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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up frock you by the Fields Huttle Group,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network Analyst and former
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Speaker 1: Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and Senior Reporter J. P. Shatterick bringing
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Speaker 1: you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now and Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 2: up to Luxury Fieldsauto dot Com. It is Wednesday of
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Speaker 2: week six. The Indianapolis Colts come to town to face
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Speaker 2: the Jaguars this Sunday. It's a one o'clock kickoff time.
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Speaker 2: The game presented by Hyundai JP Shadrick, John Osher at
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Speaker 2: the Miller Electric Center and the Hundai Studios. And Bucky
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Speaker 2: Brooks is in Los Angeles as he is each and
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Speaker 2: every week. We're recapping last week's win, the sweep of London,
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Speaker 2: and much more ahead. Bucky. Good afternoon. It's a happy
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Speaker 2: place to be these days.
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Speaker 3: I must say, yeah, it's a happy place to be
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Speaker 3: to be.
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Speaker 4: Anytime you have an opportunity to really off a couple
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Speaker 4: of wins, you feel better about your station in life.
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Speaker 3: And so life is good right now. Down in do ball.
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Speaker 5: I'm happy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, John's happy, you know everybody's happy.
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Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, I thought upset. I thought even beyond winning
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Speaker 5: back to back, I thought beating the Bills the way
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Speaker 5: they beat the Bills, this is what the twenty third
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Speaker 5: game of the Doug Peterson era. I thought it was
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Speaker 5: the most impressive win, the best win they've had, including
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Speaker 5: a playoff. I mean, a playoff wins a different thing,
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Speaker 5: but to beat that team that way, I think it's
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Speaker 5: the most impressive win of the Doug Pearson era.
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Speaker 2: Then Bucky, they did it in all phases. He talks
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Speaker 2: about full team wins all the time and needing to
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Speaker 2: do things in all three phases, and they did that,
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Speaker 2: certainly on defense, Let's start there. I mean, this defensive
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Speaker 2: group facing a Bills team that was second in the
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Speaker 2: league in scoring coming in, they shut down the running game.
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Speaker 2: They did enough against Josh Allen to kind of get
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Speaker 2: him uncomfortable. He underthrew a couple of passes because of that.
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Speaker 2: And they were fantastic on defense against the Bills.
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Speaker 4: They were fantastic on defense. And you know, it's one
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Speaker 4: of the things, like being in the locker room. They
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Speaker 4: talked about being the bigger bully. They wanted to impose
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Speaker 4: their will. They wanted to make it a very physical contest.
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Speaker 4: They talked about putting the pass on and keeping the
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Speaker 4: pass on through the early part of the season so
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Speaker 4: they could identify, so they could create that identity in
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Speaker 4: terms of being an edgy team.
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Speaker 3: And it played out. They did a great job of
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Speaker 3: tackling in space.
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Speaker 4: They really took it to the bills, and even though
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Speaker 4: the score indicated that it was a one touchdown game,
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Speaker 4: this was one that the Jaguars dominated and control the
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Speaker 4: game from beginning to end. Yes, he got closed, he
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Speaker 4: got a little contentious at the end, but this was
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Speaker 4: a game. I mean, you talked about the best winning
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Speaker 4: the Doug Peterson era. Look, I second that because it
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Speaker 4: was a great performance in terms of playing off many
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Speaker 4: ball and beginning to see the style that the Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: Can use to win a lot of games in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty three.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't know how accurate this is, but
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Speaker 5: I'll say it anyway. It felt like a game that
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Speaker 5: Doug Peterson would have been proud of to be in
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Speaker 5: the NFC East back in the day. You know, and
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Speaker 5: you know it was a street fight against a team
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Speaker 5: that's used to being in big games. A team that's
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Speaker 5: been in the playoffs for three years then five out
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Speaker 5: of the last six or whatever, and you went toe
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Speaker 5: to toe and much like a December January game, not
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Speaker 5: everything went right. And that was the most impressive part
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Speaker 5: to me was that, you know, I didn't think they'd
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Speaker 5: win the game, and opportunitly didn't think they'd win the
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Speaker 5: game if they didn't play great. And I agree with Bucky.
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Speaker 5: They dominated it, but then had two or three times
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Speaker 5: where you sort of gave a waste, You gave away
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Speaker 5: stuff you shouldn't given away, You let him get back
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Speaker 5: in it a little bit, and then to go and
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Speaker 5: win it with your offense enforcing its will for the
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Speaker 5: last three drives. I say three because they had a
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Speaker 5: sevent team play drive that got no points and then
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Speaker 5: you ran into the end zone downhill in the last
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Speaker 5: two drives. They've never had a victory like that in
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Speaker 5: the Peterson era against a good team, Bucky.
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Speaker 3: No, they never have.
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Speaker 4: And you know, it's funny because coming into the season,
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Speaker 4: we envisioned this team playing a certain way.
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Speaker 3: That'll be the offense can the way they would light
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Speaker 3: up scoreboards.
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Speaker 4: And build a bunch of shootouts, but we've seen through
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Speaker 4: the first five games, really the defense has been the
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Speaker 4: one that's been kind of rock steady, with exception of
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Speaker 4: a hiccup along the way, but this has been one
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Speaker 4: where the defense is doing a great job of creating
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Speaker 4: opportunities shortfield opportunities by getting stops and occasion getting turnovers,
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Speaker 4: and then offensively, this has been a team that has
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Speaker 4: played a lot more ball control in their style than
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Speaker 4: we anticipated. Even though they're throwing it around the yard,
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Speaker 4: this is one where they're retaining possession, making sure that
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Speaker 4: they're able to shrink the game and limit the opportunities
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Speaker 4: for the opposing team. It's really been fascinating to watch
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Speaker 4: how we thought this would be like a fast break
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Speaker 4: team and they're slowing down and really playing half court
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Speaker 4: basketball with the ball.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that shows me JP. I think they can
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Speaker 5: win a few different ways, and it felt last year
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Speaker 5: like they could sort of win one way, and in
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Speaker 5: order to get to the super Bowl, in order to
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Speaker 5: get deep in the playoffs, you have to be able
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Speaker 5: to win multiple ways. If you can't win a game
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Speaker 5: like this all of a sudden, the playoffs become very
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Speaker 5: difficult because you see games like this in terms of
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Speaker 5: the defense. On the first one to say you can't
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Speaker 5: do this, you can't take away plays and say, well,
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Speaker 5: if you take away these, but I'm gonna take away
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Speaker 5: a couple of plays. I'm going to do what I
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Speaker 5: say you can't do. Even against Houston when they have
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Speaker 5: thirty seven points, two communication breakdowns led directly to two touchdowns.
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Speaker 5: So really, if you take away those two plays. Out
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Speaker 5: of this season, they've been really good defensively except for
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Speaker 5: a couple of those. Now those count. I'm not saying that,
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Speaker 5: but it wasn't like against Houston where you were giving
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Speaker 5: up twelve play drives for seven. You know, they weren't
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Speaker 5: just getting rolled. You gave a couple of big plays
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Speaker 5: where it was clear something went just haywireing inters communication.
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Speaker 5: It's been a solid defense that's played winning football four
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Speaker 5: or five games, and I can safe to say that
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Speaker 5: wasn't the preseason narrative.
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Speaker 2: No, it certainly was not. But they're doing that right
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Speaker 2: now and they are three and two in first place
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Speaker 2: in the division. They have the tiebreaker on the Colts
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Speaker 2: who are coming in. We'll get to that team coming
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Speaker 2: up in just a little bit. We heard from head
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Speaker 2: coach Doug Peterson today though, moving ahead, Jaguars players had
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Speaker 2: Monday off, a workout yesterday was it, and then back
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Speaker 2: on the practice field today. Any jetlag for the Jaguars, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, just spend more time walkthroughs, kind of slow the
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Speaker 6: pace down a little bit, try to get their bodies
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Speaker 6: and minds kind of rejuvenated again.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 6: Obviously the onus is on the player for understanding the
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Speaker 6: game plan and getting the game planned down. But I
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Speaker 6: can do my part by helping them and maybe getting them,
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Speaker 6: you know, out of the building a little bit sooner
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Speaker 6: where they can and not so much to get them
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Speaker 6: out of the building, but get them off the field
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Speaker 6: where they can continue their rehab and treatments and you know,
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Speaker 6: hydration is important, nutrition is important, and then making sure
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Speaker 6: that they get rest at night.
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Speaker 2: So that's head coach about the plan this week to
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Speaker 2: get them back on track. And that's what it is, Bucky.
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Speaker 2: You spend ten to eleven days in Europe. You're coming
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Speaker 2: back and you got to get back on track in
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Speaker 2: a hurry, because all of a sudden the schedule. You
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Speaker 2: got two games and ten days on the back end
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Speaker 2: of this thing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, two games in ten days and Doug Peterson talking
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Speaker 4: about taking the pass off is all part of I'm
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Speaker 4: sure a bigger plan.
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Speaker 3: I want to talk to Andrew Wingert after the game.
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Speaker 4: He talked about how it had been a real physical
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Speaker 4: early part of the year. They've been wearing pads once
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Speaker 4: or twice a week, trying to really get the contact,
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Speaker 4: and so I'm not surprised that Doug is taking the
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Speaker 4: pads off this week and next week, with you know,
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Speaker 4: the close proximity and games.
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Speaker 3: What he wanted to do when he went.
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Speaker 4: To London, he wanted to utilize that time to really
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Speaker 4: recreate a training camp atmosphere, not only in terms of
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Speaker 4: like the level of intensity and the physicality, but the
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Speaker 4: camaraderie and chemistry that the team was able to build.
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Speaker 4: Now that you've done that, maybe you can't scale back
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Speaker 4: some of the physicality in practice because you feel like
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Speaker 4: the guys understand it. They're back to understanding the team's
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Speaker 4: process for winning games in terms of breaking each the
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Speaker 4: week down into these individual days that you have to
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Speaker 4: get things done, and maybe, just maybe this would be
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Speaker 4: the start of a run that will allow them to
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Speaker 4: kind of reel off a handful of victories and kind
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Speaker 4: of put themselves in the thick of the race at
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Speaker 4: the top of the AFC.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's got a chance to be I'm
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Speaker 5: in triebaw what Bucky said earlier. It does feel like,
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Speaker 5: you know, this London trip has sort of showed us
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Speaker 5: what the identity this team can be. They were fairly
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Speaker 5: similar games the sense that I don't remember JB. I mean,
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna exaggerate here. When's the last time they led
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Speaker 5: an entire game? It was it was against Houston last year.
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Speaker 2: We've always talked about slow starts to the offense right
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Speaker 2: behind and they got to climb back and all that.
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Speaker 2: That didn't feel like the case in London.
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Speaker 5: But guess what. They didn't trail in London in either
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Speaker 5: game and had, as Bucky said, as close as the
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Speaker 5: Bills game got at times, the Bills never scored a
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Speaker 5: touchdown when they had a chance. You know, when it
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Speaker 5: wasn't a ten point game, you kept him at bay,
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Speaker 5: You kept control of that thing against a team that,
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Speaker 5: let's not underplay it. They had been killing teams going
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Speaker 5: into that.
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Speaker 2: They had won three straight by twenty eight or more.
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Speaker 2: I mean, running away from you.
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Speaker 5: I thought this was maybe the best team in the league,
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Speaker 5: and I would have sort of thought the game would
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Speaker 5: have gone the other way. So I think it's I
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Speaker 5: think it has a chance to be a real benchmark
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Speaker 5: game where we As Doug said after the thing was Monday,
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Speaker 5: when I asked him, he said, you know, it gave
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Speaker 5: us a glimpse into what we can be. He didn't
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Speaker 5: say it's what we are, but it does give him
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Speaker 5: an example and it gives the players some confidence. Okay,
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Speaker 5: well he's saying we can play this way, and we
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Speaker 5: do play this way. Look who we beat, Bucky. We
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Speaker 5: didn't beat you know, the little sisters of the Poor.
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Speaker 5: We beat the Bills, who I thought last week they
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Speaker 5: were a Super Bowl favorite.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a team that had a lot of
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Speaker 4: hype about them. They were hot, They had knocked off
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Speaker 4: the Miami Dolphins, and you know, you're here talking about
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Speaker 4: the Miami Dolphins who had put seventy points on the
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Speaker 4: team before the Buffalo Bills throttled them blow them out.
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Speaker 4: And then the Jaguars knock off the Bills, and so
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Speaker 4: you're beginning to put these things together and you're like, well,
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Speaker 4: how good can this team be? Because I would still
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Speaker 4: say that we haven't seen the Jaguars play their best football.
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Speaker 3: Ideally, you want to see them playing.
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Speaker 4: Their best football down the stretch end of November, December, January.
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Speaker 3: You would like to see them peaking.
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Speaker 4: But it does give you the hope that this team
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Speaker 4: can really accomplish a lot of great things this season.
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Speaker 6: Anthony Richardson has made a difference his ability to run,
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Speaker 6: you know, the ball he's thrown them well, they've made
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Speaker 6: plays offensively quite frankly, and the run game, you know,
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Speaker 6: is really kind of spark them. In defense, defense is solid,
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Speaker 6: I mean they obviously it's a penetrating style of front there.
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Speaker 6: I think, say you're Alexander obviously the leading in the league,
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Speaker 6: and Hackles right now, he's all over the field. He
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Speaker 6: kind of that field general for them. I mean, he's
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Speaker 6: a he's a really good player, and he's playing well.
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Speaker 6: You know right now, we know we know DeForest and
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Speaker 6: his size and length and what he did against us
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Speaker 6: in the first game.
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Speaker 3: And then you know Grover right there.
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Speaker 6: I mean, these guys are it's a solid defense is
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Speaker 6: keeping them in football games. And they've had some really
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Speaker 6: good wins. Obviously, you know we're both three and two obviously,
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Speaker 6: and but it's just you know, Shane's got him, got
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Speaker 6: him playing extremely well and extremely confident right now.
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Speaker 2: That's Doug Peterson, of course, earlier today discussing the Indianapolis
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Speaker 2: Colts walking back. It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks. It's Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: It's week six. The Colts come to town, first place
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Speaker 2: in the division on the line. The Jaguars three and two.
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Speaker 2: The Colts three and two. Jaguars got him back in
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Speaker 2: week one at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. J P Shadwick,
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Speaker 2: John Osier and Bucky Brooks. You know, the the Jaguars
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Speaker 2: ran the ball well up in Indianapolis Week one. They
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Speaker 2: broke through at the end with some longer runs. Obviously
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Speaker 2: Etn with the late touchdown in that game. And Travis
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Speaker 2: is coming off the second best career rushing day in
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Speaker 2: his career last week with the two touchdowns and really
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Speaker 2: exploded for that thirty five yard run at the end
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Speaker 2: of the game against the Bills. So the run game
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Speaker 2: of the Jaguars against this Colts defense, Bucky, you know
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Speaker 2: what they are in the pass rushing game, especially in
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Speaker 2: the interior with Buckner and those guys. But if they
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Speaker 2: can get something done on the ground this week, that
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Speaker 2: would be a good start.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's the recipe every week.
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Speaker 4: And Doug Peterson has said that he wants this to
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Speaker 4: be a passing team. There'll never be one of those
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Speaker 4: teams as fifty to fifty when it comes to.
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Speaker 3: Run pass balance.
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Speaker 4: But what we've seen is Travis Hitzien has been the
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Speaker 4: most consistent oppensive player on the team. We've seen when
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Speaker 4: he's been giving a heavy workload, he's been productive not
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Speaker 4: only as a runner but as a receiver. And as
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Speaker 4: he has it going right now, you want to continue
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Speaker 4: to ride the hot hand because as he goes, what
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Speaker 4: it does is it dictates the terms to the defense
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Speaker 4: and then they have to make difficult decisions. Do you
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Speaker 4: load up to stop the run or do you allow
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Speaker 4: Travis Htien to run crazy? But if you take a
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Speaker 4: defendant put them in the box, you now run the
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Speaker 4: risk of one one on one with Kevin Ridley, Christian Kirk,
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Speaker 4: Say Jones and every ingram.
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Speaker 3: Either way, it's a win for the Jaguars.
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Speaker 4: The establishment of the running game has been a nice
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Speaker 4: fine and a big key to the success just far.
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Speaker 5: Here's what I predict, Bucky. I'm a little a prediction
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Speaker 5: that I'm sure is right now. You know, I answer
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Speaker 5: questions from fans, Bucky, I do know if you know
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Speaker 5: that about me? Okay, So I get a lot of
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Speaker 5: emails during games, and a lot of times the emails
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Speaker 5: you get in the third quarter are much different than
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Speaker 5: the emails you get in the five minutes after a game.
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Speaker 5: I think I'm going to get a lot of emails
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Speaker 5: the rest of the season in the in the second
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Speaker 5: quarter with people saying why are they being so stubborn
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Speaker 5: with the run?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 5: And then after the game singing the praises of Travis
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Speaker 5: etm And it's really been the pattern so far. Against
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Speaker 5: the Colts, it was sort of that way. Doug and
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Speaker 5: Press have both talked a lot about having to persevere.
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Speaker 5: I don't know that Travis is going to have a
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Speaker 5: lot of great first halves because the offensive line frankly
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Speaker 5: hasn't really gotten pushed. It doesn't feel like a dominant
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Speaker 5: run blocking unit right now, but they are sticking with it.
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Speaker 5: The other day it was perfect example, one hundred and
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Speaker 5: eleven in the second half and was it twenty five
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Speaker 5: in the first. I think those two coaches are going
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Speaker 5: to have to work hard to be persistent and maybe
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Speaker 5: have some sticky notes like Press made have some sticky
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Speaker 5: notes on the windows saying keep running even though it's
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Speaker 5: not working. I think he needs that. But the persistency
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Speaker 5: the other day was what struck me by because they
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Speaker 5: were not a good running team in the first half,
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Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, on the key drive
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Speaker 5: of the game, Travis runs three times for twenty seven
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Speaker 5: yards and rolls into the end zone. In the first half,
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Speaker 5: this did not look like a team that was going
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Speaker 5: to be able to run three times from the twenty
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Speaker 5: seven yard line roll into the end zone, and they
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Speaker 5: eventually just wore the Bills down. In an incredibly different
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Speaker 5: first half and second half.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it was funny listening to the coaching
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Speaker 4: staff at halftime. They talked about wanting to impose their will.
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Speaker 4: They talked early in the half about being able to
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Speaker 4: kind of pop one on a sweep or being able
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Speaker 4: to get the counter game going with Travis Hittim kind
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Speaker 4: of hitting it behind the kickout block, and they were
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Speaker 4: able to do that the thing that was really impressive,
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Speaker 4: and it's one of the reasons why the running game
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Speaker 4: is still important even though this is a team that
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Speaker 4: runs through number sixteen. The running game is important at
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Speaker 4: the end of games when you're trying to salt the
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Speaker 4: game away.
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Speaker 3: When the Jaguars needed to kind of.
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Speaker 4: Drain the clock, slow it down, seize control of the game,
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Speaker 4: they were able to hand it to Travis Atien over
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Speaker 4: and over and over again, even though the Buffalo Bills
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Speaker 4: knew that it was coming. To me, that's a significant
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Speaker 4: improvement over what the team was able to do last year.
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Speaker 4: And if they can keep that run element where it's
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Speaker 4: a legitimate run game, man, it's really going to open
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Speaker 4: up this offense as we get into the late stages
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Speaker 4: of the season because defenses then will have to adjust
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Speaker 4: to make sure that they take care of number one
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Speaker 4: and that opens up the field for everybody else.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you beat me too, it, Bucky. If there's a difference,
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Speaker 5: that's it. You did not feel like this was a
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Speaker 5: great four minute team last year. They converted things, but
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Speaker 5: it was often with Trevor throwing on third and three.
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Speaker 5: On one of those plays I mentioned when they went
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Speaker 5: in from the twenty seven, the first run of that
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Speaker 5: series was on third and five for a ten yard run. Well,
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Speaker 5: that's really gutsy in that point, because again, for three quarters,
17:40
Speaker 5: they did not look like a team that was going
17:42
Speaker 5: to pick up third and five running the ball. So
17:44
Speaker 5: their faith in it was impressive. I have a question
17:47
Speaker 5: for the analyst. I asked a question for the prognosticator
17:50
Speaker 5: the other day, But I've got he wears many hats.
17:54
Speaker 5: He wears a lot of hats. Why is Travis good?
17:58
Speaker 5: And when I say that he does not look physically
18:06
Speaker 5: like the runner that he is, if you follow me,
18:08
Speaker 5: he's physical. He runs through tackles JP, I think was
18:13
Speaker 5: asking questions the other day, but he breaks more tackles
18:16
Speaker 5: than anybody in the NFL.
18:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, he leaves the league in forced misstackles so far.
18:20
Speaker 5: And The first thing I noticed about him last year
18:22
Speaker 5: in pre season was how hard he runs. He sort
18:26
Speaker 5: of his reputation in college because he never got tackled
18:29
Speaker 5: as being a light breakaway guy. But he is tough.
18:34
Speaker 5: And I guess, sort of where is he among the
18:38
Speaker 5: league's running backs right now, Buckie, because he's moving up.
18:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has to be moving up. He's engined towards
18:43
Speaker 4: that top five, just in terms of his production. His
18:47
Speaker 4: performance is playmaking ability, everything that he's bringing to the table,
18:51
Speaker 4: not only as a runner, but also we've seen him
18:53
Speaker 4: make plays in the passing game. The thing about Travis
18:55
Speaker 4: that is really unique. I think he almost has an
18:58
Speaker 4: unorthodox Herkie style. He's a little more straight line as
19:02
Speaker 4: a runner. You don't see like the wiggle that you
19:04
Speaker 4: would see with a Fred Taylor or even what you
19:07
Speaker 4: saw with MJD.
19:09
Speaker 3: He's not built in that cloth.
19:12
Speaker 4: And you know, when I look at him, he's not
19:14
Speaker 4: as fast or explosive, So I want to make sure
19:16
Speaker 4: that I give him the right context. But he kind
19:19
Speaker 4: of reminds me of CJ. Two K Chris Johnson when
19:22
Speaker 4: he was at Tennessee, who was kind of straight line,
19:24
Speaker 4: but CJ two K was super explosive in terms of
19:27
Speaker 4: being able to get from.
19:28
Speaker 3: Zero to sixty.
19:30
Speaker 4: Travis has that straight line running style, doesn't have the
19:34
Speaker 4: acceleration in.
19:35
Speaker 3: Burst, but you combine that style with the.
19:38
Speaker 4: Toughness and the balance that he displays, he's just a really,
19:41
Speaker 4: really good runner. I would say that if there was
19:44
Speaker 4: one area where you could approve some of that would
19:46
Speaker 4: be vision, because he takes a lot of full face
19:49
Speaker 4: shots from defenders. Whereas Fred and some of those other
19:53
Speaker 4: guys would kind of get the glancing blows.
19:55
Speaker 3: Travis appears to take it flush. But his toughness is dependability.
20:00
Speaker 4: He's reliability as a runner really has allowed the coaching
20:04
Speaker 4: staff to have more confidence in him. That's why I
20:06
Speaker 4: think we've seen him get the ball twenty plus times
20:09
Speaker 4: in recent weeks.
20:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean his first year in the field. Last season,
20:12
Speaker 2: we'd see him just get smoked by a defender, like
20:14
Speaker 2: head over heels, and you haven't seen that lately. I mean, honestly,
20:18
Speaker 2: he would just get rocked and then but now he's
20:20
Speaker 2: shaking free of it or running over a guy or
20:23
Speaker 2: making a miss. And you know, Trevor Lawrence today was
20:27
Speaker 2: talking about and Doug's talked about this as well, Doug Peterson,
20:30
Speaker 2: you know, he's just he's more patient and trusting the
20:34
Speaker 2: blocking scheme ahead of him, squared shoulders, all the things
20:38
Speaker 2: leading into a big run and then running through the
20:41
Speaker 2: hole when it's there, not just tiptoeing to it. That
20:44
Speaker 2: all kind of comes together.
20:45
Speaker 5: Yeah. The part you mentioned was a huge emphasis for
20:47
Speaker 5: them in the offseason was getting him to set up
20:51
Speaker 5: the blockers, run more patiently and not give away the
20:56
Speaker 5: potential four yard gains going after an eight yard game.
21:00
Speaker 5: That's why I wanted to ask the analyst too. Is
21:04
Speaker 5: that a huge improvement for Travis. I'm not smart enough
21:07
Speaker 5: to be able to see it on film, but are
21:09
Speaker 5: you seeing the benefits of that?
21:10
Speaker 3: Buck?
21:10
Speaker 5: Is that one of the reasons he's improved.
21:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's a mentality. It's a mentality where you've
21:16
Speaker 4: kind of beat into his head and the other running
21:19
Speaker 4: backs head.
21:19
Speaker 3: We don't want negative running plays. We don't want negative.
21:22
Speaker 4: Runs because what it does is it puts you so
21:24
Speaker 4: far behind the change that you lose all of similnce
21:28
Speaker 4: of balance when it comes to the next series of
21:30
Speaker 4: play calls. And so if you can just sometimes a
21:33
Speaker 4: stick your nose up in there, get you two get
21:35
Speaker 4: you three, particularly early in the game. Those two and
21:38
Speaker 4: three yard games turn into five, ten, fifteen yard games
21:42
Speaker 4: in later quarters.
21:43
Speaker 3: It's like a boxer that likes to work the body.
21:45
Speaker 4: You got to hit him with those body shots early,
21:48
Speaker 4: and then eventually you can make him topple over with
21:50
Speaker 4: a big old hay maker. Travis Atienn is learning and appreciating, Hey,
21:54
Speaker 4: I got to do the dirty work early so I
21:56
Speaker 4: can get the glory late.
21:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's completely understandable. I mean, this is a
21:59
Speaker 5: kid who, frankly at Clemson probably didn't lose a whole
22:04
Speaker 5: lot of yardage and when he did, it wasn't really
22:08
Speaker 5: a big deal because they could pick up third and
22:10
Speaker 5: twelve and just a different game. He didn't have to
22:15
Speaker 5: run this way. It's about learning what professional football is.
22:19
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it is. And so far, so good.
22:22
Speaker 2: He's fifth in the NFL and rushing yardage through five weeks.
22:26
Speaker 3: So far.
22:27
Speaker 2: Plenty ahead. We'll come back. We'll take a closer look
22:29
Speaker 2: at the Indianapolis Colts what they have to offer now.
22:32
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson's on the shelf, So it's Gardner Minshew's game
22:36
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Speaker 6: You know we've been obviously Angela Blackson getting him in
22:59
Speaker 6: here has helped that. You know, Roy's Roy's playing playing well.
23:05
Speaker 6: Adam Goatsi is getting more opportunities. You know, Jeremiah Ledbetter
23:08
Speaker 6: is playing good. And then the addition of Tyler Lacy.
23:11
Speaker 6: You know, all these guys are are playing playing solid,
23:14
Speaker 6: consistent football right now, and and and they're really they're
23:17
Speaker 6: staying discipline with their with their gap integrity and all
23:20
Speaker 6: of that. And you know we're we're tackling better on
23:25
Speaker 6: the perimeter. Uh, there's there's a there's a sense of
23:28
Speaker 6: urgency there. You know, guys are flying around making plays.
23:32
Speaker 6: You saw Jank you know Sunday against the Bills coming
23:34
Speaker 6: through there and making some great, great tackles for losses
23:37
Speaker 6: things like that. And I just think there's a confidence
23:40
Speaker 6: level that's uh, you know with the defense right now
23:44
Speaker 6: that that they they they kind of pride themselves on
23:47
Speaker 6: on that.
23:49
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Speaker 2: one o'clock kickoff time at EverBank Stadium. Jaguars trying to
24:15
Speaker 2: get a wn Jacksonville. Hasn't happened yet.
24:20
Speaker 5: No, but they've beaten this team eight years in row
24:24
Speaker 5: at homes seven times here so and and they're not
24:28
Speaker 5: getting to win in Jacksonville. Think I get it. You
24:30
Speaker 5: lost to the Chiefs, and he laid an e against
24:32
Speaker 5: the Texans. So it's a thing. I don't. I guess
24:36
Speaker 5: I'll take it more serious if it's a thing.
24:39
Speaker 2: After Sunday, Hey, let's Bucky get into this Jaguars run
24:42
Speaker 2: defense that Doug Peterson was referencing there. And hey, they've
24:47
Speaker 2: been very good obviously last week against the Bills, but
24:51
Speaker 2: different kind of challenge this week. This is a Colts
24:53
Speaker 2: offense that is run heavy, and they've got now a
24:57
Speaker 2: two headed backfield. Moss put together one hundred and sixty
25:00
Speaker 2: five yards on twenty three carries last week, including a
25:04
Speaker 2: fifty six yarder, so he was good even outside of
25:06
Speaker 2: that long run. And then he got Jonathan Taylor back
25:09
Speaker 2: with a contract to go with it. So hey, this
25:12
Speaker 2: is certainly priority number one. And then then you make
25:15
Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew put it in the air against you, and
25:17
Speaker 2: that would be just fine. That has to be the
25:19
Speaker 2: game plan, right.
25:21
Speaker 3: That is the game plan.
25:22
Speaker 4: The game plan is to make Garna Minshew have to
25:24
Speaker 4: beat you. You have all the inside information, you know
25:27
Speaker 4: exactly who the play is. A lot of those players
25:28
Speaker 4: to play with Garnamentshew, so they understand what gives him problems.
25:32
Speaker 4: And so you have to take away the ability for
25:34
Speaker 4: the Coles to utilize a balanced game plan where they
25:37
Speaker 4: can run it and dictate the terms when they have
25:41
Speaker 4: to throw.
25:41
Speaker 3: This has to be about stopping Zach Wallas. Has to
25:44
Speaker 3: be about stopping John Taylor, winning.
25:46
Speaker 4: Those early downs and making garnamentch You throw second and
25:49
Speaker 4: third and long.
25:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean if you make him make throws, he
25:54
Speaker 5: doesn't want to make there's a reason he's an NFL
25:57
Speaker 5: backup and at a starter. Ought here, If you're pressuring
26:03
Speaker 5: him and he has to throw and try to convert
26:07
Speaker 5: third and twelves throwing into those kind of coverage, that's
26:11
Speaker 5: when you can get him, if if he's ahead of you,
26:14
Speaker 5: or if you let him sort of get outside the
26:17
Speaker 5: pocket and get junkie, if you will, and what you
26:21
Speaker 5: don't want, Frankly, I've been saying it all week. You
26:23
Speaker 5: don't want to be leading by four with three minutes
26:27
Speaker 5: to go and all of a sudden he starts doing
26:30
Speaker 5: minshew Mania type stuff where he's running this way and throws.
26:34
Speaker 3: The ball this way.
26:35
Speaker 5: Because he he's creative like that, he's unorthodox, and he
26:38
Speaker 5: can do stuff that you that you can't game plan.
26:41
Speaker 2: Buck, he can't contain himself. Look at you, Bucky.
26:44
Speaker 5: No, I mean that's what he is. And he's dangerous
26:49
Speaker 5: in that kind of situation. We saw it multiple times
26:51
Speaker 5: here in Jacksonville.
26:52
Speaker 2: What's so funny, Bucky?
26:54
Speaker 4: I think he's a I think he's a good quarterback
26:56
Speaker 4: when he plays for a bad team and situations that
26:59
Speaker 4: don't matter. I think we've seen when he's had to
27:02
Speaker 4: play under pressure in meaningful moments he doesn't deliver.
27:06
Speaker 3: That's not knocking him.
27:07
Speaker 5: That's just what he's looking pretty good.
27:12
Speaker 2: Knock. I mean.
27:14
Speaker 4: So, so the main thing is, and he is like
27:16
Speaker 4: most like we've seen this, when you take away the
27:20
Speaker 4: running game and you force him to have to win
27:22
Speaker 4: from the pocket, I don't believe that he can make
27:25
Speaker 4: enough consistent pinpoint throws to be able to do it.
27:28
Speaker 3: And then when you factor in the way that he
27:30
Speaker 3: can't get skittish against pressure.
27:32
Speaker 4: Like all of that running around and all that, like,
27:35
Speaker 4: that's great, but typically what comes with that are the interceptions,
27:38
Speaker 4: and the old boy plays. And so if we can
27:41
Speaker 4: get him in that situation and force him to throw
27:43
Speaker 4: against the defense that knows yes to throw, man, the
27:46
Speaker 4: scales tip heavily.
27:48
Speaker 3: In the Jaguars faper.
27:49
Speaker 5: They've gotten leads the last two weeks. I think if
27:52
Speaker 5: if they play the first quarter or so quarter and
27:56
Speaker 5: a half the way they had last couple of weeks
27:58
Speaker 5: and you're up seven nothing, ten nothing, I think it's
28:02
Speaker 5: I think he's does turned into a long day for Minshew,
28:04
Speaker 5: no doubt.
28:05
Speaker 2: You say the old boy plays. Is that what you said? Yeah?
28:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, the old boy plays. Because we don't want to use.
28:10
Speaker 4: We want to make sure we use adult language. You
28:13
Speaker 4: don't want to make it salty. Don't want to make
28:14
Speaker 4: it salty. Maybe kids listening, Yeah, don't want to make
28:20
Speaker 4: it salty.
28:21
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't understand.
28:22
Speaker 4: He's a he's a turnover waiting to happen. And if
28:26
Speaker 4: you can get him where he has to do. I mean,
28:28
Speaker 4: just think about the last game up there. He had
28:29
Speaker 4: an opportunity to kind of make the game close and
28:31
Speaker 4: make some plays and do that. He can't come through.
28:35
Speaker 4: I've since this just in watching some of the stuff
28:37
Speaker 4: on x or Twitter, like some of the fans are
28:40
Speaker 4: fearful of him coming back and it's the revenge game
28:43
Speaker 4: of Gardner minshew.
28:45
Speaker 3: All right, I mean that's fine, but.
28:48
Speaker 4: I think I think we've played better quarterbacks and so
28:51
Speaker 4: I need to take care of him.
28:52
Speaker 3: Get miss property. But we played much better court.
28:54
Speaker 2: It's safe to say Bucky ain't scared. That's fine.
28:58
Speaker 5: I'm not if you play the way you should play
29:02
Speaker 5: near the Jags and I think you win this, but again,
29:06
Speaker 5: don't give involve in that final drive.
29:08
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Speaker 2: head to the publics at Etown Exchange to meet Jaggs
29:15
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29:17
Speaker 3: Again.
29:18
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29:22
Speaker 2: in Jacksonville, October twenty fourth. It's a Tuesday, five to
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Speaker 2: six pm. That's down on nine B John down southeast
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Speaker 2: of town. I have no idea that that's down southeast
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Speaker 2: to town. I just told you where it was, nine
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Speaker 2: B Southeast.
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Speaker 5: Fine, if I have a GPS, I can make it.
29:38
Speaker 2: You can get there.
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Speaker 3: So check that out.
29:39
Speaker 2: You got a couple of weeks to get there. We're
29:41
Speaker 2: back in a moment our final thoughts and a preview
29:44
Speaker 2: of sounds of the game. It comes up today or
29:46
Speaker 2: today at five o'clock. That's right around the corner, in
29:49
Speaker 2: like twenty two minutes. You'll get a sneak preview when
29:52
Speaker 2: we come back. It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks backing
30:00
Speaker 2: down an eighth from the thirty five yard line of
30:04
Speaker 2: the Bills. The Bills are out of timeout. They got
30:07
Speaker 2: none left.
30:16
Speaker 3: Under center and running.
30:18
Speaker 2: Again with etn He burst out of there, touchdown provense
30:24
Speaker 2: he did. How to put a nail in this thing?
30:27
Speaker 2: They did score?
30:29
Speaker 4: How good is that?
30:33
Speaker 2: Then?
30:33
Speaker 4: I tell you don't what happened.
30:35
Speaker 2: Then I tell you get your feet off too.
30:38
Speaker 4: Where are here? You have it?
30:54
Speaker 2: Sounds of the game coming up at five o'clock today,
30:57
Speaker 2: the debut. I think they put the crown hold on.
31:00
Speaker 2: It is the King of England now at the end
31:02
Speaker 2: there Travis Etn Junior who put together the ben hold on.
31:07
Speaker 2: Just putting your mic on, John before we get you
31:10
Speaker 2: going here. Yeah, Travis Etn put together his second best
31:14
Speaker 2: rushing day. He is now the all time London game
31:17
Speaker 2: rushing leader in league history in a career. He surfast
31:21
Speaker 2: Frank Gore, who had played in three London games in
31:23
Speaker 2: his career, and earlier in the game, not with that run,
31:28
Speaker 2: but in an earlier run, Bucky. He is now the
31:32
Speaker 2: I guess, the so called rushing King of England.
31:35
Speaker 4: Oh no, don't, don't take away from that. Like he's
31:38
Speaker 4: you said, the so called like he is the rushing king.
31:40
Speaker 4: He's the rushing champ of all the London games. I
31:43
Speaker 4: mean that's great. I mean it's nice, accomptient. Hopefully he
31:46
Speaker 4: has some bigger ones, but he certainly has performed really
31:50
Speaker 4: really well the two games that we were able to
31:52
Speaker 4: see and watch in London. The last couple of weeks.
31:55
Speaker 4: I mean, he's taken his game up a notch. The
31:58
Speaker 4: key will be once you show them the league that
32:00
Speaker 4: you're a good player, can you continue to do it
32:03
Speaker 4: consistently week after week? Can we start to kind of
32:06
Speaker 4: write in the box score that he's going to have
32:07
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty two one hundred and thirty scrimmage yards.
32:10
Speaker 4: If you begin to do that, then you feel really
32:13
Speaker 4: excited about what you have in the building in terms
32:15
Speaker 4: of how you game planing, you who you're featuring in
32:18
Speaker 4: the game plan.
32:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he went through a little bit of
32:20
Speaker 5: that last year and sort of as they hit a wall,
32:24
Speaker 5: but had had a good stretch and then you know,
32:29
Speaker 5: kind of went quiet for a couple of weeks if
32:30
Speaker 5: I recall it, and felt by the end that he
32:33
Speaker 5: was sort of backing through that.
32:35
Speaker 3: So maybe.
32:38
Speaker 5: I think in thirty year, compared to first, the way
32:40
Speaker 5: he's run and I think we can expect a little
32:42
Speaker 5: more consistency on that front.
32:43
Speaker 2: I would guess we'll find out starting this week, the
32:46
Speaker 2: Colts coming to town, the Jaguars at home against the
32:50
Speaker 2: division rival. First place on the line. Bucky final thought,
32:53
Speaker 2: what's your gut on this game?
32:55
Speaker 3: Oh?
32:56
Speaker 5: My good.
32:56
Speaker 4: I feel good about this game. This is what we
32:59
Speaker 4: call the maturity. Can you take care of business? One
33:02
Speaker 4: of the things that Kelvin Ridley talked about in the
33:04
Speaker 4: post game and we were chatting on the side, is
33:06
Speaker 4: he was talking about going back to Alabama and he said,
33:08
Speaker 4: the next step for our team is to take care
33:11
Speaker 4: of business and games that we're supposed to win. And
33:13
Speaker 4: I asked him, I said, at Alabama, So this would
33:15
Speaker 4: be like if Alabama's playing Vanderbilt.
33:17
Speaker 3: What was the approach?
33:18
Speaker 4: He was like, you go in, you take care of
33:20
Speaker 4: it the early part of the game, and then you
33:22
Speaker 4: finish it the second half. And so can we see
33:25
Speaker 4: the Jaguars begin to make that jump where in a
33:28
Speaker 4: game where they're playing against a team that everyone is
33:30
Speaker 4: going to say they should be, they go out and
33:32
Speaker 4: play at a high level. They played to their standard,
33:34
Speaker 4: and they get rid of the Colts very very early
33:36
Speaker 4: in this game.
33:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say the Colts are a little better
33:39
Speaker 5: than Vandy.
33:41
Speaker 2: Right, But I mean, and Bucky doesn't think so apparently.
33:44
Speaker 5: Look at it, I mean, it seems in first place.
33:47
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean four games.
33:51
Speaker 4: Going into the season, do we expect the Colts to
33:53
Speaker 4: be a team that was a viable playoff contender we
33:56
Speaker 4: didn't like. Now they've gotten off to a good start,
33:58
Speaker 4: but I still expect the Wills to fall off at
34:00
Speaker 4: some point.
34:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Bucky hates.
34:08
Speaker 2: The Colt thrown out a lot of bulletin board material
34:10
Speaker 2: Bucky today, I must say.
34:12
Speaker 5: But I liked the phrase the very first part of that,
34:15
Speaker 5: when he said it's a maturity game. I completely agree
34:18
Speaker 5: you're talking about. This team has not been in the
34:21
Speaker 5: situation that much, meaning you are a favorite at home
34:25
Speaker 5: with a chance to get a leg up in the division.
34:28
Speaker 5: They haven't been in a situation in a long long time.
34:30
Speaker 5: It's a little similar to Tennessee last year when they
34:33
Speaker 5: were a favorite at home in the division for the
34:35
Speaker 5: first time in forever. So I think it's a big
34:38
Speaker 5: game on that front. How do you handle being the favorite? Okay, now,
34:41
Speaker 5: if we win this through six games of the season,
34:46
Speaker 5: you're clear by a game with a sweep over one
34:50
Speaker 5: of the teams, and you sort of get to stick
34:52
Speaker 5: your chest out and say, Okay, we were the division
34:54
Speaker 5: favorites coming in, we're still the division favorites after six games.
34:57
Speaker 5: I think it's important on that front. Although I think
34:59
Speaker 5: the Colts are better than Bucky.
35:00
Speaker 3: Thanks. Oh, I didn't say they're bad, But.
35:05
Speaker 2: Like Noise, it's Bucky backing up.
35:10
Speaker 5: No, I'm not, he's back up.
35:12
Speaker 4: We're sitting there acting like they were a team that
35:14
Speaker 4: we expected to be a top five team, and there's
35:17
Speaker 4: no one that expected them to be a top five team.
35:20
Speaker 4: They're here now, but I don't expect them to continue
35:22
Speaker 4: to be at the top of the division. There's no
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Speaker 4: one that would look at their roster and say that
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Speaker 4: nobody back up. Hey man, there's no there's no backing up.
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Speaker 4: I don't worry about the bulletin war material. I'm saying
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Speaker 4: it's a long we over here acting like Bart Burt
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Speaker 4: Jones and Johnny United is gonna come back and play
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Speaker 4: for the horseshoe that Garner missues, not that guy.
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Speaker 5: Burt Jones is. Burt Jones is a good pull. When
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Speaker 5: you just ignored Peyton and Andrew Lusk way back, I
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Speaker 5: think Burt Jones would have been in that group if
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Speaker 5: he's been smokes all.
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Speaker 2: Right, that'll do it for our program today are thanks
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