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Discussing the current state of the Texans | Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, December 29 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It is Thursday, December twenty nine. This is Jaguars Happy
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  Speaker 1: Hours and now a guy who doesn't need help. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening, Jamie Hayter, he's available. J peach Ja. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand that one either. Well, come in its
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour and his Thursday in his Week seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars and the Houston Texans coming up this Sunday
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  Speaker 1: at NRG Stadium in Houston. Busy two hours coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We've got analyst Jeff Logoman coming up. Tight end. Chris
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Manhert will join us at around four five today and
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  Speaker 1: studio get his thoughts on a couple of the key
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  Speaker 1: defensive contributors for the Houston Texans. Of course, the playoff
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  Speaker 1: pictures here, it's starting to come into focus a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Only two a f C playoff spots are still up
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  Speaker 1: for grabs, a f C South title and a wild
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  Speaker 1: card birth. The Dolphins currently hold that wild card in
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  Speaker 1: the number seven seed. Of course, in the second hour,
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  Speaker 1: the Doug Peterson Show at five o'clock, we'll here from
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars head coach coming up, get his thoughts about
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  Speaker 1: the week ahead, the week that has been already and
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars ascension to the top of the a f
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  Speaker 1: C South. Let's start with the head coach, Doug Peterson
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week on Wednesday, he's playing the Jags this
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  Speaker 1: week in week seventeen. Never a meaningless game, never ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever ever. Um, you play, you played a win every game. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and and um you know the only way I rest
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  Speaker 1: players as if they're hurt and can't go. It's a
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  Speaker 1: f C South opponent, you know. And they beat this
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  Speaker 1: in week five, So you know, we've got to have
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  Speaker 1: a great week of preparation. And we understand that. And
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, still got still got some unfinished business.
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  Speaker 1: Now to the quarterback Trevor Lawrence. He also spoke Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and there's still work to be done for this Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: team with two each lapt we can't act like we've
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  Speaker 1: arrived though, because we we we still haven't clinched anything.
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  Speaker 1: We still haven't made the playoffs. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: two games left to continue to prove who we are
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  Speaker 1: and to put one ft in front of the next
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  Speaker 1: and just keep stacking these games. So we can't look
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  Speaker 1: too far ahead and say this is the team we
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  Speaker 1: are now. You know, we have to do it every week.
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  Speaker 1: You're only as good as what you can do every Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean that's really for us. It's just about
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  Speaker 1: being consistent, continuing to do this, and that's great teams
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  Speaker 1: win win these games. Games that you gotta win, you
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  Speaker 1: win them. And that's what we're trying to become as
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  Speaker 1: a great team. And I think we're on our way.
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  Speaker 1: But um, we gotta keep doing this consistently. And I
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  Speaker 1: gotta keep doing it too, as a as the quarterback, um,
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  Speaker 1: and as a player on this team. Like it's all
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  Speaker 1: about consistency. And you know, I've played, I've played well
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  Speaker 1: the past month or whatever it is, but I gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep doing that, especially we want to make a run
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. You want to go deep in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: then you gotta do that even more so. So I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's how I'm looking at this week to week.
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  Speaker 1: I think our team is matured a lot as the
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  Speaker 1: season's gone on. That's the quarterback, of course. Earlier this
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  Speaker 1: week on to the defensive linebacker four Ya Loui con
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  Speaker 1: is onto the Texans now not looking yet to next
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  Speaker 1: week against the Titans, even though that is a winner
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  Speaker 1: take all battle it's all about Houston. It's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to play for it this week. Uh, and they beat
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  Speaker 1: us last time, so any motivation, Like everybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: keep it on momentum going from the past couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks these wins, So do whatever we need to do
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  Speaker 1: to keep that going by beating Houston. So everything right
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  Speaker 1: now and being putting that game playing in Houston and
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  Speaker 1: whatever happens after that is what we'll take care of
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  Speaker 1: when that comes. You have a full sound from the
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  Speaker 1: locker room and press conference is available on Jaguars dot
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  Speaker 1: com and Jaguars Social media, and of course we'll hear
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  Speaker 1: more from head coach Doug Peterson coming up at five
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  Speaker 1: o'clock on the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome in Jaguars analyst Jeff Logman now and help.
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  Speaker 1: You had a very Christmas after the early week Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night game against the Jets, got back home and then
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  Speaker 1: now it's back to work and back to business. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it was great. Christmas was fantastic. It was cold, but
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  Speaker 1: the schedule makers in the NFL treated us right, that's yes,
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  Speaker 1: they did. Actually it worked out pretty well. Fantastic to
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  Speaker 1: have Christmas weekend off and Christmas football of plenty. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: does Santa not deliver some NFL football this year for
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  Speaker 1: Christmas or what? Yeah, we've all been on the good list,
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  Speaker 1: I think this week in that regard. So did you
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  Speaker 1: see the ratings. I'm sure they were through the roof
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  Speaker 1: they Oh yeah, I mean, typically, the NBA has always
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  Speaker 1: been on Christmas Day and that's kind of tradition. And
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  Speaker 1: this year, because Christmas fell on the weekend, the NFL
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  Speaker 1: had a smattering of games all across the weekend. I
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  Speaker 1: want to say, the ratings were like five times at
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  Speaker 1: the NFL compared to what the NBA wanted, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I can see that. I mean, it's I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: just goes to show you the popularity of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And Saturday's games were really good. Sunday's games were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but still better than the NBA. Yeah opinion. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the most popular sport in the
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  Speaker 1: country for a reason by far, and really popular in
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville right now. Absolutely, they're hot there in first place. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The challenge for this Jags team is to keep it going.
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  Speaker 1: And Doug Peterson, as we just heard, there said earlier
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  Speaker 1: this week, there's no such thing as a meaningless game.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing the Titans place at nights. They have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys that are not playing. It's a short week.
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  Speaker 1: There's some guys dinged up. They've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: some guys not playing. There's a pile of Titans not
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  Speaker 1: playing to night. It's two distinctly different approaches. Well, and
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  Speaker 1: and I think for a couple of reasons. One is
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  Speaker 1: that the Titans really can't do anything good right now
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  Speaker 1: just because they have they have some personnel issues. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons why the owner fired John
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  Speaker 1: Robinson as general manager. And they're currently looking to fill
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  Speaker 1: his role with somebody else, possibly if not from the
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  Speaker 1: gentleman that's taken his place right now in Tennessee. But
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  Speaker 1: they have a major personnel issue. They have a major
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  Speaker 1: issue at quarterback because Tanney Hill is out. They have
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  Speaker 1: a rookie and and who's starting tonight. I mean Josh Dobbs.
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  Speaker 1: Who was he? I know they just picked them up
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  Speaker 1: eight days ago. Yeah, I mean, good luck, Josh, here
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  Speaker 1: you go. Last time I watched Josh Dobbs, I was
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  Speaker 1: going out in the World's even on this football team.
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  Speaker 1: We're not not to be extremely critical of them, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm just being on, Hey, good luck, Josh. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys over there. Yeah, who by the play really
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  Speaker 1: good defense and they got a guy by the name
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  Speaker 1: of Michael Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence. That are the two
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  Speaker 1: I think combined edge rushers maybe in the league. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's definitely two distinctive approaches. But
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  Speaker 1: if the Jaguars win this week, then you play Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: and for some crazy reason you tie them, you have
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  Speaker 1: the tiebreaker over the Titans. Is that not correct? So
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  Speaker 1: I mean there is motivation to play well this week.
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  Speaker 1: And on top of that, the Texans have owned you
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  Speaker 1: nine consecutive games owned you that would fall under the
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  Speaker 1: category of if you want to change the culture, then
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  Speaker 1: you want to stop streaks that exist like that. And
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of streaks that have been stopped
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  Speaker 1: this year. The road losing streaks that was going on
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  Speaker 1: forever until the Chargers game, the number of times that
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  Speaker 1: you lost in Nashville against Tennessee and FC teams twenty
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  Speaker 1: in a row. I mean, it's Trevor Lawrence finally gets
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  Speaker 1: a win from somebody else besides the Indianapolis Colts this
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  Speaker 1: year when he beat Tennessee and Tennessee, well, here's another
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for him to get his first victory against the
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  Speaker 1: Houston Texans. And if you want to be the new
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  Speaker 1: sheriff in town, you got to start changing the way
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  Speaker 1: that things happened in town. And the sheriff needs to
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  Speaker 1: beat the Texans, and I hope that he does. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say they're up seventeen points at the start of the
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  Speaker 1: j Beethord, so you don't in there. That's when you
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  Speaker 1: start kind of switching around a little. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think the mindset this week, the right mindset would
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  Speaker 1: be is that you you're playing to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: But if you get to a certain point, and that's
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  Speaker 1: not easy to get to. This is the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: The Texans have played. Look, the Texans beat the Titans
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  Speaker 1: when the Titans were given it everything they had last week. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so and and they were plus two and turnover differential.
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  Speaker 1: The only way that they won prior to that was
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  Speaker 1: plus two against the Jaguars. That's what the only two
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  Speaker 1: times this year that they've been plus two. So this
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  Speaker 1: week you better protect the ball because that's the only
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  Speaker 1: way the Texans have been winning. But then you go
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  Speaker 1: before that, they played the Dallas Cowboys down to the
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  Speaker 1: wire over time against Kansas Dan Davis Mills fumble the
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  Speaker 1: ball and can't say end up taking it in and
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  Speaker 1: win that ball game. So for the last three ball games,
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans have played very well and they've played hard,
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a really weird environment in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: really weird environment because we've kind of had that environment
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  Speaker 1: here before. And what I what are the what are
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  Speaker 1: the fan base? What are they thinking in Houston right now?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? They're probably angry and everything going
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  Speaker 1: on if they're showing up at all. Okay, here's the
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  Speaker 1: mindset of the fan base JP because we were there.
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  Speaker 1: Don't win the game against the Jaguars number one pick
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  Speaker 1: right now? Correct, And there's not a lot of fans
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  Speaker 1: coming out because it's the Texans that have not been
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  Speaker 1: playing well. They've got two wins on the season. But
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  Speaker 1: the fans will be there. I think more of of
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  Speaker 1: of a carnival type atmosphere because they want to be entertained,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't want to see their team win, right
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who, who's who's the guy? Your guy in Alabama?
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young? The quarterback at Alabama is Bryce Young? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: your guy? Whatever? Well's your guy? He's Alabama guy. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I don't know what that? Yeah, sure, I mean
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  Speaker 1: they aren't they predicting him to be potentially the number
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  Speaker 1: one overall pick in the draft. There have been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of yes, I haven't really looked at my draft,
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of strange this semi year actually, which
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  Speaker 1: is good. I figured you would already have, like the slotting.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about the Alabama Crimson tie.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are expecting to worry about the draft order, right,
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  Speaker 1: which is yeah, I'm all for it. But it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a weird environment because it's gonna be kind of sterile. Um,
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  Speaker 1: how many people will show up? I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: great question. And so if you want to have a
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  Speaker 1: great amount of energy, you better bring your own energy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. I think that's gonna happen every
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  Speaker 1: week anyway, right, I mean you can you can be
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  Speaker 1: at a big, you know game with a sold out
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  Speaker 1: house here or like it's gonna be Sunday and he
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  Speaker 1: was better play. Yeah, this is different. I mean, JP,
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  Speaker 1: this is like when I was at Virginia and we
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  Speaker 1: used to go play at Duke Okay, I mean and
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  Speaker 1: literally you were just like, is there a game today?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't it didn't feel like a game.
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  Speaker 1: And I think in Houston this weekend, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of that atmosphere. And so from a
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  Speaker 1: motivation standpoint, you better, you better pull from within because
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: if you're expecting a lot of times, look as a player,
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  Speaker 1: you come out there and your performers to some extent,
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  Speaker 1: and so you get excited when there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: eyeballs on you, and when you get into that environment
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  Speaker 1: where there's not a lot of people, and it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of an odd atmosphere because again, the Texans fans, I think,
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be hoping that that they lose so they
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  Speaker 1: keep the number one overall pick. It's just gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a weird situation. But the Texans are kind of used
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  Speaker 1: to that. This team is not. But the Texans have
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  Speaker 1: been playing I think in a in a different atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: all year long. So it's just something to be aware of.
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  Speaker 1: And I give the Texans credit. You know, I've been
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  Speaker 1: watching the film this week, and the Texans have been
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  Speaker 1: playing hard. Yeah, they're not playing great, but they're playing hard.
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  Speaker 1: Close losses to two good teams Dallas Kansas City, and
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  Speaker 1: then of course they beat Tennessee last week. So they're
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  Speaker 1: playing for Lovey Smith. They're they're playing hard. I got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of injuries and key spots starting running back
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  Speaker 1: is out, one of the Nico Collins has gone, Stingley
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  Speaker 1: is gone the corner, so they're they're beat up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, but they won last week. I did.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have any of those guys last week. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like they got beat up last week and they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna have them this week. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: credit they haven't had Damian Piers for a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't had Nico Collins for a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't had Stingley for a couple of weeks. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is not new ground for
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  Speaker 1: the Texans, and what they have playing right now has
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  Speaker 1: been playing pretty hard. And Lovey Smith is trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep a job for next year and how does he
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: do that by winning? And maybe Nick Cassario, the general manager,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like that very much. I mean, doesn't he want
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  Speaker 1: to have the opportunity to draft the franchise quarterback If
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  Speaker 1: they lose one game and the Bears lose, then don't
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  Speaker 1: the Bears then have the first overall pick of the draft. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't worried about draft order in a while, which
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  Speaker 1: is a good feeling. The Texans fans are worried about.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's their issue about that. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: give you an idea what the environment might be in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be kind of odd. Let's come back and
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: we'll get a little deeper into the Texas loving this
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  Speaker 1: playoff atmosphere environment which we're gonna have in a week
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  Speaker 1: and a half now that it's gonna be fun. But
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  Speaker 1: you want to make sure that you go into that
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  Speaker 1: game with momentum. And I'm a big believer in this.
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  Speaker 1: If you win this week, I think it creates momentum
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  Speaker 1: for that last game. Let's dig into that when we
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  Speaker 1: come back. But you want to stay healthy. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot going into that. Well, we'll come into that.
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  Speaker 1: We've got the injury report coming up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no reaction from us. That's kind of what
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  Speaker 1: we expected, you know, we know at this point in
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: the season, that's what we expected. That's what we want, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and you gotta finish strong, and that's the that's the message.
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  Speaker 1: And these are two division games that we have left.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that doesn't always work out that way. We
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  Speaker 1: have to finish with two division games. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity for us, you know, obviously not we lost this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like like I said a month or two
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  Speaker 1: or two months ago, whenever it was, UM still getting
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: a chance to play them again at their stadium. I
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: haven't haven't beat this team in a while, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll never beat the Texans in the last two years,
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  Speaker 1: you know, three games. So for me, it's a game
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  Speaker 1: I definitely want to win, and our whole team feels
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  Speaker 1: that way, and it's it's another opportunity just to just
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: to show who we are. That's a quarterback, of course.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Yesterday, Welcome Back, It's Jaguars Happy Hour and
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  Speaker 1: with Jeff Logaman, The Jaguars and the Texans coming up
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: this week, the Jaguars and the Titans at the Bank
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  Speaker 1: coming up in Week eighteen. There are some tickets remaining there.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: They won't be remaining for long if they're out there
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: for that Week eight team finale. We'll find out the
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: official time for that coming up after this week's game.
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  Speaker 1: When will that happen? I believe it's like that Monday Night,
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  Speaker 1: either at the end of that game or year the
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  Speaker 1: end of that game, if it's decided, kind of like
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  Speaker 1: they'll probably have it. Who plays Monday Who plays Monday Night?
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  Speaker 1: Because I mean, I think that game has some significant things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that game has some significance in the a f C,
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  Speaker 1: so that I think that that game will have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to do with what happens with the Jaguars next weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just hopeful that it's not Saturday because the Titans
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  Speaker 1: are playing tonight. Yeah, they're obviously gonna be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more rested than they would normally be with having
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a Thursday night game, But you don't want to have
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars on a short week with the Titans on
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: an extended week. By the way, just minutes ago, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: the Titans placed three players on injured reserve, including quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill and then bud Dupree outside linebacker and linebackers
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  Speaker 1: at Cunningham all on I R, what did bud dupre
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  Speaker 1: do because he played in this past game against Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Let's check. I mean, it's kind of curious there literally
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  Speaker 1: just came out the uh does not say on the
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  Speaker 1: official that's a big loss for them, now, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's an outside edge rusher, you know, good football player.
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  Speaker 1: Um Denico Autry I think is their most dominant outside
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  Speaker 1: edge player. But bud Dupree, who they signed in free
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  Speaker 1: agency off of the Pittsburgh Steelers, has always been kind
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: of be the the guy that they expected to be
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: that guy. But yeah, that's a loss for them. Um,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I'm are they gonna play the rookie against the Jaguars
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: in that last game the quarterback, I mean, he's been struggling.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Could Josh Dobbs end up earning the job after eight
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: days with the Titans in a Thursday night game. Could
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: he end up maybe clenching the job and be the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: one that's coming in here to quarterback the Titans in
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: that last game against the Jacks. I mean, that's gonna
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: be interesting to see Budd dufree chest injury. By the way,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I hope he's okay. Yeah, I'm actually in the midst
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: of watching the film of that game and watching Houston's
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: offense against Bud Dupree. And that was a physical game,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I mean a really physical game. And Derrick Henry's he's good.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: He's good, but he's just got no help. Yeah, he's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the only one got no help on offense. You know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the tackles for Tennessee not very good and the quarterback
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: play is not very good. So but anyway, Texans is
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: up this week, not Houston Texans, and you know, considering
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the way their season has gone, they've tried to mix
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: in some two quarterback looks. Now Davis Mills Jeff Driscoll
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: gets some time. Jeff Driscoll, who was active on the
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: active roster earlier in the year, then he moved him
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to practice squad, and then he's been playing the last
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: couple of games. And at first it was kind of
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a Okay, we got a little package of plays for him.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Now it's kind of evolved into more I don't want
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to say quite fifty fifty, but it's sixty thirty five,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: sixty five for Mills, thirty five for Driscoll. And Driscoll
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is running a lot of that read option stuff. So
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: what we saw last week from Tim Tebow or Straveler
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: of the New York Jets tebow Light, we'll see kind
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: of some more of those same things this week with Driscoll.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And they do play the two quarterbacks on the field
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: at the same time, so that is something that might
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: called well in the defensive staff. They're gonna have to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: be ready for. And I don't want to say that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you completely switched gears, but I think you have to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: be aware of the different style of offense that will
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: be played when Driscoll is under center versus Davis Mills.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Davis Mills again the more traditional drop back quarterback, even
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: though he does have some mobility, and then Driscoll runs
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the the read options, the read option passes, and uh
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: is definitely a guy that's got some wheels. Now he's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: got some speed. We mentioned that they've lost Dabian Pierce
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: running back, who I was like over nine hundred yards.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Everybody else running the ball for them has under a
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: hundred for the season, So I mean he's a huge
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: loss for them. Rex burkeheads on the team. Still, he's
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a threat in the passing game more than anything. Beyond that,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: they don't have a lot in the run game. And
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: then wide receiver Brandon Cooks is kind of their speed
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: guy and he's still a good player. Yeah, I'm still
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a good player. The backfield, I was I was interested
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to see who would they hand the ball off to.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Who would they throw the ball too, because of you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the injuries that you're talking about with Namian Pierce and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Nico Collins, and look, they're throwing the ball to Chris
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Moore quite a bit. Brandon Cooks is still the the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a number one guy, and he's not a big guy.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: He's a five ft ten guy, and he had a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: couple of really big catches against Tennessee. And Chris Moore
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is kind to become that second guy for them, and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: he's a veteran guy, he's been around the block a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: little bit. And then the next guy up has kind
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of been Philip Dorsett, which we know him. He's been
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, was overpaid free asient acquisition here in Jacksonville.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: And then Amari Rodgers had a big catch in that
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: ball game against Tennessee as well. But the interesting thing
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: is gonna be, Okay, who's gonna take the load from
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Damian Pierce because with the quarterbacks that you have, the
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: running game is very important, obviously with the threed option
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: stuff with Driscoll and then the play action stuff that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: they like to have with Davis Mills and Royce Freeman
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and a guy we know Daria Gumbo Wally has been
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: getting some carries there in Houston. And then burke Head,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Rex burke Head, the veteran who recovered to Davis Mills
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: fumble against Tennessee and the end zone has kind of
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: been that veteran third down kind of receiving back. But yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: it's a it's it's a little bit different Texans team
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: than the first time the Jaguars faced him. I mean,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the Jags defense matching up against this though. I mean,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: we we've talked about a lot of the season, they've
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: had some issues with the man stuff, so they switched
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: some of that. But the I mean, the way this
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: defense is built right now, and just hearing those guys
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: talking the locker room, I mean, they should be up
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to this task this week, I hope. So the reality
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: is that the Jaguars defense has been very opportunistic. I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: don't want to say that they have that there are
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a good defense, because they're not yet. I mean, they've
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: got a long ways to go to being a really
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: good defense. But in the last couple of games, the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: takeaways have definitely helped making big plays at key moments.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Last week, like last week of Luke and I thought
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: played a fantastic game with tackles. A couple of past
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: defense called are actually two cause fumbles that he had
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: in that ball game, And so defensively, they're getting key
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: plays at key moments. Devin Lloyd I thought played better
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that that was helpful in games that he has struggled
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: kind of in a little bit of a stretch there
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: it pretty well. It's nice to see him get the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: interception before the half, and uh, they got some pressure
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: at key moments. I thought Cisco had a big play
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: early in that game. It was we talked about opportunistic moments.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: That was an opportunistic moment or the Jaguars fumbled the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: ball on a sack by Quentin Williams and ball pops
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: out jet recover. It was like the plus sixteen something
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: like that, and you hold him to a field goal
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: on third down, you end up bringing Cisco on a blitch, which,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: by the way, we drew up in the film room
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: with Mike called well this week and so look for
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: different Jaguars on YouTube and then uh Jaguars Weekend and
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: different places to find that film. But as a big
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: play by Cisco before you had big moments, and that's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: what you gotta do. But the reality is that's not
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a great offense. It was in New York, and this
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: is not a great offense in Houston. So you would
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: like to think that you can do some good things
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: against them, but the one concern that you have is
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: that Houston hangs out, stays close, and then they find
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a way to make a couple of plays, maybe get
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a takeaway. Because that's what happened the first meeting. They
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: were able to keep it close, low scoring a fair
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they got a couple
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of takeaways to give themselves some extra opportunities and it
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: cost the Jaguars of the game. And so I hope
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars offense continues rolling. And what is gonna be
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: very favorable conditions on New Year's Day. It won't be
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: bad weather and wind and rain or anything of that nature.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: In Houston. The dome correct and the roof will be closed.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I would guess climate control maybe not might be open.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: They've been opening that thing up and you see it
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: was like it was opening and then it wouldn't open
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: all the way, so they had to close it again. Yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: they've had some issues at something like a little bit
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, let's come back. Injury report is out,
• 25:01
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  Speaker 1: It's week seventeen. The Jaguars in the Houston Texans coming
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: up in in our G Stadium in Houston this Sunday.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: It's a one o'clock kickoff. Time will go on the
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• 26:31
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• 26:35
  Speaker 1: up in about fifteen minutes or so. Jags tied end.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: We'll get his thoughts on the game coming up and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the matchup against the Houston Texans. Let's take a look
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: now at the injury reports presented by Baptist Health and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Orthopedeaga Institute, the official sports medicine provider of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Well, it's officially out today, and let's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: see the couple players that did not practice in yesterday's work.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Let's get the actual practice at the airport. I had
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: it right here, I got it, I got it, I
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: got it. Okay, So let's start with the Jaguars. Trevor
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Lawrence and Ross Madisick, the long snapper, did not participate yesterday.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Both were limited today, Lawrence with a toe, Ross Madisick
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: with back spasms. As Doug Peterson put it earlier in
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the week. Uh, the other guys were all limited today fully.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Fund Akassi was out there with an ankle issue, Brandon
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Sheriff with an abdomen issue and an ankle issue, Trayvon
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Walker with his ankle issue, and Andrew Wingered with the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: shoulder issue. All those guys limited for the Jaguars today.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: So yeah, the the Houston Texans looking at their report.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: A couple of things to watch her. You know. In
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the game against Tennessee, they lost Titus Howard, who was
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a guard to a concussion. He was full go today
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and then was kind of odd in that game. So
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: once he got hurt, they put another guy in, Jimmy Morrisey,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: another offensive lineman, and then he sustained a concussion. In
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: that game. They ended up having to go to a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: third team offensive guard, really fourth team offensive guard, because
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Kenyan Green was the starter that didn't one active for
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that game. Anyway, they go to Justin mccrai to play
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: that that guard spot. So I think that's gonna be
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: something to watch, just because that's a lot of offensive
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: lineman at one position that we're down in that game
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: with concussions. So we'll see what happened with that. It's already,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: as we said, beat up Texans team, handful of key
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: players are uninjured reserve already this year. The Jaguars still
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: have the fewest players used in games this year in
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the NFL, only sixty players used in games that they've
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: been been very healthy, you know, yeah, very lucky, you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: knocking on wood there. I mean, it's unfortunate that you
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: lost a couple of key guys in the last couple
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of weeks with Smoot and Cam Robinson. And I hate it,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you know, because those guys are good football players. Their
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: their lead years. You love the effort that Smooth plays
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: with each and every week, and love Cam Robinson has
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: taken a lot of steps up this year in his performance,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you know. And Smooth I think it was a contractor
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: year for him. You hate it in that situation, you know,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, you know, you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: want to be able to make sure that you have
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: a contract and Uh, and I hope the surgery went well.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I heard that surgery has already happened with both guys,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and you know, I hope everything went great. I hope
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: so too. For sure, those guys key pieces to this team.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: That Jaguars didn't make some roster moves earlier. And Jeremiah
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: led Better assigned to the active roster from the practice squad.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: He was a game day elevation in New York, right.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I think he had a half sack in the game.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: If not mistaken, I think he I think he did.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: He had a half sack. And Uh signed the active
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: roster and uh, you know, he did a pretty good job.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: He was active, he was active. It looked like he belonged.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. He's been at it for
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a while. He was in the league in exactly seen
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: games of the Lions are. Yeah, he's he've been around
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: like three years. And so they still have one roster
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: spot open. And will they fill that? I mean, I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean maybe they will, maybe they won't.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: But and I'm sure that you know. And here here's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the thing with roster spots now in the league. It's
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: less of urgency to fill them sometimes because you have
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the practice squad and you can elevate guys off of
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the practice squad. And some teams like to keep roster
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: spots open for this time of year because what you
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: see typically at the end of the season is that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: teams start to pill for other teams practice squad. It's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: in other words, let's say you know a team that's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: out of the running. Let's say the Falcons, for example, Okay,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: they're out of it, okay, and they're trying to stockpile
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: some young prospects for the future. So they have either
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: released maybe some veteran guys or they play some guys
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: on injured reserve that were borderline, you know, guys that
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: probably can play in a week or so, but they're like,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you know, let's put them on i R. That will
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: give us the ability to steal somebody else's practice squad guy.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And so a lot of teams like to keep a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: roster spot open because you know, let's say somebody comes
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: after when you know, the Jaguars practice squad guys, you know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: could you know, keep that roster spot open for May
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe we gotta sign this guy if we want to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: keep him in the future, you know, to these two guys,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: or maybe somebody becomes available for for a football team
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: that's got some injuries that's maybe getting ready to get
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and they add a guy at the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: last minute that can help them, you know, So there's
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: flexibility by keeping a roster spot open. The Jaguars also
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: his son Garrett Sanborn to the practice squad long snapper
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: who's played a hundred sixty three games in the NFL.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: So it's just it tells me something. Now. That tells
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: me something too that you know, maybe Matisick is a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: question mark this week because you know, you don't typically
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: go out and sign an all old or long snapper.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: If you're long snappers, just fine and dandy, right Well,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, but even if there is a hiccup later
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: in the week, you gotta have somebody that's done it before.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That is a specialized say he's done it yeah a time,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: or two hundred sixty three times. That would be about
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: ten years on I would say, so, yeah, so they
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: have at the injury report is in the Jaguars in
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans coming up. But we'll take your time out.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: We'll come back in a moment and Chris man Hurts
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: will join us on set. We'll get his thoughts on
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the Texans matchup this week and everything going on around
• 32:32
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• 32:34
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  Speaker 1: Hurts Jaguars tied end back with us. Good afternoon. How
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: are you? I'm doing great? How are you? We're good man.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: It's um It's a good place to be, first place
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: in the FC South. Still business to attend to. We
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: all know what's gonna happen in week eighteen, but from
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a Jaguar perspective in that locker room. We're hearing all
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the things from the head coach this week, and guys
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: in the locker room that, yeah, you gotta you know,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: some things to get right with the Texans this week
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: after what happened in Week five. So you gotta look
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: at this week like, hey, let's go get this one right. Yeah,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I think we owe these guys one especially um, you
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: know obviously after you know, we played them, I think
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it was Week five or in the earlier course of
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the season. But it's an exciting time. At the same time,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it's another opportunity, another week to go out there and
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: put you know, a good brand of football out there
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: for for for the Jags. All right, So let's go
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: back a little bit. By the way, Merry Christmas, Happy
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: New Year. Likewise, Yeah, it was nice to having a
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: weekend off. We're just talking about that. The NFL schedule
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: makers were kind to us. I felt like a mini
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: bye week. So how many Christmas gift tickets did you
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: have to buy in New York? You know, I had
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: quite a few. I had the usual, you know, immediate family,
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  Speaker 1: and then I had about forty students from my high school,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: uh show up. So it was it was it was
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: pretty It was pretty cool. Did you say forty two?
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It was forty About forty students from Cardinal Spellman High
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: School came out for support. They were on the sidelines
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: pre games. So, uh, it was definitely cool. That's cool.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Now forty some odd students. You paid the freight a
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: little bit half and half, But it was just a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: collaboration between a fundraiser and what I was doing with
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the school. So it all worked out and everybody was
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: happy about it. How many students are right Cardinal Spellman
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in the Bronx right about to my knowledge, I think
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: two thousand. Okay, all right, that's pretty neat. Yeah, that's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: very cool. That's very cool. How many family members? So
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you got forty two for the for the school? This
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: one was pretty low key. It was probably about maybe
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: eight family members and family parents, brothers, New York prices,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: you know, a little different. Santa Chris showed up. Alright,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: So let's rewind a little bit now to this Dallas game.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: It was a wild when we don't we haven't really
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: talked to you until, you know, since it's been a
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: little because last Thursday, where was the game and there
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: was there was a play that happened, and we got
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to go back to the Dallas game, and it was
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: a play that I remember very well because we actually
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I drew it up in the in the film room.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And because it was Christmas week, didn't have a coach
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that that had the time to do it because they're
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: busy with a short week. And there were a couple
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: components of why the double move touchdown is a Jones
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: happens when you have a play like that. First of all,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you got to have the time, and then you also
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: have to have the play fake and the defensive back
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to get him isolated and have him bite you come in.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And the factor of time because it's kind of a
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: naked bootleg by Trevor and do do we have the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: play We've got to play. Let's see if we can
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: see it. If you're watching on Jaguars dot Com or
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Jaguars Social media, the video of the double move to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Za Jones, there's Chris right there, Dante Fowler. The play
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: action is what you're hoping. It kind of gets him
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to pull down the line of scrimmage. But he didn't
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: really do that to you, did he know he did it?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: And that's one of the tougher blocks player like Dante
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: follow He's been around for a while, so he sniffed
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: out things real quick. Um and as you could see,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: you know, I had him for a bit. He hit
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: me with a nasty spin move, but uh, thankfully I
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: had the ability to recover and Trevor was able to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: connect with Day and see, those are the things that
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I think. Sometimes people follow the ball and I'm not
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not trying to criticize anybody because I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: mean it's natural for your eyes to follow the ball.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: All they see is Trevor. What a great throw. Look
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: at Za's wide open touchdown. Trevor is great, z is great.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Chris man Ert, He's okay, you know. But I mean
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that's a play that Look, if you don't make that block,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: that play doesn't happen. I mean that was I mean,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: that was a thing of beauty and a great block.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you're trying to block a defender like that,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that's athletic as Dante Feller is because we've seen him,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: he's been here before. He's as athletic as anybody, especially
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: in open space. Because you're locking him in an open space.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: That was a great job. I appreciate that, and those
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: are one of those blocks where you're pretty much left
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: on an island and you kind of have to be
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: in sync with the quarterback and him reading your block
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and getting in the right place to slide and ensuring
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: that he completes the pass. So overall, it was a
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: great play and probably one of my favorite players of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the year as well. That's one of the you'd like
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to have that play where the defender just goes running
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: down the line of scrimmage and you go, you sucker
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: when you just pat him on the butt as he
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: goes by. But Dante was he was on it now.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: He did a pretty good job. Definitely was look good
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to see Chris Mann hurts with us. Let's move forward
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: now to this Houston Texans team and just in general,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: when you turn on the film the last month or so,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: these guys are in games, they're fighting, They've got some injuries,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: there's some key pieces out, but I mean they're in
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: all these games, are right there in the fourth quarter,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and that tells you a lot I think about the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: heart of this football team and Houston. Oh yeah, this
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: is a team that we definitely obviously can't overlook. Um
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: they've been playing some really good football as of late,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: and uh, we gotta we got our work cut out
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: for us as well this week. But uh, you know,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: just trusting our process, trusting our preparation, the same type
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: of preparation we've been doing the past couple of weeks.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: We're confident that we could get the job done. The
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: defense of the Texans is not one that's overly complicated.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a Levey Smith defense. For most teams,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: you see a lot of Cover two out of that.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Last week they face the Titans and it's Derrick Henry esque,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: so they were bringing a lot of single high safeties.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: We're bringing a safety down in the box. What do
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: you guys expect to see from the Texans defense? He's
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: expect to see kind of like what you got the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: last time, which was a lot of cover to show. Yeah,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: just based on tendencies, they play a lot of Cover two,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: they will play single high as well. Um, so we
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: just kind of have to be prepared and ready for
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: our cues and and um tendencies of what the defense
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: has given us. But look, um, their D line up
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: front is pretty good as well. Um that you you
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: have Jerry Hughes number fifty five, veteran pass rusher. Um,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: he's been around for a while, he knows how to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: set up his rushes. Savvy, um, athletic um. I think
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: this is maybe his twelve or thirteenth year in the league. Yeah. Yeah,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: he's sixties six career sacks. He's was kind of a
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: late bloomer, first round pick of Indy, didn't do much there.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: It goes to Buffalo and all of a sudden, whoa
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: guys A good football player. His resume speaks for herself.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: What does he do the best? What's this? What does
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: he do very well when he's on? What makes him
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: so good? I think overall he does everything well. He's
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: he's pretty he says, to edge pretty well in the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: run game, pass rushing moves. Like I said, he's pretty savvy.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: He's been around for a while, he knows how to
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: set up his russells, keep the offensive tackles off balance.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Just an overall good football player. So we definitely have
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: our work cut out for us. When you say that
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: he's been around. This game on Sunday will be his
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: two hundred career game. Wow, that's a lot of football.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Game is a lot Yeah, it's a lot of football games.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: And uh, and I know that Lovey Smith after this
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: pass game, singing mount because of how well he's played,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: you know, how he's been a leader. And I know
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: that there's a guy on the other side that's a
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: young player that's playing pretty well. Want to make sure
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I say this name right, but it's ogbo oh karn quo. Uh.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Forty five for people that will be watching on film,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: kind of a a young version of a Jerry Hughes.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: You know, guys really active and uh, he had two
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: sacks this pass game. And when I watched the film,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I noticed Jerry Hughes because he's been around forever. But
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: then my eyes also went to forty five because he
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: made me take my eyes to him, because he's been
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: making place of two guys that you guys will have
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: your hands full with. Yeah, forty five is another one.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: A good player, um, high motor. Like I said, all
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the traits that you would want in a defensive end
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: pass rushes. So we we gotta work cut out for us,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: but we're excited for the challenge, all right. So we
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: go now from one of the oldest I'm sure he's
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the oldest Don on that roster and thirteenth year veteran
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: and hughes to a rookie safety and a guy who's
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: they can plays in the back end for them in
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Jalen Petrie, Brookie out of Baylor. What stands out about
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: his game on He's got a hundred twenty six tackles
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: this year. It's safety spot. I mean a hundred twenty
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: six tackles at safety at this point in the year. Obviously,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: it speaks for itself. High motor player, um, barer, athletic um.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: And he's not afraid to get in there, get into mix,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: especially playing down in the box at times. So another
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: guy that we have to prepare for, be on the
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: lookout for and and have a plan for. Yeah, a
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: real active guy. And those hundred twenty six tackles leaves
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the NFL amongst all rookies, which is impressive. And I
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: think the four interceptions as pretty if not the rookie lead.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And and you're right, he's impressive. He does play down
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: in the box, he does play well in space, and
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: there's not many rookies that jump out at the safety
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: position first year having four interception, hundred twenty six tackles,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I mean that's that's an impressive number, and it's kind
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: of a sign of this Texans team, you know. They
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: they have the second most number of games played by
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: rookies in the National Football League, a young team, and
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the one characteristic or trait that I see in them
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: is that they play hard. And that's that's a really
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: strong trait. And you guys are definitely gonna get a
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: team that plays hard yea. And I think that's reflective
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: of from up top the coaching. You could tell, uh
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: why preparing for a team, how we see them play
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: on film, their pursuits to the ball, their hustle, their energy,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: what type of team we're going again, So we definitely
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: know that going into it kind of challenges it when
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: you when you see again like Petrie, they bring an
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: extra guy in all of a sudden, you you're counting
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: things are different, right, I mean, what is as a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: offensive line and then a tight end right off a tackle?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: What are you looking for in that instance? Just you
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: know typical stuff. Blitz is pressures. Um. You know, the
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: mic point might change on any given play or run,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: but a lot of that just comes from you know,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: film study and preparation throughout the week. And making sure
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: we're geared towards handling that come game day. Have you
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: guys talked about or are you prepared for the environment?
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: You know, because Sunday is gonna be New Year's Day.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: You've got a football team that's to twelve and one
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and a lot of fans, you know, kind of watching
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: from a curiosity standpoint, not so much wins or losses,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: but what's gonna happen with the draft and in the
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: spring and all that kind of stuff. So it's not
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: exactly gonna be a playoff environment what you guys got
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of in the last couple of games. You're
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: prepared for this different environment, oh for sure. And I
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: think that's a credit to I guess the adversity that
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: we faced throughout the course of this whole year. You know,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Dallas game hostile environment as well. Um, and every game
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: obviously for the past couple of weeks, the stakes are high.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: You know, it's almost like a playoff mentality for every game.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: So that's something that we're prepared for and um we're
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: fully equipped for. Yeah. Alright, So moving ahead here obviously
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: in Houston this week Tennessee here in Week eight, team,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: but coming off this Christmas holiday, how's the focus been? Like,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: everybody's back, everybody's rolling, ready to go. Monday, we'll walk
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: through and it's business as usual. Business as usual. Um.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Doug does an exceptional job again keeping things in perspective, UM,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: letting us know where we are and and and what
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: we need to get to in order to obviously fulfill
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: our goals as a team. So, uh, focus has been excellent.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: We had a great week of practice today. Uh, great
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: day of practice today, great day of practice yesterday. And uh,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: guys are on the same page alright, so I have
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: a little fun here. So what did you get anything
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: good for Christmas? You know, this Christmas was a little
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: bit different. I have a seventeen month old. Um, he
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: just started walking probably two days before Christmas. That was
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the best gift ever. It's a great gift, but it's
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: also can be a curse. Now we need to put
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: a gate somewhere in the house. But at this point,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just fun. Yeah, that's awesome. Uh. New
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Year's Eve on Saturday night, So you gotta got a
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: new New Year's resolution. I'm not a big resolution and guy,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just a big process guy. My goal
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: is always, you know, to have a better year than
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the previous um in any way, shape or form. So
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: it's pretty simple for me. Yeah, that's good. Well, don't
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: be on there's no party in Saturday night the type.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Nothing like it. Nothing like getting bed check, okay on
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: New Year's even a hotel room in some other city
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: we have to bed check. The radio crew might need
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: to bed check you. I'm right here, I'll be in
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: this chair. I'm not going to Houston. Yeah, So it's it.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: It is considering what happened earlier in the season. Now
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: to turn it like you guys have, and then to
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: have Tennessee do what they do that's their own issue,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to to actually get back to the top of this division.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: It fulfills everything that Doug has been talking about, right
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the process and sticking with it and all the goals
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: are still out there. And to actually see that come
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: true now, that just strengthens the message, right, it definitely does.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: But most no mistake about it, We're not there yet.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: We still have unfinished business to take care of. And
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: that's the mentality that permanates were out in the whole
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: locker room. We know that, um, you know, we're just
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: taking it one week at a time and controlling the
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: things that we can control. Ultimately in your career, how
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: many times have you been in the playoff hunt so far? Uh?
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: This will be my second time. Second time. When the
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: last time was when might have been twenty seventeen with
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the Panthers. Okay, it's been a while, it's been a while. Yeah,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: it's fun, and it is fun. Winning is fun, you know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and it's very rewarding knowing the work that you put
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: in and seeing what comes of it. It's it's very rewarding.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Having an opportunity to play in the tournament makes everything fun.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: What makes you coming to work fun? I've always said this.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: You know, they pay you for the regular season, but
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: in the postseason play for free. I mean, you play
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: for the glory and for the victories and that's it.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: But man, the regular season get paid for Okay, but
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: coming up, if you can get in, oh yeah, you
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: see what happens after you get in. That's right, you
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: know you're playing. I don't want to just use a
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: gambling analogy because I'm not a gambler, but I've used
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: this analogy and that pat's kind of playing with house money.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: It's like you're gambling and having fun with somebody else's money.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: It's just fun. I remember back in when when we
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: were in a very similar situation. We strung some games together.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: When we got down to the last couple of games
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: of the season, we needed to win to get in,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: and it was. It was an amazing ride. And then
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: once we got into the playoff, the amazing ride went
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: notches higher that never you could have even have imagined.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I wish I could go back in the end again.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: You're gonna ride with these guys. Gotta get gotta get
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: some business done though. First, Chris is great to see you.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the time as always, Man appreciate as Chris
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Man hurts joining US Jaguars tight end here on Jaguars
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Happy Hour. The Jaguars headed to Houston this Sunday in
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Week seventeen to face off against the Houston Texans and
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: then of worse Week eighteen winner take all battle for
• 49:02
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• 49:04
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• 49:07
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• 49:12
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• 49:15
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• 49:19
  Speaker 1: first place after December fifteen must put them on sale.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: That's why they've gone on sale this week. And of course,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: if the Jaguars win the division, they will have a
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: home playoff game at T I A. Bank Field in
• 49:31
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• 49:34
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• 49:37
  Speaker 1: We'll hear from the Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson coming
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: up in just a moment on the Doug Peterson Show
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: and get his thoughts about the week, the run right
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: now coming off Christmas and then moving on to the
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Houston Texans and the approach this week of starters playing
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: against Houston. We'll hear from the head coach in just
• 49:55
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• 50:00
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• 50:03
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• 50:06
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