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Press Pass | Mac Jones Recaps His Performance in Victory over Titans in Week 17 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: A game where you've had three quarterback sneaks for a
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  Speaker 1: first down in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I did it. Maybe I did it
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  Speaker 2: once back in the day, but uh, I definitely love
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback sneak and the Mitch is a great IQ
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  Speaker 2: for it. He really understands the play and it's a
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  Speaker 2: great play. It's a high percentage play and when the
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  Speaker 2: conditions are like that, it's a good play.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel more so than any of your other
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  Speaker 1: previous starts this year, that you were I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: at a little bit better rhythm because it just it
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like you, I don't know, it looked like
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  Speaker 1: you were more comfortable out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not really. I mean I've played the same way
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  Speaker 2: each week, and sometimes it's the NFL that the chips
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  Speaker 2: fall a different way, the results fall a different way,
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  Speaker 2: but I stick to the same process and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do that again this week so we can get another win.
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  Speaker 3: Mac. It looks like the two touchdown passes and one
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  Speaker 3: of them you came off of Brian and the one
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  Speaker 3: of them you checked too, Brian, is that act here?
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  Speaker 3: Can you describe what happened in both those plays?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I have to watch it. But the one,
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  Speaker 2: the first one, the Parker was there's three guys going
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  Speaker 2: that way and there was a little bit of dropper seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: so he kind of like gotten my vision a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I probably could have thrown it at the Brian, but
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  Speaker 2: then I just came back to my second read and
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  Speaker 2: then he made a great catch. On the next one,
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  Speaker 2: they brought blitz blitz coverage and it was man to man,
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  Speaker 2: so I just threw it to the back. He made
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  Speaker 2: a good catch in the line, did a good job blocking.
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  Speaker 3: And I noticed at the end of the game, you
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  Speaker 3: hong onund of that football any special reason where someplace that's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to No. I just like to keep it so
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  Speaker 2: we don't give it to the ref so they don't
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  Speaker 2: take it home.
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  Speaker 4: To close out the home slate of games with a win,
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  Speaker 4: especially as a you know, longtime Jaguars, what does that
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  Speaker 4: feel like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels great. I mean it's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: rivalry game, as we know the Titans, so it was
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  Speaker 2: good to get that win and try and do it
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  Speaker 2: again next week against another rivalry opponent. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: good opportunity. I thought the guys played well. Defense, did
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  Speaker 2: a great job at the end. Offense line did a
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  Speaker 2: good job, and then playing those conditions was tough too.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can't overlook that for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: young guys. I thought BT did a great job in
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  Speaker 2: the rain, and the ball carriers did a good job
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  Speaker 2: holding onto the ball.
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  Speaker 4: With one more week of this season, do you think
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  Speaker 4: this season coming here was a refresh or restart for
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  Speaker 4: your career?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, it's been fun. I've really enjoyed it and
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to finishing this strong with another win.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mac, you kind of just answered it to an extent,
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  Speaker 5: but overall, just what a Doug and his staff kind
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  Speaker 5: of meant for you this year. I know obviously the
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  Speaker 5: year hasn't gone how you guys have wanted, but just
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  Speaker 5: his leadership, his coaching, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been awesome. I mean I've definitely found a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more joy in football, and that's a big
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  Speaker 2: credit to the coaches. And they just keep it loose
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  Speaker 2: no matter what, regardless of the results, just going each
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  Speaker 2: week and have fun at practice, which is important for me,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously you want to translate that into wins and
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  Speaker 2: that will come. So I've been really impressed with their
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  Speaker 2: not only their football IQ and knowledge, but just how
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  Speaker 2: they run the team. And all the coaches really on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive side have done a great job. Mack here
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  Speaker 2: in the back. Two things. One, did you keep the
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  Speaker 2: ball after that final kneel down? Already asked? Okay. Two,
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  Speaker 2: I saw you go over to the hundred year old
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  Speaker 2: fan there in it stands.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me about that interaction.
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  Speaker 2: That was insane. I don't know. I was just leaving
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  Speaker 2: the field and I think a man had told me, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: look at that sign, and it was like a hundred
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  Speaker 2: years is crazy. But yeah, I shook the lady's hand
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  Speaker 2: and I'm glad we won on our birthday or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So it was cool. But we'll see if I make
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  Speaker 2: it to one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Back back to back clean games, no turnovers. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 3: big is that for you? And where you want to
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  Speaker 3: be as a quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Great question. I think that's the a big question with
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  Speaker 2: me a lot. I get that a lot, and I've
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  Speaker 2: been really focusing on it and studying it and really
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  Speaker 2: just looking at the statistics and looking at the other games,
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  Speaker 2: watching other games, and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't turn the ball over, at least give
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  Speaker 2: your team a chance to win, So I got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to do that, hopefully three games in a row.
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  Speaker 2: But also you're not going out there like, don't throw
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  Speaker 2: a pick, you know, So there's a psychology of that.
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  Speaker 2: It's just going through my reads and take completions and
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  Speaker 2: survived it down, especially in a day like today. Early
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  Speaker 2: in the game, survived it down with the weather.
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  Speaker 1: So could you just add a little bit more detail
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  Speaker 1: to the post game handshake with this lady. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: did you know her name at all or did you?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I just she was just like looking at us
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  Speaker 2: and she was happy to be there, so I didn't
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  Speaker 2: really say much. I just shook her hand and said
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  Speaker 2: congratulations or whatever and thanks for the support.
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  Speaker 1: Could you talk a little a little bit about what,
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  Speaker 1: if anything, a game like this will do to help
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  Speaker 1: spoosh your resume, because listen, you, everything's on tape, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and good or bad. Yeah, I think that employers are
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  Speaker 1: looking at it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, every every play has a story, and unless you're
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  Speaker 2: in the building in the room, you don't know what
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  Speaker 2: that story is. So there's been good ones and bad ones,
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  Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 2: try and what I've done is after the bye week,
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  Speaker 2: really put my best foot forward and play better football.
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  Speaker 2: And we've been really good on third down, and I've
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  Speaker 2: done some things really well on off and so hopefully
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  Speaker 2: we can build on that and to continue to do
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  Speaker 2: that this week in practice.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Matt