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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought to you by the Fields
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Speaker 1: Total Group. Jaguar Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst
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Speaker 1: and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter JP Shatterick
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Speaker 1: bring you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now and welcome in.
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Speaker 3: It's Wednesday, It's week eighteen. It's Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 3: JP Shadwick, John Osier from the Honday Studios at the
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Speaker 3: Miller Electric Center. Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles. Huddle Up
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Speaker 3: Step up to Luxury Fieldsauto dot Com Week eighteen Division
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Speaker 3: title on the line.
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Speaker 2: Bucky, here we are.
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Speaker 3: We have finally arrived and it is a must win scenario.
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Speaker 4: How are you, man, I'm doing great. You guys have
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Speaker 4: to excuse me. I'm in the middle of a ride
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Speaker 4: up to the Bay Area with my son. He's going
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Speaker 4: back to college, and so I had to pull over
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Speaker 4: to the side. So I'm at a local little coffee shop.
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Speaker 4: So you may hear some little background noise, but I
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Speaker 4: want to make sure I was on the pot.
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Speaker 5: He's a coffee shop guy, he's in a little cafe
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Speaker 5: where they play guitars and all night and all that.
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Speaker 3: Let's do that. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. And Johnny,
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Speaker 3: here we are week eighteen. Gotta have it, gotta have it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's I've been saying all week. Look, it's
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Speaker 5: it's no matter how you got here. It's a chance
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Speaker 5: to make history in two ways. It's a chance to
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Speaker 5: beat the Titans that franchise four consecutive times for the
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Speaker 5: first time since the nineties. That doesn't matter as much
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Speaker 5: as a chance to win a second consecutive AFC South title.
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Speaker 5: As Doug said in the press of today, Look that
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Speaker 5: that matters. You're trying to gain control this division. You're
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Speaker 5: trying to establish yourselves as the team and have your
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Speaker 5: time in this division. And that can be done on
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Speaker 5: Sunday in again that frankly, they ought to win, So
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Speaker 5: go do it.
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Speaker 3: All right, Let's hear from Doug Peterson today and ask
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Speaker 3: about the different playoffs scenarios. He wasn't having much of it.
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Speaker 4: You know all the playoffs scenarios for you guys, or
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Speaker 4: do you just focus.
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Speaker 6: On the It's only one, there's only one. There's only
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Speaker 6: one that matters right now for us.
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Speaker 7: So how when you told the team, yeah, you won't
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Speaker 7: tell them.
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Speaker 8: I mean, that's that's all I need to tell the team.
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Speaker 8: There's there's nothing other than trying to win this game
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Speaker 8: on Sunday. I'm not gonna cloud their mind with with stuff.
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Speaker 8: You know, obviously, our focus is trying to beat you know, Tennessee,
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Speaker 8: and regardless of records and who's playing, who's not playing,
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Speaker 8: this is always a really good football game. And it's
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Speaker 8: a it's a four quarter game, and and and that's
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Speaker 8: our focus right now.
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Speaker 3: There you have at the head coach. Yeah, Bucky, that's
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Speaker 3: the right approach. I mean, you got to go into
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Speaker 3: this with everything. You got to win this football game.
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Speaker 9: Yeah. I actually like Doug's approach. I like his mentality.
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Speaker 4: Uh, don't give you guys an easy way out, even
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Speaker 4: though they will maybe know a lot of their playoff
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Speaker 4: fate by the time they get to Sunday based on
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Speaker 4: what happens on Saturday night.
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Speaker 9: Don't give you guys an easy way out. You got
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Speaker 9: to win to get in. And you want to give
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Speaker 9: them that approach because you.
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Speaker 4: Don't want them to wish upon a star for somebody
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Speaker 4: else to push them in. They control their destiny by
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Speaker 4: being able to win a game. This is a game that,
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Speaker 4: in everybody's mind, they should win. This is a team
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Speaker 4: that you're better than. You go out, you take care
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Speaker 4: of business, don't give them any life, and you advance
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Speaker 4: to the postseas. It's very similar to what it was
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Speaker 4: last year. But I would say last year.
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Speaker 9: The team, the Tennessee Titans were playing better with Josh Dobbs.
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Speaker 4: This is a team that you want to knock them
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Speaker 4: out early, give them a reason to go ahead and
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Speaker 4: think about vacation and all that other stuff.
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Speaker 9: So Doug's approach is right with this team.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's zactly what I was going to try to make. Look,
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Speaker 5: you're dealing with the same kind of team that Carolina
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Speaker 5: was last week. They're a team that's.
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Speaker 2: Out of it.
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Speaker 5: The Jaguars did a nice job even though they weren't,
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Speaker 5: you know, scoring in the red zone. They did a
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Speaker 5: nice job of sort of continuing to tighten the grip.
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Speaker 5: Tighten the grip. Three nothing, six nothing, nine to nothing,
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Speaker 5: and then you put them away with the touchdown. Never
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Speaker 5: really let that team think that they were going to
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Speaker 5: get off the mat. The Titans are the same thing.
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Speaker 5: If you let them get a lead, which, by the way,
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Speaker 5: the Jaguars have not won a game this year that
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Speaker 5: they've trailed at halftime. They've won every game that they've led.
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Speaker 5: So get a lead. You're good anyway with a lead
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Speaker 5: against a team that you know they're playing at home,
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Speaker 5: so the engines might be running in the parking lot,
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Speaker 5: So make them want to go to the car. Has
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Speaker 5: that for a bucket?
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Speaker 2: That was pretty good coming?
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean it, and in Algie last week
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Speaker 5: when a team that's out of it has to be
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Speaker 5: there anyway, if you let them think they can win,
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Speaker 5: then they get fired up for it. If you get
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Speaker 5: ahead of him, then they start thinking, wow, yeah, we
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Speaker 5: were supposed to win this. Anyway, let's let's get out
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Speaker 5: of here.
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Speaker 7: This.
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Speaker 5: Don't get hurt. We're not having any fun anyway. Make
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Speaker 5: that feeling come as soon as possible.
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Speaker 3: Gotta have that. I gotta have that this week now.
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Speaker 3: Of course, the status of Trevor Lawrence is the number
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Speaker 3: one storyline for the Jaguars going into the practice week
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Speaker 3: starting today. Well, he was on the practice field today
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Speaker 3: in the open media time, but at least during that
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Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty minute period, did not throw any footballs.
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Speaker 3: He did go through some individual work, but didn't throw
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Speaker 3: when the other quarterbacks were throwing in the open media
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Speaker 3: time earlier in the day, though, Lawrence spoke with the media.
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Speaker 10: It's feeling better, obviously missing last week's games, a little
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Speaker 10: slower than I would have liked to be progressing, but
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Speaker 10: you know, it feels actually feels pretty decent today. You know,
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Speaker 10: it's getting better every day. So I'm just trying to,
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Speaker 10: you know, be cautious, but also I guess aggressive in
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Speaker 10: how I'm trying to treat it and just everything I
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Speaker 10: can to get back as quick as possible, but also
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Speaker 10: be smart. So it's a fine line. But yeah, I'm
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Speaker 10: feeling better.
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Speaker 3: Ac joints, fray and is right throwing shoulder john and
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Speaker 3: something to watch all week. But you know, what do
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Speaker 3: you expect in the next two days.
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Speaker 5: I guess I expect that he'll be limited in practice today.
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Speaker 5: I kind of think tomorrow is the lynch Pin day,
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Speaker 5: where if he practices and if he's throwing, then I
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Speaker 5: feel like he probably plays. If he's not throwing, then
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Speaker 5: I wonder if you don't make a decision based on
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Speaker 5: look he has struggled when he hasn't practiced full, And
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Speaker 5: if he's not practicing full, then are we better off
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Speaker 5: just going into this game with CJ. Bethard, who's taken reps,
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Speaker 5: who's had practice, and taking the same kind of approach
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Speaker 5: he did last week? Yeah, I wish I had a
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Speaker 5: gut feeling. I think that's sort of a coin flip.
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Speaker 5: It's hard to analyze this because the only way to
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Speaker 5: analyze it is to be inside Trevor Lawrence's shoulder and
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Speaker 5: know how he feels and whether he can throw. And
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Speaker 5: the other way to do that is to be at
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Speaker 5: practice when he's throwing, which we're not right. So a
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Speaker 5: buck he's in Los Angeles said a little cafe, and
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Speaker 5: he probably has as good an idea as I did.
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Speaker 4: Look, I think if you're the team, you got to
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Speaker 4: prepare to play with CJ.
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Speaker 7: Bethel.
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Speaker 9: If he plays, it's a bonus.
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Speaker 4: But I don't think you want the team or the
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Speaker 4: coaches being up and down like, hey, is Trevor going to?
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Speaker 9: Is he not going to or whatever? Because what he's
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Speaker 9: trying to play through.
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Speaker 4: An AC separation is not an easy injury to play through,
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Speaker 4: particularly on your throwing arm. And so if you're able
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Speaker 4: to put together a game play and you feel good
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Speaker 4: about CJ. Bethard, You feel confident that he can manage
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Speaker 4: the game and he can at the end of the day,
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Speaker 4: just win the game.
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Speaker 9: It doesn't have to be a pretty game. It doesn't
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Speaker 9: have to be a game where everything gets clicking on
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Speaker 9: all cylinders.
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Speaker 4: The bottom line is just when the game get to
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Speaker 4: the postseason, and if you can do that without Trevor
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Speaker 4: had to play, then that's a bonus. And so if
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Speaker 4: you can play, yes you want to play him. But
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Speaker 4: look mean, he hasn't practiced in a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we haven't been previous to see him throwing
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Speaker 4: and because he's dealing with it on his throwing arm
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Speaker 4: is different than if he's on his left shoulder. I
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Speaker 4: think you got to be ready to line up and
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Speaker 4: play with CJ. Bethin and put him in the best
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Speaker 4: situation to win.
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Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll get into a couple of
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Speaker 3: guys that could be back on the offense as well
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Speaker 3: to help out.
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Speaker 8: You look at the history of the AFC South. I
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Speaker 8: mean it's been dominated by Tennessee. Of late Houston's had
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Speaker 8: their their run Indy obviously, you know, back in the
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Speaker 8: Peyton days and they had they had their run of
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Speaker 8: AFC South and I think you know, Jags have only
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Speaker 8: had two, you know, So we're trying to we're trying
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Speaker 8: to make our mark.
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Speaker 6: Obviously, it's a great division.
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Speaker 8: They've got great teams in there, great coaches and leaders
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Speaker 8: and good football players and so you know, for us
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Speaker 8: to be in this position again second year mentioned credit
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Speaker 8: to our players in the locker room, coaching staff to
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Speaker 8: work as hard as we do and the players to
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Speaker 8: work as hard as they do.
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Speaker 3: That Doug Peterson, of course Jaguars head coach earlier today
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Speaker 3: and Doug, you're right, only two division titles in this
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Speaker 3: AFC South for the Jags twenty seventeen and twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: two and looking for back to back division titles for
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Speaker 3: the first time for the jack franchised since ninety eight
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Speaker 3: and ninety nine. Evan Ingram said he was like four
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Speaker 3: years old when that happened. When I talked to him
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Speaker 3: in the locker room today. It's been a while. Welcome back,
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Speaker 3: a tuddle up with Bucky Brooks, JP Shatterickjohn Oser and Jacksonville.
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Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks out in Los Angeles, and you know there's
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Speaker 3: a couple of guys that could be up to help
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Speaker 3: whoever the quarterback is this week strive for that division title,
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Speaker 3: including Christian Kirk whose window open today, Bucky twenty one
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Speaker 3: day window to get back from a core muscle injury.
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Speaker 2: He described it today.
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Speaker 3: John, don't know if you were standing there or not
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Speaker 3: when he described what was actually the injury, but he
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Speaker 3: had something week six and his core that was torn.
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Speaker 3: He played through and it got worse and then it
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Speaker 3: was the adductor and all of a sudden he had
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Speaker 3: to go under the knife. But he was back out there,
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Speaker 3: Bucky on the practice field today, which is pretty remarkable.
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Speaker 2: Just about a month removed.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, really remarkable. And man, I can't tell you how
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Speaker 9: much of a boost that.
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Speaker 4: Could be to the offense, the fact the opportunity to
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Speaker 4: have Chris and Kirk, Calvin Ridley, Evan Ingram and who
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Speaker 4: knows if J Jones J Jones gets back, But if
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Speaker 4: you're able to try it out like you're starting lineup
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Speaker 4: from week won and begin to play and put together
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Speaker 4: the offense that we all expected to see going into
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Speaker 4: the postseason, I mean you could see just a different
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Speaker 4: Jags team.
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Speaker 9: And that's whether CJ. Bethter or Trevor Lawrence throwing.
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Speaker 4: We just haven't had our full confident of weapons for
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Speaker 4: most of the years to be able to see that.
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Speaker 9: It allows you to do so much stuff. And not
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Speaker 9: saying that they have to complicate it and add more
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Speaker 9: volume to the game plan.
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Speaker 4: But man, when you can line up and put together
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Speaker 4: that lineup, you're better than a lot of teams in
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Speaker 4: those areas. And it just will certainly help them not
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Speaker 4: only this week but going forward.
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Speaker 9: Uh, to have an offense that has some exposive potential.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they will play. It certainly sounded on
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Speaker 5: Monday as if Doug is thinking he'll play in this game. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: And I'm going to make sure I say this right,
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Speaker 5: I don't think I don't think this will influence their
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Speaker 5: decision on whether to play Trevor or not. But to me,
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Speaker 5: I think it's really important he plays, and that doesn't
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Speaker 5: mean that he has to through injury. But this team
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Speaker 5: has not been on the same page a lot over
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Speaker 5: the last six weeks. It hasn't felt like if you
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Speaker 5: could get Trevor in there with Calvin Za Christian Evan
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Speaker 5: for one week and get a little bit of chemistry,
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Speaker 5: a little bit of feel going into the postseason. Doug
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Speaker 5: has talked so much in the last few weeks about
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Speaker 5: just needing to get guys going, you know what with
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Speaker 5: Tyson Campbell and then whenever he talks about Christian or
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Speaker 5: the receivers coming back, just that need to get going
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Speaker 5: a little bit and how that one week of cohesion
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Speaker 5: can make a difference. I think that could be a
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Speaker 5: big deal. If they win Sunday, that could be a
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Speaker 5: big deal going into that first Wild Card game, just
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Speaker 5: having some continuity there.
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Speaker 4: Bucky, absolutely, I mean confidence is everything, and let's be honest,
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Speaker 4: if the Jaguars are able to pull this off on
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Speaker 4: Sunday and get into the postseason, it's the ultimate reset.
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Speaker 4: Going into the wildcard round, they then will take on
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Speaker 4: an underdog status because everyone because of the way they finish,
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Speaker 4: no one will think that this is a team that
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Speaker 4: could do damage. But when you really look at the
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Speaker 4: AFC field, this team is as good as any. Every
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Speaker 4: team in the field has flaws, and we've had an
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Speaker 4: opportunity to see the best. Baltimore Ravens came in there,
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Speaker 4: and we could talk about how that game could have
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Speaker 4: been at a time. But if you get the full
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Speaker 4: complimental weapons on our offense, Trevor Lawrence coming back if
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Speaker 4: he's healthy enough to come back, they develop enough chemistry
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Speaker 4: to build some momentum going into the tournament.
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Speaker 9: I mean, you take your chances in those games, and so.
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Speaker 4: It'll be a huge a Huger deal if Christian Kirk,
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Speaker 4: Zay Jones and those guys are able to go, because
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Speaker 4: you have an opportunity to start building some positive momentum On.
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Speaker 3: The other side of the ball. The defense pretty close
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Speaker 3: full strength, you know, first time a little bit. The
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Speaker 3: secondary last few weeks has been kind of hit or
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Speaker 3: miss guys in and out, but Cisco and Tyson Campbell
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Speaker 3: are back at it, and that's good news. And the
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Speaker 3: defensive line is healthy and playing well, and hey, this
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Speaker 3: is this is the defense you started the year with.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and the last four games, last four or five
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Speaker 5: games sporadic against the run probably is a fair way
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Speaker 5: to put it. Had two games where the run got
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Speaker 5: away from a little bit, Cincinnati and Baltimore. But Baltimore,
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Speaker 5: remember that was a case of it got out of
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Speaker 5: the out of hand at the end and they sort
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Speaker 5: of started running downhill. I still feel like they're a
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Speaker 5: pretty good team against the run and healthy, everything's sort
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Speaker 5: of starting to shape up. It's a defense that can
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Speaker 5: be okay in the postseason if you get there. I
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Speaker 5: think that's the huge advantage they on Sunday is against
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Speaker 5: a Titans offensive line that is not what it used
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Speaker 5: to be. To me, the best case scenario for the
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Speaker 5: Jaguars would be for the defensive line to dominate its matchup,
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Speaker 5: which it should. It should be the edge that makes
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Speaker 5: you feel like they're the better team on Sunday. If
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Speaker 5: they do that and then they go into the postseason
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Speaker 5: with two really good games back to back as a
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Speaker 5: defensive line, then yeah, I'm with Bucky. The formula is there.
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Speaker 5: If they get in I wouldn't favor them against the Ravens,
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Speaker 5: against anybody else here, sure they can win.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, look, man, I think that's the thing. I think
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Speaker 9: they have an opportunity to win.
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Speaker 4: Against anybody when they have their full competent guys, we
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Speaker 4: can say that they haven't played well. I think the
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Speaker 4: best thing that might have happened was playing Carolina last week,
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Speaker 4: where they had to simplify everything and was really I
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Speaker 4: would say, a very basic game plan, just do what
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Speaker 4: you got to do to win the game. If they're
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Speaker 4: able to pull it off this week, where they able
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Speaker 4: to take a basic game plan going to Tennessee, win
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Speaker 4: a game, continue to build confidence, play a game like
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Speaker 4: played last week. Zero turnover is only one penalty that
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Speaker 4: gives them a chance to win. And so that's exactly
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Speaker 4: what you want to see if you're Doug Peterson. You
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Speaker 4: want to see the team trending up as you're going
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Speaker 4: into the postseason.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Bucky, I'm not usually one who thinks about it
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Speaker 5: this way, but I've been known to think about things wrong,
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Speaker 5: so that that could be what this is. But I
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Speaker 5: really look back on that Carolina game and feel like
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Speaker 5: that gave the team sort of a chance to take
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Speaker 5: a deep breath of Oh, that's right. If we do
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Speaker 5: these things the coach has been telling us we need
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Speaker 5: to do, then things sort of calm down a little bit.
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Speaker 5: It felt so chaotic with Trevor trying to get back
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Speaker 5: in the game, and then there were it's a couple
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Speaker 5: of games where it felt like he was trying to
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Speaker 5: do too much, or he was hurt or just chaotic.
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Speaker 5: Last week just kind of felt calm of Okay, if
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Speaker 5: we just play football the way we know how to
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Speaker 5: play football, we can win these And I'm with you.
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Speaker 5: I'm usually not one that thinks that one week it
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Speaker 5: plays into the next, but I think that Carolina game
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Speaker 5: could really remind them of how it's okay to play.
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Speaker 5: I'd be a little surprised if the game plan is
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Speaker 5: not very similar no matter who plays quarterback.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think so, And I think that's what you learn.
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Speaker 4: You learn, hey man, play fast, don't don't complicate it,
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Speaker 4: don't make it tougher than what it.
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Speaker 9: Needs to be.
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Speaker 4: Let's see if we can get this thing done with
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Speaker 4: a very very basic game plan. If they do that,
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Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of success that can be
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Speaker 4: had at the end of the day when we get
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Speaker 4: into these games and this is a playoff game. It
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Speaker 4: is don't mess it up, don't turn it over, don't
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Speaker 4: have penalties, don't have communication errors, which we didn't see
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Speaker 4: much of in the last game.
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Speaker 9: If they can get used to playing desk style, there
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Speaker 9: are a lot of games that can be one for
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Speaker 9: the Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: Let's come back in a moment. We'll touch on the
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Speaker 3: Tennessee iTANs going into Week eighteen. The Jaguars visiting Music City, USA, Nashville,
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Speaker 7: But Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 6: But he's a veteran guy, I mean veteran quarterback. He's smart.
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Speaker 6: He saw him last week just you know, getting the
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Speaker 6: ball out of his hand. He's smart. He knows he
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Speaker 6: knows where to go with football.
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Speaker 8: Obviously, he relies on that run game, you know, to
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Speaker 8: get that going, and had some success last week a
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Speaker 8: little bit doing that and in the the couple of
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Speaker 8: new games that he played early in the season, so
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Speaker 8: you know, you just expect that from him.
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Speaker 6: You know, a veteran guy that is just gonna run
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Speaker 6: their offense.
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Speaker 3: That's d coach Doug Peterson discussing Ryan Tannehill and welcome
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't know if we're the Jaguars have
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Speaker 5: released it yet, but the Titans have released both injury reports.
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Speaker 5: No defensive players on the injury report, which is yeah,
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Speaker 5: my first time in a minute, right, Ezra Cleveland walk
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Speaker 5: a little full, which is good. It sounds like they
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Speaker 5: will be able to get back to what ever lineup
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Speaker 5: they want. And then Zay Jones, Christian kirk Ter Lawrence
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Speaker 5: all limited and something about seeing limited next to Trevor
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Speaker 5: and seeing limited next to Christian, I just be surprised
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Speaker 5: both of them.
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Speaker 9: Don't go.
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Speaker 2: I just I mean, this is the week to go.
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Speaker 2: If you're gonna go.
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Speaker 5: Go down.
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Speaker 2: It's just like go or go home.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, something about that seeing that and then seeing Trevor
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Speaker 5: out in the Red Jersey, I would just be a
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Speaker 5: little surprised about them.
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Speaker 9: Don't go.
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Speaker 5: That's my call, coffee guy.
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Speaker 4: You know. Look, I think like the only thing with
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Speaker 4: Trevor just because of the nature and the injury, it's
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Speaker 4: not an easy one to play through.
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Speaker 9: Having done it obviously, I've never been a quarterback.
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Speaker 4: I've never tried to throw through what I've done it
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Speaker 4: on my left shoulder twice, I can just tell you're
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Speaker 4: super painful. And the thing that you have to be
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Speaker 4: able to deal with is pain tolerance. And whenever you
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Speaker 4: hit the ground, man, it hurts like the dickens. And
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Speaker 4: so for a guy who is right handed dealing with
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Speaker 4: an injury to the right shoulder like as there's limited mobility. Yes,
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Speaker 4: he was able to throw a little bit after he
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Speaker 4: suffered an injury against Tampa.
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Speaker 9: But Canny continue to be able to throw and.
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Speaker 4: Throw effectively with accuracy, with timing and the kind of
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Speaker 4: ball placement that you want to see. That's the thing
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Speaker 4: that only Trevor can answer, and the coaches have to
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Speaker 4: see him work out before they can kind of give
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Speaker 4: him the green light to death.
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Speaker 5: I am now less confident.
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Speaker 3: Okay, great, it comes a ghost by the segment, I
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Speaker 3: suppose let's touch on this Titans team and start with
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Speaker 3: the quarterback position. And Will Levis has a foot injury,
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Speaker 3: and he injured it Sunday against the Texans. We'll see
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Speaker 3: how the practice week goes. Rabel didn't really say, you
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Speaker 3: know what's gonna happen, but if Levis doesn't go, then
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Speaker 3: Tannehill will start.
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Speaker 2: That's what he said.
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Speaker 3: So you know, what do you make of Levis's rookie
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Speaker 3: year so far, Bucky? And then if Tannehill's in there,
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Speaker 3: how different.
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Speaker 2: Is the field?
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Speaker 9: Look?
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Speaker 4: I mean, Lews has been up and down, He's been
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Speaker 4: like most rookies. He'd be very very similar to what
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Speaker 4: we saw last week with Bryce Young. He's gonna have
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Speaker 4: some struggles depending on the pressure and what he has
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Speaker 4: around him. If he doesn't start then it allows Ryan
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Speaker 4: Tannehill to have a full week of work to begin
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Speaker 4: to kind of play what probably will be his last
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Speaker 4: game in Tennessee. He was a veteran that came off
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Speaker 4: the bench. He's not the athlete that he once was,
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Speaker 4: but he's been a guy who's played at a high
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Speaker 4: level before. The thing that you worry about with veterans.
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Speaker 9: Is their ability to kind.
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Speaker 4: Of turn back the clock for one game because they've
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Speaker 4: played the game a long time, because they have experience
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Speaker 4: and they just kind of know how to play.
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Speaker 9: They always can get you. That's it. He hasn't played
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Speaker 9: really well.
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Speaker 4: That offensive line in front of him is not very good,
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Speaker 4: so you want to heat him up and get after him.
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Speaker 4: And you just got to make sure that you take
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Speaker 4: care of the weapons on the outside. DeAndre Hopkins and others.
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Speaker 4: Just don't allow those guys to have success with big plays,
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Speaker 4: and then eventually Ryan Tannehill will kind of come back
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Speaker 4: and eventually give you the play that you're looking for.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's sort of Excuse me, it's a
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Speaker 5: little bit six to one way. Half does in the other.
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Speaker 5: I think with both quarterbacks, if you get to them,
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Speaker 5: if you take the runaway which this defense should be
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Speaker 5: able to do against Tennessee. Then percentages say they'll eventually
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Speaker 5: give you opportunity to make plays against them. And it's
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Speaker 5: again I see some of I say, so many similarities
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Speaker 5: between this game and last week's game. Not that these
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Speaker 5: teams aren't capable of winning these games against the Jaguars,
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Speaker 5: but it's so about the Jaguars. It's so about can
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Speaker 5: they get pressure, can they make them? Last week when
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Speaker 5: the type when the Panthers were in third and seven, boy,
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Speaker 5: you just felt like that was a huge advantage for
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Speaker 5: the Jaguars, and that you're almost looking for them to
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Speaker 5: make an interception. You're thinking interception opportunity. That's the same
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Speaker 5: thing that they will be trying to get into and
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Speaker 5: have success, but against quarterbacks who are less likely to
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Speaker 5: beat you in that situation than the great ones.
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Speaker 3: Bucky Derrick Henry has been a pain in the rear
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Speaker 3: end for eight years in this division. But are we
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Speaker 3: seeing the end of that era in Tennessee? Could this
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Speaker 3: be his last game with the Titans?
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Speaker 9: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I think this is the end of the era there.
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Speaker 4: He's had a nice long run. He's been a terrific
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Speaker 4: player in this league for a long time, but he
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Speaker 4: since is it. I think everyone there kind of sense that,
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Speaker 4: like there's an expiration date on running backs in this league.
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Speaker 4: And he's played for a long time, a lot of miles,
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Speaker 4: a lot of tread has been worn off those tires.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 9: You've seen he's been a dominant player against the Jaguars
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Speaker 9: for years.
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Speaker 4: And I talked about the quarterback and a veteran quarterback,
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Speaker 4: and I wanted to turn back the clock.
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Speaker 9: We certainly want to give him the.
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Speaker 4: Respect that he deserves and not allow him to get going.
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Speaker 4: He's had a tough time this year, but you certainly
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Speaker 4: don't want to go out with a big time for
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Speaker 4: performance and what could be like a finale for him
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Speaker 4: in Tennessee.
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Speaker 5: What's certainly been tough for the last three weeks for him.
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Speaker 5: He's still thousand yard back, that's right, and that's remarkable
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Speaker 5: considering he has been analyzed like an afterthought almost this
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Speaker 5: year and he's not. He's still good. He's still certainly capable.
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Speaker 5: If you give him a whole, he's taking it all
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Speaker 5: the way so that he's dangerous. I think based on
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Speaker 5: the numbers recently and how the Tennessee offensive line is playing,
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Speaker 5: that it would be difficult for him to get very
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Speaker 5: much against the Jaguars because it's just a matchup that
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Speaker 5: favors Jacksonville. But don't assume that because he'll.
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Speaker 3: Beat you with us right certainly will we have our
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Speaker 3: fair share. Fifteen touchdowns on the ground in fourteen games
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Speaker 3: against the Jaguars in his career, and that needs to stop.
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Speaker 3: And this will be a good week to stop that.
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Speaker 3: Let's move ahead in a moment, we'll come back in
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Speaker 3: our final thoughts ahead of this week eighteen matchup for
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Speaker 3: the division title the Jaguars. A win secures the AFC South.
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Speaker 8: I think this year is way different than last year,
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Speaker 8: even though it's you know, the similarities are coming down
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Speaker 8: to Week eighteen, you know are similar for us. But
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Speaker 8: you know, we just have to just continue to trust
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Speaker 8: the things that we're doing. And you know, as coaches,
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Speaker 8: we trust our players and put them in positions to
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Speaker 8: be successful in.
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Speaker 6: The game day.
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Speaker 2: That's the head coach of course. Doug Peterson.
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Speaker 3: Full press conferences from today available on Jaguars dot com.
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Speaker 3: Some locker room scrums coming soon. Some good sound today
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Speaker 3: from Cam Robinson and let's see now Christian Kirk. Christian
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Speaker 3: Kirk was in there too. There's a room full of
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Speaker 3: Jaguars in there. And let's get John's microphone on here.
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Speaker 2: You know this is.
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Speaker 3: Hey, it's Week eight team. It's all come down to this.
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Speaker 3: They've talked about it all year it might come down
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Speaker 3: to the last game, and it certainly does. And you know,
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Speaker 3: the other two teams that are tied with in the
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Speaker 3: division race, nine and seven, are playing each other on Saturday,
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Speaker 3: so you'll know what's going on then.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And I know a lot of times players when they're
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Speaker 5: playing aren't very tuned in with history, and because they're
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Speaker 5: in the moment, they don't have time to be. But
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Speaker 5: you remembered so much differently in five years when you
27:41
Speaker 5: look back and say a team was back to back
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Speaker 5: division champions. If a piece a couple more together, all
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Speaker 5: of a sudden, you've got an era. Doug talked a
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Speaker 5: little bit about today. He didn't overemphasize it, but he
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Speaker 5: was asked about it and addressed it in that way.
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Speaker 5: And you know, this team I think has a chance
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Speaker 5: even moving forward to do special things, maybe even this year,
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Speaker 5: but winning division titles that I'm a broken record on
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Speaker 5: its people are tired to hear me say it hadn't
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Speaker 5: happened around here a whole lot. And don't get lost
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Speaker 5: in this four game losing streak you just came off of,
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Speaker 5: and forget that a division title matters very much. There's
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Speaker 5: they don't do banners in this stadium because it's outside.
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Speaker 5: But you know, it's a chance to have a T
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Speaker 5: shirt and hat game, as Bucky likes to call them,
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Speaker 5: and those I mean, it's a long time and I've
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Speaker 5: only covered a few of them around here. So savor
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Speaker 5: the moment, embrace it.
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Speaker 4: Well, had games, you gotta like those things, but more importantly,
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Speaker 4: an opportunity to.
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Speaker 9: Go ten wins back to back seasons.
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Speaker 4: You think about building a team that has a sustained
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Speaker 4: level of success where you've got to start somewhere and
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Speaker 4: so you start winning the division. I think about the
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Speaker 4: can City Chiefs and how they won eighth straight division titles.
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Speaker 4: The one thing that we do know, you win at
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Speaker 4: the Vision, it guarantees you a ticket into the postseason.
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Speaker 4: And if this is a team that aspires to be
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Speaker 4: a great team, a great franchise, you have to show
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Speaker 4: up in the tournament consistently. This would go a long
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Speaker 4: ways towards establishing some of those things that Doug Peterson
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Speaker 4: has talked about, establishing where they expect to be in
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Speaker 4: the tournament each and every year.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's important, I mean it's and I think I
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Speaker 5: feel much better about this team. Is gonna sound kind
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Speaker 5: of obvious, but put away the four game losing streak,
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Speaker 5: the fact that they won last week. If it had
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Speaker 5: been a three game losing streak, will win and then
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Speaker 5: a loss, then you goin kind of squirrely maybe, But
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Speaker 5: the fact that they won, I do sense a different
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Speaker 5: feeling and now you can forget about what was and
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Speaker 5: I think players can look at it and say, yeah,
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Speaker 5: we've got a chance to get to the postseason.
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Speaker 9: Here.
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Speaker 5: Whatever we were feeling a week and a half ago,
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Speaker 5: let's shake that fog out and we got a chance
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Speaker 5: to go get in the playoffs. And as Bucky said,
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Speaker 5: the way players think and is the way they should think.
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Speaker 5: They can look back on games against Hey, hey we
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Speaker 5: beat the Bills. We feel like the pressure had beaten
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Speaker 5: the Chiefs here, didn't play very well, should have beaten
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Speaker 5: the Browns. I'm sure they feel that way, you know.
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Speaker 5: And we're in it until the last play of the
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Speaker 5: third quarter against the Ravens. So the way they're looking
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Speaker 5: at it, they ought to feel like they can get
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Speaker 5: in and make some noise and you know, darn it,
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Speaker 5: go do it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And having a second chance against those teams, you
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Speaker 3: know what, didn't finish it the first time.
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Speaker 2: Now a chance to do it.
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Speaker 5: And you get a home game that if you win
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Speaker 5: at home, then you're in the final eight.
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Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Roll the dice, Bucky Safe travels on your trip through California.
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Speaker 9: It should be fun. I look forward to making the
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Speaker 9: trip to Nashville seeing us have t shirts and adds. John,
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Speaker 9: I make sure I grab you one.
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Speaker 5: You do that, Bud, you do that.
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Speaker 3: That's Bucky Brooks out in California. John Osier, JP, Shadduck.
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Speaker 3: Thanks to our tire crew, Joe Fortunado, Brent Reaver, and
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Speaker 3: thanks to you for watching the Jaguars and the Tennessee
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Speaker 3: Titans wrap up the regular season this Sunday at one
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Speaker 3: o'clock at n Sun Stadium in Nashville. And this is
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Speaker 3: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.