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Fred Taylor on Need for Defense to Bounce Back, Trevor’s Injury | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues ahead of Week fourteen, the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns coming up, and it's time for
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  Speaker 1: our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running back
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor, and here we go big December games. Gotta
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  Speaker 1: get off the deck after last week's Monday Night loss
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  Speaker 1: that was deflating in so many ways, but everything is
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  Speaker 1: still out in front for this team.
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  Speaker 2: Fred, JP, you said it. You got to get off
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  Speaker 2: the deck.
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  Speaker 3: Man, got to pick up with pieces and continue to
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  Speaker 3: move forward. You know, it's no time to soak, no
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  Speaker 3: time to have a pity party. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of football left a pretty good team. You know,
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  Speaker 3: things didn't go the way they planned a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: But I think this team, like I said in postgame,
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  Speaker 3: I think they're resilient.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think Doug has really built the culture there where
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  Speaker 3: the guys understand it, and I really believe in spite
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  Speaker 3: of everything that took place last week, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: injury to Trevor, Christian Kirk being out for several weeks,
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  Speaker 3: even the loss, I think they'll find a way to
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  Speaker 3: bounce back and get this win.
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  Speaker 1: Pret Taylor with us, well, the injury bug is the
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  Speaker 1: number one concern obviously, Fred, and it starts with the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. As of Thursday, he was on the practice
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  Speaker 1: field for a little bit doing some things. This could
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  Speaker 1: go all the way down to game time again like
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  Speaker 1: it did for Thursday Night Football and Trevor went out
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  Speaker 1: there with a left knee issue. You know, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: if he's not ready.
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  Speaker 2: CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Bethard has to be ready, and hey this you know
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  Speaker 1: there's still five games, four after this week to make
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  Speaker 1: sure Lawrence is right. So do you roll the dice
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  Speaker 1: on this one?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know you have to. I think you do
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  Speaker 3: have to roll the dice and go. You do want
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  Speaker 3: Trevor to be at his best. I think CJ. He's
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  Speaker 3: been in the system long enough. He's shown signs that
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  Speaker 3: he is capable of getting a job done. You know,
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  Speaker 3: last week it was a challenge for him. You have
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  Speaker 3: to come in in the fourth quarter, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: few minutes left in the game where it was around
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  Speaker 3: seven or eight minute mark.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not one hundred percent sure.
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  Speaker 3: I can't really recall, but it was very abrupt and
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  Speaker 3: you know he came in under those circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to always be ready.
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  Speaker 3: And I think this week, as Doug mentioned, being able
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  Speaker 3: to build a system, you know, specifically cater to CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Simplify things, ETN. Let's try and take advantage of the run.
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland hadn't been great versus the run. They have been
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  Speaker 3: very stout at home, we get that, but versus the run,
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  Speaker 3: they haven't been amazing. So I think you want to
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  Speaker 3: try and commit to that run. Sprinkling some plays that
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  Speaker 3: are CJ's favorites during meetings this week.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like? What do you love? Let's narrow
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  Speaker 2: those plays.
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  Speaker 3: Down and put you in better, more efficient in situations
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  Speaker 3: where you can be effected and minimize mistakes for him.
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  Speaker 3: So I think strategically, if they could map out that
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  Speaker 3: or if they mapped out that sort of plan construction
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  Speaker 3: throughout the week, they should find a way to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Fred, we hear about high ankle sprains. Did you
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  Speaker 1: ever have one of those? And how painful is this?
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  Speaker 2: JP?
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you it's the third most painful injury
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  Speaker 3: I've had. And I say that because I had a
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  Speaker 3: groin I tore off the bone. That was the worst
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  Speaker 3: paint I ever felt in my life. Typically, that's a
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  Speaker 3: surgical procedure they used when you have pronic growing. So
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  Speaker 3: that was tough turf toe. I had double turf toe
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  Speaker 3: at the same time when I was in New England.
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  Speaker 3: And lastly, the third toughest one again it's the high
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  Speaker 3: ankle sprain. It's when the ankle rows inverted, I believe
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  Speaker 3: they call it. That mine led to a surgery. I
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  Speaker 3: had to get the tightrope procedure, which we heard earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the week, Doug state that Trevor avoided having to
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  Speaker 3: have that procedure done. That was done to me in
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  Speaker 3: twenty ten, my last year in New England. And I
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  Speaker 3: have two vertical plates on the outside of my tip
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  Speaker 3: fib one of those bones I don't recall, and I
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  Speaker 3: have like fishing rope that they loop and they sort
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  Speaker 3: of pull those two bones together and it allows the
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  Speaker 3: starring of that ligament that stretches when you sprain the
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  Speaker 3: high ankle. So it's very painful, hard to walk on,
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  Speaker 3: harder and tougher to run on, and it takes time.
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  Speaker 3: Unlike a normal ankle sprain, which is three four or
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  Speaker 3: five days at max. Maybe high ankles can go anywhere
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  Speaker 3: from three to four weeks. It varies on each person's
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  Speaker 3: body composition. When you add in the sport the position
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  Speaker 3: you play as a running back, happen to stop, cut, accelerate,
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  Speaker 3: pick up, block, do things unexpectedly.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough for my position.
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  Speaker 3: At a quarterback position, it's tough, but maybe not as
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  Speaker 3: tough depending on your plant foot and how much protection
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  Speaker 3: you get from the guys up front.
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  Speaker 2: All in all, is very painful. To answer your question, JP.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US, I liked the photo of somebody
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  Speaker 1: put on X this week of an X ray of
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  Speaker 1: a leg with a dog in it, and yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's leg. He's got that dog in him.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Trevor certainly has that dog in him. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you saw it.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about in the podcast that we released on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: and man, he does have that dog in him.
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  Speaker 2: We are all fans of Trevor Larrence. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So much heart, so much fight, so much passion and
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  Speaker 3: competitiveness in him.
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  Speaker 2: I love to go to battle with him any day.
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  Speaker 1: Bred what happened to the run defense last week? And
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  Speaker 1: it's not who they are because they've been really good
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  Speaker 1: against the run all year. For some reason, Cincinnati just
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  Speaker 1: ran all over them. They're missing tackles, missing gaps. I
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  Speaker 1: mean is that Can they fix that in a week's
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  Speaker 1: time against Cleveland?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can fix it, And they fixed it after
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  Speaker 3: we ran for three hundred plus on them when they
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  Speaker 3: went on run off three four wins to go win
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  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly you can fix it. It's about having a sense
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  Speaker 2: of urgency.
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  Speaker 3: The guys have to get in there and watch them,
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  Speaker 3: watch themselves, coach themselves, be honest with themselves and say, well,
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  Speaker 3: that was me out of position, or as you alluded
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  Speaker 3: to a second ago, that was me I missed my gap.
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  Speaker 3: You know, run game and stopping and run is about
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  Speaker 3: eight man's facing. Each player has a gap A through C.
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  Speaker 3: You have a gap, you have to be in your gap.
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  Speaker 3: You have to do your job, do your assignment. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: guys get excited, especially on defense, and they try to
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  Speaker 3: do someone else's job. No, be focused, worry about yourself,
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  Speaker 3: communicate that's going to always be the I think that
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  Speaker 3: last week was a situation where they saw a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: on the other side who didn't have a lot of films,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe a lot of those guys were in
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  Speaker 3: past rush mode getting out of their line, out of
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  Speaker 3: their lane, out of their gap, trying to get the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and it exposed them and open up the run. And
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  Speaker 3: on the back end, you said, we didn't do a
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  Speaker 3: great job of tackling. So those combinations of things got
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  Speaker 3: to exploit it as a team should have done. So
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  Speaker 3: they can get back to it. Though, I think if
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  Speaker 3: they just go back, they've watched the film, realized their mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: also the effort in tackling. If they can come back
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  Speaker 3: to what they're used to, they should do well.
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  Speaker 1: Pret Taylor wellis proud of the Jaguars running back Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: this week. The Browns of course, seven and five. They're
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  Speaker 1: right there in the wildcard chase right now. And then
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  Speaker 1: next week, of course the Ravens. There are you been
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  Speaker 1: playing the best football overall in the AFC. Then you
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  Speaker 1: got a couple NFC games in the South with the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers and the Panthers, and then you finish up with
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  Speaker 1: the Titans up in Nashville. So that's the slight ahead.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars do have the tiebreaker on the teams right
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  Speaker 1: behind them in the division race. That's far from over.
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  Speaker 1: So these games the next two weeks are crucial. Because
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you get tied with the Texans
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  Speaker 1: or the Colts. Yes, you might have the tiebreaker, but
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they have life. And the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: had that life last season. They know what it's like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, everybody talks about, you know, seating positioning
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  Speaker 3: for the playoffs. I can tell you this, JP, and
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  Speaker 3: you know it too. These remaining five weeks. Every week
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  Speaker 3: is a playoff game, you know, regardless of a Monday
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  Speaker 3: night atmosphere. Yeah, you have an opportunity with a night
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  Speaker 3: game and an amazing atmosphere on a Sunday night versus
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  Speaker 3: the Ravens. Your mindset as a player should be this
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  Speaker 3: is the atmosphere every week, regardless of the time of
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  Speaker 3: the day, the opponent. My mindset is, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go out there, I'm going to do my job. Are
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  Speaker 3: going to play with a sense of urgency. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to display extreme effort, and I will not be the
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  Speaker 3: weak link or that guy responsible for us losing.
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  Speaker 2: I Am not going to be that guy. So everybody
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  Speaker 2: should down.
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  Speaker 3: And I realized the opponent, I had realized the magnitude
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  Speaker 3: of the moment, and what's that stake?
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  Speaker 2: Last week? What was that stake. They felled. They completely failed.
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  Speaker 3: That was a fail and they have to somehow bounce
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  Speaker 3: back and kind of make some noise, like my little
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  Speaker 3: bird in the background back there.
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  Speaker 2: But they got to go in there and make some
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  Speaker 2: noise regardless.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta make the noise to be heard. Fred, it's
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  Speaker 1: what it's about. And the jaguars are right there on
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  Speaker 1: the doorstep with you.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta be hungry when you make that noise. Be hungry.
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  Speaker 2: I think my bird is hungry.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta feed those birds. Now, they got to go
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  Speaker 3: out there and just handle business. I've said it the
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  Speaker 3: entire year. You know, there's been a you know, the thing,
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  Speaker 3: the mantra, one of the mantras. Know, it was always
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  Speaker 3: about the jaguars, you know, And really that's what it
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  Speaker 3: comes down to.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just cliche.
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  Speaker 3: The guy's got to really understand that it's about them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, managing distractions, not paying attention to the outside noise,
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  Speaker 3: allowing people to tell you how good you are. We
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  Speaker 3: saw a little bit of that earlier in the year
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  Speaker 3: and thought they shook that out of their systems, and
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  Speaker 3: I believe they have again.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're.
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  Speaker 3: Resilient and I think They're going to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and win this game despite what's going on around them
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  Speaker 3: with players. Doug said, is not about one, not about
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  Speaker 3: any one. Guy is the greatest team sport and they
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  Speaker 3: got to act according to So saying all that to say,
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  Speaker 3: I got Jaggs, I got the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: You heard it here first, Fred Taylor with the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Let's get it done, Fred, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you in the post game.
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  Speaker 3: And that ain't a Homer call. That's how I feel.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be ready in the post game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you will, and we'll talk to you then.
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  Speaker 2: How to see you, JP,