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Publix Tailgate Show: Andrew Catalon, CBS Sports · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: JP. Always a pleasure being with you. Thanks for having
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  Speaker 1: me back. Yeah, and here we are and the Jags
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  Speaker 1: are going to Houston in Week five. The Jags have
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  Speaker 1: now dropped three in a row. The Texans have dropped
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  Speaker 1: four straight to start the season, and then they fired
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  Speaker 1: their head coach. Bill O'Brien did not make it to
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  Speaker 1: week five. He was fired Monday, Romeo Cornell as the
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  Speaker 1: interim head coach. I'm interested in what kind of short
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  Speaker 1: term boost this could give the Texans, especially since they
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  Speaker 1: played the Jaguars twice in a five week span coming
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  Speaker 1: up here. I think it will give them a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a shot in the arm, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of energy. I think anytime you make a change like this,
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  Speaker 1: especially so early in the season, it's a wake up call.
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  Speaker 1: And even before he was let go, you heard J. J.
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  Speaker 1: Watts say after the games Sunday, something needs to change,
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  Speaker 1: and it did. So. I think that the team will
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit of energy coming out on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: today against the Jags. I really do feel that this
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  Speaker 1: will help Houston to what Degreek and they win the game.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's to a lot of things they need to
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  Speaker 1: correct with that team in that organization. But in the
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  Speaker 1: short term JP, I agree that this should help Houston
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  Speaker 1: against Jacksonville. You know, from the outside looking in. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they won four division titles under O'Brien, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: like they didn't have success, but when they got to
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  Speaker 1: the postseason, obviously a lot of quick exits for Houston,
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  Speaker 1: and then you hear the stories of the internal the
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  Speaker 1: infighting and even up to this week with J. J. Watton,
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  Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien on the practice field going at it apparently,
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  Speaker 1: so it seems like it was a little deeper and
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  Speaker 1: longer than just an oh and four start there to
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  Speaker 1: to get this done. Yeah, and you and me are
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  Speaker 1: not in that building, so we just have to go
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  Speaker 1: by what we read and see and hear. So it
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  Speaker 1: does seem like the locker room was lost a little
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  Speaker 1: bit based on what we've read. Again, not in that
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  Speaker 1: locker room, you know, I think the climate was was sour.
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  Speaker 1: I think that a lot of these moves that Bill O'Brien,
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  Speaker 1: the general manager made, have hurt the team that Bill
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  Speaker 1: O'Brien coached. And when you when you've mortgage so much
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  Speaker 1: for short term success, knowing that the future is going
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  Speaker 1: to be difficult, I mean, the next GM of this
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  Speaker 1: team is going to have his hands full. So I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that, um, that there was just enough build up.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just because of four straight losses. This was
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  Speaker 1: kind of just the end of the end of the
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  Speaker 1: string after what has been uh really an up and
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  Speaker 1: down time for O'Brien in Houston. Andrew Catalan with us
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  Speaker 1: CBS Sports has the play by playoffs Today's Jaguars Texans game. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Jaguars team that on the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: last week battled a handful of big injuries. A bunch
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  Speaker 1: of guys left the game, especially in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a youth movement of sorts to begin with,
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  Speaker 1: But when you start losing veterans like d J, Hayden Miles,
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  Speaker 1: jack especially became apparent quickly in the second half last week.
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  Speaker 1: Mixon started to run wild that some of those guys
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  Speaker 1: you have to have on the field to to really
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  Speaker 1: have a chance for success. Yeah, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: this is especially where the lack of a preseason can
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  Speaker 1: hurt a team like Jacksonville, right, I mean, they just
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  Speaker 1: their depth is so untested at this point of the season.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have those as many game reps as you'd
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  Speaker 1: want from a rookie class. And I do give Doug
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  Speaker 1: Morone a lot of credit. I do think that, more
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  Speaker 1: so than other organizations, he found ways in the summer
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  Speaker 1: to try to create opportunities. They kept ninety for a while.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of teams did not do that. So I
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  Speaker 1: do give him credit for doing whatever he can during
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  Speaker 1: this crazy But now here we are in Cincinnati last
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  Speaker 1: week and you've got guys that you know it just
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  Speaker 1: really haven't played so much that are out there for
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  Speaker 1: the first time. So you know, they're young, we know
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  Speaker 1: that they're raw, and I think they will get better,
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  Speaker 1: but early in the season they're not really built to
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  Speaker 1: withstand some key injuries like this. DeShawn Watson holds the
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  Speaker 1: ball a bit. A few years ago he'd led the
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  Speaker 1: league in sex, and then this year he has the
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  Speaker 1: most sex so far in sixteen sex this year. He
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  Speaker 1: likes to run the ball when he can. This was
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  Speaker 1: the storyline last week to the pass rush was getting
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  Speaker 1: to borrow. The first three weeks of the season, Jacks
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get home on him, except for one time on
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  Speaker 1: a sliding sack. How difficult is it to contain DeShawn Watson. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the future is around him in Houston. Andrew, Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I think that that Jags Pats rush really has to
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  Speaker 1: uh to find a way to get after him, and
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities are there. It's not like it's a dominant
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. They do have the left tackle and tonsil,
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  Speaker 1: but there's opportunities and we just haven't seen Jacksonville get
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  Speaker 1: after him. You know, that's part of his brilliance is
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  Speaker 1: his ability to hold on to the football and make plays.
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  Speaker 1: But so far this year it hasn't worked out for him.
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  Speaker 1: He's done that in the past, we haven't seen it
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  Speaker 1: as much in so there's opportunities to get after him.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at that Jaguars front. I mean, Tavin
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  Speaker 1: Bryan to me is a guy like we we got
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  Speaker 1: this start seeing something out of him that they've got
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  Speaker 1: to get pressure on the quarterback. I think that the
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  Speaker 1: way that Todd Wash operates that he needs that that
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  Speaker 1: front to to really get after Watson for this game
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  Speaker 1: in Week five, Andrew Catalan with his CBS Sports, the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars offense has some pieces. This is a can be
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  Speaker 1: a fun group to watch at times, at least, you know,
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  Speaker 1: through four weeks of the season so far, James Robinson
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  Speaker 1: has been a great edition. Leaviscus Jernaults playing all over
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  Speaker 1: the field when he's healthy. Came out of the game
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  Speaker 1: last week. D J. Chark obviously a difference maker. We
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  Speaker 1: saw that last week when he returned to the lineup,
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  Speaker 1: and then you never know what Gardner Minshew and Menshumnia.
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  Speaker 1: This is a fun group of Ja Gruden pushing the
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  Speaker 1: buttons on the sideline here. It has a chance to
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  Speaker 1: do things week to week that it's it's a fun
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  Speaker 1: sixty minutes. Let's say that it's funny. I did. I
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  Speaker 1: did a radio interview earlier this week because I called
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Washington last Sunday and and the host said, it
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  Speaker 1: must be fun announcing a Lamarge jack Xon because you
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  Speaker 1: just never know when he's gonna rip off a fifty
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  Speaker 1: yard run or some incredible play. And I'm not comparing
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and Gardner Minshew, but there is some element
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  Speaker 1: of that when you call Minshew and this Jaguars offense,
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  Speaker 1: because is he gonna come out and go nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty and throw four touchdowns? I mean, I just still
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's such an exciting and intriguing player, and
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, JP, the pieces around him this year
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  Speaker 1: really make for a fun day on offense. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I was there in Tennessee in Week two when they
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  Speaker 1: lost thirty three thirty. I mean they put up thirty
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  Speaker 1: points that day and James Robinson continues to be a
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  Speaker 1: great story. I think char continues to emerge as one
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  Speaker 1: of the better receivers in the a f C. Healing
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  Speaker 1: CoA has found a little something should not. I think
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  Speaker 1: we'll only get more on his plate as the season
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  Speaker 1: goes along. So I agree that there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: intrigue and interest with this off fense, and they are
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  Speaker 1: capable of scoring a lot of points. Alright. Final thought,
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  Speaker 1: whether you hear Andrew on the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: J J. Watt is still suiting up for the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Texans and he may not be playing at the caliber
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  Speaker 1: he was some years ago that's otherworldly where he won
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  Speaker 1: three Defensive Player of the Year awards, But if you
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  Speaker 1: underestimate him, he'll be standing over the quarterback after a
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  Speaker 1: sack or standing in the end zone with a football.
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  Speaker 1: His motor never stops and he's the guy that makes
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  Speaker 1: Houston tick on defense. Yeah, a couple of things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: his competitiveness, he can't be happy to be on four.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he said as much after the game last Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is he's only two sacks away from
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  Speaker 1: one hundred for his career. And I know he's not
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  Speaker 1: a guy that really feeds off of personal achievements, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt that he's got to be thinking about that.
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  Speaker 1: And wouldn't he loved knock them both out against Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: a team where he has sacked their quarterbacks sixteen times
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  Speaker 1: in his career. So I think that J. J. Watt
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  Speaker 1: will never have You'll never have to push him to
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  Speaker 1: get up for a game. He'll be fired up to
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  Speaker 1: go against Minshew and the Jags. Andrew great stuff, as always,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your time and have a great call, all right, JP,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks pal,