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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: Welcome in.
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Speaker 3: It is the Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida.
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Speaker 3: We're at the Hyundai Studios on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 3: JP Shadrick, Jeff Logoman and head coach Doug Peterson. Week eighteen,
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Speaker 3: the long season. One more to go, coming off a.
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Speaker 2: Win though, and you know, one final chance for these
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Speaker 2: guys to get it on tape this week.
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Speaker 4: You're exactly right and to go forward two in our division,
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Speaker 4: which wow, when you look at that, you know you
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Speaker 4: should you should be you know, one of the teams
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Speaker 4: they're talking about for postseason births.
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Speaker 5: But we're not.
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Speaker 4: But it still says something for our team and how
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Speaker 4: how we can still kind of take control of our
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Speaker 4: vision and really, to me, that's kind of where it
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Speaker 4: has to start each year, right, you want to control
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Speaker 4: that and and you know this is a this is
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Speaker 4: an improved colts team even from you know, week five,
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Speaker 4: I think it was when we played them earlier. You know,
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Speaker 4: they got more starters back on defense. But great opportunity
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Speaker 4: for our guys to go out, play well, a lot
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Speaker 4: of pride.
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Speaker 5: And and go go get another win if possible.
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Speaker 2: Well and if you get that win. I thought last
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Speaker 2: week was and you talked about this, I think in
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Speaker 2: your press conference, is the ability to play complimentary football
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Speaker 2: goes a long way. It does.
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Speaker 4: And I think sometimes you say complimentary and what does
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Speaker 4: that look like? It just looks like last week the
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Speaker 4: defense played well, offense played well. You know, even special
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Speaker 4: teams did some good things on like the kick cover stuff,
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Speaker 4: and and we had you know, it was unique, but
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Speaker 4: we had to two minute scenarios with special teams that
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Speaker 4: we handled extremely well, and then defensively creating a takeaway
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Speaker 4: you know, which which allowed the offense to go down
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Speaker 4: and score and score points. And and really, you know
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Speaker 4: it's there's no listen, there's no pixie dust or magic
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Speaker 4: sauce or whatever. But when you give yourself an opportunity
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Speaker 4: like we did last week, chances are you take care
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Speaker 4: of the football, you win the turnover margin, as we
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Speaker 4: say each week, you get a chance to win those games.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what you said, right, there, take care of
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Speaker 2: the football. I mean, the weather conditions were not exactly perfect.
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Speaker 2: This week a little different. It's indoor. You're gonna have
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Speaker 2: some great conditions. But protecting the football always is the
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Speaker 2: most important thing.
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Speaker 4: It's the most important, especially against his Colts team, which
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Speaker 4: is sixth in the NFL. You know, I think in
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Speaker 4: twenty four to twenty four takeaways, I think got fifteen
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Speaker 4: i n ts, nine fumbles and they're doing a great
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Speaker 4: job of getting the ball out. That's it's sort of
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Speaker 4: in their DNA. Over the years, they've they've been really
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Speaker 4: good at punching and knocking the ball out, and opportunistic
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Speaker 4: balls get tipped around a little bit and and they
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Speaker 4: come up with these i iNTS. So we got to
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Speaker 4: do a great job of taking care of the football,
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Speaker 4: handle the crowd, noise, execute offense, defense, special teams, and
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Speaker 4: play well.
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Speaker 3: Head coach Doug Peterson with us. We can ask you
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Speaker 3: about Brian Thomas your every single week, and there's good
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Speaker 3: reason why. I mean, he continues to put up numbers
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Speaker 3: touchdowns now in three straight games. He was at ninety
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Speaker 3: one yards last week on seven catches. One more to
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Speaker 3: go for him. So what else do you want to
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Speaker 3: see from Brian. With one game left, just keep being Brian.
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Speaker 3: You know, opportunities are going to come his way.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna still dial his number up and and and
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Speaker 4: you know, just want to see the consistency, you know,
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Speaker 4: in which he's shown week in and week out, and
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Speaker 4: and I think Mac is getting an understanding of where
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Speaker 4: he is in the in the route concept and and
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Speaker 4: being able to deliver the football. But just keep being
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Speaker 4: Brian Thomas Junior. You know, he's been explosive for us.
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Speaker 4: He's been a big bright spot for us offensively and
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Speaker 4: and and helped us win last week and and really
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Speaker 4: has had the success because of his hard work throughout
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Speaker 4: the course of the season and what he's done and
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Speaker 4: and uh excited for him to finish finish this year
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Speaker 4: strong and finish.
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Speaker 5: The right way.
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Speaker 2: I thought that uh part of the reason he's having
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Speaker 2: so much great succeps. Obviously, Mac Jones played really well
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Speaker 2: last week, his best game for you guys yet. But
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Speaker 2: I think you guys as a coaching staff are doing
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Speaker 2: a really good job of kind of hiding him because
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Speaker 2: the opponents are having a hard time of kind of
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Speaker 2: dialing in and getting him doubled. I mean, how important
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Speaker 2: is that when you have a player of Brian's caliber
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Speaker 2: that the opponent knows that the ball is going to
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Speaker 2: go to him to make sure that they can't do
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Speaker 2: extra to stop him.
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Speaker 4: You know, for us, it's it's everything, you know, we want.
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Speaker 4: We want to move him around because sometimes what we've
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Speaker 4: seen lately is there our opponent's number one corner will
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Speaker 4: travel with Brian, especially early in a football game, but
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Speaker 4: then they realize that we're moving him around the field,
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Speaker 4: and then they finally just go, no, let's just double
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Speaker 4: them with a safety. So it kind of takes some
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Speaker 4: things away defensively what they want to do. Schematically, it
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Speaker 4: adds another resource. Usually a safety is what we've seen,
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Speaker 4: you know, over the top of a corner or you know,
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Speaker 4: maybe the second corner, whoever that is. And so the
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Speaker 4: ability to move Brian around has really not only helped Brian,
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Speaker 4: but it's also helped our offense have more explosive plays,
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Speaker 4: stay on the field third down wise, and really being
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Speaker 4: able to.
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Speaker 5: Kind of execute the things we want to get done.
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Speaker 2: How many rookies have you coached in this position that
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Speaker 2: have been able or could have handled what Brian is
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Speaker 2: handling at this point? Because look, I mean the injuries
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Speaker 2: that you've had at the wide receiver position, and I'm
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Speaker 2: not talking about the team performance. I'm just talking about
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Speaker 2: Brian specifically. How many guys have you ever coached it
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Speaker 2: could have handled what Brian has handled this year.
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Speaker 4: You know, there are two guys that come to mind,
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Speaker 4: and there were both and I didn't I didn't coach
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Speaker 4: him as a rookie, but Deshaun Jackson in Philadelphia was
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Speaker 4: a guy that that Andy Reid drafted and they put
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Speaker 4: a lot on his plate early. I remember, I didn't
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Speaker 4: get there till his second year. But and then Jeremy Macklin,
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Speaker 4: the kid out of Missouri, he was another one that
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Speaker 4: we felt and I was there when we drafted him,
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Speaker 4: and so a guy like that, we were able to
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Speaker 4: kind of load his plate just a little bit. Sma
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Speaker 4: Art intellectual receivers, and Brian's the same way. Brian's right
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Speaker 4: there with with the both of those two, and probably
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Speaker 4: a touch better because you know, he's been able to
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Speaker 4: handle the volume of of you know, information that we've
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Speaker 4: given him. Each week we're lining up in the slot,
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Speaker 4: lining him outside not just the Z but also the X.
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Speaker 4: And you've seen him from time to time out of
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Speaker 4: the backfield and putting him in different different positions. So
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Speaker 4: being able to do that with with with a guy
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Speaker 4: like Brian, you see it every week. You see it
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Speaker 4: with Justin Jefferson out of the backfield. You see it
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Speaker 4: with ross A Brown and Detroit coming out of the backfield.
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Speaker 4: You see Justin Jefferson doing those things you see top
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Speaker 4: receivers because it's ways of getting the football into into
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Speaker 4: your best, really your best skill player's hands and let
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Speaker 4: him go, let him go do his stuff.
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Speaker 3: Head coach Doug Peterson with us back in that week
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Speaker 3: five games, Jonathan Taylor was inactive for the Indianapolis Colts.
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Speaker 3: But he's certainly been active the last few weeks for Indianapolis.
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Speaker 3: Four hundred and fifty yards over the last three games
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Speaker 3: and then the last two weeks five combined touchdowns. I
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Speaker 3: mean that he's really starting to warm up late in
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Speaker 3: the season. So how do you contain Taylor?
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Speaker 4: It's all hands, all eyes on deck. Really, he's playing
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Speaker 4: exceptionally well here down the stretch. And and you're right,
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Speaker 4: we didn't see him in that first game. We didn't
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Speaker 4: even see Anthony Richardson, so we don't, you know, we
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Speaker 4: still don't know if we'll see Anthony Richardson this week.
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Speaker 4: But speaking of Jonathan Taylor, he's been a dynamic running
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Speaker 4: back not only in Indianapolis but in this league for
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Speaker 4: for a while now, and and he's playing probably the
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Speaker 4: best he's played in a long long time, and probably
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Speaker 4: feels fresh and healthy and all that too, So that helps.
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Speaker 4: And you know, for us, it's just got to be
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Speaker 4: gap sound, gap discipline, you your eyes. You've got to
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Speaker 4: trust your eyes, trust your instincts, trust the things you've
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Speaker 4: been working on during the week of practice. And and
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Speaker 4: then you have to tackle. You have to get these
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Speaker 4: guys on the ground. Otherwise they're gonna break arm tackles,
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Speaker 4: they're gonna you know, they're gonna fall forward for an
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Speaker 4: extra four to six yards, and those are those can
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Speaker 4: be demoralizing, right, Those can be the difference of a
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Speaker 4: of a third and six or seven or a third
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Speaker 4: and two, third and one, you know, particularly on second down.
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Speaker 4: So you know, it's just an all hands on deck.
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Speaker 4: Just stay disciplined, trust your trust, your keys.
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Speaker 2: What's kind of going to be interesting to watch is
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Speaker 2: who's going to play quarterback, because I mean that effects
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Speaker 2: stopping Jonathan Taylor Anthony Richardson as a runner, Joe Flacco
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Speaker 2: is not. But Joe Flacco is a guy that if
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Speaker 2: you look at the numbers with Alec Pearce and Pittman,
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Speaker 2: they're vastly different with Joe as opposed to Anthony Richardson.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a it's a run first style with with Anthony,
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Speaker 4: and it's probably a throw first.
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Speaker 5: Style with with Joe. And we got Joe the first
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Speaker 5: game and.
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Speaker 4: He he did Joe like things other than you know,
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Speaker 4: Joe's not a scrambler, but he scrambled you remember late
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Speaker 4: in that game, and and I think they went down
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Speaker 4: to score a touchdown. So yeah, it's two different two
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Speaker 4: different Uh. I think philosophies, two different, uh sort of
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Speaker 4: game plans that you.
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Speaker 5: Got to be prepared for. Uh.
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Speaker 4: But but really I think having the experience of playing
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Speaker 4: Joe Flacco like we did earlier in the year helps
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Speaker 4: us going into this ball game.
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Speaker 2: If I'm a pass rusher, I want Joe. Yeah, definitely,
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Speaker 2: you definitely do, because you're not.
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Speaker 4: Going to be standing on the line of scrimmage, at
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Speaker 4: least sitting on the line of scrimmage reading your.
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Speaker 5: Keys if the other guy's in there.
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Speaker 2: All right coach.
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Speaker 3: A couple of Pro bowlers announced earlier today, the Pro
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Speaker 3: Bowl rosters announced Logan Cook, Ross Mattisik will be starters
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Speaker 3: at the Pro Bowl, three alternates, btj Heinz Allen, and
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Speaker 3: Trayvon Walker. So you know, the specialists don't get a
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Speaker 3: lot of publicity except when things go wrong, right, But
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Speaker 3: Logan Cook's done a lot of good things right, and
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Speaker 3: mister reliable ross manisick as well.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, happy for all five of those guys, and then
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Speaker 4: particularly you know, Ross and Logan.
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Speaker 5: I think this is Logan's first Pro Bowl.
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Speaker 4: It's Ross's back to back, I believe with him, and
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Speaker 4: then and then the other guys. You know, I felt
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Speaker 4: in my gut that BT would probably make it, but
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Speaker 4: maybe because he was a rookie and first alternate thoughs,
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Speaker 4: but first all defense that he could easily go. And
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Speaker 4: I think they'll all eventually go this year with with
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Speaker 4: the way whoever's in the postseason and all that kind
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Speaker 4: of stuff. But happy for all of them. They've they've been,
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Speaker 4: they've been workhorses for us. Logan's had a great year
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Speaker 4: obviously punting the football. We know BT and the other
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Speaker 4: guys do an outstanding job, so happy, happy for all five.
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Speaker 2: And I think one thing that Logan probably doesn't get
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Speaker 2: recognized for, as most punters probably don't, is how good
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Speaker 2: of a holder he is. And that kind of leads
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Speaker 2: me also to Cam Little, who has had a fantastic year.
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Speaker 2: And it reminds me also going back to the first
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Speaker 2: matchup against the Colts, he had the game winner forty
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Speaker 2: nine yards. How fortunate have you been to have a
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Speaker 2: rookie kicker who has come in and who has been
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Speaker 2: so reliable, dependable, but then also gives you the range
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Speaker 2: as a coach to make sound decisions because he has
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Speaker 2: that distance to him as well.
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Speaker 4: It's to be able to make those decisions makes it easier,
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Speaker 4: you know, knowing you've got you've got a ninety three
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Speaker 4: almost a ninety four percent make field goal guy, you
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Speaker 4: know in Cam and then you know, obviously, like as
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Speaker 4: you mentioned, Logan does a great job of holding it
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Speaker 4: and it kind of goes you know, unnoticed a little bit,
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Speaker 4: but especially late and he you know, like last week
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Speaker 4: in the rain, you know, he made a couple of
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Speaker 4: nice holes get the ball down and of course kicking
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Speaker 4: the field goal. But Cam has been a again you
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Speaker 4: talk about a bright spot for our team this year.
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Speaker 4: He's been he's been a bright spot for us. His
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Speaker 4: his kickoffs have been extraordinary. Obviously we know his field goals.
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Speaker 5: Have been extraordinary. And he's done an.
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Speaker 4: Outstanding job for a rookie kicker. I think he's leading
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Speaker 4: all rookie kickers that were drafted I think in percentage
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Speaker 4: and and things like that. So just excited about him
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Speaker 4: his future. And obviously you know Logan Holding and Ross.
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Speaker 4: I mean it's it's a good you know, a battery
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Speaker 4: of three as they say, uh, you know in that operation.
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Speaker 3: Coach, great stuff as always, good luck to you. Final
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Speaker 3: game of the season. Let's get another W and sweep
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Speaker 3: the Colts.
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Speaker 5: Sweep the Colts. I'd be great back.
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Speaker 2: To back sweeps of division rivals, Logs taking it. Nothing
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Speaker 2: wrong with that. I have a good one.
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Speaker 5: Good thank you.
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Speaker 2: Back in a moment.
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Speaker 3: This is the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 3: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida J P.
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Speaker 2: Shadwick with Jeff Logoman. We're at the.
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Speaker 3: Honday studios of the Miller Electric Center. And thanks to
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Speaker 3: Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson joining us each and every
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Speaker 3: week throughout the season, the final Doug Peterson Show the
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four campaign.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna say it's the Doug Peterson Show. Why
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Speaker 2: are you thanking him for coming to his show? I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I'm trying to be nice. I don't know what.
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Speaker 2: It's a new year, man like, you're turning over newly
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Speaker 2: trying to be You're being thankful, trying to be nice,
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Speaker 2: to try that out for That's great, JP. I'm all
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Speaker 2: for you being nice to be instead of being the
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Speaker 2: jerk that you typically are. Man, Hey, it's what it is.
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Speaker 2: But Doug Peterson in the studio with us and then
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Speaker 2: one week to go, they know what it is. Try
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Speaker 2: to win the game. It's not like you just fooled
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Speaker 2: over and put guys out there to get stuff on tape.
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Speaker 2: You gotta go earn it still and go play. Well. Look,
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Speaker 2: I think when you are where you are, which is
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Speaker 2: basically getting to wrap up a disappointing season, you try
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Speaker 2: to find any motivation that you possibly can, right, I mean,
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Speaker 2: just like you might find a fence to some words
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Speaker 2: that somebody else uses from another team just to get
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Speaker 2: you going, you know, having a chip, finding a way
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Speaker 2: to create a chip on your shoulder. And I think
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Speaker 2: for the Jaguars, look the opportunity to sweep the Colts
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Speaker 2: and then that would give them a four and two
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Speaker 2: record in the AFC South, which would be a winning record. Look,
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Speaker 2: it's it's something that's tangible. You can hold it, touch it.
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Speaker 2: And is it going to make you feel better at
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Speaker 2: the end of the day. Maybe a little better. It'll
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Speaker 2: make the drinks go down easier in can kun next week,
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Speaker 2: maybe a little better. But I mean it's not going
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Speaker 2: to erase the disappointment of the season overall, but at
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Speaker 2: least it's something that you can you can grab a
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Speaker 2: hold of. It provides you know, Look, when you're talking
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Speaker 2: to the team, you know that that blank stare. You
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Speaker 2: know that. I know, I'm aware of what a blank
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Speaker 2: blank stare that a team can have. Audience really got
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Speaker 2: a good ie well, I know, especially the people on radio.
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Speaker 2: When you've been mathematically eliminated for a number of weeks,
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Speaker 2: you kind of get that blank stare. But I mean,
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Speaker 2: you are professionals. You want to try to find ways
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Speaker 2: to motivate yourself and maybe something like this helps motivate
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Speaker 2: you. You know, why why not? Why not?
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 2: But the tough part is that it's not been easy
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Speaker 2: getting wins against the Colts in Indianapolis. Now in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 2: it's been a different story. I mean, it hasn't been
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Speaker 2: easy for the Jaguars to get wins most anywhere, you know,
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Speaker 2: I know, but the Colts, I think in the series
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Speaker 2: record I was just looking at because you have the
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Speaker 2: flip card right here. Colts have a really nice flip card.
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Speaker 2: Forty seven regular season meetings. The Indianapolis record is twenty
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Speaker 2: seven and twenty over the Jaguars. As you might expect,
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Speaker 2: the Colts record away is ten and fourteen. It has
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Speaker 2: been terrible of late, and their record at home seventeen
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Speaker 2: and six. Seventeen and six. Though, do you know when
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Speaker 2: the last time the Jaguars won in Indianapolis wasn't last year?
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Speaker 2: Week one? Wasn't it Ridley? It was, yeah, Calvin Ridley, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: first half of last year of that first week he
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Speaker 2: went off in the first half of that game. Interesting,
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Speaker 2: I think they won that game. I think so. I
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Speaker 2: think you might be right. The current Indianapolis streak, they
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Speaker 2: have lost three in a row, So you would be
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Speaker 2: correct because they lost both of them last year. There
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Speaker 2: you go, So I get so it could be a
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Speaker 2: sweep to your sweep, could be a two years sweep
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Speaker 2: to your sweep. Right. Kind of excited for the game too, because, Uh,
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Speaker 2: they've got some really good cocktail sauce in Indianapolis. They do.
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Speaker 2: They have the press box Sat Almo. They should. I
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Speaker 2: think that's a great idea. You know, it's funny. I
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Speaker 2: mean we're talking about Saint Almos Stuck Steakhouse in Indianapolis,
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Speaker 2: been there for like one hundred and twenty years or something. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: during the combine they actually bring samples over to media row.
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Speaker 2: Really at like ten in the morning, you're like slurping
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Speaker 2: down shrimping cocktails. Can you imagine having a bloody Mary
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Speaker 2: Rats a champion? That would be great. I'll wake you up.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that'll wake that. Yeah, that the horse radish
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Speaker 2: in that woo We good stuff. Hey, let's come back
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Speaker 2: or not.
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Speaker 3: No, we'll come back and we'll talk about Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 3: Junior Jaguar wide receiver Pro Bowl alternate, the first.
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Speaker 2: Alternate in the AFC, any chance he could go, And
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Speaker 2: we'll follow up on some of the conversation that we
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Speaker 2: had with Doug about Brian Thomas Junior, because I mean,
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Speaker 2: the question that I asked of him and the point
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Speaker 2: that I brought up to Doug, I mean is it's real.
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Speaker 2: I mean, how many players can handle what he has
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Speaker 2: been able to handle And obviously the circumstances had to
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Speaker 2: be just right for all of this to happen. That's
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Speaker 2: next on 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 3: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida J P.
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Speaker 2: Shadrick with Jeff Logman.
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Speaker 3: We are on the Jaguars Radio Network, presented by the
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Speaker 3: and the Colts coming up in week eighteen, both teams
17:56
Speaker 3: out of the race. Brian Thomas Junior, though Jaguar's first
18:01
Speaker 3: round pick wide receiver.
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Speaker 2: The rookie, there's no rookie wall for him.
18:06
Speaker 3: He is fifth in the NFL and receiving yardage this year,
18:10
Speaker 3: first among all rookie receivers. There are four rookies in
18:14
Speaker 3: the league this year. Over one thousand yards receiving, which
18:16
Speaker 3: is the first time that's happened. He won't chase down
18:19
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase, who leads away with over sixteen hundred yards,
18:23
Speaker 3: but he'll be in a race in the final week
18:27
Speaker 3: to overtake amanas Saint Brown Cedee Lamb, so he could
18:32
Speaker 3: finish third. Justin Jefferson's at fourteen hundred. It would take
18:35
Speaker 3: a monster game to get there.
18:36
Speaker 2: But BTJ hanging in there, still playing at a high level,
18:41
Speaker 2: and it's really just grown as the season has gone
18:44
Speaker 2: for Brian, Yeah, and looking at some of the top
18:47
Speaker 2: receivers in the league, you know, you got as far
18:49
Speaker 2: as yards go, Jamar Chase won Justin Jefferson to Cede
18:53
Speaker 2: Lamb three in Montter Saint Brown four, Brian five. I mean,
18:57
Speaker 2: that's amazing company to be in. And I think what
19:01
Speaker 2: will get better as as time goes is I always
19:05
Speaker 2: look at catch percentage is kind of a big deal.
19:08
Speaker 2: So it's like targets, actual catches and what the ratio
19:12
Speaker 2: is there. You know, Jamar Chase is seventy two point
19:16
Speaker 2: seven percent catch percentage, which is which is pretty good, right,
19:22
Speaker 2: But Amna Saint Brown eighty one point three A top
19:26
Speaker 2: twenty catch percentage. That means that when he gets targeted,
19:29
Speaker 2: he is catching the ball. That's impressive, Brian, just for
19:33
Speaker 2: people curiosity. Sixty five point six. That puts him seventy
19:38
Speaker 2: ninth in the league in catch percentage. And as you know,
19:41
Speaker 2: you obviously want to have him get higher. But he's
19:43
Speaker 2: going to be a big play guy. So I think
19:45
Speaker 2: it's catch percentage is never going to be that of
19:47
Speaker 2: the AMNA Saint Brown because I think the depth of
19:50
Speaker 2: target is going to be deeper for Brian on average
19:53
Speaker 2: for his career. Usually, like the really high catch percentage
19:57
Speaker 2: guys are running backs. You know they have the hi
20:00
Speaker 2: tight ends, possession receivers in that range. Pat frar Mouth
20:06
Speaker 2: of the Steelers the tight end is eighty five percent
20:09
Speaker 2: catch percentage. It's eighth best in the NFL. Bucky Irvins
20:13
Speaker 2: Buccaneers running back number one. Yeah at catch percentage, that
20:16
Speaker 2: makes it a Chaine running back for the Miami Dolphins.
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Speaker 2: Number two Bejon Robinson's in there, Rashad White. I mean,
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Speaker 2: all running backs are all at the top of the
20:25
Speaker 2: catch percentage. Yeah, there you go.
20:27
Speaker 3: But Brian is uh, that'll come at some point when
20:31
Speaker 3: the offense kind of gets it back together as a whole,
20:33
Speaker 3: I think, and there's connection and not as much change
20:36
Speaker 3: the quarterback position.
20:37
Speaker 2: Right, I mean Trevor Lawrence. And actually a lot of
20:40
Speaker 2: the success in the last back part of the season
20:42
Speaker 2: last month has been with Mac Jones throwing it up
20:45
Speaker 2: there and missing him sometimes and then Brian not connecting
20:49
Speaker 2: with him. And they've got to work on this offseason,
20:52
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior and Trevor Lawrence getting back in the
20:55
Speaker 2: Centre's still a lot of meat left on the roof.
20:58
Speaker 2: And I also think that, you know, at the beginning
21:01
Speaker 2: of this year, Brian was kind of an afterthought because look,
21:05
Speaker 2: he's a rookie. You know, a lot of times rookies
21:07
Speaker 2: got to prove themselves right, so they're not the focal
21:10
Speaker 2: point of the game plan. But I think what makes
21:13
Speaker 2: this last game interesting besides, you know, can the Jaguars
21:17
Speaker 2: get a sweep of the Colts and can they end
21:20
Speaker 2: the season on a winning note with a winning record
21:23
Speaker 2: in the division, is where does Brian Thomas Junior fall
21:28
Speaker 2: amongst the other rookies. So we're gonna have kind of
21:30
Speaker 2: a rookie watch throughout the course of the game because
21:33
Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors is I believe like thirty nine yards behind him.
21:40
Speaker 2: Brock Bowers is behind him as well, and I think
21:43
Speaker 2: he's like thirty four yards behind him. So who's going
21:47
Speaker 2: to have the rookie title for the most yards receiving?
21:49
Speaker 2: And Malik Neighbors is a former teammate. Look friendly competition
21:54
Speaker 2: right between LSU guys. They talk to each other. He
21:57
Speaker 2: said that the other day. I mean, I don't think
22:00
Speaker 2: they've made any bets or anything like that. So we're
22:02
Speaker 2: not tracking it for that reason. We're just saying that
22:05
Speaker 2: it's pretty cool because it's Look, you always want to
22:07
Speaker 2: beat a former teammate of yours. And we'll also be
22:10
Speaker 2: looking at where he falls in NFL history amongst rookie
22:15
Speaker 2: and when it comes to receiving yards, because the list
22:17
Speaker 2: there is flush with LSU alum but Brian has a
22:22
Speaker 2: legitimate opportunity to crack the five, the top five and
22:27
Speaker 2: surpass one of the great receivers of all time, Randy Moss.
22:31
Speaker 2: That's an all time rookie season there. So here's the
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Speaker 2: numbers that now.
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Speaker 3: People would argue that he should have be a Rookie
22:39
Speaker 3: of the Year, that should have been Fred Taylor.
22:40
Speaker 2: That year ninety eight. Yeah, I mean, look at but
22:44
Speaker 2: Randy Moss put up with seventeen touchdowns. Well, the touchdowns
22:47
Speaker 2: made the difference with that Fred didn't have the touchdown
22:49
Speaker 2: because James Stewart got them all. That's right. But if
22:52
Speaker 2: you look at where he could be right now, he
22:54
Speaker 2: is eighth in NFL history and with all time rookie
22:58
Speaker 2: receiving yards in his rookie season, and he needs fifteen
23:02
Speaker 2: yards to pass Michael Clayton, who, by the way, is
23:06
Speaker 2: an LSU guy. Yeah, ninety what back in the ninety
23:11
Speaker 2: eight ninety eight somewhere there, OBJ is at six. If
23:16
Speaker 2: he gets one hundred and twenty seven yards receiving in
23:18
Speaker 2: this game, he passes OBJ LSU guy. Also, if he
23:23
Speaker 2: passes Randy Moss, he will need one hundred and thirty
23:26
Speaker 2: five yards receiving. That's doable. It's definitely doable, doable, totally doable.
23:32
Speaker 2: I mean, I think Brian's capable of one hundred and
23:35
Speaker 2: eighty yard game if given the right opportunity. Not going
23:40
Speaker 2: to be easy against Gus Bradley. Gus plays everybody back
23:42
Speaker 2: a little bit. But if I'm Mac Jones, I'm throwing
23:47
Speaker 2: the ball towards Brian Thomas Junior. I'm gonna I'm gonna
23:50
Speaker 2: make sure that he's got an opportunity at climbing and
23:53
Speaker 2: getting to those numbers.
23:54
Speaker 3: A pretty good idea if you're Mac Jones, We're back
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
24:29
Speaker 6: Ever since the relief, just because I feel like I've
24:31
Speaker 6: had a.
24:32
Speaker 2: Few seasons that were good enough.
24:34
Speaker 6: Again, it's all part of God's time and that's something
24:36
Speaker 6: that I've had to trust and it's kind of sometimes
24:38
Speaker 6: it's hard. It's hard to trust that, you know. But yeah,
24:41
Speaker 6: it all worked out when it was supposed to work out.
24:42
Speaker 6: So I'm excited. I mean, I think statistically yes, as
24:46
Speaker 6: of now, know we have one more game left. It
24:48
Speaker 6: was definitely by far my best until Oakland, just kind
24:51
Speaker 6: of down game, which you know those are gonna happen,
24:54
Speaker 6: and but uh yeah, I think probably statistically probably one
24:57
Speaker 6: of my best.
24:58
Speaker 2: So Logan Cook, pro Bowl punter for the Jaguars, announced
25:02
Speaker 2: earlier today he's headed to Orlando for the Pro Bowl games.
25:06
Speaker 2: I'm exactly sure what punting games there are there, but
25:09
Speaker 2: we'll find out, I suppose in January.
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Speaker 6: J P.
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Speaker 2: Shaddick, Jeff Lockerman. It's the Doug Peterson Show, presented by
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Speaker 2: Fresh from Florida, Logan Cook and long Snamper Ross Mattison
25:20
Speaker 2: name to the Pro Bowl for the AFC and starters,
25:23
Speaker 2: and for Mattisik, it's his second go round in the
25:26
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl, second year in a row. He was also
25:28
Speaker 2: a first team Associated Press All Pro selection last year
25:33
Speaker 2: and those have yet to be named. But for Logan Cook,
25:36
Speaker 2: a guy who's been punting at a high level really
25:39
Speaker 2: his entire career, he finally gets an honor that's very
25:42
Speaker 2: much deserved. The amazing thing too, to me is that
25:46
Speaker 2: he's a right footed punter and he throws lefty. Yeah
25:50
Speaker 2: right right? I mean, is that kind of weird? Uh huh?
25:53
Speaker 2: He hasn't had one this year, a fake yet, has he? Like? No?
25:56
Speaker 2: But I think that, you know, I mean, I think
25:58
Speaker 2: a lot of the special teams coordinated probably realize that
26:03
Speaker 2: he does punt right and then throw left now because
26:06
Speaker 2: he's been around the league for a little bit and
26:08
Speaker 2: teams have seen. You know, special teams coaches will keep
26:11
Speaker 2: a catalog of every fake that a punter or a
26:15
Speaker 2: special teams coordinator has ever had. Well, he's been perfect career.
26:19
Speaker 2: Logan's been perfect four a four passing for four first downs.
26:23
Speaker 2: But I remember when when the Jaguars got Logan Cook
26:27
Speaker 2: and the special teams coordinator was all excited that he
26:30
Speaker 2: had a right footed punter that threw left, because most
26:34
Speaker 2: at that time the teams in the league didn't know that,
26:37
Speaker 2: and so there was a level of excitement because he
26:40
Speaker 2: felt that they were going to surprise whichever team that
26:44
Speaker 2: they used the fake on first, because they would not
26:46
Speaker 2: be expecting a left handed thrower. And I believe it
26:51
Speaker 2: was Joe de Kamelis back then, sure, and he was
26:54
Speaker 2: a little more apt to roll the dice and hero
26:57
Speaker 2: once in a while pick and shoes. I think you
27:00
Speaker 2: know where you are at in the season. But Logan
27:03
Speaker 2: has been very effective as a as a thrower, and look,
27:06
Speaker 2: Logan's an athlete. You know, there's a lot of punters
27:09
Speaker 2: that I don't know if I would consider being a
27:11
Speaker 2: great athlete. You know, just because you play professional football
27:14
Speaker 2: and you're a punter doesn't mean you make you a
27:16
Speaker 2: great athlete, makes you a really good punter or a
27:18
Speaker 2: great punter. But I think he's a I think he's
27:21
Speaker 2: a very good athlete overall. Logan punter, Logan Cook. Excuse me,
27:26
Speaker 2: logan punter, right, yeah, you know what it is. That's
27:31
Speaker 2: his middle name, Punters, you know, Logan punter Cook. And
27:35
Speaker 2: from a.
27:36
Speaker 3: Long snapper perspective, I mean Ross mattisk had some linebacker
27:41
Speaker 3: experience in college early and then spot they would actually
27:45
Speaker 3: let him long snap and play some linebacker too at
27:47
Speaker 3: the same time. So he has that at least awareness
27:51
Speaker 3: of how to make him play when he finally does
27:54
Speaker 3: get down the field, and he has help around him
27:56
Speaker 3: to teach him some of the tricks of the trade.
27:58
Speaker 3: And it's paid off certainly last year with the of
28:00
Speaker 3: tackles of force, fumble recovery. And it's not every long
28:04
Speaker 3: snapper in the league is somebody you have to account for.
28:07
Speaker 2: I think Heath Farwell said it best today in this presser,
28:10
Speaker 2: which for those people that want to see to go
28:12
Speaker 2: to Jaguars dot com and you can watch the video
28:14
Speaker 2: of the coordinators that spoke today, and Heath Farwell talked
28:18
Speaker 2: about how a lot of long snappers snap the ball
28:23
Speaker 2: and then really aren't much of a factor in coverage.
28:26
Speaker 2: In fact, many of them are a non factor. So
28:29
Speaker 2: they'll put sometimes nobody to block the long snapper because
28:35
Speaker 2: the long snapper just wants to snap and he's he
28:38
Speaker 2: doesn't want to get dirty. Well, Ross is a legitimate
28:41
Speaker 2: coverage threat. He makes tackles, he gets down the field fast,
28:46
Speaker 2: and he was very accurate today and describing how teams
28:50
Speaker 2: account for Ross as a coverage player. And that's the
28:54
Speaker 2: high level of respective one of the reasons why that
28:57
Speaker 2: Ross is a two time Pro bowler. Now he's very
29:01
Speaker 2: good at what he does, not only snapping, but also
29:03
Speaker 2: in the covered stuff. When we return the Jaguars defense
29:08
Speaker 2: coming up this week, how do they stop Jonathan Taylor.
29:12
Speaker 2: It's not going to be easy. Just let me add
29:14
Speaker 2: one little thing about Ross manasic because once you snap,
29:19
Speaker 2: there's also something that you have to do before you cover,
29:21
Speaker 2: which is protect A lot of coordinators. Opposing coordinators know
29:26
Speaker 2: that the snapper's head is down and they have a
29:28
Speaker 2: hard time picking up their blocking responsibility. Ross is never
29:32
Speaker 2: a target in that category. He's excellent blocker as well.
29:35
Speaker 3: Back in the moment, It's The Doug Peterson Show on
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Speaker 3: Jaguars Radio.
29:45
Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
29:49
Speaker 3: We're on the Jaguars Radio Network, presented by the University
29:52
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Speaker 3: Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida JP Shadwick
30:02
Speaker 3: with Jeff Vlogoman or thanks to head coach Doug Peterson
30:06
Speaker 3: in the opening segment. Each and every week this twenty
30:09
Speaker 3: twenty four campaign, it has one week raigning. The Jaguars
30:13
Speaker 3: are in Indianapolis this Sunday at one o'clock kickoff time
30:16
Speaker 3: at Lucas Oil Stadium against the also eliminated Indianapolis Colts.
30:22
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson Colts quarterback on the injury report again this
30:25
Speaker 3: week with a back issue, has not practiced either day,
30:29
Speaker 3: so Joe Flacco most likely will get the time of
30:32
Speaker 3: the game. And they've had a real burst lately in
30:37
Speaker 3: the running game with Jonathan Taylor over the last three weeks,
30:40
Speaker 3: going for four hundred and fifty yards combined in those
30:43
Speaker 3: three outings and five touchdowns over the last two weeks.
30:48
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor getting hot, but too little, too late for
30:51
Speaker 3: the Colts. They obviously lost last week to the Giant
30:53
Speaker 3: skin eliminated.
30:55
Speaker 2: But he's still a threat.
30:56
Speaker 3: And he hasn't been on the field a lot against
30:58
Speaker 3: the Jaguars over the last couple of years.
31:01
Speaker 2: No, And I think when Anthony Richardson is on the field,
31:05
Speaker 2: it makes it a little more difficult to stop Jonathan
31:08
Speaker 2: Taylor because you're also factoring in that Anthony Richardson is
31:12
Speaker 2: a potential carrier of the ball, and when Joe Flacco's
31:16
Speaker 2: out there, you're not factoring him in because he can't
31:18
Speaker 2: run anywhere. But the one thing that he can do
31:22
Speaker 2: is throw the ball better than Anthony Richardson. So it's
31:24
Speaker 2: kind of like, Okay, give and take, give and take.
31:26
Speaker 2: And I think that the Colts will score have the
31:28
Speaker 2: ability to score more points with Joe Flacco at the
31:32
Speaker 2: helm than with Anthony Richardson, but they definitely have the
31:35
Speaker 2: ability to run the ball better with Anthony Richardson at
31:38
Speaker 2: the helm. Jaguars defense just has to stick with it though,
31:41
Speaker 2: and be in the right place, the gaps everything Doug
31:44
Speaker 2: Peterson just talked about earlier in this show. Well, look, look,
31:47
Speaker 2: the defense has had a tough year. I mean, let's
31:51
Speaker 2: be honest. I mean they're bottom of the league and
31:54
Speaker 2: nearly every category from total defense to points allowed, to
32:00
Speaker 2: pass defense, takeaways. The one area that they're not in
32:04
Speaker 2: the bottom five is run defense, and in some games
32:09
Speaker 2: they've been really good in that category. And so this
32:14
Speaker 2: is a game that you have to be really good
32:16
Speaker 2: in that category. But if Joe Flacco's playing quarterback as
32:20
Speaker 2: we expect, you also have to be able to communicate
32:23
Speaker 2: in the back end. Otherwise you're gonna get scorched like
32:26
Speaker 2: you did at the end of the Colt Scan the
32:28
Speaker 2: first time in Jacksonville. So, you know, pick your poison,
32:32
Speaker 2: I mean, JP, if you're a defensive player or just
32:36
Speaker 2: right now, who would you rather see, Anthony Richardson or
32:39
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco? Depends on what part of the way with
32:42
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor, which one do you want? Well, it depends
32:44
Speaker 2: on what part of the defense I'm in, right, Okay,
32:47
Speaker 2: If you're just you know, JP, Shadwick, who do you
32:49
Speaker 2: want to see? I mean Richardson runs it around a
32:54
Speaker 2: whole lot more and you never know what he's gonna do. Right,
32:58
Speaker 2: Flacco's going to stand in there and throw it around.
33:01
Speaker 2: I don't want to see Flacco. I'd rather see Anthony
33:03
Speaker 2: Richardson because having Anthony Richardson on the field really minimizes
33:08
Speaker 2: the impact that an Alec Pierce and the other wide
33:12
Speaker 2: receiver of Pittman, Michael Pittman, can have. And Pittman, thank goodness,
33:18
Speaker 2: signed a contract last year based on more potential in
33:23
Speaker 2: what he did with previous quarterbacks and not so much
33:26
Speaker 2: with Anthony Richardson, because Anthony Richardson doesn't throw him the
33:29
Speaker 2: ball enough to warrant a big contract. Well, we also we.
33:33
Speaker 3: Saw it back in Week five between these teams that
33:37
Speaker 3: the Jaguars secondary in key moments can lose focus. And
33:42
Speaker 3: Alec Pierce had a big fourth quarter in that game
33:45
Speaker 3: with throwing him in the football and you got to
33:48
Speaker 3: stay focused on the back end, especially with Flacco, he
33:50
Speaker 3: can take advantage of some of those mistakes.
33:52
Speaker 2: Pierce had in the closing moments of that game. In
33:55
Speaker 2: Week five, he had three catches for one hundred and
33:58
Speaker 2: thirty four yards in a touchdown and was a non
34:02
Speaker 2: factor throughout the majority of the whole game. Anything you know.
34:06
Speaker 2: But let's go back to last week. Okay, the Jaguar
34:09
Speaker 2: was able to get the job done against Tennessee. Okay,
34:14
Speaker 2: great job. Antonio Johnson had a really nice play the
34:18
Speaker 2: pass breakup the PBu at the end of the game there,
34:20
Speaker 2: which kind of ended the comeback. But you go back
34:24
Speaker 2: a couple of plays prior to that, Anthony Antonio Johnson
34:28
Speaker 2: lost the tight end on a wheel route and if
34:32
Speaker 2: the ball had been thrown accurately by Mason Rudolph to Oconquo,
34:38
Speaker 2: that would have been a touchdown. And so the one
34:42
Speaker 2: thing that was good about that game is that it
34:44
Speaker 2: seemed that that Dewey Winger's presence really calmed things down,
34:49
Speaker 2: clean things up a little bit. This week, you get
34:52
Speaker 2: Savage back. It be expecting to get Savage back. He's
34:55
Speaker 2: cleared from the protocol. We'll see kind of how that
34:58
Speaker 2: rotation works. But but I'm looking forward to seeing how
35:03
Speaker 2: they're going to rotate that and can they take another
35:06
Speaker 2: step in getting cleaner in the back app We'll return
35:10
Speaker 2: with look at Mac Jones. Will this be his final
35:14
Speaker 2: outing with the Jaguars? I would think so. But we'll
35:17
Speaker 2: talk about it. We will when we come back.
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35:46
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from
35:49
Speaker 3: Florida JP Shadwick with Jeff Logaman. The Jaguars in the
35:53
Speaker 3: Indianapolis Colts coming up this Sunday at one o'clock kickoff time.
35:57
Speaker 3: Lucas Oil Stadium, Downtown Indianapolis the site and could it
36:03
Speaker 3: be the final game in a Jaguars uniform for Mac Jones,
36:07
Speaker 3: a quarterback. It's the final year of his rookie contract.
36:10
Speaker 3: He came over, of course in a trade in the
36:12
Speaker 3: off season, and he's had significant playing time, of course,
36:16
Speaker 3: with Trevor Lawrence out with the shoulder.
36:19
Speaker 2: Injury and concussion. And the two and four record so
36:24
Speaker 2: far for Mac Jones sixty six percent passing just over
36:29
Speaker 2: fourteen hundred yards, seven touchdowns, seven picks. Where you stand
36:34
Speaker 2: on Mac and you know, free agent after this year,
36:38
Speaker 2: would you bring him back around? What's the feel here? Well,
36:41
Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, you're not going to be
36:43
Speaker 2: willing to pay him top money to compete for a
36:47
Speaker 2: starting job, because that's what Mac Jones, I'm sure is
36:50
Speaker 2: going to be looking for, you know, to be opportunity
36:54
Speaker 2: to be the guy again. He's not going to get
36:57
Speaker 2: a clear cut Hey, you're our guy. We're paying you,
37:00
Speaker 2: and you're going to be our guy for the next
37:02
Speaker 2: you know, four or five years, and here's a big contract.
37:04
Speaker 2: He's not going to get that. He'll get a come
37:06
Speaker 2: in and compete kind of a contract from somebody, and
37:10
Speaker 2: but that's more money than hey, come in and compete
37:13
Speaker 2: and be a backup money. The reality is is that
37:17
Speaker 2: look at his record, look at his stats, and then
37:19
Speaker 2: also look at the number of points that he's been
37:21
Speaker 2: able to generate as the starter with the Jaguars. It's
37:24
Speaker 2: a little bit over thirteen a game, which is not
37:26
Speaker 2: a very high number. But I give him credit. You know,
37:29
Speaker 2: there's a lot of quarterbacks that need time on tax
37:31
Speaker 2: to be able to get better, and he definitely got
37:34
Speaker 2: better this past game. It was his best game as
37:36
Speaker 2: a pro and one two rating. He was effishing, he
37:39
Speaker 2: protected the ball. The weather conditions weren't perfect. I thought
37:43
Speaker 2: he did a good job. Best game as a Jaguar, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
37:46
Speaker 2: best game as a Jaguar exactly. I meant to say that,
37:49
Speaker 2: but it didn't come out that way. And I thought
37:51
Speaker 2: his feet were very calm. He didn't have the happy feet,
37:56
Speaker 2: he wasn't indecisive, and I thought that went a long way.
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Speaker 2: And give some credit to the offensive line because they
38:02
Speaker 2: enabled him to be that way. And I think in
38:04
Speaker 2: weeks past, you know, from talking to Doug Peterson, you
38:07
Speaker 2: and I and the week before we'd asked him about,
38:12
Speaker 2: you know, what do you want to see better out
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Speaker 2: of Mac? And he said, I want him to trust it,
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Speaker 2: to trust the protection, to trust the offense. And that's
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Speaker 2: a matter of calming the world down a little bit
38:23
Speaker 2: and making sure that your feet are calm, your mind
38:25
Speaker 2: is calm, and your thought process is clean. And I
38:28
Speaker 2: thought it really showed in this game. His feet were
38:30
Speaker 2: really good. He was able to step into his throws,
38:34
Speaker 2: and when he's able to do that, he can be accurate.
38:37
Speaker 2: You know, go back to the last preseason game against
38:39
Speaker 2: Atlanta where he started you know, when all the starters
38:42
Speaker 2: were basically out, I thought it was a very similar
38:45
Speaker 2: performance to that, and that's kind of what we were
38:47
Speaker 2: expecting all year, but we didn't get it in the
38:49
Speaker 2: previous games. I thought there was a little bit of
38:52
Speaker 2: panic in him at times, and he didn't see the
38:56
Speaker 2: field because when he'd see a flash, his eyes would
38:58
Speaker 2: drop and then he would want to take off, and
39:00
Speaker 2: then he didn't keep his eyes down the field. And
39:02
Speaker 2: at times he did that without any illegitimate flash of
39:06
Speaker 2: oncoming danger. So I hope he gets better because if
39:13
Speaker 2: he gets better in this game, then what teams are
39:15
Speaker 2: gonna do. They're gonna go back and they're gonna look
39:17
Speaker 2: at their evaluation of him when he was coming out.
39:19
Speaker 2: There's some teams out there they're gonna have a very
39:21
Speaker 2: good grade on him when he was coming out. Then
39:24
Speaker 2: they're gonna look at the situation in New England as well.
39:27
Speaker 2: You know, hey, look it wasn't the best situation. He
39:29
Speaker 2: had inexperienced offensive coordinators, he didn't get great coaching, and
39:34
Speaker 2: then he went to Jacksonville started off rough, but then
39:36
Speaker 2: he improved and then he showed if he could put
39:38
Speaker 2: together one more good game here he could make millions.
39:43
Speaker 2: He could make millions with another performance similar to what
39:47
Speaker 2: he just had or better this week. He could make
39:52
Speaker 2: millions of dollars off of that alone. No pressure, Mac,
39:58
Speaker 2: It's the NFL, A professional football. What happens. There's pressure everywhere.
40:03
Speaker 2: It's just the reality of it, you know. And look,
40:05
Speaker 2: I hope he plays great. Yeah I do. I mean, look,
40:08
Speaker 2: I'm always rooting for him. I remember watching him at
40:10
Speaker 2: Bowls and when he was at Alabama, I was hoping
40:13
Speaker 2: he would do good. I mean, he's a hometown guy,
40:15
Speaker 2: and you don't want him to play well for our team.
40:19
Speaker 2: Let's come back.
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Speaker 3: Final thoughts ahead of this week eighteen matchup Jaguars Colts
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Speaker 3: coming up this Sunday. This is the Doug Peterson Show
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Speaker 3: on Jaguars Radio.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the final moments of The Doug Peterson Show, JP, Shadwick,
40:42
Speaker 3: Jeff Flogman, Final show of the season, presented by Fresh
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Speaker 3: from Florida, Jaguars and the Colts coming up Week eighteen.
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Speaker 2: So what a year it's been. It's been a year,
40:57
Speaker 2: let's say that. Yeah, I think that would be accurate.
41:00
Speaker 2: Been a tough year, you know, and you know that
41:05
Speaker 2: the year is wrapping up. You know, you hope that
41:08
Speaker 2: going forward there's some clarity number one and number two,
41:13
Speaker 2: that the health of your quarterback, in the direction of
41:15
Speaker 2: your quarterback is all pointing up. You know, because in
41:20
Speaker 2: order to have one of these franchises that it's always
41:25
Speaker 2: at the top, you've got to have great leadership, but
41:28
Speaker 2: you've got to have great quarterback play. And uh, you know,
41:32
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope that all of that can be achieved,
41:35
Speaker 2: you know, for for the fan base hear in Jacksonville.
41:39
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens after this game. You know, after
41:43
Speaker 2: the game, you've got to figure out what the plan
41:46
Speaker 2: is moving ahead. Yeah, I mean it's you know, a
41:48
Speaker 2: little bit of the unknown, right It's Yeah. I think
41:52
Speaker 2: I think both teams are kind of in that kind
41:55
Speaker 2: of conversation right now. I think the Colts fans, I think,
41:58
Speaker 2: four consecutive years without without a postseason appearance, and and
42:03
Speaker 2: there's some questions on is that a discipline group and
42:06
Speaker 2: is there accountability there? And you know, with their quarterback situation,
42:10
Speaker 2: that's that's a that's a tough place to be in,
42:13
Speaker 2: you know. And and here in Jacksonville. You got a
42:15
Speaker 2: quarterback who you know, got a big extension and wasn't
42:18
Speaker 2: able to perform at the level of expectation. Team wasn't
42:22
Speaker 2: at the level of expectation. Quarterback ended up being heard
42:26
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, you know, shoulder issue, concussion,
42:30
Speaker 2: you know. So there's you know, a lot of a
42:32
Speaker 2: lot of concern and a lot of I think, uh
42:37
Speaker 2: uh want of knowing to what's going to what the
42:40
Speaker 2: future holds, and nobody really knows.
42:42
Speaker 3: That nobody knows, but the future at least immediately is
42:47
Speaker 3: Week eighteen in Indianapolis Lucas Oil Stadium. Jaguars have a
42:51
Speaker 3: chance to sweep the Colts in the season series and
42:53
Speaker 3: finish the year with a winning record in the AFC South.
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Speaker 2: Something to grab a hold of. It's yes, something and
43:02
Speaker 2: uh and and again something to look forward to. Look
43:05
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior and how he finishes the year where
43:08
Speaker 2: he ranks with all the other rookies. Also in NFL history.
43:13
Speaker 2: I love watching this team play, always have and Brian
43:17
Speaker 2: Thomas Junior adds another element of love for watching my team.
43:22
Speaker 2: Oh this I think with this twenty twenty four, we're
43:24
Speaker 2: talking about it. This franchise the look. I love watching
43:27
Speaker 2: this organization win or lose. It's my team. Yeah, Okay.
43:32
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior has added a level of fun of
43:36
Speaker 2: watching this team when there hasn't been anything that this
43:39
Speaker 2: team's been playing for. And I appreciate him, I really do,
43:44
Speaker 2: because I know how hard it is for rookie receivers
43:46
Speaker 2: to have an impact in this game. In fact, you
43:49
Speaker 2: can have a long conversation about John Osher and some
43:52
Speaker 2: of the great cult receivers Reggie Wayne, Marvin Harrison that
43:57
Speaker 2: didn't come out of the gate and just weren't automatically
43:59
Speaker 2: great receiver. Especially Reggie Wayne. It took him a while. Sure,
44:03
Speaker 2: very rarely does a rookie wide receiver waltz onto the
44:06
Speaker 2: scene and have an impact similar to Brian Thomas Jr.
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Speaker 2: In the circumstances kind of helped that along, I guess
44:14
Speaker 2: you could say in some respects because of the injuries
44:16
Speaker 2: to the other guys.
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