of that season
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Speaker 1: that year, we really weren't looking at the big picture.
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Speaker 1: We were just kind of in the moment and just
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Speaker 1: going game by game, and we were starting to play well,
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Speaker 1: and we won one and then we won too, and
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Speaker 1: it kind of kept going on and on, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, okay, wow, this last game. Guess what
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Speaker 1: if you win, you're in. And we didn't play our
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Speaker 1: best in that last game because I felt that the
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Speaker 1: pressure of that game, we felt it whereas in the
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Speaker 1: games prior to that, we weren't feeling it. And then
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Speaker 1: when you we get to the playoffs, Okay, now we
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs because Morton Anderson missed, miss is a
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Speaker 1: gimme kick, which he's made a bunch of times in
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Speaker 1: his career. Okay, now we go to the playoffs. Well,
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Speaker 1: now all sudden, there's no pressure on us again because
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Speaker 1: we're not expected to do anything. We're only a second
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Speaker 1: year franchise and got lucky to get in because Morton
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Speaker 1: Anderson missed what was gonna be or should have been
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Speaker 1: a made kick on his part. Well, we go to
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Speaker 1: Buffalo and we beat them because we didn't have any pressure.
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Speaker 1: We were just playing free. And then we go to
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Speaker 1: Denver or nothing on the line, right, we're kind of
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Speaker 1: playing with house money. We beat Denver in Denver and
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Speaker 1: they were expected to be the Super Bowl champs that year,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, after that game, well
38:56
Speaker 1: guess what, now you got to go to New England.
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Speaker 1: If you win, you go to the super Bowl. A sudden.
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Speaker 1: Now there's pressure, right, because the pressure is there because
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Speaker 1: if you win, you go to the Super Bowl. And
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Speaker 1: we did not play our best game in New England
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Speaker 1: at all, and so the pressure of this game is real.
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Speaker 1: The Titans have lost six games in a row. They're
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Speaker 1: not expected to win. The Jaguars are at home, they've
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Speaker 1: won four in a row. They're expected to win. The
39:31
Speaker 1: Titans have a journeyman quarterback who has going to be
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Speaker 1: making a second career start. He's not expected to win.
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Speaker 1: The first overall pick of the draft from last year
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Speaker 1: is expected to win. So these are the things that
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Speaker 1: are different going into a game. So how do you
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Speaker 1: handle that pressure? That's the question, because that pressure, again
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Speaker 1: is real. You gotta have a coach who can guide
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Speaker 1: a team. You have to have veteran leadership that can
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Speaker 1: guide a team. You have to have sometimes leadership that's
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Speaker 1: not veteran, that is young, that's played in big moments,
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Speaker 1: that can calm a huddle down, like a Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: who's played in a national championship game a couple of times.
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Speaker 1: Those are the things that it takes. And I think
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Speaker 1: that the Jaguars have a guy that is an outstanding
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Speaker 1: leader in Doug Peterson, and I think he will help
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Speaker 1: this team adjust. He will get them ready for this
40:28
Speaker 1: game because he's been there. He's done that he knows
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Speaker 1: what it takes to get ready to play a game.
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Speaker 1: And that's what excites me because the reality is is
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Speaker 1: that if you go into this game and you feel
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Speaker 1: the pressure and you don't play well, then all of
40:43
Speaker 1: a sudden, Derrick Henry controls the temple on the ground
40:45
Speaker 1: because he's capable in Tennessee. Maybe maybe they get a
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Speaker 1: couple of takeaways, Dobbs does just enough, hits a couple
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Speaker 1: of lucky plays down the field to Burke's who's a
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Speaker 1: big play capable guy even though he's a rookie. That's
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Speaker 1: the way you could lose this game because the longer
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Speaker 1: that Tennessee kind of hangs in there, the more puckered
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Speaker 1: up the Jaguars football team will get. And I think
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Speaker 1: the looser and the more confident the Titans team would get.
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Speaker 1: That's why they play the game because if those on
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Speaker 1: paper JP and be over, Yeah right, it'd be over.
41:25
Speaker 1: But that's why they play the games. Logs, we're back
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Speaker 1: in a moment, final thoughts about this one. This is
41:30
Speaker 1: the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome back. The
41:40
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show continues right now. Final few moments of
41:45
Speaker 1: Leek eight teens, Doug Peterson Show, j P Shadrick, Jeff Logman,
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Speaker 1: Titans Jaguars coming up Saturday night for the a f
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Speaker 1: C South Crown for the de facto championship game for
41:59
Speaker 1: the division, and the Jaguars at one point, I believe,
42:02
Speaker 1: are four games behind Tennessee in the division race. Middle
42:05
Speaker 1: of the season. Tennessee has been leaking oil for about
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Speaker 1: a month and a half. They've lost six straight games leak.
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Speaker 1: You know, they've been broken down on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road. J the roads about to end. If the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars can handle their business this Saturday night, and they're
42:21
Speaker 1: surging and going the right way with five or four
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Speaker 1: straight wins now, and if they get a win, the
42:26
Speaker 1: Jaguars would get five in a row for the first
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Speaker 1: time in a single season since two thousand five. About that,
42:32
Speaker 1: it's been a while. That's also the last time the
42:34
Speaker 1: Jaguars swept the season series against Tennessee. That's a long time.
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Speaker 1: Well what year was that? Five? Yeah, that's a long time. Hey,
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Speaker 1: that's a that's a great opportunity on so many different levels.
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Speaker 1: And uh, I'm excited for the moment because you know,
42:52
Speaker 1: people create an energy, people create atmosphere and when you
42:55
Speaker 1: got seventy thousand strong, I mean, that's the ultimate and
42:59
Speaker 1: that ends as a player. I can tell you because
43:02
Speaker 1: you know if you go back and you looked at
43:04
Speaker 1: ra Seian miked up this past game on Jaguars dot Com,
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Speaker 1: which was an awesome piece because I'm a big fan
43:10
Speaker 1: of Ratian. He's got such high energy. When you watch
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Speaker 1: that piece, he he talks about knowing what this environment
43:17
Speaker 1: is gonna be like this week once that game in
43:20
Speaker 1: Houston was kind of under control, and it is. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be electric, and it's gonna be imperative that the
43:26
Speaker 1: players kind of rain in some of their emotions and
43:30
Speaker 1: it's okay to be excited, but you don't want to
43:32
Speaker 1: make sure that you just don't burn yourself out too early.
43:35
Speaker 1: You got on All Access tonight over at Strings in Springfield.
43:39
Speaker 1: Brent Martineau, I've heard of him, Andre Cisco, Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: and maybe some other special guests. That's big. It should
43:50
Speaker 1: be very very exciting. JP ought to come and have
43:52
Speaker 1: a beer. I might. I might have to do that.
43:54
Speaker 1: You don't have to do any broadcast, Dudie. I've got
43:58
Speaker 1: one minute left of official duties. Enable so maybe we'll say,
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Speaker 1: come on by, have a beer. I'll by you beer
44:03
Speaker 1: if you come on by. Wow, that's nice. I would
44:05
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I need some wings too, and I need
44:07
Speaker 1: a burger. I need like some food. Can we work
44:10
Speaker 1: on that. I might be able to work on something
44:11
Speaker 1: like that. I have some other asks as well. We'll
44:15
Speaker 1: get to that. That's enough. Okay, food and a couple
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Speaker 1: of beers. That's it. That's to flog of it. Thanks
44:21
Speaker 1: our entire crew of course, Brent Reaber, David Choe, Joe Fortunado,
44:25
Speaker 1: and for everyone involved in j P. Shadrick, thank you
44:28
Speaker 1: for listening. If you don't have tickets, you better hurry.
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Speaker 1: Limited tickets available for the Titans Jaguars Saturday night, eight
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Speaker 1: fifteen at the Bank. And this has been the Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.