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Chris Manhertz on team culture | The Doug Pederson Show: Thursday, December 15 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doug Peterson Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. J. T.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick and former Jaguar Jeff Logoman discussed the latest Jaguars
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Speaker 1: news with the head coach. That Doug Peterson Show starts
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Speaker 1: right now and welcome in. It's Week fifteen of The
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show. Week fifteen in the season meaningful games
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Speaker 1: in December. J P. Shadrick, Jeff Logoman and head coach
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. And it's meaningful still, certainly because of the
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Speaker 1: huge team win last week in Nashville. Trailing in the
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Speaker 1: game seven nothing fourteen seven could have gone the wrong
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Speaker 1: way right before half turnovers and points off turnovers. The
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Speaker 1: quarterback played out of his mind. I mean, all that
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Speaker 1: came together for a massive team win last week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it did, and it was um, you know, it was
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Speaker 1: exciting to see the defense play the way they did
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Speaker 1: create the turnovers. We talked about putting pressure on the
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Speaker 1: quarterback and and really a lot of the turnovers came
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Speaker 1: from from just that and then you know, punching the
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Speaker 1: ball out and um, and then the offense being able
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Speaker 1: to capitalize. You know on a lot of those takeaways
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Speaker 1: and and you know, we we we we talked quite
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Speaker 1: a bit too about the middle eight. You know, we
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Speaker 1: got the seven before the half and then and obviously
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Speaker 1: coming out in the third quarter and and um, you
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Speaker 1: know we had to kick off return for the touchdown,
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Speaker 1: but they got called back, but the offense was still
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Speaker 1: able to go out and take about seven seven minutes
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Speaker 1: or something off the clock and score again. So four
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Speaker 1: team points right there. Um, And and really again we
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Speaker 1: talked about complimentary football. You know, we've had flashes of it,
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Speaker 1: and uh, it was good to see, um, you know
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Speaker 1: our team do that last weekend. Boy, takeaways and points
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Speaker 1: I always kind of go hand in hand a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And twenty points off of those four takeaways, and the
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Speaker 1: number for the season twenty takeaway seventy seven points off
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Speaker 1: of the takeaways, and boy, you needed it in that game,
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Speaker 1: we really did. You know. It's one of the things
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Speaker 1: going into that football game, we knew they were really
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Speaker 1: really good run football team, and they can control the
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Speaker 1: clock and really control the game if they if they
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Speaker 1: can run it and then and get points themselves, you know,
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Speaker 1: and score. And we just felt, um going into it
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Speaker 1: as well that if we can get the lead and
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Speaker 1: somehow maintain the lead and and get them out of
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Speaker 1: their comfort zone just a little bit, that that might
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Speaker 1: be be in our favor. And um, you know, who
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Speaker 1: would have thought that Trevor, you know, missing a couple
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Speaker 1: of days of practice would have gone out and played
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Speaker 1: the way he did. But you know, it's a credit
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Speaker 1: to him and his preparation and coach McCoy of getting
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Speaker 1: him prepared with just a day or two of preparation.
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Speaker 1: So do you let him not practice on Wednesdays? And well,
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Speaker 1: it's not the recipe for success, but uh, now it's
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Speaker 1: just a credit to Trevor. And you know, we make
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Speaker 1: sure that the guys are healthy, you know who can practice.
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Speaker 1: And I thought C. J. Bethard, who you know, our
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Speaker 1: backup quarterback, did an now standing job for two days
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Speaker 1: and and I was really in the mind frame of
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Speaker 1: playing that football game, and and um did a nice
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Speaker 1: job of geting our guys ready to go. And and
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Speaker 1: then Trevor took over and uh, you know, played played
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Speaker 1: as well as he did. I thought it was impressive
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Speaker 1: just from the standpoint of you would have never have
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Speaker 1: known that he had a toe bothering him whatsoever. And
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Speaker 1: credit to your training staff, to your equipment staff making
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Speaker 1: sure he's got the right equipment on that foot and
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Speaker 1: everything else, because literally when he took off and ran,
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Speaker 1: I mean looked great. Yeah, yeah, he moved around really well.
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Speaker 1: Um you know, and and yeah, like you said, you know,
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Speaker 1: the training room and the docks and and obviously some
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Speaker 1: modern medicine to make that thing not feel quite as
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Speaker 1: painful during the game can help. And and I've been
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Speaker 1: there with injury and played through it. But you know,
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Speaker 1: that's just a sign of of of a really true
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Speaker 1: leader of our team who can play through some injury
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Speaker 1: and pain. And uh, it's really sets a I think
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Speaker 1: a standard for for the rest of the guys. And
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Speaker 1: and and we have a we have a ton of
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Speaker 1: guys that played through injury. But I think it just
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Speaker 1: sets the tone that your quarterback and do that and
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Speaker 1: still play at high level. I think I miss spoke earlier.
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Speaker 1: I said a quarterback played out of his mind. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is his mind. I mean he's really settled in
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Speaker 1: now the last month or so. And a lot has
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Speaker 1: been made this week about that goal to go interception
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Speaker 1: in London, that being a turning point of sorts for
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Speaker 1: him and kind of maybe a revelation, hey I gotta
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Speaker 1: get my act together here and helped his football team.
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Speaker 1: But that certainly has been the case since then. He's
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Speaker 1: elevating his game. It seems like week to week so
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Speaker 1: out of his mind. No, this is what his mind
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Speaker 1: is right now. This is a good place to be.
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Speaker 1: It is. And and you know, there's there's uh, there's plays,
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Speaker 1: there's moments, there's scenarios, uh individually that that sort of
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Speaker 1: kind of can wake a player up a little bit
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Speaker 1: in this league. Um, and there's games that can wait
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Speaker 1: teams up in this league. And I'm a big believer
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Speaker 1: of that. And and I do believe that Denver game
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Speaker 1: was something that really stuck with Trevor, you know, and
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Speaker 1: he really wanted to rebound from that and and not
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Speaker 1: let his teammates down. That's the type of competitor that
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Speaker 1: he is. And you know, he's had a lot of
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Speaker 1: success when he was even at Clemson, and you know,
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Speaker 1: and and listen, he's gonna face adversity. You don't go
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Speaker 1: through this game, uh and play as long as you know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully he does and then and then not go through adversity.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's we're all going to face it. But uh,
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Speaker 1: he's done a great job of handling that. And really, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, knock on wood, let's say, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: playing playing pretty good football right now. The you have
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Speaker 1: so many good moments and you know, the chunk play
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Speaker 1: in the two minute drill to Christian Kirk, by the way,
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Speaker 1: great play design for the coaching staff, a little dump
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Speaker 1: off to Evan Ingram or Juwan chends up chipping Bayard
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Speaker 1: on the way out. But my favorite play of all
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Speaker 1: was taken a knee and then the defensive tackle comes
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Speaker 1: off and and hits Fortner under the chin in a
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Speaker 1: in ane, you know situation which was totally bush league,
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Speaker 1: and then Trevor immediately gets up into his face. I
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Speaker 1: mean to me, I mean that that's kind of a
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Speaker 1: sign that says, hey, look, you know, I'm I got
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Speaker 1: my guys, and then my guy's also got me and
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Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. I love that. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just a great sign of of just your quarterback
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Speaker 1: who has a ton of respect and sort of admiration
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Speaker 1: for offensive line and and vice versa. And when and
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Speaker 1: when Trevor can do that and stand up for for
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Speaker 1: for anybody on the team, especially the offensive line. Those
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Speaker 1: guys are gonna go to battle, you know, for Trevor
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Speaker 1: and and um, you know, I get it the situation.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we just we just ran the ball there,
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Speaker 1: I think three straight times, got the first down, which
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Speaker 1: we needed the first down, you know, to to really
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Speaker 1: ice the game. And I know, I know guys are upset,
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Speaker 1: and it's a it's a tough situation, and we have
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Speaker 1: to be as an offense and those situations be smart
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Speaker 1: and expect things from the defense. But for Trevor to
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Speaker 1: really step in there and not back down, I thought
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Speaker 1: was a was a was a really good sign of
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Speaker 1: a leader and someone the guys can respect. Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: Show continues. Let's move now to the Dallas Cowboys ten
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Speaker 1: and three. Of course you're very familiar with that organization.
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Speaker 1: We go to the Microsoft surface now for social media.
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Speaker 1: Question about the Dallas offense, and this is from att
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Speaker 1: Jack Shan two to five five. How is Dak Prescott
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Speaker 1: played this season for the Cowboys? How dangerous is Ceedee
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Speaker 1: Lamb on the outside that they have a running game
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Speaker 1: him to go with it too, But those two guys
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Speaker 1: especially can play. Yeah, you know what you've seen. I
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Speaker 1: think since the injury that DAC had earlier in the year,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's really come into his own and playing
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Speaker 1: playing really good football. I know there are some some
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Speaker 1: key takeaways you know, Houston uh created last week, and
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Speaker 1: some uncharacteristical things that the DAC did, But you know,
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Speaker 1: I think he's been playing really good, playing smart. Now
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Speaker 1: he's he's another quarterback that plays tough and physical and
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Speaker 1: and he can beat you with his legs and obviously
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Speaker 1: throwing the ball, and you know, it's it's it's and
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Speaker 1: Ceedee lamb is. You know, I think he's the benefit
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Speaker 1: of you know, they lost to Marii Cooper a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago, and now he's he's kind of the
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Speaker 1: focal point of that receiving group and and he's dangerous.
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Speaker 1: We need to know where he is and where he
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Speaker 1: lines up, and he can be all over the field.
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Speaker 1: So it's a um, you know, it's a matchup that
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Speaker 1: um you know, we we we saw it with you know,
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Speaker 1: Derek Carr and Davante Adams earlier in the season, and
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Speaker 1: we're going to continue to see really good quarterbacks and receivers,
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Speaker 1: you know, combinations the deeper we go this season and
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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully uh, you know, in the postseason for
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Speaker 1: sure if we get there. This Cowboys football team, great
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Speaker 1: challenge for your team as a bottle well rounded as
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Speaker 1: a football team you're gonna face probably since the Philadelphia go.
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Speaker 1: As far as offense and defense and special teams, you
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Speaker 1: guys gonna have to be on it. Yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: a good football team. All three phases, even special teams
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Speaker 1: are really really good. You've got great players, good returners.
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Speaker 1: Now they're they're kicker is is outstanding? Um? And then
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Speaker 1: you know, defensively they're they they've created takeaways this year,
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Speaker 1: you know, only fumbles, but interceptions. Um, they're really good
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Speaker 1: on third down, you know. And and and just a
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Speaker 1: uh a well coached team again. Coach McCarthy's got these
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Speaker 1: guys rolling. You know, this is really two years in
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Speaker 1: a row now that they've they're playing like this and
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Speaker 1: kind of lights out and and it does it takes
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Speaker 1: you know it, It's gonna take a really good effort
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Speaker 1: by our football team. Um, you can't make a lot
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Speaker 1: of mistakes, you know, you can't. You gotta take care
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Speaker 1: of the football against these guys. Great pass rushers in
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Speaker 1: Mikeael Parsons and and you know tomorrow because Lauren, I mean,
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Speaker 1: these guys can get after you. And and offensive line
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Speaker 1: is is good. I know they've got you know, the
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Speaker 1: right tackle deal right now. But but offensive line is solid.
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Speaker 1: So you know, where's where's the weakness you know, in
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Speaker 1: in their team? And and uh, but I like, I
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Speaker 1: like where our guys are at. I like the way
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Speaker 1: we've been playing here the last couple of weeks. And
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Speaker 1: then should be a good game. Their defense, Dan Quinn,
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. And you talked about Lawrence. You also talked
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Speaker 1: about Michael Parsons. Is Michael Parsons maybe the best you've
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Speaker 1: seen on the edge this year? I mean, watching the
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Speaker 1: film on him, I mean, there's nothing this guy can't do.
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Speaker 1: When he wins at such a high rate, it's incredible.
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Speaker 1: This guy is extremely high motor. Um, he never quits.
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Speaker 1: He's got a great first step. Um, he can cross face,
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Speaker 1: he can he can bend the edge. UM, he can
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Speaker 1: chase from behind. UM. I mean you see every play
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Speaker 1: on tape and and UM, you know he's a special
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Speaker 1: player and we have to know where he's at obviously
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Speaker 1: where he lines up. But if you if you put know,
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Speaker 1: all your eggs in one basket on one side of
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Speaker 1: the field. There's number nineties standing on the other side
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Speaker 1: of the field and he's just as dangerous. So um,
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Speaker 1: our tackles are gonna you know, Juwan and cam Or
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Speaker 1: got their hands full this week. But but again that
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Speaker 1: we don't have to put them on islands. You know,
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Speaker 1: we've we've got you know, you put a tight end
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Speaker 1: over there. But again you see tight ends and backs
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Speaker 1: helping tackles, and these two guys are still getting to
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. So it's a it's a really good challenge
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Speaker 1: for us. Final thought, whether you here coach meaningful games
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Speaker 1: in December, that was a goal of this organization and
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Speaker 1: this certainly qualifies now to back of Tennessee. With four
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Speaker 1: to play, the Dallas Cowboys have a lot to play
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Speaker 1: for on their side as well. The environment should be
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Speaker 1: uh one of the old time highs of here at
10:41
Speaker 1: the Bank, I think going into this game. So um,
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Speaker 1: but for all that to matter down the stretch the
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Speaker 1: next month, this game matters, right, It's it's one game
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Speaker 1: at a time, right, It's definitely a one game you know,
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Speaker 1: mentality and and um, you know that's the way we
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Speaker 1: approach each week and and you know, this is a
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Speaker 1: this is a big game for us again, just like
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Speaker 1: we talked about last week being a big game and
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Speaker 1: and sort of a must game, you know, and and
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Speaker 1: our guys feel that. And I really want the guys
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Speaker 1: to feel that pressure, you know, to feel um, the
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Speaker 1: big game environment, you know, especially around here, and and
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's all part of winning and and teaching
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Speaker 1: the culture of winning. And um, you know, our guys
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Speaker 1: are going to be excited. Should be a great crowd
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Speaker 1: from what I'm hearing, and and uh, I know the
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Speaker 1: Cowboy fans travel extremely well. Um, I've been a part
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Speaker 1: of a few of those games before, so it should
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Speaker 1: be a great atmosphere on Sunday. You know, how to
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Speaker 1: keep him quiet is to score early and often. How
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Speaker 1: about that. That's the plan. But it's easier said than done.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to the time co Appreciate it. Back with more
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Speaker 1: on The Doug Peterson Show after this on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Logerman and Hey, it's tight end. Chris
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Speaker 1: man Hurts joining us in studio. Great to see it, Chris,
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Speaker 1: thanks for swinging in the seventh year in the league.
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Speaker 1: This is I love this story because you didn't play
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Speaker 1: a lique of football in college. It was all basketball.
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Speaker 1: You gotta try out with the Buffalo Bills. You went
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Speaker 1: to college right there in Buffalo, and then just kept
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Speaker 1: building and building and staying in this college. You guys
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Speaker 1: any good in basketball? Um, we're working on that right now,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna stay there two and seven to start,
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. But you've managed to to grow
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Speaker 1: your career really from from nothing. You weren't a football
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Speaker 1: guy at all. How did you get that first initial
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Speaker 1: phone call? And um, what was your mindset to, Hey,
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Speaker 1: let me let me try this football out? My mindset
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Speaker 1: initially in the beginning, and was you know, to be
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Speaker 1: honest with you, I really had nothing to lose by
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Speaker 1: giving it a shot. So, um, just having an open
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Speaker 1: mind going into it. Um, just having a growth mindset
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Speaker 1: through it all. And understanding that you know, everywhere along
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Speaker 1: the way there there might be conflict, that might be issues,
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Speaker 1: but pushing through and just being an open learner throughout
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Speaker 1: the process. So what did you weigh? Like, I mean
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Speaker 1: basketball player? I'm thinking were you a power forward? I
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Speaker 1: mean like Barclay or something. Yeah, it was about five
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Speaker 1: and you're six seven. That's like tight end numbers right
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Speaker 1: down the line. I know, I know, but I had
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Speaker 1: to put on a little bit of weight just giving
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Speaker 1: the demands of my role and what I was asked
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Speaker 1: to do. But I'm I'm two sixty pounds now, okay.
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Speaker 1: So are you stilled out a little bit? A little
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Speaker 1: bit a little bit? So are you aware of the
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Speaker 1: guys that have done what you've done before you? That
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Speaker 1: guys that that played basketball in college, that made the
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Speaker 1: transition to the NFL? And if you do have an
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Speaker 1: awareness about them, who who are they? Tony Gonzalez first
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Speaker 1: one that comes to the top of the mind. Um,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham and Tonio Gates, all those guys kind of
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Speaker 1: uh seeing their story and their journey and how they
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Speaker 1: progressed and maintained and sustained a long career throughout the years.
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Speaker 1: That gave me motivation going into it knowing that, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's possible you left one out in the building. That's
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Speaker 1: gonna remind you of that too. Marcus Pollard's gonna knock
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Speaker 1: on your door here very soon. I think Marcus Parlett
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Speaker 1: is a brother for life. We talked about it all
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Speaker 1: the time, and he brings a lot to the organization. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Chris works so funny. Those that you're a blocking tight
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Speaker 1: I mean basketball players that make the transition of football
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Speaker 1: are supposed to catch a ton of ball, And to
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Speaker 1: be honest with you, that was my mindset going into it.
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Speaker 1: But at the time, being at the top bottom of
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Speaker 1: the totem pole, you kind of had to figure out
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Speaker 1: a way to see the field. So for me that
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Speaker 1: was just um embracing the run, block and roll and
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Speaker 1: seeing how it has blossomed throughout the years is just,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's a good feeling. So how how how
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Speaker 1: do you grow up not playing football? Just not in
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Speaker 1: your family? Is that the area you grew up in?
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Speaker 1: What how does that happen? It wasn't a thought, you know.
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Speaker 1: The first ball that I picked up was basketball. Born
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Speaker 1: and raised in the Bronx from New York City, and um,
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Speaker 1: basketball is pretty big in New York City, so I
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Speaker 1: didn't really uh, it wasn't even a thought at the time.
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Speaker 1: I was just completely focused on basketball, even the idols.
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Speaker 1: Who who your idols and basketball? But growing up Kevin Garnett,
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Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neil, Kobe Bryant, even not Lebron James, but I'm
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Speaker 1: talking New York basketball. Anthony Mason, Anthony Mason, I mean
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Speaker 1: he was that power forward kind of when I was
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Speaker 1: in New York. Anthony Mason, Patrick Ewing, all those guys
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Speaker 1: just that hard nosed uh style of play that kind
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Speaker 1: of represented New York City basketball. Chris Mannards with US
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Speaker 1: Jaguars tight end second season with the Jaguars. Now and
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Speaker 1: this team is it seems starting to find its stride now, um,
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Speaker 1: in the back half of this season, really the last
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Speaker 1: month plus, do you guys feel that way in the
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Speaker 1: locker room? And then how has this team grown as
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Speaker 1: the even going back to the off season program, new
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Speaker 1: coaching staff, coming in offseason program, training camp, quarterback in
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Speaker 1: second year, everything that goes into that, it seems to
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Speaker 1: now be paying off in December right most certainly, And
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Speaker 1: I think um, just having that process oriented mindset between
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Speaker 1: you know, when Doug and his staff came in here too,
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Speaker 1: now we knew that there. You know, challenges are inevitable.
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Speaker 1: We didn't really start the season or the first half
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Speaker 1: of the season the way we wanted to. But uh,
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Speaker 1: Doug preachers all the time to you know, we want
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Speaker 1: to be in a position to play meaningful games in December,
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Speaker 1: and that's where we are. So for us, the stakes
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Speaker 1: are high, the sense of urgency is high. But I'd
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Speaker 1: rather know other way. I kind of want to go
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Speaker 1: back just a little bit because to give people a
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Speaker 1: little background, you played for the Carolina Panthers, right, how
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Speaker 1: many years? For? Uh? Five years? So so give people
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Speaker 1: an idea real quick of your journey through the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Try out with the Buffalo Bills. Try out with the
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in what year? In UM got cut in
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Speaker 1: training camp. H Shortly thereafter got picked up by the
17:17
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints and I had my first official practice
17:20
Speaker 1: squad year with New Orleans Saints that whole year. Uh.
17:23
Speaker 1: Following that year, UM had a great offseason, and following
17:27
Speaker 1: that year I made the fifty three and it's been
17:29
Speaker 1: trending upwards since with New Orleans. With New Orleans And
17:32
Speaker 1: then how did you end up in Carolina? I got
17:34
Speaker 1: cut maybe week five or week six into the New
17:38
Speaker 1: Orleans season that I made the fifty three man roster,
17:41
Speaker 1: and uh, the Carolina Panthers claimed me off of waivers.
17:44
Speaker 1: And I was there for quite a while and there
17:46
Speaker 1: for quite a while, and then you became a free agent.
17:49
Speaker 1: You signed here as a free agent last year, and
17:51
Speaker 1: you come into a situation that, uh was a little
17:54
Speaker 1: unique last year, we'll say that, But how much fun
17:58
Speaker 1: has it been this year? Getting passed later? Having gone
18:02
Speaker 1: through last year, it makes you kind of appreciate just
18:05
Speaker 1: the whole process of the league itself. Um, obviously last
18:09
Speaker 1: year wasn't the most ideal situation for us as a team,
18:12
Speaker 1: but uh, seeing and and having Doug and his staff
18:15
Speaker 1: come in here and bringing the type of players that
18:17
Speaker 1: he they're they've been able to bring in has been
18:20
Speaker 1: pretty exciting. You know, we have a great chemistry in
18:22
Speaker 1: the locker room and uh, guys kind of have a
18:24
Speaker 1: hunger and a mentality to get better and take things
18:26
Speaker 1: one week at a time. So I think it's a
18:29
Speaker 1: great culture, uh that we're building over there. All Right,
18:32
Speaker 1: we'll come back in a moment. We're gonna get your
18:34
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys defense. How about that? Can't wait?
18:39
Speaker 1: Break it down for us. We don't want the game.
18:41
Speaker 1: We don't want to We don't want to JP, so
18:44
Speaker 1: make sure your questions are appropriate. You know what's same
18:47
Speaker 1: to you. It's a two way straight. I think you'll
18:50
Speaker 1: keep us clean, that's for sure. Hey, this is the
18:52
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show on Jaguar's Radio. Welcome back. The Doug
19:05
Speaker 1: Peterson Show continues right now, and we're presented by the
19:09
Speaker 1: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. The Doug
19:12
Speaker 1: Peterson Show rolls along or thanks to the Jaguars head coach,
19:15
Speaker 1: joining us at five o'clock every Thursday here on the network.
19:18
Speaker 1: J P Shadrick, Jeff Logoman, and Chris man Hurts Jaguars
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Speaker 1: tied in as the Jaguars face the Dallas Cowboys, America's
19:26
Speaker 1: team coming in the Star, all the hype, everything that
19:30
Speaker 1: goes with Dallas and all that. Hey, it's an NFL
19:33
Speaker 1: team coming to town. Really, that's how you guys look
19:35
Speaker 1: at it. And it's a as you said earlier, a
19:37
Speaker 1: meaningful December game against a team that's performed pretty well
19:41
Speaker 1: this year. This Dallas team overall ten and three, very good. Alright,
19:45
Speaker 1: So let's let's touch on some of the personnel on
19:48
Speaker 1: the defensive side, because it's a group that's rated very highly. Uh.
19:52
Speaker 1: Certainly the second most sacks in the league this year's
19:55
Speaker 1: tied for the second most takeaways in the NFL. But
19:59
Speaker 1: that pass rush is something special. Who stands out in
20:02
Speaker 1: that group in the front seven for you most certainly
20:05
Speaker 1: Number eleven microL Parsons and number Marcus Lawrence. Uh, those
20:09
Speaker 1: are the two guys off the edge that that really
20:11
Speaker 1: stand out, disruptors um and people that you definitely have
20:15
Speaker 1: to have a plan for. I think it's pretty unique
20:18
Speaker 1: because having a tight ends perspective, you're involved in the
20:23
Speaker 1: run game, the past game, protection, run blocking, you have
20:28
Speaker 1: safeties that you're blocking at times. So I'm I'm excited
20:32
Speaker 1: to be able to have your perspective on this because
20:34
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys have really good players at three different levels.
20:38
Speaker 1: Vander Esh the linebackers a good player, of the safeties
20:41
Speaker 1: are good player, and obviously the edge players that you
20:44
Speaker 1: talk about when you prepare for a game is tight.
20:48
Speaker 1: How much film and how many different guys do you
20:50
Speaker 1: have to watch just because you're blocking so many potential
20:54
Speaker 1: different guys. Well, the mental aspect, we're watching hours of
21:00
Speaker 1: film on a weekly basis, just studying tendencies, uh, studying personnel,
21:04
Speaker 1: studying different packages based on who's in the game, whether
21:08
Speaker 1: there's twelve personnel eleven personnel in the game. So it's
21:11
Speaker 1: quite a bit to prepare for. But at this point
21:14
Speaker 1: in time, it's just routine. And you, like, like most
21:17
Speaker 1: tight ends, your first job requirement and your strength has
21:21
Speaker 1: been blocking. When you face a guy and you watch
21:25
Speaker 1: a guy like Micah Parsons, what makes him such a
21:28
Speaker 1: challenging guy to block? Well, I think a player like
21:32
Speaker 1: him has all the traits that you would want in
21:34
Speaker 1: an elite pass rusher in this league. Um, he's he's
21:37
Speaker 1: fast off the ball, he has great get off, he
21:40
Speaker 1: has great speed of power, he's good with his hands,
21:43
Speaker 1: and more importantly, the one distinguishing quality that separates good
21:46
Speaker 1: pass rushers from you know, great pass rushers is their motor.
21:50
Speaker 1: Their ability to be in a relentless pursuit to the
21:52
Speaker 1: ball at all times. So that's definitely something that jumps
21:56
Speaker 1: out on film. But uh, we we have our work
21:58
Speaker 1: cut out for us, but we'll be ready for There's
22:00
Speaker 1: one thing when you when you talk about motor and
22:03
Speaker 1: also with Michael Parsons, there's some guys that that just
22:07
Speaker 1: possess what I call an effortless strength when just when
22:12
Speaker 1: they move their strong, they're not trying to be strong,
22:15
Speaker 1: they're just naturally strong as they're walking down the hallway.
22:20
Speaker 1: If you went and jammed them on the shoulder, you
22:23
Speaker 1: don't move them. I mean, he's one of those guys,
22:25
Speaker 1: isn't he. Yeah, those are things that you really can't
22:27
Speaker 1: teach and that's what makes him such a good player
22:30
Speaker 1: and um, such a person you have to have a
22:33
Speaker 1: plan for. But at the same time, we have great
22:36
Speaker 1: uh linemen, we have great tackles that that's able to
22:39
Speaker 1: handle it and has proven it throughout the course of
22:41
Speaker 1: you know, these past couple of weeks that it could
22:43
Speaker 1: be handled. We talked with head coach Doug Peterson just
22:47
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago and he talked about, well, you know,
22:49
Speaker 1: we don't have to leave those tackles on an island.
22:53
Speaker 1: Last time I checked the closest person to a tackle
22:55
Speaker 1: the tight end. So don't give us the game plan,
22:58
Speaker 1: but just just saying I just gotta have a plan.
23:01
Speaker 1: But those guys that you guys work in tandem and
23:03
Speaker 1: practice a lot. I mean, we see it during the
23:05
Speaker 1: open media time. There's some drills. You and the tackles
23:08
Speaker 1: are there together and and that really is a big
23:11
Speaker 1: key obviously in this offense when you guys are working
23:13
Speaker 1: in tandem with the tackles right, absolutely, and especially as
23:16
Speaker 1: a tight end, like you said, we're we we have
23:18
Speaker 1: to know the run game in and out. We have
23:20
Speaker 1: to know the past game in and out. We have
23:21
Speaker 1: to know the protection game in and out. And that
23:24
Speaker 1: can't be done without us and the offensive lineman being
23:27
Speaker 1: on the same page. So a lot of detail goes
23:29
Speaker 1: into that on a week to week basis. You know,
23:31
Speaker 1: one of the guys we had a conversation earlier and
23:33
Speaker 1: we were talking about Marcedes Lewis and Marcedes Lewis, do
23:39
Speaker 1: you watch film on him? Do you happen to catch
23:42
Speaker 1: any film on him? Is he one of the guys
23:43
Speaker 1: that you've watched? Oh? Most certainly, especially when you know
23:46
Speaker 1: we're preparing for a team that the Packers have played,
23:49
Speaker 1: and you know you can't help but to notice and
23:51
Speaker 1: and and take note of the type of player that
23:54
Speaker 1: he is and certain techniques that he has, so he
23:56
Speaker 1: has He's been playing this game for a long time,
23:58
Speaker 1: so I think, uh, you know it's for a good reason,
24:01
Speaker 1: and you know he's doing all the right things to
24:03
Speaker 1: sustain a long career. I'll never forget you. And you
24:07
Speaker 1: obviously remember Dwight Freeney, Okay, one of the best pass
24:11
Speaker 1: rushers in the league in his day, hey day when
24:14
Speaker 1: it was him and Robert Mathis with the Colts, who
24:16
Speaker 1: we saw twice a year. Marcedes was the only guy
24:20
Speaker 1: in that time frame that I ever saw that could
24:23
Speaker 1: block Dwight Freeney one on one in pass pro tight
24:28
Speaker 1: end tight end blocking Dwight Freeney, I mean, it's just crazy,
24:33
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I think half of it
24:35
Speaker 1: is a mentality. Half of it you just kind of
24:38
Speaker 1: have to have a dog mentality and have that want
24:41
Speaker 1: to to get to get it done. Sometimes where I matched, Um,
24:45
Speaker 1: you know, the average tight end is ranging between two
24:48
Speaker 1: forty and two sixty and the average d lineman could
24:51
Speaker 1: spend from two sixty up to three hundred pounds. So
24:55
Speaker 1: knowing that you just have to be on point where
24:56
Speaker 1: your technique, your pad level of your hands and uh,
24:59
Speaker 1: making sure that everything is perfect so that you could
25:01
Speaker 1: be effective at your job. Last couple of minutes with
25:04
Speaker 1: you Chris Mann hurts with us in studio Jaguars tight
25:07
Speaker 1: end and are you a division standings watcher? Do you
25:11
Speaker 1: look at any of that stuff as a team or
25:13
Speaker 1: personally do you worry about that or you're just worried
25:15
Speaker 1: about the star on the helmet. We're aware of where
25:18
Speaker 1: we stand in the division, but at the same time,
25:20
Speaker 1: we kind of have a week to week approach as
25:22
Speaker 1: far as our preparation. So for me, it's honestly, you know,
25:26
Speaker 1: every week is in new week and the only game
25:28
Speaker 1: that matters right now is winning this game against the Cowboys.
25:31
Speaker 1: Have you Have you ever faced the Dallas Cowboys with
25:35
Speaker 1: any team that you've been on Carolina New Orleans one time?
25:39
Speaker 1: Did did you? Because I just go back to the
25:41
Speaker 1: first time that I was ever a part of the
25:44
Speaker 1: team was with the Jets and we went and traveled
25:46
Speaker 1: to Dallas and played the Dallas Cowboys, and it was
25:48
Speaker 1: back at the old stadium, you know, with the hole
25:49
Speaker 1: in the middle of that was opened up. There was
25:52
Speaker 1: almost a sense of awe. I think the first time,
25:55
Speaker 1: the first experience that you have against the Dallas Cowboys
25:58
Speaker 1: just because the Dallas Cowboys right as America's team. Do
26:02
Speaker 1: you do you have a conversation with some of your
26:05
Speaker 1: young players to just say, hey, just football games, Dallas Cowboys,
26:09
Speaker 1: but it doesn't make them any different than the Tennessee
26:13
Speaker 1: Titans or the Indianapals Coats. Do you do you talk
26:15
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? I think honestly, it's kind of a
26:18
Speaker 1: culture now at this point, just just you know, um,
26:21
Speaker 1: throughout the whole locker room and the coaching staff that
26:24
Speaker 1: you know every week, you know, you kind of we
26:26
Speaker 1: call it a nameless faceless opponent. Um. You know, at
26:29
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's about us and how
26:30
Speaker 1: we prepare, uh, in our preparation and getting ready for
26:34
Speaker 1: these guys and our assignments and our plays. But uh,
26:37
Speaker 1: we're fully aware of the magnitude of this game, don't
26:39
Speaker 1: get me wrong. But at the end of the day,
26:41
Speaker 1: it's it's up to us, and it's about us and
26:43
Speaker 1: how how we do our jobs and our assignments and
26:46
Speaker 1: and uh being successful in this game. Excited for the
26:49
Speaker 1: environment here should be packed house. I heard it's a
26:52
Speaker 1: pack house, so even better. Feel probably gonna be a
26:55
Speaker 1: playoff like environment. So, like I said, it doesn't get
26:58
Speaker 1: better than that and in this alright, So but before
27:01
Speaker 1: we let you go, okay, just uh a fun question
27:04
Speaker 1: here the basketball game. Do you still play a little bit?
27:08
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta you play horse one on one?
27:12
Speaker 1: Like asking for a game? What are you trying to do?
27:14
Speaker 1: You still got game? I don't think I have nearly
27:17
Speaker 1: as close as much game as I used to. I
27:19
Speaker 1: mean that was eight years ago. Um, and ever since
27:23
Speaker 1: I started playing football, it's kind of you start to
27:25
Speaker 1: fall in love with it a little bit and just
27:27
Speaker 1: you know, forget about the basketball thing because it was
27:29
Speaker 1: so long ago. But I watched you guys. Some guys
27:32
Speaker 1: won't let you forget. Do you gotta get challenged to
27:34
Speaker 1: a little one on one in the all season? I'm
27:36
Speaker 1: not even gonna risk it at this point. I'm I'm
27:39
Speaker 1: in my eighth year in the league. I'm just trying
27:40
Speaker 1: to see the next year, see the next week. So um,
27:44
Speaker 1: I'll just be the bystander for the most all right,
27:46
Speaker 1: last question for me, scoring average, Jack Knisius. I think
27:51
Speaker 1: it was about eight points, eight points, nine rebounds something
27:54
Speaker 1: like that. Rebounds good, Yeah, that's good. Yeah, a couple
28:00
Speaker 1: reasons while you were there too, right, yeah, the last two.
28:03
Speaker 1: So that was that was pretty good. It's pretty good.
28:05
Speaker 1: So there you go. Not this year, but I mean
28:07
Speaker 1: that's a different story. They're working on it though. It's
28:10
Speaker 1: we're working. I just know how the locker room works
28:13
Speaker 1: sometimes that everybody wants to you know, the former basketball player.
28:16
Speaker 1: Of course, everybody thinks that they got basketball games. Everybody
28:19
Speaker 1: wants to show you what kind of game they got
28:22
Speaker 1: challenges a horse or one on one or or whatever.
28:26
Speaker 1: Everybody's trying to make their mock five on five teams
28:29
Speaker 1: in the locker room. So it's it's fun, it's entertaining.
28:32
Speaker 1: You get it every year, so it's good. I love it. Chris,
28:35
Speaker 1: thanks for the time, Thanks for coming in. We'll see
28:37
Speaker 1: again soon. Appreciate having good luck to you this weekend.
28:41
Speaker 1: Thank you. Let's beat those cowboys, how about that? Indeed,
28:44
Speaker 1: Chris Man hurts Jaguars tight end with us. We're back
28:47
Speaker 1: with more on the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars
28:49
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
29:08
Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is the Doug Peterson Show. J P.
29:11
Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Logman or thanks to head coach Doug
29:14
Speaker 1: Peterson jointing us in the opening segment each and every
29:16
Speaker 1: Thursday in our thanks to Chris Manherts Jaguars Tide In
29:19
Speaker 1: for joining us for the last twenty minutes or so.
29:23
Speaker 1: Good conversation guy. Now in the second year with the
29:25
Speaker 1: Jaguars organization, seventh year in the NFL, and it is
29:29
Speaker 1: a fantastic story and a guy who never played football
29:34
Speaker 1: until he tried out for the Buffalo Bills. That's amazing.
29:38
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he's still in the
29:39
Speaker 1: NFL and got a free agent contract here last year
29:42
Speaker 1: and is a obviously a huge piece of this tight
29:45
Speaker 1: end room for the Jaguars and in the run blocking game.
29:48
Speaker 1: And he's a really good blocker. Yeah, so it's one
29:51
Speaker 1: of he's you know, if you look at PFF rankings
29:55
Speaker 1: of blocking tight ends in the league, he is one
29:58
Speaker 1: of the better tight end ends in the league and
30:01
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars, extremely valuable. You know, you kind of
30:04
Speaker 1: have two tight ends in the league. Now, you have
30:07
Speaker 1: your inline guy who's more of a blocking tight end,
30:10
Speaker 1: and then you have the dynamic move tight ends, and
30:15
Speaker 1: he's that in line blocking tight end that extra offensive lineman,
30:18
Speaker 1: but still having a guy that has the ability to
30:21
Speaker 1: make some catches and and look, he's got six catches
30:24
Speaker 1: on the year. He had six last year, so one
30:26
Speaker 1: more will be a career high for him. Right does
30:30
Speaker 1: have a couple of career touchdowns. I think the first
30:32
Speaker 1: was that the first Trevor Lawrence touchdown pass was to him. Correct,
30:36
Speaker 1: that'll be a good trivia question. Yeah, And I think
30:39
Speaker 1: he uh, I can't remember. We asked him about where
30:42
Speaker 1: the ball went a couple of days ago, and he
30:45
Speaker 1: said that nobody kind of kept the ball and he
30:48
Speaker 1: actually thought he should have kept it. He wasn't thinking
30:52
Speaker 1: and Trevor ended up getting the ball, and which is good.
30:56
Speaker 1: I mean, it's look at least it ends up. But
30:58
Speaker 1: he was like, man, he goes, I should have kept that.
30:59
Speaker 1: Never gay up to Trevor. I might have. I mean
31:02
Speaker 1: he probably could have sold it. Sure, absolutely, Trevor. How
31:05
Speaker 1: much you want to give me for your first told
31:06
Speaker 1: it to the quarterback? Yeah, so you sell it to Hey,
31:09
Speaker 1: we're gonna take your time out. We'll come back plenty
31:11
Speaker 1: more ahead on this Cowboys Jaguars matchup. We'll get some
31:15
Speaker 1: thoughts from Logs on the head coaches thoughts earlier as well.
31:19
Speaker 1: This is the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome back.
31:32
Speaker 1: The Doug Peterson Show continues right now. Presented by the
31:37
Speaker 1: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. The Doug
31:40
Speaker 1: Peterson Show rolls along J P. Shadrick with Jeff Logman,
31:43
Speaker 1: The Jaguars and the Doatlas Cowboys coming up this Sunday
31:46
Speaker 1: at t i a A Bank Field in week fifteen,
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Speaker 1: a real good ball game. Battle of eight and four teams.
32:17
Speaker 1: Game Cocks really rallied at the end of the season.
32:19
Speaker 1: When when's the real big game though? On the on
32:22
Speaker 1: television the playoffs? Man? Oh the next day one? Yeah? Yeah.
32:26
Speaker 1: The two playoff games are New Year's Eves and the
32:30
Speaker 1: championships went a week and a Monday later. You know,
32:33
Speaker 1: Alabama Net Mix, I know they're not there, you go.
32:39
Speaker 1: How about the Jaguars. We talked a lot about the
32:42
Speaker 1: Jags the Cowboys defense with in Alabama. I've been messed
32:49
Speaker 1: up for a long time. That's not gonna phase me,
32:52
Speaker 1: all right. So we talked a lot about the Cowboys defense.
32:54
Speaker 1: Now to this Cowboys offensive attack, and we mentioned it
32:58
Speaker 1: a little earlier than the off pensive line. They have
33:01
Speaker 1: some veteran guys and key spots, but they might be
33:04
Speaker 1: moving some guys around. Who knows what it really looks
33:07
Speaker 1: like on game day, but that could that could be
33:10
Speaker 1: something to watch up front for Dallas. Yeah, I want
33:12
Speaker 1: to see how they line up, you know, I want
33:14
Speaker 1: to see what they do. Are you gonna make some
33:16
Speaker 1: roster moves because Terence Steele add the a c L
33:20
Speaker 1: against Houston this past weekend? You know, will Tyron Smith
33:25
Speaker 1: be activated off of I R which still hasn't happened,
33:28
Speaker 1: although Jerry Jones said he expects it to happen. But
33:31
Speaker 1: sometimes Dr Jones isn't always right. Yeah, he sometimes gets
33:37
Speaker 1: a little bit of ahead of himself sometimes, But I
33:40
Speaker 1: think that's a big question mark. How do the how
33:42
Speaker 1: do the Cowboys line up with that offensive line? What
33:44
Speaker 1: are they gonna do if they have Tyron Smith up
33:47
Speaker 1: at left tackle? What will they do with the Tyler Smith,
33:52
Speaker 1: their rookie that's been playing left tackle when they moved
33:55
Speaker 1: in to guard. Could they move him to right tackle
33:58
Speaker 1: to take over for the injured Terrence Steele, or would
34:02
Speaker 1: they move adjacent Peters over there to write tackle? Or
34:05
Speaker 1: would they play a Josh Ball who played there and
34:09
Speaker 1: steals absence last week? But he struggled mightily. So there's
34:13
Speaker 1: a lot of questions to be able to uh ponder.
34:18
Speaker 1: And I think as if you're a Jaguars defensive lineman
34:21
Speaker 1: a defensive coach, you just prepare for the scheme, and
34:24
Speaker 1: as a player, you study all of the guys on
34:28
Speaker 1: on the above list and just get ready because you
34:30
Speaker 1: don't know who's gonna play. I just don't know. But
34:34
Speaker 1: it's the Jaguars defense that got some takeaways last week again,
34:39
Speaker 1: and Trayvon Walker will probably not play and practice yet
34:44
Speaker 1: right according to the injury report. You know, so Josh
34:48
Speaker 1: Allen liked him to continue. Okay, got a sack, he
34:51
Speaker 1: was able to get some pressure of this past game
34:53
Speaker 1: against two inferior tackles in in Tennessee Arden keyts are
35:00
Speaker 1: gonna have to play a bigger role, you know. So
35:03
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching this matchup this week, that
35:08
Speaker 1: that pit matchup, because when you play good football team
35:12
Speaker 1: and it always starts up front, and you've got to
35:14
Speaker 1: be able to do a good job to be able
35:16
Speaker 1: to have a chance to win. And this this week
35:19
Speaker 1: is no difference. And I can't wait to watch it.
35:22
Speaker 1: I can't wait to experience the environment. I can't wait
35:25
Speaker 1: to see how this young team reacts to the star
35:29
Speaker 1: and the moment. Let's come back in a moment. We've
35:32
Speaker 1: got a social media question for Jeff Lagerman when we
35:36
Speaker 1: come back, and I be honest with you, I do
35:38
Speaker 1: not remember what it is. So we're gonna we're gonna
35:41
Speaker 1: wing it when we come back. This is the Doug
35:44
Speaker 1: Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome Back. The
35:55
Speaker 1: Dog Peterson Show continues right now. Welcome back. It's Week fifteen,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars in the Dallas Cowboys coming up Sunday at
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Speaker 1: t i A Bank Field. As the Jags try to
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Speaker 1: walk down the Tennessee Titans in the a f C South.
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys with a win would secure a playoff birth.
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Speaker 1: They're still trying to chase down the Eagles and the
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Speaker 1: NFC East, and it's time now to go to the tablets. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the Microsoft surface for a social media question for Jeff Lakaman.
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Speaker 1: Let's see what we come up with. This is at
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Speaker 1: Amy Hall and I know four. How come the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: defense keep up the turnovers from last week? Why did
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Speaker 1: those disappear mid season? That's a great question. And if
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Speaker 1: you look at the pass rush of the Jaguars defense
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Speaker 1: through the season, they hit a bit of a bit
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Speaker 1: of a lull in the mid part of the season,
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Speaker 1: and so that I think that greatly impacts the ability
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Speaker 1: to get takeaways. Is how is the pass rush doing.
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Speaker 1: Early in the season, they were doing a great job
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Speaker 1: because they were really stout against the run, set themselves
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Speaker 1: up in some great situations from a down and distant
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Speaker 1: standpoint to be able to pressure quarterbacks and the takeaways come.
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Speaker 1: And then over the last month and a half or so,
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Speaker 1: the pass rush has been a little off if you
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Speaker 1: think about it, going back the last week Josh had
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Speaker 1: his last sack. I think it was October tenth. Prior
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Speaker 1: to last week, Trayvon Walker had his last sack, and
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Speaker 1: like October, the end of October, so he went the
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Speaker 1: month of November without a sack. So when you don't
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Speaker 1: have the pressure, then you typically don't get the takeaways
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Speaker 1: his defense. And then once you got against Tennessee, you
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Speaker 1: had an opportunity there uh at rushing the pass her
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Speaker 1: late in the second half. You ended up getting the
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Speaker 1: arden key because you put them in a situation where
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Speaker 1: they're uncomfortable with snapping the ball to Derrick Henry in
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Speaker 1: a wildcat and he doesn't handle it, and um Tanny
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Speaker 1: Hill with a rushed throw he was expecting a hot route,
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Speaker 1: put them in a asking situation. He throws a ball
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Speaker 1: to Robert Woods and Woods not turned around and Winger
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Speaker 1: ends up making the interception. So the pass rush, I
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Speaker 1: think is the real key pass rushing. The ability to
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Speaker 1: put the offense in an uncomfortable situation typically is when
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Speaker 1: you get the takeaways. And there have been times earlier
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Speaker 1: this season where they've had balls in their hands and
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Speaker 1: they haven't been able to bring it in or you know,
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Speaker 1: you've got to be able to make those plays when
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Speaker 1: they're presented to and That's that's what it's all about.
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Speaker 1: I mean, when you get pressure, when you get great
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Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback, or when you get the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to be able to pressure the quarterback, then you can
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Speaker 1: add takeaways to that. You know, Trayvon Walker now put
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans in a pass rush situation. They're keeping
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Speaker 1: the tight end in on his sack, calls fumble, They're
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Speaker 1: keeping the tight end in and Trayvon beats him so
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Speaker 1: fast that the tackle is literally trying to run to
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Speaker 1: get to him on the outside and literally with so
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Speaker 1: I don't know how he missed him completely. He literally
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Speaker 1: didn't even get a hand on Trayvon because Trayvon was
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Speaker 1: so fast at beating the tight end. Then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden he gets to the backside of Tanny Hill
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Speaker 1: and he does a great job of of that strip sack,
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Speaker 1: you know, bringing that arm down, pops that ball out.
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Speaker 1: But it was because they were in a passing situation
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Speaker 1: that I think changed the tune a little early in
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Speaker 1: the game. You know, obviously Jags were down seven at
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Speaker 1: that point, and then the second one really changed the
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Speaker 1: whole game. I think when when Shaq Coulderman knocked it
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Speaker 1: out of the hands of of Derrick Henry and then
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Speaker 1: set up the two minute drive put the Jags ahead
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Speaker 1: really for good. They never looked back from that was
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Speaker 1: the That was the third one because you had interceptionable
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Speaker 1: and then wingered on the interception and then the shock
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Speaker 1: caused fumble was the third one. And that's that's that
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Speaker 1: put Tennessee in the situation that they didn't want to
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Speaker 1: be in. And you know, this week, if you're facing
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, if you can dominate an offensive line that's
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Speaker 1: gonna be shuffled a little bit. I mean, that's the key.
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Speaker 1: And and I said last week that there's three guys
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Speaker 1: that got to play really well, and I still believe
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Speaker 1: the same applies for this week, and that's Royal Robertson,
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Speaker 1: Harris Devon, Hamilton's and fokos have to play really well
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Speaker 1: for this all for this defense to have a chance
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Speaker 1: at stopping Dallas, because you've got to neutralize Pollard and Elliott.
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Speaker 1: If you don't do that, you're gonna make it extremely
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Speaker 1: difficult on yourself to be able to keep up with
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Speaker 1: this Dallas Cowboys football team. Let's come back our final
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the quarterback and his play from last week
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Speaker 1: and moving ahead for this Jags team and our final
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys and the Jacksonville Jaguars. It's
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Speaker 1: the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome back. The
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Show continues right now. Doug Peterson Show rolls
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Speaker 1: along final few moments on this Thursday, Week fifteen, the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Jaguars coming up. J P. Shadwick with
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Speaker 1: Jeff Logman had coach Doug Peterson with this the opening
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Speaker 1: segment each and every week. A lot of talk around
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Speaker 1: the quarterback this week and that London game turning the
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Speaker 1: tide for him and his play has just continued to
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Speaker 1: grow over the last month plus and it really came
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Speaker 1: to a head last week in Tennessee. Three hundred sixty
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Speaker 1: eight yards of career high, three touchdown passes and a
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Speaker 1: touchdown run where he stipped armed a guy and he
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Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have like he actually said, he should have
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Speaker 1: handed it off. It wasn't even a quarterback run option
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Speaker 1: in that play, but just like muscle memory, it sounded like,
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Speaker 1: hey it worked out. Did he get Player of the week,
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Speaker 1: A f C Player of the Week off that was
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Speaker 1: It's well deserved and he got uh also named on
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Speaker 1: PFS Player Team of the Week, which they picked somebody
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Speaker 1: from each position, both offensively and defensively for his performance there. Now,
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Speaker 1: the crazy thing is is that that was his first
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Speaker 1: win in the division outside of the Indianapolis Colts. Think
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Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, that's that's his third career win in
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Speaker 1: the a f C South and it's the first time
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Speaker 1: he beat somebody as a quarterback besides the Indianapolis Colts.
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Speaker 1: I mean so and everything seems to be, you know,
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Speaker 1: a stepping stone because not only was that big for him,
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Speaker 1: but also it ended an eight fourteen game a f
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Speaker 1: C South Road losing streak that was ended in Tennessee. Well,
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Speaker 1: guess what, it's time to snap another streak. It's now
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Speaker 1: twenty straight losses against NFC teams for this Jaguars team.
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Speaker 1: They've got to break that skid. And we've been a
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Speaker 1: lot of streaks. When you've been the first football team
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Speaker 1: in the NFL over the last two years, it's what
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Speaker 1: it is, right, I mean, you losing a lot of
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Speaker 1: teams in a lot of places. So hopefully that tide
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Speaker 1: is turning as well. But the quarterback a big hand
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Speaker 1: in that certainly. How you feeling about this one, Logs,
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Speaker 1: I felt pretty good about now. Last week I really confident.
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Speaker 1: I thought the Jaguars matched up really well against Tennessee
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Speaker 1: for a lot of different reasons. I think that this
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Speaker 1: is a tough matchup, but I think it's a winnable matchup.
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Speaker 1: Going into Kansas City, I was like, boy, I just
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Speaker 1: don't see how they're gonna beat Kansas City because Patrick
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Speaker 1: Mahomes and Chris Jones Kelsey, they're just too good. But
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Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, when you watch the film of them
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Speaker 1: playing the Texans, the Texans are not a good football team.
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Speaker 1: The Texans had that game one, but the only way
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys were able to win it is they had
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Speaker 1: to have a goal line stand and then they end
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Speaker 1: up driving like yards to get the win. So look,
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Speaker 1: if if the Texans can do that to the Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: I mean, why can't the Jaguars do that to the Cowboys?
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Speaker 1: And they're not perfect. Dak Prescott has been playing well,
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Speaker 1: but he's got a few mistakes in them. And if
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Speaker 1: he makes some mistakes, if you still possession on special team,
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Speaker 1: you know, when you play good teams, you gotta find
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Speaker 1: a way to get a little bit more kan City
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Speaker 1: right surprise on side kicking. That was a way to
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Speaker 1: steal a possession. They didn't cash it in though, didn't
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Speaker 1: cash in on it. But if you still possession and
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Speaker 1: cash in on you might you have some trickery up
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Speaker 1: your sleeve. On special teams, can you get a kick
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Speaker 1: return touchdown that's not a hold call, well not holding call.
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Speaker 1: And a taunt team, which, by the way, what were
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Speaker 1: you thinking calla lanchas about taunting a kicker on I'm kidding,
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Speaker 1: but can you imagine if if because the block was bogus,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the penalty on the hold was terrible, but
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Speaker 1: that can that can flip a game as well. I
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Speaker 1: watched that play five or six times trying to find
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Speaker 1: the hold. I still haven't found it, but I did
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Speaker 1: see the taunt. So the Jaguars and the Cowboys limited
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Speaker 1: tickets standing room tickets actually the only thing left, so
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Speaker 1: it'll be a packed house. Get here early on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: That'll do it for our program tonight. Thanks to Chris
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Speaker 1: Manhert's head coach, Doug Peterson, Joe Fortunato on the audio
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Speaker 1: of Brent Reabert David Show on the video and for
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Speaker 1: Jeff Loguman, I'm j P. Shadrick. It's the Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.