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Ep. 88: Season Predictions and Player Projections Ahead of Week 1 | Jags A.M. Podcast · Jags A.M.

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Daguars Am. This morning, we have finally made it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first week of the regular season for the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Real football officially back here in Jacksonville. As the
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  Speaker 1: Jags prepare to head down to Miami in their Week
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  Speaker 1: one opener against the Dolphins. Let's start off with our
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  Speaker 1: big things today, the final fifty three. The roster was
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  Speaker 1: cut down last Tuesday to fifty three players. This is
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  Speaker 1: the final roster, at least for now it is for
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Anyway, a lot of those cuts may be questionable.
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  Speaker 1: What we weren't sure what they were going to do
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the football. Jeff Logerman's in
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  Speaker 1: with us today. Jeff, they kind of did some interesting
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  Speaker 1: things with the edge players and the defensive line. What
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  Speaker 1: exactly was going on there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, very interesting, to say the least.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen a final roster that
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  Speaker 3: has eight big guys and three edge players. Usually the
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  Speaker 3: edge players are kind of at a premium, although the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars do consider Eric Armstead as an edge player, but
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of surprising because for the bulk of his
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  Speaker 3: career he's been an interior player. But if they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be big. They're gonna be really big upfront, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: If they play a lot of those guys that you
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  Speaker 3: normally are inside on the outside.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that was definitely the theme of the
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  Speaker 4: fifty three. Ten offensive linemen, eleven defensive linemen. They clearly
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  Speaker 4: were trying to stay big. I was a little surprised
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  Speaker 4: Christian Braswell didn't make it. Those surprised a few guys
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  Speaker 4: didn't make it, but Doug Peterson had sort of hinted
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  Speaker 4: that a couple of days before the fifty three was out.
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  Speaker 4: He talked about how he and Trent Balky didn't want
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  Speaker 4: to get caught somewhere down the line without big guys
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  Speaker 4: on the roster. They skewed that way. I think their
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  Speaker 4: philosophies was, we can go find guys who can run.
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  Speaker 4: It's harder to find big guys who can play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the one thing that I would add to that
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  Speaker 3: is that if you remember, at the conclusion of last year,
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  Speaker 3: this team really felt that they had to be more
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  Speaker 3: physical on both sides of the line, that's offensive and
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  Speaker 3: defensive lines, and certainly that theme carried true this year.
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  Speaker 1: Bigger and stronger definitely a focus during the off season,
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  Speaker 1: and we're seeing that on this final roster right now.
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  Speaker 1: Our second big thing this week is going to be
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  Speaker 1: Week one.
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  Speaker 5: It's week one.
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  Speaker 1: We take on that opener in Miami. John, It's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be an easy one, but there is always
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  Speaker 1: those flukes in Week one. Do we know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: to expect other than the Dolphins are definitely gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to throw the football.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it may have been my friend Jeff Logaman who
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  Speaker 4: told me in ninety five that you can never predict
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  Speaker 4: what goes on Week one, and it certainly proves true.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard to game plan for it.
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  Speaker 4: Teams spends so much time game planning for it, and
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  Speaker 4: they usually have trick things in and you just haven't
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  Speaker 4: seen anything. So usually what you can do after Week
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  Speaker 4: one is sort of throw all those results out and
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  Speaker 4: know that the season may not go like that. I
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  Speaker 4: think this is a tough Week one matchup because Miami
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  Speaker 4: is so fast. A new defense ye going to be
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  Speaker 4: strong over time. Heads can spin when you're playing this
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  Speaker 4: much speed. This is a tough test for this first
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  Speaker 4: year defense.
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  Speaker 3: Yet, Yeah, I don't have any doubt that it's a
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  Speaker 3: tough test, in particularly because Miami if you look at
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  Speaker 3: them what they did last year. They came out of
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  Speaker 3: the gate hot, and we're rolling. You know, you hope
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  Speaker 3: that with Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Kill missing some time
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  Speaker 3: going into this week will slow the Miami Dolphins down
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. But again, you're right, going all the
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  Speaker 3: way back to nineteen ninety five, the quote that I
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  Speaker 3: said to you at that point, there are a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things that you don't know in week one. There's
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  Speaker 3: always a lot of surprises. Then the other thing to
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  Speaker 3: remember too, very few players are in game condition in
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  Speaker 3: week one because most of the players nowadays are not
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  Speaker 3: playing a lot in the preseason, so sometimes it takes
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of time to get into that groove,
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  Speaker 3: not only as a player, but also as a team.
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  Speaker 4: Yad me kai the matchup this week Jaguars front seven defensively,
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  Speaker 4: josh Heinz, Allen, Trayvon Walker, Devon Hamilton, to me, are
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  Speaker 4: all these guys that if there's a core of the defense,
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  Speaker 4: that's it they got to win to combat mighty speed and.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Nielsen's new scheme being put to the test right
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  Speaker 1: out of the gate for sure in that game against
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins offense. Our final big thing today, Kennedy look Ahead.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do our season predictions a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on in the show, but I did want to
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about this first chunk of this season. Obviously, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to call it a must win in Miami,
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  Speaker 1: but it's important for this team to get as many
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  Speaker 1: wins as they can as early as they can, because
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  Speaker 1: there's some difficult games on this schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's kind of go back to last year for
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  Speaker 2: a minute.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you had what was one of the toughest
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  Speaker 3: collapse in franchise history last year, and so if you
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  Speaker 3: don't start fast, will that mindset look back to last
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  Speaker 3: year and start to have a little doubt. It would
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  Speaker 3: always be great to start fast, just so that that
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  Speaker 3: mindset positive results creates positive results in the future. So
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  Speaker 3: I hope this team starts fast in Miami, and I
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  Speaker 3: have to I'm also going to just kind of chime
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  Speaker 3: in here a little bit and give a little credit
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  Speaker 3: to the offense. I think Trevor Lawrence is primed for
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  Speaker 3: a big year, and I think that this may be
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  Speaker 3: a big moment for him this week in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's certainly this pregame storyline is how fast the
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  Speaker 4: Dolphins offense is. I think the Jaguars offense with Trevor
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  Speaker 4: has to counter that look on paper, it's a really
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  Speaker 4: tough start to the season. One thing I always believe
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  Speaker 4: in when trying to analyze the NFL, though, is in
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  Speaker 4: that first four or five games, you always think you
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  Speaker 4: know what teams are.
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  Speaker 5: You don't really know until week five or six.
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  Speaker 4: So this brutal schedule, I think the Jaguars can find
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  Speaker 4: a couple. I'm just not sure where they are yet,
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  Speaker 4: so I'll sort of play the pullback game.
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  Speaker 5: But it's a tough start on paper, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they have to play the games though. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to keep an eye on things and we'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you our season predictions when we come back later
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  Speaker 1: just this. We're gonna do a little this or that, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us today. Sure, John, I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: here it being here always, so thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, We're gonna do a little this or that, So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna look at some predictions we have for this season.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna look ahead and be optimistic. So first off,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about sacks. We saw a career
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  Speaker 1: year out of Josh last year. Trayvon's heading into his
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  Speaker 1: third year. Now, who do we think we'll have more
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  Speaker 1: sacks this year? Josh heinz Allen, We're Trayvon Walker, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: we are you thinking?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm thinking Josh, just because he's proven it before.
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  Speaker 3: I think that Josh has more tools than his toolkit.
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  Speaker 3: He's done it before. He typically plays on the right side,
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  Speaker 3: which also gives him a little bit more opportunities on
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  Speaker 3: the open side to pass for us.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say just because of that.
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  Speaker 4: Josh, Yeah, I'm gonna agree, But because I don't think
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  Speaker 4: Trayvon has to have eighteen sacks to be.
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  Speaker 5: A really, really effective player. But we talked a little
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  Speaker 5: bit about it in talking about the show.
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  Speaker 4: I think that it's going to be closer than it
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  Speaker 4: was last year. I feel like Trayvon really started coming
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  Speaker 4: on at the end of last season. Even beyond the
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  Speaker 4: numbers he was putting up, you just felt that he
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  Speaker 4: was becoming more dominant and knowing how to use his
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  Speaker 4: size and to me, the way Trayvon plays, Josh was
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  Speaker 4: the guy last year had a bunch of multi sack games, right,
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  Speaker 4: Trayvon to me this year, just his physical dominance. In
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  Speaker 4: some situations, he might find a couple of guys that
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  Speaker 4: he's just better than in this schedule and rack up
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  Speaker 4: some multi sack games this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The crazy thing about both of these guys are both
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and eighty five pounds now, I mean they're giant,
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think that Trayvon has added a
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  Speaker 3: lot to his toolbox. If you look at his game
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  Speaker 3: in years past, he would always be the biggest and
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  Speaker 3: the strongest player and he could always just utilize that
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  Speaker 3: as his toolbag.
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  Speaker 2: But in the NFL, everybody's big and fast and good.
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  Speaker 3: And the one thing he's learned to do is that
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  Speaker 3: he's learned to get on the edge of players. And
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  Speaker 3: you can be a lot bigger and a lot stronger,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot faster when you are on the edges
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  Speaker 3: of players.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just part of the progression.
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  Speaker 3: And I give him credit because he's really taking that
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  Speaker 3: next step. Watching him in training camp this year, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see what he is going to do,
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  Speaker 3: and I agree with John.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Much closer as far as sack total numbers for each
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  Speaker 3: of those guys than it wasn't in last year's instance.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I find intriguing about both of these guys.
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  Speaker 4: I get we all talk sacks. Both of these guys
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  Speaker 4: to me have pass wresh ability, and yet I don't
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  Speaker 4: think either of them give up anything when it's time
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  Speaker 4: to stop the run. I think that's what makes them. Again,
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  Speaker 4: we're in such a sack centric world. But to me,
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  Speaker 4: the reason that they're right, and I think both these
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  Speaker 4: guys have a chance to be great, is because they
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  Speaker 4: play the run almost as well as they stop the past.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe for Trayvon better still against the run than
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  Speaker 4: he is pass rushed.
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  Speaker 3: You know what they say about sacks, You got to
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  Speaker 3: have him to carry the money paid.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got the money, he's good to go.
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  Speaker 5: Josh needs a big sack. But let's move to offense.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at two new additions to the offense this year.
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  Speaker 1: So we have Dave Davis, who signed as a free
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  Speaker 1: agent out of Buffalo, and then Brian Thomas Junior is
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  Speaker 1: picked in the first round. As we've seen with Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: He loves his stand by targets of Christian Kirk and
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  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram. But John, if I'm looking at one of
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  Speaker 1: the new guys, if you can, you'll have more touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the.
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  Speaker 5: Day, Well, it's tough. I'm gonna go with.
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  Speaker 4: Dave Davis because I just go with experience over rookies
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  Speaker 4: in this league. So I think he'll wind up with
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  Speaker 4: a couple more. That being said, as much as I
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  Speaker 4: harp on all these shows when I write out how
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  Speaker 4: you can't count on rookies, Brian Thomas during training camp
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  Speaker 4: started showing things that make me think that he may
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  Speaker 4: have a bigger year than maybe I usually expect out
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  Speaker 4: of a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: Jet Now he can fly, he can flat out fly,
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  Speaker 3: and it's effortless, and I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: defensive backs that are going to get caught a little
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  Speaker 3: off balance this year just because when he was running fast,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't appear to be running fast because it is effortless.
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  Speaker 3: And it's hard not to give the credit to Gay
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  Speaker 3: because Gabe's proven it, and Gabe also does it every year,
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  Speaker 3: but he does it in a different style. He's kind
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  Speaker 3: of crafty, whereas Brian just has the speed to go
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  Speaker 3: in an instant. But I hope that this is a
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  Speaker 3: very tight race and they're both right around ten to
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  Speaker 3: eleven on the year, then.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody can be happy then.
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  Speaker 3: But will I will say this, this team is going
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  Speaker 3: to have a vertical element to it this year that
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been seen in a long time. We've seen kind
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  Speaker 3: of a lot of that dinking and dunking in the past.
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  Speaker 3: I think this year this offense is going to be
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  Speaker 3: the old Al Davis style and that they're going to
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  Speaker 3: go deep and go deep often.
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  Speaker 4: And neither one of these guys feels like false narratives
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  Speaker 4: before the season. We sad as we talk about these
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  Speaker 4: things they just don't pan out. It just feels like
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  Speaker 4: both of these guys are gonna matter a lot in
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  Speaker 4: the offense and it's gonna be a different offense than
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  Speaker 4: we saw last year on that front.
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  Speaker 1: And it's exciting to have so many options because I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Trevor will spread the ball around. Given that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and having this many different ways that they can
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  Speaker 1: attack it, plus the run game as well, that bodes well,
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  Speaker 1: or hopefully bodes well for the offense going to take
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  Speaker 1: things around the AFC South. Now we know CJ. Stroud
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  Speaker 1: is very talented, but there's two other quarterbacks that we've
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  Speaker 1: been hearing about as well. So who is the bigger
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  Speaker 1: upside this season, Anthony Richardson or Will Lovis Jeff CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: Look, CJ is an amazing young man. Last year of
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  Speaker 3: the year that he had was tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: And the two other guys are very unproven.
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  Speaker 3: Richardson was hurt for the majority of last year. Levis
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  Speaker 3: was in and out of the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean toss a coin up into the air between
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  Speaker 3: those two, but I just you know, again I go
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  Speaker 3: John to c J.
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  Speaker 2: Terrell.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, on this question because it says upside. I would
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  Speaker 4: go Richardson because I think he has the potential to
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  Speaker 4: be otherworldly.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, run, throw, arm everything.
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  Speaker 4: The question you have on him is can you stay
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  Speaker 4: healthy and can he avoid some of the mistakes that
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  Speaker 4: dogged him in Florida? So upside Richardson. My sense is
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  Speaker 4: that over time, Lewis may had the better career.
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  Speaker 3: I don't necessarily agree with you on that one, just
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  Speaker 3: because playing quarterback is in the NFL is not about
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  Speaker 3: being an athlete. It's about getting the ball to the
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  Speaker 3: players that can make a difference. And just because Richardson
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  Speaker 3: is the better athlete doesn't mean that he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be the better passor it's about playing quarterback. It's not
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  Speaker 3: about the best athlete in the National Football League, true.
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  Speaker 1: And so what's built around you as well, cause we've seen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, quarterbacks, maybe Carolina as an example. What's around
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  Speaker 1: you is important as well, so what we've seen there,
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  Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see how those things play out,
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  Speaker 1: but something to keep an eye on for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the season in the AFC South. Stay with us
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  Speaker 1: here on jags Am. Coming up after the break, we'll
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  Speaker 1: give you our overall season predictions. For eleven years, dream
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  Speaker 1: season is here, we're so excited to finally see football, real, actual,
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  Speaker 1: live NFL football. So we're gonna do our little predictions
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit as we get into these things.
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  Speaker 5: In the division.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked so much about what CJ surround the texts
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  Speaker 1: you were able to do last year, what we're expecting
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  Speaker 1: from them this year. So let's go over what we
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  Speaker 1: think for the division. What are you hoping to see
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  Speaker 1: out of the team. You guys have the same answer
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  Speaker 1: just telling you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're both at four and two.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think we're both at four and two because
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  Speaker 4: we both understand this league and winning in the division
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  Speaker 4: is often tougher than winning out of the division, so
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  Speaker 4: you usually split and if you can get a series sweep, Jeff,
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  Speaker 4: you play when you swept the team, you felt good
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  Speaker 4: bad it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel really good about it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the two losses come, one of them
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  Speaker 3: at the hands of the Houston Texans and then the
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  Speaker 3: other one I think comes at the hands of the
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  Speaker 3: Indianapolis Colts.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the Titans will be able to compete
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  Speaker 2: this year. That's just my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: But I hope that they can be at four and two,
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  Speaker 3: and I hope the rest of the record reflects about
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  Speaker 3: the same ratio.
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  Speaker 4: And that doesn't necessarily mean that the Jawarys aren't better
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  Speaker 4: than those division opponents over time.
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  Speaker 5: It's just so hard to sweep.
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  Speaker 4: When you're going on the road in its second game,
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  Speaker 4: there's always circumstances to make it tough. Five and one
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  Speaker 4: is an unbelievable division record in this league, and it
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  Speaker 4: should be you know, you should be remembered forever when
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  Speaker 4: it happens.
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  Speaker 5: But four and two is really good.
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  Speaker 4: They can If they can get four and two, I
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  Speaker 4: think they're a playoff ting.
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  Speaker 1: I went five and one with mine because, as Jeff
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  Speaker 1: likes to say, with my teal colored glasses on, for
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  Speaker 1: my final record of the season, they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to go five and one because of the rest of
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  Speaker 1: this schedule is pretty daunting. So when we look ahead
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  Speaker 1: to this season as a whole and we were trying
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  Speaker 1: to sum things up, where did you guys kind of
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  Speaker 1: land with your predictions for the season record.
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  Speaker 4: I'm at eleven and six, and with your teal colored glasses, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: to some respects, but look, I really believe this to
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  Speaker 4: my core.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that Trevor is ready to take the next
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  Speaker 3: step and is ready to enter the elite category. He's
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: got the weapons around him, he's got the experience. Now
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: it's your three in the sist him. He's one hundred
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: percent healthy. If the offensive line can give him better
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: this year, I really believe that he's ready to take
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: that next step.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: And he may end up leading them to twelve.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: You never know, but it's this is such a quarterback
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: driven league, John, it's what he's.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Going to do.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I agree. I liked what you saw at
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Trevor in the preseason, in the after about the first
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: week when everybody's going.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Crazy or a couple of practices that were weird.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: You saw consistency, you saw professionalism, You saw what you
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: want to see out of a fourth year guy. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: went with ten and seven because to me, at ten
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: and seven eleven and six, a coin can be flipped
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: and you're one or the other. I think this is
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: a team that will have a winning record. I think
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: the key is the reason I went ten and seven
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: instead of eleven and six. I think they could have
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: some injuries and stuff to overcome in a tough schedule early.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: I think they will have this sort of experience and
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: the veteran experience and a better line on both sides
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: to overcome it and eventually have a stretch where they
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: make up ground that they may lose in that first month.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Because the first month of the schedule is tough.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: There was let's go back to the last preseason game
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: in Atlanta where they were playing backups and Trevor was
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: eight of ten in that ball game.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I believe he was. And you remember the two incompletions.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Do you guys remember the two incompletions because I remember them.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: One of them was off the tips the fingertips of
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Gabe Davis. Yeah, okay, that ball was put on the money.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: The other one was when Trevor threw it and then
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Gabe couldn't find it in the air, and it literally
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: was the ball in the bucket. If Gabe had found it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: It would have been another touchdown.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: And in the preseason opener, too impressive touchdown to have
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: an anger him in that, like, well, you're talking about Jeff.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: He's doing things. He's making throws that are NFL successful
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: type thing. So it's look, if he's what we think
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: he is, then you're right, then he then he might
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: be the best quarterback in the division, even though.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Everybody's c J stout crazy.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: To me.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Also, the offensive line, you know, I think it's going
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: to be at least marginally better on the interior and
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: had they been marginally better on the interior last year.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I think it's a completely different record at the end
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: of the season, So there are signs to like to
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: get him better than my ten and seven prediction.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I think we're all a similar ballpark with the eleven
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to six and ten and seven. For me, a lot
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: of it is winning the games you're supposed to win,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: because I think some of these matchups they should win.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: And then also, if we're talking about what you guys
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: are saying with Trevor Lawrence, he can win you football games.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: If this is a toss up, coin flip game, he
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: can go out there and throw four touchdowns and win
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you a football game, and that's gonna be huge for them.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Then also for me, when I looked back at the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: season last year, nine and eight, in my mind, they're better,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and I know the schedule is harder, but I still
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: feel like just the talent that is avail them, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: then obviously all the ups and downs of the season
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: as they go along. If they can get through their
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: rough patch the beginning and their rough patch after London,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling good.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: One thing that's gotten lost too is this was not
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: a horrible team.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Last year.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: This was a team that was eight and three and
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: then hit a skid when a lot of things went
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: wrong and they were injuries.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: So I'm not.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Sure they have to get worlds better to be better
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: than they were last year. But they need to get
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: solidly better in some key areas, I would say, and.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Key areas being more physical, absolutely, yeah. And here's one
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: more thing.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: They're being able to depend on what Yeah, and we're like.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Talking about Trevor so much, and which is you know,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: that's the way it is. It's the National Football League,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: and it's a quarterback dri of the league. But if
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: this team can get more physical on both sides of
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: the ball and run the football with both running backs,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Tank Bigs be a etn boy, it makes it a
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: lot easier for everything else to work when you have
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: that going.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: And if you feel better, Jeff about that area through
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the first four weeks, even no matter what the record is,
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: if you feel better about what you're talking about, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: think they're a playoff team because it's I think over time,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: what Jeff's talking about is what completely waylaid the season
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Something to keep an eye on. In that opener against Miami,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: stay with us here on jag Zam. We'll tell you
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: what we've got coming up the rest of the week.
• 20:31
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• 20:37
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  Speaker 1: from five to six, you can head to the Publics
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: located in Neptune Beach to meet Ross, Mattisick and Cam Little.
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• 20:50
  Speaker 1: as they gear up for the home opener. That's the
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  Speaker 1: Public's located at six thirty Atlantic Boulevard in Neptune Beach
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, September tenth. That's from five to six for
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that meeting Greek with the Ross Matta Sick in Cam
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Little Publics where shopping is a pleasure. Jeff, I was
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: just telling you, I think it should be Cam Little
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and Mason Smith, the rookies, the best buddies and like
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the one of the largest human beings I've ever seen,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and then one of the smaller places.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: And that's funny, it's adorable.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: You got two guys that are from very different backgrounds
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and very different sizes in their buddies.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: That's kind of cool.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: That's a cool story. And the way it looks both
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: could be here for a while.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: And the good thing is is both of them are
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: think are barely legal one. I think both are years
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: old and both recently turned it.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I mean very young.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe, I don't know.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Che can get some beer at publics when they're there,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Cam little Ken Now.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: He's official, that's righty king. He pick them up for him.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: John, what you got coming up this week? What do
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you like?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Trying to get Eric Armstead video Zone podcast and it's
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: so looking forward to it absolutely.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Are you excited to have coach a show back with Yeah?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Excited for tomorrow?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got Happy Hour, we got the Doug Peterson Show,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: we have Jaguars All Access.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I'll see you there show.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm all so looking forward to taking home
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: my Alabama white wings from strings.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Standing order from all Access. It's a good one. Come
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: out and see us. Not sure who the player is,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: but it'll be a good one because it's weak one
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: for us, so that's for sure.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us on Jagdam.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: We'll see you again tomorrow.