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Chris Manhertz on preparing for playoffs | Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, January 12 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, January. Well, this is Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: and now possible trouble from a guy who spent the
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Speaker 1: day with Jeff Lackerman's Chili jay E P Chad. Welcome in.
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Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour. It is Thursday. It is the
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Speaker 1: week of the a f C Wild Card playoff game.
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Speaker 1: We've got a busy two hours ahead. Analyst Jeff Lackoman
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Speaker 1: coming up, tight end, Chris man Hurt shointing us in studio.
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Speaker 1: And yes, we'll preview the playoff matchup between the Chargers
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Speaker 1: and the Jaguars Saturday night, eight fifteen at t I A.
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Speaker 1: Bank Field. Then at five o'clock the Doug Peterson Show,
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Speaker 1: we'll hear from the Jaguars head coach and get his
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the matchup and much more ahead. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: hosting a playoff game for only the fifth time in
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Speaker 1: franchise history, trying to get things done and stay a
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Speaker 1: five in the playoffs. And let's start with the head
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Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson this week earlier, looking for a little
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Speaker 1: more out of the offense after last week's performance. I
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Speaker 1: think the offense needs to have a better game than
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Speaker 1: the other night. Quite frankly, uh, we didn't do enough.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we had opportunities obviously missed some
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Speaker 1: opportunities in the game that you know, we need to
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Speaker 1: learn from. But sometimes that's that's the way games go.
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Speaker 1: Type games like that, it's gonna come down to h
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Speaker 1: you know, let's could be a defensive battle or something
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Speaker 1: of that nature. Special special teams did a nice job,
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Speaker 1: but I think overall, you know, offensively, um as a group, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, coaches included, need to need to do a
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Speaker 1: little better. Travis E. T n junior Jaguars running back
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Speaker 1: finished over a thousand yards this season. It's his first
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Speaker 1: taste of NFL playoff football. I mean, I feel like
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Speaker 1: the only difference is the title is there's a playoff
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Speaker 1: game now. But we we've been in the senci ways
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Speaker 1: where we had to win. We wouldn't be here in
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Speaker 1: this situation, and I feel like we're ready for day,
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Speaker 1: prepared for that and we all know what that stake.
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Speaker 1: So we gotta go out there and just uh just
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Speaker 1: put our best before it in uh just best game
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Speaker 1: to see see what happens. I did, we'll see. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: big play defense has been showing up the last month
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Speaker 1: or so. Last week, they locked down the Titans in
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Speaker 1: the second half and scored to win the game inside
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Speaker 1: three minutes to play. Foy aluk on the Jaguars linebacker
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Speaker 1: on what it takes to find those big plays and
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Speaker 1: key moments. You know a lot of times things are
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Speaker 1: are going bad or not how we planned. Um, but
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Speaker 1: you know it's football. Things are all the goals you planned.
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Speaker 1: We come and have time. I just love how everybody's
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Speaker 1: calling saying, you know, without our best football and though
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Speaker 1: we're still what a score down, like, if we just
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Speaker 1: start playing well, we can really flip this game turn around.
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Speaker 1: And then you just make one play and everybody feeds
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Speaker 1: off of that competence and all of a sudden, a
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Speaker 1: bigger play comes from that and then everybody just um,
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Speaker 1: you know, flowing off of that. So it's really just
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Speaker 1: the confidence to understand that, you know, we can turn
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Speaker 1: in the game around while the game's still going on.
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Speaker 1: It's really cool to see all the press conferences and
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Speaker 1: locker room availability from the week and a lot of
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Speaker 1: it available on Jaguars dot com or with Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars head coach, of course, at five o'clock on the
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show. Daily's is the presenting sponsor of this
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Speaker 1: Weekend's a f C wild Card playoff game. Daily's It's
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Speaker 1: nicer here. Jeff Lockerman with us tight end, Chris man
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Speaker 1: Hurts with us as well, and Happy Thursday, Chris, How
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Speaker 1: are we doing? Happy Thursday? How are we doing good?
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Speaker 1: I'm still playing football, so all's well, which is good.
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Speaker 1: It's a good thing. How are you feeling about? I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is we just heard from a couple of the
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Speaker 1: guys there, and of course it's Travis E. T n s.
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Speaker 1: First time, a lot of guys first time in playoff games.
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Speaker 1: You guys have had must win games for about a
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Speaker 1: month and a half, it feels like and one all
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Speaker 1: of them actually, so it's different when the playoff labels
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Speaker 1: on there. How different is it this week? I mean
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Speaker 1: I could make the argument to say the last four
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Speaker 1: or five games were playoff games. Those were must win situations. So, um,
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Speaker 1: that's something that where used to. We've been accustomed to
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Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks. We know what the stakes
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Speaker 1: are for this game. We've played this team before, so
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Speaker 1: we just have to go out there and put together
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Speaker 1: a good game and execute at a high level. First
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Speaker 1: playoff game or is this gonna be your second first
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Speaker 1: playoff game. I'm actually playing in. UM nice to get
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Speaker 1: an electra paycheck. It's not bad, right, I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: over time. Paychecks are good. But I will tell you, uh,
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Speaker 1: my first playoff experience, which was back in the in
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Speaker 1: the early nineties, but then my first playoff experience as Jaguar.
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Speaker 1: The thing I remember most about it is that it
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Speaker 1: was just fun. It was so much fun. And I
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Speaker 1: I made a statement to to my teammates at that time,
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Speaker 1: and I said, you know what they pay us for
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Speaker 1: the regular season, They pay us the lift weights, they
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Speaker 1: passed the practice. But for the playoffs, I would have
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Speaker 1: done it for free. You totally would have done it
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Speaker 1: for free. Absolutely, And I could only reminisce and see
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Speaker 1: uh and feel their environment that we was in last week,
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Speaker 1: which honestly felt like a playoff game as well. UM
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Speaker 1: an electric crowd, UM the fan we're behind us home game.
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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to to to what this Saturday
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Speaker 1: might bring as well. All Right, So we had a
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Speaker 1: conversation a minute ago and and it was kind of
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Speaker 1: feeling you out out sence, what do you think of
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Speaker 1: the national anthem, and you said it was great when
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Speaker 1: it could It was excellent, Paul Wayne, but the American
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Speaker 1: flag guitar absolutely ripped the national anthem. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was awesome. He killed it. I wouldn't have minded if
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Speaker 1: he kept going. I was I was kind of, uh,
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Speaker 1: pushing to get him back again this week. I was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: can we get him back? Didn't work because we got
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Speaker 1: Susan Yeah, Derek and Susansky truck. Yeah, it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: awesome this week. So all right, playoff football here. You
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Speaker 1: you got you mentioned it. Week Three's a long time
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Speaker 1: ago though, when you guys were in l A and
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Speaker 1: beat up on the Chargers. Different football team now, But
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Speaker 1: how much do you actually take from that game. It's
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Speaker 1: it's a whole lot different now, right. It's a it's
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Speaker 1: a little a different um, And we can make the
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Speaker 1: same argument to say that we're not the same team
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Speaker 1: as well. So, um, it's just another circumstance to where
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Speaker 1: we have to really prepare, prepare for them and and
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Speaker 1: know that probably we'll go off of their more recent
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Speaker 1: games and uh, they've dealt with quite a bit of
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Speaker 1: injuries on the defensive end as well, So totally different team.
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Speaker 1: It's got to help though, having the experience of Okay,
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Speaker 1: I watched that guy, I've studied that guy. I played
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Speaker 1: against that guy. I know what it feels like to
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Speaker 1: play against him. I know what what his strength feels like.
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Speaker 1: I know what he likes to do on certain things.
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Speaker 1: I mean that that helps, though, doesn't it? Oh? Most certainly,
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Speaker 1: most certainly, And it's it's one of those things that
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Speaker 1: throughout the week we just uh hunkered down, study film,
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Speaker 1: study their tendencies. But at the same time, we know
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Speaker 1: who we're going up against. These two guys that that
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see Khalil Mack Joey Bosa arguably the best
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Speaker 1: maybe edge combination players in the National Football League. These
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Speaker 1: guys are really good. They're veteran players, and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have your hands full. We most certainly have our hands full. Um,
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Speaker 1: But like I said, the good thing is that we've
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Speaker 1: seen them before. We know the type of players they are.
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Speaker 1: We know the type of dynamic pass rushes they are. There,
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Speaker 1: there moves, their tendencies, So it's just a matter for
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Speaker 1: us and containing them, neutral neutralizing them, and executing the
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Speaker 1: game plan at a high level. For us. Khalil Mack
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Speaker 1: ninth year player six three about to seventy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: what what stands up out about his game? What does
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Speaker 1: he do well when you turn on the tape Khalil Mack?
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Speaker 1: What stands out to you? One thing that stands out
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Speaker 1: for me as a tight end watching film on him
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Speaker 1: is his power. Um, he he wants to use his power,
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Speaker 1: he wants to use his length. He's he has a
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Speaker 1: great dip, he has a great bend. So those type
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Speaker 1: of things definitely keep tight ends and more so offensive lineman. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, off balance a little bit. He's got I
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Speaker 1: think eighty four and a half career sacks. This guy
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Speaker 1: is what year nine, He's been around the block. He's
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Speaker 1: seen a lot of things. And uh, it's amazing how
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Speaker 1: when you watch veteran players, and and I've said this
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Speaker 1: before and that there's if you had a dial for
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Speaker 1: the way guys play. You know, let's say you turn
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Speaker 1: into nine and he's you know, the intensities attend. Veteran
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Speaker 1: players have a tendency when they get to the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: they can turn it up just a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: And so that's something I'm sure that you're going to
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Speaker 1: be expecting and I'm sure for us, we we have
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Speaker 1: to be you know, no doubt we have to match that.
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Speaker 1: We know what they say is playoff playoff football is
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Speaker 1: totally different, like you said in the atmosphere, and the
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Speaker 1: energy is that much more for everybody across the board.
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Speaker 1: So for us as an offense, you know, we pride
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Speaker 1: ourselves on matching and setting to tone for for whatever
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Speaker 1: we're getting. Joey Bosa is on the other side. They
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Speaker 1: flip sides a little bit. And Bosa is a guy
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Speaker 1: that obviously has a very famous last name because him
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Speaker 1: and his brother Nick, who is with the forty niners
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Speaker 1: and his brothers up for Defensive Player of the Year.
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Speaker 1: Both of these guys play the game with great leg
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Speaker 1: power and ben which is kind of rare, and he
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Speaker 1: got hurt in the game against you guys, and week
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Speaker 1: three missed a significant amount of time, but he's been
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Speaker 1: back the last couple of weeks. And this is a
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Speaker 1: guy that also is gonna test you personally because this
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Speaker 1: is a guy both of them play the run just
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Speaker 1: as well as they do the past, which is rare absolutely,
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Speaker 1: And you know, a guy like botha he's a little
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Speaker 1: bit different in the sense that he has a fuller range,
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Speaker 1: of fuller arsenals of pass rush moves. Obviously they're stopped
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Speaker 1: against the run, but uh, prepare for a player like
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Speaker 1: him that has just a lot of range as far
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Speaker 1: as their moves, their counter rushes, things like that setting
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Speaker 1: up certain rushes. Um is certainly a handful Chris man Hurts.
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Speaker 1: With US Jaguars tied in the Jaguars and the Chargers
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Speaker 1: and the wild card playoff game coming up, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the edge rushers. Then they have a safety who
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Speaker 1: comes down and Derwin James is all over the place.
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Speaker 1: He's been all over the place all season for them
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Speaker 1: and throughout his career so far. Hunder in fifteen tackles
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Speaker 1: this year, four sacks. I mean, he's all around. So
10:06
Speaker 1: you gotta point out where this guy is before the
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Speaker 1: snap every single time. What is the best thing he does?
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's everywhere. Like you said, he's athletic. Um,
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Speaker 1: he's quick, he's fast, he's down in the box, he's
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Speaker 1: a downhill player, very physical force safety to be honest.
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Speaker 1: So he's another one of those guys that we have
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Speaker 1: to really key in and see where he's at and
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Speaker 1: make sure that we have a plan for him as well. Yeah,
10:27
Speaker 1: how tough is that for a tight end like yourself.
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Speaker 1: You've got guys coming moving around and all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden you've got to figure out where they are and
10:33
Speaker 1: maybe you're lined up off the tackle at the same time. Right,
10:35
Speaker 1: there's a lot a lot going on. It's a lot
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Speaker 1: going on, but most of that is done throughout the week,
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Speaker 1: just over the course of our preparation and watching film.
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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, during the game, assuming that
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Speaker 1: you are prepared, you know, you've seen it before, you
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Speaker 1: know tendencies, you know what's coming, you know certain ques.
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Speaker 1: So uh, that's where you just really rely on your
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Speaker 1: preparation throughout the week. Derwin James, to me, is is
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Speaker 1: the real freak. I mean when you watch this guy play,
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Speaker 1: the height, weight, the athleteicism, the speed, the power or
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Speaker 1: the strength, I mean all the things that you see
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Speaker 1: them do you just it's just not normal. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: don't see a lot of guys safeties for that matter,
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Speaker 1: just just downhill just willing to play downhill pretty much
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Speaker 1: like a linebacker in the run game, things like that.
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Speaker 1: So we have to bowl up and be ready for that. Well,
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Speaker 1: the running game this week could be key got it
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Speaker 1: going a little bit against Houston and then backed off some.
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Speaker 1: Obviously that game got out of hand. Tough sledding last
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Speaker 1: week against the Titans. So we just heard from Travis
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Speaker 1: Etz and Jr. You guys geared up for the run
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Speaker 1: game this week and just staying ahead of the chains
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Speaker 1: could be key. We talked about Bosa and Mac. You
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Speaker 1: don't want those guys to get rolling right, absolutely for sure,
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Speaker 1: And that's been our mantra throughout the whole season. We
11:41
Speaker 1: all we always have to be uh good in the
11:44
Speaker 1: run game, establish a good run game so that it
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Speaker 1: could create opportunities elsewhere throughout the offense. So that's something
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Speaker 1: that we've always just just held on to as an
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Speaker 1: offense as far as philosophy is concerned. This is gonna
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Speaker 1: be another great environment on Saturday night. So as as
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Speaker 1: a player, I liked I always like the night games.
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Speaker 1: Do you have a preference night games? Four o'clock, one o'clock,
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I'd rather just wake up and just play ball.
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Speaker 1: You know, the night games, there's a lot of build up,
12:12
Speaker 1: there's a lot of anticipation, there's a lot of sitting around,
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Speaker 1: so you kind of pretty much have to occupy yourself,
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Speaker 1: occupy your mind, and limit distractions between when you wake
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Speaker 1: up and you know, eight kick off. We were having
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Speaker 1: a conversation minute ago before we went on the air,
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Speaker 1: and I asked him. I asked him and said, hey, Chris,
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Speaker 1: what did you do? Did you take a nap? Did
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Speaker 1: you sleep in? You know? And and your response was
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting. You said, I woke up at like six thirty.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure what you weren't trying to do, but you
12:37
Speaker 1: just woke up because I mean, and I was trying
12:39
Speaker 1: to explain this because somebody asked me that question this
12:41
Speaker 1: week and said, you know, what are the How does
12:43
Speaker 1: the players schedule work, and especially with the night game
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Speaker 1: do they change? And I said, well, typically they don't.
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Speaker 1: But for a player of the normal week of preparation,
12:51
Speaker 1: it's an early rise because you're in the building typically
12:53
Speaker 1: by six thirty or seven o'clock for treatment or workouts,
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Speaker 1: and so you're kind of a cuss them to waken
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Speaker 1: up early. So for the night game, if you can
13:03
Speaker 1: find a way to get a nap, that's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: Try to squeeze in a nap here and there. But
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Speaker 1: like you said, it's we're all just routine driven. Everything
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Speaker 1: we do is routine. Every Our whole life is pretty
13:14
Speaker 1: much a schedule, especially during the course of the season.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of things like waking up early and
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Speaker 1: and sticking to a plan, that's like, that's just mindless.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's something that we just don't think about.
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Speaker 1: You have to go back to the to the college
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Speaker 1: summertime schedule, sleep till nine ten o'clock, get a workout,
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Speaker 1: and maybe go to a class class. What is that?
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Speaker 1: See if you if you didn't go to summer school
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Speaker 1: in college JP, they didn't pay your room and board.
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Speaker 1: That Yeah, that's problem that you had to be in
13:44
Speaker 1: for one class. I didn't know that was the thing.
13:47
Speaker 1: That's probably back in your day. It's quite a while
13:50
Speaker 1: ago basketball he wore leather helmets. That's how long ago
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Speaker 1: that was. All right, So this feels like every time
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Speaker 1: I walk in this locker room about it is cool
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Speaker 1: and calm and losive. A locker room that I can
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Speaker 1: remember around here? Is that is that real? Or is
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Speaker 1: that just the forty five minutes I'm in there on
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Speaker 1: on media time. No, that's that's pretty much it. You know,
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Speaker 1: the vibe around the locker room is it's almost like
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Speaker 1: we've the amount of things and adversity that we've experienced
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Speaker 1: throughout the course of this whole season, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: has prepared us for moments like these. So in hindsight,
14:27
Speaker 1: it was kind of good us going through that, you know,
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Speaker 1: knowing what that felt like and knowing how to respond
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Speaker 1: after some type of adversity, it's only helpful. Going back
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Speaker 1: to the last Saturday Night, there was a little bit
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Speaker 1: of anxiety in that game for myself, and I was
14:43
Speaker 1: getting kind of nervous there at the end. I'm sure
14:45
Speaker 1: you were probably in the same boat when ray Sewan
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Speaker 1: made that play. What was that moment Like? In my mind,
14:52
Speaker 1: I was like, there he goes again. You know, he
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Speaker 1: he's shown up, you know weekend and week out, um
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Speaker 1: and and honestly reminded me of the doub this game,
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Speaker 1: that same you know, fourth quarter game on the line,
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Speaker 1: a play has to be made, and you know, they
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Speaker 1: did a great job of altogether, you know, the whole defense,
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Speaker 1: the defensive line, the safeties, everybody did a great job
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Speaker 1: of holding it down and making up for the you know,
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Speaker 1: loss of opportunities we had on offense when uh, when
15:19
Speaker 1: a bounce pass happens in basketball, you expect the ball
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Speaker 1: to stay true, and football, when the ball is knocked out,
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Speaker 1: you don't expect to have the perfect bounce. Was that
15:29
Speaker 1: not the perfect bounce to Josh Allen that you could
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Speaker 1: ever have couldn't have been any better? And I'm just
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Speaker 1: glad that he had the instinctive awareness to just scoop
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Speaker 1: and score and just run to the end zone. I
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. I had to look up and say this,
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Speaker 1: you can't make this up. What was your first reaction
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Speaker 1: when you saw him running, Because I'm gonna tell you
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Speaker 1: mine after I hear yours. Um, I wasn't sure if
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Speaker 1: it was live or not. You know, I just looked
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Speaker 1: up and saw that the crowd was just just rowing,
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Speaker 1: and I saw him score. The crowd went crazy, and
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Speaker 1: I just was at a loss for words. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you just can't make this up. My first reaction when
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Speaker 1: I saw Josh run and I was looking around for
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Speaker 1: penalty flags completely fists all this fact, no whistles, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going upka, it's live. I'm looking for yellow. I'm
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Speaker 1: not seeing yellow. I'm like, then, yes, we've been burned
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Speaker 1: by early whistles before the playoffs for sure a few
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Speaker 1: years ago. Chris, thanks to the time has always well done.
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Speaker 1: Good luck to you this week and uh we'll do
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Speaker 1: it again next week. How about that? Can't wait? Thanks
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Speaker 1: for having me as Chris man hurts. Jaguars tied in
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Speaker 1: about it first on ten ten X out Home of
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Speaker 1: the checks in Ville Jaguars. You know, but I think
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Speaker 1: minus a few plays, I think I have a few
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Speaker 1: plays go differently, you know, for we're a little sharper
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Speaker 1: or in my case, you know, hit a couple of throws,
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Speaker 1: game looks a lot different. So you know, you always
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Speaker 1: take a few plays, and I think we've just had
17:19
Speaker 1: a few more than we need the last two weeks
17:22
Speaker 1: of those negative plays or bad plays or mrs or
17:25
Speaker 1: whatever it is you know, we just had a few
17:27
Speaker 1: too many of those. But um, you know, I still
17:31
Speaker 1: think our offense is in a great spot and the
17:33
Speaker 1: progress we've made is still there, and um, just continue
17:36
Speaker 1: to build off of it. Obviously, there's some there's some things,
17:38
Speaker 1: and then it's tough. You know, it's tough to be
17:40
Speaker 1: a team twice too. And Tennessee had a really good plan.
17:42
Speaker 1: How they did some stuff. They gave us a little
17:43
Speaker 1: bit of trouble and um, you know, we tried to
17:45
Speaker 1: adjust the sidelines and do some things that helped us.
17:48
Speaker 1: And you know, they got they got good coaches, good
17:50
Speaker 1: players too, So you know that's a good team and
17:53
Speaker 1: you've got to give them credit. They had a good
17:54
Speaker 1: plan coming in and you know, we didn't execute at
17:56
Speaker 1: the highest level that that we can and um, thankfully
18:00
Speaker 1: defense definitely stepped up and had our back. So that's
18:04
Speaker 1: the quarterback of course, Trevor Lawrence for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
18:07
Speaker 1: They'll entertain the Los Angeles Chargers in the NFC Wild
18:11
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18:20
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18:22
Speaker 1: in the opening segment. The last few weeks, he's been fantastic,
18:26
Speaker 1: good insight for a guy who's right there on the
18:28
Speaker 1: let the edge of the offensive line, big in the
18:30
Speaker 1: run game, and an offense that, as you heard Trevor say,
18:35
Speaker 1: there has you know, last week didn't have the smoothest day.
18:38
Speaker 1: Let's say they didn't have a first down on the
18:39
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of that game. But Tennessee is a good
18:43
Speaker 1: group and the weeks before that, circumstances dictated different things
18:47
Speaker 1: on offense. When it comes to playoff football logs, you
18:51
Speaker 1: better score some points because you're not gonna win many
18:54
Speaker 1: ten three. Yeah, the Jags did at one time attend
18:57
Speaker 1: three playoff game, but especially against this group, this is
19:00
Speaker 1: a different kind of set up on the other side.
19:02
Speaker 1: Ten three still a win. I mean, you take ten
19:05
Speaker 1: three all day long, but I don't think ten points
19:08
Speaker 1: is gonna do it against the Chargers. You know, I
19:10
Speaker 1: think that's a that's a really talented young quarterback with
19:13
Speaker 1: some weapons on all offense. Big question mark with Mike Williams,
19:16
Speaker 1: the wide receiver and his back. He's been on the
19:19
Speaker 1: injury report the last two days. Hasn't practiced yet. That's
19:22
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see where he's at. But this
19:25
Speaker 1: is a game I believe that you're gonna have to
19:29
Speaker 1: come out with guns of blazing because you've got two
19:32
Speaker 1: young gunslingers that are going to be throwing the ball.
19:35
Speaker 1: And hopefully the Jaguar stay aggressive and I expect them to.
19:40
Speaker 1: But you know, this pass game. I give a lot
19:42
Speaker 1: of credit to Mike Vrabel and the Tennessee Titans. I mean,
19:45
Speaker 1: if there was ever a game plan that was executed
19:49
Speaker 1: to perfection almost to the end, that was a great
19:53
Speaker 1: job by Tennessee. I mean, Mike Vrabel did exactly what
19:56
Speaker 1: he wanted to do. They ended up shortening the game.
19:58
Speaker 1: They got an adequate performance out of there, and experienced
20:03
Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Doob Derrick Henry was kind of controlling the tempo.
20:06
Speaker 1: Their defense was dominant, dominant, and so but kudos for
20:13
Speaker 1: the Jaguars for fine in a way, because that's what
20:15
Speaker 1: good teams do. Well. You mentioned that this quarterback matchup
20:19
Speaker 1: is likely the big reason why this game is in
20:21
Speaker 1: prime time and not the early matchup. Justin Herbert hundred
20:26
Speaker 1: yards and change Trevor Lawrence the third most passing yards
20:29
Speaker 1: in a single season in Jaguars history, just overt similar
20:34
Speaker 1: completion percentages, both in the high sixties, both at twenty
20:39
Speaker 1: five touchdown passes. Justin Herbert through two more interceptions than
20:42
Speaker 1: Trevor did this year. But it's two of the young
20:46
Speaker 1: guns in the a f C, a conference that is
20:49
Speaker 1: stacked with good young quarterbacks, and it just kind of
20:53
Speaker 1: feels like this could be the beginning of a run
20:57
Speaker 1: of meetings between these two and maybe even in the postseason.
21:01
Speaker 1: I mean it could be, but I mean there's some
21:03
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks that are going to have something to say
21:05
Speaker 1: about that run to that are in the a f C.
21:07
Speaker 1: One in Kansas City and one in Buffalo, So we'll
21:10
Speaker 1: see you on that. But I will say this and
21:13
Speaker 1: that these two quarterbacks are really good. They're very talented.
21:16
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert makes you defend the entire field. He's got
21:19
Speaker 1: an incredibly gifted arm. He's got a little bit more
21:22
Speaker 1: experience than Trevor. Trevor I think has a little bit
21:25
Speaker 1: more athleticism, but I would say Herbert has just a
21:28
Speaker 1: little better arm right now. Now that could change next
21:32
Speaker 1: year when Trevor continues to develop. But it's gonna be
21:35
Speaker 1: a lot of fun watching these two guys. That's why
21:37
Speaker 1: it's in prime time, Like you said, that's why Al
21:40
Speaker 1: Michael's is gonna be calling the game with Tony Dungee.
21:43
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a big time game, big moment,
21:46
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a lot of people wanting to
21:47
Speaker 1: watch these two young quarterbacks. And I hope it becomes
21:50
Speaker 1: kind of a back and forth affair with these two.
21:54
Speaker 1: And I said this before to somebody, I said, I think,
21:57
Speaker 1: you know, in playoffs, turnovers and take ways and giveaways
22:01
Speaker 1: are a big deal. They become bigger in the playoffs.
22:04
Speaker 1: And so if the Jaguars defense can find a way
22:07
Speaker 1: to give Trevor Lawrence in this offense a couple extra possessions,
22:11
Speaker 1: I think that can be the difference in the game.
22:13
Speaker 1: But will you get it, I don't know. You know,
22:16
Speaker 1: people want to go back and reflect on the game
22:18
Speaker 1: in week three. It's hard to do that if you
22:20
Speaker 1: go back and you look at that game in week three,
22:23
Speaker 1: there was two different teams that were out there on
22:25
Speaker 1: the field that were very different. The Chargers Herbert had
22:29
Speaker 1: rip issues, They did not have Keenan Allen on the field.
22:32
Speaker 1: They didn't have their starting center on the field. They
22:34
Speaker 1: lost their left tackle in the game, who is arguably
22:37
Speaker 1: one of the top three best left tackles in the
22:39
Speaker 1: game on defense, They lost Joey Bosa in that game.
22:44
Speaker 1: They weren't able to get Austin Ekeler going at all
22:48
Speaker 1: in that game. And so, I mean, all of these
22:50
Speaker 1: things that happened, I don't know if you can expect
22:54
Speaker 1: them to happen again, but you would like this see
22:56
Speaker 1: some of those things happen again. And namely what I
22:58
Speaker 1: mentioned there about Eckler, Austin Ekeler running back, if he
23:02
Speaker 1: can keep him from getting going in the game, it
23:06
Speaker 1: would be significant. I mean, you can't underestimate this, folks.
23:10
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you because Ekeler is a is a
23:12
Speaker 1: capable running back. He's strong. I don't think they have
23:16
Speaker 1: a real desired focus at running the ball. But Ekeler
23:20
Speaker 1: is more than just a running back. He's a receiver
23:22
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, excellent hands, does a good job
23:26
Speaker 1: moving the change. And if all of a sudden he
23:27
Speaker 1: has a game like he had a couple of years
23:30
Speaker 1: ago here in Jacksonville, I think he had over a
23:33
Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing and over a hundred yards receiving in
23:36
Speaker 1: the game. And I'm not saying he has to have that,
23:38
Speaker 1: but if all of a sudden he has balanced, a
23:40
Speaker 1: balanced impact on the game, it will be extremely difficult
23:44
Speaker 1: to stop Justin Herbert with Keenan Allen and Mike Williams
23:47
Speaker 1: if he's available. By the way, Mike Williams today did
23:51
Speaker 1: not practice questionable for Saturday officially, and according to Ian
23:55
Speaker 1: Rampabort of NFL Network, the team will give him up
23:58
Speaker 1: to game time to be able to go. So find
24:00
Speaker 1: out that inactives. Let's playoff football. I would expect him
24:03
Speaker 1: to be I would expect him's exactly JP to play
24:06
Speaker 1: because look, in the playoffs, there is no tomorrow you
24:10
Speaker 1: worry about getting healthy. Tomorrow, you play the game and
24:13
Speaker 1: make yourself available. You got it through. He's got a
24:16
Speaker 1: back injury, unless it's something that is bad enough that
24:19
Speaker 1: could be a whole you know, one of those things
24:22
Speaker 1: that could be really bad for you. But you know,
24:25
Speaker 1: you know, there's j there's guys. It was that bad,
24:28
Speaker 1: he'd be out already. There's there's been guys that have
24:31
Speaker 1: have been in that category before that have found a
24:33
Speaker 1: way to play and it just doesn't It doesn't matter.
24:37
Speaker 1: It's about playing the game. I mean, playoffs are like
24:40
Speaker 1: I said before, you you get paid to play the
24:44
Speaker 1: game and to do all the hard work. When you
24:46
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, this is when it becomes fun.
24:48
Speaker 1: This is when you would do it for free. And
24:51
Speaker 1: this is when you start to put your body even
24:54
Speaker 1: more rich than you usually do because of the quest
24:58
Speaker 1: and the thirst for a championship. They don't come around
25:00
Speaker 1: that often, you know. And and it's where legacies are
25:03
Speaker 1: built is in the postseason, right, I mean, it's big.
25:06
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. I mean what guys are
25:08
Speaker 1: willing to do to play in a game. I mean,
25:10
Speaker 1: let's go to Ronnie Lott. You know, Okay hurts a
25:12
Speaker 1: finger and it starts looking at the possibility about being
25:17
Speaker 1: out for a couple of weeks years ago and was
25:20
Speaker 1: given a choice because Ronnie said, I'm playing this game.
25:22
Speaker 1: You'll just need to give me away in which I
25:23
Speaker 1: can play. Tell me what I gotta do, And the
25:24
Speaker 1: doctor told him said, look, the only way that you
25:27
Speaker 1: can play this game is if you were to have
25:29
Speaker 1: the end of your finger amputated. Ronnie said, cut it off,
25:33
Speaker 1: cut it off. Cut the end of his finger off.
25:35
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a legendary story and it's truth.
25:39
Speaker 1: Ronnie took the end of his finger and had it
25:41
Speaker 1: cut off so that he would not miss any games.
25:45
Speaker 1: I asked him about it years later when he was
25:47
Speaker 1: playing with us in New York, and I said, would
25:48
Speaker 1: you do it all over again? He said no, No,
25:51
Speaker 1: he said no. Story a little bit now. I mean,
25:56
Speaker 1: if you asked him, and if he was he told
25:58
Speaker 1: he did say no. But uh, I don't blie. I
26:00
Speaker 1: didn't believe him for a minute. I think he would.
26:04
Speaker 1: I mean the only couple I mean not even a
26:06
Speaker 1: full inch, I mean like three quarters of an inch
26:08
Speaker 1: of the end of his figure, you know. But yeah,
26:11
Speaker 1: playoff football. But look, it is one of the reasons
26:14
Speaker 1: why the guys in the Hall of Fame. That's the
26:16
Speaker 1: dedication and the commitment that he had to the game.
26:18
Speaker 1: One of the greatest players I ever got the opportunity
26:22
Speaker 1: to play with. And uh, I learned a lot from
26:25
Speaker 1: Ronny that that dude was unbelievable. Unbelievable. Plenty more coming up.
26:29
Speaker 1: We'll return with a look at the Jaguars defense. Big
26:32
Speaker 1: play group. Down the stretch, they might have given up
26:35
Speaker 1: some yards here. They're certainly down the stretch, but the
26:37
Speaker 1: bend don't break attitude, and then all of a sudden
26:40
Speaker 1: they're scoring touchdowns too huge last week, of course, we'll
26:44
Speaker 1: get into that end. Josh Allen's played down the stretch
26:47
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Speaker 1: for the young guys now, Like I just tried to
27:38
Speaker 1: tell them, like it's a different ballgame. So I mean,
27:41
Speaker 1: nobody's out there playing, you know, messing around might be
27:44
Speaker 1: regular season, might be having fun with some of the
27:46
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27:48
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Speaker 1: and learn more. All right, the Jaguars defense logs the
28:29
Speaker 1: last month or so is um. They stepped up in
28:32
Speaker 1: a big way at big times. There's been some games
28:35
Speaker 1: where they given up yardage or an early lead, but
28:38
Speaker 1: they somehow find a way to stabilize and and then
28:43
Speaker 1: usually at least in a couple of instances, make the
28:46
Speaker 1: game winning play at the end, the pick six against
28:48
Speaker 1: the Cowboys rat Seon Jenkins, and then of course last
28:51
Speaker 1: week Gray and on the play again on the sack
28:53
Speaker 1: fumble Allen returns up for the touchdown. And you know,
28:57
Speaker 1: it's it's it seems like just talking to some of
28:59
Speaker 1: those a is in the locker room that you just
29:02
Speaker 1: gotta it's it's kind of a mentality. We're there and
29:05
Speaker 1: whatever we can do to help the team win. Let's
29:07
Speaker 1: make the play in the big moment and no moment
29:09
Speaker 1: it's too big for them right now, No, And I
29:11
Speaker 1: think that's a great mentality to have. I mean, it's
29:14
Speaker 1: just I don't think the Jaguars defense is a great
29:16
Speaker 1: defense by any means, but they have a great attitude
29:19
Speaker 1: and that's I think critical to where they're at. You know,
29:23
Speaker 1: if you go back to the Dallas Cowboys games, you
29:25
Speaker 1: know they are Cowboys game. They weren't great in that,
29:28
Speaker 1: but they made that big play at the end there.
29:30
Speaker 1: And then this past couple of weeks, you know, you
29:32
Speaker 1: really haven't been tested, like I think you're gonna get
29:35
Speaker 1: tested this Saturday night. You know, when you're facing the Jets,
29:39
Speaker 1: the Texans, and the Titans, which all have limited offensive
29:42
Speaker 1: firepower quarterback issues. Yeah, I mean all three of them
29:45
Speaker 1: have quarterback issues, limited firepower. This offense is a little
29:49
Speaker 1: bit different than the Chargers. So this is, uh, you know,
29:52
Speaker 1: a four hundred level college class compared to the one
29:56
Speaker 1: level college class that you just took, you know, the
29:58
Speaker 1: last three weeks. So it's it's it's a bigger challenge.
30:00
Speaker 1: And look, with bigger steaks, you want the bigger challenges.
30:04
Speaker 1: And it's a great opportunity. You know, hopefully they can
30:06
Speaker 1: find a way to stay opportunistic because, uh, two things.
30:11
Speaker 1: One thing to stay opportunistic. At number two, there's a
30:14
Speaker 1: big I think the big thing. And I mentioned about Eckler.
30:17
Speaker 1: You know, what kind of an impact can he have?
30:19
Speaker 1: Can you contain him? Mike Williams does he play or
30:23
Speaker 1: does he not play? You know, the Jaguars defense right
30:25
Speaker 1: now is a little bit of the weakness all on
30:27
Speaker 1: the edges. You know, Tyson Campbell's really good. Hey, Darius
30:30
Speaker 1: Williams still trying to find his way a little bit.
30:32
Speaker 1: You know, you've had issues with your nickel. If Mike
30:36
Speaker 1: Williams plays, I think that that challenges the Jaguars defense
30:41
Speaker 1: if he doesn't play all of a sudden, I think
30:43
Speaker 1: the assignment I'm not. I don't wanna say it gets easy,
30:46
Speaker 1: but I think it gets a little bit more manageable. Yeah. Well,
30:51
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this that the Jags defense has at
30:53
Speaker 1: least one guy on every level playing big right now,
30:55
Speaker 1: Josh Allen up front, I'd say more than you're saying.
30:58
Speaker 1: At least, I'm just pointing out three key guys here, right,
31:01
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. The last month has been fantastic. Obviously down
31:04
Speaker 1: the stretch. Didn't get a sack last week for the
31:07
Speaker 1: force fumble because he was sacked later by somebody else.
31:10
Speaker 1: You can't have two sacks on one play. That's why
31:12
Speaker 1: he didn't. But he didn't get credit fumble. Correct, Yes,
31:15
Speaker 1: Foyer look kind of course led the league in tackles
31:17
Speaker 1: this year. He's still playing at a high level. Then.
31:19
Speaker 1: Ray Jenkins is just a man possessed the season. I
31:23
Speaker 1: think we are. I mean, Ray Shawn has been incredible
31:27
Speaker 1: and I said this earlier year I'd play with him
31:29
Speaker 1: any day the week, you know, going back to my
31:31
Speaker 1: younger days, just because I love his effort, I love
31:33
Speaker 1: his intensity comes to play. He's not perfect, but he
31:37
Speaker 1: plays so hard and physical, and that's what I love
31:40
Speaker 1: about him, you know. And Foyer Lucan another guy that
31:43
Speaker 1: you mentioned there. Foyer is what it what impresses me
31:48
Speaker 1: the most about him. First off, we know he's a
31:50
Speaker 1: tackling machine, but where does he get the endurance? I mean,
31:56
Speaker 1: the guy we if you were to sit there in
31:59
Speaker 1: a you got a board, you know, let's say seventy
32:02
Speaker 1: five numbers, just put your finger on it. Okay, let's
32:04
Speaker 1: say forty two. Okay, go to play forty two in
32:07
Speaker 1: the film, because seventy five plays ballpark in the game.
32:10
Speaker 1: Watch play number forty two. The guys running a hundred
32:13
Speaker 1: miles an hour. Close your eyes again, do the same thing.
32:16
Speaker 1: Play two, play twenty two. He's flying around hundred miles
32:20
Speaker 1: an hour. I just don't know how I mean he's
32:22
Speaker 1: got He's got a really a natural gift for great stamina,
32:27
Speaker 1: because if you don't have that, you're not leading the
32:29
Speaker 1: league and tackles, because he plays every place so incredibly hard,
32:34
Speaker 1: with great effort and intensity, and which is impressive. You
32:39
Speaker 1: know you mentioned Josh Allen. Josh is playing great. I mean,
32:42
Speaker 1: he's really playing strong here at the end. But look
32:45
Speaker 1: he's not alone. Art and Key is playing his rear
32:49
Speaker 1: end off Art and Key. Let's not forget he got
32:51
Speaker 1: the pressure that led to the underthrow for Tyson Campbell's interception.
32:56
Speaker 1: You know, he's been critical and providing pressure in the
32:59
Speaker 1: middle and also on the edge, especially with the loss
33:02
Speaker 1: of Smooth to the significant achilles injury and uh, and
33:07
Speaker 1: that's been impressive. Cal and Jaesan has done a pretty
33:09
Speaker 1: good job in there. He's Uh. The game against the
33:12
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, I thought he played extremely physical. The Jets game,
33:15
Speaker 1: he played physical. So they've been getting contributions from everybody.
33:19
Speaker 1: And that's I think a great mark of a team
33:23
Speaker 1: that's playing great team defense. They they don't have, but
33:26
Speaker 1: they don't have the Joey Boss or clear Max you
33:29
Speaker 1: know on this roster. You know, Josh Allen is probably
33:32
Speaker 1: the thing that's closest to that, but but he doesn't
33:36
Speaker 1: have that pedigree like those two guys. But Josh is
33:39
Speaker 1: doing a good job. He's been physical against the run
33:43
Speaker 1: and uh and he plays hard and uh and I
33:47
Speaker 1: love the guy. He's uh, he's got the makeup of
33:49
Speaker 1: everything that you want as far as team leadership goes.
33:52
Speaker 1: And we know he was raised the right way by
33:56
Speaker 1: Calais Campbell. Oh, absolutely, yeah. You can. You can tell
34:00
Speaker 1: by the way they talk and go about their business.
34:02
Speaker 1: I was having a conversation with Troy Aitman before the game.
34:05
Speaker 1: Troy and I were same draft class. Obviously, he was
34:07
Speaker 1: drafted a little bit higher than I was, not much
34:09
Speaker 1: higher thirteen spots, okay, he was. But we were talking
34:16
Speaker 1: about him and also talking about Trayvon Walker and and
34:20
Speaker 1: Josh happen to come by, and you know, and I
34:23
Speaker 1: introduced Troy to Josh. And now when Josh walked away,
34:27
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I said, the most impressive thing
34:29
Speaker 1: about him is, you know, he's committed to the team.
34:31
Speaker 1: He's a team guy. He works his butt off, he
34:34
Speaker 1: comes to play every week, and uh, you know, and
34:38
Speaker 1: he's he's a very balanced player. You know, he plays
34:41
Speaker 1: well against the run, he plays well against the past.
34:44
Speaker 1: And then Troy asked me about Trayvon. I said, look,
34:47
Speaker 1: I said, Trayvon still learning some in the pass rush game.
34:51
Speaker 1: And I won't repeat what I said to Troy because
34:54
Speaker 1: it's probably not appropriate for air, but I basically said
34:57
Speaker 1: that he is so strong that he could cock your
35:00
Speaker 1: rear end in the dirt. Okay, strong, and Troy Joe
35:05
Speaker 1: kind of chuckle said, well, we can't use that line
35:08
Speaker 1: on the air. I said, no, you can. Well, it's true.
35:11
Speaker 1: I mean he obviously you know the way he wrestled
35:15
Speaker 1: down Derrick Henry a few times in that backfield. Strong.
35:18
Speaker 1: You know, Trayvon is just so strong, and he's learning
35:21
Speaker 1: how to pass rush still and he's but he's just
35:23
Speaker 1: got such a natural strength power to him that, uh,
35:30
Speaker 1: you get excited about what the future holds when he
35:32
Speaker 1: finally starts to And I'm not saying he doesn't know anything,
35:35
Speaker 1: but he's learning. And the more that he learns about
35:38
Speaker 1: being on edges, the more power and strength that will
35:42
Speaker 1: show through. Because he's on the edges where he gets
35:45
Speaker 1: somebody off balance, and that's something that he he's still
35:48
Speaker 1: learning to do. But the one thing that he does
35:50
Speaker 1: not learn how to do, which he's already doing right now,
35:53
Speaker 1: is he's being big and strong and physical and is
35:57
Speaker 1: attacking blockers in a vicious way. How have you um
36:02
Speaker 1: just looking at the way they've called the defense the
36:04
Speaker 1: last month or so, how is Mike called well steadied?
36:07
Speaker 1: Things improved maybe from earlier in the year, if at all,
36:11
Speaker 1: And and they're kind of dialing it up at the
36:14
Speaker 1: right times, it feels. I'll give you a perfect example
36:16
Speaker 1: that I think they're they're First of all, he's the
36:18
Speaker 1: first year defensive coordinator. You know, he's getting better. I mean,
36:22
Speaker 1: you can't help but get better. And then we are
36:24
Speaker 1: seeing signs of that. We saw a little bit of
36:27
Speaker 1: a struggle there in about a four or five game window,
36:30
Speaker 1: which was when they were losing games, and defensively, there
36:33
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys running open. There were some miscommunications,
36:38
Speaker 1: and I think that they've tightened it up lately and
36:40
Speaker 1: that they simplified things a little bit and that helps.
36:44
Speaker 1: But to go to one specific play, the ray Sean
36:48
Speaker 1: Jenkins play, which by the way, folks, if you want
36:51
Speaker 1: to watch on YouTube, me and Mike called well, go
36:54
Speaker 1: to the film room to break that play down, all right,
36:56
Speaker 1: like that, and that will also be um available on
37:02
Speaker 1: Jags Wired this weekend. This week weekend also we'll have that.
37:06
Speaker 1: But he talks specifically about that. We talked specifically about
37:10
Speaker 1: that play and in the protection that the Tennessee Titans
37:13
Speaker 1: had up front, you know, a defensive coordinator starting to
37:17
Speaker 1: find a group because they were expecting a certain protection
37:19
Speaker 1: on that and it was when what I thought was
37:21
Speaker 1: a true slide protection. But if you look at it,
37:25
Speaker 1: the left guard fifty five or seventy three pound friend,
37:29
Speaker 1: okay for the Tennessee Titans, he actually goes towards the slide,
37:36
Speaker 1: which is where the center is going. He's going away
37:39
Speaker 1: with the center to the other side of the formation,
37:42
Speaker 1: which most teams don't do that. And so when they
37:46
Speaker 1: bring the blitz, they're bringing two guys, are bringing Foyer,
37:48
Speaker 1: and they're bringing ray Sean to that side. Well, they're
37:53
Speaker 1: putting it on the back because they were expecting the
37:56
Speaker 1: guard to peak front side. They knew that back would
38:00
Speaker 1: have to make a choice between blocking Foyer and blocking
38:04
Speaker 1: ray Sean. But if they didn't peak the guard over
38:07
Speaker 1: our two d seventy three pound friend, if he stays
38:10
Speaker 1: back on that side, they block it. But they knew
38:13
Speaker 1: that that's what they did, that was their style. So
38:16
Speaker 1: they bring too on the back. The back's got to
38:18
Speaker 1: make a decision do I block Foyer do I block
38:20
Speaker 1: Racian blocks Foyer? That leaves ray Sean completely unblocked around
38:25
Speaker 1: the edge. That tells me that that's they're learning. You know,
38:29
Speaker 1: Mike is learning This defense is learning. They're starting to
38:32
Speaker 1: take advantage of what players do best, and that's part
38:36
Speaker 1: of the learning process that you just have to go
38:38
Speaker 1: through with, you know, first year coaches, first year coordinators
38:42
Speaker 1: then and also when you're in the first year of
38:43
Speaker 1: a program to get to know the players on your roster.
38:47
Speaker 1: Let's come back in a moment, we'll get our final
38:49
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39:13
Speaker 1: This is Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network,
39:19
Speaker 1: the station that the Jaguars listened to ten ten XT
39:24
Speaker 1: home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The regular season is what
39:33
Speaker 1: it is in a healthy respect. You know, obviously if
39:35
Speaker 1: you take care of business there in order to get
39:37
Speaker 1: to this moment. But here's where it matters. If we
39:40
Speaker 1: want to keep trading the new narrative for this team
39:44
Speaker 1: in this city and and and be the new Jack's
39:48
Speaker 1: team that we have set out to establish. Um it
39:52
Speaker 1: starts with a moment like this, and what an incredible
39:55
Speaker 1: opportunity that that we have to to show that and
39:58
Speaker 1: display up. That's a Joe of course, Jaguar's wide receiver
40:02
Speaker 1: and welcome back at Jaguar's Happy Hour, JP Shadrick, Jeff
40:05
Speaker 1: Flag went alive. Look outside at the Miller Electric Center
40:08
Speaker 1: outside of the bank under construction. Beautiful day. It was
40:11
Speaker 1: kind of hot today actually out of practice. And then
40:14
Speaker 1: it's gonna be cold Saturday night. Low forties at kickoff,
40:18
Speaker 1: high thirties at the end of the game. But who
40:21
Speaker 1: cares playoff football. It's gonna be awesome, can't wait. It
40:25
Speaker 1: was hot today. What you've had three layers on. It's
40:29
Speaker 1: a whole thing. You know, it's like seventy five degree Yeah,
40:31
Speaker 1: with his son's out black, you know, the whole thing.
40:34
Speaker 1: So hey, you're getting relative to Saturday, Jay, You're getting solved.
40:42
Speaker 1: That's what it is. Five degrees and it's hot. By
40:44
Speaker 1: the way, thanks for the Venison chili you brought into
40:47
Speaker 1: my wife. You brought it in again. There's a whole
40:50
Speaker 1: pot of it here. It was awesome. Um, there was two,
40:54
Speaker 1: did you I'm just curious about do you name the
40:57
Speaker 1: deer that you harvest? Do you know which deer? No?
41:00
Speaker 1: Do you know? No? I just I didn't know how
41:03
Speaker 1: that worked. No, No, don't. I don't do that. Why
41:06
Speaker 1: are you looking to have one named after No? I
41:08
Speaker 1: was just curious if you knew which one that you
41:10
Speaker 1: you know, actually killed. So I don't want I'm gonna
41:13
Speaker 1: start calling one of them JP. Probably yeah, probably not. Hey,
41:20
Speaker 1: it's time out for the injury report presented by Baptist
41:23
Speaker 1: Health and the Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute, the official sports medicine
41:26
Speaker 1: provider of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The report is out. It's uh, well,
41:31
Speaker 1: there's only one player questionable for the Chargers. That's Mike
41:34
Speaker 1: Williams with a back issue. Is not practiced all week long.
41:37
Speaker 1: Everybody else on their list is full and status is
41:40
Speaker 1: good to go. Jaguars have six players on the list officially.
41:44
Speaker 1: One of those cleared, Riley Patterson, will play. He had
41:46
Speaker 1: a right knee issue. Did not practice Tuesday, but full
41:49
Speaker 1: the last two days. Everybody else Sheriff Kendrick Pryor Madisick,
41:54
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, Jamal agg Knew all questionable for the game.
41:57
Speaker 1: But they're gonna play. Yeah. Yeah, they were questionable last
42:01
Speaker 1: week and questionable the week before that. Look, I mean
42:03
Speaker 1: they're gonna play. It's playoff football. You know, what is it?
42:07
Speaker 1: What was that character's name again, Joe from Monty Python's
42:11
Speaker 1: the Black Night. We're back at that. It's merely a
42:14
Speaker 1: flesh fund. It's a black Knight. Yeah, yeah, it's a
42:17
Speaker 1: Black Knight. That's what it is. It's playoff football. You
42:19
Speaker 1: go look at if if you can go, you're gonna go,
42:23
Speaker 1: and you'll do anything you need to do to go.
42:26
Speaker 1: You'll medicate, you'll um everything, whatever you gotta do get
42:32
Speaker 1: out there. I was just going to use a term,
42:34
Speaker 1: and I don't want to say all the terms, but
42:36
Speaker 1: but there's there's ways you can find a way to
42:38
Speaker 1: get ready. I can tell you that, JP, because you're
42:40
Speaker 1: not gonna miss playoff football. It's just a different world.
42:43
Speaker 1: Let's discuss the coaching aspect of this thing. Of course,
42:46
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson has been there before and done that in
42:48
Speaker 1: the playoffs as a play call or as a head coach.
42:50
Speaker 1: He's one of Thembardi all that um manon Staleley on
42:54
Speaker 1: the other side, it's his first go round in the playoffs. Yeah,
42:56
Speaker 1: he's a smart guy. I mean he's uh. He's got
43:00
Speaker 1: garnered a lot of respect around the league for how
43:03
Speaker 1: smart of a defensive coach that he is. But a
43:05
Speaker 1: lot of people are starting to question about his smartness
43:08
Speaker 1: after this pass game, when he had all of the
43:11
Speaker 1: stars playing in a game that was completely meaningless, which
43:15
Speaker 1: was quite honestly kind of surprising. Um if I were
43:20
Speaker 1: Brandon Steely in that game, I would have tried to
43:22
Speaker 1: defined a way to get my quarterback out. I would
43:26
Speaker 1: have rested my two star wide receivers, and I would
43:29
Speaker 1: have rested my two star book ends and Darwin James.
43:32
Speaker 1: And he can't rest everybody in the playoffs, but you
43:35
Speaker 1: can rest the guys that are difference makers. And for
43:38
Speaker 1: the Chargers, your quarterback, your two receivers, you're running back.
43:41
Speaker 1: That's four guys on offense, and then on defense, your
43:45
Speaker 1: book ends, and then Drew Trankle, your middle linebacker. And
43:49
Speaker 1: I would say Derwin James, that's four on defense. You've
43:52
Speaker 1: got you Look, you've got a foot eight active game.
43:56
Speaker 1: Dave Roster. You can find a way to get by
43:59
Speaker 1: without four eyes on offense and four guys on defense
44:02
Speaker 1: and still keep those guys in uh an emergency backup capacity.
44:08
Speaker 1: I thought that was very interesting that decision that he made.
44:11
Speaker 1: Their U Rashawn Slater is back on at practice. He
44:16
Speaker 1: tore a biceps tendant against the Jaguars and he's not
44:19
Speaker 1: going to be back for the game this Saturday. But
44:22
Speaker 1: he's a really good football player for the Chargers now,
44:25
Speaker 1: really good player. And I just wanted to make mention
44:27
Speaker 1: because I remember when they lost him. I was like,
44:30
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, they're they're in trouble. There's you know,
44:33
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna have a hard time. I was gonna think.
44:38
Speaker 1: I was thinking, you're gonna have a hard time trying
44:40
Speaker 1: to find a solid replacement for rashawns Later a left tackle,
44:44
Speaker 1: because if you looked at their roster, they didn't really
44:46
Speaker 1: have anybody like a Walker little you know, younger guy
44:50
Speaker 1: that's got you know, year two ours belt that was
44:53
Speaker 1: you know, drafted fairly high, not high like first round,
44:56
Speaker 1: but second or third round. But they had this rookie
45:00
Speaker 1: jam mary Say Sallyer who was drafted in the sixth
45:04
Speaker 1: round out of Georgia and he has taken over. This
45:07
Speaker 1: guy is good. He's done a really good job. Watching
45:11
Speaker 1: the film on him, got really good sets, real steady feet.
45:15
Speaker 1: He's a big body and from talking to Bucky Brooks today,
45:19
Speaker 1: he was telling us that this guy was a guard
45:21
Speaker 1: at Georgia and that they scouted him off of some
45:25
Speaker 1: practice tape and then moved him to tackle. And he's
45:28
Speaker 1: done a really good job, really good job for the Chargers.
45:31
Speaker 1: In the absence of Slater, So um, if you're the
45:35
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense, how do you how do you affect the
45:39
Speaker 1: quarterback the most? How do you get into Herbert's head?
45:43
Speaker 1: Or can you? Well? I mean, look, I think the
45:46
Speaker 1: first and foremost, before you start talking about their quarterback,
45:49
Speaker 1: you've got to talk about their running back Eckler, and
45:52
Speaker 1: you've you've got to find a way to contain him
45:55
Speaker 1: because he can take a lot of pressure off with
45:57
Speaker 1: the quarterback and making a mistake again justin her can
46:01
Speaker 1: you have to guard the entire field. He's got an
46:03
Speaker 1: incredibly gifted arm. He can make any throw you want,
46:07
Speaker 1: and he's accurate, he's precise, He's got all the things
46:11
Speaker 1: that you want. So it's not gonna be easy. So again,
46:14
Speaker 1: you you start talking about the things you must do
46:17
Speaker 1: before you start talking about the things you must do
46:20
Speaker 1: against him specifically. So you got to try to make
46:23
Speaker 1: him as one dimensional as you can and put as
46:26
Speaker 1: much pressure as you can. You go back to that game,
46:29
Speaker 1: the with the Week three game, and you look at
46:32
Speaker 1: the numbers that Eckler had. He had four carries for
46:35
Speaker 1: five yards, okay, and then he had eight catches for
46:39
Speaker 1: forty eight yards. Now that's the numbers that you're looking
46:43
Speaker 1: for in this game. Could you hold Can you hold
46:45
Speaker 1: him the four carriers for five yards? Probably not, but
46:48
Speaker 1: you want to try to limit his effectiveness on the ground,
46:51
Speaker 1: try to limit his effectiveness in the passing game, and
46:54
Speaker 1: then then you can find a way to put pressure
46:56
Speaker 1: on on the young quarterback Herbert jack is offensively, What
47:01
Speaker 1: do you want to see from Trevor this week? Rhythm?
47:04
Speaker 1: I want to see rhythm, you know, I want to
47:05
Speaker 1: see what I want to see the way that he
47:08
Speaker 1: played in the Dallas game, the way that he played
47:11
Speaker 1: at Tennessee in command, total control, athletic, decisive, precise, all
47:19
Speaker 1: of those things. Because if you get your quarterback hot
47:24
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you don't know what can happen. You
47:28
Speaker 1: don't know how far you can go. You can go
47:31
Speaker 1: all the way to the big show. If your quarterback
47:34
Speaker 1: is hot and you've got enough talent around him to
47:38
Speaker 1: where you can do some things offensively. But if they're
47:41
Speaker 1: gonna try to advance and to get far in his playoffs,
47:45
Speaker 1: he's got to be on point, and this defense needs
47:48
Speaker 1: to stay opportunistic. If those things happen, look out mix
47:53
Speaker 1: in the running game to Travis E. T N a
47:55
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago in Houston looked pretty good. And
47:57
Speaker 1: then last week obviously they couldn't run the football against Tennessee.
48:01
Speaker 1: But Travis, hey, when you get your opportunities, this is
48:05
Speaker 1: the week. Well, and they tried it last week. But
48:08
Speaker 1: the Titans got those two big defensive tackles. Okay, there
48:11
Speaker 1: are no two big defensive tackles this week with the Chargers.
48:14
Speaker 1: They're not very good in the middle. They got a
48:17
Speaker 1: good linebacker again and uh the linebacker and I was
48:21
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, Drew frank Will. But you look at
48:24
Speaker 1: their defensive tackles, they're not great. Um. I'm not saying
48:29
Speaker 1: that their pushovers because I don't think anybody's a pushover
48:31
Speaker 1: in the League. But if you were to rank Tennessee's
48:35
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, they might be one or two in the
48:38
Speaker 1: National Football League. If you were to rank the Chargers
48:42
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, they might be nine or thirty in the
48:49
Speaker 1: National Football League. As far as talent, so so yes,
48:53
Speaker 1: to answer your question, Yes, you want to see E. T.
48:56
Speaker 1: N really have a nice day, and I think you
48:58
Speaker 1: can do it right there in the middle. You start
49:00
Speaker 1: trying to mess around on the edges. Then you start
49:02
Speaker 1: getting into the areas of Mac and Bosa where those
49:06
Speaker 1: guys can have an impact. But tranquil again, the linebacker
49:10
Speaker 1: is no pushover. Good player. All Right, we're about a
49:14
Speaker 1: minute and a half away from the Doug Peterson Show.
49:16
Speaker 1: What do you want to hear from the head coach
49:17
Speaker 1: coming up going into the wild card playoff game. I
49:20
Speaker 1: think it's a lot of questions for him, and a
49:23
Speaker 1: lot of them I think pertained to the excitement of
49:25
Speaker 1: his team, the level of the playoffs, his experience in
49:28
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and I think that's a significant advantage in
49:32
Speaker 1: this game with his experience in the playoffs, kind of
49:34
Speaker 1: guy in the team, and Brandon Stanley hadn't been there before.
49:38
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's gonna make a difference, but I
49:40
Speaker 1: think it helps in a big way. We might have
49:42
Speaker 1: some special guest shooting us as well for a segment.
49:45
Speaker 1: You never know what's gonna happen on live radio. Who's
49:47
Speaker 1: walking through the hallways here, We'll take it. So that's
49:49
Speaker 1: taking up too, so stick around. The Douck Peterson Show
49:53
Speaker 1: is coming up next. The Jaguar is, of course, the
49:55
Speaker 1: ANFC South champions that earned them a home playoff game.
49:58
Speaker 1: This week. The Los Angeles Charged Jr's The Number five
50:01
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50:08
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50:11
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50:13
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50:17
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