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Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, December 26 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeff Wars, ditch, you don't talk, Jack Wars did Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time? Ryan Sex steps that? John osays, just Ashlee
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now? Good morning, Happy Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: day after Christmas. Bryan Sexton, Ashlyn Sullivan, she's back. I'm back.
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Speaker 1: I know you missed me. Absolutely we did. John Osier
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Speaker 1: was here on Monday. He's here on Wednesday. How's your break?
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Speaker 1: It was great And uh, my father may rest in peace,
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Speaker 1: would have hated this. He hated wires, like when you
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Speaker 1: went into his house. Uh, everything was always like there
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Speaker 1: was an extension cord. Every lamp had to be in
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Speaker 1: a corner where you couldn't see the chords. That Mario
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Speaker 1: would have hated this. So this is bothering you now
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Speaker 1: he does. You're older going on all year? Yeah, he
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Speaker 1: gets frowsled when he sits down every morning. Last year?
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Speaker 1: Is this just sort of an onset? Well, other things
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Speaker 1: were bothering me last year. I didn't. There's a lower
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Speaker 1: one list solve some issues, and now this has risen
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Speaker 1: to the top. That's how my life works, is number one. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's give people, let's get people a preview of what
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Speaker 1: else they're going to have on the show today, Hey,
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Speaker 1: stone Cold, if you throw the camera on Joe at
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Speaker 1: your earliest possible convenience, just because well you know. I
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Speaker 1: mean when I think of Christmas Elves, I think Joe,
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Speaker 1: who crowned himself this morning the corn hole champion of
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Speaker 1: the Beaches. I did. I wish I had known that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a competition going on. How
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Speaker 1: are you this morning, Joe? I was your break, Joe.
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Speaker 1: My break was not as good as Johnny's, but it
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Speaker 1: was good. Do chords and cables bother you? No? I
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Speaker 1: don't care good because there's chords and cables everywhere I
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Speaker 1: look in your direction. You get the camera down here
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Speaker 1: to be scary. You got a song force today? I
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Speaker 1: do have a Hey Joe, I don't want here now,
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Speaker 1: but I just want to know that you're ready. This
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Speaker 1: is sadly enough, this will be the final song. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna have one to wrap it up next week? Why not?
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Speaker 1: I don't want to, Hey, Joe? Four sat all right?
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Speaker 1: This is it okay, so cherish it now. If I
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Speaker 1: had a camera for Stone Cold, if we're getting towards
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Speaker 1: the end of the season, I think we have come today.
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Speaker 1: Five more shows left. I would throw it on and
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Speaker 1: I'd ask you to turn it on, because he wouldn't
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Speaker 1: because he just said, no, Brian, I'm not I run
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Speaker 1: this show, not you, which is come true mission. But
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Speaker 1: he's back there somewhere behind the curtain, and he is
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Speaker 1: grousing's growling right now, get on with the damn show,
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Speaker 1: And so I think we probably should. I'm picturing stone
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Speaker 1: Cold waking up on Christmas morning like going to the
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Speaker 1: shooting right, Why does why does that show? I guess said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I just have the warm fuzzies from Christmas yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And so I'm concerned about everybody and whether they're seeing
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Speaker 1: his parents, going, hey, stone Cold, you had some presents
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Speaker 1: his parents. Don't call himself. I'll be back. They do, now,
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Speaker 1: I'll be back exactly. I don't have time for that.
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Speaker 1: Just give you my ammunition. Okay. So here we go
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Speaker 1: with big things before the season finale in Houston on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Big thing one is the quarterback big story? Who is it?
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Speaker 1: Coachman did not name a story starting quarterback after Sundays
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Speaker 1: went against the Dolphins. We'll find out about that more. Today.
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Speaker 1: We've supported Blake and we talked about it after the
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Speaker 1: game on Sunday that we thought it was a great
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Speaker 1: moment for Blake Barrels. But looking at the Texans defensive
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Speaker 1: line with J. J. Watt and Jadavian Clowney, I can't
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Speaker 1: help but look at Blake Barrels in his rushing ability
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Speaker 1: and say that he has to be the guy this
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Speaker 1: week because Cody Kessler is not as good as a
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Speaker 1: rusher as Blake is, and they're going to need to
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Speaker 1: use that to their their advantage, especially with the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: offensive line. Yeah again, John, you and I talked about
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Speaker 1: this on Monday. Um, for the long term, it's irrelevant
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Speaker 1: who you choose as quarterback because I think we all
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Speaker 1: believe that neither one of these guys is going to
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Speaker 1: be the guy in nineteen, either as the bridge or
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Speaker 1: the backup or the starter or whatever. Now that may change,
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Speaker 1: but at this point that's how it feels. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: how it goes. Here's my thing. If you want to
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Speaker 1: give yourself a chance to compete against the Texans who
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Speaker 1: are playing for the division title and who are still
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Speaker 1: marginally but still playing, uh, if things fall right, they
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Speaker 1: could have the number two seed and a bye. So
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Speaker 1: you're getting the best they've got well, but they sure
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Speaker 1: don't want to not win the division title because then
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Speaker 1: that puts him in the Yeah. So, uh, this is
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Speaker 1: big for them, really big for them. So you're getting
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Speaker 1: a team that's charged up. And look, I mean they
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Speaker 1: they were the hottest team in football in October, November,
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Speaker 1: in the early part of December. They just ripped off
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Speaker 1: what they win nine in a row. Uh, I mean
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Speaker 1: there were tenant a row, tenor row. I mean they
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Speaker 1: were as good as a god. Um, you put like
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Speaker 1: Bortles in, he's the best chance if you want it
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Speaker 1: would be an upset. But if you want a chance
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Speaker 1: to pull it upset, you're gonna do it. Like well,
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Speaker 1: it would be an upset, but it it's uh the
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Speaker 1: way this Jaguars defense is playing right now. In in
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Speaker 1: four of the last or three of the last four games,
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Speaker 1: even getting up zero seven and a what I feel
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Speaker 1: like he low scoring sixteen against Washington, if it makes
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Speaker 1: any sense, It didn't feel like Washington, uh was getting
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Speaker 1: going offensively because the one touchdown drive was when Deshaun
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Speaker 1: Gibson tipped the ball and it was a mirrc right.
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Speaker 1: So aside from the outlier of Tennessee Thursday Night weirdness,
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Speaker 1: which again feels more like that now than it is
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Speaker 1: anything else. The Jaguars defense has been playing well enough
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Speaker 1: against a Texans offense that's not great. Um but I
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Speaker 1: think it's more to it than just do you want
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Speaker 1: to win this game? And I'm not saying they want
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Speaker 1: to tank this game? But uh, the injury risk with
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Speaker 1: Blake Boarders going into the offseason, if if you release
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Speaker 1: him you need him to sign elsewhere. If he's going
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Speaker 1: to sign elsewhere, you don't need him with an injury
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Speaker 1: because that the d values was he of offset language?
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Speaker 1: Um So, because you say you need him to sign elsewhere.
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Speaker 1: If you need him to sign elsewhere, he has to
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Speaker 1: have offset nine, which just the only reason you beat
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Speaker 1: him too. You also you traded Blaine Gabbert a few
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Speaker 1: years ago. Could you oh trade him a six round pick,
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Speaker 1: seven round pick if if there's any value to him
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Speaker 1: that you don't want to get him hurt? So made
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Speaker 1: that plays into it. Other than that, I don't know
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Speaker 1: why you wouldn't play Cody. I mean, I don't know
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Speaker 1: why you didn't play play Poor. So if you're just
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Speaker 1: regarding injuries, you want Coody Castler in that that's the
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Speaker 1: only reason at this point. I mean, if if you
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Speaker 1: thought we're thinking the Mega SAT game against Luke Jokele
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Speaker 1: a few years ago is bad. If Cody Kestler plays,
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Speaker 1: all we've seen is sacks. Yeah, there's six holy penalty
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Speaker 1: and six sacks the other day, it's difficult to do. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that in Big Thing too. But
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Speaker 1: I just get back to the quarterback issue for a moment,
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Speaker 1: and that is that if you're Doug Moron, and I
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Speaker 1: have no reason to believe that when he sits here
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Speaker 1: on Fridays or when he stands there on you know,
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Speaker 1: Sundays and Mondays and Wednesdays and talks to us um,
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Speaker 1: that he's exaggerating what he says. All I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: do is win this game. I mean, he's a man
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Speaker 1: of singular focus, and so I would think he would
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Speaker 1: play Blake because he he has to watch the tape
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Speaker 1: and say that's the better quarterback, and we can talk
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Speaker 1: about running in the capability and all of that. He's
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Speaker 1: a better pastor. Also, he has a better instinct. I
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Speaker 1: don't think Cody Kesler completes second and eighteen to Dante
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Speaker 1: Moncrief I think he's too indecisive. I don't think he
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Speaker 1: does that. Blake Bortles stood there because he knew what
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Speaker 1: he wanted and he delivered the past that led to
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Speaker 1: the game winning It's a game winning field goal because
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Speaker 1: it was the final go ahead points that you needed. Um,
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Speaker 1: if they want to win, it's it's so it'll be
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Speaker 1: interesting today when Doug talks if he says Cody Kesseler
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Speaker 1: is going to start, because then you say, don't don't
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Speaker 1: you want to win? Well, uh, that's everybody else's opinion.
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Speaker 1: Doug hasn't come out and said I don't think I
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Speaker 1: can win with Cuddy Kesler. So no, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think he would right. So from from that perspective, perhaps
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Speaker 1: there is a Perhaps there's a reason to start, I guess.
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Speaker 1: And he said all season, I don't believe in splitting reps.
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Speaker 1: I want there to be one guy, one starting guy.
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Speaker 1: But last week on the practice field, they did right
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Speaker 1: because he said, sometimes you have to alright. Big thing
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Speaker 1: too is the challenge, Sehn hinted at its earlier. The
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Speaker 1: challenge this week is going up against the Houston Texans,
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Speaker 1: who are playing for the a f C South. The
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Speaker 1: biggest challenge is that defensive line going against the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: offense lying give up six sacks against the Dolphins, Josh
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Speaker 1: Wells against J. J. Watt, Davian Clowney going up against
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Speaker 1: Eric Flowers, that is a challenge, to say the least.
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Speaker 1: Well and Robert Quinn is a heck of a pass
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Speaker 1: rusher and he just had Flowers at times on skates.
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Speaker 1: Here's Clowney who's all of six ft six almost six
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Speaker 1: ft seven, with enormous reach, I mean long arms, very
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Speaker 1: long arms, extremely long arms, and so he's really tough
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Speaker 1: to get anybody on because he can pep you off
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Speaker 1: of it. Tremendous athlete. We all know what he did
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Speaker 1: when he was at South Carolina. Well, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: he's playing like that, only the professional version. So you
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Speaker 1: can't really and you don't even have a tight end
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Speaker 1: that you can put over there and go. He'll help stop.
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Speaker 1: And Marcedes would be that guy if you still had
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Speaker 1: eighty nine here, but you don't. So, boy, it seems
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Speaker 1: like an enormous challenge for an offensive line that I
9:21
Speaker 1: was talking to people the last day and a half
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Speaker 1: at Christmas parties and things, and they want to know
9:26
Speaker 1: what happened to the Jaguars. Shares said, have you seen
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Speaker 1: the offensive line? What? What? Well? Yeah, um, the tight
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Speaker 1: end who essentially in this offense is a de facto
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, and four starters are on in your reserve.
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Speaker 1: So that's five on in your reserve and agent KM
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Speaker 1: maybe should have been because he's been playing with a
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Speaker 1: bad hamstring all season long. Four starters. It's a Josh
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Speaker 1: Wells is your I mean, I mean, now you feel
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Speaker 1: like you guys mentioned Josh well Is he didn't catching
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Speaker 1: the day I'm not. I'm not sure he's playing Sunday.
9:53
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you know. Uh so I assume until
9:59
Speaker 1: we see him playing, the won't be Um. I think
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Speaker 1: Josh Wells played very well when he's played this year,
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Speaker 1: But there's this feeling like you're getting back if you
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Speaker 1: get Josh Wells. But I mean, you know, this is
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Speaker 1: still a guy who wasn't starting at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the year, who you're hoping against. Hope plays to give
10:17
Speaker 1: you a chance against J. J. Watt. So yeah, the
10:20
Speaker 1: I mean it. Nobody wants to talk about injuries because
10:25
Speaker 1: it's so easy once you see the guys in uniform
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Speaker 1: and think, oh, there's a bunch football players that there.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome, but it's not awesome if they're not starting football.
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Speaker 1: But to the people who are still saying, oh, no,
10:36
Speaker 1: give me the injury excuse, what if we had said
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Speaker 1: before the season began, Okay, here's the Jaguar season, or nutshell,
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Speaker 1: they lose their entire offensive line, Well, how are you
10:45
Speaker 1: gonna win? They would have said, before then will you
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Speaker 1: what would the Jaguars record be if they lose their
10:50
Speaker 1: entire offensive line. Well, there's no one that would give
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Speaker 1: them a chance at a winning record, no one. They
10:55
Speaker 1: wouldn't have said, Well, don't give me those excuses. You
10:57
Speaker 1: have to have backups. Everybody who watches this game understand
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Speaker 1: there's no backup offensive line in the end. No, there's not.
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Speaker 1: You can't pay those guys. There's really not. It's the
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Speaker 1: number thirty two times five hundred sixty. Pretty uh, there's
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Speaker 1: not a hundred and sixty starting offensive line in the world.
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Speaker 1: If you have three on your team, you hope to
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Speaker 1: overcome the guys that don't qualify as that right. There
11:19
Speaker 1: used to be in five years ago, teams had offensive
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Speaker 1: line depth because there wasn't free agency and you could
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Speaker 1: keep guys um in this day and age, if you
11:28
Speaker 1: talk to any executive in the league, they will tell
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Speaker 1: you there are not a hundred and sixty offensive linemen
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Speaker 1: who teams would feel good about starting for their football team. Right,
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Speaker 1: So there's certainly not three. That's two times um, there's
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Speaker 1: only three, So there's not that's their issue. So the
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Speaker 1: challenge this week is how do you do anything offensively
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Speaker 1: right when you have Clowning on one side and sometimes
11:57
Speaker 1: Conny lines up in the middle, and sometimes Clowning and
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Speaker 1: wat it up next to each other, which becomes overpowering force.
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Speaker 1: But you've got Clowney Watt and then let's not forget
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Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless, who has been a Pro Bowl pass rusher
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Speaker 1: coming from his outside linebacker spot. I mean, it just
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Speaker 1: it limits what you can do because you have to
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Speaker 1: leave maximum protection in And now you've got an underwhelming
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Speaker 1: receiving corps right that is out there trying to make
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Speaker 1: plays without a tight end who can make plays in
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Speaker 1: the game. If the challenge comes back to what can
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Speaker 1: special teams do? And can defense score again? Yet again?
12:28
Speaker 1: Dras had six holding penalties in about a quarter last week,
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Speaker 1: to the point where Doug afterward, and Doug is not
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Speaker 1: one to take a media situation and try to embarrass
12:43
Speaker 1: his players. Is not what he was doing. But he
12:45
Speaker 1: said after the game, he said there were times where
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Speaker 1: he was asking, he was telling the players, I really
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Speaker 1: haven't seen anything that blake in terms of holding. So
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Speaker 1: he's almost saying, look, officially had no choice but to call.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was clear it was holding. Well that
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Speaker 1: take those six most all whole things in the game
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Speaker 1: don't get called, and you have six sacks on top
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Speaker 1: of it, and several of Kesser's completions, he was running
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Speaker 1: for his life. Well, the Dolphins pass fresh is good,
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Speaker 1: but it's not the Texans. No, No, Texans have the
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Speaker 1: best defensive front of the league right now when you
13:17
Speaker 1: just look at individuals and how they match them up. Now,
13:19
Speaker 1: that said, usually in the NFL, when you talk about
13:22
Speaker 1: a match up like this, the team on the on
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Speaker 1: the bad side of the matchup usually winds up playing
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Speaker 1: a little better than you think. And it's it's not
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Speaker 1: I don't expect there to be twelve sacks. I don't
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Speaker 1: expect NFL records to be set, but it's uh, Well,
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Speaker 1: the Draguars went in there against a bad offensive line
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Speaker 1: if you remember Opening Day last year and had ten
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Speaker 1: So it's not possible, right, I'm just saying, let's give
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Speaker 1: me a little let's give me a little something to
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Speaker 1: work with you And I like special teams has given
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Speaker 1: a lift the last two weeks. Defense has given a
13:54
Speaker 1: big lift the last two weeks. They might need to
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Speaker 1: out of that much. Not two scores, but to flip
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Speaker 1: big place to have a chance to win this well.
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Speaker 1: And and in Miami you had Telvin's touchdown, but at
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Speaker 1: the end of the half, if you go back and watch,
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Speaker 1: and I know that you do. Uh. Pete Westbrook was
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Speaker 1: the punter away. He kind of got pinned in over
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Speaker 1: on the Dolphins sideline there. If he had a little
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Speaker 1: bit more, just a little, he would have scored on that.
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Speaker 1: And if it hadn't been for Chris Reid's behind, they
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Speaker 1: might have scored a field goal. Yeah, yeah, selfish of him.
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Speaker 1: But right, Okay, Big thing three. Big thing three is
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Speaker 1: the a f C South. Looking at the playoff picks here,
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Speaker 1: the Texans are already in Colton. Titans game got flexed
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Speaker 1: to Sunday night football. That is almost a playoff contention.
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Speaker 1: Game winner goes home when our winner goes to the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: the loser goes home. If the Jags can beat the Texans,
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Speaker 1: that those winners of the Titans and Colts game when
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Speaker 1: the a f C South. Moral of the story is
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Speaker 1: all three of these teams are in the conversation in
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Well, so the South Big Three doesn't include
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Speaker 1: this team. And the OBErs question is how far away?
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Speaker 1: How f we're behind the other teams? Is this franchise?
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Speaker 1: Um farther than you want, not as far as you think, meaning, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they ought to be in it right now, and they're
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Speaker 1: five and ten. And if you you always say the NFL,
15:18
Speaker 1: you're not as bad as you think, and you're not
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Speaker 1: as good as you think. Um, would you with a
15:26
Speaker 1: couple of plays here and there, you're probably eight in
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Speaker 1: seven right now? Um, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, if a couple
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Speaker 1: of it, you know, if the Colts, yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: one of them, so Indie, Pittsburgh, Buffalo. So if you
15:45
Speaker 1: had beaten the Colts, they're back with you at eight
15:48
Speaker 1: and seven. So it just feels the seven game losing
15:52
Speaker 1: streak was really two streaks. It was the blowouts at
15:56
Speaker 1: the beginning of it, Kansas City, Dallas and Texas or
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Speaker 1: the Texans, and then the four ride after that. Every
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Speaker 1: one of them could have gone either way. And that
16:06
Speaker 1: was really where it all got away. Um had that
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Speaker 1: little four game losing streak at the end of the
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Speaker 1: seven game losing streak been a split. Then I think
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Speaker 1: you're talking about beating Washington and your back. In that said,
16:18
Speaker 1: you can't sit here and say, well, you're you can't
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Speaker 1: say about a five and ten team that it was
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Speaker 1: that close because the NFL you win. Well, here's the entry,
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Speaker 1: the defense, the guys who won't be back. You would
16:33
Speaker 1: assume that Malik won't be back, and obviously Bury Churches
16:37
Speaker 1: and back and maybe two Sean I don't know, well,
16:40
Speaker 1: he won't be back at his cap figure, which is
16:42
Speaker 1: nine million. Even with those guys gone, And even if
16:46
Speaker 1: you don't bring back Marcel Darius, which I was assuming
16:50
Speaker 1: mid season he'd be back now with Calais playing at
16:53
Speaker 1: the sub there's no way you can't get Calais back.
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Speaker 1: So but even if you lose the guys I'm just
16:57
Speaker 1: talking about, you still have three line corners. You have
17:01
Speaker 1: Miles Jack, Kelvin Smith, Uni can got a Clais Campbell,
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Speaker 1: Tavian Bryant, Abrey Jones. That's a defense good enough that
17:12
Speaker 1: if you make marginal improvements on offense, you should be
17:14
Speaker 1: able to compete. Um, we gotta a break. I'll say this. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The team that I think that their furthest away from
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Speaker 1: is the Colts because they have Andrew Luck and they
17:24
Speaker 1: have a hundred and twenty million dollars in salary cap
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Speaker 1: room next year, so they could go grab a Levy
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Speaker 1: on Bill. They could dramatically improve themselves on both sides
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Speaker 1: of the ball. They're not that far from the from
17:34
Speaker 1: the Titans, despite the fact that the Titans have beaten
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Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. Uh, And they're not
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Speaker 1: that far from the Texans, I don't think because the
17:42
Speaker 1: Texans have a young quarterback, a bad offensive line, not
17:46
Speaker 1: much in terms of offensive weapons outside that one amazing receiver. Right. Um,
17:51
Speaker 1: I think they can make a lot of ground up
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Speaker 1: against the Texans. And Titans will see about Andrew Luck
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Speaker 1: in the Colt So and I say that with the Colts, right, Um,
18:00
Speaker 1: but they beat the Colts, they shut him out here
18:02
Speaker 1: six to nothing from them with cap space that I
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18:09
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18:12
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18:14
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18:18
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18:23
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18:30
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18:32
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18:34
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18:36
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18:40
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18:43
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Speaker 1: uh Western from Greenville is is his family's from Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: an internship at a tennis club in Greenville this summer. Uh,
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26:21
Speaker 1: and Weston's dad a sort of a conversation ozone rate.
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Speaker 1: there and a family from good people. But it's kind
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Speaker 1: of wild Greenville, Delaware. What are the odds wind up
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Speaker 1: with Jags fans and hardcore Jacks fans come to a
26:50
Speaker 1: lot of games and good family. So blake bords contract
26:54
Speaker 1: is the issue here, and Weston was asking if they
26:56
Speaker 1: might be restructuring Blake's contract in order to have him
27:00
Speaker 1: stay in that bridge quarterback to the future and and
27:03
Speaker 1: it's a legitimate question, um, but I think it's going
27:07
Speaker 1: to have the answer of no. It just as we
27:11
Speaker 1: talked about money, Brian, there's a lot of logic and
27:14
Speaker 1: on paper stuff that says it makes sense to bring
27:18
Speaker 1: Blake back as the bridge guy. But I just don't
27:23
Speaker 1: know if that's at some point when he's been your
27:27
Speaker 1: franchise guy and when there's so much attached to it. Um,
27:31
Speaker 1: it just feels like it has. I've been saying the
27:34
Speaker 1: ozon for a couple of weeks. Sometimes it's time to
27:36
Speaker 1: move on. Uh. It's not a definite, and there'll be
27:42
Speaker 1: some conversation, well I think after the season about do
27:46
Speaker 1: we do this? But I think the answer will want
27:48
Speaker 1: to be enough. I would tend to agree for for
27:50
Speaker 1: what you're saying, and that is is that it feels
27:52
Speaker 1: as if and we said it when they benched him,
27:54
Speaker 1: it feels like it's time is done here right um.
27:56
Speaker 1: And I have, among others, said, if you want to win,
27:59
Speaker 1: you put him in now, right. Um. The logic of
28:03
Speaker 1: it makes sense because look, you're gonna you're gonna pay
28:04
Speaker 1: him something if he leaves. You're paying him to leave,
28:07
Speaker 1: and then you're paying a bridge quarterback, a veteran to
28:10
Speaker 1: come in. So now you're paying two and only one
28:12
Speaker 1: of them is here while you draft someone. I I
28:15
Speaker 1: have absolutely no uh hesitation if I'm TC and d
28:22
Speaker 1: C and d M to keeping him as my bridge quarterback.
28:26
Speaker 1: I understand why they don't, but I would. There's the
28:29
Speaker 1: other side of this too, Um would he want that?
28:32
Speaker 1: Probably not, And that's the you know, with a restructure,
28:36
Speaker 1: he has to gree the restructure. And you know, even
28:39
Speaker 1: with him, he's been a a a class act on
28:43
Speaker 1: every level. If if that's not the role he wants.
28:47
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to Blake about it, but it would
28:50
Speaker 1: be hard from Blake's perspective to say, Okay, I'm going
28:52
Speaker 1: to I still want to be a starter everyone, So
28:56
Speaker 1: she wants to be the guy. Probably hard for him
28:59
Speaker 1: to envision and getting a fair shot to get back
29:04
Speaker 1: in a competition without a doubt, and everyone's calling for
29:06
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback the first time he has a two
29:08
Speaker 1: interception game. So from his perspective, going to some place
29:12
Speaker 1: where things aren't established and there's a little bit more
29:16
Speaker 1: of a path to maybe starting again would make sense. Um. Again,
29:20
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him about that, but that feels
29:23
Speaker 1: like something that might work against restructuring them as well.
29:27
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I think it's likely to have
29:29
Speaker 1: the right I'm with you on that. I just more
29:31
Speaker 1: open to the idea than most All right, all right,
29:35
Speaker 1: let's go to Jordan from Jacksonville. Just an average running back?
29:40
Speaker 1: Well right now he is, you know, and uh, there
29:43
Speaker 1: were times. There have been times where he's not uh
29:48
Speaker 1: potential wise physically he's not. Uh, he shows flashes of not.
29:55
Speaker 1: But at this point he's thirty one games in minus
29:59
Speaker 1: whatever he's missed, and his numbers and performance say that
30:03
Speaker 1: he is. So I didn't say no along uh since
30:06
Speaker 1: the two games this year Pittsburgh Buffalo where I thought
30:08
Speaker 1: he looked like the guy. It's now up to him
30:12
Speaker 1: to show us that he's that. I would say that
30:16
Speaker 1: he is an average running back between the twenties and
30:21
Speaker 1: an elite running back inside the he has that nose
30:25
Speaker 1: for the end zone. He knows how to use his
30:26
Speaker 1: power and his and his he's got a quickness to him.
30:30
Speaker 1: You know. It's he has a nose for the end zone.
30:32
Speaker 1: He's really good at getting into the end zone. And
30:35
Speaker 1: so from that perspective, there he is um. But his
30:38
Speaker 1: numbers say here, here's my thing. And I've got to
30:41
Speaker 1: talk to some people and find this out. It looks
30:43
Speaker 1: to me like he has poor field vision. There are
30:46
Speaker 1: there was a play on Sunday where and and we
30:49
Speaker 1: can go back to the Pittsburgh game as well. On
30:51
Speaker 1: third down at the end of the ball game, if
30:53
Speaker 1: he bounces it to the outside, he probably scores um.
30:56
Speaker 1: But he'd never see that. And he missed a wide
30:59
Speaker 1: open hole. It looked to me as if he was
31:01
Speaker 1: looking at it and then came back and said, no,
31:03
Speaker 1: I'll go there where there's three guys in the way.
31:06
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand why he did that. Now, maybe there
31:08
Speaker 1: was a I don't understand. I don't get it. But
31:11
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got great vision. I think he
31:13
Speaker 1: lacks a certain instinct other than put your head down
31:16
Speaker 1: and try to run downhill on a defense, which is
31:19
Speaker 1: what he did because all he's ever had to do.
31:25
Speaker 1: The good and the point you made, Bryan, is that right.
31:28
Speaker 1: He is very good inside the twenties, um, And that's
31:32
Speaker 1: the good news. Uh. The bad news is you drafted
31:37
Speaker 1: him to be more than that. I hate to bring
31:39
Speaker 1: this name out of the past, but Tim Tebow was
31:41
Speaker 1: an excellent quarterback inside the ten yard line. He had
31:44
Speaker 1: a nose for the end zone too. But obviously we
31:46
Speaker 1: know he's been out of the league long enough now
31:47
Speaker 1: that he couldn't play at an elite level, um so,
31:51
Speaker 1: but for running back you can probably last a lot longer. However,
31:55
Speaker 1: you're gonnaet drafted the number four overall to be a quarter,
31:58
Speaker 1: to be a cornerstone guy. Yet that's to get him
32:00
Speaker 1: into the red zone action. The thing that that does
32:02
Speaker 1: give you hope, though, is there are times where you've
32:06
Speaker 1: seen it. The Buffalo game, the three quarters in Buffalo,
32:09
Speaker 1: before he lost his mind and went across the field
32:11
Speaker 1: to fight. They win that game, by the way, if
32:14
Speaker 1: he doesn't do that, they may overturn the touchdown. They
32:17
Speaker 1: put the ball third and one, a part of me
32:19
Speaker 1: first and goal at the one, and he scores, and
32:21
Speaker 1: they had all the momentum in the world there and
32:23
Speaker 1: the Bills don't win. The Jaguars win that ball. But
32:27
Speaker 1: up to that point where he lost his mind and
32:28
Speaker 1: ran across the field, he owned him. He was doing
32:31
Speaker 1: whatever he wanted. And that's the hope is this has
32:34
Speaker 1: been a mess of a season for him, with the hamstring,
32:37
Speaker 1: with the expectations, with the not meeting those, with the
32:40
Speaker 1: coming back, with the fight. So benefit of the doubt
32:44
Speaker 1: for the kid because he's still just a kid. Uh
32:48
Speaker 1: Reset that shown enough potential to make you think that
32:54
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be out of the question or the biggest
32:56
Speaker 1: comeback in NFL history if he has a big year
32:58
Speaker 1: next year. Alright, I think we have one more. One more.
33:00
Speaker 1: Let's go to jeans from Salt Lake City via Jacksonville.
33:04
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm not sure it's been said, but the
33:06
Speaker 1: only problem with our defense is our offense. They in
33:09
Speaker 1: most games of how to stay on the field much
33:10
Speaker 1: too long. Even the best wear down. Keep our defense
33:14
Speaker 1: as intact as you can, then just please fix that offense. Well,
33:17
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's been months, but yes, yes, the
33:25
Speaker 1: biggest difference is not so much the wearing down, it's
33:31
Speaker 1: the lack of weeds. And we talked about in Monday, Brian.
33:34
Speaker 1: The two interception returns for a touchdown this year have
33:36
Speaker 1: come in the exact same scenario. Leading the fourth quarter
33:39
Speaker 1: pressure turns into a interception turns into a touchdown. That's
33:43
Speaker 1: how you get them. They have had enough opportunities to
33:44
Speaker 1: do that. As we said earlier, even with a couple
33:47
Speaker 1: of losses personnel wise, the core for this thing is
33:52
Speaker 1: still a defense that you ought to be able to
33:54
Speaker 1: win with. It will still come back as one of
33:56
Speaker 1: the better defenses in the NFL. I think it's reminding
34:00
Speaker 1: people that they tried to fix the offense this year,
34:03
Speaker 1: so they knew that the defense was not likely to
34:06
Speaker 1: play to two thousand seventeen levels unless the offense gave
34:10
Speaker 1: them the chance. So we're not just over here talking
34:12
Speaker 1: to talk. But they signed marquees and they went out
34:15
Speaker 1: and grabbed Ante Moncrief and Austin Severian Jenkins and put
34:19
Speaker 1: the biggest contract in front of guard Andrew Norwell that
34:21
Speaker 1: to that point had ever been given to an offensive guarden, right,
34:25
Speaker 1: and then they built this two back system that we
34:27
Speaker 1: never got to see. They knew they had to fix
34:29
Speaker 1: the offense this year. It just didn't work out because
34:31
Speaker 1: of the injuries, and that of course took away from
34:34
Speaker 1: the defense. Yet we we get it. We know what
34:36
Speaker 1: this is, and so do they. And they have to
34:39
Speaker 1: have a different plan this year apparently because they're not
34:42
Speaker 1: going to go forward with their quarterbacks. So they're gonna
34:44
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34:46
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Speaker 1: have questions to ask, big ones. Ah ask number one.
36:52
Speaker 1: Do you want to see the Jaguars win in Houston
36:56
Speaker 1: on Sunday? Yes? Or no? No? Because you want a
36:59
Speaker 1: better draft position? As Brian says, if you're gonna suck, suck,
37:04
Speaker 1: ye say that. But do you want to see them
37:07
Speaker 1: win for pride? Do you want another Dolphins game where
37:09
Speaker 1: things were good and in a high note, good for
37:14
Speaker 1: coach Marone, good for this locker room, bad for the draft?
37:19
Speaker 1: What are we thinking? Brian? Go ahead, narrow loss, n
37:26
Speaker 1: Look at this point, you've fallen back to ninth in
37:29
Speaker 1: the draft order, and if you win, you can still
37:32
Speaker 1: kind of be in the top ten. I think it's
37:35
Speaker 1: fair to say, and look, if they win, I'm not
37:37
Speaker 1: going to be upset, but I think it's fair to
37:39
Speaker 1: say that they cost themselves some draft capital. Right, if
37:42
Speaker 1: they want their guy, there will be other teams that
37:45
Speaker 1: will be able to vault in front of them. They
37:47
Speaker 1: will have to spend a second, a second and a third,
37:50
Speaker 1: two threes. You need a quarterback, another offensive alignment, a
37:55
Speaker 1: tight end, a wide receiver. I mean, let's just think logically,
37:57
Speaker 1: you're probably running back, you're giving up draft pick. But
38:01
Speaker 1: does everyone agree you gotta have the quarterback? But then
38:04
Speaker 1: winning is losing at this point of the season. I
38:06
Speaker 1: get it. The coaches don't think that way, the players
38:09
Speaker 1: don't think that way. I'm not I'm not sure the
38:11
Speaker 1: owner thinks that way. But the reality of it is
38:14
Speaker 1: is that if you fall further down the draft board,
38:17
Speaker 1: you're going to cost yourself if you want to climb
38:19
Speaker 1: and get a quarterback. So I'll say, play well, narrow
38:23
Speaker 1: loss ten nine. I'm happy with the way they play
38:26
Speaker 1: first of all. Then I'm gonna win on side, so
38:28
Speaker 1: I don't expect that. That's why I said it. And
38:30
Speaker 1: you've got You've got two offensive tackles, right, Eric Flowers
38:34
Speaker 1: and Patrick o'mam a right because because as you just said,
38:38
Speaker 1: we're not gonna see Josh Wells they started the season.
38:42
Speaker 1: One is a left guard to one is a right
38:43
Speaker 1: tackle for the New York Giants. Got cutting in there here,
38:46
Speaker 1: So wait, you're gonna stop J. J. Watton, Jadeveon Clowney.
38:49
Speaker 1: Defensive special teams go play well, kick some field goals
38:53
Speaker 1: and narrow loss. It would not be disappointed with. My
38:56
Speaker 1: answer is yes, but no. You sort of want to
39:01
Speaker 1: see it because it makes it a cool story. But
39:05
Speaker 1: it cool but not. I mean when you're there on
39:07
Speaker 1: the side, when when in the stadium on Sunday, yes,
39:11
Speaker 1: that you want to see them play well and win.
39:13
Speaker 1: It's a better story for us to tell. It's easier
39:16
Speaker 1: for us to do our jobs when the players aren't rap,
39:20
Speaker 1: you know, when the coach won't. And but they got
39:27
Speaker 1: their win lateness, Yeah, that was great. They had a
39:30
Speaker 1: seven game losing or seven game losing straight. And when
39:33
Speaker 1: you look back on it over their last five games,
39:36
Speaker 1: they'll they'll have one two out of the five played
39:40
Speaker 1: really well defensively in a couple of them, probably most
39:42
Speaker 1: of them. That's enough to make them feel good going forward.
39:45
Speaker 1: There is nothing, nothing that this wind could do to
39:49
Speaker 1: make you feel better. If in April you get drafted,
39:53
Speaker 1: the guy you want is there and you can't get
39:55
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39:58
Speaker 1: go up right, if the quarterbacks climb up the board
40:01
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40:04
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40:07
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40:09
Speaker 1: was thought to be maybe a borderline first round pick,
40:12
Speaker 1: and they went one too. If these quarterbacks, Herbert and
40:15
Speaker 1: Haskins come out, they could shoot up the board. And
40:18
Speaker 1: you have teams at the top that don't need quarterback. Um,
40:20
Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Cardinals, the Jets, the Niners. Right, they're
40:25
Speaker 1: all gonna be auctioning them off, and teams that they're
40:27
Speaker 1: desperate for quarterbacks are going to have to pay. Trust me,
40:31
Speaker 1: you don't. You won't remember this game in April in
40:33
Speaker 1: a lost season, but you'll remember the moment that you
40:36
Speaker 1: draft your franchise quarterback. Think about the future, not the present. Yeahs,
40:43
Speaker 1: number two, here we go. Who changed the storyline of
40:47
Speaker 1: their season? Last Sunday we talked about it. I was
40:51
Speaker 1: a nastional mass last week. Who's got to do it?
40:53
Speaker 1: Who's got to change the storyline? Now? After I went
40:56
Speaker 1: against Miami? Who did just that? I'm trying to think.
41:05
Speaker 1: I think last week you did say Telvins, Now I did,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going with that again. Um, he has not
41:09
Speaker 1: had a good season. He just he's not a big linebacker.
41:13
Speaker 1: He's a playmaking linebacker, and so you judge him on
41:16
Speaker 1: game changing plays. You judge him on interceptions, pick six
41:20
Speaker 1: is uh, forced fumbles, fumble recoveries. Um, and he just
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Speaker 1: he hasn't done it this year. He has not been
41:27
Speaker 1: that guy. You can judge him on tackles because he's
41:30
Speaker 1: had some big tackle games, but he just he just
41:32
Speaker 1: not had a good season. And on Sunday he gave
41:35
Speaker 1: you that victory. There weren't any season to I guess
41:38
Speaker 1: the season to finding victory was the Patriots. It was
41:40
Speaker 1: so long ago. Um, but he gave you a good
41:42
Speaker 1: Christmas holiday because you felt good about your team. Um.
41:47
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a reach, but maybe Carlos
41:48
Speaker 1: hide uh because I think that game may have been
41:58
Speaker 1: the A four runner to him being resigned or I'm
42:02
Speaker 1: not resigned, right, because it felt last week like he
42:07
Speaker 1: probably gonna be around. He'd been inactive, he'd been a
42:09
Speaker 1: healthy scratch. Um, he came in did for a second
42:14
Speaker 1: time this season. It was a second good game since
42:16
Speaker 1: he's been here. Uh probably showed everybody that he's going
42:23
Speaker 1: to be around next year. I would think that he
42:25
Speaker 1: can run with power and if he had an offensive
42:27
Speaker 1: line that could really create holes between the tackles, which
42:30
Speaker 1: he doesn't right now because of the injuries. I think
42:32
Speaker 1: you'd see a much more effective player. I think here's
42:34
Speaker 1: the other thing at this point, why would you let
42:36
Speaker 1: him go? Well, yeah, because you gave the pick and
42:38
Speaker 1: you and he's got money in your cap. But here's
42:39
Speaker 1: the thing. We went through the launder list of guys
42:42
Speaker 1: that you need if you can find a way, and
42:45
Speaker 1: we saw five point seven procure against Washington from David Williams.
42:49
Speaker 1: If you're going to play the power running game, which
42:51
Speaker 1: they are, bring these three guys back. You don't need
42:54
Speaker 1: to go get a guy at that position, or you
42:56
Speaker 1: can do it in the sixth round if you're looking
42:58
Speaker 1: for scatback more granted guy exactly which is where you
43:02
Speaker 1: found him. So um, yeah, I think that's a good one.
43:06
Speaker 1: None of you said I thought that was a shoeing.
43:09
Speaker 1: If we thought he was coming back, then maybe right.
43:12
Speaker 1: But we said he We not thought he'd never take
43:13
Speaker 1: another snap in Jacksville. Let's see, we did three weeks
43:16
Speaker 1: ago when he got benched. That would be the last.
43:18
Speaker 1: I think what we said was is that he's done
43:21
Speaker 1: here long term. I don't know that we didn't think
43:23
Speaker 1: he might not get in, But I get your point. You. Yeah,
43:26
Speaker 1: he boy. His teammates were so happy for him in
43:29
Speaker 1: the locker room on Sunday. He is well well liked.
43:31
Speaker 1: I don't beloved is a strong word, but guys love him. Yeah.
43:34
Speaker 1: I thought this was as asked. Well, I'm sorry, I
43:37
Speaker 1: just thought it was a shoot. All right, all right,
43:41
Speaker 1: we can make a John As segment. All right, let's
43:43
Speaker 1: to the last one. Have you got? Oh boy? Here
43:44
Speaker 1: we go last As? Here? What would you get Doug
43:50
Speaker 1: Morn for Christmas? Tough? Right? I was thinking of it
43:57
Speaker 1: this morning. I was gonna put what would you get
43:59
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey for Ristmas? But Doug so much better, so
44:03
Speaker 1: much harder. If he comes in this morning and says, Brian,
44:06
Speaker 1: you didn't get me a gift, what would you go?
44:09
Speaker 1: Hurry and get him today and then put on his
44:10
Speaker 1: desk tomorrow, Oh John, that makes me worried. Cash because
44:19
Speaker 1: I always give a cash cash. My dream is to
44:24
Speaker 1: someday go to one of those office swap parties and
44:31
Speaker 1: have everybody gift be twenty five dollars, So you would
44:36
Speaker 1: give Dug on a envelope with cash and its not
44:41
Speaker 1: even much. And you know what, he would probably that's
44:45
Speaker 1: a good gift, even like that cash. I do I
44:49
Speaker 1: have to answer after that? No, that's fine. I wouldn't
44:52
Speaker 1: remember last year I and he said to Christmas cookies?
44:57
Speaker 1: What am my Christmas cookies? You've seen Doug. He's a
45:01
Speaker 1: big guy. I bet he likes cookies. I bet I
45:04
Speaker 1: bet he like pinner butter blossoms. That I would that
45:06
Speaker 1: I would get here. So you go up to anybody
45:08
Speaker 1: on the street and say, hey, you want some cash.
45:11
Speaker 1: Nobody says no, there's a lot of gifts where people
45:14
Speaker 1: go out. I don't really want that. Nobody said that, hey,
45:17
Speaker 1: I don't have enough cash. Keep your cash. I wish
45:20
Speaker 1: I had less cash. Well, that's just good, answered John Money.
45:27
Speaker 1: And with that we are signing off and were trying
45:30
Speaker 1: to be an abbreviated version of the show, and it
45:32
Speaker 1: really wasn't. So that'll do it for John and for Ashland,
45:35
Speaker 1: for Joe, and for old Stone Cold. We call him
45:38
Speaker 1: sc for short. Stone Cold likes cash cash money, baby
45:42
Speaker 1: hard cash, Baby stone Cold cash is king to some people.
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Speaker 1: Good night, good morning,