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Ep. 55: Déjà Vu? Breaking Down Win-and-In Matchup vs. Titans | Jags A.M. Podcast · Jags A.M.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, Congratulations, congratulations. Winning is fun, right, Winning is fun.
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Speaker 1: Winning is fun. My hat's off to everybody in this room.
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Speaker 1: We've battled and you were battle tested. Okay, you're battle
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Speaker 1: testing you guys. Continue to stick together. Great things is
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Speaker 1: gonna happen this football team moving forward.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you just got to continue to believe, continue to
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Speaker 2: believe in one another.
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Speaker 3: All right, great job.
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Speaker 4: We gotta finish with one down. Okay, ready, one, two, three.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to Jags Am. Winning is really fun.
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Speaker 6: That's why we're gonna celebrate victory Monday all week long.
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Speaker 6: Hair on JAG's Am, because Jags finally break their four
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Speaker 6: game losing street. They gonna win over the Panthers, and
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Speaker 6: they do it in the best way possible by playing
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Speaker 6: clean football and not making mistakes. Our first big thing today,
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Speaker 6: it's gonna be it was always the Titans, So we
1:16
Speaker 6: had this game circled on the calendar. It came down
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Speaker 6: to the Titans game, the final game of the regular
1:20
Speaker 6: season last year.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna be the same situation this year.
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Speaker 6: And Josh Allen told us why it's always a little
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Speaker 6: bit special when it's best arrival.
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Speaker 4: Again.
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Speaker 7: You know that goes down to the ribery game. You
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Speaker 7: just say they're not playing for anything, and they they're
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Speaker 7: playing for a lot, playing for pride, they playing for themselves,
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Speaker 7: they playing for check, they're playing for everything. So for us,
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Speaker 7: why do you know how robbery games go. You know,
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Speaker 7: you can be the best team, you can be the
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Speaker 7: worst team. But ribery games, the MG's gonna be high.
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Speaker 7: And so we have to we have to come prepared
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Speaker 7: to play. No lacks of Baisic cool movement, No, no
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Speaker 7: going through the motions. We have to start Monday, No,
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Speaker 7: when we're going to play first and foremost, and get
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Speaker 7: ready to prepare every single day.
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Speaker 6: And we can do that.
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Speaker 7: You know, I can see the same outcome as this.
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Speaker 5: Brian.
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Speaker 6: The Titans aren't playing for anything on paper, but sometimes
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Speaker 6: playing for pride is the most important thing. So I
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Speaker 6: can't imagine this is going to be an easy matchup.
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Speaker 4: No it won't.
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Speaker 8: And we just need to go back and look at
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Speaker 8: last January when they rolled down here and they had
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Speaker 8: Josh Dobbs. They didn't have Andrea, DeAndre Hopkins, Derrick Henry,
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Speaker 8: and Ryan Tannehill all on the field, right, I mean
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Speaker 8: it was pretty much Derick Henry and Josh Dobbs and
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Speaker 8: they darn near beat the Jaguars and knocked him off.
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Speaker 4: This isn't as good a team, but.
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Speaker 8: Mike Grabel's a really good coach and he'll have them
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Speaker 8: ready to go, locked and loaded to play. And John,
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Speaker 8: you know, look, this is probably Derick Henry's final game
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Speaker 8: as a Tennessee Titan, which means that the video board
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Speaker 8: is going to be loaded with highlights of what he's
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Speaker 8: done to torture the Jaguars through the years. Probably that
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Speaker 8: long ninety nine yard touchdown run will be over and
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Speaker 8: over and over. And there's some marks he can hit,
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Speaker 8: like set a franchise record with forty one career one
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Speaker 8: hundred yard days against the Jaguars.
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Speaker 4: He could get that done.
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Speaker 8: So my guess is you're going to get the best
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Speaker 8: they've got, and Henry is still pretty good.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I feel like all forty one of coming against
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Speaker 9: the Jaguars. Look, it's not the same team that came
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Speaker 9: in here last year. They're not as good. They're more
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Speaker 9: similar to the Carolina team last week in the sense
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Speaker 9: that they are struggling right now towards the end of
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Speaker 9: the season. Tell the people up there they think the
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Speaker 9: motivation for the Titans is not as much being the
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Speaker 9: Jaguars as it is just winning a game. There's not
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Speaker 9: a whole lot of rivalry feel for people I've talked
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Speaker 9: to that being said, you need to do this ani
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Speaker 9: it against Carolina, which is get up early, get a
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Speaker 9: touchdown lead, and make them not believe. I think if
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Speaker 9: you do that, I think you can get this game
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Speaker 9: without a whole lot of drama. That's easier said than
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Speaker 9: done on the road against the Mike Rabel coach team.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, let me highlight that real quick, because you talk
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Speaker 8: about getting a lead, John, If the Jaguars get a lead,
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Speaker 8: then they won't be able to give the ball to Henry,
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Speaker 8: and the numbers on that a very start. When he
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Speaker 8: carries the ball seventeen times or fewer this year, Kay,
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Speaker 8: he only averages thirty seven yards per game, but when
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Speaker 8: it's eighteen or more, it's one hundred and fourteen. So
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Speaker 8: their best hope of beating the Jaguars is Derick Henry
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Speaker 8: getting something done on the ground. If you build that
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Speaker 8: early lead that John talked about, you take that away.
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Speaker 9: Also, Okay, the Jaguars haven't won this year, you Trannel
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Speaker 9: at halftime, So get a lead.
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Speaker 6: Lead, always helps and it helps out the defense as well.
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Speaker 6: That's our second big thing, which is defense helping.
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Speaker 5: Out the offense.
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Speaker 6: The offense was very good last week and not turning
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Speaker 6: the ball over and playing smart football. Could have done
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Speaker 6: a little bit better in the red zone, but we're
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Speaker 6: working on that. The defense, though, also played well and
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Speaker 6: helped out the offense.
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Speaker 10: When a defense is playing like that, it takes so
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Speaker 10: much pressure off the offense and off a quarterback to
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Speaker 10: feel like you have to press and do this and
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Speaker 10: do that. So, you know, we you know, obviously we'd
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Speaker 10: like to be better on the red zone, but one
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Speaker 10: of your defense is playing like that, it's not the
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Speaker 10: worst thaing to skicking field goals, taking care of the football.
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Speaker 10: We kind of knew all week we wanted to protect
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Speaker 10: the ball and just you know, move the ball and
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Speaker 10: put up points, and that's what we did. The defense
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Speaker 10: played played great, So hats off to those guys, and
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Speaker 10: hats off to Josh for you know, getting this three
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Speaker 10: sacks a day and getting that record. That's a big
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Speaker 10: deal and that's that's awesome.
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Speaker 6: John, when you lost so many games and are trying
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Speaker 6: to get your momentum back. I think even if it's
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Speaker 6: field goals, getting points on the board, and then playing
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Speaker 6: solid defense. That's the complimentary football that they haven't been
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Speaker 6: doing the past month, and that was what was able
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Speaker 6: to get them an early lead and then a little
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Speaker 6: bit of confidence.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I thought it was key. You know, Brandon McManus
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Speaker 9: had struggled coming into the game. They were longer field
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Speaker 9: goals that he missed in that four game stretch. I
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Speaker 9: think he missed four out of five, and I think
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Speaker 9: three of them were from fifty plus and wins, So
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Speaker 9: it's not like he's a horrible kicker.
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Speaker 3: They just hadn't been going through.
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Speaker 9: They were getting closer the other day, but yeah, getting
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Speaker 9: that scoreboard advantage. Doug Peterson does a nice job within
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Speaker 9: close games of playing to the score, of getting up
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Speaker 9: by a touchdown, of getting up by a couple of touchdowns,
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Speaker 9: and then being able to sort of dictate play after that.
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Speaker 9: He's a really good scoreboard game coach. When field goals
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Speaker 9: aren't going through, Brian, it's tougher to play that strategy
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Speaker 9: type game because all of a sudden, the things you've
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Speaker 9: done to get there haven't gotten any advantage and you're
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Speaker 9: back to square one. So in my ten things the
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Speaker 9: Jaguars need to do to win on Sunday. Making makeable
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Speaker 9: kicks is what I'm you.
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Speaker 8: Know, Press Taylor talked about last week before the game
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Speaker 8: against the Panthers about how they had a game plan
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Speaker 8: ready to go and then the circumstances of the game
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Speaker 8: got away from them.
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Speaker 4: And that's what you're talking about.
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Speaker 8: Their field goals and how you tend to play get
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Speaker 8: away from you. Just one more point on the Jaguars
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Speaker 8: building a lead, and that is is it unleashed the
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Speaker 8: pass rush. Last week you saw six sacks, which totally
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Speaker 8: took away any sort of rhythm from the young quarterback
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Speaker 8: for Carolina. And you happen to be going against a
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Speaker 8: Titans offensive line that allowed six sacks last week. So
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Speaker 8: making the kicks, getting the first down, putting points on
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Speaker 8: the board allows you to really play to the strength
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Speaker 8: of your defensive line and last week without standing. So
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Speaker 8: all those little things add up. In the field goal
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Speaker 8: part of it certainly is.
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Speaker 4: Part of it.
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Speaker 6: Our final big thing is staying dialed in because of
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Speaker 6: that losing streak for the Jaguars, it's been pretty much
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Speaker 6: must win since last week.
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Speaker 5: It'll be must win.
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Speaker 6: This week, and then of course the playoffs if they
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Speaker 6: get there.
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Speaker 5: So staying dialed in is going to be key going forward.
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Speaker 2: Coming down to week eighteen. I mean, that's just I
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Speaker 2: think our guys really thrive on these situations. And that's okay,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it's a great opportunity for our
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Speaker 2: for our organization, for our franchise, for players, for our owner,
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Speaker 2: you know, to be in this situation, and you know,
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Speaker 2: we got to go. We gotta go play another good
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Speaker 2: football team on the road, and well, we'll enjoy this
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Speaker 2: one obviously, and prepare, you know, prepare this this week
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Speaker 2: whenever we play.
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Speaker 5: Brian.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure many of us would have appreciated if they
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Speaker 6: locked up a playoff spot a little bit earlier in
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Speaker 6: the year. But they really do play their best football
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Speaker 6: when their backs against a wall.
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Speaker 8: Well, I hope so, because they haven't played their best
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Speaker 8: football this year in big games. Kai I circled five
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Speaker 8: dates when the schedule came out in the spring, Kansas City, Buffalo,
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Speaker 8: San Francisco, Cincinnati, and the Ravens, and they only won
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Speaker 8: one of those games, right, And we heard after the
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Speaker 8: Chiefs loss that it was the worst week of practice
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Speaker 8: that they had all season long.
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Speaker 4: Well, flip it now. We heard that last week was.
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Speaker 8: The best week of practice, so hopefully they're in that mindset.
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Speaker 8: It doesn't get any bigger than this win and you're
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Speaker 8: in lose and you probably go home because of the
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Speaker 8: way that the scenarios play out. And I know we're
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Speaker 8: going to talk about that later, but if this team
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Speaker 8: has been lacking anything this year, it's been that situational
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Speaker 8: awareness of a big game and when you've got to
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Speaker 8: play your best and you can't have any excuses injuries
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Speaker 8: or otherwise.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it remains to be seen if they
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Speaker 9: play their best with their bast games to all this year,
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Speaker 9: because to me, Sunday is the biggest example of that.
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Speaker 9: Beating Carolina was very impressive at home. You got to
9:00
Speaker 9: go on the road in a place where until last
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Speaker 9: year he hadn't played very well.
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Speaker 3: The whole thing.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, look, if you're not ready, if you're not dialed
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Speaker 9: in for this one, go do something else.
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9:41
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9:44
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Speaker 5: Thank you for.
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Speaker 6: Helping make the holiday season a little bit righter for
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Speaker 6: our community.
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Speaker 11: There was seven to one we counts on the field,
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Speaker 11: and I feel like he just bringing that veteran president.
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Speaker 11: He just been here, he'd been through everything with the Jaguars,
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Speaker 11: and he understand what it was like when they were
10:00
Speaker 11: winning no games and now he knows what it is to.
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Speaker 4: Feel like success.
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Speaker 11: And he just has the aura about him and I
10:05
Speaker 11: feel like it just kind of feeds off into the
10:07
Speaker 11: other guys. And that's just he just means so much
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Speaker 11: to the officer line, to the team, to all of us.
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Speaker 11: And I feel like when he's out, it's just kind
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Speaker 11: of definitely notice.
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Speaker 3: It's good to happen that It's just it's just, uh,
10:18
Speaker 3: he's just.
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Speaker 4: A difference maker for us. He's an energy as energy
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Speaker 4: as pantagious in that room.
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Speaker 12: Man, we ran the ball really well today, so having
10:27
Speaker 12: him back was.
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Speaker 4: A plus for us.
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Speaker 12: So I know he's probably just starting to get back
10:31
Speaker 12: in his groove too. So you know, he came out
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Speaker 12: healthy today and.
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Speaker 4: You know we're gonna keep moving forward with him for sure.
10:36
Speaker 4: He just pulled my helmet off, so I'll pulled hisself.
10:40
Speaker 4: That's yeah, good, that's the last one I normally do.
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Speaker 5: Cam being Cam, he always gets the last laugh.
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Speaker 6: I know he doesn't love that narrative of that, the
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Speaker 6: team being seven and one when he plays, but everybody
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Speaker 6: else does and they all love him when he's out there,
10:55
Speaker 6: and they play a little bit different too, and uh
10:57
Speaker 6: nice to see a little bit a little bit of
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Speaker 6: Cam's energy at the end of the game too, when
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Speaker 6: things are in hand as well.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's not that they win seven and one because
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Speaker 9: Cam Robinson's I mean, but they are a different team.
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Speaker 9: They run better, and frankly, he's the alpha on the offense.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 8: We had this conversation with Nate Hackett back in twenty
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Speaker 8: seventeen where he identified Cam Robinson, who was a rookie,
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Speaker 8: as being one of the two or three guys on
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Speaker 8: the offense that they could count on to bring it,
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Speaker 8: you know, top competitor at all times.
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Speaker 3: And that was a good running team that year. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: so he does matter in the run yet.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, And you know when you talk about those guys,
11:35
Speaker 8: and it's hard unless you're in that locker room and
11:38
Speaker 8: you get to know them a little bit personally. You know,
11:40
Speaker 8: the guys to whom football matters, right, and so some
11:43
Speaker 8: guys it's good, it's important, but it's not like everything,
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Speaker 8: and not every guy in every locker room is ever
11:50
Speaker 8: going to be that way. But Cam is one of
11:51
Speaker 8: the guys in that locker room. Man, it really freaking
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Speaker 8: matters to him. And I've changed my tune, you know.
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Speaker 8: I kind of thought he was gonna be one of
11:58
Speaker 8: those guys that was gonna be a cap casualty next year.
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Speaker 8: Is they went to sign a bunch of those other
12:03
Speaker 8: young players. Those young players haven't come through this year,
12:06
Speaker 8: and Cam certainly has. I don't think there's any way
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Speaker 8: that you can let Cam Robinson go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Do you want to go into big games without him?
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Speaker 6: Hell no?
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Speaker 3: So that's yeah.
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Speaker 6: I don't want to see that locker room without him either,
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Speaker 6: because when we talk about hating to lose more than
12:18
Speaker 6: you like to win.
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Speaker 5: Cam is one of those people to me, and I.
12:21
Speaker 4: Love the standoff on the field. I loved it.
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Speaker 8: That was their best player, Derrick Brown and the Jaguars'
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Speaker 8: best offensive lineman and one of their best players, and
12:30
Speaker 8: he just wouldn't let go. And the way he tossed
12:32
Speaker 8: a home and casually, I just I loved it. I mean,
12:34
Speaker 8: it's not the best in sportsmanship, and at least he
12:36
Speaker 8: didn't it didn't hit somebody because maybe they would have
12:38
Speaker 8: given him more than they're gonna give him.
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Speaker 4: But I loved it.
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Speaker 8: Because it's set the tone ky that I think has
12:43
Speaker 8: been lacking from this team. That was a big game
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Speaker 8: in the sense that they had to win it, and
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Speaker 8: I thought.
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Speaker 4: That that was the best sign that I've seen from
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Speaker 4: this team in more than a month.
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Speaker 5: I know had coach Doug Peterson liked it.
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Speaker 6: Beca in the media session the other day, someone asking
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Speaker 6: about him, he was just ear to ear green talking
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Speaker 6: about it a.
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Speaker 5: Little bit about playoffs.
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Speaker 6: So obviously, the easiest route for this team is going
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Speaker 6: to be win and in they can lose, and then
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Speaker 6: there's a little backdoor situation of they can back into
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Speaker 6: the playoffs with some other things going their way, but
13:14
Speaker 6: then you're a lower seed.
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Speaker 5: Obviously nobody wants that.
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Speaker 6: And then the way this team's been playing, if they
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Speaker 6: lose and then get in, I don't know what the
13:20
Speaker 6: success rate is really going to be there, because you're
13:22
Speaker 6: also probably gonna be taking on Baltimore or Miami.
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Speaker 8: Well, so you know, right out of the gate, you
13:26
Speaker 8: will know, I should say on Saturday night, because in
13:30
Speaker 8: order for the Jaguars to lose on Sunday and still
13:33
Speaker 8: make the playoffs, they need the Ravens to beat the
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Speaker 8: Steelers on Saturday. And they've already said in Baltimore that
13:40
Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson's not gonna play, which means there will be
13:43
Speaker 8: a number of guys who are probably beat up and
13:45
Speaker 8: banged up on both sides of the ball that won't
13:47
Speaker 8: play either, and the Steelers are gonna come hard charging
13:49
Speaker 8: it's a rivalry game anyway. I don't see the Ravens
13:52
Speaker 8: beating the Steelers on Saturday night, which will just further
13:56
Speaker 8: hopefully John, you know, get the team focused on what
13:59
Speaker 8: they've bet.
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Speaker 4: Do one Sunday.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, look, this is winner in and realistically it takes
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Speaker 9: a miracle to get in if you don't.
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Speaker 3: So if they don't win, they don't deserve to be in.
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Speaker 9: So there's also a scenario in there if the Steelers lose,
14:17
Speaker 9: which could happen.
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Speaker 3: They're inconsistent.
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Speaker 9: It's not a guarantee that a resting Baltimore team couldn't
14:22
Speaker 9: win that game. Then you need Denver to either lose
14:26
Speaker 9: or tie. And clear that up, that's because Denver can't
14:31
Speaker 9: make the playoffs, but they can get into a potential
14:34
Speaker 9: tie with Jacksonville and.
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh. And once you get into a three.
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Speaker 9: Way tie, then all of a sudden, the head to
14:43
Speaker 9: head that the Jaguars have over Pittsburgh it's thrown out
14:47
Speaker 9: and it comes down to that three way deal. So
14:50
Speaker 9: it's complex, trust me that that's what it is, even
14:53
Speaker 9: if they explain it right. But the long and short
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Speaker 9: is they're depending on Pittsburgh to lose, I mean, and
15:07
Speaker 9: that realistically is not something you can depend on going
15:09
Speaker 9: into this game. So well is the old playoff game? Yeah,
15:12
Speaker 9: and that isn't the only one.
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Speaker 8: You also need the Raiders to beat the Broncos, and
15:15
Speaker 8: you'd say, well, the Raiders that Antonio Pierce has had
15:17
Speaker 8: on the field at various times will clearly be.
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Speaker 3: They've also been up and down.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, up and down.
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Speaker 8: So you need two things to happen. Right, If it
15:24
Speaker 8: was just one your percentages higher, but two your percentage drops. Look,
15:28
Speaker 8: they're a better team than the Titans. They should be
15:30
Speaker 8: at the Titans. Go do it and eliminate all of
15:34
Speaker 8: the consternation about it. And the good news is is
15:37
Speaker 8: that at least on Saturday night they'll know one way
15:39
Speaker 8: or the other if there's an opportunity for.
15:41
Speaker 9: And the same matchup that enabled the Jaguars to completely
15:46
Speaker 9: control the Titans here is still there for the table.
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Speaker 9: It's offensive line of the Titans, which is not the
15:52
Speaker 9: offensive line that it's been the last you know, before
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Speaker 9: last year against What I still feel is the Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: Strength, which their defensive front.
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Speaker 9: They ought to be able to get sacks, they ought
16:04
Speaker 9: to be able to make those days of mistakes. To me, again,
16:07
Speaker 9: the key goes back to don't have weirdness early that
16:11
Speaker 9: gives them a lead that surprises them and energizing. And
16:15
Speaker 9: if you don't do that, if you play the way
16:17
Speaker 9: you did out here on Sunday, which is three nothing
16:19
Speaker 9: maybe three three tens, get up. If you get up
16:24
Speaker 9: on this team, I think they would be ready to leave.
16:27
Speaker 8: Remember that they were up twenty seven nothing on them
16:29
Speaker 8: at the end of the third quarter. It wasn't till
16:30
Speaker 8: a fourth quarter that they made it a closer game.
16:33
Speaker 8: And so the reality of it is is that they
16:34
Speaker 8: did the same thing to the Panthers that they did
16:36
Speaker 8: for three quarters against the Titans. They should be able
16:39
Speaker 8: to match up and win and eliminate any of the
16:43
Speaker 8: worry about the playoffs.
16:44
Speaker 6: The only reason that Titans kind of looked like they
16:46
Speaker 6: were worth anything was Levis kind of threw a couple
16:48
Speaker 6: of big, deep balls and he left the last game
16:50
Speaker 6: with an injury. So we don't know if we'll see Tannehill,
16:53
Speaker 6: we'll see Levis.
16:53
Speaker 9: So he's surprising if Levis plays, considering out of the two,
16:58
Speaker 9: he's the future guy.
17:00
Speaker 3: I don't know that they would. Again, I have no
17:02
Speaker 3: insight on this.
17:03
Speaker 9: I don't know they if you put him out there
17:05
Speaker 9: in an injury risk situation and risk him having to
17:08
Speaker 9: rehab in the offseason, I doubt they do that well.
17:10
Speaker 8: The one thing though, that leans in the direction of
17:12
Speaker 8: levis Is is that the head coach, Mike Brabil said
17:15
Speaker 8: last week before he got injured that every rep the
17:18
Speaker 8: rest of the way was so valuable to him, and
17:21
Speaker 8: then said yesterday in his news conference that he anticipated
17:25
Speaker 8: that he was feeling better and had a chance to
17:27
Speaker 8: practice this week. So I get the sense listening to
17:30
Speaker 8: Mike Brabel's news conference he very much wants him to play.
17:33
Speaker 8: We should point out this is probably, No, it is
17:36
Speaker 8: not probably. It is Ryan Tannehill's final game. He jumped
17:39
Speaker 8: up there in twenty nineteen and led them to the
17:41
Speaker 8: playoffs and gave them, you know, with Derrek Henry behind him,
17:45
Speaker 8: gave them, you know, a great run, a.
17:47
Speaker 4: Couple of division titles.
17:48
Speaker 8: So you know, the intangible that you do fight against
17:52
Speaker 8: is his final game, Derek Henry's final game. And Brabel
17:55
Speaker 8: going at it with a reporter yesterday in his news
17:57
Speaker 8: conference talking about how much right he used a specific
18:01
Speaker 8: adjective that I will not how much it sucked to lose.
18:06
Speaker 5: That man hates losing.
18:07
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like him a lot.
18:09
Speaker 8: I think he's a really good coach, and I hope
18:11
Speaker 8: he goes to New England, and don't I.
18:12
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Speaker 2: He played smart, he played tough, came back in after
18:52
Speaker 2: being checked. You know, he ran the offense, and you know,
18:58
Speaker 2: credit the offensive line, you know, especially in the second
19:01
Speaker 2: half of of really kind of taking over and and
19:04
Speaker 2: helping out in the run game. And you know, and
19:06
Speaker 2: then the thing too sometimes is when you know, when
19:09
Speaker 2: you when your starter's out, your backups in, I think
19:12
Speaker 2: the focus, the attention is a little bit, you know,
19:15
Speaker 2: the guys are a little more zeroed in. And we
19:17
Speaker 2: saw that today really from not only the offense, but
19:20
Speaker 2: I think the defense as well.
19:22
Speaker 3: This school that.
19:25
Speaker 6: This school that look into this or that here on
19:28
Speaker 6: jag ZAMC. J. Bethard playing in place of Trevor Lawrence
19:31
Speaker 6: and missed his first career start, and Bethard managed the
19:34
Speaker 6: game well, it didn't turn the ball over, played smart
19:36
Speaker 6: football allowed you know, getting points in the red zones
19:40
Speaker 6: by field goals most of the time. And Travis Dpn
19:43
Speaker 6: had a good day as well, so that certainly helped.
19:45
Speaker 6: And then the defense went off and that's it's always helpful.
19:48
Speaker 6: So as we look at this or that this week,
19:49
Speaker 6: this is you know, win or go home situation pretty
19:52
Speaker 6: much in Tennessee. So where do you go with players
19:56
Speaker 6: that are kind of on the borderline here? Is this
19:57
Speaker 6: a rest them? But can you do that if it's
20:00
Speaker 6: a must win game or is it all in?
20:02
Speaker 9: I don't rest anybody that can play, and you feel
20:04
Speaker 9: like you help them because.
20:07
Speaker 3: Yes, they should win.
20:09
Speaker 9: And I firmly believe that contending teams in this situation
20:15
Speaker 9: usually beat non contending teams because of the urgency factor.
20:19
Speaker 3: But that's no guarantee in this league.
20:20
Speaker 9: We saw a couple of years back when the Jaguars
20:22
Speaker 9: beat the Colts to knock the Colts out, So it
20:25
Speaker 9: can happen. You know, I think if they're one hundred
20:31
Speaker 9: percent or one hundred percent, but if they're in a
20:34
Speaker 9: percent where they can help you.
20:35
Speaker 3: You play them, and I don't think it's any question.
20:39
Speaker 9: But I do think there's a question of the quarterback
20:40
Speaker 9: position because that shoulder situation, to me, is a percentage game,
20:46
Speaker 9: if that makes sense.
20:47
Speaker 3: We don't know where it's gonna be. I doubt it's
20:49
Speaker 3: gonna be one hundred.
20:50
Speaker 9: And then they have to determine is eighty five is
20:53
Speaker 9: eighty eight enough to have him.
20:55
Speaker 3: Him on the field, or do they play well with CJ.
20:57
Speaker 3: I'm not downplaying the decision they have to make.
21:00
Speaker 4: No, it's a big decision.
21:02
Speaker 8: Look, I think one of the reasons why they held
21:04
Speaker 8: Zay Jones out last week is because they thought they
21:07
Speaker 8: could win without him and try to get him healthier,
21:09
Speaker 8: get his percentage higher.
21:10
Speaker 4: So that he could go this week.
21:11
Speaker 8: And we learned earlier today that Christian Kirk's twenty one
21:15
Speaker 8: day practice window would be opened today, and that's a
21:18
Speaker 8: strong sign that he will be able to go this week.
21:20
Speaker 8: They've done it a few times this year Kai and
21:22
Speaker 8: the only player who didn't make it to Sunday was
21:25
Speaker 8: Christian Braswall at the rookie cornerback. So the sense is
21:28
Speaker 8: is that you'll have Zay and Christian. Now, the decision
21:32
Speaker 8: on the quarterback is a big decision because it's long
21:36
Speaker 8: term with that, and we talked about Anthony Richardson last
21:40
Speaker 8: week and what that has done to his season and
21:42
Speaker 8: his rehabilitation process. But I would think you're going to
21:45
Speaker 8: get the Titans team that scored nineteen points the last
21:47
Speaker 8: two games combined. I would think you'd be able to
21:50
Speaker 8: go up there with c. J. Bethard and do the
21:51
Speaker 8: same thing you did last week, still win with him
21:54
Speaker 8: as your quarterback.
21:55
Speaker 4: They just don't score a lot of points in Tennessee
21:57
Speaker 4: this year.
21:58
Speaker 6: We talked a little bit about this last week, but
22:00
Speaker 6: if Trevor is able to go but he doesn't practice again,
22:04
Speaker 6: is that something we want to see? No?
22:06
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean I think they.
22:12
Speaker 9: I would think Doug gained confidence that they could do
22:17
Speaker 9: what Brian's talking about with CJ.
22:18
Speaker 3: Bethard last week.
22:19
Speaker 9: So you have a formula that you're comfortable with, the
22:24
Speaker 9: players are comfortable with. Okay, Well, if Trevor gets out
22:27
Speaker 9: there on Wednesday, fine, If he's not out there by Thursday,
22:31
Speaker 9: then I think you have to look back and say, well, look,
22:34
Speaker 9: we are comfortable with this. We settled things down. It
22:39
Speaker 9: felt like the mind was right. Whatever all it is,
22:41
Speaker 9: all the chaos of the last four weeks sort of calmed.
22:45
Speaker 9: So I no, if he doesn't practice, they certainly will
22:50
Speaker 9: not feel the need to throw him out there unprepared.
22:54
Speaker 3: So I think the.
22:55
Speaker 9: Next I don't know if today is important, it's tomorrow,
22:58
Speaker 9: because I think if he would get a full day
23:00
Speaker 9: tomorrow than he would play. But I think the next
23:03
Speaker 9: two days obviously tell a lot in the story.
23:05
Speaker 8: The last two times he's played without practicing, he's thrown
23:08
Speaker 8: six interceptions, right, I mean, he has not played well,
23:10
Speaker 8: So we have a body of work there now. I
23:13
Speaker 8: do think that if Christian kirkinz A Jones are out there, well,
23:16
Speaker 8: maybe you feel a little more comfortab because you didn't
23:17
Speaker 8: have either, you know, in either of those games against
23:22
Speaker 8: the Buccaneers. You didn't have both of them in either
23:24
Speaker 8: of those games against the Browns and the Buccaneers. So
23:27
Speaker 8: I mean, maybe that changes the trigonometry of this whole thing.
23:30
Speaker 8: I just think the Jeffrey Simmons is on injured reserve.
23:33
Speaker 8: He is their best defensive player and an absolute game record.
23:36
Speaker 8: If you go back and watch the tape, he played
23:38
Speaker 8: outstanding against the Jaguars, even though the Jaguars ran up
23:42
Speaker 8: a big bill on those guys. So he's not there,
23:45
Speaker 8: and you've got CJ. Bethard and an offense that will
23:48
Speaker 8: function even greater if you've got Christian and Zay on
23:52
Speaker 8: the field with Evan and Calvin Man. I feel even
23:55
Speaker 8: better about c J. Bethard this week with all the
23:59
Speaker 8: practice reps and going with it. And I wouldn't risk
24:02
Speaker 8: Trevor if you're not completely confident that he can play
24:05
Speaker 8: well on the practice field.
24:07
Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:07
Speaker 9: The factor, obviously is in those four games they were
24:12
Speaker 9: playing hot teams that were playing well. They're not playing
24:16
Speaker 9: hot teams they're playing with right now. So that is
24:18
Speaker 9: in the trigonomety Yer talks about. And you know, CJ
24:23
Speaker 9: did a great job last week, really only one play downfield.
24:28
Speaker 9: If you feel like you need strike plays, if you
24:31
Speaker 9: feel like you need to go after it a little bit,
24:35
Speaker 9: I'm saying CJ can't do that. But that's where let's
24:38
Speaker 9: not get so hyped up about the CJ. Bethor train
24:42
Speaker 9: that we forget that there are things in terms of
24:44
Speaker 9: attacking that Trevor does very well. If he's healthy, you
24:49
Speaker 9: want him there. I just don't know how the shoulder
24:50
Speaker 9: is right, and.
24:52
Speaker 8: I don't know that there's an actual CJ. Bethord train,
24:54
Speaker 8: but I get where you're going with that. Oh, there's
24:55
Speaker 8: a turn there, there's always a turn. He is capable
25:00
Speaker 8: of playing well and he showed that last week, but
25:04
Speaker 8: he's not a frontline starter. I think he's three to
25:06
Speaker 8: ten in thirteen career starts. You have to know what
25:09
Speaker 8: you've got there, and last week Doug Peterson and Press
25:11
Speaker 8: Taylor put a game plan together and he executed that
25:14
Speaker 8: game plan. So it's a matter of Doug and Press
25:18
Speaker 8: having another game plan against these guys. And John talked
25:20
Speaker 8: about taking shots where you're gonna have to be able
25:22
Speaker 8: to run the ball and use Evan Ingram and Christian
25:25
Speaker 8: Kirk provided he's on the field to set up the
25:27
Speaker 8: deep shots and then give him those shots. It's going
25:31
Speaker 8: to be well managed this week. And having those other
25:33
Speaker 8: players on the field allows them the breathing room to
25:37
Speaker 8: not have to force it with Trevor if he can't practice.
25:40
Speaker 6: We talked a little bit about this for our other
25:42
Speaker 6: this or that already, but Christian Kirk's window is available
25:45
Speaker 6: as a Jones has been practicing, but he has not
25:47
Speaker 6: been back on the field in a game because as
25:50
Speaker 6: we've seen throughout the season, he's you know, practice, gone back,
25:53
Speaker 6: come back onto the injury list. It's been an ongoing
25:56
Speaker 6: situation with him, and from the inclinations we get it's
25:58
Speaker 6: going to be an injury he deals with until he's
26:00
Speaker 6: in the offseason. So which one do we think we'll
26:03
Speaker 6: come back first? Ryan sounds like you think both of
26:05
Speaker 6: them are coming back to seek John, what do you think?
26:07
Speaker 3: I think both of them are coming back.
26:10
Speaker 9: Certainly, the way Doug talked on Monday, he was couching
26:14
Speaker 9: it a little bit, but it certainly sounded like he
26:16
Speaker 9: thought both of them were going to play.
26:18
Speaker 3: And there is that, to me, plays a little bit
26:22
Speaker 3: into the Trevor decision. You would like. The big picture
26:29
Speaker 3: here is still that this is a.
26:29
Speaker 9: Team that was eight and three at one point, within
26:32
Speaker 9: the top seed, and the AFC big picture is not
26:36
Speaker 9: unwinnable for this team. They were down ten to seven
26:38
Speaker 9: against the best team in football three weeks ago, should
26:42
Speaker 9: have probably been up nineteen to ten. So let's not
26:45
Speaker 9: forget that this team's goal is still the super Bowl.
26:48
Speaker 9: If you thinks, is Doug that you can get Christian's
26:52
Speaker 9: Day and Trevor on the same page this week and
26:55
Speaker 9: get hot going in. That plays into the decision a
26:58
Speaker 9: little bit as well. So I don't know, you know
27:04
Speaker 9: how about that?
27:06
Speaker 4: It is good TV.
27:08
Speaker 8: I think maybe the question actually is, now that we
27:10
Speaker 8: know that Christian Kirk is going to practice this.
27:13
Speaker 4: Week, is who has a bigger impact?
27:14
Speaker 2: Right?
27:15
Speaker 8: And that's a hard one to say because Christian, clearly
27:18
Speaker 8: his absence, has creative issues in the offense. But Day's
27:22
Speaker 8: that guy that the quarterback trusts so intently and has
27:26
Speaker 8: made big plays at key times. So I don't know
27:30
Speaker 8: that one.
27:31
Speaker 9: Other Yeah, I'll go Christian all the way on that one.
27:33
Speaker 9: And I love Zay as a player, he matters a
27:38
Speaker 9: great deal. But that innate trust that he has with
27:42
Speaker 9: Christian Kirk. To Trevor Lawrence, if if you put him
27:47
Speaker 9: on the line detector test and asked who his go
27:51
Speaker 9: to guy is, if he didn't say Christian, you'd have
27:54
Speaker 9: a tough time passing.
27:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right, Well, I was just holding for one.
27:58
Speaker 6: If you guys think both of them are coming back,
27:59
Speaker 6: that's gonn great.
28:00
Speaker 9: You'll get that sense well, and remember not to keep
28:04
Speaker 9: going on and on. Doug's talked so much in the
28:06
Speaker 9: last few weeks about the need to get guys going.
28:09
Speaker 9: When he talked about Tyson Campbell, Andre Cisco a little bit,
28:14
Speaker 9: they would love the more I think about it, to
28:17
Speaker 9: get those three going and get some moment I'm going
28:20
Speaker 9: into the postseason. If your goal is to be in
28:23
Speaker 9: Las Vegas, getting those guys on the same page could
28:26
Speaker 9: matter a great deal.
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Speaker 6: A lot of personal milestones in this game, obviously Josh
29:53
Speaker 6: breaking the single season sack record for the franchise and
29:56
Speaker 6: Evan Ingram going over a hundred receptions only the eighth
29:59
Speaker 6: tight end ever do that. The Evan Ingram redemption arc
30:02
Speaker 6: is a great one. I really enjoy it. I'm so
30:04
Speaker 6: happy for him. He deserves it and obviously Josh deserves
30:08
Speaker 6: it as well. Loved his Klais Campbell celebration that was
30:10
Speaker 6: wonderful on his sack and the Traymon got his first
30:13
Speaker 6: two seg game.
30:13
Speaker 8: Right is that is so, and I believe that that
30:17
Speaker 8: those two lead the NFL as a tandem, right with
30:21
Speaker 8: twenty five and a half sacks. And you know, we've
30:24
Speaker 8: been saying it and people are going, oh, you're crazy,
30:26
Speaker 8: But Traylon's been coming for weeks.
30:28
Speaker 4: He's been coming.
30:29
Speaker 8: He's a really good football player, and all of a
30:31
Speaker 8: sudden he's starting to figure out how to finish on
30:34
Speaker 8: some of these sacks. So he has one half sack
30:37
Speaker 8: behind the great Aiden Hutchinson, right, who the Jaguars didn't take.
30:42
Speaker 8: But they've got a guy that they're thrilled. Peter King
30:45
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30:49
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30:52
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30:56
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Speaker 3: He's been good all year. He had nine sacks, and
31:02
Speaker 3: now that he has stats, people realize he's good. Yep, stats,
31:05
Speaker 3: I guess.
31:05
Speaker 4: That's what it takes. The eye test doesn't do enough.
31:07
Speaker 6: Apparently, Well we'll take it. Got them a win, certainly
31:11
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31:13
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