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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, October 17 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football and it's an
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  Speaker 1: extra voice by John Carny. God, Jaguars, did you Jack?
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  Speaker 1: Jack Warris? Did you go? Jaguars Drive Time? Ryan Sex
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  Speaker 1: text John Oh shows it Actually Jaguars Drive Time starts
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  Speaker 1: right now. Happy Thursday. Good morning, Jaguars Drive Time Thursday Morning,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by the Fields Auto Group. As we
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  Speaker 1: get ready shifting our focus to the Cincinnati being well
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  Speaker 1: almost all someway we got, we got a little epitaph
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  Speaker 1: to put on this whole thing. Yeah, yesterday was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: the Jalen Ramsay show this week or today, it's about
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  Speaker 1: I would hope it would be less than that, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you looking at this rundown. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 1: follow it since you're in control. Yeah, yesterday was a
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  Speaker 1: crazy day to say the least. Yeah, you know, got away. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just some perspective. I don't And I've obviously been here
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  Speaker 1: for the whole time. The Jaggers have never traded a
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  Speaker 1: player in his prime away like this, um, And I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that they shouldn't have or couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: at any point in time. It just at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the evening to reflect on it, and this morning
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  Speaker 1: with my workout buddies to talk about it. Um, there's
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  Speaker 1: a risk associated with it. There was a risk associated
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  Speaker 1: and not doing it. But the risk associated was you
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  Speaker 1: might never see a defensive back um. And I think
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  Speaker 1: if he had played here a long time, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about him as being one of the the three or
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  Speaker 1: four best ever Jaguars, Um, you might not see the
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  Speaker 1: combination of size, speed, talent, competitiveness, all of that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you might not never see it again, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's he's a rare player. He's a pain in
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  Speaker 1: the butt um and we all know that. And he's
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  Speaker 1: gone now, but he beyond special on the field. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it was interesting. Klais Campbell spoke in the locker
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  Speaker 1: room yesterday and he was saying the team went run
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  Speaker 1: through something similar last year when they trade away Dante
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  Speaker 1: Feller Jr. But we were all saying, and we were
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  Speaker 1: asking Calais after this is nowhere? No, no, now Look.
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  Speaker 1: I always called Dante a lion. I mean you saw
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  Speaker 1: him out there, he was. He was a rare athlete too,
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  Speaker 1: obviously a bigger kind of athlete. And I think what
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about is that with Jalen, we said you
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  Speaker 1: might not ever see that kind of athlete again. You
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  Speaker 1: have two more first round picks, that's great, and a fourth,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know what that's going to return. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you have to make good decisions with that now, and
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  Speaker 1: that's obviously the process they'll go about. Um, we could
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  Speaker 1: talk about this one forever. It's just it was a
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  Speaker 1: monumental moment for the Jaguars and it feels better today
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  Speaker 1: in large part. And I know we got to get
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  Speaker 1: into the big things because when Dion Sanders yesterday went
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  Speaker 1: on NFL Network and said he didn't think this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a long term deal, I almost spit
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  Speaker 1: the coffee that I was drinking out my nose. He
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even been there a day yet and already had
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  Speaker 1: planted the seeds for his next move, because don't we
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  Speaker 1: all see this, He's gonna do adon did. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: wear out his welcome here there in Atlanta, Seattle, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: wherever else he goes play. He'll play for at least
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  Speaker 1: four teams and we'll go in No one's ring of
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  Speaker 1: honor because he won't be anywhere long enough. Um, maybe
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  Speaker 1: never win a championship, maybe never be able to establish
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame credentials, but what he will do is
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  Speaker 1: make a boatload of money and maybe that's enough for him.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into big things and surprise. Big
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  Speaker 1: thing one is Jalen Ramsey. Big thing one is someone
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  Speaker 1: else's problem. The Dalen Ramsey story is now complete here
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  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. You're gonna hear a lot about focusing in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room today and throughout the week. Gardner Mine says,
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  Speaker 1: there's fifty two other guys who are focusing on winning
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  Speaker 1: right now. Now. We wish him well man as part
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  Speaker 1: as part of the deal, um, but you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got fifty three dudes in the locker room that we
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable going to win with. So that's all we're
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  Speaker 1: really concerned with now. Big thing, too is the row.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars have played well, especially in the second half
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  Speaker 1: in Carolina, in Houston, in Denver. Can they do again
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  Speaker 1: this week? And then say not? Very good team? Oh
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  Speaker 1: and six frankly bad. I don't want to say it, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it. They're a bad football team right now.
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  Speaker 1: They've got talent, but the talent is injured. So can
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  Speaker 1: you do it again on the road this week. And
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  Speaker 1: big thing three is m n P most necessary player
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  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville right now. Brian and I both agree that
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  Speaker 1: is Leonard for net especially this week against a very
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  Speaker 1: poor run defense against the Bengals. All Right, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get out of this segment without talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: That that deserves a lot of attention. But we gotta
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  Speaker 1: go back and let's finish the whole, the whole Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Randy thing. Because we we we laughed a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we listened to his news conference. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing that strikes me. Have I told you have
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  Speaker 1: we discussed the parable of the frog and the scorpion? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I just want to get it real quick. And
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't heard this one, um, there was a
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  Speaker 1: frog who was standing on the edge of a stream
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  Speaker 1: and a scorpion came to him and said, I can't swim.
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  Speaker 1: Can you put me on your back and take me
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  Speaker 1: across the river? And the frog said, no, I won't
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  Speaker 1: do that. You'll sting me and I'll dry out. And
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  Speaker 1: the scorpion said, why would I do that? Because if
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  Speaker 1: I sting you and you drown, then we both die.
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  Speaker 1: Because I can't swim, And the frog thought about it
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  Speaker 1: and said, well, okay, you're right, So he let him
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  Speaker 1: get on his back and they started swimming, and halfway
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  Speaker 1: across the river, scorpion stung in. The frog said why
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  Speaker 1: did you do that? Now we're both gonna die, and
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  Speaker 1: the scorpion said, I'm a scorpion. It's what I do, right.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I tell you that story is is that's
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  Speaker 1: what this is. This is who Jalen Ramsey. Did you
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  Speaker 1: think of this? Well, this is it's a fable, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's something that people have heard. I didn't just make
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  Speaker 1: it up. The point in telling you this is is
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  Speaker 1: that this is who Jalen Ramsey is. And it came
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  Speaker 1: to me as I was watching the Dion Sanders interview
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  Speaker 1: and then reading this story afterwards, because he hadn't even
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  Speaker 1: been in in l A and already he had Dion,
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  Speaker 1: who is his agent right carries his water for him, say, um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a businessman, uh he Jalen is coming to a
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  Speaker 1: team that is not going to be a contended for
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  Speaker 1: very long because they're kept out already. Effect Dion's words were, um,
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  Speaker 1: these aren't the rams of old you mean the rams
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  Speaker 1: of last year old and then the final one was
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  Speaker 1: and that was the kicker to it all is but
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get out of that state because California has
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  Speaker 1: a thirteen point three percent local tax, and so thirteen
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  Speaker 1: dollars out of every hundred that he makes are going
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  Speaker 1: to the state of California. It's too expense if he
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  Speaker 1: needs to go somewhere like Texas or Tennessee or Nevada. Now,
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  Speaker 1: because they're gonna have a team, So start the trade
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  Speaker 1: talks now, exactly before you plant the seeds. Hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is only going to be about a year. And so
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  Speaker 1: I thought, there's the scorpion. He does what he does right,
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna sting his way out of a couple of
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  Speaker 1: different places over the course of his career. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: sting him for a big pay day and then he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna move on. I heard a story this morning on
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  Speaker 1: the radio that a local retailer had twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in Jalen Ramsey jerseys in his inventory amongst his
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  Speaker 1: stories and Jackson but sting, right, he's gonna sting. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna sting. There's gonna be Rams jerseys and four other
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  Speaker 1: France guys jerseys that are gonna be sitting on racks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mark down and they'll be fans burning them
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  Speaker 1: like I saw on social media. Right, this is what
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  Speaker 1: it's what he does, and that's why it makes the
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  Speaker 1: move to get him out of here the right move,
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  Speaker 1: not to not to to push it and to loiter
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  Speaker 1: it and to send him home and deactivate him or
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  Speaker 1: put him on IR. They made the right move. They
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  Speaker 1: got him out of here. They now longer no longer
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  Speaker 1: see him as their problem because he's not. And I
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  Speaker 1: just laughed. You know, I thought, if I'm a RAMS
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  Speaker 1: fan right now, if I work in the RAMS front office,
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  Speaker 1: I'm less snat. I'm thinking, okay, let's start negotiating, right
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  Speaker 1: and see if we know what did we just did
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  Speaker 1: we because they traded him or traded for him without
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  Speaker 1: having an extension in place, which means he has all
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  Speaker 1: the leverage, and he used it yesterday with Dion Sanders
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  Speaker 1: before he had even set foot in the RAMS facility.
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  Speaker 1: Stingy couch, Why did you do that? I'm a scorpion.
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  Speaker 1: It's what I do. Someone else's problem. The interesting thing
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  Speaker 1: to me was we'll get of this later in around
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. But everyone was talking about, especially Miles Jack,
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  Speaker 1: saying how they wished the Jaguars could have found a
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  Speaker 1: way to keep them because as great as the draft
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  Speaker 1: picks are, you know, Jalen is our teammate. He's a
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  Speaker 1: proven commodity, right, But no one really mentioned Jalen was
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  Speaker 1: the one who requested the trade. It made it seem
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  Speaker 1: like the Jaguars were the one pushing him out the door.
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  Speaker 1: Jen had the door open. Yeah, no, no, that's players
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  Speaker 1: and and and they want to be friends with him still,
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  Speaker 1: they want to maintain a relationship with him. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure Jalen is all that interested in that, um,
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  Speaker 1: But they wanted to have the bridge to their fellow teammates,
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  Speaker 1: so they left it open. But they all understand it.
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  Speaker 1: They knew that this was Jalen's doing. And as I
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  Speaker 1: said to you yesterday, I think the whole thing was
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  Speaker 1: contrived from the beginning of the season. They were looking
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  Speaker 1: for a flash point somewhere. They found it in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: and they took off with it and they got what
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  Speaker 1: they wanted. Um. The players understand what it was. There's
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  Speaker 1: no secret to that. And and I thought most of
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  Speaker 1: them said the right thing. And then moved on because
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  Speaker 1: you know you were in that locker room last week,
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  Speaker 1: would guys were essentially rolling their eyes and rubbing their
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  Speaker 1: temples and giving you all that stuff when you had
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Yeah, it was getting to the point
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  Speaker 1: where it was getting annoyed. There will be any more
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  Speaker 1: Jalen questions for them, and and and we're we're putting
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  Speaker 1: it to bed today with the show, and hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: don't talk about it, although we might talk about a
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  Speaker 1: little tomorrow with my pick one and pick a game.
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  Speaker 1: We might. It might be Atlanta, the rams you have,
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  Speaker 1: we might. Let's go to big thing three. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's the most important component this weekend. Leonard for averaging
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  Speaker 1: five point one yards per carry, has been the center
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  Speaker 1: of the game plan lately, especially the SpeI. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: he's he's third in the NFL in rushing yards and
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  Speaker 1: he's only about forty behind McCaffrey. Now here's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: the Falcon, not the Falcons. The Bengals allowed two and
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  Speaker 1: sixty two rushing yards to the Cardinals two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Last week they gave up to sixty nine. If you
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  Speaker 1: haven't noticed, that's a downward trend on the old charge uh.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback Lamar Jackson ran for one fifty two. So
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  Speaker 1: the way I see it, Leonards, you have a huge day.
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  Speaker 1: The def ends for the Bengals has not stopped the run.
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  Speaker 1: They're starting corners around Carlos Dunlap, who's their best defensive well,
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  Speaker 1: second best defensive lineman. Gino Atkins is the best um.
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  Speaker 1: But Carlos Dunlap is a force off the edge, has
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  Speaker 1: a knee, didn't play last week. He's not a This
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  Speaker 1: is not a healthy football team and they haven't won
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  Speaker 1: a game yet. I don't know what Flip is gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think you have to be you know,
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  Speaker 1: Karnak the Magnificent to understand that what he's going to
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  Speaker 1: do is slam the ball and set up play action.
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  Speaker 1: And Leonard should have a massive day. A jokingly said
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  Speaker 1: career day because that would be two six yards in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: He could have it easily. He defense. He's running so hard,
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  Speaker 1: he's running so smart. For the first time in recent weeks,
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  Speaker 1: I have seen vision on the field from him. Whereas
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  Speaker 1: there were four or five games I could go back
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  Speaker 1: and point to in the last sixteen games he's played
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  Speaker 1: where he missed open holes where he took wrong angles.
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  Speaker 1: He just is playing at a completely different level than
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  Speaker 1: we've seen in his proker rear, and that boats really
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  Speaker 1: well for this franchise. Yeah. I was asked actually yesterday
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  Speaker 1: on a radio call and they were asking what changed
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  Speaker 1: about him? You know, can you go back to a
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  Speaker 1: moment in time or a game that changed, And I,
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  Speaker 1: honestly I said, I think the whole offseason changed. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it so much in training camp, through
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  Speaker 1: the wyoming and the training, but I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: was one specific player game where he said all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna play well again. I'm gonna get back to it.
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Rocky four. Yes you did. Okay, I'm short slightly
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  Speaker 1: surprised that you have. I've seen all the Rockies. So
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  Speaker 1: you know he goes to uh, he goes to Siberia
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  Speaker 1: to train, right, Well, it's the same thing him. He
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  Speaker 1: had to go get his mind right. His body was
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  Speaker 1: going to get right regardless, but he had to go
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  Speaker 1: get his mind right. And you talk to him about
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  Speaker 1: this when you were with him in New Orleans in June.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget. We were getting ready to go to
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for that playoff game in and he said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: from New Orleans. I don't like the cold. And then
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  Speaker 1: that's where he goes. If you've never been to Wyoming, Laramie,
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  Speaker 1: Wyoming in January and February, the wind blows at about
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  Speaker 1: forty miles the higher month. It's cold, it's windy, it's snowy.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where Leonard is not because he had to
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  Speaker 1: get his body right. He was going to do that regardless.
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  Speaker 1: He had to go, for lack of a better term,
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  Speaker 1: punish himself right, self flagellation, hitting himself on the back, essentially,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting himself ready mentally for a punishing season.
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  Speaker 1: He had lost his guaranteed money. He had done it
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  Speaker 1: to himself. He needed to cure what ailed him. There
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  Speaker 1: is nothing like claring me Wyoming to cure what ails
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  Speaker 1: a boy from New Orleans. Um that to me said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's gonna come in ready to go. And while
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  Speaker 1: he has had a couple of big games and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games where the numbers didn't say that was
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  Speaker 1: a really big game, the effort, the way he dug
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  Speaker 1: out extra yards, the way he punished defenders said he's
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. And I think now I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say this is his team, but it is because
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  Speaker 1: you don't have your quarterback yet. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: everyone was on the Min's Humania thing and it's fun
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  Speaker 1: and he may be the long term solution, but the
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  Speaker 1: money says that this is Nick Fole team, but he's
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  Speaker 1: not on the field right um, So to me, this
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  Speaker 1: is the Leondards team. And on the defensive side, is
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  Speaker 1: it Myles team? Yet? I don't think it is. Is
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  Speaker 1: it Calais team? Maybe? You know, but it's hard from
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  Speaker 1: a defensive end spot to to be the you know,
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  Speaker 1: to have it be your team. I think it's Leonards
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  Speaker 1: team and it goes as far as he goes in
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  Speaker 1: Right now, he looks like a train that's just picking
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  Speaker 1: up speed and I wouldn't want to be in front
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  Speaker 1: him this week. No, And I you mentioned him being
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  Speaker 1: especially the voice of the offense and with Minshew, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's difficult for him to say it's his team
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  Speaker 1: because we don't know what's going to happen in a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. And maybe that does change if we don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it's going to happen, But if he does
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  Speaker 1: become the solution this season, maybe that does change his attitude.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like for Minshew right now, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to say anything. Let's go offense, right, I have
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  Speaker 1: credibility right now now. Yet I mean he's his effort
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  Speaker 1: and his playmaking ability. We've seen it on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 1: saw in Denver in particular, the way that the team
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  Speaker 1: lined up behind him. Here's the remarkable thing about for
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  Speaker 1: net is that a year ago we it was just
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  Speaker 1: a hamstring. We hadn't seen some of the other stuff yet.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't seem plausible. It didn't seem like he
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  Speaker 1: could ever be the guy. Do you know, just because
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  Speaker 1: there was so much extraneous stuff going on, how could
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  Speaker 1: you trust that it really is? And I think when
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  Speaker 1: the when the season is done, and I think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to end up with a big number this year,
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  Speaker 1: and if this team gets if this team gets into
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  Speaker 1: and listen to what I'm saying here, because I think
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  Speaker 1: this is the important part for this team this year.
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  Speaker 1: If I would have told you that Nick Foles was
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  Speaker 1: going to be lost on the first Sunday of the
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  Speaker 1: season and that Jalen Ramsey would play three games, you'd say,
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  Speaker 1: what chance did they have? Right? These are there two
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  Speaker 1: guys they have a chance to win the next two
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  Speaker 1: and get into the playoff race. I say listen, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about them in November and December being in
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  Speaker 1: a position where we say, hey, if the Jaguars win
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  Speaker 1: this week and the Colts lose and the Raiders lose,
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to play the number game. That's where you
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  Speaker 1: want to be. Would it be great to just charge
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  Speaker 1: ahead and claim the division in early November? You absolutely
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  Speaker 1: is that gonna happen. No, But if they win the
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  Speaker 1: next two, they put themselves in a position where they
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  Speaker 1: can be in contention. And I think that the story
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  Speaker 1: after this season, if they do that, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be what an amazing transformation, right the Moth to the
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  Speaker 1: Butterfly for Leonard, for net Um, the story that you
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  Speaker 1: did with him that you helped put together with the documentary,
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  Speaker 1: which was very good. If you haven't seen it, it's
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• 15:35
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• 15:37
  Speaker 1: There was there was none of that last what I've said,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: the dirty little secret about the NFL is that it's
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: not about winning championships. That's what happens when you do
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  Speaker 1: the other things right. It's about consistently filling your building,
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• 15:52
  Speaker 1: And you do that with a I know, I knew
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: you would go for that one. Um. It's about that.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you look at the big picture, you
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: want to be in a position at the at the
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: end of every season in thanksgiving forward to be in
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: meaningful games. Meaningful doesn't mean that you're winning the championship.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Meaningful means that you're putting yourself in a position to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: be in the playoffs so that people are talking about
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: you and buying your tickets so they come to see
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: you play the Bucks and the Colds late in the year,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: right as opposed to stay home and watch it on TV,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: or find Christmas shopping or whatever other things. Exactly, that's
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: the dirty little secret of the NFL. It's about the money.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I need to be relevant so that people want to
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: come see me play. Leonard for net is a big
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: reason why this team should be relevant late in the season.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: All the other players nothing against it. He If you
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: go to the playoffs this year, he's going to be
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: your m v P. Yeah, I agree. All right, let's
• 16:46
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• 16:47
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• 16:51
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  Speaker 1: of my computers recording these things now? Is that your computer?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that the Russians who are using off some server?
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  Speaker 1: very interesting place yesterday. I think from the short time
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that I was in there yesterday, I think I got
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the by above. All right, let's get this over with. Yeah,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I think there was maybe a message that the team
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: was told because they all had similar and Doug said
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: in his news conference, I'm not telling you what to say.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I'm doing what I'm saying, and that the vibe was
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and what you probably should in your own words say
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: so that we're all on the same parage, on the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: same page here. All right, Let's start with Will Richardson Jr.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Who has kind of become the spokesman of the offensive line.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: God we needed one, yes, And normally I know Brandon
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Linder always likes to give offensive line and a hard
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: time when they talk to the media, but I think
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Will Richardson genuinely enjoys it. And we were talking about
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all three phases having to play well on Sunday. Will
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Richardson says it best. I mean confidence. The biggest thing
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: for us now is just to keep pushing in um
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: just you know, just as a locker room. Just stay
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: as one unit, you know, um um. I think these
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: last few games we just struggle getting all three all
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: three UM teams to go together, defense, offensive, special teams.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: So I feel like going into this game, the biggest
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: key for us is just to get going, all three units,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to just get going and getting started. Yeah, Brandon Lender
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: walked by when he was doing this and said, oh
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: my gosh, look at all the people talking to you. Well, yeah,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Brandon needs to just shut up and keep moving. You
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: can't have you cannot You must have offensive lineman who speak,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: or at least one who speaks. Cam Robinson will speak,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor will speak. If Andrew Norwell and Brandon Lenda
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: don't want to, then don't. But the other three guys
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: need to talk because you need to get the story
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of one of the most important aspects of any game,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and it's winning up front. Um. He was talking about
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: all three phases again, not to knock Cincinnati, you know,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: O and six. I think this would be a close
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: game early because that's the way the NFL goes, right.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: They're a desperate team. They're desperate to get their first win. Um.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Although their season is essentially lost when you start ohin six,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you don't make the playoffs. They're desperate because they have
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a bunch of young players that are trying to figure
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: out is this you know, am I gonna make this?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Or they gonna bring in other players? Where am I?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: But then the Jaguars will slowly pull away because they're
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: healthier and the roster is better. At this point in time,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: so offensively, defensively, I haven't really looked at the Bengal
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: special teams, although Jody Camills has done a nice job
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: with this group this year. I would have to think
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that this would be the perfect game, at the perfect
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: time for the Jaguars to go get all three of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: those things and then slowly but surely pull away from
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the Bengals in the second half and had a convincing win. Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And we've been waiting for it because every single week
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it's been offense, good defense not good Well you and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and and you'll go back to that. I mean, you'll
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: have days and the next week they get Sam Donald,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: who you know will have a couple of warm ups
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and he's an exciting young quarterback and he can make
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: life hard on you could make live hard. Yeah, absolutely,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So you have to go and find a rhythm and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: use the game, uh and take what they give you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in a sense um, But this week they'll be able
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to dictate what they're gonna do. All right, Let's go
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to linebacker Miles Jack, who is one of Jalen's best buddies.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: We all know that, but was in support of a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: J boy and Trey Herne for how they handled the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: past three weeks. I had a lot of confidence at
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a j and then Terry. I just feel like Ry
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: was getting better and better each a week. He was
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: making plays, contestant bass and learning a lot. So we
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: just kind of figured Jalen eventually, maybe after the bio week,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: would have after the deadline when it came back and
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: played for us. That was the biggest thing that I
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: took away is that Myles Shack was he said that
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: multiple times that he was convinced that after London, after
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the bye, Jalen will be back playing and all this
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: would be hush hush. And obviously, so Miles is a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: guy that I think could really benefit from Jalen leaving UM.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And I think Miles is a guy who's benefited from
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Telvin Smith leaving. Miles is a phenomenal football player and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: he's a great young guy. But he I thought he
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: kind of fell into the spell of those two guys.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: They were more dominant personalities and it was easy for
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: him not to have to lead and just let them lead.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And neither one of those guys is a leader. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: now you're going to put Miles in a situation where
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: he'll have Calais in front of him leading right and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a j behind him leading. I think it will You'll
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: see a significant improvement on the field and in the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: locker room and the way that he acts. I think
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a great move for Miles Jack.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I think it'd be great for the Jaguars to have
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Jalen and Telvin's influence, which was not always positive out
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of that room. Yeah. I think it's gonna force Smiles
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Jack to grow up a little bit. Well that's yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, and you just cut through it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Good for you, because if you ask anyone in the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: locker room. I was asking Marcel Darias on All Access
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: last week, who's the funniest guy in the locker room,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it's always Miles and he is. He is hilarious, But
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: he's never not hilarious at the times. Is the problem.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: And he never had to be because you always had
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: someone else that was willing to scream. And now he's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: going to have to be the guy that has it
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: all together. He's not gonna be a lean on those
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: other two. Um, and I'll say it again, Talvin Smith
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and Jalen Ramsey were not often good influences in that
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: locker room and now they're gone and it has a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: chance to grow to a much higher character locker room,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and Miles can be a part of that. Speaking of
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: high character a J boy, we spoke to him as
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: well yesterday. He took us into the team meaning round
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of course, saying stay focused. Yeah, definitely. You know he
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: addressed everything, you know, the offening in a room, everything
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that went on. But you know, he told us that
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: we gotta stay focused, stay on tesh, you know, just
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: keep everything in front of us and just worry about
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: what's coming with Cincinnatis. What an awesome opportunity for a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: J boy the season. He's making fifteen and a half
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: million dollars this year and a similar number next year
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: on the deal, and the Jaguars now have great motivation
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: for him to play well and keep him. I think
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: that he was absolutely out the door with that number
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: as long as Jalen was here. Um, they need him,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they needed to play well. He's capable of playing well.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: And when your number is called, you know, if you're
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the understudy to the lead in Hamilton's and the lead
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: gets sick, you better be able to sing, right, You
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: better be able to come out there and and sing
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: um and I know all the songs to that, by
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the way, so I'm not gonna sing. I'm trying to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: think of one, right, No, no, no, we would not
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: do that. He is now the lead, and you know
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: he's got to have a singing voice tuned up and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: ready to sing. Alexander Hamilton's right, gonna be ready to go.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I think he is, though. I'm going to see that
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: in London, so I'm kind of excited. I just found
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: out this morning, so I wanted to well, no, but
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: really he's he the under study always has to be
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: ready to be the next man up, and he is
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: now going to be with the spotlight on him, and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: he's capable of it. He can play these guys. Is
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: he going to shut him down like Jalen? Probably not,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But will he play well and and give the Jaguars
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a chance to win? Absolutely. We really haven't seen many
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: opportunities for him to go against someone like an A. J.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Green or Julio Jones. And that was and that was
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a point of contention, you know, at times in that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: locker room he wanted to He came in here as
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the high paid corner. He was the guy who was
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: rising in Houston and made a decision to come here.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: He saw himself as one B. Jalen was one A.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: He wasn't two. He was one B. He is now
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: one A and there will be no doubt about that.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: There will be no discussions on the practice field between
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: he and Trey Herndon like they were between he and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Jylen Ramsey last year. He's number one. He's got the personality,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the character, He's got everything he needs to be one
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: A here and if he is, he's got a great
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: shot not only playing here next year, but earning an
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: extension and getting, you know too, three more years here.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: He is that guy, that's for sure. The other guy
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: is Klais Campbell, who of course had a lot to
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: say about Jalen Ramsey, but of course was in positive
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: fashion as always. You know, I'm all about in the moment,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you know, and I believe this team has what the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Texas to right, uh to do some good things, you know,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and I mean we can be special, you know. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: mo mentality is, you know, just get everybody here to
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: be the best I can be good, buy in and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: uh continue to sacrifice and do whatever we can to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: be the best we can be so we can win
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. He seems a little subdued there, was he Yeah,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I mean he also he spoke for I think seven minutes,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: which is very long for a locker room, but it
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: was every single medium member that is in Jacksonville was
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: there at that moment for calais Um. Yeah, he spoke
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a very long time, very long, odd out answers about
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: this situation. Was not quick reaction, and I think I
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: think it was a trying day for him, honestly, because
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: he did seem pretty tired there, and I think he's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: been talking a lot about the Jalen Ramsey situation. I
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: think he wants to move on, but he was honest
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that he's a talented player when we want him on
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the team, of course, but I also think he's kind
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of glad, yeah, to take that irritant out of the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: equation and now they can just focus. But so we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: talk all the time about Russian cover working hand in hand, right,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: getting the pass rush, forcing the errant throws, having the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: coverage giving extra time holding the quarterback in the pocket
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: so that the past rush can get there. This is
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: gonna go a bit out of whack now right, you're
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: seeing the last well, no, no, no, not something I'm
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: going to say, just the Russian cover. Um, we've seen
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: a good mix here because you had Jalen Ramsey behind
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: him and when he was on the field, you got
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: extra time to get there. So the reality of it
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: is now that you're going to have to get more
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: from your pass rush. They're gonna have to be quicker,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to be more aggressive, they're gonna have
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to have better moves, they're gonna have to be more
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: spot on because you're gonna have to help Trey Herndon
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: on the back end. Right, these guys are gonna need
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit more because remember now, a couple of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: years ago you had a terrific secondary with Barry Church
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and two Shaun Gibson and a J and Jalen and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: now it's just a ju Jared Wilson's in his first
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: season as a starter. Ronnie Harrison has the look of
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: of a special talent, but he's not there yet. And
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: now you've got Trey Herndon, who the Jaguars really like
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and they've been grooming to step into a rule. And
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: then you've got d J. Herndon of course, all right,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: g Jay Hayden, who is um is a nice player
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: as well and really has played well this year. You're
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: gonna have to have more rush. You're gonna have to
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: give those guys a little extra help, right, And it
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: looks like a totally different so instead of it's you know,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and then that's not a knock on the secondary. But
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: they're playing together now, they but they have six games together.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: They're gonna need a little bit more time. So guys
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: like Calais and Unique and Josh and Marcel and Taven
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and Abriy have got to be points, you know, on
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: their game in order to help a secondary. You will
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: see on Sunday against the Bengals would come back some
• 29:11
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• 31:18
  Speaker 1: else's problem. And of course the top tweets we have
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  Speaker 1: to include our guy Leonard for Net because he is
• 31:23
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• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I had to look up what some of this meant,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: because he's basically saying he walked into the locker room
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and he saw Jalen Ramsey's locker empty, and he was
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: very upset about it. But I love how he ends
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: up with y'all rams, sad faces. I don't understand it. Yeah,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I walked in the locker room. Yes, my partners locker
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: was cleared out today, y'all Rams. It took him thanks
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, I mean there, I get the sense
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago that there were some swipes
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: going back and forth between these two and brothers do that,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you know? I mean, it just happens, Uh, they'll be
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: friends along beyond this. Again, I go back to that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: picture of those two guys getting on the plane to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: go to Pittsburgh, and I remember thinking so vividly, that's
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the future, the cornerstone on each side of the ball.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: And things changed fast in this league. And if you
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: played with him and you enjoyed it. Plus having a
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: guy like that on the other side, having a guy
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you know is the best at what he does, it
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: makes it easier on everyone else to play their best
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and do their job. And now they've got to rely
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: on a young player in Trey Herndon. It's not as
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: easy to do. They'll help him, um, but I get
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Leonard's sadness. Whatever it takes. They are both of them.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: You have friends from college that you stay in touch with.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: You don't get to see him as much as you
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: once did. It was hard to leave college, leave the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: sorority house behind, right, same thing. It's a big fraternity
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: in there. Yes, it is all right. So national media
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: perspective of the Jalen Ramsy trade, there's two sides of it,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and it is like a hundred zero it's yes, absolutely,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: they got the cornerback in the league. Or oh my gosh,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: did the Rams overpaid for this? Let's see it. Skip
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Bayliss is on the side I just talked about the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Rams just paid way too much for Jalen Ramsey, another
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: talented me guy who will not cure all that ails
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: them hub running back O line and over inflated expectations
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: which just screw because of him. He spot on, I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: mean he is spot on. Yesterday after I already mentioned
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Dion Sanders out in front of Jalen talking about how
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: he wasn't going to be there very long, which was
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: one major red flag. The other is how much better
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: does Jalen Ramsey make? Um Aaron Donald? Aaron Donald, he doesn't.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: He's already the best player in the league right. The
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: problem that they have, in talking to Sam Farmer yesterday
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: was they don't have a Dominican sue any longer, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so Aaron Donald, who is not a run stuffer per se,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: but a penetrator and a guy who disrupts things, he's
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: now got to spend more time worrying about helping the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: young guy next to him. He doesn't help their running game,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: which is hampered right now with Todd Gurley's injury. Um
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: their quarterback is not playing well, you know. In fact,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it's funny how you look at these guys this year.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: In a way, there are a lot like last year's Jaguars.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Right when Leonard Fournette got hurt, all of a sudden,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Blake Bortles was no longer the Blake Bortles from He
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: didn't have the running game to carry him. Any injuries
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: on the offensive line and they've got their's now in
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: l A are magnified and makes that quarterback Jared Goff's
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: job that much more difficult. The injury to Todd Gurley
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: has really crippled the offense, and in doing that, it's
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: put more pressure on the defense. And the defense had
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Marcus Peters and the keep to leave guys. They traded
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: for former role pro to leave goes on I R
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and Peters goes to Baltimore and apparently he was burned
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: long passed after long passed after long pass in losses
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to Seattle and Tampa, and they just didn't feel like
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: they could live with it. Well that that won't be
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the problem with Jalen on the field, although he'll get
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: burned for four to yards here and there, it happens
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: um but he won't make the same mistake twice. But
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: it doesn't, to me make them a better team. And
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: here's where it might make them worse. They now do
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: not have cap room at all, and they don't have depth,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and they don't have young players because they don't have
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: draft picks. And it's the and this is the point.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: You don't build through free agency. We've seen that here.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Sam Farmers said that's their approach right now. Okay, but
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: they're going to change it because when you build through
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: free agency, you have many more misrs. It's kind of
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: like if you're gonna hit three thirty right in baseball,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna strike out more than six times
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: out of every ten um. That's not a great winning percentage.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: In free agency, it's not a winning percentage um. And
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: so you go back to the draft and they don't
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: have picks. First round picks are talented players who played
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a fixed cost for you. They don't have them. They
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: haven't had them. They're in trouble when these guys either
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: they can't afford them any longer, or they get hurt,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: or they can't play any longer, because you don't have
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: those first round picks to bring in after them. It
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: is a really risky move for less Nie. They are
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: swinging for the fences, and in doing so, I'm not
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: sure they've got what it takes to win. If the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: running back and the quarterback are the problem. Yeah, they're
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: saying now time, and the problem with win now times
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a hundred is you haven't solved your real issues. Alright,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: we haven't even talked about Shod Khan's comments yesterday, which
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: were great, by the way, at the NFL league meetings
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale. Did you understand them? I did? Well,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: then explain them. Okay, Well, first we have to bring
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: up Mr John Oser, who made it to the show today.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: How nice of him, he tweets out. Credit all goes
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: to our players for their professional approach through this situation.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: It did not go unnoticed. Now it's time to turn
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the attention again to what's most important, the Jackson Mill Jacks. Well,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I got this. I thought we were talking about the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: one from Jeremy Fowler from ESPN where it was you
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: know the rules, you gotta call the Jags so I
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: don't get locked out of my own stadium. I didn't
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: quite understand that had a theory on it, but I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: didn't quite no, No, I didn't get okay, well, no,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I get no. Look and and he's right. You didn't
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: hear a lot of griping. And they didn't let it
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: become a distraction. The Jaguars did handle this situation about
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: as good as you possibly could. Um. They were talking
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: a lot in the media, and that's probably why Dave
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and Tom didn't come out and say anything beforehand, because
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that would possibly just inflame the situation, lessen the leverage
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: that they had, create a more difficult situation for everyone involved. Um.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I'd like to hear from them now. I'd like to
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: know more about how it happened. Um, But they've said
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: all they're gonna say, and that's the way they do business.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And that's fine. Um, that works for them. This situation.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: The Jaguars never let it become a circus. Jalen made
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a circus of it, but they never let it become
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a circus. Despite the tickets that we had in here
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: yesterday from John. They never let this. They never let
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: this thing get out of control. They were always measured
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: in their response, and they waited, and they would have
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: kept waiting had had the Rams not come with the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: deal and they did, and they came out of it
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: with two ones and a four. And after reading the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: comments of Dion Sanders, which had to come from Jalen,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have said it if Jalen hadn't said, Hey,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: here's what I'm thinking, right, because Dean Sanders carries Jalen
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Ramsey's water. So um, they had to be smiling even bigger.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: We got rid of that problem. We have more salary
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: cat flexibility to keep yunique and got way if that's
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: what we want to do, and I'm hearing they want
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: to do that. Um, and we have draft picks that
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: give us a chance to really launch ourselves into the future.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: So smiles all around. As Sean conn also said in
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: his comments, the Jackson and Jaguars are doing just fine today,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: thank you for asking, and they could do in the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: next two weeks if they can come up with a
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: couple of winds and head to London. Four and four
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: fine will be an understatement for how they are absolutely
• 38:57
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• 38:59
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• 40:52
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• 40:54
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  Speaker 1: us absolutely. Thank you guys so much for having me.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Of course, so tell us what is going on with
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the Bengals. Well, I'm sure, as most people are aware,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: it's been a little bit of a rough start for
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the team this season, beginning to your own six and
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: just you know, having some struggles on offense, especially in
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the first tackle of games, and you know, really being
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: uh quite banged up and feeling the injury bug pretty
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: early on the season. If there's one injury that has
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: hamstrung this football team, which one is it? I mean,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: when you lose a guy like Drake Kirkpatrick, and then
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: you lose William Jackson that that's that'll do it to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the defense? Is it a j Green and his explosive
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: potential that that has been lacking, or offensive line? If
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: you have to pick one guy, they kind of pulled
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the rug out from underneath the start of this season
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: for the Bengals, which one would it be? You know,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to early on over in
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the summer when they lost first round draft pick left
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: tackle Jonah Williams, But basically the season, it's yet to
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: be seen if he'll be he'll be able to return
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: at all at some point in December. But when you
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: lose someone that you already have um struggles on the
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: offensive line and bringing in different pieces this year's when
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: you lose a first round, eleventh overall talent like a
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Joonah Williams, already you're hamstrung a little bit at offensive line,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and then when you're next string Corty Glenn goes back
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: to in the left tackle and now he's been out
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: for the first six games of the season, so you're
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: already on your third string left tackle. I think that
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: has hands found the position that has really hurt the
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Bengals this season. Now, good news for the team is
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Courty Glenn has been cleared from concussion protocol and he
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: did return to practice yesterday. Yet to be seen though,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: if we will see him on Sunday. If that's not
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the case, if he doesn't plan on Sunday, lay down
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: to that third string of fourth string left tackle again. So,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Zach Taylor, your first year head coach, said the other
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: day that there weren't many teams that he thought we're
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: fighting harder than his team. Obviously, you see that front
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and center every day on the practice field. Who is
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: it that's leading that charge? Which is it Andy Dalton
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side? Why is this team fighting more
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: than most other teams in Zach Taylor's estimation, I would
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: say it's because the players completely have bought into Zach
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: and his system. And it's really more than just one guy.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: It's all of those veteran guys you mentioned Andy Dalton.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: You see Geno Atkins leading by example, even though he
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: can be quieter at times. Uh. I think Sean Williams
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: has done a fantastic job of being and standing up
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and being one of those leaders. Even a Giovanni Bernard,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: who isn't a starting running back, but you know he
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: has that captain's patch on for a reason. So all
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: these veteran guys have bought into Zach and the culture
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and the change in culture that he wanted to bring
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: in to the Bengals this season, and it's in the show.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: These guys aren't giving up. They've been in a handful
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: of close games this season and just you know, kind
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: of waiting for um, you know, the tides to kind
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: of turn in their favor when it comes to two
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: calls and plays going a different way. What's going on
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: with A J. Green and his injury. I know we
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: were all looking forward to the Jalen Ramsey A J.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Green matchup that now is no longer happening on both
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: sides of what's going on with his injury. That's true,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: we could get that next week though we know to sure, yes,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: but A J has been progressing. Um. He has returned
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: in a limited capacity to practice over the past two weeks.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Was held out of practice yesterday and was supposed to
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: run route Sunday pregame in Baltimore. He did not. So, UM,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: we haven't received official word if there's been any type
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: of setback. Zach just keeps. You know, he's been going
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: the course and has been progressing each week. So at
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: this point in time, we do not know when he
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: will return. We were hoping on our target that it
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: will be some point within the next um week and
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: then we have the bye after playing the Rams next week,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: so it could even potentially be after the bye week
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: in week ten that he would return. First. When you're
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: looking for your first win, especially in October, it's so
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: easy just to to focus on and what isn't going right?
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: But tell our viewers what is going right? What what
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: can the Bengals hang their hat on that gives them
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: a chance weekend and week out. You know, I have
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to say I'm gonna pinpoint two things. One of actually
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: being our defense. I know the run. The run defense
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: has been a struggle point for this team this season.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: But when you look overall, especially in our secondary, Drake
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Kirkpatrick was having a fantastic season until he went out
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: with injury last week. And it's unfortunate people. He's already
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: been ruled out for Sunday, along with our other starting
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: cornerbacks William Jackson's So the secondary, uh, it's gonna be
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: a bit a bit of hindered um this weekend. But
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you know, outside of that, Seawan Williams and Jesse Bates
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: and the stafety positions to have been having a nice season.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: So I would say our secondary on the defensive side
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: has been a bit of a bright spot. And even
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: when you look at our receivers, it's tough when you
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: lose a guy as talented as a J. Green and
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: then John Ross, who had a nice couple of games
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: to start the season, he goes out with an injury.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: You of Tyler Boyd and then second year receiver On
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Tape stepping up and on Tape seems to make every
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: contested catch that comes his way. Must have some kind
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: of extra sticky blue or something on those hands of
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: his because he doesn't have very many jobs. He's making
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of catches here. So Tyler Boyd and audentate
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: on the receiving end, Tyler Boyd is on pace to
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: have the most receptions in team history um testing t
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: J Houshmanza if he keeps up the past that he's
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: at right now. So him and on Tage is you know,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: stepping in for the absence of a j and John Ross.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: So when a J does return, it'll be a nice
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: welcome signed to be a receiving corps there there's always
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: positives no matter what you get the game day, and
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, anyone can win. Yep, that's what makes
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: it absolutely well. Thanks so much Merissa for your time.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it, and we will see you on Sunday
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: and Cincinnati, Yes, thank you both. Looking forward to seeing
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: you guys Sunday. All right, Sea, thank you so much.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: And the Jaggards know it too. I mean they understand
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: that this Bengals team is decimated when you lose your
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: starting corners. Yeah, right, that's that is a and and
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and we mentioned Carlos Dunlab and the injuries they've had
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: on the offensive line. The right guard John Miller is injured.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Now they're having to move guys around h A. J.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Green not playing. I mean, imagine going into a game
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: and not having d Jr. Right and what that would
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: mean to Gardner minshew. Um, they understand the spite all
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of that. If they don't go up there dialed in,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: tuned up, however you want to term it, ready to go,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: then get beat. If they go in there, no matter what,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: it's going to be close for a time. If they
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: play their best football, they should pull away in the
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: second half, absolutely all right, And that is our show,
• 47:33
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• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Show and Happy are coming up this afternoon and we'll
• 47:38
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• 47:41
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