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Jim Nantz on the Jaguars' progression, Andy Reid's legacy & more | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: With the call of the game for the Jaguars and
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs on CBS Sports. It's the CBS lead NFL
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  Speaker 1: played by play announcers since two thousand four. Three time
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  Speaker 1: Emmy winner, five time National Sportscaster of the Year, Jim Nance,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to see you. Great to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast this week. It's been a little while, I
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  Speaker 1: think for you on a Jags game. It has you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a nice little run there with the Jags
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  Speaker 1: the year they went to the a f T Championship
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  Speaker 1: Game and then the following season we had a week
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  Speaker 1: to hosting New England on a national doubleheader game. So
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  Speaker 1: I think this is the start. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be an onslaught of every week coverage, but
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  Speaker 1: I think we're this It's a build here with the
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  Speaker 1: parts that are in place to the Jags becoming something
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  Speaker 1: will be seeing quite often in the future. I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to it. Jim, what was your view of what
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  Speaker 1: happened last year under the previous regime and now moving
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  Speaker 1: forward going to the lowest of lows really last year
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  Speaker 1: to now bringing in a guy who's been around the
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  Speaker 1: league since the early nineties as a player in Peterson.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's night and day. It feels like from last
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  Speaker 1: season and now. But what's your view from the outside
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  Speaker 1: looking at I've always been a great admirer of Dougs
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  Speaker 1: I and I had the occasion to cover him a
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  Speaker 1: lot in Philadelphia, and I like the way he ran
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  Speaker 1: that team, and of course it led to a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl title, and I thought it was a tremendous higher.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the pieces are in place now, we just
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  Speaker 1: have to let time take its course. It's just neat
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  Speaker 1: to see, though. But in the off season they made
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  Speaker 1: a commitment to building this offensive line. Obviously that is
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  Speaker 1: already showing some real benefit there. And Trevor is now
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  Speaker 1: in games into his career, and I think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see him in this game coming off probably the
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  Speaker 1: most important win he's had, you know, and in the
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  Speaker 1: games stretch, and and it's just it's it's an exciting
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  Speaker 1: time to see that the Jags are are rising. I
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  Speaker 1: know that coming off a five game losing streak, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a several of those games were very winnable games.
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  Speaker 1: But they're close. They're close. Jp they're really close. Jim
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  Speaker 1: nance with us. Let's stay on the head coach is
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  Speaker 1: the jaguars fifth full time head coach in the last
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  Speaker 1: eleven seasons. But as you mentioned, his calming nature around
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback, and the guy won a Super Bowl with
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  Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. So Doug understands the position. He understands
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  Speaker 1: how to relate to the player and then can manage
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  Speaker 1: the team if things are breaking down and not going well.
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  Speaker 1: So even in these stretch of one score losses that
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  Speaker 1: they've had and then the win last week, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: the same dog weekend and week out. It feels like No.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a consistency and and there's there's also
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  Speaker 1: a quiet confidence that that he exudes, but that the
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  Speaker 1: players and everybody in the organization can definitely feed off
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  Speaker 1: of that. They can feel it. There's something about his presence.
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  Speaker 1: I've got this is kind of what he says with
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  Speaker 1: his body language and he does. I've always thought he
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  Speaker 1: was not given enough credit for his innovation some of
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  Speaker 1: the cool things that he's done as a head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Just the imagination and he's come up with offensively and
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  Speaker 1: learning from Andy Reid, of course, from seeing with him
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia at the Kansas City and on and on. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: the Jacks have their man. They've got the right guy
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  Speaker 1: onto the signline. There's no question. You know, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid there, and we were talking about this on
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  Speaker 1: a show earlier this week. Obviously, read comes from the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay thing. Of course, Doug was there as a player,
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  Speaker 1: and then in Philadelphia Donovan McNabb to run that offense,
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  Speaker 1: and now in Kansas City the offense is running at
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  Speaker 1: as high as level with Mahomes there. But it's really
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  Speaker 1: opened a new era of scoring and execution in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL on offense. Bill Belichick set the standard on defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for the last twenty years. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: is Andy read that on the offensive side of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a very well phrased comment you just made.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had anybody quite stitch it together the way
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  Speaker 1: you just did. But I don't think there's any question
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  Speaker 1: that his influence is being felt throughout throughout the league.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he's got I'm not taking nothing away from this.
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  Speaker 1: This is an amazing coach, a Hall of Fame coach,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got all the parts in place. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to have the right guys to be able
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  Speaker 1: to to execute when you're when you're doing new things.
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  Speaker 1: And they definitely have that talent level, but it starts,
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  Speaker 1: it starts with a creative mind. JP. Let's let's put
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  Speaker 1: it that way. And and Andy is as interesting. We
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of their games. And I just spoke
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  Speaker 1: about this yesterday to a friend of mine. And he
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  Speaker 1: comes from a home as a young kid where creativity
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  Speaker 1: was emphasized. His father was a set designer in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: His father worked in film and television. He found ways to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, build backgrounds and the imaginary places. And in
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  Speaker 1: golf we talk about people being either a scientist or
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  Speaker 1: an artist. You've got the people that grind over all
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  Speaker 1: the analytics and and the track man and the feedback
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  Speaker 1: you get out of that. And they've got people that
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  Speaker 1: just stand over a shot and say it looks like this,
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  Speaker 1: I want it, kind of carve something and they see
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  Speaker 1: it in their head. They can follow the ball, they
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  Speaker 1: can imagine it. Andy Reid is an artist. He's the
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  Speaker 1: son of an artist. And now he is the father,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, of this imaginative way in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: to play offensive football, and its effects are being felt
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of places. And listen, Doug Peterson is
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  Speaker 1: one of the first disciples, if not the first. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that matchup. I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: having a chance to see it all unfold. And now
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  Speaker 1: that we're twenty five games into into Lawrence's career, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're starting to see the signs that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be an elite quarterback. Of course, at ten
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  Speaker 1: is going to be an elite running back. So um,
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting. I think for Jacks fans, this is a
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  Speaker 1: very good time to be If you jumped off the
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  Speaker 1: bandwagon before, uh, you better jump on right now because
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  Speaker 1: the seats are gonna be filled here pretty quickly. Jim
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  Speaker 1: nance with us. Hey, you mentioned Trevor Lawrence, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are some really good signs. Um, some throws that
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  Speaker 1: he makes that not a lot of other guys can make.
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  Speaker 1: But then there's some head scratching moments still in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone, goal to ghost situation, interceptions in the end zone,
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  Speaker 1: things like that. But you just got to fight through
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  Speaker 1: some of that learning curve if you're a Jaguar fan
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  Speaker 1: and and stick with it. We had calls earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the year, Jim that fans wanted to sit him down.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the most insane thing I've heard. He's
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  Speaker 1: got to go play and fight through some of these mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he does, and there aren't many players in
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  Speaker 1: the league who don't go through this growing process. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking not just current I'm talking about the history
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  Speaker 1: of the league, the growing pains. And listen, we know
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  Speaker 1: the stats of what it looked like when Peyton Manning
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  Speaker 1: was a rookie in the NFL, and we know this
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  Speaker 1: is a second year for Trevor. But the point is,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get the game to slow down. I think
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  Speaker 1: it is slowing down, and I've watched a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville games this year. I think the one on
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  Speaker 1: that everyone would like to have back the most is
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  Speaker 1: the one from the one yard line over in London
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  Speaker 1: and that interception. But it happens Aaron Rodgers through two
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  Speaker 1: interceptions last week in the red zone, and he's Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers and they're floundering. So it happens to the best
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  Speaker 1: of them. But I also know that last week there
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  Speaker 1: was a stretch where Trevor one eighteen out of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of hundred yards and he looked like
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  Speaker 1: a world beater. And the more he plays the more
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  Speaker 1: often he's gonna look like a world beater. Jim, how
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  Speaker 1: do you cover Travis Kelsey? Slow him down? Can you?
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought you were asking, how do I
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  Speaker 1: cover him? As a broad? No? No, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 1: As a defense jagglars defense he is. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of coordinators around the league that like to have that answer,
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  Speaker 1: trust me, and he hasn't. He hasn't slowed down at all.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's been around now ten years and he's
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  Speaker 1: as automatic as they come for figuring out ways to
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  Speaker 1: create separation. He uses as his body brilliantly to box
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  Speaker 1: out guys and in the middle of the field he
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  Speaker 1: can turn, turn around and catch, turn and catch. But
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  Speaker 1: the best of them pick up an easy ten at
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  Speaker 1: crucial times. But he's a very rare talent list. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna shatter like almost every type end record
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  Speaker 1: when it's all set and done. So we're talking first
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  Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Famer right there. But I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody with my limited skills of coaching football would ever
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  Speaker 1: expect me to be able to have that answer. There's
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  Speaker 1: some great minds out there that's never figured that one out.
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  Speaker 1: Guess one way you could JP as you you's put
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  Speaker 1: three guys on him and just go ahead and say
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  Speaker 1: the other two guys McCole, harmon, name, name your chief,
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  Speaker 1: white out. Just go ahead and let him just be
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  Speaker 1: wide open. You know, there's the only way you can
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  Speaker 1: stop us. But about I think you need three guys
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  Speaker 1: on him, and that's just not possible. Hit him at
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  Speaker 1: the line, hit him down the field, double cover him,
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  Speaker 1: and see what happens. Pray after that. He's still he's still,
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  Speaker 1: He's still gonna go over a hundred. That's right, Jim
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  Speaker 1: nance with his final couple of moments here, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: big picture here. AFC South seems gettable still. The Titans
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  Speaker 1: are not running away with this thing. The Colts are
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  Speaker 1: what they are right now, of course. Um and if
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars can get a couple of wins here in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the schedule, stay in and after Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: they have two head to head games against Tennessee. I
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  Speaker 1: know we're putting the cart before the horse. There's some
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  Speaker 1: things that still need to be done for the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: but the a f C South is gettable for any team,
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  Speaker 1: especially the Jaguars. Right now. Well, here's how I look
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  Speaker 1: at it. Houston is not gonna win the division. So
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  Speaker 1: down the three teams. I mean, Tennessee did just the
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  Speaker 1: five game win streak before the lost case, and they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the team to beat. But there are two matchups,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, between Jacksonville and Tennessee is still become.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this Jacksonville record, I know everybody can say
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  Speaker 1: we could have been, should have been, but it very
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  Speaker 1: easily could have been. With all these fourth quarter losses
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  Speaker 1: and relinquishing the leads late this this could have very
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  Speaker 1: easily been. Let's call it six and three instead of
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  Speaker 1: three and six. It could have been. It really could
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  Speaker 1: have been. So it's a team that you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to have to take some games that people don't
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  Speaker 1: expl at them too, like this one right here. This
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  Speaker 1: this would be such a statement win for the franchise
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  Speaker 1: if they could go into Arrowhead and beat this team.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the NFL, you know, you don't rule anything out,
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  Speaker 1: and this team is fearless. They're coming in and riding
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  Speaker 1: a high that comeback win against the Raiders. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Tennessee is clearly the team to beat. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Indianapolis is a threat now that they've gone
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  Speaker 1: through this mid season change, so it's Tennessee and it's
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  Speaker 1: their division to lose, and if anybody's gonna catch them,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be this team. Jim, thanks to the time.
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  Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Looking forward to hearing you on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and Arrowhead for the Jaguars and the Chiefs, and best
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  Speaker 1: of luck to you. Appreciate it jp my pleasure and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we'll have a chance to visit more often down
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  Speaker 1: the road.