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Who to look out for vs. Commanders | Jags Drive Time: Thursday, September 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Right. Welcome to Jacks Drive Jime with Ashlyn SELLI tells
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Speaker 1: chat Oceans Bryan Sexton. Jacks Drive starts right now. Offensively,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're a really hard nosed team
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Speaker 1: up front. Um, I can run the ball. I think
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Speaker 1: we're going to create a lot of explosives down the field.
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Speaker 1: That's something that I'm really confident with the guys we have.
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Speaker 1: And we've got a couple of great facts. Um and
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Speaker 1: that those are kind of it goes by offensive commandments
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Speaker 1: and protect the footballs, create explosives, um, fall security, all
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Speaker 1: those things. And there's there's more of them too. You
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Speaker 1: know we could talk about, but um and that's just
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Speaker 1: what we went by us. So we try to be
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Speaker 1: big plans for this Jaguar offense under second year quarterback
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Getting ready for Week one to get the
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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. Welcome into Jaguars Drive Time on a Thursday
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Speaker 1: at Ashlyn, Bryan and John here with you as we
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Speaker 1: get ready for this game, our last show of the week.
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Speaker 1: Preparing for this Washington Commander's game and back in the
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Speaker 1: locker room yesterday you can sell these guys are at
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Speaker 1: this point just ready to play. So much anticipation. I
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Speaker 1: was down by the offensive lineman talking to Brandon Sheriff
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Speaker 1: and mentioned that soot that you just played SoundBite with
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Speaker 1: the Trevor talking about the team's identity being hard nosed
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Speaker 1: and pushing guys around up front, and you just see
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Speaker 1: all the offensive lineman, you know, shaking their head. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't talking to them, but he might as well have been.
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Speaker 1: It resonated in the locker room. Yeah, and that's it's
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Speaker 1: it's what you want to hear. And of course you
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Speaker 1: don't know this team's identity as of right now, but
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Speaker 1: coach Peterson mentioned it as well. John. It's at the
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Speaker 1: point now where we want to know what's the definition
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Speaker 1: of this team, and we're not going to go until Sunday,
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Speaker 1: but they have a good idea. Yeah. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was interesting that Trevor went that way, and uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you kind of think, you know, but there's been so
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Speaker 1: many changes. I am sure. I thought it was interesting
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Speaker 1: that Trevor said that that's what they want to be,
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Speaker 1: that he went there first. I think sheriff coming around,
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Speaker 1: or the sheriff coming around right, sheriff being here is uh.
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Speaker 1: I think Trevor is right. I think it was Esday
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Speaker 1: when he talked about it. His identity, his attitude has
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Speaker 1: rubbed off. Um. I think that will surprise some people
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Speaker 1: who have watched this team, because they really weren't that
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Speaker 1: way last year. Therefore they have an identity. And in
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Speaker 1: the preseason. It's so hard to run in the preseason
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Speaker 1: because the offensive line isn't together the entire time. You
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Speaker 1: can't get continuity. And they didn't look like a powerhouse
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Speaker 1: running team in the preseason. But you could easily see scenarios.
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Speaker 1: You see it all the time where a team comes
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Speaker 1: out in preseasons out the window now and this is
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Speaker 1: what they are. I could see a a scrappy, mauling
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Speaker 1: sheriff in town kind of running game on Sunday, and
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Speaker 1: I think that'll surprise people. But I do think that's
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Speaker 1: what they want to be. Well, if people if you
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Speaker 1: played the rest of the SoundBite, you would hear him
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Speaker 1: talking about then going over the top right and going
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Speaker 1: from which is what a lot of people want to hear.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to hear three the origin, the cloud
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Speaker 1: of dust. They want to hear going deep. I had
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Speaker 1: visions of the Raiders of the seventies when he was
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Speaker 1: talking right hound, the ball draw, the safeties go over
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Speaker 1: the top. So it's not gonna come together necessarily in
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Speaker 1: Week one, but that's who they want to become by
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Speaker 1: the time this season is over, right, especially because it's
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Speaker 1: almost the trendy thing nowadays in the NFL to say,
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Speaker 1: oh or the explosive passing attack of course, and yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll run the ball here and there. So I was
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Speaker 1: a little surprised as well for him to mention the
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Speaker 1: running game first. It's just part of who they're going
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Speaker 1: to be, but the part that the offensive line likes
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Speaker 1: to hear the most. Getting Jay rob in there is
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Speaker 1: key that I know we're moving on. But I don't
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Speaker 1: know that Travis e t N, just Travis e t
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Speaker 1: N would be a back for a malling scrapping team.
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Speaker 1: But you add James Robinson into that, and again, a
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Speaker 1: guy who wasn't there in the preseason. I think it
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Speaker 1: goes back to how this team looks on Sunday could
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Speaker 1: surprise even close Jaguars followers. A lovely transition for Big
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Speaker 1: Thing One is he back running back James Robinson preparing
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Speaker 1: for Week one and is anxious to get back on
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Speaker 1: the field. A man who is not very emotional really ever,
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Speaker 1: especially in yesterday's locker rooms the guys just ready to play. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: kind of sucked. I mean there's a couple of plays
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Speaker 1: they had to bring me out because I couldn't do
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Speaker 1: it because it was like thud or something like that.
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Speaker 1: But um, it was kind of hard, you just seeing
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Speaker 1: I was right there, but I wasn't there yet. But
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it Right now, I feel pretty good. I mean,
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Speaker 1: like I said, well, and I wasn't in the huddle
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Speaker 1: or anything like. It was kind of hard, just kind
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Speaker 1: of actually getting my reads down and not being able
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Speaker 1: to actually read it and I can make my cuts
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Speaker 1: and everything. But being in a huddle again, feel pretty
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Speaker 1: good and I like it. Big thing too is a
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Speaker 1: familiar foe. Head coach Doug Peterson knowing this lotching Commander's
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Speaker 1: team very well and knowing the quarterback Carson wants very well.
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Speaker 1: Peterson talking about the similarities between Carson Wentz and quarterback
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Speaker 1: Trevor Wines, Yeah, you know, it's similar, but in our
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Speaker 1: case is different because you're two for Trevor is a
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Speaker 1: different staff, right, different different head coach, different coordinator, different
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Speaker 1: position coach. Where Carson year two was the same same guys,
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Speaker 1: and there was consistency there, you know. And and although
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Speaker 1: we've seen tremendous growth in Trevor um year two for
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Speaker 1: for Carson, with us, there was another there's another step,
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Speaker 1: there's another leap there and and um, you know, those
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Speaker 1: are things that we're trying to get Trevor to right
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Speaker 1: that level that with Trevor in our system and and um,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see it probably throughout the course of the season.
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Speaker 1: Um you know, but I think time will tell, you know,
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Speaker 1: with with him. And finally, big thing three is first
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Speaker 1: test this improved offensive line that we've been talking about
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Speaker 1: for months, the sheriff back in town. Big test this
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Speaker 1: weekends the Washington Commander's defensive fronts. Trevor Lawrence thinks his
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Speaker 1: offensive line is ready for the challenge. Man, I just
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Speaker 1: think they got the right mindset. I think um shaff
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Speaker 1: coming in really has elevated the whole group. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of the same guys that have been here,
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Speaker 1: but bringing in him and just his veteran presence, but
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Speaker 1: also just his work ethic and the way he attacks
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Speaker 1: every day, always ready to go, never complains, just has
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Speaker 1: that grit. It's a little bit nasty, like that's that's
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Speaker 1: something that those guys see and have seen it all,
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Speaker 1: you know, O t a s and camp and see
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Speaker 1: a guy who's had as much success as he's had
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Speaker 1: on his eighth season, I believe, and still brings that
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Speaker 1: intensity every day. I think it's elevated the whole boot
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Speaker 1: and that is big things on a Thursday morning, and
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Speaker 1: go back up to big thing on the biggest story
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Speaker 1: of the week. All the running backs back on the field.
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Speaker 1: James Robinson in the locker room yesterday, We're all waiting
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Speaker 1: for him to come off the practice field. He's like,
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Speaker 1: oh great, there's thirty reporters in front of my locker.
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Speaker 1: You can just tell he's tired of all the questions
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Speaker 1: about the rehab, about the recovery. Just go play football
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Speaker 1: and let's talk about that from now on. I think
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Speaker 1: I said it the other day. It's the biggest story
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Speaker 1: and one of the biggest stories in the NFL. If
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Speaker 1: those two guys both play well on Sunday because of
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Speaker 1: the injuries, because of the position and that they're back, um,
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Speaker 1: it could go from being thirty reporters around his locker
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Speaker 1: to the next week. Right. It means as many is
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Speaker 1: it can squeeze around to hear from this young man
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Speaker 1: who was John just alluded to. The Jaguars are counting
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Speaker 1: on to give them a consistent running game, counting on
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Speaker 1: so much that they didn't go out and spend a
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Speaker 1: high draft choice. They wait until the fifth round to
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Speaker 1: grab SNeW Connor. Right, they didn't spend a lot of
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Speaker 1: money in free agency at this position, and that's what
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Speaker 1: they want to do. Run the ball and use play action.
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Speaker 1: I think only one coach in football used play action
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Speaker 1: more often than Doug Peterson from two thousand sixteen through
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Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty, if I read the statistics right.
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Speaker 1: So they're counting on this guy. Buckle up. It's a
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Speaker 1: phenomenal story, and I hope it's one that gets told
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Speaker 1: because he's having success, which means the Jagboars are having success.
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Speaker 1: Forty five reporters, What is he moving to New York? Well,
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Speaker 1: you never know. Now it's it's h to your point,
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Speaker 1: it's a remarkable story that uh, you know, we've talked
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Speaker 1: about it all offseason and and we couched everything by
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Speaker 1: saying if these two are healthy under the point, I don't, uh.
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Speaker 1: I think James Robinson's health is more of a media
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Speaker 1: story than it is an actual story. At this point.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't on the injury report yesterday. You get no
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Speaker 1: impression from or from James Robinson. First of all, Doug
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Speaker 1: said yesterday, if James Robinson is playing and looking the
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Speaker 1: part and doesn't come off saying that he needs to
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Speaker 1: come out, well he's not gonna say he needs to
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Speaker 1: come out. I mean, he saw his kid in the
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Speaker 1: locker room acount his leg could fall off, and he's
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Speaker 1: not gonna come out and say that he needs to
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Speaker 1: fall out, you know, come out. So I think he's
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Speaker 1: gonna play the whole game on Sunday. What I'm curious
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Speaker 1: to see, guys island um is do? I guess he's
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Speaker 1: talking about my multiple personality? What is the workload? Like
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Speaker 1: everybody wants is James Robinson can get his normal workload
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Speaker 1: in this offense. We don't know what that, we don't
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Speaker 1: normal cloud it is. I think it's gonna be lighter
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Speaker 1: because I think they're gonna rotate, and I think fantasy
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Speaker 1: people are gonna be upset. I left the practice field
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Speaker 1: field yesterday practice field for what it is because they
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Speaker 1: weren't in full pads. But I left the practice field
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Speaker 1: yesterday saying to somebody, I don't see a pitch account
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Speaker 1: for this guy because he looked sudden as sudden as
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Speaker 1: James Robinson has ever right, Um, he looked light on
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Speaker 1: his feet. I thought he looked really good, you know,
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Speaker 1: again for practice. I was impressed, and I said to
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Speaker 1: somebody who were walking in, I don't see a pitch
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Speaker 1: account for this guy. He looks good. Yeah, And which
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Speaker 1: is that's crazy enough story that he doesn't have a
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Speaker 1: pitch count week one? Yes, right, Well, well, then the
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Speaker 1: other side of it is, how do they use Travis Etna.
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Speaker 1: I don't know his role as much as you say,
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Speaker 1: John that we don't know what a normal workload is
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Speaker 1: going to be in Doug Peterson's offense. How is Travis E.
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Speaker 1: T n going to be deployed? I don't think he's
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Speaker 1: most effective running between the tackles. That doesn't mean he can't,
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Speaker 1: but I think there's We're gonna wait and see how
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Speaker 1: it evolves with you, all right? And that is big things.
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Speaker 1: Lots of big stories this week as we prepare for
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Speaker 1: a Week one against the Washington Commanders. When we come
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Speaker 1: back on Jaguars Drive time. Julie Donaldson from the Washington
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Speaker 1: Commanders joins us on the Jaguars Digital Network. We're back
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Speaker 1: Jaguar's Drive Time, getting ready for Week one against the
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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders, and happy to have Julie Donaldson, who was
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Speaker 1: on the Commander's game day radio broadcasting is the senior
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Speaker 1: vice president handling all things media for the Washington Commanders. Julie,
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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Yeah, I'm glad with
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Speaker 1: me here. This is going to interested game for myself
10:26
Speaker 1: because I'm actually from Jacksonville as well, and my parents
10:30
Speaker 1: are coming up and my mom asked if she can
10:33
Speaker 1: wear Jacksonville attire, and I said, uh, might need to
10:36
Speaker 1: find her some Commanders these days. Maybe we can do
10:40
Speaker 1: a dual outfit of Jaguar top Commander's bottoms. Will figure
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Speaker 1: it out. Well, that's so super cool. Well, very cool
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Speaker 1: to hear that you're from Jacksonville. What do you think
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Speaker 1: about this game? We think just the game as itself
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Speaker 1: is incredibly interesting for week one. Well, yeah, it's interesting
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Speaker 1: because just for the fact that it is week one,
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Speaker 1: you don't really know what you're going to get from
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Speaker 1: either team. Of course, you guys with a new coaching
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Speaker 1: staff and a lot of additions, UM trying to take
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Speaker 1: that next step. But then for Washington, like we're we've
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Speaker 1: got a lot of different editions on offense, and with
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Speaker 1: Carson Wins coming in here and now with extra options
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Speaker 1: of drafting John Dotson, Curtis Samuel being healthy, UM Jadie
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Speaker 1: McKissick being back in there as well, Like, how are
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Speaker 1: they going to decide to define themselves on offense? That's
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Speaker 1: something that everybody appears waiting to kind of see. And
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Speaker 1: then they had Brian Robinson they drafted out of Alabama
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Speaker 1: that was really going to be exciting and kind of
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Speaker 1: really beef up this run game. And then of course
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Speaker 1: he tragically UM goes through and get shot in the
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Speaker 1: leg and he's working his way back from recovery, so
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Speaker 1: he's out. So we're kind of trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: what is the I didn't think gonna be on offense
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Speaker 1: and on defense? Can they step back up UM and
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Speaker 1: and be a dominant defense that they feel that they
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Speaker 1: should be UM And last year was rather a little
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Speaker 1: bit as than many will say. They were humbled and
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Speaker 1: a bit disappointed. Good morning, Julie. I UM, I think
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Speaker 1: Ron Rivera has done a really good job at compartmentalizing things,
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Speaker 1: and I'd love your opinion on it. You know, they've
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Speaker 1: been some stories outside of football around the Commanders, and
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Speaker 1: yet when you read about the Commanders or talk to
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Speaker 1: people about the Commanders, it's all football. Can you give
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Speaker 1: us a sense of how Ron has kept that thing
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Speaker 1: focused on football this offseason and where this team is.
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Speaker 1: Is they get ready to start with opening Day? Yeah?
12:16
Speaker 1: We asked him that question a lot because since he's
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Speaker 1: come here a couple of years ago, taking over a
12:20
Speaker 1: team that just had three wins. COVID happens, he ends
12:23
Speaker 1: up having cancer, doesn't miss a game, but he's going
12:25
Speaker 1: through treatment throughout the entire season, and you could see
12:28
Speaker 1: him just physically white. Alex Smith coming back from injury. Um,
12:32
Speaker 1: everything that happens around the quarterbacks. I think he's had
12:34
Speaker 1: like six or seven different starting quarterbacks in just a
12:36
Speaker 1: few years that he has been here. Um. He attested
12:40
Speaker 1: to his military background of just being kind of steady.
12:44
Speaker 1: And that's the one thing that when I first took
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Speaker 1: on this job and was kind of learning about him,
12:48
Speaker 1: everybody would say he's a very steady leader. Uh. And
12:51
Speaker 1: he continues to be that way as he goes through
12:53
Speaker 1: everything now and still kind of trying to lead this team.
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Speaker 1: Um to be able to say, okay, like one of
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Speaker 1: his favorite sayings is it's interesting and what's important? You know, like,
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Speaker 1: is it interesting, Okay, then let's not put pretty much
13:04
Speaker 1: attention to it. If it's important, then we need to
13:06
Speaker 1: focus in on it. Um. So he's done a really
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Speaker 1: good job kind of leading this team, and they've taken
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Speaker 1: on his personality as well, and you can kind of
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Speaker 1: see that this year with the players. Surely you could
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Speaker 1: make the argument that this is, uh, this could be
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Speaker 1: a last chance for Carson White. It's certainly a third chance,
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Speaker 1: which for NFL quarterbacks, you know, you don't get that many.
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Speaker 1: How is he approaching it? Uh? What's your sense of
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Speaker 1: sort of where he's at mentally going into this thing.
13:34
Speaker 1: I have been impressed by Carson. I mean he gets
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Speaker 1: hit up on this question almost every single interview he
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Speaker 1: gets of that. Look, it didn't work out with the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: it didn't work out with you know, your guru that
13:44
Speaker 1: drafted you. You know you're worth the Colts. And of
13:46
Speaker 1: course everybody remembers that game that he had against you
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Speaker 1: guys last season that basically lost him his job in Indianapolis, Um,
13:53
Speaker 1: which is why he's here in Washington. And look, I mean,
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Speaker 1: coach for Vera's gone out there and made it very
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Speaker 1: public that we want you, we want you to know
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Speaker 1: that this is your team. We believe in you. They
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Speaker 1: believe they can get him back to the form um
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Speaker 1: that he was in Philadelphia before he became succumbed to
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of different injuries that kind of just
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Speaker 1: like set things off in a bad course for him.
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Speaker 1: But he comes in as a different leader and a
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Speaker 1: different man. I mean, he claims that, you know, his
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Speaker 1: faith is first and foremost most important to him, so
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Speaker 1: that keeps him steady. That he's got a family, his
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Speaker 1: two little girls that don't care if he throws interceptions
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Speaker 1: or has a bad game. Uh, And so that kind
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Speaker 1: of keeps him grounded. And then it's football after that.
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Speaker 1: And make no mistake, this means a competitor. He understands
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Speaker 1: the pressure, He understands what this season means to him
14:35
Speaker 1: in his career as a starter. Um. But so far,
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Speaker 1: I mean we're all curious to what does how does
14:40
Speaker 1: he do? You know, Like he's got that arm to
14:42
Speaker 1: stretch the field, we have the speed with Terry mccorde
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Speaker 1: and Johan Dodson to be able to draw those defenders away. Um,
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Speaker 1: But is he gonna, you know, be as accurate um
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Speaker 1: as you want at times? So I think we're all
14:54
Speaker 1: just gonna sit back and wait and see how this
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Speaker 1: offense goes. But mentally, I feel like he's coming in
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Speaker 1: pretty sound and pretty confident in him off. Julie, how
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Speaker 1: is our old buddy Jack del Rio deploying his defense
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Speaker 1: without Chase Young, your best defensive player and one of
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Speaker 1: the best pass rushers in the game. How are you?
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Speaker 1: How is del Rio overcoming the absence of such a
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Speaker 1: great player early on? Yeah? Well, last season Chase Young
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Speaker 1: didn't get off to the hottest start that we anticipated.
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Speaker 1: After winning Defensive Rookie of the Year and having what
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Speaker 1: eight nine sacks or so um in that season, you
15:24
Speaker 1: tend to expect those players to take big steps in
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Speaker 1: big leaves. He was struggling a little bit early on,
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Speaker 1: and then when he goes down to an injury, which
15:31
Speaker 1: is pretty gruesome with an a c L and some
15:32
Speaker 1: other things mixed in there, like he's gonna at least
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Speaker 1: miss the first four games of the season. Starting on
15:37
Speaker 1: the physically and able to perform list Um, but they
15:40
Speaker 1: came together as a unit when he was out. One
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Speaker 1: of the issues they had last season if they thought
15:44
Speaker 1: a lot of guys were just going for the numbers
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Speaker 1: and playing individually, not as one unit. Um. And that's
15:49
Speaker 1: something is Ryan Carrigan, as he is now in our
15:52
Speaker 1: coaching staff, having retired the all time sack leader for Washington.
15:55
Speaker 1: Um comes in and says, you have to rush as one,
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Speaker 1: and so they kind of fall a little bit more
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Speaker 1: into their system without Chase out there. But look, montess
16:03
Speaker 1: what is an animal of himself, a first round draft pick, Um,
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Speaker 1: and he has been quietly bracking up some pretty good numbers.
16:11
Speaker 1: You know, you've got the interior line with Jonathan Alan
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Speaker 1: durn Payne. Drawn Payne has been having an outstanding camp.
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Speaker 1: James Smith Williams is coming in on the other side,
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Speaker 1: filling in for Chase Young. Um. Look, he might not
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Speaker 1: be a Chase Young, but he's a very capable edge
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Speaker 1: rusher as well. So they're trying to play more within
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Speaker 1: this system as opposed to playing individually. Well, I know
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Speaker 1: we all are looking forward to start this thing week
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Speaker 1: one of the regular season. Julie, thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for joining Jaguars Drive time. We will see you on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks guys, absolutely coming up on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Digital Networks sound He will, he won't, He might stay
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Speaker 1: with us? I think in your mind, yeah, And I
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Speaker 1: think that's why you practice and you put in the
17:05
Speaker 1: game plan this week and you go out and you
17:07
Speaker 1: you execute it, you know, and um, you you have
17:10
Speaker 1: a vision of what what what you hope it is,
17:13
Speaker 1: you know, and what you think you can be and
17:16
Speaker 1: and you know it's my job as the head coach
17:18
Speaker 1: is to is to keep keep the team focused on
17:21
Speaker 1: that right that We've got to have an identity. We've
17:23
Speaker 1: got to you know, we've got to do the things
17:25
Speaker 1: that we've talked about all offseason and training camp, and um,
17:30
Speaker 1: I have a vision in my head and and you know,
17:32
Speaker 1: I try to relate that and communicate that to the team.
17:35
Speaker 1: And now they have to go out and try to
17:37
Speaker 1: try to be that. You know. It's it's the fun part. Now,
17:42
Speaker 1: it's the fun part of it. Head coach Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: on what this team is going to look like week
17:49
Speaker 1: one against the Washington Commanders. It's time for he will,
17:51
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18:05
Speaker 1: time for yours. He will. I'll go with a free
18:08
Speaker 1: agent who hasn't gotten a ton of attention. That's Evan
18:11
Speaker 1: named from the tight end, and he will play the
18:15
Speaker 1: role of Alshon Jeffrey in this offense. If anyone's read
18:18
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's book Fearless, he talks about that season and
18:22
Speaker 1: a few chapters, and Jeffrey was a key player. He
18:25
Speaker 1: was the safety valve. He was the guy that was
18:27
Speaker 1: always where he was supposed to be on third down.
18:30
Speaker 1: He kept the chains moving, kept drives alive, and gave
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Speaker 1: them all kind of flexibility. And that's the rule I
18:34
Speaker 1: believe that he will play in this offense. He won't
18:37
Speaker 1: be Travis Kelsey, he won't be George Kittle. He's not
18:39
Speaker 1: gonna be a hundred reception thirteen touchdown guy. Uh. You know,
18:43
Speaker 1: those guys are focal points in San Francisco, in Kansas City,
18:46
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna be the focal point here. But
18:49
Speaker 1: he might be Dallas Knox, who the Buffalo Bills just
18:52
Speaker 1: rewarded with a fat contract yesterday because he has become
18:56
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's favorite go to target. Um espec actually when
19:00
Speaker 1: things are down. So he's not gonna be that sexy,
19:03
Speaker 1: flashy guy that a lot of people think of first
19:05
Speaker 1: round tight end. But he's gonna be a workman like
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Speaker 1: guy who gets the job done. Um. He'll make some
19:11
Speaker 1: plays through the course of the season will make you
19:12
Speaker 1: go it was a good signing. He may also have
19:14
Speaker 1: a couple of jobs that make you go, well, that's
19:16
Speaker 1: what we saw in New York. Um. But I think
19:18
Speaker 1: they've got a clearly defined role for him, like a
19:20
Speaker 1: lot of things. We didn't see it in the preseason,
19:22
Speaker 1: and I think it'll start to show itself on Sunday
19:24
Speaker 1: in Washington. Yeah. I think he'll have some moments of
19:27
Speaker 1: frustrate fans. Uh. But what I think he's going to
19:32
Speaker 1: bring more than anything to this offense. Um, you have
19:36
Speaker 1: to cover him if you're a defense because he's fast
19:39
Speaker 1: enough and good enough to beat you on every play,
19:41
Speaker 1: So you have to account for him, and if you don't,
19:44
Speaker 1: he can get you beat. So I think he might
19:46
Speaker 1: help other receive as other people in the offense as
19:49
Speaker 1: much as he actually has stats. Yeah, I'm sure I
19:51
Speaker 1: get asked all the times. I'm sure you all do
19:53
Speaker 1: about Evan Ingram and oh my gosh, New York, he
19:56
Speaker 1: always dropped balls, and I think he is well aware
19:58
Speaker 1: of the consistency issues in his career. And I go
20:00
Speaker 1: back to the night practice we had here when he
20:02
Speaker 1: dropped a touchdown pass in the end zone from Trevor
20:04
Speaker 1: Lawrence and I go back out to shoot a stand
20:06
Speaker 1: up forty five minutes later, and he's out there running
20:08
Speaker 1: routes with Trevor as well aware of the consistency issue
20:11
Speaker 1: in his career. Have you talked to him in the
20:12
Speaker 1: locker room yet? I have not. He is a sensational interview.
20:15
Speaker 1: He's very thoughtful, uh and very well spoken on the topic.
20:19
Speaker 1: So I would encourage you to find him in the
20:21
Speaker 1: locker room. What do you say? I want to know? Now,
20:23
Speaker 1: he acknowledges that he has had issues, but he also
20:27
Speaker 1: says people don't see how hard he's worked to overcome
20:30
Speaker 1: the issue. People only see the drops, and he knows
20:33
Speaker 1: that that's part of the game. On tv UM, he's
20:35
Speaker 1: been working on it diligently working on it and is
20:38
Speaker 1: working on it physically right with the Juggs machine and
20:41
Speaker 1: mentally to get himself ready to make a big place.
20:43
Speaker 1: He knows he bet on himself with a one year
20:45
Speaker 1: contract this year. He's prepared to win that bat Love.
20:49
Speaker 1: It's John, what do you got? I have Tyson Campbell
20:52
Speaker 1: and he will be an important matchup in this game.
20:56
Speaker 1: Terry McClaren, the Redskins mean, I'm sorry. I had the
20:58
Speaker 1: Commander's wider's see well, and I grew up a fan,
21:02
Speaker 1: so it's it's extrically hard, but um this is a
21:06
Speaker 1: good wide receiver corpses facing, so he and Shaq Griffin
21:11
Speaker 1: are going to have their work cut out for him.
21:15
Speaker 1: They'll be an important matchup, but he won't be overwhelmed
21:20
Speaker 1: by this. And we talked all last year. Um, so
21:23
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of going over past topics. A remarkable story.
21:28
Speaker 1: This kid was Tyson Campbell last year. The first month
21:31
Speaker 1: of that season could have broken and I get that
21:34
Speaker 1: we're well beyond that. But he's even added to that
21:37
Speaker 1: story in the sense that he may have been one
21:41
Speaker 1: of their best two or three defensive players during training camp.
21:44
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody thought that was going to be
21:45
Speaker 1: the case last September. He could have a year And
21:49
Speaker 1: I guess this is sort of the he might because
21:51
Speaker 1: it's not he will, he won't. He could, it's he will,
21:54
Speaker 1: he won't. He might. Um, he might turn in this
21:58
Speaker 1: year to that number one corner and he might be
22:02
Speaker 1: the solution to their quote turnover issues. If the defensive
22:06
Speaker 1: line and the defensive front gets the pass rush and
22:10
Speaker 1: is as disruptive as we think, he will wind up benefiting.
22:14
Speaker 1: I think he could have four or five interceptions this year,
22:16
Speaker 1: which is a lot. He reminds me the way that
22:18
Speaker 1: he runs, the way that he covers, He reminds me
22:21
Speaker 1: of Rachine Mathis. He's got fluid hips, he can turn
22:24
Speaker 1: and run. Uh. He's got an in eight cents now
22:27
Speaker 1: of how to play the ball that he didn't have
22:30
Speaker 1: last year. Um. I just I think he's got the chance.
22:33
Speaker 1: He's quiet too. Rashie Mathis was not a big talker.
22:36
Speaker 1: He was quiet but deadly on the field, right Um.
22:40
Speaker 1: And I think by the end of this year we
22:41
Speaker 1: could see some of those Rachine Mathis traits, which would
22:44
Speaker 1: be great, not because he went to three Pro Bowls,
22:46
Speaker 1: but because he's the all time leading interceptor here in
22:48
Speaker 1: Jacksonville with I love his story. I think it's one
22:52
Speaker 1: of the best stories here on the Jaguars roster. Because
22:53
Speaker 1: you're so right last September now you would have said
22:56
Speaker 1: last year or at this point last year. Now he's
22:58
Speaker 1: gonna be floating the number one wide receiver gainst any opponent,
23:00
Speaker 1: which is what my Cobbill said a couple of weeks ago.
23:02
Speaker 1: You just said, no way, no way, this guy can
23:04
Speaker 1: do that. You think his confidence level is higher with
23:06
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker up front. Yeah, that certainly helps. Al Right, Smike,
23:09
Speaker 1: he will he won't t is running back Travis E
23:12
Speaker 1: t N. He will play on Sunday, and that is
23:14
Speaker 1: significant in his in itself. But I'm gonna go ahead
23:16
Speaker 1: and say that he will. It's gonna be incredibly close.
23:19
Speaker 1: He will end up getting more carries than James Robinson
23:22
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I'm very curious to see how this works out,
23:25
Speaker 1: how they balance the two of these guys. What a
23:27
Speaker 1: lovely problem to have. But he won't be the starting
23:30
Speaker 1: running back. James Robinson is going to be on the
23:32
Speaker 1: depth chart and run out as the starting running back.
23:35
Speaker 1: But we don't really know what this offense is gonna
23:36
Speaker 1: look like. And really you don't need a starting running
23:39
Speaker 1: back when you have both these guys who are able
23:41
Speaker 1: to do it. And he might just get in the
23:43
Speaker 1: end zone on Sunday. I want James Robinson and him
23:46
Speaker 1: to get a touch on Sunday to make the story.
23:48
Speaker 1: Just put a bow on it, making an even better story.
23:51
Speaker 1: But man, want to come back story for Travis E.
23:53
Speaker 1: T N. And if he gets a touchdown on Sunday, yeah,
23:56
Speaker 1: then there will be forty five quarters in front of
23:58
Speaker 1: his locker at least maybe nineties. Right, it keep doubling.
24:02
Speaker 1: The remarkable thing about eat enemy Brian. You said earlier
24:06
Speaker 1: he's not really between the tackles guy, and you're right,
24:10
Speaker 1: prototypically he's not that. But what's remarkable to me he
24:15
Speaker 1: runs hard for a running back at his size. I
24:19
Speaker 1: envisioned when he came in, a player who ran basically
24:22
Speaker 1: outside the tackles, got by on his speed. His quickness
24:25
Speaker 1: made people miss He's he's very good at that. But
24:29
Speaker 1: when he has to run inside and put his head down,
24:31
Speaker 1: he does. He's a really tough guy and a very
24:34
Speaker 1: unique runner. Right. I'm sure there are others who run
24:37
Speaker 1: like him, but to combine that at his size, I
24:40
Speaker 1: think Jaguars fans are going to like him because of
24:43
Speaker 1: the toughness as much as because of the speed outside
24:46
Speaker 1: he can run between the tackles. I'm just not sure
24:47
Speaker 1: how many times you want to give him that responsibility, right,
24:50
Speaker 1: I mean, how many touches do you see him getting
24:52
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty a game? I yeah, I think that's
24:56
Speaker 1: high for either because, uh, I some point, if you're
25:00
Speaker 1: doing that, then you're had the two backs testing at
25:03
Speaker 1: thirty eight times. But well the next couple you're going, well, yeah, yeah,
25:07
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks you face some big and
25:09
Speaker 1: talented defensive fronts. I mean right out of the gate
25:12
Speaker 1: with Washington with the three first rounders. But then you
25:15
Speaker 1: come back next week and you've got Indianapolis, and then
25:17
Speaker 1: you have to go and play the big boys out
25:19
Speaker 1: on the West coast in Los Angeles. So I mean,
25:22
Speaker 1: I just we'll find out what he's going to become.
25:25
Speaker 1: I just don't look at him and think, well, yeah,
25:27
Speaker 1: pound him right. Funny enough, he said yesterday in the
25:30
Speaker 1: locker room that now that James Robinson is back, he
25:32
Speaker 1: now can take all the inside runs. Now that he's
25:34
Speaker 1: back and he'll worry about so. Joe Travis kind of
25:36
Speaker 1: understands it too. His speed is best utilized off tackles.
25:39
Speaker 1: You handle that over there, and he can do it.
25:43
Speaker 1: And we did see that. And he is a tough
25:44
Speaker 1: kid and he's not scared of it. Yes, all right,
25:47
Speaker 1: that is he will he won't. He might present it
25:48
Speaker 1: by Setteth when we come back on Jaguar's Drive Time
25:51
Speaker 1: some Monday's Headlines today. It is time for Monday's Headlines Today.
26:04
Speaker 1: We are predicting what we'll be talking about on this
26:06
Speaker 1: fine program come Monday morning at nine, recapping Week one
26:09
Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders. We think, well, in typical political fashion, right,
26:15
Speaker 1: I'll go with gridlock, which is what we see so
26:17
Speaker 1: often from Congress, uh and the Senate and Uh. The
26:21
Speaker 1: Jaguars defensive line I think will create no room for
26:25
Speaker 1: the Redskins to be able to get things done on
26:27
Speaker 1: the ground. Uh. I'm sorry, Yeah, I still call me.
26:32
Speaker 1: I still called him to San Diego Chargers. I mean
26:34
Speaker 1: that's just that's fifty years of that. UM. I and
26:37
Speaker 1: I think that the Jaguars defensive line will stack things
26:40
Speaker 1: up and make it very hard to get anything done.
26:43
Speaker 1: For the commanders on the ground on Sunday. N What
26:46
Speaker 1: are you thinking? Well, I think the uh, the Jaguars
26:50
Speaker 1: will win. First of all. I think they will win
26:52
Speaker 1: by creating turnovers, which will create a turnaround for the organization.
27:00
Speaker 1: So my headline is turnover, turn around, turn it. Uh.
27:07
Speaker 1: I see you've gotten into the spirit of this segment
27:09
Speaker 1: this year. I don't. They don't nothing to say. If
27:15
Speaker 1: you're going to be the last headline, you better be good.
27:17
Speaker 1: It's so boring. My headline compared is it's Running Game revamp.
27:20
Speaker 1: Because we're gonna talk about the Running Game on Monday
27:22
Speaker 1: and how revamped it is because Trevor Lawrence said that's
27:25
Speaker 1: what he wants his offense to be, and that's what
27:27
Speaker 1: it will be because Trevor gets what he wants to
27:29
Speaker 1: turn it up. That as exciting as this guy, it
27:33
Speaker 1: certainly isn't. He's going last next week. All right, that's
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27:40
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