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Andrew Catalon on Jaguars/Raiders Rookie Standouts | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Week sixteen in the NFL, the Jaguars head to Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas to see the Raiders. Andrew Catalan will be there
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  Speaker 1: to see the Jaguars and the Raiders as well. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Holidays till you Merry Christmas. Good to see you again.
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  Speaker 1: And you know this is the game America has been
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  Speaker 1: waiting for. Jags Raiders. Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big one, JP, Thank you, Happy holidays to you.
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  Speaker 2: Just saw the Jags a couple of weeks ago. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was a much needed win in Tennessee, so
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  Speaker 2: got a pretty good feel for what they're about to
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  Speaker 2: bring to the table. And I haven't had the Raiders
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  Speaker 2: since Week two, which was one of their two wins
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  Speaker 2: of the year, when amazingly they won in Baltimore. You
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  Speaker 2: think about that result. Here we are in late December,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll see what happens this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the number one storyline in this
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  Speaker 1: game are the rookie pass catchers for each team. Rock Bowers,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is the leading rookie and receiving yards in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, the tight end for the Raiders, and then
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas Junior has broken all the Jaguars rookie records
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  Speaker 1: and he's right there second in the NFL young bright
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  Speaker 1: pass catchers. That's something to watch for this game, and
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  Speaker 1: especially against this Jaguars defense is having some issues down
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  Speaker 1: the field. What have you seen looking back at the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders this year in brock Bauers and how that's translated
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  Speaker 1: from college now to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's a star JP. He is really
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  Speaker 2: impressive the numbers that he's getting. And obviously they traded
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  Speaker 2: Devonte Adams midway through the year and that really opened
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  Speaker 2: up him as their number one passing option and he's
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  Speaker 2: taken advantage of that. I mean, he has a chance
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  Speaker 2: to break Mike Ditka's record. He's closing in on that mark,
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  Speaker 2: which would be just incredible for a rookie tight end.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we met with Brian Thomas Junior a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago in Nashville. It was the first
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  Speaker 2: time that our crew had sat with him. Really impressed
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  Speaker 2: by him. I mean, he's got a great way about him,
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  Speaker 2: very serious, very focused, but also has a lighter side
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  Speaker 2: to him too, So our crew really enjoyed spending time
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  Speaker 2: with him. I really think that these two names are
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  Speaker 2: going to be names we hear for a long time
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  Speaker 2: to come in the NFL. I think both of these
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  Speaker 2: young pass catchers are here to stay.
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  Speaker 1: How do you cover Bowers?
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  Speaker 2: Though?
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  Speaker 1: I mean then this, I could ask that most weeks
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  Speaker 1: on most tight ends that face the Jaguars, but they've
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  Speaker 1: had issues down the field. He's got that balance of
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  Speaker 1: power and speed with the football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some preliminary talks with Jason mccordy, who's one of
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  Speaker 2: the people I'm calling the game with, and he thinks
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  Speaker 2: that Darnell Savage is going to be a big part
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  Speaker 2: of this game for the Jacksonville defense. We haven't met
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  Speaker 2: with them yet, but we will soon find out. But no,
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  Speaker 2: this is a game where, look, if you put all
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  Speaker 2: your attention on Bowers, it's not like Jacobe Myers can't
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  Speaker 2: go off either. So yes, Bowers deserves that attention. Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: needs to slow him down, but Myers is also having
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  Speaker 2: a nice season. I think the bigger question is is
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  Speaker 2: can the Jaguars put pressure on the quarterback. We assume
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  Speaker 2: it'll be O'Connell. Don't give him time to find powers
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  Speaker 2: or Myers get after this guy a little bit. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't move very well, So I think that that's an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for Jacksonville to maybe get after him quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Catalan with us, can we get a Carter Bradley
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  Speaker 1: siding that come full circle if kid played against.
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  Speaker 2: The Jags, that'd be really cool. Yeah. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: don't root for players, but I root for stories. That
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  Speaker 2: would be a great story to get in there. He
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  Speaker 2: got Calevon chase On, who's done some nice things after
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't able to really get it going in his
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  Speaker 2: four years in Jacksonville. Mike Caldwell as the Raiders linebackers coach.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a couple of overlapping players, teams, storylines, But
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anything would top if Bradley got in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Andrew, which head coach needs this game more and
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  Speaker 1: the games down the stretch or at this point, we
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  Speaker 1: just don't know what's going to happen after the season
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  Speaker 1: here on this side of things. You never know in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, the way they're losing games, which coach is
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  Speaker 1: kind of more on the hot seat, Pierce or Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you look at the comments that Mark Davis made
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago about Antonio Pierce, and you
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  Speaker 2: know Tom Telesco, the general managers in his first year
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  Speaker 2: as the GM, and someone asked, Davis, you know, are
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  Speaker 2: these guys going to be judged together? To LESCo and
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  Speaker 2: Pierce are separate, and he said, no, separate to LESCo
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  Speaker 2: is not going to be judged. I mean, that's not
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  Speaker 2: what you want to hear if you're Antonio Pierce. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, to me, there's not a ton of great
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  Speaker 2: candidates out there this offseason. I think very highly of
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  Speaker 2: Mike Rabel. I think that he's a guy that will
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  Speaker 2: get a job. I think he can probably get whatever
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  Speaker 2: job he wants, in my opinion. Beyond that, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a coordinator or maybe not a maybe not
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  Speaker 2: an experienced coach, maybe a first year head coach, which
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  Speaker 2: is fine if that's the route you want to go,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that might help some of these coaches,
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  Speaker 2: is Giants, Jaguars, Raiders, that it's not a slam dunk
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  Speaker 2: that you've got X, Y and Z sitting out there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Andrew, let's wrap it up with the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: chase here in the AFC starting to kind of settle in.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens this weekend. The Chiefs are on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: They could go ahead and clench the number one seed.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean the Bills are playing the Patriots, so
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  Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be clenched. You never know,
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  Speaker 1: That's why they play the games. Who do you like
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  Speaker 1: in the AFC down the stretch here to finish it up?
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  Speaker 2: You know, JPR crew had Baltimore last week and obviously
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  Speaker 2: the opponent was the Giants, but just this sense we
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  Speaker 2: got around being the Ravens, specifically Lamar Jackson, this is
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  Speaker 2: a very determined team. Feels to me like they're about
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  Speaker 2: to go on a deep run mission. Lamar had this
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  Speaker 2: different kind of way about him than our previous meetings
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  Speaker 2: with him. So I think this is a team that's
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  Speaker 2: very capable of beating the Steelers, winning the division and
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  Speaker 2: going on a deep run. But as you said, the
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  Speaker 2: AFC is loaded. I mean, whoever gets hot is going
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  Speaker 2: to win. And you know, I'm one of the people
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  Speaker 2: that hasn't been talking up the Chiefs like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of others. But they're thirteen in run or yeah, thirteen
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  Speaker 2: in one, so you know it's hard to you know,
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  Speaker 2: call them out either, but Bill's and Ravens. But right
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  Speaker 2: now I'm pretty excited to see what Baltimore can do.
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  Speaker 1: One of these days, the jaguars will be back on
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  Speaker 1: the end the Hunt graphic, and that's a good step
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. Today's not one of those days. Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: Always good to see you, Thanks for the time you too,
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  Speaker 1: happy how it is.