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Victory Monday: Reacting to Week 15 win over the Cowboys | Jags Drive Time: Monday, December 19 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to James Drive Time with Johan Oshan Hours and
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sexton. Sexton James Drive Time starts right now. All
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Speaker 1: right night, we got we gotta get one ready to
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Speaker 1: want to break a lot of start before the games
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Speaker 1: of talking was over. Right, But we thought last night
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Speaker 1: about just being a fifteen round heavy rate to talk,
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Speaker 1: hope fight. We talked about playing for fourth quarters. We
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Speaker 1: talked about being physical. We talked about all three phases
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Speaker 1: back at all three phases. Bad get the pack today, best,
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Speaker 1: defens special, keep, no figer though, cloud every everything. A morning,
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Speaker 1: great job, man, great job. Let's bring it up like
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Speaker 1: you said, broke quick around ago. We got another big
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Speaker 1: one Thursday three three. It's good good morning, and welcome
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Speaker 1: you to Jack's Drive Time Monday morning. Following that win
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Speaker 1: over the Cowboys forty to thirty four, to say that
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Speaker 1: it was dramatic, well it doesn't do it enough justice.
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Speaker 1: Welcome I Briant section along with John Ocean and Johnny
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Speaker 1: Deja vu all over again. As the Jaggers gets at
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Speaker 1: the heads to New York, I feel like I am
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Speaker 1: watching that team in nine six that every week, the
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Speaker 1: drama in the locker room after the game he keeps
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Speaker 1: getting bigger and greater, stronger, And it's funny you and
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Speaker 1: I are both there, Brian, and it had Uh. There's
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Speaker 1: some very technical similarities as well. You know, you had
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Speaker 1: to win early early in streaking against Baltimore and then
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Speaker 1: just away laying loss against Pittsburgh that year, and then
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Speaker 1: they got hot after that. You had the way laying
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Speaker 1: loss against Detroit. Uh, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: one day you wake up and the scenarios are now
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Speaker 1: in your control. And that was the same thing happened
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Speaker 1: in ninety six. I remember sending out notes to other
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Speaker 1: writers about Jaguars playoff scenarios and they're laughing, and then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, one day they control their destiny. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is earlier. I mean, they are in this thing
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Speaker 1: now if they don't lose their ind If you go
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Speaker 1: back to ninety six, they didn't control their destiny until
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of that game when they found out
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Speaker 1: Kansas City lost, they controlled it going if they won
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Speaker 1: Seattle that year, they were in. Well, we're in a
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Speaker 1: situation right now where the Jaguars win. Yeah, they're in.
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Speaker 1: They're in, right, And where would we have been if
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Speaker 1: we had said that on these air waves at the
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Speaker 1: end of October. People wouldn't believe it. No, I think
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago there when people who didn't
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Speaker 1: believe it and uh, credit tune. There's so much to
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Speaker 1: talk about. It was a to me, it was a
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Speaker 1: rushmore game in the history of this franchise because of
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Speaker 1: I think where it's going to take them, and we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about some of those scenarios as we go through.
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Speaker 1: A special guest will join us in the B block
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Speaker 1: of the show today. You won't want to miss that.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with big things and look, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: At what point yesterday did you think this thing was over? Um,
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Speaker 1: when Dak Prescott threw the touchdown to give the lead
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Speaker 1: back to the Cowboys. How About when Trevor Lawrence fumbled?
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Speaker 1: How About when the Jacks go three and out on
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Speaker 1: their first drive of overtime. How About when the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: have the ball right there they need twelve thirteen yards
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Speaker 1: to set up a potential game winning field goal in overtime.
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Speaker 1: It just never seemed like this was going the Draguars
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Speaker 1: way until it did. You know, it's crazy. I only
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Speaker 1: think I ever had to pick six before the day
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Speaker 1: so that was pretty Yeah, I know, that's that's crazy.
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Speaker 1: So I think that was pretty cool, Uh to do
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Speaker 1: That's just that's that's like that. That's a player you
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Speaker 1: dream about every since, like you're like eight years old,
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Speaker 1: every since I started playing this game, man, just to
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Speaker 1: be able to, um be be the guy to to
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Speaker 1: to uh you know, make a play like that for
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Speaker 1: us to get that And so that was pretty cool
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Speaker 1: to do, man. And like I was telling everybody else, man,
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Speaker 1: we got another one here in five days. It's I
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Speaker 1: mean four days. It's pretty incord matally, and I'm just
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Speaker 1: exciting to get on to the next yet big thing
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Speaker 1: to playoff possibilities. We just ran through the scenarios Jaguars win.
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Speaker 1: They are in obviously. That includes a trip to New
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Speaker 1: York for Thursday night football against the Jets on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Players are very keyed into what's possible for them with
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Speaker 1: three games left to play, we don't understanding the team.
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Speaker 1: If we lose, we have the playoffs. If we win
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Speaker 1: every game from here on out, we're gonna get in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I think everybody having that system urgency,
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Speaker 1: UM big on details, they focused them more. Um. It's
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Speaker 1: not a lot of lack of days ago days that
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Speaker 1: we have, not a lot of bad days that we have.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody in the no exactly what we got
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Speaker 1: in front of us, and we just attacked. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, r g t is Mike dub this week
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Speaker 1: for Jags Wired. You'll see that on the website. You
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Speaker 1: won't want to miss that. Urgup one of the great
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Speaker 1: talkers in that Jag Work locker room. Final thought, the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars defense yesterday. At one point you're scratching your head
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Speaker 1: and they can't stop the Cowboys. They're doing whatever they
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Speaker 1: want with play action especially, and the Cowboys rup seven.
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Speaker 1: You're thinking, man, are they're gonna get something done? Then
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Speaker 1: if you recall and it was a play I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of people have forgotten Foyer louikon stuff's Tony
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Speaker 1: Pollard on third and one drops him for a seven
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Speaker 1: yard loss at the very end of the first half.
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Speaker 1: That was sort of that moment where I think it
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Speaker 1: turned and the Jaguars defense did just enough throughout the
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Speaker 1: course of the rest of the game until again at
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Speaker 1: the end when they did everything that it took to win.
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Speaker 1: And that's the way this team is playing on that
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Speaker 1: side of the ball. The biggest kid of the game
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Speaker 1: was after the you know, Trevor fumbled unfortunately, but you know,
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Speaker 1: we had three time out slipt. We didn't stop. A
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Speaker 1: lot of teams might kick it in like they got
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Speaker 1: were minute left, We got three time out slipped. Make
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Speaker 1: those stops as soon as possible, get a ball back
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Speaker 1: to offense, and I know, I just know how explosive
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Speaker 1: they can be. They did what they needed to do
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Speaker 1: to get that field goal, and you just have the feeling.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's the first time in a long time,
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Speaker 1: I can't even go back maybe forever, that you knew
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Speaker 1: when the Jaguars got the ball back at the end,
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Speaker 1: the Trevor was going to give them a shot to
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Speaker 1: kick the game winning field goal. You just had that
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Speaker 1: sense that this offense was gonna move the ball against
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Speaker 1: the fifth rate of defense in the NFL. John, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I think that's where I sort of maybe you
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Speaker 1: didn't see the game the same way you did um
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Speaker 1: once they got even when they were down, and even
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Speaker 1: when Trevor got stopped, or even when Trevor fumbled, I
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Speaker 1: guess I seen this team, in this offense moved the
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Speaker 1: ball so efficiently late in games that I kind of
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Speaker 1: thought they were still in it the whole way. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's what this team is different than any
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Speaker 1: Jaguars team I've been around. Certainly, he thought when he
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Speaker 1: fumbled that even when the found they were gonna get
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Speaker 1: the ball back. I mean, you know, I'm not I'm
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Speaker 1: not disingenued enough to say that I knew they were
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Speaker 1: going to win the game, but I didn't think it
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Speaker 1: was over. And then if Trevor gets the ball and
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Speaker 1: this offense gets the ball on their own fifteen with
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Speaker 1: a minute left, they are now an offense that you
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Speaker 1: expect to go score. I'm not saying I thought they
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Speaker 1: were gonna win the entire time, but I never really
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Speaker 1: felt like they were out of it in overtime. I
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Speaker 1: even thought they were going to have a chance because
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Speaker 1: of what we talked about last week. The defense was
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Speaker 1: given up yards, but then every other down in distant cycle,
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Speaker 1: they were getting stops to put themselves in good situation. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned your quick thoughts. Roy Robertson. Harris Saidwan Smooth
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Speaker 1: were getting it a big tackle that were putting them
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Speaker 1: behind the sticks where I thought the defense exactly we
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Speaker 1: talked about they had to do. They weren't going to
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Speaker 1: stop him, but they had to make impact plays to
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Speaker 1: create good situations for them, and they did a great job.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't see that coming when they had their
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Speaker 1: third turnover of the game with less than two Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess you're a little more sunny eyed optimist than me. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And then of course on that drive right minute thirteen
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Speaker 1: left to play a minute something like that, and Smooth
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Speaker 1: gets the tackle for a loss, and then Corey Peters
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Speaker 1: and then Darius Williams defends Noah Brown down the field.
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Speaker 1: By the way, in Dallas, they are crucifying the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: for throwing that deep ball instead of running it and
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Speaker 1: forcing the Jaguars to use their final time out. That
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy is getting no safe harbor on that deal.
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Speaker 1: But this is the way the Jaguars played defense right now,
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Speaker 1: and maybe this is the way you do it in
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Speaker 1: the modern game when you have a quarterback. They did
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Speaker 1: end up with three sacks and eight quarterback hits and
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Speaker 1: those two interceptions by ray Seon Jenkins. They did just enough,
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Speaker 1: John good the Rackars a chance to win. Yeah, And uh,
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Speaker 1: I kind of pulled Josh Allen aside a little bit
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Speaker 1: after the game last night, because Uh, it's fascinating to
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Speaker 1: me the way this team plays. And I guess it's
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Speaker 1: not so complicated. It it's ben but don't break, but
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Speaker 1: it's taken that to an extreme. The impressive thing about
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Speaker 1: this defense, I don't know if it was doing it
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Speaker 1: three or four weeks ago, but even when it's not
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Speaker 1: playing particularly well, they play hard on every snap. The
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Speaker 1: fumble forced by quarterman last week, the interceptions yester, they
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Speaker 1: give a lot of yards, but for some reason, maybe
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Speaker 1: defying what's really going on the field, these guys keep
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Speaker 1: believing they're going to make a stop well even when
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Speaker 1: the evidence suggests that they're not going to. And that's
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Speaker 1: what they have to do. And if you if you
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Speaker 1: can keep that belief in this league right now, you
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Speaker 1: can make a big place to get a really good
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Speaker 1: offensive ball back. Seen some good quarterbacks this year have
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Speaker 1: given them problems. But the next three weeks they see
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Speaker 1: Zack Wilson, who just came off the bench, they see
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Speaker 1: Davis Mills who's beaten them a couple of times, and
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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill again. I like the defensive chance to continue
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Speaker 1: to make place when we come back on Jags drive
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Speaker 1: time a special guest who maybe you've gotten to know
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Speaker 1: in recent weeks. We'll join us for highlights and we'll
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Speaker 1: also have hot takes coming up. It is a big
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Speaker 1: Monday Morning as the Jaguars find themselves in control of
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Speaker 1: their own playoff destiny win and they're in and boy
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Speaker 1: did they win on Sunday, one of the most dramatic
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Speaker 1: wins in Jaguars history. We'll see if you remember another
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Speaker 1: one when we come back. All let's see if you
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Speaker 1: remember this from Monday Night football in Clyde Simmons with
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Speaker 1: his four career block kick sends the ball back the
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Speaker 1: other way. Chris Hudson steps up. You see that white
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Speaker 1: sneaker on the field. That was Bill Coward who reached
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Speaker 1: out with his fisted frustration. That was an unbelievable ending
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Speaker 1: to the jaguars first Monday Night game, and yesterday felt
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Speaker 1: the exact same way. Welcome back Jack's Drive, Tim Brian
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Speaker 1: Sexton along with John Osier and Asher Grodman from CBS
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Speaker 1: hit television show Ghosts And maybe you have found out
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Speaker 1: in recent weeks that you are a huge Jaguars fan. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's been so much fun to be in the stadium
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Speaker 1: and around for these last few games. I think I've
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Speaker 1: seen two of the greatest finishes uh in team history,
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Speaker 1: between the Ravens game and UH yesterday my voice is
11:38
Speaker 1: a little shot. Was like, my cells are still vibrating.
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Speaker 1: How long to take you to get to sleep? Last night?
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I slept. It was kind of on
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Speaker 1: and off the whole evening. I kept thinking about, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is after play, after play, replaying the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: I went back and I watched game tape. You can
11:56
Speaker 1: do that now, I can do that. Now. Did your
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Speaker 1: girlfriend watch game tape with you that? No? She was like,
12:01
Speaker 1: She's like, no, I'm done. I'm done. Although you period
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Speaker 1: of converted Sam to be a bit of a Jaguars Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I contingency here, including a Rose mcgiver who's on my
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Speaker 1: show who is now a Jaguars fan. Yeah. Well, we're
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Speaker 1: thrilled to have you. Want to go through the highlights
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Speaker 1: with us, Let's do it all right. We'll start with
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Speaker 1: Ray Shawn Jenkins. Jaguars trailed this ball game twenty seven
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Speaker 1: to seventeen, and Ray Shawn Jenkins came up with a
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Speaker 1: huge red zone play second and eighteen brescotting again. And
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Speaker 1: looking at a time second the chimes have it Jenkins hanswer,
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Speaker 1: tell me the trony penalty at the end of it.
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Speaker 1: The ferocity with which he went back towards the goal
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Speaker 1: line there was amazing. Yeah, he uh where he played yesterday.
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Speaker 1: It's the way he plays period. I also thought there's
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Speaker 1: so many highlights he can't show them all. I thought
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Speaker 1: this A Jones touchdown right before this was the play
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Speaker 1: that really got them back in it, but then they
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Speaker 1: had to do something to follow. They were still not
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Speaker 1: out of time, but getting this z A Jones touchdown
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Speaker 1: and then getting this interception immediately to where you had
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Speaker 1: red zone and didn't have to drive again, all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, it didn't feel like a comeback anymore. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and also that I don't know if you're gonna show
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Speaker 1: one of these highlights or not, but the consistent pressure
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Speaker 1: as the game went on from arden Key and Dwan
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Speaker 1: Smooth was incredible. And Calebon Chason on that one, which
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Speaker 1: is nice to see him. That, by the way, did
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Speaker 1: not end in a touchdown because of the penalty. It
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Speaker 1: went bad. But if you plays later, it was time
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Speaker 1: for Marvin Jones Jr. To Stake take stage right Lawrence
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Speaker 1: lost for the touchdown, loving Jones four to fourteen, and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden everybody believed it. What a great catch.
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Speaker 1: You like how Brian threw out the stage right because
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Speaker 1: he has an actor own the ship. But whatever, it worked.
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Speaker 1: I gotta say on that there. This is the first
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Speaker 1: time in my lifetime and I've been a jag Wars
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Speaker 1: fan since the beginning, so the first time in this
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Speaker 1: team history. I guess where at the end of the game,
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Speaker 1: you want the ball in the offensives hands and you
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Speaker 1: don't really care how much time was on the clock.
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Speaker 1: And on that play, the previous one is a drop
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Speaker 1: by Evan Ingram, which the ball was catchable. It is
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Speaker 1: it was a hard catch, it was a catchable and
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Speaker 1: you felt like the energy like, oh God, here we go.
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Speaker 1: And to be able to come back and hit that,
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Speaker 1: it's a great throw, it's a great route. He's a
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Speaker 1: little held there, just a little bit um and uh.
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Speaker 1: I think one thing about that that I think he
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Speaker 1: touched on. Remember the Ravens game where Marvin Jones had
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Speaker 1: to touchdown and I said after that, I was hoping
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Speaker 1: it was a touchdown, but I was feeling like it
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Speaker 1: didn't matter. That much because that they're going to score
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Speaker 1: the next play. They they sort of did the same thing.
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Speaker 1: That was a third down touchdown that Marvin Jones caught.
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Speaker 1: But I think in the past, if you had dropped
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Speaker 1: that Evan Angra, I mean, I hate even call it
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Speaker 1: a drop, but if you don't make they have an
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Speaker 1: Angram play, then you feel like, Okay, they're in a
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Speaker 1: kick field goal. Now you feel like there's this feeling
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Speaker 1: of not being surprised when they scored a touchdown in
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Speaker 1: this situation. That's a huge change from six weeks ago
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Speaker 1: and from you know, a decade. Alright, fourth quarter now
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Speaker 1: Jaguar is still trail in this ball game, but they
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Speaker 1: got their first three and out on the first series
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Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter. Ro Robertson Harris made a couple
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Speaker 1: of big plays and this was one of them. So
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars get the ball back. First punt of the
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Speaker 1: day for the Cowboys go right down the field and
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Speaker 1: this was a beautiful throw by Lawrence does a Jones
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Speaker 1: first third touchdown of the day. Stand one of those
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Speaker 1: stars needs to step up. Lawrence pumps rolls through the
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Speaker 1: touchdown s Jones. When you see the end zone view
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Speaker 1: of that ball. Wow right there, and that that the
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Speaker 1: the little right here, this little move that he makes.
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Speaker 1: This is just knowing each other well to say I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna step into this open space and not make you
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Speaker 1: squeeze this in with a foot between the end of defender.
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Speaker 1: The chemistry that is, Uh, this is very exciting to see.
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Speaker 1: To me, this was the special play of the comeback.
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Speaker 1: The Marvin Jones was a nice touchdown, but it it
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Speaker 1: was schemed and I think a lot of quarterbacks and
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Speaker 1: receivers make the play. Uh, this one was next level.
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Speaker 1: Uh seeing the second and third thing happened. Uh if
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Speaker 1: if we're going to show this a Jones catch right
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Speaker 1: at the end of the game to to force the
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Speaker 1: field goal. Oh wait, okay, so about six minutes left
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Speaker 1: in the ball game, and we kind of knew what
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Speaker 1: to expect, right. This is Dak Prescott and the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: offense is one of the best in the league, and
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Speaker 1: you're thinking, you're calculating in your mind, how much time
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Speaker 1: is left? Can the Jaguars do something? If the Cowboys scored,
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Speaker 1: they did. Here's Dak Prescott finding Noah Brown third town,
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Speaker 1: Prescott spins away. I'm looking at a throw on a
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Speaker 1: touchso it's talk for the touchdown Noah Brown. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's what Prescott does. And what a beautiful throw.
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Speaker 1: Now you're down thirty one with three minutes to play.
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Speaker 1: But as you guys have mentioned, nobody is phased at
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Speaker 1: all by what's going on because Trevor Lawrence gets the
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Speaker 1: ball back and Trevor heads up the field and then
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Speaker 1: this moment, this is the first moment where I thought, Okay,
17:43
Speaker 1: they played well, they got back into it. It's not
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Speaker 1: gonna be their day. First son, he could just sit.
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Speaker 1: It's exactly what he did there for the first down.
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Speaker 1: More pressure, Lawrence spits away. How did he do it?
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Speaker 1: Still on his street? It's something full, it's lose and
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Speaker 1: he comes out the coal Coars have it, and you
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Speaker 1: see how close they are to game time, tying field
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Speaker 1: goal range and that. Yeah, and he'll learn here to
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Speaker 1: go down right here. Uh, this is a play that
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Speaker 1: in high school and college he makes that cut and
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Speaker 1: and he's maybe standing in the end zone. In the NFL,
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Speaker 1: you make that cut and a big strong man knocks
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Speaker 1: out of your hands. So uh, but you also can't
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Speaker 1: really fault the competitiveness and the flare with which his
18:34
Speaker 1: kid plays the game, would you think? I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is uh, this will give the insight into my fandom.
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Speaker 1: So halfway through the game, I'm in the suite and
18:44
Speaker 1: I met Marcus Stroud and we started talking in the
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Speaker 1: back of the suite, but we couldn't see the field.
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Speaker 1: But the second that I started standing there, the comeback began.
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Speaker 1: So I was scared. I was like, I'm scared to
18:54
Speaker 1: move from this spot, and everything was just the crowd
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Speaker 1: in front of me cheering, And that's how I knew
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Speaker 1: it was working. This was the one moment in that
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Speaker 1: spot where everyone was like, oh, no, so you moved.
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Speaker 1: So I moved a little bit and then I quickly
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Speaker 1: went back, Um, but yeah, it's you have it. You
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Speaker 1: have the game. I think this the Trevors. If I
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Speaker 1: was twenty three and had that level of pressure and
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Speaker 1: and the ability to know that I can do what
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Speaker 1: I and uh and I probably would have made that
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Speaker 1: turn to and try to see if can get up
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Speaker 1: the field and win the game right now. Alright, So
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Speaker 1: then the defense comes in, guys, as you recall, and
19:27
Speaker 1: that was when Smooth had to drop and for a
19:29
Speaker 1: three yard loss, and then Corey Peters makes the play,
19:31
Speaker 1: and then the Cowboys make the decision to throw down
19:33
Speaker 1: the field. Dearius Williams is there, So the Jagguars get
19:36
Speaker 1: the ball back with a minute thirteen and the time
19:38
Speaker 1: out left, they navigate up the field right. They get
19:40
Speaker 1: the time out back after Evan Ingram's you know, he
19:42
Speaker 1: got his elbow down out of bounds and they overturn it.
19:46
Speaker 1: And then this play, which is as good a play
19:48
Speaker 1: as you can ask for. Cowboys couple of pressure, Lawrence
19:56
Speaker 1: in trouble, he's got to st of the thirty one
20:00
Speaker 1: and they could stop it with five seconds left there
20:03
Speaker 1: and field goal range, and because Evan Ingram got out
20:06
Speaker 1: of bounds, they gave him the ability throat. Look at
20:08
Speaker 1: this ball go through Wilson's hands. Oh my goodness, what
20:13
Speaker 1: an amazing play. Yeah, and don't discount here special Athletic
20:20
Speaker 1: Ability asked me why is Trevor special? And I think
20:23
Speaker 1: as time goes on, you're gonna be saying why is
20:25
Speaker 1: he special? For a million different reasons, including what he
20:27
Speaker 1: sees on the field, how he calls games, the line
20:30
Speaker 1: of screaming. He's not there on those fronts yet, He's
20:34
Speaker 1: moving to his left and is fleshed out of the
20:37
Speaker 1: pocket on the game deciding play and is able to
20:40
Speaker 1: throw the ball back across his body. Don't underestimate how
20:44
Speaker 1: hard that throw was and on time is again we
20:46
Speaker 1: saw it go through that defensive backs hands. All right,
20:48
Speaker 1: here's the field goal that tied it up. And you
20:51
Speaker 1: can feel the emotion just coming out of the stands
20:54
Speaker 1: as Riley Patterson boots this one through. It's on the
20:58
Speaker 1: shoulders a Riley Patterson out kick this up in It
21:09
Speaker 1: is good. A lot of Cowboys fans there, but you
21:13
Speaker 1: heard the job list. So let's set up last overtime
21:18
Speaker 1: and not before we do it. Can I just say,
21:20
Speaker 1: uh that we're not showing it. But there was a
21:22
Speaker 1: superhuman effort on Evan Ingram's on Evan Ingram to get
21:26
Speaker 1: out of bounds on that previous play, and there was
21:28
Speaker 1: they were reviewing it because there was a time out
21:30
Speaker 1: was on the line. It was an amazing play for
21:32
Speaker 1: him to get out on his own. Uh on his
21:35
Speaker 1: effort time athleticism too, because if you if you notice
21:39
Speaker 1: he was able to keep his knees off the ground
21:41
Speaker 1: while he was going down. If one of his knees hits,
21:44
Speaker 1: it's over. It doesn't count. That's as big as well.
21:47
Speaker 1: You don't have the time out right, which puts yourself
21:51
Speaker 1: throwing a sideline route. You're a Cowboys healthy defend it's
21:53
Speaker 1: much more difficult. So you get there. So let's set
21:55
Speaker 1: up the final play right, jag Wards go three and
21:57
Speaker 1: out on their drive of overtime. Cowboys get a twenty
22:01
Speaker 1: five yard completion to start their overtime and get up
22:04
Speaker 1: the field, and they need ten fifteen yards for a
22:07
Speaker 1: game winning field goal. They get to this particular moment,
22:10
Speaker 1: you're thinking, man, they're so close. Here is one of
22:14
Speaker 1: the most dramatic plays in Jaguars history. Third and four,
22:19
Speaker 1: Let's come in press. Scott rolls backwards and intercepted Chicken
22:24
Speaker 1: sends another one racing down the satellite places out Chickens.
22:28
Speaker 1: It's do with it. I'm not sure what to say,
22:38
Speaker 1: except how about Trey Herndon with the defense. He'd had
22:41
Speaker 1: a bad day until that play. And as much criticism
22:46
Speaker 1: as Josh Allen has received this here from fans, some
22:49
Speaker 1: pressure there flesh him out of the pocket. If if
22:52
Speaker 1: you're not forcing him a little off balance to his left,
22:56
Speaker 1: I don't think he makes a throw that was defensible
23:00
Speaker 1: you know, so uh takes a village and those are
23:05
Speaker 1: the highlights. When we come back to Jack's Drive time
23:08
Speaker 1: on a wend Wednesday, it feels like Wednesday. On a
23:11
Speaker 1: Monday morning, Jaguars leap for New York on Wednesday. We'll
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Speaker 1: have hot takes from John Nazure. This is Jags Drive
23:17
Speaker 1: Time from t I a bank Field on a Monday morning,
23:20
Speaker 1: Jaguars victorious over the Cowboys fort We're back in a
23:24
Speaker 1: moment about a program this morning. He was brought to
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23:41
Speaker 1: omizes this team, you know, fight back. You know, we're
23:45
Speaker 1: go on a little run, and those next two or
23:46
Speaker 1: three series offensively we were. We were just moving them
23:49
Speaker 1: all up and down the field, and then we get
23:51
Speaker 1: we get them down. At the end, we're down by three,
23:53
Speaker 1: you know, have three minutes left on that drive, putting
23:56
Speaker 1: together a good drive, had a nice run, and then
23:57
Speaker 1: I fumble, you know, trying to cut back. You know,
24:00
Speaker 1: I'm kind of mean right away. I was like games
24:03
Speaker 1: over and I fumbling, and I was just obviously you know,
24:07
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it, you know, I was disappointed, and
24:09
Speaker 1: then I look up like we got well, we got
24:10
Speaker 1: three time outs. Our defense has been bowing up every
24:12
Speaker 1: time we need them today. So I'm standing there at
24:15
Speaker 1: at our defense is mercy, just you know, praying we
24:17
Speaker 1: get a stopped and really believed in those guys just
24:20
Speaker 1: what they've shown and didn't even flinch. You know, when
24:22
Speaker 1: I'm walking off, they're all picking me up walking off
24:24
Speaker 1: after the fumble like we got you, you know, And
24:26
Speaker 1: that's just the mindset of this team, and no matter
24:29
Speaker 1: what happens, you just gotta keep playing. I think we've
24:31
Speaker 1: I mean we've all seen I mentioned even like the
24:33
Speaker 1: game the Vikings Game of the Night, you gotta keep playing.
24:36
Speaker 1: So it's you never know what's in store on the
24:38
Speaker 1: next play. And if you're thinking, if you're too busy
24:40
Speaker 1: thinking about the last one, you're gonna miss it. So
24:42
Speaker 1: I think that's a great example of you know, how
24:44
Speaker 1: we were able to do that today. Um just battled
24:47
Speaker 1: some adversity and um it was always a jags, as
24:51
Speaker 1: Dewey would say. So the way that you just do
24:57
Speaker 1: to the podium and describe these confidence in right. Uh,
25:01
Speaker 1: and then to watch Smoot and Corey Peters that play
25:04
Speaker 1: that he made getting Tony Pollard. If he isn't there,
25:07
Speaker 1: Pollard scoots for a first down and the game is over,
25:10
Speaker 1: and instead he made that great move to get him
25:14
Speaker 1: and get him on the ground. Um. We talked all
25:17
Speaker 1: seasons about complimentary football. That was what it was yesterday. Yeah,
25:22
Speaker 1: it's uh one thing before we started hot takes. That's
25:25
Speaker 1: interesting if you remember at the top we showed clips
25:29
Speaker 1: from four look on Um arden Key and ray Sion Jenkins.
25:36
Speaker 1: Those are all guys this team didn't draft. They've come
25:38
Speaker 1: in as free agents. It's it's sometimes difficult to bring
25:44
Speaker 1: a team together that is free agents from different guys,
25:48
Speaker 1: especially about what happened last year. Uh. All of these
25:53
Speaker 1: guys feel and have felt from day one like they're
25:56
Speaker 1: going in in the same direction, especially ray Sean thinking
25:59
Speaker 1: he was in last year with the mess that's going on.
26:02
Speaker 1: Most times a free agent like that sort of plays
26:06
Speaker 1: the second year, fizzles out and it's over. We've seen
26:08
Speaker 1: that a million times. Uh. That to me, Trevor Lawrence
26:13
Speaker 1: is the main storyline of this team. But the fact
26:16
Speaker 1: that these guys have come together in that way is
26:20
Speaker 1: very interesting and uh, I think not to be taken
26:23
Speaker 1: for granted. By the way, since we're talking about free
26:25
Speaker 1: agent classes, the three receivers combined have what two hundred
26:28
Speaker 1: and five catches forty yards and twelve or fourteen touchdowns.
26:33
Speaker 1: And then we throw Arden Key and Foya Lucan in there,
26:36
Speaker 1: and and Darius Williams who had some huge plays. A
26:39
Speaker 1: lot of credit to tread Bulky and his team for
26:42
Speaker 1: the free agent class they put together, because as we
26:45
Speaker 1: go down this stretch, all of those guys are playing
26:48
Speaker 1: incredibly significant rules. Um as this team grows, and you don't,
26:53
Speaker 1: as we talked, you don't always get that. You just
26:55
Speaker 1: don't get there all right. Time for hot takes, and
26:58
Speaker 1: we'll start with you, Mr os um mine is football
27:03
Speaker 1: is fun again? Fine, and that's pretty obvious. But I
27:10
Speaker 1: think the the interesting thing is it's fun and this
27:16
Speaker 1: is a cool run. But I think I said last week,
27:20
Speaker 1: it's got some spine to it. It's it's got a
27:23
Speaker 1: foundation mainly because of the quarterback. It's going to be
27:28
Speaker 1: fun for a long long time. Uh. And if you're
27:31
Speaker 1: not enjoying this, I don't know what you're you know,
27:35
Speaker 1: and I continue to get emails from fans saying, well,
27:40
Speaker 1: they're not this or maybe we should temper expectations. And
27:43
Speaker 1: I'm like, it seems waited has waited for like twelve years.
27:50
Speaker 1: If if the fans aren't allowed to get excited, now,
27:53
Speaker 1: what are you worried about? What are you doing this for?
27:55
Speaker 1: You may as well let's go watch Goes by the
27:59
Speaker 1: way and Thursday night. Although this Thursday you should probably
28:05
Speaker 1: watch the Jets and Jaguars games. I will be Actually,
28:07
Speaker 1: we're not. We're not even on this Thursday. So go
28:09
Speaker 1: watch the Jets, catch up on the episodes of Ghost
28:11
Speaker 1: that you missed. We have Paramount plus everyone exactly all right, Um,
28:16
Speaker 1: I love the shirt by the way, thank you. I
28:18
Speaker 1: was I was there for this and screaming in the
28:20
Speaker 1: stands saying that he wasn't down, wasn't trust me, he
28:22
Speaker 1: was knocked down, and everyone to know how my son
28:24
Speaker 1: still this day will say what he really wasn't like
28:27
Speaker 1: he really he really wasn't. Damn. People didn't believe your
28:30
Speaker 1: fandom before. Oh yeah, and I'll tell this is one
28:34
Speaker 1: of the coolest moments, uh. I think in Jaguars history
28:37
Speaker 1: is the pregame little video they made with John Malkovich.
28:40
Speaker 1: Yes for that, and my fellow ghost cast member Richie
28:44
Speaker 1: More already plays the director. You know who he's yelling
28:47
Speaker 1: at in that chills That morning when I saw it
28:51
Speaker 1: was amazing, It was great stuff. Okay, Uh, let's have
28:54
Speaker 1: your hot take with hey with a little flare, Okay,
28:57
Speaker 1: with a little flair. Well, I I think this will
29:00
Speaker 1: surprise no one because I've been screaming it since I
29:02
Speaker 1: saw the Ravens game. Uh, this year, we are going
29:05
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. That's it. We're going to the playoffs.
29:08
Speaker 1: There's no question in my mind. Uh. People have got
29:12
Speaker 1: me to repeat it over and over again. Um, I
29:14
Speaker 1: will say this, though I believe we're going to the playoffs.
29:17
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna win this division. I will say
29:19
Speaker 1: I think the Jets game and the Texans game are
29:22
Speaker 1: going to be a lot harder than people think. We
29:25
Speaker 1: cannot turn the ball over three times against the Jets,
29:29
Speaker 1: and the Texans are just grinning ear to ear at
29:32
Speaker 1: the idea of seeing us the game before we see
29:34
Speaker 1: the Titans. So we have to be very careful and
29:36
Speaker 1: discipline because the and I'm just gonna come out and
29:38
Speaker 1: say the Jack del rigo teams, and I blame this
29:40
Speaker 1: on Jack del Rio would lose these They would lose
29:45
Speaker 1: these games because well, I have my opinions on Jack
29:48
Speaker 1: do Rio as a coach, but uh, this is this
29:51
Speaker 1: is a moment of uh, if you can find the
29:54
Speaker 1: maturity to say, Okay, we just beat some amazing teams. Well,
29:57
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Texans don't look so good, but
29:59
Speaker 1: the Texans Joe put up a tougher fight against the
30:02
Speaker 1: Chiefs than we did. If you go back and look
30:04
Speaker 1: at those teams, the Jeckers had a remarkable pension for
30:09
Speaker 1: losing the final three games of the regular season in
30:11
Speaker 1: his tenure. Herer Um, I just don't get that sense
30:14
Speaker 1: with Doug that this team, this team is so well
30:17
Speaker 1: coached to be sitting there with all three time out.
30:20
Speaker 1: I mean, Doug Peterson has done a masterful job this show.
30:23
Speaker 1: There are other coaches who have teams that have done
30:25
Speaker 1: bigger things in terms of the playoffs this year that
30:27
Speaker 1: will get more notoriety for Coach of the Year. But
30:31
Speaker 1: if this team wins the division and you dial in
30:34
Speaker 1: on what Doug Peterson and his staff had to deal with,
30:37
Speaker 1: my goodness, people will have to give him credit. Just
30:39
Speaker 1: look at the passing game. It is so creative, and
30:41
Speaker 1: these screens and these swings and and and it's it's
30:44
Speaker 1: hard because you're you're the the act you followed was
30:49
Speaker 1: what it was. So he may not get enough credit,
30:52
Speaker 1: but I think this is the best coaching. There was
30:54
Speaker 1: a period where Coughlin started this season like three and
30:57
Speaker 1: one with one of the least talented Jaguars teams ever. Uh,
31:01
Speaker 1: but I think this might be the best coaching uh
31:03
Speaker 1: around season. I've seen that the case for Doug Pason
31:07
Speaker 1: for Coach of the year. If you look at twenty
31:09
Speaker 1: one and you went it was that, it was that.
31:13
Speaker 1: Now it's this, all right, here's mine. That was the
31:18
Speaker 1: most important Jaguar's win in a generation. Look, I don't
31:24
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many people I saw with
31:25
Speaker 1: their kids in this stadium the week before Christmas, with
31:30
Speaker 1: that quarterback playing the way he is. Let me tell you,
31:32
Speaker 1: they will sell more Trevor Lawrence jerseys in the next
31:35
Speaker 1: five days leading up to Christmas than they've sold all
31:38
Speaker 1: season long, maybe in any five day period since he
31:41
Speaker 1: first arrives. Since Draft night, this place went crazy. And
31:44
Speaker 1: it's you need you have to have moments like that,
31:48
Speaker 1: that cement your fans. You're young fans in particular with
31:53
Speaker 1: this team. Every kid in this building left yesterday with big,
31:59
Speaker 1: dreamy eyes of Trevor Lawrence and their football team, and
32:03
Speaker 1: all of them will be out of school and staying
32:05
Speaker 1: up well passed normal bedtime on Thursday night to watch
32:08
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Jets. When you think about those
32:11
Speaker 1: generational wins, this is one of them, as Big Pittsburgh
32:14
Speaker 1: in seventeen in the playoffs, both Pittsburgh wins in UM
32:19
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. I mean, I go back
32:21
Speaker 1: and give you a dozen of them, but this is
32:23
Speaker 1: right there with him. I just saw a tear roll
32:25
Speaker 1: down Kim's shake because national knows that she's getting for Christmas. Unbelievable. Okay, yes,
32:36
Speaker 1: I will say I had. I brought a cast member
32:38
Speaker 1: of mine, fellow cast member Rose mcguy place Sam one Ghosts,
32:42
Speaker 1: and she didn't know anything about football, and she is
32:44
Speaker 1: now a Jaguars fan after witnessing that game for Christmas.
32:49
Speaker 1: I'd like one, all right, when we come back closing thoughts,
32:53
Speaker 1: and we'll give you a little preview to Sunday Sunday Thursday,
32:58
Speaker 1: when the Jaguars host let you get this right. When
33:01
Speaker 1: the Jaguars go to New York, I was gonna host
33:03
Speaker 1: because you're gonna be at the game. It's called the
33:07
Speaker 1: Jet and the Mets, the Jets, the Jets, the New
33:09
Speaker 1: York Jets. That's right. Then we don't talk about them
33:11
Speaker 1: very much. You know, no one really does, so it's
33:13
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Speaker 1: hit show Ghosts, which you can find not only on
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Speaker 1: CBS but on Paramount Plus. Thursday, after the Jaguars game
34:39
Speaker 1: in New York. You and this is like Jaguar Nirvana
34:43
Speaker 1: for you. This week. You go from this game to
34:45
Speaker 1: New York, your town, your team comes to your town.
34:50
Speaker 1: You um, You've been beating your chest. He'd be saying, Oh, well,
34:56
Speaker 1: I am, I am. I am a nervous fans, So
34:59
Speaker 1: I will I'm very confident of where they're headed, but
35:02
Speaker 1: I will be dying on the inside and through most
35:04
Speaker 1: of it, and then you know, moments of relief and
35:06
Speaker 1: moments of torture. It will be a roller coaster, uh.
35:08
Speaker 1: And then afterwards I'll probably be insufferable. I hope I
35:14
Speaker 1: hope so too. Uh quick, A couple of thoughts. Uh,
35:17
Speaker 1: we'll be watching the injury report on this short week. Yeah,
35:19
Speaker 1: both offensive tackles left the game at some point yesterday.
35:23
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker obviously was not active, though we heard that
35:26
Speaker 1: he might have been. We'll see where he's at this
35:28
Speaker 1: week on the short week. Anyone else that I missed? Uh,
35:31
Speaker 1: Travis E. T n left the game briefly but came
35:34
Speaker 1: back in. Uh. But you know the two tackles. This
35:39
Speaker 1: is why you drafted and kept walking a little on
35:42
Speaker 1: the roster. So credit Tune for playing well yesterday. I
35:45
Speaker 1: would anticipate that will have a roll. And may I
35:48
Speaker 1: just say, if actually I told you a week ago
35:51
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars offensive line would out play the Cowboys
35:53
Speaker 1: offensive line, you would have left me off. One tack
35:56
Speaker 1: allowed one and it was a great move by Michael
35:58
Speaker 1: Parsons who sold the outside rush to Sheriff and then
36:02
Speaker 1: Sheriff couldn't adjust as Parsons came back inside. Also, the
36:06
Speaker 1: Jaguars got eight hits on Dak Prescott and three sacks,
36:09
Speaker 1: and if you consider that's almost a quarter of their
36:12
Speaker 1: season total. Because the Cowboys came in only allowing sixteen
36:15
Speaker 1: the whole year. So the Jaguars pass rush without Treyvon
36:18
Speaker 1: Walker stepped up to the challenge and that pass rush
36:22
Speaker 1: over time rattled. You have to give Prescott the interceptions
36:27
Speaker 1: a little bit to him being a little rattle for
36:29
Speaker 1: that pass rush. Alright, short week, it's never easy to
36:33
Speaker 1: move on a short week. But the Jaguars are in
36:35
Speaker 1: New York on Thursday night to take on the Jets.
36:38
Speaker 1: Every game, as we've said throughout the course of this hour,
36:41
Speaker 1: and we'll continue to say, is like a playoff game.
36:43
Speaker 1: So if you count of Guy's final thought, the Jaguars
36:46
Speaker 1: had a playoff game against the Ravens, a playoff game
36:48
Speaker 1: against the Lions, playoff game against the Titans, the Cowboys,
36:52
Speaker 1: and now the Jets. That's five playoff feeling playoffs, sort
36:57
Speaker 1: of kind of feeling games in December. Jag Wars fans
37:01
Speaker 1: are gonna get used to this. Yeah, yeah, I don't
37:03
Speaker 1: know that the Lions was was one obviously as the
37:06
Speaker 1: way it went. But what I will say what was amazing,
37:07
Speaker 1: But the Lions game is and my dad's Allions fans,
37:10
Speaker 1: we were chatting a lot over the course of the game.
37:12
Speaker 1: Is even into the third quarter, I felt like we're
37:15
Speaker 1: gonna come back, and and even with the way that
37:18
Speaker 1: game unfolded, I still had no doubt in going forward
37:21
Speaker 1: that this team can come back from any margin. Uh
37:24
Speaker 1: And as a jag Wars fan, you can't ask for
37:25
Speaker 1: much more than that. I think we should close with
37:28
Speaker 1: our guests hot take again say one more time we
37:32
Speaker 1: are going to the playoffs. That is going to happen,
37:36
Speaker 1: So I don't book your tickets now. Good night, Battle
37:40
Speaker 1: Lee Jacks Drive time on a Monday after Thanks for
37:43
Speaker 1: spending time staying in next thanks for having me guys.
37:45
Speaker 1: This is so much fun. It's great to have you,
37:47
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll have you back for a Titaness game,
37:49
Speaker 1: maybe in January. I would love that. All right, Thanks everybody,
37:52
Speaker 1: have a great day. We'll talk to you throughout the week.
37:54
Speaker 1: Thursday Night, Jaguars and Jets. The