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Auld Jags Syne. 2024 in Review & Hopes for 2025 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It's twenty four degrees in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 2: It's seven in Swansea, minus two in Dundee. This is
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Speaker 2: Teel Talk, the official Jacksonville Jaguars UK and Ireland podcasts,
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Speaker 2: presented by Gallagher. I'm Jay Lawrence, no relation. He's Key
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Speaker 2: Ram Surin and we are joined in this episode by
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Speaker 2: the Voice the Bid of the Jaguars, JP, Shadrick, for
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Speaker 2: the end of year review and to talk about our
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Speaker 2: hopes for twenty twenty five in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: JP, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Speaker 3: Happy New Year, guys, is going to be with you. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what twenty whatever it is, but it's
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Speaker 3: like sixty eight fahrenheit. That's what we deal with over here.
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Speaker 3: This time of year, kind of fluctuated. It can get
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Speaker 3: really chilly, but it's been nice the last few days.
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Speaker 3: We had a big line of storms come through right
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Speaker 3: before the game. Yeah, pretty much, but that's where we are.
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Speaker 2: I actually saw, you know, when watching the game the
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Speaker 2: other day, I saw that a bunch of I think
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Speaker 2: they are from Scotland, A bunch of people from Scotland
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Speaker 2: came over to Jacksonville for the game, and I thought,
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Speaker 2: you've left Rainy Scotland and you've.
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Speaker 1: Gone over to Jacksonville.
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Speaker 2: Wet. Jacksonville a very wet day. I hear on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of storms that came through
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Speaker 3: about thirty minutes before kickoff, and you know, there was
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Speaker 3: a tornado watch all day that you knew there was
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Speaker 3: a line coming. What time was it going to really hit?
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Speaker 3: And then it hit right during pregame warmups. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: as severe as first initially expected, which was good news,
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Speaker 3: but it dumped a lot of ring in a short
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Speaker 3: amount of time, and you know, that's just how it went.
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Speaker 3: But it kind of affected some of the game. The
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Speaker 3: footing and stuff as the game went along was not great,
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Speaker 3: and the field was kind of chopped up at the
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Speaker 3: end of the game. That's just kind of how it goes.
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Speaker 3: But we're very lucky it didn't delay anything that was
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Speaker 3: really the concern, as if lightning strikes, then they delay
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Speaker 3: for thirty minutes with a certain radius around the stadium.
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Speaker 3: So that was I mean, from a personal perspective, delays
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Speaker 3: in meaningless games are bad for business. Don't need that.
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Speaker 3: We need this thing to go fast and get on
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Speaker 3: its way.
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Speaker 4: I remember when I was there in the summer, JP
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Speaker 4: Wolves were playing Wolves the football team where the soccer
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Speaker 4: team were playing over there, and they had that exact thing.
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Speaker 4: They had all the storm warnings and it felt exactly
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Speaker 4: like that. Storms during a meaningless game was so annoying.
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Speaker 3: Yea, right, and this time of year, because you talked
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Speaker 3: about the weather, right, it can fluctuate. So if you
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Speaker 3: have a front come through, cold comes in meets the
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Speaker 3: hot air, that's when all the tornadoes and things and
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Speaker 3: the lines of storms can really hit. So and that
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Speaker 3: happens sometimes in December in the South and the Southeast,
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Speaker 3: especially with all these different weather systems meeting each other.
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Speaker 3: So we get a lot of that in December.
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Speaker 2: We are the meteorology podcast for today is all things
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Speaker 2: weather going on. Let's talk about the game itself. Let's
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Speaker 2: just briefly talk about it. Obviously a win for the
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Speaker 2: jack you as a twenty thirteen victory sweep in the
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Titan.
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Speaker 1: Hey, look, it's nice to have a it's nice.
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Speaker 2: Have you say it's not necessarily the most meaningful of games, JP,
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Speaker 2: but look, it's nice to enjoy the victory. Why you
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Speaker 2: can get them?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we haven't had that many this year and it's
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Speaker 3: you know, you don't want to get in the situation
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Speaker 3: that you are accustomed to losing and you just lose,
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Speaker 3: I mean, and then you're losing franchise. And they don't
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Speaker 3: feel like that's what this is. I mean, they're close
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Speaker 3: in games. They've been in all these one score games.
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Speaker 3: They haven't been able to get over the top. And
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Speaker 3: you know, and good for the locker room. They're staying
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Speaker 3: in these games and trying to fight the best they can.
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Speaker 3: They just haven't been able to execute at the very
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Speaker 3: end a lot of times. But they did the other
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Speaker 3: day and which was great to see. And quarterback played
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Speaker 3: a little better. The wide receiver is a star. And
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Speaker 3: then the defense had one of their best days in
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Speaker 3: a long time. They gave up a few things on
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Speaker 3: the last drive, but when it mattered, they made a stop.
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Speaker 3: They got to take away. Stop the presses they got
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Speaker 3: to take away and that was big. So, okay, that's
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Speaker 3: a good win. You know, fans outside the building, a
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Speaker 3: lot of them are talking about, oh, it hurt the
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Speaker 3: draft order and those things for next year, But inside
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Speaker 3: they don't care about that stuff. I mean, coaches and
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Speaker 3: players are not worried about that right now.
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Speaker 4: What are the vibes like in the locker room and everything? JP?
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Speaker 3: After the game, I mean pretty spirited. I mean for
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Speaker 3: what they are. I mean they're four and twelve, so
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Speaker 3: spirited as that can get right, is better. Winning is
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Speaker 3: better than losing. So I think in the locker room
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Speaker 3: there they were relieved. I think is probably a better feel.
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Speaker 3: So that's where they are right now. The four and
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Speaker 3: twelve wins good and they swept a division ryanal in Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: That's always great. We have a chance to do it
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Speaker 3: next week again against Indianapolis as well.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about the cults in a little bit when we,
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Speaker 2: you know, preview that game. Well, I don't want to
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Speaker 2: speak too much about Bryan Thomas Junior because we've spoken
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Speaker 2: about him so much, and I'm sure we'll speak about
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Speaker 2: him in a little bit as well because when we're
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Speaker 2: sort of looking back on twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: But big game for him.
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Speaker 2: As you say, the quarterback played a little bit better
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Speaker 2: as well, and that's a kind of a big thing. Yeah, exactly, Well,
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Speaker 2: what did you always say? What have you always been saying?
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Speaker 4: I always give him the same message every week, JP,
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Speaker 4: where I say to Mac a Mac don't throw any picks, mate.
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Speaker 2: And he listened, He listened, he listened. You know, he
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Speaker 2: played better. You made a good point about the defense
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Speaker 2: there as well. I think all in all, we can
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Speaker 2: just put it past us and just say nice to
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Speaker 2: have a victory. Nice that some of the team, you know,
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Speaker 2: played how we wanted to see them play, to be honest.
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Speaker 3: And you know what I mean. Part of this too
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Speaker 3: is having guys that haven't had a lot of time
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Speaker 3: on tasks this year get some development at the end
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Speaker 3: in a game like this. A guy like Mason Smith
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Speaker 3: who has spent a lot of the season trying to
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Speaker 3: get his body right and is his food intake right
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Speaker 3: and just learning the league. And you know, he finally
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Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks, he said the other day,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's been a challenge to figure everything out
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Speaker 3: out around football, and now it's starting to show on
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Speaker 3: the field. He has a sack again. And you know,
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Speaker 3: guys like that Jordan Jefferson got some time in the
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Speaker 3: game the first time rookie defensive tackle. You know, it
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Speaker 3: may not be a superstar, but he had a pass
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Speaker 3: defense late in the game which was big. And those
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Speaker 3: two guys, Okay, if you're really confident in them for
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Speaker 3: the future. Those are a couple of things you might
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Speaker 3: not have to go out and get in pre agency
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Speaker 3: or the draft because if they're developing the right way.
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Speaker 3: That's just two examples of that. So that's something to
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Speaker 3: watch down the stretch here too. You know, yes, earlier
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Speaker 3: this week in the game in week seventeen, and then
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Speaker 3: coming up against the Colts. That's a lot of what
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Speaker 3: this is for too. You got to get guys out
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Speaker 3: there and play and just see what you have if
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Speaker 3: they haven't played yet this.
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Speaker 1: Year, what should we get into it. Let's get into
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Speaker 1: it them.
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Speaker 2: We'll look back on twenty twenty four now, and I
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Speaker 2: feel like, you know, a good first subject to talk
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Speaker 2: about is let's talk about the rookies, the rookie class
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Speaker 2: that came in earlier on this year and how yes,
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Speaker 2: it has not been necessarily the best year for the
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Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jaguars as a whole. But JP you mentioned you
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Speaker 2: mentioned it there really, but how do you think that
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Speaker 2: we should look back on JAG's rookies in the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four season.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you start with Brian Thomas Junior. I mean, he's
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Speaker 3: fourth in the NFL and receiving yardage this year of anybody,
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Speaker 3: I mean, not just rookies, I mean, and he's leading
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Speaker 3: all the rookies as well, so that it's a fantastic start.
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Speaker 3: And just think about how that developed. His year went long.
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Speaker 3: He didn't get the ball a lot early in the season.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't thrown his direction a whole lot. And that's
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Speaker 3: really been the last month or so of the season
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Speaker 3: where they have made a concerted effort to force the
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Speaker 3: ball his way and getting double digit touches each and
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Speaker 3: every week. A lot of that's due to the injuries
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Speaker 3: of the other guys like Christian Kirk's out for the year,
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Speaker 3: gave Davis's out for the year, and those circumstances, Hey
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Speaker 3: guess what, he's gonna get forced the ball a little
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Speaker 3: bit more either way, and it's proven that he can
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Speaker 3: handle it, yes, and it does work, and he's able
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Speaker 3: to go into some double team situations, go up and
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Speaker 3: make a play. So when your first round pick works out,
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Speaker 3: that's a good thing. That hasn't always been the case
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Speaker 3: around here, right, So there's been a lot of times
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Speaker 3: with a first round draft pick for one reason or another,
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Speaker 3: either on or off the field, has been like a
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Speaker 3: head scratcher after year one and you're wondering which way
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Speaker 3: it's gonna go. This is trending the right way. He's
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Speaker 3: great off the field. He's all about the business and
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Speaker 3: being a better football player week over week, and that's
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Speaker 3: a fantastic start for him. So that's just that's the
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Speaker 3: number one thing. When that plays out, that's a good sign.
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Speaker 1: We spoke a bit about it last week, didn't we.
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Speaker 4: Key, Well, we've hardly talked about him this season. No.
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Speaker 2: I just feel like it's worth just saying that, you know,
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Speaker 2: not only to first round picks not always hit, but
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Speaker 2: first round picks don't always translate to being you know,
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Speaker 2: that guy for a franchise, And I feel like we're
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Speaker 2: looking at that right now.
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Speaker 1: Do you agree, JP?
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Speaker 3: I do? Yeah, I do. I mean, because of everything
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Speaker 3: we just talked about, he's got the total package in
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Speaker 3: the work ethic, in the weight room, in the classroom,
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Speaker 3: you know, and then he goes out and executes and
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Speaker 3: plays and they can load his plate with a lot
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Speaker 3: of different concepts And that was a little concern early. Okay, hey,
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Speaker 3: Press Taylor told me earlier in the season preseason training camp.
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Speaker 3: But hey, yeah, he's tall and fast and smart. We
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Speaker 3: can start with that, okay, and then we can run
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Speaker 3: a couple designs and then as it goes along, see
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Speaker 3: what he can do. Well. I think that accelerated what
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Speaker 3: they gave him because he was able to handle every
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Speaker 3: concept that was thrown his way. So that's a great sign,
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Speaker 3: especially for a rookie. A lot of times it's faster,
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Speaker 3: or you know, it's a longer season. So you know,
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Speaker 3: do you have the stamina and the fitness, as you
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Speaker 3: guys would say, to handle seventeen games? You know, while
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Speaker 3: he's proven that, yeah, he's just fine. And that's that's
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Speaker 3: a really good piece of what this future holds for
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Well, he said that I didn't he can.
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Speaker 2: Actually when he spoke to a few weeks ago, you know,
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Speaker 2: speaking just a real simple question saying how have you
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Speaker 2: found this season? His first answer, JP was long was
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Speaker 2: just the first thing he said, long, long season.
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Speaker 3: Well, you gotta think about too, like pre draft process.
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Speaker 3: Combine all these workouts, pro days that's in like March,
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Speaker 3: and then okay, the draft happens in late April. You
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Speaker 3: show up for rookie mini camp right after that in May,
10:25
Speaker 3: offseason program goes through mid June. You get a little
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Speaker 3: time down, not a lot as the other guys because
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Speaker 3: you're a rookie, so they stay longer. They come to
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Speaker 3: training camp a week earlier than everybody in late July,
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Speaker 3: and then it's pre season and then you're playing eighteen games.
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Speaker 3: I mean that's the seventeen games, right, So it is
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Speaker 3: a long time and but it'll it'll change after the
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Speaker 3: season's over. He'll get some time away and he'll get
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Speaker 3: into a regular NFL routine and he'll figure out what
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Speaker 3: he really needs in an off season. But you just
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Speaker 3: got to get to the finish line first, and he'll
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Speaker 3: be able to set up a real routine for the
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Speaker 3: rest of his career.
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Speaker 2: And I just say as well that and I know
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Speaker 2: it's really self involved by do need to say thank you?
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure a lot of people are going to
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Speaker 2: be saying thank you to Brian Thomas Junior this weekend
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Speaker 2: for winning them their Fantasy League. Thank you, Brian, I
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Speaker 2: appreciate that got my first championship.
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Speaker 1: JP.
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Speaker 2: Let's move on to somebody else then in the rookie class,
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Speaker 2: there's anybody else that you're thinking, you know what, we
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Speaker 2: might have a gem here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sitting here looking at the draft order from
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Speaker 3: last year. We talked about Mason Smith. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 3: that's developing at least late in the season. I think
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Speaker 3: there's some good positive signs that he might be able
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Speaker 3: to carry that moving ahead. Jerry and Jones has made
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Speaker 3: an impact at cornerback this year that you know, they
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Speaker 3: weren't really sure. See what a turned round pick. He's
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Speaker 3: been out there a lot and has performed well, and
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Speaker 3: he has an attitude about him clearly and a good way.
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Speaker 3: I think that's something that this team lacked a lot
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Speaker 3: this year, was that kind of next level petitive. You know,
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Speaker 3: we're we're here to defend our teammates and go win.
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Speaker 4: He's often in people's face as JP, which I like
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Speaker 4: to see.
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Speaker 3: You know what, they might be four and twelve, but
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Speaker 3: there's a few guys that have that are upset about that,
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Speaker 3: you know, and he's one of them. So we need
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Speaker 3: more of that around here. I like that Javon Foster
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Speaker 3: hasn't touched the field yet, the tackle from Missouri and
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Speaker 3: you just don't know. That's a development prospect. Jordan Jefferson
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Speaker 3: same way, finally getting some reps. Prince it's just recently
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Speaker 3: come on the field a corner back from Ole Miss
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Speaker 3: and Kilan Robinson. Okay, you know he's a late round pick,
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Speaker 3: fifth rounder. He was hurt most of the year working
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Speaker 3: on kick returns. Now maybe you have a development guy
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Speaker 3: in him down the line. And then of course the
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Speaker 3: kicker cam little. I mean, he's he's been fantastic this year.
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Speaker 3: So I mean, if you, like I said, if your
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Speaker 3: first round pick works out and you can get some
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Speaker 3: of these earlier to mid round guys to hit, then
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Speaker 3: you have a really productive dres class. Here. Kicker feels
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Speaker 3: like he's gonna be around for a long time. I
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Speaker 3: don't want to jinx him, but that's that feels good.
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Speaker 3: And you get the wide receiver and a couple of
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Speaker 3: pieces in on the defensive side that can.
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Speaker 2: Play besides the rookie class, besides some of the players
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Speaker 2: that we've already mentioned. I feel like when we're looking
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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty four, there's very obvious reasons why
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Speaker 2: some Jacksonville Jaguars fans might not be feeling, you know,
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Speaker 2: too optimistic. You know, with the record, is there anything
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Speaker 2: that you're thinking, do you know what, Yes, the record
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Speaker 2: wasn't great, But here's some positive signs from the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: The long pause.
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Speaker 3: Wow, well, I mean there there are some Well, I'll
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Speaker 3: have to see what happens in the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: What's the direction of the organization, right, I mean that
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Speaker 3: that'll set the tone for everything. Who's running the show,
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Speaker 3: who's coaching the show? Is it the same? It could
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Speaker 3: be and that might be too, who knows, And that
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Speaker 3: will tell you a lot about the direction of what
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Speaker 3: they're gonna do in personnel, and what their thoughts are
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Speaker 3: on the offensive scheme and how they ran defense and
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Speaker 3: you know, a lot of that kind of stuff. So
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Speaker 3: we just got to see some more things happen or
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Speaker 3: not happen, and just have some definitive answers in the
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Speaker 3: next week or so to set that tone moving ahead.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's where we are right now on
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Speaker 3: that part of it. The other I mean part of
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Speaker 3: it too, is the quarterback, right, I mean, he's gonna
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Speaker 3: be the number one storyline all the way through the
14:33
Speaker 3: rest of his contract. That's how it is, six more
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Speaker 3: years on his deal. Now, how does he come back
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Speaker 3: off the left shoulder surgery? You know, is is he
14:42
Speaker 3: going to be able to take that next step and
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Speaker 3: elevate and be able to do things above the ex'es
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Speaker 3: and o's if you will that some of these other
14:51
Speaker 3: quarterbacks are doing right now in the NFL. I mean,
14:54
Speaker 3: you see these teams that are in the playoff hunt
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Speaker 3: doing wild things. We can talk about my home all day,
15:00
Speaker 3: but Lamar has a different skill set than everybody. Lamar Jackson, right,
15:05
Speaker 3: Daniels in Washington has that similar skill set. He's never
15:08
Speaker 3: gonna be that. But can you can you do something
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Speaker 3: to help your guys get over the top when it's
15:13
Speaker 3: all down to the wire like that, and you know,
15:17
Speaker 3: and can you protect yourself? You know, that's a big
15:20
Speaker 3: question with Trevor. He's been hurt the last couple of
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Speaker 3: years and can he is this more of an organizational
15:27
Speaker 3: push to keep him upright and healthy? Part of that is,
15:32
Speaker 3: you know, is is that a different kind of play call?
15:34
Speaker 3: Is that taking the run game out for him as much?
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Speaker 3: Is that teaching him to throw it away and live
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Speaker 3: another down more? I mean, there's there's all that and
15:43
Speaker 3: who's running that again? Right? So that's that's a big
15:45
Speaker 3: question mark moving ahead. You got the receiver. There are
15:50
Speaker 3: questions in the running game offensive line seems like it's
15:52
Speaker 3: going to be for the most part. Back it's contractually
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Speaker 3: both running backs for the final year their deal coming up.
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Speaker 3: I think of, okay, what's going to happen in that
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Speaker 3: part of it? And then the defense was all new
16:04
Speaker 3: last year, I mean this season, so does that move forward?
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Speaker 3: How do they figure that out? You've got pass rushers
16:11
Speaker 3: you know they're around, a cornerback will be around, and
16:15
Speaker 3: Tyson Campbell there's some young guys you're excited about. Linebacker
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Speaker 3: play was lacking a little bit. So there are big
16:22
Speaker 3: questions all around early on both sides. But until we
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Speaker 3: get a definitive answer on the direction starting in early
16:29
Speaker 3: January of what the leadership is or isn't going to
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Speaker 3: be that, I think we got to wait for some answers.
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Speaker 4: But to pick up on one of Jay's points JP
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Speaker 4: on the TV show right this year, we've talked a
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Speaker 4: lot about trying to focus on the positives. So a
16:43
Speaker 4: side of some of the rookie class that we've already
16:45
Speaker 4: talked about, what are some of those positives for you
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Speaker 4: that we can take from this year as fans of
16:51
Speaker 4: the franchise.
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Speaker 3: It's tough man. I'll be honest with you, it's four
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Speaker 3: and twelve. Yeah, I mean, give me something on it
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Speaker 3: is is that they didn't get blown out every week, right, they.
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Speaker 4: Were in one score game in the game the games.
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Speaker 3: All you gotta do is make two more plays a game,
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Speaker 3: and they're winning half these.
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Speaker 2: Games more frustrating, though not more frustrating, but they're frustrating
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Speaker 2: in a different way.
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Speaker 1: One score games are.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you're not getting blown out every since there were
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Speaker 2: a couple blowouts, don't get me wrong. But that's why
17:22
Speaker 2: the one score games have been so frustrating, aren't they
17:24
Speaker 2: Because it just feels like, as you say, a couple
17:27
Speaker 2: plays here, a couple of plays there, and we could
17:28
Speaker 2: be talking about something different.
17:30
Speaker 3: And that would be a totally different conversation because we'd
17:33
Speaker 3: be talking about a game, probably for a playoff shot
17:36
Speaker 3: or something like that. So that's where they are. I mean,
17:39
Speaker 3: that's that's that's one of the things that that really
17:43
Speaker 3: frustrates about this season. Another positive part. I mean, we
17:46
Speaker 3: talked about Brian Thomas Junior all day. That'll be the
17:49
Speaker 3: of the real great positives I think out of this
17:51
Speaker 3: season really one of the only ones. Defensively, I think
17:55
Speaker 3: Trayvon Walker surprisingly took a little bit of a step.
17:58
Speaker 3: Maybe not statistically as much, she's getting close to double
18:01
Speaker 3: digit sacks again, but just the way he can impact
18:05
Speaker 3: the game. You know, he'll never I don't think he'll
18:07
Speaker 3: ever be Aiden Hutchinson statistically, just pure pass rushing numbers,
18:12
Speaker 3: but he's got the big enough frame and the mindset
18:15
Speaker 3: and he does everything right off the field to be
18:18
Speaker 3: ready to roll.
18:18
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, he's another one whose work ethic.
18:21
Speaker 3: Is right, and that's another one that if he continues
18:25
Speaker 3: to ascend like he is, it can be a really
18:27
Speaker 3: productive player in the NFL for a long long time.
18:30
Speaker 3: And is that number one overall worthy? You can argue
18:33
Speaker 3: that until the cows come home. I don't know that's
18:35
Speaker 3: up to anybody else. But he's a really good player,
18:39
Speaker 3: and if you don't have him, then you're not in
18:41
Speaker 3: a lot of these one scoring games to begin with.
18:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, arguing, you know, over is it number one worthy?
18:48
Speaker 2: It's almost like it's almost irrelevant and redundant after he's
18:51
Speaker 2: made the pick as well, isn't it.
18:52
Speaker 1: It's like he just has happened. Now we just need
18:55
Speaker 1: to work with it.
18:56
Speaker 3: That's what they say on all these picks. Right, It
18:58
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what round you're in it if you're on
19:00
Speaker 3: the fifty three, Yeah, okay, you're here. Now you're in
19:03
Speaker 3: the NFL. You better go perform and produce. I mean,
19:06
Speaker 3: nobody looks at your they're looking at your jersey numbering
19:09
Speaker 3: your name on the back. It doesn't say when you
19:11
Speaker 3: were drafted, right, So yeah, go play.
19:15
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it.
19:16
Speaker 2: Let's talk about franchise changing. Maybe changing isn't the right word,
19:22
Speaker 2: not altering, but maybe a big franchise moment for the
19:26
Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jacobs.
19:26
Speaker 1: And that's the commitment as well to Jacksonville.
19:30
Speaker 2: I swear it was like a three week period, was
19:32
Speaker 2: it around that time where you had the Trevor Lawrence contract,
19:35
Speaker 2: you had the Josh Heines Allen contract, and you had
19:38
Speaker 2: this news as well, and it felt like Jacksonville for
19:40
Speaker 2: a very short period of time there was like the
19:43
Speaker 2: hub of NFL news. And that's that is not just
19:48
Speaker 2: massive for twenty twenty four JP, isn't it.
19:51
Speaker 1: That's massive for well a long long time.
19:54
Speaker 3: The next thirty years at least. Yeah, I mean, because yeah,
19:57
Speaker 3: it's quite a while. Yeah, along the least is gonna
20:00
Speaker 3: be in the new place. So they're not going anywhere.
20:03
Speaker 3: So that was a lot of concern over the last
20:07
Speaker 3: ten to fifteen years. Is Okay, this is a team
20:10
Speaker 3: that could be eligible to move and a lot of
20:13
Speaker 3: fans have been concerned about that, and to be quite frank,
20:16
Speaker 3: the London thing kind of freaked a lot of people
20:18
Speaker 3: out around here at fan base because of that. Okay,
20:21
Speaker 3: they're going to go to London, or they're gonna go Oh,
20:23
Speaker 3: they're gonna go to La Oh, look out, they're trying
20:26
Speaker 3: to go to la Maybe the Jags are going to
20:27
Speaker 3: go there. But Shad Khan, to his credit, has never
20:32
Speaker 3: wavered in that. He's always said he's wanted to keep
20:37
Speaker 3: the team here. He's done everything in his power to
20:40
Speaker 3: prove that time and again. He puts his money where
20:43
Speaker 3: his mouth is too, investing in the stadium here before.
20:46
Speaker 3: He doesn't own it, it's the city owned facility. And
20:49
Speaker 3: splitting the football facility with the city as well. Oh
20:53
Speaker 3: that's not a chump change, right that he's throwing around.
20:57
Speaker 3: And then development around the stadium now, of course, the
20:59
Speaker 3: stadium renovation to go on top of all that is
21:03
Speaker 3: the real kicker that proves it for certain. So that's
21:08
Speaker 3: a relief for a lot of people here in Northeast
21:10
Speaker 3: Florida that the team is here for the generations to come.
21:13
Speaker 3: That's always been the goal and that will be the case.
21:15
Speaker 3: So it's a few years away. Obviously, twenty twenty eight
21:18
Speaker 3: will be when it opens. There'll be a couple of
21:21
Speaker 3: years of some transitional things. Twenty seven I'll have to
21:24
Speaker 3: play away from here and all that, but that is
21:27
Speaker 3: a huge cornerstone piece to the franchise in the next
21:31
Speaker 3: thirty years here in Northeast Florida. And talking about the
21:34
Speaker 3: other contracts, right, Trevor Lawrence and josh heinz Allen and
21:39
Speaker 3: Tyson Campbell and these guys that were drafted here in
21:42
Speaker 3: the last few years, mister Cohn didn't have to say
21:46
Speaker 3: yes to any of those, right, He had the ability
21:50
Speaker 3: to be like, let's just hold back a little bit.
21:52
Speaker 3: With everything else going on, he has wasted. He does
21:57
Speaker 3: not hesitate to spend money on foot if that's what
22:02
Speaker 3: the football leadership thinks can help them win a Super Bowl.
22:05
Speaker 3: He's rarely said, though, to anything like that. So credit
22:10
Speaker 3: needs to be given to mister Khan and his commitment
22:12
Speaker 3: to excellence off the field with the stadium and the
22:16
Speaker 3: development around it. But certainly he's done his part on
22:19
Speaker 3: the football side. Has it worked out with wins and losses.
22:22
Speaker 3: But from an ownership perspective, hey, you give them the
22:26
Speaker 3: resources and then figure out what happens after that.
22:29
Speaker 4: You can't move the Jacksonville Jaguars to anywhere that doesn't
22:34
Speaker 4: begin with Jay because the name will not sound as cool.
22:38
Speaker 4: The Los Angeles Jaguars will not be a thing.
22:42
Speaker 3: It was good to see obviously when that went down
22:44
Speaker 3: and the Jaguars stayed here and it proved a lot
22:47
Speaker 3: of people wrong. So a lot of national pundits and
22:51
Speaker 3: things media types were pegging the Jaguars to leave. So
22:54
Speaker 3: they are Jacksonville's team.
22:55
Speaker 4: They are a team too, Chaipoor, I will accept Los
22:59
Speaker 4: Angeles is I will not.
23:02
Speaker 2: Love it Gie poor Jaguars. Yeah, yeah, still doesn't sound
23:06
Speaker 2: as good, So it doesn't sound as good. One thing
23:08
Speaker 2: that we did we should speak about. He is uh
23:11
Speaker 2: you know one of the one of our highlights of
23:13
Speaker 2: twenty twe well, first of all, one of my highlights
23:14
Speaker 2: of twenty four is doing the first duval at at
23:18
Speaker 2: Wembley Stadium. Got to mention it every single possible time.
23:21
Speaker 2: Absolutely loved it. Some have said it was some have
23:23
Speaker 2: said it was the best first Duval ever and that
23:26
Speaker 2: person was my mum.
23:27
Speaker 3: But the reason why you agree, the reason why is
23:31
Speaker 3: because you've pronounced it right.
23:33
Speaker 2: It's only because and I tell you what I moaned
23:34
Speaker 2: about you actually on the podcast that week, JP, because
23:36
Speaker 2: I was saying how you were you were criticizing my
23:40
Speaker 2: pronunciation of Duval.
23:44
Speaker 4: JP saved you global embarrassment. What he did.
23:49
Speaker 3: You're welcome you in the world.
23:55
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand people would have just looked at me
23:57
Speaker 2: and been like, what is the what is he saying?
23:59
Speaker 1: By what is going on?
24:00
Speaker 2: I would have embarrassed myself in front of the whole
24:02
Speaker 2: of Wembley Stadium. No, I appreciate that, JP, Thank you.
24:04
Speaker 2: I mean that was you know what actually on a
24:07
Speaker 2: very you know quick serious note. That Wembley game we
24:11
Speaker 2: probably weren't anticipating it, but was one of the highlights
24:15
Speaker 2: of the Jacksonville Janguars season. On the field, quite genuinely.
24:20
Speaker 2: You had some you had some standout moments.
24:23
Speaker 4: There was unbelievable in that game.
24:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you had the.
24:28
Speaker 2: Park Washington fantastic you know return there as well touchdown.
24:32
Speaker 2: So so for those moments. We weren't anticipating it at
24:36
Speaker 2: that time.
24:36
Speaker 4: You know, obviously at that fifty eight yard bomb to
24:41
Speaker 4: be DJ as well from Trevor, that was unbelievable. What
24:44
Speaker 4: a catch exactly.
24:45
Speaker 2: And then to all of those moments we weren't anticipating
24:48
Speaker 2: at the time, we're going to be highlights. We actually
24:51
Speaker 2: you look back on it and actually had some big
24:53
Speaker 2: moments in if you're looking for big moments in a
24:55
Speaker 2: win for this season for the Jags, where you're actually
24:59
Speaker 2: probably looking at that game, aren't you really sure?
25:02
Speaker 4: Right?
25:02
Speaker 3: I mean because they didn't score I mean two weeks
25:04
Speaker 3: before that against the Colts was their first win of
25:07
Speaker 3: the season, of course, and Tank had a big game
25:09
Speaker 3: and that went as well, and they go out as well,
25:13
Speaker 3: Yeah it was great, right, and then they go up
25:16
Speaker 3: to Spurs and the Bears blasted them. That was embarrassing.
25:19
Speaker 3: And then you're right because the Patriots game, Okay, how
25:22
Speaker 3: do they respond from that? There was not a It
25:24
Speaker 3: didn't really know how they were going to come back
25:26
Speaker 3: and play and you know, is it just a long
25:29
Speaker 3: trip or what are they going to do? And they
25:30
Speaker 3: went out and performed against the Patriots. It was their
25:32
Speaker 3: last win for forever. So and then the last two
25:37
Speaker 3: wins have been ten to six and twenty to thirteen,
25:39
Speaker 3: so there hasn't been a lot of offense even in
25:41
Speaker 3: those wins. So that Patriots game had it on. Yeah,
25:44
Speaker 3: that punt returns pretty much what are the old timers,
25:48
Speaker 3: because you never see a punt return of you know,
25:52
Speaker 3: eighty five ninety yards or more because you always fair
25:54
Speaker 3: catch it inside the ten usually. But the circumstances were
25:58
Speaker 3: the way it was punted, the way they covered in
26:01
Speaker 3: the past. Parker Washington said, and you know, hey, I
26:04
Speaker 3: give this a shot. I'm gonna take a few steps
26:06
Speaker 3: back an It's a line drive kind of at me.
26:08
Speaker 3: I've got some room. Let's go for it, and the
26:11
Speaker 3: rest is history. In ninety six.
26:12
Speaker 2: Yards absolutely, you know what, we've looked back at twenty
26:16
Speaker 2: twenty four. Let's do something fun, shall we. Let's look
26:18
Speaker 2: forward to twenty twenty five. Let's do some New Year's
26:21
Speaker 2: resolutions for some Jags players, guys, some things that well,
26:26
Speaker 2: you know what new Year's resolution is. I don't need
26:28
Speaker 2: to explain. Just Trevor Lawrence should his resolution? It should
26:33
Speaker 2: be just shoulder base, shouldn't it? Really to get that
26:36
Speaker 2: shoulder all back and not worrying about that anymore.
26:40
Speaker 4: Key, I mean hundred percent. Like I feel like Trevor's
26:47
Speaker 4: New Year's resolution should be have a better left shoulder.
26:52
Speaker 3: Okay, right, My resolution for him is to slide earlier.
27:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, both ways.
27:03
Speaker 3: I mean, he hurt his shoulder diving forward head first,
27:06
Speaker 3: which is questionable to begin with, and then okay, he
27:10
Speaker 3: slid pretty early, you know, depending on who he asked, right,
27:13
Speaker 3: I mean the defensive side for the Texans don't believe it,
27:15
Speaker 3: But who cares what they think? I mean, he slid
27:18
Speaker 3: five yards early, But if it takes sliding seven yards early,
27:21
Speaker 3: just get down.
27:22
Speaker 4: It's a fine line between giving everything you've got and
27:25
Speaker 4: staying safe in it.
27:28
Speaker 2: The problem is, though, The problem is is whatever you do,
27:31
Speaker 2: you'll be criticized for it.
27:33
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, but if you're healthy and can play the
27:35
Speaker 3: next snap, then who cares?
27:37
Speaker 2: Yeah that's fair enough. That's fair enough. I think that's
27:40
Speaker 2: fair Travon Walker his new Year's resolution. Are we anticipating
27:47
Speaker 2: this is? Because you know it's this is when they
27:49
Speaker 2: work out where it's going to be a fifth year option.
27:52
Speaker 3: I'm right, Yeah, that corast season. That's right after year
27:55
Speaker 3: three yep. Yeah, so I wouldn't see any reason why
28:00
Speaker 3: they wouldn't exactly.
28:01
Speaker 2: So the new Year's resolution, just get that done and dusted,
28:04
Speaker 2: and that'll be an earlier one I anticipate rather than
28:06
Speaker 2: rather than later.
28:08
Speaker 1: JP.
28:08
Speaker 2: Have you got New Year's resolutions for any players or
28:11
Speaker 2: anybody within the Jags organization?
28:13
Speaker 4: I've got one. I think that I think the defense
28:18
Speaker 4: should invest in trampolines so that more of the big
28:21
Speaker 4: defensive guys can be doing backflips on the field.
28:25
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I think. Is that what you think?
28:28
Speaker 4: Do you guys know what I'm talking about? What two
28:32
Speaker 4: weeks ago? Who was it? JB? Who was it? Yeah?
28:35
Speaker 4: It led better? That was it led better? One of
28:37
Speaker 4: the bigger guys on defense did an amazing backflip.
28:42
Speaker 2: But that do you feel like that should be something
28:44
Speaker 2: that they should just be practicing in the off season.
28:46
Speaker 4: I think all of them should be on trampolines for
28:48
Speaker 4: the entire offseason because I want to see more backflips
28:51
Speaker 4: on the grid or do.
28:53
Speaker 1: You want to see do you want to see?
28:54
Speaker 2: If you're talking about to phenids, was it the Vikings
28:58
Speaker 2: the other day that did the Vikings that did the
29:00
Speaker 2: high school musical dance?
29:02
Speaker 1: Was it the defense afterwards?
29:04
Speaker 2: Maybe they should be looking at, you know, getting some
29:06
Speaker 2: sort of choreographed moves.
29:09
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what though, you know what that takes
29:11
Speaker 3: to be able to do that is more than nine
29:13
Speaker 3: takeaways of seasons. That's rights three times a year. You
29:21
Speaker 3: have practice nine times a year. No, there's no time
29:24
Speaker 3: to practice. Uh, I would say this, I got one
29:29
Speaker 3: jay short yardage offense. You need to have a resolution
29:36
Speaker 3: to have a different mindset and go get two yards
29:40
Speaker 3: when you need to get two yards, how do you
29:42
Speaker 3: do that? You get in the weight room, you design
29:45
Speaker 3: a different way. That is one thing that is really lacking.
29:49
Speaker 3: They don't sneak the ball unless mac Jones is in there. Right.
29:54
Speaker 1: They did to end last season, didn't they.
29:56
Speaker 2: That's that's that's how the season ended before with against
30:00
Speaker 2: the Titans. Wasn't it Trevor Lawrence against the Titans? A
30:02
Speaker 2: couple of sneaks that failed. So I suppose you're saying
30:04
Speaker 2: it carried on.
30:07
Speaker 3: Or you're handing it off. I mean, they have not
30:09
Speaker 3: been able to figure that out at a year and
30:11
Speaker 3: a half, so they've got to find an answer. And
30:14
Speaker 3: that's that's a really football he resolution It's not as
30:17
Speaker 3: fun as keys, but.
30:20
Speaker 2: They could be, you know, trying to jump over can't
30:23
Speaker 2: they try try and jump over a defensive linels work.
30:28
Speaker 4: On both sides of the ball. I've said it my
30:30
Speaker 4: entire life, and I'll keep saying it.
30:33
Speaker 3: Remember what jumps up has to come down at some point.
30:39
Speaker 1: Name of the name of the podcast.
30:42
Speaker 2: A few weeks ago, Anton Harrison JP told us that
30:44
Speaker 2: he was going to make mac and cheese at Thanksgiving
30:47
Speaker 2: because he his mum. His mum's mac and cheese is
30:51
Speaker 2: ain't it anymore? Just doesn't just doesn't do a good job.
30:54
Speaker 2: So Anton Harrison should learn to give his mother some
30:59
Speaker 2: more respect.
31:00
Speaker 3: I think, gosh, that's aggressive. It really is.
31:07
Speaker 2: Well I want to We haven't had an update on
31:08
Speaker 2: how the mac and cheese went, so Antony needs to
31:10
Speaker 2: tell us to be fair the aggression.
31:12
Speaker 4: From Anton, but not towards your elder.
31:17
Speaker 3: Here's another one, like a football. He went around Anton.
31:20
Speaker 3: What is his future at the right tackle position? Does
31:23
Speaker 3: this team look at flipping those guys around next year?
31:27
Speaker 3: Walker Little is on a contract extension already. Anton played
31:31
Speaker 3: left tackle his whole college career. Is that something that
31:35
Speaker 3: you know, that's something that you would have to do
31:37
Speaker 3: in the off season to work on and have time
31:39
Speaker 3: to you know, you can't just do that mid season,
31:42
Speaker 3: you know. No, that's something I think that you could
31:45
Speaker 3: probably maybe he works on it on his own some
31:48
Speaker 3: just to have that skill set in his back pocket
31:50
Speaker 3: when he shows up for off season program just in
31:53
Speaker 3: case you don't know.
31:54
Speaker 2: And can we have an overall maybe we can all
31:58
Speaker 2: come up with one that we all feel comfortable with
32:00
Speaker 2: overall New Year's resolution for the Jags organization or the
32:05
Speaker 2: team for twenty twenty five. I've already got mine, Joe, Okay,
32:08
Speaker 2: all right, Well, okay, you go first, and then then
32:10
Speaker 2: I'll say mine.
32:11
Speaker 4: Mister Cahn said it at the beginning of this season.
32:14
Speaker 4: Everything's in place, and now just go win.
32:17
Speaker 1: It's got to be that JP.
32:20
Speaker 3: Get rid of that losing mentality, be a loser, go
32:24
Speaker 3: be a winning organization from top to bottom. And that's unfortunately,
32:30
Speaker 3: we've had a lot more losing around here than winning
32:33
Speaker 3: over the last since I've been around here. That that
32:36
Speaker 3: has gone over different regimes and different leadership changes. And
32:41
Speaker 3: at some point that's got to stop.
32:44
Speaker 2: And it's not necessarily something that can change immediately, is it.
32:47
Speaker 1: And that was gonna that was going to be my
32:49
Speaker 1: New Year's resolution.
32:50
Speaker 2: And in fact, it's unfair to be a one year's
32:52
Speaker 2: New Year's resolution really because, as you say, there's been
32:57
Speaker 2: more losing than winning. But several seasons of winning changes everything,
33:04
Speaker 2: doesn't it. It changes everything. You are no longer a
33:07
Speaker 2: team that you know that loses. You are a team
33:10
Speaker 2: that expects to win because the players have one. Does
33:14
Speaker 2: that make sense? So that's what the new Year's resolution
33:17
Speaker 2: needs to be. However, that's not something that can be
33:19
Speaker 2: done in one year.
33:20
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you an extreme case that I
33:22
Speaker 3: just saw firsthand last week on Christmas Day, I did
33:25
Speaker 3: the Chiefs at Steelers game on radio here in the
33:29
Speaker 3: United States. Yes, the Chiefs have won multiple Super Bowls recently,
33:34
Speaker 3: and they have an all time quarterback already, and they've
33:36
Speaker 3: got the tight end, and they've got a Hall of
33:38
Speaker 3: Fame head coach, and those are some of the pieces
33:41
Speaker 3: that you probably need in place to do this type
33:43
Speaker 3: of thing. But they have it down so cold that
33:48
Speaker 3: it's not you know, pregame. You walk out and see
33:51
Speaker 3: the Jaguars warming up before a game, and there's all
33:54
Speaker 3: these assistant coaches like coaching guys up and getting them
33:57
Speaker 3: going and doing this. There's no with the chief. Players
34:01
Speaker 3: are just running their thing. They know exactly what to do,
34:05
Speaker 3: when to do it, to be ready, and they executed
34:07
Speaker 3: at a high level and there's no concern. It's just
34:12
Speaker 3: this is what we do. We go play and execute
34:15
Speaker 3: and win because we have the bodies to do it
34:17
Speaker 3: and we're better than you and we're gonna go win.
34:20
Speaker 3: And that is a mentality when you have, when you
34:24
Speaker 3: have Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, you can get away
34:27
Speaker 3: with some of that stuff, right, But they have it,
34:30
Speaker 3: and that's what everybody's aspiring to get to in the NFL.
34:34
Speaker 3: And then I came back from the game the next
34:36
Speaker 3: day and walked out to Jaguars practice. I was like, Oh, okay,
34:39
Speaker 3: it's a little bit further away than I might have
34:42
Speaker 3: first imagined. Right, it's just a different vibe. The vibe
34:45
Speaker 3: is different, right, because that's a playoff environment pre game.
34:50
Speaker 3: Not to say it can't be done. It can be
34:52
Speaker 3: done anywhere in the NFL. So for people to say
34:55
Speaker 3: that Jacksonville can't win because it's Jacksonville, it's a small market,
34:59
Speaker 3: that's diculous. It can happen anywhere in the National Football League,
35:04
Speaker 3: same salary cap, same structure, resources spent like crazy. Here.
35:09
Speaker 3: It can be done. It's a mentality that it will
35:11
Speaker 3: be done. And they have that in Kansas City, they
35:14
Speaker 3: have that, in Pittsburgh, they have that in all these
35:17
Speaker 3: places Baltimore that have had success long term for a
35:20
Speaker 3: long time, you know, decades of success in a row.
35:25
Speaker 3: They have consistency, they have dedication to their cause, and like,
35:29
Speaker 3: that's that's where this needs to be and any team
35:35
Speaker 3: can get there. The Jaguars need to get there fast.
35:38
Speaker 1: Beautiful beautiful stuff. JP.
35:39
Speaker 2: Look, me and Key have got our calendars out. We
35:41
Speaker 2: are looking ahead to twenty five.
35:44
Speaker 1: Let's go through some key dates, shall we jp. What
35:47
Speaker 1: should we be looking out for in twenty twenty five.
35:50
Speaker 3: Well, well, let's see. The free agency period begins in
35:56
Speaker 3: mid March. The start of the league year starts March twelfth,
35:59
Speaker 3: so put that one on your calendar. J That's when
36:02
Speaker 3: you can start signing free agents and trading players officially.
36:06
Speaker 3: So March twelfth, at four o'clock Eastern time is when
36:09
Speaker 3: that begins. And then the off season program begins in
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Speaker 3: April mid April. If there's no coaching change, it's in
36:17
Speaker 3: mid April. If there is a coaching change, you can
36:19
Speaker 3: start April seventh. If not, it is like mid April,
36:24
Speaker 3: so actually twenty first if there's no changes, so waits
36:28
Speaker 3: strength and conditioning, all that stuff. NFL Draft is April
36:33
Speaker 3: twenty fourth through twenty sixth, the combines at the end
36:36
Speaker 3: of February. I left that out, So that's a key
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Speaker 3: piece of the program leading into the NFL Draft. And
36:42
Speaker 3: then the off season program just continues through a June
36:46
Speaker 3: and that's where we are, and then late July training
36:49
Speaker 3: camp will crank back up again. We're looking at I'm
36:52
Speaker 3: sure obviously we're back in London again, so not sure
36:55
Speaker 3: exactly when. They haven't announced those games the dates yet
36:58
Speaker 3: on those So hey.
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Speaker 2: Around time's usually, isn't it around October?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's the off season kind of key dates
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Speaker 3: for you.
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Speaker 4: You missed out something very important. End of July, me
37:13
Speaker 4: and you drinks in Pete's Bar in Jacksonville. Oh, you're
37:17
Speaker 4: coming back hopefully.
37:19
Speaker 3: I think it's good. Yeah, Well, apparently it's on your
37:24
Speaker 3: calendar already.
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Speaker 4: Because Jay, don't make it awkward. Jay, don't make it awkward.
37:28
Speaker 1: You've made it awkward.
37:29
Speaker 3: Key are not going to make it.
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Speaker 2: Jay, Well, it depends if you're inviting me JP. I
37:36
Speaker 2: think that's the big thing, isn't it if I feel well,
37:40
Speaker 2: here we go, JP, here we go. Okay, let's move
37:45
Speaker 2: on to the Indianapolis Colts game.
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Speaker 1: We'll do this quickly.
37:47
Speaker 2: It's a bit of a weird game actually this weekend,
37:49
Speaker 2: because it did look like it could be a jagged
37:52
Speaker 2: had a chance to eliminate the Colts from you know,
37:56
Speaker 2: the playoff conversation in the last week of the regular However,
38:02
Speaker 2: Colts lose against the Giants, which means that they are
38:05
Speaker 2: no longer going to be, you know, possibly going to
38:07
Speaker 2: be in the playoffs. So you've almost got a Jackson
38:11
Speaker 2: with Jakub's team who have known they're not going to
38:14
Speaker 2: be in the postseason for weeks and almost like a
38:17
Speaker 2: probably a wounded animal Indianapolis Colts, if that makes sense,
38:21
Speaker 2: because they are going to be they're either going to
38:23
Speaker 2: be angry or they'll be whimpering. I imagine deflated is
38:28
Speaker 2: a good word.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably, So you got to take advantage of that
38:32
Speaker 3: while that happens, and a chance to go sweep them too,
38:36
Speaker 3: you know, and it'll be probably an empty Stadium in Indianapolis.
38:40
Speaker 3: You know, that's just how it's going to be the
38:42
Speaker 3: final week of the season when the game doesn't matter
38:44
Speaker 3: in the standings, and go to take advantage now it is.
38:48
Speaker 3: You know, what's the question, right which quarterback is going
38:51
Speaker 3: to play? You know Jonathan Taylor has been ripping off
38:53
Speaker 3: some runs the last few weeks. You gotta be careful
38:56
Speaker 3: for that because he'll want to finish his season the
38:59
Speaker 3: strongest possible and you don't want him to get loose
39:02
Speaker 3: on you. So that's that's the big priority this week
39:06
Speaker 3: and again for the Jaguars. Keep playing, keep fighting as
39:09
Speaker 3: much as he can, and go squeak out a win
39:12
Speaker 3: if you need to. And that's what they've been able
39:14
Speaker 3: to do last week. And maybe mac Jones can put
39:17
Speaker 3: together another decent performance and keep kind of trending a
39:20
Speaker 3: little bit higher. I don't think he's gonna trend himself
39:23
Speaker 3: into a starting job in the league next year. But
39:26
Speaker 3: don't turn it over he like he's told him the
39:28
Speaker 3: other week, right, just don't throw interceptions and let your
39:31
Speaker 3: other guys play and and then you got a shot.
39:34
Speaker 3: That's that's what this game is about. And that's why
39:36
Speaker 3: also this game is at one o'clock on Sunday to
39:39
Speaker 3: get it out of the way. You know, if the
39:42
Speaker 3: Colts are involved, they would have to play it later
39:44
Speaker 3: at the same time as these other AFC games and
39:47
Speaker 3: then you know, so it'll be early, it'll be done.
39:50
Speaker 3: It'll probably be one of the fastest games of the season.
39:52
Speaker 3: And my estimation both teams will want to get the
39:55
Speaker 3: heck out of.
39:55
Speaker 2: Here six pm, six pm UK time, and it be Yeah,
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Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars Indianapolis Colts. Speaking of standings, JP, we
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Speaker 2: do standings every single week, predictions only.
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Speaker 1: Well, this is the last week.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it, Key, This is the last possible week, and
40:13
Speaker 2: we have we do have some movement in the standings. Now,
40:15
Speaker 2: remember whoever wins gets to take something from the losers.
40:18
Speaker 2: I suppose man Cave, I suppose now I want that
40:22
Speaker 2: little Trevor Lawrence figurine.
40:24
Speaker 1: Do you have that with your key at the moment?
40:26
Speaker 2: Somewhere I've got maybe, I've always maybe maybe one.
40:30
Speaker 1: Of the customized Jags.
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Speaker 4: Artwork behind those are drilled into the wall.
40:37
Speaker 1: Really well, I love the whole wall.
40:38
Speaker 2: Then, and points available just take where you live with
40:44
Speaker 2: points available for correct scores as well, Key in theory
40:48
Speaker 2: can still catch me. Key is currently on four. The
40:51
Speaker 2: guest slash fan is on five. I am on seven.
40:56
Speaker 2: Now me and you get a point this week, Reese,
41:00
Speaker 2: he's better against the.
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Speaker 1: Jags last week. Absolutely atrocious behavior.
41:05
Speaker 4: I don't really consider him a true part of the team.
41:08
Speaker 4: And goodness we've got JP here this week. That's all.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's not necessary. I mean trending the
41:13
Speaker 3: way the team was playing. I mean, you know, I
41:15
Speaker 3: don't blame.
41:15
Speaker 2: Them, JP. We need your prediction for Jags Cults.
41:19
Speaker 3: Please score Jaguars seventeen, Colts sixteen.
41:27
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, close game, Key, Key, you need to
41:31
Speaker 2: predict the correct score.
41:32
Speaker 1: If you get the correct score, Key, then you win.
41:36
Speaker 4: No problem. No, the score will be thirty one seven
41:42
Speaker 4: to the Jags, one thirty one JP, JP, I have
41:48
Speaker 4: made outrageous predictions and.
41:52
Speaker 3: Has worked in the last place.
41:55
Speaker 4: This one will work, and it will turn the whole
41:57
Speaker 4: thing around, and I will be the super ball winner
42:00
Speaker 4: of deal talk. That's what's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: A rally.
42:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty one seven to the Jags, telling you.
42:08
Speaker 2: Do you know what, Let's give you a fighting chance
42:11
Speaker 2: and I'll predict something even more outrageous then, shall I
42:14
Speaker 2: forty nothings shut out of the Indianapolis Colts just to
42:19
Speaker 2: give you a fighting chance if you win the whole thing. Key,
42:24
Speaker 2: let's just say that. I'll be extremely surprised. But you
42:26
Speaker 2: never know, you never know.
42:29
Speaker 4: Crazier things have happened.
42:30
Speaker 2: I don't know if they have. Yeah, I don't know
42:33
Speaker 2: if they have. What is on the Sky Show with
42:35
Speaker 2: Rhys Parkinson this week?
42:37
Speaker 4: Please keep it's a really nice one. This week. We've
42:40
Speaker 4: got lots of JP on, which is always good. So
42:44
Speaker 4: JP and Reese will breakdown the Titans game. Then J
42:48
Speaker 4: they're going to look forward to the Colts game. But
42:50
Speaker 4: a highlight for me is miked Up. I love getting
42:54
Speaker 4: down on the field. I think it's about as close
42:57
Speaker 4: as you can get to feeling like an NFL player.
43:00
Speaker 4: So yeah, we've got micd Up on the show this week,
43:02
Speaker 4: which I'm looking forward to.
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Speaker 1: How can people watch this week?
43:06
Speaker 4: We are on Thursday because of the holiday schedules, so
43:10
Speaker 4: we're on Thursday nine pm Sky Sports NFL, then repeats
43:13
Speaker 4: throughout the week and lots of lovely stuff going up
43:16
Speaker 4: on the Jaguars UK YouTube channel.
43:19
Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back next week on. What you're
43:21
Speaker 2: doing for New Year is JP.
43:22
Speaker 3: Key, Let's see, I'll be here in Jacksonville. We're regular
43:29
Speaker 3: workday New Year's Day, so those shows those days, but
43:32
Speaker 3: they'll be media access to the team and such. And
43:35
Speaker 3: then Thursday is the Gator ball game. Duke and Ole
43:40
Speaker 3: Miss are playing at EverBank Stadium. Thursday night, I'll call
43:43
Speaker 3: that game on national radio in the US. And then Friday,
43:48
Speaker 3: I'm headed up to Baltimore. I'm doing the Browns Ravens
43:51
Speaker 3: game on Saturday and week eighteen and if the Ravens win,
43:54
Speaker 3: they are the AFC nor champions. That's on Westwood One.
43:57
Speaker 3: So busy week ahead.
44:00
Speaker 2: Key, is yours comparable?
44:02
Speaker 4: No, there will be no sports involved with my New
44:06
Speaker 4: Year's Eve. I am going to watch US screening of
44:08
Speaker 4: When Harry Met Sally. Then I'm going to dinner and
44:12
Speaker 4: on New Year's Day, i will swim and go to
44:14
Speaker 4: a museum. I am a man of culture.
44:17
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. That's a hell of a soundtrack
44:20
Speaker 3: in that film with Harry Knock Junior when he was
44:23
Speaker 3: young and did it. That was fantastic, beautiful.
44:26
Speaker 4: It's one of my favorite films and it's showing on
44:28
Speaker 4: New Year's Eve was like, we have to go.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know how you've seen it before.
44:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no surprise you no surprises. But they're showing
44:37
Speaker 4: it on film as well, which I can't wait for.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
44:42
Speaker 2: This is the geekiest conversation I think I've been a
44:44
Speaker 2: part of for quite a while.
44:46
Speaker 4: Do you want to such a food jay?
44:50
Speaker 3: Yeah?
44:50
Speaker 1: To be fair, I'm gonna I'm going to talking about food.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: We'll be back next week.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining the Talk JP.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
44:58
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45:04
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45:05
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