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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 246 | What to Expect in Denver, Looking Around the League Post-Week 1 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Jag-Zam. I'm Kynani Stevens, Brian Sexton, John Ogier
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  Speaker 1: with me today for this midweek episode as the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: are getting prepared for their week two matchup against the
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  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Let's go over some of our big things
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  Speaker 1: today brought to you by GEHA, Government Employees Health Association.
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  Speaker 1: Big thing number one is late night prep. They're taking
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  Speaker 1: on the Broncos in Denver, but the Broncos were playing
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night football against the Chiefs in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: So earlier this week, Liam Cohen said it would be
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  Speaker 1: a late night for him and some of the coaching staff.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, I have a lot of work to get done
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  Speaker 2: from now until the game is actually played tonight. So
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  Speaker 2: the coaches are extremely busy looking at, obviously, Denver post
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  Speaker 2: when we played them and sort of how they looked.
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  Speaker 2: We can look at the preseason a little bit because, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they have a new coordinator, Collin Plays, and what his
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  Speaker 2: flow looked like and some of the rhythm and ways
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  Speaker 2: that he called the game.
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  Speaker 3: We can look at those.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, we've got to wait a little bit to
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  Speaker 2: see what they truly look like.
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  Speaker 1: Brian, I'm sure coaching staff watched last year's film as well,
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  Speaker 1: but after Monday Night Football, it might be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit confusing considering what that performance looked like from the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos against the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 4: Without a doubt, and I had somebody say to me
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  Speaker 4: in passing earlier today, I wonder how long it will
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  Speaker 4: be until Sean Payton reclaims the reins. And listen, after
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  Speaker 4: the game in Kansas City in the early morning hours
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  Speaker 4: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Sean Payton defended.
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  Speaker 4: Davis Webb and said he would be evaluated like any player.
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  Speaker 4: So he was playing the standard line, but don't be
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  Speaker 4: surprised if he's not even more involved in that process,
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  Speaker 4: which kind of changes what the Jaguars saw and the tendencies.
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  Speaker 3: And the rhythm that you heard from the coach.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, the Broncos are a good football team, and they
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  Speaker 4: had a tough night in Kansas City. They're going to
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  Speaker 4: be wound up to come back and play at mile high, where, John,
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  Speaker 4: they have been embarrassed twice in the last five regular
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  Speaker 4: season games, once by the Jaguars in week 16 of
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  Speaker 4: last year, and then once last night against Kansas City.
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  Speaker 4: My guess is Sean Payton will have that team wound
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  Speaker 4: up and ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's going to be a theme this week.
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  Speaker 5: People are going to say, well, the Broncos are going
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  Speaker 5: to be ready because of what happened on Monday night.
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  Speaker 5: As you guys know, after what happened last season, the
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  Speaker 5: Broncos were going to be ready for this game either way.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't necessarily think that, oh, the danger. The
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  Speaker 5: Broncos win, everybody say, well, they didn't want to go
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  Speaker 5: to 0-2. Well, nobody wants to go to 0-2. This
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  Speaker 5: was going to be a knockdown, drag out, full attention
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  Speaker 5: game from the Broncos no matter what happened Monday. It'll
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  Speaker 5: be that way, and it's going to be the first
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  Speaker 5: road test for the Jaguars this season.
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  Speaker 1: Our second big thing, we're talking about that matchup last
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  Speaker 1: season with a huge marquee win for the team, so
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  Speaker 1: motivation going into Week 2.
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  Speaker 5: There will be.
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  Speaker 1: Something I'm sure Lee and Cohen will latch onto to
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  Speaker 1: motivate his team, but the importance of the win on
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  Speaker 1: the road last year. I think it can still have
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  Speaker 1: that effect this year, but will he be able to
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  Speaker 1: get everybody focused and not overlooking this during a tough
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  Speaker 1: stretch time, John?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been around Liam for 20 games, whatever the
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  Speaker 5: number is now. I haven't ever gotten a sense that
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  Speaker 5: this team hasn't been motivated. I thought he said it
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  Speaker 5: best after the game Sunday that he does not He
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  Speaker 5: puts his head on the pillow on a Saturday night,
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  Speaker 5: very sure what Jaguars team is going to show up
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  Speaker 5: the next day. That, to me, spoke a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the bond between coach and team. They're going to be
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  Speaker 5: motivated because they always are. But I do think the
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  Speaker 5: message that we just talked about a second ago, Kai,
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  Speaker 5: they know that the Broncos became fully aware of the
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  Speaker 5: Jaguars last December, what they could do. That game was
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  Speaker 5: not close in the second half. The Broncos know that
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  Speaker 5: this is a big game, a marquee AFC game, Brian.
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  Speaker 5: Even if other... People around the nation don't yet see
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  Speaker 5: it that way.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and listen, if you're looking for an edge, how
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  Speaker 4: about the fact that the Patriots and Steelers are the
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  Speaker 4: 1 o'clock primetime game? That's the only other matchup between
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  Speaker 4: two playoff teams for last year. And the Jaguars at
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  Speaker 4: 4.05 aren't the afternoon nationwide broadcast. That's the 0-1 Commanders
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  Speaker 4: versus the 0-1 Dallas Cowboys. There's a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a grindstone that you can sharpen the edge against. Listen,
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  Speaker 4: the thing that I like most about Liam is he
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  Speaker 4: says it's always about us. It's always about us doing
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  Speaker 4: what we do. So while this team likes to have
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  Speaker 4: an edge going into games, Kai, they don't need it.
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  Speaker 4: They don't necessarily need extra motivation because they want to
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  Speaker 4: go out and prove to everyone.
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  Speaker 3: That they are good.
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  Speaker 4: Not that they can go and win in Denver and
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  Speaker 4: beat a good Broncos team, but that they're good, which
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  Speaker 4: means they have to focus on playing their style of football, right?
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  Speaker 4: That's what we've heard all August is about our play style.
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  Speaker 4: I think this team is ready to go play good football,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's in Denver or whether you're talking about Cincinnati
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  Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks or against the Texans in London.
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  Speaker 4: This team wants to play for itself.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Our final big thing today is that tough stretch
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  Speaker 1: because Denver on the road is two of three on
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  Speaker 1: the road. Then the team goes to play two in London. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: I know we've talked about the schedule ad nauseum, but.
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  Speaker 1: This is really the stretch we had kind of honed
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  Speaker 1: in on where they need to make as much ground
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  Speaker 1: as they can.
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  Speaker 3: Time to prove it.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's talking about the Jaguars with an asterisk on a
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  Speaker 4: national level right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they look great. Yes, the quarterback threw four touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they had five sacks and got two takeaways, but
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  Speaker 4: it was against the Browns.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Browns. They're not very good.
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  Speaker 4: It's Deshaun Watson, the quarterback who has been on the
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  Speaker 4: shelf since 2024. Before that was out of football in 2021.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: Here's your opportunity. You went and did it last year.
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  Speaker 4: You went 4-0 against the AFC West. You were 4-0
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  Speaker 4: in games played out West last year. Go prove it.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a really good football team, and they
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  Speaker 4: are well coached, and they know what it takes to win.
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  Speaker 4: So now just handle what you can handle, the preparation,
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  Speaker 4: the travel, the preparation on game day, and go play
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  Speaker 4: your best football.
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  Speaker 3: It'll shut everybody up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been so long. since this team had a
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  Speaker 5: sustained run. I'm not going to say a success, but
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  Speaker 5: a sustained run of being in these sorts of games
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  Speaker 5: where you're playing against good teams, 4 o'clock starts, you're
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  Speaker 5: playing against the best teams because you're one of the
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  Speaker 5: best teams. So I think everybody, Jaguars fans included, are
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  Speaker 5: still sort of like, hey, hey, look at us, we're here.
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  Speaker 5: It's time to stop that. This is going to be
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  Speaker 5: a good team for a while. Trevor Lawrence is good.
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  Speaker 5: Liam Cohen is one of the better coaches in the league.
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  Speaker 5: They're going to be involved with this because they're going
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  Speaker 5: to contend. These are the sort of games that are
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  Speaker 5: going to be slugfest, knock down, look at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the season. They're going to look back and say,
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  Speaker 5: how did we do in these games because it's affecting
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  Speaker 5: how we fare in the playoffs. I believe that the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you don't win all these games because they're
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  Speaker 5: the games against the best teams. But I think the
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  Speaker 5: Jaguars over time are going to get used to being
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  Speaker 5: the team that walks out with its chest out out
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  Speaker 5: of these games and over the course of the next
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  Speaker 5: four or five seasons because this is what they are now.
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  Speaker 1: This is where they are now, and this is a
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  Speaker 1: great place to be.
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  Speaker 5: Stay with us here on Jags AM.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little bit this or that
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  Speaker 1: in regards to the week one win over the Browns.
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  Speaker 2: That was an absolute dot for four defenders to trust
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  Speaker 2: Josh in that moment. He had Josh and Jacoby were
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  Speaker 2: kind of the either or there. We scored on that
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  Speaker 2: exact play in the joint practice against Carolina and he
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  Speaker 2: threw it to Jacoby and the safety happened to be
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  Speaker 2: kind of lean in that way. Jacoby didn't have great
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  Speaker 2: leverage on the play and I thought he did a
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  Speaker 2: really nice job coming off the action with his eyes
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  Speaker 2: and then just making the decision right now, no hesitation.
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  Speaker 2: put that ball in only one spot that we can
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  Speaker 2: make the play. And then Josh, obviously being strong hands,
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  Speaker 2: protecting himself away from the safety on the throw. That
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  Speaker 2: was high level football. I mean, that's an NFL, you know,
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  Speaker 2: open touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: I can watch that throw all day.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I put it back in there.
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  Speaker 5: Cause it's just so, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Every angle you see, you're like, that's crazier and crazier.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw the press box and, You could see
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  Speaker 1: it was a bullet pass, and he was able to
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  Speaker 1: come down with it. But just the guy's diving. It's
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  Speaker 1: very poetic looking. The defender's diving over the top.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you slow-mo that, you get one of those
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  Speaker 5: end-of-the-movie scenes, like the end of Remember the Titans or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: It was a great throw.
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  Speaker 1: Great catch, too.
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  Speaker 5: I guess it was his best throw of the day.
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  Speaker 3: I liked the touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: His other three touchdowns were all really good throws, too.
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  Speaker 5: I liked the.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdown to Jacoby running to his left and putting the
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  Speaker 3: ball up in the air.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you talk about a 6'6, right-handed quarterback running
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  Speaker 4: to his left, and he put the ball on the spot.
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  Speaker 3: Although people asked all.
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  Speaker 4: Offseason, is last year's version, you know, the final eight
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  Speaker 4: games of Trevor Lawrence, what we can expect?
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  Speaker 3: He just proved that last Sunday. Yeah, that's who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Let's talk a little bit about that because you
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: guys have been here longer than I have. So you're
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  Speaker 1: my little Jaguars historians, if you will. Is that the
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  Speaker 1: best home opener you've seen out of the Jags or
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  Speaker 1: season opener?
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  Speaker 3: Second best.
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  Speaker 4: The best was opening day 1999. And listen, when you
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  Speaker 4: talk about best with the Jaguars, you're talking about the
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  Speaker 4: best team.
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  Speaker 3: And that 99 team still is the best team, 14-2.
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  Speaker 4: They beat Steve Young and the San Francisco 49ers 41-3.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, Young was out of the game in the
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  Speaker 4: second half. They replaced him with Jeff Garcia. The Jaguars
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  Speaker 4: scored offense, defense, and special teams that day in the rain.
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  Speaker 4: And that was a 38-point margin of victory. So I'll
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  Speaker 4: go with 99 as the best, and that as the
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  Speaker 4: second best.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not sure. The Pittsburgh game in 96, when
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  Speaker 5: they won out here, was a big moment because it
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  Speaker 5: was the statement that the Jaguars were stepping out of expansion.
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  Speaker 5: They had beaten the Steelers the year before, but now
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  Speaker 5: they've done it twice in So that was a memorable game.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm with Brian. The 99 game against San Francisco,
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  Speaker 5: because of the competition, because Steve Young is a better
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  Speaker 5: quarterback than Deshaun Watson, that sort of stands out as
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  Speaker 5: the best.
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  Speaker 4: But to put it in perspective, I think most people
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  Speaker 4: who are watching this would say, hey, what about 2017, right?
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  Speaker 4: Jaguars got 10 sacks in that ball game, and it
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  Speaker 4: beat them 29-7, I think, was the final score. And
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  Speaker 4: that was kind of the standard because the defense was
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  Speaker 4: so dominant. for this to pass that 2017 team in
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  Speaker 4: most people's mind, completely understand.
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  Speaker 5: It was a fun one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way. It was a fun
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  Speaker 1: football game to watch, certainly. Then two rookie performances. We
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  Speaker 1: saw Josh Cameron's catch there, but also another rookie having
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  Speaker 1: a great day, Emmanuel Pregnon, because when you're an offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: if we don't hear your name, that was a good
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  Speaker 1: day for you. So, John, who had a better day, rookie-wise?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll say Pregnon because he played the whole game,
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  Speaker 5: and my understanding is, look, I'm not– a good enough
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  Speaker 5: to watch a guard and see if he had a
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  Speaker 5: great game. Instead of people I've talked to said he's
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  Speaker 5: really good. And, uh, there's a, when you ask about pregnant,
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  Speaker 5: you get a smile because the thought is he's going
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  Speaker 5: to be really, really, really good. And that was for
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  Speaker 5: a rookie guard to come in against a Browns front
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  Speaker 5: that is known for being physical and, uh, still elicit
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  Speaker 5: the same smiles and confidence and, you know, one of
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  Speaker 5: these of, hey, this guy's pretty good. It was impressive.
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  Speaker 5: So a thought on Cameron, who I assume you'll take,
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  Speaker 5: they played young guys and give them an opportunity around here.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think he's on the field for most teams
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  Speaker 5: in the NFL, a six-round rookie receiver, the receivers this
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  Speaker 5: team has. These guys put their money where their mouth
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  Speaker 5: is and give guys opportunities. It's a big core of
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  Speaker 5: this franchise. It's impressive.
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  Speaker 4: And Cameron plays a lot of special teams, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: going with Pregnon because you just turn on the tape
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  Speaker 4: and you don't really have to need to know exactly
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  Speaker 4: what there is for him to do other than moving
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  Speaker 4: people out of the way.
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  Speaker 3: And he moved people out of the way all day long.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's a more critical point, as you talked about,
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  Speaker 4: a sixth-round pick who's not expected to be on the
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  Speaker 4: field in week one. This is a third-round pick that
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  Speaker 4: everyone expected to come in and play well, and he
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  Speaker 4: certainly did.
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  Speaker 3: He moved people in the running game.
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  Speaker 4: The backs in particular between the tackles, 4.85 yards per carry.
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  Speaker 3: And it was him and.
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  Speaker 1: Bork.
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  Speaker 4: Bork?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what they're calling him?
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  Speaker 5: Bork? Let's give another rookie some credit.
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  Speaker 3: People in the football con, Bork.
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  Speaker 1: Nate Borkucher, who played tied for the most with Brenton
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  Speaker 1: at tight end for snaps.
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  Speaker 3: And he played really.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, again, you turn the tape on and you
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  Speaker 4: look for 87. He's moving people all the time. The
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  Speaker 4: casual observers say, we have it. He only caught one pass.
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  Speaker 4: That isn't the sole reason they have him on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Look at the things that Brenton Strange was and will
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  Speaker 4: be able to do because you've got a blocking tight end.
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  Speaker 4: And when you line them up next to each other,
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  Speaker 4: you say, well, who's going out for the pass? Well,
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  Speaker 4: it could be either one. Bork had a big game also.
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  Speaker 5: Final thought on Pregnon. They knew he was going to
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  Speaker 5: dominate the run. Liam praised him in pass pro. That
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  Speaker 5: was the one area where you've got to learn that
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  Speaker 5: a little bit, learn NFL stuff. for him to have
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  Speaker 5: been good in both, um, arrows up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Credit to the whole line. We didn't hear Jared
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  Speaker 1: versus name much at all. I didn't, he didn't contribute, didn't,
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  Speaker 1: didn't contribute much to the stat sheet. So very good
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  Speaker 1: work from that O-line. Uh, there was some interesting comments made.
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  Speaker 1: We know that Hunter's going to play on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, but his snap count, this is the
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  Speaker 1: first game we've had only four on offense and then 29,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was on defense. So Is there any
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  Speaker 1: concern with that? I know it would be less on offense.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't see much involved at all, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit less for what you may consider for
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  Speaker 1: a CB1. He is returning from injury.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they also pulled a lot of guys out
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  Speaker 4: of the ballgame at the end of the third quarter
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  Speaker 4: because the game was well in hand, and they wanted to, A,
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  Speaker 4: get more guys out there for experience. For the obvious reason,
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  Speaker 4: you want to build up your reserves. They didn't need
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  Speaker 4: him as much. I have no concern about how many
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  Speaker 4: snaps he plays on offense. I think he is the
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  Speaker 4: elite cover corner, and if he is just a star
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  Speaker 4: on that side of the ball... especially this week when
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  Speaker 4: you look at the weapons that the Broncos will put
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  Speaker 4: out there. If he's just a cornerback, I'm perfectly fine
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  Speaker 4: with that because an elite-level corner like that is worth
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  Speaker 4: what they paid to go and get him. He'll have
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  Speaker 4: bigger days on offense, but he's 70-30, maybe 80-20 offense
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  Speaker 4: as far as I can see.
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  Speaker 5: Defense.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, defense over offense, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I haven't asked specifically, so some of what I'm
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  Speaker 5: about to say is theory. I don't know exactly why
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  Speaker 5: they pulled him out of the game, but.
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  Speaker 5: My understanding is he played fine when he was in.
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  Speaker 5: He's going to be a full-time corner, packages on offense.
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  Speaker 5: My guess is you have 17 games. You have to
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  Speaker 5: know that for him, over a 17-game period, you're going
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  Speaker 5: to have X number of defensive plays, but because of
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  Speaker 5: his offensive role, which will be a role in some capacity,
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  Speaker 5: he's going to have more load than other defensive players.
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  Speaker 5: So if you have an opportunity week one to reduce
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  Speaker 5: that load over a 17-game period, in a game that's
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  Speaker 5: out of hand, where the other team is not throwing
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  Speaker 5: the ball well anyway, it would seem logical that that's
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  Speaker 5: a time to ease that load. Remember in running backs,
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  Speaker 5: we talked a lot last year about, hey, let's ease
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: the load. That would be an opportunity to ease that
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: load and not have any risk involved with it, I
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: would think.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to imagine this week two matchup will
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: be a tighter contest and we'll get a more realistic
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: understanding of what his play time will be. Stay with
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: us on JAGZAM after the break. We'll talk about what's
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: been going on around the NFL. Around the NFL brought
• 16:04
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• 16:06
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• 16:10
  Speaker 2: At that point, I felt like points were necessary. You
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: want to just continue to score points and Would a
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: part of me want to go for it? Absolutely. But
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I felt confident making the decision. I know the offense
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: wanted to stay on the grass, which I appreciate. But
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I think early in the year, just, man, let's go
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: get some points. We're up 14-0. Let's get Cam involved.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Let's get him going a little bit. And the way
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the defense was playing, I felt confident we'd get some
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: more ops to be able to score some more touchdowns.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: It was Liam Cohen talking on Monday about choosing to
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: kick the field goal rather than maybe go for him
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: fourth down, and I played it for you, John, because
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: he finally listened.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: No. He's listening.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: No.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Look, I got many emails about that. Oh, he finally
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: decided to do the right thing. Everybody's trying to compare
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: to the Bills last year. Against the Bills last year,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: you were trying to establish dominance in the game, keep
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: pace in a game you know is going to be
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: points necessary. The other day, you're playing a team that's
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: struggling offensively, You have a chance to go up three
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: scores instead of two. Puts a significant scoreboard change in it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: I don't think, Brian, we're going to see Liam go, oh, well,
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: I'm kicking a field goal on every fourth and short
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: now because you people were right.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Listen, he knows more about football than all of us
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: and everyone who's at home watching this now.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: He's an exceedingly smart coach.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Who grew up the son of a coach, played college football,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: and has been a coach ever since he left the game.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: He knows.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: He's just aggressive. And he is going to go for
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: it when he can. But he was always going to
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: take the opportunity when it presented. It just didn't present
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: itself enough last year.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Let's go over some of the news around the NFL.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: It was a crazy week one, so we can't get
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to all of it, but just some of the things
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: that will pertain to the Jaguars. First would be the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: rematch of the Super Bowl, the Seahawks and the Patriots,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and kind of looked a little bit similar as well
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: with the Seahawks coming out on top. But Patriots wide
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: receiver A.J. Brown is headed to IR after getting a
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: high ankle sprain in that game, and that means he
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: won't be available in week three when the Patriots come
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to Jacksonville for that matchup. So that will certainly affect
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: things because that was a huge part of their offense
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: bringing in A.J. Brown to add as a target for
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Drake Mack?
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Well, absolutely. We were talking about it earlier.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: That was an offense last year that relied on the
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: running game, and the running game doesn't look that good
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: So now if you've got a quarterback going.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Against one of the best running defenses in football without
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: the weapon they gave up a first-round pick to go
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: and get, it makes their job much more difficult.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: They're a well-coached team. They're a talented team.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: But that is a blow, and I'm hearing that might
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: be six-week high ankle injury, one that might really cost
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: them and put them behind the eighth ball in the AFC.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: The Patriots are going to be interesting in the first
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: part of the season. Look, they made the Super Bowl,
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: and they deserve to make it outside the Jaguars. I
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: thought they were the best team in the AFC. But
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: they played a schedule that was not great. Lost to
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: the Bills and the Seahawks. The two better teams they
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: played have handled them. The Jaguars never got their shot
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: at them. Yeah. It's going to be interesting, that game,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: in a couple weeks. I'm not looking ahead to it.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong. But the Patriots, I think to themselves,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: are still probably saying, hey, we need to beat the
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: elite teams. The Broncos, they beat without the Broncos quarterback.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: They got past the Texans. So I'm not discounting what
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: they did. But I think to themselves, they still need
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: to punch some of these Good, good teams are playing
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: in the mouth. I think that's going to be their
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: thought coming in here in not two weeks.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Let's look inside of the AFC South. because Jaguars are
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in sole first place because all the other teams lost
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in their week one matchups. The Texans could not get
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it done at the end of the game. C.J. Stroud
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: fumbling the Bills outlast them in Houston to get that
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: week one win. That was a back and forth affair.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Well, there was a little bit of, I mean, if
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: you're the Jags, you're saying, welcome to our world. I mean,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Josh Allen's Josh Allen. And I get the Texans got
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: down there late and then couldn't close. To me, that's
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: two elite teams playing in a game that'll matter in December.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Interesting a little bit that the Texans gave up that number, but...
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Josh Allen can make you give up numbers.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Listen, Demiko Ryans himself said yesterday, hey, listen, 2025 was 2025.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: We've got to start all over and prove ourselves. You
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: can look at our roster and see what we're made
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: of and think, but you actually have to go and
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: do it. Do I think that that defense is going
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: to be elite? Yeah, they're really, really talented. I was
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: more impressed with the offense.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, I get it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: C.J.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Stroud coughed those two balls up. But they put up
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: 31 points. I mean, with C.J.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Stroud, everybody's pointing their finger at him and saying, are
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: you worthy of a long-term contract?
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Are you that good?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Listen, they brought in David Montgomery, who's an older running back,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: but he played well. He scored three touchdowns as both
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: a runner and a receiver. Their offensive line, they've got
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: a little question mark on the edges, but they look
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: like they're pretty good up the middle. I think they'll
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: be fine, and I think they'll be in this thing
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: at the end.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Well, don't forget, we talked all last week about week
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: one weirdness. The Jaguars didn't experience it. The Texans giving
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: up that kind of number feels like week one weirdness.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: And remember, I don't mean to bring up all the
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: old times, the Jaguars scored, what, 36 on the best
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: defense in NFL history, the Ravens, in 2020, in 2000.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: They've lost it. Elite defenses, which I think the Texans are,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: can have games where they give up points in this league.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: It's the best football in the world.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: The Ravens went to Indianapolis, and under new head coach,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: first time in a while, they came out and dominated
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: as well. Lamar Jackson got on some turf, John, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was running all over the place. Are you surprised a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: little bit by what the Colts did, or were you
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: not quite sure what they looked like?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Well, this one really felt like a week one thing
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: to me. You had a new staff in Baltimore with
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: established personnel. Look, I was surprised it was a 19-point
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: win for the Ravens. I think the Colts still sort
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: of have to prove that they were hot at the
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: beginning of last year and then Daniel Jones got hurt
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: and wrecked their season. But they were still sort of
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: trying to prove themselves even during that winning streak. You
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: always thought you could get them back and pull them in.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I think they still need to prove that they belong
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: in the elite conversation. Again, that That felt a little
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: like week one weird to me, Ron.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I watched Daniel Jones pretty closely. I went back and
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: watched that game. He doesn't look right. And all we
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: heard coming out of training camp was, oh, he's back.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Didn't cost him anything. He's back. Well, listen, you're talking
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: about a quarterback with an Achilles. Of course he isn't
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: going to be back on opening day. It takes some time.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: But it looked like he was favoring that right leg
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: and just trying to make sure. I didn't think he
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: stepped into all of his throws.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Just me.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: My opinion is that he is not right yet. If
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: he gets right, obviously they have the ability to be explosive.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: The other thing that I thought was interesting about them
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: was they didn't get a single pass breakup from their
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: high-priced secondary. They paid a lot of money for Sauce Gardner,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: and his arrival coincided with Daniel Jones getting injured, so
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: it's tough to say, but boy, they haven't gotten much
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: from him, and they gave up the world.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Two first-round picks.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: And for people who don't know, I think most people
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: who follow football closely know Achilles are a or a dangerous, devastating,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: cruel injury. People talk about ACLs all the time. It's
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: not close. Achilles is the worry injury when you hear it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: And if I'm remembering correctly, he got hurt against the Jaguars,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: but it was because he was, it was the leg
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: he was favoring because he had an injury on the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: other leg. So I can imagine that's part of his hesitation, knowing, yeah,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: maybe it's better on this side, but I'm still trying
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to figure out everything out.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: And the Sauce Gardner thing, you know, it's usually a
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: finishing touch piece. It's an important year for that franchise.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: They double down, right?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, they sent two picks away, and then they
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: lose their quarterback, and then they pay their quarterback, and
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: he doesn't look right. I mean, that thing is either
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: going to get right in a hurry or it's going
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: to implode, and they're going to clean house up there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep an eye on. And then the Jets,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the team that may benefit from that if the Colts
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: aren't able to figure things out, They got a win
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: over the Titans, and I don't know what to expect. Titans, again,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: had new coaching staff, a lot of changes. Robert Sala
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in charge over there. But it felt like Cam Ward
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: kind of took a step back when you were hoping,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you know, getting a new coordinator in there and all
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that is going to be.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Able to come to fruition.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: He didn't look good in the preseason, and he certainly
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: didn't look good against the Jets. And listen, Aaron Glenn
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: has some talent on that defense, and he's obviously known
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: as a really sharp defensive mind.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: So he made it difficult. But the Cam Ward thing.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Is concerning because the Titans could find themselves in a
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: position to grab another quarterback if they're at the top
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: of the draft this year.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: They just didn't look good in any aspect of the game.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll clarify this by saying you can pull out, like,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: there are quick changes in the NFL, so this may
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: not hold. The Titans look like a team that has
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: a heavier lift out of their situation than than maybe
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: the other teams. And, again, week one's weird. The Patriots
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: lost to the Raiders week one last year. So it
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: can turn around. But the Jaguars need to take advantage
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: of this downtime for the Titans. Yes, they do.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Stay with us on Jags AM after the break. We
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: will tell you what's coming up the rest of the week.
• 26:00
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• 26:04
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• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Fires deep. Toward the end zone.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Diving attempt!
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: What a watch! Let's go!
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Let's go!
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Good job, boy.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Good job. Good job.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Good ball!
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: How was the throw?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I got hit. You dope for it?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I dope for it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Great job, dude.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I got you.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: We're good. Let's head!
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Play fake.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Trevor Lowe.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Fires into the end zone.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Diving attempt! Caught with a touchdown!
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Josh!
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know how he caught that, dude.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was just like, Josh's touchdown catch was sick.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: We're not f * * * ing around.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Hey, it might only be 45,000, but it's loud as
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: f * * * in here. Come on!
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Now fires toward the end zone.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: That ball is caught! Touchdown!
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Come on!
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Good job. Good job, brother. We have Lawrence miked up
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: this week for those four pretty touchdown passes. You're going
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to want to check that out on Jaguars YouTube and Jaguars.com.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: It's even fun to relive it now.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Listen, the one that he threw to Jacoby Myers, the
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: last one we saw there, I had not seen the
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: end zone view until just right now. And, I mean,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: it's a big guy going against his body and putting
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: it on a rope right.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: To Jacoby Myers. He's proving to everyone that he is
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: who we thought he was.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. People forget because it's been a journey
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: through a lot of, you know, thickets to get here.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: He's special. Yeah. And special players do special things. And athletically,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: it's easy to forget there's a reason he went number
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: one overall in the draft. He does things that a
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: lot of quarterbacks can't do.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Just look at the last nine regular season games. The
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Jaguars are 9-0.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: He has 28 touchdown passes, which is the most in
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: the NFL by any quarterback over the nine-game stretch. And
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: his passer rating is 111.5, which is number one over
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: those nine games among all quarterbacks in the NFL. So
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: he's on a nine-game tear, a nine-game sample. I don't
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: know whether that's enough for you to say, oh, yeah,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: that's exactly who he is.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: It is to me.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Check, check, check. Looking pretty good. A busy week ahead,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of course. We'll be back here on JAGZAM tomorrow to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: do a deep dive into that matchup against the Broncos
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and tell you what we think will happen in week two.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Enjoy your day.