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Jaguars Reporters: September 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Is the run defense as good as it appears in
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  Speaker 1: pre season? Now? What's the regular season? Is it for real?
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  Speaker 1: Is it actually as improved as it looks to be?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Jaguars Reporters, presented by t I A A
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  Speaker 1: Bank with Brian Sexton, John Osher, Ashlyn Sullivan, and J. P.
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  Speaker 1: Shad Presended by t I A A Bank starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Jaguars Reporters. Today is Tuesday, September seven, and
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  Speaker 1: Week one is here. J P. Shadrick Ashland Sullivan, John Osier,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Sexton planted to get to today including the biggest
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  Speaker 1: question mark for this team going into week one. We'll
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  Speaker 1: all answer that question coming up in just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: First off, Ashlands, finally game week after a long off season,
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  Speaker 1: training camp, preseason, it's all in the rear view now
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  Speaker 1: finally it's real. And we joke every week is a
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  Speaker 1: must win. But I don't know about you guys, but
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  Speaker 1: it feels like like we said the Dallas how Boys
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  Speaker 1: third preseason game was a must win. We never call
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  Speaker 1: preseason games must wins. This just seems like you need
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  Speaker 1: that win, you need that confidence to believe in the
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  Speaker 1: team message. I know we don't say must wins, but
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  Speaker 1: this week sure feels like one. Well, and then if
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  Speaker 1: they lose, you know a week two is must and
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  Speaker 1: then week three must win. I mean, I get the point.
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  Speaker 1: I also look back on the Jaguars beat the colt
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  Speaker 1: in a Week one last year, so exactly, everything is immediate,
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  Speaker 1: everything is urgent. It would be big and they have to.
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  Speaker 1: I think they need to get a couple of wins
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  Speaker 1: in that first four. I don't think this is a
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  Speaker 1: playoff team. I think to achieve what they want to achieve,
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  Speaker 1: I think you need to win a few of the
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  Speaker 1: next four. I just can't go must win. I just
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  Speaker 1: can't do it. No, No, you look, you can look
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  Speaker 1: at the schedule and see where you have. You have
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  Speaker 1: a Houston team, Broncos team who has a very good defense,
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  Speaker 1: but they're unsettled at quarterback, and and I think You're
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  Speaker 1: zone is a really good team. But then you know,
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  Speaker 1: since he's coming back, and I they they've set this
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  Speaker 1: thing up for this team to have a little success
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  Speaker 1: early and then hopefully have some success late because that
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  Speaker 1: seven games stretch, he's gonna be hard. It's a like
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  Speaker 1: to win. But here's another reason why you'd like to win.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost fifteen in a row, and no one's going
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  Speaker 1: to put this on this team unless they lose sixteen
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Right If if you're at sixteen in
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  Speaker 1: a row, then guess what everyone's riding. The Jaguars have
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  Speaker 1: lost sixteen in a row. Until you finally break it.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to carry it. It's not their burden because
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  Speaker 1: it was last year's team, but if they don't win
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  Speaker 1: an opening day, it becomes their burden. Irban Meyer spoke
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  Speaker 1: Monday in a press conference, and you know, if he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't nervous before Ashland's comment there about having the must
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  Speaker 1: win more nervous, he said, right, he said he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: you know, nervous yet, but it would get there. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm guessing just the way he's talked about
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  Speaker 1: his preparation and his detail with the coaching staff that
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  Speaker 1: he goes through every week, I'm guessing the training camp
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  Speaker 1: and offseason urban Meyer, it is a little different than
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  Speaker 1: game week. Urban Meyer, like game week prep and having
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  Speaker 1: those sheets ready. John feels like this coaching staff might
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  Speaker 1: get a real first taste of that coming up. That
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  Speaker 1: he had the tips sheets ready for Dallas. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean he he talked about being nervous.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet for him it's not so much nerves as just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever, the tightest you can pull a piece
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  Speaker 1: of elastic before it breaks. He's probably always like that
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  Speaker 1: and very, very ready and tuned up. I doubt he
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  Speaker 1: gets nervous in the sense that I get nervous every day,
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  Speaker 1: but probably just in a high level of readiness. I
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  Speaker 1: thought I heard the word anxiety in there too, and
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  Speaker 1: and and he did go out of his way to
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  Speaker 1: point out that all coaches get nervous on game day.
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  Speaker 1: I can remember conversation I had with Doug Maron underneath
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  Speaker 1: them uh Metro what is it? What's the state? Actually
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  Speaker 1: scripts exactly we're talking about uh met Life Stadium. I
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  Speaker 1: forgot the name of it, um and and I asked
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  Speaker 1: him genuinely, this was two thousand eighteen. You know, are
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  Speaker 1: you ready? And he said, hell no. In typical Doug,
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  Speaker 1: you're never ready for opening day because you just don't
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  Speaker 1: know new coaches, new players, new staff members. It changes
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  Speaker 1: everything and you just don't know. And coaches, especially coaches
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  Speaker 1: like Urban Meyer, our guys that want to have every
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  Speaker 1: eventuality on their card. They want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: deal with every single issue that comes up. Well, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: It's impossible. And so Doug was relating the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're always going to be anxious until the game is
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  Speaker 1: kicked off because you just don't know what you're dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a lot less nervous now than Uh, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have Trevor Lawrence. It helps. That helps the nuns
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  Speaker 1: so nervous about it. You got Trevor Lawrence is making
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  Speaker 1: his debut this week, and you know, there are still
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  Speaker 1: a lot of changes on offense. There's you know, they
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  Speaker 1: brought on Tyron John's and the very tail in there.
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  Speaker 1: They've added a time and they added a running back
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  Speaker 1: to the practice squad, So actually there is still there
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  Speaker 1: are still some moving parts for this team. And it
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  Speaker 1: kind of feels like that might be the case a
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  Speaker 1: good bit of this season. Guys up and down all year.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of seems like a plug and play. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was interesting, I question what Philip door Sets
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  Speaker 1: role was on his team when he was assigned to
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  Speaker 1: the practice squad. I thought, Okay, maybe they're not as
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  Speaker 1: high on him as they once wore, And then coach
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  Speaker 1: Meyer made it clear yesterday the hamstring is the reason
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  Speaker 1: he's on the practice squad. So I think you'll see
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  Speaker 1: things like that where you'll have those guys being elevated
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  Speaker 1: d j R. Laviscause, No, Marvin Jones. We know that
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  Speaker 1: who that fourth and fifth spot is. I think we'll
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  Speaker 1: find out this week. I'll tell you what door sets
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  Speaker 1: role is. Run really fast a long way, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the thing with him from March is
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  Speaker 1: they he wants speed ORMs. Great quotes yesterday was I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be involved in an offense that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have deep speed. And he said it over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: What's intriguing? And I thought of this when JP asked
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  Speaker 1: the question, there's a chance they start nine guys who
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  Speaker 1: start a week one in two thous on offense. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: five offensive offensive lineman, O'Shaughnessy, James Robinson, the two wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: The only change is really gonna be Trevor Lawrence of significance.
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  Speaker 1: So big change. I mean, it's the change you wanted, Brian, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's that two thousand Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: it since, uh since at least, but that's an amazingly
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  Speaker 1: small amount of turn for a that But to me,
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  Speaker 1: it shows you they believe whether or not outsiders believe
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  Speaker 1: that this offensive line, the continuity can be key to
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. I'll get to that. That's a major question,
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  Speaker 1: but that to me is a huge key. Well that
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  Speaker 1: brings us to the story. Look, we're talking about speed
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  Speaker 1: on the outside and the quarterback. The quarterback, the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to be the caveman here. I am more
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  Speaker 1: interested in their ability to run the ball. I go
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  Speaker 1: back to what he said, you know, back in the
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  Speaker 1: preseason about talking to Joe Burrow and about the value
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  Speaker 1: of having play action, and you've got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to help this kid. Quarterbacks Jaguars quarterbacks the last two
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  Speaker 1: years one in fifteen when they've had to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball thirty five times or more. Right, eventually, I think
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  Speaker 1: you'll be able to throw it fifty times with this kid,
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  Speaker 1: like like a Tom Brady or a Peyton Manning, but
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  Speaker 1: not in his rookie season. You've got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball, which means Chris man Hurt has
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  Speaker 1: to be able to help Linda Norwell and Canny inside
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to create lanes. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to throw the ball. You damn well better be able
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  Speaker 1: to run it, no doubt about that. And the story,
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, not the end of the story. He's got more,
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  Speaker 1: but it is one more, one more quick. You were
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  Speaker 1: talking about about nine nine players from last year's offense.
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  Speaker 1: Starting um, we said last year, we said in the
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  Speaker 1: off season, this was a one in fifteen team, but
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  Speaker 1: the roster had more talent than a one in fifteen
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  Speaker 1: team should, and they validated that with the seasons last year.
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  Speaker 1: They were one in fifteen because of inconsistent quarterback play
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  Speaker 1: because of the offensive line, you know, not because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they didn't have a great pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: Those might have been contributing factors, but the quarterback position
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  Speaker 1: was the reason they were one in fifteen, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that has to be pointed out because this kid's
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  Speaker 1: coming in and it's going to be expected now to
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  Speaker 1: be the difference. This is Jaguars reporters, and come see
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  Speaker 1: two thousand. Let's wrap today with one question for all
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  Speaker 1: of us. Well, it's about a question mark. What is
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  Speaker 1: the biggest question mark remaining for this Jaguars team heading
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  Speaker 1: into Week number one? Ashlands? Is the run defense as
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  Speaker 1: good as it appears in preseason? Is it fixed? Can
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  Speaker 1: we talk about it maybe as a strength? It looks
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  Speaker 1: to be possibly that way from our preseason games, But
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  Speaker 1: now what's the regular season? Is it for real? Is
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  Speaker 1: it actually as improved as it looks to be? I
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  Speaker 1: asked the key beyond quarterback? I think Ashton just hit
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  Speaker 1: on the key to the season. To me, they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: compete the last two years because you couldn't stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: When you can't stop the run, you can't do anything
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  Speaker 1: else defensively. If they're better against the run, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, those games that were being decided by fourteen
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  Speaker 1: points last year shrink to a six point game. Six
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  Speaker 1: point game anybody can win. And so if if they're
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  Speaker 1: indeed better, then they're better as a team. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: totally agree with you. But just as the flip side
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  Speaker 1: of that, who's gonna rush the pastor I mean, Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen will get pressure, but they're gonna slide coverage and
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  Speaker 1: protections towards him. So who's going to be the other guy?
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  Speaker 1: Is Caleb and Jason ready to take the step up?
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  Speaker 1: The hard ward can can to want Smoot continue to grow. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to have more than one guy that can
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  Speaker 1: get home right now, Alan is the only guy that's
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  Speaker 1: proven to be able to create his own pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else has to step up. I'm gonna stay on
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  Speaker 1: defense too, but I'll go on the back end. Just
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  Speaker 1: for argument's sake. What's c J. Henderson's situation? Can he
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  Speaker 1: maintain that throughout the season? Shaq Griffin? He had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money to come in here on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: If for some reason Henderson is not available, then his place,
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  Speaker 1: you know, his value goes way up, has to and
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  Speaker 1: then all everything else is new back there too, the
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  Speaker 1: until entire defense is new. I mean, that's that's a
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  Speaker 1: real big question mark for this team. What will this
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  Speaker 1: thing look like? I don't have any idea. Patients will
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  Speaker 1: be required at times this year, people to remember that
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  Speaker 1: good thing. We're all very good at that. Well. I
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  Speaker 1: alluded to this in the last segment, But I do
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  Speaker 1: think the offensive line is a question mark because there's
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  Speaker 1: so many questions marks outside the team about it, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't really consider that a huge question because I
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  Speaker 1: believe they're pretty good. Uh So, my question is are
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  Speaker 1: the wide receivers as good as we locally think they are?
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  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is Marvin James be
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. I mean he's shown it. He's he's a
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  Speaker 1: nine touchdown thousand ye artist guy. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he's fIF yard guy. DJ Chark showed a flash and nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: We think Levisca Chenalt is pretty good. So we've seen him,
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  Speaker 1: and we all sort of spent the off season saying,
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  Speaker 1: okay're pretty good receiver, but are they really good at receiver?
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  Speaker 1: You know, which they haven't shown yet. They haven't shown.
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  Speaker 1: Some people around here Santenna think they'll be one of
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  Speaker 1: the better groups in the league. They're not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: This is a group that has the potential to be
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  Speaker 1: very good. What will that potential look like by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season. Are there Pro bowlers in this
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  Speaker 1: bunch or they're just good players in this bunch. That's
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  Speaker 1: a big difference in this league right now. Are they elite?
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  Speaker 1: I want to find that out. I think if if
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  Speaker 1: you can run the ball, you don't need superstar wide
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  Speaker 1: receivers all over the field. Right, if it's balanced out,
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  Speaker 1: you can play on offense with average to above average
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers, which I think they can be right now.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is on DJ Chark. Yeah. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: coach pointed out that he didn't a big um and
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  Speaker 1: and he's there's no doubt he's got the athleticism and
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  Speaker 1: the speed. He's he's just not an attack mentality. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be the alpha guy that that
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  Speaker 1: you want from that big one. UM, it's on him
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  Speaker 1: if he decides to play that way. And I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a contract year. If it were me, every ball
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  Speaker 1: that came near me would be mine because here's another million,
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  Speaker 1: here's another million, collect that the ball, collect the money. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that would be the way I approach it. If he
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  Speaker 1: has a huge year, then this is an excellent wide
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  Speaker 1: receiving groups. I think he defines this group because I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna disagree with you. I thought there were flashes in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen where he would catch the ball coming across the middle,
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  Speaker 1: where he would make make big plays downfield, where he
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was flashing that number one thing, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't there enough. And then it wasn't there last year.
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  Speaker 1: So is that What he is are the moments that
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  Speaker 1: you saw where he was making huge plays? What he is?
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  Speaker 1: If he's that, if he's taken that step, then everything
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  Speaker 1: else in the wide receiver corps comes along with him.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, Lavisca is a really good
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  Speaker 1: slotter number two. Then all of a sudden, Marvin Jones.
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  Speaker 1: If you get nine touchdowns and here in yards out
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  Speaker 1: of your third guy, boy, you're great. So I think
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  Speaker 1: he's the key, and I think he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: most intriguing storylines on the team. I didn't say he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. What I'm saying is consistency. Every Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: the great ones go out and do it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we haven't seen. Yeah, and frankly that the excuses
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  Speaker 1: and that's not the correct word for it. But we
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  Speaker 1: always last year when we talked about d J. Chark
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  Speaker 1: and even really the year before that, we said, well,
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  Speaker 1: look at the inconsistent quarterback play, look at Jake Luten,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Glenn and Gardner Minshoe. Now you're gonna have Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence hopefully every single week. And he said it last week,
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  Speaker 1: he said, now having Lawrence. He throws the ball, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be on me to go get it. Yep. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: it's awesome when the balls right there. Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: coming up, the Jaguars and the Texans at the NRG
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  Speaker 1: Stadium when at one o'clock Eastern time kick off this Sunday.
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