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Countdown to Kickoff | Fred Taylor Previews Raiders Matchup, Expresses Need for Young Talent Reps · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for a weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. Week sixteen. The holidays are upon us.
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  Speaker 1: It's a trip to the West coast to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on, Fred, for a team that's
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  Speaker 1: out of it, like three and what are they now?
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  Speaker 1: Three and eleven, I've lost track.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, brutal.
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  Speaker 3: Three left, three games left, so we got the Raiders
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  Speaker 3: Titans coach. Yeah, so, I mean it happens. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it happens when you're out of it. Everyone's out of it,
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  Speaker 3: you me, the fan base. You know, we're still hoping
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  Speaker 3: that they can show face, so to try and say
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  Speaker 3: you face a bit. As we all prepare, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's the holiday season. There's a whole lot to kind
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  Speaker 3: of lose track of. People are prepping for the holidays.
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  Speaker 3: You got family visiting, or you're taking trips, all that
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  Speaker 3: different stuff. The players are making decisions on what they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna do with the end of their year because it's over.
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  Speaker 3: I mean quite naturally, it's over. Yeah, we still get
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  Speaker 3: to or they still get to get up for the
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  Speaker 3: next opponent, but they know it's over. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure you finish this season on a
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  Speaker 3: high note, be able to check out on your checkout
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  Speaker 3: exam healthy if you can get there with these few
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  Speaker 3: games remaining, and then you sort of, you know, go
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  Speaker 3: through the whole routine of active recovery the early part
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  Speaker 3: of the offseason. The camp come by and you kind
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  Speaker 3: of sit tight to see what happens. But then the
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  Speaker 3: excitement comes back all over again. So that's the next
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  Speaker 3: few months.
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  Speaker 2: Red Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as of late the last recent history, the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars have been bad at every time zone for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, but historically the Jaguars have really struggled on
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  Speaker 1: the West coast. That's from even back to the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that?
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  Speaker 1: What's the reason behind that?
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  Speaker 3: You know? I, you know what, JP, I really don't
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  Speaker 3: know the answer to that, but I know the times
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  Speaker 3: I've traveled west to play. I remember this one game
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  Speaker 3: that won't leave my mind, and we were down twenty
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  Speaker 3: one zero or something to the Chargers when they were
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  Speaker 3: in San Diego way back in the day. I remember
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  Speaker 3: Ladani and Thomason and Turner who ended up eventually going
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  Speaker 3: over to the Falcons. They had monstrous day on us. Early.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, man, that should be me. I was
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  Speaker 3: waiting for this matchup and it just didn't happen. And
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  Speaker 3: that was under Jack Dale Rio. I don't I didn't
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  Speaker 3: play much further than that, Like I was injured when
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  Speaker 3: we went to Seattle, San fran You know, I missed
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  Speaker 3: a few West Coast trips. So really between that game
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  Speaker 3: West and maybe the Cardinals way back in Tempe, but
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  Speaker 3: I think we beat them back then. But either way,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't Historically, we haven't performed well, you know, anywhere
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  Speaker 3: further than Texas. So we don't have that many games too,
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  Speaker 3: so the numbers will be a little skewed. So what
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  Speaker 3: that means is you want to win the ones you
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  Speaker 3: have because they are a few and thin, so when
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  Speaker 3: we are out there, you want to try to win them.
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  Speaker 3: And this isn't about as good as it gets, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and that opportunity because the Raiders are struggling, although they
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  Speaker 3: did put up a fight early on in the game
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  Speaker 3: versus Atlanta, but eventually they looked as bad as the
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  Speaker 3: Jags have looked of late.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Taylor with US. Yeah, and that's h Yeah. They
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  Speaker 1: played on Monday Night football and they've had their own issues.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback carousel there and and everything going on. Mac Crosby's
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  Speaker 1: out for the season now, so they're and they're right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're the number one pick in the draft if it
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  Speaker 1: were to end today. So that's the matchup coming ahead now.
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  Speaker 1: From the Jaguars perspective, we talked about this on on
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  Speaker 1: the postgame the other night. The young players getting time
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  Speaker 1: and playing well is a good step. We know about
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas junior, we know about Brenton Strange, but Doug
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  Speaker 1: Peterson this week's talking about some of the younger guys
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  Speaker 1: on defense. Prince might get a little bit more time
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  Speaker 1: in the secondary, a young guy, a rookie. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what this time of year is for now,
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  Speaker 1: right If the head coach is saying it, he's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much relegated it. They still want to win the games,
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  Speaker 1: But get those guys out there and get them some
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  Speaker 1: time on task. What can that do for the culture
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  Speaker 1: of the team when you have guys that have playing
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  Speaker 1: experience moving ahead?
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  Speaker 3: You know what it's it's the fifty to fifty ball, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you want to try and win, but you
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  Speaker 3: also want to see what you can unpack and see
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  Speaker 3: who you know who can contribute to the team going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Everything right now, it's a value play. How can we,
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  Speaker 3: you know, shave our books a little bit? From a
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  Speaker 3: business standpoint, They've been making some moves. They paid a
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  Speaker 3: lot of money, you know, recently here with the signing
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  Speaker 3: of Josh Heinz Allen and and the quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 3: They brought an Eric Armstead, you know, that was a
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  Speaker 3: big check, and they sprinkle a few dollars around that
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  Speaker 3: Tyson Campbell. So they have to really look at their
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  Speaker 3: books and see what players are important to them. You're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have role players, but you want to have a
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  Speaker 3: nice mix of young guys in there that can contribute.
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  Speaker 3: So now is the best time to see what you
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  Speaker 3: have on your plate because you're not going anywhere at
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  Speaker 3: this particular point. And again that's why I call it
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  Speaker 3: the fifty fifty. You're gonna win with them or you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna lose with them. It's all a gamble. You put
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  Speaker 3: them out there and you evaluate them, see how they respond,
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  Speaker 3: and you really.
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  Speaker 2: Go from there. You're not really hurting your draft stock.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's also a whole other question. They have time to
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  Speaker 3: look at that. As we mentioned in the post game
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, it doesn't hurt anything, you know, even if
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  Speaker 3: you throw fifteen targets to Brian tell Us, let him
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  Speaker 3: break the rest of the records and see how he respond.
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  Speaker 3: But I think you try and find some sort of
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  Speaker 3: identity and the guys that you know can make plays
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  Speaker 3: for you. I like to look at the interior, the
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  Speaker 3: interior defensive line. Let's see what's there. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why we continue to put Eric Armstead at
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  Speaker 3: the end so much. You put him in the interior,
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  Speaker 3: and let's force the issue there. You got too, you know,
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  Speaker 3: top six picks at the book ends. Let them do
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  Speaker 3: their jobs and create this defensive front. This this amazing
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  Speaker 3: defensive front that you hope that you have when you
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  Speaker 3: sign Armstead. So it's a good time to take a
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  Speaker 3: look at all of these guys, but also take a
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  Speaker 3: look at your coaching staff as well in the process.
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  Speaker 3: You know, see who's still teaching these guys as if
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  Speaker 3: you're you're going out there in the playoff environment or
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  Speaker 3: something and hold everybody account.
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  Speaker 2: You can't cut any corners.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor, with us, we saw the big plays allowed. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen this all year, by the way, we saw it
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  Speaker 1: again last week in the fourth quarter, Devonte Adams goes off,
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  Speaker 1: but they're blowing assignments still, and it seems to be
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  Speaker 1: they might change a guy out and an assignment gets
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  Speaker 1: blown again. Yeah, I mean, what's the solution to all
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  Speaker 1: these blown assignments on defense?
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  Speaker 3: It goes back to that accountability thing, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: having guys out there with experience, or even the guys
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  Speaker 3: that don't have the experience.
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  Speaker 2: It comes back down to the classroom.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the veterans in those position meetings, they have
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that all their guys are good to go.
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  Speaker 3: And the guys can't run from it. You know, the
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  Speaker 3: young players, you can't run from it. The thing what
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  Speaker 3: I did best, And yeah, they can say the running back.
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  Speaker 2: Position is one of the easier positions.
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  Speaker 3: To learn, Yes, say that, until you have a two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and sixty pound linebacker rushing down the center your
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  Speaker 3: chest cavity. You got to figure out how to pick
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  Speaker 3: them up. But you got to also know when to
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  Speaker 3: pick them up. And so knowing your assignments, I made
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  Speaker 3: sure that every player in my room was good. Like
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  Speaker 3: guys ask me questions. I'm here, I'm available. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to teach you everything I know the coaches would put
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  Speaker 3: me on the board and allow me an opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: lead the meetings. So the players would trust and coaches
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  Speaker 3: would trust, but the players would also trust that I
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  Speaker 3: knew what I was talking about because I'm delivering the
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  Speaker 3: information to make sure that when I'm out there, because
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  Speaker 3: I can't play eighty players a game, right, I want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that the guys that are spelling me
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  Speaker 3: or my backups or spending time with that we were
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  Speaker 3: all on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: They knew their stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And as a veteran leader, this is what's expected of you.
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  Speaker 3: This is what you should do because it's not just
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  Speaker 3: about you, it's about the entirety of the team. Each
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  Speaker 3: and every group should do that. Wednesdays, all the guys
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  Speaker 3: should meet at the leader in that position group's placed
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  Speaker 3: and just watch them together develop that trust, that extra
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  Speaker 3: sense of urgence, that camaraderie within your position group like
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  Speaker 3: break it down, you know, like the army. You know
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  Speaker 3: you got infantry, you got I don't know all the
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  Speaker 3: different positions, but you know what I mean. So within
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  Speaker 3: the group, you have small groups, right, and that helps
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  Speaker 3: the bigger group and the bigger picture show accountability is
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  Speaker 3: where it all starts in terms of not missing assignments, Bred.
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  Speaker 1: We can always count on you. Appreciate the time as always.
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  Speaker 3: I can go for days on this man. Hey, listen,
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  Speaker 3: this is where I've experienced that. But I don't get
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  Speaker 3: too long winded. We'll talk about it another time, like
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  Speaker 3: a little fireside chat or something for the fans. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: we can do that at a nice little pub around town,
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  Speaker 3: just you and I, kind of like we do in
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  Speaker 3: London and just really Q and A just chop it up.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously will be on the Jaguars dime or something because
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  Speaker 3: I ain't got it. You know, I haven't had a
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  Speaker 3: contract in years, so uh yeah, but I'd like to
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  Speaker 3: do that with you JP.
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  Speaker 1: Let's make it happen at some point. It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a plan that we already you already got it fleshed
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  Speaker 1: out already.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's a good idea, man, I wouldn't mind it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you Fred. Thanks, get us some sponsors. Man.
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  Speaker 2: You know you got all the connects. No, you're the
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  Speaker 2: one that's kept up. You got all the connections. It's
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  Speaker 2: work here, man, Hey me too, see your Fred Ahi
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  Speaker 2: both