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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doug Peterson Show, brought you by Fresh
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Speaker 1: from Florida. JP Shadrick and former Jaguar Jeff Logoman discuss
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Speaker 1: the latest Jaguars news with the head coach. That Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show starts right now.
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Speaker 2: And Welcome in the Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh
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Speaker 2: from Florida from the Hundai Studios of the Miller Electric Center.
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Speaker 2: We're on the Jaguars Radio Network presented by the University
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Speaker 2: of Florida. JP Shadrick with Jeff Logoman and head Coach
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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson and studio with us as always in the
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Speaker 2: opening segment each and every week, coming off another close
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Speaker 2: loss to the Vikings, had a chance again possession late.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we've we've had this story before. It's kind
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Speaker 2: of it's the story of this Jaguars team this season,
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Speaker 2: being in these games but unable to close them out unfortunately.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the uh, that's the that's the unfortunate part.
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Speaker 3: And that's the part that you just kind of, you know,
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Speaker 3: keeps you up at night trying to figure out the
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Speaker 3: why you know, and and how do we overcome those
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Speaker 3: and and how do we how do we fix them?
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Speaker 3: How do we you know, win those games, and really,
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Speaker 3: how do we not put ourselves in these positions to
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Speaker 3: get down and then have to work ourselves back into
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Speaker 3: the football game.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: But the guys, the guys have been battling. H still
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Speaker 3: a lot of confidence. You know, nobody's nobody's quitting, as
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Speaker 3: we've talked about earlier, and you know they're looking forward
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Speaker 3: to to to going to Detroit and playing obviously a
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Speaker 3: good football team.
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Speaker 4: Again.
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Speaker 5: I thought you guys accomplished. One of the important goals
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Speaker 5: that you had going to that game was a fast start.
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Speaker 5: I mean, Minnesota has been known for a fast start,
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Speaker 5: both offensively and defensively, and you guys got the lead
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Speaker 5: early in that ball game, so I mean you started good,
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Speaker 5: just couldn't kind of carry it over through the through
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Speaker 5: the rest of the ball game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, defensively, I thought start to finish for
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Speaker 3: the most part, did a nice job. And I know
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Speaker 3: there was you know, the time you can look at
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Speaker 3: time of possession, yards all that, But to hold that
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Speaker 3: offense to ffield goal, I mean, is it is remarkable
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Speaker 3: you should win the football game, you know, and we
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Speaker 3: just didn't do enough on offense. And then of course
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Speaker 3: the late turnovers didn't didn't help us. But yeah, you're right,
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Speaker 3: I think I think even go back to the to
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Speaker 3: the Philly game. You know, we're off the field, but
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Speaker 3: we had a you know, an unfortunate special teams you
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Speaker 3: know incident there that that led to seven points by them.
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Speaker 3: This week, you know, we get out, we stop our
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Speaker 3: second series. You know, offense goes down and punches it in,
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Speaker 3: you know, Mac on the on the sneak and you know,
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Speaker 3: so you're feeling, you're feeling good, like, okay, you got
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Speaker 3: things going, and then and then we just didn't sustain it.
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Speaker 3: And you know, again that's the that's the part that
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Speaker 3: that is sort of disheartening as a coach. I know,
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Speaker 3: players are are the same way and and and and
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Speaker 3: you know we still got to learn from them and
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Speaker 3: and continue to to work and and you know, obviously
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Speaker 3: make the corrections and move forward.
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Speaker 5: Defensively, a couple of observations that I haven't and correct
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Speaker 5: me if I'm wrong. I thought Heyson Campbell played a
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Speaker 5: fantastic game, physical, got a little bit banged up, and
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Speaker 5: then was right back in there getting physical again. Defensively. Also,
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Speaker 5: the interception by Savage, you guys did a great job
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Speaker 5: of disguising the coverage, which I hadn't really seen a
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Speaker 5: lot of that yet this year, where Tyson was kind
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Speaker 5: of lined up on the defensive left side, kind of
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Speaker 5: showing maybe a manned look and then you guys drop
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Speaker 5: off in a cover two shell and looked like quarterback
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Speaker 5: had no idea. I mean just I thought the defense,
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Speaker 5: you know, those particular things really stood out to me
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Speaker 5: on film.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Tyson's really coming into his own this season, I know,
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Speaker 3: you know, is really missing like the first six weeks
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Speaker 3: of the season and really kind of I think right
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Speaker 3: now settling in and playing like he's very capable of
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Speaker 3: doing and improving each week. I think the secondary as
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Speaker 3: a whole has played better, you know, in the past
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks. And then and then you're right, I
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Speaker 3: think that's something that you know, Ryan and the defense
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Speaker 3: have done a better job, you know, into disguising looks
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Speaker 3: and disguising coverages. They present as man and then they
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Speaker 3: spin out his own and vice versa. So it was
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Speaker 3: a great play by the defense, great play by sav
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Speaker 3: kept him out of the end zone again and and
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Speaker 3: just got to continue, you know. And the other thing too,
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Speaker 3: I think the other thing that you're seeing is you know,
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Speaker 3: I don't think the sacks necessarily or are racking up
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Speaker 3: or but we're the disruption though of the quarterback where
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Speaker 3: we're affecting the throws right, The throws are high, the
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Speaker 3: throws are you know, they're not accurate throws. And that's
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Speaker 3: something that you know, our d line has done a
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Speaker 3: better job at.
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Speaker 2: Too, Head coach Doug Peterson with us, let's move it
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Speaker 2: ahead now. And the number one storyline at least pre
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Speaker 2: game this week again the quarterback position and Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 2: ruled out.
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Speaker 4: You said that earlier this week and early in the
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Speaker 4: week this.
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Speaker 2: Time around last week, Trevor Lawrence was questionable going into
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Speaker 2: the weekend. But what will another week for Mac Jones
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Speaker 2: as the starter do for his confidence and the confidence
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Speaker 2: of everybody around him, players and coaches include.
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Speaker 3: Well, the biggest thing, you know, for Mac is just
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Speaker 3: let's learn from last week and let's let's get the
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Speaker 3: confidence back, and let's go let's go lead the team.
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Speaker 3: And that's what he's capable of doing. And that's the
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Speaker 3: confidence that I have and we have as a team
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Speaker 3: around him, and and and for Mac is just.
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Speaker 4: Just go just go run the offense.
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Speaker 3: Just you know, don't be Trevor, go be Mac Jones,
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Speaker 3: you know, and and you know, run the offense like
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Speaker 3: you know how to do and get everybody involved and
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Speaker 3: and all that, and so this is a this will
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Speaker 3: be another good week for him against a really good defense. Again,
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Speaker 3: they're opportunistic, they take the ball away and and you
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Speaker 3: know they're missing some pieces defensively, but I think they're
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Speaker 3: still playing extremely well.
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Speaker 4: They play fast.
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Speaker 3: Indoors on turf, and you know, crowd noise becomes an issue.
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Speaker 5: Mac seems to be a guy that's got to have
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Speaker 5: his feet right, you know, to be able to make
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Speaker 5: the throws. And I think he's got exceptional arm time.
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Speaker 5: Look like his feet were a little bit kind of
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Speaker 5: and I don't know if it's a sign of lack
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Speaker 5: of confidence or if it's a he's seeing things aren't there.
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Speaker 5: But how do you as a coach help him with
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Speaker 5: the confidence to settle the feet so that he can
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Speaker 5: be more accurate.
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Speaker 3: You know, there were two quarterbacks that I played with,
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Speaker 3: Brett Favn Dan Marino that didn't really have to set
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Speaker 3: their feet and can make every throw in the books.
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Speaker 3: The rest of us we got to make sure our
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Speaker 3: feet are underneath us, and quite frankly, that that leads
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Speaker 3: to more accurate throws.
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Speaker 4: Yea, And you know, I.
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Speaker 3: Think the one thing you can do is is if
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Speaker 3: you're going to have success early, move your quarterback right,
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Speaker 3: get some easy throws on the perimeter, get some quick
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Speaker 3: passing game going, and then two, you know, the play action.
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Speaker 3: I think the play action pass stretch the field a
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Speaker 3: little bit and if it's not there, dump it off.
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Speaker 3: That's one of the things Detroit does a great job of.
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Speaker 3: If not there, Jared's gonna dump in the flat and
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Speaker 3: they do a great job of that. So that's ways
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Speaker 3: of getting your quarterback in rhythm. And then the protection
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Speaker 3: piece has to be you know, look, we didn't do
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Speaker 3: a great job of that last week. We made some
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Speaker 3: protection issue errors that quite frankly are our mind boggling
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Speaker 3: because because we're a veteran team and we should know
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Speaker 3: how to you know, block a six man protection and
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Speaker 3: we made those airs last week too, So we got
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Speaker 3: to fix that. But the protection keeping him clean early
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Speaker 3: can also you know, help in aiding a quarterback getting
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Speaker 3: getting himself settled into a football game.
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Speaker 2: Head coach chuk Peterson with us you mentioned Jared Goff
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Speaker 2: and this Lion's offense.
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Speaker 4: It's a balanced group.
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Speaker 2: They've got two really good running backs, They've got two
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Speaker 2: receivers that can get you over the top. Samuel Porta
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Speaker 2: will see his status for the game at tight end.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, how challenging is this group to defend
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Speaker 2: considering all the balance they have and playmakers all over
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Speaker 2: the field.
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Speaker 3: Look at last week Minnesota, look at Philadelphia, look at
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Speaker 3: Green Bay. Everybody's got weapons, everybody's got studs at receiver,
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Speaker 3: running back, you know, the quarterbacks, all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: And our guys have really risen to the challenge, you know,
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Speaker 3: and put themselves in a position to win these games
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Speaker 3: at the end. And and you know, we talk about
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Speaker 3: a lot, you know, as coach coach speak, is let's
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Speaker 3: get the game into the fourth quarter, you know, let's
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Speaker 3: go win it in the fourth quarter. Well, well now
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Speaker 3: we just got to go do it right. It's it's
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Speaker 3: a it's a belief that you know, be fearless when
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Speaker 3: you take the field. Don't don't don't go out there.
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Speaker 3: And I'm just saying we played Timiter scare, but I'm
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Speaker 3: just saying, if you're gonna if you're gonna get it
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Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter. That's when you need to really
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Speaker 3: buckle down, do your job, focus that much harder, you know,
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Speaker 3: on your job, and and and go win the football game.
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Speaker 3: And so you know, yes, they have they have talent
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Speaker 3: at the skill positions, the running back, the tight end,
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Speaker 3: the quarterback. But we got good players on defense too,
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Speaker 3: and we've shown that we can stop, you know, at
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Speaker 3: least at least hold down you know, these offenses these
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Speaker 3: past couple of weeks.
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Speaker 5: Now, one of the things that I think that they
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Speaker 5: do really well, which I think is always a challenge
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Speaker 5: for a defense no matter what your personnel is the
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Speaker 5: screen game. You know, the backs, the tight ends, the
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Speaker 5: wide receivers, the I think the offensive line, and especially
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Speaker 5: when fifty eight's out there running. I mean, they do
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Speaker 5: a really good job of getting out in front. How
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Speaker 5: challenging is that for for your defense to handle that
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Speaker 5: screen game?
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Speaker 3: You know, I've watched Detroit in a couple of their wins,
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Speaker 3: a couple of their losses, and and look, it's it's
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Speaker 3: with any offense, I'm telling you right, it's with any
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Speaker 3: offense when you're in rhythm and you got things rolling,
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Speaker 3: whether it's in the run game, the everything's gonna work,
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Speaker 3: and so that's where Detroit is really good. When things
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Speaker 3: are working. Now, they keep you off balance with the
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Speaker 3: screen game.
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Speaker 4: You know, they'll hit you.
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Speaker 3: They hit a receiver screen against Green Bay at the
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Speaker 3: nine yard line. It was a walk in touchdown. They
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Speaker 3: hit the back I think on a previous drive or
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Speaker 3: later in that game. You know, it's a big explosive play.
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Speaker 3: But they were rolling as an offense. They did the
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Speaker 3: same thing against Houston, So you know, that's that's the
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Speaker 3: part that you know, you have to frustrate. You look
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Speaker 3: at you look at what Houston did defensively, and they
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Speaker 3: did some really good things. They disrupted Jared, they tip
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Speaker 3: some passes down, they created what five interceptions, and you
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Speaker 3: have to do that against these type of teams. But again,
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Speaker 3: you know, I also looked at it and go, okay,
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Speaker 3: Detroit just stuck to their game plan. You know, they
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Speaker 3: started getting the backs involved in the second half a
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Speaker 3: little bit more to your point, the screen game, the
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Speaker 3: run game, and ultimately.
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Speaker 4: Won that football game.
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Speaker 3: Now, Houston missed a kick late, could have been a
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Speaker 3: different outcome. But that's what good teams do, and that's
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Speaker 3: what good teams do, and and that's something that we've
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Speaker 3: got to get ourselves doing better. We've got to we've
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Speaker 3: got to execute better, find that rhythm, stick with that rhythm,
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Speaker 3: and then that's when more things open up for you
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Speaker 3: as an offense.
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Speaker 5: And with those five interceptions that you're talking about with
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Speaker 5: Jared Goff, the Detroit defense really rose out and did
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Speaker 5: a pretty good job. Watching them up front, the one
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Speaker 5: thing that kind of stands out, they do a really
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Speaker 5: good job of trying to play on your side of
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Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. Those guys are big and physical upfront.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if there's athletic as they used to
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Speaker 5: be with Hutchinson on injured reserve, but those guys up
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Speaker 5: front are big, powerful men.
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Speaker 3: You know they are. Their te tackles are good, are
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Speaker 3: good players, They're physical players. They do miss Hutchinson obviously,
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Speaker 3: Aiden is a great player and missed that edge rusher Kamiskey.
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Speaker 3: They've had some guys on ir now that that are
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Speaker 3: you know that that have been impact players from early
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Speaker 3: in the season. It is a little bit different pass
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Speaker 3: rush you know, scheme by them right now, but they
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Speaker 3: can still get after you. You know, you get them
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Speaker 3: in third down and I'll tell you this, they're not
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Speaker 3: They're not in third and shorts very much. They're you
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Speaker 3: know those medium, they're they're third and six, seven, eight
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Speaker 3: plus a lot. And so I felt like against Minnesota
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Speaker 3: we were in second long, which put us in third
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Speaker 3: and long, which is.
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Speaker 4: Extremely too hard.
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Speaker 3: You know, we just made it too hard last week
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Speaker 3: and didn't execute well enough on first down. So that's
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Speaker 3: where we have to be better against this type of defense.
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Speaker 3: You know, we we've done it this year. Now we
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Speaker 3: have to sustain it.
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Speaker 2: Final thought with you head coach Doug Peterson with us,
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Speaker 2: you know, bye week's coming up next week to and
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Speaker 2: eight record what not what anybody wanted obviously around here,
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Speaker 2: and then the stretch run coming up as well. So
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Speaker 2: how do you keep a team continuing that fight? I mean,
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Speaker 2: how much of that is in the locker room itself?
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Speaker 2: How much do you have to motivate or incentivize or
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Speaker 2: whatever you do to keep a team in it when
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Speaker 2: they're by record not in it.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm a big believer that we have the
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Speaker 3: right guys in the locker room that are not going
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Speaker 3: to let this thing, you know, go any more south
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Speaker 3: than it needs to go. I've been on teams where
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Speaker 3: it hasn't been that way, where the mindset in the
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Speaker 3: locker room where we can't wait for the off season.
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Speaker 3: Let's get to the you know, one foot in the
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Speaker 3: parking lot mentality. This team doesn't have that, and so
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Speaker 3: it makes it a little bit easier to motivate or
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Speaker 3: to lead this team because you know, I just got
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Speaker 3: to continue to steer the ship and these guys are
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Speaker 3: going to follow and they're going to do the little
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Speaker 3: things right. You know, I can take care of them
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Speaker 3: and practice. This time of year, we haven't had a break.
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Speaker 3: Now this is going on week eleven, and that we
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Speaker 3: haven't had a break. Our guys are I mean, let's
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Speaker 3: be honest, they're they're tired. I mean they are tired,
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Speaker 3: and yet I'm gonna continue to do my part to
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Speaker 3: make sure that they're fresh, they're flying around on Sundays,
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Speaker 3: and that they're mentally ready to go.
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Speaker 5: And there's nothing better than going into a bye week
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Speaker 5: with a win.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's that's the best, one of the best feelings ever,
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Speaker 3: especially in our in our business.
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Speaker 4: That's all right, Doug, thanks for the time. Is always
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Speaker 4: appreciate it. I appreciate you guys. Head coach Doug Peterson
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Speaker 4: with us back with more.
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Speaker 2: It's the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida, continues JP, Shadwick,
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Speaker 2: Jeff Logoman at the Hunday Studios the Miller Electric Center
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Speaker 2: thanks to head coach Doug Peterson in studio with us
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Speaker 2: at five o'clock each and every Thursday of game week
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Speaker 2: during the regular season. No show next week during the
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Speaker 2: bye No show the week after that do to Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 2: So we're back with head coach Doug Peterson in three
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Speaker 2: weeks time. There's I mean, we know what's going on
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Speaker 2: with this matchup, right, two and eight Jaguars, eight and
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Speaker 2: one Lions. Yeah, the Lions are hot right now. They've
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Speaker 2: won seven straight. The Jaguars are not or anything far
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Speaker 2: from hot right now. They got a backup quarterback and
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Speaker 2: two extremes going at it this week.
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Speaker 5: Logs, Yeah, it feels bad, right, I mean, you've got
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Speaker 5: a team that's won seven in a row. Many people
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Speaker 5: believe that that is the class of the NFC. Many
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Speaker 5: people believe the Super Bowl favorite. The way they're playing
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Speaker 5: football against the Jaguars team that has been struggling to
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Speaker 5: find some footing and struggling to find a way to
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Speaker 5: play complimentary football. But the reality is is that this
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Speaker 5: Jaguars football team has been in games, they've had opportunities
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Speaker 5: to win it. Can they be in this game and
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Speaker 5: can they win it? I think that's two separate questions
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Speaker 5: right there, because what you worry about when you're at
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Speaker 5: this point, if you're the fan of the Jaguars is, Look,
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Speaker 5: you're two and eight. You're not quite mathematically eliminated from
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Speaker 5: the playoffs, but you're getting there, and you've been playing
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Speaker 5: hard and you've been staying in games. Will this be
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Speaker 5: a game that doesn't go that way? You know, to
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Speaker 5: where all of a sudden you just have a team
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Speaker 5: that's just mentally fatigued and tired and doesn't put in
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Speaker 5: I don't want to say the effort, because I think
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Speaker 5: the effort has been there, but doesn't have the focus
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Speaker 5: and the concentrations to compete because they're tired mentally, because
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Speaker 5: they've lost a lot of close games and stuff. I
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Speaker 5: don't know the answer to that.
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Speaker 4: And they haven't had a week off.
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Speaker 5: To his point, Well, I mean, look, some other teams
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Speaker 5: haven't either. You know, that's just part of the gig,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's part of the job description. But I
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Speaker 5: think it's going to be interesting to see how they play.
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Speaker 5: I mean, look, this football team can play with anybody
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Speaker 5: if they play well. The biggest question is is how
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Speaker 5: will mac Jones play.
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Speaker 4: That's the biggest.
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Speaker 5: Question because the quarterback league, we all know that, and
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Speaker 5: the way he played last week will not give them
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Speaker 5: a chance to win this week. And the way that
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Speaker 5: they played around him on offense will not give them
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Speaker 5: a chance to win this week. They have to significantly
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Speaker 5: improve as a as an offensive football team to have
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Speaker 5: a chance. And defensively you've got to be better as well.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you got to improve. You can't be on
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Speaker 5: the field for eighty plays or whatever it might.
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Speaker 2: Be and over seventy the week before that. It's not
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Speaker 2: just a one week issue. It has been a problem.
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Speaker 2: Part of that's complimentary football or lack thereof. The Detroit
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Speaker 2: Lions are kind of a bully.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's how they're built.
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Speaker 5: You know, when when they've got if they've got their
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Speaker 5: you know, foot on your neck, they're not they're not
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Speaker 5: backing off, you know. Dan Campbell was accused of kind
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Speaker 5: of not having any class. I mean there was a
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Speaker 5: well there game earlier this year where he kind of
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Speaker 5: wouldn't take his foot off the pedal, so to speak.
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Speaker 2: It's NFL man like, try if you don't like to
17:06
Speaker 2: stop him, play defense.
17:08
Speaker 5: Then so it's a loud And there was like a
17:10
Speaker 5: little spat I think between former Governor Chris Christie and
17:15
Speaker 5: Dan Campbell's something of that effect. And there was a
17:18
Speaker 5: he beat the Cowboys forty seven at nine and they
17:21
Speaker 5: did him back off. Yeah and uh, and it was
17:25
Speaker 5: there was a line that Dan Campbell had and all that,
17:28
Speaker 5: and it was about because Christy said, you know, Dan
17:32
Speaker 5: Campbell doesn't have any class or something of that nature.
17:34
Speaker 5: And Dan Campbell says, well, I do drink wine out
17:36
Speaker 5: of the bottle.
17:37
Speaker 4: Yea. I love it. It's like the greatest dancer ever
17:41
Speaker 4: really is.
17:42
Speaker 5: You know, how can you not like that? I mean,
17:45
Speaker 5: it's like one of the great comebacks ever.
17:47
Speaker 4: Remember his opening press conference.
17:49
Speaker 2: When he was hired there, he talks about biting knee
17:51
Speaker 2: caps and doing these things. And now that you see
17:53
Speaker 2: all these signs in the building and they've kind of
17:57
Speaker 2: embraced that whole mindset.
17:59
Speaker 5: The that team has taken on his personality they're scrappy,
18:03
Speaker 5: they're tough, they fight, they play hard, and they've got
18:07
Speaker 5: a quarterback who, for the most part until his pass
18:10
Speaker 5: game has been really efficient and really good at protecting
18:12
Speaker 5: the football and all five interceptions were not his fault
18:16
Speaker 5: as past game. But nonetheless, if you're a Jaguars football team,
18:21
Speaker 5: you got to have the understanding that you need to
18:23
Speaker 5: find a way to get some of them.
18:25
Speaker 2: We're about ten minutes away from Lomas Brown of the
18:27
Speaker 2: Lions Radio Network, former NFL offensive lineman, and his thoughts
18:32
Speaker 2: on the Lions run so far and how they've been
18:35
Speaker 2: built to an identity. Up next, though, we'll take a
18:39
Speaker 2: look at this Jaguars defensive matchup. How do they slow
18:41
Speaker 2: down Jamison Williams and Amon ros Saint Brown on the outside.
18:46
Speaker 2: That's next on The Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
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Speaker 2: Shadrick, Jeff Logman, Jaguars and the Detroit Lions coming up
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Speaker 2: this Sunday at fort Field downtown Detroit, Michigan.
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Speaker 4: And it's a Jaguars defense that.
19:21
Speaker 2: Quieted Justin Jefferson last week at the Minnesota Vikings. Is
19:24
Speaker 2: the lowest output of the season statistically, But there are
19:28
Speaker 2: multiple weapons, as there usually are in the NFL, but
19:32
Speaker 2: certainly for this team of Detroit this week. I'm on
19:34
Speaker 2: Ross Saint Brown and Jamison Williams. So you got guys
19:40
Speaker 2: on both sides, not just those two. Those are the
19:42
Speaker 2: two guys. Those are the star attractions. Tim Patrick's the
19:46
Speaker 2: guy that can play. Alan Robinson is on this team,
19:49
Speaker 2: a root former Jaguar second round pibs so little Penn State.
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Speaker 5: So how many years ago was that?
19:54
Speaker 2: That was a long time ago, down with ten years,
19:57
Speaker 2: sixteen fifteen or sixteen fifteen or sixteen, I think twenty
20:00
Speaker 2: fifteen or twenty sixteen, something like that. Wow, amazing, been
20:03
Speaker 2: a while. And so they've got guys outside. How does
20:06
Speaker 2: this Jaguars secondary line up again this week?
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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, to go back to last week,
20:12
Speaker 5: they did a couple things that were very different from
20:14
Speaker 5: some of the games prior to that, and that was
20:17
Speaker 5: because of Justin Jefferson. They did a really good job
20:20
Speaker 5: with always putting extra attention on him. They had a
20:24
Speaker 5: safety over the top making sure that he wasn't going
20:27
Speaker 5: to end up taking the top off of the defense,
20:29
Speaker 5: which was really good, and it limited the explosives. You know,
20:33
Speaker 5: that was one of the best games the Jaguars had,
20:35
Speaker 5: even though they gave up four hundred yards, but one
20:37
Speaker 5: of the best games they had. They only gave up
20:39
Speaker 5: four explosive plays in that game, which is a huge
20:43
Speaker 5: improvement over the season average, which was almost nine at
20:46
Speaker 5: one point, so did a.
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Speaker 4: Really good job there.
20:49
Speaker 5: They also did some things to really confuse Sam Darnold.
20:53
Speaker 5: And I'll use the interception that Darnell Savage had as
20:57
Speaker 5: an example, because they had to the right and Tyson
21:01
Speaker 5: Campbell was walked over to that side, which normally he's
21:05
Speaker 5: on the defensive right side, which is the offensive left side,
21:09
Speaker 5: and so with him walked over there to the other side,
21:11
Speaker 5: you're thinking, Okay, it's man. Because when they play zwned
21:14
Speaker 5: Tyson a lot of times will stay on the right
21:16
Speaker 5: side when the ball is snapped. Tyson actually became that
21:21
Speaker 5: Tampa two middle linebacker and they played cover two and
21:25
Speaker 5: so Sam Darnold got completely caught off guard, makes the
21:29
Speaker 5: throat to Justin Jefferson thinking that he's going to have
21:33
Speaker 5: man coverage with a single high safety, and Savage is
21:36
Speaker 5: just waiting for the ball. So they did a really
21:38
Speaker 5: good job of kind of scheming for Justin Jefferson. Now
21:43
Speaker 5: this week is a little bit different because the focal
21:46
Speaker 5: point as aman Ross, Saint Brown and Jameson Williams is
21:50
Speaker 5: kind of that every now and again, take the top
21:53
Speaker 5: off of the defense, big play waiting to happen. Sam
21:55
Speaker 5: Laporte has kind of been more of the feature target,
21:58
Speaker 5: but the running backs are all so a big time target.
22:01
Speaker 5: I think if you're the Jaguars, you've got to play
22:04
Speaker 5: more zone this week just because you're gonna have to
22:08
Speaker 5: keep eyes on the running backs for the dump offs.
22:11
Speaker 5: Because if you're playing man and all of a sudden
22:13
Speaker 5: you've got a linebacker on Jamiro Gibbs, that's a mismatch.
22:16
Speaker 5: I'm just here to tell you right now, Jamiir Gibbs
22:18
Speaker 5: on a linebacker is a mismatch and you'll get beat.
22:22
Speaker 5: And so you want to make sure that there's eyes
22:24
Speaker 5: on the running backs in that short dump off area
22:28
Speaker 5: so that you can get extra bodies and populate the
22:31
Speaker 5: ball underneath.
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Speaker 4: It's a lot to keep up with this week, well
22:35
Speaker 4: it's not easy.
22:35
Speaker 5: I mean, look, they're a talented team and one of
22:37
Speaker 5: the better teams for a reason. So it is what
22:42
Speaker 5: it is.
22:43
Speaker 4: It certainly is.
22:44
Speaker 5: And the offensive line, though, is really you got to
22:48
Speaker 5: start there again. We mentioned it before. That's a really
22:51
Speaker 5: good unit. It's the focal point of their offense. They
22:54
Speaker 5: play on the defensive side of the line of scrimmage.
22:57
Speaker 5: If you don't stop those guys from all in the
23:00
Speaker 5: crap out of you, you're gonna have a long day.
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Speaker 5: Not really any other way to put it all in
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Speaker 5: the crap out of it, start mauling the crap out
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Speaker 5: of you.
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Speaker 2: A guy who could maul the crap out of you
23:20
Speaker 2: was Lomas Brown, Lions Radio Network.
23:23
Speaker 4: Where you go.
23:24
Speaker 2: We'll hear from him when we come back and get
23:26
Speaker 2: his thoughts on this Lions run so far and what
23:30
Speaker 2: it could take to finish the job this year in Motown.
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Speaker 2: That's next on The Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars
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Speaker 2: Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida, cheer
23:48
Speaker 2: on the Jags as they traveled to Detroit.
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Speaker 4: To take on the Lions this Sunday.
23:52
Speaker 2: At the official away game watch party Mister Chubby's West
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Speaker 2: Mister Chuffy's Wings proud partners of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Loomas
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Speaker 2: Brown played eighteen years as a tackle in the National
24:20
Speaker 2: Football League for five different teams, most notably, though eleven
24:24
Speaker 2: years with the Detroit Lions, the team that drafted him
24:27
Speaker 2: out of the University of Florida and eighty five graduate
24:32
Speaker 2: of the University of Florida. Played a lot of football
24:35
Speaker 2: and now the analysts for the Lions Radio Network. We
24:38
Speaker 2: discussed plenty today, including this powerful offensive line in Motown.
24:44
Speaker 6: I mean, that's what it is that chemistry. I mean,
24:47
Speaker 6: you can't say anything negative about having chemistry. These guys
24:52
Speaker 6: have been together for a while. We've added in Kevin Zeitler,
24:58
Speaker 6: who's been just a nice fit after losing Jonah Jackson.
25:03
Speaker 4: But the foundational pieces and panay Su.
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Speaker 6: Taylor, Dicker, Frank ragnow those guys have been there. Graham
25:11
Speaker 6: glasgow Out has been here for a couple of years.
25:14
Speaker 4: Now, and he was here before.
25:16
Speaker 6: So it's the familiar allele that these guys have with
25:20
Speaker 6: each other. It's the chemistry that they developed along with
25:24
Speaker 6: being very good. And I'm telling you, coach Hank Frehley
25:28
Speaker 6: he doesn't get enough credit for how.
25:30
Speaker 4: He keeps this group together.
25:32
Speaker 6: Even when one piece is missing, He's able to plug
25:36
Speaker 6: somebody else in the dance Skipper Kobe sores Doll and
25:40
Speaker 6: those guys don't seem to miss the beat.
25:42
Speaker 4: So you have to give.
25:43
Speaker 6: Hank Frehley a lot of credit for the success of
25:46
Speaker 6: this offensive line.
25:48
Speaker 2: Thamas Brown with US Lions Radio Network and then the
25:51
Speaker 2: two headed monster in the backfield really kind of balances
25:54
Speaker 2: out this offense. We know about the skill guys down
25:56
Speaker 2: the field, Jamison Williams, amon Ra Saint Brown guys are
26:00
Speaker 2: fantastic in the passing game. But David Montgomery Engvereer Gibbs.
26:04
Speaker 2: Now obviously you blocked for one of the best running
26:06
Speaker 2: backs in the history of the game in Barry. But
26:09
Speaker 2: I mean these guys have two different styles. How different
26:12
Speaker 2: are they and you know there's trust, it feels.
26:16
Speaker 4: Like in both of these backs no matter the situation.
26:18
Speaker 6: Well, to be ond this with to JP, it's not
26:21
Speaker 6: really I'm telling you people will find that out when
26:25
Speaker 6: you look at it, you hear or see them from
26:27
Speaker 6: a distance, you think that they are really really big,
26:31
Speaker 6: big differences in the style. But I'm telling you Jamire
26:36
Speaker 6: Gibbs runs the ball hard. He runs like a small
26:41
Speaker 6: a version of David Montgomery between the tackles. And then
26:45
Speaker 6: with David Montgomery, he's the guy that I'm telling you
26:49
Speaker 6: he's had the longest run, you know, out of those
26:52
Speaker 6: two when he broke it for eighty yard there last year.
26:56
Speaker 6: So David has the big play capa ability too if
27:01
Speaker 6: you get him out of the space. So it's so
27:04
Speaker 6: it's remarkable how different they are, but how similar they are,
27:10
Speaker 6: and how each of them are able to take parts
27:12
Speaker 6: of each other's game and use it like I say,
27:17
Speaker 6: Jamerican run between the tackle. He'll surprise people how hard
27:21
Speaker 6: he runs between the tackles. And David Montgomery'll surprise people
27:25
Speaker 6: how he could get to the edges. And once he
27:28
Speaker 6: gets out there, he's the threat to take it the distance.
27:31
Speaker 2: Well, it's brown with US Lions Radio Network. Let's flip
27:34
Speaker 2: it out of the Lions defense. Aiden Hutchinson of course,
27:37
Speaker 2: is done for the year. So how have they been
27:41
Speaker 2: able to or have they been able to fill his
27:44
Speaker 2: production or have we seen what they have in mind yet?
27:47
Speaker 2: It seems like the debut of somebody this week might
27:50
Speaker 2: change that.
27:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, that's what we're hope in here in Detroit.
27:54
Speaker 6: That's what we need here man. I mean again, it
27:59
Speaker 6: hadn't been as been feast of familin basically because they
28:02
Speaker 6: Ain'ton's been out and basically the feast has been up
28:06
Speaker 6: the middle. With Aleen McNeil, that's what we've been getting
28:10
Speaker 6: most of our pressure in our sacks from the middle
28:13
Speaker 6: of our defense. He's been doing an excellent jobs. He's
28:16
Speaker 6: just taking his game to another level. And Josh Pascal
28:21
Speaker 6: those guys, so we're getting significant push up the middle.
28:24
Speaker 6: What we needed is on the edges, and that's where
28:27
Speaker 6: we're hoping that Zadarius Smith will be that guy that
28:30
Speaker 6: can provide that edge pressure that we've been missing every
28:34
Speaker 6: since Aiden Hutcherson.
28:36
Speaker 4: Is going down.
28:36
Speaker 6: So you know, again, we don't want to put everything
28:40
Speaker 6: on one player because it's unfair to do that, but man,
28:43
Speaker 6: I think he could just be a huge piece to
28:47
Speaker 6: how the Lions want to look later on down this
28:50
Speaker 6: year when you start talking about playoff football and then
28:53
Speaker 6: when you start talking about defensive football. So hopefully he'll
28:57
Speaker 6: be able to just go in there and be just
28:59
Speaker 6: a great shit with the rest of those guys and
29:02
Speaker 6: you could just see his impact immediately.
29:05
Speaker 2: Lomas Brown of the Lions Radio Network, eighteen year tackle
29:10
Speaker 2: in the National Football League, First Team All Pro in
29:12
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five, seven time Pro Bowler, and the full
29:16
Speaker 2: conversation on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network, Jeff Logoman returns.
29:21
Speaker 2: When we return, it's the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida on
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Speaker 2: the Jaguars Radio Network, presented by the University of Florida.
29:45
Speaker 2: Number one university in the US News and World Reports
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Speaker 2: number one state for education.
29:50
Speaker 4: JP Shadwick, Jeff Logman back with us thanks to Lomas Brown.
29:55
Speaker 2: Pleasure to catch up with him and as we said
29:57
Speaker 2: the full conversation on the podcast network. Guy who played
30:00
Speaker 2: a lot of football over the years to five different
30:03
Speaker 2: teams and long time remember now the Lions Radio Network
30:07
Speaker 2: as the analyst, and.
30:09
Speaker 4: Those are our big shoes to fill.
30:10
Speaker 2: When Aiden Hutchinson all of a sudden is no longer
30:13
Speaker 2: walking out of the tunnel or running out of the
30:15
Speaker 2: tunnel for the Lions. So he's at Aria Smith. We'll
30:18
Speaker 2: get his opportunity starting this week after the trade.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been a good football player now looking at
30:24
Speaker 5: his stats, I mean he's been three times a double
30:26
Speaker 5: DIGITSAC guy. A couple of years that he had with
30:29
Speaker 5: Green Bay and then a year in Minnesota that he
30:31
Speaker 5: had ten sacks I think on the year right now
30:34
Speaker 5: where he came from Cleveland. He's got about five five
30:36
Speaker 5: and a half something in that range. Good football player,
30:39
Speaker 5: and Lomas is right, they've got some good inside push
30:42
Speaker 5: with Alee McNeil, DJ Reider a pretty good player, but
30:45
Speaker 5: they really don't have a lot on the outside you know,
30:47
Speaker 5: the one guy I think that's been a little bit
30:49
Speaker 5: disappointing for them is James S.
30:51
Speaker 4: Houston.
30:51
Speaker 5: You know, they thought a couple of years ago that
30:54
Speaker 5: he was going to be kind of that athletic, you know,
30:56
Speaker 5: linebacker size, smaller pass type brusher, good player, and he
31:02
Speaker 5: really hasn't turned into it. For him. Small, small school guy,
31:07
Speaker 5: Jackson State University and a little undisciplined, you know player.
31:13
Speaker 5: But but yeah, that's what they're missing. And but the
31:18
Speaker 5: one thing about them is that they played tough, physical defense.
31:21
Speaker 5: But if they can get a little bit of that, uh,
31:23
Speaker 5: they're going to be really good. But Aiden Hutchinson, though,
31:26
Speaker 5: they miss that guy. You know, when you look at
31:28
Speaker 5: his stats when when he got hurt, he had like
31:31
Speaker 5: seven and a half sacks and I think game five
31:34
Speaker 5: he was hurt, right or something like that, and he
31:38
Speaker 5: was winning at the highest rate of any player in
31:41
Speaker 5: the National Football League, one of the highest rates ever.
31:44
Speaker 5: I mean, he was literally on pace to win the
31:48
Speaker 5: NFL Defensive MVP, that's what he was doing. I mean,
31:52
Speaker 5: he was an absolute beast. Week six was his last game, Okay,
31:56
Speaker 5: so he played five games, five games, seven and a
31:58
Speaker 5: half sacks, great player, great player and they miss him,
32:03
Speaker 5: and you know, that's just the way it is in
32:05
Speaker 5: the National Football League. And had a pretty significant injury
32:08
Speaker 5: a tip fib which is both bones in the lower body.
32:12
Speaker 5: Supposedly didn't have any other damage to go along with it,
32:14
Speaker 5: so they expect him to make a complete recovery. But man,
32:17
Speaker 5: I can't imagine going through something like that. No, that's
32:21
Speaker 5: a big time injury. Now four to six months rehab. Right,
32:26
Speaker 5: There was talk about him coming back for the playoffs maybe, Oh,
32:29
Speaker 5: come on, they said something like that, and I'm just
32:32
Speaker 5: going and Dan Campbell was asked about it, and Dan
32:35
Speaker 5: Campbell's response was, Hey, look, I don't want to put
32:37
Speaker 5: any any kind of limits on him. You know, anything
32:40
Speaker 5: is possible, And I went, I mean, just i'd be
32:44
Speaker 5: I mean, can you imagine trying to come back from
32:46
Speaker 5: that injury and you're playing it four months in the
32:48
Speaker 5: Super Bowl.
32:49
Speaker 2: They showed him on TV a couple of weeks ago,
32:51
Speaker 2: and he's got his leg wrapped up, but it's like
32:54
Speaker 2: he's in a suite at the game and it's like
32:56
Speaker 2: on a pillow and yeah, he's up.
32:58
Speaker 5: Yeah he's gonna be away. He's gonna be a while.
33:01
Speaker 4: I forgot.
33:01
Speaker 2: He had a four and a half sack game this
33:03
Speaker 2: year Monster Week two against the Buccketeers.
33:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a good player and I've really got a
33:11
Speaker 5: lot of He's a he's a quick guy, you know,
33:14
Speaker 5: like Trayvon's a power guy. Hutchinson is a is a
33:18
Speaker 5: move guy. It's this, you know, quick kind of movement guy,
33:22
Speaker 5: always on the move. Very hard for for offensive lineman
33:25
Speaker 5: the track. Very two different players, you know, because a
33:28
Speaker 5: lot of people make the comparisons naturally because you know,
33:31
Speaker 5: the Jaguars take Trayvon first and then Hutchinson went second
33:34
Speaker 5: to the Lions.
33:35
Speaker 2: So Travon Walker this week against Piney Sewell the right
33:38
Speaker 2: tackle for the Lions.
33:39
Speaker 4: That's a matchup, big time matchup.
33:42
Speaker 5: And again, like I said, Piney Sewel has not given
33:45
Speaker 5: up a sack all year, zero, none, not a couple
33:50
Speaker 5: of years ago. Watching them in practice together, Trayvon got
33:54
Speaker 5: the better of them in practice. You're talking about practice practice,
34:01
Speaker 5: so and Josh got the best of Decker. But again
34:05
Speaker 5: we're talking about practice. Different in a game. It certainly
34:09
Speaker 5: is there's other things to think about in a game.
34:12
Speaker 5: Because there's two good running backs that you got to
34:15
Speaker 5: have on your mind before you're sitting there going, hey,
34:16
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have this wide open pass rush to get
34:20
Speaker 5: after the tackle. Here, you gotta think about Gibbs and
34:22
Speaker 5: Montgomery as well.
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34:50
Speaker 4: But what's next for Trevor Lawrence.
34:53
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
35:05
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35:11
Speaker 2: o'clock sharp, every show each and every Thursday during game weeks.
35:16
Speaker 2: We won't have a show the next two weeks. It's
35:19
Speaker 2: a bye week next week, and then Thanksgiving is next
35:21
Speaker 2: the two thursdays from today. The Turkey, I can taste
35:25
Speaker 2: it already, the gravy and the mashed potatoes and the stuffing.
35:30
Speaker 5: I'm gonna. I'm gonna adventure into an uncovered ground for me,
35:36
Speaker 5: gonna brine a turkey. I've never brined of Brian a
35:38
Speaker 5: turkey for Thanksgiving and I heard it's amazing, so I'm
35:42
Speaker 5: looking forward to that. I'm gonna brine it and then
35:44
Speaker 5: I'm gonna smoke one and then I'm gonna watch football
35:48
Speaker 5: A lot of it sounds like a pretty good day,
35:49
Speaker 5: and then I'm gonna have the l trip to Fane Coma.
35:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know that is right, Yes, I do. Yeah.
35:56
Speaker 2: Quarterback talk for the Jags, of course, Mac Jones will
35:59
Speaker 2: make the start this week, second in a row, and
36:03
Speaker 2: you know last week was his first start since Week
36:05
Speaker 2: twelve of last season with New England, so he's got
36:08
Speaker 2: to improve. But the big picture story is what's the
36:12
Speaker 2: deal with Trevor Lawrence's left shoulder and will he be
36:15
Speaker 2: able to work himself back at some point the bye
36:18
Speaker 2: week's coming up next week? Is the team still in
36:22
Speaker 2: the conversation at all down the stretch? Does that matter?
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Speaker 2: What's the future plan for Trevor? Are they gonna let
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Speaker 2: him play? Is he gonna try to fight back and play?
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Speaker 2: Can he it's all big question marks right.
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Speaker 5: Now, it's all unknown and we'll we'll figure that out,
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Speaker 5: I guess after the bye week, because there's no information
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Speaker 5: that's probably going to be made available during the bye week,
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Speaker 5: right there's no obligation to do so you don't have to. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: so we'll kind of see what happens after that. But
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Speaker 5: you know, I hope they get him back. I mean,
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Speaker 5: he's a good, good football player. He can be better,
36:59
Speaker 5: but I can tell you this, he's their best quarterback
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Speaker 5: and it's not even close.
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Speaker 4: In fact, can mat get better?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I think he can be better. I mean he can
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Speaker 5: definitely be better.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: I think of when people say can he be better?
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Speaker 5: And the people have asked me, can he be better?
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Speaker 5: I refer back to that game against the Atlanta Falcons
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Speaker 5: in the preseason, and I get it. The Atlanta Falcons
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Speaker 5: weren't playing a lot of guys, but he was. He
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Speaker 5: managed the a offense, He operated the offense very well.
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Speaker 5: He was clean in the pocket as far as with
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Speaker 5: his footwork. He was calm and demeanor in the in
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Speaker 5: the pocket with his feet, and he he was good.
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Speaker 5: I mean it was one of those games you're like
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Speaker 5: It's exactly what we wanted to see right in the
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Speaker 5: last preseason game, to lead the offense down and score
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Speaker 5: and put points on the board. You know, I think
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Speaker 5: the one thing that quarterbacks sometimes think, which is not
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Speaker 5: the right way to think, is that they've got to
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Speaker 5: do it all. And when you're not having success with
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Speaker 5: a lot of the other parts of the offense, it
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Speaker 5: even puts more pressure on the shoulders of the quarterback
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Speaker 5: sometimes if they let it. And I thought that was
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Speaker 5: the case in this past game with Mac Jones. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: I got to be better around him.
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Speaker 2: It's clear that Mac Jones wears his heart on his sleeve,
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Speaker 2: let's say.
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Speaker 4: And you can see his emotion around the game.
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Speaker 2: We saw it on the touchdown run where he's spiking
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Speaker 2: the football, yell of the fans.
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Speaker 4: That's a positive way about it. But then when things
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Speaker 4: aren't going so.
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Speaker 5: Well, well, let me add this too.
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Speaker 4: You know, when you.
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Speaker 5: Spike the ball and celebrate there, make sure you celebrate
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Speaker 5: with the people that help get you there, you know
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Speaker 5: what I mean. And I think you know, Mac is fiery,
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Speaker 5: and I think that you also have to kind of
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Speaker 5: channel that fiery energy in the right way. And you know,
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Speaker 5: when you're wired that way, because the last thing you
38:50
Speaker 5: want to do is end up having somebody misconstrue your
38:54
Speaker 5: body language on the field, a teammate, and so you
38:57
Speaker 5: got to make sure that you're you're doing things in
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Speaker 5: the proper way to not offend anybody else. And I'm
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Speaker 5: not saying that he has. I'm just saying there was
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Speaker 5: one point in the game to where he was communicating
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Speaker 5: with one of his teammates and he was very demonstrative,
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Speaker 5: and sometimes when I when I looked at it, I
39:16
Speaker 5: was like, oh, it's not kind of a good look
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Speaker 5: yet there yet, because it was I don't want to
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Speaker 5: say it felt looked like yelling at a teammate. And
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Speaker 5: I'm not saying that he was. I'm just saying that
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Speaker 5: it can have that look to it. So you know,
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Speaker 5: you got to be careful to make sure that you
39:32
Speaker 5: do things in the right way.
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Speaker 4: He's always had that in him, I think though, right.
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Speaker 5: Well, he's yeah, he's got the fire and then that's okay.
39:38
Speaker 5: You know, like Trevor is very calm, you know, and demeanor.
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Speaker 5: I mean, there are two different players from that aspect,
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Speaker 5: but you know, you.
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Speaker 2: You got to make sure that you're just doing it
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Speaker 2: in the right way, get everybody around you rallied up,
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Speaker 2: and see if they can get something done on offense
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Speaker 2: this week up in Detroit. It's a tough environment, it's
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Speaker 2: a tough defense, it's a tough team, and the Jaguars
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Speaker 2: offense trying to jumpstart things after an awful performance last week.
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Speaker 2: We're back in a moment our final thoughts ahead of
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Speaker 2: Week eleven. It's the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida, j P.
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Speaker 4: Shadwick, Jeff Logoman, head coach Doug Peterson.
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Speaker 2: In the opening segment each and every week at five o'clock,
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Speaker 2: we heard from Lomas Brown, former Florida Gator first round
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Speaker 2: traff pick in nineteen eighty five of the Detroit Lions
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Speaker 2: played eleven years there, eighteen years total.
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Speaker 4: In the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Now with the Lions Radio Network ahead of this week
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Speaker 2: eleven matchup the Jacksonville Jaguars at two and eight the
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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions at eight and one.
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Speaker 4: Two teams going in opposite directions right now.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, right now, and we'll kind of see where it
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Speaker 5: goes from here. But I can tell you the one
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Speaker 5: thing that's going to be really tough on the Jaguars
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Speaker 5: offense this week and Mac Jones is dealing with the noise.
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Speaker 5: And we haven't really talked about that. We've talked about
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Speaker 5: the energy and the building and everything, but the noise
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Speaker 5: level in Detroit is going to be deafening. And so
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Speaker 5: that's another added layer of something to deal with if
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Speaker 5: you're Mac Jones and if you're running the offense or
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Speaker 5: one of the offensive players, you know, so got to
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Speaker 5: have an awareness for that. And I really believe that
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Speaker 5: they got to trim it down a little bit this
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Speaker 5: week and establish the run. And if you can do
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Speaker 5: that then I think it makes everything a lot easier.
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Speaker 5: But it's not going to be easy to do because,
41:46
Speaker 5: again I said this before, the front seven of the
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Speaker 5: Detroit lines pretty physical group. Okay, they're not as athletic
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Speaker 5: as they used to be without Aiden Hudgson, but they're
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Speaker 5: very physical, just like their offensive line. But they're not
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Speaker 5: the best defensive line in football like the offensive line is.
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Speaker 5: But big, strong guys and it's gonna be hard to
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Speaker 5: run against him, but you got to try to get
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Speaker 5: it done. Because if you can, it'll make everything easier.
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Speaker 2: Tank Bigsby is not practiced yet this week with a concern,
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Speaker 2: you know, and it's a concern twofold one you may
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Speaker 2: not have services and number two, how healthy is etns all?
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Speaker 4: Right? Well he's not on the injury report this week.
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Speaker 5: Well, and he's had a hamstring and he's been a
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Speaker 5: little bit limited. And dearanis Johnson's on the injury report too, Yes,
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Speaker 5: he is, So that's that's a concern. So something for
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Speaker 5: sure that they need to watch. But either way, who
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Speaker 5: I mean, look, if you got to bring a guy
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Speaker 5: up off practice squad, you've got to try to establish
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Speaker 5: the run, take some pressure off of the passing game, and.
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Speaker 2: Then defensively slowing down this group with Jared Goff and
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Speaker 2: the weapons outside, and they're two running backs.
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Speaker 4: Who can get it done.
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Speaker 5: You better stop the running backs and you better establish
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Speaker 5: some some stoutness at the line of scrimine.
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Speaker 4: If you look at the Jaguars.
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Speaker 5: Defensively, statistically, the one area that they're doing a pretty
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Speaker 5: good job in is not stopping the run overall, but
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Speaker 5: it's yards allowed per rush, which means that they're doing
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Speaker 5: an okay job of stopping to run. Now, the last
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Speaker 5: three games have been seasoned highs of rushing yards allowed.
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Speaker 5: You gotta limit some of that against this football team.
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Speaker 5: And you better be strong against this football team. And
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Speaker 5: if you miss tackles, you don't beat the Detroit Lions.
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Speaker 5: If you tackle, well, you got a chance.
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Speaker 4: So he needs a chance. Can you tackle? It depends
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Speaker 4: on what I'm chasing. I suppose that's Jeff Lockham, a
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Speaker 4: great Lion. I'm JV.
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Speaker 2: Satrick Or thanks to David Show, Fritt Reaver, and Joe Fortunateado,
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Speaker 2: our entire crew.
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Speaker 4: Thanks to you for listening as well.
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Speaker 2: The Jaguars and the Lions coming up this Sunday, one
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Speaker 2: o'clock Ford Field in Detroit. This has been the Doug
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Speaker 2: Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.