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Player perspective ahead of Chargers matchup | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, January 12 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to James Dry with John Hooshians and Bryan sixty
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Speaker 1: sixty James drive. John starts right now, bit turned down
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Speaker 1: right here, you know. And Josh Dobbs. As much as
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Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about how inexperienced he was, he
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Speaker 1: was only with the team for seventeen days. He's done
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Speaker 1: a manageable job for this Tennessee Titans team. Seventeen sixty
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Speaker 1: one yards and I think right now you've got to
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Speaker 1: make sure you cover the Titans tight end burned out
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Speaker 1: in five and chain. We're nearing the three minute mark.
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Speaker 1: Haskets the running back two left to right. Shotgun biggest
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Speaker 1: player the game right here, shotgun for Dondy robed in
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Speaker 1: the blint but all outlet they hit him and they'd
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Speaker 1: like to go the vult up out comes. Got a
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Speaker 1: tick up running back, running back. Look, you're gonna run
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Speaker 1: god Dellon for the ton down Gon Dellon is running
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Speaker 1: back for Totton down for Dad. How about that? God
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Speaker 1: Allen ran it back. The Jags have taken the league
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Speaker 1: with two dipty want a play? Just a taste of
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Speaker 1: sounds of the game from last Saturday night, um incredible
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Speaker 1: nineteen minutes long and worth every second of your time,
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Speaker 1: so says John Osher, who joins me here this morning
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Speaker 1: on Jack's Drive Time. It's fantastic, Huts, Danny. They've done
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Speaker 1: great work the sounds of the game team all year
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Speaker 1: and uh you know, peeking going into the playoffs the
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Speaker 1: best football well and hopefully we see something similar this
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Speaker 1: coming Saturday night. I know one thing's for sure, John,
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Speaker 1: And just getting around the city this week and talking
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Speaker 1: to various people, they're bringing it to the stadium that
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Speaker 1: the fans enjoyed the moment and and the theater that
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Speaker 1: was t i A bank Field as much as the
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Speaker 1: players and coaches did, and they're trying to recapture it
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Speaker 1: on Saturday night. Look, it's it's uh yeah, as you know, Brian,
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Speaker 1: there's been this myth nationally, the whole thing. We've talked
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Speaker 1: about it ad nauseam about Jaguars fans. Don't do this,
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Speaker 1: don't do this, don't this. It seems been horrible for
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Speaker 1: a decade except for two thousand seventeen. Let's say what
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Speaker 1: it is. So I had ray Sean Jenkins on on
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Speaker 1: on the ozone podcast and he said it best. You know,
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Speaker 1: he felt like the crowd the other night. He said,
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Speaker 1: it felt like a winning organization, and uh, a winning organization.
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Speaker 1: They'll go out and support and you have the the
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Speaker 1: added of the newness of the of the pressure of
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Speaker 1: losing for ten years, and all of a sudden, that
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Speaker 1: pressure turn the valve, the pressure releases, and you had
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Speaker 1: an unbelievable night. So you've got if they had won
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Speaker 1: three years in a row and now we're coming back
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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. Right now, I don't think you
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Speaker 1: have quite the energy, but I think you're gonna have energy.
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Speaker 1: As long as this team is good. This fan base
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Speaker 1: is going to turn out. It is a passionate, lunatic,
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Speaker 1: nuts off the charts, savage fan base, and they're gonna
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Speaker 1: show up like that. And on Saturday night you bring
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Speaker 1: in a Chargers team that is so similar to this
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Speaker 1: one with a young quarterback. That's why it's in prime time.
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Speaker 1: This is probably the sexiest game of the weekend. So
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Speaker 1: let's get right to it with big things here on
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Speaker 1: a Thursday morning. A big thing one is got one.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the lack of playoff experience. If you
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Speaker 1: look at the Jaguars, they have the fewest number of
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Speaker 1: starters with playoff experience. Of all the teams that are
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Speaker 1: engaged in this year's playoff tournament. But Treport Lawrence point
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Speaker 1: it out something very important when he met with the
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Speaker 1: media earlier this week. I hope it's it's like that
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Speaker 1: this weekend, and that's kind of you know what we expect.
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Speaker 1: Our fans did a great job last weekend. But for us,
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Speaker 1: I mean that was that was a playoff game last week.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at how everything ended up playing
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Speaker 1: out if we don't win. If we didn't win that game,
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Speaker 1: we're not sitting here today. You know, everybody's packing up
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Speaker 1: going home. So I mean that was a playoff game
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Speaker 1: for us. So it's the same mindset this week. It's
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Speaker 1: just official now it's the first round of playoffs. But
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Speaker 1: I mean for us, that was kind of like the
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Speaker 1: first round of playoffs because we knew we had to
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Speaker 1: win to get in. So um, I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: that helps us kind of prepare for this week and
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Speaker 1: the sense of urgency and you know, the whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to call it, the hype around the game all that,
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Speaker 1: especially now that there's only there's less than half the
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Speaker 1: team's playing this weekend because the field just got whittled down.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too, whatever it takes. You can also call
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Speaker 1: this your best defense, maybe your offense on Saturday night.
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Speaker 1: In other words, you know that you've got to score
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Speaker 1: points because the Chargers can put up some point, So
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Speaker 1: get it done. Offensive coordinator Press Taylor said they take
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Speaker 1: a holistic approach. They look at the entirety of what
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Speaker 1: has to happen for the team to win as they
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Speaker 1: put their offensive game plan together. I think you go
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Speaker 1: into every game kind of with a general plan of
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Speaker 1: what we think it takes to win, whether that's across
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Speaker 1: the board, offense, defense, special teams. You know, maybe we
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Speaker 1: need to be more aggressive in these situations because they
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Speaker 1: average x amount of points and you know, ideally it's
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Speaker 1: a shutout and we kick field going win the game.
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Speaker 1: We're great with that. Whatever it takes for us to
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Speaker 1: play next week, we're happy with at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day. Um, but there's certainly times where it kind
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Speaker 1: of sets your strategy, your game plan, strategy going through
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Speaker 1: the week. We have those conversations Monday Tuesday, and then
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Speaker 1: they're ongoing through the week of what we think it's
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Speaker 1: going to take to win and how we need to
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Speaker 1: play the game. Whether that's decision making within it, but
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Speaker 1: at the same time, we're ready to adjust at any
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Speaker 1: moment in the game depending on how it's going. And
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Speaker 1: we wrap up big things for this weekend this show
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Speaker 1: with Crazy. It's crazy when you think about the Chargers offense.
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Speaker 1: They've got big play receivers in Mike Williams Keenan Allen
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Speaker 1: is as tough a guy to cover because his routes
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Speaker 1: are so precise as there is in football, and with
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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert pushing the ball down the field, you'd expect
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Speaker 1: those two guys to be at the top of the charts,
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Speaker 1: but they're not. It's the running back Austin Ekeler with
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Speaker 1: more than a hundred receptions, and he's a guy that
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Speaker 1: makes it very interesting for defensive coordinators to get their
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Speaker 1: game plan put together. When you have a running back
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Speaker 1: that UH have over a hundred catches that that says
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Speaker 1: something about him and he's a guy that they trust
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Speaker 1: and they get the ball to a bunch. But I
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Speaker 1: think it works well with him because outside you have
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Speaker 1: to pay so much attention and then that opens up
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Speaker 1: for him and the tight ends underneath. But the coordinator
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Speaker 1: used to go out there and you just try to
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Speaker 1: understand where the matchups are and how they try to
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Speaker 1: attack you and try to you know, hone in on
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Speaker 1: that and give a guy with a good plan. So
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about matchups, John, how the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: cover Austin Ekeler is one of the big stories of
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Speaker 1: this game, and how the Chargers try to get mismatches
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Speaker 1: on linebackers are supposed to safeties. Yeah, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know that there's a great answer for the Jaguars there.
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Speaker 1: I would think that Devin Lloyd becomes involved a little
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Speaker 1: bit because of athleticism. Uh. I think. I think as
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, who said this on the show this week,
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Speaker 1: makes some sense. Um haven't been a great screen pass
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Speaker 1: covering team the Jaguars, but struggle with it last week.
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Speaker 1: But in the past, when you've played teams that hit
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Speaker 1: you with the screen, it's been more of a sneak
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Speaker 1: attack type thing. This team, you know, going in the
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Speaker 1: deck was a primary target, so you're paying more attention
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Speaker 1: to it. You almost, like you said, you almost concede
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Speaker 1: screens when you're playing teams that don't do them that
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Speaker 1: often because you've got to focus on something You're gonna
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Speaker 1: focus on. The screen gets the charge you're gonna focus
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Speaker 1: on the screens. I think I do a better job
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Speaker 1: with it. I uh yeah. I'm not saying this to
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Speaker 1: be a defeatist, but I think the reality is you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna have every answer for this Charger's offense. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna hope to get to play to the strength of
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Speaker 1: this defense. If you get a turn over a half
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Speaker 1: and you allow If you allow the Chargers twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: but you get a turn over a half, the offense
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Speaker 1: needs to win that game. Follow me. If you can't
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Speaker 1: get any turnovers with twenty eight, then I think it's tough.
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Speaker 1: If the defense creates takeaways. I'm not talking into half takeaway,
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Speaker 1: but a a game momentum takeaway in each half, then
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Speaker 1: I think the Jaguars offense will come off that no
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Speaker 1: matter what the defense gives up. I think Jaguars offense
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Speaker 1: come out of the game saying, uh, then we lose.
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Speaker 1: We should have gotten that one. That's enough to win.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars defense, for all the numbers are ranked statistically,
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Speaker 1: but they're only given up twenty point six points per game,
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Speaker 1: which is not so bad for a defense that's given
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Speaker 1: up big chunks of yardage and and struggled to get
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Speaker 1: teams off the field on third down at various times
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Speaker 1: this season. But when you really evaluate the Jaguars defense, right,
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Speaker 1: we talked Ben, but don't break takeaways the number, and
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Speaker 1: we mentioned that that's increase from a year ago. But
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Speaker 1: eleven over this five game winning stream and three defensive touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: they really have lifted their game. Again. They're gonna give
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Speaker 1: up chunks of yards because that's what these good offenses
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Speaker 1: in pro football do, but if they can just get
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Speaker 1: that ball away. Yeah, and I wrote the number, and
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Speaker 1: I hope I get it right. I think in their
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Speaker 1: eight losses they have a takeaways, and their nine wins
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Speaker 1: they have nineteen and every everything with the season. When
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Speaker 1: you break it down, success for this team is a
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Speaker 1: huge turnover number. Lack of success is a low turnover number.
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Speaker 1: Um And I think when you're talking about this Jaguars defense,
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Speaker 1: you know, you always want to talk in terms of yards,
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Speaker 1: and that always hangs in negative thing on a team.
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Speaker 1: And they give a lot of yards, but their fourth
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Speaker 1: in the NFL and takeaways and in this day and age,
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Speaker 1: I've been preaching for a couple of years. In this
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Speaker 1: day and age, it's not yards, it's it's points. And takeaways.
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Speaker 1: Well you hear Tony, don't you say that? When he
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Speaker 1: was on with us yesterday he said, hey, look, you're
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Speaker 1: going to give up yards. That's the way that this
10:16
Speaker 1: league wants it to be. The rules have been tilted
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Speaker 1: steadily since nineteen in the form of offense to the
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Speaker 1: side of offense. I should say, it makes for great
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Speaker 1: TV when you have a lot of points being put up.
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Speaker 1: But if you can break right, break, serve, put yourself
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Speaker 1: in a good position, and you construct your defense now
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Speaker 1: to be able to do that. All right, let's take
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Speaker 1: a break. When we come back here on Jags Drive Time,
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Speaker 1: we'll go around the locker room and give you more
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Speaker 1: John back with you here on a Thursday morning, a
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Speaker 1: couple of days ahead of a massive wild card matchup
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Speaker 1: here at t I A A. Bank Field Jaguars, Chargers
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Speaker 1: come on NBC. I was gonna see ESPN. That was
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Speaker 1: last week. Back to back primetime games, big game, back
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Speaker 1: to back Saturday nights. It's it's uh, it's epic for
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Speaker 1: this friend and and this marketplace. Saturday night games in
11:37
Speaker 1: the playoffs haven't been going on forever, and I think
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Speaker 1: this is the first time since two thousand and fourteen.
11:45
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the stat right, first time since
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Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen that the a f C South game.
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Speaker 1: If the a f C South plays on the first
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Speaker 1: weekend of the postseason, they have been in the Saturday
11:55
Speaker 1: afternoon time slot every year since two thousands. Smaller, uh
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Speaker 1: not this year. Um, They've got the kid with the
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Speaker 1: hair bottom, no doubt, and he's gonna put them on
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Speaker 1: the map. And this is really the first moment like
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Speaker 1: that where you can say it's the Trevor factor. I
12:13
Speaker 1: was listening. It wasn't Trevor versus Justin Herbert. You might
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Speaker 1: see this game at four o'clock in the afternoon, and
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Speaker 1: I was listening to a National show and Ed McCaffrey
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Speaker 1: was on, and he was saying exactly that he looked.
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Speaker 1: You've got two of the best young quarterbacks in the
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Speaker 1: game that happened to be these big, you know, long
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Speaker 1: haired quarterbacks that have a little sex appeal, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: and from a football perspective, and so to put them
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Speaker 1: on Saturday Night with Al Michaels and Tony Dungee, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the building, creates a sense that it's a must
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Speaker 1: must watch game for football fans. I think it is.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday it was real. I mean it. There's no reason
12:49
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars can't be a fun national team. It's
12:54
Speaker 1: just people have to get to know them, and people
12:56
Speaker 1: we have set last week about them not being on
12:58
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Yeah, a nation doesn't know them yet. I
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Speaker 1: got to know him a little bit last Saturday. We'll
13:03
Speaker 1: get to know him a little bit this Saturday. I
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Speaker 1: don't think primetime games are gonna be a problem for
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Speaker 1: anybody else set me moving forward because they don't like
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Speaker 1: them at one o'clock is a lot easier for everyone
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Speaker 1: who's working the day. But it's it's a lot of
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Speaker 1: fun to have these primetime games. And hopefully this Saturday
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Speaker 1: night is equal to last Saturday Night. And we know this,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to the fourth quarter. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a close game. It's the way it is. You're
13:27
Speaker 1: not running away from these guys like you did in
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Speaker 1: week three. Let's go around the locker room and the
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Speaker 1: Dragon Wars have fallen behind in games a lot, even
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Speaker 1: in this winning streak. They've fallen behind. But you've seen
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Speaker 1: that their confidence has never fallen. And we caught up
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Speaker 1: with one player in the locker room yesterday who knows why.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Let them get the lead, let them
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Speaker 1: get start to look at the scoreboard, look at the time,
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Speaker 1: you know, start to think, oh, and we're just gonna
13:55
Speaker 1: you know, we're gambling now, you know, lost a couple
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Speaker 1: of pots early, pick up a good hand and ship
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Speaker 1: it downtown zero get paid off. Dowey, he has become
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Speaker 1: a best Yeah, a caricature. No, he's he's he's everything.
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Speaker 1: He's uh, you know, obviously, the cool thing about runs
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Speaker 1: like this is you start getting stories. Fans start embracing
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Speaker 1: different players in the team, and uh, you know, at
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Speaker 1: probably second to Trevor, Dewey's the guy that fans embrace.
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Speaker 1: They love him and around him in the locker room yesterday.
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Speaker 1: He's a kid who loves playing. You see how much
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Speaker 1: he loves you see much he enjoys it. He's savor
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Speaker 1: in every moment of his NFL career. Uh, that's the
14:42
Speaker 1: guy you're supposed to root for. It's fine. If you
14:44
Speaker 1: gotta win in the playoffs, You've got to be able
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Speaker 1: to run the football. And the Jaguars have been pretty
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Speaker 1: good against the run against everyone except the Titans. That is,
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Speaker 1: they face a Chargers defense that he's not very good
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Speaker 1: against the run, and Travis E. T n knows this
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Speaker 1: is a good time to get it started again. I
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Speaker 1: just called him players honestly, just calling the runs and
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Speaker 1: just executing and uh, just not going up on a
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Speaker 1: run and just keep swinging and just keep calling him
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Speaker 1: my number. He wants the ball, and why not. I'd
15:13
Speaker 1: be surprised if he, uh, he's gonna get opportunities. I
15:18
Speaker 1: would be surprised he doesn't have a big game. Um,
15:21
Speaker 1: and I think that he has to have a big
15:25
Speaker 1: game for them to be good offensively. Because of the
15:28
Speaker 1: way the Chargers play, they are willing to give yards
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Speaker 1: in the running game so as not to give up
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Speaker 1: huge plays in the passing game. Uh So I think
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Speaker 1: it lines up pregame storylines don't always manifest himselves during
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Speaker 1: the game. I'd be stunned if that one doesn't. Eleven yards,
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Speaker 1: five touchdowns, five hundred yard games, over a five yard
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Speaker 1: per cuy average for all of the accolades that this
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Speaker 1: team is getting about the things they've done well. He's
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Speaker 1: kind of been off to the side in the last
16:01
Speaker 1: four or five games that he had a surge mid season,
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Speaker 1: and I think teams kind of figured out, hey, we're
16:06
Speaker 1: not gonna let him beat us, so that brings his
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Speaker 1: numbers down. I think Doug Peterson would tell you the
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Speaker 1: fact that teams have to be concerned about him helps
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Speaker 1: everything else. One week, it's one thing with this offense.
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Speaker 1: This is a lot like Philadelphia offense when Doug was there.
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Speaker 1: No real superstar, no guy that it stands out am
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Speaker 1: under the rest. But it's it's an for having just
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Speaker 1: put this thing together in the off season. It's an
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Speaker 1: unbelievably balanced team. You can win low scoring games, we
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Speaker 1: win high scoring games offensively. Uh, if you're the charge
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Speaker 1: of defensive coordinator, who are you walking to the head
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Speaker 1: coach and we gotta stop this guy. There's not one,
16:48
Speaker 1: there's four or five. You better stop and even Morvin Jones,
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Speaker 1: who kind of gets forgotten about a little bit big
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Speaker 1: plays as he made this year. I mean, so it's
16:57
Speaker 1: an impressive balance. But that's the way Doug coaches. One
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Speaker 1: of the storylines has been the running game. And for
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Speaker 1: the Chargers that means Austin Ekeler, and for the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: that means they're leading tackler and the NFL is leading tackler.
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Speaker 1: Foyer Alukon knows what has to happen. Um he runs
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Speaker 1: with the ball. Well, obviously he's a strong runner. You know,
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Speaker 1: he got no mood out of the back building stuff.
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Speaker 1: He's tough to get an angle on Brill because he's
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Speaker 1: also fast, so you know, with somebody running the ball
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Speaker 1: that hard. When he has the ball in his hand,
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Speaker 1: he's always a danger. So you gotta keep eyes on him. Really,
17:27
Speaker 1: and we have talked at length about Eckler, So let's
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Speaker 1: move on to our final thought, and that's from Josh Allen.
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Speaker 1: This week's a f C Defensive Player of the Week,
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Speaker 1: testament of everybody doing the right thing, everybody be in
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Speaker 1: the right spot, and uh, Captain laiz On, opportunities that
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Speaker 1: looking really made and uh, you know, great honor, but
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Speaker 1: you know, great honor, you know, shout out to the team.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think it was a team thing. I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, multiple guys on his defense had a hell
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Speaker 1: of a game to help me get to where I
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Speaker 1: was the one of spotlighted. Uh you know, to do
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Speaker 1: it again though, And I think it's important to point
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Speaker 1: out arden Key had nine quarterback pressures, nine and out
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Speaker 1: if I think eighteen or nineteen pass rushes, so about
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Speaker 1: half the time, which is if you if you don't
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Speaker 1: follow the numbers of the NFL, is amazing. It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: And Josh ezackly right, that was a team award as
18:22
Speaker 1: much as anything. And he benefited from scooping as well.
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Speaker 1: And he had a good game, don't get me wrong,
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Speaker 1: but uh, arden Key's best play may have been when
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Speaker 1: he was celebrating ray Sean sack before it happened, and
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Speaker 1: he has nine pressures and that'll be the play people remember.
18:36
Speaker 1: So it was uh yeah, but but good for Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen and I made his point a couple of times.
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Speaker 1: He hit a sack taken away the other night. Um
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Speaker 1: so at the end of the ball game where he
18:45
Speaker 1: stripped the ball away. It should have been his sack,
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Speaker 1: and then Dobbs catches it and somebody else gets the sack.
18:51
Speaker 1: And if you're Josh Allen, after the year he's had
18:53
Speaker 1: the frustrating year, he's probably like, all right, I'm not
18:55
Speaker 1: gonna get any anymore. Just forget it. But good for
18:58
Speaker 1: Josh to get that, relax and go pl Jaguars and
19:00
Speaker 1: Chargers coming up on Saturday Night. We'd like to now
19:03
Speaker 1: at this point include the entire audience in this including
19:07
Speaker 1: our fans over in Great Britain. And so we've got
19:11
Speaker 1: a new segment for you this week called Ponder This
19:14
Speaker 1: from Across the Pond, very cleverly name I Get It,
19:18
Speaker 1: Save It Pond the Pond. So Ponder This begins with
19:25
Speaker 1: this question. Tony Boselli said, previously the Jacks would win
19:28
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl with Lawrence and Peterson. Is that this season?
19:32
Speaker 1: From Ian Pointer? Ian, thanks for the question, John your answer, No,
19:36
Speaker 1: I mean I it. It would defy logic as much
19:42
Speaker 1: as I wanted to happen, as much as it obviously
19:44
Speaker 1: could happen, because yeah, you're in the terments. Some thing
19:46
Speaker 1: it happened. Um, it would be a a remarkable lift.
19:53
Speaker 1: Get past this game and then probably if Seeds Hold
19:57
Speaker 1: have to go to Kansas City and then have to
19:59
Speaker 1: go to either Buffalo Cincinnati UM this season, I think
20:05
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I think it's going to be a
20:07
Speaker 1: long run of success and they will get one maybe
20:09
Speaker 1: you know who knows how many. But if if I'm
20:14
Speaker 1: being honest, I have to say no, and I would
20:16
Speaker 1: agree with that. I think it's when you look at
20:18
Speaker 1: Kansas City and Buffalo, two teams that have been pounding
20:21
Speaker 1: at each other at the top of the a f C,
20:22
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati last year who took away the Chief's bid
20:27
Speaker 1: for a third straight Super Bowl, and and that quarterback
20:30
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow looks like he is as dangerous as any
20:32
Speaker 1: maybe the most dangerous in the a f C. Right now,
20:36
Speaker 1: I would say no, that the Jaguars in the first
20:38
Speaker 1: year with Doug Peterson are still a ways away from
20:41
Speaker 1: being ready to compete for that. But when I guarantee
20:46
Speaker 1: when my boy Jeff Hobson from Cincinnati, he does. My
20:49
Speaker 1: JEF Cincinnati was asked last year that same question, the
20:52
Speaker 1: same thing. He probably said no. So it's not a
20:55
Speaker 1: stupid question. It's not like it can't happen. The odds
20:58
Speaker 1: would say no. So let's get to our next question,
21:01
Speaker 1: which comes to us from Joe Vincent. Rank the Josh
21:04
Speaker 1: Allen touchdown among the greatest ever moments at ever bank
21:08
Speaker 1: slash t I A A bank field. So if we're
21:10
Speaker 1: gonna do that, we also have to include all Tell
21:12
Speaker 1: Stadium and Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. Yeah, well, it's on the rushmore.
21:18
Speaker 1: I mean, it's is it. I mean, I think the
21:21
Speaker 1: only one that compares is Morton, Right well, I mean
21:25
Speaker 1: I think you've gotta you gotta have blocked field goal.
21:28
Speaker 1: Uh Clyde Simmons blocking Norm Johnson's field goal attempt in
21:32
Speaker 1: the first ever Monday night football game. Here. This is
21:34
Speaker 1: bigger than that, I would agree. But we're talking about
21:38
Speaker 1: great moments, right, Um, I think you've got to put
21:41
Speaker 1: in in nineteen nine nine the playoffs, Fred's ninety yard
21:46
Speaker 1: run was one of those great moments in Jaguars history. Um,
21:50
Speaker 1: this is top five. Yeah, Fred's run? Uh how long
21:55
Speaker 1: was that? Was that? Ninety yards? Because you're called yeah,
21:58
Speaker 1: nine yards? And then the reason I bring it up
21:59
Speaker 1: is because that one really put the game away. It's
22:02
Speaker 1: you can see the Dolphins just kind of give up
22:03
Speaker 1: at that moment um. Yeah, that I guess I would
22:07
Speaker 1: put that there. Uh, Morton's miss and this one, but
22:14
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. It's gonna be played forever. I mean,
22:16
Speaker 1: it's if somebody told me they thought that was the greatest,
22:19
Speaker 1: I wouldn't argue. Well, and you're putting two into that
22:22
Speaker 1: rushmore this year because the end of the Cowboys game
22:25
Speaker 1: ra Shaan Jenkins with a walk off interception for a
22:27
Speaker 1: touchdown against Dallas in a game that most of the
22:30
Speaker 1: country saw. Yeah, we've talked about this little bit, Brian,
22:33
Speaker 1: but um and so I'm gonna say, not quite up
22:37
Speaker 1: with Fred and Morton. But that may be because we're
22:40
Speaker 1: old and have an affinity for those plays. Uh. I
22:45
Speaker 1: wouldn't argue very strongly if somebody thought this one the
22:48
Speaker 1: other night was the best. It's you know, it's probably
22:52
Speaker 1: an opinion thing more than a fact thing. We talked
22:54
Speaker 1: earlier this week, Brian. I think with the last four
22:56
Speaker 1: games they've played at home, seventeen points down on the
23:00
Speaker 1: Raiders and one nine points down on the Ravens in
23:03
Speaker 1: one the Cowboys game that you just mentioned. In this
23:06
Speaker 1: game the other night, you've seen them all out of
23:11
Speaker 1: the top ten home games in Jaguars history do those
23:15
Speaker 1: four make the list? So all four markable run that
23:21
Speaker 1: I think when you're covering it, you're going week to week.
23:24
Speaker 1: I had sort of forgotten that those four games we're
23:27
Speaker 1: all on a row. Um. I don't think you'll ever
23:31
Speaker 1: have a four game stretch quite like that, because I
23:33
Speaker 1: think in the future, when you're winning those games, you're
23:34
Speaker 1: gonna be up. This is a team. I mean, those
23:37
Speaker 1: games not only define the team, they happen for this
23:40
Speaker 1: fan base to see and you can feel it each week,
23:44
Speaker 1: the fans getting more and more excited, more and more excited.
23:46
Speaker 1: This is what we've been talking about for ten years, Brian.
23:49
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled for people who weren't here in ninety six
23:52
Speaker 1: because we've talked so much about that. You're getting to
23:56
Speaker 1: experience this kind of moment. You know, from from nowhere
23:59
Speaker 1: to where they are now, what they do from here
24:01
Speaker 1: on out. It's this run. This is a run of
24:05
Speaker 1: better games for the fans. Totally get it because the
24:07
Speaker 1: fans a every game has been knockdown, drag out, plus Brian,
24:15
Speaker 1: they get a playoff game at the end of it
24:17
Speaker 1: on the back side of it, which they did. I
24:20
Speaker 1: mean you and me will always you know, have that
24:22
Speaker 1: moment that will be a thing. But for fans this run,
24:27
Speaker 1: when you get the cherry of a playoff game on
24:29
Speaker 1: top of these four um unbelievable. I mean it's you
24:33
Speaker 1: couldn't have written this great, very good. Somebody could have
24:36
Speaker 1: written this great. Questions to ponder and we'll look forward
24:40
Speaker 1: to adding that segment in weekly throughout the off season
24:42
Speaker 1: to make sure that all Jaguars fans on this side
24:45
Speaker 1: or the other side are part of the whole effort.
24:48
Speaker 1: And you can reach out at Jack's UK and make
24:50
Speaker 1: sure that folks over there have questions to get back
24:53
Speaker 1: to us on a weekly basis. That'll do it for
24:56
Speaker 1: this segment. When we come back, he will, he won't.
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25:31
Speaker 1: As you get to this point of the season, just
25:34
Speaker 1: it may be pause. It seemed nice. Yeah, there there's
25:37
Speaker 1: a lot. There is no more stress free for games. Yeah,
25:41
Speaker 1: all right, so let's get to it. He will, he won't,
25:43
Speaker 1: he might eat, and you'll start with you, John Well,
25:48
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to set and it seems like I'm
25:50
Speaker 1: going with Travis a lot for this segment because he's
25:53
Speaker 1: so key for what this team wants to do. Um,
25:56
Speaker 1: he will get more yards than he did last week, haven't.
26:01
Speaker 1: I don't say easy, but have an easier time of
26:03
Speaker 1: it than you did against Tennessee because it's not really
26:07
Speaker 1: knock on the Charger's then a very good run defense,
26:09
Speaker 1: but nobody compares to Tennessee in this league right now. Um,
26:13
Speaker 1: he won't fumble, and that's always what I gotta sort
26:15
Speaker 1: of and then you can stop. Everyone's glad to hear that. Yeah,
26:18
Speaker 1: I mean, and uh, that's a hope more than a fact,
26:22
Speaker 1: because that's the one X factor going into this game
26:26
Speaker 1: that you don't want to see the ball in the
26:27
Speaker 1: ground that would they would give it a really oh
26:30
Speaker 1: no feeling if you see him fumble. But he might
26:34
Speaker 1: be the key uh to the game offensively. I think
26:38
Speaker 1: people who have watched the show this week aren't surprised
26:41
Speaker 1: when we say that, Um, he's getting a couple of
26:45
Speaker 1: big runs. I think he's gonna get a hundred and
26:48
Speaker 1: twenty UM and I think you almost have to have
26:53
Speaker 1: that to have a chance and then go hit some
26:58
Speaker 1: big plays off of that in the red zone. But
27:00
Speaker 1: I think he's got to be the meat and potatoes
27:02
Speaker 1: a little bit this week. Agreed the Titans, as Doug
27:05
Speaker 1: Peterson has said over and over, they just have a
27:07
Speaker 1: unique personnel profile. They play the run better than almost
27:11
Speaker 1: anyone in this game, and so he was never gonna
27:13
Speaker 1: get started last week. They were going to make sure
27:15
Speaker 1: of that this week. Chargers do not play the run
27:18
Speaker 1: very well. And remember James Robinson. Had Robinson had the
27:22
Speaker 1: fifty two yard run, he he doesn't have near the
27:25
Speaker 1: explosiveness that Travis has, so you'd like to think you
27:28
Speaker 1: could get him free. And that's not really saying that
27:30
Speaker 1: the charges are a bad defense. It's more the way
27:32
Speaker 1: that it's more the way the league is set up.
27:35
Speaker 1: You almost have to give something up. Uh. And I
27:38
Speaker 1: say they don't try to stop the run, try the
27:41
Speaker 1: south the run, but they don't emphasize it the way
27:43
Speaker 1: the Titans do. It's not like when they're sitting in
27:46
Speaker 1: a in their team meeting on Wednesday, the first thing
27:49
Speaker 1: they throw up on the board is not we've got
27:50
Speaker 1: to stop the run. It's not what they're about with
27:53
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, that is the first thing they say. So
27:56
Speaker 1: it's a little different philosophically. So that's why I think
27:59
Speaker 1: you have to do that well against them, because they're
28:01
Speaker 1: giving it to you a little bit to take other
28:03
Speaker 1: things away. All Right, I will go with Foyer Lukan
28:06
Speaker 1: the league's leading tacklip where he will he won't be
28:09
Speaker 1: might and he will have a huge, huge task this week.
28:13
Speaker 1: He is going to have to find number thirty, who
28:16
Speaker 1: is a very patient runner, which means the aggressive middle linebacker.
28:21
Speaker 1: He's going to have to be patient as well. He
28:23
Speaker 1: will get the call to be that guy. Um, he
28:26
Speaker 1: won't have much breath left when it's all over. He
28:28
Speaker 1: is going to be running sideline to sideline chasing Eckler.
28:32
Speaker 1: Whether it's a screen, whether it's a run, whatever it is,
28:36
Speaker 1: he is going to be moving because they move Eckler
28:39
Speaker 1: all across the formation to try to get the matchups
28:42
Speaker 1: they want. Um and I think he might be the
28:45
Speaker 1: key John to steal your thunder from Travis e t
28:47
Speaker 1: N if he has a big game, If he's got
28:50
Speaker 1: eighteen tackles, which we saw from him earlier in this
28:53
Speaker 1: winning streak. Um, you've won the game because it means
28:57
Speaker 1: that he has gotten his hands on Eckler a lot. Yeah,
29:00
Speaker 1: and I don't know that you want to see a
29:02
Speaker 1: game where ray Sean has eighteens because it means getting
29:08
Speaker 1: the second level. So yeah, I agree with you. He
29:11
Speaker 1: he's key defensively the whole. I mean, everybody on the
29:13
Speaker 1: front seven's key. When you're trying to stop a guy
29:15
Speaker 1: like Ecklif. The awareness in the pursuit to the sides
29:19
Speaker 1: are so big that everybody's got to be key. But
29:21
Speaker 1: if you're picking one. I asked my Caldwell in his
29:24
Speaker 1: news conference yesterday about the patient running style, and he
29:30
Speaker 1: paused being patient himself. He said he will wait and
29:35
Speaker 1: wait and wait because he trusts himself at his explosiveness
29:38
Speaker 1: to be able to find his way back to the whole,
29:41
Speaker 1: and when he does, generally everyone else's lost patience. And yeah,
29:45
Speaker 1: he's got a rarity about it from Western Colorado of
29:49
Speaker 1: all places. All right, we'll take a break, come back
29:51
Speaker 1: and give you Sunday morning's headlines today a quick look
29:53
Speaker 1: into the future of what we think you might be
29:56
Speaker 1: reading on Sunday morning. Back after this on Jack Drive Time,
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Speaker 1: presented by the Field's Auto Group. All right, back to
30:12
Speaker 1: wrap it up on Thursday, Jaguars on the practice field today.
30:16
Speaker 1: It's a Friday in their week because Saturday is Sunday,
30:19
Speaker 1: which means Sunday is Monday, which means Monday's headlines today
30:24
Speaker 1: is actually Sunday's headlines today. And you follow all that,
30:26
Speaker 1: You're probably smart enough to be able to choose your
30:28
Speaker 1: own headline. But we're gonna grab John for his instead. Well,
30:31
Speaker 1: with apologies to music aficionado to Fortunata, I'm saying, going
30:38
Speaker 1: to Kansas City, Kansas City here, Kansas City here, I
30:42
Speaker 1: come right, So here we go. We got some crazy
30:45
Speaker 1: little women there, and I'm gonna get me one. Well, sorry,
30:47
Speaker 1: I'm from Kansas City from better Uh. Yeah, I think
30:53
Speaker 1: they're going to win. I think it's gonna be easy.
30:57
Speaker 1: I'm fifty nine, you know what I'm saying that, Um,
31:02
Speaker 1: but I think the seating plays out the next day
31:07
Speaker 1: where I don't think the Bills or the Bengals will
31:12
Speaker 1: lose so as a result, and they're going to Candy
31:15
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. All right, And I'll go with follow
31:17
Speaker 1: me on this one thunderous, right, you get the lightning
31:21
Speaker 1: bolts in here. Jaguars counter with a big win, big
31:25
Speaker 1: one point two points, it doesn't matter. But a win
31:29
Speaker 1: that has this stadium as thunderous as it was last
31:32
Speaker 1: Saturday night. Um, you know, I mean it's joy when
31:36
Speaker 1: you look at these two teams, they are so statistically
31:40
Speaker 1: even we went through that yesterday. Here's something that you
31:43
Speaker 1: should consider. The Chargers played in Denver. Right, they went
31:47
Speaker 1: from sea level to feet which is where the stadium
31:51
Speaker 1: sits in Denver in Colorado, back to sea level. That's
31:55
Speaker 1: not an easy trip for anybody. We know, we've we've
31:58
Speaker 1: done the exact same trip from this side. Now they're
32:00
Speaker 1: gonna come all the way across the country and we
32:02
Speaker 1: know how difficult to trip that is. And they're doing
32:03
Speaker 1: it all in less than a week. Yeah, the short week. Uh.
32:08
Speaker 1: Again in the playoffs, you never know. It can come
32:10
Speaker 1: out the other way. Of course it could, But when
32:13
Speaker 1: you're playing a team on a short week, uh, and
32:17
Speaker 1: you're traveling that kind of distance, you're not doing the
32:19
Speaker 1: team doing the traveling any favors. So it's a tough
32:22
Speaker 1: task for that. I think you say nine, I think
32:25
Speaker 1: that leans in the Jaguars direction, playing at home on
32:28
Speaker 1: Saturday night, and that'll do it for our broadcast week here,
32:31
Speaker 1: don't forget the ozone podcast with Rashon Jenkins is out.
32:34
Speaker 1: Happy Hour comes up later today, uh, and kickoff on
32:38
Speaker 1: Saturday night Eastern time. And it goes out saying Brian,
32:44
Speaker 1: everybody enjoy it. I mean, the fans have waited a
32:47
Speaker 1: long time for this. Uh. Savor the moment. It's fine,
32:50
Speaker 1: we'll leave on those wise words from John Os. You're
32:52
Speaker 1: savor at the moment and enjoy the anticipation it seems
32:57
Speaker 1: like forever until Saturday night. Make sure that you enjoy
32:59
Speaker 1: that part of it as well, because that's fun. All Right,
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Speaker 1: We're done, See you later. M