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Jags Drive Time: Monday, December 28 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jaguars did you Jackars did Jaguars Time sextet? Johns are
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Speaker 1: actually Jaguars dry A time starts right now. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: just as tuned. It was all Bears fans. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I couldn't tell you who it was, but
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Speaker 1: I mean I understand the situation. Um, I haven't played
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Speaker 1: in Chicago. The fans travel really well. Uh, they're a
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Speaker 1: great fan base. So I haven't read. That was all
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Speaker 1: all the Chicago fans today, Bears fans for just today.
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Speaker 1: It was a monumental day for the Jaguars branchise despite
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Speaker 1: a loss the Chicago Bears, Jaguars fans telling us all
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Speaker 1: week long they want the number one overall pick and
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Speaker 1: that was clinched yesterday with a loss to the Bears
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Speaker 1: and the Jets a win. Welcome in Jaguars Drive Time
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Speaker 1: on a Monday morning, Ryan Sexton and John Osier. John,
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Speaker 1: we will attempt to look at this game, will go
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Speaker 1: over highlights, will go over lows and highs. But I
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Speaker 1: caught myself the entire time planning for this show looking
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Speaker 1: forward to the NFL Draft. That is what is the
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Speaker 1: biggest news this morning. Even after a loss of the Bears, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's unavoidable. I mean our job is to you know,
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Speaker 1: when the Jaguars play a game, you analyze it, you
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Speaker 1: analyze what it means in the game, what it means
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Speaker 1: after the game. Well, on this one, what it meant
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Speaker 1: during the game was really what we've seen pretty much
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Speaker 1: for the last two or three weeks. The Bears got momentum,
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Speaker 1: they got away, and there came a point where the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars just couldn't hold up, especially defensively. That's been the story,
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Speaker 1: but it's the story everybody's heard. What nobody's ever heard
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Speaker 1: before is that the Jaguars had the number one overall pick.
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Speaker 1: So naturally that's going to be the focus. It's what
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Speaker 1: it's what fans are gonna want to talk about. It's unavoidable,
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Speaker 1: and it should be unavoidable. Yeah, the story was untold
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Speaker 1: until after the Jets game. Bryants. We were listening to
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Speaker 1: press conferences with Doug Moron and Mike Glennon, but my
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Speaker 1: eye was right there on the TV watching the end
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Speaker 1: of that Jets game, and that was the true story
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Speaker 1: of the day. Well, we all were, and John and
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Speaker 1: I talked a little bit about this yesterday. You wanted
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars loss to coincide with the Jets win, because
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Speaker 1: it meant that the I want the Jaguars to lose
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Speaker 1: for the first round pick. Conversations now done. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we don't this week, we don't even to mention that
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Speaker 1: it's locked in. You've got your guy and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about him a lot. I want to go back
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Speaker 1: to your comment about a lot of Chicago Bears fan
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Speaker 1: for the day. Um, there were lots of Chicago Bears
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Speaker 1: fans in the stadium, legitimate Bears fans. I met some
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Speaker 1: who traveled from Tampa, some from Toronto. They traveled from
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Speaker 1: all over because they can't go see the Bears in
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Speaker 1: Chicago and it made sense to come to Florida for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: So there were legitimately a lot of fans there. I
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Speaker 1: asked Fred Taylor, because we set up in that north
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Speaker 1: end zone on game day, if he thought that there
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Speaker 1: were more fans there yesterday than we had seen all season.
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Speaker 1: And he said, without a doubt. And they were clustered together.
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Speaker 1: I mean I thought I was surprised how close together
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Speaker 1: certain groups were because there were so many fans there.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they were separated the way that they're supposed
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Speaker 1: to be, but we had seen great swaths of teel
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Speaker 1: seats all season long that was not the case. There
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Speaker 1: were a lot of Bears fans in that house yesterday,
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Speaker 1: yes and they definitely got loud at times and speaking
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Speaker 1: into big things, and big thing one is winning. Losing
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Speaker 1: is winning. That's what we saw yesterday. Bears beat the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars and we're overall a much more talented team. We've
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Speaker 1: seen that in the past few weeks and most of
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Speaker 1: the season, easing the worries of Jaguars fans who thought
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Speaker 1: draft position could get messed up. Yesterday by beating the
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, that was not the case. Losing is winning.
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Speaker 1: But that is wrapped up now that the Jaguars have
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick, and all eyes will be
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Speaker 1: on this guy, Trevor Lawrence Form wants to come. Big
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Speaker 1: thing too, is losing. That's what it took two gets
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Speaker 1: here to this point where we're talking about the number
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Speaker 1: one overall pick and the excitement around it. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: are the worst team in football this season, and with
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Speaker 1: that you get the number one pick. That's the way
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Speaker 1: it works. Four teen game losing streak brings you here,
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Speaker 1: but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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Speaker 1: Big thing three is awesome. Now, wouldn't it be awesome?
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Speaker 1: Just go beats the Colts this week and no longer
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Speaker 1: matters a winner, a loss for draft position. Going out
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Speaker 1: with a win and sweeping the Colts during this year,
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Speaker 1: that would be pretty awesome. One more game left. Um,
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Speaker 1: Like I told a team, I told him after the game,
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Speaker 1: I said, Hey, twenties, then you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: We all know that, I said, But hey, the way
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Speaker 1: I look at it is, you know, we've got ourselves
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Speaker 1: a game and you know, starting one. So let's let's
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Speaker 1: let's make this change. You know, let's let's just change
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Speaker 1: this thing. And you know, I think these guys they
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Speaker 1: care about each other. You know, in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: they're they're consoling each other. It's um, it's difficult. Um.
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Speaker 1: But again, I mean, you're you're not getting a lot
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Speaker 1: of you know, people pointing fingers. You're not getting people
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Speaker 1: that want to get to take themselves out of the game.
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Speaker 1: You're getting guys that are, um, you know, going in
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Speaker 1: there and and try and we're just it's not not
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Speaker 1: making plays. And at the end of the day, we're
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Speaker 1: not we're not playing well enough, and that's on all
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Speaker 1: of us. Go back to last season when the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: finished that year with a win, and it was overall
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Speaker 1: a much better year for the Jaguars last year, and
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Speaker 1: that says something. But the end of the year with
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Speaker 1: a win, Brian, I remember at that end of the year,
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Speaker 1: it was a great feeling to go out with a win,
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Speaker 1: especially for Klai's Campbell. I remember getting that touchdown and
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Speaker 1: it just felt good. And now it doesn't matter, It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the Jets do. It doesn't matter for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars with draft position, a winner loss. So it
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Speaker 1: would be great to beat the Colts this week, but
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Speaker 1: as we know, the Colts have to win on Sunday
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Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs. And we go back to
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Speaker 1: is this team talent enough to beat a team like
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Speaker 1: the Colts? Well, you know they probably weren't talented enough
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Speaker 1: to beat a team like the Colts and opening Day
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Speaker 1: and yet they did it. What really factors in here?
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Speaker 1: This is the ultimate example of what John always talks about,
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Speaker 1: and that is a team that has to win against
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Speaker 1: a team that's not playing for anything. Look, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: aren't even playing for the first pick in the draft anymore.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and we all know everyone in that locker
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Speaker 1: room knows who it's gonna be entirely different in the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars organization next year. You know, last year, Minshew still
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Speaker 1: thought that there was a chance he could be the
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Speaker 1: franchise guy. We didn't know Calais and yn who bade
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Speaker 1: big plays, We're going to be gone. There was still
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Speaker 1: some sense of something was building maybe around Minshew. I
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Speaker 1: mean even even have that this year. Everything is in
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Speaker 1: the future. So beating the Colts on Sunday would seem
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Speaker 1: like a distant possibility, just because the last two weeks
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Speaker 1: the defense hasn't been able to even really break serve
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Speaker 1: and give you anything to work with, right, And it
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Speaker 1: would be great to give Doug Morown that one. But John,
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Speaker 1: we talked about that fourteen game losing streak. They are
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Speaker 1: here for a reason. They got the number one pick reason.
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Speaker 1: You hate to say it, but it's because they're the
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Speaker 1: worst team in football right now. So you can't really
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Speaker 1: expect that to happen. But it would be great for
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Speaker 1: Doug Morrown after this entire year and this team fighting
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Speaker 1: for him so hard all year to to get a
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Speaker 1: win at the end of the year. Shelyn, that's my
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Speaker 1: Bernie girl, hot hake. So let's just oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: I apologize, But yeah, there is Uh, it's a long
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Speaker 1: shot and it doesn't matter to Jaguars fans, but they
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Speaker 1: would like it. Uh. The Cults are in an unbelievable
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Speaker 1: situation where they can win Sunday and not get in,
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Speaker 1: which means they could not get in and ed eleven
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Speaker 1: and five, which is rare. Teams don't get in at
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Speaker 1: ten and six a lot. Eleven and five is rare.
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Speaker 1: Not to get it. It happens. New England didn't get
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Speaker 1: in once when Rady was hurt in two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't happen very often. If the Colts play hard,
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Speaker 1: if they played for sixty minutes, and I use that
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Speaker 1: cliche because that's what's hurt the Jaguars in the last
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Speaker 1: two or three weeks. This defense can't hold up for
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Speaker 1: sixty minutes against really really against NFL determined offenses. There
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Speaker 1: comes a point where it breaks. It broke in the
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Speaker 1: third quarter yesterday. They're trying, but they just can't do it.
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Speaker 1: So you know, the Colts are that side of team.
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Speaker 1: They're physical, they're determined. It's a tough ask, but boy,
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Speaker 1: what a tough thing it would be to be the
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Speaker 1: Colt and win eleven games and feel like you're probably
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Speaker 1: one of the best. You know, seven or eight teams
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Speaker 1: in in the league. I am there, I am there
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Speaker 1: in my power rank, and they might not get in
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Speaker 1: m tough league. It is crazy, crazy year, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about this guy, Trevor Lawrence, and then
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Speaker 1: we're going overall pick for months to come. But Brian,
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Speaker 1: I go to you because it was definitely you could
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Speaker 1: feel the excitement from everyone at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: and I pull up rich Eisen's tweet, which is just
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Speaker 1: one of many many tweets where all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars are in the national spotlight for everything. And
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Speaker 1: rich Eisen is a guy that John and I always
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Speaker 1: talk about at the NFL combine. He is the NFL
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Speaker 1: Combine guy. And to be in this position where you
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Speaker 1: have everyone in the country with eyes on the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: it's not a great thing that has come to this point,
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Speaker 1: but now that you're here, it is a great thing. Well,
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Speaker 1: the underlying point is is that this guy makes you relevant. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean This guy is someone that people all over
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Speaker 1: the country are going to pay attention to because from
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Speaker 1: the moment that he burst onto the scene as a
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Speaker 1: freshman at Clemson and beat Mighty Alabama in the championship
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Speaker 1: game as a true freshman, everyone has pointed to this
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Speaker 1: kid the measurables, the intangibles of who he is off
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Speaker 1: the field, the leadership qualities, which is a matter of time.
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Speaker 1: You know, I even was looking, okay one he'd be eligible.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars were passing on Blake as I'm trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out my head, is there any chance in January is
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this kid? Um, you know that he's
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Speaker 1: going to be available to them, and I didn't see it.
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Speaker 1: I thought Folds will come in and they'll win just
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Speaker 1: enough games to be out of the mix. And you know,
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Speaker 1: there's another franchise quarterback that the Jaguars don't get because
10:19
Speaker 1: they're constantly trying to patch holes at the quarterback position,
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Speaker 1: which is all they've done since Mark Burnell retired, patch
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Speaker 1: fix and try and find a guy. This guy is different.
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Speaker 1: He just is. And everyone who's watching this and everyone
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Speaker 1: who watches him knows he's different. This isn't Jared goff
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Speaker 1: from or Jamis Winston from. This isn't a guy that
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Speaker 1: you hope is a great quarterback. He is a great quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and he looks to be a transcendent talent. That's why
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Speaker 1: this morning there's a bounce in everyone's step. You know.
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Speaker 1: They're mentioned in Albert Brier's Monday Morning Quarterback column where
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Speaker 1: he's talking about all the things they have. I'm getting
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Speaker 1: excited reading it, and I knew all this stuff. They're relevant,
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Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft and they haven't been
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Speaker 1: in a long time. And you can see that in
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Speaker 1: the way that the negotiations are going for a lot
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Speaker 1: Jay and people are down on the Jaguars and don't
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Speaker 1: give him it right. All of those things matter. The
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Speaker 1: Jaguars had just they just become right. All the losing
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Speaker 1: it felt bad to be a Jaguars fan. You had
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Speaker 1: star players that were leaving or wanted out. Get a
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Speaker 1: team that was losing, no quarterback, no hope. City council
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Speaker 1: can't get their get together with the Mr Khan and
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Speaker 1: get a deal done to get lot j going. It
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Speaker 1: just all felt And now here's this kid who can
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Speaker 1: change at all. He has to be able to write.
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Speaker 1: It's just hope at this point. But this year the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars are in a position to get a guy who
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Speaker 1: can transform their identity, their reality, their future, whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to call it. Um, this is a great morning
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Speaker 1: to be a Jaguars. Yes, it is no more just
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Speaker 1: positives going forward. In the conversation of passing up on
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Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson and Lamar Jackson, we've had it for years
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Speaker 1: and years. Hopefully that can just be put to rest
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Speaker 1: as we move forward with the number one draft pick.
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Speaker 1: from yesterday's loss the Chicago Bears. At times during the show,
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Speaker 1: it felt like there wasn't even a game yesterday, but
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Speaker 1: there was, and I always promised there are some highlights,
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Speaker 1: even if they're not good ones. First quarter, first drive,
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Speaker 1: Jack start out pretty good. Dariogun Boally keeps the drive
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Speaker 1: alive with the twenty five yard run. However, the Bears
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Speaker 1: get the ball back into this back. Ryan Nall is
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Speaker 1: in the background and the back field now to pass
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Speaker 1: touched out Batch Praam on the recen end Jimmy Graham
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Speaker 1: unreal day for the Bears and shows the impact a
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Speaker 1: tight end can make during game moving along. Jags down
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Speaker 1: ten to three. This is why you give DJ Hark
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Speaker 1: consistent quarterback play because you see flashes like this. It's
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Speaker 1: the Chicago defense that has held its own in the
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Speaker 1: red zone this season. Let him gonna go for it
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Speaker 1: all down the sideline, all hand fighting, the ball is
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Speaker 1: caught by DJ Chark for the touchdown. Even better touchdown
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Speaker 1: dance and incredible catch from DJ Chark tie game, but
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Speaker 1: and sue the sloppiness to end the first half. And
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Speaker 1: now from the thirteen, Visky with time on the move,
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Speaker 1: coming back this way and looking and throwing to the
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Speaker 1: end zone. It is intercepted in the end zone. Joe Shubert, No,
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Speaker 1: it isn't that just you just cannot do that. He's
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Speaker 1: trying to make a play, but he just gotta throw
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Speaker 1: it away. On second and four, a lot of time
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Speaker 1: for Glennio throws over the middle, hands intercepted, picked off
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Speaker 1: by real clams Smith. These are the situations that you
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Speaker 1: work on. The next to me is really bad. Go
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Speaker 1: back and head out real quick. Look at look at it,
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Speaker 1: Look at the Jacksonville is doing defense, and this makes
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Speaker 1: no sense. Pass over the one yard line on the
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Speaker 1: way right down the middle as time expires. That was
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Speaker 1: not a pretty highlight. Jacks still in the game, believe
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Speaker 1: it or not. At halftime, down three, second half as
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Speaker 1: a whole thing's just basically fall apart. The Bears score
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Speaker 1: a touchdown and their first four possessions to start the
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Speaker 1: second half. Draft class, and it's just like the experience,
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Speaker 1: the big game experience, and just consisting he has been
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Speaker 1: passes that are something Smith inside yard line and second
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Speaker 1: and seven, Busy steps up for the end zone touchdown
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Speaker 1: Jim Brown and there you have it. That was just
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Speaker 1: one of many touchdowns in the second half for the
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Speaker 1: Bears and overall John the Bears, especially to start the game,
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Speaker 1: had a bit of a shaky game. You're thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: what's going on here? And then they pull away in
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Speaker 1: the second half. And that's been the m O of
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars this entire seasons. Even when they keep it
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Speaker 1: close at halftime, you're always reluctant to believe something because
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Speaker 1: that's normally when they can't get it together as the
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Speaker 1: third quarter and it becomes not a game. Most weeks,
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Speaker 1: well it's been particularly the story the last three or
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Speaker 1: four weeks. I mean it's uh, and it's it's because
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Speaker 1: teams play the Jaguars, you figure it out in the
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Speaker 1: first half and then you find the weakness that you
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Speaker 1: can exploit. And on this defense right now, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of weaknesses because I guess what they do any
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Speaker 1: players left, you know, and I mean exaggerate and Miles
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Speaker 1: Jack and Shober out there. But I heard the comentator
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Speaker 1: and you know, uh, why are the Jags defense playing
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Speaker 1: this way at the end of the half. They were
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Speaker 1: playing in pre event. I'll tell you why, because you
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Speaker 1: had to shake hands with your cornerbacks before the game
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Speaker 1: and introduce yourself because you don't know who they are.
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Speaker 1: This is a completely beat up team, even beyond the
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Speaker 1: under man team that they put on the field at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. So yes, at some point
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Speaker 1: during these games, I expect it happened Sunday, they reach
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Speaker 1: a point where they just can't fight anymore. Any other
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Speaker 1: team gets away from happening the third quarter. It happened
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Speaker 1: in the first half the last couple of weeks. It
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Speaker 1: happens because you're an undermanned, injured, depleted defense, particularly it
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Speaker 1: depleted defense. That's big time. This defense needs a lot
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Speaker 1: of work in the off season. But Brian, I remember
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Speaker 1: last week we were talking about these next two weeks
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Speaker 1: for players, is the chance to prove you have something,
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Speaker 1: put good tape on film. And Daria gumboal A is
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Speaker 1: one guy that got a great opportunity with James Robinson
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Speaker 1: being out. We really haven't seen much from him, and
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Speaker 1: especially that first I feel like, okay, this is exactly
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Speaker 1: what we talked about, is making a name for yourself
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Speaker 1: and taking advantage of an opportunity. Well, look, you're looking
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Speaker 1: for a couple of guys, right, a couple of players
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Speaker 1: here and there that you can add to it. I
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Speaker 1: know you saw my quick Thoughts column. I did not
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Speaker 1: have him in my fourteen you know, building block players.
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Speaker 1: But okay, he showed me something. Let's see what you
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19:22
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19:31
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19:34
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19:44
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19:46
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19:48
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19:55
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton, you're up Clemson Central, Baby, can get me
22:54
Speaker 1: an orange shirt. I think what you're going to find
22:58
Speaker 1: is that people are so exce I did about the
23:00
Speaker 1: potential of Trevor Lawrence that they're going to be tuned
23:03
Speaker 1: in in record numbers on Friday when they play Ohio
23:06
Speaker 1: State UM in that playoff game. Uh. I go back
23:10
Speaker 1: to the early years here, UM, jackson was a great
23:14
Speaker 1: football market. It's not as big, it doesn't have as
23:16
Speaker 1: many people, doesn't have as much money as a lot
23:18
Speaker 1: of the bigger markets do. But when it comes to
23:21
Speaker 1: turning out football fans, Jacksonville has it because the Super
23:25
Speaker 1: Bowl ratings were always you know, New York was playing
23:27
Speaker 1: Chicago in the Super Bowl. Uh it was New York
23:30
Speaker 1: Chicago and then Jacksonville in terms of percentage of households
23:34
Speaker 1: watching the game. I mean, it's just a great football
23:37
Speaker 1: market and I think it's gonna show this week. I
23:39
Speaker 1: think outside of Tuscaloosa, UH and Clemson, you'll find jackson
23:44
Speaker 1: for the very top in terms of how that game
23:47
Speaker 1: comes off in the ratings. Uh. There's a lot of
23:49
Speaker 1: Clemson people here. I've met a bunch of them. True story,
23:52
Speaker 1: My wife and I went and looked at a couch
23:53
Speaker 1: that was for sale at a ladies home in Pontevedra
23:56
Speaker 1: and she had a life size cutout of Trevor Lawrence.
23:59
Speaker 1: She's a huge Clemson fan. I remember saying, you're a
24:02
Speaker 1: Clemson fan. She goes, can you tell? And I and
24:05
Speaker 1: she said, do you think there's any chance he comes here?
24:07
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, there's a chance. And her response
24:11
Speaker 1: was I'd be a Jaguars fan then, and I said,
24:13
Speaker 1: you're not one. Now she goes, Now, we're more college fans.
24:16
Speaker 1: We love Trevor. Apparently there's a big Clemson um obviously stronghold,
24:22
Speaker 1: but you know, a big Clemson following here in Jacksonville.
24:26
Speaker 1: I just I think you're going to see great numbers
24:28
Speaker 1: for this because people are genuinely excited and willing to
24:32
Speaker 1: turn on the football game and cheer for the guy
24:34
Speaker 1: that they see as being their guy. Absolutely, and you
24:39
Speaker 1: would hope that that turns into ticket sales and Clemson
24:42
Speaker 1: fans coming to Jaguars game just to watch that guy.
24:44
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, all right, Johnlemy, we tease a
24:47
Speaker 1: little bit. I blew it a little bit, but I'll
24:50
Speaker 1: give you the floor for your hot teet. Well slant,
24:53
Speaker 1: I almost went to Clemson, so I got into Clemson,
24:57
Speaker 1: which says something about Clemson's admission standards, so not good. Um,
25:03
Speaker 1: but it Uh, you know, the Jaguars deserve the number
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Speaker 1: one pick, and you know, I don't say that to
25:11
Speaker 1: criticize the players playing now. They're playing hard. But you know,
25:17
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, it was sort of not
25:20
Speaker 1: really certain who the team, who the number thirty two
25:23
Speaker 1: team and football would Uh, the Jaguars were playing hard,
25:27
Speaker 1: they were getting a chance to win. They almost played
25:30
Speaker 1: their way out of this in November, if you remember,
25:32
Speaker 1: they probably should have beaten Minnesota, had a chance to
25:35
Speaker 1: beat Green Bay. They were places along the line that
25:36
Speaker 1: they could have won. In the last few weeks, though
25:40
Speaker 1: their deficiencies, especially on defense at the quarterback position, have
25:44
Speaker 1: reared their ugly head, so to speak. And it's been
25:47
Speaker 1: you know, it's been rough. Uh So the jet Meanwhile,
25:53
Speaker 1: they beat two playoff contenders. You know, they earned their
25:57
Speaker 1: way out of this. So I don't think it's gonna
26:00
Speaker 1: be any question in Week seventeen. It's not going to
26:04
Speaker 1: be a matter of having tank or having tried to
26:06
Speaker 1: do it. Uh They're the team that needs the franchise, quarterback,
26:12
Speaker 1: the reboot the most. That's the way the league set
26:16
Speaker 1: up to have. That happened, so it worked. The Jaguars
26:18
Speaker 1: deserved the number one pick. I'm glad for them and
26:21
Speaker 1: for the franchise that they're getting. But and that transitions
26:27
Speaker 1: perfectly into my hottake that they deserve the number one pick,
26:31
Speaker 1: and my hot taking. May have seen it on Twitter yesterday.
26:34
Speaker 1: Jeremy shop is well known on ESPN outside the lines.
26:37
Speaker 1: I am a loyal watcher, but this take on Twitter,
26:40
Speaker 1: just come on, man, get off my lawn. No one's
26:43
Speaker 1: allowed to be happy anymore. He tweeted this out when
26:46
Speaker 1: Chris said, take away the draft pick, and he said,
26:50
Speaker 1: as I've said many times before, fairly recently too we
26:53
Speaker 1: shouldn't reward the worst team in the NFL with the
26:55
Speaker 1: top pick in the draft. Jacksonville doesn't deserve Trevor Lawrence.
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Speaker 1: M m mmmm. I just don't believe that to be true,
27:02
Speaker 1: because if you want this to be college football, it
27:05
Speaker 1: can be college football. How tired have we of watching
27:08
Speaker 1: Alabama in Clemson and Oklahoma will be in the College
27:12
Speaker 1: Football Playoff And it's the same thing every year. When
27:15
Speaker 1: you get success, you get the best recruiting class, and
27:18
Speaker 1: it just repeats itself. We look at teams like the
27:21
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills or the Cleveland Browns and how a couple
27:24
Speaker 1: of great draft picks have have completely turned those franchises
27:28
Speaker 1: around and made them something and now they're in the
27:31
Speaker 1: heat of the playoffs. And in the conversation, this is
27:34
Speaker 1: the way that you keep the NFL competitive. And if
27:36
Speaker 1: you want it to be college football, you would give
27:39
Speaker 1: it to the Kanpas City Chiefs and say, hey, you're
27:41
Speaker 1: the number one team in the NFL, go ahead and
27:43
Speaker 1: get the top pick. And that would mean Jacksonville would
27:45
Speaker 1: stay uncompetitive for years to come. So, needless to say,
27:49
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that take, And Brian, I have
27:51
Speaker 1: a feeling you'll feel the same way. Jaguars deserve this
27:55
Speaker 1: number one pick, Yeah, no doubt. Um. And for the record,
27:59
Speaker 1: I'm not tired of and Clemson in the playoffs the
28:01
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Uh. And I just can't go
28:04
Speaker 1: Clempson by the way, I didn't even get into Clemson
28:06
Speaker 1: like John did. Uh. The difference between soccer in Europe
28:10
Speaker 1: where there is relegation and the NFL is there's only
28:14
Speaker 1: thirty two teams here. There are not there's not a
28:16
Speaker 1: minor league. Of the minor league is college football, right,
28:21
Speaker 1: and they're not affiliated, so you can't relegate and go
28:23
Speaker 1: to a lower division. The NFL is not thirty two
28:26
Speaker 1: independent businesses. It's one business with thirty two different locations.
28:31
Speaker 1: And the draft system is set up so that you
28:34
Speaker 1: have a chance to build more competitive teams and it
28:37
Speaker 1: gives everyone an opportunity. And I know that doesn't sound
28:40
Speaker 1: like the American way in a way, it's not. But
28:44
Speaker 1: it's all designed right to make sure that everyone kind
28:48
Speaker 1: of has and you don't have haves and have nots Um.
28:53
Speaker 1: It's sort of a closed system. It's it's just it's
28:55
Speaker 1: not I don't think you can make the comparison. Jeremy
28:57
Speaker 1: Chap has a long career as a sportswriter. Um. And
29:00
Speaker 1: so I'm not saying anything other than I disagree, um,
29:05
Speaker 1: because I just don't think it works this way in
29:07
Speaker 1: the NFL. Yes, as a whole, this is the way
29:12
Speaker 1: that it has been and it is shown to work.
29:14
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31:03
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31:06
Speaker 1: reveled in the news that the Jaguars had a chance
31:08
Speaker 1: at getting the franchise. Quarterback Jared Golf appears to be
31:12
Speaker 1: gone for at least the season finale. How much longer
31:14
Speaker 1: than that. No one is certain he fractured had dislocated
31:17
Speaker 1: the thumb on his passing hand against Seattle yesterday, and
31:21
Speaker 1: so he will have to sit. They've launch two in
31:23
Speaker 1: a row. They need some help. They need to win
31:26
Speaker 1: on Sunday against Arizona and then they need some help
31:29
Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs if they don't win, right because
31:32
Speaker 1: Arizona and Chicago are both chasing them. Now you've got
31:35
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. But guess who it is? Bishop Kenny's
31:39
Speaker 1: own John Wolford, who has never played in an NFL game,
31:41
Speaker 1: but he's been on the fringes of it, played in
31:43
Speaker 1: the American Alliance of Football or Alliance of American Football.
31:46
Speaker 1: I forget what that league was called, but John Wolford.
31:50
Speaker 1: We'll have some Jacksonville ees on that Rams Cardinals game
31:54
Speaker 1: that might not otherwise be there. So good luck to
31:56
Speaker 1: the Bishop Kenny Crusader in his NFL debut for the
32:01
Speaker 1: Rams on Sunday. Bad day for the Browns yesterday. We
32:04
Speaker 1: know the loss. Um. You know that they went in
32:07
Speaker 1: looking at a bad day. Apparently, Kevin Stavnaski, their head coach,
32:11
Speaker 1: had to have a wide receiver familiarity session in the
32:15
Speaker 1: parking lot. Like John alluded to shaking hands with cornerbacks
32:19
Speaker 1: who started for the Jaguars yesterday, apparently Mayfield had to
32:21
Speaker 1: do a little bit of this with the receivers in
32:23
Speaker 1: the parking lot at the hotel in New Jersey yesterday
32:26
Speaker 1: because remember four wide receivers were put on the COVID
32:31
Speaker 1: list and couldn't travel or play. So that was already
32:34
Speaker 1: a bad start. And then that guy bumbled three times.
32:37
Speaker 1: They lost too bad day. He said, it's my fault. Um,
32:40
Speaker 1: when you're the quarterback, that always happens. Finally, Um, you
32:44
Speaker 1: know J. J. Watt isn't your stand up guy and
32:45
Speaker 1: you see his passion on the field every Sunday. Yesterday
32:49
Speaker 1: the media felt it. He went off on a tirade,
32:53
Speaker 1: uh four letter words, all of it um, in which
32:56
Speaker 1: he was questioning the effort of his teammates. So something
33:01
Speaker 1: we didn't ever hear in Jacksonville. And this team has
33:03
Speaker 1: lost at a more profound rate than the Texans the
33:06
Speaker 1: last couple of years. He just he went on a
33:08
Speaker 1: tirade that took the microphone up off and got up
33:11
Speaker 1: and walked out the door. The Texans troubles are beyond
33:15
Speaker 1: just a disgruntled J. J. Watt by the way, and
33:18
Speaker 1: a season that has gone horribly awry after they gave
33:22
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson the huge contract, um fired the coach in
33:27
Speaker 1: week four. They had already traded away uh DeAndre Hopkins.
33:30
Speaker 1: But how about this. Now they have there in the
33:34
Speaker 1: third hole right for the draft, but they're not there.
33:38
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are because they traded their first round pick
33:40
Speaker 1: for Laramie Tunsil, the left tackle who's not really contributed
33:45
Speaker 1: to a winning campaign this year. So now for the
33:48
Speaker 1: second straight year, they have no first round picks and
33:50
Speaker 1: no second round picks. So they've got a roster that's older, depleted,
33:54
Speaker 1: obviously not as good, and they don't have the draft
33:57
Speaker 1: capital to go and replace it. So the Texans have
34:01
Speaker 1: a long, hard off season. They'll hire a new general
34:04
Speaker 1: manager and a new coach, just like the Jaguars will,
34:06
Speaker 1: but they won't have the resources to work with like
34:11
Speaker 1: these guys too. Yes, if you've not seen that press
34:16
Speaker 1: conference clip of J. J. Watt, I encourage you to
34:19
Speaker 1: go watch it. If you think he's not trying, you
34:21
Speaker 1: are wrong. It was definitely worth the watch. So Brian,
34:24
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34:32
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