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Fred Taylor hones in on the running back matchup | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's time for a weekly conversation with Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. The New York Football Giants
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  Speaker 1: and the Jacksonville Jaguars coming up in Week seven. The
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  Speaker 1: Giants one of the surprise teams in the NFL at
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  Speaker 1: five and one, the Jaguars at two and four. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're similar teams, Fred, but one has finished games and
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  Speaker 1: the other has not. Guess which one has. It's Big Blue.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, friend, j p All That is good man.
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  Speaker 1: And you got one team that made a lot of noise. Well,
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  Speaker 1: both teams have brand new coaches. You know, one made
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more noise and offseason, and it seems
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  Speaker 1: that he's paying off for him because code Debo's he's
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  Speaker 1: he's really got those guys fired up up there and
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  Speaker 1: in the fan bases behind him. You know, it's New
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  Speaker 1: York City. Everything is bigger, bier, bright, and more positive
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  Speaker 1: when they're winning. Hopefully we can change that today. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So I think I've asked this a few times, but
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  Speaker 1: it's still stands true today. How do you teach a
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  Speaker 1: team to finish a football game? The fourth quarter has
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  Speaker 1: not been kind to the Jaguars last week, it was
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  Speaker 1: flip flop the other way. The defense let the team
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  Speaker 1: down a week ago. Yeah, well, JP, that all goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the situation, the situational ball. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about situational football a lot, being in those moments,
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  Speaker 1: having getting those repetitions. But more importantly, guys, you got
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  Speaker 1: to step up and make plays. You know, you understand
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  Speaker 1: that this is what's that stake. This is the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that can beat us, you know, take that away.
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  Speaker 1: You know, make them ben but don't break. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: have that sort of mentality, you know, as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: just giving it up in one chunk or what have you,
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  Speaker 1: which is a big play you have to make the
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  Speaker 1: offense or the opposing side. I should say, work for it.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody should have that mindset, each and every player. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be that guy, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: should just know your assignment and you know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's rare in the in the NFL that you know
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  Speaker 1: in that in any given moment, you know the coaches
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  Speaker 1: are gonna call just the perfect play. Sometimes it's it
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  Speaker 1: does happen. That's why I say it's rare. But in
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  Speaker 1: real crunch time situations, everybody trying to figure out, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I gotta do. You know, but the more
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  Speaker 1: you're involved in that moment and you understand that situations,
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  Speaker 1: big plays should not happen. So I think just going
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  Speaker 1: back to the drawing board, making sure that guys on
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  Speaker 1: his dan each and every situation that they're in the
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  Speaker 1: moment of the game as it's unvoted, then you should
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  Speaker 1: have may to minimize and make those plays. Fred Taylor
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  Speaker 1: with us speaking of big plays, they have a big
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  Speaker 1: play running back in New York and se Kuon Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: and everything goes through him. I mean, the passing game
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  Speaker 1: is that they don't have much outside so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: going through the running back. He's first in the league
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  Speaker 1: and Russian attempts, he's second in rushing yard. It's and
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  Speaker 1: I think he leads the league in style. Fred, He's
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  Speaker 1: just fun to watch. When you turn on the TV,
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  Speaker 1: your eyes are glued to se Kuon Barkley. What do
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  Speaker 1: you like about him? I love everything and about about
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  Speaker 1: se Kuan. You know, we had him on the pivot
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  Speaker 1: before the season started, you know, and he was so
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  Speaker 1: worried about proving everyone else who he is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to fulfill what everybody else want to start. He was,
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  Speaker 1: but I just left him with a simple message. Before
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  Speaker 1: you can um proof to everyone else who you are,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta prove it to yourself, which is in you know. Essentially,
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  Speaker 1: it just means, you know, you have to be confident,
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  Speaker 1: you have to believe in your abilities. And he took
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  Speaker 1: that to heart. You know, he threw the latter part out,
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  Speaker 1: worried about everybody else, and now he's back to oh, say,
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  Speaker 1: quint it seems. And uh, I know he's battled some
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  Speaker 1: some shoulder here and there. He'll leave out the game
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  Speaker 1: a player too, But he's just displaying toughness now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because he's he has a drive and a passion about him.
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  Speaker 1: And through that the Giants recognize it. They know who
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  Speaker 1: their star player is. They don't have any other threat
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  Speaker 1: on the team. Daniel Jones is gonna run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: We know he's a pretty decently mobile quarterback who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a great arm. If he did, they would have
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  Speaker 1: been they would have resigned him by now. He's a
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  Speaker 1: fifth year guy, so I don't think he will be
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  Speaker 1: in the Giants uniform next year. But that's a different conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But as it pertains to the day. Say klin is
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  Speaker 1: who they're gonna go through to try to get the win,
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  Speaker 1: and who we have to go through to try to
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  Speaker 1: get the win. We have to baby stop it because
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna come in. They're gonna run it, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: throw it to him, he's gonna get in a wildcat.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna come with all different sorts of weapons or
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  Speaker 1: are trickery to try to keep the defense off balance.
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  Speaker 1: But again, they've we're in week seven. You've almost seen
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  Speaker 1: everything that a team wants to run at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: Now it comes down to execution. And Uh, as much
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  Speaker 1: as I love sake Lant as a running back and
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  Speaker 1: as a person first and foremost, you know, today, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want him to get none of this success. Back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, I would say, look, have your success,
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  Speaker 1: but give us the win. And I want him to
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  Speaker 1: do well. I would like to see earned his keep.
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  Speaker 1: But I really want the defense to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and and and have a great game and do what
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  Speaker 1: they did versus Uh Jonathan Taylor early in the season,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they're capable Fred Taylor with us. Let's
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  Speaker 1: flip it now to the Jaguars. Offense. And of course
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  Speaker 1: last week, Fred, they ran for two D forty three
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  Speaker 1: yards against the Indianapolis Colts. It was a losing effort.
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  Speaker 1: That's fairly rare. Of course, to have that much yardage
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  Speaker 1: and the efficiency of the quarterback two last week and
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  Speaker 1: and all that combined in a losing effort, that's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: But um, you know, in that running game, there was
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  Speaker 1: some big plays. That's how it works. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna grind out four yards of carry and get
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and forty yards. And Travis E. T N
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  Speaker 1: had the early big play forty eight yard run in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter, breaking through the left side of the
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  Speaker 1: line and he had one man to beat and he
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  Speaker 1: got the angle on him. I'm curious when you're a
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  Speaker 1: running back out in the open field like that and
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  Speaker 1: you've got one guy between you and the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: What Fred Taylor have done in that scenario in last
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  Speaker 1: week's game? You know, j P. I have to be
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  Speaker 1: fair in this, Uh. I can I can think of
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  Speaker 1: a million things, uh that I think I would have
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  Speaker 1: done in that situation. First, I think first and foremost.
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  Speaker 1: You you know, a game is so fast, it moves
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  Speaker 1: at blazing speeds, and uh, just most of the time
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  Speaker 1: you're just reacting to certain things and you hope you
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  Speaker 1: can get a guy. And we practice one on one
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  Speaker 1: tackling drills all the time, so you have to. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Furr used to tell me in college, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand it at the time. It took me three
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  Speaker 1: years to figure it out. To be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: he would say, make the guy missed, Freddie. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to make the money and make the big runs,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta make a mess. And uh, it took a while,
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  Speaker 1: but I started to figure it out. You know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I used to square guys up, but in that situation,
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  Speaker 1: you would like to have it back. But there aren't
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  Speaker 1: any second rep second chances. Uh. Some time this one
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  Speaker 1: cut and go. Sometimes there's a start step, hesitation. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's just a simple stiff arm, you know, slowing down
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  Speaker 1: and getting back up to speed. Um, it's a variety
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  Speaker 1: of things can happen. And in my mind now, since
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned that, JP, I go back to two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seventh season, Uh, first player the game. I still
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  Speaker 1: feel like it should have been a ninety four yard
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  Speaker 1: touchdown versus the coach when we had that big day,
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  Speaker 1: mar Reese and I in the offensive line in the
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  Speaker 1: run game. Um, I didn't score on that play. It
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  Speaker 1: ended up being like a seventy something yarder, which I
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  Speaker 1: still think it should have been a touchdown. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: switch the ball over to my right hand the stiff
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  Speaker 1: farm and with my lapt part of me thought Reggie
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  Speaker 1: Williams was gonna catch the block and I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: just cruise in the end zone. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: go back, you look at the tape and you tell yourself,
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  Speaker 1: I should have done this. I should have done that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, on the sideline while I'm watching the game,
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  Speaker 1: I said on E t N should have done this,
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  Speaker 1: you should have done that. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, the game is so fast and um, you
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  Speaker 1: just don't really have time to think. You gotta do
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  Speaker 1: and when it works, like, yeah, let's go. And when
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't work, you have the She's next time, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But he's good to see him come into his own.
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  Speaker 1: He says he feels close. I'm excited for him, and
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  Speaker 1: he said he's ready for a breakout. He's getting he's
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  Speaker 1: getting there. He's getting closer to his first career of
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  Speaker 1: one hundred yard and I think it's gonna happen at
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  Speaker 1: some point here soon during the season. Inside the mind
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  Speaker 1: of a running back. Love to hear that. Fred Taylor
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  Speaker 1: with a sprite of the Jaguars running back. This is
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  Speaker 1: a defense for the Giants, though, led by wing Martin Dale,
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  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator a long time in Baltimore, and he
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  Speaker 1: will mix things up. He knows it's a second year quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: He knows there's a rookie center, and he knows that
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  Speaker 1: to full young players, you gotta throw up different looks
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  Speaker 1: and put in different personnel packages, and they're gonna throw
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  Speaker 1: the book at Trevor Lawrence. In this offense today, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like and if you're a young battery, let's say
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  Speaker 1: that the center and the quarterback, you gotta have your
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  Speaker 1: head on a swivel in this one. Oh, without a doubt.
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  Speaker 1: You know that's where it starts. The communication begins between
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  Speaker 1: the center and the quarterback. I d in the front,
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  Speaker 1: and then that trip goes down to get everybody else
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  Speaker 1: situated and ready to go before the snap. Uh, everyone
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  Speaker 1: from the other four linement, the tight end as well
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  Speaker 1: as the running backs. And then that goes out to
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  Speaker 1: the receivers. You know, the receivers will come up and
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  Speaker 1: they'll see, Okay, I got this coverage. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: got the middle of field closed, the middle of it
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  Speaker 1: feel open. They can identify cover to one, four, six
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  Speaker 1: where the coverages are and uh. But still if the
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  Speaker 1: defense has a great game plan and they're able to
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  Speaker 1: disguise and get in their alignments a bit later, um
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  Speaker 1: and show blitz versus not showing blitz and then coming
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody has to be on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, JP a good defensive coordinator. The
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  Speaker 1: first thing they're gonna do in their assessment and their
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  Speaker 1: scouting report, which started four weeks ago, right what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna say is, I got a young quarterback. How does
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  Speaker 1: he handle the blitz? Can we rattle him? Can we
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  Speaker 1: get the ball from him? You know? And Trevor has
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  Speaker 1: shown that he is willing to turn it over, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's fumble or interception, making bad decisions you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the ball. So they're gonna try to get him off
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  Speaker 1: his spot. And they're also going to try to put
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  Speaker 1: pressure and put a guy right over the center. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what he can do. See if he's gonna lose
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  Speaker 1: a snapper. Two. But again, everyone's approp you gotta play
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  Speaker 1: according to league, and uh, if you do so, and
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  Speaker 1: if you pick up those blitzes or those pressures, or
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  Speaker 1: make sure you don't have too many edge rushers running free,
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  Speaker 1: you should be able to move the balls to thing
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  Speaker 1: drives and put points on the board. All right, Fred,
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  Speaker 1: finals thought, how you feeling about this three game skid?
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  Speaker 1: Giants are hot? Is this the one? Giants are hot?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Maybe they're overconfident, or maybe they're saying, let's
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  Speaker 1: go down there and crush these guys, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: we are a good four and two teams, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: five and one. My apologies, my apologies. Uh, they're playing
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  Speaker 1: in the best division, one of the top divisions in
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  Speaker 1: in all the NFL now or maybe the best division
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC. Let me say that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I still feel good about jack Jacksonville. As I mentioned before, JP. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: if you can go back and pull out a player
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  Speaker 1: two or three that led towards a loss or a win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that means your team is fighting, they're competitive.
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  Speaker 1: In the past, we would say, man, just everything happened,
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  Speaker 1: the bottom fell out, But now it's not the same. Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: so they're always in it, so I feel good about
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  Speaker 1: it just in that sense. Fred is always a pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see you after the game for postgame radio certainly,
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  Speaker 1: JP looking forward to it.