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Etienne & Robinson in the backfield for Week 1 | Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, September 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Well Janks Driven with Ashley, John Hoosher, Brian Sexty. Change
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Speaker 1: starts right now. Yeah, it does. Um, guys, guys know
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Speaker 1: you know what this what this week and and what
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Speaker 1: everything really beyond. You know this point really means. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, last week was just a matter of just
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, cleaning up the roster a little bit,
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Speaker 1: you know, and adding some new editions and finalizing the
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Speaker 1: practice squad and all that kind of stuff. And now
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Speaker 1: it's you know, we're in the game week, and you know,
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Speaker 1: everything we do matters, every little thing. How they how
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Speaker 1: they take care of themselves away from the building and
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Speaker 1: and prepare themselves and and but it's a good group.
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Speaker 1: It's a good group. I think that will that will
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Speaker 1: handle it well. And uh, you know they can eliminate
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Speaker 1: some distractions around them and just focus on ball, you know,
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Speaker 1: at least while they're while they're here. But I think
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Speaker 1: it's important to that, um, you know, we are practically
1:02
Speaker 1: in some warm weather and how they how they take
1:04
Speaker 1: care of themselves as important to regular season starts right now.
1:09
Speaker 1: Welcome into Jaguars Drive Time on a Wednesday morning. Ashland Sullivan,
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Speaker 1: Brian Section and John Ozier here with you for the
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Speaker 1: entire football season. We are here Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
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Speaker 1: mornings after taking a little break here at the ends
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Speaker 1: of training camp in the preseason. But Brian, it feels
1:24
Speaker 1: good that it's for real. And we just heard coach
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Speaker 1: Peterson say that. When you walked into the building this morning,
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Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's go, let's go time.
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Speaker 1: It's the first big work day of the season, right Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: Thursday being the important days, um for us to get
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Speaker 1: into the locker room, talk to the coaches, get a
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Speaker 1: fix on the storylines. Yeah, it's um, it's nice to
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Speaker 1: have it for real. Yeah, what you didn't hear Doug
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Speaker 1: say the other day? He had a line he said,
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Speaker 1: now is when the fund starts. My first thought was,
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Speaker 1: you've been around the Jaguars the last time. Here's heavy Doug.
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Speaker 1: But Drew statement, the cool thing is, I think that's
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Speaker 1: much different now. It does feel different, and uh, you
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Speaker 1: know it, as Brian and said, even doing this as
2:01
Speaker 1: long as we've been doing it, the regular season opener,
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Speaker 1: the first week, there's a different step. There's fewer guys
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Speaker 1: out in the practice field. We've all seen that, you know,
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Speaker 1: as you cut the fifty three last week and get
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Speaker 1: to sixty nine, there's more energy ere But he knows
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Speaker 1: this is his team. Let's see how it goes. It
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Speaker 1: is important what you said is exactly right, and that
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Speaker 1: is that Doug thinks this is fun. Doug is not
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Speaker 1: married to the idea of it hasn't been fun. He's
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Speaker 1: not worried about what happened in the here right. And
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Speaker 1: I think there's just something I've taken from him this
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Speaker 1: summer is there's just this sense of, well, I want
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Speaker 1: a championship. I've done this before, so just hold on
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Speaker 1: and watch what we do right. And I kind of
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Speaker 1: like that. That makes it fun, absolutely right. Let's get
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Speaker 1: him to big things. Big thing one is here we go.
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Speaker 1: It is the start of the regular season, in our
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Speaker 1: first chance to really see how coach Peter since Jaguars
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Speaker 1: will look. We are going to focus on wins and losses,
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Speaker 1: of course, but coach Peterson has a much bigger focus
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Speaker 1: than that. You know, I don't focus on the end result,
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Speaker 1: focus on the process, on your journey. And it's the
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Speaker 1: care of the small things was a big things to
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Speaker 1: take care of themselves, and and and that's the final score. Um,
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Speaker 1: and I just know that if we work hard this
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Speaker 1: week and prepare and go up there and play hard
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Speaker 1: and do the right things, you know, good things can happen.
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Speaker 1: And uh, I don't focus on necessary wins and losses
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Speaker 1: and put put you know, Um, you just over again
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Speaker 1: today you get more points than they do and and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, but it's a process to get there. You know.
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Speaker 1: We don't play the game on Monday. We we play
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Speaker 1: it six days from now. So we've got this journey
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Speaker 1: to go through this week. Big thing too is double
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Speaker 1: trouble running back James Robinson and Travis et m will
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Speaker 1: both be playing on Sunday. And man, that was not
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Speaker 1: a promise, but both of these season engine injuries for
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Speaker 1: these guys last season. Coach Peterson optimistic we're gonna see
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Speaker 1: both here against the Commanders. James is gonna good place
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Speaker 1: right now, just in terms of potentially being there on Sunday, Yes, kay, okay,
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Speaker 1: yea adventure again. I mean of very few words regarding
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Speaker 1: that the game three is good and fast. We think
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Speaker 1: this defense is much improved from what we've seen on
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Speaker 1: the training camp in preseason field. But against this Commander's offense,
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Speaker 1: we're going to find out how fast they can play,
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Speaker 1: especially against Carson Wentz. Captain foyert Alu Khan thinks not
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Speaker 1: a lot should change in that matter. I think that
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Speaker 1: did come naturally with you know, the first game coming
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Speaker 1: in accounting. But I said, our attention to the details
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Speaker 1: shouldn't shift from preseason and now because you know, when
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Speaker 1: you're trying to make a team, you should be trying
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Speaker 1: to be perfect and everything, and now not just because
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Speaker 1: the game comps should take that same atypical detailer and
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Speaker 1: put it towards game planning and stuff. So maybe for
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Speaker 1: the young guys that's new to them, but it should
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Speaker 1: be heightened awareness on stuff and being able to see
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Speaker 1: the same looks and not expect to see him in
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Speaker 1: the game. And there you have it. Those are big
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Speaker 1: things we get ready for a week when against the
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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders and away game this Sunday and John, I
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Speaker 1: think the biggest thing is we go back a couple
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Speaker 1: of months and the biggest question was, Okay, well are
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Speaker 1: we going to have both running backs here week one?
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Speaker 1: At times that didn't seem optimistic frankly, or really even promised,
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Speaker 1: and now it seems like, yeah, we're gonna have both
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Speaker 1: of them. Well, it certainly seems that, and I think
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Speaker 1: everybody is still waiting to see the effectiveness level of
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Speaker 1: James Robinson. I think we've seen Travis c t N.
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Speaker 1: He looked fine. He looked like a guy who can
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Speaker 1: play in the NFL. I want to see for Travis
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Speaker 1: if his speed makes him look faster than regular season
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Speaker 1: NFL defenders think it's gonna be the key for him.
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Speaker 1: But he runs hard. I mean, this is a kid.
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Speaker 1: I've been really surprised. If anything, it's surprising me about
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Speaker 1: Travis c t N. It's how many tackles he breaks,
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Speaker 1: It's how hard he runs for a little guy. James
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Speaker 1: Robinson to me, Um, I still want to see it.
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Speaker 1: I want to see that effectiveness. There's something with the
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Speaker 1: Achilles that still makes me nervous. But I'm not a doctor,
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Speaker 1: although I play one on TV. Well, two thoughts. First
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Speaker 1: of all, we had a conversation with Kevin Caplan, the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars UH team orthopedic surgeon, and he didn't do the surgery,
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Speaker 1: and he wasn't talking specifically about Um James Robinson, but
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Speaker 1: he was kind of giving us the overview of how
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Speaker 1: the process for Achilles surgeries have changed and how they've
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Speaker 1: fine tuned things to be able to match the spring
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Speaker 1: in each calf, you know, get the tension just right.
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Speaker 1: It was high brows stuff. But it made it clear
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Speaker 1: that this is not a reach for him to be
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Speaker 1: ready to go that over time, the surgical procedure for
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Speaker 1: the achilles, which used to be sort of a you know,
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Speaker 1: flip the coin, could you put it all back together
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Speaker 1: and get it right, It's much more precise these days,
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Speaker 1: according to what he was telling us. But the real
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Speaker 1: issue is here is I'm not a gambler, right. But
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Speaker 1: if you would have said to me both e t
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Speaker 1: N and Robinson will be on the field and opening day,
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Speaker 1: I would have taken that bed. I would have said,
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Speaker 1: no chance that both of them are ready to go
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Speaker 1: by opening day because those are major injuries. E t
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Speaker 1: N I would have given yes because he had more time.
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Speaker 1: But Jim's Robinson just did this in New York last December.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that he's back now still blows
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Speaker 1: my mind. And if both of them have productive seasons
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Speaker 1: this year, put them both down for the head Block
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Speaker 1: Courage Award because both of them able to come back
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Speaker 1: from what could have been career ending injuries, two productive seasons.
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Speaker 1: It's a big story, absolutely, and I think we're getting
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Speaker 1: so many questions. Everyone's getting questions, Okay, well James Robinson,
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Speaker 1: is he going to be the same guy? And getting
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Speaker 1: so many questions about fantasy. Should I take him in fantasy?
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Speaker 1: And I think the key here is yes, he's back,
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Speaker 1: Yes he's gonna be starting running back. But I think
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Speaker 1: the question is how many carries is he going to get?
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Speaker 1: And they're not going to push that week one. I
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Speaker 1: think what what Kevin was telling us that days he
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Speaker 1: was explaining that you know how they fixed this procedure
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Speaker 1: is that there's a chance he could be the same guy.
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Speaker 1: And John, I think both you and I when we
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Speaker 1: started in this league, you've got to kill as you're done,
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Speaker 1: I mean running back twitch and you couldn't move fast.
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Speaker 1: And I've been saying this for six seven months. If
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Speaker 1: you're playing James Robinson in fantasy, I don't know that
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Speaker 1: you can take his numbers from past regimes and assume
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Speaker 1: they're going to be the same. Doug Peterson likes the
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Speaker 1: rotating backfield, and I think Travis et and will cut
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Speaker 1: into James Robinson's tears. I think it's a good thing
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Speaker 1: for the Jaguars. Maybe not a good thing, Shelenn for
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Speaker 1: your fantasy team. Hey, mine, I'm just getting some questions.
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Speaker 1: Given the third big thing. It sure seems to me
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Speaker 1: like as this offense kind of finds itself all the
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Speaker 1: new moving parts and pieces, they're gonna lean on this defense.
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Speaker 1: The question is can they lean on this defense? I mean,
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Speaker 1: it sure looks like it to talk about optimism from
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Speaker 1: what we saw from these guys on the practice field
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Speaker 1: and the little bit that we saw from the first
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Speaker 1: team offense against the Browns and the Steelers. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: first team defense against the Steelers, first team offense. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think they can lean on them. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: probably what I'm most excited to see, is this defense
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Speaker 1: early on against the Commanders. I'm skeptical because I'm not skeptical.
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Speaker 1: I'm not skeptical because I can't say the word about
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Speaker 1: the quality of this defense. I'm skeptical if today in
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Speaker 1: today's NFL, if if any team can truly lean on
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Speaker 1: its defense. Even the two thousand seventeen Jaguars, which is
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Speaker 1: the best defense I've ever covered, they sometimes had to
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Speaker 1: play in shootouts and score a lot of points to win. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think this defense, what you hope it is, is
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Speaker 1: what I think great defenses are right now at big times,
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Speaker 1: can you get the opponent brick field? At big times?
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Speaker 1: Can you get turnovers? And But this offense, it's still
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Speaker 1: going to be in coming on the offense to score
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Speaker 1: points when it can. I don't think you can go
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Speaker 1: in the NFL anymore if you can't score points. No,
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Speaker 1: But I do think that you can lean on the
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Speaker 1: defense to break serve like you just talked about, and
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Speaker 1: to stop the run. Right if if this team gave
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Speaker 1: up a hundred and twenty nine rushing yards per game
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Speaker 1: last year and in the first two preseason games where
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Speaker 1: we saw the first team defense so against the Browns
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Speaker 1: and against the Steelers, they were excellent against the run.
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Speaker 1: If they are, then I think you can lean on
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Speaker 1: this defense. If they can stop the run, the first
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Speaker 1: step back to respectability for this fame. But they can't
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Speaker 1: stop the run, that's problem. Yes, so many games last
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Speaker 1: year you're going into the second quarter and it feels
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Speaker 1: like the game is out of reach at this point
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Speaker 1: because at that point they couldn't stop the run. And
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Speaker 1: even if the offense scores two more touchdowns. It's still
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Speaker 1: out of reach. You don't want is the click and
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Speaker 1: the lean head at halftime show. Last year in the
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Speaker 1: season finale, the Jaguars did a number on the Colts. Right,
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor had fifty seven yards in the game, but
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Speaker 1: I think he only had thirteen or fourteen in the
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Speaker 1: first half. And when it always on Carson Wentz his shoulders.
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Speaker 1: We saw what happened, right, he couldn't deliver. So if
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Speaker 1: you can go up there on Sunday and stop the
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Speaker 1: run and make Carson Wentz beat, you mightn't like your
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Speaker 1: chances to find your way to win. Absolutely big test
10:13
Speaker 1: for this defense. For sure, we're going to find out
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Speaker 1: who they really are. That's for sure, all right. Coming
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Speaker 1: obviously just trying to lead by example and for them
10:51
Speaker 1: to be to vote me as a captain is a
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Speaker 1: tremendous honor for me, and I don't take it lightly.
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Speaker 1: So I'll do whatever I can for absolute anybody that's building.
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen are your team captains for the season. There
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Speaker 1: our guys for this year. Welcome back to Jaguars Drive
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11:22
Speaker 1: this UM. Yesterday I turned on the Athletics, a f
11:26
Speaker 1: C South preview podcast. I like to have some background
11:29
Speaker 1: noise as I'm working, and I settled into start a
11:32
Speaker 1: little research on the Washington Commanders. And when they got
11:36
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars, it was clear they didn't know this team.
11:40
Speaker 1: The offensive line was a wreck, right, Uh, the running
11:44
Speaker 1: back situation was entirely unsettled. They didn't know that Travis E.
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Speaker 1: T n was back. Uh, they had been following it.
11:50
Speaker 1: They didn't have a good feel for what the Jaguars
11:52
Speaker 1: had done with the defense. UM, and I didn't expect
11:56
Speaker 1: them to be Hey, this is a much better team.
11:58
Speaker 1: I didn't expect it at all, but I expected was
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Speaker 1: they to have some idea since it was an AFC
12:02
Speaker 1: South podcast of what was going on with this team.
12:06
Speaker 1: So I say, if you know this team and your
12:11
Speaker 1: expectations for this team are in check, don't pay attention
12:14
Speaker 1: to what people are saying about this team because the
12:17
Speaker 1: Jaguars and Jacksonville are still low on the priority list
12:21
Speaker 1: and people aren't paying a lot of attention to it.
12:23
Speaker 1: So it's just like, hey, they stink still, don't they Yeah,
12:26
Speaker 1: they yeah, they stink still. Okay, all right, Jaguars stinks,
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Speaker 1: So don't worry about them. Onto Indianapolis. Whatever it was, Uh,
12:32
Speaker 1: you will, you have your feelings hurt, you'd be mad,
12:35
Speaker 1: and your phone may end up on the floor. Not
12:37
Speaker 1: that mine did, but I was just I was stunned
12:40
Speaker 1: it and how little they had a grasp of this team.
12:42
Speaker 1: I thought Doug Peterson might pull people's attention to this team. Um,
12:46
Speaker 1: and it did, And that was pretty much what they
12:48
Speaker 1: thought was the the loan upgrade to Jacksonville. Don't have
12:53
Speaker 1: a lot of expectations this week, and you know this
12:56
Speaker 1: is where all the power rankings come out. Yours are
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Speaker 1: out today, right, this is where all the things come out.
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Speaker 1: People get excited about the season. You want to be excited.
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Speaker 1: Then if you would listen to that podcast, you'd be like,
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Speaker 1: we exactly why even turn So I would say this week,
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Speaker 1: do not Yeah, and it stinks because it comes across
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Speaker 1: like it's almost unprepared. But you can't blame them where
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Speaker 1: they haven't seen a product on the field to make
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Speaker 1: them change their mind. And that's on the Jaguars the Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and it is unprepared. And uh, I think this team
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Speaker 1: is not different than it was last year. But I've
13:25
Speaker 1: said all along, fans write me all the time. When
13:29
Speaker 1: are they we get no respect? You win your way
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Speaker 1: out of that. They've won four games the last two years,
13:38
Speaker 1: so people who don't want to do the work and
13:40
Speaker 1: figure out real research are going to assume that it's
13:43
Speaker 1: still the same. So win your way out of that.
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Speaker 1: That's all you can do. Absolutely what you got. Uh
13:48
Speaker 1: the Jaguars I'm waiting for it will win the turnover
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Speaker 1: battle Sunday. Well that's not really r I wrote, but
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Speaker 1: or they will lose the game. Uh So I think
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Speaker 1: this is a theme for me when I was talking
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Speaker 1: about this. That's more than this weekend. I think they
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Speaker 1: have built this roster trying to do something to fix
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Speaker 1: what was just an awful situation last year, which takeaways
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Speaker 1: They had nine for the season, which and they had
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Speaker 1: the fewest interceptions in the league, right, yet they had
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Speaker 1: seven interceptions nine turnovers and when you have that number,
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Speaker 1: you're going to be three and fourteen. So I think,
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Speaker 1: as as cliche it is, and as the reality is,
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Speaker 1: any team in the league has to watch that number.
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Speaker 1: As bad as this team was last year. Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: has to reduce his interceptions. The obviously has have a
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Speaker 1: fewer turnovers, but the defense, I would say, has to
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Speaker 1: at least double that nine number. If it gets into
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Speaker 1: the twenties, then all of a sudden, you're talking about
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Speaker 1: defense that's doing the job we talked about earlier. But
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Speaker 1: well so, and we here coaches say this all the time.
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Speaker 1: It's rush and cover, right, So if the pass rush
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Speaker 1: is more disruptive, and last year, let's be honest, it
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Speaker 1: was all Josh Allen and most weeks he's saw two people.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you also saw the back on the way out
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Speaker 1: of the backfield chipping him as well. All this year,
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Speaker 1: they won't be able to do that. It's effectively with
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Speaker 1: the Trayvon Walker on the other side. So there's a chance.
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Speaker 1: I got to see it first. But there's a chance
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Speaker 1: this team will be much more disruptive up from especially
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Speaker 1: against the quarterback like Carson Wentz, who will chuck it
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Speaker 1: up right. We've seen him do that. And with Tyson
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Speaker 1: Campbell the addition of Darius Williams um you feel like
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Speaker 1: this team will be more opportunistic in getting the bowl
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Speaker 1: away from the other team. So I think there's a
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Speaker 1: real chance. I don't think it could be much worse,
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Speaker 1: and I think there's a real chance they could take
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Speaker 1: a massive step forward simply because nine takeaways to eight
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Speaker 1: team would be massive this year, right massive. I think
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Speaker 1: they could even do more than that. We'll find out.
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Speaker 1: If you see a bunch of defenders for the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: running down and finding some camera and this thing that
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Speaker 1: it's going pretty well for that the kids like to do.
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Speaker 1: If they're doing that at some point in the first
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Speaker 1: half and they and the sidelines and get that energy,
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Speaker 1: I think they'll win. I think if they get a
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Speaker 1: turnover in the first half, they win the game, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: all right, My this sort that is all about these linebackers,
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Speaker 1: and he were going to see starting this Sunday against
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Speaker 1: the Commanders, Chat Muma or Devin Lloyd. I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: with this week being Chad Muma. That's the rumblings I'm
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Speaker 1: hearing is that Chad Muma is going to start this week.
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Speaker 1: That's just because Devin Lloyd missed a significant amount of
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Speaker 1: time and training camp in the preseason. Devin Lloyd is
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Speaker 1: going to be your starter eventually. But I think this
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Speaker 1: says a ton about Chad Muma that you can plug
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Speaker 1: and play him to be a starter week one. We
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Speaker 1: thought at first when these two were drafted, I thought, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd, now go down a couple of steps then
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Speaker 1: Chad Mum. I don't think there's that many steps between
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Speaker 1: these guys right now. Well I do because of what
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Speaker 1: they did in college. Devin Lloyd had eight sacks, he
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Speaker 1: had four interceptions, he had two for touchdowns, he had
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Speaker 1: to fumble recoveries. He is a playmaker, He is a
16:46
Speaker 1: difference maker. I think Chad move is a very good player.
16:49
Speaker 1: I mean he had some pressures, some sacks, some interceptions
16:51
Speaker 1: when he was at Wyoming two, but just watch the
16:54
Speaker 1: two guys run and move. Was a very good athlete,
16:57
Speaker 1: but Devin Lloyd's step above. So I don't know who's
17:00
Speaker 1: gonna start on Sunday, but Devin Lloyd is your long
17:02
Speaker 1: term guy inside. He's had a couple of weeks to
17:05
Speaker 1: get ready. I wouldn't be stunted at all if he's
17:07
Speaker 1: out there. Um, there's a reason why Devin Lloyd was
17:10
Speaker 1: the first round pick and Chad MoMA was a third
17:11
Speaker 1: round pick. And that's not a slight at all on
17:14
Speaker 1: Chad movement. It's just Devin Lloyd is special. Yeah, I agree.
17:18
Speaker 1: I think Chad movie starts this week. I think Devin
17:20
Speaker 1: always a long term starter. But I think this shows
17:24
Speaker 1: why they made this pick. Um. I don't think they
17:26
Speaker 1: expected to be Week one, but it's okay to have
17:30
Speaker 1: more than one good player at every physician Brian, So
17:33
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. And especially a couple of days ago,
17:35
Speaker 1: the depth chart came out and then you saw all
17:36
Speaker 1: over social media, oh my gosh, you are the starters.
17:39
Speaker 1: And I think what we're learning, especially with this three
17:40
Speaker 1: four defense, is there's no such thing as a starter
17:43
Speaker 1: for the entire game. We're gonna see all these rotations
17:45
Speaker 1: and you can't get hung up on Okay, Devin Lloyd's
17:47
Speaker 1: gonna be the starter forever without a doubt. And you
17:49
Speaker 1: see in the three four, and we've talked about this
17:51
Speaker 1: the last two years. You need lots and lots and
17:53
Speaker 1: lots of linebackers. At one point before they brought Adam
17:56
Speaker 1: gotz Is back, I think there were what four down
17:57
Speaker 1: linemen and one of them was Smoot who's twitter and
17:59
Speaker 1: seventy pounds. So that I mean, let's talk about stopping
18:03
Speaker 1: the run. You want more big bodies. They're telling you
18:06
Speaker 1: where their focus is on linebackers. So if Chad Muma
18:09
Speaker 1: plays I don't know a third of the snaps right
18:12
Speaker 1: or half the snaps, uh, that wouldn't surprise me at all.
18:14
Speaker 1: Over the course of the season. He's there's gonna be
18:16
Speaker 1: a package. He's going to be involved. He's a really
18:19
Speaker 1: good football player. Yeah. Absolutely. And that is this sort
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Speaker 1: it's a little better this week. It's all right, it's
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Speaker 1: all right, all right, let's go to j C. What
18:59
Speaker 1: do you got for us? Las Vegas has our over
19:02
Speaker 1: under at six and a half. I can't see this
19:04
Speaker 1: TIM team winning more than seven or eight games. If
19:07
Speaker 1: we win that many, I'll absolutely consider this season of success. Yeah,
19:12
Speaker 1: I mean, this kind of hits the theme I've been
19:14
Speaker 1: talking about all off season. Brian. You know, I don't
19:16
Speaker 1: think it's a nine or ten win team yet because
19:18
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be inconsistencies on offense because of
19:22
Speaker 1: a young group learning a new scheme. I think you're
19:24
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of improvement out of the team
19:27
Speaker 1: where there's gonna be mondays where we come in here
19:29
Speaker 1: and everybody's very excited about what's going on. But I
19:31
Speaker 1: don't know that they're going to be consistent enough offensively
19:35
Speaker 1: in a league where consistent, high scoring offense now wins.
19:39
Speaker 1: But I think you're gonna like what you see att
19:41
Speaker 1: a Trevor Lawrence. If you like which see at a
19:43
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, and you've had a lot of games where
19:45
Speaker 1: you feel like the offense move in the right in
19:46
Speaker 1: the right direction, and they get to seven, I'll take
19:49
Speaker 1: that in a minute. If they I'm on seven, by
19:52
Speaker 1: the way, because I thought last year they could have
19:55
Speaker 1: beaten the Falcons, the Texans and the Jets later in
19:58
Speaker 1: the season, but they had incompetent coaching, and that costs
20:01
Speaker 1: them the opportunity to go from three wins to perhaps
20:03
Speaker 1: six wins in this season. Right. Of course, you could
20:05
Speaker 1: argue they got that one at the end that they
20:07
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to get, but so they were five or
20:09
Speaker 1: six win team if they if they were well coached
20:10
Speaker 1: last year. So I think seven is about the right
20:13
Speaker 1: number based on what they've added and how much better
20:15
Speaker 1: I expect the quarterback to be. However, the one thing
20:18
Speaker 1: that might get me to eight is if the turnover
20:21
Speaker 1: ratio that we were talking about earlier, if this is
20:23
Speaker 1: a team that creates turnovers and short fields and makes
20:25
Speaker 1: it easy on an offense that's still figuring its way, well,
20:29
Speaker 1: then you could perhaps get to eight. I just I'm
20:32
Speaker 1: the seven number just sticks in my head. If they
20:34
Speaker 1: get to eight and double the win total from the
20:36
Speaker 1: last two seasons combined, hey man, everyone should be And
20:39
Speaker 1: by the way, I think it's worth saying if at
20:42
Speaker 1: the end of this year they only have six wins,
20:45
Speaker 1: but the quarterback is playing well right, and you can
20:47
Speaker 1: see the development, you can see it, then it's all
20:51
Speaker 1: about right and itched you for a team that we
20:55
Speaker 1: don't think the playoff team, you know what to look for.
20:58
Speaker 1: Your eyes will tell you what this team is doing
21:01
Speaker 1: and how capable it is. At the end of the season,
21:02
Speaker 1: when people want to say seven, they get angry, Well,
21:06
Speaker 1: they won three. I mean they won three last year,
21:08
Speaker 1: why can't they be I think also, what you need
21:11
Speaker 1: to look for this year out of the fourteen losses
21:15
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm sure I'm exaggerating that, but it felt
21:19
Speaker 1: like eleven. It wasn't even a game where you just
21:23
Speaker 1: felt like they were overmatched. I don't think you're gonna
21:25
Speaker 1: have an overmatched feeling out of this team this year.
21:28
Speaker 1: I think the first step towards playoff contention is winning
21:33
Speaker 1: a few more and feeling like you match up against everybody.
21:37
Speaker 1: This team didn't do that last year. It's got to
21:39
Speaker 1: take that step. Yeah, and we always talk about being relevant, right,
21:42
Speaker 1: being on the graphic. Seven eight wins get you to
21:45
Speaker 1: that that slight feeling at the end of the year. Well, okay,
21:47
Speaker 1: if we win this one, we got a chance. Well
21:49
Speaker 1: that's where you want to be if you ask if
21:51
Speaker 1: by chance to play your point, If by chance you're
21:54
Speaker 1: somewhere around Thanksgiving and you're saying, hey, look if this
21:58
Speaker 1: then that, well that'll own. We'll give you that feeling
22:01
Speaker 1: of hope coming. All right, let's stay here in Jacksonville.
22:04
Speaker 1: We'll go to Ronald. Last time I counted, there has
22:07
Speaker 1: been a six turnover on the roster. Would you expect
22:11
Speaker 1: some struggles as this key team gets to know one another. Well,
22:15
Speaker 1: it's a little high, I corrected, Ronald. Um, I think
22:18
Speaker 1: it's about which is still a little high. Although the
22:24
Speaker 1: league this in this era, the league turns the roster
22:27
Speaker 1: every year, so isn't that unusual? Um? But Toronald's point,
22:35
Speaker 1: if it's not six, there are a lot of key
22:38
Speaker 1: areas that turn that have turned over often. Most teams
22:43
Speaker 1: huge turnover number is at the bottom of the roster.
22:46
Speaker 1: This roster has changed a lot at the top with
22:49
Speaker 1: some with a lot of key players. I think the
22:51
Speaker 1: reason you're going to see some struggles is the coaching change.
22:56
Speaker 1: If Trevor struggles a little bit in the offense, it's
22:58
Speaker 1: not it doesn't mean he's not developing. It means there
23:03
Speaker 1: is an adjustment period to where the verbage, the things
23:07
Speaker 1: that he has to do with the line of scrimmage.
23:10
Speaker 1: A tenth of a second a line of scrimmage can
23:11
Speaker 1: mean a lot. If he's thinking a little bit about
23:14
Speaker 1: the change, he's thinking a little bit about the new
23:16
Speaker 1: scheme that will go away in time in this offense.
23:19
Speaker 1: I think that's where you'll see struggles is because of
23:21
Speaker 1: that first year element. I think you can see struggles
23:24
Speaker 1: because you open on the road, and despite whoever you're playing,
23:27
Speaker 1: it is tough to win on the road. The Jackers,
23:29
Speaker 1: by the way, have lost seventeen consecutive games away from home.
23:34
Speaker 1: It's way too many. But then you come home home
23:36
Speaker 1: and you get a Colts team that's that wrote the
23:39
Speaker 1: score of the game that was here last year on
23:41
Speaker 1: painted it in their locker rooms. So you and Matt
23:44
Speaker 1: Ryan and Jonathan Taylor and then you go to l
23:46
Speaker 1: A to take on the Chargers. I mean, there could
23:48
Speaker 1: be some struggles early for a team that's got turnover
23:52
Speaker 1: because of the schedule and the opponents that are in
23:54
Speaker 1: front of you. Right, and even when we go to
23:56
Speaker 1: training camp or we go to preseason, we kept talking
23:58
Speaker 1: about Trevor and we have three good days in row,
24:00
Speaker 1: and then there'd be a day they're like, all right,
24:01
Speaker 1: you know, we solve the inconsistencies. And I agree with you, John,
24:04
Speaker 1: that's going to take some time. They painted the score. Yeah, yeah,
24:07
Speaker 1: it's it's painting. It's it's painted. That's why I love
24:11
Speaker 1: it so much. I mean, I can't wait a little much.
24:13
Speaker 1: I can't wait for next week in week two, just
24:15
Speaker 1: because of the rich storylines, whether it's you know, or
24:18
Speaker 1: say standing out front of his jet, you know, whining
24:21
Speaker 1: to the camera about losing in Jacksonville seven straight years,
24:24
Speaker 1: or Frank Wright, who I think is one of the
24:25
Speaker 1: better coaches, and even Keeled actually painting the score of
24:28
Speaker 1: that one game in the locker. But the other ones, Yeah,
24:32
Speaker 1: I just it'll be fine. The drama. I love it,
24:35
Speaker 1: and we need a more favor in all right. Brian,
24:39
Speaker 1: you wrote a question and from Middleburg is just you know,
24:42
Speaker 1: how do you think the Jaguars defense will be this year?
24:44
Speaker 1: Count me in for top ten in the league. Wow? Yeah,
24:48
Speaker 1: I don't with defense in this day and age. Um
24:53
Speaker 1: I guess top ten in terms of yards? Fine, and
24:58
Speaker 1: we talked better than this show, Brian. Want to see
25:00
Speaker 1: out of this defense? Can you get a pass rush
25:03
Speaker 1: when it masks? First of all? Can you stop the run?
25:05
Speaker 1: Can you get in situations rush in the pastor and
25:07
Speaker 1: then when it's third and seven? Am I thinking that
25:11
Speaker 1: the quarterback is going to have time? Or am I
25:13
Speaker 1: thinking that he's not gonna have time? And if he
25:15
Speaker 1: doesn't have time, then I think that turnover number is
25:18
Speaker 1: gonna go way up. Uh, I would like to see
25:21
Speaker 1: a I'm more concerned about seeing a positive turnover ratio
25:25
Speaker 1: from this team that I am exactly where the defense finishes.
25:28
Speaker 1: I think it will be a defense that's in the
25:30
Speaker 1: top half of the league when you if if you
25:33
Speaker 1: could watch all three D two teams and get a
25:35
Speaker 1: feel for it, I think this defense will feel like
25:38
Speaker 1: a top half of the league def I'm with you.
25:40
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about what the number says statistically. However,
25:44
Speaker 1: the eye test will tell you'll be able to look
25:46
Speaker 1: at the defense and feel the situation. Third and eight
25:49
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Jacks leading by a field goal? Can the
25:52
Speaker 1: defense get a stop right? You'll be able to see that.
25:55
Speaker 1: Your eyes will tell you whether this is one of
25:57
Speaker 1: the better defenses in the league or if they come
25:59
Speaker 1: up short. Still needs something right. An art and key.
26:02
Speaker 1: Throughout the entire preseason training camp kept screaming top five,
26:05
Speaker 1: top five. He wants this defense to be top Absolutely,
26:07
Speaker 1: that's what you wanted to would be a huge jump
26:10
Speaker 1: from last season, that's for sure, and that is ozone snatchop.
26:13
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26:16
Speaker 1: closing thoughts. Big week ahead as we get ready for
26:21
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders this Sunday and away game to start
26:25
Speaker 1: this season, and a lot going on. This is our
26:27
Speaker 1: first big day of open locker room and press conferences
26:29
Speaker 1: in practice. So, Brian, what do we have to look forward? Well,
26:32
Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking forward to about three o'clock this afternoon
26:34
Speaker 1: getting Mike McCoy, whoa Mike McCoy, the Jaguars quarterbacks coach,
26:39
Speaker 1: uh and talk to him about what he's seen. You
26:41
Speaker 1: remember he had Peyton Manning in um in Denver. He
26:45
Speaker 1: had Philip Rivers in San Diego, so just kind of
26:48
Speaker 1: getting a sense of where he sees the young quarterback
26:51
Speaker 1: heading into his second season, Right, John, I am supposed
26:54
Speaker 1: to either today or tomorrow talk to Josh Allen for
26:57
Speaker 1: the ozone podcast. Uh, And it's been a couple of
27:00
Speaker 1: years since he's been on that, so it's uh always
27:03
Speaker 1: great to talk to Josh. He has great insight, uh
27:05
Speaker 1: and is very good at discussing just where he is
27:10
Speaker 1: in his career. So I'm looking forward to that. Yes,
27:12
Speaker 1: he also is now on what he calls his talk show,
27:15
Speaker 1: Jaguars All Access on Thursday nights. He is the new
27:18
Speaker 1: host of Jaguars All Access, kind of filling in the
27:20
Speaker 1: role of Calais Campbellhoo did such a great job with that.
27:23
Speaker 1: And talking is not Josh's problem. He is fantastic on TV.
27:27
Speaker 1: So he will be the new co host of Jaguars
27:29
Speaker 1: All Access and his first guest is Trayvon Walker, so
27:31
Speaker 1: that'll be awesome. I'll have to talk about because Traymon doesn't.
27:35
Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see how this goes. What's going
27:36
Speaker 1: to be great and the first time we have players
27:39
Speaker 1: back in a restaurant in two years since COVID, So
27:42
Speaker 1: it's about time, and that is Thursday night at seven
27:44
Speaker 1: o'clock and we'll be back on Jaguars Drive Time tomorrow
27:46
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, right here thirty on the Jaguars Digital Network.
27:50
Speaker 1: We'll see it then. Bol